Nov 13, 2026
Was Donald Trump ever serious about securing peace for Ukraine? After nearly two years of U.S.-mediated negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, another round of talks on Nov. 10-11 in Abu Dhabi ended without a breakthrough. The Kyiv Independent’s Martin Fornusek speaks with Phillips O’Brien, a U.S. historian and professor of strategic studies, about the latest negotiations and Trump’s approach to ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. O’Brien argues that the U.S. is pushing for a deal that favors Moscow. They discuss Trump’s efforts to restore business ties with Russia, the implications for European security, and why Europe must take greater responsibility for supporting Ukraine.
Mykhailo Rohoza :
🇪🇺 KAJA KALLAS: RUSSIA DOES NOT GET TO CHOOSE WHO REPRESENTS EUROPE.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has declared herself ready to represent Europe in peace negotiations with Russia, regardless of Moscow’s objections.
“I know that the Russians don’t want me. But do we have a say in who represents Russia? No, we don’t.”
Kallas reminded European leaders that they appointed her in 2024 to represent the EU on foreign and security policy. She insisted that Europe must not merely attend negotiations but have genuine influence over their outcome.
She also warned against allowing Moscow to dictate the agenda or use negotiations about European security to distract from its invasion of Ukraine.
“We have one aggressor and one victim. The aggressor does not have security concerns, as nobody has ever attacked them. They have attacked others. Keep the focus, people.”
Her position is clear: first a ceasefire, then a peace agreement, and only afterward broader security negotiations. Russia cannot dictate who sits across the table.
Darth Putin KGB :
Donald: Putin wants to do a deal. All he wants is the Donbass
Prez: Actually, I want all of Donbass, Kherson & Zaporizhzhia as a start, then all of rest of Ukraine, then 🇫🇮&🇸🇪 out of NATO and all of 🇱🇹🇪🇪🇱🇻🇵🇱🇨🇿🇸🇮🇸🇰🇷🇴🇧🇬 defenceless against Russia
Donald: See, all he wants is Donbass
Garry Kasparov :
Historically speaking, appeasing belligerent dictators has an even lower success rate than the Republican Party just had in the midterms.
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Mykhailo Rohoza :
Timothy Snyder: Russia has no chance of conquering Ukraine. Its only remaining path to victory runs through Donald Trump.
In an interview with Gavin Newsom, historian Timothy Snyder delivered a devastating assessment of Russia’s war and the Trump administration.
Russia is losing enormous numbers of soldiers, resorting to forced recruitment, and suffering Ukrainian strikes against its oil infrastructure. According to Snyder, the White House is virtually alone in claiming that Russia is winning.
Putin’s last remaining strategic resource is Trump. Russia hopes to manipulate him into imposing an unjust peace agreement on Ukraine. Once that possibility is exhausted, a ceasefire could become realistic — but not before spring 2027.
Snyder argues that Trump and JD Vance are deliberately undermining Europe, supporting far-right movements and weakening the EU. Silicon Valley interests would benefit from dismantling European regulations on social media.
He describes Germany’s AfD as effectively a Russian or Russian-American political force, supported by the Trump administration.
Snyder also argues that Ukraine’s resistance in February 2022 helped preserve democracy far beyond its borders. Without Ukrainian resistance, Europe and America would face a much more Russian-dominated, oligarchic world.
His conclusion is devastating: Trump and Vance have failed as statesmen and as human beings because they cannot acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of Ukrainians.
Russia cannot defeat Ukraine on the battlefield. Its greatest remaining hope sits in the White House.
Anthony Scaramucci :
What Trump has done vis-à-vis Ukraine, our allies, and his own country is unacceptable.
You don’t act like that if you’re an American president.
Every move he made before the election was counter to any proper move you’d make if you were actually trying to support Republicans, and he was openly cuddling up to the Russians.
He brought them to the G20 in the middle of all this.
Americans are smart enough to know how much damage Russia has done globally, to American prestige, to American lives around the world.
And this man is an ass-kisser of Vladimir Putin.
No American president sitting on the largest military and the strongest economy in the world would genuflect to a country with an economy smaller than Italy’s.
Unless he’s compromised!!
What would be even worse is if he wasn’t compromised.
Phillips P. OBrien is a professor at St Andrews, one of the best universities in the world. As a historian, he is in the same league as Timothy Snyder.
Trump has a murderous hatred of Ukraine that is treasonous to the United States.
Two of the most verminous scumbags ever to operate in U.S. politics are his closest friends. Like all his close friends they are like himself, convicted criminals.
They are Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, who was Ukraine’s most lethal enemy outside ruZZia until Trump; aka Krasnov, took power and inserted Nazi sympathizers like himself into top level jobs in his stinking regime.
Great post from Illia Ponomarenko just now :
Once again, an enormous thank you to all the people around the world who continue to stand with Ukraine today, speak out in its support, and help us in so many ways, from the highest corridors of power to grassroots volunteer efforts, or even simply by showing basic human compassion. And especially to those who have taken up arms and joined the ranks of the Ukrainian military.
Thank you!
Even the simple fact that, after nearly five years of this war, in a world as fickle and rapidly changing as ours, so many people still support Ukraine so passionately means awfully a lot. Especially in the face of torrents of the most shameless, all-pervasive propaganda coming from every direction.
Thank you, people of the free world!
Ukraine loves you. And when the time comes, Ukraine will repay your wisdom and solidarity many times over with its gratitude.
I believe Illia’s words wholeheartedly.
Ukraine will remember who their friends are.
And who their enemies are.
The time will come when trumputler and their evil camp followers will start to feel some real pressure.
Nazis and nazi sympathizers are one and the same. There must be a reckoning for all the murder, rape, torture, desecration, mutilation, thieving and toxic lies.
Trumputler must face the music before they die natural deaths.
Zelensky reveals when Ukraine expects first delivery of Swedish Gripen fighter jets
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-reveals-when-ukraine-expects-first-delivery-of-swedish-gripen-fighter-jets/