Happy May Day to Vlad the Impaler?

"Too many people are dying!!!”

Finer words have ...

NEVER been said ...

By either Trump, or any other Rethugican, or any other Democrap ... 

About Gaza.

That said, Mr. "One-day deal" President Donald Trump did say them, after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, last Saturday at the funeral of the latest holder of office of antichrist. (He is actually much more like "the man of lawlessness," but it's fun to keep extending this.

AND?

He's at least talking about additional sanctions on Russia.

It may be all talk. Or, like most his tariffs on countries not named China, could be enacted then reversed.

Two things.

First, this shows that Trump is not Putin's puppet. (BlueAnon remain self-created puppets of tribalism, though.)

Second, this is why I, while acknowledging the reality of Eastern Europe since James Baker's "not one inch eastward," about which both the late Gorbachev and living Nat-Sec Nutsacks™ have lied, while acknowledging the drunken sailor money for drunken Boris Yeltsin, and acknowledging Maidan and afterward in Ukraine, I disagree with the likes of Norman Finkelstein in considering Putin's invasion "justified." As I've noted, it's a word I avoid using in such situations in general. 

I will go beyond this, and say that Putin's current maximalist demands are UNjustified. And, I break with non-skeptical leftists who can't call out Putin at some point, or call out China's Xi as needed.

And, as a reminder? I've offered my own peace plan, which Zelensky wouldn't like, but which is far short of Putin's maximalism. 

This all said, Trump and Zelensky offered Vlad an early May Day gift yesterday. (Per CNN, I agree that it's more symbol than substance, but the optics have everybody talking.)

On the other hand, similar to what the US did in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia has massively increased sign-up bonuses and other benefits for new recruits.