Russia - Ukraine “peace negotiations”

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Good luck enforcing that deal. Ukraine will back out as soon as they don't need the US. Can't sue Ukraine as a sovereign entity in US court; there's no way to win in Ukrainian court, and there will be no reputational cost to Ukraine for backing out because everybody realizes it's a hostage situation. Even if the US were to get a judgment against Ukraine, then what? How to collect? Sanctions? Sanctions won't be meaningful on Ukraine unless Europe joins, which they won't. This will be a line in the sand.
 
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Good luck enforcing that deal. Ukraine will back out as soon as they don't need the US. Can't sue Ukraine as a sovereign entity in US court; there's no way to win in Ukrainian court, and there will be no reputational cost to Ukraine for backing out because everybody realizes it's a hostage situation. Even if the US were to get a judgment against Ukraine, then what? How to collect? Sanctions? Sanctions won't be meaningful on Ukraine unless Europe joins, which they won't. This will be a line in the sand.
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Well I’m starting to think Trump will put American troops in Ukraine and take it if he doesn’t get what Russia wants.
At this point why not we have been an enemy to Ukraine in every way but killing them with troops since Trump took office. Then Trump can build him a little mini White House over there and he can be right next to his lover while enriching himself off of Ukrainian resources.
 
“President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership, adding that the comments were “not going in the right location.”

Agence France-Presse reported that Putin on Friday called for a transitional government to be put in place in Ukraine, which could effectively push out Zelenskyy.

“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump said in an early-morning phone call with NBC News on Sunday.

“That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States,” Trump said. “There will be a 25% tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil.”

The president’s comments come after he had previously criticized Zelenskyy, saying he was “sick”of his handling of the war and falsely calling him a dictator. …”

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Trump says he’s ‘very angry’ and ‘pissed off’ at Putin during an NBC News interview

Trump said in an early-morning phone call that if he believes Russia is at fault for a ceasefire not being reached with Ukraine, he may impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil.
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Putin to conscript 160,000 more Russians for war with Ukraine​

Ukraine warned the Kremlin is preparing for a massive new military offensive.

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Putin to conscript 160,000 more Russians for war with Ukraine

Ukraine warned the Kremlin is preparing for a massive new military offensive.
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“According to our intelligence, Russia is preparing for new offensives in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions,” Zelenskyy said last week.

“They are dragging out negotiations and trying to drag the U.S. into endless, meaningless discussions about fake conditions to buy time and then try to seize even more land. Putin wants to negotiate territory from a stronger position. He only thinks about war. So, our job — all of us — is defense in the broadest sense of the word,” he added.

Yet U.S. President Donald Trump, who on Sunday said he was “pissed off” by Putin’s desire to remove Zelenskyy from power for a peace treaty to become possible, still believes the Kremlin’s leader will stick to his word and that he wants the war to end. …”
 
Another 160,000 for the meat grinder. With the weather getting better soon, then makes sense that Russia will try.

Russia doesn't really train their troops. Just give them a gun and send them out. But Ukraine has even added an additional six weeks of training before their guys go into combat and there is now even an adaptive period to try to ease them into it according to recent General Syrskyi's comments.
 

Trump accuses Ukraine’s Zelensky of ‘trying to back out’ of proposed minerals deal​




“US President Donald Trump accused the Ukrainian president of “trying to back out” of the minerals deal expected to be agreed between the two countries as early as this week, adding that Volodymyr Zelensky would face “big problems” if he didn’t sign an agreement. But Ukraine has highlighted that the conditions of the deal changed significantly in recent days.

“I see he’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal. And if he does that, he’s got some problems. Big, big problems,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force Once on Sunday. “We made a deal on rare earth and now he’s saying, ‘well, you know, I want to renegotiate the deal.’”

“He wants to be a member of NATO. Well, he was never going to be a member of NATO. He understands that. So if he’s looking to renegotiate the deal, he’s got big problems,” Trump said.

Meanwhile, Zelensky said last week that the conditions of the deal being negotiated are “constantly changing,” but overall, Ukraine feels positively toward a future agreement. …”
 

Hegseth expected to skip key meeting with allies on Ukraine support​


"US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is not expected to attend next week’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, marking the first time since the group’s founding three years ago that a senior Pentagon official will not be there to represent the US, officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

The US has for months been steadily pulling back from the group, which was founded by former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in 2022 after Russia’s invasion as a way for dozens of countries to streamline the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine to quell Russian military advances.

Whereas Austin or a senior Pentagon official always chaired the group’s monthly meetings, Hegseth has ceded that role to the UK in recent months—even as a senior US general told lawmakers on Thursday that “continuing to assist Ukraine on the battlefield daily” is “very important” when it comes to maintaining leverage over the Russians.

Hegseth attended a meeting of the UDCG in February at NATO headquarters in Brussels, where he told allies that the US would no longer be a guarantor of European security and that it was highly “unlikely” that Ukraine would ever join NATO—a comment that, at the time, marked a dramatic shift from the longtime US position that Ukraine would one day join the alliance. ..."
 
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