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Posted on 08/16/2025 8:23:15 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
During a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following the Alaska summit with Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump said that the Russian leader insists on gaining control over the entire Donbas region
Bloomberg reported the information.
According to sources, during the phone call, Trump noted that the final decision on the territories should be made by Kyiv, but Putin’s position remains unchanged. Russia wants full control over Donetsk and Luhansk regions, even though its forces have currently captured only part of these areas.
If Kyiv agrees, Moscow is ready to drop claims to the parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions still under Ukrainian control, effectively freezing the frontline there.
President Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected any possibility of ceding territory.
Additionally, sources said that in talks with European leaders, Trump expressed willingness to support security guarantees for Ukraine, provided they do not involve NATO. The president suggested that Putin would agree to this.
Trump claims Putin open to new written agreement
Moreover, as Trump emphasized in talks with European leaders after the Alaska summit, the Russian leader is reportedly even willing to provide a written guarantee of no further armed aggression against Ukraine or any EU country, if he is given full control over the territories of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including areas currently under Ukrainian control.
This information was reported on the evening of August 16 by New York Times correspondent Steven Erlanger in Berlin.
“In return, Mr. Putin offered a cease-fire in the rest of Ukraine at current battle lines and a written promise not to attack Ukraine or any European country again, the senior officials said,” the NYT article states.
In response, European leaders reportedly reminded Trump that Putin “has broken similar promises before.”
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Make the deal Sonny.
NO! Land for peace is a reward for aggression. This goes back to Hitler 1939. It will only embolden Putin to go after mor land once he rebuilds his army. At the rate of losses, about 5 years.
It’s a sh*t sandwich unfortunately.
Your Putin has zero days to make peace, marcus.
What Pokrovsk doink?
First thing is, I’ll wait for a source that I’m more familiar to report thos.
Second, if it IS in fact accurate, little z would never agree to it any.
When Chamberlain signed the deal in 1938, the Germans were not in the Sudetenland.
Putin is already there.
This is September 1939, where the Germans were already in Poland when Britain and France told them to get out, or they would go to war.
We’re not going to war with Russia over Ukraine.
> NO! Land for peace is a reward for aggression. <
Correct. On the other hand, Putin will never give up the Donbas.
I have no dog in this fight. Both sides have behaved terribly. But this war must end. My solution would be for Russia to buy the Donbas. The price would be a large amount of gold and natural gas.
Kinda like our own Gadsden Purchase.
Trump can’t make a deal with either side or both sides, only Z and Putin can do that. Trump can only suggest possible ways to get there.
Z will either accept reality or accept more death and loss of territory, which is happening faster by the day now. Z doesn’t have enough soldiers to cover the front line and Putin will continue to take advantage of that. Also, all of Ukraine’s best built lines of defense are behind Putin’s lines now.
More war is not going to result in a better deal. “Giving” Putin territory he already has is simply acknowledging reality, but of course the Left will scream “Munich”!
😂😂😂😂
Eat ze bugs, along with the sandwich.
Wonder if that includes us agreeing to a nonaggression concept for NATO? It was the DC/London axis that started all of this.
I seem to recall a scene from Boardwalk Empire where a NJ mob boss goes to Ireland to make a whisky deal but the Irish guy keeps saying No. As the NJ boss is driven away by an Irish underling, we see in the background the big Irish boss get shot in the head. Then the Irish underling turns to the NJ boss and says “I’ll make the deal with you.”
Zelensky better watch out. The top guy may say No, but some people want a peace deal.
Come on, you don’t believe Anna Felchin?
“ This goes back to Hitler 1939”
Doesn’t everything?
This is the 21st century. Pay attention to current problems.
Essentially, in this “land swap” Putin gives up nothing. Ukraine gives up a huge swath of territory in exchange for a promise that Putin won’t demand more.
This is a non-starter.
The deal I make is, Russia acknowledges the rights of current members of NATO to remain there, that means the Baltic States.
Belarus and Ukraine will be neutral, the trick is to keep the Russians out of Belarus, Lukashenko would actually support this. This would actually be a huge win for our side, if it keeps Russian troops out of Belarus in the future.
The internet doesn’t even know who she is
Remember what happened when Sonny said he was interested in Sollozzo’s deal?
“I have no dog in this fight.”
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You’re a taxpayer aren’t you?
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