https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-putin-ukraine-talks/683899/President Donald Trump berated President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. He allowed the Pentagon twice to halt prearranged military shipments to Ukraine. He promised that when the current tranche of armaments runs out, there will be no more. He has cut or threatened to cut the U.S. funds that previously supported independent Russian-language media and opposition. His administration is slowly, quietly easing sanctions on Russia, ending “basic sanctions and export control actions that had maintained and increased U.S. pressure,” according to a Senate-minority report. “Every month he’s spent in office without action has strengthened Putin’s hand, weakened ours and undermined Ukraine’s own efforts to bring an end to the war,” Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Elizabeth Warren wrote in a joint statement.Many of these changes have gone almost unremarked on in the United States. But they are widely known in Russia. The administration’s attacks on Zelensky, Europeans, and Voice of America have been celebrated on Russian television. Of course Vladimir Putin knows about the slow lifting of sanctions. As a result, the Russian president has clearly made a calculation: Trump, to use the language he once hurled at Zelensky, has no cards.Trump does say that he wants to end the war in Ukraine, and sometimes he also says that he is angry that Putin doesn’t. But if the U.S. is not willing to use any economic, military, or political tools to help Ukraine, if Trump will not put any diplomatic pressure on Putin or any new sanctions on Russian resources, then the U.S. president’s fond wish to be seen as a peacemaker can be safely ignored. No wonder all of Trump’s negotiating deadlines for Russia have passed, to no effect, and no wonder the invitation to Anchorage produced no result.
There is not much else to say about yesterday’s Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, other than to observe the intertwining elements of tragedy and farce. It was embarrassing for Americans to welcome a notorious wanted war criminal on their territory. It was humiliating to watch an American president act like a happy puppy upon encountering the dictator of a much poorer, much less important state, treating him as a superior. It’s excruciating to imagine how badly Trump’s diplomatic envoy, Steve Witkoff, an amateur out of his depth, misunderstood his last meeting with Putin in Moscow if he thought that the Alaska summit was going to be successful. It’s ominous that Trump now says he doesn’t want to push for a cease-fire but instead for peace negotiations, because the latter formula gives Putin time to keep killing Ukrainians. It’s strange that Russian reports of the meeting focused on business cooperation. “Russian-American business and investment partnership has huge potential,” Putin said today.
Fore some reason people can't call out the elephant in the room of how dangerous Trump is at being manipulated without people calling you a war hawk, or doing whataboutisms all day about people not currently president. That people refuse to accept the transformation of a democracy into an oligarchy when he was elected. Laws, justice, and the constitution are all meaningless in the face of personal enrichment.
https://trumpfile.org/ghislaine-maxwell-says-jeffrey-epstein-recorded-trump-with-his-victims/Rosen sits on this conversation for five years, saving it for his 2021 book Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at “60 Minutes.” Two of Epstein’s victims,https://trumpfile.org/ghislaine-maxwell-says-jeffrey-epstein-recorded-trump-with-his-victims/ Maria Farmer and Virginia Roberts Giuffre, have previously claimed that they saw a room full of CCTV monitors in a room at his $65million mansion in New York – with some cameras installed in the bathrooms.In his memoir, Rosen reveals he arranged a meeting with Maxwell in early 2016, and acting on ‘hunch’ that the tapes existed, tricked her into confirming they did.‘I want the tapes. I know he [Epstein] was videotaping everyone and I want the tapes of Trump with the girls,’ Rosen told her.Maxwell replied: ‘I don’t know where they are.’Rosen writes he told her to ‘ask Epstein’, adding that the ‘fate of the country is at stake.’‘Trump could be elected president and how would you feel if those tapes emerged after he was in office?’ Rosen asked Maxwell.‘She gave me a stern look and pointed a finger in my face. She said: “I am the daughter of a press baron. I know the way you people think. If you do one side, you must do the other. If you get the tapes on Trump you have to do Clinton”.’Daily MailE
>>1429064but we owned the libs!
>>1429061This article is 8 days old btw
>Trump Has No CardsHe should get a booster pack thenhttps://www.yugioh-card.com/en/products/booster-pack/
>>1429064>>1429117The current Trump regime is the final form of spite based politics. Nothing matters as long as the other side is mad. The economy can crash, American troops can be ordered to corral their fellow man and the constitution can be thrown away as long as libs are owned. we can't really go back from this
>>1429133>the final formThe problem is that that's not true.Trump is woefully incompetent. The real problems will come when someone who is less impulsive picks up Trump's playbook next election
>>1429061Opinion piece. Not news.
Putin just sat puppy Trump on his lap in front of the world.
>>1429133Forward is a world without the USA, backwards is Nazi America. Action only goes forward.
