As Heather Cox Richardson notes,
"This U.S.-backed plan [for peace beteeen Russian and Ukraine] echoes almost entirely the plan Russian operatives presented to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort in exchange for helping Trump win the White House. Russia had invaded Ukraine in 2014 and was looking for a way to grab the land it wanted without continuing to fight."
"To the surprise of approximately nobody, the U.S. plan—as The New York Times puts it oh so politely—'closely mirrors longstanding Russian demands.'”
~ Charles Pierce
"On Wednesday, the Trump administration effectively told Ukraine to surrender under threat of the US simply washing its hands of the war."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/political-gravity-pulls-trump-back
"If Trump has his way, Washington will lift sanctions against Russia; both sides will accept a cease-fire in place (leaving Russian troops on newly conquered Ukrainian territory), and the United States will agree to recognize Crimea as part of Russia (leaving the Kremlin with full ownership of previously conquered territory)."
~ Tom Nichols
"For this, Ukraine gets basically nothing . . . . The Trump 'peace' plan is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender, and the Ukrainians are unlikely to accept it."
For photos of what's taking place in Kyiv right now as Putin shells the city, see this Guardian photo-essay today.
"President Trump and his top aides demanded on Wednesday that Ukraine accede to an American-designed proposal that would essentially grant Russia all the territory it has gained in the war, while offering Kyiv only vague security assurances."
~ David E. Sanger, Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler
#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/world/europe/ukraine-cease-fire-talks-london.html
"Simply put, the Trump administration is pushing a plan of Ukrainian surrender. …
The rest of the world sees this proposal for what it is: the sudden abandonment of our ally in exchange for a false promise of peace."
~ Alexander Vindman
#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-chaos-weekend-at-bernies/
The fossil fuel industry and its allies, Russia & Saudi Arabia, wage war on democracies, Ukraine is the first.
Ukraine gets its territory back again, every inch, then reparations, then Putin can extricate himself from his war.
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