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Putin is more likely to increase the intensity of attacks on Ukraine to test the willingness of the west to defend it.

So I was going to say the government might decide something like 75 RR 25 Westinghouse, but what we actually end up with after the Big Orange Bully's threats is something more like what CWWX says

Just for clarification - you really mean 'Who will get the contract?', as distinct from 'What will the government announce'?

LoL - what did I say, @Badland? But it's so good of you to report the SP multiple times per day. I have no idea where I could get this information from otherwise...

@JohnSilk - well I guess you're partly right: it's not just the prospects of FXPO and Ukraine that Trump is crashing, but the entire global economy. Middle East peace unravelling before it even got started, Ukraine looking like a combination of forced surrender and an extortion racket, global trade war looming, US inflation heading inexorably upwards, Atlantic security fundamentally threatened.... Top first 50 days! Give him a medal (a Hero of the Russian Federation medal, that is...)

@LemonTree - oops, letting the cat out of the bag: "surrender". Yes, that's what you're advocating.

I foresee a period with a LOT of moaning from @Badland...

Market reacting to reports from the US that Trump will also demand other aspects of Putin's agenda, including immediate elections or resignation of Zelensky and irrevocable ceding of territory. In other words hand Ukraine to Putin on a plate.

I think you're on the wrong bulletin board, LemonTree.

Wow, Russia really is running short of capable adults...

Disgusting treachery by Trump resulting in mass destruction in Ukraine today. Still, if there's an upside, it's that it creates another mass of people that want Trump dead, and another country he'll never be safe visiting.

Lemon Tree - the bearer of bitter fruits, the colour of cowardice.

@LearningtoInvest - don't joke about it - he already sees himself as 'King Donald'. I guess that'll be the Lying King...

And intensified bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure and other targets every day of the week indefinitely thanks to Trump's betrayal.

@LemonTree - Zelensky made it very publicly clear he'd resign immediately for NATO membership for his country and - completely reasonably, he'll settle for any kind of credible security guarantees. He's even prostrated himself before Trump - about the most self-effacing thing anyone could do - in the cause of peace for his country. Your pro-Putin playbook was pretty much exhausted already a fortnight ago. Now your cretinous tropes are just risible and boring.

@EIE01. Seems very likely. And, frankly, who would deny him that for what he's done? And for sure, he'll forever be living under the threat of Putin's (and possibly Trump's) assassins, so he's not going to have the kind of life of extreme indulgence that, say, Trump has.

@popo. The whole point is to fund a peace, not a conflict. You need to read your playbook a bit better - or is it running out of arguments?

Reportedly 20 countries will join the 'Coalition of the Willing'. Trump fast returning to his previous and well-deserved irrelevance - main concern is whether Trump now throws all his toys out of the pram... Oh, for starters, he's reportedly considering revoking the legal status of the250,000 Ukrainian refugees in the US. Unbelievable....

Oh, you know, those long-standing international high-reputation news agencies with trained journalists that understand concepts like verification, fact checking etc. In other words, what you and the Trump bros would no doubt call 'Lying Liberal Left Woke Conspiracy legacy organisations', as you repeat everything you see in Trump's social media feed...

LoL, you think German companies are going to invest billions in a country being rapidly and systemically destabilised, where the rule of law is being undermined, and which is aligned with and compromised by Russia?