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ElaineH retweeted
Kushner: “Russia is asking Ukrainians and Europeans are they really genuinely ready for peace?”
I’m glad they have flags on the tables, bc otherwise I’d be confused.
ElaineH retweeted
⚡ “We’re ready for a leaders-level meeting, but I'm not sure if the Russians are ready.”
Zelenskyy reaffirmed Kyiv’s readiness for direct presidential negotiations, questioning whether Moscow has any genuine intent to engage.
ElaineH retweeted
I've written an article today, pre-empting why this process is a failure.
The sentence below is worse than anything I anticipated this afternoon.
Kushner:
#russia is asking Ukrainians and Europeans are they really genuinely ready for peace?
Wait. What? #russia the country that started the war, the one that’s been killing Ukrainian civilians and destroying all livelihood in #Ukraine is not sure if we want peace?
This is so ridiculous. For #moscow the sign #Kyiv is ready for peace = Kyiv is ready to surrender. Territories in Donetsk and Luhansk russia doesn’t event hold control over. Remission of russia to European energy markets and the lifting of sanctions is also a condition for russia to believe Europe and Ukraine truly want peace.
This is typical putinist coercion and manipulation. The only thing such an approach yields is a waste of time and human lives.
ElaineH retweeted
Putin’s ideology is war. He has nothing before, after, or outside of war. Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine. There is no conception of a durable peace.
.@jaredkushner says President Trump believes the war has gone on too long and is "disturbed" by the toll the Russia-Ukraine war has caused. Kushner says him and Steve Witkoff "strongly" believe Russians and President Putin are ready for peace.
ElaineH retweeted
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Zelenskyy is asked a @Douthat60-esque question:
Reporter: "Will you be able to forgive Putin?"
Zelenskyy: "Not, of course."
ElaineH retweeted
Mark my words: this Putin-Trump arranged capitulation plan for Ukraine aka "peace plan" will ends WITH BIG NOTHING.
Mark my words: this plan for Ukraine’s capitulation aka "peace plan" agreed upon by Putin and Trump - will end with a BIG NOTHING.
Russia is exploiting the weakness of the Trump administration to push unrealistic demands that neither Ukraine nor the EU will ever accept.
The only outcome of this policy of appeasement will be even more dead Ukrainians...
ElaineH retweeted
Russia possesses over 5,400 nuclear warheads, maintains one of the world's largest militaries, and has repeatedly invaded its neighbors.
It doesn't need security guarantees against Ukraine.
Ukraine needs security guarantees against Russia.
Stop confusing the aggressor with the victim.
ElaineH retweeted
On the negotiations in Abu Dhabi, my position is simple: nothing has really changed.
I don’t believe for a second that Russia is ready to stop this war. And frankly, I don’t think these are real negotiations about ending the war.
All this talk about Russia needing security guarantees, NATO borders, and so on? I see it as nothing more than delaying tactics.
It’s political theater, with Americans and Russians playing their parts. And unfortunately, Ukrainians have to participate because they have little choice.
But the reality is much simpler.
Russia will not stop this war until continuing it becomes more costly than stopping it. Until Moscow faces serious pressure and concludes that it has more to lose than to gain by fighting, why would it stop?
And right now, I don’t see the United States applying the kind of pressure that could fundamentally change Russia’s calculations.
ElaineH retweeted
Labour have finally done the right thing & introduced a proper smartphone ban in schools.
They voted against a ban seven times & dismissed our call as an “unnecessary, headline-grabbing gimmick”.
Labour have been on quite a journey, but I welcome this newfound common sense.
ElaineH retweeted
Meet Nikki. She’s a mum in her fifties.
Since her job in a nursery became all too much, she’s started receiving universal credit.
Without qualifications and, as she put it, being ‘no good at computers’, she's struggling to find another job.
But that’s not why she came to speak to us.
Her real worry was her son, Jack, who signed on the moment he turned 18.
He's got autism and ADHD, but Nikki wants him to work.
She's frustrated the state is paying him money to stay at home. She desperately wants the job centre to get on his case.
But there’s no sign of that.
So, Jack is literally left to his own devices, gaming in his bedroom most of the time.
Who would want that life for their child?
Stories like Jack's are increasingly common.
It’s a disaster.
Hundreds of thousands of young people are setting out on a life on benefits.
Only the Conservatives have a detailed plan to put an end to this and help young people into work. We’ll halve National Insurance for employers hiring 21 to 24-year-olds, create 100,000 more apprenticeships, and introduce a Get to Work programme to stop young people going straight from education onto benefits.
ElaineH retweeted
Such fools. NATO kept a war from ever happening between the USSR/Russia and the USA. It worked, and these fools are playing Risk for dummies.
Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff and @jaredkushner on U.S.-Russia-Ukraine peace talks:
Kushner: "Not only do we want to end the war with Ukraine, we wanna come up with a way where we can avoid wars for the next century."
Witkoff: "We feel that there is real momentum here."
ElaineH retweeted
Those who allowed Russell Brand’s behaviour to go unchecked - including senior Labour MPs - must reflect on their own culpability.
After Brand's lawyer tried to claim journalists had perverted the course of justice by reporting on Brand's treatment of other women, we need action to stop this abuse of procedure.
And we need to stop the legal intimidation of victims and witnesses, and the use of injunctions - like by David Walliams - to prevent scrutiny and obstruct the vital work of the free press.
ElaineH retweeted
Jared Kushner thinks Europe’s security order is the problem. It isn’t. Russia’s effort to overturn it by force is.
His “new” framework is the Charter of Paris. Moscow signed it in 1990, then spent 35 years breaking it. newsletter.ivodaalder.com/p/…
ElaineH retweeted
NEW: European allies are still waiting on Washington’s green light to supply Ukraine with PAC-3 missiles through PURL, sources tell me.
Meanwhile, no PAC-3 deliveries from earlier U.S. supplemental packages reached Ukraine in October.
ElaineH retweeted
Ross Douthat asked if Zelenskyy's anger at Putin was understandable after Russia invaded Ukraine. Trump conceded it was, then complained of "great disrespect shown to Russia." Douthat actually had to say "invading, disrespecting" to explain the difference.
Later, Trump predicted Ukraine would emerge from the war with "a little bit different shape." Think about that hierarchy of concerns. A sovereign country is fighting to keep its people and territory, and the American president is worried about the aggressor's wounded pride. Putin's feelings get diplomatic protection. Ukraine's borders get a negotiating table.
ElaineH retweeted
It’s anything but Trilateral…….
Call me old fashioned, but I thought we had those in place already?
We are encouraged by the constructive discussions today. At President @realDonaldTrump's direction, we are working to end this devastating war and establish the security arrangements necessary for a sovereign, secure, and prosperous Ukraine and lasting peace across Europe.
ElaineH retweeted
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are the best and currently only guarantee of peace and security in Europe.
Russians, Putin and Putin puppet Trump are the initiators and extenders of a war that will go on forever unless they are totally defeated and unconditionally surrender.
ElaineH retweeted
ZELENSKYY
The russians genuinely believe they control half of the Donbas territory that we actually hold.
It’s half the area—not a single village. They talk about it as if it’s a fact.
Our team can’t understand how they can even make that claim when our soldiers are there.
putin is living in a different reality.
Yes he does he lives in the same reality as trump 🤡
ElaineH retweeted
Exactly.
1. Ceding the Donbas would not curb russia’s ambitions;
2. It is a crucial line of defense for Ukraine;
3. In these territories, russia is committing torture, murder, rape, and deportations;
4. International law matters.
This is non-negotiable.
russia must be defeated.
Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.
This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”
“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”
“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”
They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?
From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)