Have you seen the NY Post?

[Anonymous]

NYPost front page: a picture of Putin, headline: This is a Dictator

https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/opinion/putin-is-the-dictator-and-10-ukraine-russia-war-truths-we-ignore-at-our-peril/

"Trump is absolutely right in wanting to end the bloodshed in Ukraine. The suffering has been appalling and the stalemate brutal. But in the furious mix of wild opinions this week from the White House down, there are at least 10 truths that every American voter must hang onto..."

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9 mo

"Putin is a dictator. Putin has ruled Russia with an iron KGB fist since coming to power in 1999. He has ruthlessly quashed independent media, ended free and fair elections, crushed civil society and killed his political opponents. And not just inside Russia, but around the world. People who live inside Russia and express any opposition to the war are imprisoned."

Updates

9 mo

"Zelensky is not a dictator. A political outsider, Zelensky won the 2019 presidential election, which was relatively free and fair. He has a 57% approval rating, not the 4% Trump claimed."

"Russia is not a friend of the US. It is a hostile, nuclear-armed state that resents American power and the world the US has built. It has ever closer relations with China, Iran and North Korea. In fact, all of its main friends are countries that are the biggest foes of America."

[exitseven]

I did see this. I agree with some of it. Putin cannot be trusted but neither can Zelensky. Russia is not our friend. Ukraine is not our friend either. They bought and paid for our former president so it was able to leverage that relationship into billions of dollars in weapons and aid. As soon as President Trump cuts off the money we will see what kind of friend Ukraine really is. Yes, Putin started the war but if we did not have a feckless and incompetent president it never would have started in the first place. Trump is understandably frustrated about that.

[Asker]

No, they didn't. Trump tried to get Ukraine to announce a non-existent investigation into a non-existent crime in order to gain political leverage. He was impeached for it. The "smoking gun" accusation in Comer's witch hunt came from the same anti-democratic forces. Alexander Smirnov not only lied, he got a couple of million dollars for it.

There's a confession. storage.courtlistener.com/.../...cd.949422.9.0.pdf

[exitseven]

President Trump talked to Zelensky because he hear that Hunter Biden was up to his eyeballs in Ukrainian cash and that when Joe Biden was president he got the prosecutor fired that was investigating his don. There is a video of this moron actually bragging to people at a business conference about holding up the signing of a billion dollar loan guarantee for Ukraine it that prosecutor was not fired. Then there is phone conversation of Biden speaking to the new prosecutor. President Trump wanted to find out how deep the corruption went. It turns out it went all the way to "The Big Guy

'.

[Asker]

No, they hadn't even made up that lie back then.

As to Shokin: "Geoffrey Pyatt, the U. S. Ambassador to Ukraine from 2013 to 2016... explained that Vice President Biden was “conveying the U. S. Government interagency position that we had concluded that Mr. Shokin, despite many changes and best efforts, including support from U. S. Department of Justice technical advisors, had become an insurmountable obstacle to building a less corrupt Ukrainian political system.”

In other words, Shokin was fired because he WASN'T investigating corruption.

[exitseven]

President Trump said that Hunter Biden was like a huge cash vacuum cleaner. He jets all over Europe and vacuums up big piles of cash wherever he goes. Obviously we could not have somebody involved with his dealings in the White House.

[Asker]

President Trump lies.

[exitseven]

what part is a lie?

[DryGermanGuy]

We are still waiting for all the evidence the GOP investigators are presenting of Joe or Hunter Biden accepting illegal money from Ukraine. Jim Jordan and James Comer are just polishing the last words of the impeachment!!! Right, homey? Right?

[Asker]

"what part is a lie?" All of it. Haven't you worked that out yet? Again: confession under oath that Alexander Smirnov lied when he claimed the Bidens took bribes (that piece of worthless paper the FBI had already discounted and the Republicans led a parade of clowns to see). Here's the court document: storage.courtlistener.com/.../...cd.949422.9.0.pdf

The Republicans had no evidence of a crime, let alone that any was committed by a Biden (with the exception of Hunter's lying on a firearm document and evading taxes).

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Alexandrubaschet08]

If i start to make a list of why Putin is a dictator, very little number of people will read it, because of the big number of reasons.

But if i make a list with Zaleski, will be far more to read because the small number of reasons.

Zaleski is a hero

Will Putin is a psychopath

[purplepoppy]

Here's a screenshot of yesterday's newspaper from the UK. It doesn't matter if the paper is left or right you're seeing similar headlines across the world. Outside his magabubble Trump has zero credibility.

[AyChingao]

they can't listen. They are mentally incapable of comprehending such a thing at this time... tsk

[exitseven]

The fact that trump is disliked by foreign leader means we elected the right guy. For the last 4 years America has been the butt monkey for the whole world. Nobody is laughing now.,

[Asker]

@exitseven Foreign leaders like Mike Pence?

“Mr. President, Ukraine did not ‘start’ this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth,” x.com/Mike_Pence/status/1892271536394162229

[Filthy_Immigrant]

yeah because apparently you are too retarded to understand how PROPAGANDA works

[Asker]

@Filthy_Immigrant I know how it works, it's what you're doing: denying reality.

[Anonymous]

Russia recently had elections, Ukraine has not.

[Asker]

Nor did Britain during WWII, and wartime elections are explicitly prohibited by the Ukrainian constitution.

"Whether or not Zelensky would be re-elected in Ukraine, Putin will always be re-elected in Russia. Because his elections are con jobs, pageant shows. Putin hasn’t won a free and fair election in his life. Because he doesn’t hold them."
nypost.com/.../

[Dargil]

Here's the deal for all of you leftist morons. I am getting tired of you.

We won. You lost. Lay back and enjoy it. You are powerless to do anything about it until Nov 3, 2026. Between now and then, you can vent your hatred and outrage all you want and accomplish nothing, just like masturbating.

The only way you can stop President Trump is with a well placed bullet. You will likely die in the process. Are you willing to die against your country like 29,000 died for their country at Normandy? No? Then scratch that.

You can virtue signal and try to make yourself feel relevant by cherry-picking, name calling, and falsely accusing DJT for anything you hear or can make up. But I have a better idea. Get off the toilet and try to accomplish something constructive for the country.

Barring that, STF Up and sit back down and shake it some more. Then everything will be alllll better.

[Asker]

@Dargil What's that got to do with wartime elections being explicitly prohibited by the Ukrainian constitution?

[Opinion Owner]

Are elections prohibited in Ukraine or does it give the Ukrainian furher the right to stay in power as long as he continues the war?

[Asker]

Is that you again, Russian trollbot? If Putin wants peace and Ukrainian elections, all he has to do is withdraw from Ukraine.

[Opinion Owner]

Who is going to make him withdraw? He's defeated Ukraine & Zelensky is going to sign the peace deal surrendering donbass and crimea to Russia. All those Ukrainian lives and territory lost to Zelensky's bad leadership.

[Asker]

Oh, Russian trollbot. I said: "If Putin wants peace and Ukrainian elections, all he has to do is withdraw from Ukraine." Nothing about making him do it.

[Opinion Owner]

Well once zelsky crawls over to sign the peace deal there will be peace. War is over, Ukraine lost.

[Asker]

Oh, Russian trollbot. Zelensky, being a true leader and patriot, has offered to resign in exchange for NATO membership for his country. Putin could have peace in Ukraine tomorrow (leading to elections) simply by withdrawing all his occupying troops and returning the Ukrainian children he stole. Why doesn't he do that?

[Opinion Owner]

Lol nato membership is the problem, he sacrificed Ukrainian lives for it knowing Russia would never allow it. If Zelensky was a true patriot and not a corrupt puppet of the industrial military complex he would have seen to it that no Ukrainian would have died over nothing. He lost his war and is desperately trying to cling on to power but the gravy train has ended.

[Asker]

Oh, Russian trollbot, it wasn't the problem, it was the excuse. NATO has had members on Russia's borders for decades, it has two more now they illegally invaded Ukraine.

[Opinion Owner]

The expansion of NATO has been a concern of Russia for decades.

[Asker]

And yet they didn't mind having not one but two neighbouring countries being members. Funny, that.

[Opinion Owner]

Name them?

[DryGermanGuy]

Well, they got that one right. Let's hope, Trump or Musk doesn't sic the MAGA horde onto them to burn down the publisher's building.

[Asker]

They'd lose Fox News. Fox might start telling the truth, too.

Nah!

[Dargil]

Putin is a Dictator. But it is in our national interest to avoid nuclear war, is it not?

[Asker]

You don't avoid big wars by letting dictators win small ones. We've all learned that.

[Dargil]

Who is we?

[Asker]

Everybody who's looked at history. Even the Post is saying this:

"With America’s help, Zelensky and his people have fought bravely, humiliated Putin, and deterred other global tyrants from wreaking havoc.

Why would Trump seek to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at such a moment?
...
Should Trump abandon the Ukrainians now, he will inspire a similar response from America’s enemies and be remembered for the same fecklessness for which Biden is reviled.

China is deliberating whether and when to make a move on Taiwan.

Islamist terrorists are considering their prospects for success in the coming years.

Putin is doubtlessly already plotting his next move.

And if Trump continues on his current course, they’ll all be thinking that they may be able to make a fool of him."
(Naturally, they manage to mix in attempts to blame Biden for fulfilling Trump's commitments in Afghanistan.)
nypost.com/.../

[Dargil]

So what do you propose?

[Asker]

Putting pressure on Putin to f*ck off, not licking his boots and repeating his propaganda for him.

How many people on here have talked about Zelensky not holding elections that would be explicitly against the Ukrainian constitution because of Trump? How many have defended Trump's claims that Ukraine started the invasion of their own country?

Ukraine counter attacked Russia at the previously lightly defended border rather than the lies in Ukraine and nothing happened, except they got something to bargain with and forced Putin to spead out his forces.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Truth #1. Its not the American Taxpayer's responsibility to fund a globalists' war

[Asker]

"Putin is a dictator. Putin has ruled Russia with an iron KGB fist since coming to power in 1999. He has ruthlessly quashed independent media, ended free and fair elections, crushed civil society and killed his political opponents. And not just inside Russia, but around the world. People who live inside Russia and express any opposition to the war are imprisoned."

[seeyounexttuesday]

See truth #1

[Asker]

It didn't used to support dictators.

[seeyounexttuesday]

See truth #1, again.

[Asker]

It's not your president's responsibility to repeat Russian propaganda, but here we are.

[seeyounexttuesday]

So please refer to truth #1.

[Asker]

My statement, that it's not the president's responsibility to repeat Russian propaganda, has nothing to do with what you said.

[seeyounexttuesday]

When in doubt…. see truth 1

[seeyounexttuesday]

When in doubt…. see truth uno

[Asker]

Nobody's in any doubt about your trolling.

[seeyounexttuesday]

And no one’s in doubt you need to see truth #1

[Filthy_Immigrant]

@seeyounexttuesday a person who is stupid enough to trust yellow journalism will never believe Truth #1

[Asker]

@Filthy_Immigrant Suddenly the NY Post isn't lying enough for the right?

[Filthy_Immigrant]

@asker Trump is not a with the right neither are his supporters. the problem with you Libtards is that you are all so delusional and radical that now you all believe that anyone who opposes you views is automatically with the right,

and this is not just ignorant but a very dangerous way of thinking. considering the fact that most of you leftists are responsible for the problems that are going on in the world today, not just right wingers but anyone with a brain cell is smart enough to oppose all of you

[Asker]

@Filthy_Immigrant "We're so back!" - Trump supporters witnessing Musk's Nazi salute.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

@Asker did you see Elon Musk wearing a Swastika when he did that salute?

you Libtards would cling on to any bullshit that you can weaponize. what's next? me and people who read the comic book Daredevil are satanists just because they're reading about a guy who dresses up like the devil when fighting crime?

[Asker]

@Filthy_Immigrant Oh, is that the only way it can be a Nazi salute? What matters is that the Nazis recognised it and celebrated it. And that they're Trump supporters like you.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

@asker crazy how I can't even be a nazi myself for the fact that I'm not white. and believe me when I say that I'm not the only minority who supports Trump.

if anything Biden had way more similarities to Hitler. he tried to force medical mandates on us, tried to take our guns away and even tried to get his political opponent sentenced to prison. and did you forget that the KKK another white supremacist group was created by democrats?

but here you are bitching about Musk being a Nazi just because he did something that appeared like a Nazi salute. oh and its too bad I can't find a video I once saw of a Neo Nazi CELEBRATING Biden's and calling him better than Trump for his stupidity on sending weapons to Ukraine

[Asker]

@Filthy_Immigrant There were Jews that supported Hitler, Brits, Africans. You're just useful idiots.

[seeyounexttuesday]

The left in this country doesn’t live in reality. They’re a lost hope.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

@asker that still doesn’t mean Musk is automatically a Nazi. Next time use real facts and evidence instead of relying on wishful thinking like real useful idiots do

[Asker]

@Filthy_Immigrant People doing Nazi salutes and supporting Nazi parties are Nazis.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

@asker that is not what he did. what's next? cats are snakes just because they make hissing noices when showing aggression?

[Filthy_Immigrant]

@seeyounexttuesday not just in this country. pretty you've heard lots of losers from Europe in this site talking nonsense like if they knew about our country more than we do, even though we live here and they dont

[Filthy_Immigrant]

in case you are a retard, you know this is yellow journalism right?

[Asker]

It's a rare instance of a Murdoch outlet telling the truth. No wonder you don't like it.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

not sure what the fuck that means but that is literally the cover of a yellow journal that you uploaded. they were not met to be taken seriously as their information isn't even based on actual facts

[Asker]

It's a Murdoch-owned newspaper, idiot. And Putin is undeniably a dictator.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

who gives a fuck about who owns it? the owner is not Jesus is he?

also the fact that it became a tabloid 55 years ago just shows how gullible and misinformed you are. now tell me who the real idiot here is

[Asker]

He's anything but Jesus, he's one of the main movers behind the modern Republican party. He's why you've got president Trump, and even he's saying Trump is a stupid dictator appeaser.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

so if you already know the guy who owns this source is an asshole the why the fuck do you still believe what comes out of it?

[Asker]

Because even assholes sometimes tell the truth. Present company possibly excepted.

When a Trump supporter says something bad about Trump, it's probably true.

You haven't said a word about what's in the article, have you? You've just attacked the source.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

I attacked the source because again I know damn well is yellow journalism. And yellow journalism was not met to be taken seriously. It seems like your IQ is not high enough to maintain an argument

[Asker]

Are you saying Putin is not a dictator?

[Filthy_Immigrant]

Did I say that? Or are you just giving me more reasons to believe you lack the IQ to engage in an argument?

[Asker]

You're saying what's in the NY Post is yellow journalism, meaning "eye-catching headlines and sensationalized exaggerations". Is it an exaggeration to call Putin a dictator or not? Is it wrong in any way?

If you were up to an argument, you wouldn't just be attacking the messenger.

This is the paper that broke the Hunter Biden laptop story. I bet you weren't calling it yellow journalism then.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

No shit he's a fucking dictator, Einstein!

But the headline claims that Trump is saying that which he never did. He instead wanted him and Zelenskyy to stop the war in a peaceful manner but of course Zelenskyy is gonna rebel on that cause if he does his billion dollar stimulus checks are gonna stop and he doesn’t not want that.

At least Putin admits he’s a dictator but I haven’t heard of him initiating a holocaust or starting a world war like Hitler did

And no I knew about Hunter Biden’s laptop way before that. I don’t get my political info from propaganda cesspools

[Asker]

How many ways can you be wrong in one post?

The headline isn't saying Trump said Putin is a dictator, they're saying it to Trump because Trump appears to be too stupid to understand what a dictator is. He thinks Zelensky is a dictator with 4% approval, when in reality he's the opposite and with 57% approval. He believes this nonsense because he was told it by Putin.

Only Putin can stop the war in a peaceful manner, because only Putin has the ability to withdraw from the country he invaded and return the children he stole. Putin has never admitted he’s a dictator, he pretends to have been elected in free and fair elections.

No, you had no clue about Hunter Biden’s laptop before the Post published an article about it, because it had never appeared in any media. Or did you hear about it on Parler first? Talk about cesspools.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

You’re so desperate to push a fake narrative that you ignore reality. Trump never said Putin wasn’t a dictator—he just doesn’t believe in endless wars like Biden. Meanwhile, Zelensky has jailed opposition leaders and extended his power indefinitely—sounds pretty authoritarian. And Hunter’s laptop? Conservatives knew about it before the New York Post because Big Tech and the media were censoring the truth. You fell for it. Try thinking for yourself instead of repeating what CNN tells you.”

[Asker]

So you did hear it on Parler.

There's no fake narrative, here, Trump's taking the side of Putin the dictator and baselessly calling Zelensky one.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

Wrong again. I don’t need Parler to know the truth—unlike you, I actually look at facts instead of regurgitating mainstream media nonsense. Zelensky banned opposition parties, shut down media he didn’t like, and extended his rule indefinitely—all things an actual dictator does. Meanwhile, Trump isn’t ‘taking Putin’s side’; he’s calling out Biden’s weak leadership that led to this mess. Try thinking critically instead of blindly following whatever CNN spoon-feeds yo

[Asker]

You're just lying about having heard about the laptop before it was reported in the Post, then. Because that's where it broke.

I can't imagine why parties called "Russian Bloc", "Russian Unity", or "New Russia Party" would be banned in Ukraine at the time of a Russian invasion, can you? (That, by the way, was years before Zelensky became president.)

"When Russian forces invaded on Feb. 24, 2022, Zelensky quickly declared martial law, and the country, including its politicians from different parties, rallied behind him. Bills to extend martial law and a flurry of legislation to put the country on wartime footing garnering near-universal support across the political spectrum."
But you don't care about that, or his 57% approval rating. Or that the constitution bans elections at times of war.

You'd rather lie and imply Zelensky alone led to this situation.

While Trump replaces the heads of the armed forces with personal loyalists and fires the lawyers tasked with ensuring only legal orders are obeyed.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

Oh please, you’re acting like Ukraine’s opposition was just a bunch of pro-Russian parties. Zelensky banned ALL opposition media, jailed political rivals, and extended his power indefinitely. That’s dictatorship, no matter how you spin it. And no, the New York Post wasn’t the first to uncover the Hunter Biden laptop—it was just the first major outlet brave enough to publish it after Big Tech and the liberal media tried to bury it. Keep coping

[Asker]

No, he didn't, you're lying. Here's an EU report that says "While the introduction of martial law has led to the derogation of certain fundamental rights, the measures taken are temporary and overall proportionate to the situation in the country."
enlargement.ec.europa.eu/.../...licy_and_Annex.pdf

Do you think anyone was allowed to broadcast pro-Nazi propaganda in Britain during WWII?

We both know you're lying about the laptop, too. Link me where you first heard about it, if it wasn't the Post.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

@goaded is that you?

Ah yes, an EU report—because we should totally trust a globalist bureaucracy that loves censorship. Zelensky banned media, jailed political opponents, and extended his power indefinitely—facts you conveniently ignore. And comparing Ukraine’s opposition to Nazi propaganda? Laughable. As for Hunter’s laptop, try John Paul Mac Isaac, Rudy Giuliani, and independent journalists who had it long before the Post reported it. Maybe do some research instead of parroting the establishment

[Asker]

Yup. Try proving you saw it before the Post reported on it. The only reason the US didn't block right wing terrorist/Nazi posts was because it caught too many Republican politicians. It's obvious why, now.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

Ah yes, the desperate last resort—when you have no argument, just scream 'Nazi' and pretend you won. The Hunter Biden laptop was in FBI possession in 2019, and independent journalists and whistleblowers spoke about it long before the New York Post was brave enough to publish. Big Tech and the media censored it to protect Biden. That’s a fact. Cope harder

[Asker]

You still haven't shown anything in the Post story was untrue, or that you supposedly knew about the laptop story before the Post broke it.

What "independent journalists and whistleblowers spoke about it long before the New York Post was brave enough to publish"? Show me a link.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

The FBI had Hunter’s laptop in 2019, John Paul Mac Isaac (the repair shop owner) went public before the New York Post story, and Rudy Giuliani had copies of the hard drive months before. You want links? Look up Miranda Devine's reporting, the Marco Polo report, and the congressional investigations. Stop pretending this was some big secret—your side just refused to believe it until it was too late

[Asker]

So, did the FBI tell you? You claimed to have known about it before the Post (which you claim is totally unreliable) broke the story: where from?

[Filthy_Immigrant]

You either have zero reading comprehension or you’re just stalling because you can’t refute the facts. I already told you The FBI had the laptop in 2019. John Paul Mac Isaac, Rudy Giuliani, and independent journalists had it before the New York Post’s story. The only reason you didn’t hear about it sooner is because Big Tech and the media censored it to protect Biden. So again, Cope harder.

[Asker]

Unless you're in the FBI, or you know John Paul Mac Isaac, Rudy Giuliani personally, I assume you supposedly learned about it from "independent journalists", so you should have a link that goes back before the Post broke the story. You're the one making the bullshit claim that you knew about it before it broke because you're trying to discredit the Post for telling the truth for a change.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

Jesus Goaded, do you not have a life? this post is a week old. move the fuck on already

[Asker]

And yet your lies are newer. I didn't want to be impolite and you think I was ignoring you.

[Asker]

Oh, and Miranda Devine is a NY Post reporter. You know, one of the people you say never tell the truth.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

I dont care, move the fuck on already

[Asker]

OK, just so we're clear you don't actually believe your opinion.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

Guess who gives a fuck? Sounds like you are far more concerned about my opinions than I am. Now shut the fuck up and move on

[dustybiker2]

Trumpets fangirls are both deaf and blind.

[DrPepper12]

Some truth for MAGA. Desperately needed at that.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Do the Moonies still run the New York Post?

[Asker]

It's a Murdoch rag.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Oh, I forgot. Ninety-four-year-old stud Murdoch and his Russian wife.