Posted on 03/18/2025 7:53:32 AM PDT by bimboeruption
Oliver JJ Lane18 Mar 2025525 2:51
U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak to his Russian counterpart for two hours on Tuesday as they seek an answer to a potential ceasefire in Ukraine.
President Trump is believed to be in conversation with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin at time of press in a telephone call given two hours of their scheduled days. Per a Kremlin spokesman, the call was due to last from 1300 GMT (0900 U.S. Eastern) up to 1500 (1100).
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Putin, recalled in advance of today’s discussion that some discussions between the U.S. and Russia had already taken place, and consequently “there is a certain understanding”. Yet, he said, “there are many issues” left needing further talk, which he said included “bilateral relations and the Ukrainian settlement”.
In principle, all parties at the table in the Ukraine War ceasefire talks — Ukraine, its primary sponsor the U.S., and Russia — have previously stated they wish for peace, but generally with the caveat that it would have to be a peace on their own terms.
This position greatly slowed progress towards getting Ukraine to agree to take President Trump’s proposed path to peace last month and led, as President Volodymyr Zelensky attempted to extract last-minute concessions from America, to an Oval Office bust-up. Now Ukraine appears to have agreed to go along with Trump, but Russia remains in that essential position that peace is preferable but it has to be Moscow’s peace.
Indeed, in the run-up to today’s meeting President Putin expressed just this view, that he agrees with a ceasefire “in principle, but there are nuances”.
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We're going to see the Art of the Deal in action. President Trump won't let us down.
Russia and the United States should be allies. Full stop.
Peace in YouCrayne will run thru Trump and Putin.
Trump has wrenched traditional State Department-brand diplomacy into a pretzel by relatively quickly going into “top dog to top dog” talks to establish the broad strokes, then leaving it to subordinates to work out the details prior to a final agreement.
Things get done much more quickly, which of course fits Trump’s style.
At minimum, trade countries.
If the USA develops industries that are capable of doing so.
Can you imagine.
Europe and China left complaining...What about us?
will the Vindmans be listening in?
A deal only if some two bit judge doesn’t re-define it.
The EU will sabotage it.
“will the Vindmans be listening in?”
Will anyone even try to stop them from doing so?
Bueller? Bueller?
I’m starting to think that under Biden the EU ruled America. No joking.
They will try to, but it won’t make a difference since they didn’t pay much for it.
I would be shocked if the initial talks are fruitful. Two tough negotiators, neither wanting to lose face, going head to head.
Sure would like to be a fly on the wall.
They basically did.
Through the globalist cabal.
Even one of my brothers, who was taking a neocon attitude with this whole affair, has changed his opinions on it.
He has even said that we should cut off all trade with Canada. ALL TRADE. Then negotiate with Russia to access eastern Siberia for minerals, etc.
Europe is a region of non stop contention. Had slways been, will always continue to be so. There is nothing in Europe we need. NOTHING.
Said it before. Our attention must be in our own hemisphere as well as the Pacific rim.
Question for you. Would it be easier to transport raw mineral resources across the pacific to here? Or would it be easier to transport them cross the black sea, through the bosphorus straits, cross the med to the east coast?
Been reported that the brits negotiated a mineral deal with Ukraine in Jan behind our backs before Trump was sworn in.
I believe would be politically easier to cross the Pacific Ocean just to avoid territorial disputes and the potential closure of the Bosphorus Strait by the perfidious Turks. It really depends on where the resources are being mine at. The rare earths are in the Ukraine, so it’s probable that the black seat route is the best.
Oh, I bet they did, but who will protect them while they get it?
Counterpart, my xxx…you seem to be legitimizing a blood-thirsty dictator, who literally killed his main political opponent and puts others in prison, with our beloved and duly elected President.
The problem with the Ukraine mineral dwal is twofold.
One. The Brits were reported to have made a 100 year deal under the table in Jan before Trump was sworn in.
Two. The geologists i talk to say that there are doubts that there are that many minerals there.
Three. Dealing with Ukraine is like dealing with a drug addict. Unreliable.
Four. Shipping across the Black Sea is at the least, risky. Lots of contentiuos behavior in the whole of the region.
Exactly.
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