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Trump says Putin launching massive strike on Ukraine is ‘what anybody would do’
(www.theguardian.com)
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I mean, if Putin just wants to stop fighting, he could completely just you know: stop fucking fighting.
He’s the invader. He’s the fucking aggressor. Ukraine would happily stop fighting as they don’t want to fight.
Donald Trump is top tier fucking stupid and top tier Russian asset.
Russia almost cannot “stop” if it means getting nothing. If they do Putin will lose support and money from his oligarchs/bitches.
That's Putin's problem. Let him join the defenstration-fest, the bloodthirsty greedhead, and Trump with him.
I actually thought we should’ve had Putin assassinated years ago, but nobody cares what I think. I’m just an asshole who got kicked off of Reddit 
you forget that people like that have literal legions that their sole job is to protect a persons life. not just bodyguards, but intelligence agents who's sole job it is , is to prepare for any kind of credible threat.
and remember russia is a country that has an entire militarized police force that its only real job, is to keep the boot on the neck of not the people, but the russian military, so that they dont get any funny ideas about revolting.
Would he, though?
I cannot imagine a world in which Russia withdraws from the front lines and Ukrainian militants just call it a day. Way too much blood on the ground for people to just turn themselves off and call it done.
If Putin extended an offer that didn't involve him eating the barrel of his own gun, Zelenskyy's own guys would lynch him for taking it.
Well, obviously Ukraine would chase the invaders back to the pre-2014 borders and then stop.
That's how wars always work. You stop at the other guy's border because you've made your point.
Didn't they just stop fighting in ww1 ? I don't think its the same but not impossible. True Putin should retreat and leave the Ukrainian soil.
Stopping fighting is how most wars ended. It's not a fucking cage match between two militaries that only ends after every person in one of the two militaries is dead.
Everyone who believes this shit is a victim of severe brainwashing. Nobody, not even an actual mental retard, would believe what Trump and putin are saying. It's because Trump followers are victims of brainwashing. They are mentally ill.
I mean, as if anyone or their mother would realistically accept Zelenskyy's 10 point peace nonsense.
Putin meanwhile gave out very lenient peace terms in 2022, probably the most lenient peace terms of all time in fact, so lenient, Ukraine would have kept all of its territory with even the status of Crimea being negotiable after 10-15 years and future Russian aggression would encounter a problem, the peace treaty would have the US and the UK, as guarantors, who were obliged to assist Ukraine in case of aggression against it. While the Russian Federation attempted to add on another condition where all guarantor states including Russia itself would have to agree to intervene in Ukraine possibily giving Russia the ability to veto other countries from aiding Ukraine in the event Russia broke the agreement, they were likely willing to drop that condition. Throughout the negotiations, Russia was actually dropping many of their previous demands and compromised with Ukraine on multiple occasions (unlike Zelenskyy who didn't even invite Putin to his peace summits, kinda like the Russia-US peace summits rn).
If they didn't want to fight, why not accept this lenient peace offer?
Now what was the outcome of Zelenskyy continuing the war? Right, Putin now says that Ukraine will lose land.
Putin invaded in 2014 seizing Crimea. Ukraine did not attack Russia.
Putin invaded Donbas and Luhansk just months later. Ukraine signed multiple peace deals which Putin violated at that time.
Putin performed a full scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022.
Nothing about Putin has offered peace terms for Ukraine that Putin honors. He'll keep violating any "peace" deals until he controls all of Ukraine or he's dead.
And nations are now realizing that Trump doesn’t fall far from the tree. He just prefers assets to land.
Make no mistake, Trump wants land too (and even more so the strategic power it affords, such as control of trade routes). That's why he's threatening to annex Greenland, the Panama canal zone, and Canada.
Source for 1? And regarding 3, Minsk II was violated by Putin himself when he choose to invade Ukraine in February 2022 saying Ukraine committed genocide in Donbas with no proof of the same.
I will PM you source for 1 since I do not really know the rules regarding posting NSFW content in the comments. Minsk II was already null and void by the time he invaded due to Ukraine violating it.
Received the PM?
The russian apologist strikes again...
Well at least someone is apologizing; Russia doesn’t appear to have any intention to do so.
Begone, propagandist. Peace is elusive because the Russian government has engineered the situation to be so. That you think they were "likely" to drop an obvious showstopper clause means absolutely nothing; the actual parties to the negotiation clearly did not feel that to be true.
For others who want more insight on how the 2022 talks unfolded: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-deal.html
Nope.
Remind me - how many times has Putin actually kept to the terms of a ceasefire? Cause that's exactly what he's known for.
In the end, we all know:
-Putin is an asshole
-Ukraine did not pose the slightest military threat, and were not the aggressors
So, when it comes down to it, fuck Putin and his so called "lenient" terms. Bruising Putin's ego is not, in fact, a crime.
Everyone knows Putin will not settle for peace. He just wants to fix supply side issues to continue the offensive. You know this. It's not that you don't see the evil in that man; you defend it because you support it anyway.
Russian troll, nothing to see here.
Yes because everyone you disagree with, is a Russian troll.
Oh honey, you int fooling anyone.
Did Trump write this?
Too literate. This bozo at least writes at a high-school level.
I am not aware of myself being an orangutan.
Then why are you writing like one?
2 day old account spewing this dribble
Are you actually functionally retarded or was there a lobotomy involved?
They're being an apologist piece of shit, but it doesn't justify ableism like that.