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Trump snubs Zelensky’s offer to help US with drone tech and lashes out at him again
(www.the-independent.com)
Trump going 0-3 I'd hold a grudge too
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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Are these photographs doctored, or did that actually happen?
I have no doubt they happened as random hand gestures, but they were not rock paper scissoring. The only thing that looks exactly like an intentional rock-paper-scissor would be the left picture, but just indicating "two" could look like that.
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Unbelievable…Trump’s would rather save his ego than let Ukraine help save American lives.
My brother in-law actually has a diagnosed personality disorder and the way Trump behaves, especially while under duress, is identical to how my brother in-law would react.
If Trump indeed suffers from a personality disorder, which I am convinced is the case, then he is literally incapable of backing down.
This is an absolute nightmare scenario for the US. Trump won’t stop until he is forced to stop. We will see Trump make even more crucial mistakes and see him try and escalate this as far as he possible can.
Is it still considered a disorder when it is someone's whole personality? If you removed the perpetual rage, the extreme narcissism and the bullying I think you would only find an orange stain on the floor where Trump was.
Personality disorders are controversial in psychology. But yes they are considered legitimate.
Patterns of specific maladaptive traits and behaviors that are consistent across the lifespan.
Personality disorder types are specific clusters of symptoms/traits/behaviors.
I'm personally on the fence if personalities can be categorized very much. People are very unique in their traits and levels of traits.
Except for people with high narcissism and dark triad traits (anti-social traits like manipulation , lack of empathy, vindictiveness, impulsivity).
These are just ruthless egotistical people who all behave the same. Just incredibly selfish and cruel.
Estimated to be ~5% of them in the general population with some professions having very high instances. Like lawyers and CEOs.
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He recently stated that he wants to bomb Khark Island "Just for fun."
While this is a bald-faced lie to cover up for the fact that their earlier strikes weren't as successful as claimed, just think about what kind of lie he was willing to tell; to him, the idea of putting Americans in harm's way "just for fun" seems completely reasonable.
He literally does not care about the lives of the people who swore an oath to serve, to the point where he cannot even conceive of the notion that anyone else would.
"Putin told me Zelensky's a bad hombre."
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Trump: i need help, can somebody help me
Zelensky : i can
Trump: No, not you
This makes complete sense to me. If you think you are the most powerful man in the world, controlling the worlds biggest military, then an offer to help from a much smaller country who has been asking for your help for years, is going to be seen as an insult. It's basically just his fragile ego, refusing to admit that the country with the most modern combat experience against IRANIAN drones is going to be of any help.
At the same time, he's demanding "allies" commit ships to his stupid war.
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Meanwhile all of Ukraine's real allies took them up on this offer ages ago. I know for a fact that they've been training Canadians on anti-drone warfare pretty much since the war started. Ukraine has asked nothing in return for this, it's just the kind of thing you do for your allies when you understand alliances as bonds of solidarity that benefit both parties, and not something to be exploited.
trump already lifted oil sanctions from russia, hes going to abandon ukraine very soon.
Hasn't he done that already? What is the US doing to help Ukraine at this point?
I mean at least he didn't attack the Ukraine yet...
We all know that temporary relief is going to become permanent economic reintigration is going to become economic support is going to become military support.
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Guys, in starting to think this president might be a Russian asset
Wait just a minute.
Just because everything he says and does is intended to benefit his Russian masters, it doesnt mean he's a Russian asset
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My Trump is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star!
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Why would Zelensky even bother?
Its clear Tramp is no ally.
No point reasoning with trump, no point pushing him away.
He is doing the smart thing - milking trump of every last drop of military aid that he can get.
At this point I think Zelensky just is doing whatever he thinks he can to try to stop any changes of the US changing sides and teaming with Russia
stop any changes of the US changing sides and teaming with Russia
Too late.
But Iran is a Russian supplier, so strategically, the more US can burn through Iran military capability, the less they have to give to Russia.
Also, the longer the strait is blocked, the better Russia can do in the fossil fuel export situation. So Iran suffering military losses and the strait being open as soon as possible are also strategic imperatives for Ukraine.
This isn't about Zelenski, Trump has a grudge against any political leader that isn't corrupt.
Zelensky was the proximate cause of Trump's first impeachment, right? The perfect phone call?
I need you to do is a favor, though.
I think that Trump does have a grudge against Zelensky.
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Ukraine is winning because they found cheaper drone defenses than drones...
Were burning thru our sophisticated interceptors because we're wasting them on drones 1/100th the prices.
Iran just has to keep pumping out the same drones they've been sending to Russia.
Like, Ukraine is literally the one government that knows how to win this kind of war.
The only person who knows how to do anything in the US is Donald Trump, if anyone has the audacity to know better than him they will be demoted, fired or abducted by ICE.
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Trump treated Zelensky like a wet rag when he invited him to the whitehouse and Zelensky still willing to offer his first hand knowledge and experience of drone warfare.
That's what being the bigger man truly means. In more ways that one.
Zelensky is the bigger man in this case. Again, in more ways than one.
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Crucially, Russia uses the same Iranian-designed Shahed drones that Iran is deploying now. And Ukraine offered the US assistance for defending against them already last August. https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/us-ukraine-anti-drone-offer
Cucked little bitch. Putin's dick is so far down his throat that he's able to fuck his breakfast Big Mac.
I still cannot believe that this pube-flecked chunk of human excrement won a second term. It's still genuinely sickening to me, like my stomach really feels like I'm perpetually tipping over the apogee of a rollercoaster when I remember what happened. His winning the first term was at least comprehensible, but I'm still punchdrunk from the shock of it all, even after all this time. And I'm not even from the US! I can't imagine what it feels like for the people who have to live there, especially those who aren't cis-white-hetero-males.
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Did we really expect anything else from the guy who wanted to swap out a 4 star general for a TV host as their minister of defence? Seems to be par for the course.
Meanwhile, everyone else is looking at Ukraine, taking notes every single day. We now know what the war of tomorrow will look like. That is a rare opportunity. Completely wasted on Americans that think brute force is always the answer.
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