Posted on 10/21/2026 4:43:07 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
"Russian president says [this] area will not be part of any potential peace talks while Kremlin says the zone spans 660km. What we know on day 1,697"
• Russia is establishing a “security zone” inside Ukraine along the border and it will be non-negotiable in any future talks with Kyiv, Vladimir Putin
• The planned security zone spanned 660km (410 miles), of which 70% was currently under Russia’s control, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. Peskov did not say how deep it would reach inside Ukraine.
• As Russian missiles and drones have systematically slammed into power plants in Kyiv and Kharkiv this week, the rolling blackouts and water outages have increasingly resembled a supposed Russian blueprint to destroy life in major Ukrainian cities seen by the Guardian
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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She’s back and deeper than ever
Wait, what? This is supposed to be the non-negotiable baseline for negotiations? Keep everything you stole AND get land you haven’t even occupied,too?
One can make non-negotiable demands when one knows Trump's support for it is already part of the deal cut between Russia and the Trump business empire.
When Putin is dead or removed from power by a coup, everything will be negotiable again. Ukraine should not be forced to cede territory to an invader by anyone.
“When Putin is dead or removed from power by a coup...”
From your lips to God’s ears
It is difficult to be sympathetic for Ukraine when they are led by a little sh*t who is doing all he can to help the rats take Congress.
HIGHLY CREDIBLE/FACTUAL COMMENTARY
The War Is Coming Home to Russia
RAND
Feb 20, 2026
By John Tefft
*Retired U.S. diplomat. He was a career Foreign Service officer for more than 45 years, completing his service as the U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2014 to 2017.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2026/02/the-war-is-coming-home-to-russia.html
Well, Vlad has long said he will have to establish a security zone after liberating the ethnic Russian provinces. If the West had not given the Ukies long range missiles, there would be no need for a “ dead zone”.
Russian strategists have long discussed a “ dead zone” due to the West’s gifted missiles. He will not tolerate what happened in 2014, when the Ukie Neo Nazis started shelling Donetsk and Lughansk.
Post war Ukraine will look nothing like it used to be, if it survives at all. A good lesson to the Ukie war cheerleaders.
In the end, what Little z agrees to or doesn't is on him and Ukraine. The US and President Trump are all outside of it, at most, as influencers.
It's been Little z who says nothing less than full restitution of lands and monies to Ukraine is acceptable. He has always maintained this, despite Trump's encouragement of something more sane.
The US needs to leave it all and let the EU and Mother Germany step up and be responsible, with Ukraine.
Here is a list of Trump's actions just this week that reveal that he is hardly leaving "it all and let the EU and Mother Germany step up and be responsible, with Ukraine":
*Struck a diesel deal lifting some sanctions
*Restricted*shield for Ukraine
*Cut Intel warnings of Russian missile launches against Ukraine for several days
*Canceled Lindsay grams sanctions
*Demanded Ukraine dump Zelinski
*Absolved Russia for helping Iran fight the US
*Pushed Europe to resume buying Russian gas
IF PUTIN GOES TOES UP-—WHO REPLACES HIM
Didn’t she get spanked a few years ago for abusing the sidebar/spamming?
Bluntly I have no hope of this war ending anytime soon.
The only person who can end this war is Putin.
and the moment the war ends - whether he wins or loses, he is a dead man - so he is not going to end the war on his own.
I had hopes that the Russian people would get fed up and rise up against a 5 year long war, but that is not happening. So I despair of any end
there are myriad possibilities of who replaces Putin.
he has no designated successor, so that means there will be trouble no matter what.
The thing is - he is a dead man the moment the war ends - whether he wins or loses. If he loses, you know why. But if he wins, then people will question if it was worth it, and then he gets the chop.
“Bluntly I have no hope of this war ending anytime soon.
The only person who can end this war is Putin.
and the moment the war ends - whether he wins or loses, he is a dead man - so he is not going to end the war on his own.”
My husband is getting disgusted with Trump.
The sanctions, especially on oil, were working.
But, I believe President Trump is just discouraged.
Now President Trump realizes & understands the TRUTH behind ALL Putin’s lies.
I told him to just wait & see...
“whether he wins or loses, he [Putin] is a dead man.
True. I wouldn’t want to be a Putin look-a-like today!
No amount of money or privilege would pay enough to be his body-double!
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