Breaking: Putin Agrees to Peace Talks, But Says He Wants to Talk to Trump and Wants to "Remove the Initial Reasons for the Crisis"

That is, he wants Trump to agree that Ukraine will not be allowed in NATO and he will keep the land he's conquered.

He may also have additional demands, like that Ukraine won't be armed by America or Europe, which is probably a non-starter.

This is certainly not an agreement to a lasting peace. But peace can only happen if you can get the warring parties to stop shooting at each other and start talking. So this isn't an end to the war, but it is a necessary step if the war is to ever end.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

BREAKING: Russia agrees with U.S./Ukraine ceasefire, but wants to speak to Trump first.

PUTIN: "We agree with the proposals for the ceasefire, but our position is based on the assumption that the ceasefire would lead to long-term peace, something that would remove the initial reasons for the crisis."

More meetings expected on this situation today.

Trump increased pressure on Russia by slapping sanctions on banks that processed Russia oil sales to the EU. Biden, who was supposedly such a Hard Guy on Russia, had not done this. In fact, he specifically suspended sanctions on banks processing Russia oil sales.

Biden wanted cheap oil for his reelection, so he wasn't going to squeeze what actually needed to be squeezed.

Posted by: Leupold

What a statesman. A modern day George Washington.

Will this lead to peace? Who knows. But Trump is the only one who's gotten the ball this far. Sure it's on the fifteen yard line but he's the only one that even got the ball on to the field.

posted by Ace at 01:20 PM

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