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This is the key point IMHO the US has really shown that at this point it simply cannot be trusted and or relied on for the foreseeable. Even if by some miracle they turned away from authoritarianism in 4 years time it doesn't matter any more as they cannot be trusted not to do another about turn a few years later and possibly even worse just as they have done now. Same applies to signing treaties with them. The US might sign a treaty but who knows if they will actually honour it and not stab you in the back a few years down the line just as they are doing with Canada and Mexico currently.
this peace process is SOOOOOOOO UNPRECIDENTED. Why? (1). The peacemaker indicating the way things might go BEFORE discussions about peace even started
(2) The peacemaker/facilitator is required to be TOTALLY NEUTRAL at all times but not here
(3) Leaving out the EU. The EU has ‘skin in the game’ for a number of reasons. Trump saying that it has essentially no right to be at the table because it has done ‘nothing ‘ over the past Three years to resolve it and it is also not playing its part in funding NATO. These are only opinions as to justifying leaving The EU out.
(4) the adversary ‘ apparently ‘picked the US negotiating team
In summary, I think that there should be no agreement made at any level until the EU is fully involved in all aspects . There needs to be a counterbalance to the US - if that is to be the new way of facilitating a meeting/s’ between two sides
he will, and he’ll say Zelenskyy is being unreasonable.
there is ABSOLUTLY NO COMPARISON between Putin’s conditions for a cease fire and the ones VZ put forward. So I hope that Trump takes note of this.
In one of the most hilarious things about this peace deal nonsense I have seen yet, Putrid said he would accept peacekeepers in Ukraine, so long as they were unarmed and there only as observers.
Stuff like that shows he's not taking the 'process' seriously. Zelensky would never agree to that; he may as well just surrender unconditionally and let Putin take what he wants.
Hopefully they don't get far into Sumy. Imagine taking Kursk away from Ukraine's negotiations and giving Russia Sumy.
Putrid will actually be wanting a peace deal soon, at this rate.
I'm slightly surprised he hasn't asked for Zelensky's literal head on a silver plate. He's insisting on keeping the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which would be an absolute deal breaker were I Zelensky.
Looks like Russia could try open a new front into Ukraine on the route Ukraine used to take Kursk.
Make America White Russian.
Where are them “checks and balances” while the Russian asset **** on veterans (again)?
We should give Ukraine a large chunk of the €13B Apple money…
We fought the EU to not get it, so surely donating a large proportion of it to ‘the cause’ would court some favour/respect within the EU?
Report of additional funding from Ireland as part of EU support for Ukraine.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0316/1502448-ireland-ukraine-military-funding/
Spend it on getting Putin to accidentally fall out of a window, this war belongs to one goblin
That money is better spend on nukes on missiles
Sure Trump told everyone out loud he is afraid of WW3
If North Korea can do it, and be respected by likes of Trump so can any number of advanced industrialised western countries who are waking up to American bullshit
At this point you would have to wonder if a few billion, or even many billions, would be better spent buying the US administration on behalf of Europe. Recent events have given us an idea of what the going rate is.
Yes but those airframes aren't even at the testing stage. The FK-21 is looking to go into production
, an f-35 in the hand is worth a 100 potential 5th or 6th generation that haven't even been designed yet , let alone built , flown , and road tested - look at how long the f-35 took to go from design and test-flight , to low rate production - to actually entering service.. the more complex the systems and software, the more likely there's going to be issues.. and issues soak up time ..
The South Koreans have still ordered F-35s to serve as their main multirole fighter.
Possibly. I foresee a huge push on the two native European stealth fighter programs that are being contemplated - the UK/IT Tempest and the EU FCAS.
I thought it was USA missile systems, nuke warheads & submarines built & maintained in Britain? Barrow in Furness / Clyde, not sure where the nukes are assembled & maintained, maybe still Aldermaston, my auld Dad worked there decades ago.
Summarised in this Guardian article…
"Britain’s ability to rely on the US to maintain the UK’s nuclear arsenal is now in doubt, experts have warned, but working with European states to replace it will be costly and take time… It may be that Britain can fire weapons independently of the US, but below that, the entire infrastructure covering missile compartments on submarines, the missiles themselves, all are supplied by the Americans.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/us-support-uk-nuclear-arsenal-in-doubt-trident-france
US maintenance and resupply of what?
In the short term \ immediate sense no, control over firing. In the medium term yes because the UK at present are dependent on US for maintenance and resupply of the submarine fleet.
South Korea's new fighter, the KF-21, could be an option also. It's coming to the end of its testing program, and looks to be a very capable and cheaper alternative to US airframes.
They don’t this was recently debunked on telegraph podcast episode
The warheads on the UK trident missiles are of UK manufacture. I don't believe the US has control over UK nuclear weapons.
I will leave the readers figure out which of these two military aid columns are for aid from Europe and which one is for US
Might be why I used the term "Falklands War" and not "Malvinas War?'
The manifest of the air freight the pilot was given would have said "Malvinas" though.
Derry/Londonderry. Tank/Panzer. Sometimes one's writing incorporates perspective of the actor.
There's enough crap with countries claiming/invading other's territory.
Las Malvinas is bullsh1t. They are the Falkland Islands
No one doubts the abilities of the F35. It's about America giving real doubts about it's future. Trump & Maga may end up being replaced with a reasonable regime but they might not. There's a long history. America stood by as Hitler took Europe. Churchill had to beg for help. It's hardly surprising that people are realising that you can't trust the USA.
The alternative aircraft may not be as good but they can be relied on. Plus what's the point in any weapon of the US can decide when & against whom it can be used ? The UK has nuclear deterrent that it can't use without US approval.
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