Ukraine Conflict - In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only war!

[Elerond]

10 minutes ago, majestic said:

 

 

Have to disagree here, Professor Michaels. Even so much as printing any sensitive material on a public printer in a hotel is a breach of security. We have tighter security checks at work. 

I am not sure if they take security seriously, as they are handling classified documents in public wifi,which we know because in order to use public printer in hotel they need to connect in hotel's public wifi.

I am pretty sure that they can't make that wifi secure even with secure vpn, but instead all the communication has been quite easy to access by any spy that has seen little effort

[uuuhhii]

remember when usa fired people oversee their nuclear arsenal

that happened this year 

[Zoraptor]

It's all Elon's fault, one of his cost cutting measures via DOGE was getting rid of all and any secure portable printers.

Mind you, the subscription to HP was doubling the budget deficit.

10 hours ago, HoonDing said:

Did Vladimir say "thank you" even once?

Heh. Five times more than that ingrate Volodomyr.

via the transcript:

"I would like to thank once again my American counterpart, for the proposal to travel out here to Alaska."

"We're thankful to the citizens and the government of the U.S. for carefully taking care of their memory."

"I would like to thank President Trump for our joint work, for the well wishing and trustworthy tone of our conversation."

"Thank you. Thank you."

[BruceVC]

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/crlzey2j406o 

 

What a completely different and positive  meeting with Trump compared to the disaster in February, the EU and Zelensky should be very happy with the outcome which was expected considering the number of prominent EU leaders who attended

Zelensky had clearly been prepped around how to engage with Trump and this included

 

• he was smartly dressed and he received a compliment from a  right-wing journalist
• he thanked Trump and the US on several occasions
• he presented  a personal letter to Trumps wife who cares about the reality of the thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children. This went down very well with Trump, he likes this personal touch
• Zelensky avoided responding in too much detail around his expectations when asked certain questions

 

Trump was also much more relaxed and complimentary to both Ukraine and the EU leaders who travelled to the US. He joked about several things

But key takeaways which we have to wait and see how these things unfold

 

• the US would be involved in a peace keeping role in Ukraine  in some form with the EU. This  would be part of the peace negotiation agreements around security guarantees for Ukraine 
• Trump wants to arrange a Putin and Zelensky direct meeting
• Trump believes Putin will make compromises
• The US is selling Ukraine an additional $90 billion in weapons

 

I do think we are some distance off to this war ending but this was a very constructive engagement with both Russia and Ukraine and a good step in the right direction

For me it highlights again the global influence  and agency of the US, it really is the only country that can bring the likes of Russia and Ukraine with the EU to the negotiating table in a significant way