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Is Russia winning the Ukraine war?
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In phone call with Putin, Trump abruptly
ends U.S. efforts to isolate Russia.
.USA SAVE RUSSIA ?
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RUSSIA SAVE USA ?
HOW ABOUT CHINA ?
美國與俄羅斯瓜分烏克蘭不鳥中國為什麼?.
中國是烏克蘭最大最多的投資人,美國與俄羅斯侵占中國在烏克蘭的利益為什麼?
US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin .
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WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ?
90 MINUTES TELEPHONE ON LINE ?
.Trump holds separate phone calls with Putin and Zelenskyy on starting Ukraine negotiations. ..
20250212美國總統川普突然宣布與俄羅斯總統（Vladimir Putin）重返國際外交舞台,並與其進行了長達90分鐘的通話,之後可能在沙烏地阿拉伯舉行面對面會談。
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- Donald Trump’s with Vladimir Putin brought the Russian leader in from the cold as they hatched plans and agreed to swap presidential visits.callto end the war in Ukraine
- US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, went to Brussels and told European allies to “take ownership of conventional security on the continent.”
The watershed highlights Trump’s “America First” ideology and his tendency to see every issue or alliance as a dollars and cents value proposition. It also underscores his freedom from establishment advisors steeped in the foreign policy mythology of the West, who he thinks thwarted his first term.
Although Hegseth recommitted to NATO, something fundamental has changed.
America’s interventions won two world wars that started in Europe and afterwards guaranteed the continent’s freedom in the face of the Soviet threat. But Trump said on the campaign trail he might not defend alliance members who haven’t invested enough in defense. He thus revived a perennial point posed most eloquently by Winston Churchill in 1940 about when “The New World, with all its power and might” will step “forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”
Trump is returning to the rationale used by many presidents wary of foreign entanglements from the start of the republic, saying Wednesday, “We have a little thing called an ocean in between.”
The US message on Ukraine that Europe didn’t want to hear
The first test of this new US-Europe reality will come over Ukraine.
Trump said that negotiations to end the Ukraine war will start “immediately” after his call with Putin, who has been frozen out by the West since his illegal invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign democracy, three years ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not included, in an alarming sign for the government in Kyiv. Zelensky was at the center of everything the Biden administration did on the war. Trump did call Zelensky later Wednesday, but the American president is already fueling fears he’ll cook up a resolution that favors Russia. Asked by a reporter whether Ukraine would be an equal partner in peace talks, Trump replied: “It’s an interesting question,” and appeared to think carefully, before replying, “I said that was not a good war to go into,” apparently buying Putin’s line that the conflict was the fault of a nation brutally invaded by an authoritarian neighbor.
.By saying Ukraine’s NATO membership is “impractical” and the return of Russian-occupied territories to Kyiv is “illusionary,” the Trump administration is giving its blessing to key items on President Vladimir Putin’s wish list — even before a potential settlement of the conflict.Rarely was a policy change between Moscow and Washington so swift and drastic than President Donald Trump’s phone call with Putin, abruptly ending a three-year, U.S.-led effort to isolate the Russian leader over Ukraine.
Russian officials rejoice after Trump ditches 3 years of U.S. policy on Ukraine
And the fighting in Ukraine wasn’t the only issue the two leaders discussed in Wednesday’s call. They talked about the Middle East settlement, the role of the dollar, global energy markets and even artificial intelligence.
The broad agenda was exactly what Putin has long wanted – Russia and the U.S. sitting down to talk about global issues while the rest of the world stood by.
It’s unclear how the prospective Ukraine peace talks could evolve, but the call already has marked a watershed, immediately breaking the ice between Moscow and Washington.
Putin’s goals in Ukraine.Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, amid Kyiv’s bid to join NATO that he described as a “red line” for Moscow. He had cast the alliance’s eastward expansion as a major threat to Russia and sought NATO’s guarantees that it would never offer membership to Ukraine.
After suffering early setbacks, Russia gradually regained the initiative in combat, unleashing a series of offensives across the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line in slow but steady gains throughout 2024. It controls about a fifth of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean Peninsula, taken in 2014
Putin has demanded that Ukraine withdraw its troops from the four regions that Russia has seized but never fully controlled, renounce its bid to join NATO, and protect the rights of Russian speakers. He and his lieutenants repeated all of that in recent statements, reaffirming Moscow’s maximalist approach.
Trump signals openness to Russian demands.Trump described his call with Putin as “lengthy and highly productive” and thanked Putin “for his time and effort,” emphasizing their shared desire to halt the fighting without saying a word that it was Russia which sent troops into Ukraine.
He said he later spoke to Zelenskyy, but he remained noncommittal about whether Ukraine would be an equal participant in the peace talks — an apparent signal that Kyiv could be presented with a deal negotiated behind its back in a dramatic shift from the Biden administration’s policy of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
Also on Wednesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a meeting of Ukraine’s Western allies that Kyiv shouldn’t hope to get all its territory back from Russia and will not be allowed to join NATO.
Hegseth tells NATO Ukraine membership unlikely as Trump says Putin will discuss ending war
And while Europe has demanded to be part of any talks about the Ukrainian settlement, Trump and his team have shown little interest in bringing the allies on board.“For Russia, the fact that for now it looks like it’s going to be Russia and the United States outlining the scheme for cessation of hostilities and potential resolution of the conflict or turning it into frozen conflict will be happening between Moscow and Washington, and Kyiv and European capitals will be a sideshow here,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
Many in Europe seemed flabbergasted by Washington’s drastic policy change.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov mocked what he described as the EU and NATO “stupor” after the Trump-Putin call, saying that “many in the West, starting with the EU leaders, were stunned when a normal, basic conversation between two well-mannered, polite people took place.”
“I’m very sorry, but the Western reaction shows that there are practically no such people left there,” Lavrov said.
Expanding a U.S.-Russian agenda
Trump posted on social media that he and Putin both “reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we, likewise, lost so many!”
Those words were music to Putin’s ears. He has made the enormous Soviet suffering and sacrifice during World War II a key ideological pillar and a rallying point for the country, as well as a justification of its claim of a superpower status.
“Trump borrowed a lot of Putin’s talking points about the role of Russia in World War II and all of the multiple casualties,” Gabuev said.
Putin, in turn, has been praising Trump even before the call, echoing his repeated claim that he would have prevented the hostilities in Ukraine had he been in office. Putin also has endorsed Trump’s refusal to accept his defeat in the 2020 election.
Trump said his campaign motto of “COMMON SENSE” was cited by Putin in the conversation, adding that “we both believe very strongly in it.”
He said they “agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s nations” and added that they would “probably” meet in Saudi Arabia in the near future.
The various global issues that Trump said he discussed with Putin — including the Middle East, energy markets, the dollar and AI — reflected the broad agenda that the Kremlin leader has long sought to address, seeking to regain Moscow’s Cold War-era status of a superpower on par with the U.S.
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Trump has pushed for access to rare minerals in Ukraine in return for aid, or even as compensation for the support the US has already provided..
Zelensky said: "A few days ago, President Trump told me about his conversation with Putin. Not once did he mention that America needs Europe at the table - that says a lot.
"The old days are over when America supported Europe just because it always had."
As Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears its three-year anniversary, Trump and Hegseth have both said it is unlikely that Ukraine will join Nato..
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俄烏戰爭遊戲已經進行3 年極為可能性在202504.月份終止?
紅軍城大決戰的好戲就要上演.勝利的天枰已經向俄羅斯傾斜.
戰爭的受害者就是無辜的烏克蘭老百姓,家破人亡如今將近600 餘萬的烏克蘭難民,逃亡歐洲各國,他們期待和平早日降臨,重返烏克蘭家園重建生活....
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