Summary

Trump is pushing for softer language on Russia’s war in Ukraine, straining G7 unity.

Officials say the U.S. is blocking references to “Russian aggression” and prefers calling it the “Ukraine conflict.”

This shift follows Trump’s peace talks with Putin that excluded Ukraine’s President Zelensky, whom Trump later called a “dictator.”

The change in rhetoric contrasts with Biden-era support for Ukraine and threatens a unified G7 stance.

  • merdaverse@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Coming from a country with ranked voting and more than 2 parties, this looks so ridiculous. It’s like the USA electoral system is designed to make people bicker amongst themselves about who is the lesser evil, while oligarchs take control.

    • Paragone@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Veritasium, on yt ( not a guy I recommend frequently ) has a vid on election-systems.

      Approval-disapproval seems to be the sanest electing-system there is…

      All the ranked-choice-systems logically have problems, though no-where near as bad as 1st-past-the-post idiocy.

      Please, people, if you’re interested in the sanest voting-system possible, watch that video, & then organize to replace your system with the currently-best-option, which seems, from that vid, to be the approval/disapproval system.

      ( it makes the most-approved person win, and one can approve-of multiple different candidates, so the majority-of-voters get heard, no-matter-what, see? )

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      • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee
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        10 hours ago

        I actually prefer the CGP grey videos on the different types of voting. But they are both very good at entry level understandings of the topics.