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Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy, stated that Vladimir Putin has no intention of invading all of Europe, calling fears of broader aggression "academic."

Witkoff expects progress in Ukraine-Russia talks, including a potential Black Sea ceasefire.

He acknowledged Russia's view that occupied territories are rightfully theirs, citing disputed referendums.

The Kremlin hinted at more contacts between Trump and Putin than publicly disclosed, raising concerns among European leaders about a potential US-Russia peace deal.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

"Russia will leave Ukraine alone if it gives up all Nuclear arms."
"Russia only wants to lease the harbor of Crimea 'till about 2042."
"Russia has no soldiers in Ukraine Donbas or Crimea regions, these Russian Veterans are on holiday, can't you see that they wear unmarked uniforms?."
"Russia did not shoot down Malaysian Air MH17, it is unknown why that specific mobile missile launcher was seen driving from Russia into Ukraine and back again after firing."
"Russia started only a police action inside Ukraine to take out certain elements, should take about 3 days." "Russia is Russia, Ukraine never existed and has no right to now."
"Russia is not at war in Ukraine, it is Russia who was attacked."

"Russia does not want parts of Europe, the people of East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia live in happy unison under the Warsaw pact and mother Russia's bosom."

"Trump and Musk will leave social security alone, privatising it is a ridiculous notion."
"Trump is a president of law and order and respects the judicial branch."

Oh wait, how did comrade Krasnov get mixed in with this....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Oh fuck, Putin is definitely planning to invade all of Europe...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"no intention of invading all of Europe" means: They intend to invade at least some parts of Europe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The whole REAL reason that Trump wants to possess both Canada & Greenland is so that between Trump & Putin, in a pincer,

.. they can DESTROY Europe's capacity to compete against them,

& then they get to be the only "kings" left in the West, carving-up all who they want..

So, some of Europe for Trump, some of Europe for Putin.

See?

They spoke factual truth .. !

_ /\ _

[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh, shit, so he for sure is planning to invade Europe, then.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Next will be Moldova, then the Baltics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Moldova seems a most likely target, indeed, however, I don't know how could Russia logistically pull that off. Unless Trump makes Ukraine capitulate and disarm which is not unlikely at this point. Baltics are a different story as they are full NATO members.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's not that he wouldn't like to, but how could he is another story.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump has already said the EU was made to harm America. Trump also dislikes NATO. So pretty sure he'd have little issue with it. Probably more depends on how long it takes Putin to get to Western Europe and how robust they, Western Europe, can make their MIC between now and then.

There are all sorts of possibilities between now and then so no telling how it all plays out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The idea that Russia, a country with a GDP the size of the Benelux, could take on an economic block comparable in size to China, is simply ridiculous.

Russia hasn’t even been able to take down Ukraine, how could it ever be able to take down the entire EU?

[–] adespoton 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Piece by piece, always both saying that those bits had always been Russian and that the surrounding nations have nothing to worry about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That’s a lot of pieces ’till Western Europe, which was the scenario I was responding to. And, while I have very little faith in our politicians, they’re not complete imbeciles. An attack on an EU country will certainly lead to an even stronger push towards unification than is the case now already, with just threatening words (from Trump, though - not Putin).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, when the US puts its war machine behind the venture…

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Chinas also slowly taking over Russia, resources in siberia. Russia will soon be a hollowed husk

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In high-stakes meeting, Russia tells U.S. it isn't planning to invade Ukraine

January 10, 20225:12 AM ET

He's either a lying piece of shit or a completely fucking clueless idiot.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think that those are mutually exclusive options.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So they are working on a new edition of the Molotow-Ribbentrop-Pact, but with the US as Germany and Europe as Poland this time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

And so we're working on our own version of a Molotov something

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The President should walk among the people without any security, because most of the people don't want to kill him. So he should test that statement openly and freely, see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Putin's favorite modern Russian Political Philosopher has written about Russia extending from Vladivostok to Lisbon and this has been repeated by various Russia politicians.

No doubt there will be some parts of Europe that would not be worth it for Russia even if they could invade them.

The thing protecting the rest of Europe from Putin's ambitions is Russia's military incompetence, Ukranian military competence, invetiveness and even their lives, and the superiority of European military hardware versus Russian hardware and the latter is severelly hindered by under investment and low levels of production.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Of course Putin, with Krasnov's help, isn't "planning" to invade Europe. It will just fall under his rule after he destabilizes it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just a little bit of Europe then?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

just the tip

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well it's not Europe you see it's temporarily occupied parts of Russia, historically it belongs to Russia so really they're just taking it back.

Same argument that China and Israel are using to annex Taiwan and Palestine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

After Napoleon, Russia was occupying Paris for a while. Ergo, Paris is old Russian territory.

Also, Novgorod was founded by vikings, therefore everything vikings ever held is old Russian territory.

In the end times of Byzantine (Eastern Rome), Muscovy bought the right to call itself a successor of Rome. Therefore, Spain and Morocco are old Russian territories. And Israel as well.

Socialism originally spread from the Russia. Therefore, all countries that have been socialist actually belong to the Russia. Yes: Angola, China, Laos, Venezuela. Alaska is old Russian territory, and is one unit together with USA. Therefore, Hawaii and Texas belong to the Russia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Because 99% is still less than “all of Europe”, so…

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Stupid Orange Grifter & Rube Believes the Russian Psychopath's Stupid Lie

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just make sure it’s a peace that doesn’t allow for further aggression.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

As sure as Neville Chamberlain was when he said it.

[–] avidamoeba 19 points 2 days ago

Great. So he wouldn't mind of the EU rearms its defensive capabilities a bit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Not planning. Already planned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

You can trust that Steve Witkoff guy. He is known for striking ceasefire deals and holding violators to account.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

"I take him at his word in this sense"

That's the problem right there. Dope. His word is worth less than the air used to create it. His MO is literally to lull people into a false sense of security then rob or kill them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It will be a liberation, not an invasion. And anyway, not all of Europe, you can keep Portugal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, liberation from freedom.

Freeing souls from bodies,

Letting spirits fly,

Freedom from life.

#1 liberators in the world,

Kill as well as ice is cold.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So just everything that used to be under the Soviet sphere of influence then? Maybe the Sudetenland, as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think Tsar Putin wants the Russian Empire, not the USSR.

(Thanks Alamy!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Putin has said so around 2010.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So just Poland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway then. Those countries better EU up, and soon!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Woah woah woah. Moldova first. They've already got a start on that one.

[–] slothrop 6 points 2 days ago

There's a historical precedent that Poland be invaded first, 'officially'.
Because if history has taught us anything, if we keep believing history won't repeat itself, it does.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Iceland looked pleased.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I’m not sure Russia could conquer any reasonably-sized country at this point. Ukraine’s tenacity, resourcefulness, & drones plus western weapons has basically ensured that no matter what concessions Russia “wins,” it’ll be a Pyrrhic victory. It’ll probably take them a decade just to get back to where they were prior to the invasion.

According to independent estimates (that I just googled but seem fairly consistent across different sources from different countries), Russia has had almost 1,000,000 casualties and lost over 10,000 tanks. They’ve even lost a few T-54/55 tanks, which were designed in the 1950’s and stopped being produced in 1981. One report even said they were taking tanks out of museums and putting them back into service. (I couldn’t verify that but it’s probably not a good sign that any 40+ year-old tanks have been spotted on the battlefield.)

At this point, I’m less worried about Russia attacking an EU/NATO country than I am about Russia collapsing and all the regional instability that would follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Russia stretched so thin right now that they couldn’t even afford a scrap outside a bar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I mean sure Russia alone is. But Russia owns the US, so I think its resources are pretty huge.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago
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