Brief Noon Update: Putin Phone Call
I’ll be heading out again soon, but it appears that the Putin - Trump phone call is over … after at least two hours.
-- GEROMAN -- time will tell -  -- @GeromanAT
Phone call ended minutes ago...
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2h now...
(I guess Putin just finished the history lesson and is now slowly explaining the Russian culture)
Don’t know whether this is the sum total:
-- GEROMAN -- time will tell -  -- @GeromanAT
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Putin Trump call
- exchange of 175 POW
- handing over 2 dozen wounded Ukrainians
- setting up "expert groups" (LOL)
- US RUS relationship will improve
- perhaps a mutual halt of targeting "infrastructure"
If this is it, Trump has to view this as a huge fail. No doubt there will be more coming out.
-- GEROMAN -- time will tell -  -- @GeromanAT
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If you want to know "how well" the talks went - just compare the coming "official read outs" from both sides.
If the text is similar - the talks were good - no matter how few they agreed on to give to the public.
- You are welcome.
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be sure there was more - that is only what both agreed on to publish.
In past meetings between lesser officials, the Middle East has been high on the agenda. Seems impossible to me that recent developments were not discussed. The Middle East is very important to Russia. Putin cannot afford to be seen as allowing Trump to run roughshod over the region.
Michael Tracey @mtracey
One might reasonably wonder how Trump’s willingness to blow up his own ceasefire in Gaza, for which he was initially showered with “credit,” might affect perceptions of the sustainability of a US-mediated ceasefire in Ukraine
10:00 AM · Mar 18, 2025
According to Trump's logic that "If Yemen fires a Missile, Iran bears responsibility," Americans are directly responsible for today's Massacre in Gaza that claimed the lives of more than 174 Children & 89 Women.
Simplicius:
SIMPLICIUS Ѱ @simpatico771
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Most promising part of Putin-Trump talks:
Donald Trump has supported Vladimir Putin's idea of organizing field hockey games in the United States and Russia between Russian and American players playing in the NHL and KHL
Is it true Trump's call with Putin was downgraded from a promised "press conference" to now just a 'press release'? Guess Donnie didn't get what he wanted. They'll try to dress it up again, claiming "We're now 99.99999% on the way to peace!"
Just pathetic. oh well, just so Netanyahu gets everything he wants. hey, am I now eligible to be deported? can I pick where? Novgorod is nice. Suzdal too.
The “exceptional nation” is ruled by entities that will not permit it to stop killing, bombing, and maiming. Just digest that slowly. Peace is unacceptable to the U.S. and its rulers.
As a fan of field hockey, I can only view this phone call in a positive light.