Posted on 04/22/2025 11:31:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine across the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday citing people familiar with the matter.
Putin told Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, during a meeting in St Petersburg earlier this month that Moscow could relinquish its claims to areas of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions that remain under Kyiv’s control, the report said citing three people familiar with the talks.
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Russia could end the war today by just going home!
Take the deal, Z man.
In August 2024, two Russian state media employees were charged with secretly funding almost $10 million to a Tennessee company for the production of political videos to benefit Russia by influencing the United States. The company’s description matches that of Tenet Media, which had employed Johnson and other right-wing influencers, with him responding that “myself and other influencers were victims in this alleged scheme”,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Johnson_(columnist)
Does it matter ? Isn't President Putin killing the last Nazis and it is basically over ?
You’ve been told numerous times that the Russians are home in the Russian Federation.
TG is an insincere troll that is new to the Ukraine threads.
The last Banderites are going to kill little Z before The Putin kills them.
But Ukraine is ALREADY broke, it’s infrastructure is a disaster, millions of Uke’s have fled the country as refugees. Russia infra-structure is pretty much in tact and Russians are not fleeing the country in droves. I for one do not wish to pay to rebuild Ukraine or Russia.
Itt’s called the spoils of war....from the beginning of time...What Russia has....Russsia gets...unless “Z” can take it away...and that’s not gonna happen.
“Russia infra-structure is pretty much in tact “
“and Russians are not fleeing the country in droves.”
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-emigration-ukraine-war/33308655.html
TG is an insincere troll that is new to the Ukraine threads.
Two Russian nationals were federally indicted by the DOJ on September 4, 2024, for their alleged activities relating to Tenet. The company was identified only as “Company-1” in the indictment but descriptive information allowed several media sources to identify it as Tenet. According to an unsealed indictment,[17] the two indicted Russians were employees of the Russian state-controlled media company RT who were charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, and allegedly funneling around $10 million into Tenet in order to “distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging”.[6][18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation
Honestly, that’s about the best deal anybody’s going to get. The reality is its Ukraine that cannot sustain the war effort - they’re running out of men. Russia is not going to give back territory it paid for in blood so anybody harboring delusions about that can give that up that little fantasy right now.
You can dump all over these threads all you want - you’re still a troll.
The Wiki sources the allegations to two articles mentioning actions by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Reuters stated in September, "The criminal indictment charged the two RT employees, Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, with conspiracy to violate U.S. money laundering and foreign agent laws."
It is most interesting that Reuters mentions: "Alphabet (GOOGL.O), which owns YouTube, did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
So who is the host for the messaging alleged in the Garland indictment? Google/YouTube.
A search shows this was a once-"sealed" indictment. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. KOSTIANTYN KALASHNIKOV, a/k/a "Kostya," and ELENA AF ANASYEV A, a/k/a "Lena,"
As those indicted are Russians located in Russia, apparently, nothing came of the Biden administration action.
Reuters repeats what some now call the Russia-gate hoax. "U.S. intelligence assessments found that Moscow tried to help Trump in 2016, when he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton...."
Merrick Garland did not take action against those "conservatives," nor against Google/YouTube.
The Associated Press article managed in September, before the election, to allege "Tenet Media's shows in recent months have featured high-profile conservative guests, including Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake. The nearly 2,000 videos posted by the company have gotten more than 16 million views on YouTube alone, prosecutors said."
Though AP states "The U.S. Justice Department doesn't allege any wrongdoing by the influencers," names mentioned in the AP slur, most of which was conjecture -- Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Lauren Southern, Tayler Hansen, Matt Christiansen, Lara Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kari Lake, Turning Point USA, "the right-wing network Blaze Media," and an "unidentified influencer."
Merrick Garland is replaced by Pamela Bondi, Joe Biden by Donald Trump, and Tenet media shut itself down, such that the indictment is moot. The timing of the Garland DOJ was a month before the election, and itself can be alleged to have been election interference by the Democrat Party. All the liberal press carried various versions of the story, featuring the name "Trump" in most, and even with this, President Trump is president today.
All those "right-wing" commentators and influencers? Still up on YouTube, and all the other social media platforms. Including Benny Johnson.
Your post is quite interesting because the Gaytor has never been a big fan of President Trump.
But Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are not part of the Russian Federation. Russia does not get to claim them just because they want them. Russia is big enough by itself. It does not need more land.
If they want to pay the price of continuing sanctions while their economy is on the verge of collapse. The question has to be asked, has all of this been worth it given the great price that Russia has had to pay?
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