Posted on 08/14/2025 9:03:59 PM PDT by ransomnote
Trump announced yesterday after months of slandering Zelinski that he had a very good phone call with Zelinski. Trump is not calling for his "removal," rather he is praising him.
Perhaps Trump has a very good reason for his change of heart because, not long ago Trump announced that he wants to sell arms to Ukraine for profit. Sounds like that makes him a "greedy war hawk."
Should Trump be "removed" even though he is not Jewish?
It is war.
Expect the other side to shoot guns, launch missiles and bomb from the air.
Moscow Times [10/27/2021]
The neighboring separatist-held Luhansk People’s Republic accused Kiev of using the Bayraktar in violation of ceasefire agreements that ban the deployment of foreign drones on the front line.
The Kremlin said Wednesday that Turkey’s supply of drones to Ukraine risks destabilizing the eastern Ukraine conflict
The Ukrainian army has been locked in a long-running conflict with separatist fighters in Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014 after Moscow annexed the peninsula of Crimea from Kiev. The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives.
Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russia of sending troops and arms to support the separatists, which Moscow denies.
Warsaw Institute [27 October 2021]
“The Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 combat drone has been deployed at Donbas by the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation for the first time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement. The drone targeted the positions of pro-Russian insurgents on October 26. The incident has been met with criticism from Moscow.”
“The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the unmanned aerial vehicle was used to attack a battery of howitzers that fired Ukrainian positions in Hranitne on the southern part of the line of contact. One Ukrainian soldier was killed and the other was wounded. Despite calls for a ceasefire from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, “Russian-terrorist” forces did not stop the fire. The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces ordered the drone strike to “force the ceasefire.”
“The Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation said on October 26 that separatists made thirteen breaches to the ceasefire”
https://warsawinstitute.org/ukraine-uses-bayraktar-tb2-first-time-donbas/
New York Times [Nov. 15, 2021]
How a Dispute Over Groceries Led to Artillery Strikes in Ukraine
Deployed for the first time in combat by Ukraine and provided by a country that is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the drone hit a howitzer operated by the separatists. Things quickly escalated.
Across the border, Russia scrambled jets. The next day, Russian tanks mounted on rail cars rumbled toward the Ukrainian border.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-putin.html
BBC [26 November 2021]
they see the Kremlin sending a message that it’s ready to defend its “red lines” on Ukraine: above all, that it must not join Nato.
“I think for Putin it’s really important. He thinks the West has begun giving Ukraine’s elite hope about joining Nato,” political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya at R.Politik told the BBC.
“The training, the weapons and so on are like a red rag to a bull for Putin and he thinks if he doesn’t act today, then tomorrow there will be Nato bases in Ukraine. He needs to put a stop to that.”
Ukraine’s desire to join the security bloc is nothing new, nor is Russia’s insistence on vetoing that ambition in what it sees as its own “back yard”.
But Moscow has been rattled recently by the Ukrainian military using Turkish drones against Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine; the flight near Crimea of two nuclear-capable US bombers was an extra irritant.
“At a meeting between Putin and Biden, neither will give clear commitments but there may be some tacit understanding on how far the US is ready to go in increasing its military support to Ukraine,” Mr Kortunov argues. “That’s not impossible.”
“Whilst Putin has a flicker of hope that he can do a deal with Biden, he won’t take any rash steps. But if he thinks it’s all doomed, he could do the worst things we can imagine,” Tatiana Stanovaya warns.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59415885
Guardian [December 16, 2021]
“With tensions escalating along the border with Russia, Luke Harding visits troops in Ukraine’s Donbas region to gauge the mood ahead of a possible invasion. The war here has continued since 2014, when pro-Russian separatists seized Ukrainian cities.”
There’s a video I didn’t watch:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/dec/16/on-the-ukraine-frontline-only-the-dead-arent-afraid-video
It has been called The RUSSIAN Donbass for centuries upon centuries, and will remain the RUSSIAN Donbass for centuries to come.
I suggest you prepare a few Valium for when President Trump (and the corrupted little man in green) are forced to make the announcement.
So, Ukraine fights back against the Russian invasion, and it is bad.
When Russia invades Ukraine, after saying it would not do so, it is good.
Some serious inversion of reality is ongoing here.
The idea that it was NATO aggression which caused the Ukraine/Russia war may have some play in Russian circles. Russians may be somewhat justified in being paranoid, because of their history.
However, the former Russian territories have plenty of reason to fear Russian expansion.
Russia has been expanding into former territories for years. Russians are clearly the aggressors in this war.
It is war.
Expect the other side to shoot guns, launch missiles and bomb from the air.
The war has been at a stalemate for years.
Yes, Johnson did advise Zelensky but there was no agreement at the time. Nor was there any real hope for one. The Russian demands were too great. And what ended the negotiations was not Johnson's visit (negotiations continued after it ) but the revelations of the Bucha massacre. Public opinion in Ukraine turned against negotiations; they were not ended because of instructions by Johnson. Let go of that Russian propaganda.
“Putin’s Russia was the first to send troops and artillery shells across an international border. Putin launched this war.”
That’s not quite true...the globalists, led by the CIA, overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014 that had been more sympathetic to Moscow rather than the globalists. That was the start of this conflict.
Better get on a plane to Leningrad. Vlad needs you more there than in here.
Z wants all of Ukraine back and won’t stop until he has it. Ukraine is producing 20 million drones this year of all types. His fall offensive will happen during the rains that come just before winter snows. Russias army will be bogged down in the mud and will be sitting ducks.
“”I never realized just how much the globalist have never forgiven Russia for getting rid of communism.””
What choice did they have... since communism failed so spectacularly in the USSR. As it always does, eventually... unless propped up by the ultra wealthy oligarchs at the very top that are, as always, pulling the strings of this world. The globalists can or should blame themselves... but they never will.
It’s almost like Zelensky has Alex Vindman on staff...
Apparently you’re the one smelling every one of Trump’s ‘brain farts’.
Making a profit is not a National Security interest.
So you say,
most others don’t.
Show me the text of the supposed agreement and a statement from Ukraine that they ever accepted it.
Maybe in a cheap action movie but not in real life. The protests were a popular response to Yanukovych bowing to Russian pressure and reversing himself on support for the EU economic agreement. Yanukovych fled the country in response to these protests; he was not overthrown by the CIA. The recent protests by the Ukrainians over changes in the anti-corruption laws shows that they are independent agents, not brainless tools of foreign puppet masters. So if you want to know the start of this conflict, it was Moscow's subversion of Yanukovich.
So you’re going with : “There was no signed Treaty ala Munich” therefore no agreement.
Most reporting and analysts say there was agreement and that Boris Johnson’s ‘advisement’ killed it.
Most reporting is just repeating Russian talking points. None of them can actually produce what the agreement was. The Ukrainians say that there was no agreement. There was only a Russian proposal, not an agreement. If there was an agreement, show it to me.
Welldamn, that must have been the last time that most reporting was just repeating Russian talking points.
The answer for Trump is clear: making a profit by selling arms to Ukraine.
The other reasons listed go to maintaining credibility to maintain deterrence to avoid going to war over Taiwan. These are our national interests, Trump's profit-making over a war that he says he deplores because of the loss of life, is a (hypocritical) national interest- in his mind, at least.
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