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Trump Pushes for Putin and Zelensky Meeting in Bid to End Ukraine War
Wall Street Journal MSN News ^ | 8/18/2025 | Michael R. Gordon, Bojan Pancevski, Annie Linskey

Posted on 08/19/2025 9:33:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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1 posted on 08/19/2025 9:33:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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I don't know how all of this will turn out, but any kind of success will be better for the entire world.

There's NO way that Kamala would've ever considered brokering such a summit. Zero.

2 posted on 08/19/2025 9:36:43 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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If ever there were two people who should duel to the death.

Give them each a pre-loaded flintlock pistol at twenty paces.


3 posted on 08/19/2025 9:38:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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IMO Trump needs to cool his jets and not put so much American skin in the game.

Simply go home and stop the funding.


4 posted on 08/19/2025 9:38:51 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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But after speaking with Putin, Trump said in a social-media post that Zelensky and Putin would have to hold one-on-one talks first.

I didn't see that coming.

I'm skeptical if a one on one without most things agreed upon will ever happen.

5 posted on 08/19/2025 9:41:36 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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There's NO way that Kamala would've ever considered brokering such a summit. Zero.

Kamala would have kept giving Zelensky unaudited billions of our dollars every time he yapped for it and would have kept the laundromat up and running.

That’s why Zelensky enthusiastically campaigned for her on our soil last fall.

6 posted on 08/19/2025 9:48:42 AM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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It boils down to one thing, and one thing only. Vlad will keeps his ethnic Russian territories.

They have already been codified into Russian Constitutional law by Duma vote. The Russian people will not allow them to be surrendered….the Russian Donbass is Russian, has been for centuries, and will remain so.

If not, then the war will be decided on the battlefield. Quite simple….get used to it folks.


7 posted on 08/19/2025 9:57:13 AM PDT by delta7
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IMO Trump needs to cool his jets and not put so much American skin in the game.
Simply go home and stop the funding.
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Exactly, not Trump’s war, it belongs to senile Joe. Quit all the welfare funding and weapons, the war will be over by Christmas ( Western Christmas, not Russian Orthodox Christmas).

By the way, I am eating Chicken Kiev for lunch, I can’t find the good Russian Bilini ( for dessert), must be those brain dead Sanctions.


8 posted on 08/19/2025 10:02:21 AM PDT by delta7
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Following the Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil war, the region was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+did+ukraine+acquire+Donbass


9 posted on 08/19/2025 10:43:58 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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"I can’t find the good Russian Bilini ( for dessert),"


10 posted on 08/19/2025 10:49:11 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: delta7
It boils down to one thing, and one thing only. Vlad will keeps his ethnic Russian territories.

That would be Crimea. Now he can give Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia back which all have ethnic Ukrainian majorities.

11 posted on 08/19/2025 11:40:35 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: 9YearLurker
"IMO Trump needs to cool his jets and not put so much American skin in the game."

Lurker is saddened.


12 posted on 08/19/2025 12:55:53 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: Allegra

“Kamala would have kept giving Zelensky unaudited billions of our dollars every time he yapped for it and would have kept the laundromat up and running.


Recent news reports indicate that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made comments suggesting he would support Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election.
These statements came after Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race and endorsement of Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s nominee. Putin’s comments included complimenting Harris’s “expressive and infectious laugh” and hinting that under her leadership, US-Russia relations might improve, citing that Donald Trump had imposed many sanctions on Russia.

https://www.google.com/search?q=putin+campaigns+for+kamala


13 posted on 08/19/2025 1:08:01 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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Gator’s gunning for war?!?


14 posted on 08/19/2025 1:41:21 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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“Gator’s gunning for war?!?”

Putin shill lies.


15 posted on 08/19/2025 1:57:08 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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“Putin shill”? Bwahaha!

You’re a riot, Gator.


16 posted on 08/19/2025 2:00:38 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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“You’re a riot, Gator.”

Your posting history shows multiple objections to criticism of Putin.


17 posted on 08/19/2025 2:14:09 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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Yeah, I take issue with the Weenie/NATO/neocon Ukraine spin.

Doesn’t make me pro-Putin. But I take it you don’t deal well with such discernment.


18 posted on 08/19/2025 2:36:09 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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“Yeah, I take issue with the Weenie/NATO/neocon Ukraine spin.

Doesn’t make me pro-Putin. But I take it you don’t deal well with such discernment.”

Even when he posts the truth about Putin!

———His post————

IMO-—PUTIN IS DETERMINED TO “RESTORE” THE ORIGINAL SOVIET UNION BEFORE HE DIES—SO HE HAS A “LEGACY”


19 posted on 08/19/2025 2:39:38 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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“Doesn’t make me pro-Putin.”

Then, acknowledge that Putin is an evil, corrupt dictator!


20 posted on 08/19/2025 2:42:41 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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