Moscow back at the table - and appearing to call the shots
Moscow back at the table - and appearing to call the shots
Team Trump clearly wants to cut a deal with Moscow and move on, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford.
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/113454
Hey, EU, feel free to ignore whatever the US and Russia say. Love, an American.
I hope our leaders get their shit together and (1) ramp up their support for Ukraine a lot and (2) work on making the EU more independent from the US (and others).
I don't think a lot of Americans appreciate how much hatred the UK has for Russia. No politician is going to win any votes with a line of let's cozy up to the Russians.
Regardless everyone in the western world knows that Russia's word isn't worth anything. So ultimately these negotiations are nothing but PR stunt and will achieve nothing except possibly pissing off Europe.
This is really sad.
Yet again, I can't help but look back towards Biden, who overall seems to have employed a practice of making no plans to safeguard any of his work against an election loss.
I wish he would've negotiated an end to this while Ukraine still had some leverage. I feel like that's been treated as a shocking proposal for the last three years. But it always seemed obvious to me: if Trump wins, you could lose any and everything. He could simply withhold weapons and invite Russia to complete full conquest. He could issue Zelinsky an ultimatum to surrender and live in exile or face a firing squad in St. Petersburg.
Ukraine will be lucky to simply survive these peace talks. Why they didn't negotiate this before the election seems to be another in an endless catalog of hubristic decisions.
Seems obvious to me why the Biden administration couldn’t negotiate with the Russians: the Russians were waiting for Trump to come back to power.
I'm sorry, but that seems like BS.
I recall very clearly that Biden and Blinken maintained that they were refusing to open any negotiations with Russia. Maybe Russia would've refused. But I distinctly recall Biden taking a hard line stance, and anyone who suggested that he, Blinken, and Zelinsky accepting that they weren't likely to recover full territorial control being basically tarred and feathered as MAGA puppets.
I just don't see the point. So many lives were spent to defend the country. Will it mean anything? We'll see.
The Kremlin dictates U.S. policy. If Ukraine doesn't go along, the U.S. will sanction Ukraine and start sending supplies to Russia.
The president has some leeway, but our support for Ukraine was because we passed laws to support them.
The Trump admin cant pass any laws. Its why they are trying to go all in on executive power, even when its illegal. They lack legislative power due to a fractured congress, even in their own party.
They barely control the house, and many republicans actually want to support Ukraine. and will not be able to sanction Ukraine or materially support russia.
I hear you, but as we're seeing everyday, laws don't matter anymore.
I have my doubts that Trump will have enough pushback to make a difference but I'm not an American so I could be wrong.
No shit.