'Senile insanity': Ukrainians outraged at Trump's Russia comment
Ukrainians in Kyiv were left bewildered and frustrated on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump suggested their country "may be Russian someday".
Addressing Moscow's nearly three-year invasion in a Fox News interview aired Monday, Trump said of Ukraine: "They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday."
"It is some kind of senile insanity," Kyiv resident Daniil told AFP.
Kremlin Embarrasses Trump With Truth About U.S. Teacher Marc Fogel’s Release
The deal Donald Trump brokered with Russia to release American school teacher Marc Fogel on Tuesday was, in fact, a prisoner swap—even though the president had tried to suggest otherwise.
The Russian man freed in the deal is Alexander Vinnik, 45, who stands accused of laundering billions through the digital currency exchange website he ran, an unnamed U.S. official told The New York Times on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Kremlin told reporters earlier on Wednesday that the U.S. had released a Russian citizen in exchange for Fogel, but declined to identify the person until they returned to their home country, according to the Associated Press.
Like a lot of the bollo that comes from this man's mouth, he takes a kernel of truth. And then completely distorts it, coming to conclusions that would not (or rather should not) fool a moron in a hurry.
The USA has a very different tax system to the rest of the world. This is because its tax on sales/purchases is administered at a State, rather than National, level. The clue is in the name-United States.
So-it has no national system of VAT. Which is why Trump would have the world believe that America is being ripped off by all those nasty nations with their VAT.
But-and it is a big but-this conveniently ignores the State and Local Sales Taxes in each individual State. In California, for example, (Which is where most international trade takes place in the US) the State rate is 7.25%, and Local rates vary from 0-9.5% (no prizes for guessing the big Cities have the highest rate), leaving a Combined Sales Tax rate of 7.25-16.75%.
The hypocritical nature of JD Vance talking about free speech restrictions should not be ignored. His administration is actively telling American researchers what they can, and cannot, write about, including a list of naughty words. The irony would be funny, if it wasn't frightening.
This is an awful time to be poor in the US. With cuts in university aid for the poorest, smartest kids, and tariffs that will hit the poorest the hardest, it sucks to be American right now.
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Ukrainians in Kyiv were left bewildered and frustrated on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump suggested their country "may be Russian someday".
Addressing Moscow's nearly three-year invasion in a Fox News interview aired Monday, Trump said of Ukraine: "They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday."
"It is some kind of senile insanity," Kyiv resident Daniil told AFP.
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The deal Donald Trump brokered with Russia to release American school teacher Marc Fogel on Tuesday was, in fact, a prisoner swap—even though the president had tried to suggest otherwise.
The Russian man freed in the deal is Alexander Vinnik, 45, who stands accused of laundering billions through the digital currency exchange website he ran, an unnamed U.S. official told The New York Times on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Kremlin told reporters earlier on Wednesday that the U.S. had released a Russian citizen in exchange for Fogel, but declined to identify the person until they returned to their home country, according to the Associated Press.
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The USA has a very different tax system to the rest of the world. This is because its tax on sales/purchases is administered at a State, rather than National, level. The clue is in the name-United States.
So-it has no national system of VAT. Which is why Trump would have the world believe that America is being ripped off by all those nasty nations with their VAT.
But-and it is a big but-this conveniently ignores the State and Local Sales Taxes in each individual State. In California, for example, (Which is where most international trade takes place in the US) the State rate is 7.25%, and Local rates vary from 0-9.5% (no prizes for guessing the big Cities have the highest rate), leaving a Combined Sales Tax rate of 7.25-16.75%.
Something that Trump wants people to forget.
This is an awful time to be poor in the US. With cuts in university aid for the poorest, smartest kids, and tariffs that will hit the poorest the hardest, it sucks to be American right now.