Russia agrees to begin negotiations to end Ukraine special operation

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If Trump really gets this done, it will be a big win for the world. I hope Ukraine gets to keep their original borders and gets an ass load of money from Russia to start rebuilding what they destroyed. 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-russia-agrees-immediately-begin-negotiations-end-war-ukraine

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5140775-trump-putin-talk-ukraine/ 

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Hegseth is promoting a lose-lose scenario for Ukraine, lost land and no NATO. No NATO, okay if that's what the EU wants, but nothing else.

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2/12/2025 11:09am
byke wrote:

Hegseth is promoting a lose-lose scenario for Ukraine, lost land and no NATO. No NATO, okay if that's what the EU wants, but nothing else.

So, “who” gets to join NATO is up to Europe? Really…? 

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2/12/2025 12:35pm

That's great.....are we going to get our billions of dollars back from the thieving bastards who enriched themselves with it.    What about all the military equipment that was sent and subsequently sold off by Ukraine for money....

 

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Promise kept.

One of the things he was saying early on during the campaign. 

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2/12/2025 1:03pm

Terrible deal for Ukraine, really tragic.

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2/12/2025 1:11pm
byke wrote:

Hegseth is promoting a lose-lose scenario for Ukraine, lost land and no NATO. No NATO, okay if that's what the EU wants, but nothing else.

TeamGreen wrote:

So, “who” gets to join NATO is up to Europe? Really…? 

Sorry, their bid to join the EU. 

2/12/2025 1:56pm Edited Date/Time 2/12/2025 1:57pm

Promise kept.

One of the things he was saying early on during the campaign. 

He sorta missed the part about ending the war in 1 day 😂 

Reports are that he's going to put Tariffs on Russia 😂 

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2/12/2025 2:02pm

The biggest problem I see is that both Trump and Putin have enormous egos and they cannot be seen as weak. This means the odds that they come to an agreement that makes them both look like alpha males is slim to none. 

My guess is that, sadly, negotiations will fail, and the administration will slowly give less attention to it and distract people with other craziness, allowing Putin to gain the upper hand and roll over the country. And then probably move on to the next.

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Promise kept.

One of the things he was saying early on during the campaign. 

It's done? 

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The biggest problem I see is that both Trump and Putin have enormous egos and they cannot be seen as weak. This means the odds that...

The biggest problem I see is that both Trump and Putin have enormous egos and they cannot be seen as weak. This means the odds that they come to an agreement that makes them both look like alpha males is slim to none. 

My guess is that, sadly, negotiations will fail, and the administration will slowly give less attention to it and distract people with other craziness, allowing Putin to gain the upper hand and roll over the country. And then probably move on to the next.

Putin knows two things about Trump...

1. He know that Trump wants nothing more than to be considered "impressive" by people like himself.
2. He knows that Trump doesn't earn respect, he "buys it".

Therefore, Putin will ask Trump for something (here's your chance to impress me), Trump will give it to him (because he wants to appear impressive), and then Putin will do whatever the fuck he wants because he has zero respect for people he can play as easily as he's playing Trump.

After fishing like this for decades, Putin finally caught his prize winning fish.

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Promise kept.

One of the things he was saying early on during the campaign. 

enketchum wrote:

It's done? 

Biden had 4 years to make a move, and didnt. Trump is making headway within 2 weeks. 

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Terrible deal for Ukraine, really tragic.

I haven’t seen too many details, but there’s no shortage of speculation from any and all sources. 

What will be interesting to see/hear is whether Trump is ‘negotiating’ with Putin/Russia unilaterally, without Ukraine even really involved. That would be somewhat similar to the negotiations over Afghanistan with the Trump administration negotiating with the Taliban and excluding the actual government of Afghanistan. 

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early wrote:

Terrible deal for Ukraine, really tragic.

APLMAN99 wrote:
I haven’t seen too many details, but there’s no shortage of speculation from any and all sources. What will be interesting to see/hear is whether Trump is...

I haven’t seen too many details, but there’s no shortage of speculation from any and all sources. 

What will be interesting to see/hear is whether Trump is ‘negotiating’ with Putin/Russia unilaterally, without Ukraine even really involved. That would be somewhat similar to the negotiations over Afghanistan with the Trump administration negotiating with the Taliban and excluding the actual government of Afghanistan. 

From what I've seen, boundary lines frozen where they are with Eastern Ukraine becoming Russian land, they'll probably make Ukraine give Kursk back to Russia. Guaranteed no ascension to NATO, no NATO intervention, $500 billion in rare earth metals given to the US from Ukraine, trump likely to return seized Russian assets. Guaranteed no US troops on the ground in Ukraine, probably no security guarantee although the last one turned out to be worthless.

Trump says he will meet with Putin in Saudi Arabia with Bin Salman to work out the deal, nothing good will ever come out of a meeting with those 3.

Ukraine's only hope is to become part of the EU to have any kind of protection from the dirty Russians.

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early wrote:

Terrible deal for Ukraine, really tragic.

APLMAN99 wrote:
I haven’t seen too many details, but there’s no shortage of speculation from any and all sources. What will be interesting to see/hear is whether Trump is...

I haven’t seen too many details, but there’s no shortage of speculation from any and all sources. 

What will be interesting to see/hear is whether Trump is ‘negotiating’ with Putin/Russia unilaterally, without Ukraine even really involved. That would be somewhat similar to the negotiations over Afghanistan with the Trump administration negotiating with the Taliban and excluding the actual government of Afghanistan. 

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From what I've seen, boundary lines frozen where they are with Eastern Ukraine becoming Russian land, they'll probably make Ukraine give Kursk back to Russia. Guaranteed...

From what I've seen, boundary lines frozen where they are with Eastern Ukraine becoming Russian land, they'll probably make Ukraine give Kursk back to Russia. Guaranteed no ascension to NATO, no NATO intervention, $500 billion in rare earth metals given to the US from Ukraine, trump likely to return seized Russian assets. Guaranteed no US troops on the ground in Ukraine, probably no security guarantee although the last one turned out to be worthless.

Trump says he will meet with Putin in Saudi Arabia with Bin Salman to work out the deal, nothing good will ever come out of a meeting with those 3.

Ukraine's only hope is to become part of the EU to have any kind of protection from the dirty Russians.

That’s certainly not much of a ‘deal’ Ukraine. I suppose the only reason they would get behind it is if the US stopped any and all support of Ukraine defending themselves and their countrymen.  A similar ‘guess’ called for the European countries in NATO to repay over $3T in reparations to Russia. Seemed a bit odd to me but it was attributed to a White House source, so you never can tell. 

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2/12/2025 7:11pm
Spurdo wrote:

Biden had 4 years to make a move, and didnt. Trump is making headway within 2 weeks. 

Get off Trump's D. He's made absolutely no headway. He's been busy attacking allies and demonstrating his verbal diarrhea skills to the press.

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2/12/2025 7:17pm

Alot of pressure on Trump. If the war doesn't end, his legacy will be his failure to stop it, after campaigning on ending the war in 1 day, which most of his voters believed because they believe everything he says. The next couple weeks will play a major part in whether his presidency is a success.

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2/12/2025 9:17pm
Magoofan wrote:
That's great.....are we going to get our billions of dollars back from the thieving bastards who enriched themselves with it.    What about all the military...

That's great.....are we going to get our billions of dollars back from the thieving bastards who enriched themselves with it.    What about all the military equipment that was sent and subsequently sold off by Ukraine for money....

 

no. the industrial military complex will keep their money,  like they do with every war, 

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Alot of pressure on Trump. If the war doesn't end, his legacy will be his failure to stop it, after campaigning on ending the war in...

Alot of pressure on Trump. If the war doesn't end, his legacy will be his failure to stop it, after campaigning on ending the war in 1 day, which most of his voters believed because they believe everything he says. The next couple weeks will play a major part in whether his presidency is a success.

So the success of his presidency hinges on a war on the other side of the world that we aren’t even fighting in?


So would you say Biden’s presidency was a complete failure then since he couldn’t stop it for 4 years even after spending billions of our tax dollars on it?

Wild how nit picky people are over Trump but were so willing to drink the Biden jizz at every turn. 

Did Trump fuck your Mom or something?
 

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So the success of his presidency hinges on a war on the other side of the world that we aren’t even fighting in?So would you say...

So the success of his presidency hinges on a war on the other side of the world that we aren’t even fighting in?


So would you say Biden’s presidency was a complete failure then since he couldn’t stop it for 4 years even after spending billions of our tax dollars on it?

Wild how nit picky people are over Trump but were so willing to drink the Biden jizz at every turn. 

Did Trump fuck your Mom or something?
 

What a well reasoned response, nothing unhinged about it at all. 

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2/13/2025 12:19am

I said it many months ago Trump would get it done. 

Funny how quick shit can be fixed when career politicians are gone. 

Good stuff. 
 

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How would you guys feel if Mexico started to annex parts of Texas?

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2/13/2025 3:07am Edited Date/Time 2/13/2025 3:09am
Lasse wrote:

How would you guys feel if Mexico started to annex parts of Texas?

They tried once.

Didn't end well.

 

And have you looked at our southern border in the past few weeks  ??

 

One or two pedro's may be able to sneak through, but that's about it. 

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Lasse wrote:

How would you guys feel if Mexico started to annex parts of Texas?

They've had free reign the last 4 years to do what ever they wanted in this country. All it costed them was a little more sweat off the American tax payers brow. 

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2/13/2025 4:27am
Lasse wrote:

How would you guys feel if Mexico started to annex parts of Texas?

And Cal, az.,Nm.   We had Marines all ovr Ukraine since the beginning of the war.  Not allowed to get involved though.

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Lasse wrote:

How would you guys feel if Mexico started to annex parts of Texas?

They tried once.Didn't end well. And have you looked at our southern border in the past few weeks  ?? One or two pedro's may be able to sneak...

They tried once.

Didn't end well.

 

And have you looked at our southern border in the past few weeks  ??

 

One or two pedro's may be able to sneak through, but that's about it. 

You had illegal immegrants, not divisions of infantry, tanks and air raids.

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Ukraine is being shot in a back by USA and americans cheer about it. You can not make this shit up.

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kongols wrote:

Ukraine is being shot in a back by USA and americans cheer about it. You can not make this shit up.

Kongols,  Isn't the part of the Ukraine that Putin wants mostly all Russian loyalists and the same areas are controlled by Russian organized crime?  

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2/13/2025 9:12am Edited Date/Time 2/13/2025 9:20am
kongols wrote:

Ukraine is being shot in a back by USA and americans cheer about it. You can not make this shit up.

FastEddy wrote:

Kongols,  Isn't the part of the Ukraine that Putin wants mostly all Russian loyalists and the same areas are controlled by Russian organized crime?  

Now it is, after 11 years of war. 

It`s clear now that war will continue and even escalate to neighboring countries. USA pulls out.

We are now where USSR and Germany was in 1939-1941.

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