It isn't a surprise. I had hope that he might still want and find a way back to the international community which I think provides an incentive to end the war in a more acceptable way... this is just another small piece of the growing evidences that he's going down a path of no return.
I corrected myself in another post... I meant India and the CCP, which I had alluded too earlier in the post.
What Russia is doing is pretty much unforgivable. Clearly killing civilians in plain sight. It’s disgusting that no one can do anything to stop it. When does it become too much because it seems we are already there.
putin going to fly trump in to give credit for peace talks with ukraine trump uses it to take 2024 trump pulls USA from nato putin takes ukraine and rest of soviet states
Imagine if you put all the little itty bitty energy you spend trying to school @Nook and put it into fact checking what you post, would have amazing results.
My understanding is that his loans are officially through Deutsche Bank, but they are really just operating as the banking entity. Assets flowing into his business that either are just part of his net worth used to put up as collateral to secure the loan are the big question marks in regards to Trump's real source of income. It might be technically legal, which is why Trump hasn't been indicted yet, but Deutsche Bank essentially the shell money is being laundered to Trump. His assets are inflated by dirty money in order to leverage high dollar loans to pay for his properties. Where the sanctions could hurt Trump is if way overpriced condo's etc. that were in Trump's properties were seized because they were assets of Russian oligarchs. Then Trump has to find tenants who pay Russian Oligarch type of rent which could bring down the value of Trump's properties allowing for his loans to be seen as negative assets for the bank. Which by the way his loans are likely already viewed as likely to default, and highly risky for the bank because of his toxic brand which regardless makes it likely in the longrun that the bank is going to eventually call in his loan, and seize some of his properties in return... I don't think he keeps Trump tower much longer but it's likely a new owner still keeps the name in a licensing deal. I think his golf properties are likely bye bye, and he's likely strictly licensing his name on a few properties where it's not super toxic to have his brand in the sky. That's the most likely way Trump is hurt by Russian sanctions. It's still most likely that he loses his company and his assets because of tax fraud IMO, but it seems like the new DA is too worried about the politics to continue that case which looks like a slam dunk on paper, but you have to deal with the theatrics of Trump in the courtroom with 12 jurors who will NEVER be impartial making a mistrial extremely likely... which is why I think prosecuting Trump is too hard. The guy is above the law because of our system of reliance on having impartial jurors. Trump's real gravy train moving forward is his political donor base which almost surely funds his daily lifestyle, and the lifestyle of his family. Every new shirt he buys, or meal he pays for, his new cars, planes, security, etc. That's all political donor money paid for by your crazy uncle who watches too much FoxNews.
Trader_ J. Classic Troll who ignores direct requests for facts supporting his posts, preferring to move on to another aspect of the subject that tweaks his trolling fancy, but on occasion posts silly cartoons instead in an effort to belittle an intelligent adversary, invariably failing in his objective. I don't have him on ignore because I find him amusing.
