Russia Offered What?!?

This is really something. It shows Russia’s opinion of the US. If this gets accepted, there is going to be a huge, RAGING backlash the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Had to wait to write about this today because it’s challenging to write when you’re really, really angry. Right now, there’s not much going on. We shall see how this plays out. Thank you, Raw Story:

Russia proposed a quid pro quo arrangement to President Donald Trump’s envoys that would result in giving up on Ukraine. The Kremlin offered to stop sharing intelligence information about U.S. military assets with Iran if Washington stopped doing the same with Ukraine against Russian forces, two sources familiar with the negotiations told Politico.

Oh, HELL NO. That’s some amazing backstabbing going on there. Abandon Ukraine? No. That’s a non-starter. No matter what you think about the US sending arms to the country, the *fact* is that they are in a war they did not start. Russia keeps pounding them. Think about how much help we could have given them out of the $65 billion we’ve spent in Iran. Some of that could have helped Ukraine turn the tide in its war. But no. It seems folks have forgotten Ukraine. We already knew Russia was helping Iran, of course.

The offer was made by Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev to Trump administration envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner last week during a meeting in Miami, according to the sources, but the U.S. rejected the proposal. European diplomats expressed alarm that Russia even made the offer, which they saw as an effort to drive a wedge between Europe and the U.S., and they are suspicious that Dmitriev is trying to lure Witkoff into a Ukraine peace agreement that ignores European interests.

At least Witless Witkoff made the right decision. That’s serious arrogance to think we’d agree to such a thing. But knowing Trump and his ‘cabinet’, it’s still surprising. We all know how Dumbass Donnie loves Pootie. Could it be possible that there was actually some thought about this? Maybe. Maybe someone told Donnie what a disaster the mistake would be. Maybe he listened. So far.

Russia has been sharing intelligence with Iran about U.S. military operations in the Middle East since the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation began nearly three weeks ago, but Trump excused those efforts by linking them to Ukraine. “[Russian President Vladimir Putin] might be helping [Iran] a little bit, yeah, I guess,” Trump said last week, “and he probably thinks we’re helping Ukraine, right?” Another person familiar with the talks said Russia has made various other proposals to the U.S. about Iran, including an offer to move Iran’s enriched uranium to Russia, but the U.S. has rejected them all.

A little bit? A LITTLE BIT??!!! GTFOOH!!!!!! There’s no “little” about it. Pootie knows a whole lot about the US and its military, much as we hate to think about it. We don’t know nearly as much about Russia. (I wish we were helping Ukraine. It’s frustrating to find out how much they are being driven into the dirt.) I sincerely hope we don’t accept any of Russia’s “deals” because we *will* get the short end of the stick. As I’ve said multiple times, we don’t need to be in this illegal war in Iran. Knowing that Russia is helping “the other side” is something that we can prepare for. We should have anticipated that Russia would help Iran. It was obvious nearly from the get-go. And the war drags on.

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