Can Donald Trump actually end the Ukraine war? Jeffrey Sachs thinks he can.

[WVK]

Chapters: 0:00 Jeffrey Sachs’ Story on How He Met Viktor Orban 2:55 Bill Clinton’s Shadowy Deep State Project 11:13 The Three Most Important Things Donald Trump Has Done So Far 14:41 Why Can’t We Have Rational Conversations Anymore? 23:55 The Global Chess Game of American Dominance 25:24 Why the US Sows Chaos in Foreign Countries 28:31 How Far Will the Deep State Go to Sabotage Trump? 33:30 What Tulsi Gabbard’s Confirmation Means for the US 41:42 How the Democrats’ Own Foreign Policy Totally Backfired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pyNlGyKYw4

 

[+and-then]

It remains to be seen if he can end the Ukraine debacle without giving up too much to Putin.  While that route might, might be worthwhile if followed up with a massive military buildup, it could also give Xi dangerous ideas.

I hope Trump's ideas in the Palestinian situation are grounded in Israel's reality and not some ego-driven demand to have "peace" in name only.  He demanded a ceasefire.  He has demanded Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon even though the LAF has not, and likely cannot keep Hizballah from re-infiltrating the south.  If he wants to bring peace to that region it will require the removal of the Iranian mullah's regime.  Anything else will be no more than a delay in facing that regime.  Now is the time to end them.  It may be the last chance before they assemble nukes.

[Ajay0]

9 hours ago, WVK said:

How Far Will the Deep State Go to Sabotage Trump? 33:30

This is what is worrisome.

JFK and his predecessor Eisenhower had warned about the increasing power and influence of the military-industrial complex. JFK's decision not to sent troops to Vietnam was overturned after his untimely and mysterious death, and his successor Johnson sent troops to Vietnam leading to high profits for the military-industrial complex for a decade till the American defeat and withdrawal.

The assassination attempts against Trump where he escaped by a whisker might have cowed him, and he would be vulnerable to suggestions by the deep state not to stand against their wishes, imho. 

It is also possible that he can be subjected to assasination attempts in the future as well. 

[Setton]

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Can Donald Trump actually end the Ukraine war? 

Well yes. Anyone can surrender.

[+joc]

Whatever happened to, Day One the war in Ukraine is over!  ?

[Unusual Tournament]

On 2/19/2025 at 7:12 AM, and-then said:

It remains to be seen if he can end the Ukraine debacle without giving up too much to Putin.  While that route might, might be worthwhile if followed up with a massive military buildup, it could also give Xi dangerous ideas.

Wars like most things in life need to have a clear start and finish time otherwise they’re always lost. This was Biden’s war from the start and he should have finished it long before the elections and passed on to Trump. The fact that he couldn’t tells me its intended goal was for regime change and the dismantling of Russia and nothing to do Ukraine as it was just a proxy. Ukraine was about 20 years in the making and didn’t start in 2022. A strategic gambit. It failed and the mess wasn’t worth cleaning up. So no neo-con really has much to say in how Trump is stopping this war. It has been a whirlpool of violence, money and deception from day one and it’s ending because its original goals cannot be met. Ukraine independence is over

Not saying that Russia is innocent but the sad truth is the Ukraine war was a gamble that didn’t pay off and as such it’s hard to lose a proxy war and then try to stop Russia from walking away with nothing. Putin has won and to the victor goes the spoils since Biden refused or didn’t have the capacity to end the war on his terms. 
 

 

[pellinore]

On 2/18/2025 at 9:12 PM, and-then said:

It remains to be seen if he can end the Ukraine debacle without giving up too much to Putin.  While that route might, might be worthwhile if followed up with a massive military buildup, it could also give Xi dangerous ideas.

He has already given up everything to Putin. That's not negotiation, that capitulation.  If he actually wanted  to end the war he would just tell Putin to get out of Ukraine.