“...alas, alack, and Alaska...”
Yalta worked out well for Stalin.
Didn’t you post the same nonsense with a different author yesterday? LOL.
Why does it even need to be about Ukraine? The Rump-British empire and EU have already shown they wanted this war from the start, and they want to keep it going, so they can have it. Certainly JD Vance has said as much
Maybe Trump wants to discuss things more relevant to the USA, like nuclear power, arms control, the arctic, Iran, Israel, sanctions, etc...
The fact Donald and Vlad are meeting is a start. But Recall the Reagan/Gorbachev Iceland summit. A simple “Nyet” from Ronaldus Magnus ended it. Things happen.
Ukraine is not at the table because it’s not a “primary combatant.” It’s a vassal state of the U.S., doing the bidding of Beltway warmongering globalists.
Deep state not happy.
Blog pimps don’t last long around here.
National Security Journal is the mouthpiece of the Military Industrial Complex
There are no guarantees.
We know you Zeepers are very angry at Trump for meeting with Evil Putin.
But you will get over it.
This is likely Putin’s last chance at a graceful exit from this war. If things don’t go well expect a lot of bad things to start happening to Russia.
There’s a 50/50 chance he’s correct.
When you say Yalta “didn’t work out so well”, what, exactly, do you mean?
On February 11, 1945 the Russians were on the Oder. East Prussia was occupied. Budapest was occupied. Slovakia was occupied. Romania was occupied. Bulgaria was occupied.
The Americans were on the Rhine but not across, that would not happen until March 7. The US-UK forces had been thrown back by the Germans the previous year at Arnhem and had made no progress in the North.
What should the US have done other than what we did?
nonsense.
It’s quite simple. According to Vance, the US is ‘done’ funding Ukraine. Ukraine needs the US to continue humanitarian aid, pay the pensions and salaries of Ukrainian’s government workers, and basically fuel their economy and supply emergency services funding etc. Without the US, NATO cannot continue its proxy war against Russia.
Zelensky and NATO tried throughout the war to start WWIII in order to draw the US into it. That was the plan for a small country like Ukraine to win against Russia. Even now, Zelensky and NATO refuse to agree to a peace treaty without security guarantees from the US. The US knows that such guarantees would require them to enter the war against Russia when, not if, NATO/Zelensky provoked or framed Russia AGAIN. Recall that Zelensky’s military fired a missile into Poland and instantly blamed Russia? Even after Biden announced that it was determined the missile was Ukrainian air defense, Zelensky kept insisting it was RussiaRussiaRussia, because that would involve the US.
So, no, the US isn’t going to get involved in Ukraine. Therefore Zelensky will not accept any peace agreement if he attended.
Also, the Ukraine is losing this war but Zelensky/NATO want to keep it going until they get the US involved, while claiming they want to force Russia to retreat as if defeated (they need an excuse, right?). So, Zelensky/NATO won’t agree to any normal war time concessions or land swaps. So there’s no point in Zelensky attending any meeting with Putin and Trump....ever.
So the US and Putin can announce some treaty and the US can then go home and take all funding of Ukraine with it, back to the US. From there, the US need not involve itself.
Eventually the US will help a fallen Ukraine survive, but not fight. First, NATO/Ukraine have to stop denying reality, and stop trying to get the US to fight Russia for them.
Trump just wants to tell Putin to his face - no deal.
It will be less likely to fail if the solution is negotiated secretly in advance and neither side — and that includes Trump — tries to get it all.
Sounds like a journal for upset neocons.