Posted on 08/09/2025 11:25:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Art of the deal
I don’t expect Zelensky to lay out all possible concessions ahead of negotiations.
“adding that Ukraine’s borders were fixed in the country’s constitution”
Sucks to be them.
This means there has to be regime change in either Ukraine or Russia.
Point number one to agree in Alaska Trump-Putin:
Immediately remove Zelinsky ito exile from Ukraine and
Hold Ukraine Elections for new President and Parliament within 30 days.
Such a poor negotiator. POTUS Trump will eventually tell Zelensky to just say “Thank You”.
Because you are doing such a great job.
It's gonna be the US, EU and Putin.
East Ukraine will be a freaking basket case for a decade or longer.
West Ukraine is actually Poland.
Make L’viv Lwów Again!
FRom your lips to God’s ears.
That punk Z is a bloodthirsty moron.
Plebiscite for the majority Russian Ukraone areas. Let them vote.
Carve up Ukraine to its ethnic origins- we did it to Yugoslavia. Russia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary each get their territories back.
Works for me, and the US and NATO made it work for Yugoslavia.
The reports are pretty clear about what Witkoff brought to Moscow to propose.
The ceding of territory will not happen. It is being finessed as “de facto” transfer of territory to Russia, without any agreement about it. Revisiting the subject will take place in 50 yrs, not before.
The phrasing is territory swap, which seems to mean that the lower 2 oblasts are only partially Russian liberated/occupied, but the upper two 100% that. (This all excludes Crimea, presumed to be a Russian fait accompli) What Russia has offered is the lower two the boundary will be the line of combat. The upper two 100% Russian. So this means those 2 lower oblasts that voted to become part of Russia are, in a Russian concession, going to be divided at the line of combat rather than take all of them.
This de facto declaration eliminates the need for a Zelensky signature.
Russian sanctions will end, but . . . Trump can’t control the EU sanctions. This may be the single biggest problem that has Russia continue its advance rather than stop where they are.
War crime prosecutions of Ukraine and some Brits in Russian courts, which are numerous, will be shut off, with that reciprocated elsewhere.
The Russian held land in the Sumy and Kharkiv region has not been discussed. Probably the Sumy area will be traded for Kharkiv.
With the lines of combat definitive, the big nuclear power plant will remain Russian.
Trump can’t control the EU sanctions.
The EU will keep buying Russian oil, as always.
Z has to reject any proposal that gives up Ukraine real estate.
If he accepts, he would be removed by the powers in DC, London, and Kiev, faster than you can say Putin.
“The Orchestra Plays On.”
Why do you want Russia to bomb hospitals and schools? Why not give Putin a deadline to pull out of Ukraine? Why not remove Putin from office if he doesn’t gp along to stop the war? After all, he did invade Ukraine...
Putin bombs hospitals and buses and Z is blood thirsty? You are twisted...
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