Russians in desperate straits (cont’d).
Posted by: Leuk | Mar 17 2025 13:35 utc | 172
Gotta love the projection. Every time it’s blatantly obvious that Ukraine’s losing badly they have to roll out the Russian desperation bullshit. Who buys this crap after hearing it every few months for the past 3 years? Well, beyond idiot NAFOs I mean…

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 17 2025 17:57 utc | 203

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 17 2025 17:54 utc | 201
RE: yellow journalism from the nytimes
<< In the He Said--He Said game of "Did They or Didn't They" in the Kursk Region, the nytimes repeats info the AFU has supplied them and glancingly mentions that VVP and DJT have said the Ukrainians were "encircled" in Kursk, but quickly slaps that down. Ria Novosti has claimed that Russian Forces captured 30 NATO officers during the retreat from the Kursk Region. It is likely that Russia will nab 100s of NATO mercs in total. Apparently such was the case @ the Battle of Debalsavo in 2015, which prompted the second Minsk Accord.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 17 2025 18:01 utc | 205

Why wr se no effect of the Ukro defeat in Kursk on other frontlines?

Posted by: vargas | Mar 17 2025 18:04 utc | 207

Trump will blow a gasket in that case.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 17:56 utc | 202
Yep, but it’ll be a serious wake-up call as well. Better it be one carrier with the Houthis rather than an entire CAG with Iran. Would cause the entire DoD to re-evaluate their abilities vs. Iran, Russia and China.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 17 2025 18:07 utc | 209

Now, on the subject of the Saprozh Nuclear Power Plant.
A German reporter who was there just reported that a Russian offensive had launched in that direction at around 5 p.m. local time.
He also said that on almost the entire front, as he apologetically put it, the Russians were “hammering it” like never before.
He was of the opinion that Trump’s demand to return the nuclear power plant was being described as ridiculous, as an attempted joke, by the Russians still on site. Even Ukrainian soldiers were scratching their foreheads when asked about it. And that there are many locals waiting for “liberation” by the Russians.
Well,
As someone who has to hear this mainstream nonsense every day, I was truly shocked by the reporter’s courage. Apparently, the opinion that we (he) are just being fooled, whether by Trump or Europe, is becoming more and more prevalent.

Posted by: Ost Rentner | Mar 17 2025 18:14 utc | 211

And in the background, there will be some states that will support these particularly vulnerable states with all means at their disposal, including those that US strategists believe to be reliable partners.
Posted by: berthold | Mar 17 2025 18:19 utc | 212
Keep your eye on Turkey. Erdogan will ride with whomever serves his best interest at the moment.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 17 2025 18:30 utc | 213

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 18:03 utc | 206
<< Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 17 2025 18:04 utc | 208 << Posted by: Ost Rentner | Mar 17 2025 18:14 utc | 211 << Off-topic, guys... But I was unable to post for 18 hours. Have you all ever experienced this-? I emailed b and he found a Service Unavailable message. Thoughts-?

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 17 2025 18:40 utc | 215

These talks are about 3 things…
Odessa.
Odessa.
Odessa.
And who owns the ports and crops.
Trump dosent care about power stations why would he ?

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 18:53 utc | 217

Off-topic, guys… But I was unable to post for 18 hours. Have you all ever experienced this-?
I emailed b and he found a Service Unavailable message.
Thoughts-?
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 17 2025 18:40 utc | 215
Posting worked for me, but the site has been very slow for me for a whole day, sometimes the discussions wouldn’t load at all.

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 17 2025 19:11 utc | 219

TjandTheBear @ 218
Yes Trump only cares about Trump and for that reason he has to deliver the Ex ukraine crops for Israel, Thats Trumps owner and master.
Question is who will own those crops ? Russia or Europe.
Thats why he’s playing both sides.
Thats the deal, and the art of it. 😎

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 19:25 utc | 221

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 19:33 utc | 222
Trump is a fucking moron. That’s like me offering to recognize gravity as a physical force.
If that’s their plan, they’re even stupider than I thought.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 17 2025 19:50 utc | 223

IIRC Westinghouse converted at least one of the reactors to accept their fuel rods

Posted by: ChatNPC | Mar 17 2025 19:55 utc | 224
There was a website that has long since gone down, called something like ENENews, which dedicated itself to monitoring reports of radioactive emissions around the globe and their potential impacts.
IIRC, back in 2015 or 2016 it reported an escape of radioactive steam from at least one of the ZNPP reactors, caused by trying to use Westinghouse-manufactured rods in a Soviet-designed reactor. Something to do with using hexagonal cross-section rods in circular tubes, can’t remember the exact details.
I suppose I should investigate the Internet Archive/Wayback machine thingy, to see if the page got scraped and saved.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 17 2025 20:10 utc | 225

Russia wont be giveing back any teratory it’s gained why would it, ther winning.
And for the europians to now say they’l put boots on the ground in ukraine defeats the whole object of Russias SMO.
Demiliterisation and denazifcation of ukraine, that is the starting point of negotiatons.
Or the west becomes a bigger threat to Russia than they were 3 years ago. and nearer.
Russia is winning, just a reminder.
Why would they.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 20:24 utc | 227

Meanwhile, it looks like the Ukraine press-gang “commissioners” continue to do their best to win friends and influence people:

In Khmelnitsky, an employee of a [TCC] attacked a military man who returned from the war
The representative of the [TCC] attacked a military man on Ternopolskaya Street in the city of Khmelnitsky
This is reported by RegioNews with reference to the Telegram channel Ukraine 24/7-news.
As noted, the Ukrainian fighter stood up for a man who was insulted by employees of the [TCC].
The video shows how the employee of the [TCC] threw the man to the ground.
Interestingly, a police officer was standing nearby and watching the conflict. After a verbal altercation, the employees of the [TCC] and the policeman got into the car and left.
Be careful, the video contains profanity!
We will remind, a few days ago in Khmelnitsky , two men beat up a [TCC] employee.

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/hmelnitskaya/1742220009-u-hmelnitskomu-pratsivnik-ttsk-napav-na-viyskovogo-yakiy-povernuvsya-z-viyni (via translation add-on with [Edits].)
Doesn’t strike me as a good idea for the press-gangs to be winding up combat veterans, lots of things can go wrong there.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 17 2025 20:30 utc | 229

@ LoveDonbass
Tell me you’re one of those retards who believes Trump wasn’t actually shot. lololol

Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 17 2025 20:44 utc | 231

CullenBaker @ 231
He fooled you then. Ha ha ha.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 20:52 utc | 233

Americans making fun of forced mobilizations.
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1901740974188937290
States hate being laughed at.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 21:15 utc | 235

Mark Felton has a high quality YT channel on military related history. He stays out of partisan politics but in an indirect way he makes deeply important contributions backed up by solid historical scholarly research.
Anyway – here is an interesting look into British recent history with the title “Clockwork Orange”. This was the code name of a British military intelligence operation that – astonishingly – actually feinted at military coup style regime change from within. This in the 1970’s in the mother of parliaments. This and related events – typically of Mark Felton’s subtle style – is vitally important to Britain’s current and deeply unstable political situation and landscape.
https://youtu.be/AmKIa9dWI8E?si=egQpGTjOqHueCOTV
So in the 1960’s Britain’s prime minister Harold Wilson, being Labour and populist, was deeply distrusted by Britain’s right wing press and intelligence community who suspected him of – horror pearl clutch! – collusion with the Soviets.
Anyway the video is well worth a watch. A group of conspirators formed – this is Mark Felton so it’s all solid history I’m afraid – in 1968 led by Cecil King, ceo of the Mirror group and also joined by Louis Mountbatten of the Royal Family and the bank of England director, as well as figures from MI5 and 6 and even the country’s “chief scientist”. All with a view to deposing Wilson from power in a coup.
(Apparently the Queen Elizabeth talked Mountbatten out of it. None of this appeared in the “Crown” drama series but should have done.)
Later in 1974 there was a military takeover of Heathrow Airport for several hours. This is little known – like myself, most of you are hearing about this for the first time. It was a thinly veiled military-intelligence threat against Harold Wilson and his government, whom had not been forewarned of the action.
Why is this all significant now? Apart from just being interesting to see that Britain is not a stable democracy at all. Well it’s because the single most profound and defining feature of Britain’s establishment is Russophobia. Wilson was a suspected Soviet hob-nobber and for this the U.K. were ready to oust him by a military coup.
Now in Britain today the public voting intention and democratic will is to throw aside both Labour and the Conservatives and elect Nigel Farage of the new and meteoricallly popular Reform party. By far the most astonishing and significant thing to have happened in Britain for more than a century notwithstanding the media’s coyness about it. Breaking the entrenched Labour – Conservative duopoly. Yes – Britain’s public overwhelmingly desire a Reform Farage government and Farage is only lukewarm in his Russophobia. He doesn’t subscribe to demonisation of Putin and is not enthusiastic about war in Ukraine.
All this means that we are likely to see a repeat in the U.K. of the 1960’s-70’s shenanigans where actual military coups are planned against a not-Russophobic-enough leader. We have had a foretaste of it already with the fate of Jeremy Corbyn – the anti globalist non Russophobic last Labour leader who got more election votes than zionazi scumbag Starmer but is now exiled from Labour and an independent MP.
A repeat of this lynching with probably more violence can be expected against Farage, the Reform party and the people of Britain in general. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 17 2025 21:52 utc | 237

RUAF making major gains south of Zaporozhye, east of Kamyanske.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 17 2025 22:04 utc | 239

Andrew Sarchus @ 237
Reform are right wing. No thanks.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 22:14 utc | 241

Dima assumes Zelensky may try to attack Transnistria next, after he lost his Kursk trump card. He supposedly could try to exchange Transnistria for the Energodar power plant. However, take it with a grain of salt as attacking Transnistria has been talked about since the start of SMO.
Even if this were true, the actual plan may be to use British or French to attack Transnistria under AFU flag, as it’s possible AFU is stretched too thin already.
But it’s possible since Ukraine created a law allowing its military to enter foreign lands (i.e. Moldova).

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 17 2025 22:38 utc | 243

Good programme Going Underground Afshin Rattandi on rt
UK Policy on Ukraine Proxy War is a SHAMBLES, Based on LIES- Lord Skidelsky
create and use russophobia(based on ancient fears eg Hitler to identify Putin as Hitler) to direct media and public to hysteria about security, raise money now justified and identified and set aside from notmal budget controls= control of populace and self perpetuating embedded policies that become enacted cyclically gathering momentum and enabling any opposing or questioning narrativeto be dismissed as threatening the newly V2 prioritised “security’.
But Trump has shattered the lies. “UK voaligion of the willing “so caught up to try to stay in the frame and relevant. Even in right wing UK press media most of the comments have seen though tne lies and hence the burgeoning return to a sense of self nationalism.Perception has awakened to some extent to return to a sense of realism eg russia cannot be beaten on the battlefield.

Posted by: Jo | Mar 17 2025 22:51 utc | 245

Posted by: Milites | Mar 17 2025 22:42 utc | 244
#########
As a Yankee you probably don’t understand that when you win a war, you set the terms.
Crimea is already Russia.
It was Russia before Trump started this war by giving weapons to Zelensky and running biolabs on the Russian border.
Russia is not done taking land and liberating ethnic Russians, and there is nothing Trump can do about it.
He’s putting on a drama for low IQ MAGAs. No one smart is buying this act.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 22:54 utc | 247

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 22:59 utc | 248
#######
Point stands. The UK is even more useless militarily than America.
Putin sets the terms. Trump wants the credit.
Very American, the originators of “Stolen valor”.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 17 2025 23:08 utc | 249

In Belgorod, a Ukrainian drone landed in a shopping center near the Belgorod Arena.
At least two civilians were injured, including an 18-year-old guy whose hand was torn off by the explosion. He is currently receiving medical assistance.
@voenkorKotenok

Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 17 2025 23:26 utc | 251

Finally, the truth of what has been happening in Ukraine, and its prospects for success in its war against Russia, is being acknowledged–perhaps not in the UK, but certainly in Regime Media in the U.S., the nytimes among them. For many, the truth is hitting hard: Long before January 20th, when DJT assumed office, Ukraine had all but lost the war.
Due to DJT’s leadership more and more people are beginning to hear of this reality, albeit begrudgingly–and whether they accept it or not is up for grabs. Possessing intellectual ability and moral courage to accept reality for what it is, especially if it doesn’t reflect your preferences, is not defeatism. It’s called intellectual honesty.
Those who refuse to accept the incontrovertible evidence about the state of events in Ukraine find themselves in a miserable state of mind. They are frustrated, angry, and ashamed. Frustrated that the war has come to this point, angry that it is ending in this manner, and ashamed at the realization of just how self-serving, insincere, hypocritical, inadequate, and immoral Western paymasters were to Ukraine as proxy.
This war was always dominated by hard truths–but the Regime Media was never prepared to reveal those hard truths until forced to.
Ukraine didn’t just lose 26% of its territory; it lost a large portion of its industrial-skilled population and the DNA treasure of its young men. Prior to the war Ukraine was demographically old, poor, and corrupt. Those conditions have worsened. Even with economic assistance and military protection, most nations take over a decade to recover from a debilitating war. Ukraine, with far less resources, is facing a precarious future.
Victory has many fathers, defeat–none.
Ukraine needs the West, but the West does not need Ukraine. For anything.
Russia is more important to the world than Ukraine.

Posted by: steel-porcupine | Mar 17 2025 23:45 utc | 253

It sounds like the DJT team, conferring w/ the Russia team, is searching for ways to defang the terroristic/neo-Nazi proxy in Project Ukraine. Turning back the hands of time to a pre-Euromaidan set-up, DJT’s team seems to be looking toward an interim caretaker presidency for Yulia Timoshenko before new elections can take place. Revisiting the Timoshenko era, DJT’s team is starting the clock, so to speak, during a period long before the Obama State Department had honed a weaponized Ukraine to a fine point, and empowered its neo-Nazi ultra-nationalist elements, to target Russian ethnics in eastern Ukraine.
Visiting w/ friends in Crimea, who had voted in the referendum to “return” to Russia, I heard enough to understand that the country of Ukraine, which became independent in August 1991, had never been capable of reconciling its Russophone/Russian ethnic citizens into the overall fabric of what it was to be Ukrainian. In other words, the civil war actually began in 1991 *the day after* Ukraine became an independent country; it was only a question of time before matters would come to a head.
Frequently in the U.S., neocons quote VVP in their fear-mongering of his desire to reassemble the USSR. VVP called the dissolution of the Soviet Union as one of the most calamitous events of the 20th Century. U.S. neocons always use this quote to *prove* that VVP wants to rebuilt the USSR. But, not surpringly, there is *more* to VVP’s quote. He went on to explain that on the morning after the Soviet Union dissolved, all at once 40 million former Soviet citizens, most of them Russian ethnics, found themselves stranded overnight in newly independent countries where they suddenly were the minority population.
This is what came to pass for Ukrainian citizens of Crimea.
My friends on the peninsula, ranging in age from 32 to 70, described a ping-pong life as citizens of the independent Ukraine after 1991: sometimes the party in control would topple Soviet monuments and name streets in Kiev for a Bandera-venerating sector of society—-to be followed by a different party in control, which would change the names of Bandera-venerated streets to those that honored the Red Army.
A predictable back & forth like this.
But a singular constant remained: respect for Russophones and Russian ethnics, especially in eastern Ukraine, where the Party of Regions dominated, was continually under attack.
All of which is to say that Crimea was always an Autonomous Republic *within* Ukraine, even after Ukraine separated from the Soviet Union and became an independent nation. As such, Crimea retained certain liberties & privileges, not the least of which was the right to call a referendum and let voters decide whether to remain w/ Ukraine or to leave.
On 18 March 2014, the citizens of the peninsula overwhelmingly opted to “return” themselves to Russia.
As it was explained to me by friends who voted: they feared the dominance of the neo-Nazis and they saw how little Kiev cared about their plight. “What about us,” they said—“we’re your citizens too.”
It was safer to leave the craziness in Kiev, amped by the U.S. State Department, and ally w/ Russia.
Although people who read the nytimes or the WaPo or the FT never knew of these matters, my friends in Crimea lived them in the grittiest fashion imaginable—even before 2014. In other words, there are millions of people who know the truth of this proxy war, and those people are not in the West but it is a sizable population nonetheless. We boost their voices here.
An aside: according *regions* of non-Russian Ukraine (that is, the parts of Ukraine which are not claimed by the Russian Federation right now) the opportunity to federalize—-that is, to become autonomous entities themselves within the overall ‘body’ of Ukraine, much as Crimea was an Autonomous Republic—-might be the most workable solution for the DJT teams and the Russian teams to work out. That would provide some operating space for the parts of Ukraine which are Russophilic Russian ethnics to live in peace—but still as Ukrainians, if that is their wish.

Posted by: steel-porcupine | Mar 18 2025 0:23 utc | 255

I am going to throw out some speculation about Russia positions.
4 oblasts become part of Russia, not current line of contact.
Rump of Ukraine gets broken into pieces that provides land bridge from Russia to Transnistria, Russia control over Odessa and the rest divided between Belarus (north) Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary (west), and Romania and Moldova (southwest).
My support for the above is based on the West not being agreement capable, dissolving Ukraine makes claims by the UK and Blackrock types null and void, I expect and security/neutrality arrangements are localized. If I am reading other reports correctly, Russia is spending some resources to working with the adjoining countries to work out boundaries and security/neutrality arrangements.
The above is the final nail in the coffin of NATO as well and leaves the European countries to make nice with Russia, if Russia will let them over time.
How will Trump make this look like Western winning?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 18 2025 5:02 utc | 257

EU mainstream propaganda media is now saying that the EU intends to occupy Odessa. It’s most likely EU is 100% now serving interests of Britain, and acting according to the deal which promised Britain to occupy mines, railways and ports in Ukraine.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 18 2025 6:53 utc | 258
EU better hurry up, I suggest sending lithuanian commandos.

Trump may agree to the port in Odessa coming under Russian control, the New York Times reports, citing Zelensky’s aides.

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 18 2025 7:11 utc | 259

The alternative.
Ukraine becomes a buffer zone between East and west, de-militerised and de-nazified.
As suggested by Vladimir Putin on day one.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 18 2025 7:42 utc | 261

Britain is cannibalizing itself to fund the Kiev regime.
“Keir Starmer to unveil drastic disability benefit cuts in order to finance military aid to Ukraine.”
https://x.com/mazzenilsson/status/1901900118694957532

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 18 2025 7:51 utc | 263

Disappeared quote from mark2:
Andrew Sarchus @ 237
Reform are right wing. No thanks.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 18 2025 7:57 utc | 265

Trump’s attitude to the EU’s desire to enrich itself off of Ukraine reminds me of Christopher Walken’s character, Frank White, in King of New York*. I think Putin understands this clearly, and also on a visceral level. If he can arrange things where the USA/Trump gets a cut out of future Russian Federation domination of areas currently under Ukrainian control, to the great disappointment of the European establishment, then the EU and the Zelenskyy regime could be facing disaster a lot sooner rather than later.
I think pundits are ignoring in their thinking how pissed off Trump could be by the British government trying to screw him over from 2016 through 2024. Actually having people in the UK government surreptitiously working with the Democratic party to defeat him is something he won’t forget, and which he’ll want payback for. Cutting them out of looting Ukraine and recouping their investments in it would be a great form of revenge.
* King Of New York (1990) “You’re All Welcome!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs1MuNXYYLI

Posted by: Babel-17 | Mar 18 2025 8:04 utc | 267

“I am going to throw out some speculation about Russia positions.
4 oblasts become part of Russia, not current line of contact.
Rump of Ukraine gets broken into pieces that provides land bridge from Russia to Transnistria, Russia control over Odessa and the rest divided between Belarus (north) Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary (west), and Romania and Moldova (southwest).
My support for the above is based on the West not being agreement capable, dissolving Ukraine makes claims by the UK and Blackrock types null and void, I expect and security/neutrality arrangements are localized. If I am reading other reports correctly, Russia is spending some resources to working with the adjoining countries to work out boundaries and security/neutrality arrangements.
The above is the final nail in the coffin of NATO as well and leaves the European countries to make nice with Russia, if Russia will let them over time.
How will Trump make this look like Western winning?”
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 18 2025 5:02 utc | 257
To miss the march of this retreating world
Into vain citadels which are not walled
Wilfred Owen 1918, “Strange Meeting”

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 18 2025 8:08 utc | 269

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 18 2025 8:06 utc | 268
Idiotic move as it allows the Russian Federation to fight the AFU, from entrenched positions with lots of artillery and air support, with troops that are otherwise legally forbidden to be deployed out of Russia and on the line of contact to fight them.

Posted by: Babel-17 | Mar 18 2025 8:20 utc | 271

To add
Your attempt at civil war (reform) was over in one and a a half weeks.
Your attempt at gaining funds from Trump and Musk, failed ha ha ha, reform got bitch slapped by both ha ha ha.
To many pedos in Reform Party. Bad publicty.
Reform is a Toxic brand.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 18 2025 8:51 utc | 273

Mark2 | Mar 18 2025 8:51 utc | 273
“To many pedos in Reform Party. Bad publicty.
Reform is a Toxic brand.”
You’re the one proclaiming your support for a de jure pedophile government which overtly sees one of its main missions as being to support and protect pedo-rings set up by invaders.
I don’t know if the Reform Party also is a gang of pedophiles. It seems like all Europeans are by now. Certainly all European governments and political organizations are.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 18 2025 8:58 utc | 275

Two hours, that’s quite a long time for telling Donald to go fuck himself, even if it is done politely. In the light of current events, nothing Trump says or does can be trusted, putting the US as a garant in a proposed ceasefire is like putting a fox to guard a henhouse.

The telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will take place today from 4 to 6 pm Moscow time, Dmitry Peskov confirmed.

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 18 2025 9:46 utc | 277

mark2 272
“About 6 months ago, right wing england took to the streets seeking to burn down refugees hostils, and the ligitimate offices of refugee advocates.”
What actually happened was that Starmer under tuition from Israel created an attack on children (Israel’s speciality) perpetrated by a suitable dark-skinned person. This had the effect that Starmer and his Israeli handlers hoped for which was to set the extreme nationalist community like attack dogs to attack Britain’s muslim community. This of course was to punish Britain’s muslim community for protesting against Netanstarmer’s Gaza genocide. So Starmer first stoked up the riots by inflammatory comments. Eventually of course his handlers instructed him to reel it back in I guess.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 18 2025 10:33 utc | 279

It is entertaining to watch msm now. They have all prepared news and talk shows based on Witkoff, Trump and others, including WH press statements. The story pushed is that Trump might offer Crimea to Putin. In exchange Putin has to give ZNPP and the other new regions back to Zeli, and do other unspecified things. Witkoff also announced the subject of Black Sea access will be in the phone call. I didn’t watch long enough to understand who is claiming access to Black Sea, Trump or Martians. Anyway, they’ve set some very high expectations for today.
Two hours, that’s quite a long time
@ 5thcolumn | Mar 18 2025 9:46 utc | 277
“Putin-Trump conversation to last as long as necessary” ( tass.com/politics/1929789 )

Posted by: rk | Mar 18 2025 10:43 utc | 281

Trump once ate chocolate cake while telling Xi JinPing that he was at that moment bombing Syria with 59 cruise missiles.
Does he plan to eat chocolate cake again and bomb the Middle east while speaking with Putin?

Posted by: gce | Mar 18 2025 11:18 utc | 283

Andrew Sarchus @ 279
So you agree reform is a tool of right wing starmer and the zionists, ?
And they went along with that ?
Yet here you are recruting for the UK equilivent of banderites.
Punching down not up.
Violent to the weak and vonrable.
What you may not know is that the zionist controlers have created Reform just like they created banderites.
Reform are created to fight in the muddy trenches of ukraine. And die in your thousands pointlessly.
We both know how illinformed the uk public are. Cattle to the sloughter.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 18 2025 11:26 utc | 285

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Your secound point if ukraine cant sell power to europe thats a plus for Trump and america…
America is selling top doller LNG to europe right now.
Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 17 2025 20:49 utc | 232
This confirms Trump cares about the NPP.
If I don’t care of something every outcome is a no care.
If Trump do not want the npp to help Europe he must give it to RF, so he is interested, not don’t caring.

Posted by: Mario | Mar 18 2025 11:48 utc | 287

Night Tripper | Mar 18 2025 11:36 utc | 286
“In a little over 90 minutes, Donald will request Putin’s surrender.
In return, Putin will no doubt demand Trump’s surrender”
If only. Speaking clearly about physical power, who has it and who doesn’t, is the only thing which might penetrate the thick skulls of thugs enmeshed in delusion, which sums up the American attitude.
But all along Putin has seemed determined to enable Western delusions. Most of all by continuing to “negotiate” at all prior to unequivocally winning the war on the ground, even though it’s blindingly obvious by now that no one in the West will ever believe Russia will win the war until it actually does so on the ground.
So far the only lesson the West has learned is that Russia wants to talk, therefore it must be losing.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 18 2025 12:08 utc | 289

How do they practically take Odessa? IMO. they can’t take it until they resolve Donbass, and get Zaporozhye, and block Dnepropetrovsk from the rest of east Ukraine. It will take several more years.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 18 2025 12:24 utc | 290
If casualties are as low as people mention then you’re right
If they are as high as “millions killed” then it shouldn’t take long if no foreign boots on the ground.
One thing was AFU defending with a magnitude above , the other is AFU not having the means to man all critical points.

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 18 2025 12:32 utc | 291

Andrew Sarchus @ 279
So you agree reform is a tool of right wing starmer and the zionists, ?
And they went along with that ?
Yet here you are recruting for the UK equilivent of banderites.
Punching down not up.
Violent to the weak and vonrable.
What you may not know is that the zionist controlers have created Reform just like they created banderites.
Reform are created to fight in the muddy trenches of ukraine. And die in your thousands pointlessly.
We both know how illinformed the uk public are. Cattle to the sloughter.
Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 18 2025 11:26 utc | 285
Eether either neether neither lets call the whole thing off
For some reason we are totally misunderstanding eachother.
I’m not in Britain (though UK is one of my nationalities) but I thought Farage was less pro-ukraine war than the others.
Farage at least is willing to try to see the perspective of Russia / Putin.
Willing to consider that the war was not “unprovoked”.
Unlike the UK establishment who don’t see Russians as human.
BTW in a recent street poll I saw exactly 0 % of young Brits are willing to fight for the dwarf king with moobs.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Mar 18 2025 12:45 utc | 293

Fun times ahead, will Trump fold or is Putin making sure the ceasefire proposal is DOA? Find out in a few hours and have your popcorn ready.
https://x.com/alexwickham/status/1901942036313317424

Putin Demands Halt To All Western Arms For Ukraine Ahead Of Trump Call
— Vladimir Putin is demanding a suspension of all weapons deliveries to Ukraine during any ceasefire, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
— Ahead of his call with Trump today, Putin has made this a prerequisite for Russia signing up to a truce, said a senior European official and three people in Moscow familiar with Russia’s position.
— While Russia wants to halt all arms deliveries, its minimum aim is that US military aid should stop, two of the people said.
— The senior European official said Europe was extremely reluctant to agree to the demand. It would risk a situation where Russia was able to rearm during a truce but Ukraine was prevented from doing so, they said.
— It is the latest example of maximalist demands made by Putin which will be very difficult for Ukraine and Europe to accept.
— The UK and EU are both working on efforts to deliver fresh military aid packages to Ukraine as soon as possible.
— The suspension of arms supplies sought by Putin would be lifted after a final peace accord so long as Ukraine agreed to limits on its army, one person in Moscow said.

Western journalism at its finest:
“according to people with knowledge of the matter”
“a senior European official and three people in Moscow familiar with Russia’s position”
“one person in Moscow said”

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 18 2025 13:06 utc | 295

Ukraine’s attack attempt across Belgorod border seems to have failed. Several tanks and APCs destroyed.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 18 2025 13:21 utc | 297

Putin keeping Trump waiting. At this point he is still talking at a meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, and absuing Western sanctions as illegal and illegitimate.
Would be hilarious if Donald got the Witkoff treatment.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Mar 18 2025 13:31 utc | 299