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How President Trump Can End a Lost War
General Flynn's Substack - Official ^ | Aug 13, 2025 | Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET)

Posted on 08/13/2025 7:55:24 PM PDT by little jeremiah

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An incredible history of the conflict in Ukraine. Explains it all.
1 posted on 08/13/2025 7:55:24 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
One of the few articles that I've read from beginning to end.

He's right on every point...and I've been saying right along..."To the Victor Goes the Spoils".

2 posted on 08/13/2025 8:07:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: little jeremiah

Maybe I would support Ukraine more, if fighting-age Ukraninian men would leave Poland and stop harassing Poles and go to the front line to fight for their country.


3 posted on 08/13/2025 8:10:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sacajaweau

He goes into the history of what happened before the war, and why Russia had to go into Ukraine.


4 posted on 08/13/2025 8:15:09 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: dfwgator

So many Ukrainian men have died there is a huge deficit; Zelensky has a lot of blood on his hands.


5 posted on 08/13/2025 8:15:54 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: little jeremiah

Truth. Next bail out point is -

There is none. Green Tshirt grifter splats the whole of Ukraine on the Russia windshield.

Exit Z grifter
Hold elections
Ceasefire and borders on battle lines
Europe pays to rehab what’s left of Uke
USA goes away.


6 posted on 08/13/2025 8:16:18 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: little jeremiah

Poland to expel 63 migrants over concert riot and militant-nationalist Bandera flag

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/08/poland-to-expel-63-migrants-over-concert-riot-and-militant-nationalist-bandera-flag/


7 posted on 08/13/2025 8:16:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FlyingEagle

But then Traitor Tusk had to chime in:

“That was despite the fact that, on announcing the decision, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk blamed Russia for sowing discord between Ukrainians and Poles.”


8 posted on 08/13/2025 8:17:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: little jeremiah

Only Ukrainians authorized by Ukrainian law should negotiate for Ukraine.

Trump and the US Department of State should offer assistance to Ukrainian negotiators and provide it if requested by an such negotiator.

Trump should feel free to ask Putin about Russian positions in the matter of the war and possible future Russian agreements.


9 posted on 08/13/2025 8:21:26 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: little jeremiah

Moscow Times [10/27/2021]

The neighboring separatist-held Luhansk People’s Republic accused Kiev of using the Bayraktar in violation of ceasefire agreements that ban the deployment of foreign drones on the front line.

The Kremlin said Wednesday that Turkey’s supply of drones to Ukraine risks destabilizing the eastern Ukraine conflict

The Ukrainian army has been locked in a long-running conflict with separatist fighters in Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014 after Moscow annexed the peninsula of Crimea from Kiev. The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives.

Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russia of sending troops and arms to support the separatists, which Moscow denies.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/10/27/ukraine-destroys-pro-russian-artillery-in-its-first-use-of-turkish-drones-a75420

Warsaw Institute [27 October 2021]

“The Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 combat drone has been deployed at Donbas by the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation for the first time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement. The drone targeted the positions of pro-Russian insurgents on October 26. The incident has been met with criticism from Moscow.”

“The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the unmanned aerial vehicle was used to attack a battery of howitzers that fired Ukrainian positions in Hranitne on the southern part of the line of contact. One Ukrainian soldier was killed and the other was wounded. Despite calls for a ceasefire from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, “Russian-terrorist” forces did not stop the fire. The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces ordered the drone strike to “force the ceasefire.”

“The Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation said on October 26 that separatists made thirteen breaches to the ceasefire”

https://warsawinstitute.org/ukraine-uses-bayraktar-tb2-first-time-donbas/

New York Times [Nov. 15, 2021]

How a Dispute Over Groceries Led to Artillery Strikes in Ukraine

Deployed for the first time in combat by Ukraine and provided by a country that is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the drone hit a howitzer operated by the separatists. Things quickly escalated.

Across the border, Russia scrambled jets. The next day, Russian tanks mounted on rail cars rumbled toward the Ukrainian border.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-putin.html

BBC [26 November 2021]

they see the Kremlin sending a message that it’s ready to defend its “red lines” on Ukraine: above all, that it must not join Nato.

“I think for Putin it’s really important. He thinks the West has begun giving Ukraine’s elite hope about joining Nato,” political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya at R.Politik told the BBC.

“The training, the weapons and so on are like a red rag to a bull for Putin and he thinks if he doesn’t act today, then tomorrow there will be Nato bases in Ukraine. He needs to put a stop to that.”

Ukraine’s desire to join the security bloc is nothing new, nor is Russia’s insistence on vetoing that ambition in what it sees as its own “back yard”.

But Moscow has been rattled recently by the Ukrainian military using Turkish drones against Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine; the flight near Crimea of two nuclear-capable US bombers was an extra irritant.

“At a meeting between Putin and Biden, neither will give clear commitments but there may be some tacit understanding on how far the US is ready to go in increasing its military support to Ukraine,” Mr Kortunov argues. “That’s not impossible.”

“Whilst Putin has a flicker of hope that he can do a deal with Biden, he won’t take any rash steps. But if he thinks it’s all doomed, he could do the worst things we can imagine,” Tatiana Stanovaya warns.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59415885

Guardian [December 16, 2021]

“With tensions escalating along the border with Russia, Luke Harding visits troops in Ukraine’s Donbas region to gauge the mood ahead of a possible invasion. The war here has continued since 2014, when pro-Russian separatists seized Ukrainian cities.”

There’s a video I didn’t watch:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/dec/16/on-the-ukraine-frontline-only-the-dead-arent-afraid-video


10 posted on 08/13/2025 8:24:18 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Only Ukrainians authorized by Ukrainian law should negotiate for Ukraine.

Trump and the US Department of State should offer assistance to Ukrainian negotiators and provide it if requested by any such negotiator.

Trump should feel free to ask Putin about Russian positions in the matter of the war and possible future Russian agreements.


11 posted on 08/13/2025 8:27:24 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: little jeremiah
General Flynn is right on every point.

The only thing Ukraine should get is the Biden and Obama Families as permanent residents, one way.

12 posted on 08/13/2025 8:40:13 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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But Ukraine (”Z”) does not wish to negotiate...My way or the highway is not negotiating....especially if you’re in a losing war...and it costs you more lives every day.


13 posted on 08/13/2025 8:44:47 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: little jeremiah

Trump will have to make concessions to the Russians to end this nonsense war.

One needs to remember one FACT: Ukraine has been net losing ground month after month for about 18 months now. As this war carries on, Ukraine will only lose MORE. A continuation of this war does NOT improve Ukraine’s position in any way, it in fact only weakens them.

The very fools responsible for this war (Biden and his clowns, NEOCONS that were quick to jump on a war and anti-Russian bandwagon / certain political and economic interests) will attack Trump on the concessions made to end it.

People should tell these folks to “shut up.” They had their chance and were at the wheel, they had 3 years time, and >$200 billion from the US alone.


14 posted on 08/13/2025 8:58:34 PM PDT by Red6
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Only Ukrainians authorized by Ukrainian law should negotiate for Ukraine.

This isn't how realpolitik works. Big powers always negotiate the end of major wars: WW2, WW1, Napoleanic Wars, Seven Years War, Thirty Years War, etc., etc.

15 posted on 08/13/2025 9:23:12 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Brian Griffin
Nice sources. Maybe you should find out why Victoria Nuland spent 5 billion US dollars to launch a color revolution to overthrow the constitutionally elected president of Ukraine in 2014. Color revolutions is our favorite way to oust foreign leaders we don't like.

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Victoria Nuland of the US State Department handing out treats to rioters during the US funded color revolution in Ukraine in 2014.

16 posted on 08/13/2025 9:25:54 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: little jeremiah

There are only two outcomes ( to those that have been following closely).

1) The little green goblin cedes the ethnic Russian territories.

2) Ukraine ceases to exist as a Nation.

For the sake of a long lasting Peace, St Z must cede the ethnic Russian territories, the Russian Donbass has always been Russian…..he better get busy before he gets the Mussolini treatment.


17 posted on 08/13/2025 9:26:50 PM PDT by delta7
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To: little jeremiah

Trump has captured DC, and he is moving to deploy the NG to NYC, Chicago, and other major cities. Is this about crime or something major about to happen? Trump is preparing to maintain control in a financial reset.

BTC, Gold, Money Supply, Stocks, Housing Prices, CPI 4%, and the National Debt - all at all time highs.

What is up.

NATO/USA gambled in Ukraine. No one ever thought Russia would survive, let alone win. There was not game-planning for such a situation. The US is faced with a military that cannot fight a 10 day conventional war, and it has lobbed conventional munitions into Russia - which if Russia returned the conventional favor the US and EU would be toast.


18 posted on 08/13/2025 9:29:16 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Brian Griffin

The EU and Ukraine are vassal states of the US. We even go so far as to pick the leaders they vote for by meddling in their internal affairs.

The American Taxpayer has paid all the salaries of every Ukrainian public sector employee (police, military, teachers, garbage collectors, government employees) and we pay their Pension Plans too.

Zelinski is an actor. He is our paid actor.

If I understand Zelinski correctly, he owes the USA not one Cent or Dime for all the US Military assistance provided to Ukraine.

The ungrateful bastard can go to hell. We own him, his countrymen and his military.

Trump can try to do what’s best for the US, and the hell with the British too. The Brits and Zelinski deserve one another, and we can break free of the British empire once and for all.


19 posted on 08/13/2025 9:37:57 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper
The EU and Ukraine are vassal states of the US. We even go so far as to pick the leaders they vote for by meddling in their internal affairs.

Once upon a time we did it in Russia, too.


20 posted on 08/13/2025 9:40:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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