• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Even if Putin were making a reasonable and realistic offer, how is one to take him at his word at this point?

  • DrFistington@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Trump supporting any peace deal at this point is absolute treason. We have almost broken the backs of our enemy, and he wishes to offer them aide, comfort, and ill gotten gains.

    Fucker is dead by the end of August. Mark my words.

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      8 hours ago

      dead by the end of August

      Maybe. But I’m more certain that if one of (Trump | Putin) goes, the other will soon follow. Trump is Putin’s hail Mary play. Putin is Trump’s puppetmaster.

  • pageflight@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Short article.

    Putin told Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, during a meeting in St Petersburg earlier this month that Moscow could relinquish its claims to areas of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions that remain under Kyiv’s control, the report said citing three people familiar with the talks.

    So wait, Putin is willing to make a deal with Trump in which he cedes invaded land that he doesn’t actually control?

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      22 hours ago

      Putin is willing to make a deal with Trump in which he cedes invaded land that he doesn’t actually control?

      That might work for him, at least until Russia can build up a few new tanks and artillery units. More likely they make all kinds of outrageous claims and when Ukraine (rightfully) rejects them Russia can claim that Ukraine doesn’t want peace.

      Or the fools hope option: Cracks in Russia start to show. Money is tight, there’s no workforce, no resources to cover up any kind of losses on the battlefield and so on, so they’re starting to push on whatever peace treaty they can before the whole country collapses.

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          21 hours ago

          Well, that is also a possibility, but the end result doesn’t change. Either way it’s possible to spin that so Ukraine would look bad. In the normal sensible world that wouldn’t fly, but with the global circus we’re experiencing it seems like anything goes.

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            14 hours ago

            I think you underestimate how much the rest of the world is not on the US side in this if the US decides to be on Russia’s side.

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              11 hours ago

              It’s not that much about choosing a side. Europe has been sleeping on their defences for decaes and should US just pull all their hardware and troops back home tomorrow there’s no immediately available replacements on that. And that’s a sad state for the whole continent. So it’s not about honest opinion but, as everything between countries is, a political question on how badly some countries depend on US defences.

              I have no doubt that should US side with Russians it would be widely condemned in global west, but I don’t think global south or China really give a damn. But Europe almost as a whole need to get their shit together really fast and so far, even if the movement seems to be into the right direction, it’s been really slow to show up any actual results.

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                8 hours ago

                It’s not that much about choosing a side.

                It is very much about choosing a side. You can either be in favor in rewarding a war of aggression, or opposed to it.

                The minimal acceptable outcome from the European perspective is Russia bled dry, economically crushed and gaining nothing.

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                10 hours ago

                I agree that Europe needs to get its shit together on defense sooner rather than later but the comment I replied to was about spin and the US will not succeed in spinning this as something positive if they help Russia occupy part of Europe.

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                  9 hours ago

                  US will not succeed in spinning this as something positive if they help Russia occupy part of Europe

                  On that you’re correct. But what they can at least try to do is make Ukraine look bad or difficult/subborn/whatever after rejecting their “peace offer”.

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      8 hours ago

      He’s pretended to do cease-fires before. The shells just kept on falling. Putin’s word, like Trump’s, is worth less than a rat’s fart.