Newsmax- Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine cease-fire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO, five sources with knowledge of Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
President-elect Trump, who has vowed to swiftly end the conflict, is returning to the White House at a time of Russian ascendancy. Moscow controls a chunk of Ukraine about the size of the American state of Virginia and is advancing at the fastest pace since the early days of the 2022 invasion. more
” No Ukraine in NATO,”. Pretty sure the meant no NATO in Ukraine. That’s what started this war. That;’s been Putin’s demand from the git. Gabbard wrote long ago, just guarantee Putin no NATO in the Uke and the war is off. Totally understandable. If the Uke were a NATO nation Russia would have tactical nukes ON IT’S BORDER. Putin is simply trying to look out for his people and we’re a bunch of assholes. And mean while our tax dollars are being spread all over hell and back to bad people. Trump really needs to get to the bottom of this and it’s International. Most of NATO needs to be lined up in front of a firing squad. They were after Putty in the first place because he wouldn’t cave to the NWO and the world bank. Don’t take my word for it. Investigate it.
Putin probably negotiates like Trump. Ask for a number of things but know what you really want. I would not be surprised if Putin would be willing to give up the territory as long as NATO goes back to it’s original lines.
Throughout history, Russia has been invaded by countries to it’s west. They just want to be left alone.
RadioMattM
Putin released a statement a day or to ago that they were willing to sit down for peace talks as long as Trump moderated. Trump maybe keeping us all from glowing in the dark.
What a scam all the way around. Once a country is a NATO country, they can only use NATO approved weapons. American defense contractors.
Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, ……..
Who in Congress owns stock.
@Bad_Brad:
I respectfully suggest you’re mistaken. While Putin for sure wants NATO forces out of Ukraine, what he’s been adamant about for years now is that Russia rejects the notion of NATO membership for Ukraine.
Uncle Al
That’s a valid point. Either way NATO needs to be held accountable.
I reject the notion of Ukraine in NATO, too. I’m no fan of Putin, but what in the hell is the West thinking.
The US wasn’t exactly thrilled when the Rooskies put missiles in Cuba.
NATO is a left over relic from WW2 and has absolutely no purpose to exist today.
The US taxes our hard earned money and throws it away to countries that stab us in the back. So now we have Zelinsky playing the piano with his penis and we are sending billions of inflated dollars to supply weapons and have them fight a proxy war that should not exist. The MSM and ‘the view’ are promoting this swill and combined they don’t have the intelligence of a horse turd. I am truly disturbed that Trump is the last hope to save our country because the dumb ass Democraps and RINO’s will keep being voted in again and again. The solution for treason is hanging so start hanging
NATO is a grift.
Just like the UN.
The war in Ukraine is a huge embezzlement and money-laundering scheme.
Those tens (hundreds?) of $Billions laundered through Ukraine should have been spent on election integrity and prosecuting, then hanging, the malefactors – as well as ridding our great country of its illegal-alien invaders.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Americans spoke out loudly in the election.
Shitpants Potatohead is defiantly ignoring their will.
I hope Putin rids the world of that lying, stealing total POS biden.
Wild Bill, the Soviets put nukes in Cuba in response to us putting nukes in Turkey. When we removed the missiles from Turkey, the USSR removed theirs from Cuba.
Russia will never relinquish the Donbass or Crimea without canned sunshine being released.
I was under the impression that the peeps in the Donbas voted to become Russians instead of remaining Ukrainians – which was Putin’s pretense for war.
I don’t remember who called for the vote or who counted the votes, however.
Neither Ukraine nor Russia is “worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.”
A pox on both their houses.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Putin’s “starting point” was stated YEARS ago, when the West signed Minsk accords KNOWING they would renege on the agreements. IOW, THEY LIED to buy time and start this war against Russia– Merkel has admitted it, on top of the truth is plain to see.
US/EU/NATO lied, blew up the NordStream pipeling(Russian property), SANCTIONED Russia countless times until Russia necessarily turned to other countries to do business around the criminal West.
And now that ALL these STUPID policies have only damaged the perps severely, they expect Russia to make the concessions???
Putin is a SAINT in my book; Clinton, Ertegun, Macron… would have started wars for their own political survival by now.
And the US, despite our LAW to the contrary, is promoting “regime change” like it’s a valid thing. IMO, “regime changing” a legitimate foreign leader is tantamount to declaring war–
Without needing to officially declare war.