Putin won't even be required to say 'thank you'.

Anybody with me?

Be ready to watch Europe if this happens.

Game of chess.

Let's also rename every street in front of every Trump named property "Ukraine Way."

Putin Way

was that it will piss Trump and his followers off every time they have to give the address.

and the Italian Prime Minister (she was just at the White House) and who knows who else is on the agenda.. Trump is attempting to set this up to make Ukraine look bad. This will never play with me. The Russians committed genocide against the Crimean Tatars, clearing the peninsula for ethnic Russian settlement in 1944. The Russians play the long game, they never stop with their imperialistic ambition. So here we are today and the United States will be condoning a land grab through genocide. This would be so very wrong.

from Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
The Holodomor,[a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine,[8][9] was a mass famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.

And the Russians want all of The Donbas, the area where The Holodomor primarily happened as well as more. I have said from the beginning of this war, give Ukraine everything it needs to chase the Russians out of ALL of Ukraine.

destroying important bridges, supply depots, tanks etc. I have seen 3 different ones about Russians who moved into the Crimea after 2014. These people are apparently either leaving to go back to Russia or sending their families out of Crimea. In regular media, we see any victory the Russians eke out and what it did to the target area, we have to go to YouTube to see anything about Ukraine's progress.

Personally, I think Putin is pushing so hard for this cease fire or whatever you want to call it because he knows his goose is gonna be cooked if it goes on much longer.

There is no other way to describe those two.

When Chamberlain ceded part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler? How did that turn out for Czechoslovakia and the world? I can't think of anything that would be more stupid than this proposal from Trump.

The UK had no desire or ability to prosecute war which is the only thing that would have stopped Hitler. He was trying to buy time and to the extent it gave the UK time to build radar installations and the US to send weapons it might well have helped make the difference.

of Crumb the 1st who seems to believe that if you can kill enough people then any land or resources are "rightfully" yours.

It's Ukraines decision. It'll be justice the Gulf of Mexico. No one but MAGAS and putin will see it that way. The UN will reject it.

give up another's sovereign territory?
Like getting us involved in Ukraine beyond supplying weapons.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Unless you are insane.

“What percentage of Crimea is Russian?

According to the article, the population composition in Crimea is as follows:

– 82% Russian
– 10% Crimean Tatar
– 3% Russian and Ukrainian equally”

https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/what-percentage-of-crimea-is-russian/

Maybe he can relocate it to the Gulf of America with a hurricane headed straight towards it at the same time.

Yes. This is still a thing. The major party that controls both houses, SCOTUS and the White House knows damn well that Ukraine is the innocent and agressed party. Any capitulation is a direct result of Russian influence.

Just think of anything good about our country, and that is what he's going after.
I look at this as more or less a declaration of war on Ukraine.
There are not enough words in the English language to express the depth of hate
I feel for that monster.

Outa here till my BP comes down.

ReRe

... though Trump is an amazingly bad player.

While walls were still crumbling all over Eastern Europe in 1991, Crimea held a referendum on autonomy, and voted decisively for the restoration of the Crimean ASSR as a subject of the USSR. This was not seen as a vote to stay in the Soviet sphere, but as the only possibly step toward autonomy. Then happily the USSR imploded.

Inside the Ukrainian independence, Crimea was now part of Ukraine, but retained its new autonomous status and pushed forward for more. In 1992 the Crimean parliament established a Crimean constitution, and in 1994 elected its own local President. At a new Crimean referendum in 1994, 78% voted for greater autonomy.

In March 1995 the Ukrainian parliament unilaterally scrapped the Crimean constitution and abolished the post of President of Crimea. Then the Crimean parliament was forced to define a new constitution, dictated by the Ukrainian parliament. So, there were not much love between Crimea and Ukraine, and Ukraine did very little to earn it. The Crimean wish for more independence were squashed, and the peninsula has not forgotten that...

Russia, Ukraine and the Western powers did nothing to dream up a possible broad solution. Since the Soviet collapse all the simmering conflicts of the old East block borders were just pushed under the carpet. And the nice vision of a common security structure, for all of Europe, is now squashed in favor of militarization all over...

Just a short lesson on forgotten history. A possible better solution for Crimea could have been to gain a neutral status, like the Åland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland. Former part of the Russian Empire, now a demilitarized and neutralized zone.

Krasnov like clockwork.

Of all the stupid, stupid stunts he has pulled, this has to be one of the stupidest!

No, I'm not really surprised that he would do something like this, but to him, I still say.....

Link to tweet

Idiots and Russian oligarchs will argue for it. No one else will.