Trump ebil doctator liek bad guy countries. You’re supposed to look at this and smugly laugh about how correct you are all the time as a liberal and how much of a fool Trump is for falling for the empty flattery of these silver tongued foreigners.
But why a see-saw? That implies some sort of balance that got shifted right? The world was in balance before Trump switched sides? Like if Putin and Xi and Kim Jong Un were gone then the balance would again be off?
The more you think about it the less it works. A see-saw is collaborative, if one side just stops cooperating the see-saw stops. And when a see-saw is in motion each side goes up and down opposite the other, which could be interpreted as Amerika being “on top” and then Russia/China/DPRK being “on top”, which I presume the author wouldn’t want (just a Trump-less amerika being “on top”). And if on side is supposed to always be up, that requires the other side to keep it down: cooperation.
It just doesn’t fucking work.
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You’re right! There’s layers to this nonsense
I think the author doesn’t know how see saws work and thinks both sides are supposed to be balanced like scales or something, but they used a set of scales in their comic depicting this same idea last week so they have to do something new.
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He was mean to Zelensky for not wearing a suit that one time
I keep challenging Russiagaters on this and have yet to receive adequate response. Trump has set out these past three years to topple or subvert Russian allies and has successfully done so in Syria and Venezuela, is currently attacking Iran and Cuba, and Russia hasn’t done much of anything to stop any of it despite supposedly being the puppeteer behind the curtains, and they can’t explain how this helps Russia at all, conveniently it’s all just benefiting the US agenda.
Trump has no filter and let it be known that he personally likes strongman political leaders, and libs have no political analysis besides great man theory so they can’t concieve of the president’s personal feelings not moving the needle on the country’s actual policies. If they admitted that Trump liking Putin didn’t change anything significant about the country’s foreign policy wrt Russia, they might be lead to question what systems are in place that actually drive American antagonism towards it and other countries.
Now that’s a truth bomb right there
He briefly halted the supply of some certain weapon over concern US stockpiles were running low
US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears its stockpiles are too low https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/02/us-halts-ukraine-weapons-shipments article from july 2 2025
and resumed them about a week later
US has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, Zelensky says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl04200dp4o article from july 11 2025
Of course their were also brief halts in ‘lethal aid’ under the biden regime also https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/18/white-house-ukraine-military-lethal-weapons-495169
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What’s about Venezuela, NATO, Greenland, tariffs and … you now all the wacky dumb shit he has done?
Venezuela was US foreign policy business as usual. All the EU countries are still spending absurd amounts of money on “defense” like good little bootlickers.
What about them? Maduro was a socialist, do you think kidnapping him is something Xi and Kim(or most sovereign nations that aren’t US vassals) would be in favour of? or that democratic politicians hadn’t being calling for his removal for years?
Greenland he said some wacky shit, what did he actually do there? a few vassals may bark, but at the end of the day do you see them removing US bases and nuclear assets from their territory over the threat? Threatening to remove a few thousands troops from Germany you could argue is something(if it actually happens, seems like bluster at this point), but as long as NATO countries remain suzeraintes that allow US bases and any level of their troops to be stationed on their territory, and most importantly still allow the deployment of its nuclear umbrella then NATO maintains is structure with the US on top, and continues its main function: Keep China and Russia out, keep the Europeans in and down
And if you think Xi is for trumps tariffs when they have negatively China’s trade and he’s explicitly condemned them on the world stage multiple times, or that Putin is happy about the increased tariffs and sanctions trump as imposed on Russia then you need to seriously reorient your geopolitical thinking
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He stopped giving away military equipment directly to Ukraine for free. He now sells it to NATO who gives it to Ukraine for free, which has shifted a large portion of the cost of the war from the US to Europe. This was already the plan under Biden though as well, and had already begun under him. Europeans can get mad at Trump for shifting the cost of the war onto them, without being critical of the war itself. A great way to launder it by Trumpwashing the unpopular aspects like budget cuts to social services.
Look, we didn’t want to cut your meemaws pension and healthcare but the Russians are invading and attacking Western Civilization, and also the evil dictator Trump (our ally btw) forced the costs onto us unfairly because he’s a Russian puppet!
I mean Biden had already started reducing the amount of munitions going to Ukraine largely so they could get sent to the Zionist entity instead.
I think there was a moment where he briefly relaxed some restrictions on purchasing Russian oil to minimize some immediate crisis related to the war on Iran. Libs were pretty worked up and acted like he had killed Zelensky.
Something something trump is an anti-american russian spy who allies with the wretched enemies of the free world
Trump literally has a department of war and is explicitly against socialists, communists in US and its colonies
Cartoonist had a deadline and their kid kept talking about wanting to go to the park and play on the see-saw.
But what if Kamala had won? Would she have been fat enough to balance out Putin, Kim and Xi?
It’s accurate, in that China has the most leverage
Anyone going to mention how wild it is that Iran isn’t in this photo? Are they going to vietnam that suez canal sized elephant?
I’d guess sometime in the first trump admin. Reverse google search suggests 2022 at the very earliest, but that doesn’t have all the features it used to have. deAdder’s website isn’t much help either, there’s not much in the gallery and it also fails to include publication dates. I do find this one pretty amusing, and its pretty well done
hallucinated baby brain takes cooked up while drowning in six inches of neoliberal bathwater.
like i sort of glimpsed a vibe (a pro-ukronazi one) for this until i saw Xi/China in the mix.
i guess its meant to be US vs “Asian countries that resist our righteous hegemony” like some kind of 2-sides Cold War brainworm, except the metaphor of the sea saw doesn’t work.
this is one of those political cartoons where the cartoonist just wanted to draw political leaders on a playground, but lacks the competence to make it a coherent critique.
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Clearly, this is a JDPON Don joke
China, DPRK ,and Russia joined forced and tipped the balance of power so hard gravity forced the US to come to their side. The three are looking forward ever into the future.
The US looks back in hindsight realizing they now have the least amount of leverage.
Not that hard to understand… The US have pretty much switched sides by now, I would say…
Switched? Sides?
What videogame-ass world do you live in?
Peter Molyneux’s Black and White.
Is that why i keep getring picked up and thrown down a hill?
Damn this thing is HOT, don’t burn your hand.
The US is siding with China, Russia and the DPRK?? And this upsets Putin why?
Which is why we checks notes continue to provide funding and arms to Ukraine and sanction Russia?
In what world is Trump an ally of China? He personally likes Xi, but he’s economically targeted China over and over and fearmongers about them and so on.
You know how they say we’re now living in a multi-polar world? Yeah , that means the various powers act in their own interests, which sometimes aligns with other countries, sometimes doesn’t, but fundamentally means there’s no singular “other side” out there.
Actually it’s all just good vs evil and the way you tell them apart is
fascinating. in your mind which side of the seesaw is Netanyahu on?
I fucking wish
Genuinely braindead take, I honestly don’t know how you qualify as sentient
Or in other words, your average G*rman.
