Yes.
Regards,
I think he doesn’t want NATO neocon war mongers banging at his front door.
What he wants is Ukraine.
During the call, Putin rejected Trump’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, instead agreeing to a 30-day pause in attacks on energy and infrastructure. Yet, just hours after the call, Putin’s forces conducted an airstrike on the energy infrastructure of Slovyansk, a city of 100,000 people in the Donetsk region, according to local reports, leaving part of the city without electricity...
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Trump is not an idiot who is easily “played” by Putin. Ukraine supporters, notably in the Murdoch empire, are seizing on this one attack as proof that Putin agreed to cease what he has no intention of ceasing. Let’s see whether this continues.
Captain Obvious makes an appearance.
“What does Vladimir want more: money or land?”
My guess is neither. He wants to see the total destruction of Ukraine’s military which he perceives as an ongoing threat, NATO’s spearhead.
“according to reports”. What reports? Your sister Sarah? Lost me there.
Putin wants all of the Ukraine.
Who’s to stop him?
Only a military force backed and funded by the United States.
But Uncle Sam has been there and done that for way too long.
Ultimately this is about NATO.
Putin invaded for a lot of reasons.
But number one he didn’t want NATO expansion so close to much of his border.
Number two he thought the best move was to invade a non-Nato country while it was still not subject to Article Five.
Trump is in a bad place.
The little dictator throwing hissy fits has undermined whatever reasonable deal Trump might have negotiated.
Trump at this point must navigate how to exit this STUPID and UNTENABLE position Team Biden has put him in, without looking like Team Biden’s disastrous pull out of Afghanistan.
Trump was RIGHT.
Neither side wants peace, not Zelensky and not Putin.
Negotiations have just started with Putin.
Zelensky agreed to a ceasefire. Putin did not. Yet Zelensky, whose country was invaded by Russia, is declared by many here to be the warmonger who refuses to have peace.
Joseph Goebbels: “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”
Well, duh. Putin has always murdered and destroyed to achieve his political goals. He is weak and knows no other way. Shoot his domestic opponent in the back (Nemtsov), blow up his airplane (Prigozhin), etc.
Mad Vlad is on a roll with duct tape taking land like never before. Why should he stop now?
Tie Mr. Z’s and Mr. P’s tails together and hand them over a clothesline. They are two peas in a pod.
All the freepers who trust and suck up to Putin will regret that day. Well, maybe not.