03-25-2025, 12:15 PM
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(03-25-2025, 10:53 AM)quintessentone Wrote: It appears Putin needs to keep the war going to keep the money flowing.
Negotiations at this point in time, to me, seem doomed to failure, unless Russia can come out of this economically unscathed if he agrees to a complete ceasefire and peace.
As long as they are talking, and seemingly ratcheting down hostilities on certain line items.
I was listening about the negotiations on an X space and one commenter suggested Trump will hand Putin through his worldwide contacts major contracts on Russian imports and exports, hopefully enough to get Putin to cede atleast Donbas and Luhansk. If not they will try and set up Zelensky and Ukraine with contracts to offset the loss of territory .
Also mentioned talks about a 10-mile DMZ, particularly on the eastern border
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