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Trump: "I'm gonna stop the war by poking the bear"
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I’m going to stop the war by degrading Russia’s ability to wage war… |
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*which, ironically, is below the 5% of GDP that Trump has insisted the NATO members spend on defence… |
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which again brings us around to ""I'm gonna stop the war by poking the bear" :D |
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USA and Europe are proving money and weapons to stop an aggressor, who would probably (as he has recently called these countries ‘part of the Greater Rus’) then move into Georgia (further than he already has), Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia… |
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It’s also worth pointing out that ‘don’t poke the bear’ is one of the most successful psy-ops of the 20th and now 21st century, perpetuating the myth of Russia as the all-powerful second greatest military on earth and, so far, helping achieve Russia’s foreign policy aim of limiting western aid to Ukraine because western governments are, on a very deep and visceral level, scared of what Russia might do if provoked.
The reality is, Russia is only the second greatest military in Ukraine, and has achieved minimal gains in exchange for vast losses of men and equipment that for the most part it cannot replace. The whole sorry episode could have been settled long ago had the escalation management obsessives in the Biden administration not been running the show prior to 2025. And sadly, little will change in the next couple of years unless and until Europe gets over its dependence on America and its irrational fear of Russia and starts to take charge of things. For whatever bizarre and possibly perverted reason, Donald Trump craves Putin’s approval and admiration above all others and no matter what words he utters to appease US Republicans (who by and large do not like Russia, or Putin), he simply isn’t ever going to finally run out of patience or honour any deadline he seems to have set. |
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I'd much rather have a better NHS, more policing, more 'social' care, and obviously much more affordable (LMAO) housing.
Oh, and some bloody jobs that involve people not AI |
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Ukraine's strategy with US intel has been to weaken Russia's energy assets. The country is now carrying out attacks that Biden's regime would not have approved of. It could be regretting its dependence on the energy sector or its wealth.
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And now Trump is considering allowing Ukraine to access Tomahawk missiles in an attempt to get Putin to the negotiating table. I can imagine after the middle East deal, he will be happy to leave others to sort out the details there and move onto Ukraine. Upping the pressure on Russia now would tie in with this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93xpqgzkv0o Putin's strategy seems to be to attack Ukranian energy assets too as Winter gets close Quote:
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I think it's a marvelous thing that both sides are targeting oil, gas and petroleum refineries and installations.
This means there is likely to be less pollution caused by the cars, buses and lorries on the roads. The huge flames and explosions you see on the horizon will have no effect on a polluted atmosphere, nor will the tanks, planes and missiles of both sides running around blowing stuff up. What's that Greta whatsit character doing now? :D |
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tbf, the Russians are trying to limit the pollution by focusing on civilian targets…
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Starmer and his other fellow leaders of countries have quite a pack going. They STILL wage a war while agreeing with Trumps take on things. :rolleyes:
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Pretty sure Putin’s the one "waging a war"… |
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So a ceasefire; fine, but Putin has to answer the obvious questions; you haven’t managed a regime change - the supposedly Nazi regime is still in charge, you have somewhere around a million dead Russians, you’ve gained, at best a few hundred kilometres of land! Sorry where is the success here? Putin can’t end this war, note that I say Putin, not Russia, Putin can't end the war because that will be his lot. Alas a large number of Russian and Ukrainian people are going to die just to satisfy one person’s ego. |
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Further to Jem’s post, Putin has incorporated parts of Ukraine into Russia by modifying Russia’s constitution. If he stops now, he leaves parts of what the Russian State claims in its law to be its territory, under foreign ‘occupation’. He can’t sell that to a country that now has well over a million dead and incapacitated. What’s worse, there’s mounting evidence that he is being lied to on an industrial scale by his generals and that he might actually believe if he pushes just a little more, he can actually take the territories Russia has annexed. So he’s going to keep going because he thinks his minimum acceptable objective is still attainable. |
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Very logical, Chris.
It seems that there is considerable weapons ingenuity on Ukraine's part and with money flowing in, I surmise that Russia will come under increasing missile/drone attack. I do hope that the US does not give Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for potential WW3 reasons; but I do also hope that the aforementined ingenuity makes up for that. |
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Except, the West has done all of these, and we still seem to be here. |
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You can be sure that at least the one of those aimed at us will get through.
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Why would they waste an expensive missile (or three) on a Country that is already going under?
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Anyway it's a valid point, the UK seems to be fast becoming the dumping ground of Europe (if not the World) . . which I believe was talked about (quietly, so as not to upset the easily panicked people) a few years ago. ;) |
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well actually, if your Country has a shortage of Jobs, Housing, and facing a growing problem with Food & Water due to an ever growing population that also needs Health Care and Education (which are also feeling the squeeze), it seems a decent enough way to solve a few problems . . as long as all parties involved don't go overboard and start throwing nukes about ;) |
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NATO I would hope have done van assessment of other potential “legitimate” targets. |
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By that interpretation of the Russian perspective, any weapon production site* in the UK that has produced munitions being used in Ukraine's defence against the Russian invasion could be regarded as a legitimate target... *(Stevenage - Storm Shadow missiles, Belfast - Martlet missiles, Sheffield - artillery barrels, Bolton - RAVEN Ground Based Air Defence Systems and Brimstone 2 missiles, East Anglia - Ukrainian Army training, etc., etc.) |
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The Poland incident……..might be Russia, might not …classic grey zone operation on a remote piece of infrastructure, that is difficult to attribute to the relevant actor. A targeted attack on facilities in Stevenage, Belfast, Sheffield etc, on U.K. soil would be a lot harder to plausibly deny. But as an ex-military individual, I thought you’d know that? |
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This is a country which has attempted and committed an assassination on UK soil and killed a British citizen in doing so. I don't think they care. Obviously, an attack on British infrastructure would be a further escalation.
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Which, as history shows, is anything they want. Unless we, or Poland, or anyone else is prepared to respond…………and it will also have be grey in nature……or cause greater issues. They’ll continue. |
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I thought the 'fallout' tax was to cover all the crap left in the street on bin day :D |
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---------- Post added at 13:31 ---------- Previous post was at 13:26 ---------- https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...ainst-36263256 [EXTRACT] Russia is preparing for war against NATO warned Poland’s top general after it was hit by a massive gas explosion. Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces Wieslaw Kukula warned that Russia “has begun the period of preparing for war. They are building an environment here intended to create conditions favourable for potential aggression on Polish territory.” He spoke out as Poland confirmed a key rail link between Warsaw and Ukraine - used for funnelling Western supplies - was blown up in an “unprecedented act of sabotage”. A Russian military attack on Poland would trigger a response under NATO’s Article 5 - likely amounting to a Third World War. Putin doesn’t like it when it’s done to him, does he? He must know that we know this is all bluff and bluster. Putin doesn’t have the resources to start a Third World War. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/11/1...ng-the-tables/ |
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The plan is nuts. Ukraine has to hand over land to Russia that Russia doesn't even control? And cut it's army?
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Canada should invade Alaska, and we should support them, citing Ukraine as a precedent. |
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Vitali Klitschko sums it up
“This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a surrender plan. Imperial russia gets land for its crimes. Ukraine gets promises, like the security guarantees of 1994, written in disappearing ink. We don’t need 28 points. We need one point: russia Go home!” https://x.com/Klitschko/status/1991918986108522635 |
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Well at the moment, the most telling thing is Ukraine hasn’t yet rejected it. They won’t accept it, but remember Trump is a businessman, this is the initial offer in a negotiation.
Obviously unacceptable, let’s see what the counter offer is. |
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He’ll be waiting for a co-ordinated response from ‘the willing’ in Europe. Starmer/Macron/etc managed to talk Trump down a couple of months ago. He’ll be hoping for similar. I’m not sure anything they say will put him off this time. Trump’s been batting for Putin all along, that much is now pretty clear. Zelensky will play for time and most likely try to work out what sort of war he can pursue entirely with European support. It ought to be possible to shape some sort of a campaign without American involvement, always assuming of course that the capitals of Europe have been paying attention and taken on board the awkward fact that the US is no longer a reliable ally.
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Going alone without America is difficult for Europe; they've underwritten our defence for so long that it will take a while to catch up. Do we even have the arms and money to fund Ukraine for as long as it needs to get a more transatlantic President in the White House?
We ideally need Trump to change his mind again. Apparently, the House of Representatives is more supportive of Ukraine, so domestic and international pressure might tell on Trump. Several weeks ago, Trump seemed to have finally worked out that Putin lies to him and can't be trusted. Why has he u-turned again on that? Trump's ego seems to be the most important thing to him but he lets himself get played by Putin time and time again. Maybe Putin really does have something on him. |
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Quite possibly Trump is expecting (maybe even wanting) a backlash from European leaders and the message "bugger off and leave us to it" . .
Plays nicely into his hands because nobody at home can say he pulled out, in fact Europe 'kicked' him out. Of course Europe are then the sole defenders of Ukraine - and the free world (ha) - and where it goes from there should be a little alarming for everyone. It *could* develop into a major escalation, with pretty boy Trump sitting waiting patiently to pick up the pieces of whatever is left of Europe & Russia when it's over. |
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Follow the money…
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God help them if they decide to rely on us. |
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apart from those in the business of weapon production |
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All the President is worried about is how much money he can make out of it before he snuffs it.. Hopefully he (and Putin), will drop dead soon, that's our best hope. |
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I say Ukraine can’t win this war, and neither can Russia. They’ve fought themselves to a standstill. |
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Well this latest attempt at getting Ukraine to capitulate is beginning to unravel … GOP senator Mike Rounds says he was told by Rubio that the 28-point plan was a Russian-authored proposal. As of right now the state dept. is still furiously denying that, but as the entire internet has now worked out that the English text is riddled with Russian syntax (quite apart from it being a surrender document in all but name) that seems to be a tough position for the US government to maintain for any length of time. Especially as other world leaders are showing signs of backbone this morning and Trump has already conceded that the thing is negotiable.
The United States is being run by idiots, amateurs and two or more highly placed Russian assets. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c33m...96e4ee5f7#post |
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US officials were upbeat on Tuesday about the drive to end the war in Ukraine but acknowledged that sticking points remain over a US plan to halt the nearly four-year conflict. The United States is pushing Ukraine to accept proposals which Kiev says concede too much to Moscow. Talks between US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Russian delegates on the US plan were progressing, his spokesperson said. The White House said that remaining issues in talks to end Russia's war against Ukraine would require more negotiation. "The United States has made tremendous progress towards a peace deal," press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X. "There are a few delicate but not insurmountable details that must be sorted out and will require further talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States." Deal or no deal? Will Trump cave again when he speaks to Putin? |
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Putin is not going to agree to anything that makes it look like his plan has failed.
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Interesting how Trump's peace plan came to be
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Apparantly the 'deal' he came back looks to have been directly translated from Russian !
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The best guess is that it was cooked up between Russian representatives and Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy, who speaks Russian and thinks he understands Russia (in reality Witless Witkoff is even more likely to be a bona fide Russian intelligence asset than Trump).
That’s what’s giving them just enough plausibility to claim the document is actually an American initiative, despite it obviously having originated in Russian and basically being a re-statement of Russia’s maximalist war aims. |
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In this context, people who use English as their first language would normally say "Russia will not invade neighbouring countries and Nato will not expand further." |
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All I know is that I didn't write it.
Everything else is just a meaningless 'finger pointing' game about something that will end up in the bin anyway. Words on a bit of paper, just preliminary negotiations, not that these are the first, or last. ;) |
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If that were true, why are Russian putting so much effort into getting their version out/publicised?
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Go ahead, tell me you honestly think that 'peace plan' is going to be accepted.
If it's not, it goes into the bin. |
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I think you'll find it's called 'negotiating' . . or bartering as us old ones know it.
It works like this: A) Put an offer on the table wanting much more than you're willing to accept. B) Discuss terms with the 'opponent' until you get to the stage where both are happy. C) Shake hands, walk away satisfied with the deal, knowing you got exactly what you wanted, but gave the impression you had to 'give up' some things to get it. No matter who wrote the first list of demands, it was never going anywhere but the bin. |
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It usually ends up with who can make the most money from the suffering of others.
I'm sure there will be a queue to grab mineral rights and construction contracts, and obviously some weapons/defence plans in case it kicks off again. |
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"Break the deadlock"?
Pretty sure Russia is still bombing and killing Ukrainians… |
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That’s what the Americans call ‘blowing smoke up his ass’.
In the real world it is (hopefully) clear that Trump is trying to treat this as a property deal, with kickbacks for his Steve Witkoff is too stupid to see he’s being played for time, however, and the likelihood is that Putin thinks he’s doing better on the battlefield than he is, because he lives in a bunker surrounded by generals who will only tell him what he wants to hear. |
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55% of Ukrainians object to terratorial concessions to achieve peace (https://kyivindependent.com/55-of-uk...ce-poll-finds/) The armed forces (not the commanders)have said they will carry on fighting if the peace deal is not acceptable to them. I posted on here months ago that Ukraine ( it's people )would never give up. They would rather go out fighting than anything less than Russia withdrawing from the terratory. Before you go negotiating for someone, get to know them first. If Putin doesn't withdraw then thay will be left with a guerilla war for years to come. Ukraine is not just fighing for thier independence and terratory but also their entire identity (as Ukrainians) and existance. Make of my post what you will. |
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I care. Seeing as our own resources are being aided in Ukraine. May be withdrawing support is logical so Russia can eat Ukraine up as it should have done so by now.
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Why don't you get over there then and change everything :rolleyes:
Customized for Ukraine. Of the willing my arse. |
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(Dont forget to ask Putin what your reply should be). :rolleyes: |
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