On Wednesday, President Trump called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a deal to end the war in Ukraine and threatened that if it doesn’t come to an end, he will place additional tariffs and sanctions on Russian goods.
“I’m not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin – and this despite the Radical Left’s Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. We must never forget that Russia helped us win the Second World War, losing almost 60,000,000 lives in the process,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“All of that being said, I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE. If we don’t make a ‘deal,’ and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.” the president added.
Trump said no more lives should be lost in the war and said a deal could be done “the easy way, or the hard way.”
US sanctions on Russia that were imposed under President Biden did nothing to stop the war in Ukraine and did not destroy the Russian economy as the Biden administration had hoped. It’s unclear if there are any additional sanctions Trump could impose on Russia that would make any difference.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that it is the policy of the administration to bring the war to a close, and The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Trump had instructed his envoy to the Ukraine war, Keith Kellog, to reach a settlement in 100 days, but it remains unclear what sort of deal the US might offer Russia.
Trump’s Ukraine plan is a joke. It shows he doesn’t understand the war. He chose idiot neocon Marco Rubio as Sec. of State who said the war is at a stalemate. After getting back stabbed by Deep State Generals last time, he chose General Kellog to resolve the Ukraine issue. Everyone is briefed by top CIA intel that is designed to mislead. The truth is:
1. Russia has been winning for a year as forces advance daily. Ukraine’s army will soon collapse, even its Generals have said this.
2.Biden has already sent all the aid we can send, so Trump can’t send more and it’s of little value to Ukraine that really needs 200,000 more bodies.
3.Impose sanctions? The USA already imposed every sanction it could think of.
The USA can do nothing and watch Ukraine collapse, as happened in Afghanistan. Or ask Putin what he wants and agree to allow an orderly defeat.
You can see here the result of the dismantling of intelligence services. Trump is being told absolute nonsense in his briefs and makes a bit of a point to show to be of the opinion that self-delusion is the key ingredient next to childish bluster to "make deals." Perhaps this is all a facade to put up a show for the press to sidetrack them with Kelloggian nonsense and keep them busy amongs themselves while he has actually some really brilliant secret plan, guaranteerd to work well within the span of some three months. But I am a tiny bit skeptical about that possibility.
The most brilliant plan would be shut up and never mention Ukraine again. There are a lot of other problems which are easier to solve, and which are also more important for American people.
That's not funny. What's funny is that we hired Trump to end the Ukraine war.
Who hired him to end the Ukrainian war?
I don't think most Americans who voted for him care about Ukraine. Why they should?
If you believe Trump's GISS Army followers, 600 million of them voted for him to do just that.
(math is also not their strong suit)
And as shown most Americans don't care about their police as they elected a guy who said that he would pardon criminals who attacked policemen protecting the capital.
One of them was arrested two days after his pardon. On gun charges.
I am sure the 140 officers who were injured on J6 were not exactly pleased with the pardons.
The d*mn man pardoned the ones who did the damage to the Capitol, and, did the harm to the officers.
Of course his MAGATS are cool with it. All they care about is his carrying out what he said he was going to do. Like, "take that lefties".
Morons.
"One of them was arrested two days after his pardon" Thanks for the info, I missed that peace of news.
I think what Putin wants, remains the same. No NATO in Ukraine, neutrality for Ukraine, protections for ethnic Russians in the east of Ukraine.
A pogrom against neo-Nazis in Kiev and Ukrainian military would be a bonus, but if the first items are agreed, then all the surly goose-shtepping moronsh (that's my Connery voice) left in Ukraine serve as a parting gift to the European Union's NATO member states.
Also, perhaps a return to the INF and Open Skies treaties, and stop the infantile sanctions.
All of those are do-able, as they all benefit the West as much as they benefit the Russian Federation.
Ukraine will join NATO.
Ukraine is one of the strongest army in Europe now.
Russia has many more Nazis within its military ranks.
… and protection of Russians?
Putin has been killing a 1000 Russians a day to save a few ethnic Russians that could've been moved to the Real Russia they want to live in.
That's a dumb leader.
He started the war not Ukraine.
Ukraine is one of the strongest army in Europe now.
Sure, and that's why everyone keeps telling them to lower their draft age to 18.
He still doesn’t get it.
He never did.
He gets one thing though, that his base will switch as quickly as he does on things foreign adn domestic. There might be just one exception with the Evangelicals when it comes to Israel, but I doubt that Trump will disappoint them.
Not with Mariam Adelson on the dais behind him during his inauguration speech. Her $100,000,000 sez so.
Trump could easily distance himself from Ukrainian war and shift the blame on previous administration. Instead he is getting more and more involved in it. He is making a clown of himself by threatening more anti-Russian sanctions.
No, its not making a clown of himself. He and his base adn when it comes to the Ukraine even the neocon Democrats are with Trump both want to be the only superpower empire on the globe.
He is not so much of a clown than a bully. Sure, some stuff the Democrats did were just as dictatorial adn horrible but they had several bullies. Trump is the bully in chief.
He is getting involved now with the war because he wants to come out on top with America (Trump) winning and Russia losing – that's what it is all about.
Threatening Russia with economic sanctions is a joke. Unless, of course, he can force or persuade China or, at least India, to participate in it. It would make sense to try to persuade main Russia's trade partners first. Otherwise it looks too silly. Probably he suspects that they will show him the middle finger, and yet he is behaving as if they have no other choice but to obey him. That's why he looks like a clown.
Trumps weakness is that he thinks he the smartest person in the room. USA enemies will take advantage of that and sucker him into a bad move.
He sure as hell is smarter than Biden or Kamala. And, stop making enemies of nations that have nothing to do with "our way of life" or "our freedoms"
Tell that to Putin too. He could use your advice.
He did say he would end the war in 24 hours. So that is on him.
Oh f**k I just agreed with you.
It happens. Don't feel bad. Two people don't have to agree on everything, nor do they have to disagree on everything.
George (CIA) Bush said "Read my lips; no new taxes." too. Wilson and FDR said not gonna get involved in European Wars, and LBJ said American boys not goiing to get involved in any Asian War.
So? They were wrong and so is trump.
The clown is Putin who started a war he thought he could win in few days and now he is so deep in it that cannot pull out. Only option is to continue sending young men to die for nothing. What a clown.
Putin. Putin. Putin. Methinks Julianne is crushing hard.
Trump has also said that Russia has lost a million dead in Ukraine. When they have never even had that many soldiers in Ukraine. Today according to Zelensky, Russia has 700,000. In the beginning they had only 130,000 or so at most, as even Zelensky has admitted. (The media pretended that they had 250,000, and that their retreat from two regions meant this "invasion force" was a failure. It was a small force rushed in to stop Ukraine's invasion of Donbass, which succeeded. Ukraine had close to a million soldiers.)
Trump also claimed that it's a "stalemate," when Russia is taking more towns and villages every day. But Donbass settlements are extremely dense, so the movement on the map from afar looks small, so the media can claim it's a "stalemate" to the ignorant Western public. Ukrainian soldiers say the Russians have five times more soldiers everywhere. While the Ukrainians are depleted, with Zelensky sending people from all over the front to the invasion of Kursk, to hold useless forestland. Ukrainian soldiers are deserting every day, it's a huge attrition, and they are forced to offer amnesty to anyone who has only deserted once, if they come back. No "stalemate."
Russia's revenue in December was 28% higher than a year before. Their economy is doing great. It is the EU's economy that is failing due to cutting itself off from Russia's oil and natural gas. And due to the U.S. destroying the Nord Stream II pipelines that could have supplied the gas in the future.
The EU is failing so hard that they are quietly buying Russian oil through intermediaries like Saudi Arabia, but this is just a trickle of what is needed.
But neocon lovers are stuck in their own propaganda about Russia being "a gas pump masquerading as a country," when in fact it has an advanced economy that does business around the world. And Russia has enormous natural resources, so it is self-sufficient.
Russia was still sending potash to the U.S. critical to making fertilizer.
Canada has huge reserves of potash. The US companies are buying it from Russia at a discount.
What Trump should have said was that this war should never have started. It is of no benefit to the US people and my agenda as President is to serve the needs of the American people. As a result, we would like to work with Russia and Ukraine to end this debacle in a peaceful way as soon as possible.
He isn't capable of talking like that. Everything is bombastic with him.
I agree.
Before the war, why did he sanction Russia?
Why did he withdraw from the INF treaty, and Open Skies?
Whey did he send Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine?
He is talking sanctions again.
In 2024, approximately 3 billion dollars worth of goods and services were imported from Russia to us. That is pocket money of total Russian trade. Putin may ignore.
Yet, it is now clear that Trump wants that war to end. After all, he promised that he could bring that about in 24 hours.
He wants it to end because he does not want to spend any more money on it. but he also wants to win adn come out ahead that's why he puts Putin and Russia down as insignificant losers. for him it is about money, power and real estate.
Real Estate.
Like beach property in Gaza?
He brought it up when answering a question posed to him.
Son in Law, Jared, brought it up, although quite draconian.
Negotiate to de escalate!….
Typical US bullying and setting preconditions are unconstructive….! Russia is a world power and is not a country in middle east…! Treating Russia unequally won't bring them to the negotiation table…!
Ignorance befits him.
Let's Praise Russia first before Threatening them…!
Trump is a very talented manipulator. He did it during the campaign and with everything else. He can throw people into the gutter, stomp on them humiliate them and then when it suits him praises them and they come slithering back asking for forgiveness and to be accepted.
Christians call it forgiveness but with Trump it is manipulation. I watched him long enough now and learned more about his entire life after I voted for him in 2016 and then was not to pleased with some of his maneuvers.
Is he right on some of domestic policies now? Yes, of course he is and that's how he gets majority support. But the way he does it with such air of superiority, bullishness almost hate diminishes the good in many ways.
You are spot on. He suckers people constantly.
Compliment Sammich :
"I love you"
"You f**king suck"
"I love you"
+++++
"e must never forget that Russia helped us win the Second World War" It was the other way around. USA aid help Russia win the Eastern front. We sent them winter clothing, jeeps, trucks, tanks, aircraft, railroad locomotives, rails, cotton, oil products, radars and other stuff. Something like 400,000 trucks and 14,000 airplanes for example.
So, Russia didn't lose more than 20 million souls in the war?
Sure, there was the Lend Lease. However, Russian blood was spilled in great numbers.
Also, I think that your numbers are greatly inflated.
Sources.
Please.
When your army sucks because of all the corruption, you lose lots of soldiers hence Russians in Ukraine.
Must be nice to not care about the life of your soldiers.
Russia is fighting like Ukraine invaded them. Haha. What a dumb clown Putin is. He will now fight until the last North Korean
I've noticed it's hard for you to make a comment without mentioning Putin. You just have to be Don Julio.
Weeks, Albert L. (2004), Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, ISBN 978-0-7391-0736-2
Nikolay Ryzhkov & Georgy Kumanev “Food and other strategic deliveries to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Act, 1941–1945”
Here is a breakdown of airplanes, in round numbers from Gordon, Yefim (2008). Soviet Air Power in World War 2.
P-39 5000
P-63 2400
P-40 2500
A-20 2700
B-25 900
PBY 200
C-47 700
T-6 80
Only England received more aid than the Soviets.
Of course the planes were important, but the trucks, railroad engines and rail were even more important.
No the numbers are not inflated.
All of it helped the Soviet Union destroy the majority of Germany's ground forces and decimated their Air Force.
You're on a roll. Yes indeed it is the other way around. The Nazi's lost the war to the Soviets, not the Western Allied forces. But actual history is very contrary to the selfcongratulatory WWII folklore fabricated during the Cold War with which Trump grew up. I think Putin realizes that he honestly doesn't know any better than the American-centric Hollywood version of WWII, but it must nevertheless have seriously rubbed him the wrong way.
Indeed. The sacrifice of more than twenty million citizens is hardly a trifle.
Mr. Pres!dent: The first thing you do with a clogged toilet is stop $hitting.
Funny, this old man sounds just like the last old man did.
WARS!? You got to post a funny joke before I got to it! Why are you waking up so early?
Early? You're 3 hours earlier than me!!
Yes, I am. You’re better than me in everything, especially math. So why don’t you start doing all the math from now on?
Can you see this picture? That’s a very funny picture is it not? https://x.com/MoonofA/status/1882455100557566337?t=O71fVpVgliD9jA7kCfDIfg&s=19
SSDD
This is TV POTUS a la WWF. This is the level of our Western NeoConNazi Oligarchy, … the best money can buy.
"Trump misses his own deadline to end Ukraine war"
no kidding?
]Russia helped us win the Second World War,]
what a history lesson from an idiot
To get to a quick deal, all it'll take is to announce that (1) Ukraine is no longer positioned to join NATO (and might as well say the same re Georgia while you're at it) and will not be allowed to nuke up and (2) Freeze all lines of control as they are at XX/XX/XXXX (the date of the agreement).
Russia is almost as tired of this war as the west is … but to the Russians, it's existential and they will not quit until they get what they need.
"put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States" What does the USA buy from Russia? Just some raw material because they are sold at discount by Russia.
"Just some raw material" the US bought from Russia 35% of the US supply of enriched uranium for electrical generation until Aug of last year and not at a discount. That 35% will be hard to replace as very few countries enrich uranium for export. The US only has one plant with the ability to enrich uranium and not in large enough quantities for domestic needs.
You are correct that in the past US did buy enrichment uranium from Russia at market value just under $1 billion. But that is changing. It also shows how stupid of a energy policy the US has. With 20% of electricity being generated from nuclear power, one would think that the US would have more than one plant dedicated to enriching uranium for power.
"On Wednesday, President Trump called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a deal to end the war in Ukraine…"
That's odd. When campaigning, Trump promised and assured he'd have the war ended "Day One".
Was he lying then, or lying now ? Or both ?
I realised last night – this is the first time in ~25 years of following US politics (not including what I learned on the topic from "Bloom County" as a kid in the '80s) that, after an election, I have NO idea who holds majority in Congress and Senate. And that it really doesn't matter to this sitting President's goals and whims.
This war will end on Putin’s terms not Trump’s.
I think Trump knows this but is creating the false narrative that his threats have anything to do with the ending of hostilities.
There are many more intelligent ways Trumpp could have handled this.
Does he play a fiddle? To play as he stokes global metaphorical fires and watches real ones devour US homes. Instead of platlying big and bad — he could have invited global powers to help. Pride comes before the fall.
Maybe there are other ways but they lead to the same place…
Russia wins. We can be good sports about it or gnash our teeth but it changes nothing.
Now we know the Trump plan. Same as Biden plan. Same as all colonial-minded European plans. More sanctions. Russia must do something. Zelensky need not do anything.
Difference? Trump loooves “Russian people”. Cold war siren song. “Russian people” today are not
likely to fall for the old “love” overtures and resets, shiny things and mirrors along with insults of Clinton, Bush and Obama eras.
At least mystery plan is now clear.
Phenomenal Bianca seems wise to all the tricks they play!!! She is our key 2 open up their agenda & plans! Read her analysis os what went down in Syria to understand it!
That Russian Uranium is going to be a bitch to replace.
What an asswipe.
Forget the threats, Donald. Just put on your big-boy pants and sanction Russia back to the stone age.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-pulling-us-troops-from-europe-in-blow-to-nato-allies-report/ar-AA1xJZND?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=8921fae3786c41a28d9e4f6c299cf85a&ei=17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_Germany
Perhaps the Germans are worried the US will close the remaining bases in Deutschland. They were economic engines providing a good income for German communities throughout the Cold War.
Has Olaf Scholz temporarily forgotten which country destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines?
Other than Klaus Schwab wanting to depopulate Europe, few could understand Germany's recent hostility toward Russia.