Closer to Putin? How is that even possible without melding atoms? (The bolding is mine.)
President Donald Trump has promised a “Peace Agreement” to end the war in Ukraine following his summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, dropping his demand for a ceasefire and sparking fears he is moving closer to Putin’s position.
Trump had phone calls overnight with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — who travels to Washington for talks on Monday — and European leaders.
But the shift in stance has sparked fears that Trump has adopted Putin’s position, as European leaders reiterated that borders cannot change through force and analysts warned of potentially disastrous consequences.
“A great and very successful day in Alaska!” Trump posted on Truth Social early Saturday after he returned to The White House. “It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up.”
What do you know? He does have some self-awareness. He must be talking about that ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan.
But that’s certainly accidenal. This next part of that article is of import. (The bolding is mine.)
“It does sound very much as though Putin’s arguments have prevailed over those of European leaders, who were insistent that a ceasefire had to be in place for negotiations to begin,” Keir Giles, a senior fellow at London-based think tank Chatham House told NBC News.
“The danger lies in the possibility that Trump may also have become convinced that Russia’s demands on Ukraine are valid,” he added, calling such an outcome “disastrous, not only for Ukraine, but also for the security of Europe.”
Aha! (And still my bolding.)
Donald Trump supports Vladimir Putin’s demand that Ukraine surrenders its most valuable region to Russia in order to end the war.
The Russian leader wants full control of Donetsk, the mineral-rich eastern oblast, including parts that are currently held by Ukraine within the wider Donbas region.
In return, Putin said he would freeze the front line and promised not to take any more territory.
Putin relayed his demands at a high-stakes meeting in Alaska with Mr Trump, who will meet Mr Zelensky in Washington on Monday to discuss the offer.
Mr Trump will tell the Ukrainian president that giving up land is part of the price for peace and the quickest way to end the war.
The felon is, without a doubt, the most clueless person in the history of every universe. But you just have to love his reasoning. (The bolding is mine.)
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not”, after a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land.
At least someone has their head screwed on straight.
A diplomatic source said: “Germany, France and the UK are preparing for Monday’s talks, including how best to support Zelensky and how not to push Trump into a corner.”
Another added: “The worst thing for all will be if the visit causes a public reaction from President Trump that we can’t walk back from.”
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace tells it like it is.
“It’s so much to watch our country’s president stand with the person responsible for all that suffering and all that death. It’s just heinous,” Wallace said of the highly-anticipated talks about ending Russia’s war with Ukraine.
“It’s indiscriminate strikes on apartments that kill not enough innocent civilians to dominate the headlines for days and days. It’s the terror. It’s the terror of sending your kid off to school because you want life to be somewhat normal. But you know that any day Russia could bomb anywhere in Ukraine,” Wallace continued.
“I mean, it’s watching them scrape and struggle to get an American president who supported them, to give them all the weapons they needed to go toe-to-toe with Russia,” she said. “And to see all that potentially erased by an American president who just doesn’t give a s— about democracy. He doesn’t care about our allies. He doesn’t care about a democratic ally’s sovereignty.”
And, that my friend, is the Gospel truth.
Nor does he care about facts–that’s no surprise.
President Donald Trump claimed Monday that he knew why Russian troops weren’t able to enter Kyiv in the days after they invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russia’s tanks, Trump said, got destroyed by missiles “because the tanks got stuck in the mud.”
“You know, they would’ve been in Kyiv in four hours going down the highway. But a Russian general made a brilliant decision to go through the farmland instead,” he said, sarcastically criticizing the supposed general.
This is fake history, as military analysts and various Ukrainians have pointed out since the president began making similar claims months ago. In reality, Russia tried and failed to make it to Kyiv using roads and highways. Its tanks were thwarted by fierce Ukrainian resistance and logistical problems in addition to muddy conditions.
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Trump’s phony narrative about the Russian invasion is only the latest in a long line of false claims from the president about the war. Among other things, Trump has this year:
Repeatedly used imaginary figures to incorrectly make it seem as if the US has provided far more aid to Ukraine than Europe has; the opposite is true.
Falsely said he was speaking “in jest” and being “sarcastic” when he solemnly promised dozens of times during his 2024 campaign to immediately end the war if he was elected.
Used inaccurate numbers to understate Ukrainians’ support for President Volodymyr Zelensky early in the year and overstate their support for a negotiated end to the war today.
Falsely claimed Ukraine started the war that was actually started by Russia.
Falsely claimed Zelensky admitted half of US aid money went missing, though Zelensky made no such comment.
This person is not anyone’s ally. He simply cannot be trusted. The 34-count felony conviction should have clued you in on that.
And what important thing does he think Putin todl him at the meeting?
Trump shared that Putin told him he believed the 2020 election was rigged because of the widespread mail-in voting, saying, “you can’t have a great democracy with mail-in voting.”
The felon himself uses mail-in voting.
The felon loves to give peopole nicknames. Guess what he calls Putin.
In his (very short) response, Mr Trump called Putin “the boss” at one point, which sent a ripple through the audience. This was not what those wanting Putin to be held to account for his war wanted to hear.
The boss. Putin is the boss according to the president of the United States of America.
There is so much wrong here: deportation flight departs Tallahassee airport.
A “deportation flight” out of the Tallahassee International Airport is a Florida first, state Attorney General James Uthmeier says.
In an Aug. 15 social media post, Uthmeier said the Florida Highway Patrol assisted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a flight to remove undocumented and other immigrants from the state capital.
On X, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles wrote there would be more flights in the future.
“The first of many more to come! Florida Highway Patrol will continue to deliver results and lead the way on combatting illegal immigration. Nobody does it better.”
In his post, Uthmeier thanked U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem for the flight, which was done with a U.S. Coast Guard plane.
“Florida will continue to deliver on President Trump’s mandate to detain, deport, and deliver for the American people!” Uthmeier wrote on X.
The flight left at 1:23 p.m., according to online flight trackers, but did not say where the plane was going. But it ultimately landed in Harlingen, Texas, on the Mexican border. The city has been a staging ground for past deportation flights.
Three states sending troops to the national capital.
Three states have moved to deploy hundreds of members of their national guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crackdown.
West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio said it would send 150 in the coming days.
The moves announced on Saturday came as protesters pushed back on federal law enforcement and national guard troops fanning out in the heavily Democratic city following Donald Trump’s executive order federalizing local police forces and activating about 800 District of Columbia national guard members.
All told, that’s:
- 800 DC National Guard troops activated by the felon
- 400 National Guard troops from West Virginia
- 200 National Guard troops from South Carolina
- 150 National Guard troops from Ohio
For a total of: 1,415 National Guard troops. You might be interested to know there are approximately 3,300 sworn police officers in the DC Metro Police Department.
And what about those 1,415 troops?
A White House official told CBS News Saturday that the National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of President Trump’s effort to address crime in the nation’s capital and take control of the city’s police force “may be armed,” but that Guard members would not make arrests.
“The National Guard is not making arrests at this time – they may be armed, consistent with their mission and training, to protect federal assets, provide a safe environment for law enforcement officers to make arrests, and deter violent crime with a visible law enforcement presence,” the official said.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report Saturday that National Guard soldiers in D.C. are prepared to start carrying weapons in the coming days — a shift from previous guidance.
So, no arrests, but carry weapons with bullets. What is their real purpose then? What’s the logical answer to that question, folks?
Rules? We don’t need no stinking rules!
Three industrial facilities in California have received exemptions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to emit a carcinogenic chemical after the Trump administration invited large emitters to bypass key provisions of the Clean Air Act by simply sending an email.
The EPA in March announced that it would allow large stationary sources of air pollution — that is, sources that aren’t vehicles — to apply for an exemption that would enable them to avoid regulations that limit hazardous emissions. The provision in question applies to the regulation of nearly 200 pollutants, including mercury, arsenic, benzene and formaldehyde.
The nation’s top environmental agency said the exemptions could be granted under the president’s authority “if the technology to implement the standard is not available and it is in the national security interests of the United States to do so.” Environmental groups were outraged by the announcement — dubbing the email offer as an “inbox from hell.”
Again, we are well and truly screwed.
