Trump to Putin "If you don't make a deal we will give him (Zelensky) a lot......more than he ever got!"

[Fledermaus]

Indeed. Zelensky outlawed Russia language and other Russian related things and then started bombing and attacking places in the Donbas . Big sections of Ukraine weren't too pleased with Zelensky being elected. Putin got tired of it and stepped in.

Zelenskyy outlawed the Russian language?

ORLY?

Citation?

 

[Rogue Valley]

Indeed. Zelensky outlawed Russia language and other Russian related things and then started bombing and attacking places in the Donbas . Big sections of Ukraine weren't too pleased with Zelensky being elected. Putin got tired of it and stepped in.

You do know that Zelenskyy is a Russian speaker. Right?

 

[Rogue Valley]

Even the NYT had an article not too long ago partially admitting part of our involvement in Ukraine.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2636177

kommersant.ru is a Russian source.

To say that Friedman is not very good at prognosticating world events would be a gross understatement.

During his tenure at Stratfor, George Friedman oversaw the publication of the company’s recurring Decade Forecasts, which aimed to predict long-term global trends based on structural factors such as geography, demography, and national interest.[10]

2005–2015: This forecast reiterated the view that the U.S. would maintain dominance due to its demographic advantages and immigration absorption, though it underestimated the political challenges that mass migration would later pose.[15] Stratfor foresaw the decline of the European Union, predicting it would collapse by 2015. Although the EU faced significant institutional strain, including during the Eurozone crisis, it did not disband. Russia was expected to pursue a geopolitical reversal, including reabsorbing influence over former Soviet republics. While the prediction anticipated increasing Russian assertiveness, major developments like the 2008 war in Georgia and the lead-up to Crimea’s annexation were not specifically forecast.[16] On China, Stratfor doubled down on earlier warnings, asserting that growth was unsustainable and forecasting social fragmentation and economic decline. Contrary to these claims, China continued to grow and solidify its global position.[17]

 

[Hamish Howl]

kommersant.ru is a Russian source.

I hear that goes over well In Seattle.

 

[StillBallin75]

He has no governing philosophy when it comes to foreign policy decisions other than basing them on who most recently hurt his feelings who he perceives (whether real or not) to be "taking advantage" of him.

 

[cpwill]

Someone pinch me...I think I am dreaming.
Seriously this is very good news for Ukraine and will shorten the war if Trump doesn't chicken out again. There is a video of Trump on Twitter but here it is on youtube.

Empty, desperate, flailing threats from a small man who has realized he can't bully or bluster his way to an easy solution.

 

[Roadvirus]

Oh FFS, if he wanted genocide of Ukraine, he'd have done it by now.

Civilians are purposely targeted in mass strikes.
Not to mention "hunting" with drones in Kherson.
And then there's the kidnapping of children...being sent to Russia & "re-educated". THAT is genocide according to the U.N....it's the same thing China is doing in Uyghur areas.

 

[Roadvirus]

Putin is putting up busts of Stalin in Mariupol

And repopulating it with Russians.

 

[Roadvirus]

There's no genocide. You're just off the rails now.

Read this:

Definitions of Genocide and Related Crimes | United Nations

www.un.org

After that, i dare you...no, double dare you to tell me that genocide is not happening in Ukraine.

 

[Roadvirus]

I think you're drinking Cold War-era Kool Aid.

That flippant attitude got Obama egg on his face. Remember his clever (or what he thought at the time was "clever") "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War's been over for 20 years."?

 

[Roadvirus]

Talk like that is why you can't cut your loses in all of this.

Your posts ignore that it's democracies in Europe and North America that are standing up against Putin's unprovoked barbarian invasion of Ukraine -- to include North Korea and now the CCP. Iran provides drones and India with China buys Russian excess gas and oil

I wouldn't call the bolded "helping", since Ukraine has been able to knock a good chunk of those things out of the sky before they reach their targets.

 

[Tigerace117]

That flippant attitude got Obama egg on his face. Remember his clever (or what he thought at the time was "clever") "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War's been over for 20 years."?

Reagan makes Putin look like a humanitarian in comparison. The US was complicit in at least three separate genocides during his time in office.

 

[P_T]

Putin will ship "KING Donald" a Golden Throne and all will be good.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Oh FFS, if he wanted genocide of Ukraine, he'd have done it by now.

Genocide is why Putin is wanted by the ICC for war crimes.

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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.