Comments on: What Will Putin Do Next, And How Will Trump React? http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/06/what-will-putin-do-next-and-how-will-trump-react/ Reality-based political commentary Fri, 08 May 2026 01:45:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/06/what-will-putin-do-next-and-how-will-trump-react/#comment-220878 Kick Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:17:44 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26668#comment-220878 <i>This has been Putin's game-plan all along, and so far it has worked. If Trump can be convinced that "a final deal is real close now" for another extended period of time, then Russia can go right on making battlefield progress in the meantime (although it would end the drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, at least -- for a while). </i> So you're saying Putin is stalling. This has been Putin's game-plan all along, and so far it has worked. If Trump can be convinced that "a final deal is real close now" for another extended period of time, then Russia can go right on making battlefield progress in the meantime (although it would end the drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, at least -- for a while).

So you're saying Putin is stalling.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/06/what-will-putin-do-next-and-how-will-trump-react/#comment-220877 Kick Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:11:29 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26668#comment-220877 <i>Is this more of Putin's stalling, or a real indicator that some sort of solution is getting close? </i> Stalling <i>It's impossible to say. </i> Nope. Not impossible. See above. :) Is this more of Putin's stalling, or a real indicator that some sort of solution is getting close?

Stalling

It's impossible to say.

Nope. Not impossible. See above. :)

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/06/what-will-putin-do-next-and-how-will-trump-react/#comment-220868 nypoet22 Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:35:57 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26668#comment-220868 well, the tariffs are in effect. well, the tariffs are in effect.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/06/what-will-putin-do-next-and-how-will-trump-react/#comment-220864 MtnCaddy Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:41:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26668#comment-220864 This whole “Trump negotiating with Putin” concept is silly. Russia invaded Ukraine and not the US so Ukraine needs to be at the table. This whole “Trump negotiating with Putin” concept is silly. Russia invaded Ukraine and not the US so Ukraine needs to be at the table.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/06/what-will-putin-do-next-and-how-will-trump-react/#comment-220863 MtnCaddy Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:37:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26668#comment-220863 For the record, it took Russia half a year and immense losses to gain 886 square miles of Ukraine? That’s out of 233,030 square miles total (about a third of a percentage point) and I bet the Ukrainians can live with such Russian “progress”. For the record, it took Russia half a year and immense losses to gain 886 square miles of Ukraine? That’s out of 233,030 square miles total (about a third of a percentage point) and I bet the Ukrainians can live with such Russian “progress”.

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