RE: *UKRAINE SEEKS TO NATIONALIZE PART OF FERREXPO POLTAVA MINING21 Feb 2025 16:16
TBF even if Trump bottles it (BTW you know he doesn't really think Zelenski is a dictator as if he did he'd be all over him!) it's a very very pyrrhic victory for Putin given he's destroyed both his country, and the pretense that they any kind of player on the world stage rather than a flat track bully who can pick on Georgia and Moldovia but gets a very bloody nose from anything bigger.
Of course with the US involved is better but EU has nothing to fear from Russia and a military threat, it would be the quickest 'war' ever if UK, Germany, France, et al decided to use their real weapons and troops rather than give Ukraine the toys they've grown out of.
Putin's only hope is Trump capitulates and gives him what he wants and somehow can force Ukraine into taking it (not guaranteed at all) the only alternative is continue his war because otherwise he has to admit to himself he's failed against a weak country with a quarter of the population and no real weapons because they gave them up when he lied to them in 1994 about "Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders" not 1949s borders