Posted on 12/03/2024 7:29:23 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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"Putin has to be convinced that it's going to be too costly for Russia to continue because he wants to overthrow the government, take over the whole country, and no one has been willing to stop him until now," Kurt Volker, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, told Newsweek.
"It's a matter of putting some credible capability on the table to convince Putin that he has to stop," said Volker, who was Trump's special representative for Ukraine until September 2019. "Therefore, I'm not sure it's a matter of meeting any Russian demands, nor do I think that Zelensky's desire the Ukrainians that get all their territory back will be met, either. I think it's truly about stopping the conflict where it is."
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Trump's nominee for special Ukrainian peace envoy, retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, has said that any U.S. policy to end the war should include demanding a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement.
It is not clear if Trump will implement Kellogg's plan, co-authored with former aide Fred Fleitz, which called for U.S. aid to Kyiv to stop unless there were talks with Putin. The conflict should be frozen on its current frontlines, but the U.S. should give assistance to Ukraine to stop further advances, it added.
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I am surprised that Putin hasn’t been ‘Rasputin-ed’ before now............
No sweat! Miss Ukraine and the Ghost of Kiev will convince him - or else!
“I am surprised that Putin hasn’t been ‘Rasputin-ed’ before now............”
Because Russians know that Putin is all that is standing between the demonic globohomo pedophiles of the West?
That Europe has been trying to invade Russia for centuries with numerous invasions?
The Russians are saying no to a “nation building exercise” where Russia devolves into warlords ruling a Russia of rape, murder and ruin? Will they get the Afghan, Iraq or the Libya treatment?
There are even more reasons.
Morons. Or liars. The Russian goals (denazification and annexation of ethnically Russian areas, etc.) have been openly stated all along and they've stuck to them consistently. Something the globalists assiduously ignore or deny.
The Ghost of Kiev looks like an accountant.
And there is revealed the Russian paranoia that is driving this war.
The Russians are saying no to a “nation building exercise” where Russia devolves into warlords ruling a Russia of rape, murder and ruin?
Sorry, but you are two late. The warlords ruling Russia today are known as oligarchs.
To Putin and his gang, "denazification" means the elimination of Ukrainian nationalists who are opposed to Russian subjugation and the forced imposition of a pro-Russian government. And the only province that has a ethnic Russian majority is Crimea. Donetsk and Luhansk have Ukrainian majorities of around 60%, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia of around 80%. This has been pointed out many times but is something that pro-Russian apologists assiduously ignore or deny.
I am surprised that Putin hasn’t been ‘Rasputin-ed’ before now.
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Those that could, had bouts of poison and failed attempts at flying
The whole argument about reclaiming ethnically majority Russian areas is nonsense anyway. Would the USA allow majority Hispanic areas in the US Southwest to secede and be annexed to become part of Mexico?
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