The Ukraine war thread
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wrote on 2 Jan 2025, 21:58 last edited by
For three years, the US and Europe prioritized escalation management that left Ukraine with no clear path forward to an equitable negotiation for a lasting peace, or at the very least, an enduring armistice with Russia.
For a guy who placed all the blame on Putin a paragraph or two earlier, this sure seems like a backtrack.
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wrote on 3 Jan 2025, 03:25 last edited by kluurs 1 Mar 2025, 03:26
A false post on TikTok with comments…
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wrote on 3 Jan 2025, 16:29 last edited by Renauda 1 Mar 2025, 16:30
Coming to a theatre near you:
In June 2024, Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, presented a plan he co-authored with the former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz that proposed halting the delivery of U.S. weapons to Ukraine if Kyiv didn’t enter into peace talks with Moscow—but also warning Moscow that if it refused to negotiate with Kyiv, Washington would increase its support for Ukraine. About five months later, President-elect Trump named Kellogg as his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. “The makeup of the war has expanded,” Kellogg said in an interview, “and it’s time to put it back in a box.”
In response to Kellogg’s nomination, Konstantin Malofeyev, a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin, told a reporter for the Financial Times what he thought the likely Russian response would be. “Kellogg comes to Moscow with his plan, we take it and then tell him to screw himself, because we don’t like any of it,” Malofeyev said. “That’d be the whole negotiation.
Full article:
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wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 18:21 last edited by
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 01:27 last edited by
And I assume the Norks and Chinese are learning from the Russians.
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 18:52 last edited by
Trump meeting Putin, an opinion:
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 17:33 last edited by Renauda
Putin refuses to face Zelensky directly in any armistice negotiations:
"If [Zelensky] wants to participate in the negotiations, I will send people to take part," Putin said in comments to state TV journalist Pavel Zarubin, calling the Ukrainian leader "illegitimate" since his presidential term expired last year during martial law.
Putin will stop at nothing to pit Zelenskyi against Trump in the negotiation process. This is only his opening
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wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 18:30 last edited by
Yep. That's exactly what he's doing.
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wrote on 1 Feb 2025, 18:57 last edited by
The Kremlin continues to win the hearts and minds of Ukrainians:
Russia launched a large-scale attack on several regions overnight, hitting residential buildings in Odesa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak said. "Attacks on residential buildings, civilians, typical tactics of the Russian army," he wrote on Telegram.
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wrote on 3 Feb 2025, 19:10 last edited by
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rqj171zzvo
The leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine has died in hospital after being injured in an explosion in Moscow on Monday morning, Russian media have said.
Armen Sargsyan, the leader of the "Arbat" battalion, was severely injured following a blast in the entrance hall of a residential building in north-west Moscow, 12km (7 miles) from the Kremlin.
He was evacuated to a hospital by helicopter and placed in intensive care after the explosion, but eventually succumbed to his injuries, according to usually reliable Telegram sources.
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wrote on 3 Feb 2025, 20:37 last edited by
Too bad. I don’t feel the least bit sorry.
Slava Ukraini
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wrote on 3 Feb 2025, 21:49 last edited by
In Moscow. How about that.
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wrote on 3 Feb 2025, 22:34 last edited by
But-but-but his friend Putin wants them too...
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wrote on 3 Feb 2025, 22:42 last edited by Renauda 2 Mar 2025, 23:32
Zelenskyi should consider offering them to Trump in exchange for becoming the 51st state. He offered that option - we also
have huge untapped reserves of rare earths- to us just a few hours back, but we refused.Zelenskyi might just take him up on the offer. Under the present circumstances, if I were Zelenskyi, I would give it serious consideration. Certainly a long term end to the war and one the EU would be perfectly ammenable.
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Zelenskyi should consider offering them to Trump in exchange for becoming the 51st state. He offered that option - we also
have huge untapped reserves of rare earths- to us just a few hours back, but we refused.Zelenskyi might just take him up on the offer. Under the present circumstances, if I were Zelenskyi, I would give it serious consideration. Certainly a long term end to the war and one the EU would be perfectly ammenable.
wrote on 4 Feb 2025, 10:05 last edited by@Renauda My thought as well.
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wrote on 4 Feb 2025, 15:42 last edited by
Well, there is Pokrovsk...
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wrote on 6 Feb 2025, 22:27 last edited by Renauda 2 Jul 2025, 00:59
Something is coming down between the Kremlin and Washington in weeks ahead:
Curious whether Washington sees fit to ensure that Zelenskyi will be an in-person part and at the table throughout the process.
