Summary
A Russian presidential plane from the Kremlin’s Rossiya Special Flight Squadron visited New York and Washington, D.C., in late December, sparking speculation amid tense U.S.-Russia relations.
Moscow claimed the flight carried rotating diplomats, but its timing raises questions about Trump’s potential dealings with Vladimir Putin.
Trump has promised to end the Ukraine war in a day, alarming NATO officials who fear a deal that could harm Kyiv and alter NATO’s eastern border dynamics.
The flight highlights ongoing diplomatic maneuvering ahead of Trump’s January 20 inauguration.
And why do they think Ukraine would agree to such a deal?
Because Trump will cut all funding and equipment if they don’t.
He’s gonna cut it anyway
Biden and the idiots in the US Congress have been so slow at delivering equipment and money that Ukraine has been overwhelmingly relying on other sources. That dithering has (most likely inadvertently) removed much of Trump’s ability to strong-arm Ukraine. Trump’s writ doesn’t run as far as he imagines it does. There’s a strong chance that the Ukrainian and European response will be “LOL no.”
No that’s not a good enough reason, because Ukraine can’t give in, just because USA cuts funding. Everyone with any insight to the situation in Ukraine knows this.
USA will continue to support Ukraine, although maybe not with as much funding, there is a very strong consensus that at the very least USA will continue to share for instance intelligence from satellite surveillance.
Russia is running dry of resources, and Ukraine continues to receive aid from EU and countries all over the world. USA ending funding will only make it take longer before Russia finally collapses, and it will cost more losses for Ukraine. But it doesn’t change the fundamentals of the situation.
So the bullshit about Trump ending funding will change everything, is just that. Bullshit. Because he might do that any way. And it’s unlikely that NATO officials believe otherwise.
I suspect that someone made that claim up!! That NATO officials “fear” a deal. Because it doesn’t make any sense.
They won’t have a choice. That’s what he meant by ending it in a day. He’ll likely agree to allow Russia to use extreme measures on what the US will then officially consider Russian territory without risking retaliation from the US since it will then be Ukraine who is the aggressor on paper if they don’t withdraw and stand down. And the if NATO refuses to acknowledge the new agreement it will just give Trump the excuse to withdraw from it like he keeps threatening.
Of course they will.
That will end the NATO alliance. And Europe will continue with many independent countries to support Ukraine.
Then the world will dramatically change, and democratic countries can nolonger work with USA, and USA will lose ALL soft power they have.
I seriously doubt the rest of the US administration and the oligarchy will allow that.
You are vastly underestimating how uniquely stupid and compromised Trump is.
But he is also a coward. If certain powerful figures have conversations with him, he’ll fold.
I CLEARLY write that the rest of the administration would probably stop him.
There is no rest of his administration, just a rotating cast of clowns that do as he says.
Trump backstabbing NATO and switching the US to the Russian side is a great way to find himself at the receiving end of a military and intelligence-agency coup.