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"the US thought they could destabilize Russia,"

putin recently had to murder the leader of their largest mercenary group for threatening to attack moskow and there has been an even more recent attack on russian federation land by russians. How is that not destabilized?

Ukraine is the country invaded by putin, not the USA, and they know treaties with putin will not be respected. I suspect supplies of arms from the USA slowing has nothing to do with Ukraine and is likely to be a strategy to force the EU into more arms investment which hopefully will backfire for the USA when their arms industry sees a decline in arms sales due to expanded arms production in Ukraine and in other EU countries. I think Ukraine will be OK with staying neutral once putin's terrorists go home.

Nope. That isnt merely not clear it is false. That is assertion without evidence. We have seen the results of Russian negotiation ... they break any agreement when it suits them as they have done repeatedly with Ukraine, Moldova, Chechnya.

Ukraine was invaded by Russia, Sacks labelling that a US proxy war is a lie. A deliberate attempt to deceive

So just utter garbage without evidence from Sacks and he is the one feeding you BS.

lol. reading Mein Kampf (russkiy version) much?

he will loose. There has not been a singled war that rotten failed state have won.

https://kyivindependent.com/bloomberg-ukraines-recent-drone-strikes-hit-facilities-representing-12-of-russias-oil-processing-capacity/

Keep hitting them and the war machines will stop

Spot on @odyssey06

For those who think the only way to finish this war is for Ukraine to sit down and negotiate with Russia and / or be forced to do so:

In Russia, former PM and President and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitri Medevedev published Russian demands to Ukraine. See translation below:

They can be summed up as liquidation of Ukrainian statehood and annexation of Ukraine by Russia.

https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1768222550067143057

Good read ..

A story on the atmosphere in Crimea 10 years after annexation and two years into the full-scale war: nervousness, terror, denunciations, some quiet resistance and also a a fair bit of indifference.

Opposition in Russia. Putin's media warning of a fifth column in Russia. And if children want to protest in Russia then they have to apply to government for a licence to protest.

It's spicy in Russia today.

Yes, he will, for sure, despite all the nay-sayers, and prophets of doom. Taking a country and holding it are two different things. Regardless of what's happening in the US at the moment, the EU / UK etc are taking up the slack. And Ukrainians are made of different stuff than what Putin is used to dealing with in the republics.

US ambassador really laying it out to Hungary's Viktor Orban over his relationship with Russia and his increasing accusations against the US

"The US ambassador to Hungary has said Washington will act amid Budapest’s “dangerously unhinged anti-American messaging” and “expanding relationship with Russia”.

In a landmark speech in Budapest on Thursday, David Pressman took direct aim at the controversial foreign policy of Hungary’s longtime prime minister, Viktor Orbán, while also accusing the Hungarian government of rampant corruption and undermining independent institutions.

“This speech is about a longtime friend and ally saying and doing things that undermine trust and friendship,” Pressman said, referring to Hungary. “We cannot ignore it when the speaker of Hungary’s national assembly asserts that Putin’s war in Ukraine is actually ‘led by the United States’.

“We can neither understand nor accept the prime minister identifying the United States as a ‘top adversary’ of our ally Hungary. Or his assertion that the United States government is trying to overthrow the Hungarian government – literally, to ‘defeat’ him.”

The ambassador added: “While the Orbán government may want to wait out the United States government, the United States will certainly not wait out the Orbán administration. While Hungary waits, we will act.”"

and

"“Orbán, who on one hand baselessly claims that the United States government is trying to overthrow his government, publicly calls for the political defeat of the president of the United States and actively participates in US partisan political events,” he said.

“Hungary advocates for electoral candidates around the world from Poland to Brazil, all while decrying foreign interference here at home,” the ambassador emphasised. “Who leads the United States government – or any government – is a question for the people of that country alone to decide.”

The ambassador was blunt about how Washington sees Hungary’s links to Moscow. “Now Hungary’s allies are warning Hungary of the dangers of its close and expanding relationship with Russia,” Pressman said.

“If this is Hungary’s policy choice – and it has become increasingly clear that it is, with the foreign minister’s sixth trip to Russia since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and with his next trip to Russia scheduled in two weeks, following his engagement with Russia’s foreign minister earlier this month, and the prime minister’s own meeting with Vladimir Putin in China – we will have to decide how best to protect our security interests, which, as allies, should be our collective security interests.”

Pressman, who insisted the US wants good ties with Hungary and that he will keep reaching out to the government, said Budapest’s behaviour was putting its relationship with the US at risk. “While the Hungarian government’s wild rhetoric in state controlled-media may incite passion, or ignite an electoral base, the choice to issue, on a daily basis, dangerously unhinged anti-American messaging is a policy choice, and it risks changing Hungary’s relationship with America,” he said."