And he didn't need to say more then that, my point stands regardless
You seem to suggest that Putin agreeing to talk is the same as Putin going to cave to end this conflict.
That is up to Putin, Zelesky would be the bigger problem for any peace deal.
Zelensky is no longer the leader of the Ukraine, by Ukraines own constitution...
Zelensky was never the problem, it was the nazis he gave power to to control any Ukrainians that don't hate Russia or don't love the west enough and now he fears them and can't cross them by the obvious giving up territory to save what is left.
He will refuse any deal that involves giving up turf.
He is making himself irrelevant and an obstacle that will need to be removed.
Even if he was smart...he would realize just giving up those four regions is better then losing more of Ukraine.
If he was smart he would have realised the best deal he had was the deal he signed before this conflict started, but the west promised him everything he wanted and he believed them.
He is the dog with a bone walking across a bridge over a still pond. He looked down and saw another dog in the water who also had a bone and he wanted it so he barked... and his bone and the other dogs bone disappeared in a splash...
If Zelesky puts his foot in the sand and refuses to negotiate Trump is the type who will go "Okay have fun, We are out of here" and all that US support is gone.
Trump has made it clear that of Zelesky refuses to negotiate with him, he will cut all funding period as Trump unlike other presidents isn't willing to provide blank checks at the tax payers expense
If the US cuts support and withdraws its soldiers and intel then Kiev will fall... not immediately and the EU will claim it will continue to help and then they will withdraw too and then Kievs days are numbered.
I have also heard this lines for years from you guys and yet the Ukie's still have plenty of men to spare.
They have plenty of men to bury.... not plenty of men to spare... that is just ignoring reality.
You will make up some clown excuses, and in. A few months one of you guys will say the exact same thing.
"Ukraine outta men hur hurt"
Most people respect human life and don't burn it up like candy bars on a fat farm... If most of us were in Zelenskys shoes we would be talking surrender to avoid total defeat and further suffering of our people, but Zelensky couldn't give a shit about the Ukrainian people... he is acting more and more like Adolph every day... wanting the whole country to go up in flames with him... even with super weapons that were going to turn the tide... vengeance weapons that are necessary till they get them and then they need something else.
Why the fck should Russia negotiate with these banderite cnts or the warmongering globalist bastards in NATO
Trump can talk all he wants, Putin doesn't have to agree to anything. Agreeing to talks is not agreeing to anything the enemy offers as a solution.
For Putin no deal is better than a bad deal and he does not have to even consider anything other than a good deal (good for Russia that is).
The government had nothing to do with it
The US government is made up of a lot of different people, and many wear their political views on their sleeves... because they are members of the Democrats or Republican parties, but it seems that the vast majority of the intel services support the democrats and also support war and therefore have two good reasons to not like Donald Trump... he is bad for their business.
The US Intel mafia are a group that could have dismissed allegations of Trump being Putins puppet in a couple of hours and instead they entertained the ideas because it suited them to get democrats back in to power.
Trump should give the US intel services a damn good clean out because they are not working in the interests of all Americans and should be rather more bipartisan than they are clearly being.