In an interview with President Trump, the New York Post reveals President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have begun discussions. You can read the article here. However, as would be expected, it is short on details.
This is a critical dynamic because the larger question that will not be pondered by Western media, but will weigh heavily in the background of President Trump’s perspective is, “is it too late?”
Staying in close contact with friends in Russia, it is apparent to me from the reality on the ground as well as the datapoints from all political angles, that President Putin is no longer in a position to feel any impact from non-military geopolitical pressure. Quite simply the consideration in the mind of Russian President Putin is something entirely different than it was a few years, or even a few months ago.
The Western economic sanctions against Russia have failed. There is no outward pressure or internal concern about Western financial and economic sanctions any longer. The Russian economy (govt) and the Russian people (civic society) in aggregate have now organized their economy and their consumer reality without further need for Western connection.
At this point, Putin almost certainly doesn’t care if the sanctions remain. Those pressure points are now moot to Russian interest, and in many ways the outcome has been beneficial from an economic nationalist perspective. While the most severe Western sanctions ever delivered in history, did – at first, create a problem for Russia; those problems are now resolved.
Factually, it may sound silly but McDonalds in Russia is better without McDonald’s Inc controlling it. Starbucks in Russia is now better delivering better products, under Russian management under a new name. The products and systems of commerce the Russian people initially missed, have all been replaced and new connections to finance have been established with commercial allies outside the zone of western influence.
One of the reasons why the Russian people are comfortable with the new dynamic inside their country relates to a cultural difference between those who live in Russia and those who live in the “west.” Russians seem deliberate and harsh, in part because there is no acceptance of a sub-optimal outcome in their broad view of commerce.
“Comrade, do it right, give me what I expect, or don’t do it… there is no middle ground.”
It is a strange dichotomy that few appreciate or understand. While Russians accept a ridiculous ‘caste’ system in their society; as delivered by govt, where those connected to power benefit; the Russian people simultaneously do not accept poor quality or sub-optimal products and services in their economic life.
The absence of western commercial economic activity has been replaced with Russian commercial activity, products, services and systems that are better than they were before. The market processes within Russia are now fully detached from western influence and tailored to the nuances of the Russian people.
Many would argue the only benefit to sanctions ending would be the ability of the average Russian to travel into Europe without hurdle. That’s essentially the only thing the average Russian would notice if the sanctions were removed. As a consequence, that arrow in the quiver of carrots is dull, moot and of no great consequence.
The only aspect to the Ukraine dynamic that weighs on President Vladimir Putin, is whether the West will put more military might into the war in Eastern Ukraine.
Putin is not going to withdraw.
Putin is not going to cede an inch of territory he has gained.
Putin is in a strong position and they only facet that remains is literally the blood-cost of this protracted conflict.
As a consequence, President Trump can offer President Putin very little. That makes things complicated. As noted in the article, “he believes Putin “does care” about the killing on the battlefield.”
[…] Trump said he has a concrete plan to end the war. “I hope it’s fast. Every day people are dying. This war is so bad in Ukraine. I want to end this damn thing.”
Addressing National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who joined him in his study aboard Air Force One Friday night, the president said: “Let’s get these meetings going. They want to meet. Every day people are dying. Young handsome soldiers are being killed. Young men, like my sons. On both sides. All over the battlefield.” (more)
Given the nature of everything as it exists, not as we would wish it to be, President Trump will likely have to present a very stern and even horrible forward-face to Vladimir Putin that might even shock the American people.
MAGA has no desire for the USA to engage in expanded military conflict with Russia. The overwhelming majority of the American people, in combination with an ever-increasing number of Europeans, do not want to see any escalation of the military hostilities with Russia. Vladimir Putin is well aware of this. Well aware.
President Putin knows there is no willingness within the citizens of the West for U.S/NATO blood to join the conflict. However, he is also well aware that no economic incentive really holds value any longer. Quite simply, Putin has very little to gain from the removal of sanctions; this puts the peace dynamic into a context of human suffering. That reality shows in the tone of comments and word choices from President Trump.
President Putin will evaluate Trump’s lack of wanting to escalate conflict against the core expressed desire by Trump to end the human suffering. This is yet again a dichotomy likely to soon unfold.
President Putin will know, with great deliberation, that President Trump does not want to push the USA/NATO military into direct combat against Russian troops. Yet, he will also know that if President Trump does decide to fully engage and enter the war, Trump will do it with the intense ferocity he is known for; nothing would be off the table, and he could lay waste to Eastern Ukraine.
It is entirely possible for President Trump to publicly present a forward-face to Vladimir Putin that could shock the American people.
and there was just a change about the $ taken for Ukraine…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-issues-directive-ending-biden-era-task-force-aimed-seizing-assets-russian-oligarchs
I caught somewheres else earlier (forget where) that they’re being re-tasked, but with essentially the same mission brief, to go after the Cartels’ head honcho’s and financing.
The DOJ did something just? That’s different.
Bondi’s DOJ is not your father’s DOJ. This may be the first of many just actions to come out of Trump’s DOJ.
The average civilian can barely handle normal military humor (try watching the “Angry Meme Review” monthly show on the Angry Cops YouTube channel if you want a taste of what I mean). I don’t think anybody is truly prepared for the kind of aggression that a ground war with Russia would require, especially if our feckless Congress gets its way and included young women in the draft. And who knows if the DoD could even manage it right now, considering how hollowed out things have become.
So threatening Putin might be problematic, but the alternatives are much, much worse.
Russia is not Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Russia is not going to sit meekly while NATO/D.C builds up invading forces.
Ukraine is not worth one bullet. This war has been devastating to the Ukraine people. And the government is almost as corrupt as ours.
Ukraine used to hold the top spot as most corrupt country in the world. Now with the “DOGE” revelations, no doubt the US has that honor.
http://www.twainquotes.com/congress-AI-RKR-a.jpg
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.- Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New CalendarSuppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.- Mark Twain, a Biograph
IMHO the US has been THE most corrupt govt. in the world since the CIA was created and it got increasingly worse through the decades, then the govt. crooks added USAID to the corrupt operations.
IMO, we just didn’t know how bad it had become because (a) the Intel groups performed much of their mischief “in the dark” without any real oversight or accountability, and (b) the legacy media, controlled by the IC, kept us brainwashed with fake news, fictional movies, and TV programs that glorified the agencies that were actually corrupt.
Ukraine’s corruption has been minor league compared to the level of corruption exemplified by USAID as well as the black hat IC operations that spent trillions of taxpayer dollars with zero accountability.
Correct, Ukraine isn’t worth squat. The kickbacks from the US taxpayer billions flushed through the dump padded a lot of US politicians bank accounts. Ukraine could be very valuable if an audit of all the money sent there resulted in the arrest and conviction of every piece of trash who took one dollar of kickback cash from there. Of course that would wipe out 75% of DC.
…- Paging Rudy Giuliani…
wiping out 75% of DC would not be a bad thing.
Only 75%? I would think it at least 90%……
I blame Ukraine for the most problems President Trump had to face in his first administration and beyond.
Zelenski was right in there, trying to destroy Trump.
Vindmans, Nuland, Kagan, a long, long list of Thieves of poor Americans while they feast on the blood of their victims.
Notice the size of the Vindmans, Nuland and Kagan.
“I blame Ukraine for the most problems President Trump had to face in his first administration……”
I blame the people that who have taken advantage of the territory and people of Ukraine, exploiting them for years/decades, as being central to major problems in Trump’s first administration and beyond.
It’s basically a civil war when you understand that Kyiv was the capital of Russia a few hundred years ago and that most of Eastern Ukraine has a Russian population. There are Ukrainians in the Russian Army and Russians in the Ukrainian Army. Most of leadership of both armies graduated from the same military academy at the same time and soldiers have relatives on both sides of the border.
It’s a nightmare and we’ve got no dog in the fight!
Let’s be really, really honest here.
Many of us feared to consider just how corrupt the Government Paid Criminals were and are.
We….have been destroyed using our own Stolen Money.
Let that sink in.
Supposedly we are building a huge base in Georgia, Putin will probably want that to stop too
Maybe one day Hazel will visit it, and that will be that.
That base is being built in Romania not Georgia.
Georgia has been pretty hostile to America lately. Because of NGOs operating there attempting regime change.
But feelings are warming since Trump has been tearing apart USAID.
https://www.agenda.ge/en/news/2025/42732#gsc.tab=0
The dirty hands of USAID, sloshing American taxpayer money into fomenting division throughout the world, including all along the underbelly of Russia.
“But feelings are warming since Trump has been tearing apart USAID.”
Sunshine. It’s more than just a great disinfectant in matters politic.
President Trump lets Putin keep the area Russia occupies now, US gets rare earth minerals, UK, Germany and France get to rebuild rest of country with Russia footing the bill. Zelensky gets to move to his Miami mansion and peace is restored.
Why should Russia foot the bill?
Zelensky needs to have a residency comic gig at Gitmo.
Zelensky needs a short-hop, one-way helicopter ride out over the Black Sea.
I think it is misplaced to try to make Zelensky the villain.
We’re supposed to believe he would do all this over a mansion he already owned?
Why not embrace the plural, ‘villains’? – Then recognise that Z is, *Most Definitely*, one of them.
That he is now being hung out to dry/re-cast as the innocent patsy/fall-guy for this gigantic clusterf*** of grift, purchased with an *Epic* butcher’s bill, inspires *Absolutely Zero* sympathy in me, whatsoever.
Did he own any mansions BEFORE he was installed as president?
deport him to Russia.
That works for me too.
he will end up as Romanian Ceausescu……..in the Dec.1989….
Merry Christmas, Ukraine.
At least a free piano.
That would be the opposite conclusion from what SD just wrote.
Russia will not stop until the entire Ukraine is de-NATOized.
With USAID being ripped open and its corrupt foreign influences exposed for all to see, hopefully an end result will be the CIA being castrated. Then, going forward, would we even need NATO? Without CIA/NATO/USAID meddling in things, Russia and the US could form strong economic trade alliances. End result being a win for all.
Russia footing the bill? Never in a million years will Russia foot the bill–they won the damn war and Trump is just pulling Pudding Brain and the rest of NATO’s chestnuts out of the fire.
If you force an enemy to be self reliant and sustaining, and they discover they can do so successfully, you’ll find that you’re not negotiating with what was, but rather, negotiating with “what was” has become.
Russia will rebuild Ukraine. But it will be a Russian Ukraine.
Russia has been rebuilding in territories they have liberated as they go.
https://rumble.com/v23fq5i-mariupol-rebuilt-from-ashes-with-large-construction-projects-underway.html
What is left of Ukraine will also be permanently excluded from NATO membership. If you want a lasting peace, that is the price.
Of course the whole damn mess could have been avoided if Biden had just agreed to that in the first place, but then there would be have been no “10% for the big guy”.
Sounds like it was closer to 50% for the tater.
Plus Nudelman and Blinken would have had to earn honest livings.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
Best case scenario ( mine )
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The Feb 7th article shows where and what minerals
on map. Most are in Russian occupied land.
Zelensky has been “advertising “ those minerals for months.
. I would not be surprised if France has already bought them.
Losing access to the mining in Africa after
getting kicked out….France would have been looking for replacement.
We don’t need any rare earth minerals from Ukraine! That’s a distraction to justify giving Ukraine more $$$!
yes we do… its a strategic move to limit China’s hold over us since US shut down last remaining rare earth source years ago
Russia is not going to foot the bill for destruction of Ukraine and the death of Russians started by D.C. and the Brits.
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The Feb 7 article shows where and what minerals….
and where they are located. ….majority are in land
now under Russian control.🤷♀️💁♀️
Zelensky has been roaming the World for months
saying——we have minerals. Wonder who actually
owns those minerals…..🤔🤔
Even before the conflict, about 25% of farmland
in Ukraine was already bought. Vanguard, Big Ag
and foreign entities….US, EU countries, Saudi.
War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land – Ukraine | ReliefWeb
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Kind of wondering if people like McCain, Graham and Nuland
started buying the resources there beginning in 2014.💁♀️🤷♀️
most if not all rare minerals are on new Russian territories ….
This may sound like a really dumb question; but why do I care if all of Ukraine once again becomes part of the Soviet Union? rare earth minerals aside, it does not make Russia stronger or the United states weaker. So really why should I give a damn?
If Ukraine becomes part of Russia again, then 0% of your tax dollars would go to propping up the corrupt government there. Probably a net plus for you overall.
Well you should care if the atheistic Soviet Union were to reform. Then we would need to care about the 85% of Russia who identify as Christian. I doubt 85% of the US identifies as Christian.
That “Soviet Union” was dissolved some years ago. The Orthodox Church is alive and well in Russia.
I’d give the Ukraine citizens a voice, but if Russia wants all, well, they won!
With respect….and I really do mean that…you should care, because the MIC/DS tried to goad Putin into a war, very likely nuclear, which would have once again meant offering our troops, somebodies’ sons and daughters, on the altar of vainglorious psychopathy….as well as probably extending into the heart of America herself.
The world is no longer that big place of faraway lands which most in this country will never visit and read about only. It shrinks daily…you might not be interested in Ukraine, but those orchestrating death and devastation are interested in you, whether you like it or not. One way or another this grotesque MIC self serving war has affected us all.
I don’t like it. No sane person does.
But it is not sane people who fund and foment existential conflict; it is those who have profited from death and other atrocities who have destroyed the lives of millions.
Enough!!
This very short passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “The Cost of Discipleship” does more, I think, to describe President Trump’s efforts, long after the author’s death at the hands of a murderous regime. Already President Trump has been quietly laying the paving stones for a much needed end to this obscene war started by our very own murderous regime which broke its promise to Russia to not extend eastward, thus obliterating valuable trust between our two nations.
Whether or not this can be patched over at first, then restored is unknowable right now.
But there is no one better to try…to use his skills as a builder of edifices to becoming a builder of peace… than the man whose life was spared on July 13 by the hand of Almighty God, very probably (as I believe) for this time and for this purpose.
“Bless-ed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” 🙏🏻
Blessings to you, Murray.
https://communityofjesus.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/dietrich-bonhoeffer-on-blessed-are-the-peacemakers/
Hi Betsy, I strongly agree with you!
Oh how I love your name snowfalling 💕
The Soviet Union has not existed for 35 years! The Russian Federation is a Christian nation.
Trump then, can’t use the stick, so it will have to be a carrot….Anything Trump can offer will be most likely diluted by Congress and probably taken away with a future admin….That only leaves all out war and I don’t think Trump is willing to go that far….I think Putin is going to end up owning a third of the Ukraine or none at all.
Russia will keep what they currently control.
The war will end.
US will stop funding Ukraine and Zelensky will be removed.
US will stop funding NATO, which will cease to exist.
Not a prescient prediction, just a common sense view of the future.
100%
Putin was not the aggress0r. He responded strongly to NATO provocations in the region, as any Russian nationalist would expect him to do.
The majority of Ukrainian residents in that region have strong Russian ties. Putin would certainly consider retaining that area not only a strategic buffer zone, but also a favor to those beleaguered residents who were used as cannon fodder for a protracted NATO aggression.
I believe all that President Trump would need to do is agree to defund NATO and cede the Donbas region. Putin would retain the ground Russia has gained, secure in the knowledge that no further NATO action is imminent.
Like minds. I believe this will be the attitude. And Russia plays a part in rebuilding.
Putin is going to want to be made whole with the frozen assets Biden stole.
From Russia’s perspective. The destruction of NATO is what this war is all about,
Russia defeated Ukraine in the first months of the war. When NATO became totally involved with Weapons, Special forces, training ect. The course of the war changed from a path of defeating Ukraine. To the road leading to the shattering of NATO.
Executive has jurisdiction over foreign affairs. Congress should actually have none. Maybe President Trump will remind them.
Well, one thing he has been able to do is to stop the selling off Russian assets confiscated by the previous evil, inept, depraved “Biden” regime….proceeds most likely divvied up amongst those who started, propagandized, and perpetuated this immoral years long conflict.
A signal to Putin as I see it of President Trump’s good faith that his intentions are divorced from the adminstration which came before him, now consigned to the ash heap of history where it deserves to be and will remain forever.
The only thing of value Trump can offer Putin is, the halt of the vilification of Russia, and its peoples as, backward, Communists standing in bread lines! That was decades ago, and Russia should be shown respect, and invited to the table.
The west’s disease of creating FALSE enemies for profit has to end.
Putin wants to stop NATO’s encroachment and he wants to protect the Russians in the Donbas region. That is the only thing President Trump can offer Putin that would stop the war.
The problem is that Putin might not trust any agreement with the West given the West didn’t honor the Minsk agreement and Merkel admitted the agreement was just to buy time for Ukraine to prepare for war.
Can Russia ask Trump to weaken or withdraw from NATO?
Or President Trump could offer to make Russia part of NATO in return for peace. It’s probably the only solution Putin would trust and would guarantee NATO wouldn’t attack. It would also put Russia on the West’s side in a war with China.
I think that’s a great idea…It would be a win-win for everyone involved …..accept the war mongers & there’s a shiiiit-load of them in our gov’t.
Would Russia be a better NATO Member than Turkey?
Food for thought.
<Would Russia be a better NATO Member than Turkey? Food for thought.>
Who knew turkey was food for thought? 🙂
And Wordman strikes again!
I always thought Chile, China, Turkey, Greece and the Sandwich Islands should belong to their own alliance? Food for thought?
That coalition sounds like a recipe for disaster 🙂
Putin was there when Russia requested NATO membership in the ’90s and was declined.
NATO is far past its sell date, it should be relegated to the past where it belongs.
NATO itself is, in truth, no longer a defense pact, per se. Rather it is a *Highly Elaborate* MIC grift (F-Turdy Five, anyone?) and non-allied nation-state rape, pillage and plunder operation (cf: ‘Forever Wars’)…
…- *Past High Time* to give it the DOGE treatment: – Hang it upside down by the ankles, give it a damn good shake and see what loose change falls outta the pockets…
Russia wont Join NATO. Russia is a sovereign nation.
If the West foolishly attacked China. Russia would have China’s back. Same goes for Iran and North Korea.
I don’t think Putin would have to twist his arm. CONgress voted to prevent our withdrawal from NATO, to prevent such an agreement.
But that doesn’t mean President Trump can’t *defund* NATO, which has always relied heavily on our taxpayer trillions, much of which DOGE has identified as wasteful and fraudulent expenditures.
You nailed it
Thanks Biden for letting this get so out of control. Putin should propose a deal with Ukraine and Ukraine should hold a referendum, let the people decide.
As part of the Minsk agreement, Ukraine agreed to let the Donbas region vote for their independence. Didn’t happen.
Zelensky has been in office two plus years longer than he should have because he cancelled elections.
Ukraine, or more correctly the neocons funding and controlling the war, don’t want peace. They want to destroy Russia. Miss Lindsey even said the best money the US has spent has been to fund Ukraine against Russia.
Peace is only being brought up now because Zakensky and his puppet masters believe President Trump will stop the money flowing to Ukraine which would end the war.
Obama, Liz, McCain & Lindsay.
Plus the Khazarian investment cartel.
I just knew the Jews would get blamed for this and you didn’t disappoint! Is there anything, at all, that they are doing that is NOT evil?
Anti-Semitism never sleeps.
Such a sad situation. The Democrats and the globalists lust for war, but they don’t want to personally join the Frontlines. They want the money made by war and the depopulation to satisfy their greed and their global warming religion.
Change the word “Democrats” to“UniParty” and you would be correct.
It appears that Zelinski has realized he was bamboozled. During a interview he stated that he didn’t get all the money promised to him. That set off a chain reaction in the USA with a claim that 100 Billion dollars has been stolen. I think Zelinski knew what would happen when he said this. USA has been funneling money to Ukraine for a long time. Ive seen articles where JP Morgan and Blackrock were ready to move in and make their profits. Ukraine will not be a NATO country anytime soon. Russia certainly won’t help them rebuild, and I hope Trump doesn’t cut a deal to rebuild them either.
I have noticed that even in pro-Zelensky/Ukraine sites, the concept that Joe Biden was using Ukraine as a tool against Russia and not for “democracy” is firmly accepted.
Imo, Trump will help rebuild for a fee. Whatever Trump does here will be a win-win-win for US, Ukraine and Russia.
Russia may be in an economic position to fight a further drawn out war, but Russian families and Putin are tired of burying their sons and spending their treasury.
Peace will breakout. Trump will make a deal. This is a main reason we voted for him.
The US has not and will likely never fight an existential war, its moats, the Atlantic and Pacific, will see to that. Russia, not having a moat, has had to. In the last one WW2, it lost up to 25,000,000 depending on how you apportion Soviet Union deaths. The US lost around 400,000. Virtually every Russian family lost someone, including Putin’s brother. As a consequence the inter generational memory is very different, they are fighting for their Motherland, a concept we don’t understand.
Ukraine was being trained and armed by NATO since at least 2016, creating easily the biggest and best equipped military force in Europe since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact with the objective of defeating Russia. Instead, Russia, using its attritional warfare strategy, has ground it down to certain defeat.
Peace will not come easy, the Russians will not allow it and it is they who have in Lavrov, probably the best diplomatic negotiating team the World has see for a very long time. Who does the US have? A cold war General and a real estate developer?
Isn’t it ironic that the sanctions forced the Russians to adopt a “Russia first” posture and that at the end of the day, it showed them that they didn’t need the West like the West thought they did?
And isn’t that part of the reason that Trump is so big on American first? While we don’t need to be isolationist, we don’t need to be globalists either.
Yes. One major commonality between presidents Putin and Trump is their determination to keep their respective nation’s sovereignty. This puts them both at odds with NATO.
The NATO forces imposing a New/One World Order totalitarian state against the will of the people are aligned against both Russia and USA’s sovereignty. We have a common enemy in NATO’s totalitarian aggression.
I would think that a substantial drop in oil and gas prices would have a very direct impact on the Russian economy and Putin’s ability to fund the war and military. This could be a significant result of Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” policy.
This is what POTUS is talking about when he said this war would have never happened if he had been President.
War is expensive. Cheap oil will make it very expensive for Putin.
PT will have leverage on flooding the market with US oil and LNG. This might be the negotiation point.
I still believe PT wants out of NATO and UN so, there is no pressure there. Putin and PT may form a new alliance.
“PT will have leverage on flooding the market with US oil and LNG. This might be the negotiation point.”
…- *The Whole* of OPEC+ *Will* throw an *Absolute Fit*, in that case. – 1973 *Redux*…
Exactly!
The oil/gas threat is moot.
Only 26-28% of Russian economy is from
oil/gas. Perhaps less.
Although it would have an impact, it would
not decimate the economy. And they have
always found a work a round 😁
The old -Russia is a gas station masquerading
as a country talking point…..longer applies.💁♀️🤷♀️
Russia is not normal for a country its size, it has a self sufficient economy. They only need oil/NG prices to be high so they can import more stuff which, if push came to shove they could do without.
The problem the US has is that it can’t and is judging Russia by its own situation.
Like Russia, we too should free ourselves from the tentacles and influences of mass counterfeiting and other DC corruptions.
Well, I guess we will see how much TRUMP wants the “resources” that Ukraine has.
I’m sure Trump will obtain detailed list of special metals/soil/ect and weigh it against human life, and how much “blood” Trump is willing to give in american lives or just use European Lives.
How scarce are those special metals, etc on a planetary scale. Do we have those special metals?
Trump has spoken about America First and “no more killing” , … but we also know that “things change” and “new developments” happen. How does Elon/Big Tech feel about those “special metals” . Military uses, computer uses, space travel uses, battery use, plane/car/boat uses . I don’t know the answers, and if Trump doesn’t know, Elon will give Trump lessons and advice.
I think the mother loads are in the eastern part Putin has.
Exactly!!!
I keep thinking….Lindsey Graham must have
bought some shares in the mining there.
Probably started buying them with McCain
and Nuland starting back in 2014. 😉😏
Same with all the agriculture that was bought
up prior to the conflict. 🤷♀️💁♀️
American Corporations Own almost Half of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land
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Would not be surprised if France has already bought
mining in Ukraine, to compensate for what they lost
in Africa when they got kicked out.
We have them in Southern Appalachia.
No Blood for Oil. Nor for Minerals.
It is un-Christian in the extreme.
Forcing what’s left of the Ukraine to cede mineral rights smacks of the Versailles Treaty? WHATEVER President Trump does will undoubtedly be right so I completely trust him.
All Trump needs to do is cut off weapons and money shipments to Ukraine and it folds in a few weeks according to Colonel Doug Macgregor.
Lets end this stupid war and end another deep state grift….
Audit EVERYTHING and arrest the fraudsters…
Parade them before the cameras…at 3 AM..in their skivvies…
MAKE THEM FAMOUS!
NO MERCY!
Now THAT’S a great idea!!!
I know what President Trump could offer Putin that’d be *Guaranteed* to close the deal:…
…- A full-on, “Lights! Cameras! Action!”, Global Media/US MSM (*Especially* CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, etc.), *Globally Televised* perp-walk, across the apron at Andrews and onto a waiting Russian Air Force IL-76, of Vicky Noodleman, Sam Power, Susan Rice, John Brennan, John Kerry, Hilldawg and Barry, all in matching orange jumpsuits, cuffs and leg chains.
Once safely stowed on-board, all to be whisked away for an all-expenses-paid *Extended* vacation in Moscow. – For acommodations, I’m thinking Lefortovo, Lublyanka, maybe even Siberia…
…- Pardon me, I forgot: – Add FJB and Hunter to the perp-walk, for good measure.
I doubt that Putin gives much thought to these American stooges. Opportunists like them are a dime a dozen. Now, if we offered up Soros and Gates that might be a different story. They are the pimps with all the cash used to *bribe* feckless politicians the world over.
Squeeze the footsoldiers to flip on the Capos… 😉
…- Plus the whole thing would be ‘photogenic’, *In The Extreme*, for the Rooskies (Think: banking Rest-of-World political capital)…
I don’t think Soros has been using his own money to fund all his evil foundations. He’s been using OURS. Hopefully, that is over now.
Irresistible force meets immovable object ?
There will be some of this.
Heck I’ve been saying for 6-8 months that Russia has no need for negotiations. They’ve already won. They’re just grinding down Ukraine’s army at this point. We also have no economic leverage. Putin also knows that Trump was elected to END this stupid war, not threaten massive WW3 levels of escalation.
Trump merely needs to flip the script. Acknowledge that DOGE has uncovered billions in criminal activity by USAID, that the Biden Regime forcing NATO precipitated the war, and that the whole war is an enormous racketeering scandal. Biden creates the problem, and his mobsters go in and “sell” the solution which is billions in weapons and trillions in reconstruction and money laundering.
Flip the script. Stop the funding to Ukraine, and work with Putin to investigate how the war was started and who in the West was responsible for various terrorist attacks. The US government employees and contractors who launched missiles into sovereign Russia should also be removed. Then have treasury/DOGE audit all the Ukraine funding.
Then, agree to work with Russia to rebuild Ukraine and call for elections. The Russian parts of the Donbas stay semiautonomous. The western parts stay NATO-free.
Russia is a natural ally of the US. We are not the suicide cult EU, either.
Anyway, Trump ran in ending the war. Failure to do so would be a catastrophe for him.
Saber-rattling isn’t going to help anything. Putin can read.
Exactly. This is no support, and there has never been support, for expanding the war. If Trump tried that, it would be like a soldier jumping out of the foxhole exhorting the troops to follow while they sit there giving him the finger.
Public support is for ending this lunacy. And the best way to do that is to hang it around Biden/Nuland/Blinken/Austin’s necks.
Yup. Saber Rattling is useless when your opponent knows your sword is dull and broken.
^- This *Exactly*:
“Trump merely needs to flip the script. Acknowledge that DOGE has uncovered billions in criminal activity by USAID, that the Biden Regime forcing NATO precipitated the war, and that the whole war is an enormous racketeering scandal. Biden creates the problem, and his mobsters go in and “sell” the solution which is billions in weapons and trillions in reconstruction and money laundering.
Flip the script. Stop the funding to Ukraine, and work with Putin to investigate how the war was started and who in the West was responsible for various terrorist attacks. The US government employees and contractors who launched missiles into sovereign Russia should also be removed. Then have treasury/DOGE audit all the Ukraine funding.”
…- *Nuremburg* their asses. Then do what I said 2 comments above.
It will be glorious!!!
Yep. Prosecute Americans who launched attacks on Russia without Congressional declaration of war.
Hokkoda, thank you for that. PDJT’s upcoming State of the Union Address is going to be lit – bombshell after bombshell – and the Ukraine War and its massive cost in lives and treasure is likely to be the biggest or close to it.
More to your point about the U.S. and Russia being natural allies: Trump instinctively gets this. Russia is a true swing power given its massive territorial location: if it tilts West, China will have to adjust calculations about how far it can push the U.S. and other Asian countries. If it tilts east, as it is currently, the U.S. will have to adjust policy to cope with this reality. I can easily see a Revived Russia becoming keeper of the global balance of power in the not-too-distant future.
For that reason alone, an improved relationship with Russia is in the U.S. interest, but as Sundance highlighted, the Russians have dominant leverage in this regard. We will have to go very far in meeting Russian requirements, starting with its war aims in Ukraine.
Yep, we need to separate Russian Bear from Chinese Panda.
Then you SQUEEZE Europe to drop the immigration lunacy and green commie agenda from both sides. The EU can’t fight a 2-front war.
China can’t create instability in Asia-Pacific if Russia isn’t selling them energy.
I am sure we would have heard of this before now but…just but…what if DOGE has uncovered some ‘decision makers’ playing both sides and have received, say some Russian Rubles? Is that possible?
Possible. But just follow the money. Plenty of criminals running the racket.
…- Try Chinese Yuan, Aggie’ – *Far* more likely…
(Note, incidentally: – This is *Not* to say China/Xi is the last-boss hooded claw behind alla these shenanigans. – At this point it’s one giant WEFtist/Davostani/Globalista Vampire Squid Kaiju running amok over the entire world. – China’s just one of the regional nodes/clearing houses…)
This.
President Trump’s carrot (consideration) IS shutting down USAID.
(And handing off Syria)
I agree 100%.
President Trump did not start this war….
Biden did!
Coincidentally I planted two Hazel Nut trees in our back yard right around the time Russia started to respond to our attempted take over of Ukraine.
They are growing well, their shapes are getting more defined. I am espaliering them. They will be fruitful with numerous nuts that will be easy to harvest.
I wonder how many Oreshniks the Russians have now?? At least one for every US CBG I imagine.
In fact it would be very easy for VSG Trump to immediately stop the war. Simply tell the Ukrainians to stop fighting now, and have a real election, choosing someone who is willing to live in peace.
But Russian would probably not like this as there are still a few more Nazi brigades to eradicate.
Oreshniks are easy for Russia to mass produce. They use existing Russian Avangard tech deployed in 2018 and existing boosters.
Oreshnik was just a scale demonstration of Russias massive Hypersonic ICBM The Sarmat 2.
Ten Long Ton payload.
Can carry up to 24 hyperglide atomic warheads.
Undetectable
Unstoppable.
Can be launched from deep in Russia circle the globe over the SOUTH pole. Attacking USA from the south where we have no defense.
One missile Can lay waste to targets an area the size of Texas.
Oreshnik was a clear warning and demonstration of Russia’s firepower. I hope we take heed.
All true, nonetheless I sense there is a lot of chaff and static within all the hype around hypersonics, when it is all essentially a bit ‘overthinking the plumbing’.
For instance the Rooskies have had deployed, since the mid-70’s at least (SS-6), a launch platform capable of something called FOBS (Fractional Orbit Bombardment System). The ICBM booster launches multiple warhead RVs into low earth orbit, where they follow a partial LEO trajectory until suitably ‘over the target’ and are then de-orbited (This unlike a straightforward parabolic ballistic ‘lob’, from launch point to target)…
…- Thing is, in this day and age, you could just as easily leave a bunch of ’em up there and just detonate them on-orbit, over the CONUS, and down goes the *Entire* US grid…
…- Then there’s always the possibility of a lone-wolf (or 2, or 3…) Borei/Yuri Dolgorukiy-class, a couple hundred miles off the Chesapeake, peppering the eastern seaboard from Norfolk to New York with warheads launched along depressed trajectories that would give the folks in DC about 5 minutes warning, if that, depending on detection…
…- *Interesting* times, for sure…
President Trump is the most credible party to negotiate peace talks.
Putin been lied to by NATO, Merkel, USA Britain et el.
Zelensky comes out with a statement, that he’s been ripped off and short $ 100 billion.
Both sides obviously see that Pres Trump is the most trustworthy. He’s the one who will bring both sides to the table.
Honestly, we started this war, not Russia.
We provoked Russia by the biolabs and funny business in Ukraine.
Lots of young people have lost their lives, their families shattered forever due to this “funny business” that our government does everywhere. IMHO.
My hope would be that Putin and Trump agree to “settle” and stop the carnage. I don’t think it can be walked back, just ended, with agreements. And that little punk Zelensky needs to be sent to an island somewhere so he can’t hurt anyone else. Surely he’s made enough blood money now.
I very much appreciate tough guy Trump. I just pray that he tempers himself. Blowing up terrorist caves in a targeted operation is completely different than going to war with another country. We don’t want war.
Curious as to what he’s going to do about South Africa now that he’s mentioned it. It is true that the Boers are being slaughtered and their property taken. And that bit about rebuilding Gaza is interesting too. Trump really is a head spinner. It’s incredible to see. His capacity to see the big picture and the details at the same time is amazing.
Once again, I will try to disagree. Lower oil prices still means less dough for Putin. More importantly is the mood at home. How many Russians want to fight this battle anymore? Why have N Koreans if this conflict is so popular in Russia? Clearly it is not and Trump has provided Putin an exit. It would be stupid, for all, not to take it.
You don’t seem to be describing a country that has just convincingly won a war, is expanding economically, and has seen a dramatic resurgence in national pride in the past several years.
There are no “North Koreans” in this conflict. There are eastern Russians, who look like Asians.
Do you mean MSM is lying again?
Funny!
That’s why the description “Asians” referring to race or ethnicity was so foolish.
Parts of the Soviet Union were in Asia.
MOST of the Soviet Union was Asian. MOST of Russia is Asian.
Okay YUGE parts.
OMG! The news media lies to continue the war in Ukraine. Say it isn’t so. LOL
Thanks, I can’t seem to get that thru to people.
They can’t understand that are tanks and armored vehicles are laying in smoking ruins either.
I’m not sure about this. The North Korean soldiers look and dress different than the eastern Russians from the Kamchatka area and those from the Russian area alongside Mongolia.
I think Russia is using the North Koreans in Kursk as non-mechanized human wave attacks. Ukraine has captured but a few of them because they refuse to surrender and fight to the end. Russia is also using North Korean artillery shells, and the Russians are complaining about them because they have a high failure rate due to being so old.
Nobody orders “human wave attacks” least of all the Russian Army!
Large numbers of N Koreans stayed in far eastern Russia after WW2 and more after the Korean War. They are fully assimilated so it is very likely that there are some now in the Russian military where they will be wearing the same uniforms as everyone else.
There are no, I repeat no instances of properly documented NK troops in Ukraine or Kursk. NK human wave talk is so last war it can be ignored.
It does seem likely that there are NK technical advisors looking after NK supplied artillery in Kursk they are fully entitled to be there.
You have it backwards: Putin is providing Trump with an exit.
All the more reason Russia would want to protect their equity interest in Eastern Ukraine that they have established thus far.
Low oil prices will destroy our economy not Russia’s. it costs a lot of money to Frack and Offshore drill. Which is how we get all of our oil.
Lowering oil to much more than $60 a barrel will bankrupt American oil companies. There will be no “Drill baby Drill” with $50 a barrel oil. It may mean less dough for Putin. But it may well send US into depression.
Also, Russia as a self sufficient state, doesn’t need much of the foreign currency needed to buy imports so the price is not really important.
President Trump knows that and the price needed by our oil and natural gas industry.
I’ll be surprised if DJT presents an adversarial stance to Putin. He’s going to want to make a deal, and that would be something like we leave and hang the debacle around The Biden’s neck, Russia keeps what it wants, and we get to start building a mercantile relationship with one of the most powerful and rich nations on the planet. I would also expect to see the beginning of the building of a new security architecture for that part of the world, which is something that Putin has repeatedly said he desires.
I have a tendency to disagree with much of the dynamic of this article. Finally, there are actually 2 adults in the room…Putin and Trump. I suspect that President Putin would like an ‘honorable’ way out of this conflict, as, despite the improvement in the Russian economy, Russian soldiers are still being killed daily. Additionally ,the Russian ethnic population in Ukraine (as happened in Crimea) WANT to be part of the Russian Federation. I think that an agreement will be reached where the eastern part of Ukraine (the Donbass) will become part of Russia, and that there will be a treaty to keep Ukraine out of NATO, and potentially out of the EU. I don’t think that President Trump will communicate in a way similar to the way He dealt with North Korea, but rather President Trump and President Putin will meet each other on common ground and come to a resolution like intelligent and sensible adults.
I hope Trump doesn’t decide to destroy Russia. That will only cement the immense hatred the rest of the world has for us. NATO/CIA need to be punched in the face, and contracts drawn up that are finally honored.
There is no way the US can destroy Russia. Our military has been atrophying while Russia has been learning and strengthening for a decade. Both Trump and Putin will know this.
Destroy Russia ,the only way that’s happening is with nukes .
Our military hasn’t beaten up anyone in decades who wasn’t a 3rd world poop hole.
War is useless unless you’re a bank funding it ,or a grifter selling munitions. 🤔
One thing Putin might do is take the world press to each of the 52 research lab sites in Ukrain that have been flattened. These were all USAID funded. Putin had demanded UN remove these an US under Biden vetoed it every time. This probably mk more than anything is why Putin invaded.
I know everyone likes to blame China, but I believe, and always will, that the CIA unleashed COVID in China to weaken its trade, and to discredit it, and I also believe they planned the same for Russia.
Just pull out of Ukraine President Trump.
Results from DOGE has proven it is just a money pit of kickbacks for Western elites. Including our own.
Right. He needs to put the feather of peace in his cap ASAP, elevate his standing with Americans even more, distract from the NYC lawfare, and return to the task at hand, draining the swamp.
Putin will know all about that from personal experience. Plus, he knows that it was the swamp, the Dems, Obama, and the European oligarchs and City of London that pushed him into this war, so he will work with Trump to help take down their mutual enemies. The way it looks to me, anyway.
This is the key to a peaceful resolution instead of WWWIII.
Prove the Biden and USAID corruption as it relates to Ukraine.
Otherwise they will blame President Trump for giving in to Putin.
sanctions might not be the only carrot. DT will have to find other benefits—benefits for Russia and us.
EU just finished the 15th sanction’s package in December.
Working on the 16th!
😜 🤪 🤣 Jeez…. I don’t think they are working 🤔😏🤔
Insanity. Pure Insanity.
Proves what Morons the EU leaders are!
Isn’t that EU puppets?
Sorry SD I don’t think your analysis is at all correct on this. I think Trump mainly doesn’t care about Ukraine and doesn’t expect Russ to cede territory
Actually Russian leadership, they’re thankful for the sanctions. It force upon the people something Putin and his team have been wanting to do, become independent of the Western world.
Yes, they are winning at everything the war, economic sanctions the whole nine yards .
They are in much better circumstances now than ever.
Trump is still receiving information from IC that could not be more wrong.
Russia has not leveled cities and infrastructure throughout Ukraine as they most certainly could do. They have not slaughtered millions of Ukrainian civilians. They have not lost a million of soldiers. There are not millions of dead Russians soldiers littering the open flat plains of Ukraine.
It is Z who is sending his own males of all ages into the meat grinder of war to be slaughter. It is Ukraine that has lost 7 men to Russia’s 1 in order to satisfy the blood lust of the Europeans, folks like Samatha Powers.
Putin has already confiscated the evidence and shut down the 20+ bio weapon labs belonging to the West.
Trump better arm himself with facts or the Russian Military Staff will laugh just laugh and leave. They got the receipts.
Why does Trump listen to the deep state military advisors? Every one in the world knows that U.S is more interested in turning the world queer rather than the truth.
Has there ever been a more corrupt group of lawyers turned politicians than we’ve seen in past 4 years.
They should be removed!!
I put this up last week. Who wouldn’t want to buy REAL bacon for 39cents a pound!
Made from authentic Ukrainian humanbelly.
The very reason Rightful President Trump was overthrown (really We, the People) in 2020 was to enable the manufacture of this Genocidal War for Empire and Oligarchy.
Psalm 34
14
Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
Your Name is Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus!
I see that POTUS Trump has been dealt a losing hand and he cannot avoid a devastating end to this outrageous imbroglio. Potus has gone on record stating he will end this ASAP and PUTIN only has to demand his terms. We are screwed ‘six ways to Sunday’.
Something like that.
This almost sounds like another real estate deal.
Sans the UN, Nato? A joint association between Russia and the US? An anti-UN treaty?
Stop the killing.
Pray to God.
USA and Russia could flip the table on the rest of the world…
That would be awesome!
That would be sweet!!!
Give Russia Gaza for an equivalent acreage in Ukraine. /s
We’re gonna need more sunglasses!!!
Let Ukraine fight Hamas?
Kursk since August
As of today, VSU (and NATO) lost 58, 230 KIAs (consider that field “medicine” of VSU returns only 13% of wounded, as opposed to 96% by Russia). VSU continues to throw reserves into the meat grinder.
This one region.
These would be peace talks, right?
I was just accused of spreading a false narrative that the peace process was underway.
The peace process is underway, unless President Trump and Putin just call to chat about the weather.
No. It was about the Grand kids.
ISWYDT.
I don’t know a thing about Putin’s grandkids. I’m assuming he has some.
The media and it’s TDS-afflicted fellow travelers still refuse to comprehend that they were a major factor in raising DJT to folk hero staus . They also are similarly affected when it comes to Putin. Both men have endured the rank lies and innuendo heaped upon them for the last 4 years, there is no leverage left to use against them.
They have weathered the storm, now they are the storm. Time for the consequences and repercussions phase.
There is a huge difference between your own countrymen throwing accusations at you and other countries throwing accusations.
Putin is a Russian hero and has been for many years now, no rank lies and innuendo having been heaped upon him over the last 4 years, or indeed any years.
Maybe I have missed something, and I am 100% pro-Trump, but I heard Trump say REPEATEDLY during the campaign that, once elected, and BEFORE INNAGURATION, he would have the Ukraine war settled and quickly… like he just would need to make a few phone calls. Clearly, that did not happen, and I’m surprised nobody is talking about his failure to deliver on that campaign promise. And now this article by Sundance suggests the situation is far more difficult than Trump thought during his campaign.
I believe it has already happened, and there will be an announcement shortly.
If you are hearing that there will be talks, the talks have already happened.
I believe he changed that to “within 6 months”, or somebody did, and it’s started.
So nearly total capitulation would be the logical solution. Let’s hope the dimwits can bear the shame of the slaughter they so casually inflicted. Otherwise…
After a short read, I now have a more realistic understanding of Russia and its conditions than I am ever likely to get through the usual media sources. Thank you, Sundance.
Guess I stand with President Trump in believing that Putin does not want his people to die either in the present war and any that would bring harsher conflicts. Too often I’ve read Putin refer to the Russians as his people just like President Trump considers every American (perhaps not Rosie O Connell) as his. My money goes to Putin ending the bloodshed.
President Trump is not going to war with Russia.
It is very strange when our ‘media’ never shows the war. I think Ukraine is just a money laundering operation for the uniparty.
I think we are being played by our uniparty, Zelenski and Putin….NOT by President Trump.
Our media won’t even show the
battlefield-frontlines map and
what is happening.
It would destroy their narrative.
Plus, I truly believe the teleprompter
readers are so ignorant….they can’t
read a map!
DOGE the Ukraine war, and all the payments prior to the war since Zelensky took power, and put the fraudsters / traitors in prison (at a minimum).
Here’s what they will find: the Ukraine war was a sophisticated international money laundering operation that made a lot of people rich at the expense of the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian nation. Then, they were planning to get even richer with the “reconstruction” of Ukraine after the war.
Will there be consequences and a reckoning for this crime against humanity?
DOGE has to turn its attention to the neocons like Miss Lindsay Graham and others of both parties and expose the corruption and payoffs they get out of the continuing wars. They are traitors and should be executed after a military tribunal.
I don’t think that there is really anything to fear of “sudden NATO/US military expansion.” For one thing, despite billion- and even trillion-dollar cost, Western weapons have not worked well. Ukranian territory is adjacent to Russia but a long way from Europe. And, this was never about “Ukraine” anyway.
Russia is going to achieve every single one of the military objectives it stated: demilitarization, de-Nazification, and enforced neutrality. It will never accept a Korea-style demilitarized zone, since it knows from twice experience that the West would only use it to buy time. Again.
Like it or not, Putin is calling the shots here.
I’ll ask again,why isn’t Russia entitled to their Monroe Doctrine. We would not allow Cuba to be militarized 60 years ago by the Russians why should NATO be in the Ukraine? Walk away.
PDJT could take the US out of nato, that would leave the eu countries to squabble amongst themselves, pay their own way, and very quickly lead to the break up of nato.
More like than not the US would be better off out of nato.
The european countries no longer having a Big Stick would act less aggressively toward their neighbors.
And sans nato Putin’s main reason for going to war evaporates.
Some time ago, I think it was the ersatz napoleon, wanted to form a european army, well let them get on with it, bound to cause some entertaining handbag fights.
They would impeach Trump again, with RINO support, and this time convict him if he absolved us from NATO.
Please keep in mind, there will have to be an election in Ukraine soon, probably after a peace deal is implemented. In all likely hood the new President of Ukraine could be a pro-Russian individual. How will that be taken into account with any peace negotiations. Which country will be responsible for rebuilding Ukraine? Will the US or Russia control the oil, natural gas and the rare earth minerals? There is a lot to think about, not just stopping the killing and the destruction going on.