Posted on 09/23/2025 5:22:29 PM PDT by Salohcin
President Trump has made it among his highest priorities to restore peace anywhere and everywhere—including the war between Russia and Ukraine. At the UN Security Council I made clear: This war needs to end. If it does not, the President will take the steps necessary to impose costs for continued aggression.
If he wants to stop it He needs to start right here at home with Lindsey Graham first...
Linda needs to get shut down.
Interesting that Nicky [Salohcin] came out to play today...
agree
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do not put another penny towards NATOs war
If he plans on stopping this war, it better not include any more taxpayer money, no taxpayer paid-for weapons, and no American bodies. No more proxy wars with Russia or any other foreign country. If he wants to sell weapons to Europe to do so, that’s fine, but no more taxpayer money to NATO, because we’ve been supporting that useless organization since it began. Get out of NATO permanently.
Trump is using Rubio to give a warning to Putin about his continuing aggression. Undoubtedly, Putin’s sock puppets will try claim that this is nothing but empty talk, but they would be seriously underestimating Trump’s resolve once he has made a decision.
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It’s Trump’s strategy of getting Putin to the table.
President Trump just made clear that this is Europe’s problem.
NAFO (without the U.S.) is already mounting coups in Serbia and Moldova. They won’t need Ukraine anymore, tacitly acknowledge it’s lost, and are already on Plan B.
Lindsey Graham is preventing Putin from negotiating a peace deal? How so?
The EU needs that war.
They are collapsing internally, financially and by civil unrest.
In their globalist mind, a world war with Russia is the ultimate goal of retaining power.
Yet, how they figure on financing it is a mystery to all sensible thinkers.
They have no military to speak of, they expended most of their reserve munitions to Ukraine and seriously, they’ll fail to get the people to support it.
I trusted he would. Thanks for confirming it!!
The first and most effective way to cut this war short would be for Europe to stop supporting Russia by buying their oil and gas.
I won’t place any bets that the Euroweenie hypocrites will do that.
I think you’re mis-reading the situation. Trump has raised the ante on Putin. If you recall a month ago when Trump and Putin met in Alaska, the terms being discussed were far from “Ukraine gets everything back”. It was understood at the time that some Ukraine would have to give up some land in exchange for security guarantees. But it turned out Putin had no intention of signing such a deal.
This is Trump ramping up the pressure in response. He’s given the nod to Europe that he’s okay with them responding to Russian incursions into their airspace and he’s hinted that the U.S. has additional cards to play as well, but without being specific.
Nope, his closing words were, “ good luck to all.”
How so? Will those steps harm the US citizen and taxpayer?
Trump went all in with Ukraine today. He’ll lose.
Exactly. It’s a delicate dance, but Putin has made it clear that he sees no reason to end the conflict and that that’s not going to change unless increased pressure is brought to bear on him.
What’s the best way to increase that pressure while preventing things from getting out of control, in the process? Ramp up the pressure step by step but do it slow enough to give Putin the opportunity to de-escalate when things start to get uncomfortable for him.
>>”Nope, his closing words were, “ good luck to all.”
And he also says Xi is his friend.
You can’t take what Trump says at face value. Trump has never put retaking all the territory seized by Russia on the table before. The fact that he’s doing so now says a lot more than him saying “good luck to all”.
Russia is a laughable military power
Putin likes soft dem presidents who play by the rules Putin sets
Trump has no need to abide the peeper playbook.
This is just one step in a process of negotiation. If you view it from that perspective it will all make sense.
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