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Posted on 09/16/2025 6:09:44 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Special Presidential Envoy Keith Kellogg on Monday said he and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently advised President Trump that Russia is losing its war on Ukraine — as Moscow has seen more than 1 million casualties while taking less than 1% of Ukrainian territory since November 2022.
Speaking at the Yalta European Security Conference in Kyiv, Kellogg revealed he and the chairman, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, each reassured the president of Moscow’s wilting position roughly six weeks ago — shortly before Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
“If Putin thinks Russia is winning, his definition of winning and my definition of winning are absolutely two different things,” Kellogg said. “If he was winning, he’d be in Kyiv. If he’s winning, he’d be west of the Dnipro River. If he was winning, he’d be on Odessa. If he was winning, he would have changed the government.
“Russia is, in fact, losing this war,” he added.
The two military experts gave their assessment in response to Trump’s then-prodding as to whether Putin’s grandstanding of supposed success in Ukraine was true, Kellogg said, giving a rare glimpse into private discussions at the White House.
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until Russia ignites a nuke
whatever
The pressure on Trump to intervene in Ukraine is building
The Rooskis nukes don’t work anymore.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Putin might wanna take the exit ramp IF there is any truth to this.
Are you willing to test your belief in Pa?
How are your chums over on BlueSky?
You are an ignorant clueless fool.
Well the old ones are a mess but they also have some new ones. Putin is not going to blow off a nuke.
My definition of winning is not having my tax dollars, and weapons my tax dollars have paid for, sent to a spit of land the size of Texas that sits 5,000 miles away, just to fight another proxy war with Russia, and so politicians can make money off that war. Nobody wins proxy wars, except the people getting rich off of them.
So tell me when was the last time they lit one off?
Winning means doing your objectives. Russia can and will not, sorry. It’ll drag on forever I know so maybe it’ll be a ‘draw’. But Russia can’t win.
Draw mate?
What country ever invaded and conquered Russia? Hitler tried it, because he wanted the oil fields. He ended up making his country dependent on Russian oil for 80+ years. And even now, NATO countries are still buying oil from Russia. The same countries that we've been propping up in NATO for many years. It's bullshit. They are hypocrites.
Military experts?
Wasn't it military experts that declared the United States had spent billions to build up the Afghan military to be the best in its region?
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