Can’t just admit you lost, can you, Trump? I guess this is Biden’s fault too? Such a waste of every life lost to this dumb game.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191028041753/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm

The history is a little more complex than giving weapons, but US-owned companies manufactured equipment for the Nazis. “The business of America is business” rings true.

“American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home.”

During the war, US bombing plans avoided American-owned factories. When they couldn’t, they compensated the companies for the losses inflicted.

Again, it’s complex, and fascinating in many regards, but the business interests that drive the US government were also building the Nazi war machine.

Maybe that decision should be up to the people of Ukraine. They hold elections for that office, don’t they?

Sorry folks, best we can do is beat the war drums and spend your taxes on armaments. That’s better than ‘social services’, right?

Hey, now there’s something beyond speculation. So it was true. I don’t apologize for my original skepticism with the info at the time. I am willing to be swayed with additional info and in this case confirmation from the horses mouth.

Thanks for posting that!

Lol, how rude. I’m not the one defending a media organization proudly funded by oligarch money, dressed up real nice in tax exempt foundations.

https://www.propublica.org/supporters

Lol, OK kid

It’s also entirely possible I just have unique, nuanced opinions that don’t completely align with yours. If this article is true, add it to the pile of things that family should be run out of town for. Better yet, impeach, convict, remove from office, and go after the rest of that corrupt family enterprise based on mountains of evidence that supports that end. I just am not ready to swallow this news story as-is simply because it supports that narrative. Guess that makes me a bad person.

Lock me up. 😒

I can also argue with an Internet rando for leveling baseless belief. Propublica may be legit, but they’re not showing the receipts on this one that connects the dots. Propublica is the platform, these 4 reporters don’t earn any credibility with this kind of reporting. Propublica should demand better.

Not saying reveal the 3 individuals, yes, they’d surely have the regime’s sights set on them, but contracts, receipts, accounting leaks can be shown, shit gets hacked and dumped all the time. Deniability as to where it came from, but when they have it, they can validate it with additional sources, company documents, other experts, etc. All we get here is, ‘trust us’. Produce some documentation.

There’s plenty of out in the open corruption to light this administration up for. Surely there are other more obscure stories of corruption with better sourcing than this. They show photos of the couple watching fireworks reportedly funded by the guy, but not a receipt to support that claim?

Simple, that’s their sugar daddy.

https://media.npr.org/documents/about/annualreports/NPR Annual Report 2025 mobile.pdf

Corporate sponsors starting on page 59, some other notable names starting on on page 38.

Other clues spread throughout, as to who they have to please to stay funded, and in business.

…“according to records reviewed by ProPublica and interviews with three people familiar with the event”…

Show the records, at the very least. Provide the evidence for your audience, if you respect their intellect and ability to draw the same conclusion. Otherwise, just more nonsense posted by ProPublica with sourcing to “people familiar with the matter”. Laughable. The article is pure speculation made out to be something more.

Until then, Hitchens’ razor applies. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.