As I said earlier, Russia will take care of Ukrainian troops in Kursk at its own leisure. Sure enough, Putin has trapped them in Kursk and demanding that they surrender or face death. Trump is begging Putin to let those trapped in Kursk to be allowed to leave. Ukraine was earlier hoping to use Kursk as a bargaining chip, which has been totally neutralized.
Now that Trump is looking for a peace deal, Putin just wants to deny Ukraine any bargaining clout, and taking back Kursk is now complete. No sweat.
Having said that, Putin is very careful about the peace deal ploy employed by Trump. A 30-day truce is nonsense, and Putin knows what it means for Ukraine, just buying time to rearm and regroup, with the Europeans urging Zelenskyy to fight on. All their efforts would have been wasted otherwise, particularly the UK and France.
Therefore, I think a peace deal is still far off. Putin is now serious about having a buffer zone in Northern Ukraine bordering Southern Russia and is pushing for it with concentrated attacks. After all, he knows that the Europeans are not in favor of peace returning. The Europeans did not expect Trump to be playing the spoiler of their ambitions.
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Trump's phone call with Putin achieved absolutely nothing, even though Trump is making a song and dance about it. Putin brushed aside his 30-day truce ploy and only agree not to strike at Ukraine's energy grid for 30-days. That is hardly anything to gloat about.
Winter is almost over in Europe and a 30-day truce of not striking at Ukraine's energy grid is not a priority for Putin right now. He can always concentrate on military targets like tanks, artillery and ammunition factories, railway lines and airports, and let the Ukrainian rebuild those electrical grids that have already been destroyed for the next Russian strike after the 30-day truce is over. Who is really setting a trap for whom now?
Trump is indeed gloating about a first step towards peace in Ukraine in the face of just asking Putin not to strike at Ukraine's energy grid. Whatever happened to his boasting about settling the war within 24 hours of taking office? Everybody heard that and knew that it is an absolute impossibility, but nobody is talking about it. It is mind boggling that a person could just spout nonsense about his ability, could not be expected to carry it out which everyone knows, and yet gets elected as the President of the USA. How credible can that person honestly be, for all other countries to put their trust in him, is just, should I say incredible. I guess under 'Rules Based Order' anything is possible.
They still have the same imperialistic dream of controlling the world. The USA is just leaving Ukraine to the Europeans to deal with, while pivoting to China, with the same objective. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.
I could not help laughing reading a comment that during the recent flare up meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy in the White House, they were caught playing paper, scissors and stone.
That same game is not going to lure Putin to participate as well. Putin plays chess, not to talk about martial arts.
The USA and Europe are playing children's game. Russia and China are not children and are not going to play along anymore.
Can only fool the Hillbillies, not others.
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