The Trump administration wants Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to move his country toward elections or consider stepping down as one of the requirements for the US to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, NBC News reported on Sunday.
The report, which cited US officials, said the administration also wants to see a change in Zelensky’s attitude toward peace talks and the possibility of ceding territory to Russia and for Ukraine to sign the minerals deal that will give the US a piece of revenues made from Ukrainian rare earth minerals and other natural resources.
US and Ukrainian officials are meeting in Saudi Arabia this Tuesday and are expected to discuss such issues. So far, Zelensky’s public comments about being ready to work toward peace and sign the mineral deal haven’t been enough for the Trump administration to restart aid and intelligence sharing.
Ukrainian elections appear to be a major sticking point for the Trump administration since it may view Zelensky as an impediment to peace.
The Ukrainian leader has an interest in keeping the war going since his term in office expired in May 2024 and has been able to remain in power due to the lack of elections.
Ukrainian officials have justified the lack of elections by pointing to Ukraine’s constitution, which prohibits a vote during martial law. Martial law was first declared when Russia invaded and has been extended since.
Zelensky made it clear at one point that he could have held an election if he wanted to, suggesting at one point that it could happen if the US and other Western countries paid for it. But the Biden administration did not put any pressure on Zelensky to hold an election and helped justify the decision.
It remains unclear what sort of deal may be reached to end the war. Russia has launched heavy missile and drone attacks against Ukraine in recent days, leading President Trump to threaten additional sanctions on Russia.
One good coup deserves another?
Trump is a complete and utter moron. Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Ukraine in March or April of 2024, however, Trump's fascist war criminal pal prevented this from happening.
The Ukraine Constitution doesn't permit citizens to vote under martial law. Even Ukraine's opposition party agrees that Ukraine should not hold federal elections until at least 6 months after the war has ended.
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Since 1991, the Committee for State Security (KGB) has only existed in the Republic of Belarus and no longer in the Federation of Russia.
https://president.gov.by/en/statebodies/state-security-committee
https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619093 Committee for State Security of USSR founded
Putin served 15 years as a foreign intelligence officer for the KGB, including six years in Dresden, East Germany. In 1990 he retired from active KGB service with the rank of lieutenant colonel and returned to Russia. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Putin
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George HW Bush was Director of the CIA. I'm not sure what your point is.
Trump appointed lunatic conspiracy theorist Kash Patel as the new FBI director. Trump's CIA Director, lying John Ratcliffe, is a shameless Trump crony who uses his position to score political points for Trump. The Rat has made numerous public assertions that contradicted the intelligence community's own assessments.
I'm not sure what your point is.
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Don't even bother with that idiot trollbot.
Uncle_Sapien: "Don't even bother"
Are you discussing a ban on images?
https://www.jhiblog.org/2021/05/26/adorno-and-the-ban-on-images-an-interview-with-sebastian-truskolaski/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/prohibition-images
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2017.1342987 Aniconism: definitions, examples and comparative perspectives
The last opposition party in Ukraine wound up fighting a civil war.
Ukraine wound up fighting a civil war because Ukraine’s last opposition party was extremely pro-Russian and totally corrupt. Yanukovych strongly opposed economic ties between the EU and Ukraine and the return to the 2004 Ukraine Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
I'm not the one defending refusing to hold elections due to martial law being declared. Sounds pretty autocratic to me. Imagine if Trump wanted such a provision in the U.S.
General elections were suspended by the U.K. Parliament during WWII. Sounds quite normal to me.
You're the one defending authoritarianism. Sounds pretty hypocritical to me.
Trump tells Christians they won’t have to vote after this election.
“In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/trump-tells-christians-they-wont-have-to-vote-after-this-election/
Just eight days after he won his second term, Trumpenführer mused about whether he could have a third presidential term, which is barred by the Constitution.
How's the free and fair elections going in Russia?
As Putin was permitted two more consecutive terms without regard for his previous tenure, the 2020 constitutional amendment gave him legal authority to stay in office until 2036. … Sounds pretty autocratic to me.
Imagine being as dumb as a Trumpanzee.
??? Where did I say I supported Trump? Stop looking at the Russo/Ukraine War through the prism of US politics.
Why are you repeating Trumpian lies? Stop talking shit.
I look at Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine as a war crime, based on international law, not US politics.
It’s a war between Ukraine and Russia with the West involved. Trump has nothing to do with it. You are looking at things through the prism of US politics not to mention ignoring all the causes that led to the conflict escalating to this point.
You are looking at things through the prism of a profound moron. And you are ignoring international law.
Trump can't sack Zelensky so easy because Zelensky is working for globalists. Maybe Trump should offer some carrots to Zelensky. For example a nice villa in Gaza Strip.
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… you mean East Med Riviera, no?
That's what they used to call Lebanon, before Israel started regularly bombing the crap out of it.
They called Putin's $2.1bn kleptocrat mansion the 'Black Sea Fortress' — with a casino, Orthodox Church, two helipads, a vineyard and even an underground ice hockey rink. … Before Alexei Navalny paid the ultimate price for highlighting Putin's corruption and kleptocracy.
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/215bn-home-that-led-to-political-assassination/
Yes, I remember now; but, even in the ’50’s & ’60’s the balmy idyll was nostalgia for a bygone “old days”.
You are sending a corrupt comment that matches the like post of the commentator Existential_Dread. Are you corrupt and receiving Hamas pay?
Where have you seen corruption? They call it lobbying in America. Give something valuable to a politician in order to motivate him to do what you want him to do. That's normal practice in U.S.
Killing and imprisoning political opponents is normal practice for Putin. What do you call dictatorships?
Putin has won elections repeatedly over the last two decades, dictators are not known for that.
Yes, he’s won “elections” in which all credible opponents are barred from the ballot (and in some cases imprisoned) and in which opposition campaign events are banned.
When his “credible opponents” are oligarchs who blatantly break the law I have no problem with them going to jail, I wish we’d jail a few of our own. Here in the US a felony conviction isn’t even enough to keep someone off the ballot, but it is in Russia (and in fact in most other countries).
My coworkers in Moscow said, “We don’t like Putin much, but all the other alternatives are an order of magnitude worse so we’ll vote for him again.” Not much of a recommendation, but enough to keep him at the top of their government for a couple of decades.
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LMFAO! You're funny.
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Putin is also known for poisoning his critics.
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Putin is a wanted war criminal.
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Wtf does Zelensky have to do with Hamas? Is he claiming Ukraine the new imperialist expansion satellite for Israeli Zionists?
And I flagged his comment for harassment.
Lobbying means influencing political decisions or public opinion, and not bribery. This means that companies or associations suggest legislative initiatives to officials, formulate draft legislation, make party donations, etc. A lack of transparency until the final draft of a bill thus conceals the true intentions of the lobbyists. For example, powerful corporations tend to lobby for investment protection agreements and use lobbying to initiate state liability for failed investments by means of a private mediator or arbitration tribunal and so on.
https://www.ncsl.org/ethics/how-states-define-lobbying-and-lobbyist
https://www.ncsl.org/ethics/nepotism-restrictions
https://www.opensecrets.org/
https://www.u4.no/ The U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (U4)
Yeah, because Hamas is able to send e-transfers at the moment. WITAS ?
Why wouldn't Hamas be able to send e-transfers? It operates from offices in, among other places, Qatar and Turkey.
Their Accounts Payable is in Gaza City. You know how Corporate is; if things don’t follow proper channels, the CFO will lose they MIND.
He already has condos in London, Miami, and Geneva, and a villa in Tuscany. Not sure he'd want one in the middle of the desert.
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With his extortionate decisions, the autocratic President Trump is preparing his Crimea Yalta Conference 1945-style peace talks with the autocratic President Putin in order to break international public law and start a new imperialistic race.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Yalta-Conference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference
https://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/ga3-450211.pdf PROTOCOL OF PROCEEDINGS OF CRIMEA CONFERENCE
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/yalta.asp PROTOCOL OF PROCEEDINGS OF CRIMEA CONFERENCE
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945Malta Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945
https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/History/WWII/Argonaut3.pdf The Argonaut Conference: January–February 1945
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-congress-the-yalta-conference
https://www.prlib.ru/en/news/2023013 New documents on Yalta Conference in 1945 presented on Presidential Library portal
With your propagandist rantings, the nonsensical you prepares more sophist fables.
We NEVER accept reading assignments from a drivel emitter.
You failed to cite any "international" laws violated.
“We NEVER accept reading assignments from a drivel emitter.”
Can you really speak for all of your alters on that matter?
Lmao.
Defy him Zelensky !! Defy Defy Defy !!
Would he had the stuff! For his last act exposing the USI NeoCons. They got him and Europe into this mess and are now deserting, … hard to imagine a thing more dishonorable, more pusillanimous. Compared with which the Nazis appear paragons.
I can't imagine Putin "making a deal" with this USI SOS.
Indeed ! Trump only respects strength, Zelenskiyy – so go on social media, mainstream media, and talk fierce s**t about Trump constantly. Release a full album of diss tracks. Call him out at WWE Royal Rumble 2k25. Is The TikTok still legal in the USA ? Hammer him constantly on that.
Trup respects strength, ability and honesty, Zelensky has NONE of those qualities.
No idea why Trump would respect honesty. He’s got not idea what it means
You support more incredible suffering for Ukraine.
All you leftists are capable of doing is shouting defy.
Mar 8, 2025 UKRAINE's TOTAL Failure in KURSK: Ukrainian Soldiers and Mercenaries Began To Surrender En MASSE
Unfortunately for the Ukrainian General Staff and its NATO military advisers, the Ukrainian Army and NATO forces met the first days of spring with major defeats in almost all key directions of the front. Over the past week, war correspondents and representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry reported the liberation of five strategically important settlements.
https://youtu.be/Nx34X-ZlVww?si=-491yG5o9Yc4F1U8
No, this cannot be. It must be Fake News. Ukrainian Apologists constantly remind us that expert analyses concerning Ukraine's life left in this fight have proven inaccurate due to underestimating Ukrainian Patriotic Aryan Valour (and of course in NO WAY is it 100% the effect of NATO propping up Kiev's Russophobic obsessive-compulsions).
Did you in fact mean to Paste the title, "UKRAINE's TOTAL Success in KURSK and EVERYWHERE: Ukrainian Soldiers and Mercenaries Began To Win En MASSE Everything Everywhere All At Once" ?
Because THAT is the wishful alternate reality fantasy that Ukraine Apologists here have built their summer-house where they live year-round.
We are allowed to believe what we will. This is why I seek for more sources constantly. You will need to prove this wrong. I have been viewing now for a couple of months now and have found this channel pretty accurate Uncle.
I think he was being sarcastic.
Thanks friend, I have not exchanged with him before. So, I always seek more information so I can be informed in conversations. I never assume anything.
Apparently a group of Russian special forces troops crawled something like 16 kilometers through the gas pipeline that Ukraine recently shut down, coming out behind the Ukrainian troops to completely flank them. Between them and a salient from the other direction the Ukrainian supply lines have been completely cut off and they're trapped. Their choices are to surrender or die.
Apparently, the North Korean troops believe they're fighting South Korean troops. LOL!
The confused North Korean troops are now feeling the wrath of the Ukrainian attack drones.
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You know, you really suck at this. You need to go to 4-Chan for a couple of years to get properly schooled in how to be a troll.
We know you suck Putin's dick.
WSJ: North Korean soldiers told how they fought in Kursk — they thought they were fighting against South Korea. https://babel.ua/en/news/115839-wsj-north-korean-soldiers-told-how-they-fought-in-kursk-they-thought-they-were-fighting-against-south-korea
That is how it works for the boots on the ground Bixby.
How about NO conditions for restarting the aid or the intelligence sharing? I thought the whole idea was to end the war.
The narrative changes daily in the White House…!
The narrative only changes in your mind.
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The idea is to end the war, it was Trump's idea, and he is implementing it.
By arming and providing intelligence to Ukraine? Odd way of ending a war.
Sure worked to start the war just fine.
Russia's violation of international agreements started the illegal war.
Until the war actually ends, Trump idea remains crap…!
So far as I can tell, all his ideas are crap…
Yeah, how about Trump do one thing right!? End US involvement in this war. Now! Most likely, if he does so, peace will soon break out, as the Kiev regime will either take the deal or face total defeat (empty European promises to the contrary notwithstanding). That's what Trump campaigned on, now let's see him do it! If Trump is going to restore military aid and intelligence and other support for the Ukraine, then how is he any different from Biden?
Russia is winning, on the battlefield, no matter what anyone says to the contrary. That being the case, to get them to stop, most of their demands are going to have to be satisfied. And, IMO, most of those demands are reasonable. If Zelensky does not want to be reasonable, then he can go it alone. Or with the help of his big talking Euro allies, whose populations, by four to one majorities, have no interest in fighting, in person, in the Ukraine, and who have nothing even close to the military-industrial base necessary to replace the USA.
No. Actually hold elections, THEN aid can resume.
Even better, Zelenskiyy can end the war and then call an election. After all, it IS his very own (conflict of interest) declaration of Martial Law preventing the election preventing his removal.
That is NBC leftist propaganda. Trump wants elections, a mineral deal and a Ukraine that negotiates. NBC of course tries to minimize the conditions.
Those that pay attention have all heard Trump's actual statements. NBC news has as little credibility as Zelensky.
Rump has no idea what the frack he wants, that's why his demands change from one day to the next. He can't have the non-existent minerals anyway, they've already been sold to Britain.
Many conjecture President Trump might have proposed an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to launch Oreshnik missiles toward Zelensky's multiple bunkers to stimulate Ukraine election discussions.
It's doubtful this 'agreement' has been proffered by Washington. Russia's methods of bringing Europe and the US to heel depend, in large part, on keeping this conflict apace until 'sane Western and Ukrainian minds come to the fore.'
Russia has undeclared advantages for wishing Zelensky to remain in office. The 'burden' weighs on Europe and Washington to remove him.
https://mskvremya.ru/article/2023/1520-poteri-ukrainy-za-vremya-spetsoperatsii
I don't know why the Russian Federation would agree to that. Moscow has kept to their assurance they wouldn't assassinate Zelenskiyy (and given how Z carries himself politically, it's actually been a really good strategy) so why would Putin et. al. want Kiev to switch idiots mid-stream ?
Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't regard Zelensky as Ukraine's legitimate president. Many Russians would assume Mr. Putin views Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada with similar criticality.
That Zelensky remains Ukraine's dictator presumes he's fighting his opponents tooth and nail to maintain the status quo.
NOBODY should view Zelenskiyy as Ukraine’s legitimate president right now. Not since his term expired.
I don’t view any president as “legitimate,” but Zelenskyy wouldn’t be any less so than Putin or Trump just for lack of putting on a rigged beauty pageant.
No, I didn’t think you would.
But insofar as human civilization tends to adopt structures of leadership and governance, the current paradigm is “democracy” and until that’s replaced by a better methodology (get into the laboratory and find us one, Political Scientists), for all practical purposes we must default that system as our ideal.
For certain definitions of “we” and “our.”
Just posted a view minus any semblance of a mention of Israel – America's favorite boogeyman – with one four letter word for color, and it immediately went to the censor.
We are in the midst of the most bestial period in my personal slice of space-time, and this forum on free expression is afraid of its own shadow.
So first I'll delete the god-damned comment. Then I say, sorry folks, but this "forum" has become yet another place where Americans have to watch what they say.
Was it "tone" ? "tint" ? "cast" ?
It was the expletive f*ck, used without bias toward any race, creed, religion, or country.
OH ! Huh.
I don’t think Swear Words are forbidden; contextually perhaps. I tend to *-edit mine because this is a FAMILY political site, ha ha.
Fun side fact – a “profanity” is a swear-word with a religious origin (‘goddamn’)and a “vulgarity” is a swear-word with a body part or bodily function origin (‘s**t’).
Fun side fact – a "profanity" is a swear-word with a religious origin ('goddamn')and a "vulgarity" is a swear-word with a body part or bodily function origin ('s**t').
I did not fucking know that.
The only comment you posted today prior to your complaint consisted of one word — at least by the time I saw it in moderation.
That word was “removed.”
Correct. It was removed, not because I thought any of it was inappropriate, but because I have developed a real hostility toward science's march when directed at artificially manufactured AI chimps.
I designed and wrote software for over thirty five years, and this censor is crap in conceptualization and execution.
At the same time I'm saying that this is in no way directed toward you, whose performance as moderator here is as good as it gets.
There is of course an increasingly limited number of venues where everyone can express themselves freely, but that's the world we live in. Freedom of speech is acquiring so many caveats that it won't be long before we end up like the main character in the movie classic "Brazil".
Have a nice day.
The only speech rights issue involved here is Antiwar.com’s right to choose what speech it will or will not host.
Too bad Zelensky is still around!
Resumption of intelligence gathering capabilities exclusively associated with warfare is an idiotic carrot to be dangling in front of someone addicted to war.
MAR 09, 2025 Analyzing Trump’s Latest Sanctions Threat Against Russia
Trump surprised friends and foes alike when he posted the following on Friday: “Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely 'pounding' Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you.” Few understood how more sanctions could coerce Russia into a ceasefire.
https://open.substack.com/pub/korybko/p/analyzing-trumps-latest-sanctions?r=h5lea&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/A-Russia-sanctions.jpg
“Trump surprised friends and foes alike”
I guess I’m neither a friend or a foe, then. I found it about as surprising as the sun rising in the east.