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Quote:No, I haven't forgotten.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Surely this is not so long ago that you have forgotten Russia changing its Constitution to make Ukrainian Oblasts into Russian property?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia doesn't want Ukrainian land, ya mental gimp.
And actually, I feel ashamed and distressed that we armed Ukraine, and aimed them at Russia in an unwinnable effort to overthrow the Russian government. I knew right away that Ukraine was never gonna win bc the vulnerability of American convoys to Russian submarines made the logistics of a full- scale American mobilization impossible.
But you keep on pushing the ridiculous idea that it's bc Russia "wants more land".
WTF do they want more land for? They have more than enough land and resources for their people. That's why WE want Russia!
Russia's original intent was to stop the neo Nazi anti-Russian ethnic cleansingin the Donbas. The point of Minsk I and Minsk II was to protect the Donbas, settle the civil war, and keep Donetsk and Lugansk in Ukraine . Even when these two provinces (oblasts) declared themselves independent, Russia refused to recognize them. Why wouldn't Ukraine honor the UN-approved Minsk II?? Why didn't France and Germany, both guarantors, press Poroshenko to live up to the agreement? Minsk II would have been SO much better than today's catastrophe! Obviously, neither Ukraine, Germany, nor France were interested in peace.
And thanks to NATO, the EU, and the USA, Ukraine has become a recognizable security threat on Russia's border.
Remove the threat, the war stops.
But thanks for trying to rewrite history.
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Quote:Signym, your writing is an absurd fable. Meanwhile, China called Trump a liar:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:No, I haven't forgotten.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Surely this is not so long ago that you have forgotten Russia changing its Constitution to make Ukrainian Oblasts into Russian property?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia doesn't want Ukrainian land, ya mental gimp.
And actually, I feel ashamed and distressed that we armed Ukraine, and aimed them at Russia in an unwinnable effort to overthrow the Russian government. I knew right away that Ukraine was never gonna win bc the vulnerability of American convoys to Russian submarines made the logistics of a full- scale American mobilization impossible.
But you keep on pushing the ridiculous idea that it's bc Russia "wants more land".
WTF do they want more land for? They have more than enough land and resources for their people. That's why WE want Russia!
Russia's original intent was to stop the neo Nazi anti-Russian ethnic cleansingin the Donbas. The point of Minsk I and Minsk II was to protect the Donbas, settle the civil war, and keep Donetsk and Lugansk in Ukraine . Even when these two provinces (oblasts) declared themselves independent, Russia refused to recognize them. Why wouldn't Ukraine honor the UN-approved Minsk II?? Why didn't France and Germany, both guarantors, press Poroshenko to live up to the agreement? Minsk II would have been SO much better than today's catastrophe! Obviously, neither Ukraine, Germany, nor France were interested in peace.
And thanks to NATO, the EU, and the USA, Ukraine has become a recognizable security threat on Russia's border.
Remove the threat, the war stops.
But thanks for trying to rewrite history.
Trump keeps claiming he’s working on a deal with China. Beijing says that it is all in his mind
‘Any claims about the progress of China-U.S. trade negotiations are groundless as trying to catch the wind and have no factual basis,’ a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce said
By Kelly Rissman in New York, Andrew Feinberg | Thursday 24 April 2025 12:39 EDT
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-
china-deal-tariffs-trade-war-b2738764.html
President Donald Trump touted that the United States and China were at the negotiating table to reach a resolution to the trade war — but Beijing says that’s not true.
Washington was “actively” having discussions with Beijing this week, and Trump said he planned to be “very nice” to reach a deal. He also called his 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods “too high” and vowed it would “come down substantially.” Two Chinese officials on Thursday contradicted the U.S. president’s claims.
He Yadong, China’s Ministry of Commerce spokesperson, said Thursday: “Any claims about the progress of China-U.S. trade negotiations are groundless as trying to catch the wind and have no factual basis.”
Similarly, Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said China is prepared to negotiate only under certain conditions. “China’s attitude is consistent and clear: if you want to fight, we will fight to the end, if you want to talk, the door is open,” he said.
Yet Trump, when pressed to respond on China’s denial, continued to claim there were talks taking place during a brief availability with reporters alongside Norway’s prime minister Thursday afternoon.
“Well, they had a meeting this morning, so I can't tell you. It doesn't matter who ‘they’ is. We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we've been meeting with China,” he said.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Signym, your writing is an absurd fable.
Oh yeah? Bring the goods. Not your usual lies and hysteria, show us all that you're right with actual evidence, or STFU.
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Quote:Signym, check your English-Russian dictionary for the meaning of bogus. You are like a flat-earther demanding I prove the Earth is a sphere. If I don't give the proof, the Earth must be flat. If I don't refute all bogus arguments originating in Russia, repeated by Signym, Russia must be deserving of awards, praise, and victory.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND
Signym, your writing is an absurd fable.
Oh yeah? Bring the goods. Not your usual lies and hysteria, show us all that you're right with actual evidence, or STFU.
Former US Ambassador to Russia: "Shows How Bad Trump's Negotiating Team Has Been Performing"
https://2paragraphs.com/2025/04/fmr-us-ambassador-to-russia-shows-how-
bad-trumps-negotiating-team-has-been-performing/
The deal that Vance refers to, according to the New York Times, "closely mirrors long standing Russian demands” as it would require Ukraine to accept Crimea as a Russian territory.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul shared his opinion on this week’s developments on X. He wrote: “Putin was never asking for recognition of Crimean annexation before. That it has entered the discussion now, shows how bad Trump’s negotiating team has been performing. Offers of appeasement, without asking for anything in return, just fuel new demands for more concessions.”
Ambassador of Ukraine to the US Oksana Markarova shared photos and reported that last night: “terroristic Russia launched a massive attack on Kyiv. At least 9 people killed, 63 injured, 42 hospitalized (including 6 children). Residential buildings hit and fires broke out. Rescue teams are working through debris in five districts of the capital. Pure evil.”
McFaul amplified Markarova’s post and wrote; “Putin is a terrorist. Why can't Trump and Witkoff recognize this obvious fact?”
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You are like a flat-earther demanding I prove the Earth is a sphere.
So, when challenged to bring evidence to the table, you try deflection?
You clearly don't have a scintilla of facts to backstop the torrent of lies and shit that you spew every day.
But I guess it's too much to hope that you'll slink away in embarrassment. If you had any respect for the truth, or yourself, you would have checked yourself ages ago.
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Poroshenko on the Minsk Agreement
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"We had achieved everything we wanted. Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war – to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.
Notice he didn't say anything about removing troops and heavy weaponry from the line of contact, stop shelling civilians in Donetsk, or establish local control in the Donbas which were the agreed-on aims of Minsk II.
Merkel, on Minsk II.
Quote:Nothing in there about enforcing a ceasefire, withdrawing troops and weapons from both sides of the contact line, stopping Kiev from shelling Donetsk, developing local governance for local issues, or respecting the rights of the Russian speaking majority in that region. Apparently, SHE had no intention of enforcing Minsk II.
"I thought that the introduction of NATO accession of Ukraine and Georgia, discussed in 2008, was wrong [for that time]. The countries did not have the necessary prerequisites for this, nor was it fully understood what the consequences of such a decision would have been, both with regard to Russia’s actions against Georgia and Ukraine, as well as NATO and its rules of assistance. And the Minsk Agreement of 2014 was an attempt to give Ukraine time [to be ready to join NATO].
Ukraine used this time to become stronger, as you can see today.
Hollande on Minsk II
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"Yes, Angela Merkel is right on this point," he told the Kiev Independent media outlet, while commenting on Merkel’s remark that the Minsk agreements allowed Kiev to gain time, but by no means prevented further hostilities in the Donbass. "Since 2014, Ukraine has strengthened its military posture. Indeed, the Ukrainian army was completely different from that of 2014. It was better trained and equipped. It is the merit of the Minsk agreements to have given the Ukrainian army this opportunity."
Nope! Nothing in there about enforcing the provisions of Minsk II either!
Zelensky on Minsk
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Zelenskyy admitted that he had previously told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron that the Minsk agreements were "impossible" and he did not plan to implement them.
"As for Minsk as a whole, I told Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel: we will not be able to implement it like that," Zelenskyy said in an interview with Spiegel published on Thursday.
This backs up my point that Germany, France, and Ukraine never intended to implement the Minsk II agreements, that the MAIN purpose of signing was to give Ukraine time to build up its military.
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Quote:Signym, you were born without hands, but are trying to get a job requiring dexterity. That describes Trump. He has prosthetics made of plastic, but when shaking hands, anyone with real hands would know he has fake ones. It is so obvious, but not to Trumptards because they were born without hands, too. They cannot feel the difference between plastic and real flesh. No amount of words will ever convey the difference to Trumptards. And words won't give them the dexterity needed for success in America.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
You are like a flat-earther demanding I prove the Earth is a sphere.
So, when challenged to bring evidence to the table, you try deflection?
You clearly don't have a scintilla of facts to backstop the torrent of lies and shit that you spew every day.
But I guess it's too much to hope that you'll slink away in embarrassment. If you had any respect for the truth, or yourself, you would have checked yourself ages ago.
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Trump lacks dexterity:
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Gives Russia Everything It Wants. What Is He Trying to Do?
By Fred Kaplan | April 24, 2025 4:03 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/donald-trump-ukraine-russi
a-ceasefire-peace-plan.html
It’s no coincidence that President Donald Trump caved to the Kremlin’s demands for peace-through-surrender, and insisted that Kyiv do the same, on the same day that Russia launched its deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilians in nearly a year.
Then, one day later, deepening the delusions that he has long displayed about the war and his own power to affect its course, Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to come to his senses and stop the killing.
“Vladimir, STOP!” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing.”
Quite aside from the bone-chilling familiarity (has Trump ever addressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by his first name?), there’s the presumption that the Kremlin leader has ever regretted blowing up civilian apartments or cared what Trump or anyone else might think about his murderousness. Trump had complained once before about Russian bombing—and then, just minutes later, he resumed blaming Ukrainians for starting the war (and, of course, Joe Biden for failing to stop it). Certainly the “peace plan” that Trump had just laid on the table should have signaled that the Russians can get away with whatever levels of violence they’d like to commit.
Trump’s plan, according to European sources who have seen the one-page outline, calls for the following:
• Russian and Ukrainian troops cease fire at their current positions on the battlefield. That means Moscow would control about 20 percent of Ukrainian territory, including the bulk of its four easternmost (and, before the war, industrial-rich) provinces in Donbas.
• The U.S. also lifts all economic sanctions that it imposed on Russia as a result of the February 2022 invasion.
• Russia is recognized as controlling Crimea (which the Soviet Union had handed Ukraine as a gift in 1954, until Putin reannexed the peninsula in 2014).
• The U.S. is barred from stationing peacekeeping troops in Ukraine after the ceasefire, and Ukraine is forbidden from ever joining the West’s NATO military alliance.
• In exchange for all this, Russia is obliged to concede … well, it seems, nothing. In fact, Russian spokesmen continue to demand that even a temporary ceasefire be preceded by a settlement of all the war’s “root causes,” which it blames entirely on Ukraine.
As one NATO official told a reporter from Politico when asked what he thought of Trump’s proposal: “Did Putin write this for him?” Another diplomat responded with an “exploding head” emoji.
Russia’s state-controlled media certainly understood the gist of the deal, writing, “It’s practically a foregone conclusion the U.S. will pull out of Ukraine talks,” and “The unity of the West is gone. Geopolitically it’s no longer an alliance. Trumpism has destroyed the Atlantic consensus confidently and quickly.”
If that isn’t Trump’s aim as well, then one can only ask: What is his aim?
A case could be made that some of these elements might be woven into a peace deal after both sides—Russia and Ukraine—are ready, or can both be pressured, to stop fighting. However, to accede to Russia’s position at the start of negotiations, with pressure only on Kyiv and no concessions from Moscow, amounts to Ukrainian surrender.
Short of such pressure or desire, a ceasefire, under Trump’s terms, would simply give Putin’s army a chance to regroup, remobilize, and at least threaten to resume an offensive toward Kyiv. Anyone who believes Putin would hold the line at Donbas, leave Kyiv’s government in place, or refrain from threatening other former Soviet republics hasn’t been paying attention to what Putin himself has been saying about his goals the past year—e.g., that Ukraine is a fiction, its people don’t exist as a separate culture, and that Russia has a legitimate intere
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Trump's vendetta against paying taxes and fees continues:
Trump admin strategy to end NY congestion pricing is a losing battle, unintended filing says
By Anthony Izaguirre | April 24, 2025 at 9:24 pm
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/manhattan/trump-strategy-end-ny-congestion-
pricing-losing-battle/6237740/
The federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan accidentally filed an internal memo that poked holes in the Trump administration's strategy to kill New York's toll on driving in Manhattan — arguing the government should change tactics if it wants to block the nascent program.
The memo, intended for a U.S. Department of Transportation attorney, was inadvertently filed Wednesday night in New York's lawsuit against the administration over its efforts to shut down the fee.
The blunder came days after the Trump administration gave New York a third ultimatum to stop collecting the toll, which started in January and charges most drivers $9 to enter the most traffic-snarled part of the borough.
In the memo, three assistant U.S. attorneys from the Southern District of New York wrote that there is “considerable litigation risk” in defending Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's decision to pull federal approval for the toll and that doing so would likely result in a legal loss.
Instead, the three attorneys wrote, the department might have better odds if it tried to end the toll through a different bureaucratic mechanism that would argue it no longer aligns with the federal government's agenda.
Nicholas Biase, a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement Thursday that the filing was “a completely honest error and was not intentional in any way."
The Transportation Department, meanwhile, took aim at the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office and said it was pulling the Southern District off the case.
"Are SDNY lawyers on this case incompetent or was this their attempt to RESIST? At the very least, it’s legal malpractice," a spokesperson for the agency said.
The statement comes after several top prosecutors in the office resigned and defiantly criticized their bosses in Washington, saying they were asked to handle a now-dismissed corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams in a manner they concluded was unethical, improper and wrong.
Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the office, was sworn in this week.
Trump, whose namesake Trump Tower is within the “congestion pricing” tolling zone, has been a vocal critic of the program and had promised to kill it once he took office.
His administration in February ordered the state to shutter the program, saying it was revoking federal approval for the toll. Duffy has described the program as “a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners."
Within minutes, New York filed suit in federal court to keep the program alive and said it would continue to collect the toll until ordered to stop by a judge.
The Transportation Department repeatedly has urged New York to shut down the toll and has threatened to pull funding and approvals from various transportation projects if it fails to comply.
The toll amount varies on the kind of vehicle and time of day. It has drawn some pushback from suburban commuters in the metropolitan area because it comes on top of existing tolls for crossing bridges and tunnels into the city.
Most drivers end up paying $9 to enter Manhattan south of Central Park on weekdays between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. and on weekends between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. The toll costs $2.25 during off hours for most vehicles.
New York officials have argued the program is helping to reduce traffic in the city and will eventually bring in billions of dollars for its subways, commuter trains and public buses.
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Trump said “Crimea will stay with Russia. And Zelensky understands that, and everybody understands that it’s been with them for a long time.”
Is this legal?
No.
If the Trump administration recognized Russian sovereignty over Crimea, it would be breaching international law as well as multiple declarations and agreements made by the United States, including by the first Trump White House.
“In terms of international law, such a pronouncement would be null and void,” said Sergey Vasiliev, an international law expert and professor at the Open University in the Netherlands.
“That territorial acquisitions that result from the use of force shall not be recognized as legal is basically one of the bedrock principles of international law,” Vasiliev told CNN.
Recognizing Crimea as part of Russia would put the Trump administration in breach of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which the US made a commitment to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders, in exchange for Kyiv giving up its nuclear weapons.
In 2018, during the first Trump administration, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement reaffirming the US’ refusal to recognize the Kremlin’s claims of sovereignty over Crimea.
Recognizing Crimea as Russian would also be illegal under Ukraine’s constitution – which is one of the reasons why Zelensky said it was out of the question.
But Vasiliev said that even if Ukraine changed its constitution and signed some sort of agreement handing sovereignty of Crimea to Moscow, this could be considered invalid if Kyiv was coerced into it.
Since any recognition of Crimea as part of Russia would be in breach of international laws and norms, it is unlikely that other countries would follow in Trump’s footsteps.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/world/trump-ukraine-crimea-explainer-in
tl/index.html
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