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Zelenskyy says Trump must apply ‘more pressure’ on Putin than Hamas: Full interview
NBC News ^ | October 19, 2025

Posted on 10/19/2025 8:44:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that after President Trump’s breakthrough deal in the Middle East, he should take a similar approach with Russian President Vladimir Putin — but with even greater pressure to end the war in Ukraine.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Ukraine
KEYWORDS: putinthewarpig; russiansuicide; vladtheimploder
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1 posted on 10/19/2025 8:44:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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He has no cards.


2 posted on 10/19/2025 8:49:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
It's past time for Trump to tell Zelensky to freep off PERMANENTLY.

Trump needs end all of our involvement in Ukraine, directly or indirectly.

3 posted on 10/19/2025 8:53:41 PM PDT by Kazan
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And no one cares what that gay pedophile coke head has to say... seize his assets and drop him in the Atlantic.


4 posted on 10/19/2025 8:55:14 PM PDT by WinstonSmith1984 (Make 1984 fiction again.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Awww, what’s the matter Smurf? Your drones not doing the trick?


5 posted on 10/19/2025 9:28:57 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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--- "Zelenskyy says Trump must apply ‘more pressure’ on Putin...."

So, all the talking heads in Europe's political and media elite, representing many millions more than the US, are what? Chopped liver?

Let Mark Rutte as Secretary General lead Europe's military into battle. He and his mighty Netherlands have outspoken allies like Starmer of the UK, alongside Macron's French troops and Merz' Germans, along with the Baltic nations 'readying for war.'

“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”

Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: X, 2 March 2025

These United States are about 4 percent of the world's population, smaller than the EU, and still amassing debt. Time for the Europeans to put their money where their mouths are. Or maybe not.
6 posted on 10/19/2025 11:01:10 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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7 posted on 10/19/2025 11:10:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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8 posted on 10/19/2025 11:22:22 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You’re telling the President of the United States what to do?? Really?? How stupid are you?? Same cr** you pulled at that wreck of an interview.


9 posted on 10/20/2025 3:38:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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The Defense Minister of Russia

LOL, its day 1334 of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and that is the SECOND Defense Minister of Russia to be in charge during that time.

10 posted on 10/20/2025 3:45:36 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians

Stupid comparison. US and Russia are countries while Europe is composed of 44 different countries, many of them with tiny population.

11 posted on 10/20/2025 3:49:43 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He has no cards.

The Novokuybyshevsk Refinery in the Samara region, Russia, has been struck by drones. A huge fire can be seen from Samara.

The refinery produces annually 7.9 million tons in oil products and is around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the Ukrainian border


12 posted on 10/20/2025 3:54:23 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He has no cards.

Concur; he is asking for a loan to get the cards (and the answer is no, so far).
13 posted on 10/20/2025 4:01:03 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk @donaldtusk ·

None of us should put pressure on Zelenskyy when it comes to territorial concessions. We should all put pressure on Russia to stop its aggression. Appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace.

14 posted on 10/20/2025 4:01:13 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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Day 1334 of Putin's invasion of Ukraine,

Russian invasion is basically a stalemate. Russian military has paid enormous price for at best marginal territorial gains this year (charts from article).

https://www.economist.com/interactive/europe/2025/10/17/russia-latest-big-ukraine-offensive-gains-next-to-nothing-again?utm_content=ed-picks-image-link-3&etear=nl_sunday_today_3&utm_campaign=r.the-economist-sunday-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=10/19/2025&utm_id=2115855

15 posted on 10/20/2025 4:52:10 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Low IQ comic tells intelligent, most powerful man in the world, how to conduct business...


16 posted on 10/20/2025 5:32:32 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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--- "Stupid comparison. US and Russia are countries while Europe is composed of 44 different countries, many of them with tiny population."

The "stupid" statement was by Donald Tusk, who has been Prime Minister of Poland since 2023.

The European Union is composed of 27 nations, not 44. Its aggregate population is about 450 million.

The four largest nations in the EU have a combined population in the moment of 279.5 million. The leaders of those four nations sat together in the Oval office, lobbying President Trump to "do something."

The smallest of the "many of them with tiny population(s)" -- Malta -- did not attend. Germany, alone, is more that half the population of Russia in the moment. All in all, "Europe" whether in your version or in the official version of the European Commission, is far more populous than these United States.

17 posted on 10/20/2025 5:40:50 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why our involvement? Russia is not our enemy, and we’re not the world’s policeman.


18 posted on 10/20/2025 6:01:33 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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Russia is not our enemy,

LOL, so what is your description for a country like Russia that has thousands of nukes targeting us?

19 posted on 10/20/2025 6:47:52 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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More, “Yes, but” BS.

One question; How long would the war have lasted without the $350,000,000,000++ FJB sent to the Ukraine Black Hole, where money disappears never to be seen or accounted for again?


20 posted on 10/20/2025 7:25:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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