A Russia's Win-Win Take the Deal T. to Zelensky or Die (fight on)~Lets Examine This
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| An image released by Russian state media last week shows President Vladimir V. Putin inside the Kremlin on Wednesday. He has said Moscow was content to pursue its interests “through armed confrontation.”Pool photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev |
Trump has given Ukraine's President Zelenskyy an Ultimatum. Accept the terms Russia likes or Goodbye.
Ukraine still depends on the US a lot,. even if the US is making money on the carnage, the only ones. Ukraine depends on the weapons to be sold to the European Union on a profit and they in turn can sell or give away to Ukraine. Those are weapons that no has because the tax paying Americans have allowed the Defense dept. to have 2 shadow budgets. One the Congress is supposed to see and approved or make modification, the other is secret to develop secret weapons. The US is way ahead in weapons that probably will never use but if the kid is at the candy store with a credit card imagine what he is going to get. Now I just said Defense had a secret budget but with Trump the who things are secret because defense won't give Congress specifics. Yes the law demands it but if Congress won't even complaint why should defense give anything but bills with redacted items, actually lately they are getting nothing except words on the budget.
Yes the Dems and some Republicans bitch but everything in congress is by vote and the majority of law makers obey the master. That is why The Epstein tapes won't appear and Trump's name is been redacted as I write and you hopefully read.
But now that Ukraine is got Russia's government on almost their knees: No electric on main cities, no water not heat, no gas for commerce which means no food and no gas for consumers because they are needed for army trucks. Ukraine keeps bombing anything that has oil, electric or municions. =Putin spends his time in his bunkers afraid that his own people will assassinate him. yet he smiles, WhY?
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He also has a lot more soldiers for the meat grinder in the front. No advancement by kilometers but by meters costing hundreds of men a week. They can't even get the shells of cities they carpet bombed.
That's why the little devil is smiling. But thanks to his business partners there is hope he won't have to run away to a base in the dark side of the moon or the arctic pole. Trump has agreed to hand him, Ukraine. Yes, the guy that wants a peace honor. I wonder which one of his personalities think he is made peace anywhere. He would might say, Gaza. Gaza? A meat grinder that he could have stopped with just one word. "STOP" No such word came just killing of women Children, babies and young men with their moms. Nothing is been seen I would not even mentioned that name were Trump eventually if he alive with Bibi from Israel will ge triad for crimes against humanity at the Hiag. He has a better chance of ending there than Putin himself.
So, it comes to Ukraine to surrendered and so far no has given them guarantees that Russia won't come back and erase them from the map. The Montrose memorandum said United States to come to the aid of Ukraine if anybody attacked them. US signed and guess who signed too. Russia. But the US Press don't talk about truth just politics. We knit such speed in modern times. They will bombed with for first responder and then bombed again. Bibi learn that from Asa in Syria. Where is Assad now. Last we heard Putin had given him save passage to Russia, next we heard he had been poison and just disappeared.
He is waiting for both Bibi and Trump.
Unless there is an iron clad guarantee from the US Ukraine won't consider this. Yet Ukraine is visiting its allies not to show the proposal (Not sure Zelenskyy is seen it yet, maybe he has butt I missed that).He is asking for help for them to try to overcome the stoppage of US help until Trump dies or stop running for President. It seems every time he runs he wins.They most know that if the Trump cronies in Congress loose, Congress will try too help out Ukraine, But unless they get the senate too, at least to make an impeachment to work it might be more than a yr. means no US for 1-3 yrs.
I think Ukraine can do it but it might have to get younger Soldiers Out front. Ukraine have done so well with coming up with replacement for too expensive weapons to use or restrictions of not attacking Moscow on others. If that does not tell who the US has favored in this fight, even under Biden, then I don't know what to say. This past summer Trump says bomb Moscow! But he has restrictions on the weapons that will reach Moscow. Typical of this man.
by Adam Gonzalez, publisher, writer for Adamfoxie Blog International
Ukrainian and European officials sprang into a frenzy over the weekend to alter President Trump’s new 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, developed with input from Russia and heavily weighted toward the Kremlin.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, for his part, sat back and watched.
For the Russian leader, a Kremlin-friendly peace plan that enshrines Ukraine’s perpetual subordination and vulnerability would be a win. So would a failed process that leads Mr. Trump to pull remaining support for Ukraine and further antagonize European allies.
U.S. and Ukrainian officials reported progress on talks aimed at amending the proposal, saying they had made some unspecified changes. By late Monday, the officials had returned home.
It is unclear if Mr. Putin will accept those changes. On Friday, in a video conference with security officials, the Russian leader said the 28-point plan could be the foundation for a peace settlement, pending “substantive and meaningful discussion,” or Russia could keep pressing its case in Ukraine by force.
More Ukrainian cities will fall to Russian troops, “perhaps not as quickly as we would prefer, but inevitably,” Mr. Putin warned. He said such a path “also suits us,” because Moscow was content to pursue its interests “through armed confrontation.”
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| Two women, one in a knit hat, are shown in front of a heavily damaged high-rise. |
A resident and her mother outside a building damaged by a Russian strike on Ternopil, Ukraine, last week.Credit...Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
His message: His authoritarian system can outlast the resources and will of its adversaries.
“The West has entered a pain contest with Vladimir Putin. Who can withstand more pain?” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. “In this competition, Putin can be tough as nails, and his system can be tough as nails.”
The Ukrainians are just as tough, Mr. Gabuev noted, but “they are under-resourced,” suffering from a dearth of military personnel, weaponry and money, as well as a lack of unified Western support.
Mr. Putin’s ability to continue waging the war isn’t limitless. His economy is facing trouble, particularly after a significant decline in oil revenue, exacerbated by the Trump administration’s recent sanctions. Moscow is raising taxes to cover the war effort and has pruned next year’s military budget. Russia’s forces are on the front foot, but the advance has been slow and costly in lives and matériel.
Still, Mr. Putin believes, compared to Ukraine, that time is on his side. And while he appears satisfied to let the peace process either succeed or fail, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is under immense pressure on multiple fronts, as Mr. Trump pushes him to accept a settlement plan by Thursday.
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| Cars lined up at a Russian gas station. |
A gas station in Moscow in January. Recent U.S. sanctions have targeted Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil.Credit...Natalia Kolesnikova/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The battlefield situation has been deteriorating for Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky has been weakened domestically by a ballooning corruption scandal. And Ukraine is running low on cash to sustain its defenses and economy, with its European allies vacillating about using billions of dollars in frozen Russian money to fund Kyiv.
Mr. Trump has also begun aiming invective again at Ukraine, accusing Mr. Zelensky this past weekend of expressing “ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS.”
Those efforts produced a 28-point plan that underscored Mr. Putin’s unwillingness to bend on the war, and that Ukraine and its European allies are now pushing to amend.
Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin foreign policy aide, said on Monday that many “but not all” of the plan’s positions were acceptable to Russia, but required detailed discussion. He said that European counterproposals that have been circulating were not constructive.
Most of the provisions in the 28-point proposal reflected Mr. Putin’s longstanding demands, including a legally enshrined ban on NATO membership for Ukraine. Still, it is not clear that Mr. Putin would accept the plan even in its original form. Some smaller points represent a comedown from previous Kremlin proposals, such as a cap on Ukraine’s military strength at 600,000, versus the 100,000 that Moscow proposed in 2022 talks.
In his remarks on Friday, Mr. Putin spun it as if he had already made concessions. He said that when he met with Mr. Trump in August in Alaska, the Americans had asked the Russians to show flexibility, and that he was “ready” to do so.
By this, Mr. Putin was most likely referring to the question of territory. Russia’s negotiators dropped their initial demand that Ukraine hand over the entirety of the four regions that Moscow “annexed” in 2022, even though Russia doesn’t control huge portions of that land, including two regional capitals.
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President Trump, President Putin and other officials sit in chairs arranged in a semicircle. A blue background reads Alaska 2025.
President Trump with President Putin in Alaska in August where the leaders discussed the war in Ukraine.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
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In Alaska, Mr. Putin expressed a willingness to stop fighting if, in addition to accepting his other demands, Ukraine handed over just the part of the Donetsk region it still held. The 28-point plan calls for Ukraine to withdraw from that territory, which would become a “demilitarized zone” recognized as Russian land.
Because Mr. Putin has portrayed his war domestically as a rescue operation for the Russian-speaking people of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk, it would be difficult to sell a victory at home that does not result in the capture of the rest of Donetsk. Russia already controls Luhansk.
Stefan Meister, a Russia analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations, said it remained to be seen whether Mr. Putin would be willing to compromise. Mr. Putin could be aiming, Mr. Meister said, to cleave Mr. Trump from the Ukrainians and the Europeans, leaving Russia with an easier path to subjugate Ukraine by force.
“Putin’s calculation is he hopes that Trump gets frustrated with Zelensky and backtracks with any kind of support, and if there is no intelligence sharing or long-range missiles, the Europeans can’t replace it,” Mr. Meister said.
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| Ultimately, Mr. Meister said, Mr. Putin “wants to break Ukraine.” |
Men carry white coffins in a cemetery. At the rear are rows of blue and yellow Ukrainian flags.
A funeral on Sunday for victims of last week’s deadly Russian strike in Ternopil, Ukraine.Credit...Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
Paul Sonne is an international correspondent, focusing on Russia and the varied impacts of President Vladimir V. Putin’s domestic and foreign policies, with a focus on the war against Ukraine.
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