President Trump said on Monday that he was in “serious discussions” with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine and the possibility of economic deals between the US and Russia.
“I am in serious discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia concerning the ending of the War, and also major Economic Development transactions which will take place between the United States and Russia,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Talks are proceeding very well!”
While the US hasn’t committed to lifting economic sanctions on Russia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made clear that sanctions relief will likely be part of a deal to end the war in Ukraine, which could pave the way for future US-Russia economic cooperation.
Trump also said in his Truth Social post that he discussed the idea of the US reaching a rare earth minerals deal with Ukraine while hosting French President Emmanuel Macron and speaking to other G7 leaders. “Everyone expressed their goal of seeing the War end, and I emphasized the importance of the vital “Critical Minerals and Rare-Earths Deal” between the United States and Ukraine, which we hope will be signed very soon!” he said.
Also on Monday, Trump claimed that Putin had “no problem” with the idea of a European peacekeeping force being deployed to Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal, although Russian officials have rejected the idea of a deployment of soldiers from NATO countries.
“Yeah, he will accept that. I’ve asked him that question,” Trump told reporters alongside Macron in the Oval Office. “Look, if we do this deal, he’s not looking for more war. He doesn’t mind. But I’ve specifically asked him that question. He has no problem with it.”
Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have been leading the push for a European troop deployment to provide a security guarantee for Ukraine. The Times reported last week that a plan that’s been proposed would involve a deployment of 30,000 European troops backed by US air power.
Kissinger’s ghost ? Does Russia cut and run from BRICS and China?
Unless Russia has a political horizon spanning less than 4 years that seems rather unlikely. In a multipolar world I'd think from a game theory point of view everybody is seeking to maximize the number of eggs in their basket, but that would go for anyone in the game.
Never that mistake again.
I’m not certain about that.
BRIICS isn’t going anywhere even if world peace breaks out. Just like turning a page, everything can go back as if it was 2022.
Indeed. Some countries may have short memories, but others can hold grudges or vendettas for centuries.
Nobody should trust the USA for decades to come – not until everyone holding elected office, or ensconced in the Deep State, in 2024 are mathematically dead of old age.
I expect Trump will offer Putin sanctions relief in return for turning away from China. China has mostly adhered to US sanctions against Russia and never supported Putin''s aggression against Ukraine or recognized Russian annexation of Ukrainian territory. What will Putin do? We may soon see.
Unlike U.S., Russia values its bordering neighbors. Russia fully understands that the Trump Administration is just a pause in the greater objective. Call it a Minsk 3.0.
In a few months we will probably know Putin’s response to Trump’s offer.
The combined budget of Russia and China on military spending is only 50% of what U.S. spends annually.
You are making my point. Why are you aggregating Russian and Chinese military spending? What if Putin decides that the US is a more powerful ally than China? With over 90% of the world’s nukes Putin and Trump are the kind of megalomaniacs who may delude themselves into believing they could dominate the world together without NATO or BRICS. A US Russia alliance could offer Putin instant sanctions relief, victory in Ukraine and possibly an end to NATO. Putin has to do a cost benefit analysis and make a decision where Russia’s strategic interests lie. Don’t be too hasty to predict what Putin will do.
Consider yesterday at the UN where the US, Russia and Israel worked together to oppose the Ukraine/EU resolution in the General Assembly and the US and Russia opposed a motion supported by China and the EU to table the US Security Council resolution on Ukraine. Trump is trying to change the world. Putin has to make a decision that goes far beyond the Ukraine war.
Here is the peanut gallery we bozos need to be careful making predictions what Putin will do. Remember Bob Dylan’s words “don’t speak too soon, for the wheel’s still in spin.”
I’m aggregating both Russia and China’s military spending to show what a joke a 50% military spending cut means. Simply put, the impact of conventional military readiness is far more impacted for both Russia and China than U.S. even after a 50% cut.
You also assume that the eastern empire thinks in two dimensions. Cost savings analysis doesn’t mean anything to the Russ if it means getting partitioned and be injected by western liberalism. The Russ learned quickly being dependent on the west is a road to serfdom. Last time something came from the west was Lenin, Bernstein and Marx which set Russia back 90 years.
You are digressing. My point is that Trump is going all out to entice Putin to abandon Russia’s partnership with China. We will know in a few months if Putin remains aligned with the Global South or flips again like he did in 2014. Putin has to be disappointed with China’s lack of support for his aggression against Ukraine. And Trump has a lot of goodies to offer including sanctions relief, a Ukraine peace agreement on Putin’s terms and, most significantly, ending US support for NATO. We agree is Putin a Russian nationalist (I would say imperialist). Either way, he has an interesting choice to make.
BTW, Putin and Trump are both deluded in believing that the US and Russia can end the war without Ukraine. Neither understand the role of hearts and minds in asymmetric warfare. even if US/NATO withdraws all aid and the Ukrainian army collapses, the Ukrainian resistance will continue until the Russians leave.,
Let it go. Russia won’t give up what they built just for a fist full of dollar.
In a few months we may know if Putin’s rhetoric about a multi-polar world order is sincere or a hypocritical cover for Russian revanchism. The stakes are high for the USA to isolate China and ending the US commitment to NATO will tempt any Russian leader.
Yes we shall see.
I know it was already weakened, and the Russians had their hands full in Ukraine, but the swiftness of Syria’s turnover and Assad’s quick escape, without as much as a peep from Russia, or the usual international PR howling, still makes me suspicious of a deal in the works. Add in the after agreement to allow Russia to keep a small base there, and it doesn’t compute with Clinton’s prior plans to go at Russia through Syria.
The TASS announcement of a new Russian plane route to Israel, for tourism, with an ongoing genocide, stunk to high heaven. There already existed routes to carry dual Israeli/Russian citizens back and forth. That was the killer in my mind that Russia had any real objections to Israel’s atrocities and was making nice for business. No outcry from the US against Israel or Russia for the coziness, either.
I agree. In the next few months Trump will offer Putin sanctions relief in return for a partnership.
For the record, Russia has drastically cut its trade with Israel since 2019. China, India, South Africa have not. Turkey has also drastically reduced its trade which had been increasing before October 7th.
But actually Russia is moving towards sanctioning the USA (and allies) in terms of "double use" minerals, which are all of them if you push it. Russia would be interested on resuming gas and oil supplies to Europe but now it's Europe which (suicidally) doesn't want that and also it would hurt badly US LNG and shale oil producers, whose product is much more expensive.
China has NOT adhered to US sanctions in any way, nor does anyone in the so-called Global South. China is also moving to restricting US access to strategic minerals BTW:
Actually, and unfortunately, Chinese companies generally adhere to US sanctions against Russia to avoid being sanctioned themselves. China opposes unilateral sanctions in principle. But the reality is that the US still controls the international banking system more than any other country. While many countries suffer under US domination of the terms of trade and finance, no one has been able to create a viable counter system yet. While China has tried to help Russia endure US and G7 sanctions, China avoids taking steps that could trigger secondary sanctions against Chinese companies. For China the “no limits” partnership with Russia has limits.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10048/
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-sanctions-russia-ukraine-war-c8f05376081d06f2c50c0c947e5be7bc
But there is always another company that doesn’t…
The Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, said that the Chinese Red Cross would provide humanitarian assistance worth ¥5 million RMB ($791,540) to Ukraine, consisting of daily necessities.
http://un.china-mission.gov.cn/eng/hyyfy/202209/t20220908_10763699.htm
I don't see President Putin buying that offer. The Presidents of the Russian Federation and the DPRC have worked well and productively together, and not even if Canada made the US our 4th Territory (they don't even get to be a province) and we replaced every US politician would China OR Russia trust the USA more than each other for the next 100 years.
MAYBE if this was Trump's first term ever as President and the world didn't have published history of tens of thousands of lies and multiple shredded treaties and a pattern of chaos and untrustworthiness from Trump Admin 1.0, then MAYBE this'd be possible. But Putin's no idiot and doesn't trust the USA or Trump more than minimally necessary.
Trump will make the offer, including sanctions relief, Russian victory in Ukraine and a partnership with the US. Putin will decide. We will know in a few weeks or a few months whether Putin will remain committed to Russia’s orientation toward the Global South and China.
I don’t think it has to be a straight dichotomy. The Russian Federation can have better economic and political relations with the US, AND maintain close ties to the DPRC.
Anyone who tells you to only be friends with them and no one else, really is not your friend.
Trump’s friendship will come with a price. The neocons and MAGA are united on isolatingnChina that they see as the USA’s main adversary. Putin will have to make a choice between Russia’s imperial ambitions and solidarity with BRICS. In a few months we will probably know wha Putin decides.
Trump's "friendship" isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Putin's seen Trump's brief love for his own cabinet appointees and associates in Admin 1.0.
And Putin knows the depth of Neocon hatred for the Russian Federation that will outlast Trump and return with a vengeance in this same generation.
What, the Russian Federation abandons the DPRC in 2025 just to see Trump's quietly-Neocon successor in ~203X turn around and pit the USA against the RF even worse ?
No, there is more stability in continued growth between the RF and DPRC than to "swap horses in mid-stream" and find yourself atop a crocodile with the USA.
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Yawn…
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Uncle, the world is changing. Russia is a declining second tier power that inherited the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. Trump and Putin are both megalomaniacs who overestimate the importance of military power and don’t understand that in the long run hearts and minds prevail over force of arms. Putin and Trump have a greater natural affinity than Putin and Xi. Putin is too smart to trust Trump. I agree. But he also is smart enough to appreciate that China remained neutral in the Ukraine conflict forcing Russia to turn to Iran and North Korea for weapons and manpower. And China doesn’t recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea or the other four oblasts Putin claims. So Putin doesn’t fully trust Xi either. China pursues its on agenda. And “no limits” has limits for China. Putin can’t discount the possibility of immediate sanctions relief, Trump,s agreement on a pro-Russian Ukrainian solution and an end to the US commitment to NATO. We have different predictions and evaluations. But reality is coming when Putin decides whether to abandon China and BRICS in return for a partnership with the US. We will all know more in a few months.
BTW, Trump and Putin are misguided in believing that an agreement between the US and Russia can settle the Ukrainian war. Even if all US/NATO aid to Ukraine is cut off and the Ukrainian army collapses, the national resistance will continue until the Russians withdraw. It is that hearts and minds thing that double alpha male strongmen don’t understand.
The RF “inherited” the USSR’s nuclear arsenal only insomuch as Caitlyn Jenner “inherited” Bruce Jenner’s bank account, possessions, family etc. They’re the same entity with a new, different outlook on themselves and the world around them.
I don’t think the Russian Federation will keep or currently holds territories that don’t want to remain at least Russian Federation protectorates. Crimea is demonstrably content with its situation; Donbasi’i regions lean east to Moscow by virtue of ethnic bonds. And as the Russians demonstrated in Chechnya years back, they know how to go in and clean out miscreants.
US venture only lasts 4 years versus the BRICS that can go for decades…!
Maybe. But I’m now turning toward the mindset of a giant psyop manufactured by blackrock.
Extortion
the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
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Aren't your mid-00's era "clever memes" taking time away from you posting Comments on sites telling people HOW YOU MADE $2600/MONTH JUST WORKING FROM HOME, LOOK ME UP ON TELEGRAM TO FIND OUT HOW … ?
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Yawn.
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Pun is the lowest firm of wit; “remember when ?” the lowest form of conversation; and meme spamming the lowest form of discourse.
Take this tiresome s**t to Reddit; they still admire outdated crap like this over there.
The autocratic President Trump, the emperor of the USA, is blackmailing Ukraine.
(For the internet addresses RT or SPUTNIK, you probably need a server in Russia using a VPN.)
https://www.rt.com/russia/613253-putin-russia-us-rare-earths/
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250224/russia-open-to-us-russian-economic-cooperation-rdif-head-1121599239.html
https://www.rt.com/news/613248-us-russia-ukraine-peace-talks/
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250223/pentagon-chief-hopes-zelensky-will-sit-at-negotiating-table-very-soon-1121597991.html
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76325 Telephone conversation with President of China Xi Jinping February 24, 2025
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3299113/critical-moment-china-calls-all-stakeholders-be-part-ukraine-peace-talks
European and non-NATO? That's pretty much the following: Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Belarus. Good luck with that.
Maybe the Vatican can send some of those Swiss guards, they look pretty cool in photos? As direct descendant of one of their commanders, Lorenzo Ponziani, some six centuries ago, I demand that to be true: Papal Guards for Peace in the middle of Orthodoxia!, mwahahahahaha!
The sanctions relief must be given and cannot be part of the deal because it was illegal to implement them on the first place…!
Perhaps Trump should make a deal with Putin on Ukrainse's rare earth minerals…!
Not True…. Europe wants the Ukraine war to continue…!
Trump must have been warned by China threatening to cut their export of rare earth minerals to US…! What else is the reason for his persistence on this issue…?!
Play both sides of the conflict to end the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, one would hope.
I'd have to guess that the Trump family, like the Biden family, has vested financial interests (or upcoming investments) in Ukraine.
Follow the money & we'll find one of Trump's kids has an uncle who has a niece or nephew who As It Happens Just So Happens to be on the Board of Directors of a Yttrium refining conglomerate in upper west Ukraine who OHHHH WOW will Just Happen to draw a multimillion-dollar bonus when US companies invest heavily after the war.
You might be correct… Follow the money specially in a corrupt country like Ukraine that has received billions in US aid which makes it is easy to manipulate…! Versus Greenland or Canada…!
Follow the money…
Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million when they were in the White House.
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The Trump-ster thinks he can soften Putin with the lure of $ signs. And while Putin plays along publicly, he is rather a very pius fellow who worships his father and the fatherland that saved Russia from the Nazis. Now he himself has had to save it from the West. And, guaranteed, he won't sell out this victory with its immense cost in Russian blood and treasure for a sleazy pitch from a lubricious TV POTUS.