US has asked European allies to fill out ‘questionnaire’ on Ukraine security guarantees, Stubb says
The Finnish President called for calm among European leaders over the US announcement that peace talks between Washington and Moscow would start “immediately”.
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Do I detect a parched sense of humour from Mr. Bildt?
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And that’s how you do negotiations.
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It is equivalent ‘Very brave, Minister’, Sir Humphrey Appleby (Yes Minister)
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I fixed it for you.
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That article undersells the request.
HALF???
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What a protection racket he’s running, or trying to run.
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Zelenskyy also pointed out that there are deposits in areas belonging to Ukraine but captured by Russia. “The second part that is not discussed yet but it must be, that is what Putin captured … It seems to me important to understand what we will do with those rare earths that now cost billions, hundreds of billions, that Putin occupied. Is it to give to him? … This is what I want to discuss.”
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UK, Sweden, someone else next, and next. Who’d have thought that just one man (well okay, an oddly conjoined pair) alone could trigger WW III.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (seated second from the left) took his seat opposite his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov (furthest right)
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And since nobody representing Ukraine is there, whatever the US and Russia come up with is them joining together against Ukraine. The US has effectively switched sides. so why the fuck isn’t anyone important saying that, including the corporate press? /rhetorical q
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How do they think that’s going to work? The US and Russia will sign a “peace” treaty and Ukraine will be like “oh, okay”… WTF?
Yep.
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Seeing all those people get together around the table only makes me think of von Stauffenberg.
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Yeah. Ukraine has no obligation to agree to terms negotiated without them at the table.
I suspect this is really just Rubio sitting in for T****’s annual performance review.
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“I hear that they’re upset about not having a seat, well, they’ve had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily,” he said.
“You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,” he later added.
He is Trump, in case you confused this with a Russian government statement.
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Trump living in disinformation space - Zelensky
Zelensky says now that if anyone wants to replace him as leader right now, it won’t work as his approval rating is high.The Ukrainian leader goes on to cite a survey, which he says suggests 58% of Ukrainian people have confidence in him as leader.
He also says Ukraine is seeing “a lot of disinformation” from Russia.
“With all due respect to President Donald Trump as a leader…he is living in this disinformation space,” he adds.
His comments come after Trump claimed Zelensky - who won a five-year term in 2019 - was “down at 4% approval rating”.
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Trump takes swipe at Zelensky’s leadership
“Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left,” US President Donald Trump says in a post on Truth Social.Labelling Zelensky “a dictator”, Trump writes: “I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died.”
Trump says in the meantime, the US is “successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia”.
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