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  • Personally I just think Putin just knows how to interact with Trump.

    They both seem to have the similar mindset in that since they are leading a major country, other smaller countries should bow down to them and do whatever they are told to do. Trump seems to have a genuine respect for the other major powers like Russia and China while viewing his relationship with America’s allies as a master-servant type of relationship.

    Because of this, Trump is willing to concede more to Russia than to Ukraine. However, Trump would have likely been more than happy to continue aiding Ukraine if Zelenskyy signed the mineral deal. It was not explicity stated of course but I see it as a large possibility. This is because Zelenskyy signing the deal would make Trump look very good. It would make Trump seem like he has all the power. It would make Trump look like he just made the greatest deal of the century. Zelenskyy embarrased him. And then Putin made himself look very amiable with him saying things like. “Unlike Zelenskyy, I want peace, I want this war to end, I am willing to sign whatever deal we can come up with, its just Zelenskyy doesn’t want peace” (paraphrasing of course).

    Trump expected Zelenskyy to do as he told. He wanted Zelenskyy to make peace. Zelenskyy refused which made Trump angry. So Trump offers a compromise where Zelenskyy signs a mineral deal in return for a possibility that Trump will continue aiding Ukraine. Zelenskyy refuses which makes Trump mad. Putin comes along and says, “You tried your best but Zelenskyy does not want peace, but I want peace, and you will be the peacemaker” (paraphrasing of course). Putin is making Trump look like the peacemaker he wants to look like.

    TLDR: Trump expects people to fellate him, Putin is very good at not actually doing that but making it seem like he is fellating Trump. Meanwhile Zelenskyy does the exact opposite and tells Trump to zip up his pants.

    This doesn’t mean that there is no Russian influence as Sergei Ryabkov whom is Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russia and that “we know most of the people from his entourage”.

    In fact, Journalist Craig Unger documented 59 people that connected Trump to Russia.

    And this also doesn’t mean that Semion has nothing to do with Trump as Semion’s underlings paid for a lot of Trump properties and David Bogatin purchased the Trump Tower condos for $5.3 million in 1984 and his brother is part of Semion Mogilevich’s mafia family.





  • I don’t know what to think of this. He committed most of his crimes in the west, spent a year in a Russian prison in like 2008, and then two more years under house arrest.

    No one knows his current location, some say Moscow while others say Israel.

    I usually see Semion Mogilevich be mentioned when someone wants to say something is actually controlled by Mossad or whatever which is nonsense and is usually said by stormfront neo-nazi types, yawn although this one claims that Trump is controlled by Semion Mogilevich whom is the guy who according to them, actually controls Moscow.

    In my opinion, both are nonsense but you are free to disagree.










  • Russia does not have a wartime economy. They are only spending 6% of their GDP on their military which is comparable to the US or Poland in terms of percentage of GDP. EU has given up far more than just a portion. UK has supplied Ukraine with all of its SPGs. Poland supplied Ukraine with half of its SPGs. The US has supplied Ukraine with 15% of its entire ATACMS stockpile (a missile which is no longer produced and does not yet have a viable alternative due to PRSM still being in low-rate production) as of six months ago. The EU has given up a significant portion of their ammunition to Ukraine. The only thing they did not give is tanks because Ukraine already had a thousand tanks at the start of the war (half of which were modern) which is more tanks than the amount that France, Germany, and the UK have combined.

    Most of the Russian military is not in Ukraine per my other comment.


    1. Oryx states otherwise. Russia has only lost 127 T-90Ms despite producing 240-360 in 2023 and likely double that this year. Russia has only lost 789 T-72BA and T-72B3 tanks after three whole years of war despite having 2,650 of them at the start of the war with hundreds of older T-72Bs being taken out of storage and modernized to replace losses.
    2. Storm Shadow is not a ballistic missile but a cruise missile. Only 3,000 have been produced after 2 decades while Russia produces more than 500 Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles per year. And the Kh-101 is much longer range… Including other air-launched cruise missiles, Russia is producing around a thousand per year. Production has also been outpacing use.
    3. Ukraine has a wartime economy spending 30% of its GDP. Russia meanwhile is only spending 6% of its GDP on the military (comparable to US and Poland in terms of percentage of GDP.




    1. The post-Maidan government conducted massacres in Eastern Ukraine against unarmed protestors like in Mariupol where the AFU alongside Azov fired into an entire crowd. Russia justified its annexation of Crimea because it made an agreement with the legitimate government of Ukraine before Maidan to continue their lease over Sevastapol. Russia stated that the formation of this illegimate government threatened military infrastructure in Crimea which they rightfully owned due to an agreement with the previous government. Russia also named the massacres that were being conducted in Eastern Ukraine to annex Crimea to safeguard the lives of people in Crimea.
    2. You mean a civil war broke out between the new illegitimate government and those in Eastern Ukraine who supported the legitimate government. Russia did provide support to them that is true I guess.
    3. Due to Ukraine’s violations of Minsk II.