Why Negotiations With Russia Seem So Difficult

The American Conservative ^ | 7/13/25 | George O'Neill

[Williams]

For you to make that statement about support for President Trump, is less than pathetic.

What a joke.

[A strike]

Acknowledgement of fact, but you never could distinguish between fact and fiction.

[Williams]

Yeah support for DJT is delusional.
On the Bizarro Planet.

[cowboyusa]

Russia is crap on the USA’s show, as is the rest of the World.

[cowboyusa]

No, America is at the beginning of restoration.

[cowboyusa]

Stop that nonsense, you sound like a leftist

[Alberta's Child]

They are a dangerous evil enemy country …

Alrighty then.

I contend that the United States of America has been at least as dangerous and evil in my lifetime as any other country in the world.

Prove me wrong.

[Williams]

I’ll just settle for proving you anti American.

No one has any use for you - in America.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Simple. Carrot and stick, except as Trump learned, Russians don’t trust nir want carrot, only believe in stick.

Give them the full shaft.

[Ancesthntr]

“They have been invaded countless times, and always prevailed.”
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Yu mean like they did against the Mongols? Or the Germans in WW1?

[Apparatchik]

I’ll stick with Patton’s assessment, thank you:

The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.

[MotorCityBuck]

Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/dZJC-TdSFi4
Ukies decided to give major amounts of land to achieve Victory.

[AAABEST]

They are a dangerous evil enemy country and they were dangerous when...blah blah blah.

Shuddup and take your constipation meds, blathering old fool. You add nothing to the conversation.

[BobL]

“I’ll stick with Patton’s assessment, thank you:”

So we have to nuke them, I guess. You realize we’ll then lose DC and other major US cities.

Hmmm...I see your point. BOMBS AWAY!!!

[A strike]

NO, just, you are delusional, as you always have been.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yeah, just like that.

[Apparatchik]

You guess wrong.

Why is it every Putler supporter here rushes to threaten WWIII?

My gosh, you all sound like Medvedev - prolly just as drunk, too.

[Rockingham]

Russia has always been a malignant force and a nightmare to deal with. They do not deserve excuses and soft treatment disguised as “understanding.” They need to be dealt with from a position of strength without any illusions that they are a normal country or normal people.

[BobL]

You still WILL NOT get World War 3, so Russia will get Ukraine. Deal with it, Ukraine could have been 90% independent...but not anymore!

[tlozo]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. political elites promised not to move NATO east into former Warsaw Pact countries.

Author starts immediately lying "U.S. political elites promised"

There is ONLY ONE treaty in regards to NATO expansion. It is called the "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany". "No foreign armed forces, nuclear weapons, or the carriers for nuclear weapons would be stationed or deployed in six states (the area of Berlin and the former East Germany), making them a permanent Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone".

There is NO OTHER TREATY that bans eastward expansion of NATO.

Statements said in negotiations, which are NOT part of a treaty are just that, negotiations.