So a not so veiled fuckoffski to a ceasefire.
Not so stupid as to refuse to talk at all but will intensify efforts to maximise territory before any cease fire.
Basically the US stopping support for Ukraine gave Russia an opportunity and they are not going to let that go. What can the US offer that is better than they have already given?
Edit
Just seen Putin on TV.
He said there were a few things that needed to be discussed āwith our American partnersā
Shows how they are thinking!
More like USA $120 billion, Europe ā¬210 billion. Heās such a liar. And that BS from Russia that Secretary of State Baker (under Ronald Reagan) promised Gorbachov that in return for giving up East Germany and allowing combined Germany to join NATO that NATO would not spread one inch further east. That was a political statement, not treaty, said to Gorbachov when he was running the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union doesnāt exist anymore, neither does Gorbachov (who was being held captive in his dacha while Yeltsin seized control over the state of Russia and Putin seized control over all the State industry (wealth) and divided it up with his cronies (now Oligarchās whom I believe, each keep half for Putin, surrendering any amount upon demand or else die in horrible ways).
Now he is saying for ownership of the power plants and 50% of Ukrainesā rare earth elements Ukraine will get āAmerican contractorsā working in those sites and that somehow protects the rest of Ukraine from Russia (Russia gets the oil reserves under the land theyāve seized, an end to Ukraine bombing their power supplies and an election to replace Zelenskyy with a pro-Putin puppet). Such a deal.
Forget NATO, (Trump will never come to someone elseās aid, no matter what they spend on their defence. Heās too much of a chicken shit who will say about whoever in NATO that is attacked that they didnāt show him enough felty or deserved to be attacked because they slighted Putin, or whatever flies into his diseased brain at the time).
Forget the European Union (all action must be voted on and get 100% agreement. It is too unwieldy to react in real time and Victor Orban will quash whatever decisions come if against Putin).
Forget UK wanting to share peace keeping duties with Trump, in Ukraine. (Trump will never take sides against Putin, even if King Charles III does flatter mim by making him a junior member of the Commonwealth).
Macron says form a combined force of the willing: Canada, Australia, European, Nordic and Commonwealth countries who are willing to their own weapon systems, and undo the nuclear non-proliferation treaty that allows only the main WWII allies to own nukes and instead arm each other, as well as Ukraine, so that the rest of the world can stop Putin and Trump in their combined quest for global domination. (Shame Starmer canāt see the sense in this and feels he must appease Trump).