Trump rugged Ukraine and has appeased Putin every step of the way. Started off by taking away every Ukraine bargaining chip while accusing Ukraine of starting the war. Witless Witkoff just repeats Russian talking points. Watching America do a 180 and support the aggressor is sad indeed. Trump said he'd settle the war before he ever took the oath. I expect MAGA believed that since they hang on his every lying word. Trump is a Russian asset.
Your history is wrong
@moe , and your understanding of this issue has been distorted by American news media propaganda.
This issue is over Crimea, which ironically Russia seized during the last failed Democrat administration!
Who
me?????
Yeah
YOU Zero!
At any rate, Trump understands there is no way Ukraine demands to return Crimea can ever be enforced, so he's calling a spade a spade to simply end the pointless conflict. Neither side can win, so why fight? What for?
Trump has a plan for both countries to save face, but both are determined to save their individual "face" just so they can continue in their corrupt ways. Trump is simply trying to end the blood draining conflict, and one way or the other he hopes to drive both losers to understand there's nothing for either of them to gain if this needless conflict continues. (
@moe could learn the same lesson btw)
Here
@moe ...some less "biased" history on the Russian/Ukrainian conflict:
Why Crimea is so important to Russia and Ukraine
excerpt:
The peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, has long been coveted by Moscow, which wants Ukraine to officially surrender the territory as part of a peace deal - something Ukraine does not want to do.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected this on multiple occasions, saying that formally surrendering the land has always been a red line, and goes against Kyiv's constitution.
...more
Russian annexation
In 2013-14, a popular uprising gripped Ukraine for several weeks, eventually forcing pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych from office. While Ukraine was in turmoil, Vladimir Putin took the opportunity to send troops to overrun Crimea, a diamond-shaped peninsula in the Black Sea.
So you see
@moe , Russia had already taken over Crimea as I said above...Trump had nothing to do with it, but he understands it's the lynchpin to doing a deal to end this war!
...more
Those troops arrived in Crimea in uniforms without insignia, and Mr. Putin soon called a vote on joining Russia that Ukraine and the West dismissed as illegal. Moscow's illegal annexation on 18 March 2014 was only recognized internationally by a few countries, including North Korea and Sudan.
Russia has spent centuries fighting for Crimea. It was transferred from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, when both were part of the USSR. In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the peninsula became part of an independent Ukraine.
By the time Russia seized it, Crimea had been a part of Ukraine for 60 years and had become part of the country's identity.
...finally
Mr. Zelenskyy has vowed Russia "won't be able to steal" the peninsula. For both sides, Crimea is key to controlling activities in the Black Sea, which is a critical corridor for the world's grain and other goods.
So there 'ya have it
@moe ...the crux of the issue which Trump alone is trying to solve. There is nothing in what I've passed along to you here that says Trump is trying to pave the way for Russia to "seize" Crimea or take over Ukraine. As I said, Trump as a plan to both save/protect Ukraine, and isolate Russia if it persists in this war.
The trouble is your thought controllers in the Praetorian Guard legacy media are as comatose over this issue as you are.
What leverage does Trump have over Russia in Ukraine peace negotiations? Quite a lot, experts say
excerpt:
Only days after U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he dialed up the heat on Russia with a threat of sanctions, tariffs, and negotiating "the hard way" if Russian President Vladimir Putin fails to come to the table for a peace deal with Ukraine. Russia’s economy is showing signs of weakness, making Putin more vulnerable than ever to additional economic pressure like sanctions. Ramped-up support for
Ukraine on the battlefield could add to
Russia’s mounting losses and further incentivize dealmaking, as would uniting support among allies and squeezing Russia on the diplomatic stage.
"A long war doesn’t hurt Trump very much. There's no huge cost to the U.S. economy. No U.S. lives are in danger," said Ash, adding that a large portion of U.S. military aid has been reinvested in its domestic defense industry. "Trump can carry on, whereas for Putin, it just gets more difficult for him the longer it goes."
Thus the makings of a deal...
I'm working on it
@moe
I would get mad that my mind controllers in legacy media have lied so much to me about Ukraine, but I have TDS so I don't care.
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