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Posted on 08/24/2025 10:13:08 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Since Putin started the war by invading the neighbor he promised to defend from aggression, this is a “no chit, Sherlock” moment.
“””Petraeus said that currently the “obstacle to peace” is Putin.”””””
Did he figure that out all by himself?????????
BetrayUs says that? I support Putin over him any day.
Moscow Times [10/27/2021]
The neighboring separatist-held Luhansk People’s Republic accused Kiev of using the Bayraktar in violation of ceasefire agreements that ban the deployment of foreign drones on the front line.
The Kremlin said Wednesday that Turkey’s supply of drones to Ukraine risks destabilizing the eastern Ukraine conflict
The Ukrainian army has been locked in a long-running conflict with separatist fighters in Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014 after Moscow annexed the peninsula of Crimea from Kiev. The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives.
Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russia of sending troops and arms to support the separatists, which Moscow denies.
Warsaw Institute [27 October 2021]
“The Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 combat drone has been deployed at Donbas by the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation for the first time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement. The drone targeted the positions of pro-Russian insurgents on October 26. The incident has been met with criticism from Moscow.”
“The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the unmanned aerial vehicle was used to attack a battery of howitzers that fired Ukrainian positions in Hranitne on the southern part of the line of contact. One Ukrainian soldier was killed and the other was wounded. Despite calls for a ceasefire from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, “Russian-terrorist” forces did not stop the fire. The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces ordered the drone strike to “force the ceasefire.”
“The Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation said on October 26 that separatists made thirteen breaches to the ceasefire”
https://warsawinstitute.org/ukraine-uses-bayraktar-tb2-first-time-donbas/
New York Times [Nov. 15, 2021]
How a Dispute Over Groceries Led to Artillery Strikes in Ukraine
Deployed for the first time in combat by Ukraine and provided by a country that is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the drone hit a howitzer operated by the separatists. Things quickly escalated.
Across the border, Russia scrambled jets. The next day, Russian tanks mounted on rail cars rumbled toward the Ukrainian border.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-putin.html
BBC [26 November 2021]
they see the Kremlin sending a message that it’s ready to defend its “red lines” on Ukraine: above all, that it must not join Nato.
“I think for Putin it’s really important. He thinks the West has begun giving Ukraine’s elite hope about joining Nato,” political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya at R.Politik told the BBC.
“The training, the weapons and so on are like a red rag to a bull for Putin and he thinks if he doesn’t act today, then tomorrow there will be Nato bases in Ukraine. He needs to put a stop to that.”
Ukraine’s desire to join the security bloc is nothing new, nor is Russia’s insistence on vetoing that ambition in what it sees as its own “back yard”.
But Moscow has been rattled recently by the Ukrainian military using Turkish drones against Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine; the flight near Crimea of two nuclear-capable US bombers was an extra irritant.
“At a meeting between Putin and Biden, neither will give clear commitments but there may be some tacit understanding on how far the US is ready to go in increasing its military support to Ukraine,” Mr Kortunov argues. “That’s not impossible.”
“Whilst Putin has a flicker of hope that he can do a deal with Biden, he won’t take any rash steps. But if he thinks it’s all doomed, he could do the worst things we can imagine,” Tatiana Stanovaya warns.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59415885
Guardian [December 16, 2021]
“With tensions escalating along the border with Russia, Luke Harding visits troops in Ukraine’s Donbas region to gauge the mood ahead of a possible invasion. The war here has continued since 2014, when pro-Russian separatists seized Ukrainian cities.”
There’s a video I didn’t watch:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/dec/16/on-the-ukraine-frontline-only-the-dead-arent-afraid-video
The thing to keep in mind about these Deep Staters is that everything they say is projection. They started and caused this mess, and that needs to be hammered relentlessly back at them and their complicit media allies.
This guy doesn’t miss a thing.
Perhaps Trump could have the Department of State type up a draft peace document.
Copies could be e-mailed to Putin, Zelensky, Erdogan of Turkey, and Modi of India.
A week later Trump, Erdogan and Modi could meet in Turkey to negotiate the terms to be offered to Putin and Zelensky.
Once Trump, Erdogan and Modi have agreed, their document could be published online.
[April 28, 2025]
[Russian Foreign Minister] Sergey Lavrov: I have already given you part of the answer to this question. It was Kiev which withdrew from the negotiating process in April 2022. It acted this way at the request of its Western curators. In September of the same year, Vladimir Zelensky outlawed all talks with Russia. This piece of legislation remains in force. It must be cancelled. Otherwise, talks cannot resume. In his recent interview with CBS, Vladimir Zelensky once again spoke out against talks with Russia. Let me quote his words: “We can’t trust Russia. It’s that we can’t trust negotiations with Russia.”
We have made no secret regarding our position on the settlement. Russia proceeds from the premise that Kiev’s non-accession to NATO, as well as reaffirming its neutral and non-aligned status as per the 1990 Declaration on Ukraine’s State Sovereignty – these factors form one of the two pillars for a final settlement to the Ukraine crisis that would meet Russia’s security interests. The second pillar consists of overcoming the legacy of the neo-Nazi regime which took power in Kiev after the February 2014 putsch, including the initiative by its perpetrators to eradicate and cancel, in both physical and legislative terms, everything Russian, be it the Russian language, media, culture, traditions, or the canonical Orthodox faith.
The international recognition of Crimea, Sevastopol, the DPR, the LPR, the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as part of Russia is another imperative.
All the commitments Kiev assumes must be legally binding, contain enforcement mechanisms and be permanent.
Demilitarising and de-Nazifying Ukraine is also on the agenda, along with lifting sanctions, withdrawing lawsuits and cancelling arrest warrants, as well as returning Russian assets subjected to the so-called freeze in the West.
We will also insist on obtaining solid security guarantees for the Russian Federation in order to shield it from any threats emanating from hostile activities by NATO, the European Union and some of their member states along our western border.
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2011929/
“The international recognition of Crimea, Sevastopol, the DPR, the LPR, the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as part of Russia is another imperative.”
No western country is going to bless Russian territory snatching.
“Demilitarising and de-Nazifying Ukraine”
Since Russia doesn’t want NATO or foreign troops in what is left of Ukraine, Ukraine must be able to defend itself and it will need the means to do so.
“de-Nazifying Ukraine”
The only thing I can think of doing is along German laws that ban Nazi ideology and symbols.
Petraeus is a deep state hack. He should get a room in France and share it with Pence.
Another agent of the Rump British empire and Davos globalists
Is this guy not still a discredited clown?
General “Betray Us”, guy that revealed classified secret information to his mistress. Should be in prison, not giving interviews. Couldn’t care less what that traitor thinks, period.
“I don’t think, in fact, out of the last two weeks, really, Jonathan, I think what should be clear to all, and I think it is even clear to President Trump, is that despite all of his efforts, again, which we applaud to end the war, to stop the killing, Vladimir Putin clearly has no intention of doing that unless he’s given additional territory, which is heavily fortified, and Russian forces would have to fight for years at the pace that they’re going.”
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Who’s Patreus talking about, we? Got a mouse in his pocket? He lost his security clearance in 2013 and rightfully so.
“Zelenskiy...at least 200,000 European peacekeepers”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-working-set-up-trump-meeting-2025-01-21/
Ukrainian demands posted at:
There was a short period of time, when I was certain that General Petraeus would save the country from the draining ordeal of Obama’s second term. Before Petraeus could fully present his case for election, he was bombarded with what we now now ‘lawfare’ or bogus charges of wrongdoing.
After the 2012 election, the DEMS pounced upon the General with all manner of accusations and ominous threats.
The GOP of that time was still locked into GWB-go along to get along- passive mode, and did not provide much open support for Petraeus or legal push back against Obama’s minions in the media. I don’t think even Mitt Romney disputed the charges against Petraeus very aggressively.
The best solution would be if the Russians themselves removed Putin and honestly I am surprised it has not already happened. Of course, then we would have to worry who comes after Vlad.
Petraeus should never be believed on anything of a serious matter until he explains his involvement with Turkey while he was head of the CIA.
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