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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Friday, August 22, 2025

Moscow threw Donald Trump's Ukraine peace initiative into disarray on Thursday, insisting it must have a veto over any postwar support for the country as its forces carried out a large-scale overnight missile barrage. In a series of hardline remarks, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said European proposals to deploy troops in Ukraine after a settlement would amount to "foreign intervention", which he called absolutely unacceptable for Russia. Lavrov said Russia wanted to return to discussing a framework first proposed during the initial peace talks held in Istanbul in 2022, under which Moscow and Beijing would help guarantee Ukraine's security alongside European allies " terms Kyiv considers unacceptable.V

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"Trump's veiled threats against Russia will be welcomed in Kyiv and European capitals, though the US leader has previously backed away from imposing sanctions or boosting support for Ukraine."

Gee, why is this over-the-hill loser called TACO? Lol.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-22 06:06 AM | Reply

All of this saber-rattling and transatlantic threats are tactics to buy time for Vladimir Putin. It's working. Dummkopf Trumpf said that there will be another summit, but in the meantime the Soviet-style human wave attacks and drone barrages are continuing against Ukraine. The Dotard also bought time for Benjamin Netanyahu whose IDF is about to invade Gaza. Some people actually believe the theater the Trumpf junta is presenting about their desire for world peace: i0.wp.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-22 06:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Zelenskyy should offer Trump some personal mining stock and an underage cheerleader.

Then he could have nukes if he wants them; Donnie needs to see what's in it for HIM before he'll lift a tiny finger to help anyone.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-22 09:42 AM | Reply

The brain dead orange pedo is once again giving Russia 2 weeks to ignore his peace plan.

www.ndtv.com

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-22 01:53 PM | Reply

Russia doesn't want peace.

Russia wants Ukraine.

No piece of paper is going to stop that.

BTW it has been a week since Taco's cease fire deadline and not a single "severe action" has happened as Taco promised.

Everything all comes full circle to Russia owning Taco.

He is a fucking joke.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-22 01:58 PM | Reply

@#5 ... Russia doesn't want peace.

Russia wants Ukraine. ...

Pres Putin has even stated that.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 02:15 PM | Reply

@#4 ... giving Russia 2 weeks ...

"2 weeks" is a usual time frame that Pres Trump seems to use.

For Trump, Two Weeks' Is the Magic Number (June 2025)
www.nytimes.com

... "Within the next two weeks."

That is when President Trump now says he will be ready to make his decision about bombing Iran or not. This new timeline was offered by the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at her briefing Thursday afternoon. But as she read the president's statement aloud, some in the room couldn't help but feel that this new time frame sounded a little ... familiar.

As almost everyone in Washington is by now aware, "two weeks" is one of Mr. Trump's favorite units of time.

Asked eight weeks ago if he could trust Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Mr. Trump replied, "I'll let you know in about two weeks."

Tax plans, health care policies, evidence of conspiracy theories he claimed were true, the fight against ISIS, the opening of some coal mines, infrastructure plans -- all were at one point or another riddles he promised to solve for the public in about two weeks.

It is a slippery thing, this two weeks -- not a measurement of time so much as a placeholder. Two weeks for Mr. Trump can mean something, or nothing at all. It is both a yes and a no. It is delaying while at the same time scheduling. It is not an objective unit of time, it is a subjective unit of time. It is completely divorced from any sense of chronology. It simply means later. But later can also mean never. Sometimes. ...



#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 02:19 PM | Reply

... Moscow threw Donald Trump's Ukraine peace initiative into disarray on Thursday, insisting it must have a veto over any postwar support for the country ...

Why is this even a decision that Pres Putin should be involved in?

Did NATO members ask Russia's permission about starting up NATO after WWII?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 02:21 PM | Reply

Two weeks is how long Donnie Dumpster figures it takes the news cycle to bury him saying, 'two weeks".

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-22 02:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#9

Sounds about right.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 02:34 PM | Reply

Surely now he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize!
--Republicans

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 02:40 PM | Reply

PEDO DONNIE IS A TRAITOR

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-23 03:54 PM | Reply

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