Big announcement from Trump tomorrow night

mum2three

Well, he did say some time ago, that America should not act as the world's policeman. He seems to be sticking to that. People have relied on support from America for too long. Now he's telling us to stand on our own feet and not take America for granted.

He’s so far; demanded Ukraine’s mineral wealth as the price of peace; treated President Zelensky appallingly; set out a ridiculous plan for Gaza; rejected a proposal from the Arab world for the reconstruction of Gaza; offered Israel everything they need in order to defeat Hamas. If that’s not acting as the world’s policeman then I don’t know what is!

Chocolatelovinggran

* Cossy* I couldn't agree more. Assuming Mr Putin is handed Ukraine, he'll see this as a starter dish of a larger banquet.

It’s very “bigly” scary!

* Cossy* I couldn't agree more. Assuming Mr Putin is handed Ukraine, he'll see this as a starter dish of a larger banquet.

Wyllow3

Nothing new in the speech at all despite all the Bigly reading out of Zelensky's letter, which we already know about.

Talk about hot air in the big lead up.

Bigly😂

Grandmabatty

Cath I despair. You are willing for the Ukraine just to roll over and agree to all demands from Putin and Trump? Have you read any of the posts on here detailing the situation or is that too challenging?

The biggest issue, as I see it, is simply rolling over and capitulating, or as Cath appears to see it, Ukraine agreeing to a peace, is that Putin and Trump are ego driven, dictatorial, megalomaniacs, it won’t, and never was going to, end with Ukraine.

Have people learned nothing from history?

mae13

Amazingly horrifying, but in less than two months Trump has turned the world upside down, is pointing the global economy towards a repeat of the 1930's Great Depression and is encouraging us to lurve his 'Best Friend Forever' Vlad Putin.

Maybe Stephen King can get his next novel from this......

👏👏

mum2three

Well, he did say some time ago, that America should not act as the world's policeman. He seems to be sticking to that. People have relied on support from America for too long. Now he's telling us to stand on our own feet and not take America for granted.

We’ve never taken support from the USA for granted, Trump speaks utter tosh, his actions have already “alienated” many countries, now China!

Honestly, I do wonder what it is you seem to admire in Trump and how much you actually know about America and history (unless, of course, you live in America in which case I apologise)

Well, he did say some time ago, that America should not act as the world's policeman. He seems to be sticking to that. People have relied on support from America for too long. Now he's telling us to stand on our own feet and not take America for granted.

Cath9

Whether Ukraine likes it or not there has to be a peace deal.
Russia has now taken so much of the country and will continue to do so making a peace deal agreement more difficult.

Russia has taken very little of the country and its taken Putin three years and many thousands of deaths of his subjects and allies to achieve it. When his intention was to rollup to Kyiv and take over Ukraine in the space of three days.

Until Trump and Musk intervened he was in no better position than was Zelensky.

Cath I despair. You are willing for the Ukraine just to roll over and agree to all demands from Putin and Trump? Have you read any of the posts on here detailing the situation or is that too challenging?

Whether Ukraine likes it or not there has to be a peace deal.
Russia has now taken so much of the country and will continue to do so making a peace deal agreement more difficult.

Nothing new in the speech at all despite all the Bigly reading out of Zelensky's letter, which we already know about.

Talk about hot air in the big lead up.

Stephen King has absolutely no time for Trump and his ilk. I follow him on twitter.

Amazingly horrifying, but in less than two months Trump has turned the world upside down, is pointing the global economy towards a repeat of the 1930's Great Depression and is encouraging us to lurve his 'Best Friend Forever' Vlad Putin.

Maybe Stephen King can get his next novel from this......

Van der leyen shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near talks about the military after she showed herself to be completely incompetent as German defence minister.

Doodledog

What does a steel porcupine mean?

I have no idea it was in Van der Lydens speech to EU parliament, wanting to arm Ukraine to fight on I guess.

What does a steel porcupine mean?

David49

A few hours is a long time in politics, Trump and Zelensky are now best mates

Europe is totally disunited and the EU is talking about making Ukraine a “steel porcupine”, there is no point them making any statements because they will only have to back down and look ridiculous.

I wrote a couple of times I thought Zelensky would sign a deal.

As Trump put it, his hand of cards is weak".

imaround

I am not going to watch it. I can not stand the sound of his voice. U will stay caught up online.

I cant even predict because he makes such unexpected and off the wall decisions.

It was bizarre. I haven’t watched the whole speech, but it looks like he is taking some big gambles on domestic policy, and if he doesn’t back down, his tariffs will ultimately bring him down to earth with a bump because the economy is already crashing. I also thought he looked quite unwell in the rare pauses in rhetoric, not sure what the implications of that are if Vance steps in.

A few hours is a long time in politics, Trump and Zelensky are now best mates

Europe is totally disunited and the EU is talking about making Ukraine a “steel porcupine”, there is no point them making any statements because they will only have to back down and look ridiculous.

I am not going to watch it. I can not stand the sound of his voice. U will stay caught up online.

I cant even predict because he makes such unexpected and off the wall decisions.

A little light relief (well I laughed anyway). From CNN on the impact of the tariffs on the US stock market:

‘The top three US stock markets by value are down since the inauguration.
The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite is 7% lower.
And get this for an example: Trump policy puppy Elon Musk must be nervous as Tesla's stock has shed 38% of its market value in that time.
That's hardly Make America Great Again.’

I've heard it's about the corruption in Ukraine. Money. Where has it all gone. No idea if that's correct but we'll soon see.

My worry is that although every sane person wants an end to the war in Ukraine it sounds like Zelensky may capitulate in order to get back US help when in fact he did nothing wrong that I and many others saw. It was Trump and Vance who were disparaging and shouted him down. I think it may have been a plan so they had an excuse to withdraw. Trump wants an apology - for what ? treating Zelensky badly. A lot of Americans also felt he had gone too far but why are so many still supporting him? All Trump wants is access to the minerals and it is wrong that the people of Ukraine may end up paying the price as well as Europe in general - he doesn't care less about any of us. I feel the world is a lot more unsafe whilst Trump is in power.

His speech to Congress is at 9 pm Eastern Time so about 2 am UK.