Russia - Ukraine “peace negotiations”

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Russia’s had years of practice at getting around sanctions. How effective are they really at this point?

The NYT article noted this will require secondary sanctions against countries still buying Russian oil to be effective.

Also, it’s beyond ridiculous that this guys mind is so mush that significant shifts of US stances and policies hinge on who spoke to him last. People have got to be worried that he’s deteriorating during a power grab.

 

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Russia likely burning Ukraine down, and targeting the firefighters who respond.

Wildfires have consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fuelling the flames?

In 2024, nearly a million hectares of Ukraine’s land burned. Heat, mines and shelling contributed, but footage of drones targeting firefighters has raised the question of war crimes

www.theguardian.com

 

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—> https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/as...a?st=u5sbNg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

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—> https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/as...a?st=u5sbNg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… Kyiv’s theory of victory now increasingly rests on the growing power of Ukrainian long-range strikes against Russia’s oil-and-gas infrastructure, the lifeblood of Putin’s war machine. Russia is already experiencing fuel shortages after dozens of its refineries were blown up.

… A former senior member of Zelensky’s administration said the war will likely continue for many years because both sides have the ability to keep fighting. It will end, he added, either with the collapse of the Russian imperial project or the disappearance of an independent Ukraine.

By January next year, Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine will have lasted longer than the Soviet Union’s war against Nazi Germany. It is an important psychological marker considering that Putin’s propaganda has sold the war to the Russian public as a replay of that conflict. He routinely uses the term “denazification” to describe his aim of ousting Zelensky’s government.

Instead of closing in on the enemy capital, however, Russian troops have been bogged down for three years in the same terrain. Since November 2022, Russia has been able to advance at only a painfully slow crawl, conquering an additional 1% of Ukraine at the cost of over a million dead and maimed Russian soldiers, by Western calculations.…”

 

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Trump says he will not meet with Putin until he thinks there is a deal on Ukraine​

Trump says he will not meet with Putin until he thinks there is a deal on Ukraine

'I'm not going to be wasting my time.'

www.reuters.com

"You have to know that we're going to make a deal, I'm not going to be wasting my time," Trump told reporters in Doha.

 

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Trump says he will not meet with Putin until he thinks there is a deal on Ukraine​

Trump says he will not meet with Putin until he thinks there is a deal on Ukraine

'I'm not going to be wasting my time.'

www.reuters.com

"You have to know that we're going to make a deal, I'm not going to be wasting my time," Trump told reporters in Doha.

Flagpoles, ballrooms, UFC fights, military parades, watching FOX News 16 hours a day? "I'm not going to be wasting my time?"

 

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