President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday and said that the call went well and that Russia and Ukraine would “immediately” begin negotiations on a ceasefire.
“Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. I believe it went very well,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War.”
Putin told reporters after the call that Moscow was ready to “work with the Ukrainian side on a memorandum on a potential future peace treaty.”
The Russian leader said the memorandum could outline “a number of positions, such as, for instance, settlement principles, the timeframe for signing a potential peace agreement, and so on, including a potential ceasefire for a certain period.”
Trump also said he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and informed several European leaders of the plans for Russia and Ukraine to begin ceasefire negotiations. He noted that Pope Leo XIV has offered the Vatican as a potential venue for the talks.
The Trump-Putin call came just a few days after Russian and Ukrainian officials held talks in Istanbul. During the talks, the two sides agreed to a prisoner swap, but it didn’t appear that any progress was made toward a ceasefire.
Russia and Ukraine remain very far apart on their conditions for ending the war. Putin wants Ukraine to recognize four Ukrainian oblasts that Moscow annexed in 2022 as part of Russia, which would require Ukrainian forces to withdraw from territory it holds in those regions, and Zelensky has repeatedly stated he will not cede territory.
The negotiations in Istanbul marked the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine since March and April 2022. At that time, Russia’s main demand was Ukrainian neutrality. The Biden administration discouraged those negotiations, and later that year, Russia declared its annexation of the four Ukrainian oblasts and added the recognition of that territory as part of Russia to its demands to end the war.
May 19, 2025
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1924529435111199094
This is so corporate like, having a meeting to plan a meeting.
Putin won’t consider ceasefire or a frozen conflict scenario. Far too much battlefield momentum. Unfortunately for Ukraine, it will have to consider a surrender as well as a leadership change.
Otherwise, it will be eroded and consumed by Russia.
The Empire is quite familiar with the phrase ‘peace through strength’. It’s high time they realize there are two sides to a coin.
Re-establishing frozen conflict, with the Donbas secured, is probably the best Putin can hope for.
But he has to actually secure the Donbas before he can declare “victory” with even a shred of plausibility. If the Ukrainians would act in their own interests instead of letting the west order them around, they would just let Donetsk go, move all the troops there to border defense and retaking the occupied parts of Kherson, Zaporzhizhia, etc., allowing Putin a way to pull his teat out of the wringer with just a little bit of saved face.
Ukraine isn't going to be retaking anything, except maybe in your fantasies. I don't know where you come up with this crap.
For some people the reality is too unpleasant, so they prefer to live in a crap fantasy world.
Which alternative universe do you prefer to live in?
ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
As of June 2024, the ICC has also issued arrest warrants for Viktor Sokolov, Sergey Kobylash, Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, all of whom are officers in the Russian military accused of directing attacks at civilian objects and the crime against humanity of "inhumane acts" under the Rome Statute.
Jeremy Loffredo and Max Blumenthal – ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself
The Grayzone 31 march 2023
Blumenthal went from being an Assad critic to becoming an Assad apologist after his Kremlin-funded trip to Moscow to celebrate RT, where he was a guest alongside Vladimir Putin and then-Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/the-right-to-resist-is-universal.pdf
Useful Idiot. https://www.commentary.org/articles/bruce-bawer/useful-idiot19/
Maximum Disinformation: Ukraine, Max Blumenthal and Russian Co-opation of the American Left. https://medium.com/@geofbard/maximum-disinformation-ukraine-max-blumenthal-and-russian-co-opation-of-the-american-left-b0e4691a3239
Grayzone, Grifters and the Cult of Tank. https://medium.com/muros-invisibles/grayzone-grifters-and-the-cult-of-tank-fbd9b8e0dbe2
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/07060e0950f9643d511bec922cf9afc839074b2d707c1d1604f4b27aeebed7e1.png Khan inspecting ukrainian evidence.
— of war propaganda, that is.
Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
On geopolitics and related issues, wikipedia is disinformation.
Your comment above is pro-Kremlin propaganda. On geopolitics and related issues, you're a gullible moron.
ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
As of June 2024, the ICC has also issued arrest warrants for Viktor Sokolov, Sergey Kobylash, Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, all of whom are officers in the Russian military accused of directing attacks at civilian objects and the crime against humanity of "inhumane acts" under the Rome Statute.
If I am the Kremlin’s mouthpiece, that proves the Kremlin is speaking truth.
As for insulting me, I prefer slapping arguments in your mug.
We’ll go on about that fake arrest warrant when it comes up in a current topic again. I assure you I have the argumentative escalation dominance on that one.
LOL! You can't tell facts from feces.
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If I am the Kremlin’s mouthpiece, that proves the Kremlin is speaking truth.
As for insulting me, I prefer slapping arguments in your face.
We’ll go on about that fake arrest warrant when it comes up in a current topic again. I assure you I have the argumentative escalation dominance on that one.
"Fake arrest warrant?"
That proves you're a Kremlin mouthpiece.
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I “come up with this crap” by looking at the situation and evaluating it on the basis of what I see, instead of on the basis of what I want or don’t want to see.
Not giving a tinker’s dam which gang gets to treat which area as a tax farm and which people as livestock makes it easier.
I do the same. And what I see is that the United States won't allow Ukraine to settle this at the negotiating table, so it will be settled on the battlefield with the Russians eventually going all the way to the Dnieper River.
The current terrorist regime which keeps Ukrainians fighting against Russia does cost too much for NATO countries. On the other hand, it is obvious that Kiev regime can't last longtime. Probably Trump understands that hardly it can last till elections 2028 even if U.S. and EU invest half trillion more in the project. That's why he is so keen to freeze it.
On the other hand, Putin is a murderous dictator and a wanted war criminal.
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Do you have evidence for either of those claims? Or do you think that showing a picture of Putin with the words War Criminal typed underneath is supposed to be convincing?
ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
As of June 2024, the ICC has also issued arrest warrants for Viktor Sokolov, Sergey Kobylash, Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, all of whom are officers in the Russian military accused of directing attacks at civilian objects and the crime against humanity of "inhumane acts" under the Rome Statute.
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The ICC is a joke, and you are a joke for taking them seriously. But even if they weren't a joke, these are just accusations, not evidence. The Greyzone has totally debunked the accusations against Putin and Lvova-Belova. Where is your evidence to substantiate your claim?
Trump is a joke.
The Greyzone has been thoroughly debunked over their pro-Kremlin White Helmets propaganda.
Max Blumenthal Resigns Al Akhbar Over Syria Coverage. https://therealnews.com/mblumenthal0621
Documenting Max Blumenthal’s Regime Change from Assad Opponent to Assad Lobby Shill.
https://alhamra.medium.com/documenting-max-blumenthals-regime-change-from-assad-opponent-to-assad-apologist-8715eb9d941b
Yes, Trump is a joke. That's the only truthful thing you've said. I'm still waiting for your evidence that Putin is a murderous dictator and a war criminal. That was your original claim, which apparently you'd like to forget.
Apparently you'd like to forget the ICC arrest warrants issued for Russian war criminals.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented Russian war crimes in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine and Syria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_war_crimes
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are western propaganda organizations. You must not be aware. No surprise.
I'm completely aware that you're a pro-Kremlin troll who ignores international law. You must not be aware of MH17.
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I'm aware of MH17. I also read John Helmer's Dances With Bears website so I know that it was the Ukrainians who shot it down. What garbage will you come up with next?
I guess that John Helmer’s Dances With Bears website is more convincing to gullible idiots than the MH17 Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of the Netherlands, Australia, Malaysia, Belgium and Ukraine?
According to the JIT, the Buk TELAR used to shoot down MH17 originated from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, a unit of the Russian armed forces from Kursk in the Russian Federation. https://www.prosecutionservice.nl/topics/mh17-plane-crash/news/2018/05/24/update-in-criminal-investigation-mh17-disaster
Where is your peer-reviewed evidence that Ukrainians shot it down, turdbrain? Your garbage reeks like shit.
Oh god, you are so funny. I won't waste any more time responding to you and your propaganda sources.
OMFG! You’re such a gullible idiot. Piss off.
It seems that you are getting your "information" from Ukrainskaya Pravda…
He is a former US military… What can you expect from him… USA USA USA….
I follow another former US Marine named Brian Berletic, who is much more realistic. I highly encourage everyone to follow Brian.
If that's what you expect from me, you're going to be disappointed.
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At this point I'd rather the US just stayed in their part of North America and left the rest of the world alone. I can't imagine that you'd disagree.
The surrender is a fortunate scenario for Ukraine. Unfortunate scenario is a war to the last Ukrainian which is forced upon them by Americans.
"forced upon them by Americans?" Utter crap.
Yes, the Americans have been innocent bystanders since the cold war ended. Not a single provocation. /s
Yes, NATO was "forced" upon Europe by Americans. LOL!
"Not one inch eastward". And the provocations weren't limited to NATO expanding to Russia's borders. And I don't say any of those things because I "back" Russia, they are just cold hard facts.
Your "facts" are a bit loose. And you don't mention that following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia became an associate member of NATO.
The belief in Moscow that the west tricked the Soviet Union by breaking promises made at the end of the cold war that Nato would not expand to the east is overtly Kremlin propaganda.
Russia’s cynicism about international law is the central motive behind Russia calling for a reversal of Nato’s extension. Finland and Sweden only joined Nato following Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine
Finland is ‘preparing for the worst’ as Russia expands military presence near border. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/finland-expects-russia-to-build-up-troops-at-border-after-ukraine-war-ends
The only "fact" I stated was "not one inch eastward", and that IS a fact. The cold war possibly wouldn't have ended otherwise because Gorbachev wouldn't have been able to sell it to the hardliners in the USSR. The only overt propaganda is the shit you've been obviously fed.
And Finland and Sweden have nothing to do with this. No one knows how history would have turned out if the US hadn't used "winning" the cold war as the impetus for their 30 years of provocations towards Russia BEFORE Russia invaded Ukraine.
You ignore the fact that Russia is the aggressor who invaded and annexed Crimea, in violation of international law.
You conveniently ignore the ICC arrest warrants for Putin, Maria Lvova-Belova, Viktor Sokolov, Sergey Kobylash, Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, all of whom are accused of directing attacks at civilian objects and the crime against humanity of "inhumane acts" under the Rome Statute.
Finland and Sweden have nothing to do with this? LMFAO!!
That's a clear example of the shit you've been fed.
I get it. History started on Feb 24, 2022. I didn't ignore anything. You ignored 30+ years.
You ignored the 1994 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, where Russia, UK, and the US signed a memorandum to provide Ukraine economic compensation and security assurances and to respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.
Years later, Russia, one of the parties to the agreement, invaded Ukraine.
Again, I didn't ignore anything. I haven't once said Russia is some innocent victim. But you again ignore anything that happened after 1994 and before 2022.
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Out of context with my comment.
List of Atrocities committed by US authorities. https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
List of Countries invaded by Nazi Germany.
Czechoslovakia: The annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 was a precursor to the full occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Poland: Invaded on September 1, 1939, marking the beginning of World War II.
Denmark: Invaded on April 9, 1940.
Norway: Invaded on April 9, 1940.
Belgium: Invaded on May 10, 1940, as part of the larger Western European campaign.
Netherlands: Invaded on May 10, 1940.
Luxembourg: Invaded on May 10, 1940.
France: Invaded on May 10, 1940.
Yugoslavia: Invaded on April 6, 1941, along with Greece.
Greece: Invaded on April 6, 1941.
Soviet Union: Invaded on June 22, 1941, in Operation Barbarossa.
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A ceasefire would have the same effect as Minsk 2: to buy time for Ukraine to strengthen its army, and now also for EU armies, and for the US to replenish its empty arsenal. That Minsk 2 was intended to gain time has been confirmed by P. Poroshenko, A. Merkel, F. Hollande and V. Zelensky. Russia will not be fooled again. That is why Russia has no interest in a ceasefire during negotiations. Because then Ukraine has an interest in prolonging the negotiations, without any guarantee of a good outcome.
Kaja Kallas, Frederiksen, Pistorius, Kubilius, Sikorsky et al. can cackle as much as they want, but that's the way it is.
Publicly international law with its institutions UN Security Council, OSCE etc. is failing. The UN with its Security Council urgently needs a reform with regard to the abolition of the veto of the five nuclear powers: USA, Russia, China, France, Great Britain, in order to make efficient decisions on crisis events.
https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en
https://www.osce.org/
https://www.oscepa.org/en/
From a realpolitik point of view, great power vetoes may be prudent.
List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel
A history of the US blocking UN resolutions against Israel. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/19/a-history-of-the-us-blocking-un-resolutions-against-israel
Russia never refused to negotiate. It was American decision to stop the negotiations in 2022. Definitely Boris Johnson's visit to Kiev in April 2022 was agreed with American leadership. To stop the negotiations and continue the war was an American decision supported by other leading NATO countries. Now Trump is talking about resuming the negotiations as some kind of achievements. Russia never was against negotiations. Kiev regime is absolutely dependent upon American military and financial support, so Zelensky is in no position to contradict American leadership. To much of show around those negotiations.
Putin only pretends to negotiate. It was his decision to invade Ukraine, in violation of international law.
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What is the weather under that tin foil hat. A vast space filled with ignorance and poverty of thought.
Played by Vladimir Putin, a 'weary' Donald Trump could walk away from Ukraine. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-20/played-by-putin-weary-trump-could-walk-away-from-ukraine/105312426
It's apparent Putin has been slow-walking his talks with Trump from the start.
Far from a genuine commitment to a ceasefire, Putin has stalled the process, talking only about a memorandum that would lay out the terms of a possible deal. He's long refused to budge on those terms, and he knows they're terms Ukraine and its allies won't agree to.
Trump, though, says he still believes Putin wants peace. LOL!
Trump also repeatedly said he would end Russia's war on Ukraine on day one. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/496d76292196373680d3d0a4db99a9a85cae5d700caead7a9471114578e1e686.jpg
Ukraine doesn't have allies who can do anything relevant to the trajectory if the conflict.
Ukraine has the support of at least 41 countries, specifically the EU member states, other members of the G7, as well as Australia, South Korea, Turkiye, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, China, Taiwan, India, and Iceland. France and the UK have proposed military options which would be very relevant to the conflict.
War criminal Putin doesn't have any allies who can do anything relevant to the trajectory of the conflict.
How long will they hand over their cash to keep Ukraine afloat? None of them have the military industrial capacity to deliver the shells, air interceptors, etc that it would take to change the war's trajectory. A few nations have more belligerent ideas, but they are conditional and won't happen in practice. The oil price cap won't be halved, china tariffs won't be made triple the highest they ever were. What's ukraines actual realistic plan?!
How long will you persist in talking crap?
What is Putin's actual realistic plan?
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Several of them, even individually, have multiple times the military industrial capacity of Russia.
So what's the problem then? If the western nations have all the arms they need then why is Russia still winning?
The western nations have all the arms they need only in wet dreams of some inadequate neo-Nazi individuals. The reality is that no one threatens western nations. That's why even reasonable people in MIC and around MIC thought it is okay to steal from military budget as much as possible. As result, one trillion budget is not enough to keep the frontline in Ukraine.
I understand there's also some convoluted formulas the think tanks use around "purchasing power parity" or something like that, where beyond the off-books programs, beyond actual corruption, there's legal inefficiency… Western supply chains are often so convoluted and even dependent on adversaries that a dollar or a billion dollars doesn't buy much. Russia in contrast, partially forced by sanctions, produces pretty much everything locally themselves, so much more efficiently spending each ruble or billion rubles.
if only the US were merely as corrupt and wasteful as Russia…. We'd still be on course to destroying the planet we depend on. I want a huge space race program to send everyone who can't get along to some other planet to be destroyed. As long as it doesn't already have sentient life.
Check your premises.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76953 Vladimir Putin’s statement to the media following a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/de/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-eu-agrees-17th-package-of-sanctions/
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-announces-major-sanctions-in-support-of-ukraine
The root cause of the conflict is that the west doesn't believe in democracy if it means they don't always get to take what they want. But that's my position, not Putin's. Russia will not let the west use Ukraine as a base to attack them from again.
Similar to Iran/US Talk… US/Ukraine say it's a ceasefire… Russia says it's a peace deal…!
That is because U.S. and Russia have different goals.
U.S. would like to continue this war as long as possible.
Russia needs a permanent peace and security on western borders.
Putin has only one goal.
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Ukraine is not the first step of Russia marching through Europe. Good fearmongering argument though… Germany and some other fools have bought it.
What is remarkable, western Germans are swallowing this crap much more eagerly than eastern Germans.
Indeed i generalized, not all Germans are on the bandwagon to bankruptcy. Just the fools barely and begrudgingly confirmed at the top.
Still the common sense politicians are enjoying much greater support in East Germany than in West Germany. By political preferences, Germans are divided along the old border between capitalist west and socialist east. Obviously, western Germans are brainwashed by neocons much more successfully than their eastern brothers.
So are you showing solidarity with the voters of the fascistoid AfD party?
https://www.dw.com/en/alternative-for-germany-afd/t-17455253
In your neocon/Orwellian vocabulary "fascistoid" party, obviously, means the party which doesn't support neocon ideology of rabid Russo-phobia, unrestricted migration and sodomy.
Sure, those who are fanatically supporting neo-Nazism, you would call democratic.
Your absurd, abstruse statement proves your sympathy for the neo-fascist AfD party. Democracy means a form of dominion that I reject as an anarchist, just as I oppose fascism as a totalitarian system and as the highest level of nationalism, capitalism, and imperialism.
You are an anarchist?
So how do you evaluate the political and social landscape of present day Ukraine (2014 to the present moment)? Is this a situation where freedom is valued and thriving? Is the guiding political and social ethos of those who dominate Ukraine libertarian in nature? What about the Ukrainian nationalist idea of an ethnically pure Ukraine?
No!
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/topic/ukraine
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/melbourne-anarchist-communist-group-the-ukraine-war
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/wayne-price-national-self-determination-and-anarchism-in-the-war-in-ukraine
https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/online-content/156 Inquiry: Anarchists and the War in Ukraine
https://tempestmag.org/2025/04/ukrainian-anarchists-fighting-imperialism-and-building-mutual-aid-in-wartime/
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/413-spring-2023/anarchists-the-war-in-ukraine/
https://autonomies.org/2023/02/war-in-ukraine-an-anarchist-debate/
https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-debate-war-ukraine
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/daniel-a-collins-ukraine-1918-21-and-spain-1936-39?v=1625237466
Why don't you criticize the Ukrainian government and its allies?
Interesting – What kind of imperialism do you think of?
In nazism, I see imperialism as expansionism – which term I favor. It can include expansion into territories which are considered to be historically belonging to the nation.
It is affiliated with irredentism.
That characteristic of nazism occurs in Ukraine.
Ukrainian nationaslists may consider Kuban in Russia to be ukrainian.
Another example, somewhat absurd, was when Kuleba on a visit with Sikorsky in august 2024 publicly said that Lublin, Subkarpathia and Lesser Poland are 'ukrainian territories'. Nationalist talk.
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Which members of which parties sit in the Ukrainian parliament? You give an inappropriately exaggerated answer about an extremely nationalist minority.
https://politpro.eu/en/ukraine/parties
Are you making a similar argument about the composition of the German parliament, in which the national-conservative CDU/CSU party (the largest party with 208 MPs) and the neo-fascist AfD party (the second-largest party with 151 MPs) represent the majority of the 630 seats in parliament?
https://politpro.eu/en/germany/parties
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Most actual neocons are more Trumpian than Trump on immigration, especially if the migrants happen to be Muslim.
Any government agent who interferes with migration, or with “sodomy” between consenting adults, should be put down like a rabid dog.
"should be put down like a rabid dog" – that is interesting. I learned already that you are full of lies, so I am not surprised that you are also full of hatred. Those two things coexist perfectly well. Every pathological liar is always full of the evil. That's how Satan the father of lies operates.
It’s not hatred — I don’t hate rabid dogs. I just recognize that creatures (including humans) who engage in unjustified violence against innocent others and who won’t cease and desist need to be removed for the safety of others.
The east germans stil have a lot of people that remember living in East Germany so they know how to read propaganda….
Yes, they can compare. Also they know much better about Russia. After disintegration of USSR about two million ethnic Germans migrated from Soviet republics to Germany, mostly to East Germany. All of them are familiar with Russian realities and know Russian language. It is not so easy to fool them with neocon propaganda.
Putin's long-term goal seems to have been slowing the decline of, not aggressively re-expanding, the Russian empire.
The Ukraine war was, in my view, supposed to be a quick spanking a la Georgia, albeit with a grab of the two seceded oblasts that his eight-year proxy war had failed to keep out of Ukrainian hands. When that turned into a fiasco, it became a face-saving exercise.
The national model that Putin has been building for the past 25 years resembles the Soviet Union in its geographic contours. Aggressively “re-expanding” and annexing Crimea, and then aggressively invading Ukraine as part of his expansionist goals doesn’t seem to be slowing.
Crimea:
On the one hand, the Crimeans exercised their right to self-determination.
On the other hand, Russia had to prevent the US regime from seizing the naval base of Sevastopol.
Good reasons.
Historically there is no connection between Crimea and Ukraine.
And, there's ukrainian Nazis with their slogan "Crimea will be ukrainian or will be depopulated". F*** off.
You propagandistically, and biasedly, illiterately and ill-informedly, always spread the same legal nonsense despite repeated information from me to the contrary.
Your comment makes me curious about one thing: it suggests that according to you, there is a historical connection between Crimea and Ukraine. If so, what is it in your view?
Crimean peninsular is connected by land to Kherson oblast. When Kherson oblast belonged to Ukraine, Crimea was connected to Ukraine. In 2022 Crimea was disconnected from Ukraine because Kherson oblast reintegrated into Russian Federation.
If we go deeper in the history to the times when Crimea was ruled by Tatar khans, about half of the territory of modern Ukraine was called Minor Tartary. Then Russian Empire took those lands together with Crimea and Minor Tartary became Minor Russia (Малороссия). The name Ukraine is of Polish origin. It was time when Poland owned some lands north of Minor Tartary which they called Ukraina.
Did Ukraine declare its independence with or without Crimea?
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/History
https://crimea-platform.org/en/
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-02-22-expert-comment-three-decades-ukraine-sovereign-country-fighting-war-independence
https://static.rada.gov.ua/site/postanova_eng/Declaration_of_State_Sovereignty_of_Ukraine_rev1.htm
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160196 Sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine paramount, Security Council hears
https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-meaning-of-sovereignty-ukrainian-and-european-views-of-russias-war-on-ukraine/
Drunkard Yeltsin didn't care about that
I'm talking about a historical connection.
Doesn't 34 years back in time fulfill contemporary history?
I'm talking about a historical connection.
'Contemporary' may be said to mean 'with these times' or 'in these times', which can include some recent past.
It´s not what I mean by historical.
No, perhaps you understand the term 'modern history' or 'current history' as an equivalent to contemporary history in historical terminology.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/contemporary-history
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=53739 History as Contemporary History in the Thinking of Benedetto Croce
https://archives.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/contemporary_history.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history
https://www.mindrevolt.org/what-is-contemporary-history-understanding-the-post-1945-era/
"Historically there is no connection between Crimea and Ukraine?"
ROTFL!
And Putin hired a private Nazi paramilitary company to exterminate Ukrainians. Dmitry Utkin, who named the Wagner Group, was literally covered in Nazi symbol tattoos. The Wagner Group included a contingent known as Rusich, which are described as a far-right extremist or neo-Nazi unit, and their logo features a Slavic swastika.
They left Nazi graffiti all over the battlefield in Ukraine and Syria.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e89b667de5076501d572ed51dc62be3f5e99966b98deb1ecf9091ec514c839f8.jpg
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5461a682addfb34a39f330614947c4caa07daee47b44d05954b27f0b3217dfe2.jpg
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/82785d23739c152ccb9ac7fb3fd58d6e6f368bed58704b9da6125f820a162b8e.jpg
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The Soviet Union, yes, somewhat, although he seems to be fine with letting much of it be run as de facto satrapies rather than formal possessions. Until Ukraine, the only old Soviet possession that he aggressively invaded, conquered, occupied, annexed and installed a quisling regime in was Chechnya, and for quite some time he seems to have appreciated how costly that was and not interested in doing it again.
The Soviet Empire — i.e. the Warsaw Pact countries — no. He tries to be their benefactor/patron to keep them at least a little bit in the Russian “sphere of influence,” but he’s not likely to invade, say, Hungary.
When the US/EU/NATO overthrew his Ukrainian satrap and made that country a US/EU/NATO imperial satrapy instead, there was always going to be trouble. But full-on invasion might have been avoided if the new Ukrainian regime had just been willing to let the seceded Donbas Republics and Crimea go.
Someone tell Trump the talks started / resumed last week.
Maybe Putin told him about that yesterday
Zelensky says a lot of things that the west breathlessly follows, often he then does the opposite of what he said. To him crimea is Ukraine, but he finally recognizes he can't take it back. Eventually he'll realize the same about the Donbass, but not before Ukraine has lost much more.
Trump will not escalate arms or put 500% tariffs on China. Reasonable diplomacy is Ukraine's only viable option.
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-impact-of-controversial-uranium-munitions/a-66752354
https://culture-politics.international/en/2023-uranium-ammunition-for-ukraine/33791/
https://www.icbuw.eu/allegations-of-depleted-uranium-use-in-gaza/
https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/Depleted_uranium.html
https://www.nuclear-risks.org/en/uranium-weapons/artikel/820b67a529f08881f52dbadab2efa3d8/uranium-weapons.html
https://mod.gov.vn/en/intro/detail/!ut/p/z0/dYqxDoIwFEW_xvHltVigHWFwMMZEYwx0MYUWqEIr2Bg-X6KTMU73nJOLEguUTj1tq4L1TvWLlzK5bLL9kec0I-S0i8ghZ-dYiHTNRIpblG3vq8_VXsdRZihr74KZAxaD1yvyULAsGPdG48CHzkxfAn5qfwJo62fr_nWoOzPYWvUrIlTc0CihYCreAIspAy60Al3phpCUC0YTvN9k-QLs57D7/ 50 years of agent orange/dioxin disaster in Vietnam
https://www.gao.gov/products/ced-78-158 Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/agent-orange-in-vietnam-program/what-is-agent-orange/
https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236347/ The U.S. Military and the Herbicide Program in Vietnam
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/24689-agent-orange-effects
A report on calls Trump made from Axios includes this comment:
(from "Trump's deference to Putin stunned European leaders on call")
Possibly Putin has to spend a lot of time explaining and re-explaining to Trump before he "gets it."
Don't pay too much attention what Trump says. he changes his mind depending where he can gather more brownie points and support.
Ceasefire! Why now?
September 11, 2022: "These days, the Russian army is showing it best, showing its back. And in the end, it is a good choice for them to run away. There is and will be no place for the occupiers in Ukraine." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gloats. (WION, September 11, 2022)
May 12, 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised his troops and noted the low morale of the Russian forces: "The occupiers are already mentally prepared for defeat. They have already lost this war in their minds," he said. "We must push them every day so that their sense of defeat turns into their retreat, their mistakes, their losses." (Al-Jazeera, May 12, 2023)
trump
is such a dunce
lives a world
you and i dont belong
its a make believe world
where trump is a god
chosen to be the best
all those bow before thy greatness
sacrifices and gifts galore
what a wonderful world
grate again great huh?
grifter galore
swine through and through
never forget
one of the worst https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/39d9fc3fba7a44916b4da8515dd13f9813f2edf0ba82e85f2cc1959fb187b5fe.jpg
called him a horrible human being
https://x.com/i/status/1924660855167197555
Hundreds of dead VSU soldiers remain unrecovered within the Kursk Oblast.
https://x.com/i/status/1924618969081590249