Posted on 08/19/2025 10:16:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
WASHINGTON/LONDON/KYIV, Aug 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he hoped Russia's Vladimir Putin would move forward on ending the war in Ukraine but conceded that the Kremlin leader may not want to make a deal at all, adding this would create a "rough situation" for Putin.
In an interview with the Fox News "Fox & Friends" programme, Trump said he believed Putin's course of action would become clear in the next couple of weeks. Trump again ruled out American troops on the ground in Ukraine and gave no specifics about the security guarantees he has previously said Washington could offer Kyiv under any post-war settlement.
"I don't think it's going to be a problem (reaching a peace deal), to be honest with you. I think Putin is tired of it. I think they're all tired of it, but you never know," Trump said.
"We're going to find out about President Putin in the next couple of weeks ... It's possible that he doesn't want to make a deal," said Trump, who has previously threatened more sanctions on Russia and nations that buy its oil if Putin does not make peace.
Ukraine and its European allies have been buoyed by Trump's promise of security guarantees to help end the war during an extraordinary summit on Monday but face many unanswered questions, including how willing Russia will be to play ball.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed the talks at the White House as a "major step forward" towards...
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By spring, Putin will already have most of the 4 provinces conquered already, so who knows
Trumps been played again like a cheap piano.
"Trump really stepped in it this time! It's all over for him now! The walls are closing in!" number 34,756,821,629.
This is Trump. He talks like this. Better to take a wait and see attitude rather than a declaration of defeat.
I have done that myself a couple times and I was wrong.
Maybe? maybe not?
One would think a strict constitutionalist such as yourself would not want to see the US militarily involved in enforcing the border of a country 8,000 miles away, wherein we have no interests whatsoever.
How'd Trump get played? Or do you just not like him?
Then let them fight to the end, without any freebies from this country.
Doubtful Putin accepts anything resembling a permanent NATO presence and a beefed up Ukrainian military. That’s how we got here.
A USA “tripwire” would utterly moronic on our part. Nothing but future problems waiting to happen and a playground for Deep State/MIC scumbags and their internationalist goons to further exploit Americans and our military.
Trump needs to get us out of the useless Ukraine $**thole altogether, as promised. Not commit us as their proxy... or start digging mines.
Note?
Reuters
Andrea Shalal (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
Tom Balmforth (Chief Correspondent, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova at Reuters)
Anastasiia Malenko (Kyiv Independent)
By spring, the war will be longer than the Great Patriotic War, and so far his summer offensive has hardly made any progress.
Putin is taking a cue from Arafat. ANY deal that ends hostilities threatens his existence and his economy.
Neither side wants to make a deal that the other will find acceptable, so like TR with the Russo-Japanese War, Trump will have to jawbone, threaten and cajole both to get movement.
..so he will keep adjusting his demands to make them unacceptable.
He can’t admit this in public, but he’d be perfectly OK if Putin conquers 100% of Ukraine and turns it into a western province of Russia. It really doesn’t matter one way or another how it’s resolved. It’s been nothing but a distraction to the Trump administration since January.
Trump: Putin faces 'rough situation' if no deal on Ukraine
That is true.
But it is equally as true that Zelensky and the Euroweenies face just as 'rough situation' if there is no deal.
Trump has given both sides choices.
That's all he can do.
Here’s a fact which a lot of people fail to talk about or even think about...
Putin cannot accept a deal which doesn’t grant him the entirety of Ukraine. If such a deal was to be accepted by Putin, he would be dead meat in Russia. Why sent 1.5 million to their deaths and lose so much equipment and turn the Russian economy into shambles? Putin would be known as the biggest idiot in Russian history if he accepts a compromise, and he would become enemy number one to the Russian people.
Nothing was accomplished, nothing will be accomplished. All Putin has to do is wait for the next admin. Like Nixon, the Russians will just wait out the clock. Lives are cheap to the Russians.
Putin may not like NATO expansion but I doubt very much he is genuinely threatened by it. What he has not abandoned is his objective to remove Zelensky from power and subjugate Ukraine to Moscow’s control. Free elections and an economically powerful flourishing democracy in Ukraine are a threat to Putin because the resulting government may want to align Ukraine with the West.
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