Trump threatens sanctions just as he did on March 7. He also threatens to walk away.
Relationship With Putin Sours
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Weighs Sanctions Against Russia as Relationship With Putin Sours This is a free link.
President Trump is eyeing sanctions against Moscow this week as he grows frustrated by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued attacks on Ukraine and the slow pace of peace talks, according to people familiar with Trump’s thinking.
The restrictions likely wouldn’t include new banking sanctions, one of the people said, but other options are under discussion to pressure the Russian leader into concessions at the negotiating table, including a 30-day cease-fire supported by Ukraine that Russia has long rejected. Trump might also decide not to impose new sanctions.
Trump addressed the potential of new sanctions on Sunday, saying that he is “absolutely” considering them. “He’s killing a lot of people,” Trump said of Putin. “I don’t know what’s wrong with him. What the hell happened to him?”
Trump is also tiring of the peace negotiations and is considering abandoning them all together if a final push doesn’t work, people familiar with his thinking said, a remarkable change for a leader who campaigned on his ability to end the conflict on his first day in office. It is unclear what would happen if the U.S. retreats from the peace process and whether Trump would continue to provide military support to Ukraine.
Trump has been unable to coax major concessions from the Russian leader on a negotiated peace with Ukraine, and Putin has intensified the war recently. Hours after Trump’s comments Sunday, Russia launched its largest-ever drone-and-missile assault on Ukraine overnight into Monday. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched more than 350 explosive drones and at least nine cruise missiles. The Russians characterized the strikes as retaliation for Ukrainian bombings within Russian territory.
On Monday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the U.S., Germany, France and the U.K. would no longer impose range restrictions on Ukraine’s use of weapons supplied by Western allies, meaning it could target military positions deeper into Russia. To date, Ukraine has only been able to use long-range missiles supplied by those countries against Russian troops within a certain range. The Biden administration had opposed removing range limits, fearing it could escalate the war.
The White House declined to comment on the restrictions.
Trump’s rhetoric on Sunday was notably tough. “I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don’t like it at all,” Trump said. “We’re in the middle of talking and he’s sending rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don’t like it at all.”
“It appears from these comments that President Trump is figuring out President Putin,” said William Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. “The question is—is it serious? Will this be enough to take some steps, to put some sanctions on?”
For weeks, Trump had been resisting pressure to reprimand Putin for failing to agree to a cease-fire that Ukraine supported. Allies such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) told Trump that Putin didn’t want a deal, and only punishments would make him seriously negotiate.
But three key views colored Trump’s thinking, officials said. First was his dislike for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who Trump felt encouraged further conflict by pushing for sanctions, even though Zelensky agreed to a cease-fire. On Sunday, as he blasted Putin, Trump also criticized Zelensky in a post on social media where he said the Ukrainian leader “is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does.”
Trump has also believed that additional sanctions on Russia wouldn’t curb its ability to wage war but would hamper efforts to revive U.S.-Russian economic ties.
Wimpy Actions and Tough Talk?
The actions have sure been wimpy. But is the talk even tough?
For example “Trump is also tiring of the peace negotiations and is considering abandoning them all together if a final push doesn’t work, people familiar with his thinking said.”
Assuming that assessment is accurate, it’s exactly what Putin wants to hear.
On the other hand, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the U.S., Germany, France and the U.K. would no longer impose range restrictions on Ukraine’s use of weapons supplied by Western allies.
Did the US really agree to that? We have no official statement.
Here is the Free WSJ Link again.
Play the video. Trump says, “I actually think he [Putin] is doing what anybody else would do.”
I do not have the date or timestamp but Trump is very angry at Zelensky.
One Thing Is Clear
Trump wants an economic relationship with Russia and Putin (rare earth minerals perhaps), and more sanctions or military aid will hinder that prospect.
Russia Thumbs its Nose at Trump
Yesterday, I noted Russia Thumbs its Nose at Trump with Massive Assault on Ukraine
Russia responded to Trump’s sanction threats with a huge aerial bombardment.
March 7, 2025, 9:17 AM: Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely “pounding” Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you!!!
Today, Trump responded verbally to Putin but did little else than make the same threat he did on March 7 and in January prior to that.
Today it appears that banking sanctions are off the table.
There is no coherent message in any of this. Click on the Russia Thumbs Nose link for a detailed list of more conflicting quotes.
President Trump is blaming the wrong side in this fight. I agree with nearly everything Putin has done to this point. Trump “Claimed” He had a Peace deal with “Z” and every time Trump claims such, Russia gets attacked! Hell they damn near had Drones take Putin himself out. Anyone, including Trump, is a fool to blame Putin and not the NATO Darling “Z” Himself. Without a NATO supported leader, Ukraine would be at a comfortable Peace Plan by now…
Haha Trump is worried about depending on rare earths from china. Maybe he should talk to the eu about depending on russia for resources. Ie oil and gas. Putin has you by the balls and will squeeze at some point. .
I see Z being replaced real soon, and a true Peace Deal being accomplished shortly afterwards. The groundwork has been laid out already. It ALL just needs to get implemented. Once the Vital Roadblock “Z” is gone, it will be swift.
too mush noise. nothing serious. weekly stuff
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ONLY PROBLEM FROM GROUND THAT FACT Russia STARTED OVERWHELMING Ukraine ANti air assault defenses.
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dont forget most of hits were against Kiev where most anti air defense were.
so most other cities in Ukraine are just sitting ducks.
THAT IS WHY so rush to stop war for 1 month, and sh11it. so much talking.
Ukraine is losing.
New acronym for Trump:
TACO: Trump always chickens out.
Heard that from Dianne Francis on a Times Radio interview.
Doesn’t just apply to Putin & Trump but also tariffs & Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osvo3TZNiHI
Prediction: Another cycle of play fighting then surrender from Trump.
I don’t know what Putin has on Trump but it must be juicy. Epstein related?
yeah right. you dont know
you are just m1oron sitting in moms basement.
Hey, alx is that you in the orange shirt?
https://x.com/YourAnonCentral/status/1927724718095733014
President Putin has made it abundantly clear, numerous times, as to what Russia wants to end the war. From an objective standpoint, it is not unreasonable. Apparently the only way the war will end is when Kiev is surrounded by Russian tanks, and/or the administrative buildings are flattened by a missile, and probably nothing President Trump thinks he can co will change the trajectory of the war.
He continues to supply Ukraine with arms and money. He signs an minerals ‘deal’ with Ukraine and he tells Putin that he cannot keep the territories he currently occupies, the very same territories that voted to rejoin Russia. And he asks what is wrong with Putin.
It’s amusing that the losers in this war think they can dictate the outcome.
Should the West start recognizing elections as legitimate that were literally conducted at the point of a gun?
The West recognized the 1948 elections in South Korea and the 2005 elections in Iraq.
You mean like Romania and France? Europe is the fascist problem and we should disassociate from Europe completely
Ignore the noise. It’s always worse at the bottom. Hamas and Hezbollah are gone. The Hooties are the only leftover from the Iranian cauldron. Putin and Zelensky will get their ceasefire. The EU, Japan, Canada and Mexico will settle with Trump. The US gov debt will drop without VAT. And most of u will still hate Trump until the end, by default !
What is the difference between a VAT and a state income tax?
Please get off the Anti Trump story train. It’s so old. Let’s talk about stocks and investments seeing how you are listed on FINVIZ and all I see is about 6 or your articles listed at once and 5 of them are negative trump stories. It’s so old!
It is not necessarily anti-Trump where Mish is coming from. It is anti-Political bullshit which just so happens to be heaped upon us Day to Day! I am not ANTI-ANYONE, as I am sick to death of Politics which are running our country and its policies. I would actually begin to vote again for a Party that “means business” and does what it promises but with clarity!
Trump’s policies are inconsistent, poorly executed and I am actually kind of Surprised as to who the Man actually ran building businesses. I owned several companies and had I been this incompetent, I would not be sitting here reading this…I would be BROKE.
1) Ukraine bombed inside Russia. Putin retaliation struck several Ukrainian cities. Trump criticized both Zelensky and Putin. The rest is Anti Trump garbage to ignore.
2) Trump and Bibi agreed to finish off Hamas. Legally Israel doesn’t have to feed her enemy. FDR didn’t feed the nazis in WWII. GB and Wilson didn’t feed the starving Germans in WWI. Hamas used food to rule the Palestinians. That option is gone. Within 2/3 months the IDF will destroy Hamas leftover and its administration. The Palestinians in Jasa are rising against Hamas despite the hanging and the daily executions. A few years ago Sri Lanka finished off Tamil Tigers, despite global pressure to stop the genocide
So for no reason whatsoever Zelensky bombed inside of Russia & the virtuous Putin was forced to respond? And not a Putin stooge Trump, was forced to criticize Zelensky?
Your post is a lesson in MAGtardism.
Ukraine bombed inside Russia. Putin retaliation struck several Ukrainian cities.
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you should be more clear w/ facts
it was not bombing from both sides.
Ukraine used drones, and Russia used drones and rockets
bombing means using airplanes, it is only used inside line of military fighting.
Hitler also did not feed the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto or in Auschwitz.
And he had the law on his side.
hiter never broke a law. neither are the israelis today. neither did the amerikan genocide of natives. neither did the slave traders of my old hometown of charleston sc
This is what happens when you put a narcissistic real estate developer and reality TV star in a position of almost absolute power. He sees the world transactional, instead of the way every other President of the United States has seen the world since WWII, which is a world made up of liberal democracies that try to emulate the United States and autocracies, dictatorships, and kingdoms whose goal is to dominate their sphere of the world through using wealth and/or power. Trump does not recognize this divide, which cannot be bridged with deals. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhauer, Kennedy, Reagan, Bush, Obama, and Biden all saw this clearly, fighting them, containing them, and calling them out as evil and staunchly defending freedom anywhere in the world that is under assault.
When to “we” ship out?
Trump seems to think he’s wrangling with some tenant at Trump Tower, or club member at Mar a Lago. That seems to be his model of the world.
I recommend 20 cc’s of TDS drip. Combined with exercise and diet, this will help lessen the symptoms of TDS but much like the covid shot, it won’t innoculate you and you can still spread it.
As Chris Cuomo recently said, people don’t understand the true definition of TDS. TDS is actually believing and supporting everything the felon says.
Kiev urgently seeks more Patriot missiles; US resists supply
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/kiev-urgently-seeks-more-patriot-missiles–us-resists-supply
We’re saving them for Israel.
Those AIPAC donations come with strings.
look out!! there’s a joooo behind the tree!!!!
Oops. We’re out.
US urgently seeks more Air Defense interceptors; Russia refuses to supply
Not a good sign when he is the last guy on earth to sort what is happening. Perhaps he believes his own toss-off comments that substitute for what used to be campaign promises and policy (and adult thinking, by him or the fantasizing US electorate)? It will all be so easy, done and done on Day One.
Per Newsweek, Russian bots are having a field day roasting him, so perhaps they flipped from helping him (2016) to creating a new wedge, trying to align with different critics here?
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-kremlin-bots-roast-trump-putin-attack-2077301
Paying attention to his Presidential Daily Brief, not cutting the staff at the NSC by 75%, and listening to the Generals would help. But he, and he alone, knows better, right?
“Trump Threatens…”
That’s becoming the punchline of every joke these days. Trump threatens tariffs/sanctions/law firms/universities/judges/etc.
Trump ends up losing or caving every time so the jokes will continue and so will the impotence.
Putin should offer Trump an airplane. It works for other countries.
1. Threaten and name call;
2. Postpone threat (but not name calling) when bluff is called;
3. Threaten again when postponement date is close (ramp up name calling);
4. Settle for the status quo before the initial threat (the “new” deal is called “the bestest deal ever” and the name calling sorta stops) or;
5. If a “deal” isnt reached in step 4 rinse and repeat steps 1 thru 3 until step 4 is achieved.
That’s Trump’s 5D chess in a nutshell.
If Trump took a stronger position against Putin (as he should) all of the comments here against Ukraine would stop as then the Trump sheep would think it was a good idea. They will support, explain, dignify Trump’s actions no matter what he does. Trump has no idea what he is doing and Putin and Netanyahu are probably giggling on the phone. And Mish, please don’t quote Bill Taylor. Despite Taylor coming down on Trump for his “perfect phone call”, he still voted for Trump. Trump is still the whining child over Zelensky not caving to him. Trump is a failure.
Nope. Trump promised to end the war. He’s dithering. It was always destined to be a Russian win. The only question is how many Ukrainians had to die before they capitulate. Trump should have cut them off entirely on day one. They could have fragged Zelensky and cut a deal with Russia.
Trump should walk away. This is Europe’s problem. Let them deal with it. If Europe wants to continue funneling billions into one of the most corrupt regimes, let them.
But Trump openly claimed and owned this, and capitalized on it in the election, so at least (in a normal world of ordinary honor and dignity) he owes some explanation of such a complete 180 pivot, if it is a total cut and run, fine, OK, except, we will not get that, and his faithful will readily forget in about 2 minutes.
Yup. He is going to flip it faster than a festering piece of NYC real estate. He knows when to hold them and he knows when to fold them.
trump the eternal moron toddler who cannot comprehend why putin ignores his incompetemnt self. its hilarious how the confuses loser don the old actually believes any sane person listens to his babbling. go ahead failed business creature sanction russia again. it just gets stronger.
trump is epitomy of amerikans. arrogant and ignorant. democracy truly works perfectly. amerikans are trump. trump is amerikans.
Not all Americans, but definitely the lower half. Americans are raised on phrases like “we are the greatest nation in history!”, and “we are the richest nation in history”. The dumb half of the country takes that to mean that they themselves are great and rich. The beauty of having 2 giant oceans between the US and Europe and Asia is that these folks don’t have a comparison. But, heck, it works politically. Trump counts on it.
when i say democracy works, i refer to the majority wins in democracy. go read “republic of plato”. those old boys explain why it is so. and how dangerous it can be with nit wits and idiots in. the city state. look up the definition of idiotes.
In Europe, “democracy” means making sure the most popular candidate or party is kicked off the ballot.
Trump’s implicit empowerment of both the Israeli government and Putin is now costing lives. In addition, he is doing the Jewish culture and normal Russians a lot of harm in the process. Just like the BBB, he consistently acts against the type of people who voted for him.
you must be a troll lying as you do.
Lying about what?
Interested to get a serious answer as I don’t really get why any of that is contentious – I am missing something so please give a reasoned clear answer.
my hasidic jewish neighbors are mostly anti zionist and very pro jewish. the nit wits in the world perhaps mix up the terms. Zion is evil. jews are just one abramic believers in magic.
Agree on Israel. Trump isn’t “empowering Putin”. The Russian Federation (which is the name of the country, not “Putin”) is plenty powerful. They’re carefully, methodically defeating the entire West in Ukraine without letting it escalate into nuclear war – so far.
Pop a few more TDS gummies. You have to build it up in your system for them to work.
350 explosive drone in retaliation for Ukraine bombing inside Russian territory. The rest is garbage. It’s a typical killing fire before a ceasefire. Gentle poets don’t understand wars
So from Trump’s side all this bloviating is just 5D chess? Are you implying he “gets it”? Why then is he so seemingly surprised and wrong-footed here? Why does he sound like an exasperated old fool in some weird hours of the morning, yelling/tweeting at his TV set, to no identifiable end?
If Trump wants to end this war quickly he needs to put harsh sanctions on Ukraine. Ukraine started this war by its attacks on the Donbas region since 2014. Then in early 2023 they mobilised to for a major offensive and Putin repeatedly warned them to back down. When Ukraine didn’t Russia went in to end the Ukrainian regimes behaviour.
Russia has autarky and Russia has help from China and others so more Russian sanctions are just water on a ducks back. Ukrainian sanctions however will force Ukraine to accept reality
Um, the Donbas region is Ukraine. The Crimea is Ukraine. Once upon a time was different, before the Soviets collapsed of their own manifest failures. Losing has consequences. I agree Ukraine might have considered (and probably did) going easier on the whole joining-the-western-bloc thing (if that would make any sense, probably not: would just fester forever domestically), and perhaps figured out an offer to make as to some very limited eastern territories.
Once upon a time was different, before the Soviets collapsed of their own manifest failures. Losing has consequences
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another mo1ron is blithering about things he-she has no idea!
mor11on . here is hint
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IT WAS NOT Soviets(=russians) IT WAS UKRAINES WHO RULED USSR AFTER Stalin DEATH.
hrushev, breznev, and even gorbachev were ukraines!
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mo11ron!
history of Ukraine/Russia is not confined in 20th century only.
Russia IS LONGEST RUN LAND BASED EMPIRE ON EARTH!!!
NO-ONE COMES CLOSE!
you would know if ever read hist book.
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Russia become empire in 16th century, when it started moved into EAST taking over lands, for bad or good is other matter!
eventually they Bering strait , took over Alaska, and had places in California.
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should I mention that Mayflower only sailed 100+ years later from England ???
so, HERE’S IS MY ADVICE.
keep mouth shut and people might think you are not uneducated idi1ot!!!
alx
“The Donbas region is Ukraine. The Crimea is Ukraine.”
or
“Losing has consequences.”
Pick one lane or the other and stay in it…
The DonBas is Russian, part of Novorossiya, referred to as the “heart of Russia”. When Ukraine & Russia meet in Istanbul, they all talk Russian. The communists welded it to Ukraine in the vain hope that the two sides would amalgamate. Ukrainians, when they lived in Galicia, were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, where they distinguished themselves from others by calling themselves Russian.
Ukrainian identity is a complex fraught issue about which Ukrainians don’t agree. This isn’t only about land, it’s about the people who live there … what should you do with them? According to the current Nazi gang the US brought to power, “wrong” thinking Ukrainians need to be offed, including pretty much the entire population of Crimea.
The only part of this that is simple to grasp is that the US deliberately planned & created this whole problem in an effort to weaken the enemy (Russia). Without American/NATO designs, none of this would have happened.
Yeah 11 people died or were injured in this attack. How many were killed or injured on Gaza and the West Bank?
Please help me understand how this post is in ‘economics’ and not ‘poloitics’.
it’s the default if I fail to set something
Please tell us how economics exists in a vacuum.
war is politics and economics. it’s all the same in many instances. remember kids, economics was in philosophy departments of the academies(universities) for thousands of years before the past few short decades. i still place economics in philosophy in my personal library.
How about Russia’s chronic failures to develop its own unimaginably vast resources, and its deeply related flaws in governance? And this related war? And our response to it? Are those ‘economics’ or ‘politics’?
This war started because the United States and Europe wouldn’t accept the obvious posit that Ukraine is within the Russian sphere of influence. The Russians have been telling everyone for decades that Ukraine was a red line not to be crossed. They accepted NATO expansionism (though we promised it wouldn’t happen) but they kept their word regarding Ukraine.
It’s strange to see the same sort of American hawks wanting to “defend” Ukraine that would go nuclear if Russia set up bases in Canada or Mexico near our border. We all know how the world was nearly blown to smithereens in 1962 because the U.S. wouldn’t accept Russian nukes (or bases) in Cuba.
If Trump has an ounce of sense, he’ll tell the leaders involved to call him if they are ready to make a deal and move on until that day comes. Zelensky has had his time on stage, now someone needs to bring the hook. Putin is going to get Crimea and the 4 Oblasts he wants because he has the power to take them. Ukraine was run by a dictator that thought he was Churchill and believed he could play a piano with his dick. Now he knows why you don’t enter a land war with Russia and that like beating the Russians the dick trick was all about illusion.
Why Ukrainians should accept Russian fantasies about any ‘spheres of influence’? If all colonial people would have been so acceptable in past then imperialist powers would still exist right now.
lol You think they don’t right now?
“Why Ukrainians should accept Russian fantasies about any ‘spheres of influence’?”
For the same exact reasons Mexicans, Canadians and Cubans should.
He has literally just told you.
“If all colonial people would have been so acceptable in past then imperialist powers would still exist right now.”
And they, in fact, still do.
Open your eyes and look at the almost thousand military installations the US keeps in almost 60 different countries around the world.
As a personal example, my homecountry, Italy, is still occupied by the US 80 years after the end of WWII.
Complete nonsense. Italy is falling apart due to rampant corruption for sure, but in no way occupied by the US. Italy is in a terrible state, due to the Italians. And because of that the Ukrainians should just accept Russian occupation? Such strange “logic” you apply.
The main language in Ukraine is Russian. It was Zelenskyyy’s only language until he was 30. Most of the people belong to the Russian Orthodox Church. The origin of the Russian people was in Kiev. Extended families live on both sides of the Ukraine-Russian border. The current Ukrainian defense minister is Russian. Despite these cultural overlaps, Ukraine – prodded by Russophobic Nazis from its far west who fancy themselves Aryans – allied itself with a distant overseas country with a history of walking away from its “allies” (like South Vietnam) once it faces military defeat.
Ukraine deserves to get its ass beat just for being so stupid.
Only if you live in Naples!
Your country is occupied by US tourists, mostly.
So by that logic, was it fine that Stalin drove Ukraine into a humanitarian catastrophe, just because he could? Just because he wanted to “defend” his beloved Soviet system from others?
The world doesn’t run on what’s “fine” or what’s “fair”. Was the Monroe Doctrine “fine”? Was it fair? If you let your toddler wander into your neighbor’s yard and his pit bull mauls your kid, is that fine or fair? Those words don’t matter. If the mighty nation of Grenada wanted a Soviet airbase on their island was it fair for us to invade and deny them their choice? Ukraine let the Americans talk them into having 20 CIA bases in Eastern Ukraine like there would be no repercussions. That’s like letting your baby pet the neighbor’s pit bull. “Fine” and “fair” have nothing to do with it.
The idea of Trump “arbitrating” a peace deal in Ukraine when the US is not only a cobeligerent in the conflict, but was the instigator of the conflict (Maidan coup, 2014, and serial violator of the Minsk Accords since 2015) is absurd. There was never any serious attempt at achieving a peace settlement, just kabuki theatre.
These words need considering: “the U.S., Germany, France and the U.K. would no longer impose range restrictions on Ukraine’s use of weapons supplied by Western allies”. Can anything be more reckless and stupidly dangerous? The German Taurus missile cannot be aimed and fired without direct German participation. The British Storm Shadow and French SCALP missiles cannot be used without British and French intelligence, training and mission planning. This is as close to a direct declaration of war that one can get.
In the past few days, Ukraine has launched unprecedented swarms of drones against Moscow, including an attempt to kill President Putin while flying in a helicopter to the Kursk region, obviously with the intent to exhaust Russia’s air defense systems in preparation for a lethal Taurus/Storm Shadow/SCALP missile attack on the Kremlin while they still can (Russia is successfully pushing the line of conflict ever further from Moscow). Should they succeed, what would be the likely reaction? What would be the reaction if Cuban proxies fired Chinese missiles using Russian targeting at Washington?
Trump is either incredibly uninformed (where is Tulsi?!), or a fraud with no desire for actual peace. I suspect both.
Congratulations to Trump, Mish and all Republican readers!
You finally start to understand that Putin wants to take control over all Ukraine in one way or another (he would probably prefer to install some sort of puppet government to disguise blatant imperialism, something like Yanukovich government).
It took you only 10 years to understand that.
Next step is to understand that Putin (and majority of Russians) see US as Enemy Number One. All post Cold War US policy towards Russia is completely delusional.
^every word a lie. As usual
chairman mao ze DON is a schizo. amerika is a known lying warmongering empire. why would putin give 2 hoots what trump says?.
how much back rent does Trump owe you? He’s been in your head for years. It’s gotta be tens of thousands by now.
You can cross a lot of people in this world and live but you cannot cross the banking system. Trump is in deep trouble imho.
The Supreme Court in a May 22 ruling appeared to give Powell some protection from Trump when it weighed in on the president’s firing of two independent members of labor boards, with the justices noting that the Federal Reserve system is “uniquely structured” and part of a “distinct historical tradition” of independence. The carve-out for the Fed suggests the central bank’s leaders will enjoy stronger protections against Trump than other quasi-governmental entities.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/26/fed-chair-jerome-powell-princeton-graduation-speech-democracy/83861868007/
There is no coherent message in any of this
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Let me fix this: Trump has no coherent message on anything.
Looks like Germany is no longer placing any limits on what weapons it gives Ukraine or how to use them. The air raid sirens will be going off in Moscow soon.
I hope you are not taking any pleasure in that prospect, unless you look forward to air raid sirens going off in your backyard.
There’s no joy in it. I am prepared to die on any day I wake up. Are you ?
Stupid move by the warmongers.
Every time the BlackRock employee now leading Germany goes to the German Parliament he sees the two Russian T-34 tanks still parked there to remember Germans what happens when you wage war against Russia.
Evidently, Merz wants those T-34’s updated to T-90’s…
Might be easier and more merciful to just take out Brussels, London and Langley.
“Russia cites ’emotional overload’ after Trump calls Putin crazy”
I have to agree. My current avatar clearly captures Trump in a moment of ’emotional overload’.
Putin knows whatever trump says, he will change course as early as tomorrow. No spine whatsoever.
Russia responds to Trump’s statements about Putin.
The Kremlin responded Monday to President Trump’s criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing “emotional overload” at this “very important moment.”
Poor Donald, good thing Vlad knows him so well, they are such pals.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5318534-trump-putin-ukraine-war-tension/
Why does anyone even read the WSJ? It is a neocon war pig newspaper just as all other corporate lying scumbag media in the US and in Europe
And how does Russia striking Ukraine in response to Ukraine attempting to assassinate Putin in his helicopter, almost certainly using Western Intelligence to know where to send their drones, how does that amount to thumbing their nose at Trump? Ukraine has sent nearly 1000 drones at Moscow over the last week and Kazan and at Putins helicopter near Kursk.
Recall it was under Trumps first term that the US and NATO tripled the size of the Ukraine army to fight our proxy war against Russia
Trump keeps saying it is not his war. Yes it is. He also sent anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to kill Russian tanks in addition to building the NATO proxy army which has been killed now 3 times over
Excellent video with Robert Barnes today on the Duran who tells it like it is. Trump is constrained by the lying scumbag MICIMATT captured US Congress and everyone else seeking idiotically to destroy Russia as I wrote about on my bangpath substack
We have no leaders worth a damn in the US any more and havent for many many years
Here is the link to the Robert Barnes interview/podcast
https://theduran.locals.com/post/6963434/populism-and-the-deep-state-w-robert-barnes-live
It isn’t an unheard-of tactic to improve your negotiating position to continue to militarily punish your enemy. I dare say Putin knows what he is doing.
Why does anyone listen to Fox news or read the Epic Times and its 98% pro-Trump slant?
Why read WaPo or the Atlantic with Left agenda?
Why read ZH who posts every conspiracy theory in sight?
F*! why read at all?
A few of us, very few, read all kinds of sources because quite frankly each one of them is right at times?
Does that answer your question?
But feel free to read whatever slant you want because it’s out there. Shut everything else out and live in your echo chamber peacefully.
BTW I am fully aware of the WSJ warmongering slant and I do take that into consideration. But attacking sources is childish.
I access the case presented and there is not a damn thing about it that rings false.
“A few of us, very few, read all kinds of sources because quite frankly each one of them is right at times?”
And you are not one of those very few because all of your articles about the NATO – Russia war in Ukraine are as misinformed and disinformed as the average Westerner who doesn’t read at all and just watches TV.
This is a good time to repost what I have been posting in almost all of your articles about the NATO – Russia war in Ukraine (copied and pasted from my latest form, dating January of this year):
The Anglo-Euro-NATO war to Russia in Ukraine is coming to its natural end: capitulation of the extremist and illegitimate regime put in power by the Americans in 2014.
My wife, who is from the Donbas where we also have an apartment in one of its major cities, has a bottle of spumante ready.
The US-Russia negotiations will be around the new security architecture (basically a new Yalta) asked for by Putin for the last time at the end of 2021, in the face of ever growing NATO expansion and Anglo-American “color revolutions” and destabilizing terrorist activities.
The US-Russia negotiations will not be about Ukraine, Trump is clearly positioning himself to be able to drop Ukraine like the used condom that it is and walk away nominally leaving this failed project to the deranged EUropeans and the even more deranged Brits, which is totally fine by Putin since today’s NATO, against a peer adversary, has proved to be a paper tiger, NATO without the US is a wet paper tiger and everybody of real consequence around the world now knows it…
All of Trump’s moves (Canada, Greenland, Ukraine, tariffs etc etc) show that he is aware of the realities of the new “multipolar” world and of the failing USA and he is seeking to carve up and consolidate the best zone of influence possible for a much scaled down US and he will eventually reach some agreement with the other two (re)emerging super-powers: Russia and China.
Sir, with all due respect: you are free to read whatever you like, for sure. But after reading “WSJ warmongering” (your words) BS (not your words) you put the question
“But is the talk even tough?”
and you seem to be not happy with the possible Trump’s desire to walk away from the mess created by the previous (zombie) president.
Well in my humble opinion walking away from project Ukraine is exactly the right thing Trump should do. Otherwise he risks to become Biden 2.0
I am glad to hear and accept you read many sources. And no one with a brain watches Fox news. It is also a neocon war pig channel, same owners as WSJ. But one only consumes ANY corporate media in order to know what the ENEMY, the Blob, which controls them all, is thinking. Today, if you want any real information you must venture into the wild west of non-corporate media, websites and podcasts etc and do the thinking yourself.
i NEVER SEE ANY REFERENCES HERE TO ANY OF THAT. tHE dURAN, OR rOGAN OR dEEP dIVE WITH cOLONEL dAVIS OR nAPOLITANOS jUDGING fREEDOM OR ANY OF THE (WELL SHT, SORRY ABOUT HITTING CAPS LOC) myriad sources of information that contian actual non Blob directed narratives out there
I watch or read zero corporate media any longer after COVID and Ukraine. All lies all the time
trump wasnt even been briefed that putin’s helicopter was attacked. idk what that says about his handlers and their competence/control over him
“A Russian military commander has claimed that President Vladimir Putin’s helicopter was “at the epicenter” of a Ukrainian drone attack on May 20 in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.”
So, only the word of a Russian military commander that this drone attack happened at all.
Suzi Wiles is in the neocon camp.
Putin gets attacked by drones while flying in his helicopter – Kiev is lucky to still exist
Putin hits what he judges to be industrial or military targets (e.g. the Antonov drone factory in Kiev). And usually these attacks by both sides are tit-for-tat when it comes to hitting Moscow or Kiev or other cities in either country. It’s part of the war.
Trump manifestly does not understand that the “settlement” of this war rests solely on the military outcome on the battlefield. It’s not about mineral rights or whether Putin’s breakfast agreed with him that day. Russia’s goals are pretty clear (NATO out of Ukraine, and Crimea plus 4 oblasts ceded to Russia). However, as the war continues and Russia continues to make gains, however small, the war objectives will continue to escalate and might include Odessa, buffers along the eastern border of Ukraine, and more territory proximate to the Dneiper. Time is not on Zelenskyy’s side.
Unless a drone drops a dirty bomb in Moscow.
or delivered by a Taurus, Storm Shadow or SCALP missile….Merz, Macron and Starmer are going to have to share some of their coke to dull the pain if they keep this up….
If you want an all-out nuclear war that would be a good way start it. Since I’m not experienced in hunting and skinning human beings my guess is I’ll end up dead pretty quickly. I also doubt the leaders that start it will survive very long after some warlord decides it’s time they should go.
There is still “MAD”…to fall back on – lol.
There is no MAD between Russia and the EU+UK.
The only Mutual Assured Destruction is in a full scale nuclear war between Russia and the USA.
If London and Brussels were incinerated, I highly doubt the US would retaliate against Russia. Better to send a sternly worded letter of condemnation than to get into an exchange with Russia. That’s what you have vassals for – to do the dying, so you don’t have to. Stupid Europeons don’t understand their role. They actually think the US would endanger itself to defend Europe. lol
What Putin wanted was regime change. With a puppet in charge. However, his shock and awe were relatively pathetic – so, here we are, 3 years on….
His shock and awe were so “pathetic” that the Ukrainians immediately signed the Istanbul accords, in March 2022.
The West then decided to go all in, pushed the Ukrainians to renege on it and ONCE AGAIN betray their words to the Russians and here we are, 3 years later, with the Ukrainian state and society and the EU+UK economies totally wrecked and with Ukraine and the West on the verge of military capitulation to the Russians…
You’ll have to forgive Art. Americans are spoon-fed Hollywood imagery of shock and awe, pyrotechnics. We’re usually distracted and on to something else when America slinks away, its Mission Accomplished banner rolled up and sheepishly stowed away. That’s why someone here once stupidly said we “won the war and lost the peace” in Afghanistan and Iraq. No, it’s all one war. The initial fireworks display is not the whole war. Russia isn’t doing war the American way – “win” first and lose eventually. Ukraine should be happy about that because America usually bombs civilians and then labels them “collateral damage”. Russia has done its best to avoid civilian deaths because destroying the Russians of Ukraine would be killing itself.