Donald Trump does NOT*…..
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said talks with US representatives on a peace plan for Ukraine had been constructive but not easy as he pivoted to planned consultations with European leaders over coming days. The Ukrainian president held a call on Saturday with Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner and is set to meet with the UK’s Keir Starmer, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz in London on Monday for talks on the peace negotiations. “The American representatives know the basic Ukrainian positions,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Sunday. “The conversation was constructive, although not easy.”
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Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni spoke with Zelenskyy by phone on Sunday ahead of his planned visits to London, Brussels and Rome and reaffirmed Italy’s solidarity after what she called a fresh wave of “indiscriminate” Russian strikes on civilian targets, her office said. Meloni announced the dispatch of emergency supplies to support Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and population and said generators provided by Italian companies would be shipped in the coming weeks, the statement said.
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British foreign secretary Yvette Cooper will meet her American counterpart Marco Rubio in Washington on Monday, the UK Foreign Office announced, amid the intensified push to end the war in Ukraine. The visit is her first to the US capital since becoming the UK’s top diplomat in September. “The UK and US will reaffirm their commitment to reaching a peace deal in Ukraine,” the Foreign Office said, also noting Britain supported Donald Trump’s “ongoing efforts to secure a just and lasting peace”.
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The Kremlin has heaped praise on Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking. The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia, reports Shaun Walker. US officials claim they are in the final stage of reaching a peace agreement but there is little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump’s negotiating team.
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Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said. In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said in comments to a Middle East conference that Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country, leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war, reports Patrick Wintour. Meanwhile, Trump said he felt “a little bit disappointed” with Zelenskyy for not engaging with the US plan to end the war, claiming on Sunday that the Ukrainian president “hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago”.
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Russian missile, drone and shelling attacks on Sunday and Saturday night killed at least four people in Ukraine. Three people were killed and 10 others wounded in shelling by Russian troops in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the regional prosecutor said, while local officials in the Chernihiv region said a man was killed in a drone attack and that a combined missile and drone attack on infrastructure in the central city of Kremenchuk caused power and water outages….
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ISW...Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 7, 2025
- The Kremlin positively reacted to the recently released US National Security Strategy (NSS).
- Russian forces are conducting a battlefield air interdiction (BAI) campaign against Ukrainian ground lines of communications (GLOCs) in northern Kharkiv Oblast, likely to disrupt Ukrainian logistics to eventually facilitate battlefield gains.
- Balloons from Belarusian airspace continue incursions into NATO airspace in Lithuania.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area. Russian forces recently advanced near Hulyaipole.
Daily Kos Grunt Report for Today….
*Trump and Congress are NOT on the same page on support for NATO and Ukraine…
Seems Congress isn’t happy with Trump’s effort to scare Europe into backing away from supporting Ukraine by threatening to pull American troop’s out of Europe….
Trump just came out about leaving Europe out in the Cold….
Trump’s kid says his father could just ‘walk away’ from Ukraine?
Congress has NOT got the message….
It DOES seem that Trump’s effort to appease Putin’s dream of owning Ukraine isn’t shared by the American Congress…
I didn’t think this would happen so soon….
But Congress IS looking to Flex BACK against Trump and Hegseth’s ideas with a reminder that they CAN come together when the want to…
We’ll see how Trump & Co. deals with this…
It IS DIRECTLY related to the Ukraine….
Compromise defense bill stymies Trump on Europe troop withdrawals
Sprawling defense legislation set for a vote as soon as this week would place new restrictions on reducing troop levels in Europe, a bipartisan rebuke of Trump administration moves that lawmakers fear would limit U.S. commitments on the continent.
A just-released compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act— which puts Congress’ stamp on Pentagon programs and policy each year — has been in the works for months. The measure stands in stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy, which sharply criticizes European allies and suggests the continent is in cultural decline.
Lawmakers also endorsed a slight increase in the Pentagon budget with a price tag that is $8 billion more than Trump requested. And it would repeal decades-old Middle East war powers, a small win for lawmakers who’ve been fighting to reclaim a sliver of Congress’ war-declaring prerogatives….
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The final bill blocks the Pentagon from reducing the number of troops permanently stationed or deployed to Europe below 76,000 for longer than 45 days until Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the head of U.S. European Command certify to Congress that doing so is in U.S. national security interests and that NATO allies were consulted. They would also need to provide assessments of that decision’s impact.
The legislation applies the same conditions to restrict the U.S. from vacating the role of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, a role that the U.S. officer who leads European Command chief has held simultaneously for decades….
The final bill is the result of weeks of negotiations between House and Senate leadership in both parties, heads of the Armed Services panels and the White House. The measure had been slowed in recent days by talks on issues unrelated to defense, including a major Senate-backed housing package and greater scrutiny of U.S. investment in China.
The defense bill typically passes with broad bipartisan support. Speaker Mike Johnson will likely need to win back some Democrats who opposed the House GOP’s hard-right initial bill in September. And the speaker will have to contend with fellow Republicans upset that their priorities weren’t included.
But both House and Senate-passed defense bills reflected bipartisan concerns that the Trump administration would seek to significantly reduce the U.S. military footprint in Europe. Both measures included language that imposes requirements the Pentagon must meet before trimming military personnel levels on the continent below certain thresholds…
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