So now its no weapons for Ukraine at all? Never mind if we get paid? Odd, I thought there were some defense industries located in her district that would love getting paid.
Russia - Ukraine “peace negotiations”
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So now its no weapons for Ukraine at all? Never mind if we get paid? Odd, I thought there were some defense industries located in her district that would love getting paid.
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Protests Break Out as Ukraine Defangs Anticorruption Agency
Opponents say move is boldest in series of recent steps to centralize power around the president
—> https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/uk...4?st=CrpaFZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink“…The law effectively strips independence from Ukraine’s National Anticorruption Bureau, known as NABU, which was established in 2015 under pressure from the U.S. and other Western countries.
Protests erupted after the law was pushed through parliament on Tuesday, as more than 1,000 people gathered near the president’s office, shouting “shame” and “veto the law.” It was one of the largest demonstrations against Zelensky’s government since Russia invaded more than three years ago.
Zelensky’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment, nor did his Servant of the People party, which controls parliament.
Under the law, Ukraine’s prosecutor general will have sweeping powers over NABU and the special anticorruption prosecutor. The prosecutor general is appointed by the president, effectively giving Zelensky power to block investigations into members of his administration.
“What’s happening is the demolition of the anticorruption infrastructure in Ukraine,” said Daria Kaleniuk, co-founder of the nongovernmental Anticorruption Action Center, who helped establish NABU after the 2014 revolution toppled a pro-Russian leader. She added that in recent months the U.S. seems to have dropped its emphasis on anticorruption efforts in Ukraine, which has freed the government’s hand to defang NABU.…”
How is it that Zelensky is backing down when the Bill was passed by over a 90 percent vote I think it was reported? Is he allowed to veto a vote count like that?
Anyway, there are reports that this is really an effort to correct corruption within NABU that had developed. Not surprising considering the deeply imbeded Russian/Soviet corruption that the country inherited from before 2014.
Anyway, there are reports that this is really an effort to correct corruption within NABU that had developed. Not surprising considering the deeply imbeded Russian/Soviet corruption that the country inherited from before 2014.
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Trump says he’ll start clock on new Ukraine ceasefire deadline ‘tonight or tomorrow’
President Donald Trump said he is "very disappointed" in Russia's Vladimir Putin and said he’s cutting Moscow’s 50-day deadline to avoid secondary sanctions on Russian oil to between 10 and 12 days from now unless Putin brings his three-year-old war on Ukraine to an end.
Trump says he’ll start clock on new Ukraine ceasefire deadline ‘tonight or tomorrow’
Trump has threatened to impose secondary sanctions on countries that purchase Russian oil if Vladimir Putin doesn’t end his three-year-old war on Ukraine
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Trump says he’ll start clock on new Ukraine ceasefire deadline ‘tonight or tomorrow’
President Donald Trump said he is "very disappointed" in Russia's Vladimir Putin and said he’s cutting Moscow’s 50-day deadline to avoid secondary sanctions on Russian oil to between 10 and 12 days from now unless Putin brings his three-year-old war on Ukraine to an end.
Trump says he’ll start clock on new Ukraine ceasefire deadline ‘tonight or tomorrow’
Trump has threatened to impose secondary sanctions on countries that purchase Russian oil if Vladimir Putin doesn’t end his three-year-old war on Ukraine
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While he refused to say whether he felt Putin had been "lying" to him, Trump highlighted the contrast between the Russian president's rhetoric during their one-on-one conversations and the missiles "lobbed" on Ukrainian cities on a near-nighlty basis.
"We were going to have a ceasefire and maybe peace... and all of a sudden you have missiles flying into Kyiv and other places," Trump lamented, adding that he thought negotiations would be possible but that it was now "very late down the process".
"I say, forget it. I'm not gonna talk anymore. This has happened on too many occasions and I don't like it," he said, though he also insisted that he and Putin always got along very well.
Trump also said he was "no longer interested in talks" - a line which instantly flashed up on major Russian media outlets.
Putin has never commented on the timeframe. … All of Russia's preconditions for peace - including Ukraine becoming a neutral state, dramatically reducing its military and abandoning its Nato aspirations - are unacceptable to Kyiv and to its Western partners.
At the last week's round of talks, which lasted barely an hour, Peskov said a "breakthrough" in negotiations was "hardly possible".…”
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Even Trump knows how stupid he would sound if he did the "two weeks" thing again.
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You give him too much credit.
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And if Russia doesn't comply, then St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago will stamp his little foot and demand that they do. And then Vlad "the Ras" Putin will laugh and ask, "If I don't, what will you do? And after you do that, what do you think I will do? Do you remember the night I set you up in the same hotel room that Obama used? Do you remember waking up, seeing all the cameras pointed at you, and seeing the "BIG" Cossack that you were in bed with?"
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That was so weak it was actually cringy. I'm embarrassed for you.