Roman Sheremeta
Professor of Economics, Board Member, Founding Rector of American University Kyiv
Feb 15, 2025
Summary of recent US statements:
- There will be no American troops in Ukraine. Or maybe there will be.
- Ukraine will not join NATO. Or maybe it will.
- Sanctions against russia may be lifted. Or they may be strengthened.
- Ukraine will not get nuclear weapons. Or Ukraine may receive them.
Source: Anton Gerashchenko
Comment from :
Dave Hassan
In war, practice dissimulation, and you will succeed.
Sun Tzu
The future is hard to predict because it hasn’t happened yet.
-Burton Richter, Nobel Laureate
Igor Dykhno
It is so shameful to recognize how immature current administration.
William Pardy
It appears, there in no leader in America, Musk is the acting President, Trump appears to be unaware what is happpening.
He makes speeches, has meetings talks nonsense, and then the next day talks different nonsense about other things.
Musk is only interested in destroying the government and getting every Americans private information for some nefarious reason.
And everyone else in the government are saying things, renegagging on them and making different statements to suit the occasion.
One day the government is supporting Putin the next day threatening him with war. Trump intends to rule the world with tariffs and take over Gaza, Canada, Greenland, and several other places.
His big aim is to get all the money in the world in the treasury so he can claim it all as his.
He needs to be in a safe, padded room where he can’t hurt himself. You can see that when Musk is meeting and talking to everyone while he looks around, with no idea where he is or what is going going on.
Nedder McDonnell
Well, l hope that the Russian drone attack on the nuclear shield at Chernobyl is not a probe. If so, one may see an attack on the Zaporizhian nuclear complex or an engineered accident. Do not count on Trump; he is enthralled by a homo-erotic bromance with Putin.
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Any such conversion of nuclear infrastructure into a weapon of mass destruction should elicit a Western response attendant to a dirty bomb, if not a full nuclear strike. Chernobyl explosion of 1986 was an event that hastened the collapse of the erstwhile (with good riddance) U.S.S.R. 😱
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The art of making deals from Trump
Before you start trading, hand in all your receipts:
- Immediately refuse the demand to return internationally recognized territories.
- Immediately, you will not threaten to join NATO.
- Confess right away, you don’t even plan to continue fighting, no matter how unprofitable the result of negotiations would be.
After that:
- Write a tweet in which you confess super respect to your opponent, recognize his strength and right to grab, and assure that you will definitely agree on something.
- Write a tweet that your partner needs to agree to practically any conditions.
- Tell your partner who was attacked by the enemy didn’t need to start this war.
- And that your partner has to agree and make up.
Vasyl Taras
Comment from :
Paul C.
His friend obviously seeks peace by releasing hell on earth by targeting Chernobyl and breaching the protective shield…. but he’s a nice guy and he wants to stop the killing … 🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰
Either Trump is a fantastic poker player, completely oblivious of the characteristics of Putin or just doesn’t care about the importance of the position he holds within world geopolitics…..
I’ll go with the latter ….
Michael KaBecker
I have a sneaking suspicion that Putin wasn’t necessarily the intended recipient of these messages. Perhaps the real audience is the Europeans, urging them to wake up from their deep sleep and take action themselves.
Without EU troops and real substantial support, Putin will win. Do the Germans, British, and French really want that? 🤔
Dennis Luckens
I am sick. It’s beyond comprehension. We knew before and now we know for sure Rump is a Russian asset and Pitler and Busk are sending Billions of dollars into his offshore accounts. I have a beautiful house in Mykolaiv. If what Trump is giving up remains true then Kherson becomes Russia and my house is now 25 Kilometers from Russia who attacked us twice in my 15 years living in Ukraine and 100% for sure they will attack and invade again.
Michael Scoines
I know it sounds pessimistic but there are two real options on the table.
1) We carry on and give more longer range weapons, take Russia’s infrastructure apart and wait for a collapse of state.
2) We actually realise that Pootin is going to go to war with Europe anyway, even if it’s in a few years from now because he wants his empire back.
Winston Grace
Defense Secretary and former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth was for a loss of words when asked what will Russia concede?
What is also worrisome is that Trump had signed the deal with the Taliban, and only the Taliban and not the Afghanistan government, for what was basically the U.S. to leave Afghanistan. A lesser known part of history was the abandonment of U.S. bases in Syria because the prime minister of Turkey kept asking him to get out of the way when Turkish forces enter Syria. The U.S. got ripped off in both deals because expensive U.S. equipment in now in the hands of opponents to the U.S. after what had happened in both events.
Christopher J. Wajnikonis
Seeing President Trump parroting Putin’s L1ΣS after meetings with Putin and for years afterwards I do not think Putin respects him at all, which would be a great surprise to President Trump. Putin knows when he L1ΣS. Putin would not L1Σ to somebody he respects. And Putin cannot possibly respect somebody he can twist around his finger that easily with a sequence of L1ΣS that are so obvious.
That is why Putin prefers to deal with Trump Administration. But the outcome would still be the same – WW 3 later. In this case probably after Ukraine would be sold out, which makes it even worse than WW 3 towards which the ‘Democrats’ were putting us adrift.
It is unfortunate to just having had an important election with both sides being terrible choices and no discussion whatsoever in the media.
Stalin had admired Hitler. His admiration ended on June 22, 1941 AFTER Hitler attacked the ussr in “Operation Barbarossa”.
President Trump appears to have a similar admiration for Putin. It will end one day in a similar way.
Please note what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about Stalin:
“Distrust of people was the dominating characteristic of Joseph Djugashvili; it was his only philosophy of life. He had not trusted his own mother; neither had he trusted God, before whom as a young man he had bowed down in His temple. He had not trusted his fellow Party members, especially those with the gift of eloquence . . . In all his long, suspicion-ridden life he had only trusted one man…This man, whom Stalin had trusted, was Adolf Hitler.”
Solzhenitsyn was a novelist, dramatist, and historian. With his works, the Gulags, a network of Soviet labor camp (see forced labor), became well known. Due to this, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, but also was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. In 1994, Solzhenitsyn went back to Russia. <<
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Vice President JD Vance stated that the US will impose sanctions on Moscow and may deploy troops to Ukraine if Putin does not sign an agreement guaranteeing Kyiv’s long-term security.
Just days ago, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed the possibility of Washington sending troops to Ukraine.
Recently, President Trump also made a number of contradicting statements. First, saying that the US will not be providing additional support to Ukraine and then changing his statment.
All of this suggests one thing – the US administration doesn’t have a concrete plan how to stop the war and are adopting based on circumstances and reactions from people.
If so, this might actually be good, because it means that we can influence their decisions.
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Surprising comment from Nigel Farage on peace deal in Ukraine: “Ukraine now joining NATO is almost an essential part of this peace deal.”
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Trump:
Congratulations to Roman and his lovely wife. After many years of trying, they just had their first baby. Hopefully many more to come.
After this terrible war we must hope that all fertile Ukrainians will start pumping out babies in huge numbers.
I was puzzling about Nigel Farage, whose party is currently heading the polls in the U.K. His switch to advocating Ukraine’s Nato membership was a pleasant surprise. Because he is a 20 year veteran of RaT appearances and disseminating kremlin lies, naturally Trumpkov sought and secured his friendship.
Here is a possible explanation. Speculation only I’m afraid:
New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has stated that an electoral pact with Farage’s Reform Party is “for the birds.” However, rumours are that back channel negotiations are under way to form a Megaparty. If the putlerist crap of his party is quietly dumped, a merger could indeed be possible. It might be the only way to prevent years of damaging socialism.
Sir Kier Starmer’s party is basically crap at everything, but I will credit him with one thing: he chose a good DefSec and is proving to be steadfast on Ukraine. $6 billion of support is going to Ukraine and that will include the manufacture of many thousands of attack drones. There is another $500 million of humanitarian support too.
Watch the video at the end : “Trump addresses Ukraine” and marvel about how a rambling pub bore is again in charge of the most powerful country in the world.
He’s in charge of the most powerful country because of the wise decisions of intelligent legislators especially those of the Greatest Generation. Trump is bad mouthing those who created what he has and seems to be bent on destroying.