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Trump’s blast toward Russia is a ‘negotiating tactic,’ White House says
“All he’s saying is, look, if Putin doesn’t want peace, let the fighting continue, and we’re going to continue to sell weapons to NATO.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-09-25 07:33:53

Putin forced to raise taxes again as Ukraine war drains finances – POLITICO
politico.eu/article/vladimir-p

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-10-17 08:31:48

Russia, a European friend of Russia, and an American admirer/asset of Russia to hold 'peace summit'.
politico.eu/article/viktor-orb

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-19 14:20:32

Zelenskyy urges Trump to get tougher with Putin, says he's ready to meet in Budapest (Freddie Clayton/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/volo
memeorandum.com/251019/p18#a25

Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine hand over full control of Donetsk Oblast to Russia as a condition for ending the war during a phone call with Donald Trump this week
After this call, in a shift of rhetoric, Trump indicated he would not supply Ukraine with long range cruise missiles

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-11-15 12:13:28

Great research and sloppy work by the Kremlin 😀
"Where's Putin? How The Kremlin Hides His Location With Three Nearly Identical Offices"
rferl.org/a/kremlin-trickery-p

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-16 18:01:25

Trump says he will meet with Putin in Hungary for more talks on ending the war in Ukraine (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr
memeorandum.com/251016/p69#a25

@roelgrif@mstdn.social
2025-10-16 19:12:10

Trump gaat Putin opnieuw helpen. De oorlogsmisdadiger wordt NB in een EU-land verwelkomd.
Het enige dissidente EU-land dat hem niet onmiddellijk aan het ICC in Den Haag wil uitleveren.
Het wordt een circus, maar onderhandelingen over vrede gaat het niet opleveren. Wel opnieuw uitstel. Uitstel van de maatregelen tegen Rusland die Trump nooit zal nemen.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-17 15:45:51

The EU's problem isn't Belgium -- it's Trump (Politico)
politico.eu/article/eu-belgium
memeorandum.com/251217/p50#a25

@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
2025-11-09 09:55:51

I couldn't agree more.
"This summer the bunting came out. It felt cheap and vulgar. We were remembering winning a war, not why it had been fought"
"I heard raw fury at President Trump for appeasing Vladimir Putin, echoing Neville Chamberlain’s yielding to Hitler."
Anthony Seldon

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-10 18:46:07

Donald Trump deserved the Nobel prize, says ... Vladimir Putin (Seb Starcevic/Politico)
politico.eu/article/donald-tru
memeorandum.com/251010/p101#a2

As recently as Thursday, Vladimir Putin told a Kremlin demographic conference that increasing births was “crucial” for Russia.
Putin has launched initiatives to encourage people to have more children -- from free school meals for large families to awarding Soviet-style “hero-mother” medals to women with 10 or more children.
“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven, eight, and even more children,” Putin said in 2023.
“Let’s preserve and revive these wonderful…

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-27 19:01:18

I reject Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Xi Jinping, Alexander Lukashenko, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Daniel Ortega, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Paul Biya, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Nicolšs Maduro, Donald Trump, and countless other authoritarian rulers.

Russian generals say all goals of the war will be achieved.
Russian economists say despite the pressure the economy will outlast Ukraine’s.
Even Russian fan-boy Donald Trump says that Russia is much stronger and Kyiv has no cards left to play in the war.

Hearing only reassurance,
it is little wonder that President Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine.
From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-17 19:50:57

Vladimir Putin predicts European 'swine' backing Ukraine will lose power (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/52c0b594-d299-4
memeorandum.com/251217/p94#a25

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-12-04 06:19:35

On the intimate contacts between Putin's 'peace negotiator' Dmitriev and Trump's son-in-law Kushner, since the day after Trump was elected in 2016. Known since the Mueller report.
Goals: joint investments and self-enrichment.

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-02 13:15:39

Witkoff arrives in Moscow for crunch Putin talks (Sascha Roslyakov/Politico)
politico.eu/article/steve-witk
memeorandum.com/251202/p24#a25

Vladimir Putin will expand his war in Ukraine
by attacking another European country,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has predicted,
and accused Russia of recent drone incursions
that he said were an attempt to test Nato’s defences.
Speaking in Kyiv after his meeting with Donald Trump at the UN in New York,
the Ukrainian president said Russia was preparing for a bigger conflict.
“Putin will not wait to finish his war in Ukraine.
He will open up some other …

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-07 22:55:35

Russia praises US security strategy shift heralded by 'strong' Trump (Joe Stanley-Smith/Politico)
politico.eu/article/russia-us-
memeorandum.com/251207/p54#a25

Momentum is building on both sides of the Atlantic to give Ukraine the approximately $300 billion in Russian state assets frozen by Western countries after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now endorsed the idea, removing a long-standing obstacle.
But another one remains:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to retaliate by confiscating the remaining Western investment in Russia.

Western countries are no…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-01 07:40:26

EU tells Trump: You can't pardon Putin for war crimes in Ukraine (Tim Ross/Politico)
politico.eu/article/donald-tru
memeorandum.com/251201/p1#a251

Russian President Vladimir Putin is fighting a calibrated conflict against NATO countries far beyond Ukraine’s borders.
This subtle but dangerous war won’t end unless Europe and the United States find better ways to deter Moscow.

Richard Moore, the head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency, said Russian intelligence agencies had gone “a little feral” in their efforts. That was a year ago. And things have only gotten worse since.

There have been 110 Russian-linked incidents
—…

Vladimir Putin boasted this week that Russia has tested a
nuclear-powered super torpedo,
the Poseidon, that was unstoppable and more powerful than a nuclear missile,
the second announcement in a week of Russian trials involving
nuclear-powered weapons systems.

Days earlier, Russia announced the test of a new nuclear-powered cruise missile,
the Burevestnik or Skyfall,
that seemed in particular to irritate Donald Trump.
In the wake of the tests,…

Pope Leo has stressed the importance of Europe’s involvement in US efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, while suggesting that Italy specifically could play the role of mediator.
Russia and the US failed to make progress towards a peace deal for Ukraine during talks on Tuesday, with Vladimir Putin accusing Europe of “preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine”.

No one but Vladimir Putin did more to get Trump elected in 2016 than James Comey.
Trump is such an ingrate!
bsky.app/profile/jonbowzerbaum

Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online.
When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours.
He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”,
unable to use most bank cards.
Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States,
putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin.
Why?
Because alongside two other judges of the international crimin…