Trump Says He Will Meet 'Very Quickly' With Putin

U.S. News ^ | 1/13/2025 | Reuters

[marcusmaximus]

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When asked about his strategy to end the war, Trump told Newsmax: "Well, there's only one strategy and it's up to Putin and I can't imagine he's too thrilled about the way it's gone because it hasn't gone exactly well for him either.

"And I know he wants to meet and I'm going to meet very quickly. I would've done it sooner but...you have to get into the office. For some of the things, you do have to be there."

U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz, the incoming national security adviser, said on Sunday he expected a call between Trump and Putin in "the coming days and weeks."

[Kudsman]

Russia can wait. We have Liberty to save. We can deal with despots later.

[cowboyusa]

What will he post about when it wends?

[McGruff]

Trump: I would’ve done it sooner but...you have to get into the office. For some of the things, you do have to be there.”

Then why did he promise he would have this war ended on his first day in office?

[SaveFerris]

Exactly - gotta keep that

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Then why did he promise he would have this war ended on his first day in office?

Because hyperbole is his forte. It is the best hyperbole. There has never been as great a hyperbole as this. At no time in the history of the world has hyperbole been as magnificent as this.

[cowboyusa]

Ok, smart ass, you wanna play games with Trump, and the US, than the Slavs can slaughter themselves to kingdom come while we wash our hands of it. Trump is being NICE because he wants the dying to stop.

[Kazan]

The only thing that matters for Trump is that the failed proxy war in Ukraine and taxpayer funding of it ends so it isn't a distraction to his agenda.

Russia will keep every inch territory it possesses.

[bray]

The war will be over in days or weeks.

[PGR88]

They will divide up Ukraine, the Baltics, the Arctic and Greenland.

Sorry Mucus, Zelensky will get Ngo Dinh Deim’ed

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Did you really think President Trump was going to throw a victory parade for the Piano Playing Penis?

[Allegra]

Can you even begin to imagine the strength and length required for the Special Victory Parade Sock?

[Don W]

Then why did he promise he would have this war ended on his first day in office?

You do understand the concept of "Electioneering Hyperbole", right?

Only a completely naive innocent would think that was a serious "promise".

[Widget Jr]

When the Ukraine haters figure out Trump is not going to sellout Ukraine and Putin will never have his Dugin inspired New Russian Empire, they are going to be pissed.

I will enjoy watching them realize it.

[Allegra]

Trump is being NICE because he wants the dying to stop.

As do all decent human beings. We want the bloodshed, resultant grieving and destruction to end.

We also want the shady, unaudited hemorrhaging of our tax dollars to stop. It isn’t helping anybody but a bunch of crooks addicted to lining their pockets.

[ifinnegan]

We get these parts of Far East Russia:

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Kamchatka Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Magadan Oblast
Primorsky Krai
Sakhalin Oblast

[SaveFerris]

[marcusmaximus]

President Trump trolls Putin: “I can't imagine he's too thrilled about the way it's gone because it hasn't gone exactly well for him either.”

[Paul R.]

Pooty has a BIG problem. 10% of the Ukrainian population is more than enough to support a very grim and effective pseudo-guerilla / asymmetric war against Russia, and, such a war would not need US financing (which is in any case LESS than Euro financing.) Trump is pushing NATO countries to go to 5%(!) of GDP for defense spending: I don’t think he’ll get that, but, even if the Euro’s get to 3.5% (the figure cited by the German Defense Ministry), that is a huge change in the equation, when most of NATO was under 2% and much of it under was spending under 1.5% a few years ago. So, Pooty will have a very ugly, VERY big, well financed, and technically advanced guerilla war on his hands. Russia can’t accept anything but a very weak Kyiv, so, he’ll get little help there. He can only defeat this by using techniques that make the Chechen wars look tame: Ie., a REAL genocide, not the mamby-pamby stuff we see in Gaza that gets called “genocide”.

Good luck with that. The partisans will gnaw away on Russia’s energy infrastructure while the sanctions bite ever deeper - and do note that India and China are so far abiding by the latest round of sanctions, which is a significant development.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I hope that Trump is able to bring peace to the area.”

Simple solution. Trump tells Putin that if by the end of the week all Russian forces haven’t left Ukraine, the US will bankrupt Russia. Then tell Zelensky that the US will no longer fund their war effort and immediately wants a full audit of Ukraine’s spending on the war effort. Plus, tell Zelensky that the US wants all records of who sent money to Ukraine to launder the money.

[SaveFerris]

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