NEW YORK (AP) — Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the 3 1/2-year war.

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    9 days ago

    Trump is a profligate liar so that weighs about as much as his claims about ivermectin vs. COVID or pretending he didn’t know anything about Project 2025

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      9 days ago

      “The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”

      Morally, he shouldn’t, but maybe he does. 😔

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    9 days ago

    “Style” — how about just letting them join NATO and be done with it.

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      8 days ago

      That might actually be effective, so I’m sure that Trump will be opposed to it, because it won’t please Putin to support it.

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      8 days ago

      Ukraine is not going to join NATO, ever.

      Something like this was said recently by Trump

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        8 days ago

        Sure, and Trump also said he’d pull out of NATO. So cementing it as “ever” while his own say on the matter is quite limited, makes me not give half a shit what he thinks.

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    7 days ago

    Unfortunately neither what Putin says or what the Trump administration says is worth more than a fart in the wind.