🇷🇺🇺🇦 Discussion: Relations with Russia and the war in Ukraine

[blueharvest]

How to fight in ‘hell’: Ukraine veterans say Nato not ready for war with Russia

Frontline medics and soldiers near Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine tell World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley how Nato is far from ready for war with Russia – and is training for a bygone era

www.independent.co.uk

 

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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/15/europe/russias-nord-stream-pipelines-europe-intl

 

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[Brutikus]

He was Putin's top ally on the world stage. And then, he was gone

For more than two decades, Sergey Lavrov has been Russia's top foreign diplomat, representing the Kremlin's regime around the world, but late last month, he disappeared.

www.abc.net.au

 

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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/17/europe/poland-train-track-ukraine-aid-sabotage-intl

 

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Trump needs to be impeached.

 

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Ukraine shouldn't have to give up anything for Trump.

 

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[Morg]

Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo

 

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Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo

It will probably end up as gold decorations in the White House

 

[HammerDown]

So Putin has dirt on Trump and blackmails him into getting everything he wants and now Trump seems to be using the same tactic against Zelensky (Trump has done that, blackmailed, to Zelensky before so it’s just a second round of more of that).

Because that so told ”peace plan” is the most disgraceful thing Ukraine would have to agree with and it would only do so if Zelenskyy was compromised and Trump was tightening the screws around him.

Zelensky/Ukraine have never accepted such terms before. Not even close. Now all of the sudden why would they accept it? And Ukraine would be screwed and so would Europe eventually.

What a mess.