While the risk of nuclear war might still be relatively low the cost of one occurring is infinite. Because of that most insurance companies refuse to issue “catastrophic” loss insurance coverage, other examples are hurricanes or asteroid strikes.
When you multiply anything infinite loss by even a slight chance the result is unacceptable or impossible to recover losses.
So the total loss of Ukraine is acceptable to even a moderate risk of nuclear war. The collapse of civilization and death of my family are infinite costs.
The loss of Ukraine as a sovereign state is a recoverable loss.
There’s something called “The Russian Negotiating Style.” Whether they are desperate for a deal, any deal, or not, they play the game the same way. They become horrible, dangerous sounding people. Before the negotiating starts, they’ll tell you how much they don’t need you or any deal. It’s you who need the deal and they aren’t going to give it to you. They demand the moon, Mars and all of the rest of the solar system while offering the contents of your vacuum cleaner to you. Because Westerners are often nice people, and they want to reach a win/win Westerners often lose the negotiation. I think Trump is up for this. Democrats want to be liked by foreigners. Afterall, to a Democrat, America is the great evil. Therefore, they have a lot in common with the foreigners.
Negotiation is tough and takes time. The point of negotiation is win/win. First bids are typically not accepted.
Remember, NATO is a bunch of hand-wringing backstabbing grifting sycophants who’d sell their sister to a pack of gypsies if they could get away with it.
They’re in NATO because they’re cowards who historically haven’t been able to mount their citizens to fight for Western ideals except when it was too late. We babysit the lot of them.
Russia should KEEP what it’s taken over....be paid a fine by NATO for starting the war by inviting that pos 3rd world tundra to be part of NATO.
There. That’s a peace plan.
And throw the comedian in prison for being a moron
This guy’s sole function seems to be to make Putin look like a moderate.
There are probably a few Russian fixed points:
1. Ukraine not in NATO
2. Ukraine officially neutral like Austria
3. no foreign troops in Ukraine
4. no missiles in Ukraine that can hit Moscow
5. Russian oligarchs get their assets back
6. Russia has its foreign holdings back
7. no economic sanctions on the Russian Federation
8. every bit of the Kursk oblast(?) back
9. Russia keeps Crimea, much of Donetsk & Luhansk
10. No discrimination against Russians & Russian language in Ukraine
11. Russian shall be an official language of Ukraine
“There will be a radiation zone nobody will ever go into in our lifetime... And the war will be over”
I like it very much. Do it. The radiation will blow back into Russia and then both Ukraine and Russia will ease to exist. A win, win for the world. /spit
“The businessman, who has strong influence but no official position in the Kremlin, told the FT that Trump would only have a chance of ending the conflict if he backtracked on the decision to allow Kyiv to use ATACMS long-range missiles on Russian territory.”
The ATACMS missiles lack the range and the possible targets to be decisive.
What matters is the ability of the Russian forces to move the front lines towards Odessa and the inability of the US, UK, EU and Ukraine to prevent Russian advances.
Trump will not put up with Putin. The little POS must be in a panic.
Russia preferred Harris...as did all of his supporters.
A proxy war with Russia over a Biden-supported Ukraine makes us LESS secure — by draining our budget and making a needless enemy out of Russia.
The clear and present danger to the US comes from our Deep State.
The Rooskies can wait.
Well, that’s a strategic mistake.
Trump would end this. If what this guy says is true, Russia will end up regretting snapping the olive branch.
Vlad will impale himself
Negotiations have started.
It doesn’t matter what Trump might threaten Ukraine with, they will never give up the land Russia has stolen from them, for to do so would make every Ukrainian soldiers death meaningless.
Russia however will eventually cave and give back most if not all of what they took with the possible exception of Crimea.
Russia is really the only one Trump would have any major ability to threaten. Ukraine does not have to have American money or equipment, when the rest of Europe is more than willing to help in that regards.
More blowhard rhetoric from the nation of blowhards.
Graham has practically salivated over Russians being killed in interviews.
The 2019 RAND Report openly said our foreign policy objective was to destroy Russia and break it into six different countries. That, of course, so our elite can go in and harvest the natural resources there and working corrupt oligarchs to enrich themselves.
Any deal that ends the war for Ukraine is a good deal since continuing the war will only mean more loss of life and more lost territory.