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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No, Russia has been focused on destroying the AFU. Only the West is obsessed with land acquisition.
Be patient. You have watched first the FABs destroy every single NATO fortified city that created the stalement, ending it.
Russia has employed missile technolgy.
Russia has surpassed Ukraine in Drone Tech and Tactics, plus they have reduced AFU drone use to the lowest levels in two years.
Russian aviation is again in the skies over the battlefield. Russian ships are in the Black Sea.
During those past three years, Russia has gone from just 190K involved and a military of under 500k worldwide to a military of 1.7m men. More impressive is that fact that since 2022, Russia has planned and began implementaion of creating a 2.2m man army by July 2026 organizaed into four (4) Corps sized 500k Combined Arms Armies for the final battle in defeating the west in Ukraine.
Russia relies mostly on people signing contracts, and they do not force conscripts into the war. This is the opposite of Ukraine who is desperate. Russia is concerned with ensuring her soldiers do not feel like cannon fodder, but that their lives are not wasted like Uke’s.
Uke’s are ordered into trenches or fortified positions and wait for the artillery, drones or missiles to blown them up. Ninty percent of Uke’s killed die from long range weapons.
It is a slow slog, but it is effective and Russian lives are preserved the best as possible in war.
Now I am not saying that Russia will not assault positions with the high loss of life, but that is not the common day-do-day tactics. Patience is the key to killing from a distance.
July 2025 is coming. Will there be reports that the Russian military is getting closer to 2m men under arms. All those men are equiped with new or refurbished equipment.
Russia can absorb tank losses. Did you know Russia repairs each tank an average of 7 times before it lost? Stupid Ukraine lost all their equipment in the 2023 Summer Offensive and in Kursk; Uke’s have no patience and they do not value the lives or the money and equipment in their losing war effort. They are like drunks in bar burning thru their pockets.
Even if Trump continues to provide money to Ukraine where will the weapons come from? S Korea is out after the impeachment.
Face it, Ukraine is not able to sustain its current 2000km front lines more than 75 days now. At some future point this summer or fall, Ukraine will be smashed. Reports they still field 800k soldiers is suspect. In March the Uke high command said they only had 400k combat soldiers.
When Trump walks away from Biden’s War becasue the Brits/French and Zelinski want to fight on their own, so be it.
There will come a day when Russia destroys Ukraine with thousands of missiles. Then they will destroy every 4-6 weeks whatever they can find; risne repeat.
There are even rumors that 1100 tactiacal nuke targets have been discussed by the Russians. I am assuming these are neutron bombs that kill with 96 hours with radiation, rather than destructive power.
I would bet at some point Russia actually declares War on Ukraine becasue Zelinski is not a legimate president.
yay! Ukrainsky Wins. Slava Ukraine!
Keep telling yourself that nonsense if it helps you to sleep at night.
According to the Telegraph, Putin has already agreed to give part of the currently occupied parts of Kherson back.
From your mail: “It is really sad that our western handlers have gone to such lengths to prevent even internal Russian government information from reaching the west.”
It is REALLY sad that this pro-Russian propaganda is being spread here.
“The guy running the show in Russia since 2000 has increased the standard of living 15x, by some accounts 10x,”
ROTFLMAO! Maybe you are referring to Putin’s standard of living.
Putin in driving Russia to ruin.
Since 2000, the ruble has lost 75% of its value against the dollar.
“It is not propoganda or outdated that Russia is north of 4% GDP this year, again.”
That number is Russian propaganda. Wartime economy supported by the government selling off gold and other liquid assets.
A lot of that GDP is wasted on the battlefield field.
More like a Russian Ukraine rescue. But these are the lines agreed to up front. (Remember when Biden let slip that it was okay as long as Putin didn’t too much?)
“TG, when I think of Liquid Assets it is NG and Oil. Russia is 1/7th of the world’s landmass - I doubt that they lack anything.”
LOl!
The liquid assets they are selling off to support the war are gold and currency assets. Those assets are running low.
Also, those assets are comming out of their rainy day fund which is also their pension fund.
Ask yourself something. Putin and Trump are at opposite sides of the conflict. One was forced to war, the other prosecuted for opposition.
Trump is the key here. Gold is not where Trump is going; Trump is moving to BTC. The Russians and Brics trade in metals, currencies, crypto and barter. It might be that knowing Trump’s preference to replace the underpinning of the economy with Gold in exchange for BTC.
Now I am not saying or alluding to Russia and the US colluding but BTC may one day be where Gold used to be in financial circles and thinking.
Russia mines enough metals to last forever. They are blessed with natural resources.
“Russia mines enough metals to last forever. They are blessed with natural resources.”
Unfortunately they are being led to ruin by a corrupt dictator and similar oligarchs.
Unfortunately, we have people supporting them by spreading their propaganda.
If they could just find them all. Of course the Banderites are welcome in the fourth Reich Berlin in 2025; maybe they will go down to a small gated community in Brazil:)
There are two issues over Ukraine.
One is Corrupt Joe Biden and his illegal activities, not just in Ukraine, but enough for this discussion.
Two is that American’s don’t know a damn thing ture about Putin or Russia.
Those of us who oppose the never ending wars and the DNC-CIA Borg USG do not support Russia but we recognize the US started this war with Russia, which increasingly is be told to the public since Trump’s presidency started again. Biden and Ukraine represent the Globalist, LGBT and anti-Christian evil NWO.
Any Truth about Russia or the origins of this war is always called propoganda by the Biden warmongers and democrats. Funny thing happened on the way to never ending wars, the RNC before Clinton was the warmongers after VN, but now it is the purview of the Left; funniest of all is that Obama-Biden would ally the USA with actual NAZI’s against Russia who shed so much treasure and blood to defeat them in WWII.
The United States has a sick sense of humor to install a Nazi regime in Ukraine - of course only Nazi’s could be so hostile to Russia as to fight to the last Ukrainian.
Keep cheering for Zelinski and the Nazi’s. Trump is slowly coming to grips with actual US involvement, motives and our responsibility for the entire mess.
The only reason Ukraine, and possibly parts of NATO, were not attacked by Russia was the Russian optimism that Trump would be reelected and he would end the US fired missiles into Russia.
Russia fully expects Trump to give them what they want as just deserves for a war we prosecuted against them. In fact, Trump by pulling out of Ukraine, the Polish, Moldovian, and Romanian military equipment depots is signalling that the EU can be targeted by Russia for their backing of the Nazis in Ukraine.
Trump is walking away. Putin is taking whatever he needs. Trump will stay out the Brit’s historical 1950s anemias against Russia and let them do as they please.
Do you even have an idea of the GDP in Russia year over year since 2000? Like I have stated, American’s do not know a single true fact concerning Russia that isn’t British or Uke propoganda.
“Those of us who oppose the never ending wars and the DNC-CIA Borg USG do not support Russia”
LOL! Your posts are dripping in pro-Russia propaganda.
“Do you even have an idea of the GDP in Russia year over year since 2000?”
Slower than pre-2000 growth.
Yeah, “Glad says give us U-crane and I will stop the war! Oh, I get to execute the idiot president also.”
Don’t feed The Gaytor.
He loves it when you respond.
“Russia relies mostly on people signing contracts, and they do not force conscripts into the war”
Wiki:
Although President Putin repeatedly promised that young conscripts would not be deployed in the war with Ukraine, conscripts from the FSB Border Service from several Russian regions were sent to fight with Ukrainian troops in Kursk Oblast.[23] An online petition launched by the mothers of the conscripts requesting for Putin to withdraw the conscripts from Kursk received more than 10,000 signatures.[25] On 29 August the Institute for the Study of War reported that most of the Russian prisoners of war taken in Kursk by the Ukrainians were young conscripts.[26] There is an NGO called Get Lost for Russians seeking to avoid conscription.[26]
In spring 2025 160,000 18-30 year old men are planned to be issued with call-up notices for conscription, 10,000 higher than in spring 2024 and 25,500 higher than in spring 2022. In 2024, Russia announced plans to increase the number of active servicemen to 1.5 million by 2026, an increase of about 180,000 over three years.[27][28]
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