Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

It's looks inevitable Ukraine will have to accept a deal mainly in favour of Putin if not all in his favour .It was always possible that Trump would side with Putin but now that it has actually happened it really is sickening. Can't really see Europe making up the difference that Ukraine needs .

How long can Ukraine stay in the fight without US military support?

Europe should out boots on the ground into Ukraine and create a buffer zone. Call Trump and Putins bluff.

Ukraine had another - US aid. That is now also gone.

Fintan O'Toole in todays IT, we need to wake up to what America has become, tarrifs from the West & a resurgent Russia from the East

"In 2018, while on his way to a cringeworthy fanboy encounter with Vladimir Putin, Trump was asked by CBS News to name his “biggest foe globally right now”: “Well, I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now you wouldn’t think of the European Union but they’re a foe.”

And yet there was shock last week when Trump said that “the European Union was formed to screw the United States, that’s the purpose of it, and they’ve done a good job of it”. Presumably his similar claims in his first term were taken neither seriously nor literally.

Trump really does rank the EU, along with China, as America’s biggest global enemy. He intends to harm it from the outside by imposing tariffs on its exports and by empowering Putin to reassert Russia’s dominance of eastern Europe. And to undermine it from the inside by allying the US to the heirs of the fascist movements it helped to defeat in 1945."

Ukraine needs to get those centrifuges spinning.

What deal? There never was a deal

How can someone be so gullible

Nobody is thread banned new rules which aren't exactly new either.

So I take it with 'boots' you mean other people, not yourself or your sons or daughters or anyone you know ideally?

Are you saying European countries don’t have armies and they are all conscripted and forced to serve in the military?

Doesn’t matter now anyway. It’s only a matter of time before EU countries are toe to toe with Russia.

You never know. Someone you know personally might have to go and fight all because Trump and Russian sympathizers like yourself just want to appease Putin and his genocidal army.

Why are you here and not booking a one way trip to Russia with your kids?

I don’t understand why those who constantly defend Russian oligarchic fascism and aggression and apparently hate our western way of life and undermine it publicly don’t put their money where their mouths are sort of speak

And yes I would absolutely fight so my kids don’t endup in shithole dystopian Russian Mir where dear leader sends them into woodchiper so he gets his name in history books alongside Hitler

See thats the mistake you're making. Nobody defends Russian oligarchic facism and all the rest of that. Well not me anyway. You're for some crazy reason assuming just because I dont trot the full party line I somehow must be Russia's troll. I'm not. You just seem to have gone way over there where you shut yourself off to any reasonable and balanced views. And from over there everyone looks like an adversary to you. I suppose it's the way the internet has gone. All about 'sides' and no longer listening to what is actually being said by anyone.

Me I'm Just calling out hypocrisy. Like since you brought it up we have plenty of oligarchs ourselves and many shades of fascism too. Easy to spot too if you cared to look.

Putin must be getting desperate, to be showing his hand so obviously. In his rush to shore up his military weakness he has outed Trump as a Russian asset, provoking a strong European response that I'm sure he would have preferred to avoid. The response in the US could backfire badly too, undermining his long term plans to have the US as an unwitting ally.

I think Ukraine, with European support, need to hang in there - I think things are starting to fall apart in Russia.

We will find out just how much of a hold Putin has over Trump soon, when we see just how far Trump can be pushed to betray Ukraine and US.

Merkel completely misjudged Putin, but that has no bearing on what I said.