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Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:43 PM Oct 19

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin's terms or be 'destroyed' by Russia - Financial Times

Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree.

The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time”, people familiar with the matter said.

They added that the US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier.

Though Ukraine ultimately managed to swing Trump back to endorsing a freeze of the current front lines, the acrimonious meeting appeared to reflect the capricious nature of Trump’s position on the war and his willingness to endorse Putin’s maximalist demands.

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During Friday’s meeting, Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russia’s weaknesses, said European officials briefed on the meeting.

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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin's terms or be 'destroyed' by Russia - Financial Times (Original Post) question everything Oct 19 OP
Nobel of him Traildogbob Oct 19 #1
Hah! UTUSN Oct 20 #6
Translation: Putin raised the price for the videos. usonian Oct 19 #2
Columbia is a new distraction Deuxcents Oct 19 #3
Putin said "jump" and Trump asked, "How high?" B.See Oct 19 #4
By now Pooty's FSB moondust Oct 19 #5
Trump is Putin's bitch. LudwigPastorius Oct 20 #7
for at least the 2nd time (that we know of) - - -(nt)- stopdiggin Oct 20 #8
Trump believes that whoever shouts the loudest wins the argument. no_hypocrisy Oct 20 #9

usonian

(23,400 posts)
2. Translation: Putin raised the price for the videos.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:58 PM
Oct 19

More money. Less support of Ukraine.

I am not sure of the Epstein link to this, if any, but with Prince Andrew going down, the dam is going to break.

I don't know how this goes down



but everything is getting more frantic. And there's more than one pile of evidence to suppress.

moondust

(21,183 posts)
5. By now Pooty's FSB
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 11:55 PM
Oct 19

probably has all kinds of pee tapes, Mar-a-Lago classified documents, incriminating intercepts, and other leverage to make TSF do whatever he wants.

Timing tells the story: Pooty called TSF the day before TSF met with Zelensky.

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