Trump doesn’t seem to know or understand Putin as much as he claims. 
“About Two Weeks”
Please note Trump says he’ll know in about two weeks if Putin is serious about ending the war with Ukraine
President Trump played down the possibility of new sanctions on Moscow and said he would know in about two weeks if Russian President Vladimir Putin is committed to ending its war in Ukraine.
“If I think I’m close to getting a deal, I don’t want to screw it up by doing that,” Trump said Wednesday of sanctions, which he has raised in recent days as Russia has waged aggressive attacks on Ukraine.
“We’re going to find out whether or not he’s tapping us along or not, and if he is, we’ll respond a little bit differently,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump has expressed frustration with Putin in recent days, saying he was “playing with fire” as peace talks with Ukraine stalled. Trump over the weekend also indicated he was considering sanctions against Moscow. People familiar with the matter said new measures could come as early as this week.
“What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD,” Trump wrote Tuesday on social media.
Really Bad Things
Trump on Truth Social: What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!
Russia Responds on X
Dmitry Medvedev is the Deputy Chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Stringing Along
“We’re going to find out whether or not he’s tapping us along or not, and if he is, we’ll respond a little bit differently,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump responded to Putin but did little else than make the same threat he did in March and in January.
Bold Claims
- January 26, 2023, 7:06 PM: IF I WERE PRESIDENT, THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED, BUT EVEN NOW, IF PRESIDENT, I WOULD BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE AN END TO THIS HORRIBLE AND RAPIDLY ESCALATING WAR WITHIN 24 HOURS. SUCH A TRAGIC WASTE OF HUMAN LIFE!!!
- February 7, 2023, 9:39 PM: We wouldn’t have had the War with Russia and Ukraine if I were President. I could also end it in 24 hours—which is what should happen!
- May 21, 2023, 7:37 AM: An agreement must be reached, immediately, between Russia and Ukraine. The right person can get it done in 24 hours. DO IT!
- June 15, 2024, 6:39 PM: “I will have that settled prior to taking the White House as President-Elect.”
Trump Threatens Sanctions, Asks “What the Hell Happened to Putin?”
On May 26, I commented Trump Threatens Sanctions, Asks “What the Hell Happened to Putin?”
Trump threatens sanctions just as he did on March 7. He also threatens to walk away
On May 25, 2025, 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!!!
April 26, 2025, 9:35 AM: I’m just trying to clean up the mess that was left to me by Obama and Biden, and what a mess it is. With all of that being said, there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days. It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through “Banking” or “Secondary Sanctions?” Too many people are dying!!!
Give Me Just a Little More Time
On April 26, Trump was concerned about Putin tapping him along. He still needs about two more weeks to decide.
“Give me just a little more time And our love will surely grow”
How can love not grow? In March Trump was “strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs.”
Now Trump is pondering walking away, exactly what Putin wants to hear.
Unless Trump does more than talk, he may as well walk away.
That’s hard to do because despite blaming Biden, he now owns this problem because of his repeated bold claims.
For the record, I did expect Trump to end the war, not on day one but quickly. But with Trump’s totally one-sided pressure, Trump practically begged Putin to string him along.
Anyone who thinks Putin wants to end the war doesn’t know enough about him or his goals
That certainly is a narrative. It was Boris Johnson that put an end to the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in May 2022.
Your comment, Sir, is too vague.
Putin’s goals are the same as any good doctor you would trust with your body or any good mechanic you would trust with your car. He obviously demands that the negotiations be based on rooting out the _root causes_ of the conflict, as any good doctor would seek out the root causes of your illness.
But the root causes of the conflict is what the Globalists of the West and their Murdoch-media brainwashed minions want to avoid at all costs.
If the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and their Deep-State backers refuse, then it will be decided on the battlefield. And of course we all know who is going to win.
That is, unless the authoritarian Europeans or Biden minions decide to pull the pin of the grenade they hold in the lifeboat we are all floating on, and leave all of the brainwashed masses for shark food – if indeed even the sharks survive.
The idiocy of the Neocon view of the world is proved by the fact that each deceitful act of aggression against Christian Russia under Putin only makes Russia stronger.
Young Russian boys see their brave, victorious elder brothers coming back from the battlefield with their chests bristling with medals. Those boys are now breaking down the doors of Russian military academies to graduate as brilliant officers and win victory for their Motherland, and Putin is giving them all the support he can. Every act of the Neocons only makes those Russian boys braver, stronger, smarter and more dedicated. And may God guide and protect them!
“I did expect Trump to end the war”
Prof. Mearsheimer, Col Davis, Col Macgregor all found Trump’s claims to be able to end the war ridiculous. America is a co-belligerant and has no business mediating, surrendering yes, mediating no.
They’ve cut Russia off SWIFT, frozen $300 B sovereign assets and Russia has not caved and is winning every day on the battlefield. What leverage does any US president have to employ? No cards!
Cut off all aid to Ukraine, agree by Senate ratified Treaty to Istanbul+ terms (shortly to come from foreign minister Lavrov) and return to reality, that’s the only viable plan.
Lots of bad things might happen to Trump and his family if he crosses Putin. Putin is amoral and knows no bounds.
Trump’s family also owes Russian Oligarchs, who are just Putin henchmen, gobs of money.
This is probably why Trump is selling pardons and everything that isn’t nailed down in the WH.
Next time someone says a billionaire is incorruptible because they don’t need money, give them a big, swift kick in the arse!
At this point, the obvious question is: Does Putin have something on Trump?
Why do you think that?
They exposed a nude Melania, but it was tasteless, Trump didn’t care,
Given Russian oligarchs own much of the real estate in Trump tower it is obvious. Deutsche Bank also refused to release the account names of who rescued Trump in the 1990s with hundreds of millions in “loans”.
Of course. Here’s a story:
An American businessman trying to understand a Soviet bureaucrat. A ha ha ha… if you’re looking for “complete opposites” in nature, that’s the perfect example.
The Soviet Union ceased to exist 34 years ago. President Putin has more support among Russians than any US president has enjoyed for the last 80 years.
It is hard on comprehension, but two people in two different cultures can both think logically, and be oceans apart. Nothing to do with Soviet bureaucrats.
He was a spy in Dresden. What was Trump at that time? Let me save you the history lesson. He was a failed businessman.
There are big money levers being pulled here in America and no matter what is shared with our Media outlets and narratives, that MONEY Needs to flow. That is the bottom line.
The IDF pulled out two divisions out of Lebanon. As long as Bibi is busy with the Jasa and the Hooties negotiations with Iran will cont in frog cooking.
Medvedev is the Russian version of The View. Over the top clown show. There’s a message but its hyperbole always.
If you rolled in ALL MSM outlets, then the message is more clear. THE USA IS ALL NARRATIVES!
Medvedev mums was Jewish. He was Russia president between 2008 and 2012. He
built Nerd 1.
Just all playing from the hip as usual. There is no plan. There is no policy (God forbid!). Pardoning a rapper, and various other criminals, other priorities. This show gets more ludicrous and indefensible by the minute.
Before a ceasefire the killing fire is usually the worst.
Andrew Jackson decimated the British after the peace treaty was signed.
Andrew Jackson didn’t know about the peace treaty. He decimated the British force – which sailed south in order to dissect the US east/west, in two pcs, between Canada and New orleans, through the Mississippi river – after burning the white house. They never came back. The French gave New Orleans to the Spanish King in order to eradicate GB from north America and build a rich triangle between: France, the sugar islands and the colonies, The war with GB was a major war. GB lost its empire in the US for the rocks of Gibraltar. They expanded east and ruled India with an iron fist until 1948. James Polk expanded the US coast to coast and settled the Canadian border with GB. And this is where we are since 1848
James Polk is #2 after GW, not Obama. Biden is in the back of the line.
NVDA > June high in the AH.
If you think Trump is above selling out anyone you need to have your head examined.
Trump is not above selling out eastern Europe as long as it keeps the money flowing to Trump Inc.
Russia will end the war when Ukraine surrenders. Ukraine will be allowed to administer most of the area west of the Dnieper, with the exception of Nikolaev and Odessa oblast, which will be annexed by Russia. Russia will also have annexed Kharkov and Sumy. The West can enact sanctions til they’re blue in the face. It won’t do shit. If the Europeons attack Russia from their territory, Russia will strike back ON their territory. If that triggers Article 5, so be it. If it escalates, I hope the first Sarmat hits Langley and he second hits MI6 headquarters.
Can we use a small tactical for the IRS?
I don’t think so. Don’t want to take any chances. You gotta go a full megaton on them and the same on Foggy Bottom.
I think you are spot on. If Ukraine does not surrender, look for Kiev to be annexed also, with the remainder occupied until a post-Zelensky government agrees to a peace treaty in which what remains left of Ukraine is forever neutral, no NATO troops ever allowed, and the Ukraine army severely limited in size. Similar to what Germany was forced to agree to after WW1 in Versailles. This result will of course result in all deals done with Blackrock for Ukraine’s resources to be voided. If the West does not return the $300 billion stolen from Russia, Ukraine’s still ample resources will be used to pay Russia war reparations. The West and Trump can cry and threaten all they want, but in the end, it will not matter. Hopefully nationalist governments will prevail in Western Europe and a long term peace and security agreement can be made with Russia. The USA and Trump are then free to invade Canada, Greenland and Mexico so that Trump can do some good business deals for America. All will then be good unless Bibi entices Trump to assist in bombing Iran and completing the genocide of the Gazans.
The Europeons have begun ginning up the propaganda machine so that when they attack Russia from Poland starting sometime 2029-2031 they’ll think they’re “defending” themselves.
Putin just has to payoff Trump. Everything is for sale with this administration.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-golden-age-corruption/682935/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3yK74zTi-y2X_hmXYM4JGwQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Trump has to PAY OFF Putin! He owes many BILLIONS $$$ with interest accumulating daily.
No one cares. Or so few do it doesn’t matter. As the article notes its always been happening since the 1800s. Either they all crooks (including congress/senate) and arrest them all or just forget about it.
Breaking news there will be no winners in this war only losers. Trump is at least trying to stop this madness.
We are going to look back at this and realize that Trump is trying to save Russia from the Chinese and Europeans. The Europeans want to take the energy resources from Russia and so does China.
Think about this conflict as World War I with modern weapons. Trench warfare with soldiers going over the top. There have been approximately 1.5 million casualties and half a million dead. The once feared Russian military has lost most of its tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery systems, air defense, helicopters, aircraft and black sea fleet. At the rate Russia is going they would need to suffer another 5 million casualties to get to Kiev.
On the other side, the west has only supplied Ukraine with enough second-tier and surplus weapons so they can beat back the Russian advance and not win. Most of the advanced systems have been severely restricted in their scope of use and in such quantity as to not tip the balance
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Here are some of the things the west could have done to stop the Russians:
1) Provide enough support to blow up the Kerch Bridge.
2) Close the Baltic Sea; there has certainly been enough anchor dragging.
3) Provide support to blow up the two railroad bridges that connect east and west Russia together.
4) Instead of pressuring Ukraine to invade Crimea they should have used lightly defended Russian territory and invaded the Donbass from the north and destroy the bridges over the Don River.
5) Stop oil and gas shipments.
6) Allow “former” military personnel to fly and maintain aircraft including the F-35.
7) Give Ukraine five to ten tactical nuclear weapons before the war started.
8) Let Poland out of Nato and let them make some noise on the Russian border.
9) Ete, ete.
The best thing I can say is Russia will never be a threat to anyone ever again in a conventional war. They are demographically, monetarily, intellectually drained. The real threat to them is having 100 million Chinese coming across the border. The best agreements are between equal parties that have more to lose than there is to gain. Putin stays in power and is not replaced by someone worse, and Kiev gets its future back. I applaud Trump for trying.
What are you – Lindsay Graham?
Neville Chamberlain was so sincere and definitely trying. He was horrified by fresh memories of the Great War. All that did no good.
Chamberlain was cornered. Hitler said “If you don’t give me this, I’ll take it by force anyway”. Hitler had created a situation in which peace was the sane choice for the rest, while aggression was the sane choice for Germany (given also the plans of Stalin to invade Europe anyway, hence the 35,000 tanks he was building). Europe was screwed either way.
Chamberlain made a good deal. The Sudetenland was German, belonged to the Germans and should have been given back. Same for the Danzig in Poland. Thank FDR and especially Churchill for what happened afterward. Hitler was right in identifying Stalin’s Bolshevik Russia as the major threat to Europe. For various reasons largely unrelated to the Nazi threat, the Brits and Roosevelt (and their “donors”) wanted a full scale war with Germany. They got it. Russia won the war-thank the feckless FDR for handing Russia Eastern Europe. The USA won the peace also, though I think the 45 year Cold war with the USSR that followed, and our current problems due to trying to run a world wide empire probably suggest we would have been better off sitting out WW2. Ask Eastern Europe how it turned out for them when the war ended.
American history education is so superficial that everyone on the world stage is deemed either Neville Chamberlain or Hitler. When all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Putin is not remotely like Hitler, and Russia today is not at all like Hitler’s Germany. Western propaganda requires you to believe two incompatible things: that Russia has been suffering overwhelming losses in Ukraine being drained militarily while at the same time Russia is planning on invading Europe.
Get rid of the Good War template and Chamberlain the appeaser.
Chamberlain was a dastardly conniving exponent of perfidious Albion.
The Brits did everything they could to have Germany face of against Russia and financed the whole German effort.
Fact is, the French and the British refused a pact with Russia, and even had a plan to invade Russia through the Caucus, which had to be aborted when France was invaded.
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Trump defines what a moron is.expecting. Russia to talk while it’s unrelenting attack by the north Atlantic terrorists is the height of ignorance. Something trump excels at.
You need to understand that Neocons are directing this war. Since Trump
is president, the US Neocons have been helping the EU and NATO. President Trump’s only power is to stay out of war and get out of NATO immediately. The other important point is that Putin is also not in charge as many think; Russia, too, has its Neocons called Hardliners. Putin is a political moderate, and the Hardliners are very hard. They wanted to invade Ukraine just as the US invaded Iraq, a shock and awe mission
Instead, Putin has been selective in his attacks. Putin is not in control; the Hardliners are gaining more and more influence, as we just saw in the recent Russian attack that Trump claimed was Putin’s doing.
War in Europe is inevitable. Trump needs to remove the US from NATO now!
Russia did NOT invade ukraine.try to grasp reality
You didn’t grasp my comments, you latched on to the word invade.
Wait What? Trump isn’t an expert on Russia or Geo-politics? But I had it on good authority from the MAGA cult that Trump would end all wars day 1. That amazing trade deals would make us so rich we’d cry “we’re tired of winning, please stop it!”
There’s a sucker born every minute. -PT Barnum.
Trump was never going to do anything but capitulate.
Two peas in a pod: Trump is “tapping us along” as well.
That made me laugh, in 100% of Trumps negotiations he makes outrageous demands that no one would agree to, then “negotiates” down. But Putin gets the kid gloves treatment. What a pussy.
Trump is really becoming a major embarrassment to the USA. I voted for the guy in 2016 and again in 2024 after RFK Jr joined his team. I can’t believe he is so stupid (or likely ignorant) that he believed he could pull off such a con with Putin and Lavrov. No way! I could have told him that before he even began talking to them. He is acting so retarded, he’s actually almost as bad as Biden. Is this the best America has to offer? What is wrong with us? How can we elect such fools?
You elect no one understand that
About the same time as Fat Donnie’s replacement for Obamacare.
I thought the war in Ukraine would be over “Day 1”?
Well, Russia screwed the pooch on the invasion. And after 8 years of Obama and 4 years of Trump ‘red lines’, I assume Putin was very surprised at Biden’s reaction (and the resulting galvanizing of NATO). Ukraine itself proved to more resilient than expected. Of course now that Trump is back in – with the ‘red lines’ and waffling, that galvanizes Putin. But Trump is most likely correct about one thing, if he had been President, the war would be over and there would be a soviet puppet in Kiev.
A “Soviet puppet”? Dude, it’s not 1977.
OK, predator-crony-pseudo-capitalist-reactionary puppet. Satisfied?
That’s who’s there now.
All the US has to do is remove their personnel from Ukraine. Once that is done, it doesn’t matter to the US if the war continues or not.
Exactly, were Trump serious about ending this war between NATO and Russia in the Ukraine. Because Putin is dead serious about winning this war and, unlike NATO, has the will and resources necessary.
That was the reason NATO was formed in the first place. Question is – has Russia really changed?
Russia tolerated 30 years of NATO expansion. They tolerated the West breaking its assurance that NATO wouldn’t advance “one inch” to the east. They watched as the US instigated the Maidan coup and Ukraine broke the Minsk I and II agreements. They watched the Ukraine outlaw the Russian language and attack ethnic Russians in the Donbas. They watched as the Ukraine amassed an army poised to invade and subjugate the ethnic Russian population in the east, and they saw the CIA create 20 bases in the country. Only after delivering their objections to Biden in December 2021 and finding Blinken and Sullivan unwilling to even engage did Russia finally take action to defend itself and the ethnic Russians within former Ukraine. The countries of Eastern Europe have nothing to fear from Russia as long as they don’t stupidly allow themselves to be used as a staging area for attacks on Russia or as proxies for the Anglosphere in a war on Russia.
A WSJ article today is saying Russia’s economy is very geared long-term to this war.
(Sorry if paywalled:)
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-putin-ukraine-war-economy-7e410058
They are “geared” to war because they aren’t really being attacked. Give Ukraine the weapons it should have bene given years ago and let them use them as they see fit and Putin will have a lot more to think about.
Sure, until Putin decided to invade a NATO country like Estonia and the USA, being part of NATO, is required to send troops in to support NATO in its required defense of any NATO country under attack.
And we also lose all those important mineral rights that Trump and Zelensky signed.
Your post name is apropos!
The USA isn’t required to do shit. If Russia invaded Estonia, the US might do something and – more likely – they might not. Would they put the US at risk of a nuclear strike over a country with barely a million people? This is why the Europeons are so stupid, choosing to antagonize the giant powerful country on their border – with whom they have cultural, linguistic and religious ties – relying, instead, on promises of defense assistance from a country an ocean away. All because of a piece of paper.
According to NATO Article 5, ALL members of NATO are required to step forward to defend any NATO country attacked. As the US is a NATO country, it is technically required to follow these rules.
Of course, in Trump’s bizarro world, no treaty, law or regulation can be depended on.
There is no such requirement.
NATO is a paper tiger anyway with most of the weapons burned in the steppe of Ukraine and no way to replace them.