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Trump says he's ready to meet Putin 'immediately' to secure end of Ukraine war
REUTERS ^ | Jan 23, 2025

Posted on 01/23/2025 2:39:21 PM PST by McGruff

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as possible to secure an end to the war with Ukraine and expressed a desire to work towards cutting nuclear arms.

In the run-up to his Nov. 5 election victory, Trump declared many times that he would have a deal in place between Ukraine and Russia on his first day in office, if not before. His advisers now concede the war will take months to resolve.

"I really would like to be able to meet with President Putin soon to get that war ended," Trump, who returned to the White House on Monday, told the World Economic Forum in Davos via video link.

"From what I hear, Putin would like to see me, and we'll leave as soon as we can. I'd meet immediately," Trump said. "Everyday we don't meet, soldiers are being killed in the battlefield."

Earlier this week, Trump threatened to impose "high levels" of sanctions on Russia and tariffs on imports from there if Moscow did not reach a settlement.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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1 posted on 01/23/2025 2:39:21 PM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

>>>>Trump said. “Everyday we don’t meet, soldiers are being killed in the battlefield.”<<<<<

Finally, someone in a position of authority cares about people being slaughtered.


2 posted on 01/23/2025 2:47:10 PM PST by bimboeruption ((“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023) )
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To: McGruff

Meanwhile:
“Breaking! Hundreds of Ukrainian Armed Forces Soldiers Raise the White Flag in Velika Novoselivka”
-Ruslan Belov

Idiotic Ukrainian Generals allow yet another encirclement and hundreds of soldiers that cannot be spared are removed from the front.


3 posted on 01/23/2025 2:48:16 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: McGruff

I offer my garage as a meeting site, I’ve cleaned it out its pretty roomy in here.


4 posted on 01/23/2025 2:48:43 PM PST by datricker (Go Trump/Vance!)
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To: SaxxonWoods
>>>>Idiotic Ukrainian Generals allow yet another encirclement and hundreds of soldiers that cannot be spared are removed from the front.<<<<

Idiotic Ukrainian Generals led by an idiotic Ukrainian coke-head...

zelenskyhigh

5 posted on 01/23/2025 2:55:25 PM PST by bimboeruption ((“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023) )
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To: bimboeruption

This is good news.


6 posted on 01/23/2025 2:55:50 PM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: McGruff

Sweet! He’s getting things done. Let’s end this thing.

(Does PDJT ever sleep?)


7 posted on 01/23/2025 2:56:21 PM PST by Allegra (It’s MAGA time! )
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To: McGruff

If Trump brokered a peace to end the Ukraine war, the Nobel Committee would still ignore his contribution to world peace and select some leftwinger somewhere for the prize.


8 posted on 01/23/2025 2:56:29 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: rrrod

>>>>This is good news.<<<<

President Trump is a wise man who sincerely cares about people.

If anyone can end it, it’s Trump.


9 posted on 01/23/2025 3:05:34 PM PST by bimboeruption ((“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023) )
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To: Dan in Wichita

Getting ready to post the same idea. I see Biden being nominated for the Gaza ‘peace’.


10 posted on 01/23/2025 3:09:29 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Dan in Wichita

The Peace Prize would go to Biden, along with the prize for peace in the Middle East. /s


11 posted on 01/23/2025 3:17:18 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: McGruff

No need for a meeting, Putin can simply leave Ukraine and end this anytime it wants.


12 posted on 01/23/2025 3:19:22 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: McGruff

This is leadership. God bless Donald Trump and all of those who argued for Peace for the past three years.


13 posted on 01/23/2025 3:29:51 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: datricker
I offer my garage as a meeting site

Won't work, you live in the US

Putin is a wanted war criminal, so he would be arrested as soon as he landed

That's why Pres. Trump has to go to Moscow to meet this monster


14 posted on 01/23/2025 3:48:19 PM PST by canuck_conservative (Russia lies all the time)
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To: datricker
I offer my garage as a meeting site

Won't work, you live in the US

Putin is a wanted war criminal, so he would be arrested as soon as he landed

That's why Pres. Trump has to go to Moscow to meet this monster


15 posted on 01/23/2025 3:48:19 PM PST by canuck_conservative (Russia lies all the time)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
No need for a meeting, Putin can simply leave Ukraine and end this anytime it wants.

That doesn’t erase the fact that we overthrew Ukraine’s government in 2014 and proceeded to arm them to the teeth, allowing Ukraine to kill all those against the Government Overthrow. You’re not much of a constitutionalist, are you?
16 posted on 01/23/2025 4:07:41 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: canuck_conservative

Only high level talks—one on one in private can settle this thing. Trump and Putin should hash out the world. “OK, you Americans get Greenland and Panama, I get Odessa and the pipeline to Germany rebuilt.”

“OK, you can keep what you won, but no more and you got to pay back some of the destruction you caused. No NATO for Ukraine and what else do you want?”

“Mr. Zelensky’s head, in a basket. maybe send us George Soros, he is a wanted criminal in Russia.”

“Lets shake on it. Now lets have some diet coke and see the opera.”


17 posted on 01/23/2025 4:16:40 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: McGruff

What will the zeepers spam about?


18 posted on 01/23/2025 4:23:42 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: McGruff
Zelesky’s demanding 200,000 European Soldiers.
19 posted on 01/23/2025 5:07:38 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: datricker

...the Garage at Appomattox


20 posted on 01/23/2025 5:08:18 PM PST by JJBookman (Democrats = Party killing Christians )
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