Trump Announces Budapest Summit with Putin Following ‘Productive’ Phone Call on Ukraine War
For three years, the Ukraine-Russia conflict has resembled a Gordian knot that establishment scissors couldn’t cut. Thousands of lives lost, billions in aid spent, and diplomatic meetings that produced little more than strongly-worded statements.The Washington foreign policy establishment seemed content to manage the crisis rather than solve it, treating the conflict as an inevitable feature of the international landscape rather than a problem demanding resolution.
The human cost mounted daily while bureaucrats shuffled between capitals, achieving nothing. American taxpayers watched their dollars flow overseas with no end in sight. The previous administration’s approach – if one could call passive observation an approach – left both sides entrenched and the world wondering if anyone in Washington even remembered what decisive leadership looked like.
Something had to change. The old playbook of multilateral committees and indirect messaging through diplomatic channels had produced exactly what skeptics predicted: an expensive stalemate paid for in Ukrainian and Russian blood while enriching defense contractors and international bureaucrats.
Now, barely ten months into his presidency, Donald Trump has done what his predecessor couldn’t or wouldn’t: pick up the phone and talk directly to Vladimir Putin.
In a two-and-a-half-hour conversation, Trump and Putin agreed to meet in Budapest, Hungary, with high-level advisors from both nations meeting next week to prepare the groundwork.
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7 comments:
End this war ya!
If the Ukrainians and the Russians want to kill each other, I don't see what that has to do with us. If land is more important to Ukraine than people, then that's their choice. Somebody has to lose. That's the way life is. Just like a game.
The same principle applies to Israel and the Arabs. Why should the US be involved in a 5-thousand-year-old land dispute.
If this is what religion gets you, then there is something wrong with the religion.
I believe that we have a moral obligation to help countries that are democracies rather than brutal dictatorships. Ukraine is an electoral democracy who was brutally invaded with very litle defense mechanism to protect itself.
Same thing with Israel...the only democracy in the Mid-East among Muslim nations that want to wipe them off the planet.
These are Blood Feuds. These people hate each other. The closer they're related, the more they hate one another. What does that have to do with the US. In Europe, there was the 30 years' war, and the 100 years' war. Let them all fight it out, and the last one standing is the winner. We're just wasting time and resources. In the meantime, we're struggling to get along here. Do you think Charlie Kirk would have been killed, if this was a happy country?
@5:31...The only people unhappy are Democrats and they are causing all of the problems.
You voted for Obama
@8:11...you continue to say that. WB? Obama is the reason why I left the Democrat party in 2008 and became a Republican...never have regretted that decision. Obama was the beginning of all the diviseness. The Democrat party today is nothing more than Communists, Marxists, reprobates and silly but dangerous fools.
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