It seems that Putin used the occasion of the Gaza ceasefire to call Trump with some new proposal and capitalize on Trump’s euphoria. Already Orban sent his sidekick, his so-called foreign minister, to Moscow to propose such a meeting in Budapest between Putin and Trump.
Both are desperate enough to end a losing policy for them in Ukraine and surely would be happy to jump at any possible face-saving opportunity. But the positions of the combatants are totally at opposite ends.
So will there be a meeting in Budapest? Maybe, but most likely not.
Even if there is a meeting, will there be any agreement? Maybe, but most likely not.
Russia demands Ukraine’s capitulation which Trump is ready to grant. And Ukraine/Europeans want the defeat of Russia, which Putin is not going to accept.
While on the battleground Russia is making small, incremental advances, Europe is just getting out of its post WWII fog, waking up to its own potential. It sees Russia as menacing, and it sees the US as a paper tiger, a former superpower. Europe is the giant who is getting back on its feet.
Why would Europe be cowering before a third-world Russia with nukes? Besides, Europe has its own, second or third level nuclear deterrence force.
The Trump-Putin-Orban clown act is just a desperate circus show.
C. S.
For more details on the fire situation of the Russian Army see Igor Streaks report right from the heart of the Russia.
and this
“The Trump-Putin-Orban clown act is just a desperate circus show”
This statement is at odds with the Populist movement’s expanding globally since Trump’s first term, and sounds a bit triggered since Trump’s second term, which has thus far been as successful as imaginable, given the tremendous pushback both domestically and internationally. Who else has even attempted to broker a peace agreement with any substance interim? Might the assertion of a “desperate clown show” hide some other agenda? While a peace agreement may be untenable presently, it’s certainly an improvement from sideline handwringing and endless speculation, which is currently the norm. To expect the EU to miraculously grow testes or a spine is far more speculative than a peace treaty. Please enlighten us as to why you’ve chosen this position, as sideline speculation is rampant and in stark contrast to any meaningful action by any other major powers. Are we to assume that the cynicism of this article is the most prevalent posture amongst “experts”, or simply the mercenary posture of a paid pundit? Or might this platform house the couched propaganda of globalist media? Whether pariah or messiah, Trump at least attempts to enter the fray with a hope of success as opposed to endless speculation and dissent from a safe distance
No globalists here. Rather a realistic understanding that the US is bankrupt, financially, technologically, morally, militarily, etc. See my other articles.
Trump is trying to appeal to the notion of an altruistic peace lover, when in fact he bragged all these years about how he incited the Ukrainians against the Russians by giving them Javelins, etc. Same with the Israelis. He encouraged Netanyahu to “finish” the job of wiping out Gaza and turn it into a Riviera for the Jews.
It was/is only the massive public blowback, especially from Western Europe, that made him and his acolytes, including Kusher, to find themselves overwhelmed by the extent of Netanyahu’s undefendable criminality.
Trump is a fraud and so was Biden. Nothing to support here.