Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Would love it if this was Zelensky's response to Trump's peace plan.

I'm not sure about morons. I tend to see them as grotesquely sociopathic and divisive. Some of them seem to see this war as a board game to be played as realpolitik with no regard for moral concerns.

There are parallels with Trumps approach to the USSR in the 1980s. He put out paid ads criticising the Reagan administration on a range of issues including Reagans willingness to stand up to the USSR and criticised US money supposedly going to allies. This came after his 1987 visit to Moscow, about which there have been rumours for 38 years.

Former Reagan officials are "aghast" by his foreign policy.

I wonder why Ukraine won't just agree to peace......

"Trump is about as reliable as a paper condom"

I think he has been remarkably consistent in his actions (he is all over the place with his words but that applies to every topic) i.e. he has done nothing to help Ukraine. That is not going to change unless for some reason things change politically at home that he needs the interventionist faction of party. Right now he has complete control over party and congress and he is not going to help Ukraine.

The only way Trump and come on side is with a carrot in much the same way Vietnam got a better tariff deal and Trump got to develop a 550 hectare gold development.

This is the most openly corrupt administration in history; pleas, decency, diplomacy won't get you anywhere. That's likely part of the game that Putin is playing

Putin's cronies have devised a money scam to scam apartment and home buyers out of money.

The scam was brought into law by Larisa Dolina (Putin's election confidant) and the judiciary. People buy apartments from developers or home owners. The developers or home owners say they were coerced into selling by the buyer. The courts then take possession of the property leaving the buyers on the street and the money with the sellers. 3000 buyers in Russia have now been conned by the kremlin.

"In January of this year, the transaction was made at a Sberbank branch. The seller received the money through the DomClick secure payment system. On the day of receiving the keys, the seller announced that he allegedly transferred the money to scammers and filed a police report. No, of course, I was alarmed. I sought legal advice. The lawyers reviewed the documents and said that there was nothing to worry about and that I could use the apartment in full. I planned to do renovations and move in with my child after the consultation. Of course, I will do so. I started making renovations, but 10 months later, in October of this year, I received a subpoena. I learned that the seller wanted to invalidate the transaction, relying on Article 177. He was allegedly in a state of complete health. He was delusional, a little aware of his actions, period. There really is nothing at all."

Some Republicans opposing the Trump plan. Rep.Bryan Fitzpatrick pushing a discharge petition to force a vote on more sanctions on Russia. It has 119 signatures so far

According to Ukrainian media charges of embezzlement have been prepared by the anti corruption Bureau NABU against Rustem Umerov. Currently he is heading negotiations today in Geneva with the Americans.

https://censor.net/en/news/3586486/nabu-will-hand-over-the-suspect-to-umerov-honcharenko-says-it-has-already-been-prepared

Also it sounds like some compromises may be possible after talks over the last few weeks according to US media

EDIT - Umerov has denied the WAPO article.

It’s high time Moscow suffered.

Another rambling brain fart from the orange one!🙄

I mean it's such an bad and one sided "deal", I think Russia might have been very interested if Ukrainian people were ready for this amount of concessions, and Ukraine's govt. just told the US + EU and their other supporters, and went to Putin/Russia with the outline directly.

They don't need the US (and Donald Trump) inserting themselves into + (trying to) direct the process.

The stuff in public that concerns the US is some very wooly "security guarantees", promises of consequences for Russia if it attacks again (that noone believes), and the US (or maybe even just Trump admin. and cronies, who knows!) expecting to be paid a cut out of EU/Ukrainian hides.