August 13, 2025Aug 13 2 hours ago, B00M said: Because they’re not real peace talks. It’s just an opportunity for Putin. 2 hours ago, Armybrat said: And for Trump Resorts Inc. Trump Tower Moscow is back on the menu, boys!
August 13, 2025Aug 13 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said: the Munich Agreement was motivated by a genuine desire to [have the English and French] stay out of a war, achieve peace, etc FIFY they didnt mind throwing half of Czechoslovakia under the bus. Edited August 13, 2025Aug 13 by AUS-97HORN
August 13, 2025Aug 13 15 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said: FIFY they didnt mind throwing half of Czechoslovakia under the bus. In fairness.....
August 13, 2025Aug 13 30 minutes ago, Captainant said: Trump Tower Moscow is back on the menu, boys! Don’t forget Trump Golf & Beach Resort at Sevastopol.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said: Still good. Except as Brisket pointed out, Chamberlain at least had honourable intentions. Well, it ultimately gave the Brits Churchill as Prime Minister - Chamberlain could not have managed the war half as well as Churchill did.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said: Well, it ultimately gave the Brits Churchill as Prime Minister - Chamberlain could not have managed the war half as well as Churchill did. We aren't Britain and in their case, the war hadn't started yet. Imagine it's mid 1941 and instead of FDR, we have a malevolent Marx Brother as president. I don't see any Churchill waiting in the wings here.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said: Well, it ultimately gave the Brits Churchill as Prime Minister - Chamberlain could not have managed the war half as well as Churchill did. well... considering he died of cancer in 1940... I would say thats only 1/6th accurate.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said: Still good. Except as Brisket pointed out, Chamberlain at least had honourable intentions. Not to mention, once Germany invaded Poland, Chamberlain was forced to confront reality and did not double down. What he did not do, post German invasion of sovereign nations, is say "Hitler can do whatever the hell he wants."
August 13, 2025Aug 13 Sounds like everyone is on the same page for the most part. I doubt Putin agrees to anything they are proposing though. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/europe/trump-europe-ukraine-talks-putin.html Trump Agrees on Ukraine Red Lines With Europe Before Summit With Putin Edited August 13, 2025Aug 13 by Hook1997
August 13, 2025Aug 13 10 minutes ago, Hook1997 said: Sounds like everyone is on the same page for the most part. I doubt Putin agrees to anything they are proposing though. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/europe/trump-europe-ukraine-talks-putin.html Trump Agrees on Ukraine Red Lines With Europe Before Summit With Putin Cool, now do after.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said: I don't see any Churchill waiting in the wings here Look, monitoring your son’s porn consumption is a time-gobbling task.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 49 minutes ago, Hook1997 said: Sounds like everyone is on the same page for the most part. I doubt Putin agrees to anything they are proposing though. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/europe/trump-europe-ukraine-talks-putin.html Trump Agrees on Ukraine Red Lines With Europe Before Summit With Putin Now, all that has to happen is Trump honors the deal he made, and doesn't back out of it. Thank goodness, nothing like that has ever happened, so all is good.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 Somehow this is going to end up worse than the deal he negotiated with the Taliban at Camp David to pull out of Afghanistan.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said: Somehow this is going to end up worse than the deal he negotiated with the Taliban at Camp David to pull out of Afghanistan. And somehow find someone else to blame it on.
August 13, 2025Aug 13 2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said: Oh look, I was right But who are we kidding? The real terms will actually be much worse.
August 14, 2025Aug 14 1 hour ago, Pig Bellmont said: Oh look, I was right So gonna give up another countries minerals without them at the Table. Ukraine should laugh. But they need our support. This is going to be a shit show.
August 14, 2025Aug 14 11 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: So gonna give up another countries minerals without them at the Table. Ukraine should laugh. But they need our support. This is going to be a shit show. Going to be? It's a Tijuana donkey show already
August 14, 2025Aug 14 I'm gonna be the outlier and say Putin reacts warmly then blows up some Kiev hospitals that night.
August 14, 2025Aug 14 I'm gonna be the outlier and say Putin reacts warmly then blows up some Kiev hospitals that night.He attacked our Federal Court filing system…yesterday I think? Kind of a “see what we can do” moment.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
August 14, 2025Aug 14 14 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said: He attacked our Federal Court filing system…yesterday I think? Kind of a “see what we can do” moment. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Putin isn't doing anything wrong, he's just doing a bit
August 14, 2025Aug 14 Popular Post All of Trump’s gripes about Zelenskyy and ideas about how Ukraine should behave are simply reflections of how Trump himself thinks and behaves. And bad news, it reveals how Trump can (and does) treat America. Trump is frustrated when Zelenskyy says the Ukrainian constitution won’t allow him to surrender land because he has never viewed the American Constitution as a binding commitment he has to adhere to and can’t imagine why Zelenskyy would. He can’t understand why Ukrainians would fight against a much larger and stronger enemy at great cost to themselves because he would never do anything but surrender. He cannot understand why Ukrainians would refuse to surrender towns and cities to brutal Russian occupation in exchange for self-preservation because he does not care about America and would gladly hand over American land and souls to Russia or anyone if it meant he came out ahead. it’s all just a mirror of his own personality disorders. Someone for whom literally everything is transactional.
August 14, 2025Aug 14 I'm gonna be the outlier and say Putin reacts warmly then blows up some Kiev hospitals that night.Trump walking into a negotiating session with Putin would be like me walking into the final table at the WSOP against Phil Ivey, Daniel Negraneau and Phil Helmuth or whoever. They wouldn't openly laugh at me, but would just sit there a kill me by a thousand cuts with the greatest of ease.
August 14, 2025Aug 14 Popular Post Trump walking into negotiations is like me walking into a strip club.
August 14, 2025Aug 14 2 minutes ago, MissingInAction said: Trump walking into negotiations is like me walking into a strip club. Have you ever had your credit card company call you and track you down in the strip club? Well, it never happened to me. This friend I was with, however....
August 15, 2025Aug 15 14 minutes ago, Chopper said: Nice! Finally? We should be destroying anything coming from North Korea or Iran. We absolutely have the intel.
August 15, 2025Aug 15 Trump walks in the room, looks around and tries to figure out who the mark is...
August 16, 2025Aug 16 Early returns on Alaska are: not much. The vibes from Trump were cranky, sullen. The delegation didn’t eat together, no questions at the press conference. He’s distancing himself from it, putting the ball back in Zelenskyy’s court. He’s clearly tired with this whole thing and wants a way out and will likely end up lashing out at Ukraine since they are the ones who will respond in some way.
August 16, 2025Aug 16 On 8/14/2025 at 8:32 AM, Sbbruin said: Trump walking into a negotiating session with Putin would be like me walking into the final table at the WSOP against Phil Ivey, Daniel Negraneau and Phil Helmuth or whoever. They wouldn't openly laugh at me, but would just sit there a kill me by a thousand cuts with the greatest of ease. Buddy, it sounds like you last watched tournament poker like 15-20 years ago. But yes. The point stands
August 16, 2025Aug 16 23 minutes ago, Satchel said: Trump says peace is now up to Ukraine. I’m so embarrassed. Trump is right. If Ukraine surrenders, this war is over.
August 16, 2025Aug 16 Putin appears to have accomplished what he came for: Trump drops calls for the killing to stop and decides his timeline is no longer in effect; no consequences on the horizon for Russia; and Putin’s core demands are still miles away from what Ukraine can possibly accept for a true peace agreement. Setting the stage to walk away and blame Zelenskyy.
August 16, 2025Aug 16 On 8/13/2025 at 10:49 AM, Chad Fuck said: Still good. Except as Brisket pointed out, Chamberlain at least had honourable intentions. In Munich Hitler dressed up demands for the Sudetenland by appealing to the demands of the local ethnic German population and their alleged self-determination and desire to unite with Germany. In fact, the Sudetenland was home to Czechoslovakia’s well-designed and maintained hill country defensive positions which were integral to the smaller nation’s strategy to defend itself and buy time while waiting for Allied assistance. The Czechoslovaks had been investing in a modern and capable military. At Munich Hitler was handed Czechoslovakia’s defensive lines and Czechoslovakia lost any faith in Allied assistance. It was defenseless when Germany decided to take the whole thing, which was the plan all along. Extremely strong parallels here for what Putin wants in Ukraine and why.
August 16, 2025Aug 16 Someone is either in a lot of trouble or no trouble at all depending on whether they are career or political appointee. Actually, there will for sure be a career person found at fault. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind Quote Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage. Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees. At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel's public printers. NPR reviewed photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, who NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said they feared retaliation.
August 16, 2025Aug 16 Popular Post 2 hours ago, Hitch said: Ukraine will have to concede territory, the only real question is how much. Russia will have to collapse, the only question is when.
August 16, 2025Aug 16 44 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said: Someone is either in a lot of trouble or no trouble at all depending on whether they are career or political appointee. Actually, there will for sure be a career person found at fault. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind Incompetence at every level
August 16, 2025Aug 16 18 minutes ago, B00M said: Russia will have to collapse, the only question is when. I would love that, but I fear it’s only a matter of time until Russia controls Donetsk.
August 16, 2025Aug 16 48 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said: Someone is either in a lot of trouble or no trouble at all depending on whether they are career or political appointee. Actually, there will for sure be a career person found at fault. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind Public printer? Those things keep metadata of everything printed regardless of whether the docs were just left there
August 16, 2025Aug 16 50 minutes ago, B00M said: Russia will have to collapse, the only question is when. This is the way.
August 16, 2025Aug 16 1 hour ago, B00M said: Russia will have to collapse, the only question is when. More dead Russians. That's the only means to that end that I can foresee. In before 1800
August 16, 2025Aug 16 Russian state media is showing American soldiers on their knees for Putin. This was a massive Trump failure and a humiliating day for the United States
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