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  • Even running within the party, how much have senior Dems propped up the likes of Swalwell or Bill Clinton himself? Platner is without a doubt the better of the two options, even if there is risk. But honestly, this seems fairly overblown considering his wife is the one who brought this info to the campaign staff before they were leaked in the first place, and second, they had already gone through marital counseling if I understand right.

    That the backstabbing seems to be coming within the party and from AIPAC suggests to me that Platner may be the real deal.









  • You’re overthinking this. It doesn’t matter what you and I or even Zelenskyy believed then or now about Israel; the only thing that mattered at the time was that global public sentiment was clearly behind Israel and that the acute footage of October 7 was horrifying and galvanizing for much of the international community in support of Israel. Zelenskyy would be a fool to not use that to drive a thorn in Iran’s side by hammering one of its proxies and forcing Iran – the nation supplying bombs to Russia to kill his own people – to withhold weapons stockpiles for its own defense. Welcome to the geopolitical chess-play of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Zelenskyy is not a Zionist.


  • Hot take around here but that was in the recent aftermath of October 7th which was – by all accounts – fucking horrendous. Date the remarks of Zelenskyy and you’ll find he has increasingly distanced himself as time went on and the scale of the atrocities levied in response by Israel following October 7th were made clear. At the time though, yes it was apt to equate Hamas and Russian terrorist attacks against civilians. 100%.

    Pretty obvious that he was riding off the coattails to draw similarities of public outcries of support to Israel and express something akin to, “yeah, welcome to the club we’ve been in the same boat over here.”

    I stand by what I said that he kind of has bigger issues at the home front and this is in no way shape or form evidence of him being a staunch Zionist.