A senior aide to President Vladimir Putin has rejected any temporary cease-fire with Ukraine just hours before a US delegation was expected to land in Russia for talks with Moscow where they will urge the Kremlin to agree to a 30-day cease-fire proposal or face sanctions.
When the news first broke, I assumed Russua was behind the ceasefire and had already pulled Trumps strings to their advantage.
Now I’m wondering if this administration might be too incompetent to be corrupt.
That was my thought, too, but yeah. Occam’s Razor, our government is just run by really stupid people.
trump would like to be the tough guy, but putin will never accept anything from him for sure
I can’t wait for the annual RepubliQan retreat to Moscow on 4th of July weekend.
Lots of parties, music, and blowing Pooty-poot under the table for our best and brightest MAGA congresspersons.
I am shocked! Shocked I say!
Who would have thought that with his best buddy back in the Whitehouse and Ukraine cut off from some financial and military support as a result, that the Kremlin would feel emboldened to reject any kind of peace deal?!
Putin knows that now his stooge is President he can put much do whatever the hell he wants when it comes to Ukraine. At least for a while - until Europe gets a strategy in place (if that happens), and until Russia’s runs out of breathing conscripts.
Here’s hoping the rest of the West can provide enough support quickly to keep Ukraine from losing a huge chunk of their territory.
Waiting breathlessly for Trump’s announcement that Zelensky is unwilling to talk peace and Putin is a victim…
A ceasefire will lock in the territory Putin has.
Putin doesn’t have the entirety of the two provinces he’s claiming. He wants the entirety of the two provinces for a couple reasons. First it gives him a domestic win. Second it screws the Ukrainian defensive lines. Right now they are situated in a way that Russia has to fight through towns that Ukraine can fortify to make them costly. If they use the province borders, they’re relatively arbitrary and Ukraine’s line of defense has to be set up further back, where they can force Russia into towns again. This favors Russia because in a couple years when they finish rebuilding their military they can just take the next area and tell everyone they get to keep that in the next ceasefire.
