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Ruddy: Trump, Zelenskyy Want Peace, Putin Does Not
Newsmax ^ | 5/28/2025 | Christopher Ruddy

Posted on 05/29/2025 4:50:52 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

President Donald Trump has had a simple and bold plan to win the peace in the brutal war between Russia and Ukraine.

In my opinion, Trump knew getting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians to negotiate was never going to be the problem.

But Russian President Vladimir Putin would be.

So Trump seemingly castigated the Ukrainians at the very same time he extended a very welcoming hand to Putin, a nonthreatening and nonjudgmental one at that.

Trump's maneuver was a brilliant one, including a peace deal that would start with both sides agreeing to an immediate ceasefire.

As expected, Zelenskyy quickly signed on.

At Trump's demand, the Ukrainians even gave away a big chunk of their national wealth in a minerals deal with the U.S.

Putin has talked a good game and still does.

While Trump and Zelenskyy have taken concrete steps toward peace, Russia has actually stepped up its attacks against Ukraine.

This past weekend, Russian forces have undertaken one of their largest combined drone and missile strikes since the invasion began in February of 2022.

The recent attacks, largely targeting civilian centers, have included nine Kh-101 cruise missiles and a record 355 Shahed-type attack drones.

Putin's ongoing attacks have contributed to the wider toll of the war on Ukraine, which has seen hundreds of thousands of casualties, millions displaced and significant damage to the nation's civilian infrastructure.

Russia's own toll has been enormous, with estimates of total Russians killed and wounded around 1 million men.

With his proposals, Trump had offered Putin a relatively easy off-ramp from his apparent suicidal mission.

But the Russian leader doesn't want a deal.

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To: tumblindice

No, I meant what I posted. Five spams, baked beans, four spams. Then the cafe owner says, “Baked beans are off,” then ...

I’ve seen that sketch way too many times.

My wife likes Hot & Spicy Spam, sliced and fried crisp on white bread with mayo, but nobody seems to sell it these days. Maybe they quit making it. I’d rather stock canned corned beef for emergencies.


61 posted on 05/29/2025 7:55:12 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: marcusmaximus

But Putin wants war to continue. He must be doing something positive. I think he will destroy kyiv.


62 posted on 05/29/2025 8:03:51 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Only thing that scares me now is my age number. I am older than Biden, but in very good health!)
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To: MotorCityBuck

So you are on the same Corrupt Payroll as Marcus - Fake UMC Mom - Speedy - Timber Rat, et Al? Don’t you think the dirty Biden $$$ will run out someday and you will all lose your funding?


63 posted on 05/29/2025 8:21:08 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: marcusmaximus

Ruddy is globalist whore just like Rupert Murdoch.


64 posted on 05/29/2025 8:28:26 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Bobbyvotes

>> “I think he will destroy kyiv.” <<

Well, he has to wait. The Ukies have other priorities. šŸ˜…

June 7th is the
>>>KyivPride 2025 Manifesto<<<
hosted in the war torn city of Kiev.

https://kyivpride.org/en/

(You can’t make this sh*t up)


65 posted on 05/29/2025 8:28:31 PM PDT by ANKE69 ( Beware of zeeper doxxing )
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To: marcusmaximus

That’s ridiculous. Trump wants peace and Putin wanted peace until he was almost assassinated by that deluded warmonger Zelensky.
The biggest impediment to peace have been Zelensky, Starmer from Uk, Macron from France and that Gretz? guy from Germany. They are like kindergarten kids that will escalate everything to World War III. Very dangerous.


66 posted on 05/29/2025 8:32:38 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: Mariner

Zelensky does not want it to stop. He would be president of a poverty stricken hell hole and people might start looking at all of his money and property and asking where he got it. The best thing for Zelensky is he makes his citizens fight until the bitter end and he gets out of there with a couple of billion dollars and several pieces of expensive real estate.


67 posted on 05/29/2025 8:47:18 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens. And only full words. )
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To: EC Washington

Hush Noob.🤔


68 posted on 05/29/2025 9:02:27 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!)
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To: marcusmaximus

“Ruddy: Trump, Zelenskyy Want Peace, Putin Does Not”

WHY NOT?

HE IS LOSING!


69 posted on 05/29/2025 9:05:40 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: marcusmaximus

If all Putin wants is war, then NATO (not mostly the USA) should give him the war he wants, unless the Russian people change leaders. Unlike others, I think the Russian people are tired of years of war and sons and fathers being killed by an uncaring government. I have faith that members of the Russian military do not want nuclear war and will be reluctant to move to WW3.


70 posted on 05/30/2025 12:29:55 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: marcusmaximus; lodi90
The Putin loyalists have been extra cranky over the past few weeks.

Yes, I have noticed a sea-change.

Regards,

71 posted on 05/30/2025 1:06:25 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands; marcusmaximus
Oh, they will protest that they aren’t pro-Russian, blah, blah, blah....But, really, how many would? We might be surprised...or not.

At least one of them has flatly stated that Putin's Russia is the "last bastion" of Western / Christian values, and that it were better that Russia's nukes remained in Putin's hands than that NATO should assume control of them.

Putin - whose chief military ally is Kim "Rocketman" Jong Un!

Regards,

72 posted on 05/30/2025 1:10:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: AAABEST; marcusmaximus
He wants all Russian-seized territories [...]

And why shouldn't he want them back?! Putin illegally seized them!

Regards,

73 posted on 05/30/2025 1:12:38 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: datricker
Zellensky is annoying and seems like a gypsy

So he's "annoying?!" Who cares?!

President Trump posts "mean tweets," and Churchill drank! President Reagan was a divorcƩ!

Putin is a power-hungry tyrant who has smashed the post-WWII peace architecture set up by the U.S. in Europe!

Putin is the one with thousands of nukes pointed at America's heartland! Putin launched a war in which hundreds of thousands have died! Putin is the one who invited another nuclear power to join in on the "festivities" and plunder Europe!

Let's always keep things in perspective here!

Regards,

74 posted on 05/30/2025 1:17:59 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Who is John Galt?
Your repeated references to Biden are totally outdated!

President Trump is the one in charge now!

Regards,

75 posted on 05/30/2025 1:19:54 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
How many Americans want to fight Putin’s Russia! How many want a draft to get the fifteen Million Man Army to seize Russia? How many want 150% Tax increase for the war? How many cities do you want to lose if, on the chance Russian Nukes work? Twenty? Thirty? To stop Russia and recover the Crimea for Zelensky how many want WW III. What if China joins the fight? You know North Korea will. How many US Troops will die re-taking North Korea?

Paralyzing fear fallacy, closely resembling the argumentum ad baculum ("argument to the stick") or the argumentum ad terrorem ("argument to terror").

Faulty reasoning and arguments made in bad faith.

Essentially: BETTER RED THAN DEAD!

And you call yourself a conservative!

Regards,

76 posted on 05/30/2025 1:34:37 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: BobL

Before pitin invaded, all of Europe was trading with and investing in Russia, all the while letting their militaries degrade.

Sounds like ā€œgetting alongā€, meanwhile Russia invaded Georgia, and Chechnya twice.šŸ¤”

Sounds like ā€œgetting alongā€ means submit to pitin’s demands or else


77 posted on 05/30/2025 3:16:51 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: blitz128

“Sounds like ā€œgetting alongā€ means submit to pitin’s demands or else”

Serbia learned that was the case as far as the Neocons were concerned. So did Grenada, so did Panama.

That’s life - either get along with superpowers, or try to take them on. Ukraine chose wrong.


78 posted on 05/30/2025 3:45:05 AM PDT by BobL
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To: alexander_busek

So you say this is just fear to speculate that we could go into WW III and all the horror of a Nuke exchange? Are you mad? No sain person wants this. Mistaking that Russia will not fight—is a lot of wishful thinking. If we fight Russia, remember we will not be fighting just Russia alone. YES I am afraid. America could end in such a conflict over what Ukraine? Neo-Con Fantasies? Even if we win—it would change America drastically.


79 posted on 05/30/2025 4:54:29 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: Nextrush

“The Leftist EU is seeking to hurt Russia and Israel instead of helping those nations secure their borders.”

The EU is an extension of the American Deep State.


80 posted on 05/30/2025 5:15:47 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS Much?)
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