Posted on 08/10/2025 11:30:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Vice President JD Vance gave a preview of his expectations for President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
“Look, it’s actually very simple,” Vance said during a Fox News interview with “Sunday Morning Futures” anchor Maria Bartiromo. “If you take where the current line of contact between Russia and Ukraine is, we’re going to try to find some negotiated settlement that the Ukrainians and the Russians can live with, where they can live in relative peace, where the killing stops.
He continued, “It’s not going to make anybody super happy. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians, probably, at the end of the day, are going to be unhappy with it. But I don’t think you can actually sit down and have this negotiation absent the leadership of Donald J. Trump.”
Trump announced on Truth Social that he would meet Putin in Alaska on Friday. He also told reporters that a potential deal would include “some swapping of territories” to end the years-long conflict, although Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later rejected the idea of giving up land.
Vance contended that he did not believe a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy before Trump’s expected meeting with Putin would be “that productive” to the peace effort.
“I think, fundamentally, the president of the United States has to be the one to kind of bring these two together,” Vance said, adding that “fundamentally, this is something where the president needs to force President Putin and President Zelenskyy really to sit down to figure out their differences.”
Vance said Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff have been helping the Trump administration reach a breakthrough. He noted that one of...
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Here’s the problem with this pipe dream. The eternal, unmovable deep state dogma on foreign relations has been in place and entrenched since the mid ‘90s. Despite what any politician or citizen might desire, the following is what the little people of the world have to contend with.
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U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP
In a broad new policy statement that is in its final drafting stage, the Defense Department asserts that America’s political and military mission in the post-cold-war era will be to insure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territory of the former Soviet Union.
A 46-page document that has been circulating at the highest levels of the Pentagon for weeks, and which Defense Secretary Dick Cheney expects to release later this month, states that part of the American mission will be “convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests.”
The classified document makes the case for a world dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy.
To perpetuate this role, the United States “must sufficiently account for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order,” the document states.
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I think your other post is most correct. Putin did an about face to keep the talks going and to discourage Trump from doing additional real damage to the russian economy. If that is not the case Donbas is all he wants FOR NOW.
The true measure of a successful negotiation is that both sides end up equally dissatisfied.
“U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP”
That strategy has already failed.
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