re: US Abruptly Cancels Media Conference After Zelensky Met With Trump's Ukraine Envoy

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Try to figure out a way to end it?

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Tell me how much Trump and Putin have decided that Russia will pay in reparations to Ukraine for all the devastation caused by Putin's unlawful invasion.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I couldn’t care less how long that war lasts, Ukraine can fight until the bitter end, as long as I don’t have to pay for it.

But as long as the American taxpayer is asked to fund it, we should be able to dictate terms of ending it ASAP.

I don’t support Russian or Ukraine, I support America.

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I can’t speak for anyone else, but I couldn’t care less how long that war lasts, Ukraine can fight until the bitter end, as long as I don’t have to pay for it.

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I can agree with that.

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But as long as the American taxpayer is asked to fund it, we should be able to dictate terms of ending it ASAP.

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That is absolutely fricking WRONG. We shouldn't be dictating terms to anyone. We should either continue to support them or not. Unilaterally meeting with Putin to discuss terms is just fricking CRAZY. It's not our country, we have no right to dictate terms to anyone. If we don't want to give our weapons away, we should just fricking stop giving our weapons away.

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I don’t support Russian or Ukraine, I support America.

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That's gotten us into trouble in the past, but I at least understand the sentiment. But "not supporting" is different from dictating draconian terms to the country we were just supporting last month.

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I can't believe so many Americans support a corrupt authoritarian government just going around invading countries

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You are way over the top. Nobody here stated that they support Putin. Not a single one. You trying to make it into that shows you are not listening.

Explaining why we want nothing to do with this and being against provoking wars is not the same thing as supporting Putin.

But you know this.

I think Trump is pressuring Z to confession the truth on the corruption involved with US aid over the last 4 years. Meanwhile Z is blackmailing the Europeans into replacing US aid or he exposes the whole scheme of political kickbacks from the European political community.

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But as long as the American taxpayer is asked to fund it, we should be able to dictate terms of ending it ASAP.

That is absolutely fricking WRONG. We shouldn't be dictating terms to anyone.

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The US IC and DOS under Victoria Nuland installed Z prior to the war via a color revolution. Heres a link from the noted right wing extremist website "The Atlantic Council":
Atlantic Council - US Backed Orange Revolution in Ukraine Reshapes Century

The US under Biden underwrote the vast majority of this war.

The US has every right to come up with a framework for peace and then explain to Ukraine they can accept it or fight alone and that's exactly what's about to happen.

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So just stop giving Ukraine weapons. Don't try to give Putin everything he wants, that will simply embolden him to do it again.

When did appeasement become the answer to military aggression?

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I suspect most Americans would say since the conflict is on their continent Europe can fund if it is important. But if Ukraine is going to rely upon the US to largely fund their battle the US is going to have a say in how it goes, and it sounds like the US is trying to end it. Zelensky doesn't have to agree to the terms. That's his right as leader of his nation. But the US can then back out of the whole thing and let Ukraine "win" the war on its own; get demolished; or have Europe pay the note.

Would you prefer the US just extend an endless line of credit to Ukraine to keep this thing going in perpetuity? Ukraine can't "win" without the US. That means the US makes the decisions.

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You need help friend. They have nearly half a million killed or wounded and Russians standing army was almost double the size prior to the invasion. He’s repeatedly called for western troops on the front. You don’t take the steps he’s taken if there aren’t serious personnel issues.

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Now you're just talking gibberish in order to rationalize this ridiculousness in your head.

You just said "THEY" have nearly half a million killed. Not the "WE" I was responding to, Of course HE has serious personnel issues, of course HE is asking for other troops, he's desperate because his country is being invaded by a much larger force. Don't you think North Vietnam was having manpower issues before we finally decided that it wasn't worth it? Don't you think Afghanistan was having manpower issues before the Russians finally decided it wasn't worth it?

None of what you say explains why the president of the United States wants to give the corrupt aggressor everything he wants, and THEN wants to demand payment from the country being invaded.

I mean Ukraine started with 9M military age males in 2022 (25-59).

So from that you subtract the ~500k casualties and an estimated 650k who have fled the country and you're left with somewhere north of 7M potential combatants before you get into things like deferments and health exemptions.

To put that in context Russia has 39M men between that age range.