Some US Democrats Blame Biden for Harris' Defeat.
It is always someone elses fault with these people... no wonder the lost... I am just surprised about the tiny margin. Trump might have won most of the seats but the margin was never significant... we are not talking more than 5% each way... that is bugger all difference really.
Trump is going to push for peace in Ukraine, if the russians talk to him or not remains to be seen, but Putin has said he was "open to talking with us" already
Ironically Putin has all the cards and he knows it... Trump will try for a deal of the century but at the end of the day if he doesn't meet the Russian requirements then there is no real need for Russia to agree to anything at all. They are winning and when winter comes there are going to be a lot of Ukrainians migrating west for the winter which the EU is going to struggle with.
If Putin refuses to give any concessions to Trump so Trump can claim he is the master negotiator, Trump has threatened to flood the Ukraine with weapons and money, but that is not going to change much... it will just have more money disappear and more full warehouses to blow up for the Russian missiles they ran out of two years ago.
For Putin, no deal is better than a bad deal because the Ukrainian military is not a huge distance from collapse, and when they start to draft women and put them in the rear area jobs and all those men who have been hiding from the front line all this time suddenly get their orders to head to the front line the chances of internal rebellion become much bigger because many of these men are trained and have seen exactly what is really happening but were OK with it because they were relatively safe away from the front line.
Orders into the meat grinder might lead to a change of heart... plus a massive loss of income for these people likely getting paid to turn a blind eye to people with money who should be at the front line.Will these people get the same deal with the women...
Trump is the kind of guy who will give up something to get something, so if Putin is honestly interested in a deal. trump's the only real guy he can do it with.
The only real chance of a decent peace deal would be with Trump, but will Biden beat him to it and offer all the concessions Putin wants to seal a peace deal before Trump gets into office...
Who knows. Trump ripped up all sorts of agreements.... but then plenty have been ripped up before and after his first term too... what sort of agreement is even possible with the US?
Maybe just continue to shred the Ukrainians and let this winter finish them off.
I do know from the last meeting Zelen had with Trump, Zelen was unhappy that Trump wasn't willing to blindly support him like Biden was.
Zelensky is not happy with anyone even suggesting that Russia keep the Crimea...
Z is probably not a happy man right now...
All in all this could be good or bad for the russians.
I don't agree. Putin is in a position where he can take or leave a deal with Trump. Trump has put himself into a different position where he might have to escalate to get what he wants and we wont know how the Russians will take that. Trump is like most stupid Americans and thinks force and bluster is the way to get things done, but Putin isn't scared of the US or Trump. If Trump increases money to Kiev not much will change because there is no ammo or weapons left for them to buy with it, plus the level of corruption means the money will disappear without doing very much to help anyone but those in the west and the Ukraine who are stealing it.
If westerners weren't getting a cut of the loot this conflict would not be happening. Much of the loot went to the Biden family and the main reason Trump isn't pro Zelensky is because he likely hasn't been getting much of the take.... the bidens seem to be greedy and not sharing it around with the republicans. Pelosi and Clintons are clearly getting shares...
The US hasn't got weapons and ammo to flood to Kiev... what they do have is going to Israel and Taiwan and Trump will want more going to Taiwan and Israel because he sees Iran as a country he can bully and China as the real threat to the US.
If he pulled all US support to Kiev the EU would struggle for a month or two and then fold too... a bit like Afghanistan where the EU said it would stay and then left when the US left because the US pays for all their logistics and support.
Hard to say, If Zelensky refuses to listen, Trump will ditch Ukraine and leave it to the russians but this is merely one of a few different possibly outcomes
Or he could order Zelensky be removed and replaced with a more reasonable leader... they need elections anyway because Z is currently illegal.
With the exception of those in a handful of states, Americans united to send former US President Donald Trump back to the White House and handed him carte blanche with Republican control of the Senate and likely the House as well. Not bad for a guy the establishment tried to brand as the reincarnation of Hitler. Did Hitler also have giant Israeli flags at his Madison Square Garden rally? Or hang out at the Jewish wall in Israel or with Hebrew-inscribed tablets in a yarmulke? That should have been the Democrats’ first sign that their branding attempt was off. Yet, just like the fitting title of the upcoming Harris biography co-authored by Chelsea Clinton: She Persisted.
It is amusing that so many equate Israel with being anti hitler and anti nazi... their treatment of the Palestinians is right out of the nazi playbook... the only thing missing is the gas chambers for the final solution.