Posted on 05/11/2025 5:36:16 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call, according to Türkiye’s Presidential Communications Directorate, News.Az reports.
It was noted that the parties discussed Turkiye-Russia relations, regional and global issues. Erdogan expressed his satisfaction with Putin's statement on the resumption of Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul, and stressed that Turkiye is ready to host the discussions. The Turkish President also noted that a window of opportunity for peace has opened, and that ensuring a ceasefire will create the necessary environment for peace talks.
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Seems someone should have said that before instead of feeding the war.
And as long as they're feeding the war....they really do not want peace. You can't have it both ways.
All of a sudden....everyone wants peace..
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Except for St Z and the EU.
President Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize.
This Turkish brokered arrangement of direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia pretty much erases any Monday deadline for a ceasefire.
Yup, Ukraine refusing to completely surrender is the problem, not Putin, who is refusing to stop invading Ukraine and seizing its land. Okay
Even Vice President Vance said the Russian demands are ridiculous.
D Vance: Right now, the Russians are asking for a certain set of requirements, a certain set of concessions in order to end the conflict. We think they’re asking for too much, okay?
Trump could end our part by removing us from any involvement, financial and otherwise. What if we had a war and nobody showed up? that is a solution.
If Russia and Ukraine want to keep it up. Have at it.
You see, they can’t because they need what the US provides to keep it all going because the EU and Ukraine are incapable of it.
Keep Türkiye great! { smirk }
Failing (or maybe failed) Turkey, pretends to be somebody of importance
Tell your Zelensky to show up for Peace Talks in Turkey.
The title of this article should read:
Erdogan tells Putin that Türkiye is prepared to leave NATO and join the Axis of Evil
During Putin’s prepared statement from which he was reading to the assembled press when he invited Ukraine to Istanbul... FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, PUTING REFERRED TO THIS BEING A WAR.
This was not by chance. Putin did not say special operation. The Russians may be preparring to drop the constraints of the Special Military Operation; calling this conflict a WAR was not only a first for Putin, and Russia, but may be a signal that a change in approach to hositilites may be signaled.
The SMO has a number of constraints in use of force and terms of manpower allocated to the conflict. Russia has not reached 1.7m under arms. In the past 100-120 days, Russia has put several types of multi-stage missile into production and the primary one for use is the Oresnek, a 6 x 6 or 36 warhead missile used once before with kenetic or dumb weighted projectiles against the former USSR missile production facility in Ukraine - which was totally destroyed along with the western technicians and missiles being produced.
Russian FAB’s, Drones, Missiles, and aircraft agument their production of new battle tanks of which over 300 were produced and sent to units not yet allocted to Ukraine combat.
Putin has dealth with sanctions since he was elected in 2000. Russia is the most sanctioned nation on earth by the West since WWII. The Russians and Putin have spent the past 3 years overcoming and working around the western sanctions.
Brics is one the primary targets of Trump. He never once states this, but it is clear when he talks of trade wars with China, or sanctions with Russia that Brics nations are the target of his use of both situations to America’s advantage.
China and Russia may have come to terms for recipical military assistance in case either is attacked the other would come to their aid over the weekend.
The EU has driven the Russian’s and Chinese together which is at odds with Trump’s primary policy to separate them from one another. Brics additonally pulls in Brazil and India as trading partners to Russia and China.
Biden and Blinken left Trump a losing hand, similar in weakness but not the total loss of a hand Zelinski holds.
Trump was dealing with Turkey last week, so it is possible he is doing an end-run around the globalists and NEO-Cons in the US and the Senate who keep him weak on all areas of his MAGA or peace making agenda. If Trump and Putin already planned to deep six the EU-Ukraine 30-day cease fire BS proposal that was rejected months ago, then he is playing 3D chess with Starmer, Macron and Zelinski/Mertz....
Mr. Oresnek is on the way. That much is anticipated. This time it will have HE warheads. Soon we will see if there is a new wonder weapon in this 36 warhead missile. Used with the kenetic rounds, it completely destroyed a deep underground hardened factory. With HE and ground burst or aerial burst the damage will surpass the FABs. Interesting times ahead for Macron, Starmer, Mertz and Zelinski.
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