Ukraine daily update February 18, 2025

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I have 938 saved links with relevant information that I would like to write about, a lot is happening and it feels like we are just scratching the surface in what is being reported.

I felt yesterday that Trump has been overtaken, according to yesterday’s world-leading post, Ukraine had a delegation in China for a meeting and then Zelensky has been in Turkey shaking hands with Erdogan.

And UA has reached a trade agreement with UAE, which is like the gateway to the entire MENA free trade something.

EU has come out strongly against the USA now, and King-Macron called for a meeting of all the major players in the EU.

In Germany, it seems like the Russian scaremonger is well positioned to win the election, and Afd and Scholz are out in the cold.

Yesterday, I went through my homemade theory that Trump did not prioritize Xi and Putin as number 1, but he entered as a Great American Negotiator and was going to give the US everything on a silver platter.

Now Ukraine and the EU have completely turned their backs on him, and Zelensky is not at all lenient in his statements (which automatically means that he has received guarantees from the EU 😁).

So what does Trump have left to offer Putin in Saudi Arabia – nothing at all in my opinion.

Because even Putin understands that for every move Trump makes, there will be a three times worse countermove from the EU right now 🤣

It will be interesting when Putin asks Trump to back down and seeks revenge by turning MAGA against him.

My PROOF for Trump is if he now leans back with a satisfied expression over having achieved something good, or if he goes in with double speed and starts accusing the EU, Ukraine, and hitting out in all directions.

It is now possible that we have received Putin’s peace plan assuming this is true, but an Italian artist who is very popular in Russia has been approached by a concert organizer for a “peace concert” in Moscow in August 2025.

https://uatv.ua/en/italian-singer-al-bano-invited-to-perform-at-a-peace-concert-in-moscow-media/

My suggestion now is that the EU gives Ukraine so many weapons that Moscow is a smoking asphalt parking lot in August because Putin has just blinked – he WANTS peace because he NEEDS a break.

My bet in early autumn was that Putin fooled the West into thinking that if they could just force Ukraine to the negotiating table, Putin would also come, and then he had no plan at all to do so.

Ukraine was not allowed to attack his high-value infrastructure, they were not allowed to invade Russia or destabilize Russia – the punishment for Kursk was stopping deliveries from the USA, for example.

Putin could have huge ammunition depots, fuel depots, and staging areas for his army corps right on the Russian side of the border (at least 12 army bases) which, when they were fully trained, drove into Ukraine – now it’s all a smoking ruin.

The West did just that at least twice – stopped all supplies to force UA to the negotiating table.

That has also been what Ukraine has told us – that Putin does not want to negotiate at all, and that has been the prevailing narrative in the media.

Two things have happened after November 5, 2024 – Ukraine no longer has any red or yellow cards for its strategic drone warfare, and in January 2025, it rolled out over Russia in its full deadly glory, which likely shook the country quite a bit, much more than we think.

The other thing is that the USA started delivering everything they promised but hadn’t sent, which was about 90% of the promised material, and the EU has started sending material as well.

And now after Trump’s negotiating round in words, the EU wants to see Russia become a pile of rubble, a smoking pile of rubble.

And then Ukraine began offensive operations on February 6, 2025, it is more than lawful how slow the world’s experts are before they realize that UA has now started its window for offensive operations 😐

It is not at all impossible that Putin is getting cold feet and is putting his last hope in Trump being able to negotiate something that is not too humiliating for them.

Yes, RU is going all out and wants half of Ukraine in the usual, Russian, way, and then they will get some oblast and be very pleased – everyone comes out on top just like with the land cessions for Finland.

The leadership needs to have something, anything, to hold onto power.

My gut feeling tells me that Russia is wounded, and if the EU does not allow itself to be talked down, Ukraine will get its big win.

And I guess if the leadership doesn’t get its “get out of jail card,” they will dangle, and you know how marinated they are in what 😁

We also have a possible first offer from Ukraine – “go back to February 14, 2022, and we can start talking.”

And Russia is going all out at the UN 🤣🤣

There is a significant gap in the information we are receiving right now about the war “peacekeeping force,” and it is pointing in all directions, so I mainly want to point out one thing here –

The force in Ukraine that half of the EU, including Sweden, is

At the frontlines, RU can’t have too many heat sources without becoming targets, so they have to try to lie in their foxholes and cover themselves as best they can.

It’s still below freezing at night and just above freezing during the day – the worst possible weather for RU units.

There are rumors of many prisoners, and especially UA is keeping quiet about most things right now.

Keep an eye on Trump, because if he starts pushing for a ceasefire more intensely, then we might have a clear signal of the condition of the Russian team, but we haven’t seen that yet, and until we do, I stand by my analysis from yesterday that he is not running direct errands for Putin or Xi.

What I can assert with certainty is that Ukraine initiated its offensive operations on February 6th, and within the window to start up, front commanders are launching their attacks against the Russian positions one after another.

According to previous posts, we should expect –

-more attack vectors on the northern front

-concern in Belarus

-the Dnieper, which ultimately leads to Crimea

-local attacks at the frontlines as opportunities arise.

And then there is a strategic reserve that can strike at the right moment.

I would argue that after the fall of 2022, this is the most threatening situation for RU, and if the USA/EU/West no longer have any red cards or try to hold back Ukraine, it could end in disaster for Putin.

All serious debaters agree today that it was Biden who prevented UA from cutting off VDV where they were on the wrong side of the Dnieper in early autumn.

And then when UA tried to launch an attack into Russia in 2023, they were also stopped, and in addition, the USA and a few others revealed the battle plans in the summer of 2023.

If Ukraine is now able to fight on equal terms without one arm tied behind its back, things could get lively.

The mistake all experts are making now is that they are relying on past stages and giving a low probability for anything to happen, but that was because the West sabotaged everything they could.

Now they are saying in words that they won’t do it, and I am hopeful.

But if the West betrays Ukraine once again, they might lose heart – I hope our leaders have worked on the risk list and learned from Johan No.1 on how to conduct politics now.

I started a little joke about MES, but now that people are seriously asking where to buy this world-leading cap – I feel that we have created a small subculture over three years, and a T-shirt with “DenGamle” in text above an Ent, an ancient tree or man, is something I would gladly buy, for example 😀

Or a T-shirt with an overturned walker, footprints in the gravel, and a discarded beer can.

Or “Victory Boat Tour 2025 with different locations and dates.”

There are anti-Putin and pro-UA motives in abundance already.

Then there are a bunch of expressions and events that only those of us who have followed this closely would recognize and would also be fun to have in print.

Of course, I will wear a black cap with No.1 in white discreetly as I am 🤩

Time, there is always a shortage of time for everything one wants to do 😭

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140 thoughts on “Ukraine daily update February 18, 2025”

  1. MatsExtrude

    Russian losses 2025-02-18

    1170 KIA
    12 Tanks
    12 APVs
    53 Artillery systems
    2 MLRS
    1 Anti-Aircraft system
    181 UAVs
    1 Cruise missile
    74 Vehicles and Fuel tanks
    1 Special equipment

    Russian losses 2025-02-18
  2. N Eklund

    👍👍👍

    However, I think you are being a bit too kind to Macron. He talks a lot but should have been able to contribute much more in terms of action.

    1. johan No.1

      Jo Macton did deceive UA at the start of the war, and I have been tougher on Scholz and Biden.

      But he has led some – in January 2024 hard against Putin, first with troops, first with heavy artillery but did not send any and lied about AMX.

      Then he rode out Putin’s revenge and now hard against Trump and is gathering for a meeting.

      Yes, he has imperial ambitions and wants vindication but that benefits UA.

      Now Scholz seems to have landed right as well 😳

  3. N Eklund

    If I may be a bit pessimistic about the USA

    In 2024:
    The USA borrows 27% of the federal budget ($1.84 trillion)
    17% of the federal budget goes towards paying interest on the loans
    The national debt is at 124% of GDP
    The national debt amounts to approximately $107,000 per person

    The last president to have a balanced budget was Bill Clinton

    Sweden’s national debt is around 1,175,000,000 SEK or 112,000 SEK per capita, and 32% of GDP.

    Currently, the USA’s GDP per capita is about 45% higher compared to Sweden, so if we adjust for that, the USA’s national debt is about 7 times higher per capita than Sweden’s.

    It seems like Americans take their economy more seriously than we Europeans do. But we should take it seriously as well, because is there anyone we should rely on for our security? If the USA does nothing, how will their economy look in 10-20 years? And it is this realization that worries me when Trump is going to negotiate with Putin. Putin has resources that the USA wants to boost its economy, which Europe says no to (halt in Greenland, halt in Ukraine, yes, those were low bids so they shouldn’t have expected anything else). And if Putin doesn’t sell them to the USA, he will sell them to China, which the USA sees as its biggest threat.

    In 1997, a decision was made that the USA should be able to handle wars in two different places in the world, but since 2011, with cuts/reallocations in defense, that capability has decreased, and today it is said from several quarters that they can only handle one war (and a few conflicts) at a time, and they want to save that war for China. Before 2014, China and Russia were seen as countries that didn’t start major wars but rather engaged more in subversive activities than outright military violence. A war against China will require completely different resources, especially if it happens far, far away.

    The US army is lacking 40-50,000 soldiers, many left when they were required to vaccinate against Covid-19.

    The US Navy has fewer than 300 ships, but some claim that they train as much as when they had 600, which leads to significant wear and tear on the equipment they have.

    There are talks about their equipment aging faster than new ones are added, much of it is 30 years old (though perfect to send to Ukraine given good enough condition).

    The USA has a powerful army, but it is not what it used to be.

    And things don’t look much brighter on the borrowing front for many European countries…

    1. 205

      The best thing the USA can do is to continue supporting Ukraine. In this way, they undermine/prevent the threat from China. North Korea is China’s bulldog and is a military ally in everything, and by fighting Kim Jong Un’s boys on the Ukrainian front, one has also struck a blow against Chinese geographical ambitions in the Pacific and other places.

    2. Westley Richard

      How is the EU budget doing, and isn’t there a “national debt” that should be distributed among the member states for a fair comparison?

      1. N Eklund

        The money comes from membership fees and customs, I believe, loans were probably taken after Corona to restart the economy, it’s about €750 billion of which Sweden is supposed to pay around 150 billion kronor.

        So if we have to pay the same amount now, it doesn’t sound that expensive if it could help end the war (there is talk of the EU borrowing €700 billion to go towards a weapons package for Ukraine)

    4. DJ

      I think you are on the right track. More often than we want to believe, it is reality that chooses politics, more than the politicians. Covid was a good example of that. And regardless of who is president in the USA today, they have to deal with the fact that the empire’s economy, like all former empires, is creaking at the seams. Low interest rates increase monetary inflation; high interest rates break the state budget; a weak dollar decreases the influence of the USA; a strong dollar forces international borrowers to sell dollars to pay their interest, leading to higher rates on treasuries (fewer people want to borrow); DOGE policy with lots of unemployed civil servants can lead to a recession, but the budget must be slimmed down.

      In this way, it is a side note that Trump is a criminal louse and a despicable scammer as president. Europe’s future is in our own hands, and we just have to grow up quickly, much like the buddy who started taking care of the whole household at the age of twelve when dad left and mom drank.

  4. 205

    “My coffee grounds tell me that Russia is injured, and if the EU doesn’t allow itself to be *talked down*, Ukraine will get its jackpot.”

    In light of statements from the American administration, Europe may need to consider these as psyops, i.e. warfare. War is war whether it occurs physically, electronically, or in words. Ultimately, it’s about freedom of speech because it cannot exist without freedom. Look at Russia, North Korea, Iran, China.”

    2. johan No.1

      Yes.

      Putin also carries out subversive attacks against both the country and the politicians who dare to stand up to him – the dark secret no one talks about.

  5. MatsExtrude

    “Ryssland: Nästan 10 000 soldater deserterade från den 132:a motoriserade skyttebrigaden på bara 18 månader, mellan januari 2023 och juni 2024, innan de ens kastades in i köttkvarnen i Toretsk.
    En rysk motoriserad skyttebrigad består vanligtvis av 3 000 till 5 000 soldater.”

  7. MacMelmac

    What if there is a cease-fire and Trump strikes a deal with Ukraine, allowing US personnel (non-military at first) to be stationed on the ground in Ukraine to handle logistics, among other things. This would indirectly mean that Russia cannot attack Ukraine again as they would risk killing Americans. It’s not the same as threatening Poland, the Baltics, or Finland; it’s stepping right into a hornet’s nest!

  8. MatsExtrude

    “Två explosioner har rapporterats på tankfartyget Seajewel som transporterar 🇷🇺russisk olja i den italienska staden 🇮🇹Savona. Fartyget har skadats under vattenlinjen, men ingen oljeläcka inträffade. Orsaken till explosionerna är fortfarande oklar.”

  9. digerdoden

    The Russians are planning to deploy new units in Belarus. It is said to be 150,000 men. This is concerning as it could pose a threat to the Baltic states or Ukraine. At the current rate, the Russian army is being depleted by 10,000 men per week, which means that in 15 weeks that strength will be neutralized before it is fully in place.
    Ukraine’s strategy of choosing battles where the primary goal is to decimate Russian resources rather than reclaiming territory is brilliant and war-winning. The work is done at the front lines and by grinding down Russian strategic resources on their home turf.
    The number of deadly flying objects from Ukraine towards Russia seems to be increasing almost exponentially if the production figures are correct.
    The Russians also seem unable to defend against it. Ukraine, on the other hand, eliminates most of what comes flying from the other direction.
    The best strategy for the EU now, as before, is to send more weapons, and it seems that most have understood this after Paris and Zelensky’s speech in Munich. Communicate that the EU’s position is that the goal is restored borders. A 3-mile demilitarized mined zone on Russian territory along the entire EU border and that the EU will include Ukraine. Allocate resources promptly to back up the words.
    Then Trump will have to go home and sulk and will soon realize that it is better to be on the winning side. Let him negotiate with the Russians himself, as negotiations will be illegitimate without the EU and Ukraine. Communicate that the negotiations are illegitimate and not worth bothering about.

  10. Skator

    I agree!

    Absolutely not the time to agree to “freeze” the conflict when RU is now hanging on the ropes in the boxing ring.
    EU/UA should let diplomacy drag on as much as possible and at the same time accelerate the support to UA – a la Denmark’s approach to being ready to empty the storages.
    When the election in Germany is over, Taurus is likely to enter the game as well.
    Another six months and RU will be completely exhausted, and even Trump will realize who is about to win – and he never bets on a “loser”.

  11. Boshan

    Trump’s meeting with Putin is nothing but “playing to the gallery” – just to get Europe to tighten up significantly and deliver substantial support to Ukraine. And it seems to be working, doesn’t it?

    Then, with the European support, Ukraine crushes Russia, which dissolves into smaller components. Like the Roman Empire did once upon a time.

    The horizon is starting to look a bit brighter.

    2. 205

      The following text translated from Swedish to English:

      The analogy limps on the way that the decline of the Roman Empire was caused by being invaded by “barbarians”. Indeed Germanic tribes and our ancestors.

      1. Westley Richard

        The word barbarian originates from Greek and was given to people who did not speak Greek. So in a way, even the Romans were barbarians.

    3. johan No.1

      Personally, I probably know in less than a month.

      – Trump leans back with a smile from now on and is satisfied.

      – Trump accuses the EU of not wanting peace.

      Still leaning towards the first one personally even though he may feel that the US did not get the benefits he wanted maybe.

      1. Boshan

        Even though it may not seem like it, I suspect that Trump knows exactly what results he wants to achieve.

        But he doesn’t show his cards and is happy to bluff by being “very flexible” with his statements.

        So we’ll see what happens when the dust settles.

    1. MatsExtrude

      Sorry, we are still using the WordPress standard and images are not allowed (and it’s not possible to allow them either).
      For security reasons, image uploads are not permitted, but we will see if we might allow linking to external images. Of course, this also poses a security risk (though more for other visitors than for the site itself).

  15. MatsExtrude

    Now it’s starting to look like something!

    “The EU plans to allocate €700 billion in aid for Ukraine,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
    “We are launching a major package on a scale never seen before. This will happen soon.””

    1. Mats

      Finally! However, I wonder if it’s the entire EU that needs to decide on this because then it won’t go through. Hungary probably won’t give its approval.

    2. Westley Richard

      Completely understandable that one has to borrow in order to buy a fire extinguisher when the house is on fire and one has neglected to pay their insurance. Can one dare to hope that this means that the EU will also review its economy, as it is most likely wasting incredibly large amounts of money on various prestige projects that give very little in return.

      1. johan No.1

        During Covid when everything came to a halt, I went to Sweden and worked in municipal operations managing our heavy infrastructure – the budget was ridiculously low and didn’t stretch far. All resources were allocated to new bike lanes or parks instead.

        The heavy infrastructure was (guaranteed is) in absolutely terrible condition, almost beyond repair, and THEN there are significant costs for new construction.

        Almost worth a post 😀

  16. johan No.1

    Then we’ll see what the EU meeting results in. Early signals indicate that Scholz has also landed correctly and that they are opening both the treasure chest and the material store wide open – hoping, hoping, hoping 🤩

    Apparently, it is expected to wait until after the German election, but the hints sound promising

    1. digerdoden

      Yes, the German election on the 23rd of February and then probably a complicated government formation if they can’t take responsibility and form a broad coalition without the AfD. Orban will surely stand in the way. No need for Scholz to wait. Unnecessary delay.
      Either Scholz is bought, cowardly, or incompetent without understanding the urgency. A united EU front is absolutely crucial, and the Kremlin and possibly Trump are doing everything to sow discord.

    1. johan No.1

      There should be SHARES.

      Also saw a lot of spelling mistakes in my posts above – was in the car on the way to work (with a driver) at 06:45 and wrote them 😐

    2. MatsExtrude

      Nice that there aren’t so many here commenting, so you have the chance to come in second instead of fifth, which is the usual otherwise? 😉

      2. DJ

        The fact is that with the turbulence prevailing in the American government apparatus, perhaps the JAS could be approved more or less by mistake?

  19. johan No.1

    Herregud – does one even dare to think about what will happen if Germany wakes up here on Monday 😲
    Then it will be a competition between them and France to do the most, and then the USA wants to join in and jumps into the ring.

    1. johan No.1

      Fifth at the least, saw that a guy in Norway posted it three times three hours ago 🧐

      Oh my goodness, what nonsense – I think they’re really starting to get worried now 🤣

  21. MatsExtrude

    Even the USA is making stupid statements.

    “The West will have to lift sanctions against the Russian Federation if the war in Ukraine is resolved, — US Secretary of State Rubio”

    3. johan No.1

      The funniest thing is that absolutely no one listens to them anymore – when it slowly starts to sink in, it will be very lively on the other side of the Atlantic 🤣

      1. Umlaut

        Trump is so eager to sit at the big boys’ table and be seen in the world press. Just that he is too stupid to realize that before he destroyed all diplomatic rules of the game, the President of the United States was the emperor, and the other petty kings at his feet.

  22. johan No.1

    EU is on the verge of rising 💥💥 – the fortress of Europe is taking shape and we could seize some more living space in Russia while we’re at it, right? (sounds vaguely familiar, have I suggested this before?)

      1. johan No.1

        The one clearly outweighs the other 👍

        In my opinion, we should keep the sanctions for another 80 years as a chokehold because the likelihood of Russia trying again is 1.

  24. johan No.1

    This is very significant – Erdogan acknowledges UA’s territorial integrity. Words are one thing, but we are in a situation where sides are being chosen, and Erdogan just didn’t choose Russia’s side, or the USA’s…

    Because the USA has been clear that UA will not return to the 2014 borders.

    So now here comes my big atomic bomb – what do you think China will say about 1.2.3…? Have they realized that they can throw the USA under the bus, approach the EU, secure that raw material agreement in Ukraine by acknowledging UA’s territorial integrity, and start putting pressure on Russia?

    China is not a friend of Russia, and China has issues with the USA, while the EU is a bigger ally and several countries in the EU want good relations with China.

    I don’t see it as impossible because there is a significant upside for China here, very significant. And goodness, how I would laugh myself to sleep that night.
    https://bsky.app/profile/johanno1.bsky.social/post/3lih3xetmuc2i

    You know where you heard it first, right 🧐

    1. Westley Richard

      The Chinese might be interested in buying Kursk.

      A Chinese “research station” 50 miles south of Moscow would probably have made life difficult for the Russians.

      1. johan No.1

        haha, yes exactly, according to the USA and Russia, one should be allowed to keep the land once taken, so that would be fair – excellent idea 👍😁

        1. johan No.1

          It is interesting in this context that the USA chooses not to mention Kursk at all.
          Just that RU should be allowed to keep conquered land.

    2. MatsExtrude

      👍 I was actually onto that a long time ago, wondering if it could be interesting for China to step in and gain a lot of goodwill by roaring at Russia and getting them to withdraw from Ukraine. If China completely ran over Russia with the bus, they wouldn’t last long. It never happened, but it’s not impossible that they are actually starting to consider that now when there’s more chaos than ever.

      1. johan No.1

        How long ago? five minutes after you read my post that was first in the world 🧐

        Well, we have had long discussions about China throwing Russia under the bus, and then last summer during my big depression, we started guessing that Ukraine would completely turn to China instead, right? They had a negotiating delegation there in the summer of 2024, wasn’t it?

        It would be really fun if this happened because it’s good for the EU and Ukraine.

        I only see upside for China actually now that the USA has burned its negotiating position.

        1. MatsExtrude

          Well, when it comes to the bus, you were definitely the first one, but I casually mentioned once that maybe I should take the opportunity in China to make peace and earn some brownie points to avoid the chaos.

          I’ve tried to find that post, but it’s hopeless on a blog where thousands of posts have been written and where China is mentioned even more times.. 😂

        1. Umlaut

          Maybe you can get them cheap from Musk. He should have a bunch of old light blue caps with a mouse printed on them from some social media company he bought to convert into a fascist eco-chamber.

  25. digerdoden

    The USA is threatening, as I understand it, to lift sanctions against the Russians.
    Luckily, only 4 billion of Russian assets are located in the USA, while the remaining hundreds of billions are in Europe. It’s also good that SWIFT is based in Belgium under Belgian law.
    The USA would absolutely not want to lose the dominance of the dollar in world trade.
    The EU has no reason to back down, on the contrary.
    Some suggestions for the EU:
    1. Spend the oligarchs’ money to quickly start the production of ballistic missiles. Capitalism works. Station them in Ukraine. Maybe even build them there.
    2. Close the straits for Russian-associated ships.
    3. Threaten the USA with exclusion from SWIFT.
    4. All trade with the EU in EURO.

  26. DJ

    Regarding the USA – I think the picture becomes clearer if you zoom out and see it from the perspective of “US interests” and not Biden/Trump. Because Biden and Trump are quite similar anyway, despite their different appearances. As has been said for a long time – they don’t want either side to lose the war.

    @The Analyst, you asked yesterday what was wrong with Vance’s speech. One big mistake is that he didn’t mention that Russia is seven times worse than Europe when it comes to freedom of speech, which apparently is important to Vance. An even bigger mistake is that he didn’t address the fact that it is Russia that is behind the migration flows to Europe.

    1. johan No.1

      After WW2, we had the Yalta Conference where the USA agreed to let Russia occupy half of Europe, right?
      I don’t know the exact details, other than that Stalin got a good deal out of it and that Patton wanted to invade Moscow.

      2. N Eklund

        And it’s because Russia refuses to back down from the territory it has taken. Why let go of something you have seized?

        So there is only one way forward if Ukraine is to regain all of its land.

    3. Analytikern

      @DJ Then we can conclude that there was no problem, no fascist element, in what JD Vance talked about in Munich. – Instead, the issue lies in the disappointment that he did not say things that the audience/we wished for. – My opinion is that it would have been better to say that, rather than pretending that he had expressed nonsense.

      Furthermore, I believe that Vance touched upon some very sensitive European issues and stepped on the toes of tender-hearted European wishful thinkers. As I have pointed out, it is not enough to stand there sobbing like a five-year-old who doesn’t get candy.

      Peace and freedom do not come for free, not from “safe spaces” or from weakness. Vance also happened to mention something about European countries needing to strengthen their defense forces…

      1. DJ

        It was probably the context that was the problem. As an ally, you act united outwardly, but can have serious conversations and arguments internally. That’s how every management team in a company works, for example, when it works well.

  29. Bulten

    According to Dagens industri, the light head, chosen by the Yankees as president, demands, in addition to Ukraine’s mineral resources, oil, and gas, ownership of ports and other infrastructure. The value apparently corresponds to Ukraine’s GDP. At the same time, the light head sends a bunch of lackeys to Saudi Arabia to confirm to Russia what they have already been told – that the sanctions against them will be lifted and the US trade relations with them will be normalized.
    Everyone except the carrot-colored light head must reasonably ask themselves:
    -Why would Ukraine give away values equivalent to its entire GDP to a country that gives nothing in return?
    -Why would Russia give in to anything in negotiations where they have already been told before they even begin that they will get what they want?
    -What would the USA gain economically from collaborating with a brutal dictatorship that is heading towards economic collapse?
    Even aside from the completely bizarre fact that the US president, with his extortion, openly acts like a brutal, primitive mafioso, it must reasonably lead the whole world to take another giant step towards realizing how immensely stupid the guy must be. Is there any hope left that the carrot-colored one knows what he is doing at all?

    1. DJ

      I think it’s best to assume that Trump has a plan and an idea of what he’s doing. After all, he managed to navigate himself to the presidency, right? In chess and poker, it’s important to play the optimal strategy even if the opponent makes mistakes, and the same probably applies in world politics. Then we can only hope that he will soon make a spectacular belly flop.

      Regarding mineral resources and more, the EU should make a statement that they commit to winning the war if Ukraine, in return, retains 100% of its assets for the Ukrainian people’s benefit. Colonization belongs to the past on our side of the Atlantic, we can surely decide that.

      1. Bulten

        The best scenario would of course be if the carrot-colored one has a brilliant plan, which elegantly leads to Russia collapsing under the weight of its own evil.
        The next best scenario is perhaps that in his unrestrained self-importance, he messes up everything to such an extent that even the Yankees understand that he must be replaced.

  30. Mats

    As I thought: ”The European Union is discussing a military aid package for Ukraine worth at least 6 billion euros ($6.2 billion) to bolster Kyiv’s strategic position.

    Unanimous approval is unlikely due to opposition from Hungary, meaning the aid may be structured as a coalition of willing countries rather than a formal EU-wide initiative.”

      1. David

        Thank you very much no1! Regarding Trump, do you consider him to be stupid or crazy or reasonable with America first? And do you think that, overall, he is better or worse than Biden for Ukraine? For example, could Trump’s crazy antics actually result in Ukraine receiving more weapons/support because Europe has to step up? In that case, one could view Team Trump as positive for Ukraine.

        1. johan No.1

          For my part, I know within a month I think, I’m a bit on the fence right now 😀
          We praised Biden for sure for 1.5 years before the penny dropped.

          But Biden was a disaster, that’s what all sensible people think.

          However, I believe that the outcome of Trump is what we are seeing now and it didn’t turn out great, to say the least 🤣🤣

  31. Westley Richard

    https://youtu.be/pi_KRvYPymw?si=zo6pKoD87fOgXlMS

    Watched a press conference with Rubio & Co that they held after the meeting with the Russians in Saudi.

    What strikes me is that they look almost terrified and constantly praise Trump, never mentioning the USA as a country. One is used to the foreign minister representing their country and not primarily the president.
    Imagine hearing Stenergard say that Kristersson can contribute this or that instead of saying that Sweden can contribute. It would have caused a public outcry in the media.

    It may be okay to talk to Russia, Macron and Scholz have also done so, but Rubio & Co are not impressive.

    Let’s hope that the USA is employing some form of art of war taken from Sun Zhu, like “when you are intelligent, act like a fool.”

    1. Analytikern

      I dare to claim that Trump always has a plan and is not at all stupid. – That being said, it doesn’t mean that the plan is always the best, executed with finesse, or turns out well. But, as long as the overall outcome is positive (for the US), Trump will continue and think that everything is going well. – The ego Trump possesses is larger than Mt Rushmore…

    1. Umlaut

      Then he does not act solely based on some kind of murky ideology, but also worships mammon. Which in this case at least alleviates something.

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