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The Ukraine war thread

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  • A Offline
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    AndyD
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    #2948

    Yes; if Trump joins the game it'll be a surprise to me. He seems to have sat back and watch the players continue so far.

    Putin is ex KGB, speaks English, and will be a master at handling people.
    Trump will have been told repeatedly, perhaps he knows and is happy to wait see a while longer what transpires from the N. Koreans etc

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      jon-nyc
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      #2949

      Oh my sides.

      Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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        Renauda
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        #2950

        I seem to recall reading, on more than one occasion, that in 1948 Tito refused a similar invitational summons from Stalin:

        An adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky has told BBC News that Ukraine "immediately rejected" Vladimir Putin's suggestion that the two leaders should meet in Moscow.

        https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cz93ve1p952t?post=asset%3A1281df55-06c0-43d5-b23d-d599b7cd956b#post

        Elbows up!

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          Wim
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          #2951
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            Renauda
            wrote last edited by
            #2952

            @Wim said in The Ukraine war thread:

            Remember Melnikov.

            Which one? You’ll have to jog my memory. Only the famous Constructivist architect comes to my mind at the moment.

            Elbows up!

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            • RenaudaR Renauda

              @Wim said in The Ukraine war thread:

              Remember Melnikov.

              Which one? You’ll have to jog my memory. Only the famous Constructivist architect comes to my mind at the moment.

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              #2953

              @Renauda Apologies, I blundered. Consider what I wrote as non-existent.

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                #2954

                No problem.

                In the meantime, I think this breakdown of the past week’s theatre of the incorrigible is not at all off the mark:

                “Trump is very good when he can bully people,” Duss told the Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent, adding “and Putin is someone who, in Trump’s words, has cards.”

                …..Trump clearly feels that Putin is someone who intimidates him… Putin is someone who knows how to handle Donald Trump,” he added.

                …..Duss argues that Trump’s belief in his own “skill as a negotiator” is misplaced when it comes to international security. “He might be a good negotiator when it comes to building a new casino, but he is clearly not a skilled negotiator or diplomat,” Duss said.

                https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/58597

                Elbows up!

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                • RenaudaR Renauda

                  No problem.

                  In the meantime, I think this breakdown of the past week’s theatre of the incorrigible is not at all off the mark:

                  “Trump is very good when he can bully people,” Duss told the Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent, adding “and Putin is someone who, in Trump’s words, has cards.”

                  …..Trump clearly feels that Putin is someone who intimidates him… Putin is someone who knows how to handle Donald Trump,” he added.

                  …..Duss argues that Trump’s belief in his own “skill as a negotiator” is misplaced when it comes to international security. “He might be a good negotiator when it comes to building a new casino, but he is clearly not a skilled negotiator or diplomat,” Duss said.

                  https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/58597

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                  #2955

                  @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

                  “Trump is very good when he can bully people,” Duss told the Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent, adding “and Putin is someone who, in Trump’s words, has cards.”

                  2-bit thug.

                  I was only joking

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                  • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                    @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

                    “Trump is very good when he can bully people,” Duss told the Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent, adding “and Putin is someone who, in Trump’s words, has cards.”

                    2-bit thug.

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                    Renauda
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                    #2956

                    @Doctor-Phibes

                    two-bit thug

                    You may very well believe that, I couldn’t possibly comment.

                    Elbows up!

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                      Renauda
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                      #2957

                      This man gets it. Wish he were President or Secretary of Defense War right now:

                      https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cq65410424qo

                      Elbows up!

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                      • MikM Away
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                        Mik
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                        #2958

                        He does and I do wish he was. We just can’t let Putin succeed in the vain hope his successors will be any better.

                        It’s not just Russia that needs to see resolve. Xi is watching carefully as well.

                        "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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