President Trump needs to resist calls from war mongers to place sanctions on Russia or restore weapons supplies to Ukraine. My opinion for years was that Russia should share Ukraine with the Western government of Ukraine, dividing the country roughly along the Dnepr. So far Russia has failed to accomplish that goal while the west has been pure war mongering full-war ahead oriented toward Eastern military movement.
https://www.youtube.com/live/qhngetm_UvY?si=v3GWlLgs4kBFkX6e
Russia will not capitulate to attack;they took a beating from the Nazis and kept on ticking like Duracell batteries until they reached Berlin. President Putin has more modest goals, and capturing land that rightly should belong to Russia along the East Bank of the Dnepr is probably so far as that goes. The sooner Russia accomplishes that objective the sooner the war can end. No amount of PR grandstanding or conniving and levering will get that done.
https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-blows-hot-and-cold-on-putin-with-ukraine-war-in-limbo-3c883bc2?refsec=topics_afp-news
The West seems to be happy itself to continue the war, so long as the U.S.A. and Russia pay for it. President Putin is not crazy to resist having modern Russia be converted into a rump state intimidated by the West and its queer values that concentrate wealth to global elites while letting the global ecosphere decay. President Trump may be drowning in cries from Western leaders to throw more bombs and missiles into the pot of Ukraine, and that would be hard to hear. He may have no supportive international allies that share a rational point of view on the conflict with him.
If the west agrees to simple terms after the Russians accomplish primary goals with Ukraine and N.A.T.O. President Putin should sign off on peace readily I would think. The West needs to demilitarize Ukraine except for an adequate self defense force de frappe, eliminate all sanctions, demands for reparations etc and recognize full Russian sovereignty over it's occupied lands of East Ukraine.
Most likely the West will always be disingenuous with Ukraine negotiations as they want simply to own everything in it and perhaps the entire world too. hey will assure the worst possible outcome short of nuclear war and won't sue for peace until they feel threatened by Russian encroachment. It isn't that Europeans can't fight- they can, its just that few are stupid enough to fight an unnecessary, unprofitable war except with other countries lives and treasure. Becoming recondite and truthful is something one cannot expect. P.R. B.S. always follows the clownish negotiating positions they put forward publicly. That is a problem that people that believe they have absolute power and have no reason to make concessions of an sort are bound to have.
