[DIRTYSECRET]

All we can do is give Ukraine more weapons. Will Europe step up?

[Magnum44]

All people have a right to defend themselves.

[PGR88]

London and Brussels have given the middle finger to Trump regarding his peace negotiations, and have said many times they will continue to support Ukraine in the war - and even send EU troops.

So demanding Russia simply “make peace,” when the nearly the entire EU and their Ukraine puppets want to continue the war is a rather stupid media narrative.

[libertylover]

Putin is trying to get Ukraine down to just a police force and then go back in and conquer the whole country like he tried to do 3 years ago.

[Jumper]

Captain Crunch is the US. He works for Trump. Without Trump just who in the hell will support Ukraininan AFU.

Nazi’s gotta go.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "...citing people familiar with the matter."

Wonderful news! At least one of the two non-NATO nations at war for these last three years is being asked to "accept Ukraine's right to have its own army and defense industry" when in demonstrable fact both nations have shown they have armies and defense industries.

This is a certainty because of "people familiar with the matter."

In a month or so, those ,looming default on debt issues will be showing up, so this stuff according to 'people familiar with the matter" are keeping a world of media messaging busy.

And it gives you something to do.

[pierrem15]

Trump's approach to get a ceasefire first is misguided. Neither side will agree until they see a way out to a real peace. Ukraine will not capitulate and needs security guarantees. Putin needs something he can sell as victory after the huge losses Russia has suffered.

Ukraine should agree to recognize Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea as Russian in exchange for getting back the currently occupied areas of Kherson and Zaporizhia. It should also get an agreement with several states for a military alliance: probably the Scandinavians, Baltics, Poland, Romania and Turkey. Plus EU membership. Putin gets those territories, no NATO, and gradual lifting of sanctions as both parties comply with various steps. Transnistria should go back to Moldova to prevent further Russian provocations.

[epluribus_2]

AKA - Ukr claims the right to self-defense and be acknowledged as an independant, sovereign state.

Former USSR nations and Taiwan will be watching this carefully, IMHO.

[PIF]

Koffwit will take the demand off the table if Putin objects too strongly.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think Putin is just demanding no nukes and no NATO membership.

[Karl Spooner]

Putin has said since the start of the war: "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine"

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US to demand Putin accept Ukraine's right to military force

" US special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to raise the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they next meet, the report added."

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Putin's reply in the only language they can understand

[McGruff]

More Fake News.

[Kazan]

The United States will demand that Russia accept Ukraine's right to have its own army and defense industry

There is zero chance of that happening unless Ukraine concedes all the annexed area to Russia, agrees to be neutral toward Russia and disavows all association with NATO.

But, allowing the Ukrainians to have its own defense industry would the equivalent of Israel allowing the Palestinians to have one.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Denying Ukraine the right to a military is akin to having a boxing match in which one person is allowed to punch, but the other is not.

It won’t end well for the one not allowed to punch. It would be foolish, perhaps suicidal, to agree to those rules.

[dennisw]

Also de-Nazify Russia