☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlM to Geopolitics@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 3 months agoU.S. negotiators outmatched by Russians in Ukraine talks, say analystswww.washingtonpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareamemorablename@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up26·3 months agoNegotiations probably something like: Russia: “привет, we hold all the cards. What do you want to discuss?” US: “You suck, do what we want or we’ll be really mad.” Russia: “Has this worked for you before?” US: “Yeah, for like, decades.” Russia: “But you held cards then, now we hold them.” US: “Wait, you need to have teeth behind the threats?” Russia: “You did not know this?” US: “Well, we’ve been using tariffs.” Russia: “Yes, this is not exactly subtle.” US: “That’s teeth though, that’ll make people do what we want.” Russia: “How in world did you topple Soviet Union?” US: “That was past US, we’re still working on making it great again.” Russia: “And you do this with tariffs?” US: “Yes, the more, the better.” Russia: “This is interesting foreign policy strategy.” US: “Yeah, I learned it in New York from bullying tenants.” Russia: “We are not tenant of US.” US: “Yet.” Russia: “I am ending call now.”
minus-squareSpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 months agoI like how you gave Russia an accent
minus-squarecayde6ml@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoI like to think/hope that the Amerikkkan negotiators are slightly more intelligent than that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were that stupid.
minus-squareamemorablename@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoYeah I don’t know. I took some creative license with it to have a little light-heartedness amid all the horribleness of stuff. I don’t know if it truly reflects the spirit of it.
minus-squarecayde6ml@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoI feel like you’re very accurate, regardless
Negotiations probably something like:
Russia: “привет, we hold all the cards. What do you want to discuss?”
US: “You suck, do what we want or we’ll be really mad.”
Russia: “Has this worked for you before?”
US: “Yeah, for like, decades.”
Russia: “But you held cards then, now we hold them.”
US: “Wait, you need to have teeth behind the threats?”
Russia: “You did not know this?”
US: “Well, we’ve been using tariffs.”
Russia: “Yes, this is not exactly subtle.”
US: “That’s teeth though, that’ll make people do what we want.”
Russia: “How in world did you topple Soviet Union?”
US: “That was past US, we’re still working on making it great again.”
Russia: “And you do this with tariffs?”
US: “Yes, the more, the better.”
Russia: “This is interesting foreign policy strategy.”
US: “Yeah, I learned it in New York from bullying tenants.”
Russia: “We are not tenant of US.”
US: “Yet.”
Russia: “I am ending call now.”
I like how you gave Russia an accent
Hehe. :D
I like to think/hope that the Amerikkkan negotiators are slightly more intelligent than that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were that stupid.
Yeah I don’t know. I took some creative license with it to have a little light-heartedness amid all the horribleness of stuff. I don’t know if it truly reflects the spirit of it.
I feel like you’re very accurate, regardless