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Well it's been a few days since this supposedly big meeting with Trump and Putin.  So far nothing big has been announced so I'll start looking into what said about it.  I'm sure most of it will be generic 'was it good for you too?' praise.  I do know that it was followed up by Trump meeting with Zelensky today and Trump says he wants a three-way at the end of the week.  Dude, you're married.

□ [“Trump and Putin Reach Tentative Peace Agreement – Trump Says Deal is Ultimately Up to Ukraine”]

Well yes, both sides of the war have to agree on not fighting any more.  And don't forget Europe.  They've made it clear that they'll send in troops as soon as there's a ceasefire so Russia has no incentive to stop moving forward.  Given Zelensky's association with European elites, it's quite possible that they're really the ones who want the war and Zelensky's just following orders.  He doesn't have to answer to his people, he's following his masters.

Supposedly Russia has agreed to take less land which just doesn't sound like the Russia *I* know.  Frankly there's no incentive to give up the territory they've already taken and they will definitely keep a lot of that anyway because, you know, they've already won.  But Zelensky says they refuse to stop fighting until they have all their land back.  That not how wars work.

I get the impression that Russia saw no benefit for this summit but Putin was passing time.  And it looks like Trump is trying to find a way out of this.  He's definitely worked very hard to get both sides to the table but he seems to be aiming more at a point where he can say 'I tried everything, now you handle it yourself.'  At which point Ukraine and Europe would have no support from the US against Russia.  It's not like the EU has done anything in the last few years to make itself capable of fighting a war.

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□ [“Trump Holds Multilateral Meeting with European Leaders After Meeting With Zelensky"]

This happened today.  I would like to think Trump ripped them apart and told them to get the hell out of his office but I'm sure that didn't happen.  He did make a public statement before the meeting that Ukraine was not joining NATO or getting the Crimea back.  They lost the Crimea in 2014 so if that's a motivation to fight, it hasn't worked out very well.  And Europe shouldn't care either way, yet for some reason they do.

Possibly showing what mood they were in, earlier today, Ukraine hit a Russian pipeline that passed through western Ukraine to Hungary.  Hungary isn't happy about that and Ukraine doesn't care.  They are willing to damage a fellow NATO/EU member to keep this war going.  Or would if they had ever joined NATO and the EU.  Pretty sure these European leaders won't side with their long-time ally Hungary over the non-member Ukraine.  And these are the people you're willing to fight for?

So maybe this is going somewhere but if Trump isn't trying to get out of the mess entirely, he's just getting in deeper and deeper.  There's no way that's a good move.  It's why I think this is actually part of Russia's plan - and possibly BRICS - although it's certainly possible they're in as big a mess as everyone else.  But that's the nice thing about not caring what happens to Russia and Ukraine, it's a good reason to leave.  Amusingly, with all this, I haven't even mentioned what, if anything, the sanctions and tariffs are doing.

As always, the leftist media seems to be reporting how horrible this all was.  Like their masters, they've always supported the war and have unanimously opposed Russia.  I try not to be the type who says 'whatever the media supports, I'm against it' but they don't make it easy.  It would be nice to think that at some level this is a war against leftism and they're going to lose.

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□ [“Texas Democrats Cave and Return from Walkout, Clearing Path to Secure Redistricting Victory"]

Yeah, right.  Total victory.  Nobody was arrested for committing crimes.  Nobody even lost their rank or committee spots.  The House hasn't been able to reach a quorum because they didn't have enough people.  Sounds like if they go through with the redistricting, it'll be exactly the way Democrats want it.

Obama even called these Democrats up a few days ago.  Probably passing along whatever the next step of the plan was, keeping them enthusiastic.  In one sense, the party is united, against America and everyone in it.  In another sense, they're all different groups of leftists who will eventually turn against each other.  The problem is that we don't know who's working with who.

But I see no reason to be optimistic about Texas.  Hopefully I'm wrong.  Most people don't give any thought to redistricting but I get the impression that if they thought about it, they wouldn't like the idea, so at least there's that.  This event has made more people think about this stuff.  That is a disadvantage Democrats have, these days whenever they pick a goal, a large majority opposes it.

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□ [“Eric Swalwell Goes Full Unhinged — Says Republicans Should Be 'Buried Below the Capitol'"]

I'm not sure what's worse, if these people are serious or if they're just trying to sound tough.  The media is certainly willing to push them, no matter how insane they get.  There's still more accounts of leftist lunatics with authority going nuts in public.

In Rhode Island, the drunken assistant attorney general was stopped by cops and started insisting she was the actual attorney general so she was allowed to get away with this.  The Governor of Maryland just admitted that he was lying about getting a bronze star in the military.  That's not really something that you're supposed to be able to lie about but it's ok because he thought he was getting one so that explains that.

We know the left believes they're literally at war which gives them justification to do anything.  I suspect they have deliberately agreed that this is the case, it's not they all just woke up one morning and each came to this decision on their own.  But it's still unnerving just how they're all rushing to this mindset without any chance of success.  As the saying goes, "Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance."  The left unanimously opposes that.

Still no clue how, but it's really starting to look like this was a deliberate plan by the Trump 2.0 administration, to push the left over the edge as quickly as possible.  Of course Trump has military experts on his side so they'd be able to work out a plan like this but it comes across as very spooky.  How many of these lunatics are out there and pass by us every day?  As Swalwell points out, they're going to get violent, they don't even need a reason.

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