ProudKangaroo wrote on Mar 27
th, 2025 at 12:33pm:
None of this makes any sense unless you erase history entirely.
No, I'm remembering history entirely (eg linking to relevant google info, unlike you).
Quote:Russia has never abided by any agreement it has made. It’s a serial violator of international law, and Ukraine is the latest, most blatant example.
You are biased, the US has also ignored UN resolutions, in fact everyone does when it suits them (because the UNSC wa neutered from the start by obsolete 'absolute national sovereignty' ideology).
Quote: Russia doesn't negotiate in good faith, it advances, takes what it wants, and then demands more. The endgame isn’t peace, it’s the complete erasure of Ukraine from the map.
You think Trump would agree to that?
Quote:And yet, rather than confronting this reality, you've done everything in your power to shift blame onto Ukraine, as if Russia's aggression was somehow invited rather than a calculated imperial ambition.
But even if Ukraine falls, it won’t end there. It never does.
And now Trump is openly musing about doing the same to Canada and Greenland. At first, it sounds like deranged ramblings, another dose of "filling the zone with sh
it
", but that’s precisely the problem. He’s testing the waters, seeing how far the Overton window can be shifted. And too many people are playing along.
Trump thinks it's his job to defend the "free" world, and he needs the vast artic land masses in Canada and Greenland to do it (given Russia's vast size).
Quote:Bending the knee to Putin, handing over Ukraine’s resources, industries, and manpower, does not weaken Russia, it strengthens it. Anyone selling this as a means contribute to breaking the Russia-China axis is either delusional or lying.
Why do you think the US wanted to split the vast communist bloc in 1971, by recognizing the commies as the sole government of China? (which the US regrets, now that the USSR is defunct....now they want Russia as an ally against China).
Quote:Trump isn’t controlling Putin, he’s doing Putin’s bidding.
Nonsense, Trump knows Russia is no more than a useful minnow; he will NEVER do Russia's (or Putin's) bidding.
Quote:If Trump had any real leverage over Moscow, this war would be over.
Correct; but he apparently agreed with Putin (in his many phone calls) peace can be achieved "in a day", provided Putin didn't demand all of Ukraine - which even Trump would realize was unacceptable to anyone except Putin.
Quote:The results are already clear. A preliminary agreement between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by the US, has been reached to halt maritime attacks in the Black Sea and cease strikes on energy targets. In exchange, the US pledged to lift some sanctions on Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports. But, predictably, Russia immediately demanded more, specifically, the restoration of banking connections to the international financial system before doing anything.
Yes, while Zelensky is still insisting he won't hand over an inch of Ukraine's Russian-speaking provinces; it takes 2 to tango, and
Trump hasn't said what he regards as acceptable as part of the deal. Quote:And Trump will cave. He’s so desperate for a deal, any deal, that he'll hand Russia exactly what it wants, no questions asked.
Art of the deal!
You have to know Trump would accept Putin taking all of Ukraine as part of the deal, to say that, and you don't know it.
Quote:All of this, ceding Ukraine’s land, resources, industries, and people, and now the prospect of easing banking sanctions, will directly fuel a resurgent Russia.
In what world is this a good thing?!
A world in which Ukraine cedes its Russian speaking provinces to Russia, to end the war, with the clear understanding that the combined might of Europe and the US - more than 20 times the size of Russia's crippled economy - will mobilize to take out Russia's defence system and more if the deal is violated.
Quote:And for what? So Russia can pretend to play nice just long enough to regroup, rearm, and invade again?
How can you keep defending this? It’s madness.
See above.