Posted on 05/13/2025 8:16:45 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will be waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Turkish capital this week to conduct face-to-face talks about the more than three-year war.
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Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv he will be in Ankara on Thursday to conduct the negotiations. He plans to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the two will wait for Putin to arrive, he said.
Zelenskyy said if Putin chooses Istanbul to hold the meeting, then both leaders will travel there.
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Did FDR chair peace talks with Tojo, or did he insist on unconditional surrender?
It was Putin’s idea in the first place to have direct negotiations with Ukraine in Turkey on Tuesday.
Zelenskyy, waiting for Godot
Ukraine’s greatest success of the war would be if Zelensky wore a suicide vest.
Lol!
Why would he? Every single deal we ever made with Russia we violated. Even now, if Trump is able to reign in the Deep State traitors, the EU and the rest of NATO will sabotage any peace deal. Watch.
You again. It’s curious how these Uke agents and propagandists take patriotic sounding handles on this forum. You’re all Trump haters. The real Dr Franklin would be rolling in his grave the way you misuse his name.
“It was Putin’s idea in the first place to have direct negotiations with Ukraine in Turkey on Tuesday.”
Meanwhile, Putin stays busy:
“Ukraine’s Worst Defeat Yet? Pokrovsk Surrounded After Russian 20 km Breakthrough!”
Z-talks are a waste of time
Nothing but feet dragging
If it happens, I wouldn’t be surprised if Donald Trump drops in on his way home.
In parallel with the planned "Schrödinger's cat" meeting -- and interestingly, at the same time....
"... >B>the informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs, due to take place in Antalya on 14-15 May. The Secretary General will meet the President, Mr Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Ankara. There will be no media opportunity.
Source: NATO Secretary General to visit Türkiye NATO, 13 May 2025
"Representatives from all 32 NATO member states are expected to attend the meeting, which will provide a platform for additional consultations ahead of the NATO leaders’ summit set to be held in The Hague on June 24-25."
And interestingly, "Efforts to revise burden-sharing within the alliance and shape the future of European security will be among the top issues."
Source: NATO foreign ministers to meet in Antalya, Türkiye on May 14–15
While some might think "Godot" will be played and not played by Putin, it is likely the "Godot" is this is our President Trump, given that so many "European leaders" have focused, as much on and more than Zelensky, on President Trump to get all in on what was being called for a while "Biden's war."
So the larger picture seems about revising "burden-sharing within the alliance and shape the future of European security...." Likely this will morph into calls for "more" from our Trump-Vance administration. Biden-Harris is gone, and Harris-Walz was a "Godot" among those this world's leader wait for....
Remember Beckett's ending?
VLADIMIR:
Well? Shall we go?ESTRAGON:
Yes, let's go.[ stage direction ] They do not move.
Mounted on a post.
“ Did FDR chair peace talks with Tojo, or did he insist on unconditional surrender?”
After dropping two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tojo didn’t have much wiggle room for negotiations.
lol
No one in their right mind would have direct talks with Zelensky. First, he’s nothing more than a puppet. He’s been propped up by NATO and cocaine. He’s as much of a leader as you are. Second, his policy has killed more than one million young Ukranian men while losing the entire Donbas. It’s no wonder he suspended elections more than a year ago.
Lol...its only Tuesday, doesn’t the Nano-Furhrer have anything else to do?
Tell Putin to show up in Istanbul on Thursday. It was his idea in the first place.
You think that Zelensky should demand unconditional surrender from the Russians? I do not think Ukraine need be so harsh. They would be satisfied if the Russians just went home and left Ukraine in peace.
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