18 de agosto, el día de la infamia

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
Started 2025-08-18
201 posts
lowfour
lowfour
2025-08-31
#151

El arquitecto de nuevo haciendo gala de la paranoia que nos caracteriza ACERTÓ DE LLENO sobre lo que pasó ahí en el despacho grasiento del gordo.

Justo en la prensa sueca ahora mismo (SVD)

EU plans to send troops to Ukraine

20.07

Mattias Kjellman

There are plans to send soldiers from EU countries to Ukraine as part of security guarantees after the end of the war, says Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission.

According to her, Europe has “pretty precise plans” to send troops to Ukraine.

She says the plan for troops on Ukrainian soil was presented in the meeting with Donald Trump at the White House. According to von der Leyen, Trump agreed with the European leaders, writes the Financial Times .

"President Trump assured us that there will be an American presence as part of the security guarantee. That was very clear and confirmed repeatedly," she said, according to the newspaper.

lowfour
lowfour
2025-08-31
#152

TEN POINTS PARA ELARQUITECTO QUE SE ACERCA SIN PAUSA AL PREMIO

HDLGP ENTRE LOS HDLGPs

lowfour
lowfour
2025-08-31
#153

https://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2025/08/31/68b3e06ba75cca89418d971f-directo.html

Guerra Ucrania-Rusia, última hora en directo | Von der Leyen dice que Europa prepara planes "precisos" para enviar tropas a Ucrania como garantía de seguridad tras la guerra

Zelenski afirma que Ucrania planea nuevos ataques en el interior de Rusia

La presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen, ha asegurado en una entrevista al Financial Times que Europa está elaborando "planes bastante precisos" para un despliegue multinacional de tropas en Ucrania como parte de las garantías de seguridad posteriores al conflicto, que contarán con el respaldo de Estados Unidos.

Mientras, las fuerzas rusas están llevando a cabo una ofensiva ininterrumpida a lo largo de casi toda la línea del frente en Ucrania, con especial intensidad en el este del país. Así, Rusia ha intensificado sus ataques aéreos sobre ciudades ucranianas alejadas del frente durante este verano y ha continuado una ofensiva lenta pero constante en gran parte del este, intentando ganar más territorio en su guerra de tres años y medio en Ucrania.

Las tropas de Putin han comenzado este mes a avanzar hacia la región sudeste de Dnipropetrovsk y siete pueblos de esa región ya están bajo control ruso pese a que el ejército ucraniano afirma que sus fuerzas han contenido los movimientos rusos en la zona. Moscú controla ahora el 99,7% de la región oriental de Lugansk, el 79% de Donetsk, el 74% de Zaporiyia y el 76% de Jersón.

La ofensiva rusa se produce menos de dos semanas después de que el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump recibiera al presidente ruso Vladimir Putin en una cumbre en Alaska, una reunión que Washington esperaba que impulsara sus esfuerzos por poner fin al conflicto.

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Von der Leyen dice que Europa está elaborando planes "precisos" para enviar tropas a Ucrania, según Financial Times

Europa está elaborando "planes bastante precisos" para un despliegue multinacional de tropas en Ucrania como parte de las garantías de seguridad posteriores al conflicto, que contarán con el respaldo de las capacidades de Estados Unidos, declaró la presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen, al Financial Times en una entrevista publicada el domingo, informa Reuters.

"El presidente Trump nos aseguró que habrá una presencia estadounidense como parte del respaldo", dijo Von der Leyen al FT, agregando que "eso quedó muy claro y se afirmó repetidamente".

El despliegue incluirá potencialmente a decenas de miles de tropas lideradas por Europa, respaldadas por la ayuda de Estados Unidos, incluidos sistemas de control y mando y recursos de inteligencia y vigilancia, según el informe, que añade que este acuerdo se acordó en una reunión entre el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, el presidente ucraniano, Volodímir Zelenski, y altos dirigentes europeos el mes pasado.

Se espera que los líderes europeos, entre ellos el canciller alemán Friedrich Merz, el primer ministro británico Keir Starmer, el secretario general de la OTAN, Mark Rutte, y Von der Leyen, se reúnan el jueves en París, por invitación del presidente francés Emmanuel Macron, para continuar las conversaciones de alto nivel sobre Ucrania, informó el FT, citando a tres diplomáticos informados sobre los planes.


lowfour
lowfour
2025-08-31
#154

Obviamente Putin va a decir tararí que te ví y entonces a ver que dicen los truchos gringos. Pues en esas estamos.

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-08-31
#155
Edited 2025-08-31

@lowfour wrote in post #152:

TEN POINTS PARA ELARQUITECTO QUE SE ACERCA SIN PAUSA AL PREMIOHDLGP ENTRE LOS HDLGPs

pero si lo habían dicho ya desde hace meses, que macron quería mandar tropas y nosequé y el briton dijo que claro, que se apuntaba y el scholz se puso un poco de perfil y tal

que lo que me tiene un poco mosca es que aquí no han dicho nada de nada, ni sí ni no, si acaso no, porque "diplomacia", pero la cosa está malita con la legislatura tan precaria que tenemos, si atina a aprobar los presupuestos, lo mismo el ken se viene arriba y mandan tropas en plan "cascos azules"

a ver, que tampoco es tan raro, ya mandamos tropas a afganistan y tal, podría ser un puntazo incluso para el ken

estaremos atentos, y a ver si el gpt aprende un poco de hdlgp-ismo para su machine learning ese... que le vendrá bien

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-08-31
#156

@lowfour wrote in post #153:

https://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2025/08/31/68b3e06ba75cca89418d971f-directo.htmlGuerra Ucrania-Rusia, última hora en directo | Von der Leyen dice que Europa prepara planes "precisos" para enviar ...

bueno, "tras la guerra", no para "parar la guerra"

ya me parecía a mí mucho envalentonamiento

de todos modos, igual hoy es "tras" y en unos meses es... aparta putin que vamos

total, ya nos tiene amenazados con nukes y tal

habrá que ver qué pasa con lo del chinorris y el indio, que lo mismo es una movida "defensiva" del gnomo para que no le metamos más mierda en ucrania

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-08-31
#157
Edited 2025-08-31

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pues ojo que igual no es tanto "tras la guerra" como, vamos a parar un poco

aquí han dibujado una mierda como un piano porque es "regalar" territorio a rusia

que yo creo que han trincao el mapita y han puesto simbolitos y tan panchos, porque no creo que se haya filtrado todo esto tan "detallado"

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por cierto, el escudo de la otan así de lejos parece otra cosa, eh??

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-08-31
#158
Edited 2025-08-31

oye, igual es casualidad, pero el 18 se reunen en la kely de wetnoodle, después del "fiasco" de alaska

algo pasó que culicagao interrumpe y llama inmediatamente al gnomo (lo raro es que nos enteremos de esto, pero debe de ser tan mierder la seguridad "intel" ahora mismo en la casa blanca, que lo raro es que no sepamos hasta cuántos pedos se tira el trucho cuando cree que nadie le oye), que yo me olía que era esto de las tropas...

y ahora resulta que tenemos a los chinorris recibiendo a los indios y al gnomo... casualidad??

indios que eran coleguis de usa, pero el wetnoodle los ha castigado con unos aranceles monstruosos (lo cual, me parece, ha motivado las prisas en la ue para mandar tropas y tal... ya solo falta que la india se pase al lado "oscuro" aunque solo sea porque compra petroleo... ahora le pasará "cositas" a los ruskis, no creo que sean inciensos y bosta de vaca o algo así precisamente), así que ahora han dicho, pues si usa no nos quiere, vamos a ve qué nos ofrecen los chinorris

nwo-t en vena, o qué?

eso sí, la implosión gringa no la para ni perry ya

nos vamos a poner gochos a palomitas estas navidades con el truchi-chou

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-01
#159
Edited 2025-09-01

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/08/us-russia-diplomacy-europe/684034/?gift=NBdGSmKfDQzLc1B6N1F-gcciFGfdedPr6uHAKvmP4oo

Did the White House Not Understand What Putin Was Really Offering?

Europeans can’t tell what American officials agreed to with the Russian leader.

American and European officials thought they had a real opportunity to end the war in Ukraine. President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, flew to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin believing that a breakthrough was possible. Trump welcomed the Russian president to America, rolling out a literal red carpet. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rushed to Washington with European leaders, some of whom even sounded optimistic. Trump “broke the deadlock” with Putin, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said at the White House. “If we play this well, we could end this.”

Yet after that flurry of diplomacy, Russia has barely budged from its long-held positions on Ukraine. Putin and Zelensky have not agreed to the joint meeting promised by Trump. The fighting does not seem closer to a conclusion; today, Russia struck Kyiv with a barrage of missiles and drones, killing at least 15 people, including children. Instead, European officials say they’ve grown mystified by what exactly Putin promised the Americans behind closed doors, what U.S. officials took away from their discussions with Moscow, and where that leaves the effort to achieve peace.

“There’s mostly confusion at this point,” a top European official told us. (Officials interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity because details of the deliberations remain largely private.) “It’s not clear what Putin told Witkoff or Trump or if they understood him properly. It’s a puzzle that we’re all trying to solve.”

Part of the confusion seems to trace to Witkoff’s August 6 meeting with Putin, where certain details regarding Russia’s willingness—or lack thereof—to withdraw its troops from parts of Ukraine appear to have been lost in translation. According to two U.S. and three European officials who were briefed on the conversation, Putin told Witkoff that Russia would require “de jure” recognition—official recognition under international law—of Russian control over two territories that are currently within the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine: the Crimean peninsula, which Russia has occupied since 2014, and Donbas, the region in eastern Ukraine that has been contested for more than a decade but is now largely occupied by Russia.

Putin told Witkoff that, in return, Russia would be willing to give up its legal claim to two territories in southern Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, that Russia has partially occupied since its February 2022 invasion. Witkoff, according to the U.S. and European officials, entertained this proposal. But the question of what would become of the thousands of Russian soldiers stationed in those regions was never addressed, the officials told us. Their continued presence would be a nonstarter for Ukraine, but Putin conveniently left the matter out, and Witkoff never asked.

This became apparent to European officials in their discussions with Trump-administration officials following the meeting in Moscow. European officials were “confused about the phrasing,” as one European official put it, of what Putin and Witkoff had tentatively agreed to. They made calls to their American counterparts and warned that if Russia wasn’t required to withdraw from Ukrainian territory, it would almost certainly launch more attacks when the opportunity arises.

Asked about any confusion surrounding Witkoff’s discussions, a White House official said that Trump and his national-security team continue to engage with Russian and Ukrainian officials, but that “it is not in the national interest to further negotiate these issues publicly.”

The apparent lack of detail in the discussion between Putin and Witkoff has led many officials, who had been hopeful for a breakthrough, to face the reality that Putin’s demands have changed little since the start of the war. One top European official told us that the vague conversation between Witkoff and Putin over territorial claims, as well as questions regarding Washington’s future commitment to long-term security guarantees for Ukraine, are threatening to unravel any progress that might have been made through Trump’s outreach to the Russian leader. All the while, U.S. officials say, Trump is growing impatient.

European officials were hoping that Trump’s summit with Putin would deliver clarity, but they ended up no less confused. A day before Trump was set to travel to Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, as questions over Witkoff’s Moscow meeting emerged, the Europeans sought to ensure that their goals were aligned with Washington’s and offered tips to Trump officials to avoid getting off track. The idea of a potential one-on-one meeting between Trump and Putin made many of the Europeans nervous because, as one put it to us, Trump is “not a details guy.”

That Thursday, the president and Vice President J. D. Vance joined a call convened by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that included Zelensky and a handful of other European leaders. After carefully discussing potential sticking points in the negotiations, they emerged with an understanding on seven basic points, according to notes from the meeting that we reviewed. One of the points was that Trump was going to Alaska to secure a cease-fire, but that there would be no talk of carving up Ukrainian territory. Trump acknowledged that he was not optimistic about coming out of Alaska with any concrete results, he told officials on the call, adding that if Putin didn’t agree to a cease-fire, he would hit Russia with sanctions. Peace negotiations, they collectively agreed, could come only after a cease-fire, according to notes from the meeting.

But Trump is often influenced by the last person in the room with him, and that was the case when he sat with Putin in Anchorage, joined only by Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The meeting, which lasted several hours, ended with no tangible conclusions. Trump and Putin delivered statements but took no questions from the press, leading to speculation that the discussion had done little to break the impasse.

Trump, however, emerged from the meeting discussing territorial concessions, which he said were ultimately up to Ukraine to decide, and fast-tracking peace talks without a cease-fire—precisely what he’d told the Europeans he would avoid. It was then that Zelensky and a number of European leaders put their August holidays on hold and raced to Washington to help shape the American president’s perception of what was realistic. As he sat alongside Zelensky in the Oval Office that Monday afternoon, Trump told reporters that he thought a cease-fire agreement was not necessary, pointing to other peace deals he has brokered, including between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Armenia and Azerbaijan—very different conflicts from the one in Ukraine.

The Alaska summit was seen as a big win for Putin, who has largely been shunned by the West since he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The red carpet, the B-2-stealth-bomber flyover, Trump applauding Putin’s arrival—these were exactly the images the Russian leader needed to convey the message back home that the war was justified and Russia was the victim, not the aggressor. Trump’s discussion of territory and peace talks only reinforced this. But the Trump administration adamantly defends its decision to meet with Putin, noting that the status quo was not working, and that the only way to achieve a breakthrough was through direct talks. It’s something that many European leaders have conceded as the war continues to drain their military stockpiles and strain public support.

Read: Zelensky wasn’t going to repeat his Oval Office disaster

European officials told us that they were encouraged by the Trump administration’s apparent willingness, following the multilateral meetings with Zelensky in Washington, to commit U.S. resources and potentially personnel to guarantee Ukraine’s long-term security. But they said that more isolationist members of the Trump administration have worked to tamp down European expectations of how much Washington would commit. One European official involved in the discussions said that, in recent days, Trump-administration officials have urged European nations to do more to provide security guarantees for Ukraine. For Putin, security guarantees and any long-term support from NATO are a deal-breaker; he has said that Russia was forced to attack Ukraine in the first place to defend itself against NATO encroachment on Russia’s borders, something NATO members dismiss as preposterous.

Putin, a former Russian intelligence officer skilled in the art of mixed messages, views conquest of Ukraine as essential to his goal of restoring Russia to its Soviet-era glory. And European officials said they fear that Witkoff’s limited knowledge of the conflict’s deep history is a major vulnerability. Witkoff, a real-estate executive and longtime friend of Trump’s, is seen as a shrewd businessman and one of the few people in Trump’s inner circle who truly speaks for the president. He assumed the role of envoy, however, with no prior government or diplomatic experience.

“The Russian media is not even trying to hide how amused they are by all this,” another senior European official told us.

Trump vowed on the campaign trail to resolve the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office. As the months pass, his administration is learning that Russia’s deep-rooted territorial claims, which in Putin’s mind date back centuries, can’t be settled overnight. But Trump sees a peace deal as central to his legacy as president—and his possible ticket to a Nobel Peace Prize. Efforts are still under way to find venues for a Putin-Zelensky summit, though many believe that the chances of the two leaders meeting without Trump are remote. Options for host cities include Geneva, Ankara, and Riyadh, U.S. officials said.

Listen: Peace in Ukraine is not a real-estate deal

Trump has privately fumed in recent days that his high-profile attempts at diplomacy have yielded nothing, one senior administration official and one former official who stays in close touch with the White House told us. That irritation has been reinforced by some Russia hawks in the GOP, including Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump confidant who has urged the president to threaten Russia again with sanctions if it won’t come to the negotiating table. The shape of a possible peace deal, if and when it materializes, remains unclear: The United States has not firmly committed to offering security guarantees for Ukraine, but the Trump administration is considering continuing to share intelligence with the Ukrainians and potentially offering assistance with air defense.

Trump also has directed some frustration at Zelensky and Europe, believing that they are being unrealistic in their demands and need to accept that Ukraine has to lose some territory to end the conflict, the current and ex-officials told us. He is hesitant to commit more U.S. involvement, wary of alienating his MAGA base, and he has ratcheted up his efforts to blame the war on his predecessor, Joe Biden, even seven months into his own presidency.

“He just wants this over,” the senior official told us. “It almost doesn’t matter how.”

While talking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, Trump said, “I’m not happy about anything about that war. Nothing.” He suggested that he would decide on a course of action in two weeks—a favorite crutch when he wants to postpone a decision—and has said that there would be “very severe consequences” if Zelensky and Putin did not soon meet. But on Monday he conceded that he did not know if they would, and suggested that he might be ready to walk away from the conflict if it drags on.

“Maybe they will, maybe they won’t,” he said of Putin and Zelensky. “They’d like me to be at the meeting. I said, ‘You guys ought to work it out. It’s between you. It’s not us.’”

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-09-01
#160

los truchos trucheando

yo os digo una cosa, los que saben de esto tienen claro que wetnoodle no pinta nada, pero nada de nada, es un cero a la izquierda, peeeeeeeeeero, hay que hacer como si sí y por si acaso al final (porque todo tiene su inercia) la flauta suena

pero se han jodido un montón de organismos federales, incluidos los de diplomacia y relaciones exteriores, no digamos la purga brutal en inteligencia y el cese de los del anti-spam ciberputi ruski

vamos, que van a ciegas, con peña de segunda, que son pocos y encima le compran el repertorio pro-ruski a la gabarovna sin rechistar

eso es NO tener cartas (así dicho en trucho) o peor, tenerlas pero tirarlas a la papelera porque tú quieres jugar al dominó

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-02
#161

Lo de Putin cogidito de la mano de Xi y el Modi es la culminación del bloque maligno. Y el bloque "benigno" está con el partner principal tonteando con los malignos y dando un golpe en su propio país. Muy mal asunto, lo de ayer me ha dado el peor rollo desde que empezó esto.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/world/asia/china-putin-xi.html

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elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-09-02
#162
Edited 2025-09-02

@lowfour wrote in post #161:

Lo de Putin cogidito de la mano de Xi y el Modi es la culminación del bloque maligno. Y el bloque "benigno" está con el partner principal tonteando con los malignos y dando un golpe en su propio país....

yo quiero creer que el chinorris le está dando un poco de coba al otro para expoliar todo lo que pueda, pero que nada de truchinatos y mierdas de esas

porque si algo hemos aprendido todo este tiempo es que a rusia mejor no tenerla de frente que te mete cibercabrones a saco y te entrucha las elecciones de todo

así que si hay que hacer paripé como la vonderleyen con el wetnoodle, se hace

pero si no es paripé, no me extraña que alemania esté metiendo la mili otra vez

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-02
#163

MENUDO GUANO LA ALIANZA RUSO-CHINO-INDIA

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-09-04
#164

atentos a lo de hoy, que ha pasado como desapercibido

igual os llega antes esto

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que se ve es más "del rollo" periodístico patrio, darle cera a los juden y ser vector de transmisión de propaganda barbuda (bueno, más o menos)

pero hoy ha pasado esto otro:

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psycho-ken iba a estar en paris hoy, pero el avión ha tenido problemas técnicos y se ha dado la vuelta... ha asistido por videoconferencia

luego le han preguntado al albares, y ha dicho que "vamos a garantizar la paz en ucrania" (pero ha eludido confirmar o no lo de mandar tropas o qué significa éso, se ha quedado que "primero tienen que darse ciertas condiciones, como un alto el fuego")

26 países incluye canadá, japon, australia y turquia

estáis viendo la movida tocha, no? por esto se fue corriendo el wetnoodle a llamar al putin

a ver, para los despistados, NO ES LA OTAN, aunque tenga miembros en ella a cascoporro, o sea, NO DEPENDE DE USA, para tomar decisiones (como mandar tropas o taurus o loquesalgadelnardo)

tampoco es la ue, pero también hay bastante ue metido ahí

lo que no dicen es que tiene pinta de ser el "eje" vertebrador de lo no-trucho

querías esferas de influencia, pues toma dos tazas

por eso el wetnoodle cortó con india, para facilitar que fuera con el chinorris y el gnomo

que rusia y chinorris son pa tenerles respeto, pero es que si incluyes india la cosa se pone dantesca, aunque solo sea por números

y fijaos también que se están dando prisa por "formalizar" esta alternativa "otan" (más bien, alternativa usa como garante de la paz mundial o algo así) porloquesea

si el lowfour está en lo cierto, lo de los franceses con el "simulacro" de miles de soldados heridos en los hospitales, lo de su colega rastreando indicios de guerra mundial inminente, no son nada, pero nada descabellados

algunos lo llamarán reset, pero creo que no cuentan con que el plan podría ser limpiarse al 50% de la población mundial o algo así

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-09-04
#165

tío, lowfour, llama a tus contactos de elpais que están haciendo el subnormal, tienen ahora en portada que murió armani (que vale, ponlo en portada todo lo que quieras, pero nomejodas), y ni mencionan lo de macron y la coalición de voluntarios

al menos en eldiario lo sacan

y sacan esto también

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es curioso que los más "belarros" estén sacando esto y en elpais no (hay que hacer scroll para encontrarlo como de pasada)

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-05
#167

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-war-zelensky-china-analysis

Trump and Putin both agree: Blame falls on Europe as Ukraine peace effort languishes

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are on the same page again.

The US and Russian presidents are now both singling out Europe as stasis envelops efforts to end the Ukraine war three weeks after their high-profile but low-impact summit in Alaska.

Trump called on Europe to do more in a call with European leaders on Thursday — even though the only incremental diplomatic activity to do with the war is coming from US transatlantic allies as they try to work out security guarantees to protect Ukraine after any peace deal.

The latest twist in the president’s erratic Ukraine diplomacy came a day after he told reporters he planned to speak with Putin again soon so he could work out “what we’re going to be doing.” He refused to say whether he’d sign off on severe direct sanctions on Russia if Putin continued to slow his peace initiative after the Russian president ignored repeated two-week deadlines, the latest of which expires on Friday. “Whatever his decision is, we’ll either be happy about it, or unhappy. And if we’re unhappy about it, you’ll see things happen,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

Trump did speak to Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, along with the other European leaders. The Ukrainian president said afterward that the conversation covered economic pressure on Russia and “depriving Russia’s war machine of money.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returns to the Elysee Palace on the day of a summit of the

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returns to the Elysee Palace on the day of a summit of the "Coalition of the Willing" in Paris, France, on September 4, 2025.

Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters

But the message from the US side after the conversation faulted the Europeans more than Russia.

Trump “emphasized that Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil that is funding the war — as Russia received €1.1 billion in fuel sales from the EU in one year,” a White House official said after the call. “The president also emphasized that European leaders must place economic pressure on China for funding Russia’s war efforts,” the official said.

On one hand, Trump has a point. Given the grave security threat that European nations perceive from Russia, it’s odd that there would be any European Union countries still buying Russian energy at a time when the West has imposed sanctions to try to debilitate Moscow’s economy over its illegal 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Still, like many of Trump’s positions on the war, his pressure on Europe contains illogical and even hypocritical elements. After all, he’s demanding that Europe take on China over its Russian oil purchases when he’s not prepared to sanction Beijing himself. The United States is locked in trade talks with the Chinese after the president unleashed a trade war with high tariffs despite rather unfavorable US cards. Trump seems loath to do anything that will harm his chances of a deal.

But his stance on Europe mirrors his treatment of another erstwhile friend, India, which is struggling under a 50% tariff on its exports to the United States that Trump justified by its continuing purchases of Russian oil. His move shattered a three-decade-long bid by successive Democratic and Republican presidents to keep India out of the orbit of fellow rising Asian superpower China.

People work at a garment factory in Tiruppur in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India, on April 23, 2025.

People work at a garment factory in Tiruppur in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India, on April 23, 2025.

Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters

The cost of his strategy was underscored this week when Chinese President Xi Jinping offered Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a jovial welcome at a summit of strongman leaders. Modi, meanwhile, spent an hour in Putin’s limousine, in an echo of the Russian leader’s ride in Trump’s Beast armored car during their summit in Alaska three weeks ago.

In any case, hiking pressure on Europe to ease off its purchases of Putin’s oil is unlikely to be decisive. The continent has been taking steps to decrease its dependence on Russian energy as war has raged in Ukraine. Russia was once the largest supplier of petroleum to the EU. But member states have since imposed a ban on maritime oil exports and refined oil products. CNN’s Lauren Kent reported last month that oil imports to Europe fell to $1.72 billion in the first quarter of 2025, down from $16.4 billion in the equivalent period in 2021.

Russia seeks to split the US and Europe

Russia, meanwhile, is intensifying its classic strategy of trying to drive wedges between NATO allies as it seeks to create room for its forces to press for more gains on the frontlines in eastern Ukraine.

During his visit to China, Putin met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and accused Europeans of whipping up “hysteria” over Moscow allegedly planning to attack Europe. “Any sane person is perfectly aware that Russia has never had, does not have, and will never have any desire to attack anyone,” said a Russian president whose forces entered Ukraine in 2014 and 2022.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, on September 2.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, on September 2.

Maxim Shemetov/Pool/Reuters

In Alaska, Putin warned — as he stood side-by-side with a US president who has frequently criticized America’s allies — that Europe should not “throw a wrench in the works” of his diplomacy with Trump.

And earlier this week, the European Commission said a plane carrying its top leader Ursula Von der Leyen was targeted with GPS navigation jamming while landing in Bulgaria on Sunday and that Russia was suspected. Moscow blasted the claim as “fake” and a symptom of European “paranoia.”

In another swipe at Europe this week, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters that Russia found the idea of any deployment of foreign troops to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal “unacceptable.” It was Moscow’s latest effort to scupper a European push for a reassurance force for Ukraine after the war.

There is also no sign of the meeting between Putin and Zelensky that White House officials confidently predicted would take place as soon as two weeks ago. Putin did offer to hold talks in Moscow. But since it would be impossible for Zelensky to feel secure in such a venue, this came across as yet another example of obstruction.

Trump had once suggested he’d be involved as a third party in such talks, but he’s reverted to the Russian position that a one-on-one should happen first. Ukraine’s allies worry that Putin would orchestrate a confrontation in a bilateral meeting that he could then use to argue to Trump that Zelensky had sabotaged the process.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron, arrive to attend a summit on Ukraine at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France, on Thursday, September 4.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron, arrive to attend a summit on Ukraine at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France, on Thursday, September 4.

Ludovic Marin/Pool/AP

Some movement on security guarantees — but Russia would be a roadblock

There was one glimmer of progress on Thursday — even if it is conditional on the long-shot success of a Trump peace initiative that stalled before it really got going.

Following the call between Trump, Zelensky and members of the “Coalition of the Willing” Ukrainian allies, French President Emmanuel Macron said that 26 countries had pledged contributions to a potential peacekeeping force if a ceasefire deal is finalized.

Macron said that, alongside strengthening Ukraine’s armed forces and deploying European troops to Ukraine, the third component of Ukraine’s security guarantees ought to be an “American safety net.” The US has told allies it is open to a limited role in providing security guarantees to Ukraine if a peace deal is reached with Russia.

At the end of another week of very little movement toward peace in Ukraine, it’s no wonder, as CNN’s Alayna Treene reported, that Trump is getting frustrated.

But there are few signs that he’s got a big idea to break the logjam.

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-05
#168
Edited 2025-09-05

Brutal lo que dijo el Vexler ayer.

"Trump en realidad estaba rabiando porque Modi estaba ahí con Putin y Xi en la foto y el no podía por esos pequeños detalles de la democracia y tal se lo impedían, pero cree que pronto va deshacerse de esos pequeños detalles y juntarse con los poderosos".

BRUTAL

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-05
#169

THE ART OF THE CAGALERA

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-says-india-russia-appear-lost-deepest-darkest-china-2025-09-05/

Trump says India and Russia appear "lost" to "deepest, darkest China"

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-05
#170

No shit, sherlock

Lo que os digo, en breve twits alabando las tetas de la Meloni y el pelazo de PsychoKen

Me llamábais?

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lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-09
#171
Edited 2025-09-09

https://kyivindependent.com/putin-told-white-house-he-plans-to-seize-donbas-by-end-of-2025-zelensky-says/

Esto es lo que le dijo el gnomo al cheeto. No se lo cree ni él!!!

Putin told White House he plans to seize Donbas by end of 2025, Zelensky says

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the White House and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff that he intends to occupy Ukraine's eastern Donbas region by the end of 2025, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with ABC News published on Sept. 9.

"That is, he (Putin) says that in three to four months, and this is what he told the Americans, the White House, and President Trump's representative Witkoff, he said that he would take Donbas in two to three months, maximum four months," Zelensky said.

Donbas is the eastern region comprising Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Russia invaded Donbas in 2014 before launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The Ukrainian leader warned that Moscow's plans could cost "years and a million people," or even "two or three million corpses" if Russia accelerates its offensive.

The remarks come as earlier reporting indicated Putin demanded that Ukraine cede Donbas as a precondition for peace. In return, Moscow would freeze the war along the current front lines.

A source in the Ukrainian Presidential Office earlier told the Kyiv Independent that Moscow's proposal would require Kyiv to withdraw from the Ukrainian-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in exchange for Russia pulling back from parts of Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts.

Russia's maximalist demands include full control of four Ukrainian regions it only partially occupies — the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. Putin has also pushed for a ban on Ukraine's NATO membership.

According to Reuters' sources, Putin believes his army is "winning" on the battlefield, despite Russia taking less than 1% of additional Ukrainian territory since November 2022.

Zelensky said on Aug. 20 that it would take Russia another four years to fully seize Donbas.

Since returning to office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to broker a swift peace deal, but talks have stalled as Moscow continues to reject a ceasefire and push for territorial concessions.

Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, followed by parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2022 after holding sham referenda.

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-09
#172

According to Reuters' sources, Putin believes his army is "winning" on the battlefield, despite Russia taking less than 1% of additional Ukrainian territory since November 2022.

Vamos, lo saben... pero siempre insisten en que van ganando para que se lo crean los mismos gilipollas que se creen cualquier cosa que viene de Rusia.

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-09-09
#173

pero si ya han dejado claro que la mejor baza de rusia actualmente es wetnoodle

están deseando que wetnoodle rompa su propio país, la ue y el resto de "occidente" para, por lo menos, decir, veis? todos mierdas, como nosotros, así que rendios!

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-09-10
#175

entre lo de polonia y esto, me da que el plan es darle una patada al tablero o algo así

esperemos que esa patada no impliquen nukes, sino una guerra "suave", en plan hezbollah tocando los cojones a israel en el golam y cosas así

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-10
#176

@elarquitecto wrote in post #175:

entre lo de polonia y esto, me da que el plan es darle una patada al tablero o algo asíesperemos que esa patada no impliquen nukes, sino una guerra "suave", en plan hezbollah tocando los cojones a isr...

Pues que se den prisa que ayer o antesdeayer los Ukros repartieron paz de la buena made in Ukr

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1nbvubz/momentanunidentifiedukrainian_missiledrone/

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-09-10
#177

@lowfour wrote in post #176:

@elarquitecto wrote in post #175:entre lo de polonia y esto, me da que el plan es darle una patada al tablero o algo asíesperemos que esa patada no impliquen nukes, sino una guerra "suave", en plan he...

creo que los ruskis andaban relocalizando fábricas de esas y de drones a sitios donde el range de los misiles y drones no les pete el caca

por eso están intentando "ganar tiempo"

elarquitecto
elarquitecto
2025-09-13
#179

@lowfour wrote in post #178:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1nfwvlp/dementiadonthreatensnatowithultimatumand/"It is Biden's and Zelensky's war"

bueno, eso de que la guerra es de zelensky no es nuevo

la movida es que "si no hacéis lo que os digo, me lavo las manos"

esto es serio, porque significa que si no cumplimos con sus absurdas mierdas, rompe la otan (tal y como la conocemos)

justo cuando:

  • rusia se pone a lanzar drones sobre polonia

  • se activa el art. 4 (la última vez fue en febrero de 2022, antes de la invasión de ucrania)

  • la otan tiene una operación en marcha de respuesta

  • respuesta a las maniobras ruskis en bielorrusia, igualitas a las de feb-2022

  • usa (truchinato) pasando que es gerundio de hacer nada que pueda molestar siquiera a rusia

tíos, lo siguiente es darles patriots a los ruskis porque los flamingos están destrozando refinerías en kamchantka (sitio que conoce lowfour de cuando aun era joven y lozano)

lowfour
lowfour
2025-09-13
#180

@elarquitecto wrote in post #179:

@lowfour wrote in post #178:https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1nfwvlp/dementiadonthreatensnatowithultimatumand/"It is Biden's and Zelensky's war"bueno, eso de que la guerra es de zelensk...

No lo dudes. Al parecer todo lo que está haciendo el Downie es punto por punto lo que Dugin describió en Fundamentos de Geopolítica como necesario para destruir el poder de USA.

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