1. President Donald Trump on Thursday said Russia’s failure to forcibly seize and occupy the entirety of Ukraine’s territory amounts to a “pretty big concession” to Kyiv...
Speaking in the Oval Office during a bilateral meeting with Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Trump insisted to reporters that he is putting pressure on Russian president Vladimir Putin behind the scenes as reporters asked him what he would ask the Russian leader to give up to match the massive territorial concessions he has asked Ukraine to make as a way to find an end to Europe’s bloodiest conflict since the end of the Second World War.
Trump replied: “Stopping the war, stopping [from] taking the whole country.”
He added that not seizing all of Ukraine’s sovereign land — the goal Putin had laid out when he launched the war in February 2022 and which was foiled by Ukraine’s military resistance — was a
“pretty big concession” in his view.
Trump’s bizarre and nonsensical comment glossed over the fact that Putin had always wanted to occupy and control Ukraine’s land and erase it from the map as an independent nation, thereby reassembling a large portion of the former Soviet Union and Russian empire. The reason Russia has not succeeded in that aim isn’t because Moscow has magnanimously declined to carry out an occupation, but because Ukrainian forces have kept Russian troops from advancing through most of the country....
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ssia-ukraine-airstrike-response-b2738787.html
2. Poster's Comment:
Let me again use the "crocodile analogy" in which a ferocious crocodile dragged a man by the leg into a river while his "best" friend stood and watched with folded arms.
Shedding crocodile tears at the sight of the victim's gruesome head in the coffin, his "best" friend delivered the eulogy at the funeral: "Friends, fellow earthlings, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury my dearest friend, not to praise him. He should consider himself as very lucky because the hungry crocodile has made
'pretty big concession' by not eating up the whole of him, otherwise he would be left with nothing for me to bury."
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