I'm just curious, what percentage of Americans do you think could point Ukraine out on a map? How many Americans have been to Ukraine? How many of them could speak a single word of Ukrainian?
Americans have always been ignorant of the world outside its border. That hasn't stopped them historically standing up to the likes of the USSR and now Russia. This is purely political in that many don't want to help because Biden does, many more because Trump tells them not to and that Putin and Russia are America's friends.
It has literally nothing at all to do with Americans as far as the vast majority of Americans are concerned. What they probably are more concerned about is the literal human flood of people coming into the Southern border.
Yes and Republicans aren't interested in fixing the border and never have been. You don't do away with one of your biggest fundraising and voter engagement issues.
What they are concerned about is the opiate epidemic.
Fentanyl isn't coming into the US in the bags of immigrants. Its coming in through major ports in lorries and the like.
They have a million other internal social issues that are more important to the average American than Ukraine; despite CNN pushing it down their throat daily.
Never watch CNN so I have no idea what they are pushing. It is a major war in Europe that threatens Europe and indirectly Taiwan as China is watching very carefully how we have reacted. Those other social issues could be addressed, they aren't not being addressed because of Ukraine, its a false equivalence.
Elon Musk has every right to raise other political issues, you do not need to be a politician to be concerned with politics, otherwise 99% of your posts could be deleted. You're not even American yet for some reason you live and breathe their politics
He doesn't care about the border ffs. He is going there because he enjoys stirring the **** and inserting himself in these issues for giggles and clicks. You don't see other leaders of industry inserting themselves in the middle of politics and on something that there is zero interest in fixing. If he wants to fix it run for office.
His takes on Ukraine have been as shocking as his takes on Covid. The man might be a great salesman but he's just that. If he was president this would be him, an appeaser who only cares about what might hurt his businesses.
He'd happily throw Ukraine as a nation state under the bus if it helped him sell more cars. He doesn't care that its people are fighting for their very existence. I saw him promoting a Tweet criticising Ukraine for not being a fully volunteer army, you mean like the UK and US in WW2
Before 2016 I had some interest in US politics but the US was fairly stable. it would swing between the Republicans and Democrats but we didn't need to worry that it was heading to some very bad place where its role as the leader of the West was under threat. We knew it had our backs over the likes of Putin or China. That has all changed with the rise of Trump and MAGA. What happens in the US is in some ways more concerning that what happens in our own next election. As bad as I think the Tories are now they aren't a threat to our democracy or our place in the world, if they were to win again things would carry on much as normal. If Trump wins again who knows were the world will be 4 years later, my bet is it won't be a better place for any of her natural allies including us. We should all be very concerned in the direction the US is heading in, if they look inwards and walk away from their leadership role then you can bet the likes of China and India will take notice and take full advantage and the UK won't be able to do a damned thing about it.
