Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

with regards to Trumps comments at the Macron press conference ,his first cabinet meeting and in relation to security guarantees that VZ is looking for , there is , at least , two pieces of the jigsaw ‘ missing , namely :- (1) When the US citizens - senior management and other workers working in eastern UKr extracting the ‘rear earths’ - and as Trump said Russia will ‘not go near them’ while they are there - what will be the status of the proverbial PEACEKEEPERS when the Americans will leave having exhausted the mines?

(2) Where is the ‘agreed’ border when the mining is going on and where will it be when the mining is finished? Maybe the whole idea is to fudge the whole issue and no (1) above will be ongoing for time immemorial?

I would say one burst from that gun costs more than a dozen drones.

Have to agree here. That "Dalek gun" seems more like the quadruple Maxim mount that the Ukrainians cooked up in the early days of the 2022 invasion for air defence: Looks weird, but can put a LOT of rounds downrange when needed.

More evidence as to why the Orcs want a peace ceasefire.

You seem to have thawed out. Did you get to play with the new tank?

https://www.twz.com/land/m10-booker-undergoing-cold-weather-trials-in-alaska

Never underestimate how low Trump can go.

If it is true, I think we can expect a raft of previous medal of honour recipients to return theirs in protest.

Weirdly, America is so in the grip of the "anything that annoys the libs must be good for America" mentality of governance, this might actually happen. I wouldn't put any of this past the ongoing crazy.

We're a few weeks away from Trump signing into law that future recipients of the death penalty are to be executed by Monster Truck rally.

Fig leaf sprang to my mind (both sides?)

Suspension of credulity seems to be all the rage

"I see stupid people"

(Is it a 3 card trick?)

Big danger for the Trump regime is 'anything that annoy the libs' is soon going to be annoying the MAGA crowd as well. The anti-woke and culture war nonsense is not going to put a meal on anyone's table or a single extra cent in anybody's pocket.

I read somewhere that some MAGA government employees who got sacked were complaining that Trump was firing the "wrong people"! Did they not think that an anti government candidate would work in their interests?

With former MME fighter Tate sent packing it's a good time to remember British cage fighter Conor McGregor called Putin "one of the greatest leaders in our time" back in 2018.

tbh surprised he hasn't pardoned Gislene Maxwell at this point.

The USA is certainly in for a bumpy ride, and I don't think anyone can really help Russia avoid structural implosion in the long run.

Even if Trump dropped dead of a heart attack in front of a live audience they'll still be a rabid core who'll swear their leader was taken out. I don't know where MAGA ends, but rather than improving anything it certainly is making things worse.

On the plus side the crazier things get in the US the more it pushes the UK back towards harmony with Europe.

Again…

I agree that Russia has problems with maintaining the offensive. However, Putin does not want peace or even a ceasefire.

I repeat: there will be no peace agreement in the near future, 6 months at least, likely more.

All the recent talk is just fluff, Russians fake an interest to squeeze as many concessions from Trump as possible. I don't know how clued in you are in what Russian media and official say, but here is the gist: "We want peace, where Ukraine disbands its army, surrenders its independence and elects a pro-Russian president and the parliament. Russia will be the guarantor of peace, that is if Ukrainians elect someone Russia does not like, we will impose the compliance militarily. Plus give us the oblasts that we haven't fully occupied yet, plus Odessa and Nikolaev, so that Ukraine has no sea access".

The reasons why Russians are talking to Trump is also clear from what they say — "Trump is great, and we would have made a great deal with Trump if Biden didn't steal his election in 2020. But before we can talk about peace, we should normalise our relationship with the great Trump land. First — fully reopen the embassies (to let all the FSB operatives and spies into the USA). then let our ministers hammer out the deal on lifting sanctions, and then we can talk about how the USA can help us to pressure Ukraine into surrender".

But all of this is a delaying tactic anyway, Russia hopes to get something from the useful idiot/plant Trump before it even considers talking about a ceasefire. Any cessation of war is not in Putin's interest, he is not going to survive for long after the war ends, unless it ends in the destruction of Ukraine.