Trump urged Ukraine's Zelenskiy to make concessions to Russia in tense meeting, sources say

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Trump pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to give up swaths of territory to Russia during a tense meeting on Friday that left the Ukrainian delegation disappointed, according to two people briefed on the discussion.

Trump also declined to provide Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine's use, and mused about giving security guarantees to both Kyiv and Moscow, comments that the Ukrainian delegation found confusing, added the two sources, who requested anonymity to discuss a private conversation.

After his meeting with Zelenskiy, Trump publicly called for a ceasefire on the current frontlines, a position that the Ukrainian president then embraced in comments to reporters. A third person said Trump came up with that proposal during the meeting after Zelenskiy said he would not voluntarily cede any territory to Moscow.

Trump urged Ukraine's Zelenskiy to make concessions to Russia in tense meeting, sources say

By Gram Slattery and Tom Balmforth WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S.

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A RUSSIAN ASSET: TRUMP’S POLICY BEHAVIOR CONFIRMS EVIDENCE HE WAS GROOMED BY THE KREMLIN SINCE THE 1980S​

Veteran journalist Craig Unger has tracked Trump’s relationships with Moscow for years He laid out evidence that Trump was carefully groomed as a Russian asset beginning in the 1980s. Less than a week after the bombshell report, Trump used his platform at the United Nations to dismiss Ukraine’s pleas and embrace Vladimir Putin’s narrative on Eastern Europe.

His statements cemented the idea that a decades-long foreign plot had successfully infiltrated the Oval Office, transforming the United States into a vessel for Moscow’s ambitions.

Unger’s account of infiltration also exposes how Trump’s financial entanglements laid the groundwork for this betrayal. In the 1980s, as Trump struggled with debt from failing casinos and overextended real estate ventures, Soviet-linked financiers appeared, flush with cash.

Deals involving Trump Tower properties drew in shadowy buyers connected to Russian organized crime and intelligence fronts. Even when Western banks deemed him too risky, new Russian-linked money never seemed to dry up. Each transaction pulled him closer into Moscow’s orbit.

By the time the Soviet Union collapsed, Russian oligarchs kept the pipeline open, ensuring that Trump’s business empire would survive—and remain beholden to foreign backers whose first loyalty was to the Kremlin.

Proponents of Trump’s agenda offer contrived rationalizations for his U.N. address and broader approach to Russia. They argue that he is simply refusing to drag the United States into another conflict or that he seeks to avoid inflaming tensions unnecessarily.

A Russian asset: Trump's policy behavior confirms evidence he was groomed by the Kremlin since the 1980s | Milwaukee Independent

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[AProudLefty]

Are we winning?

 

[Nordberg]

Trump wants to pretend he solved some huge war. The easy way is to let Putin "win". Trump does not care about what happens to the Ukrainian people. Putin is slaughtering them and taking all the land he can. So what does Ukraine get out of that dumb idea? Putin will move into the land he stole and his next attack will be a lot easier. You can be sure he will attack again.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Vassals do not decide when proxy wars are over.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Trump wants to pretend he solved some huge war. The easy way is to let Putin "win". Trump does not care about what happens to the Ukrainian people. Putin is slaughtering them and taking all the land he can. So what does Ukraine get out of that dumb idea? Putin will move into the land he stole and his next attack will be a lot easier. You can be sure he will attack again.

This war is Russia v Imperial Empire.