They do, they don’t inside the federation because it’s in practice largely post scarcity. Outside of federation space they use federation credits (likely based on stores of rare hard/impossible to replicate materials) and specifically around ds9 the currency was gold pressed latinum.

Also voyager with replicator rations and Holodeck time.

Trump may be weak but our military won’t let us look like pussies and hegseth is too much of a bitch to actually be sec def and stand up to anyone anyway.

This will be egg on the administration’s face when they try and walk it back when Russia says “fuck off”.

That entire meeting was zel driving a wedge between Putin and Trump. If that wasn’t obvious when zel said he thought Putin was afraid of Trump then I’m not sure what else would make it obvious.

Now it’s to the point where it’s basically like whoever blinks first is the pussy, think of it like a really dumb petty Cuban missile crisis.

Yes this is advantageous to both the USA and the world. Zelensky played a better game and trump and most of his followers are just too stupid/bought in to see it.

Doubt it to prove libel or slander he would have to somehow prove it wasn’t a Nazi salute and it was specifically to hurt his reputation and not simply you know… News.

No he’s a businessman just not a good one and by good I simply mean minimally competent, I won’t get into the morality although… Woof.

Reparations for being invaded…

He likes to steal shit, they’re worried he’ll take it and keep it or trade it to Russia or whatever idiotic whim he’s on that day.

Donald Trump.

That is one way just not one seen as particularly accurate given the fact I don’t know a single person with a land line that isn’t a business.