Donald Trump said Tuesday that NATO allies should shoot down Russian aircraft encroaching on their airspace, and walked back earlier support for Russia to keep the Ukrainian territory it has won.

“I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” he wrote on social media shortly after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

For months as he tried to coax Russian Vladimir Putin into peace talks, Trump indicated Ukraine needed to be realistic about its long term prospects and military disadvantage, suggesting it would have to give up the land it had already lost in order to end the war.

Donald Trump was not yet two minutes into his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly of his second term when he credited himself for having single-handedly forged a world “that was prosperous and at peace.”

He was, of course, referring to his first term, which led into a screed about how the president who both followed and preceded him, Joe Biden, squandered it all ... largely by not being him.

Then, in what became just the first of many instances of denigrating the country he once again leads — on one of the biggest stages in the world — the 47th president groused about how “four years of weakness, lawlessness and radicalism” under the Biden administration had “delivered our nation into a repeated set of disasters.”

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Sorry I'm depressed af and need answers. Are y'all even real? What if y'all are just part of the program to torture me? What if this is a test? What if this is a VR simulation and the societal collapse is just moral character test to see if I would be do anything about it? Like imaginr a society in the far future like 26th century and in a history class where people are wondering "why didn't the 21st century humans rise up against their oppressors" and then this VR simulation is just testing the students "what would you have done"

(Sorry for the bizzare question, its just brain chemicals acting weird today :P)

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In short:

The ABC has been ordered to pay a fine of $150,000 to journalist Antoinette Lattouf for her unlawful termination.

Ms Lattouf had already been awarded $70,000 in compensation for non-economic loss.

The judge found the decision to remove Lattouf from ABC Radio Sydney was made to appease pro-Israel lobbyists behind a campaign of complaints.

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"I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor — terrible, terrible mayor — and it's been so changed, so changed," Mr. Trump said during his address to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. "Now they want to go to sharia law ... Both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."

Delusional.

The EU said Tuesday it will seek a new one-year delay to sweeping anti-deforestation rules

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49414962

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49414537

Despite the steepest US tariffs in decades, China is on course for a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus

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Would you rather a Chinese-owned TikTok or one run by a consortium of Trump-supporting billionaires?

That’s the choice Australia is being asked to consider.

The Trump administration has outlined that a proposed deal for TikTok to remain in operation in the United States would transfer the control of TikTok’s US operations to a US company that will have seven seats on the board, with six filled by Americans. Donald Trump has suggested a consortium of US businesses, including Larry Ellison’s Oracle and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Corporation, are involved in the deal.