Russian military operation in Ukraine #64

I have a feeling that Trump's presidency is going to be a wild ride. He doesn't seem like a stable person. He threatened China that he would destroy it with sanctions. Generally, scaring everyone who is somehow not on the same page with the US. It's doubtful that he would come to an agreement with Russia.

Don't pay too much attention to what he says.
He is a businessman who is opening negotiation positions at the moment.
The fact that he is unstable - or perhaps calling it milder, follows the last mouth close to his ear - was proven.

We'll see, in my opinion Trump can only offer freezing the conflict in its current positions. Which is currently in the West's interest because Ukraine is starting to fall asleep faster and lose ground and the army can fall apart quite quickly, casus September 2014.

They are nuking Syria now as well?
Geee!

Ukraine Takes Unconventional Steps to Avoid Energy Collapse – New York Times

Anything that gets repaired can simply be hit again...

Floating power plants can be sunk.

Any UN representatives stupid enough to be near strategic legitimate military targets in an active war zone gets what they deserve...

Calling it rubbish is a bridge too far in my opinion.

It is worse than rubbish... it will be a serious financial drain on every force that operates them... they are slower and shorter ranged than most of the aircraft they will be replacing and with a much smaller payload unless they carry external ordinance which totally negates their entire reason for being used... their stealth.

But it definitely doesn't fit the original goals at any level - which can be transferred to a general project failure.

When HATO spends 5% of their GDP on defence and it doesn't cover the operational costs of their F-35s, then America will claim it is a success... based on the profit figures for the company that makes it.

Presidential elections are a month ahead, they will stage some shit.

The question no one can answer is... will it be a success like Maidan, or a failure like Georgia....

I have a feeling that Trump's presidency is going to be a wild ride. He doesn't seem like a stable person. He threatened China that he would destroy it with sanctions. Generally, scaring everyone who is somehow not on the same page with the US. It's doubtful that he would come to an agreement with Russia.

Like most western leaders though he does not think things through... his threat of 100% tariffs on imported goods is just going to make imported goods too expensive to buy so countries will likely stop exporting to the US or try to get their goods into the US by parallel imports or relabelling like the EU food producers pretended their food was a product of Turkey or other non sanctioned country... at the end of the day to start with US shop shelves will be empty until US businesses can fill the gap... they might never fill some gaps.

Don't pay too much attention to what he says.
He is a businessman who is opening negotiation positions at the moment.

He might be bipolar... quite funny reading some of his posts at 3am though...

We'll see, in my opinion Trump can only offer freezing the conflict in its current positions.

Why do you think that?

Have you forgotten his deal with withdraw from Afghanistan that the Biden administration had to implement.... they bitched and moaned and tried to delay permanently, but in the end they had to go. And it probably saved them a few hundred billion dollars to do that... over the next 10 years they are not there.

I suspect he wont get what he wants and will just withdraw from project Ukraine.

The west will take all the Ls it can take, and then some, while all the goals of the SMO will be achieved.

And the western media will say it was totally successful because Russia is now isolated and lost 20 million men in the conflict... you have to dig down 80 years of soil layers but the remains are there... along with German remains...

if we go by his first term he did keep most of his promises the stuff he couldn't was he got blocked by Dems and couldn't get it through.

He promised to withdraw America from forever wars that do nothing to help America... he failed in Syria and Iraq and the Afghan withdrawal happened after he left office but that was him. However his main failure was relations with Russia for the benefit of the US. He promised cooperation with Russia to improve relations and also benefit the US and he was goaded into making things much much worse like a child.

In 30 days some people will be convinced here that Trump will not give part of Ukraine to Russia or sign any major agreements with them other than freezing the conflict so that the West can start building new fortifications and continue to arm Ukraine. So he will not abandon the Ukraine project because the West has invested too much there. And still this belief in big agreements and deals with the USA The West probably hasn't fooled the Russians enough times for them to understand that. Let's not forget that it is the idea of ​​the savior of peace Trump to send NATO troops to the demarcation line in Donbas. That is, NATO troops in Donbas and under Crimea. Apart from NATO's ability to deploy such a number of troops. These are precisely Trump's ideas   Just wait for those great deals with Trump.