(So congrats Ben from The Midas Touch. You got what you wanted. The meeting between Trump and Putin which could have helped produce an end to a 3-year-old war which has taken millions of lives has been cancelled due to Europe's malign influence. You and the Nazis in Ukraine should be happy. BTW, did you know Zbigniew Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard is largely about curbing Russia's influence in the world and expanding NATO right to their doorstep... in Ukraine? Awesome work there Benji. You and EuroFascists are keeping Zbigniew's dream alive!)
David C. Hendrickson, in his article in Foreign Affairs on November 1, 1997, saw the core of the book as the ambitious strategy of NATO to move eastward to Ukraine's Russian border and vigorously support the newly independent republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus, which is an integral part of what Hendrickson said could be called a "tough love" strategy for the Russians. Hendrickson considers "this great project" to be problematic for two reasons: the "excessive expansion of Western institutions" could well introduce centrifugal forces into it; moreover, Brzezinski's "test of what legitimate Russian interests are" seems to be so strict that even a democratic Russia would probably "fail".[14]
(Good job Ben from Midas Touch and other Russophobes... the dreaded threat of peace has been killed in the crib just like the truce deal was whacked back in April of 2022. Let's hope your great work will cause another million murdered Ukrainians and Russians. Genius.)
from Politico
President Donald Trump’s second summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is off.
The White House said Tuesday that the planned meeting in Budapest, announced by Trump just last week after his two-hour phone call with Putin, was no longer in the works after Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” said a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the plans. “Therefore, an additional in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.”
The rapid dissolution of plans for another summit between Trump and Putin just two months after they met in Alaska stemmed again from Russia’s refusal to budge from its maximalist positions on what it would take for it to halt its war in Ukraine.
In a press conference in Moscow Tuesday, Lavrov said he informed Rubio that Russia’s position — that a peace agreement must come before a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine — has not changed. And he said he was surprised by a CNN report about disagreement during the call over Russia’s “maximalist” demands.
“I believe American officials have concluded that Russia’s position has remained largely unchanged over time and remains within the bounds of its initial ‘maximalist’ demands,” Lavrov said. “Russia has not altered its positions compared to understandings and prolonged negotiations between Putin and Trump in Alaska.”
Russia has long called for the elimination of the “root causes” of the war in Ukraine, claiming that its growing alignment with Europe and desire to join NATO amount to an existential threat. Putin has questioned the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and urged new elections in Ukraine, called for the end of the so-called persecution of Russian speakers and demanded that Ukraine doesn’t join NATO. He frequently peppers his speeches on Ukraine with unsubstantiated claims that the country is filled with “Nazis.”
“We remain entirely committed to this formula and I confirmed it yesterday in the conversation with Marco Rubio,” Lavrov said...
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