Posted on 02/09/2025 6:20:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump said this weekend that he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the Russia–Ukraine war, drawing a response from the Kremlin.
Speaking to the New York Post in an exclusive interview on Air Force Once, Trump said that he did speak with the Russian leader about the war, which started in 2022. Asked about how many times he’s spoken to Putin in recent days, Trump said, “I'd rather not say.”
However, Trump said he believes Putin “does care” about the carnage on the battlefield and “wants to see people stop dying.”
“All those dead people. Young, young, beautiful people. They’re like your kids, two million of them—and for no reason,“ Trump said, referring to soldiers dying in the war, adding that the conflict ”never would have happened” if he was president in 2022.
Elaborating, but without providing many details, Trump said that he has a plan to end the war and added that he has a good relationship with Putin.
“I hope it’s fast,“ he said.
”Every day people are dying. This war is so bad in Ukraine. I want to end this damn thing.”
Longtime Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the TASS state news agency that “many different communications are emerging” between Moscow and Washington, according to a Russian-to-English translation.
“These communications are conducted through different channels,” Peskov said when asked by TASS to comment directly on Trump’s interview with the Post.
“I personally may not know something, be unaware of something. Therefore, in this case, I can neither confirm nor deny it.”
In February 2022, Putin sent thousands of troops, tanks, and other military hardware to Ukraine as part of a “special military operation” for what he said was an attempt to end a possible threat to Russian sovereignty by Ukrainian forces backed by NATO. He also has said that Russia wants to protect Russian speakers living in Ukraine.
But Ukraine and its Western backers, led by the Biden administration, have said the invasion was an imperial-style land grab and vowed to defeat Russian forces. Moscow controls a chunk of Ukraine about the size of the American state of Virginia and is advancing at the fastest pace since the early days of the 2022 invasion.
Before taking office in January, Trump has said that he wants to quickly end the war, at several points saying he would end it within 24 hours of taking office.
On Feb. 7, Trump said he would probably meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy next week to discuss ending the war. Zelenskyy told Reuters on the same day that he wanted Ukraine to supply the United States with rare earths and other minerals in return for continued financial support its war effort.
“If we are talking about a deal, then let’s do a deal, we are only for it,” Zelenskyy said. “Let’s develop this together, make money, and most importantly, it’s about the security of the Western world.”
But Zelenskyy cautioned that Trump must meet with him before he meets with Putin on ending the war. The reason, he said, is because meeting with Putin first would “look like a dialogue about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
Can the Paid Ukrainian Posters get paid before Trump ends the War? Fake UMC Mom - Timber Rat - Maximoose - Speedy might have to find a new income scam.
Has the call transcript been leaked yet?
Let’s hope this ends soon for everyone sake.
—For our sake, we’re paying for this stupidity economically, exposing our forces to increased risks from proxy threats.
—For Ukraines sake, a nation essentially destroyed by this war. They are a basket case.
—Russia’s sake, they are paying a high human price for this war.
This is a war that should have never happened.
It’s a war that was predictable that it would happen and we had control over what caused it, NATO East expansion.
There was no pressing national security need for this move on our part, not even for Ukraine.
This war is the textbook definition of a “policy failure.” It’s a legacy that should be pinned to the Biden administration that is far worse than the disaster caused in Afghanistan.
This is a war that merely was sold to the public 24/7 but was unnecessary, predictable, and with a predictable outcome.
Those responsible should be humiliated on their way out the door, but our Democrat boot licking MSM will never do that.
looks like Zelensky sees a path forward to keep his grift going and his ass out of a Ukrainian firing squad.
The little greasy grifter might see it, but I doubt anyone else does. Prediction: The Tiny Dancer will end up either strung from a tree or absconding to somewhere in Europe with a big, fat bank account. Now that “fuel” for the Deep State’s color revolution machine (USAID) is cut off, he’ll get 50 votes or so if and when a fair and open election is held in Yookland.
“It is a legacy that should be pinned on the Biden administration.”
Not only on the Biden administration. This project has a long history. Brezinsky opined about it in the late 1990’s. In 2008, at the Munich Conference, George W. Bush declared that Ukraine would be part of NATO - to which Putin issued a warning that bringing Ukraine into NATO would be crossing a red line.
There were plenty of warnings over time - from George Kennan, Jack Matlock (Reagan’s last ambassador to the Soviet Union), other U.S. ambassadors to Russia, etc.
And then, the Maiden affair occurred (under the Obama administration and the neo-con crew led by cookies Nuland), in which the legally elected President was deposed by the likes of Swoboda and other like-minded groups.
So Biden and company were a continuation of policy.
But nonetheless, because Biden was a rubber stamp for the deep state and American oligarch, because he's on board with a more globalist agenda, he just went along with what everyone knew would likely lead to war.
There is no doubt in my mind (speculation) that had Trump been in office, we would have armed Ukraine, given them intel, provided training (peace through strength), BUT we would have not crossed the line and brought this to a war by pushing for NATO East expansion which actually poses a threat to Russia.
Even Biden had to know: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1131428724346357&vanity=rishibagree
I can sense we’re not in disagreement, so this is not aimed at you.
Senseless wars that could have been prevented. Where the outcome is predictable. Where the human toll in terms of death, crippled, refugees, money just sunk into a big hole, the destruction of an entire nations economy, as in Ukraine, is not cool.
Ever see the movie “Don’t look up?” Great film: https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI?si=ppudAIdtL6iHYdUS
It’s sort of like that (crazy), only with policies that lead to a war and the destruction of a nations economy. Where we flirt with escalation of force to the point of nuclear war, the spread of proxy conflicts, acts of sabotage, etc.
This war was literally stupid.
Yes. Agree.
It was the aim of the Biden administration to eject the Russians from Sevastopol (Russia’s only year-round warm water port) and turn the Black Sea into a NATO-dominated lake - something the Russians would never have tolerated.
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