https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-top-diplomat-kallas-trump-peace-efforts-putin-laughing/The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday that the Kremlin was scoffing at U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.Trump met with Putin in Alaska last week in a bid to get Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end his brutal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He also convened European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for a crunch summit at the White House on Monday.Kallas reckons Trump’s efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine had handed a major propaganda win to Putin — and risked walking into the Kremlin’s “trap.”It’s “clear that Russia does not want peace,” she told BBC Radio 4.“Any promises that Putin has given so far, he hasn’t kept,” she said, adding that the Alaska summit had been a public relations jackpot for the Kremlin.“This is what he [Putin] wanted,” Kallas said. “It was clear before the meeting that he wants the picture, but he got so much more. He got such a welcoming in America.”
Calling Trump’s efforts to broker a truce “welcome,” Kallas said the Russian ruler was nonetheless less inclined to come to the negotiating table after Alaska “because he has achieved what he wanted from this meeting.”“Putin is just laughing, not stopping the killing but increasing the killing,” she added.Trump’s whirlwind diplomacy in the last two weeks, including the summits in Alaska and Washington, has yet to extract any concessions from Moscow, which has not backed down from its maximalist demands — namely that Ukraine give up vast swathes of territory in its eastern Donbas region, which Russian troops have partially occupied, and renounce joining NATO.Meanwhile, Russian missiles and drones continue to rain down on Ukrainian cities, killing civilians and pummeling infrastructure.“We are forgetting that Russia has not made one single concession, and they are the ones who are the aggressor here,” Kallas said, adding that focusing the negotiations on Ukraine giving up territory was a “trap that Putin wants us to walk into.”On security guarantees for Ukraine, Trump said Monday he was ready to offer a “lot of help,” raising hopes that the U.S. could participate meaningfully in an international peacekeeping force. But he backtracked Tuesday, suggesting instead that he was open to providing air support for European troops deployed there.“We’ve got the European nations, and they’ll front-load it,” Trump said on Fox News, adding: “France and Germany, a couple of them, U.K. They want to have, you know, boots on the ground.”Kallas said Ukraine’s allies in the so-called coalition of the willing had yet to take “concrete steps” and it was up to them to figure out what they could contribute to a future deterrence force in Ukraine and what shape it would take.“Russia will just gather its forces again and attack again,” she said, “so we have to make sure that they don’t do that in the future.”
They all Snicker at him behind his back, even though they're afraid that he might hurt their political chances. JD Vance tells his wife this tRump joke:"how many tRumps does it take to screw in a light bulb? " None, tRump doesn't screw light bulbs he screws people.
>>1428597ROFLMAO
>>1428594>No Trump! You can't try to have peace negotiations and end the violence. You have to keep throwing away billions of dollars to fund this war, or else Putin will laugh at you!Doesn't help that Zelenski is doing everything he can to piss off the leader of the nation he depends on for survival.>in before Europe will defend Ukraine by themselves lol
>>1428609If Trump was really able to bring oeace in Ukraine people would consider him a hero however just like in Gaza his “diplomavy” only emboldened the agressor to be even more aggress
>>1428609>Doesn't help that Zelenski is doing everything he can to piss off the leader of the nation he depends on for survival.Trump's literally trying to get him to give up land Russia hasn't even occupied yet, nevermind what they took. Land Ukraine STILL HOLDS CURRENTLY.
>>1428622And he can either give up some of his land, end the fighting, recover his population, rebuild and build up defenses, while having sympathy and support from the entire world as a victim that was invaded by a warmongering Russia, and hope that if Russia invades again it will be under a different US president like Biden who will give him another $150+ billionORHe can keep playing games with Trump and risk losing everything when he cuts off all funding, weapons, intelligence, etc. (and you know that's a possibility with Trump).That's pretty much it. Either way, he's not getting the territory he lost back. It's not fair but it is what it is. This isn't like the 1991 Gulf War where a UN coalition can just steamroll in and return borders to status quo ante. Russia actually has nukes.
>>1428626Yeah really go with the take of "Just let them take some territory and then repeat in a few years". That's a good long term plan that surely has the approval of the Ukranian people.
>>1428631Or just lose the whole thing when Trump has enough of Zelenski's shit. That's a solid strategy too. When it happens I'll be here to tell you I told you so.
>>1428631This unironically sounds like a jewish argument.>we HAVE to FIGHT THEM TO THE LAST MAN because if we don't, they'll just do it again in the future!What are you even talking about?Yeah there's a possibility that Russia could fight Ukraine again, but more ukrainians are going to get killed until that point. So what's your overarching goal here? The deaths of ukrainians?
>>1428634>Yeah there's a possibility that Russia could fight Ukraine againYeah I'm sure after having literally done this twice prior they surely will be fine with this chunk of Ukranian territory. I'm sure the fact they only ever promise peace if they just concede one more piece of territory means nothing.Fucks sake, did we learn nothing from appeasement doing jack shit during the leadup to ww2?
>>1428626Neville, aren't you supposed to be dead?
>>1428635>from appeasementAre you retarded? The allies declared war on Germany.
>>1428653And why, exactly, did they do that? What behavior was Germany exhibiting?
>>1428684Bolsheviks in poland were killing germans.
>>1428688sounds like a crock of bolshevik to me
>>1428688Maybe they should have self-deported.
>>1428688You did not payed much attention in history lessons about WW2, otherwise you should know that the „official“ cause for Hitler to attack Poland and start WW2 was the (staged and false) attack of the Gleiwitz Radio Station in Poland. (SS made it look like polish saboteurs attacked a german radio station to give Hitler a reason for his war. There is an entire Wikipedia article about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
>>1428781are you false flagging as a left wing poster while telling the truth? interesting, and illuminating as well
>>1428784I‘m not „left wing“, whatever that means, I‘m just german, we usualy learn about the dark passages of our history n school. You too? Oh, and being „left“ would be not illegal by the way, so if you think this is an insult: you are way off.Get your history knowledge right or shut up. Because it sounds like you assume that Nazi-Germany did not start WW2… which is a weird and suspicious point of view. Are you a Nazi?
>Putin keeps stalling any meaningful move towards peacecool
>>1428622>>1428626>give up land Russia hasn't even occupied yetNot to mention it's the territory where they've built some of their best defenses that are slowing Russia's advance down to a snail's pace.Getting that for free so he can restart the war at some moment convenient to him would be Putin's wet dream.Sure there are historical precedents where countries like Finland lost some land but in exchange became free democracies able to pursue their own domestic and foreign policies in the long term. But this simply isn't the case for Ukraine, you'd have to concussed to believe that a sovereign Ukraine outside Russia's sphere of influence will suddenly stop being a problem, just because they hand over 2 Oblasts and Crimea to Russia
