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"Russia attacked Ukraine with kamikaze drones and S-300 surface-to-air missiles overnight, Ukrainian authorities said, hours after Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump he would sign up to a partial and temporary ceasefire."
~ Nicola Slawson
"For weeks, Trump has bragged about his close relationship with his Russian counterpart and declared that Putin wanted to bring a quick end to the war that he, of course, started more than three years ago. Trump’s national-security team worked with Ukraine to come up with a 30-day cease-fire proposal in hopes of persuading Moscow to accept it."
~ Jonathan Lemire
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/2
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/putin-trump-ceasefire-proposal/682092/
"Putin seems less eager to reach a solution than to demonstrate his dominance over Trump. Today, when the phone call was scheduled, Putin was on stage at an event. When his interviewer asked if he needed to go because he would be late for the call, Putin dismissed the question and laughter broke out."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"Brett Bruen, president of the Global Situation Room public relations firm wrote: 'Making leaders wait is an old Putin power play. But, this is pretty brutal. Putin is publicly mocking Trump.'”
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that the United States and its allies end intelligence and military assistance to Ukraine in order for hostilities to end.
Putin reportedly made this point during his phone call with President Trump on Tuesday, and the detail was conveniently not mentioned in the White House’s readout of the call."
~ Hafiz Rashid
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/6
https://newrepublic.com/post/192885/putin-demand-ukraine-intel-trump-call
@wdlindsy@toad.social"'Trump has rarely missed opportunities to chat with reporters during the first eight weeks of his presidency,' but after his call with Vladimir Putin yesterday, 'Trump remained behind closed doors,' Jonathan Lemire points out. Trump has no public events scheduled today, either."
~ Brian Stelter
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/7
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/174238721676734d662270158/raw
"On some level, the Trump-Putin conversation hands Putin a victory simply by treating him as an equal negotiating partner to the president of the United States. But this partnership is not only a gift to Putin, who has always craved Western acceptance even as he fulminated against the West; it is also an ego boost for Trump, who is easily seduced by the vision of himself and Putin as two great leaders carving up the world."
~ Cathy Young
"Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko: The Kremlin is essentially sticking to its optimal strategy—dragging things out indefinitely, saying ‘no’ without actually saying ‘no,’ drowning everything in meaningless demagogy, manipulating Trump by massaging his ego," (continued in 10)
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/9
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-94-31825
(continued from /9)
"tossing him silly trinkets like imaginary ‘thousands of Ukrainian soldiers lives spared only thanks to Trump’ and hockey games (!), all while continuing its full-scale war against Ukraine. And as long as Trump keeps indulging in his virtual ‘victories’ and tiptoeing around Putin, they have no reason to stop.”
"New evidence has emerged tying Elon Musk and the Trump administration to a network of pro-Kremlin operatives in the US with a history of ties to Musk’s own family. The ties suggest that DOGE is a project to resurrect anti-democracy ideas rooted in a 1930s movement that opposed Allied war efforts against Nazi Germany."
~ Nafeez Ahmed
#Putin #Musk #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/11
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/musks-doge-is-inspired-by-pro-kremlin
@wdlindsy - Fascinating little knit-together read. The Technocracy bit was very interesting - that cult got run out of the USA in the early 1940s for the charlatans they were. Bizarre that it could even still be out there for other than the sheer idiocracy that it was and represented.
@wdlindsy - This is one of their bizarre billboards from those days, posted on North Main Street in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, January 17, 1943. The billboard and the ersatz ideas conveyed and their promoters would be run out of town by the middle of that year.
@wdlindsy this is my surprise face: 