Trump may have said he wants a settlement, and Putin to slow his roll….
THAT IS NOT what things are moving towards….
They are actually EXPANDING….
The Ukraine IS low on troops and tired…..
Russia has a lousy economy and IS losing bodies as is North Korean’s in the Ukraine….
BUT?
Putin and Zelensky ARE STILL coming on STRONG for the future….
And Biden is rushing as much as he can to the Ukraine which has slowed the long range missile shots into Russia….
Hmmmmm?
Oh?
Putin wants NO NATO for Ukraine….
FOREVER….
Would THAT move by NATO be a checkmate for his plans to eventually retake the ENTIRE Ukraine?
Biden pushes aid to the Ukraine…
The Biden administration is pledging to approve fresh military aid to Ukrainein the coming days, including crucial air defense systems, as North Koreanforces face mounting casualties in their first major deployment to a European conflict.
John Kirby, the US national security communications adviser, told reporters on Friday that in just the last week North Korean troops had suffered more than 1,000 casualties in what he referred to as failed “human wave” assaults near the Kursk border-region, which confirms similar figures reported by South Korea.
According to Kirby, there are also reports of North Korean soldiers taking their own lives rather than surrendering.
“These human wave tactics that we’re seeing haven’t really been all that effective,” Kirby said. “Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses.”
The promised US security assistance package is expected to be announced “in the next couple of days”, Kirby said, though it is unclear when that will be and how much it will include.
The aid surge comes weeks after the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, met
Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president’s office, in Washington to pledge extensive support including a planned delivery of hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds, thousands of rockets and hundreds of armored vehicles by mid-January.
That package also included a training for new Ukrainian troops at sites outside the country and finalizing $20bn in loans backed by immobilized Russian assets.
The accelerated aid packages come as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to become the country’s commander-in-chief next month. Trump has signaled a stark departure from current US policy on Ukraine, including his team reportedly developing a peace proposal that would sideline Ukraine’s Nato membership aspirations and potentially cede territory to Russia.
Trump has repeatedly claimed he could end the conflict within 24 hourswithout offering much detail….
Support for the Ukraine wanes in Europe…
Readiness to support Ukraine “until it wins” has fallen sharply across western Europe at a critical time for the country, a survey suggests, as Donald Trump’s forthcoming return to the White House raises questions over the future of US military assistance to Kyiv.
December polling by YouGov in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and the UK found public desire to stand by Ukraine until victory – even if that meant prolonging the war – had slumped in all seven countries over the past 12 months.
Support for an alternative resolution to the conflict – a negotiated end to the fighting, even if that left Russia in control of parts of Ukraine – had increased in every country, the survey found, and was the preferred option in four of them….
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In terms of specific measures such as increasing sanctions, shipping more weapons, sending more troops to support Nato members in eastern Europe or coordinating airstrikes against Russian targets in Ukraine, support was stable or lower than before.
Asked to say what they thought would be the situation a year from now, few western Europeans thought either Russia or Ukraine would have won, with most believing the two countries would either still be fighting, or a peace would have been negotiated….
Russian President Vladimir Putin explicitly rejected a suggestion reportedly considered by US President-elect Donald Trump’s team in early November 2024 that would delay Ukraine’s membership in NATO for at least a decade as a condition for ending the war in Ukraine.
A senior Russian official reiterated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insistence that negotiations with Ukraine must be based on the same uncompromising demands he made before the full-scale invasion and at the moment of Russia’s greatest territorial gains, despite the fact that Ukraine has liberated a significant amount of territory since then. Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko stated on December 24 that Russia is open to compromise in negotiations with Ukraine, but that Russia will strictly adhere to the conditions that it laid out during negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022, when Russian troops were advancing on Kyiv and throughout eastern and southern Ukraine.
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