US President Donald Trump says Russia has made a “pretty big concession” to end the war in Ukraine by stopping short of taking the “whole country.”

https://archive.ph/SHgoJ

  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Its not a concession. They tried. they came very close to accomplishing their goal. But because of the outcomes of the battles of Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel Airport, and one of the most critical battles of the entire war, Moschun, Russia was defeated and lost their opportunity to quickly topple the government.

    In short. They didnt concede. They got their asses handed to them. And played it off as an act of mercy when they ran away with their tails between their legs.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    By the same logic democrats have made a big concession and a favour to you by not winning the elections

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      That’s a world I’d like to live in. Where asshole grifters could just die of shame. No more grifters.

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    6 hours ago

    If the Chinese leader acted like this they would be lighting police stations on fire. Why are Americans limp dicked?

  • Lit@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    In regards to that Ukraine has already made an extremely huge concession by not assassinating putin and all his officers.

    What concession is Russia making in regards to occupying crimea and Donbas though?

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    The world is held hostage by three sociopaths, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu. Two of them are war criminals, and the third is waiting to happen at any moment.

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      11 hours ago

      Israel is like a city in US. They have 10 million population. They are local, not global players.

      I fully expected you to say Xi

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        I agree, the third big single powerful person is certainly Xi. I suppose one can say the “sociopath” is more evident with Netanyahu than Xi, because for now China is able to sit back and let Russia and USA self sabotage to a weaker position while mucking with the rest of the world, while China gets to play comparative good guy in foreign policy. This is of course grading on a curve, they aren’t saints either.

    • jjpamsterdam@feddit.org
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      I don’t want to excuse Netanyahu here. He certainly belongs behind bars in my opinion. However, he only holds a part of the world hostage rather than all of it. I see him on par with folks like Kim Jon Un or Mohamed bin Salman rather than Trump or Putin.

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        3 hours ago

        And yet, Israel has practically dictated US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, which is a theater of conflict in which everyone is playing, including China.