What President Trump is going to Budapest for

American Thinker ^ | October 21, 2025 | Edward Topol

[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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: putinthewarpig; russiankeywordtroll; russiansuicide; spammingfr; vladtheimploder

[nwrep]

Second rate blogs are a step behind the times.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Last I heard, that meeting with Putin was off.

[Wuli]

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

[Tell It Right]

It’s always about energy. Especially with Russia.

[adorno]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like a real good reason to stop Russia, now and forever.

What would that entail, exactly?

[GingisK]

Decent pastry?

[mass55th]

Meeting has been cancelled for now.

[Dr. Franklin]

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....

[adorno]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So we should continue conducting the proxy war that in the same breath you will deny exists?

[Verginius Rufus]

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

[adorno]

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?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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

[plain talk]

"What Why President Trump is going to Budapest for"

[adorno]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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

And war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength and 2 + 2 = 5, right?

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” --George Orwell

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Zelensky is using British-made missiles to attack Putin's gunpowder factory

But it is NOT a proxy war. No sir!

[adorno]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” --George Orwell

Orwell had people like YOU in mind when he made that statement.

For it is YOU and others like you who are in denial of the actual goings on in the Putin vs Ukraine war.

The evidence is out there, and your mental blindness is causing you nightmares, which then causes you to not listen to the truth or admit it.