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What President Trump is going to Budapest for
American Thinker ^ | October 21, 2025 | Edward Topol

Posted on 10/21/2025 12:59:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

I am continuing to prepare for President Donald Trump’s trip to Budapest, where he will meet with President Putin. In order to negotiate an end to the war with Ukraine, it is necessary to know for what Putin sent his soldiers there. To clarify, I am not asking “why,” but “what for.” Since the beginning of Putin’s attack on Ukraine, political scientists, psychologists, and other experts have attempted to explain the attack based on Putin’s psyche: his desire to prove to world leaders that he is the most powerful, his dream of being remembered as the “gatherer of Russian lands,” his irritation at Ukraine’s application to join NATO, and the fabrications of Russian propagandists about American biological laboratories in Ukraine.

However, on September 5, 2022, Major General Vladimir Ovchinsky, former head of Russian Interpol and current advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, revealed the secret. In the September issue of the magazine Izbor Club, he published his article Литий и смерть (Lithium and Death). This small-circulation magazine certainly wasn’t read in the White House, and I doubt anyone there knew how to read Russian, then or now. However, I will not translate and quote the entire article. Instead, I will list the reasons for the Russian invasion mentioned in it, starting with this:

‘Ukraine ranks fourth in the world in terms of the total estimated value of its natural resources. It has an annual output of approximately $15 billion, with a potential estimated value of up to $7.5 trillion,’ the general wrote. ‘At the same time, Ukraine is one of the richest European countries in terms of rare earth metals and lithium reserves. The value of these deposits is estimated to be between $3 trillion and $11.5 trillion. Oil is traditionally called ‘black gold’ because of...


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1 posted on 10/21/2025 12:59:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Second rate blogs are a step behind the times.


2 posted on 10/21/2025 1:00:47 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Last I heard, that meeting with Putin was off.


3 posted on 10/21/2025 1:01:42 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Author is late. Trump is not going now, after Putin disagreed with a ceasefire in place.


4 posted on 10/21/2025 1:06:49 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s always about energy. Especially with Russia.


5 posted on 10/21/2025 1:06:52 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
the meeting is supposedly off, and meaningless if it came to pass. But, the article states that Putin invaded to steal the land wealth contained in Ukrainian soil. Sounds like a real good reason to stop Russia, now and forever. Why do bank robberies happen? That's where the money is.

Why does Putin invade his neighbors? That's where the wealth is.

But, why does Putin really want to invade his neighbors? Because that's what, in his mind, validates his greatness.
6 posted on 10/21/2025 1:11:25 PM PDT by adorno ( )
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Sounds like a real good reason to stop Russia, now and forever.

What would that entail, exactly?

7 posted on 10/21/2025 1:14:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Decent pastry?


8 posted on 10/21/2025 1:19:34 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Meeting has been cancelled for now.


9 posted on 10/21/2025 1:21:56 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What President Trump is going to Budapest for

That's just plain bad grammar.
Proper grammar requires fewer words: Why is President Trump going to Budapest?
Oh, and Trump isn't going there BTW....
10 posted on 10/21/2025 1:23:26 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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What would that entail, exactly?

Make them powerless, like it's happening now.

Ukraine, with help from outside, is doing a good job at that.

And, Russia has been revealed to be nothing but a paper-tiger, with a military that is basically third-rate, and even less now.

Russia has an economy which is unable to support its military, and now, with its oil infrastructure losing about 40% from the Ukrainian strikes, is even less capable.

I know you post about one hundred articles per day, but you need to pay attention to what's really happening to Russia.

Your day job is not helping you much.
11 posted on 10/21/2025 1:27:54 PM PDT by adorno ( )
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So we should continue conducting the proxy war that in the same breath you will deny exists?


12 posted on 10/21/2025 1:28:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: GingisK

To retrieve the crown of St. Stephen which one of his predecessors for some reason gave to the Communist regime?


13 posted on 10/21/2025 1:31:36 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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So we should continue conducting the proxy war that in the same breath you will deny exists?

Since when is helping a friend in battling a monster the same as a proxy war?

You want to define it as a proxy war, in order to demonize the assistance being provided.

FACT is that, no war, proxy or otherwise, would be occurring if Putin had not decided to invade a free and independent country. Did you forget that part in your 'definition' and demonization?
14 posted on 10/21/2025 1:48:27 PM PDT by adorno ( )
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Since when is helping a friend in battling a monster the same as a proxy war?

So "helping a friend in battling a monster" by supplying weapons and giving them $350,000,000,000++ to fight a war that would be "unsustainable" without that support isn't a proxy war?

Do you hear yourself, Margaret?

U.S.-Russia Proxy War in Ukraine: A Case of Deterrence Failure

15 posted on 10/21/2025 1:59:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"What Why President Trump is going to Budapest for"
16 posted on 10/21/2025 2:11:18 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No matter how much, wars are not cheap, and when battling one of the biggest military powers in the world, no cost is too much, A lot more would be lost if the cost was what mattered the most.

Still not a proxy war, no matter how many times you repeat the nonsense.


17 posted on 10/21/2025 2:12:32 PM PDT by adorno ( )
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