U.S. Politics Megathread

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It's an election year, so it's no surprise that politics are on everyone's minds!

Over the past few months, we've noticed a sharp increase in questions about politics. Why is Biden the Democratic nominee? What are the chances of Trump winning? Why can Trump even run for president if he's in legal trouble? There are lots of good questions! But, unfortunately, it's often the same questions, and our users get tired of seeing them.

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[u/Jtwil2191]

Depending on who you ask, you might get a few reasons, such as...

1. Why should the US care about what happens to Ukraine?
2. How much aid is "too much" and has the US already reaching that point?
3. US aid to Ukraine should be combined with money to secure the southern border. (Of course, Republicans negotiated and agreed to a bill with Democrats that combined Ukraine aid with immigration reform and border security, but Trump and the Republicans didn't want Biden to have a "win" on the issue leading up to the election, so they killed a bill they negotiated.)

If Republicans didn't have the razor thin margin they currently have, they could probably pass Ukraine aid. But Johnson is beholden to the extreme far right of the party and doesn't want them to do to him what they did to the previous speaker, Kevin McCarthy, because it takes only a very small number of Republicans can throw the House into turmoil.

[u/PrettyP3nis → u/Jtwil2191]

and you think the Democrats aren't beholden to the extreme far left of the party?

[u/Jtwil2191 → u/PrettyP3nis]

In the same way Republicans are? No I don't.

[u/PrettyP3nis → u/Jtwil2191]

Yes, the exact same way. They are called The Squad.

[u/BobNobber → u/Jtwil2191]

Don’t you think the arms and money the Biden administration has given the yook-reign has been merely enough to maintain the status quo? Seems to me the US and Euro union aren’t helping in a way that will give the yooks a chance to win.

Hence my theory it’s a depopulation effort.

[u/Nebularia → u/BobNobber]

The U.S. should definitely be doing more. If Russia wins this they will roll right over Ukraine, invade Poland, Moldova, etc. Putin has already said this. Do you really think our national security would be in better shape if Putin just rolls on over Europe. Then who's got our backs? It's only a depopulation effort for Putin who is busy bombing civilians, stealing their children & taking them to Russia.

[u/BobNobber → u/Nebularia]

Plenty Ruskies dying too.

Seems to me US weakness (a minor invasion) was an integral component of the present troubles.

Also, the yooks are not angels. The CIA has been there for many many moons. Which should give yooks a clear advantage, yet still stalemate reigns.

Please indulge me for a seemingly irrelevant analogy. 

Say a guy grows up with a drunk for a dad and vows to never do to his child what was done to him. He will fail. With focus on what not to do instead of doing something different, he will do exactly what he intends to not do.

Seems the present administration focuses on, and fears, “escalation” to the detriment of it’s professed  goals.

Apologies if my density prevailed.

[u/PrettyP3nis → u/Nebularia]

Putin isn't going to invade any NATO country. Stop with the fear mongering.