Posted on 08/17/2025 10:11:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
LONDON/KYIV, Aug 17 (Reuters) - European leaders will join Volodymyr Zelenskiy to meet Donald Trump in Washington, they said on Sunday, seeking to shore up Zelenskiy's position as the U.S. president presses Ukraine to accept a quick peace deal to end Europe's deadliest war in 80 years.
"If peace is not going to be possible here and this is just going to continue on as a war, people will continue to die by the thousands ... we may unfortunately wind up there, but we don't want to wind up there," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation."
Trump on Sunday promised "BIG PROGRESS ON RUSSIA" in a social media post without specifying what this might be.
Sources briefed on Moscow's thinking told Reuters the U.S. and Russian leaders have discussed proposals for Russia to relinquish tiny pockets of occupied Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv ceding a swathe of fortified land in the east and freezing the front lines elsewhere.
Top Trump officials hinted that the fate of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region - which incorporates Donetsk and Luhansk and which...
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if nothing else, Trump has proven to Americans this is a British-EU sponsored-war
Tulsi has been very busy.
I do not think she is challenging Ukraine sources as the intel that specifies Russian casualties.
And I suspect the Ukraine numbers are not as horrible as suggested.
These are not lines of troops marching across a field to have cannon fire cut through them, and it’s not WW I trench warfare.
It’s also not Stalingrad.
I wonder if all these numbers might not be too high.
Every one that offers no help still wants to be kept informed of the details.
Trump should wash his hands of this mess. It is becoming his war now.
He teed the ball up for a Putin-Zelensky meeting. He will remind EU Countries
that U.S. Weapons can be sold, but not given anymore.
EU Countries will have to decide if they want to continue the War with
EU Money or not.
Five consiglieri on this trip. That should cut down on the possibility of any spontaneity.
I take it these European leaders will travel with Zelensky attached to his body, like other ticks.
“ EU Countries will have to decide if they want to continue the War with”
I think Trump has done an excellent job at the meeting and if ultimately and soon we have a peace deal, he deserves the Nobel Peace Price.
Do you suppose Zelensky is afraid to meet with Trump one on one?? The last time he was kicked out of the oval office.
The others coming are out-spoken war mongers and will sour the negotiations. Trump needs to work on Zelensky one-on-one.
The others are simply there to keep Z from actually negotiating at all. THEY might "negotiate," but he won't be able to so much as fart without first getting approval from his escorts.
So the parasites that have sucked money, blood and lives from the US through two world wars and now the Ukraine quagmire are all coming to DC.
Why am I not surprised?
They better take the deal or prepare to be on their own for the first time in over a century.
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