Updated on March 13, 2025, at 5:23 pm EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signaled that he’s open to a ceasefire in Ukraine but that he has “questions” about the 30-day US-Ukraine proposal that need to be discussed.
“The idea itself is the right one, and we definitely support it,” Putin said, according to The New York Times. “But there are questions that we need to discuss, and I think that we need to talk them through with our American colleagues and partners.”
The Russian leader listed potential conditions for a 30-day truce, including a guarantee that Ukraine wouldn’t be supplied with more weapons. “We also want guarantees that during the 30-day ceasefire, Ukraine will not conduct mobilization, will not train soldiers, and will not receive weapons,” he said, according to RT.
Putin also questioned who would monitor the ceasefire. “Who will determine where and who has violated a potential ceasefire agreement along a 2,000-kilometer line? Who will attribute blame for any violations? These are all questions that require thorough examination from both sides,” he said.
The Russian leader said any long-term peace deal needs to address the “root causes” of the war. He made the comments as US envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Russia to discuss the proposal. Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin official, said Witkoff would be holding a closed-door meeting with Putin.
Ushakov also said the US-Ukraine proposal would only give Ukraine a chance to regroup, and it would need to be adjusted to meet Moscow’s interests.
“As for the 30-day temporary ceasefire, what is it about? There is nothing in it for us. It will only provide the Ukrainians with the opportunity to regroup and gain strength to continue doing what they are doing,” he said, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
“These are some hasty actions that do not benefit a long-term settlement … We will need to work on it, to think it over so that it reflects our position, too. It reflects only Ukraine’s stance at this point,” he added.
Ushakov said that Russia wanted a long-term peace deal and that the “official” Russian position on the US-Ukraine proposal would be formulated by Putin.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made similar comments opposing the idea of a temporary ceasefire, pointing to the Minsk Accords, which were first reached in 2014 for a truce in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Lavrov also mentioned the “Istanbul agreement,” referring to a peace deal that was on the table in March and April 2022, which was discouraged by the US and its allies.
“I’m talking about the Minsk Accords, the deal that was discarded after the 2014 coup, and the Istanbul agreements. All of those included a ceasefire. And every time, it turned out that they had lied to us. The Ukrainians lied with the support of their European partners,” Lavrov said.
A joint statement between the US and Ukraine that was released after talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said that Ukraine had “expressed readiness to accept the US proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation.”
The statement also said that the US had resumed military aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine, which was briefly paused. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that if Russia doesn’t accept the 30-day proposal, the US would then know who the “impediment” to peace is, signaling he wants the proxy war will continue as usual if a deal isn’t reached.
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Is that how you discuss events??? Then you cherry pick one statement from an 11 minute video. I see.
I was wishing Donna a Happy Birthday. Watch where you reply!
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Masters of war
Come, you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothing
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
While the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I will follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
God danced the day you were born.
Mar 12, 2025 “Makes No Sense” – Col. Macgregor Breaks Down the Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire Proposal
https://youtu.be/rTtusAINYDM?si=xQH0J4dkV0q-uX9s
You are not very deep, you listened to 45 seconds of it to cherry pick a statement. MacGregor also said good things about the proposal.
Give us a good laugh, cherry picker, tell us your peace proposal.
Trump quite properly is not stating he will pull all support from Ukraine before there is any agreement, Tucker covered that well.
Trump's effort at peace is admirable, you leftists resent it.
I feel sorry for you, when the first time you engage with someone this is your approach. Have a great and blessed day!
Yes, pity is for the pitiful. And he surely is pitiful.
Did he break it down like he broke down the war itself in February of 2022 (“the battle in eastern Ukraine is really almost over”), or in March of 2022 (“the first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle. They’ve now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over”), or in July of 2022 (“the war, with the exception of Kharkiv and Odesa, as far as the Russians are concerned is largely over”), or in September of 2022 (“this war may be over soon … Ukraine is really on the ropes”)? Like that there?
Does that mean he can never be right?
"Baring the teeth" is part of the show (resuming military assistance), the mask to pull over the fiasco engineered first in 2014, and to pretend the U.S. is not holding the small cards it's gotten stuck with. This is the no leverage problem Trump is trying to deal with. MacGregor doesn't say it in this clip but has many times said, "In my heart I feel President Trump wants peace." And so to the puzzle: if this is so why these over-simplified ceasefire conditions? What's really going on?
You are correct about the year the U.S. entered Ukraine.
May 4, 2014 CIA Front, USAID, “Spreading Democracy”, Gearing Up in Ukraine – Suharto II?
USAID has a history of working with the CIA as a front operation to help them spread that special kind of “democracy” (read as IMF inspired brutal repression) in nations where we have installed brutal dictators in support of our neoliberal economic agenda.
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engineered first in 2014
You're off by a good two decades, the program has been to carve Russia up into little easily-exploitable pieces ever since Foggy Bottom's lackey Yeltsin was tossed out on his ear.
Minsk 3, nudge nudge.
That manoeuvre, or trick, was easy to foresee.
To counter it, Russia can point out that
If the Ukraine & US regimes don´t accept that, people know who the impediment to peace is. Especially with Minsk 2 in mind.
p. s. Political organs of the EU – with their propaganda that their war is about freedom in Europe – blocked RT. I can never read anything there.
Interesting guarantee positions. Are they willing to match those conditions on their side?
If we want the Russians to stop attacking, we can't expect to turn it into a breathing spell break in which to revitalize the defense.
That is all it really is now, the proposal would just give Ukraine a way to postpone its crushing defeat by another 30 days, and likely kill more Russians.
People much smarter than me already said, "we want endless wars–not necessarily successful ones." Although, maybe that's why Trump keeps bringing up Panama!?
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge!…
1. The russian armed forces already have enough weapons and mobilized soldiers for this war. They do not necessarily have to be supplied with more of them.
2. If the US regime would ask for the condition that Russia stops producing weapons, then the countercondition could be that the US regime stops producing weapons too.
Since the US regime will not do that, of course Russia must not do that either.
After all, Ukraine is not the real enemy. The US regime with its vassals and accomplices are.
Absolutely. It's only fair, as it was the US and Co. that pressured and maneuvered this "war" into existence to begin with. Doesn't matter who's at the helm here at the moment. One might say that Mr. Trump just inherited the problem, except that he had his share in nudging it along during his first crack at the office.
Some people swallowed the corporate media narrative with hook and line that this war is between Ukraine and Russia.
Almost all the people I know outside of here.
I still can’t believe that is a topic of discussion.
"If the US regime would ask for the condition that Russia stops producing weapons, then the counter-condition could be that the US regime stops producing weapons too….After all, Ukraine is not the real enemy. The US regime with its vassals and accomplices are."
As even US and Co. is starting to admit:
"Boris Johnson: ‘We’re Waging a Proxy War’ in Ukraine" (antiwar, 12/1/24)
Rubio: "frankly, it's a proxy war between nuclear powers: the United States, which is helping Ukraine, and Russia."
("Shocking US Admission Gives NATO Heartache; Rubio Says 'Yes, We're Fighting A Proxy War In Ukraine'," India Times, 3/6/25)
Why should the Russians reciprocate? Are you under the impression that this is a serious proposal aimed at a peace?
This is nothing but an advertising stunt aimed at accusing the Russians of wanting the war continued.
The problem is two-fold when it comes to impediments to peace: Zelensky (once again, appearing as the star of the show) being one, and the other, the American state actors who orchestrated this entire clusterfuck, including – but not limited to – the Clintons, Bush Jr, Obama, Trump1, and Biden.
And why are they trying this? Simple. People today are colossally ignorant and willfully uninformed.
I completely agree that this is an advertising stunt.
From both sides.
Not so. Thomas; Russians are sincere about peace, They would rather go to the moon with Chinese and other scientific partners.
I’m sure that most Russians are sincere about peace.
Their regime is, at least for the moment, no more serious about peace than the US or Ukrainian regime.
You are correct by using the term “for the moment.” Russians are winning againt all the former colonial nations at once and will not quit on any loser’s terms yet will go for peace because war is such a dumb idea..
So far, nobody is winning. The best the Russians can likely hope for is to get out of the thing with Donetsk/Luhansk/Crimea and a declaration of “victory” for taking those two, while the Ukrainian “victory” will be limiting final losses to that.
Which “former colonial nations” do you think the Russians are fighting? It seems to be mostly fighting the last generation (British, French, German, etc.) of imperial regimes, while most of the old colonial regimes try to maintain neutrality or even incline toward the Russian side.
“People” meaning a small percentage of outliers who aren’t propagandized by corporate media.
Look at how successful they have been with claiming Hamas keeps breaking agreements.
That's right, that thought went through my mind too.
I was thinking of peoples of the world, a fair lot of whom already don't follow the West's narrative on the war.
The Russian leader listed potential conditions for a 30-day truce, including a guarantee that Ukraine wouldn’t be supplied with more weapons.
I would imagine that the resumption of weapons and intelligence sharing were the main reasons Ukraine accepted a cease fire. Good luck.
The intelligence sharing was never interrupted anyway, Witkoff himself said. He left the offensive part of it open to speculation, but if the Americans shared it with the Europeans in some shape or form, the Ukrainians had that available too.
I wouldn't take any deliberate interruptions of weapons deliveries all too seriously either. There is also a bit of a division of labor going on.
I totally agree.
… And I would imagine those facts are now part of his ceasefire documents…! Which Russia would object to…!
The entire cease fire is an attempt by Trump to avoid appearing as the real loser in this entire sorry episode.
The democrats are salivating at the prospect of pinning this loser on Trump.
Trump pinned it on himself already. He can't understand the simple things because he is fundamentally immoral. Maybe supporting Zionism and Nazism can be acceptable in U.S. but geopolitically such a strategy can't be successful.
Biden lost this war. It was already lost when Trump was sworn in.
Nothing Trump could possibly do can save it.
Why he is trying to save it?
Because he is playing the cards he was dealt. The die is cast, "Alea iacta est."
It was already lost when Biden took office, probably when Rump took office the first time. Don't pretend that this program hasn't been in place for three decades, the continual provocations to get Russia to attack someone, anyone, in order to give it their own 'Vietnam' that will bleed the country dry is US policy of long standing. Just because it didn't work in Ukraine don't expect them to try something new, either. The goal is to break the country into smaller pieces to enable the the mega-corps to loot its resources, they're not going to give up after the thirtieth year of failure.
You're both correct. There is unquestionable evidence that Biden was intimately involved in the long term plans to defeat Russia and he carried on with his role until he couldn't anymore. That was a 3 or 4 dimensional war. Trump didn't help or stop anything because he thinks in 2 dimensions like many of the people I know.
Which is exactly why the war will keep going. Reminds me of when Churchill kept WW2 going by continuing to bomb Germany while trying to drag the US and the Soviets into the war.
… to paraphrase the 20th cent.'s greatest war criminal: To be immoral is one thing, stupidly immoral is the worst. He actually thinks he and his team of village idiots can con Putin
This is exactly why I love you, Robert! You nailed it! I must add, "He actually thinks he and his team of village idiots can con Putin…" with what he learned from watching the Godfather.
A similar set of village idiots conned Putin with the Minsk Accords. So, history provides a precedent.
Of course, the rather dubious assumption here is that they can get Putin to fall for the same trick again.
I was hoping Trump wasn't going to be another in the long line of U.S. administrations that bowed to the Israeli Lobby, but alas, he's just another flunkie for the Lobby as well. Just look at his cabinet and how many Israeli 'firsters' he has in it. War mongers and Bible thumpers.
And Trump seems to be walking right into it by restoring weapons and intelligence to Ukraine. It's one thing to state that he didn't start the war and wants it to end, and then turns around and sends more weapons. Don the Con?
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I can actually see Trump happy to think that Zelensky succumbed to his ultimate skills in The Art Of The Deal.
It is a step forward. This situation will develop to an end. How it ends depends on how much Ukraine wants to be destroyed. Ukraine must withdraw and agree to the conditions, or else face consequences.
Ukraine is only the attack dog. One doesn't negotiate with the dog, but its master.
The Russians dutifully fetched that flacid ball from behind the hotdog stand and threw it back in the American court.
So now we can watch the Russians trying to win a game of chess against a bunch of shit flinging monkeys in Riyadh. See how that goes.
Whether Zelensky resigns and/or is replaced by a like-minded Washington shill, one understands how this SMO will continue for years until Ukrainians can 'elect' their presidential candidate and federal legislators without Western regime change operations.
President Trump is spinning his wheels. The Russians know this.
The majority of Ukrainians, even in Kiev, want the war to end immediately. The country is not going to be able to continue the war for "years", the populace won't put up with it.
https://x.com/i/status/1899733883165573628
Four-hour video of Ukraine's forced mobilization.
Regrettably, the Ukrainians are putting up with it. The SMO is in its fourth year.
With the Trump administration providing Canada, Greenland, and Panama as examples, you can understand how Blackrock, ConAgra, et al., and President Trump have developmental plans for Ukraine, particularly west of a geographical Russia-UK boundary: the Dnieper River.
The UK and US dictate who leads Ukraine and who serves in the Verkhovna Rada. It's not an optimistic future.
Ukrainians might find it ironic that the personal and economic freedoms they seek reside in Russia. Ukrainian emigres who fled to Europe before and during the SMO may have second thoughts.
Who wants to live in a basket-case nation?
The Ukrainians are “putting up” with conscription in some areas, in others there is fierce resistance. The press gangs are being attacked (including by little old grandmothers, there are a couple of hilarious videos out there), their vehicles are being torched, and several “recruitment stations” have been fire bombed. They’re falling short of their recruitment goals by over a third, conscription is not keeping up with casualties. Considering how many troops are trapped in Kursk morale among the conscripts has to be plummeting into the basement.
It always seemed to me Vladimir Putin was targeted because he was opposed to the planned regime change in Syria. When Putin said "NO" to the removal of Assad he suddenly became the new Hitler and Russia was seen as an enemy. Now that Syria has fallen it makes sense that they'd want to wind down the proxy war between Ukraine and Russia.
LOL. Yea that is not why he is compared to Hitler. Killing of his opposition has lot more to do with it.
Our ruling Mafia is intellectually bankrupt, Syria is not settled for a long time to come, too many parties are fighting for power, it could become another failed state like Libya and so many others.
Iran is still on the list and could replace Ukraine. The USA is invincible they can beat Russia and China too.
He was targeted before. In his famous speech at the München Security Conference in 2007 he rejected US regime hegemony. Nuff said.
The Closed-Door meeting would become an Open-Door meeting as Witkoff could not be well-informed to address all of Putin's questions…! ET Phone Home…!
The open door approach would be required to facilitate Witkoff's airborne exit from Putin's office.
Trump put pressure on Ukraine to accept a ceasefire. These statements indicate that Putin either wants more or is not interested in a ceasefire. Trump can not put pressure on Russia, so what is he going to do next besides blame Biden?
That’s a start.
Yep, is is start. LOL
NATO's primary mission is keeping the Secretary, Military officers, and NATO bureaucrats employed in their cushy jobs. In the process if they can scam America and steal $Billions they will. NATO will push friction to foster pretend threats to keep themselves in jobs.
Just like any organization that lives off of donations NATO or charities the management skims the cash in lavish salaries and perks. Mark Rutte flies around in his private NATO jet wasting money from America!!!
NATO is a multipurpose organization. The interests of MIC are no less important. Originally it was created as an anti-Russian organization and such it is now.
Anti-Russian in it’s creation. Like Charites in America, NATO it now exists to keep the management well paid and well feed. Without NATO Mark Rutte would not have his fancy jet to prance around the world on.
America needs to abandon NATO it is merely a money black hole financed by American taxpayers.
Who in their right mind, especially a leader of a country would accept anything the U.S. proposes.? The U.S. has shown time and time again, that their words are about as good as last week's losing lottery tickets. Looking at the 'Peace President' looking more like a 'War President' tells one all they need to know. It's like Trump is saying, You won the war, now you need to accept the loser's terms.
Unlike you, people in their right minds want peace.
What incredible illogic you possess, leftist. Russia won the war, most of Trump's terms favor Russia.
Were you ever able to comprehend things??
No I get it, you leftists are angry that Trump is making progress, after your hero the senile crook Biden almost caused WW3.
Which one of your alters is qualified to discuss the concept of "right mind?"
And which of them is in any position to know what "Trump's terms" are right now, let alone what they were five minutes ago or will be five minutes from now?
You might want to stop letting Biden live rent-free in your head. He can afford his own lodgings.
Day 1 Trump secured a ceasefire in Gaza and less than two months into his term discussions are being held for a Ceasefire in Ukraine. All the left has is that egg prices aren't coming down fast enough.
Two months and counting behind the schedule that he said during the race for the White House.
Trump is right. If he discovered the cure for cancer you’d still have people complaining about all the doctors he hurt.
Trump and his followers are such "snowflakes". He makes a ridiculous and stupid claim and when he is reminded of it he and his followers get upset. Of course we have the famous prices will fall on day one claim, how is that working out?
He also once said he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and still get votes from his cult members. I added the cult members remark.
How about bacon? Trump said during the campaigns that Americans don't buy bacon anymore.
Day 1 Reagan "secured" the release of the prisoners from Iran, do you remember how he did that? By bribing the Iranians (with weapons delivered through Israel bizarrely enough) to hold them an extra four and a half months. I'm quite sure we'll eventually learn the same about the ceasefire-that-isn't in Gaza.
You keep bringing up that day 1 ceasefire in Gaza without mentioning what has gone on since then.
Thousands of Palestinians are alive today that wouldn’t be without the Ceasefire, a fact that probably infuriates Netanyahoo.
And to prove my point, you repeat yourself.
Leftist? Silly man, you know not what you speak of. Putin has been saying for over a year about the necessary conditions that must apply to any negotiations for Russia to agree and a 30 day pause does nothing to address that. I have said from the beginning that Trump will do some good things domestically, at least in the beginning, but will be a disaster when it comes to foreign affairs. As Douglas McGregor has stated many times, "this is not 1991, and the U.S. doesn't hold the same position that it did back then when the U.S. was the only major player. The powers in D.C. either don't recognize that or believe that they can bully Putin and Russia in accepting its terms. Possibly, but I seriously doubt it. By the way, not a Russophobe or Putin puppet, but by rooting for Ukraine, you're rooting for the war to continue, just assuring that many more Ukrainians will die, soldiers and anyone else that they can snatch off of the street. If you really want to stop the war, then the U.S. and E.U. have to finally take seriously Russia's concerns which up to now, they have totally and deliberately ignored.
Bill. he calls everyone he disagrees with a leftist or a propagandist. He is incapable of supplying a counter argument, so he resorts to name calling.
Problem is it's not clear if Trump comprehends things. As with Rubio who this morning said if Russia says No that would mean "we'll know their intentions." But their intentions for a cease fire have long been known, clearly stated. So this "intentions" reference here seems to feed into the nonsense that Putin is out to take over Europe. Otherwise, Trump and Co. would have come up with a more realistic plan, not one that's dead-on-arrival. All this leads to the question of whether Trump is the saint you think he is, or dumb as a stump, or up to some kind of deception. And this concern does not mean I or anybody else do not want peace. Try studying Colonel MacGregor, as one example–a man very sympathetic to Trump.
Lavrov has openly said, repeatedly, that the US is "agreement incapable", a sentiment that more and more of the world is sharing.
If Trump Team is smart and really wants peace they would negotiate with Russia on Putin's cocerns…! Russia has all the cards including the gambling table…!
A Statesmanship at its best…! All of Putin's questions and comments reveal that a temporary ceasefire would not be feasible for Russia…! A peace treaty on the other hand is entirely different…!
But in our fact-free media landscape, Minsk is proof that Russia can't be trusted, just like it's gospel dogma that Russias invasions and annexations were "totally unprovoked." The more a western citizen tries to understand this from such biased sources, the stupider and more warmongering they get.
I agree 100%. Which brings me to the devastating realization that for wars to stop, the stupids must realize that what they are doing is actually stupid.
Sometimes it seems like lots of folks who should know better need some figurative slapping around to remind them that literally shooting and bombing each other is a bad idea.
President Putin has no guile or double speak. He has said any European troops deployed to Ukraine would be fair game.
By international law only UN sanctioned troops can be peacekeepers.
Russia set a precedent in 1994 (there may be earlier ones by other countries) of deploying peacekeepers prior to / pending UN approval when it placed 3,000 of its troops in Abkhazia. The UN did approve, several months later.
Interesting historical mention. It may indicate Russian peacekeepers occupy Ukraine until the UN can get its act together. China wants peace in Eurasia and I imagine it would go along with that,
Interesting verbal gymnastics. It may indicate that you have the concept of peacekeepers” confused with the concept of “occupation troops.” While the former is often used as a cover story for the latter, it’s not usually the case that the latter are known for what they are first and later just change their names.
That said, it’s not a terrible idea. If Russian troops were re-named “peacekeepers,” airstrikes and drone attacks would necessarily be right out, as would any non-defensive military action.
Russians acted as peacekeepers in your example until the UN mobilized to take over. I think the idea of them being peacekeepers in western Ukraine where they tried to give away and get out of is kind of funny.
True. There is nothing inherently wrong with it. What would be completely wrong is to believe that combatants in Ukraine war could become peacekeepers. NATO countries were/are still combatants participating in this conflict in various degrees.
To think that Russia would undertake a military operation in order to prevent Ukraine become NATO member ‘— just to see the same NATO countries enter Ukraine! Peacekeepers from non-European countries are the only ones acceptable. Zelenski wants NATO guarantees, and short of that he wants troops from
a “coalition of the willing” from among NATO members. Same thing -/ evrn better.
As the things stand – Ukraine wants Russia to stop its advance, while Ukraine has only committed to 30 day rearmament period.
As we speak, arms shipments have resumed.
This is not a ceasefire, as there are no requirements for Ukraine to come to the negotiating table, No timetable of DELIVERABLES for the thirty day period are spelled out.
This thus far — is not serious. Just a starting point. Let us see what emerges after Russia gets briefed, and what Russia expects would happen during 30 day period including ceasefire monotoring.
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The Pentangle, Pentangling
It's a Beautiful Day, White Bird
We had very good and productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday, and there is a very good chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to an end — BUT, AT THIS VERY MOMENT, THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY, AND IN A VERY BAD AND VULNERABLE POSITION. I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared. This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II. God bless them all!!! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114161039436456514
Trump is not big enough to admit that the Ukraine war is lost, he wants to get resources and get paid back for the military costs which profited the American MIC profiteers and have the Europeans pay to rebuild Ukraine. He knows he has no cards but still wants to be the winner, he is still the conman.
It is called war. And yes, there are worse things that happened since WWII. Selective memory.
Am I the only one getting tired of the over the top drama delivered on daily basis. Like having a new Apprentice episode daily
No question – ending the war is a thankless task and Trump is making many enemies in tge process. But he must extracate US from
this war, and he can do it multiple ways.
But not by micromanaging. He cannot dave Ukraine, nor he should save Kiev regime. To do that — cut the deal with the winner, secure US interests, and defang EU wannabes so they stop dreaming imperial dreams. There are so many ways US can do it. One way not to do it is—is to control this war blow by blow. Give room to Russia to secure its goals, room to Ukraine space to accept its defeat. Than insure that east Europe bordering Black sea and Danube basin up to Hungary are decoupled from EU and empowered by US to be sovereign and independent and prevent European provocations in the future compelling US to save theor sorry behinds.
Trump could pipe it down a.bit. As a power, it has global economic interests, and global security interests and responsibilities.
Having visited Moscow hundreds of times in the 1990s and 2000s I find the amazement of American journalists visiting Russia laughable.
I witnessed the rebuilding of Russia from the mid 1990s through the 2000s. Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok are all amazing and fun cities.
I have even traveled throughout rural areas meeting many wonderful people. Americans watch too many old movies about Russia and China. That is looking down a tunnel into the past.
Why were you visiting Russia so many times? Getting training on trolling for Russia perhaps?
Your Russophobe prejudice is your intellectual straitjacket.
MUH RUSSOPHOBIA REEEEEEEEEEE
Not a very smart response. As an international airline pilot, I flew JFK to Moscow 4 to 5 times each month. After retiring I flew billionaire businesspeople worldwide including Russia, China and Cuba. So, in 49 years of international flying, I have seen many more countries and cities than you could ever imagine traveling to. Enjoy your monolithic head in the sand worldview.
Were you an Aeroflot pilot…?! I hope it comes back to New York and Los Angeles…!
No but, as a 30-year Delta Captain, safety manager, and international pilot I had many Captain friends at Aeroflot and our other code share partners.
Sharing safety data and aviation knowledge goes beyond political boundaries.
Hollywood must have subject matters for making $$$ and they don't care about those countries reputations…!
And the surprisingly US public fall for the portrait they make of them…!
And if U.S. doesn’t agree, Putin just needs to tell Trump Vae victis!
Alastair Crooke
Leave it to Europe to start another European war, and then cry for Americans to fight for them. And, they will because the MIC bribes Wash.
NATO preparing underwater attacks against Russia – Putin aide
"NATO is developing new methods to confront Russia, specifically through underwater diversions targeting pipelines and tankers, according to Nikolay Patrushev, senior aide to the Russian president. He emphasized that the tactics are predominantly being pursued by the bloc's European members, ignoring the recent restoration of dialogue between Moscow and Washington. Patrushev's statement follows NATO's recent announcement of an increased military presence in the Baltic Sea. The US-led bloc has launched Operation Baltic Sentry, an initiative aimed at boosting patrols in the region on the premise of protecting underwater infrastructure. This month, the EU also agreed to significantly boost military spending among its members, with Moscow accusing the bloc of heading down the path of militarization." https://www.sott.net/article/498428-NATO-preparing-underwater-attacks-against-Russia-Putin-aide
So there has been one attack on a 'Russian' underwater infrastructure (Nordstream) – while there has been at least 4 on European underwater infrastructure.
The EU countries do not need to attack Russian underwater infrastructure – as all they need to do is not to buy the product that is being sold.
You could make an argument for the US (not informing NATO) would destroy the Russian gas pipeline – if they did not trust that the Germans really wanted to end buying Russian gas.
It would not be likely as the Germans were investing so much in replacing the gas from Russia and Russia was not supplying gas via the pipeline at the time.
In other words if NATO could agree on such an action – they would not need to carry it out, as nothing would be bought by the customers anyway.
But sure chose to believe whatever nonsense the Russians are peddling.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/trumps-presidential-diplomacy-is-surging/
It's doubtful US President Trump missed the video report of Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing a green-colored Russian military uniform to Kursk last Wednesday.
While European economies are failing, Starmer and Macron want to send a minimal contingent of British and French troops into Ukraine.
Are Russia and NATO closer to or more distant from a nuclear exchange since January 20, 2025?
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/putin-peels-off-the-masks-of-the-ceasefire-kabuki/
"The heart of the matter is the Black Sea. Vladimir Karasev’s analysis, as explained to TASS, is spot on: “The British have already entered the city of Odessa, which they view as a key location. Their special services are heavily involved there. The British do not conceal their desire to establish a naval base in Odessa.”
Odessa is part of the extensive menu of Ukraine’s resources already, in thesis, handed over to the Brits under the shady – and completely illegal – 100-year agreement signed between Starmer and the sweaty sweatshirt in Kiev.
According to the dodgy deal and its made in the shade footnotes, Zelensky already gave away to the Brits all sorts of control over minerals, nuclear power plants, underground gas storage facilities, key ports (including Odessa), and hydroelectric power plants."