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    Renauda
    wrote on 24 Apr 2025, 16:02 last edited by Renauda
    #2810

    Another look at Trump’s plan. Not sure if I agree with how all facts are presented or whether “the peace deal” is a common sense approach. I still do not understand the rationale behind calling it anything other than an armistice agreement and, a tenuous armistice at that, given the political reality on the ground between Russia and Ukraine. It is an “Armistice Agreement” nothing more. Trump is only deluding himself thinking it can be anything other.

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ukraine-peace-plane/

    Elbows up!

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      Mik
      wrote on 25 Apr 2025, 17:19 last edited by
      #2811

      https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/russian-general-killed-in-car-bomb-attack-near-moscow/ar-AA1DCtHy

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        Wim
        wrote on 25 Apr 2025, 21:40 last edited by
        #2812

        Pro-Russia American killed in Ukraine...

        https://www.kyivpost.com/post/51486

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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 02:41 last edited by
          #2813

          Senator Kennedy speaks

          "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
          -Cormac McCarthy

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            Renauda
            wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 04:20 last edited by Renauda
            #2814

            Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

            Elbows up!

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            • R Renauda
              28 Apr 2025, 04:20

              Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

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              Doctor Phibes
              wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 12:52 last edited by
              #2815

              @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

              Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

              Will Trump listen?

              I was only joking

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                Renauda
                wrote on 30 Apr 2025, 17:57 last edited by
                #2816

                Said the spider to the fly…

                negotiate with us not Washington…

                https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/30/kremlin-to-ukraine-negotiate-with-us-not-washington-a88930

                Elbows up!

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                  jon-nyc
                  wrote on 8 May 2025, 10:17 last edited by
                  #2817

                  Hope it’s true and durable.

                  "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                  -Cormac McCarthy

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                    Renauda
                    wrote on 8 May 2025, 14:32 last edited by
                    #2818

                    Big holiday week throughout Russia this week celebrating 9 May, Victory Day. I doubt whether the mayhem will be sustained much past the weekend.

                    Elbows up!

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                      jon-nyc
                      wrote on 10 May 2025, 15:09 last edited by jon-nyc 5 Oct 2025, 15:09
                      #2819

                      Amateur hour continues. He uses a Russian interpreter instead of bringing his own.

                      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                      -Cormac McCarthy

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                        Renauda
                        wrote on 10 May 2025, 15:14 last edited by
                        #2820

                        Face palm

                        Elbows up!

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                        • J jon-nyc
                          10 May 2025, 15:09

                          Amateur hour continues. He uses a Russian interpreter instead of bringing his own.

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                          taiwan_girl
                          wrote on 10 May 2025, 22:46 last edited by
                          #2821

                          @jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

                          Amateur hour continues. He uses a Russian interpreter instead of bringing his own

                          I read about that. That is just crazy!!!

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                            Renauda
                            wrote on 11 May 2025, 00:47 last edited by
                            #2822

                            No better way to tell the Kremlin that not only are you not willing to play any of the cards you can play, but you have never been the least bit serious about the diplomatic initiative you have launched from the onset. A clown show.

                            Elbows up!

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                              Wim
                              wrote on 11 May 2025, 12:45 last edited by
                              #2823

                              Medvedev speaking bluntly:

                              https://www.yahoo.com/news/moscow-rejects-kievs-peace-plan-152431680.html

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                                Renauda
                                wrote 29 days ago last edited by Renauda
                                #2824

                                No surprise. Further proof that Kremlin is not serious about peace talks with Ukraine. In absence of Putin at least send the obnoxious foreign minister, Lavrov to meet with the Ukrainians for the meeting Putin ordered in the first place. Zelenskyi and a couple of his ministers will be there tomorrow and Friday. Word has it that so will Rubio.

                                https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqe9g0vn57o

                                And here:

                                https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/14/putin-taps-kremlin-aide-medinsky-to-lead-new-istanbul-talks-with-ukraine-a89086

                                Like Republican Senator Kennedy of Louisiana pointed out a couple weeks back, Putin is playing the US (read: Trump Administration) for a bunch of chumps.

                                Elbows up!

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                                • R Renauda
                                  28 Apr 2025, 04:20

                                  Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

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                                  Tom-K
                                  wrote 29 days ago last edited by
                                  #2825

                                  @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

                                  Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

                                  For all his, "awe shuks" and "yes" and "no ma'am" he's the smartest guy in the Senate.

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                                  • T Tom-K
                                    29 days ago

                                    @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

                                    Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

                                    For all his, "awe shuks" and "yes" and "no ma'am" he's the smartest guy in the Senate.

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                                    Horace
                                    wrote 29 days ago last edited by
                                    #2826

                                    @Tom-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

                                    @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

                                    Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

                                    For all his, "awe shuks" and "yes" and "no ma'am" he's the smartest guy in the Senate.

                                    I'm sure he loves it when people underestimate him.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                      Renauda
                                      wrote 27 days ago last edited by Renauda
                                      #2827

                                      Well at least Russia has moved past some its medieval mythology to justify the war. It’s now moved on to early modern history lessons from the time Peter the Great:

                                      “The Great Northern War with Sweden lasted 21 years. Twenty-one years. But just a few years after it began, Peter the Great offered peace to the Swedes… What did the Swedes say? ‘No, we will fight to the last Swede’,” Medinsky said in an interview with pro-Kremlin TV host Yevgeny Popov.

                                      https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/16/kremlin-negotiator-invokes-peter-the-greats-21-year-war-with-sweden-in-ukraine-talks-a89109

                                      Still, the Russians get the history of the war with Sweden wrong and lay a back handed insult to all members of NATO at the same time. But that is only to be expected of an aggressor state.

                                      Kremlin is not interested in any terms short of Ukraine’s total capitulation.

                                      Elbows up!

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                                      • KlausK Klaus
                                        11 Mar 2022, 10:56

                                        Any idea what kind of weapon causes an explosion like this?

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                                        Horace
                                        wrote 27 days ago last edited by
                                        #2828

                                        @Klaus said in The Ukraine war thread:

                                        Any idea what kind of weapon causes an explosion like this?

                                        Hi Klaus, sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you on this. No, I don't know what sort of weapon might cause an explosion like that.

                                        Education is extremely important.

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                                          Renauda
                                          wrote 27 days ago last edited by
                                          #2829

                                          I can’t see what or when Klaus posted it.

                                          Elbows up!

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