ThatOwlWoman
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Just an expensive confab catering to the base of each participant. Nothing to see here, folks.
Trump Putin summit
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Just an expensive confab catering to the base of each participant. Nothing to see here, folks.
I am surprised anyone is surprised there was no ceasefire. trump was desperate, and did not have enough to offer Putin to get a ceasefire. trump cannot force the Ukrainians to be defeated.
Russia has been a mess for years. Putin is in better shape than he was when Biden was actually imposing sanctions on him, and even then he refused a ceasefire.
Putin is literally laughing at you.
And Putin does not care.
Now that is funny. I will steal that, if it is OK with you. Chamberlain got a few months of peace... AND THEN FINALLY STOOD UP TO HITLER. It is important to remember that when Hitler invaded Poland, Chamberlain was willing to declare war on Germany. Does anyone think trump will get any peace, or be willing to declare war when necessary.
Scott
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Trump is not in charge of Putins schedule.
Trump didn't say he was. It's one thing to be in charge of someone's schedule, another thing entirely to schedule a meeting with them.
Flyovers to honor foreign leaders is considered a great honor. American Presidents very rarely give that honor to a foreign leader. trump must really want to honor Putin to give him such a thing.
trump is going to call Zelenskyy, like a teenage girl, and tell him how much Putin said he liked trump. "I think he really, really likes me."
This is just pathetic.
How high are you right now?
ThatOwlWoman
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I noticed no one has mentioned that while Trump was groveling before Putin, Russia was busy bombing the shit out of Ukraine.
The diplomacy version of Putin saying "You're not the boss of me, and never will be."
trump was desperate, in a way Putin was not. That meant that Putin got to humiliate trump, and sadly America.
ThatOwlWoman
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This was not our nation's shining moment, for sure.
The flyover was likely a calculated act to project U.S. military dominance while maintaining the veneer of diplomatic respect. The B-2’s symbolic weight and the summit’s context lean toward it being primarily a display of power, though presented in a way that could be interpreted as honoring a visiting leader. Without explicit Pentagon or Trump administration statements, the intent remains ambiguous, reflecting both strategic posturing and diplomatic theater.
Distinguishing nuance from a display of power is not a strength of the left if Trump is involved.
It was moronic.
It would depend on whether Putin is better at interpreting nuance than American leftists, and upon the ultimate result. Watching Putin's face when it happened was priceless. That guy was at the top of the KGB when I was working intel... surprising him with such a display sent a message, one that was likely missed by most Americans.
Americans don't even know the nuance of handshakes when leaders meet, listening to them talk about this projection of power and leverage is like listening to four year old children brag about how they know about medicine because their daddy works in an ambulance.
Then it was miscalculated. Russians took that a sign of great respect.
Keep dreaming buddy!
Suuure.