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Europe 'violating democratic norms' over Le Pen ban - Kremlin
All I'm going to say is if the Kremlin are upset this must be a good thing. They've some neck though.
Europe dropped the ball big time. We should have been much closer to equalling the US in military spending. Putin would have thunk twice.
If you had belief in the Europeans having a set of balls, then yes. But they've shown relatively little evidence of that over the past few years. Indeed, one of the few areas in which Trump is probably in the right is the imbalance in defence spending as between the US and the Europeans over the past couple of decades.
Time will tell.
Agree. I think it needs to be a From the People type assassination, otherwise there's the real risk of creating a martyr out of him which the next in line will use to his own advantage in doubling down on the corruption, suppression and hoarding of wealth.
this whole angry with putin story was done to distract from signal gate… and it appears to have been somewhat successful
Alternatively the fact that Trump has undermined NATO makes moving European troops and weapons into Ukraine a non NATO move, bolstering Ukraine against Putin without crossing his NATO red line.
Several B-2s Have also been moved nearer in the past week afaik
Thanks to Trump's actions and threats, the 'NATO' pre-emptive defence is turning into more of a noose around its members necks. In other words, do we really think Trump would send in the cavalry if Russia expanded operations into a little bit of Poland etc? I'd be doubtful. While Putin can rest assured that the Europeans won't step foot into Ukraine because of the risk of triggering Article 5 and 'escalations'. The the NATO thing is actually working backwards at the moment thanks to Trump's positioning.
So Trump "very angry" with Putin while also touting a mineral deal with Russia and threatening Zelenski not to pull out of an impossible deal.
What'll Trump as for in return for his betrayal of Ukraine? For Russia to abandon Iran and leave them to the US?
Very dangerous times for Ukraine after they've already lost Kursk thanks to Trump.
On the second part, that Iran bombing threat, the US has moved at least one third of it's B2 bombers to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, likely in readiness to drop large ground penetrating GBU-57 bombs to get at Iran's subterranean nuclear facilities.
Zelensky better sign the deal, for all he knows next time he visits, Trump could simply have him hogtied and delivered on a CIA flight to Moscow
Any meaningful peace agreement has to be between Russia and Ukraine, obviously. And I don't think Russia are prepared to make any agreements with Ukraine. Putin only responds to deterrence.
The whole Trump peace talk stuff is simply a sideshow.
He actually went on to criticize Zelensky more in the interview.
Says if Zelensky doesn’t accept the rare mineral deal he’s got big problems.
We all know which way this is heading.
’Acting the maggot - ‘ you are being VERY CAUTIOUS. Is your range of adjectives/ nouns very limited !!!. Could you not come up with something more accurate?
I think it’s worth pointing out that while Telegraph does one of the best and most in-depth day to day coverage of this war and has journalists on the ground and daily interviews on their excellent free podcast
Some of their writers have been repeatedly over optimistic and plain wrong about Trump
There clearly is some sort of “special” relationship between Putin and Trump
As always with Trump watch what he does not what he says, since he has no issues contradicting himself and lying
I doubt this "anger" will last. Note how quickly Trump dropped US support and intel for Ukraine - let's see if he does anything like that with Putin (secondary sanctions, etc). It will demonstrate whether this is real or just vapid posturing.
Donnie is possibly annoyed that Putin is dangling that Nobel Peace Prize over his head, teasing him with it, while doing what he damn well pleases.
This would be an ideal time to appeal to his fragile little ego, and suggest that going all in with supporting Ukraine would actually win him praise from many of the Western leaders. It would be a temporary fix until his mood turns, but it would buy Ukraine more time which I feel is the name of the game right now.
Reading that post makes Trump sound more like Neville Chamberlain than a Churchill for all his bragging
I dunno, it seems like Trump realises Putin is treating him like a puppet, and messing him about, asking for the full cake, or no deal. Time for Trump to get tough
Trump and Putin will kiss and make up. It's just playing good cop/bad cop.
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Is that not in response to a ceasefire or more than likely a peace agreement?
………. Trump pissed off with Putin
Just fcuking do it!!!
So right at the start of the current unpleasantnesss Trump said this
I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine—of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. So, Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper.
So maybe not literal flat-out lying but 'bending reality to his will', what we would call in Ireland a stroke. And Trump recognised it and thought it was 'genius'…
Again or are you reporting what happened Friday night?
Reports coming in that one of Putin's cars has exploded. Also that he has ordered the arrest of Oligarchs.
I think we're already past the exasperation point. Putin is acting the maggot and doesn't seem at all interested in a ceasefire (which appears to have dawned on Trump now).
"Norway's proximity to the USSR during the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases for planes and ships. Tensions with Russia have brought the bunkers back into focus"
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250328-why-norway-is-restoring-its-cold-war-military-bunkers
Maybe of interest.(I used to work there in the fishing factory)
I remember not so long ago they shut the border because Russia was sending off illegal immigrants on push bikes towards the Norwegian border.
I think it's a forlorn hope.
Best we can hope for IMO is that Trump gets exasperated that peace won't dawn just because he wills it, washes his hands of situation and disengages from both sides (i.e. the awful US rapprochement with Russia doesn't progress any further).
