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Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent (newsukraine.rbc.ua)

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President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is "objectively a Soviet or Russian agent," reports Euronews.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/portuguese-president-calls-trump-soviet-or-1756408421.html

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

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[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 7 points 15 hours ago

Yall remember how Republicans said no one respected the office of president under Obama?

I dont recall anyone calling him insults in an official capacity.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

I like this guy!!

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

From the 2nd paragraph of the Communist manifesto from fucking 1848. Liberals never change.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 15 hours ago

If i had a penny for every time this has happened i would have a house in Malibu.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

yea well there is at least one European leader with some spine. Everyone else is trying work around Trump's man childness like the way house staff has to deal with the extremely spoiled kid of a billionaire.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

What spine? If Portugal, objectively, says that he is a russian asset, why don't they back up their lip service with actual acts? Idk maybe kick out the US, coughs russian coughs, troops from their country?

If it is only lip service, he is just throwing some crumbs to the dumbass voting base that has no clue what is going on in the world 😅

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yes but he’s a republican…

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

They’re the same picture

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

People need to say it more, so trump will do what he normally does and sues them.

Donald trump always loses once the case gets to discovery. They are never able to produce credible evidence since it's all lies and propaganda.

[–] shani66@ani.social 16 points 1 day ago

More of an 'asset' I'd wager, but yeah

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No shit

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Still takes mettle to say it

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

Not really, Portugal ain't gonna do shit about it anyways, it's just lip service to appease euronazis.

[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Especially when so few other political leaders are willing to say it anymore.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

"Whichever one Russia is, I don't remember"

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago

this would make mark rutte and VdL russian by proxy? 😂

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 0 points 15 hours ago

No shit, Sherlock. Tell us something we don't know.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We're still doing this? Six years after Mueller came back with nothing? After nine years of failing to validate a single point on the Steele dossier? pain

Obligatory

I'm embarrassed to say I bought Russiagate for the first three years, but I can accept new evidence (or the lack of it) and move on.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

[+] humanspiral@lemmy.ca -6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Soviet???? No budget or agency for him to be an agent of.

NATO supremacist evil has political capital tied up in Russophobia propaganda, and the delusion, once every 100 years, that the next time they invade Russia it will pay off. Only traitors, can ever question the potential failure of lies and money pit, and then traitors cannot be allowed to vote or run for office. All truth and practicalities is treason.

NATO supremacist hatred and threats to Russia are only growing stronger in response to direct economic war by US on NATO members. EU's political capital is tied to the CIA/US approval of their assent to political power, and US provoked war in Ukraine.

EU is criticizing Trump for not being a Russophobe, while engaging in total Trump sycophancy of imposing austerity on their people in order to spend 5% of GDP on US weapons imports, all to gift to Ukrainian suicidal Russia diminishment.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Thanks, tagging feature. This poster displays a consistent pattern. I wonder why 🤔

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Drink that kool-aid.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world -2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Russophobia propaganda

I mean... *motions generally*. Do you really think we got here by pure hatred? Do you think Russia is innocent? That their decades-long cyber warfare doesn't go unnoticed? That they're literally threatening the surrounding countries into submission and waging an anti-NATO political war? That they have invaded Ukraine twice and took the slightest circumstance as an excuse to do it again, so they could pin the blame on the West while they openly dream about the revival of the USSR? That they won't back out of a "special two-week operation" of four years despite having made their case? That they sabotage every chance for peace talks? Weren't they literally bombing Ukraine while giving lip service to Trump about ending the war? Haven't they orchestrated and perpetrated thousands of human rights violations by targeting civilians and poaching children for reeducation? That a bloodthirsty and power-hungry dictator's administration is running the country? That they don't play an active hand in interfering in foreign elections to topple our stability and governments?

Yeah, it's all unfounded Russophobia, and we should all reconsider what we think right meow! Or else! Russian style through a window.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

That their decades-long cyber warfare doesn’t go unnoticed?

There are click farms on the internet. Many from former CIS states including Ukraine. That KGB/FSB doesn't arrest them, doesn't mean they aren't paid by GOP/CIA for their click content. Even if they have FSB budget, it's not as though west has pure love for Russia and isn't subhuman demonic dog shit for trying to nazify Ukraine and Georgia, or video proof of Navaltny destabilization funding, in last 20 years.

That they have invaded Ukraine twice and took the slightest circumstance as an excuse to do it again, so they could pin the blame on the West while they openly dream about the revival of the USSR?

Everything a lie here. Red lines for peace today existed before the war. Ukraine needs to aspire to NATO, remain nazified, and conquer regions where they wish to exterminate population, as their only war objectives.

That they sabotage every chance for peace talks? Weren’t they literally bombing Ukraine while giving lip service to Trump about ending the war? Haven’t they orchestrated and perpetrated thousands of human rights violations by targeting civilians and poaching children for reeducation? That a bloodthirsty and power-hungry dictator’s administration is running the country?

Everything more lies. Ukraine and NATO scum don't want peace. As demonic pig vermin, they blaming Russia for not wanting peace, and repeating your lies enough times to brainwash morons, is completely normal Hasbara for demonic pig scum.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

"Everything I don't like is a lie!!"

Ok, sure bud. The tasty sure looks kool-aid.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Demonic subhuman NATO trolls bent on war on Russia must repeat every lie ever for moronic idiocracy to embrace their total subjugation. Everything is true because I love war, and I/my nations people are certain to prosper from total austerity, a draft, and paying the US every cent our country has for weapons to conduct a war without the US on Russia is simply an idiocracy level that is unimaginably extreme that your soul must be throttled out of trusting the pure BS that is bodysnatching you.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What war has NATO ever waged on Russia? Did you know that all of its members joined by their own volition? Do you realize the only one taunting a takeover of other countries is Russia?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The Ukraine and Georgia wars on Russia were entirely US manipulated. The NATO rhetoric of forever needing to diminish Russia, out of demonic evil supremacist principle, simply escapes the cognitive capacity of a collective idiocracy. That propaganda makes people not question demonic NATO membership, doesn't mean that programing isn't involved in your so called "own volition" acceptance of demonism, and doesn't make those imposing your acceptance not corrupt and evil demonic lizardpeople. Simply, NATO has always been at war with Eurasia, and its not Eurasia that prefers the war.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The Ukraine and Georgia wars on Russia were entirely US manipulated

Yeah, it's ALL the US and NATO's fault. Russia is innocent! They can do nothing wrong! As we all know, Russia operates in a vacuum and is incapable of doing harm or taking advantage. Do you hear yourself?

Do you know what the reasons were for those two conflicts? RUSSIAN INVASION. Holy shit.

The NATO rhetoric of forever needing to diminish Russia

I mean, do you not realize what's going on in Ukraine? Don't you think that now, more than ever, those fears may have been justified all along? Russia JUST threatened France and is hence threatening everyone with WW3.

But Russia can do no wrong!

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

US, with NATO support after the fact, is 100% responsible for Ukrainian war that it 100% wanted. Ukrainian puppet nazis being able to motivate/bussify, to the last Ukrainian, their citizens to the front line, is a gift to US demonic ambitions to diminish Russia. Russia is/was 100% forced to defend itself. It is only side that has ever offered the same 100% reasonable conditions to avoid and end the war. All claims of Russian provocation of war is pure demonic evil.

OP NATOid pig vermin, is just usual NATOid, genuinely unnacceptable traitorous subjugation of their nations, propaganda reinforcing their core demonic evil and lies: "Anyone who expresses a point that would favour ending the war is the propagandized traitor". Anyone not a moron, even if hateful Russophobe, would want the war to end, because Russia is only getting stronger from the war. It has passed Japan and Germany as the 4th larger PPP GDP, and has achieved massive miltary production growth with output that exceeds all of NATO in most important areas, at 1/20th the budget. The longer corrupt demonic evil rules over us to funnel every last dime we have to expensive US weapons industry, the further we will fall behind.

Let's assume this lying Portugese pig fucking warmongering traitor to humanity believes the headline. The answer is kick the US out of NATO, and declare war on them too, or at least put the same sanctions as on Russia. Not taking that stance is simple ultimate confirmation that he, like every NATO politician allowed to exist, is a CIA stooge hoping CIA/NATO (US leadership thereof) has control over Trump. All of the demonic NATO pathethic loser rulers who appeal to their CIA masters hoping to influence Trump, aren't going to get any relief or kept promises from CIA, the more sycophantic they are to US empire. CIA feedback to Trump will be more like "Great job, we got these losers to pay us 5% of GDP. Now force them to up it to 10%"

Russia JUST threatened France and is hence threatening everyone with WW3.

did not hear that (link?). But, am certain, that as always France said some stupid shit first. We need to be extremely thankful to Putin's moderation and patience. If there is any chance that Ukraine special operation does not lead to Russia's desired outcome, leadership will be replaced with one that makes EU STFU forever. The pathethicness does not appear curable by any other means than nuclear fire.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

The only pathetic thing I see is licking an entire essay worth of boot while pretending that Russia is the victim here.

So when are you going to address the human rights violations and the fact that they could end the war overnight if they chose to? Instead they want to escalate.

France said some stupid shit first

Really. And what could be so heinous that it warrants a third world war? I thought you said Putin had admirable restraint.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

they could end the war overnight if they chose to? Instead they want to escalate.

In your propaganda world, Russia is always the side escalating. Russia is the side that wants peace. Ukraine is the side that wants to embezzle aid to the last Ukrainian, and are the actual side that escalates, and calls Russia's retaliation an escalation. Just pure propaganda recitement, that comes from media that wants this war to continue. Pretending you might not be a hateful nazi supporter for a moment, you should question your trust in that media. War is not good for the simpletons.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 0 points 15 hours ago

Wow, what a bellend.

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