A senior aide to President Vladimir Putin has rejected any temporary cease-fire with Ukraine just hours before a US delegation was expected to land in Russia for talks with Moscow where they will urge the Kremlin to agree to a 30-day cease-fire proposal or face sanctions.
The news tomorrow:
Trump levies devastating 100% tarrifs on imports of consumer electronics and cars from Russia.
When the news first broke, I assumed Russua was behind the ceasefire and had already pulled Trumps strings to their advantage.
Now I’m wondering if this administration might be too incompetent to be corrupt.
Of course they’re incompetent. Trump is a Russian asset in that he has a Dollarstore intellect and is easy to manipulate. No bribes necessary.
He’s always been the textbook example of a “useful idiot”.
So I guess Trump doesn’t have the cards then? Weird.
He already put them on the table before the negotiations started. Art of the deal
No, impossible, I was told he gonna feel very good and very strong.
I expect it to go down like this:
“Look, Vlad - if you don’t agree to this ceasefire, we’re going to stop supplying you with weapons and intelligence.”
What is going to happen.
TruMusk - Look Vlad!
Vlad - " Shut up and go home. This is not your business. Do as you are told by my underlings".
TruMusk - Ok :(
“Have you said thank you once this entire meeting?!”
Thank you for trying to fuck my ass and take my countries resources without any guarantees whatsoever of safety.
Don’t worry - I’m sure our new Dear Leader will find a way to make things even more terrible, and ultimately give Putin whatever he wants.
Though, now that Rubio is starting to come back from his disassociation episode, maybe he’ll do something that’s not apocalyptically stupid (holy fucking christ am I actually pulling for Rubio a little bit…? What the fuck is this timeline). News in recent days from him makes me suspicious that maybe he’s just learning things that sane people already knew, but he didn’t trust because he didn’t do it and he didn’t see it on Fox News et al.
Could be fun. Trump has already proven that he will do anything to get a ceasefire (on paper…) when he practically abandoned the Ukrainians, his allies. Now that it’s the Russians who are standing in the way of his goal, I’m curious to see if he’ll bring out the big guns (literally).
He will call Putin a “smart guy” and “advise” Ukraine to agree to all Russian demands.
I’m expecting something along these lines.
extremely unlikely. he hasn‘t once fucked with putin. i think trump is scared of him. perhaps rightfully so.
He did clearly do that last time.
Even changing nothing is a win I feel…
