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.
When I watched videos about the western franchises re-opening under different names in Russia and then read a few articles I instantly thought of two things:
What a tax break: the western companies get to claim the loss.
and
They’ll probably never return because it’s now a Russian brand, also no middleman to pay franchise fees too.
When you start comparing food prices in Russia, with our food prices, you rapidly begin to discover that the corporations who own our food supply are tripling the price of goods to satisfy their need to wage war. Same corporations own the military! If they can charge $10 for a pound of bacon instead of $3, they satisfy shareholders, and weapon procurement.
Did you know a box of rice based cereal takes just 3 tablespoons of rice? 5 cents becomes $5
I wonder how much eggs are over there….
Russian GDP per capita is only $26,000. It is a poor country especially outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg where 80% of rubles circulate. The average income outside of Moscow and ST. Petersburg is around $700 a month , and pensioners about $200 a month. , maybe that explains the lower prices. Also Russian interest rates are 21% so figure that into the cost of living also.
Yup!… – Tucker wandered around a Rooskie supermarket, right before the Putin interview, and seemed, frankly, amazed…
(…- Personally, I have a hankering after some of that Russian ‘Doctor Sausage’, but maybe that’s just me… 😉 )
Imagine putting sanctions on a country that has already de-dollarized. Brilliance!
…- Repeat after me: “Yellow Zone/Gray Zone, Yellow Zone/Gray Zone, Yellow Zone/Gray Zone”…
(…- “We have *Always* been at war with Eur-/East-Asia…” 😉 )
Over one million Ukrainian dead,about 90K Russian dead,and the USA/CIA/NATO pushed this war.Its too late to go on about all the casualties and the need to stop making more casualties.Russia tried for years to avoid it until they had no option.When Russia and Ukraine had a deal worked out in Turkey Boris Johnson flew to Kiev to tell Zelensky that the west had their back and to bleed Russia.The west is depleted of military equipment for their Ukraine war at this time.The USA is not a continental power.Its navy trying to supply a war by the west against Russia would be sunk.It hasn’t won a war since WWII.Why would Russia pause the war it is winning,so Ukraine can build hundreds of lines of defense and let western production catch up and supply military equipment, then they resume the war.An endless war like the 80 year war by the arabs to exterminate Israel because it is never allowed to win has no takers in Russia.If they want peace in the region for the next 100 years,they push the frontier to about 2-300 km along the Polish border.Ukraine was a defacto member of NATO.It had the best proxy army the USA ever had.Its time the Americans went home,NATO can be ended. The Marshall Plan may have been a good idea after WWII, but its time to end that as well.USA needs to assemble fortress North America and clean out the globalists and the illegal immigrants and the deep state inside its borders.USA can also shut down most of those 800 bases around the world,its bankrupt.It can decide to do it in an orderly fashion or it will collapse in disorder or nuclear war.
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Russia closes in on Ukraine’s Pokrovsk in one of the war’s key battles
reporter : are you not afraid Russians coming here
ukranian guy : let them come we are all Russians, only by passport we are Ukranians
( 2 min 37 )
Stop the NATO base being built in Romania.
“Its navy trying to supply a war by the west against Russia would be sunk.”
You should do a little more research on the Russian navy before making that comment, “admiral”. There is no comparison between the two navies in regards to weapons employment, efficiency, logistics, etc.
Yah, Russia’s only aircraft carrier was nearly totalled while at the dock when a crane collapsed and then later suffered a major fire. Their navy is a rust bucket. Our navy, despite its issues, is way ahead of Russia’s.
Russia sees no use for Aircraft Carriers. They put their trust in Missile boats with advanced cruise missiles and undetectable Subs
Our navy with 40 year old leaky bathtubs and New Littoral combat ships that are cracking in two is not ahead of the Russians,
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/05/10/the-littoral-combat-ships-latest-problem-class-wide-structural-defects-leading-to-hull-cracks/
“ … and undetectable Subs.”
You have a great sense of humor.
Just about ANY ship can now be overwhelmed with a drone swarm. You just can’t take them ALL out at once. Russian, Iran, etc can have a fleet of drones for a fraction of what a ship costs. Your pride in our Navy is understandable but they are NOT unbeatable. ONE hypersonic missile coming straight down from the heavens at incredible speed and at an angle that rail guns and Phalanx guns can’t reach would destroy a ship instantly.
Aircraft carriers don’t travel alone. They usually sail with a task force. A task force is comprised of multiple ships. Just about every ship is equipped with counter measures, including phalanx guns … which can be programmed to any target size. So you would have multiple defensives in a task force going up against a swarm of drones. We use drones too. A hypersonic missile is useful against a fixed target, not a moving one. Ships move.
Whilst that comment is correct so is yours. The USN is the premier Navy in the World honed over decades to continue the tradition of the Royal Navy in controlling the blue water oceans.
The Russian Navy is very different, apart from its role of protecting its submarines, it is a brown water navy built to protect its coastlines as it has no strategic interests beyond its shores. But it does have good attack submarines which would present a big danger to supply ships in the Atlantic, as would the Russian Air Force long range anti shipping aircraft.
You really need to read this!
https://www.heritage.org/military-strength/assessment-us-military-power/us-navy
The Russians have already deployed hypersonic anti shipping missiles on frigates and submarines.
They gamed this whole thing through, when they realized NATO is an existential threat to their sovereignty and national integrity.
They do not need a large navy as they are not in the overseas Empire business, and prefer to mind their own.
We will suffer from closed sea lanes, they will be just fine. Yes, lost income from sea borne oil trade, but 60% of their revenue derives from internal manufacturing now. Oil revenue is about 40%. The sanctions have worked well to incentivize Russia to become self sufficient. China will import more, across safe overland pipelines if a larger war escalates.
Trump needs to walk away from this disaster, before the defeat becomes his legacy.
Their subs are noisy. The USN’s anti-sub capabilities are enough to handle their sub-surface threat … and our subs are the best in the world. The Russians and the chinese are well aware of this.
Yeah. The Russian Navy Missile Frigates armed with their advanced Onix hypersonic anti ship missiles with 600 mile range and subs with Supercavitating Shakval Torpedos, that travel 250 MPH underwater. Would make short work of the US Navy and supply ships. Russia will leave our Carriers for the Hothies in Yemen to sink. 🙂
“ … our Carriers …” ???
I thought you only have one carrier, the Ulyanovsk.
The relative strengths of the respective *Combatant* fleets aren’t the problem… – *This* is the problem:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/august/can-sealift-deliver
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/12/31/the-us-military-ran-the-largest-stress-test-of-its-sealift-fleet-in-years-its-in-big-trouble
“Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.”
– Gen. Robert H. Barrow, USMC
Much of the problem with revamping sealift, is going to be the same with the rest of the fleet unfortunately.
There is a serious lack of spare shipbuilding and repair/refit capacity in the U.S.. Ditto all the supporting industries like steel manufacturing.
It is difficult enough for my employer to get enough tradesmen for the work of building Aegis Destroyers without accounting for the talent drain that retired with the temporary shutdown of the DDG 51 program several years back.
The short of it is we need to re-industrialize to be able to build ships and equipment of all kinds in a timely and cost effective manner. Never mind a wartime footing.
I’ll leave a thought, we’ve purposefully been sabotaged for years, decades even. It will take years to build up that expertise again.
“There is a serious lack of spare shipbuilding and repair/refit capacity in the U.S.. Ditto all the supporting industries like steel manufacturing.
It is difficult enough for my employer to get enough tradesmen for the work of building Aegis Destroyers without accounting for the talent drain that retired with the temporary shutdown of the DDG 51 program several years back.”
I mentioned above, sealift capacity/seaworthiness being a *Single* data point…
…- I’ve also been following the shipyard issues as well, particularly with respect to Carrier and Fast-Attack Submarine construction and maintenance availabilities. (Q: – Why, exactly, are Electric Boat and Newport News sharing construction of each of the Virginias?… – A: To keep both yards alive, albeit on life-support…)
…- The shipyard issue seems to be the result (as with so much else) of Globalista vulture/crony capitalism (hollowing-out/asset strip-mining/offshoring) with a toxic dash of DEI wokesterism and general educational skills atrophy. So I absolutely agree with your other points, and moreover, this is the merest tip of the iceberg… (A multitude of datapoints…)
…- Without a *Radical* turnaround and reinvestment in US industry, onshored supply chains, and logistical/infrastructure base, there isn’t a snowflake’s chance in hell of the USA being able to wage a *Sustained* ground war in continental Europe, even assuming that was desirable and/or necessary.
Yes, the US has a major issue with its merchant marine support. But we have support facilities through our NATO “allies” which would help with the logistics problem.
Our NATO allies have no military, they`re a joke.
You *Seriously* need to stop, *Now*… – You’re only embarassing yourself.
“You *Seriously* need to stop, *Now*… – You’re only embarassing yourself.”
You seem a little *perturbed* that you can’t respond to the fact that the Russian navy is *weak* and can’t compare to the American navy. If the Russians can’t accomplish their ground objective in three years against its next door neighbor with an inferior army (easy logistical situation for the invading force), how do you think your navy will perform against the American navy?
Your boy Putin has to rely on Cuban and North Korean “volunteers” now. Wasn’t the Russian ‘Putin sausage’ that you love so much enough to attract more Russian men? Hmmm, they must have a recruiting problem in your motherland … and a tank shortage too.
It’s not the Russian Navy that would sink the US Navy, it is the missile defence forces. And they seem to be doing fine.
map showing coverage of the Atlantic by Russian submarines armed with anti-ship missiles. They will not be using torpedoes, no need to get that close, Aircraft carrier battle groups are just big targets, There is nothing in the U.S. Navy arsenal that could intercept the anti-ship missiles. I don’t have a dog in the fight.
…- Plus those dinky little Gorshkov-class frigates (corvettes, really) that launched that strike on ISIS in Syria, back in 2015, *From The Caspian Sea*…
…- Add in alla the AV-MF Bears, Backfires and Blackjacks/White Swans and it’d be a *Real* party…
“Admiral” Wumao,
the reason relying on supplying our army by sea to fight the Russians is insane is due to the fact we have no ability to intercept Russian hypersonic anti ship missiles.
The loss of an aircraft carrier or two would be catastrophic for America’s overseas imperialistic impulses. They are now literally very expensive, prestigious sitting ducks.
Russia is a land based military power, with secure overland routes across Northern Asia to build oil/gas pipelines to China, and import whatever they are not currently manufacturing from China.
The American Empire (a wholly unconstitutional and un-American endeavor) is ending.
The idea of escalating the undeclared war we are currently engaged in against Russia is idiocy.
Hypersonic missiles can`t be stopped, Navy is obsolete.
Marshall Plan ended in early 1950s.
Different name, similar aid, ended in 1960s.
The German Marshall Fund is something different.
“For me, the future of the international system runs through Ukraine.”
–Heather Conley, GMF
Winters: “They Differed With Us On Loving This Country And Putting This Country First”
https://rumble.com/v5mmmtk-winters-they-differed-with-us-on-loving-this-country-and-putting-this-count.html
Haven’t we had enough of the neo-con killer logic; the Corn-Pop mean dude insanity; the Lindsay Graham “take their land” stupidity here in America? My whole lifetime of 78 years can be delineated by what wars we were fighting that year; BUT HAVE NEVER EVER WON A SINGLE ONE! It’s absolutely no wonder we’re helplessly bankrupt; financially, morally, religiously and politically! POTUS Trump is on the right SIDE track o redemption BUT HE DOESN’T HAVE THE TIME TO FINISH, UNLESS A CITIZEN MOVEMENT FORMS TO QUIET THE FOUL POLITICIANS AND FOUL JUDGES!
I can only dream that those two great men of our time could conclude that We Need Peace and The World Needs God!
Two fantasies exist (similar to the fantasy that Biden ‘won’ 2020) that must be collapsed absolutely:
-1. NATO has something “constructive” for US interests and has some ‘strategic’ principles behind ‘its’ operation.
and
-2. US military is ‘weak’ to the point of ‘disfunction’.
US military is in ‘shambles’ compared to what it could be compared to what we paid… however, on a comparative mil-to-mil basis in a specific theater/area of combat (for example ground combat in eastern Europe; or Air-lift in Africa; or Sea power in japan area; or combined arms ‘events’ in Korea; cyber warfare; space based capabilities; advanced weaponry) US forces are very capable at minimum and ‘success’ is more dependent on LEADERSHIP-MISSION than anything else.
To put it more succinctly–the fantasy that must be IMPLODED is that military has been deployed/used to ACTUALLY carry out national will/policy/objectives. There exists huge piles of evidence (including Ukraine) that deception of ‘purpose’ dominates ABSOLUTELY the employment of military force since 1960ish.
… and hasn’t LEADERSHIP been the pits (or worse) for more than 60 years!
No fear, full disclosure, no pretending, accurate appraisal of ACTUAL task/purpose/endstate in real world.
Arguably, we won under Reagan with Grenada, and we won Desert Storm in Iraq.
Other than those, I would not say the US military could not win. We were never allowed to prosecute war as per WWII rules of engagement.
Get the politicians out of it, get the media out of it, and unleash the military to fight per wartime rules of engagement….and we would find that the US military is light-years beyond second place in terms of actual ability.
Desert Storm required massive bombing, and a build up of almost 750 Thousand Air, sea, land, contract and supply forces from many different countries under Ideal conditions.
An Attack on Russia, China, or even Iran would not be under ideal conditions. Nor I doubt if we could ever assemble a coalition that large in these times.
The enemy would also be fighting under total war conditions. Do you think they would allow an assembly of hostile forces to just gather near their borders. Without Declaring War and responding with massive missile, air, and ground attacks as soon as the first ship or plane arrived?
This is 2025 not 1992.
“won Desert Storm ”
What exactly did we win? And if we did, was it worth the 20 odd trillion of debt my Great Grandchildren are stuck with?
I think one of the problems with the American outlook is their understanding of WW11.
The Australians presented Japan with their first two defeats of Ww11, not the USA.
Furthermore, without ‘aircraft carrier’ Australia being available for US Forces, outcomes may well have been different in the Pacific.
Then Russia in the European theatre essentially defeated Germany, at great loss of life – had the Allies not been allied with Russia, the outcome would have been different.
Apparently not many Americans either know or appreciate historical events (and, as always, the victors write the stories for the masses and movies are made to reinforce such stories).
There is no question the Soviet Union broke the Wermacht and its’ fascist allies backs in the east. The sacrifice civilians and Red Army troops made at Stalingrad blunted the Nazi momentum.
If you’ve never been to Mameav Kurgan, in Volgograd (Stalingrad), the memorial on a hill with 1 million war dead within it, it is worth the journey.
Ironically it was at Kursk, the Soviets irretrievably ended any strategic offensive Wermacht capability.
To see the Telegram videos 82 years later of burning German Leopard tanks, marked with Iron Crosses, and the smoldering bodies of the dead Ukrainian crewmen, grandsons of the Galician SS Ukrainian Nazi collaborators meeting the same fate of invading Russia near Kursk, along with their war crime behavior of mass rapes of women and execution of Russian civilians is chilling.
It is disgusting to know incompetent American/NATO officers command and control these vicious, fanatical killers who we also train, pay, arm and order them to their certain death.
By June, 1944 at Normandy, our boys were met by mostly 2nd rate occupation troops, recovering wounded from the Eastern Front meatgrinder and conscripted foreigners.
The Argonne offensive, Battle of the Bulge, was against what was left of redeployed crack Waffen SS combat troops, although badly depleted from the mauling the Russians gave them. Their ranks were filled with conscripts and youth, yet they still fought hard.
I would argue that the American industrial capacity (at that time) to mass build ships and planes won the naval attrition war over Japan, no question.
We never fought or destroyed the Japanese field armies, as these largely remained intact in China, Manchuria and Korea until the final surrender.
Our performance in Tunisia was pathetic against a few, retreating Africa Corps divisions, and the Italian Campaign was amateur league compared to the Eastern Front.
That said, we have never fought a peer enemy since 1945, in Korea the Chinese peasant army with burp guns and no air cover fought us to a “stalemate”.
It is very concerning to see just how ineffective our Patriot systems, F-16s, Abrahms, M777 Howitzers, NATO training, tactics, and the inability of our general staff and officers who command the Ukrainian NATO army we created perform in a real, modern war.
Our corrupted MIC is incapable of manufacturing sufficient quantities of weapon systems and munitions to prevail in an actual war. Let alone create air superiority against S-400 systems. The public would never tolerate 2,ooo+ KIA casualties on a daily basis to preserve a corrupt dictatorship in Ukraine.
Agree 100%! We spend 10 times as much as the Russians on the military! Hopefully Musk does some investigation into this.
“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.” Given in a toast at Norfolk Virginia, 1816.
This quotation from Stephen Decatur in 1816 reflects an abiding love for one’s country which is sadly absent in today’s politicians.
This ‘war’ in Ukraine has been mismanaged by a bunch of pussy-footed wimps sitting at oaktables in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill sucking on cigars and sipping scotch. Leaders whose idea of real warfare comes from history they may have read yet lacking the courage displayed by George Washington during his morning constitutional.
Trump must acknowledge the mistakes of previous administrations trying to poke the Russian Bear into action. Then he must pull a kicking and recalcitrant Zelinsky to the peace table and sitting across from Vladimir Putin negotiate a peace treaty. First by acknowledging US involvement with the overthrow of the legitimately elected government of Ukraine; the subsequent CIA installment of a sock-puppet dictator; and the hundreds of billions misguided politicians have pored into this proxy war with Russia. Forswear the use of nuclear weapons against Russia with a concommitant return to the SALT II agreement.
And finally, looking Vladimir squarely in the eye, tell him that any breach of the terms of this agreement, by any party whose signature is hereunto affixed, will be considered an act of war and we go to the mattresses.
“And finally, looking Vladimir squarely in the eye, tell him that any breach of the terms of this agreement, by any party whose signature is hereunto affixed, will be considered an act of war and we go to the mattresses.”
Well, that was plagiarized right out of World Wrastling Federation.
squarely
“The Ukrainian policy for the United States has gotta be, pretty stark. That is, we hang with them until they win.”
–George W. Bush, 2022
Shrub Jr…. is he really that stupid or pretend ??
I don’t think I trust our neocons, et al.
You don’t think…??
acknowledge
“Biden was an embarrassment to our nation. A complete embarrassment.”
https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-and-putin-in-talks-to-end-the-russia-ukraine-war/
sdo…is both shrubs/clinton/hussein……
Great idea but the eyes he would be looking into knows from many past bitter and expensive experiences that the US is agreement incapable i.e. a new President can turn on a sixpence.
Very, very few leaders in the World now trust the US to honour its word and that is so sad.
Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul.
Trump, Putin, Orban.
add ..Slovak premier Robert Fico who have been shot 4 times last year…and still going..and going…..!!!!
Peace after Rebuke:
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. — Isaiah 2:4
As (ret.) Colonel Macgregor has said repeatedly, the true danger here is Trump’s insatiable desire to “win.” Will it cloud his ability to think pragmatically? Why not just blame the LOSS on O’bama and Biden, as they richly deserve, and walk away with full disclosure of the truth?
We all know, when we don’t pretend, that what this entire war boils down to is NATO wanting to use Ukraine’s territory to place military assets on Russia’s border (and of course to allow Lindsey Graham to get rich off of Ukraine’s minerals).
This covert and ulterior policy was spawned from the detritus of the so-called Maidan “Revolution of Dignity” (“Euromaidan,” “Maidan Uprising”) in early 2014 — all as orchestrated by the wicked and vile likes of Vicky Nuland, Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, John Brennan, and his butt boys (ret. Lt. Col.) Al Vindman and Eric Ciaramella.
Trump truly, deep-down, does not like people dying, and he especially does not like people dying unnecessarily. Sundance is right — expect him to bluff like he’s never bluffed before.
Trouble is, Putin’s going to call his bluff, as we all know he will. One of the first statements he’ll make will likely be something along the lines of, “Hey, Donald my friend, Russia and China are thinking about forming a military alliance with Mexico. What’ya say about us putting a large military base just south of the Rio Grand, huh? You know, as part of the settlement deal you’re now trying to threaten us with?”
I pray to God that he gives Trump the wisdom to not pretend, just this once.
Sometimes I wonder if Trump knows the truth and history of Maidan. I want to believe he does.
… partial evidence of ‘knowing’… Trump takes down USAID while moving into halting Maidan ‘players’ security clearances wile moving forward with Ukraine cease-fire+ plans.
……. if he ‘didn’t know then we wouldn’t see this last 17 days having appearances of such precisely timed/sequenced moves.
Future measuring stick — what happens with DOGE and US mil and also deportation ops compared with mil support to domestic ‘fights’ (border), domestic lies (Hunter laptop and Ukraine funding)? Coherence in multiple avenues is evidence of good/accurate intel about history/players/current situation.
I do not think he know….
flashback
McFaul: Trump Should ‘Push Back’ On Putin Demands To Interrogate U.S. Officials
“…we could land jelly-side up on this one…”
Vicky just LOVED that idea, don’tcha think? Geoffrey sure knows how to pick the perfect euphemism, doesn’t he? Have you seen the before-and-after pics showing the multiple pounds that cow put on during her corrupt reign?
Is that Mira Ricardel on the left side of the photo, in the red jacket?
Speaking of South of the Rio and Russia. Look what Mexico did after President Trump threatened Tariffs.
Will they join BRICS next?
“Sovereignty is not negotiable”: Sheinbaum responds to Trump for tariffs
https://mexicodailypost.news/2025/02/03/putin-opens-the-door-to-mexico-and-six-other-countries-in-his-currency-market/
pragmatic and winning are not mutually exclusive.
Thank you Uwungelema…I hope VSGPDJT is well prepared to deal with VVP.. not as last time with bs info about 60 millions deaths in the WW2 and 1 million deaths in current SMO or about ” miserable” situation of russian economy….this is no start….russians are not hurry finish war.Peace will be on Russian terms….btw most if not all rare minerals are on new/liberated russian terriritories…..
If Trump were to get the US directly involved in the fighting in Ukraine, it would destroy MAGA.
And DJT’s legacy!
And start WW3
or if we get in the war with ..Iran…this will be end of MAGA…
Energy is likely the key.
US and Israel will be increasing production dramatically. Putin wants the European market for oil and gas or another market.
Doubt Putin likes selling POL to China. The Dragon on his doorstep makes for an uneasy partnership.
If President Trump can offer a market for Russian products versus sanctions…….plus pull NATO back or pull out of NATO…….
To be competitive with China and the rest of the world along with having respect n the world scene could be everything to Putin.
President Trump is famed for thinking outside the box when making a deal and I doubt seriously that he will foolishly threaten Putin. The president will be thinking economics. (Unless the war mongers are bending the president’s ear.)
(Bet ya a doughnut that the interview before the game is the announcement of a ceasefire or talks with or an end of the Ukrainian war.)
Whatever differences may lay between Russia and China, they both have a Common Enemy. Washington, DC. And since Washington, DC continues to make enemies, even with Western friends, neither Russia, nor China will be slipping under the U.S. Foreign Policy syphilitic sheets anytime soon.
For crying out loud. The USAID daylight shows even to the Blind, that the Democratic Party, Rinos, Bureaucrats and the Deep Stench has been STEALING U.S. taxpayer money to destroy the U.S. and her citizens.
Russian and China are peanuts relative to the Internal Crimes.
“Whatever differences may lay between Russia and China, they both have a Common Enemy. Washington, DC.“
That is true, but Russia does not have a common enemy in Trump and the American people.
For Putin to act as if he can not make mutually beneficial deals with Trump would be a general fighting the last war.
China is a much more dangerous frenemy and the dragon is right at their door. MAGA America is not Washington DC.
Getting deals with America right now will be far sweeter than deals later on once Trump has obtained control. Putin can see that.
What you say no longer applies as it did and less so each and every day.
MAGA and President Trump is not the swamp DC. To your point president Trump first tackled USAID right?
“If President Trump can offer a market for Russian products”.
How do you spell Whirlpool in Russian?
For what its worth, I got this result using https://quillbot.com/translate/english-to-russian.
Вирпул
“If President Trump can offer a market for Russian products versus sanctions…….plus pull NATO back or pull out of NATO…….“
Exactly! Trump will go for the best deal he can get and just based on what would likely be the best deal to end the killing will be
1. No NATO
2. Territory with mostly Russian populations will go back to Russia
3. Russia will get some additional territory to protect their borders and… as a little something for the effort … and …. because they can take it anyway
4. Zelenskyy gone and flush out the corrupt western government influence
Trump wants the war to end. He’s NOT going to escalate it, he’s made it clear he wants peace and no foreign entanglements.
Putin wants the way to end, but he wants to keep what he’s “won”. The war wasn’t his idea.
That’s the deal. They both want the war to end. Trump will sweeten the pot with mutually beneficial win/win trade opportunities.
Trump is nothing if not consistent.
Remember 19 year old Massachusetts Air National Guardsmen Teixeira who leaked TOP SECRET CIA and DIA analysis in a video game showing Ukrainian losses at 8 to 1 versus Russia? He was prosecuted and just sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for mishandling CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS so you know that the information was real. Sure, the kid is an idiot but 15 years in prison when the CIA leaks lies to us everyday?
How can Gen Kellogg keep telling President Trump that Russia has lost 1 million soldiers when the CIA and DIA actually have Russian losses at almost 1/10th of Ukraines?
Nobody can be that stupid!
is KELLOGG neocon?? Johnny Bolton light??? if so he may feed this kind of BS info’s to VSGPDJT……
Putin’s speech at the 43rd Munich Security Conference in 2007 was, at the invitation of Chairman Horst Teltschik, the first speech by a Russian head of state at the Security Conference. The main topics of his speech on February 10, 2007 were the “Unipolar World Order”, NATO’s eastward expansion, disarmament and the Iranian nuclear program.It was an early and clear warning from Putin against the alleged hegemonic claim of the USA. The USA, NATO and the EU are said to have ignored this warning and subsequently provoked a military conflict in Eastern Europe instead of accepting and promoting a multipolar world order. https://x.com/i/status/1878794745142825232
2007
“There will be a yearning for candidates focused on the future and not the grievances of the past.”
–Jeb Bush, Oct. 20, 2022
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Trump’s team worried Iranian spy would shoot down his plane with a missile after told of threat: book
[…]Trump staff flew on a ‘Trump Force One’ plane while the president boarded a decoy plane after security concerns increased
[…]Iran could try
[…]Tehran had placed operatives in the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles
[…]”collateral damage” if the jet were shot down by Iranian operatives
[…]The alleged Iranian plot
[…]Though Iran is not tied to the July 2024 assassination attempt at a Butler…
[…]Trump was more troubled by the claims of an Iranian assassination plot than he publicly let on
[…]he left his staff “instructions” to obliterate Iran should they succeed in killing him.
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Iran May Be on the Verge of a Nuclear Weapon;
Will Israel and the United States Act?
Andrea Stricker – Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program Deputy Director and Research Fellow
[…]Tehran could likely construct a crude device within six months
[…]Trump and Netanyahu have a historic chance to stop Iran once and for all.
[…]their ability to jointly destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and could help deter a breakout by the regime before it starts.
[…]Tehran may be desperate and poised to acquire the ultimate deterrent … Washington and Jerusalem have said they will never tolerate. Trump and Netanyahu may soon have to enforce that threat.
more:
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2025/02/06/iran-may-be-on-the-verge-of-a-nuclear-weapon-will-israel-and-the-united-states-act/
Iran has been on the verge of a Nuclear Weapon for…ever?
Cue the cartoon bomb of Bugs Bunny Netanyahu.
I would surmise, that Iran already has nukes.
They were in a position to do this long ago.
They are just smart enough not to tell anyone. I cannot see how they dont already possess a small arsenal. The Main Towel Head knows, if word got out they had some, Israel would dismantle the country, with US help, and kill the leaders.
This is a forgone conclusion.
That is my concern….false flag.
If there is one….Iran will not be on my
top 3 suspect list.
🤔 🤔 The nutcase at the golf course who
tried to assassinate President Trump
comes to mind🤔
False Flags. And who benefits?
Seen the JFK files yet? Neither have I.
who
January 6 will “echo” in U.S. history like Pearl Harbor and 9/11
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1725633290361544793
“Fifteen 9/11s” – Jihadi Joe
https://rumble.com/v3qhf4x-bribery-biden-likens-attack-on-israel-to-fifteen-911s.html
😉 👍
JFK Assassination Expert Reacts to Trump’s Effort to Declassify Files, and What You Should Expect 👆 👆
Towards the end of the interview 😳😳💥💥
It’s Russia’s fault for putting it’s country right in the middle of a hundred US Military Bases!
https://x.com/theadtan/status/1497272579262152704
NATO expansion hasn’t improved security on any border.
Imagine Starbucks being better!
For many, many years the basic flavor has been a burnt flavor, like a pot of coffee sitting on the back burner all day long and reheated. I don’t think they employ proper barista procedures – they aren’t preparing for you a bespoke cup of coffee – they probably just have the flavoring stuff in envelopes and add hot water.
Starbucks shamelessly copied Office Coffee (acid). The dregs in the pot at 4 pm when you are desperate for a shot.
Starbucks has had three types of coffee for the past two decades. You can get French Roast which is rich and strong. You can get Pikes Market which is medium and a blonde roast which is mild.
The nonsense that Macdonald’s coffee is better is the result of Macdonald’s heavy spending on TV advertising while Starbucks refused to advertise hence the fake news being repeated over and over again.
Starbucks advertises a
Lot, especially around the holidays.
Yes, they started recently.
Ever wondered why Starbucks failed in Australia?
There are only a few truly exceptional world leaders. Putin is one of them.
Yet, he must avoid visiting any countries that are members of the ICC (International Criminal Court.) Because they got a warrant out on him.
DJT’s Greenland quest will certainly be the elephant in the room .
I want that Panama Canal fiasco rectified first…but that is me and I am very biased.
Canal Zone Brat Forever.
Reagan was on your side.
Buckley against.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113743481299257446
To me, Buckley seemed greatly compromised by something, I don’t know what . . . watching him during those debates with Gore Vidal, Buckley was all tied up in knots whereas Vidal was supremely at east.
“Many would argue the only benefit to sanctions ending…”
and they’d be quite incorrect; there are many other benefits.
One, for example, would be revitalized Western investment
“[The European nations] are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property and lives of their people.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1823
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110662848061185112
“nothing would be off the table, and he could lay waste to Eastern Ukraine.”
No chance whatsoever that the U.S. Military could lay waste to Eastern Ukraine, ie, kill Russians, without putting all of Europe and the U.S. East Coast into play. That is death to millions of Americans.
Bombast, bluster, ill-thought-out declarations with Russia, could start WWIII faster than the Idiots who controlled Biden.
There is no easy solution to the Vicky Nuland inferno started in Ukraine, but putting the U.S. Military into direct conflict with the Russian Military, or even giving Illegitimate Zelenski more killing weapons is only going to be digging a U.S. grave alongside the Ukraine grave.
controlled
Russia will attack NATOSTAN if Ukraine falls, Mike Pence
Hope Trump listened for the faint click as he started talking. Faint click being of course that sound when someone else picked up the other line on old timey phones.
It’s not President Trump and President Putin that is the issue, it’s everyone else. 🤔
Not everyone. Everything.
We’re in a crisis-cycle.
Everything-crisis.
Lol, whut?!…
…- I hear washed-up, has-been Hollyweird performing monkeys sounding off about *Anything* these days, and what I’m *Literally* hearing in my head is the teacher’s voice from the animated Charlie Brown/Peanuts cartoonies…
…- “Wah-Wa Wah, Wa-Wa Wah-Wa-Wah Wah”… XD
Sundance:
LONG Time Follower, and VERY Rare Poster…
You are 100% on the Russian proposition and prospectus!
Let’s take a Trumpian view here….
Russia is one of America’s two original foreign allies dating back to the courts of Catherine the Great during our Revolution..
The USA has NO historical animus towards the Russian people. The Soviet Union is a different conversation.
Russia has finally regained its identity as a Christian nation.
It stands as a counter to the anti-Christian Secular Euro New World Order.
It sits atop, along with the USA, the richest petroleum, mineral, and agricultural riches on the globe.
Left alone, it can become the next manifestation of Our Lord’s blessings as an economic and cultural force for goodness.
Russia is feared by Europe because of this capacity and potential.
It has no appetite or need for land acquisition beyond securing the integrity of the Rodina.
It has historically been drawn towards Europe for both cultural and economic reasons.
Like the USA in its formative years, Russia is an imperfect cultural melting pot where there is a natural affinity towards national identity.
If I am reading our POTUS correctly, he understands the moment and this particular inflection point in history.
President Trump has consistently, albeit indirectly, poo-poo’d the Neo-Euro Model with his positions on Religion, Culture, NATO, Greenery, and Economics. In Trump parlance, he has continually expressed disdain for and dismissed the entire construct of these bureaucratic caretakers. The sum of his positions is an indictment of and divorce from our European heritage as it is currently observed.
Like the Great Schisms experienced by the Catholic Church with Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism, I would humbly offer that we MIGHT see President Trump seize the moment to:
-Reaffirm America’s affiliation with one of its oldest Christian allies;
-Reaffirm America’s support of democracy and the rights of sovereign nations to exist beyond the control of artificial Globalist constructs;
-Serve notice to the European bureaucrats that their socialist, secular model has reached its sell-by date;
-And offer a vision where there can truly be liberty and justice for all under God in a world of self-determination.
Russia used the Nordstream Pipelines to provide German industry with virtually unlimited inexpensive natural gas and we blew-up the pipelines!
Who is “we”, compadre?
President Trump said a few days ago “not Russia” going on to comment that if he said anymore he would be in trouble.
So assume that “we” means NATO and bear in mind that nothing of that difficulty can be done without the top of NATO, the US, saying GO. Especially in the Baltic which is a NATO lake in the area of the destruction.
US forces
CIA
“We” as in our covert Deep State and its WEF agenda for Russia, I will accept.
“We” as in our national will, I reject.
“We” didn’t blow up the pipeline, but WE will have to own up and make amends to Russia for it. The Upright are always having to make amends for, and clean up the mess of, the Wicked’s ugly ways.
“WE” suggests:
-Culpability for instigating the conditions leading to the Russian SMO including fermenting the Maidan revolution, underwriting biolabs in Ukraine, enabling ethnic cleansing, and NATO expansion;
-ANY reasonable person can accept, with billions of US dollars, that a Ukrainian special operations team could possibly have rented a sailboat and performed complex underwater operations to disable a deep water natural gas pipeline all on their own;
-Adding injury to such an insult, heavens forbid a legal case might one day be made that the genesis of the Wuhan virus might be traced to funding provided by the same sources possibly in collaboration with laboratories in nations beginning with the letter “U”….
Our POTUS has the opportunity to bring a blade to the Gordian Knot, undo a lot of evil, and unleash a lot more good! He inherited an untenable situation. He needs to change the venue and execute HIS game.
So, an analogy. Would this be kinda correct: Putin is to Trump/US as Trump is to Canada/Mexico?
Obviously, different root causes, but similar attitudes towards each? Hopefully, Putin can be magnanimous yet direct in their talk. I hate the past years that put Trump in this position. Hopefully, Trump can understand the don’t care position of Russia and thread the needle smoothly.
It’s about stationing hostile nukes next door to you. That’s what Ukraine represents, to Russia. It’s response time. The reason Cuban missile crisis happened was response time. What about this isn’t America understanding? It’s not rocket science.
I hate what the Miss Lindseys of the US have done. Damn them. Damn them all to hell.
It’s ICBM science.
The curious thing about the Cuban missile crisis was that a lot of people are not as well informed about what preceded it. The U.S. was placing Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missiles in Turkey, mere minutes of flight time to the Soviet Union.
Part of the negotiations in the days that followed involved the U.S. removing those missiles from Turkey, which was done more or less quietly.
Correct.
therefore, the common myth that JFK stood up to Krushev is FALSE.
Yes I know. It’s an interesting example of how “they” twist history to their own ends, and most of us just sail on by, never even noticing anything at all is wrong, inaccurate, or truth-filled, precisely as “they” planned.
Uniparty has been in the same position for a decade.
Peaceful protestors get USPAID for democracy.
Burisma Brandon wrote about it in his book.
The worry is bad actors will cause something very serious and bloody to happen in Ukraine and blame it on Russia that will test Trump and force his hand to react in a way that he can’t avoid.
That is why Zelensky was trying so hard
to take the ZPP. …Nuclear Power Plant.
He tried so hard to attack and then blame
on Russia.
Russia handled that well.👍👍
I disagree that Trump will be forced to act on a false flag. That’s what makes Trump different.
Or, they will cause something very serious and bloody to happen here in America.
Chernobyl, Opera House, and currently… civilian massacres in basements.
As long as teen trannies are getting their hormones, democracy is winning.
“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.”
The ONLY thing Trump can play is the nuke card, and that will end our world. He SHOULD have called it “Biden’s war” Jan 20, and walked away.
Now, since he didn’t, he’s on a losing streak, every which way.
I would have to disagree.
If PTrump unleashed our military with WWII rules of engagement (which is the ONLY way we should deploy our military), it would be Russia having to reach for the nukes first, not US.
What has historically stopped the US military isn’t morale or ability or technology…it has been the stupid rules of engagement imposed by our political parties, combined with the ugly portrayal of our military by the media. Remove both of these, and I don’t think there’s another military on earth that could beat the US. Not even China, with its numbers.
Politics and media coverage have done more damage to our prosecution of war, than any other factors.
Have you been paying attention to the fact the Ukraine SMO (Special Military Operation) has changed the rules of warfare, which is the only thing NATO has trained for?
Drones and ubiquitous ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) has changed the nature of warfare same as the machine gun changed it in WWI and the tank changed it in WWII.
NATO hasn’t trained for this, but Russia has experienced it, real time, and it’s winning, as it usually does in warfare.
Which side are you gonna bet on?
You sure have a lot of faith in your military leadership. It’s cute in a 1962’ish kinda way.
PS I can’t quite recall the military establishment taking responsibility for any failures of the last 80 years. Is Korea still a thing?
Our forces wouldn
t eve n reach the front. Theyd be killed by hypersonic missiles. Some government think tank said we would be out of ammo in 14 days fighting in Ukraine.I very much worry that Trump is being given bad information about Ukraine/Russia. He claimed that Russia has 1 million dead when the truth is that Ukraine has 1 million dead and Russia has about 90k dead. Big difference! What other lies is he being fed and by whom? It’s very hard to negotiate when you do not have all the facts. There was a peace deal in Turkey shortly after the war started before US/UK stopped the deal. Start with that agreement.
That Istanbul agreement is now history, too much death has passed on both sides for the goodwill expressed on both sides in it for it ever to be revived.
At what point does the West actually READ the SMO Document and start taking appropriate actions? With the outing of USAID, the points contained within it are extremely legitimate, or are you going to make Putin achieve them militarily? The West is going to learn that Active Defense is a formidable Strategic Doctrine that blows the “killed/wounded” models out of the water. COIN is the doctrine that produces the numbers they cite.
The West has read it, but ignores it because it’s inconvenient.
Meanwhile, Western media continues to lie about it because it’s exclusively informed by Western intel and Western political puppets right across Europe and America who continue to force-feed Western sheeple the bullshit while Western sheeple swallow it whole and eagerly return for even more of the same.
How else, pray tell, does one explain why the Ukraine fiction in the MSM has gotten so much traction?
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I suspect that the “side” that needs to be “strong-armed” isn’t Russia, and it’s not Zelensky either.
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US needs to strong-arm the British Establishment to get over their long-held obsession amongst their ruling class that Russia is ripe for raping.
Unless and until those people are handed that message in a way they can’t ignore, this disastrous and costly politics by other means will continue.
The US is the only country on Earth that can do it, and if it doesn’t, all of us will die. The heart of it is finance, it’s Rothschild’s British Branch which caused and fed this animosity, the US under Trump is the only entity powerful enough to take that on.
So, Sundance, knowing that President Trump does not like to loose, what would your projections be?
I agree in part, but there are key factors that SD overlooks.
It’s true that Russia can compensate and has been able to sustain Western sanctions for much longer than expected. Moreover, Russians are no longer behind the informational iron curtain—they consume Western media and have the same access to information, pop culture, and consumer trends as people in Germany, Italy, the UK, or Florida.
That said, Russia faces several systemic issues that are difficult if not impossible to overcome:
Aviation: Russia has an aging fleet of Western aircraft that require parts and maintenance. They cannot simply replace them with Sukhoi SuperJet or MC-21 models, as these also rely on Western components. The SSJ, for instance, was co-developed with Boeing and later Alenia Aermacchi/Finmeccanica (now Leonardo).
Manufacturing: Much of Russia’s modern manufacturing, mining, and drilling equipment depends on Western technology, which can only be partially replaced with Asian or Turkish alternatives.
Financial Sector: The U.S. still has the ability to block Russian companies from accessing capital markets through Hong Kong. More importantly, Chinese banks, which Russia had hoped to use as intermediaries, are increasingly refusing to process transactions to and from Russian banks. The entire Russian economy cannot switch to crypto.
Given these factors, President Trump has far more leverage than SD suggests.
A wee bit of delusion there:
Aviation: Russia seems to be coping pretty well as many parts etc are made by third parties now. The latest version of the SSJ is 100% Russian and the MC-100 will be once it starts full production. The sanctions have and will cost the West a lot of technical sales.
Manufacturing: Russia’s indigenous manufacturing in the areas you mentioned is not as limited as it was.
Finance: As we have seen from the ineffectiveness of sanctions the whole financial/import/export markets are like sieves monitored by dens of thieves. Anyway why would the whole Russian economy need to switch to cryptos? How often do we here need to use SWIFT?
And let’s not mention BRICS…
Why don’t most people understand the significance of the fact Putin directed Russia to develop a SWIFT alternative almost a decade ago?
Why did he do that if he didn’t see what was coming?
Putin is rightfully resentful of the west and their Ukrainian lackeys. It seems like the best course of action would be to get Zelensky out of the picture (the Ukrainian people don’t want him, anyway), let Putin have the northern territory, and then let the remaining Ukraine vote for a new, globalist-free government.
Long-term, it would require admitting that the US was under the control of globalists who fomented the Ukraine war. Declare globalism to be a terrorist ideology, even worse than Islam. Declare a war on globalism. Sign pacts, make deals. Make it so the globalists can’t hop a plane and flee to somewhere safe. Maybe hand-over George and Alex Soros to Putin as a peace offering. Then set about making the whole world great again.
“While Russians accept a ridiculous ‘caste’ system in their society; as delivered by govt, where those connected to power benefit”. Hasn’t the same thing been allowed to develop in our country? Our president is hard at it trying to eradicate this system, but I’m afraid it is inherent in human institutions of government.
Let’s pray that the adults behave as adults and stop this immediately.
I hope PTrump an Putin can engage in a mature dialog that produces good results and, with prayer, a peace with substance.
PTrump has been dealt a poor hand, with what the RINO’s, Democrats, MIC, and NATO have all done.
Our own military needs to be purged of those high-ranking generals who have constantly had to scratch that itch, to antagonize Russia, at every opportunity, for the last 30 years. The USSR is long gone. We should not be treating Russia like the old USSR.
With Ukraine, we are NOT the guys with the White Hats. What has been done to Russia over the last 15 years is exactly what the old USSR tried to do with us with Cuba (for all intents and purposes). It must stop.
Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova need to be allowed to self-determine how much within the Russian sphere of influence they wish to be, and not ever be considered for NATO membership.
With the mention of NATO….it has far outlived its purpose. It should have been disbanded after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Now would be a great time. Removing NATO will be a great incentive for the European countries to rebuild their own militaries. Having to face the Russians with their own militaries would also make a great incentive to not poke the bear needlessly.
The Marshall Plan? Discontinue it. Europe has used the Marshall Plan to give itself the privilege of bolstering its welfare state, while giving us the “Tsk, tsk” when touting its “social reforms”. If they can afford all the socialist agenda items, they certainly don’t need our money or our discounts.
These are the real negotiating points PTrump has left – acknowledging US complicity in the Ukraine mess, making amends there, holding Zelensky accountable, then adopting a path to remove future antagonists and antagonism on the West’s side.
Russia is much less reliant and much more resilient than most western countries
“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.”
Great analysis until that final assertion. Deciding to fully engage and enter the war with ferocity would cross so many Russian redlines that such a war would never even get started. It would kick off WW3, with stand-off attacks of weapons of mass destruction.
We can only hope that Trump, based on his long record of criticizing “stupid wars,” knows that America must cease meddling in foreign squabbles.
It ain’t none of our business if the Ukrainians want to antagonize Russia, nor if the Russians decide to respond. Let them hash it out. We’ll be there to do business with them once they’re finished.
WW3 and the annihilation of America is not worth any foreign conflict.
Even if Russia, or China, deferred escalation to nuclear war, American forces haven’t been in a peer, or even near-peer, war since WW2. Grenada? Panama? Iraq? Afghanistan? All of those were against pitiful shell forces that melted when touched. Our vulnerability to Russia’s newly-learned tactics, and to hyper-sonic and other missiles, is huge. It’s likely our forces would be decimated before they even began to launch attacks. Russia wouldn’t sit idly by while we build up hundred of thousands of troops in Poland or Romania. Such a deployment would be tantamount to war, and Russia would strike immediately.
Let’s pray that Trump’s advisors don’t convince him such a war would be a good thing. I’m sure that his negotiations will keep us far from that terrible eventuality.
The problem is, the nuclear war planners in D.C. truly think a nuclear conflict is winnable.
Therefore it remains a card on the political table.
The fact this is insane doesn’t seem pertinent.
“It ain’t none of our business if the Ukrainians want to antagonize Russia, nor if the Russians decide to respond. Let them hash it out. We’ll be there to do business with them once they’re finished.”
I think you missed the news that it was the US that forced Ukraine to poke Russia as a key US strategic objective.
Y’know my man Crap Game knew the score…
…”Maybe the guy’s a Republican”:…
Hilarious! Great movie!
Woof, Woof, Woof!… – Dat’s my udda Dawg Impoisination. Mm-Hmm… 😉
I don’t doubt that at all and it won’t surprise me. In fact, a ferocious front facing look is imp because “optics are important”.
https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1888700047568548297
What this person said! From Sundance’s Twitter.
I discovered this a long time ago on youtube and have posted it from time to time – it was made in 2012 –
I like these Russian young people – I don’t want us to be bombing them!
Note that the song “Puttin’ On The Ritz” was written by a Russian, Irving Berlin, who became a great and beloved American and wrote many, many other wonderful songs.
💡 💡💡🧩🧩 🧩
me—🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Listened to Mike Benz -Tucker interview …
He brought up the Pepsi Chile coup and USAID involvement.
Another interview with Glenn Greenwald he brought up
how USAID targets specific groups to further their mission…
that would be Banderites in Ukraine.
American Corporations Own almost Half of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land
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War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land – Ukraine | ReliefWeb
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This article is interesting. It states how concern was being raised
about Western entities buying land. Zelensky passed reform 2020…
against the will of the people.
Looking more and more as though big part of this conflict was instigated
to “preserve “ the interests of investors.
Then the instigators would have finagled portfolios to
offset possible loss of Ag investment,by transferring
portion to MIC.
The longer the war continues, the more the loss in
agriculture is padded by MIC investment.
Minerals. Probably along the same lines.
Zelensky has been roaming the world
advertising those minerals for months.
France probably already bought them,
or majority of them.
France has decrease in minerals since
it was kicked out of Africa. France really needs
minerals!
Would I be surprised if Lindsey Graham and other
corrupt politicians have had “investments” in
Ukraine going as far back as 2014…nope.
Miss Lindsay has a munitions plant in Romania. For him war is a good thing.
I do not support any further involvement in Ukraine.
The neo-Con Crap Weasels in the USG created this mess.
Apologize to Putin and give him the territory he has taken.
Our country F’ed this up BIGLY. Don’t make is worse.
Exactly! President Trump should just declare victory in Ukraine and then leave!
One of many problems that President Putin must be concerned about is that the US and its allies have over and over made agreements that they have then broken or failed to enforce. The Minsk Accords, among others. In addition, the US does not have continuity of purpose from one president to another.
Putin has to make sure of Russia’s national security and that is difficult with inimical entities like NATO with weapons on his borders aimed at Russia. There have been multiple examples of US interference and regime change operations with countries on his borders or near his borders – Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Romania, Hungary, Serbia/Kosovo, Moldova, Afghanistan, in addition to interference in Russia itself (CIA-MI6-sponsored Navalny, etc.). Plus, there has been an unwillingness on the part of the US and its allies to respect his national security concerns, Russia’s concerns with biological weapons labs, Ukrainian atrocities, neo-Nazi racially-motivated anti-Russia militias with CIA training, US and UK-sponsored terrorist activities (from 1999 onward) in Russia, including the Nordstream pipeline.
I hope that President Trump can amicably solve the Ukraine conflict and would oppose very strongly any use of force against Russia. VERY STRONGLY. IMO, the US, US entities, US allies are the cause of the Ukraine conflict and IMO, the US needs to get out of eastern Europe entirely. No uranium/titanium mines in Ukraine. No CIA operations. No terrorist support. No more billions in weapons and aid to Ukraine or Romania or Moldova. Squash the beggar Zelensky and remove him.
“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.”
For purposes of discussion let’s go with these so-called terms for a peace treaty.”
In the short-term Putin would seem to be sitting pretty.
Except there is a problem: this is a sure-fire way to become a long-term pariah.
Yes, the term ‘Hitler’ is way overused and devalued; however, Putin will be making a bid to replace the term ‘Hitler’ with the term ‘Putin’. For the moment this may be overdrawn; and furthermore, he may not really care – he certainly does not chase after popularity the way most politicians do. Russians, on the other hand, may not embrace the long-term fall out very well as a nuclear nation of truly ugly street bullies. For North Korea, this so far is not an insurmountable problem. But the Russian people have already been there and done that, and may do not want to do it again, along with the ostracization that goes with it.
President Putin cares about his country, the people of his country and is one of the most popular leaders in the world today with a 80% approval rating in Russia – by US polls.
Russia is far from a nation of street bullies and Vladimir Putin is no Hitler by any means. That is the propaganda view of Ukrainians who have been brainwashed for years so the US could use them against Russia. The bullies are the US and US allies who started all this mess with their globalist dreams of wealth from Russia through regime change.
Vladimir Putin shows himself one of the most intelligent and most internationally savvy leaders in the world today. I have come to admire him and his wisdom, shown in every speech he gives or news conference at which he speaks. You might try reading some of them.
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I think sundance has some I would say ‘outside-of-typical-American’ perspective on a Russian character. That’s a good insight, also reading his points on Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine — are good insights for a typical American to hear.
However, I think he may be elevates the will power/organization/and expectations for quality in the character of a Russian person, a bit too much.
I will offer a different perspective for the commenters here to think through
A) WRT the Russia-Ukraine war. Most Russians think of this a civil war, that is fueled by NATO.
About one half of Ukrainians think that too, but the other half (mostly younger folks that are born after 2000, and the ones that immigrated out of Ukraine before ‘1930s — think of Ukraine as an sovereign entity, or finally becoming one)
B) This 2nd half of Ukrainians believes that Kiev can become London, if it were not for Moscow’s influence.
Most Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians — think that the best they can hope for, is for Ukraine become like EU’s Romania. Deeply corrupt, providing cheap IT labor and beautiful women to the Anglo-American barons.
C) Ukraine is deeply corrupt, and will continue to be like that for generations. So is Armenia, Georgia, Russia, etc.
The problem is — these nations treasure, culturally what one my call ‘Cult of a Person’ not ‘Cult of a Process’.
For 1000s of years, these countries lived well or in deep poverty – depending on who ruled, not the laws/processes/cultural customs.
I think this is also similar to east Asian countries.
Somehow for a period of time in Western world, the ‘Cult of a process’ — something that stood above an individual rule, took a hold. US constitution is a culmination of that process, but the rest of the western world seems to be in the decline cycle again that will result in a cult-of-a-person again, maiking the West more similar to the eastern cultures.
D) It is quite clear to Putin, probably Trump and many other leaders — that WWIII has started in 2014 with NATO continuing its advance towards Russian’s historic borders.
It is just slow rolling, without nukes this far.
E) It is also quite clear that Putin and his allies are waging asymmetrical economic war against NATO, by working to devalue US dollar, to create inflation, then economic instability, then social unrest in the NATO countries.
F) To stop this slow-rolling WW3. NATO side has to give up D) and BRICS side has to give up E).
Both sides are convinced that their strategy will win with the next 100 years. Both sides are hoping that the other side will collapse economically, causing civil wars inside the respective sides.
G) Russia cultural has three issues:
g1) after ‘university level’ work — this is a culture of ‘good enough’, not perfection. Up to university work, basically up till a person is about 25-28 years old, perfection is expected everywhere (sports, academics, marriage, etc). After that, the culture of ‘good enough’ and ‘screw the rules’. takes over.
g2) Russia could never develop a strong ‘management class practices’ across all the sectors of economy, only some military and some space -development work, and those processes. Everything else (since it is managed by folks over 28) succumbs to the culture of ‘good-enough’. Not sure why, but I think it has to do with the realisation that ideal goals of morality and meritocracy that people grow up with — get shattered very fast by corrupt judiciary system, bribes-based-leadership on every level of an economic ladder.
g3). No economy can become self-sustaining and develop a world-respected currency with a corrupt judiciary system. Because currency stability depends on enforcement of law of construct, that enforcement is not trustworthy in any of the BRICS countries, and is rapidly becoming not trustworthy in the NATO countries.
So for Russia (together with BRICs) allies to develop a stable currency, outside of dollar hegemony, they must develop a trustworthy judicial system — that’s almost impossible with the current culture.
H) Unfortunately, the above means prolonged conflicts flaring up all the time, causing loses precious human lives, causing suffering. Unless there are significant cultural changes in BRICS and NATO that prioritise healthy, humane human life, and prioritize cult-of-process rather than a person.
May the Lord guide President Trump.
I hope not. Seems pointless and counterproductive. I’d rather he focus on discussing ending the slaughter of white Christians which I think both men can agree on. Give Putin what he wants (security from future Deep State action) and end the war.
I sure hope NSC’s Vinkman wasn’t on monitoring Trump’s phone call this time.
Behind Trump 100%, but he has ZERO leverage here. I have friends, and family in Ukraine. Pissed we got this bullshit war started. Hoping Russia ends it as fast as possible. If Trump laid waste to Eastern Ukraine, Russia will annihilate all our bases in Europe, and ships that are sitting targets around the world. They have hypersonic missiles, and air defense that works WE DON`T!