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Trump, Putin Turn The Screws On Zelensky
All Donald Trump wants in Ukraine is a "win-win scenario."
That's according to Karoline Leavitt, wh
Zelensky’s position isn’t helped by that conflict with the anti-corruption organization that flared up a few months ago.
I read that Russian will become the official language of Ukraine as well, under the proposal.
I wonder how the EU is going to stop this from happening without Trump pulling all support. But I’m sure they’ll succeed; there would be no bigger betrayal than this.
Hopefully, that won’t happen. The EU has shown a capacity to stand up and ignore Trump’s proclamations. And the Ukrainians show a strongly independent posture, notwithstanding Trump. Cheers to the EU!
Indeed, there’s something assbackwards about compelling the non-aggressor whose sovereignty was violated to give up hope of
joining a mutual defense alliance and limit its capacity to defend itself. It’s Putin’s way of thinking.
As long as I’ve watched Trump (over 30 years or so), he has reflected the consequences of his upbringing by his father, who showed Donald the uses of power in business relationships. As we all can see in the style of Donald’s presentation in the role of President, he really likes and enjoys power. And since his first term, he has always had a weird, implicit respect and affection for the powerful, Russian “Big Daddy” Vlad, who smiles at Donnie like he really gets a kick out of his affection.
I think it’s scary. There’s something twisted in all of this. I wish Donald had the stomach to stand up to Vlad.
trump was always going to push kremlin propaganda as the foundation of a supposed peace plan. he treats putin the way his own sycophants treat him, ignoring any lies and transgressions. Because of the ‘perfect call’ that got him impeached in his first term, and trump’s misguided perception that zelensky withheld incriminating evidence concerning the bidens, this was destined to be the outcome of any trump-led negotiation between ukraine and russia.
The 28 point plan was a Russian concoction. The English version reads like it was a Google translation.
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1991893316057624662
100% agree. The text of the “peace” plan is strange and stilted. It’s clear that it wasn’t written by anyone in the US government. Just compare it to the 20-point Gaza peace plan from October. Syntax and style are totally different.
I hope Ukraine rejects it. If they don’t, it’ll just be the pause that refreshes the aggressor and they’ll come back for more later.
This is somewhat off-topic, but why is Ukraine such a corrupt mess? Is it residual from the Soviet era where a centralized economy failed to get consumers what they wanted and a large black market economy was built up to fulfill those needs?
It’s been some wild few days in MagaLand, hasn’t it?
First of all, a large number of GOP Senators and Reps are rebelling against the peace proposal skillfully described above. (Thanks!)
Then Mayor-elect Mamdani moved from facing efforts to deport him to being a Trump ally.
All capped off by MTG resigning.
It does look like the crazy bus needs to stop for some urgent repairs.