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Posted on 07/03/2025 4:46:04 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Donald Trump said Thursday that no progress was made in ending the war with Ukraine after he conducted another lengthy call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews ahead of a trip to Des Moines, Iowa.
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We had a call. It was a pretty long call. We talked about a lot of things including Iran and we also talked about, as you know, the war with Ukraine,' Trump said.
'And I'm not happy about that,' he said.
Trump was then asked if he made progress with Putin on a peace deal with Ukraine.
'No, I didn't make any progress with him today at all,' the president scoffed.
Trump also pushed back when a journalist asked why the U.S. paused weapons shipments to Ukraine.
'We haven't,' Trump insisted. 'We're giving weapons.'
He then said that, 'Biden emptied out our whole country giving them weapons and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves.'
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Art of the Deal. Keep talking.
With Trump’s recent successes, I think he’s in a better position to start ramping up pressure on Russia to end the war. With the price of oil stabilizing now that Iran has stabilized, more economic pressure can be brought to bear.
I also continue to think that Zelensky’s difficult relationship with Trump has prevented Trump from putting more pressure on Russia. Zelensky seems to have been humbled somewhat and appears to be cooperating more with Trump now. Trump isn’t going to put as much pressure on Russia as he could if he thinks Zelensky is going to undermine his efforts. It appears that Zelensky might have finally figured that out.
The problem now for Trump, and for DC, is that there is no personal charm, no art of the deal, none of the DC sophistry and scams that will get Russia to sign on.
This war is the end result of about 20 years of western insults, provocations, lies, and subterfuge. They have finally run into an actual red line. And Trump in DC don’t know how to act when they bump into someone that actually means literally what they say.
Bottom line, we desperately want this deal to protect our Nazi friends in Ukraine, and for us to be able to quit shipping weapons, and start the rebuilding and that land rush.
And Russia has no interest in that frozen conflict concept DC has been pushing for a year now. They play chess, not checkers. They know the minute there’s a cease-fire, NATO is going to flood in with no-fly zones, advisers, so-called peacekeepers to embed in every Ukrainian position, and then give them some sort of NATO, or NATO light status.
It’s good that they are talking, but DC needs to understand a little reality.
And of course, we won’t do anything that even slightly seems like it could be a victory for Putin. And we won’t let the Nord stream line be repaired, we won’t return all the currency and gold we stole. Hundreds of billions. We won’t drop the sanctions, basically, there’s not much reason for a Russian leader to sign onto this cease-fire concept.
And of course, we won’t do anything that even slightly seems like it could be a victory for Putin. And we won’t let the Nord stream line be repaired, we won’t return all the currency and gold we stole. Hundreds of billions. We won’t drop the sanctions, basically, there’s not much reason for a Russian leader to sign onto this cease-fire concept.
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Exactly. The West blew up the Nordstream, destroying EU manufacturing. Their problem.
The sovereign wealth fund that we stole has accelerated the USD decline ( down to 96/97, 10 percent in a few months). Countries are dumping US debt instruments, our BIG problem.
The Sanctions increased global commodities huge increases. The world’s problem.
Why is the West committing suicide?
I don’t love Putin that much.
I don’t love Putin that much.
Putin started the war to overthrow the Ukraine government. Any peace settlement should first recognize that fact. Anything Putin lost is a consequence of Putin’s action. I don’t dislike Russians, I dislike Putin and his regime.
Here are things I do not see:
1) I see no indication that Russia is afraid of US arms.
2) I see no indication that Trump would try an Iran style strike on Russian production. His advisors are surely talking about the risk and disaster that a shot down B-2 would be — with debris headed for labs ASAP.
3) I see no justification for the default presumption of US superiority. The US has zero operational hypersonics. The Russians have several or many, in fact so many they shared with China. Additionally, our media managed to shield us from the utter humiliation at time of Space Shuttle retirement of embarking on 10 full years during which the only access a US astronaut could get to the ISS was via a Russian Soyuz. 10 years! And no one displayed the humiliation that they should have.
4) I see no indication of the eradication of Russia oil and gas — which in the final analysis is all that matters. Russian oil output is fully aligned with OPEC+ specificiations. That Zeihan wacko that said their pipes would freeze and clog from disuse should also have been humiliated. And as of the latest update of the bible of global energy, Russian gas output 2024 was 7% above 2023.
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