I’m horrified at Steve Witkoff’s remark

He's following Trump so it doesn't surprise me. His name is Witkoff. I had to Google him because I had no idea who he was. Just another sycophant

If Putin is a humanitarian, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize! How these people can look at themselves in the mirror in the morning is beyond me, their brains are being eaten up by the lies they tell. Putin has finally released an American from prison this man was living in Ukraine when Putin started his war so the Russians put him in prison when he was guilty of absolutely nothing!!

Putin is a war criminal, no other way to describe him.

Nan Kate, I was thinking about you this morning, what a coincidence.
So pleased to see you posting.

Even a MAGA I know has said how awful Putin is.
I don't think trump realizes that some of his base are smart enough to truly abhor Putin.

Poor President Zelensky. He is asking for a meeting but he will never get a fair hearing.
I suppose the American was released as a thank you for the fuel deal.

Witless Witkoff

Bloody hell!!
Excuse the French.
Never thought I would see this day.
I think we can all now establish who Trump’s latest bro romance is with. Seems the US no longer sees Russia as the enemy but rather an ally which leaves the Ukraine and Europe as the enemy. Because he can’t jump in bed with both and it looks like his decision has been made.
So now Europe lies exposed to Putin’s expansionist ideas. Correction, Europe lies exposed to this ‘humanitarian’s expansionist ideas.
🤬🤬🤬

Of course some leaders were apologists for Hitler.

Marydoll

Putin is a war criminal, no other way to describe him.

Nan Kate, I was thinking about you this morning, what a coincidence.
So pleased to see you posting.

I agree

Fallingstar

Bloody hell!!
Excuse the French.
Never thought I would see this day.
I think we can all now establish who Trump’s latest bro romance is with. Seems the US no longer sees Russia as the enemy but rather an ally which leaves the Ukraine and Europe as the enemy. Because he can’t jump in bed with both and it looks like his decision has been made.
So now Europe lies exposed to Putin’s expansionist ideas. Correction, Europe lies exposed to this ‘humanitarian’s expansionist ideas.
🤬🤬🤬

👍👍👏👏👏👏

Apologies on incorrect spelling, it is as you say Witkoff 👍

Hello Marydoll good to see you here too 👋

There can be no question now that Trump supports Putin. I worry very much what this will mean for Europe.

Surely, surely the mid term elections should mark Trump's card? He's a traitor to humanity and Putin is simply inhuman.

Aveline

Surely, surely the mid term elections should mark Trump's card? He's a traitor to humanity and Putin is simply inhuman.

My guess is Trump has done a deal with the devil and thrown the Ukraine and Europe under the bus in order for Putin to negotiate with ally Iran to agree to end the war thereby allowing Trump to take all the credit as a peacemaker who has struck the deal in order to ensure that Americans pay less at the pumps.
But Putin will expect his pound of flesh so Ukraine and other European countries should be worried.
Of course Trump is hoping this will happen in time for the midterms.
Will Putin oblige??
We can only wait and see.

Has this got something to do with President Putin releasing the 74 year old American Stephen Hubbard?

He has been in prison in Russia for the last four years, for allegedly mining a checkpoint in Ukraine.

runing not mining 😡

Ironic that you can kid people who were once so damning and fearful of "commies" and socialists - still viewed with disgust by many - that "Put'n" is now their ally and even that "Yurup" is the enemy.

Sarnia

Poor President Zelensky. He is asking for a meeting but he will never get a fair hearing.
I suppose the American was released as a thank you for the fuel deal.

released to help Trump with the mid-terms?

An easy way to try & influence USA voters. No wonder Russia invested in trying to get Trump elected, he must have surpassed their highest hopes.

valdali

Sarnia

Poor President Zelensky. He is asking for a meeting but he will never get a fair hearing.
I suppose the American was released as a thank you for the fuel deal.

released to help Trump with the mid-terms?

An easy way to try & influence USA voters. No wonder Russia invested in trying to get Trump elected, he must have surpassed their highest hopes.

I maintain that Trump is entirely shaped by his upbringing. It's widely understood that his father instilled his own brand of toughness on Donald and his siblings who were encouraged to be "killers" or "kings" in business and, allegedly, viewed traits like empathy, kindness or apologising, as weaknesses. The older brother I read sometime ago wanted to become an airline pilot, apparently, rather than enter the family property business, and was ridiculed for his 'weakness'.

I don't want to indulge in psycho-babble, however - maybe that's where Donald Trump learned to gain approval - by emulating his father's scorn and contempt for anything and anybody that didn't fit into the all-encompassing need to 'win' at all costs. It could explain his seemingly extremely fragile ego and the need for constant admiration and approval?

In which case, his unsuitability to be one of the most powerful men in the world, is really down to his inner circle of backers and supporters who must, surely, be aware of his almost pathological 'disposition'?

These are just my random thoughts, and purely subjective.

Oh I don’t know Dickens, your analysis sounds pretty good, but it keeps coming back to one thing for me. Voters in the US voted this man in twice, when he shouldn’t even have passed muster to deliver newspapers. Every business he entered into usually failed. He is not leadership material. In fact he should never work with people. Or speak where others can hear him.
But he is the president of the US and so causing monumental damage around the world.
How did it happen?
Why do voters think this man is worth voting for?
I find this more incredible than if an alien came down to earth and shook hands with me.

Nothing surprises me any more . Have we ever had a time before when the POTUS is on the news every day? And never for anything good.

I always thought Vlad and Don were mates, this just confirms it.

Fallingstar

Oh I don’t know Dickens, your analysis sounds pretty good, but it keeps coming back to one thing for me. Voters in the US voted this man in twice, when he shouldn’t even have passed muster to deliver newspapers. Every business he entered into usually failed. He is not leadership material. In fact he should never work with people. Or speak where others can hear him.
But he is the president of the US and so causing monumental damage around the world.
How did it happen?
Why do voters think this man is worth voting for?
I find this more incredible than if an alien came down to earth and shook hands with me.

Voters in the US voted this man in twice

I know - that's what confounds me Fallingstar.

I'm left thinking, what do they see that I don't - or what do I see that they don't.

I've listened to people - mostly men - defending Trump's 'history' with young women and his predatory behaviour towards them - the defence is along the lines of 'any-man-would-if-he-got-the-chance', and I've mentioned the T-shirts worn by some middle-aged women at his rallies sporting the words, "You Can Grab My Pussy Any Time Mr President".

I feel I'm living in a parallel universe - I even question my own ethics... maybe I take things too seriously? Or are these people just adopting this dismissive attitude knowing full well that these are unacceptable traits, because Trump is giving them what they want?

I've listened to some 'MAGA-minded' evangelical preachers - one of whom allegedly 'advises' Pete Hegseth - preach a sort of hell-fire and damnation on 'wimmin' who espouse Feminism, telling his congregation that a woman's place is purely to support her husband who she basically should obey, and never "run her mouth". One such preacher was almost hysterical in condemning women who reported their abusive husbands to the police - "you are in the wrong, you are the evil one" he shouted... and then went on to assure the men in the room that if they were ever accused of assault of a woman wearing provocative clothing (he considered shorts provocative) and he was on the jury then "let me tell you, you're gonna walk free, you're gonna walk free" because, as he said, in a pleading drawl, "a man's a man, a man's a man".

I'm not making this up, this is what some of these 'pastors' are preaching in the name of the American Right.

Ironically, this attitude towards women is not all that far removed from that of a culture they profess to hate but, as one 'preacher-man' said, "maybe Muslims have the right idea, eh?". And the mixed audience cheered him.

I've simply got to believe that they don't all hold these or similar views, surely...

Maybe Attwood knew more than she let on.

Ha!

Trump, Putin and Netanyahu - a very unholy Trinity of, er, 'humanitarians'........