The Ukraine war thread

[jon-nyc]

Hope it’s true and durable.

[Renauda]

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

[jon-nyc]

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

[Renauda]

Face palm

[taiwan_girl]

[Renauda]

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.

[Wim]

Medvedev speaking bluntly:

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

[Renauda]

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.

[Tom-K]

@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.

[Horace]

@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.