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Trump was never pro-Putin just anti-Cold War part II.
And now it is not even Cold. What a disaster.
Praying for all of Trump’s appointments. 🙏
Rubio’s assertion that “The nominee argued that if Ukraine is not in a strong position to negotiate it will be imposed “neutrality” only for Russia to rearm and attack the country again.” omits the fact that Russia is already armed to the teeth and is increasing its military mobilization every day.
I’m going to file this under “stupid things that only neocons believe.”
Rubio is not a good fit for this position.
He does not recognize reality.
Putin obviously wants neutrality; he's said so, but as long as ethnic Russians get to be part of Russia, whether he would use Ukranian neutrality to stage another invasion, Rubio doesn't know that.
Ukraine leverage ?
Losers have no leverage, zero , none
Surely Trump knows this, whether Rubio does or not is open for debate.
Best thing to do is cut off the funds , the situation will sort itself out.
Americas border security should be priority #1, if it isn’t he’ll get screwed by the Swamp once more.
If the Ukraine had used it's NATO tanks, Bradley's and Javelins to build a strong line of defense, had not diverted so much of it's assets to the ill advised and disastrous Kursk adventure and had stockpiled the 30% of the US HIMARS inventory and a similar fraction of the NATO Storm Shadow missiles rather than squander them on totally pointless propaganda driven targets the Ukraine would be in a very strong negotiating position
If the Ukraine would have conserved it's army manpower and would have had hundreds of thousands of soldiers that have been killed in the meat grinder to defend the country.
Now the sudden realization the jig is up that the fact that the Ukraine has no leverage to negotiate is sinking in.
In a normal world, the Ukrainians would be facing unconditional surrender given their current status of forces and the destruction of their economy and their industrial base.
Marco has theright appraoch.BUt the fact is that AMerican Military might , not NATO will be the deciding factor here.
NATO is useless.
1)We have to understand that Putin must be made to believe he will see US Marines in the Black Sea with a couple of carrier task forces,\, readying to come ashore. THAT will be hard for Amrican Patriots to swallow. Its a Biden made mess, and unfortunately the old C___T has left us to clean it up.
2)THe other approach is to ruin Russia economically. That will take time we likely do not have.But I hope this is what Marco can do rather than the first option.
China wants the first option. Something to remember.
We need someone more like Hegseth for Secretary of State.
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I’d argue that Putin couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to start another war... but then again, I made the same argument before he started this one. Seriously, I thought all of Biden’s warnings were just trying to make it so he could claim that his toughness forced Russia to back off. I was gobsmacked at how preposterously foolish Putin was.
We fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine and installed a government hostile to both Moscow and the ethnic and culturally Russian population in Ukraine.
We promised the Russians no eastward expansion of NATO and expanded it to its border. Ukraine, in its Constitution, promised to be a neutral country and failed to be one.
The Russians repeatedly sought with Minsk Accords and in Turkey in March of 2022.
Ukraine concession: Lower damages, convict every other Russian war criminal.
Big demand: return the children and their parents.
Sounds series. What stark warning?
Demian Bio is the Latin Times’ Managing Editor. He has worked in media companies such as Infobae and Bloomberg Línea, focusing his coverage on politics and economics in Latin America and the United States, as well as the relationship between them.
Putin is almost out of money. He wants to cut a deal where he keeps Donbass and Donesk and Ukraine never joins NATO.
