[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

[Personally, I blame Macron and Starmer for aggravating an already bad situation...WHILE talks were in progress. Trump needs to deal with them, TOO.

Besides, what IDIOT would be emboldened simply on the strength of French or English promises??? Z is a moron!!]

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Perfectly understandable. Ukraine is physically much closer to them than to the US. Given GOP mutterings about exiting NATO, including from Musk, and Trump’s request for a cumulative 40% cut to defense, it’s clear that the US security guarantee is up in the air. If war is coming to Europe, better that Russia not have access to another 40m people, and be hundreds of miles closer.

From Zelensky’s standpoint, it makes perfect sense to continue the war, so long as he can get enough support to keep bleeding Russia. I can’t see any scenario under which the US would give up 20% of its territory without taking terrible damage.

Caterwauling aside, Ukraine has barely been grazed. It lost 6.8m people in WW2 from a similar population. It claims 100K dead so far. Russians claim 1m Ukrainian dead, still a far cry from WW2.

[SMARTY]

While this was going on, was the prisoner exchange completed?

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”Besides, what IDIOT would be emboldened simply on the strength of French or English promises???”

Pls, tell us about the strength of Putin’s promises???

Trump attempted to convince the Euros NOT to trust the Russians and he was right. What has changed that the Russians are now trustworthy?
HAVE THEY EVER BEEN TRUSTWORTHY?

“A Brief History of Broken Russian Promises to Ukraine”

LINK: https://archive.ph/bqvOM