Posted on 08/17/2025 8:43:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
"As leaders, the responsibility to sustain our children extends beyond the comfort of a few ..."
First Lady Melania Trump sent what is being called a “peace letter” to Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his meeting in Alaska with President Donald Trump, where they discussed what steps needed to be taken to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The president, according to a report published Saturday by Fox News Digital, hand-delivered the missive — and the Russian leader read it prior to the much-touted summit on Friday.
In the letter, the First Lady called on Putin to be the one to take the first steps toward lasting peace with Ukraine, saying that children — regardless of where they happened to have been born — deserve better than countries and families torn apart by war.
Dear President Putin,
Every child shares the same quiet dreams in their heart, whether born randomly into a nation’s rustic countryside or a magnificent city-center. They dream of love, possibility, and safety from danger.
As parents, it is our duty to nurture the next generation’s hope. As leaders, the responsibility to sustain our children extends beyond the comfort of a few. Undeniably, we must strive to paint a dignity-filled world for all—so that every soul may wake to peace, and so that the future itself is perfectly guarded.
A simple yet profound concept, Mr. Putin, as I am sure you agree, is that each generation’s descendants begin their lives with a purity—an innocence which stands above geography, government, and ideology.
Trump went on to tell Putin that, should he finally put an end to the bloodshed, he would be able to restore the laughter of many children. “In protecting the innocence of these children, you will do more than serve Russia alone—you serve humanity itself,” she added.
“Such a bold idea transcends all human division, and you, Mr. Putin, are fit to implement this vision with a stroke of the pen today,” she concluded. “It is time.”
Following the summit, President Trump said that he felt confident the pair had made progress — although he cautioned that the negotiations were certainly not yet over.
“There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them, I would say. A couple of big ones that we haven’t quite gotten there, but we’ve made some headway. So, there’s no deal until there’s a deal,” he said.
Trump announced via Truth Social on Saturday morning that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would travel to Washington on Monday, and if their meeting went well, he would broker another meeting that also included Putin.
You won’t hear about Melania’s letter on CNN.
Awwwww. What a sweetheart.
How would one go about getting one of these ‘Peace Letters’ from our beautiful 1st Lady without being an insane megalomaniacal dictator?
Alina Kabaeva, Rhythmic Gymnast
In April 2008, the Moskovsky Korrespondent reported that Kabaeva was engaged to Russian president Vladimir Putin.[65] The story was denied and the newspaper was shut down.[66] In the following years, the status of Kabaeva and Putin's relationship became a topic of speculation, including allegations that they have multiple children together.[42]
Trump and Putin have a lot in common, including good taste in women.
I guess she couldn’t find her stationary when Azov artillery was killing civilians in the Donbass for 8 years.
It’s sweet but it’s that naïve female kindergarten teacher mentality of “stop hitting” and “everybody be nice” and doesn’t care a whit about the very real issues.
And Trump shouldn’t hide behind his wife’s skirt. I didn’t like when Raisa Gorbachev was always chiming in, Hillary when Bill was president, etc.
Shades of Amy Carter.
WIKI
Many human rights groups criticised civilian casualties resulting from military actions of NATO forces in Operation Allied Force. Both Serbs and Albanians were killed in 90 Human Rights Watch-confirmed incidents in which civilians died as a result of NATO bombing. It reported that as few as 489 and as many as 528 Yugoslav civilians were killed in the NATO airstrikes. Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, criticized NATO’s decision to bomb civilian infrastructure in the war. “Once it made the decision to attack Yugoslavia, NATO should have done more to protect civilians,” Roth remarked. “All too often, NATO targeting subjected the civilian population to unacceptable risks”. Yugoslav government estimated that no fewer than 1,200 civilians and up to 2,500 civilians were killed and 5,000 wounded as a result of NATO airstrikes
On the night of April 5–6, 1999, 12 civilians were killed in the southern mining town of Aleksinac after it was struck by NATO forces. A total of 35 homes and 125 apartment units were destroyed, with no obvious military target in the vicinity according to the Serbian newspaper Politika.
On April 12, 1999, NATO airstrikes struck a railway bridge in Grdelica, hitting a passenger train on the Niš - Preševo line. According to Večernje Novosti, 15 of the killed civilians were identified, a large number of passengers were classified as “missing”.
On April 14, during daylight hours, NATO aircraft repeatedly bombed Albanian refugee movements over a twelve-mile (19 km) stretch of road between Gjakova and Dečani in western Kosovo, killing 73 civilians and injuring 36 others. The attack began at 1:29pm and persisted for about two hours, causing civilian deaths in numerous locations on the convoy route near the villages of Bistrazin, Gradis, Madanaj, and Meja.
On April 23, 1999, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS)’s headquarters were struck by NATO. As a consequence, 16 RTS civilian technicians and workers were killed and sixteen were wounded.
On May 1, 1999, a Niš-Ekspres bus taking passengers to Kosovo was hit by NATO missiles when it crossed a bridge in the village of Lužane near Podujevo.2 The number of casualties reported from the Niš-Ekspres bombing vary, with Human Rights Watch recording 39 civilians killed whereas the Minister of Health Leposava Milićević reported that 47 civilians killed in the bus bombing had been identified.
On May 7, 1999, cluster munitions were dropped on Niš. Human Rights Watch recorded 14 civilians killed whereas Serbian sources reported 16 civilians killed.
A salvo of US JDAM GPS-guided bombs struck the embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Belgrade, killing three Chinese diplomats and injuring 20 others.
At approximately 12:50 am local time on May 19, 1999, the University Hospital Center Dr Dragiša Mišović in Belgrade was destroyed by NATO laser-guided bombs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_during_Operation_Allied_Force
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The Tokyo Fire Raids, 1945
Major-General Curtis Lemay (newly appointed commander of the American Bomber Command) ordered a dramatic change in tactics. The bomber runs would be made at night, at low altitude and deliver a mixture of high explosive and incendiary bombs. The objective was to turn the closely-packed, wooden homes and buildings prevalent in the Japanese cities into raging infernos and ultimately into the most destructive of all weapons - the firestorm.
The Allies had first encountered the phenomenon of the firestorm when the British bombed the German city of Hamburg in August of 1943. The night raid ignited numerous fires that soon united into one uncontrollable mass of flame, so hot it generated its own self-sustaining, gale-force winds and literally sucked the oxygen out of the air, suffocating its victims. Lemay hoped to use this force to level the cities of Japan. Tokyo would be the first test.
A successful incendiary raid required ideal weather that included dry air and significant wind. Weather reports predicted these conditions over Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. A force of 334 B-29s was unleashed - each plane stripped of ammunition for its machine guns to allow it to carry more fire-bombs. The lead attackers arrived over the city just after dark and were followed by a procession of death that lasted until dawn. The fires started by the initial raiders could be seen from 150 miles away. The results were devastating: almost 17 square miles of the city were reduced to ashes. Estimates of the number killed range between 80,000 and 200,000, a higher death toll than that produced by the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima or Nagasaki six months later.
In the dense smoke, where the wind was so hot it seared the lungs, people struggled, then burst into flames where they stood. The fiery air was blown down toward the ground and it was often the refugees’ feet that began burning first: the men’s puttees and the women’s trousers caught fire and ignited the rest of their clothing.
Mothers who carried their babies strapped to their backs, Japanese style, would discover too late that the padding that enveloped the infant had caught fire.
Wherever there was a canal, people hurled themselves into the water; in shallow places, people waited, half sunk in noxious muck, mouths just above the surface of the water. Hundreds of them were later found dead; not drowned, but asphyxiated by the burning air and smoke. In other places, the water got so hot that the luckless bathers were simply boiled alive.
In many sectors, passage was blocked by whole incinerated crowds.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tokyo.htm
Well, not gonna change much. But effloads better than that #bringabckourgirls.
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