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Russia says Donald Trump's election win "useful for us"

www.newsweek.com Russia says Donald Trump's election win "useful for us"

Former president Dmitry Medvedev responded on Telegram to the initial results of the U.S. presidential election.

Summary

Russian official Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, suggested Donald Trump’s election victory may benefit Russia’s interests in Ukraine, citing Trump’s reluctance to fund “idiotic allies” and “voracious international organizations.”

Although Medvedev stopped short of celebrating, he hinted Trump’s aversion to foreign spending could weaken U.S. support for Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cautiously congratulated Trump, recalling their recent discussion on U.S.-Ukraine cooperation.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov maintained a guarded tone, noting the U.S. remains an “unfriendly country” involved in the Ukraine conflict.

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All those lemmy.ml people did their jobs bashing Harris to get trump elected.
- Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole is a microcosm that doesn't make much of a difference one way or the other. We can stab at the tankies all we like, but it wasn't their influence in the Fediverse that caused the result, even if they did manage to hoodwink a few into voting for fake tan man.
  
  It wasn't their influence alone, of course not.
  They were just part of the bigger propaganda machine that infiltrated so many social media sites.
  
  Taking a broader perspective, social media and those who manipulate it played a huge role in Trump's win. And Lemmy's part of that, like it or not.
  
  Because this influence campaign only took place on Lemmy /s
  
  They have accounts on all major services.
- I have voted blue in every election since Obama McCain, despite not liking a single one of the General election candidates, and I phone banked and primaried for Bernie twice.
  I don't blame those who sat out. The only reason I don't is to maximize harm reduction so I can look myself in the mirror. I blame those that voted for Trump for Trump.
  We have a center right party and a fascist party, both hypercapitalist. You can scream at democratic socialists like me and other leftists, but in my entire lifetime, we have never had a party platform to enthusiastically vote for, only against the worst of 2 terrible options that embrace economic inequity and are well bribed to do so.
  And singling them out as the worst offenders for doing nothing on election day while people voted FOR the fascist has just ensured keeping those that decided to disengage stay disengaged, because the neoliberals that run the Democrat party seem to hate leftists even more than Republicans, and say the same thing every cycle to them.
  Because at least Republicans believe in our herp derp "free" market capitalist economy, amirite? I wish that commonality our supposed leftwing party has had with Republicans for ages, but especially since Reagan, would tell you something...
  Because a society shouldn't be comfortable with an economy that by design leaves so many of its people "losing" so hard they're dying of exposure on our streets, let alone BOTH of our only 2 political parties that matter. But we aren't a society, just a bunch of rugged individuals at each other's throats fighting for the owner's ever dwindling scraps.
  
  The fact that liberals are blaming leftists and other liberals for this result instead of the complete and utter failings of the Democratic party this election cycle is mind boggling. Having Biden run for a second term was a huge blunder. Then when he was clearly unfit to run again, they rammed Harris through, even though she already primaried in 2020 and was extremely unpopular. Will the dnc take the blame and change anything though? Absolutely fucking not! They'll blame the voters for being racist or sexist or unmotivated or leftist or dumb or whatever. And people will eat it up, look at these comment sections already
  
  There was actually a lot of enthusiasm for her. But she didn't change his campaign. She ran it the exact same way. And his campaign was already causing people to disengage. I remember in the spring he was trying to celebrate the economy and his advisors whined to the press that the people didn't agree with him. Did they change that messaging? No they doubled down and told their base they were wrong. Their financial trouble was just Republican propaganda.
  Which is insane for a political campaign.
  
  It’s a good thing they bet and lost it all again
  
  Yes this loss lies squarely with the Democratic Party and their failure to produce a candidate that could win. Instead they forced Kamala on us and campaigned on “Trump bad” instead of policies that would benefit ALL Americans. Not just outlier groups they were trying to win, particularly failing to win any meaningful support from Hispanic and Muslim voters.
  
  We can certainly point fingers in every direction and hit someone with “fault.” We are all to blame and not to blame.
  At least now we won’t have to vote any more.
  
  I accept exactly 0 blame for this. I did my part. I was unable to primary and forced to vote for Kamala. There is nothing else I could do short of quitting my job and campaigning for free.
  
  I have voted blue in every election since Obama McCain, despite not liking a single one of the General election candidates, and I phone banked and primaried for Bernie twice.
  I don't blame those who sat out. The only reason I don't is to maximize harm reduction so I can look myself in the mirror. I blame those that voted for Trump for Trump.
  We have a center right party and a fascist party, both hypercapitalist. You can scream at democratic socialists like me and other leftists, but in my entire lifetime, we have never had a party platform to enthusiastically vote for, only against the worst of 2 terrible options that embrace economic inequity and are well bribed to do so.
  And singling them out as the worst offenders for doing nothing on election day while people voted FOR the fascist has just ensured keeping those that decided to disengage to remain disengaged, because the neoliberals that run the Democrat party seem to hate leftists even more than Republicans, and say the same thing every cycle to them.
  Because at least Republicans believe in our herp derp "free" market capitalist economy, amirite? I wish that commonality our supposed leftwing party has had with Republicans for ages, but especially since Reagan, would tell you line towers something...
  Because a society shouldn't be comfortable with so many of its people "losing" so hard they're dying of exposure on our streets.
  
  It's not so much that it's only the "I can't in good conscience vote for this party, so it's better that the objectively worse party wins" crowd is worse then "I want the fascist to win" crowd. It's the first crowd might listen, while the second is a lost cause.
- Oh please, 20 million voters that didn't vote wasn't affected by the rantings of a few people on Lemmy or Reddit.
  
  And Xitter, and Facebook. They have those accounts too.
- That would almost be funny again. So why didn't you vote?
  I was gonna, but then some people on a forum didn't like her.
  You deserve him if THAT is what it takes.
  
  That’s all it takes. Manipulation in your doom scroll
- Nah I think it was Elon "Goebbels 2" Musk more than them. They didn't help but he should get all the credit.
  
  Him and Joe Rogan
  
  Yeah the convenient takeover of the vessel people use to express opinions was certainly a huge factor in spreading pro-trump material.
- As far as we know, it was just one guy with a bunch of burner accounts.
  
  That certainly is very possible. They all sound like the same person. Or, like they have a specific game plan they all have to adhere to. Almost like a job ;)
- The genocide will continue until moral improves
  
  Well, ML doesn’t care about Gaza anymore since it was just a tactic. Now they are pushing Ukraine committing genocide.
  It’s all a game.
- Lol y'all will never learn. This is the whole Bernie Bros cost Clinton the election. Why don't you take a look at the real reasons she never was going to win.
  
  Because American men won’t elect a woman
  
  If that's what you believe, why didn't you demand that a man take her place?
  
  Because I don’t have a problem voting for a woman.
  
  It seems like you might have a problem with it since you're insisting that she lost because she's a woman.
  Your graph seems to indicate that education level has more to do with voting preferences than gender.
  Edit: and this seems to contradict your theory that this is all about gender biases and not something else like abandoning the party base
  
  I don’t know how much insisting I’m doing. There are lots of reasons. I feel like that’s putting words in my mouth.
- Stupid people. Not being able to see the less worse side makes them stupid people.
  And siding with the side that will bring worse to the table just because you can't handle something that the less worse side does? That also makes them stupid people in terms of general and emotional intelligence.
- Slrpnk with Notvoting did their fair share, seeing how low the turnout was.
- oh yeah, in this fediverse echo chamber where there's only one narrative: "trump bad", for sure, those lemmy.ml people were swaying millions of voters away from Kamala.
  jeez, lemmy, you were pathetic during the run-off, but you're also a very sore loser. A bunch of kids not even being able to look into the mirror.
- lol, keep the tears coming 😊😊😊
  
  Oh hey it's a cunt.
  
  I usually like those.
  Not that one though
  
  How does it feel to have zero empathy and getting off of the pain of others? You sound exactly like those who celebrate genocides.
  
  Thanks for the confirmation

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