Posted on 09/05/2025 2:08:18 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
If a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine ever comes together, the United States could take the lead role in monitoring a large buffer zone inside Ukraine envisioned as a way to protect the country from Russia, according to four people familiar with a plan that military officials from Ukraine’s allies, including the United States, have been discussing.
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On the latter front, the United States is discussing with Ukraine a deal that could be worth around $100 billion, under which Kyiv would be able to buy American weapons, while in exchange the United States would get intellectual property rights for the cutting-edge systems the Ukrainians have been developing, according to a U.S. official.
The week after Trump met with Putin, Caine briefed Trump on four options for the security guarantee and recommended the most forward-leaning approach, this official said.
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Pass a real budget and stand down the military.
"...according to four people familiar with a plan" is specific that everybody should trust them, eh?
Three of the four are named Gordon Lubold, Katherine Doyle and Courtney Kube.
At the end one finds:
She [ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ] added: “Anyone anonymously claiming to know what he will or will not support doesn’t know what they are talking about.”
Stinkin’ Euros could only dream for this to be the case. Maybe they could take the lead. They are the ones all wee wee’d up about Russians.
"troll people out of coming here"
“terrorists drove two trucks filled with explosives into buildings housing a multinational peacekeeping force, killing 241 U.S. service members and 58 French military and civilian personnel in Beirut.”
“’The giant, four-story building that I expected to see was so demolished that it seemed as if it had just disappeared. Through the smoke and the air filled with dust, I could see the rubble and, worst of all, the pieces of bodies strewn throughout the area’”
“While the rescue and recovery operations were underway, the peacekeeping force was under sporadic attack from snipers and artillery fire.’
“The Marines’ withdrawal from Lebanon was completed Feb. 26, 1984. The British, French and Italian forces making up the rest of the peacekeeping force withdrew about the same time.”
“On March 13, leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional bloc signaled the end of its peacekeeping mandate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following the killing of more than a dozen peacekeepers by M23 rebels in January.”
https://www.dw.com/en/africas-peacekeepers-whos-left-to-maintain-order/a-71922557
Or, monkeys could fly out of my behind.
Trump won’t deploy 1 American Solder to YouCrayne.
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