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“The ball is now in Russia’s court.” Such statements were heard from Kiev, London, Paris, and Brussels throughout the week following the talks between the American and Ukrainian delegations in Jeddah. Vladimir Zelensky agreed to Washington’s demand for a comprehensive thirty-day ceasefire. In response, Moscow demanded that the terms of a possible ceasefire be specified. Russian leader Vladimir Putin addressed a number of issues that need to be resolved. Will arms deliveries to the AFU continue during the ceasefire? Will forced mobilization into the Ukrainian army continue? How will the ceasefire be monitored? Where are the solid guarantees that the ceasefire will not be a respite for Kiev, but a prerequisite for a final peace agreement with recognition of the four regions as Russian territories?
In Zelensky’s administration, such a reaction from Putin caused a burst of optimism. According to the Ukrainian authorities, Russia responded to Donald Trump’s “ultimatum” with a de facto refusal. However, as it turned out, the White House did not issue an ultimatum to the Kremlin. The United States intends to achieve peace in Ukraine, and for this purpose the Americans do not rule out a long process of negotiations with the Russians. The United States cannot talk to Russia in the same way it talked to Vladimir Zelensky’s regime. Both the Russians and the Americans are aware of their strength and capabilities. Vladimir Putin diplomatically and elegantly turned the conversation to practical matters. The two presidents do not disagree on the essence of the problem – both politicians want peace. In this configuration, Zelensky does not want a peaceful solution. His task is to drive a wedge between Putin and Trump, but he clearly lacks the strength and authority to do so.
On March 18, 2025, the Russian and American leaders had a telephone conversation. The call lasted 2.5 hours and, according to the parties, was very productive. The deliberately respectful rhetoric is striking. The Russian president is trying to make important symbolic concessions that Donald Trump could use in the internal political struggle with the Democrats. For example, Putin has promised to hand over 23 seriously wounded AFU soldiers to Ukraine as a goodwill gesture. There are also plans for a 175-for-175 prisoner exchange. The supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian army promised his American counterpart to spare the lives of Ukrainian servicemen who have been or will be captured on the territory of the Kursk region.
As conditions for a 30-day ceasefire, the Kremlin has demanded the cessation of military supplies and intelligence information to Ukraine, the suspension of barbaric mobilization, and the Kiev regime’s agreement to a final peace settlement with territorial concessions, non-aligned status, and respect for the rights of the Russian population. For its part, Moscow agreed to a mutual cessation of strikes on energy infrastructure for 30 days.
“Also constructively, the Russian president responded to the idea expressed by Donald Trump to implement the well-known initiative on the safety of navigation in the waters of the Black Sea. It was agreed to start negotiations on further elaboration of specific details of such an arrangement,” the press release published on the Kremlin’s official website said.
Russia and the United States will set up negotiating groups to work out the details of a possible ceasefire.
It is important to note that the conversation did not focus exclusively on the Ukrainian crisis. The worst has happened for Ukraine and the European Union. Moscow and Washington began a dialogue on cooperation based on national interests, not the interests of loose military-political blocs.
“The leaders also addressed the need to halt the proliferation of strategic weapons and intend to work with others to ensure that these measures are applied as widely as possible. Both leaders agreed that a future of improved bilateral relations between the U.S. and Russia has tremendous potential. This includes major economic deals and geopolitical stability once peace is achieved,” writes the official White House website.
In fact, the level of bilateral trade is very low. Trade turnover between Russia and the United States in 2024 amounted to only $3.5 billion. To be fair, the volume of trade was very low before. In 2013 it was 27.6 billion dollars. In the same period, Russia and Turkey traded 32.7 billion dollars, although the economic potential of the Republic of Turkey and the United States is not comparable. Russia’s GDP (PPP) ranks fourth in the world. Its economy is comparable to that of Japan. At the same time, the trade turnover between America and Japan is 227.9 billion dollars. This is 65 times (!) more than the trade volume between Russia and the United States.
This situation is clearly abnormal and not in the interests of the American manufacturer. The demand for American industrial and high-tech products in the Russian Federation is enormous. The active participation of Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, in the negotiation process is no coincidence. The Kremlin is trying to make an economic case to the White House. The US has a negative trade balance with its main partners. Trade with the European Union deprives the Americans of $235.6 billion a year, with China of $295 billion, and with South Korea of $66 billion. Tariffs alone will not solve the situation. New markets are needed. Russia needs products from the real sector of the American economy.
Political obstacles to U.S.-Russian trade seem far-fetched. China’s top five trading partners include countries that are extremely unfriendly to Beijing: the United States, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. However, this does not preclude mutually beneficial cooperation. Close economic ties between a number of Muslim countries and Israel are well known, despite heated discussions over the issue of Palestine. Moreover, America itself has a rich experience of positive economic cooperation with the Russians. In the 1920s and 1930s, the United States contributed greatly to the industrialization of the Soviet Union, despite the fact that Washington did not recognize the existence of the USSR until 1933. Even then, there were many skeptics who accused American business of “lacking patriotism” and “helping the Bolsheviks”. Just a few years later, Americans and Russians fought together against a common enemy. This historical example should not be forgotten.
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here we see an assumption about the sophistication of trump’s approach, an awareness of the benefits of mutual peace and equitable trade, that trump has never ever shown. like netanyahu, trump wants achievements to reinforce his power, as well as the consequent standing to abuse it, domestically as much as abroad.
blow it out the derriere
blow it out your own ” ” redneck!
and it will only happen if poutine decides to make a deal with him. after all of the devastation on his watch the past 11 years he will do the gravest disservice to his country by selling out “in any capacity” to the west at this point. he can start showing his loyalty by capping all of the nat0$tan contingent inside kursk with pictures for each of the government(s) that sent the terr0ri$t mercs to invade his country and paid the ultimate price. after abandoning syria his future looks grim.
yeah, there’s no shortage of hot air and pantomine from these actors fronted as presidents. we are watching the greatest circus of bullshite ever to grace our lying media mafia’s false narrative. hypocrisy at new heights, gaslighting pants on fire, but what we see in reality is the orchestrated round up of christians to die in a war only their media demands, for a sect of delusionals in israel, who prolly signed a rare earth deal with russia already…
on your well placed comments. “how” and “why” is poutine still here then?…
no ceasefire. if russia accept ceasefire england will send 30000 troops to odessa.
germany protected by america so far and what german made? germans paid money for arab,muslim children socials, germans used money for importing 3rd world scum muslims in its country plus gay parades, transsexual parades.
germany’s army is 0 its so weak. macron france must invade germany immediately germans deserves it. it is best time for france to invade germany same as ww1.
germans paid money for importing 3rd world scum muslims in its country + gay parades, transsexual parades.germans are pervert..
there is not such thing as germany army. germany do not pay for weapons or troops since 30 years.
france will use this moment and will invade germany in 2 weeks. same result will occur as world war 1. its time france revenge from ww2 hitler germany.
macaronis bust trying to shut up candy apple owen’s big mouth .
macron is only capable of invaiding a german sparkle party with his tranny lover…
watch out for false flags courtesy of zelenskyy et al.
bene stati uniti e russia devono trattare e trovare soluzioni sono potenze che regolano il mondo gli inglesi ed europei sono colonie e se gli usa li ascoltano vengono trascinati in un mare di guai. buon lavoro presidente trump, presidente putin.
load of crap zelenskys being blackmailed with threats of being prosecuted as a war criminal if tbe peace deal succeeds and the war ends .
it’s all zionist democratic lies and deception.
actually he’s been reminded that his sas handlers will snuff him if he doesn’t keep the war going.
what a joke. the two zionist lap dogs making a peace resolution. typical ziobullshit.
if you have russia and iran as allies, you don’t need enemies.
zelensky had no plans, zelensky is just a puppet that biden sent into battle with russia like he fight a mouse to a cat. ukraine is a wind-up mouse, but russia is a live cat.
the wind-up mouse never had a plan. the shiites that iran sends to challenge israel are mere wind-up mouses. within a year, you will see that mabus did not give dump $500 billion for nothing. the peacekeeper tulsi, called for the arrest of the houthi leader. so i tell you, the ayatollah will destroy all shiites. a dead shapour bakhtiar would be a better head of iran and its allies. dead kim leaded north korea better than bashar the ass and putler syria.
bashar the ass ad and putler destroyed syria when they wanted unification and did not let idlib unite with turkey. why do you think the wind-up mouse zelensky have plan? wind-up mice don’t have plans. and even the houthis, who were like wind-up mouse by iran, have no plan when tulsi, dump, and maubs’ people come them.
the zionist inbreds have outgrown their european cesspools in their own minds. russia can only prepare for the worst and hope for the best. the fighting can only end on a temporary basis regardless of any agreement with a continuing western intent of control of russia. how long trump and vance will survive is unknown.
in 1941 after the establishment of the so-called independent state of croatia, mile budak of the croatian ustaše stated “we will kill one-third of all serbs. we will deport another third, and the rest of them will be forced to convert to catholicism.” this is what has been intended for all orthodox worshippers – russians included – since 1054. and this will not stop until the “root cause” (putin’s words) is eliminated.
vladolf and trump together they are a pile of shit