Trump should be sure to have his beverages tested before drinking.
April 2, 2018
By Jeremy Diamond
Washington - President Donald Trump (click here) and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the possibility of meeting at the White House during a phone call last month, the White House confirmed on Monday.
"As the President himself confirmed on March 20, hours after his last call with President Putin, the two had discussed a bilateral meeting in the 'not-too-distant future' at a number of potential venues, including the White House," White
House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said in a statement.
Shah's comment came after Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Putin, said Trump "offered to hold the first meeting in Washington, in the White House."...
This is ridiculous. Trump looks more and more ridiculous everyday. The USA has sanctions against Russia, its president is not welcome here unless it is to surrender for breaking the treaty that sent Russia to the Ukraine border to kill innocent people.
January 26, 2018
It’s been a busy month for the Russia (click here) and Ukraine-focused think tank analysts in Washington. This Monday is sanctions upgrade day.
Russia experts have been providing new names for U.S. Treasury to sanction, with most of them simply going after anyone and their relatives close to Vladimir Putin. It’s been the talk of the town in some circles in both Washington and Moscow since November.
Meanwhile, the market is betting Treasury won’t sanction Russian securities. Stocks are up over 12% so far this month and beating the rest of the emerging markets.
“Sanctioning Russian bonds hurts American investors more than the Russians,” says Gorky Urquieta a fund manager at Neuberger Berman in Atlanta. That would be especially true if bond sanctions were retroactive....
...“This division in Luhansk and Donetsk is artificial,” says Andreas Umland, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kiev. Donetsk and Luhansk are two of the most important areas within Donbass, the industrial heartland of Ukraine. “This is an area controlled by Moscow. It is a pseudo government. This whole narrative of a Russian Spring and popular uprising is nonsense. Of course they have tapped into local grievances. About a third of the population of those two oblasts are all for Russia and annexation. But it is only a third. In Crimea, it was half. This is basically a proxy war between Russia and Ukraine,” Umland says....
This friendship between Putin and Trump is used in Russia for political purposes. Trump helped get Putin elected. All this nonsense between Putin and Trump is propaganda. I would think Trump would swallow his pride at least once to denounce Russia as an enemy of democracy, the west and the USA.
The result of the Trump - Putin friendship was this:
...“There is a 100% probability of this war ending if there was a change of leadership in Russia,” says Pavel Kanygin, a Novaya Gazeta reporter who covered the fighting for two years when it erupted in 2014....
Trump is Putin's puppet.
Ukraine is at war for one purpose, to continue to hack away at its economy that is getting stronger, but, still forces Ukraine to look to the IMF for relief from its debt and spending under Yanukovych.
RUSSIA IS AN ENEMY OF THE USA. There are sanctions and a unrelenting human rights abuse by Russia of Ukraine. Putin structurally walked away from Minsk II. There is no reason to believe he ever intends to stop the border war with Ukraine.
February 15, 2017
By Peter Poifer
As the two-year anniversary of the Minsk II agreement passes, (click here) the simmering Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Donbas region continues, simmering sometimes at a higher temperature, sometimes at a lower temperature. But the fighting has not definitively stopped. Unfortunately, there is little evidence to suggest improved future prospects for Minsk II’s implementation, primarily because the Kremlin does not seem to want peace....
Trump is a coward and/or grateful for the election of 2016.
This is outrageous!!!!!!!!!
Putin is poison himself to the world.
Stone is the first member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine to be killed on duty. He was killed near the village of Pryshyb, 800 kilometers southeast of Kyiv, in the Russian-controlled part of Luhansk Oblast....
...He was born in Milwaukee in March 1981, and but had lived in Arizona since an early age, CNN said. He went to Prima Community College in Tucson, where he was eventually certified as emergency medical technician (EMT)....
Joseph Stone, 36, (click here) is the American medic killed when his vehicle struck a land mine in the Russia-controlled part of Luhansk Oblast on April 23. He was a contract worker for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Special Monitoring Mission.
The American paramedic killed during a monitoring mission in Ukraine has been identified.
He is Joseph Stone, 36, according to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Special Monitoring Mission.
It is the first time a member of an SMM patrol has been killed while on duty.
"I was absolutely shocked. I always knew it was a possibility," Matthew Stone told CNN, reacting to his brother's death. "He always knew something like this could happen."...
