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Posted on 09/15/2025 7:17:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine said the United States would 'kick Russia's a*s' on the battlefield in the event of all-out war.
Keith Kellogg, the U.S Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, and a retired lieutenant general, suggested Vladimir Putin's rhetoric was overblown during a meeting in Kyiv.
'We had a discussion recently in the Oval [Office] where... they were talking about the primacy of the Russian military and how they were pretty good,' he told British historian Niall Ferguson. 'And I said to the people in the room: "We'd kick their a*s."
'I mean by that, don't take their statements at face value. They're not as good as Putin says they are,' he said, adding: 'And [for] that I give great credit to the Ukrainian military because they've taken them down a couple of notches.
Kellogg said he didn't think 'anybody should be afraid of the Russian military'.
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The diplomat said there were three lines of attack in dealing with Russia to bring about an end to the war: diplomatic, military and economic.
'The first is obviously diplomatic and I think we've closed that door to a degree,' he said in a difficult admission after Trump's historic summit with Putin in Alaska in August.
'The military lane is another one and I think the Ukrainians have shown that they can battle them to a standstill. They can put a hold on ... The rest is economic.
'You've got to apply absolute economic pressures. And this means you've got to put some risk into the game. ... We talked about sovereign Russian assets. You're going to have to make a hard call. That's really oligarchs' money. Take their money.
'And when you talk about the oil, shut down their revenue. It's a petrostate.
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Great reference!
“United States would ‘kick Russia’s a*s’ on the battlefield in the event of all-out war.”
But then there is those pesky nukes mounted on intercontinental missiles.
Sounds about right. Turn off the spigots to Europe today. from the European side. Turkey too! Now. Don't wait until the "end of 2027." Don't wait for "proposals." Just turn off the spigots.
Wait and watch. That's not happening, best the news says in the moment.
Part of Trump’s 3D chess is throwing bits of red meat to neocons, to keep them distracted.
Two weeks left for Putin to conquer Donetsk…
Russian leader Vladimir Putin reportedly told President Trump his forces could conquer the long-sought-after Donetsk region by October if Ukraine didn’t give up the land as part of a peace deal
I see the newest lefty talking points have gone out. P.S. Biden brought us much closer together with his Philadelphia speech. /s
“We talked about sovereign Russian assets. You’re going to have to make a hard call. That’s really oligarchs’ money. Take their money.”
Mr. Oligarch, take two Pfizer Russian Federation patents for your financial pain.
Dr. Vlad
“The diplomat said there were three lines of attack in dealing with Russia to bring about an end to the war: diplomatic, military and economic.”
Absolute BS. It will be the beginning of a perpetual war that will break generations... These psyop propaganda narrative artists think YOU are stupid...
Oops, wrong thread post.
The strategy seems to be turning up the heat slightly on each so the frog doesn't jump.
Yeah, there is that.
Had to poop in the punchbowl, didn’t ya! Lol
This POS is trying to get rid of Trump by talking up big war.
Fire him Trump, Geesh
“27 July 2025”
“President Trump said there was “real starvation” in Gaza and said the US would be setting up food centres”
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckg42k37e2pt
I haven’t heard of a hostage for food trade yet.
Even $0 in external oil revenue won’t have Russians facing “real starvation”.
The Russian Federation can the largest share of its revenue by income taxation. It could also sell war bonds and stiffly tax electricity. It might raise tariffs Trump-high.
Yes, the Russian frog really isn’t built very well, for what we expect from frogs. That is, to jump.
They get together in huge numbers and creep in a common direction pretty well, at least for a time before they get tired, but that’s really what we expect (individually) from snails. Never saw a snail jump.
Keith Kellogg is talking stupid. No matter how inferior the Russian army is in the battlefield, they still have 10,000 nuclear warheads, enough to destroy the entire earth and kill every human many times over.
Or does Kellogg actually propose sending American soldiers over to Ukraine to fight Russians in the battlefield?
A lose-lose proposition. Kellogg should be immediately fired.
General Kellogg is one of President Trump’s most trusted advisors. And General Dan “Razin” Caine said the same thing to President Trump in the same meeting.
Zelensky needs all the fighters he can get, Mr. Kellogg.
"Keith Kellogg's daughter Megan Mobbs denied the information of the Ukrainian edition NV that the head of the presidential office, Andrei Ermak, during the recent visit of the special envoy of the US president to Kiev constantly accompanied him."This article is completely inaccurate and fake — from beginning to end. Whoever the source from the OP (office of the President of Ukraine. — ), they lied and did not provide services to anyone. It's very sad to read this," writes X Mobbs on the social network, quoted by NV.
"Earlier, NV, citing sources in the president's office, reported that the special representative of the US President for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, Trump for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, was constantly accompanied by Ermak during his visit to Kiev, and the 81-year-old American guest himself could not hold many meetings due to his age, because he was very tired>/B>."
Source: Kellogg's daughter stated that on Ukraine was slandered by Trump's special envoy EurasiaDaily, 18 July 2025.
So whose word to accept? The blond daughter there in Ukraine, or "sources in the [ Ukrainian ] president's office" as reported by the New Voice of Ukraine? It's getting complicated....
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