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It seems so
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/zelensky-open-to-us-plan-for-30-day-ceasefire-with-russia-as-trump-lifts-ban-on-intelligence-sharing/a461443335.html
Yeah definitely seems a lot better than we were led to believe.
Is the pause on aid and intel actually lifted now?
Still, the result is much better than I expected. Now the ball is in Putin's court, and no matter how Trump wants to help him, Putin needs to show his commitment to the ceasefire or risk embarrassing Trump.
Why do you say that? I got the impression Ukrainian forces were not caught unaware and wiped out all 80 odd Orcs that exited the pipe with the remaining 20 suffocating.
If Putin rejects this, the absolute embarrassment for Trump and America will be deafening.
He’ll have burned all this ally bridges for nothing.
He will have cost the Ukrainians time and space for proper negotiations.
If Putin says yes, I can see the e ceasefire being broken almost immediately with Russia blaming Ukraine with attacks. Just like Israel did over and over and with Hamas
the sceptic in me says this is just a Trump/Putin plan/ploy to lift sanctions…
No way are Russia accepting this plan without something in return… and Trump will probably agree that they should get something in return so will lift sanctions on their energy industry which will give them an influx of much needed cash.
Feel sorry for friends of Russia who spent so much time spinning a narrative that Ukraine is not interested in peace
Straight talk from Vance's cousin
Trump and Putin will talk and say it isn’t enough from the Ukrainians.
I imagine russias attack through the pipe in Kursk only came about because of the Americans stopping intelligence sharing. I wonder how many lost Ukrainian lives trump is responsible for.
Russians probably launched missiles from Tu-160. There was a launch maneuver, — monitoring channels
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lk4pyxknfk22
In the meantime……
Can the U.S and russia be trusted in this?
I have my reservations.
maybe Putin is not actually his buddy…
What’s in it for Trump sharing intel about his buddy Putin and his army?
Russians won’t touch it with a barge pole. Win win for Ukraine though, notwithstanding the loss of life in the meantime.
What’s the catch???
He will reply with missiles and drones and more meat wave attacks
100% guaranteed
US State Department, in a joint US-Ukraine statement, says the US will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine.
From RTE live feed.
huge news if true..
over to you Vlad…
I think that is due to constantly having to reprogram anti radar systems in a whack a mole with Russia constantly changing their radar systems to avoid detection and countermeasures.
Ukraine's F16 radar tech isn't switched off but it does become less effective if it can't be updated to keep up with the constant changes in Russia's radar systems.
Make US economy Russian
Second day of absolute carnage
Third week of red
La Pen publicly lambasted Trump's treatment of Zelensky and AfD pretty much peaked in what was the former East Germany so unlikely ever to be the leading party.
I think Trump's deference to Putin popped the anti EU populist bubble in Europe. Even the traditionally rabid anti EU Telegraph has made positive arguments for European cooperation.
As much as we talk about the US shutting down allies military HW, isn't the same possible if the French go with Le Pen in future, or AfD come to power in Germany?
Then what happened to Ukraines F16s suddenly losing radar tech?
You are living in the crazy land now so you might not realise just how much damage republicans have done to US
Like a frog being slowly boiled
A major point of it (IMO) was to make themselves important to the USA as an ally, building a strong military that can work with the US one, buying loads of the same gear and supporting their companies etc. It was quite logical, but when the US is turning to Russia and prioritising reset of relations with Putin over future of Ukraine and security of Poland, they are left high and dry.
I suppose the Trump admin. views these petty European countries (Where Is Poh-Land??) like very minor and at times irritating vassals (see Musk and Rubio's comments on X posted before).
They will accept a hefty kick to the teeth if the US "king" makes some new and wider deal with the former enemy king who is now lined up to be a friend. They get no say in it.
They'll buy these US weapons, they'll swallow new policy, pivot + cut off Ukraine if we demand that, and and they will shut up and like it, if they know what's good for them.
It's really that ignorant, arrogant, and stupid IMO.
I'd be more worried about a Chinese 'kill switch' in critical European internet infrastructure that uses Huawei and ZTE equipment than I would about a US one in combat aircraft.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/08/12/eleven-eu-countries-took-5g-security-measures-to-ban-huawei-zte
No question it is insane. Clearly this is not an issue that Europe can solve in the short term but equally its clear we need to be developing and spending defense money within Europe going forward and not be buying from the US as much as possible and I imagine less and less over time given how we simply cannot trust and or rely on the US any more.
There is no kill switch. At most, the US would stop sending updates meaning the jet doesn't get any more capable over time, and maintenance becomes a bit more logistically involved.
https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/10/f-35-kill-switch-myth/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14485007/donald-trump-f35-kill-switch-concern-europe.html
Like said a comedian: Before social media, we all knew who the idiot of the village was. We all knew not to trust the bs they talked about in the pub. Social media allowed the idiots of all the villages to talk to each other. The problem is we don't know all the idiots from all villages.
Yes what I more meant was it's the constant flip-flop of where the US seems to stand on the issue week to week.
Few weeks ago Trump said Ukraine would get some land back, Russia was taking horrific losses, and even more importantly, he expressly told press that Putin cannot be allowed to walk away with anything that can be constituted as a win for Russia.
Few weeks later he was saying Putin wanted peace, refused to say anything negative about him, accused Zelensky of being a dictator, the cause of the war, wanted to keep the war going ala a "gravy train", claimed Ukraine held no cards, and we saw the farce in the oval office.
Now, via Rubio this morning, it's circled back to what Trump originally said - Ukraine will get some land back and Russia will have to make concessions.
It's a complete mess and it's impossible to know, behind closed doors, where the US actually stands on anything or where this is headed.
If we look at the nonsense with Canada, Mexico and Europe, I think it's less that Trump is a Russian asset and more he genuinely thinks he's playing global hardball/projecting the US strongman image and failing to appreciate how many own goals he's scoring in the immediate and longer-term scheme of things.
Agree about the wider problems with social media. However the large ones that are clearly just bad actors (X), and/or owned and run by hostile foreign powers (e.g. TikTok/CCP) just need to be forced to sell, or shut down to improve things significantly. I wish someone had the balls to do it.
I kind of think govt's could underestimating numbers of voters in European countries who would be pleased with this and overestimating the numbers of noisy ones who would be furious their precious TikTok or X dopamine rush was taken away by the "nanny state"/"big govt.". I wonder is there any polling on it?
