Murderers don’t get to keep the possessions of their victims.

“Might makes right”?

that's a horrifying admission of 'might makes right'

Is Trump going to "earn" Greenland?

Yes in the same way his boss "earned" all those young women and Putin "earned" his financial empire.

Earned?! He means stole

In that case, obliterated. They look like atom bombs were dropped.

Time for Europe to help Ukraine as much as we can and finally realize that the US is now an autocracy and post-haste put as much distance between EU and the US. Travel bans on US citizens, take the loss and 1/1 the tariffs. Get serious about unplugging their propaganda machines like Facebook and X

Talk to the few remaining democracies in the world and redo what was NATO into something that removes the US from the equation

When Russia ‘earns’ Alaska, will they have the same approach? Is this the world we live in now? Whoever wins territories, violates international law, gets to keep them?

Alaska, with Murkowski as its senator almost deserves to be invaded by Russia

Murkowski would no doubt be deeply troubled or have some very serious concerns about that.

tRump would tell her to take one for the team. Besides, he made a deal with Putin that she would be the governor of Russian Alaska with a new 10 story govt building with Murkowski's office on the top floor with opening windows for fresh air

...or the Russians will present it as a "brilliant compromise" proposed by Trump, which they will reluctantly agree to and it will be Ukraine's fault if the war continues afterwards.

Saying the quiet part out loud again.

They stole it fair and square. —The T Regime

He meant stolen, it's an easy mistake to make: the two words are synonymous in this administration like perpetrator and victim/survivor, democracy and autocracy. It's just words people...

This effing idiot is the US ambassador to NATO? His ignorance is in line with the rest of Trump’s cabinet.

Trump's disgusting representative. He is spreading a repugnant message. Stay strong NATO! Do not trust the US for one second!

No

White dude "meritocracy" has no limits. They apply it to anything and everything.

If the administration's position is Putin "earned" it, why would he stop there. He wants to "earn" the whole of Ukraine.

Like a carjacker ‘earns’ a car when he shoots the driver & kidnaps the kids in the back seat.

This regime is littered with despots.

My neighbor: You just stole several items from my house! Me: No, I earned those items.

Whitaker used to sell toilets… which explains a lot when you consider what he’s spewing.

russia deserves nothing to defeat! This video by @freeonis.bsky.social nails the absurdity of Moscow’s claims, and the Western discourse too timid to call out how ridiculous the kremlin’s demands are.

*Nothing but defeat

The Russian state needs to be dismantled and separated into several smaller republic-stans.

This would really be the only way to resolve many conflicts and make the whole world a better place. Not just the obvious places like Ukraine, Belarus or Moldova, but also Iran, North Korea, several African countries, Venezuela... and through them, the drug trade... etc, etc

Putin to Trump: Russia wants Alaska back. If not all, we'll take 1/2...

Dr Strangelove. They are completely nuts.

It's a green light for us to go earn Kaliningrad and Belarus and earn European security.

We'll pretend we don't understand because we're better than that and continue to surrender European security.

Oh, absolutely. This will work out well. . .

turncoat bastards are in bed with Russia

Memorandum of Budapest. pacta servanda sunt

Yes, because that is how this fetid Russia-aligned administration sees it. The law of the jungle has primacy over the rule of law. Trump has never forgotten Zelenskyy standing up to him and has was always, always determined to make the gift of Ukrainian lands to Putin part of his revenge tour.

This just shows how fast the current US has withdrawn from a rule-based international order. Not so far in the horizon is to invade Greenland, and "earn it". Discouraging that fascists have taken over US, which was once a beacon of democracy.

Based on this logic, Trump would have surrendered Europe to the Nazis because “they earned it on the battlefield.” Let’s face it Trump is Putin’s little poodle.

Have you changed your position on the acceptability of killing Palestinian journalists?

Wow!!! He seems to be promoting the violent takeover of sovereign nations! If you can earn it on the battlefield! Disgusting!

How dare this reprobate refer to tRump as a peace maker. tRump is nothing but a doormat for Putin.Had he levied the sanctions on Russia that it deserved and stopped kissing up to Putin, the war might have been over. He's going to sell out Ukraine and call himself a Peace Broker.What an evil buffoon!

The USA is lost.

Worse foreign policy team ever.

They're using similar language about the 5 seats in Texas -- revising our values system before our eyes....

This administration works for Putin.

It’s easy to see that these next negotiations are useless because Trump will favour Putin , whom he admires, over Zelenskyy. Ukraine will not accept any thing coming out of this meeting

That fits in with Trump's lifetime of being a bully and loving everyone who is "tough".

“Just given” Actually - not ours to give. But… If he buys a better suit, loses a few pounds, and gets some hair, he can do a fair imitation of Neville Chamberlain.

There will never be a just & lasting peace, if Russia is rewarded for its illegal & unprovoked aggression against Ukraine. For world peace Ukraine’s sovereignty & territorial integrity must be guaranteed to the agreed 1991 boarders.

Ministry of Truth talk for War Crime is Good!

To be fair, the words “earned” and “stolen” seem pretty interchangeable to these people.

They are criminals. They have no moral compass.

Lets trade Florida for Crimea.

It's not like they'll be giving back Königsberg or the Kuril Islands or ANYTHING for that matter and of that kind "in return"

No peace deals have been made. Only intentions and ceasefires. Trump wants the narrative of a peace maker only for one reason: he wants a Nobel Prize. It’s vanity and arrogance. Non of the real underlying problems in conflicts are being addressed. They all remain powder kegs that could reignite.

You don't get a Nobel for giving away land from an invasion of a peaceful neighbor

BY the way, Whitaker was involved with a company that promoted a “masculine toilet” designed specifically for well-endowed men. The company was shut down by the FTC for defrauding customers out of nearly $26 million. Despite the fraudulent practices Whitaker did not return the payments he received.

How bitter for Hitler and Napoleon, who had all their earnings been taken from them.

It's all about Trump's ego with these people, claiming any minor issue is resolved through Trump. Few of these "conflicts" that he's taking credit for even made the news. We are being boiled.

As it stands, Putin is getting everything he wanted, and Trump thinks he's the winner! Europe is just chattering, so-called ultimatums are sinking into oblivion, no one wants to escalate the situation, etc. Ukraine is in the clutches of two lunatics!

Welcome to 1938 baby! Enjoy!

This idiot thinks he is a diplomat. He is just another subservient Trump stooge who can't find a job elsewhere.

This feels like a great time for some other countries to earn some Russian territory, after Russia has bled men and material for years.

The Republican Party. The party of pedophiles, racism and entitlement.

And owned by Russia

Crazy times we live in. I’m sure if Saddam Hussein were alive today, Trump would be besties with him too.

You are probably correct!

We are witnessing what history will see as the end of, or nearly the end of, an era of an America/NATO enabled "world order" which expanded commerce and avoided a WW3. Diplomacy, ending wars, peace settlements, justice between aggressor and victim are reduced to "deals." How about this...

the armed robber pointing the gun at you gets to keep your wallet, your money, and your car keys and lets you live. Do we have a deal?

Kuwait would be Iraq's 19th province under the Trump Doctrine.

Indeed. "Earned"; how despicable

What a POS🤡 ….Ukraine shouldn’t cede anything. Vlad and Donald continue their gross corny relationship 🤮

Donald has ALWAYS had a massive crush on Vlad. This is why Vlad will always get the better of Donald.

My Maternal side is Polish/Ukrainian….so,I’m AGAINST Vlad and his stupid russia

OMG, this is it. Trump & his regime are going to sell out Ukraine completely and leave them dangling in the wind. I hope Europe can step in with enough money and arms to help them fight.

Just like how the Nazis earned Poland

Sounds like video game points, doesn't it.

Wow.

Yes. The same way Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe once _earned_ Paris, Warsaw and some more.

How long until we read about how Hitler "earned" Poland and France?

New rule: might makes right(?)

You can't earn a piece of Ukraine

This is very constructive.

This is not rude

So if China moves into Hawaii and pushes Americans out China can say that it "earned" that territory.

This disgusts me as a Cold Warrior who did my small part in moving the free world in Europe 1000 kilometers to the east. Aggressors don't "earn" occupied territory let alone the war crimes committed there.

Yeah. Fuck. That. Noise.

Spoken like a true career diplomat, well aware of Foreign Affairs.

What the WHOLE Hell?! I’m old enough to remember when this Trump Toady didn’t pass the “loyalty test” in Trump 1.0 as Acting AG following Jeff Sessions's unceremonious ouster. Now, this boot-licking sycophant is all in by selling out for Ukraine.

Of course that’s how they see it

Wow.

His most important previous employment was hawking toilets for generously endowed men.

English is not my mother tongue, by I suspect that "earned" is a bit wrong. 😰

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Statements like this are the reason why neither our regime leader nor Putin want the Europeans anywhere close to the negotiation table! Ukraine is the turkey that our pedophile-in-chief & Putin are carving up for their benefit. Actions like this are never healthy, history has told us before.

Yeah. I broke into Tiffany's early this morning, and earned about $150,000 in diamond jewelry!

As I've said many times, society under the rule of oligarchs is so antimeritocratic that war is deeply meritocratic by comparison. The problem is that the people who earn the imminent and necessary victory over Russia won't be the largest beneficiaries of their own triumph.

Whittaker is a complete idiot.

its sickening what America is doing. Yeah i get it if you dont want to fund the war, but budapest memorandum is just another broken treaty whatever, but why you need to give a diplomatic cover for war criminal?? Its just sickening.

how can you 'earn' your neighbours country by invading it an killing a million of your own people as well asy our neighbor's in the process? What an evil , ignorant statement!

Hey Ambassador Dipshit, As of 2025, Russia occupies approximately 20% of Ukraine's territory, which amounts to roughly 125,000 square kilometers or 48,000 square miles. This includes Crimea, which was annexed in 2014.

Yes, apparently the use of mass murders, rapes, torture, and war crimes involving the kidnappings of thousands of Ukr children, whose whereabouts are now unknown, (- an especially chilling thought, given that one of Putin’s assets was Epstein’s “assistant”), -

these crimes against humanity can now “earn” mass murderers points for their illegal seizures of sovereign territories using war crimes, (or grant prison “out” points that involve an upgrade to a country club prison for a sex predator, that gives her privileges to leave the prison “to work”,

or gives freedom points to the hundreds of insurrectionists involved in earning points for freedom for gouging out the eye of a LEO, electrocuting another into a heart attack, or chemically assaulting another into a stroke and death, or freedom points for the triple ax murderer,

who needs his Vitamin D quota of sunshine in Fla, & was freed from his 30 yr jail sentence in Venezuela, to roam about freely in Fla), because we really need to “protect the homeland” and “go after the criminals”.

Perhaps this must be the new trump points system for mass murderers, rapists, sex predators & kidnappers of children and ax murderers program?

Disgusting

It appears the Trump Administration has resurrected the ancient notion of Right of Conquest.

Not "appears." The imperial Mr. Trump by his statements, actions, and through the GOP confirmed Administration is asserting an historic but not ancient notion of the Right of Conquest. The reason English is spoken in Canada and US and Spanish everywhere south was lurking in the shadows until now.

Oh, so as long as you can conquer the territory it's okay to take it. Thanks for the clarification, Ambassador Whitaker. Does this principle apply to the Baltic states too?

Trump is the only one who can make it happen that Zelensky get thrown before the bus.

would the USA accept another nation telling them what land they're going to give away to settle a war??

Spoils to the victor! That'll create a stable world ... not.

So, is Alaska being swapped for Crimea?

Exactly.

I'd be tempted if, instead of Alaska, we considered Florida.

They already own large parts of Florida, I guess.

So if I beat up my neighbor and take over their garage have I "earned" ownership of the garage? Please say yes, it's a really nice garage.