In Reply to: Trump wants a Nobel Prize. posted by BluBlood on December 30, 2025 at 08:33:20
I’ve been following Russian media closely as part of tracking the war. The pattern is straightforward: after meetings, they praise Trump; when he continues material support for Ukraine, they mock him. In fact, Russian media attacks Trump more often than it praises him—but that rarely gets repeated in liberal media, so most people never see it.
You seem to think the peace negotiations matter. They don’t. Nobody takes them seriously—not Ukraine, not Russia, not the EU. They exist largely to keep Trump occupied while the grown-ups do the real work of prosecuting the war out of public view.
That’s why, ahead of every so-called peace negotiation, liberal discourse goes into a frenzy, while I continue to argue that even the optics are meaningless to the actual trajectory of the war.
The United States could have done much more to help Ukraine. The administration did shift costs to the EU while tightening sanctions and, crucially, tightening enforcement. Intelligence support—satellite coverage, strike intelligence, and air-raid warnings that no other country can provide—has continued. Arms transfers have been prioritized through NATO as paid purchases rather than unilateral grants, something the Biden administration failed to do.
Taken together, these measures are sufficient for Ukraine to continue fighting for at least two more years. Previously, without dependable EU financial support, last-minute U.S. funding left Ukraine unable to make long-term plans. Predictability, more than rhetoric, is what has changed—and what actually matters.