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Trump Pushes for Putin and Zelensky Meeting in Bid to End Ukraine War
Wall Street Journal MSN News ^ | 8/18/2025 | Michael R. Gordon, Bojan Pancevski, Annie Linskey

Posted on 08/19/2025 9:33:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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“The Russian demand that Ukraine give up parts of the Donbas would be, just to illustrate the scale, comparable to asking the United States to give up Florida,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told reporters after the White House meeting.

During the closed-door meeting, Finnish President Alexander Stubb called the eastern Ukrainian cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk “a bastion against the Huns,” a description that appeared to impress Trump, according to the officials.

Zelensky didn’t reject land swaps out of hand during the discussions with Trump, but he said it would be difficult to move populations and override Ukraine’s constitutional prohibitions against surrendering territory, the officials said. But Zelensky said he might consider “proportional swaps.” Zelensky’s spokesman didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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To: TexasGator

21 posted on 08/19/2025 2:48:27 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: 9YearLurker
Doesn’t make me pro-Putin. But I take it you don’t deal well with such discernment.

You can tell these dumbass zeepers that you think both Putin and Zelensky are corrupt scumbags until you’re blue in the face and they’ll still parrot their stupid assertions that you’re “Russian” or “pro-Putin” or other BS along those lines just because you don’t trust (and worship) Zelensky.

They’re like mind-numbed zombies all typing the same tired little crap out of the same handbook.

Tell them to prove it and go find posts of yours where you’re supporting Russia or Putin and they fly off the handle and have quite the flamboyant little meltdowns, screeching a volley of insults that would make Jasmouth Crockett envious.

Zeepers can be hilarious, really.

22 posted on 08/19/2025 3:01:24 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: Allegra

Gator hijacks another thread. It’s where she has her most fun.


23 posted on 08/19/2025 3:15:36 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Allegra

Some are paid to propagandize—and others are no doubt just mindless victims of the propagadizing.


24 posted on 08/19/2025 3:18:09 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Allegra
LYou can tell these dumbass zeepers that you think both Putin and Zelensky are corrupt scumbags until you’re blue in the face and they’ll still parrot their stupid assertions that you’re “Russian” or “pro-Putin”
As far as I'm concerned, kill them both and end the fighting.

Let the locals divvy up the territory.

25 posted on 08/19/2025 3:18:51 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Biblebelter
"I'm skeptical if a one on one without most things agreed upon will ever happen."
With President Trump pressuring the meeting Zelenskyy and Putin may be tired of the war, each likely has blackmail info on each other and possibly they'll agree to cut their losses.

Putin wants a landlink to Crimea, Zelinskyy knows he's lost and wants to keep as much of captured territory of Ukraine as possible but still end the war. He's got lots of cash outside Ukraine waiting for him, I suspect.IMHO.

26 posted on 08/19/2025 3:38:41 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: 9YearLurker; citizen; Rocco DiPippo
So I was driving a little over an hour ago and Sean Hannity was on the radio. (Not a fan - it came on because I had that station on last night listening to Michael Berry.) I almost switched to Bluetooth for music, but some zeeper had called in and was going on about how the war needs to continue -“…just let them keep fighting. Ukraine is close to winning all that land back…they need to keep fighting…”

Sean told him that Ukraine was running out of people and was drafting 60-year-olds and that continuing this was indefinitely could cause it to expand to other countries.

The idiot caller acted like he didn’t hear any of that and just went on, mindlessly intoning his talking points about how the war needs to keep going. He went on and on saying little else but that. He sounded kind of dweeby as is to be expected.

I was laughing and saying “It’s a zeeper!” Seriously, I wonder what his zeeper handle is here? I didn’t catch the beginning to hear where he was calling from.

27 posted on 08/19/2025 3:39:40 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: Allegra

Lots of paid shills. The Weenies are big on psyops.


28 posted on 08/19/2025 3:45:26 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: marcusmaximus

Putin will never meet with Zelensky as he is viewed as an Illegitimate President, Russia will only meet with Ukraine leaders when free elections are held again.

There have been no elections for over 2 years. Zelensky’s term has been over for some time.


29 posted on 08/19/2025 3:50:18 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: 9YearLurker

Lots of paid shills. The Russians are big on psyops.


30 posted on 08/19/2025 3:52:45 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: TexasGator

So clever, Gator! Would you like an armadillo as a treat?


31 posted on 08/19/2025 4:05:25 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Allegra

I just saw a good headline: “The Europeans are spending $100B they don’t have to buy weapons the US doesn’t have to arm soldiers Ukraine doesn’t have.”


32 posted on 08/19/2025 4:06:33 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
So clever, Gator! Would you like an armadillo as a treat?

Zeeps love to play “I know you are, but what am I?” They think it covers for their woeful lack of creativity or sense of humor.

33 posted on 08/19/2025 4:11:13 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: 9YearLurker

Posted to you: “Then, acknowledge that Putin is an evil, corrupt dictator!”

No replies. I knew you couldn’t!


34 posted on 08/19/2025 4:13:00 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: 9YearLurker
“The Europeans are spending $100B they don’t have to buy weapons the US doesn’t have to arm soldiers Ukraine doesn’t have.”

Perfect! 😁

35 posted on 08/19/2025 5:04:54 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: TexasGator; 9YearLurker
Posted to you: “Then, acknowledge that Putin is an evil, corrupt dictator!”

No intelligent, free-thinking person here is going to take orders from some emotional, screeching zeeper. Especially one who uses excessive exclamation points.

36 posted on 08/19/2025 5:07:38 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: Allegra

“No intelligent, free-thinking person here is going to take orders from some emotional, screeching zeeper. Especially one who uses excessive exclamation points.”

ROTFLMAO. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and doesn’t deny being a duck then it is a Putin shill.


37 posted on 08/19/2025 5:11:35 PM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: TexasGator
Yeah, yeah, we know, Gaytor. Everybody who doesn’t agree with your brand of idiocy is a “Putin shill.” Got it.


38 posted on 08/19/2025 5:22:24 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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