In an echo of the Yalta Conference in 1945, the American and Russian leaders will talk on Tuesday about who gets what in the process of ending the war in Ukraine.

To hear President Trump describe it, he and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia are about to have something akin to their own Yalta moment, great powers determining borders within Europe.

He didn’t explicitly refer to the 1945 meeting, where Churchill, Stalin and a deathly ill Franklin D. Roosevelt carved the continent into the American-aligned West and the Soviet-dominated East, creating spheres of influence that became the battlegrounds of the Cold War.

But talking to reporters on Air Force One while returning from Florida on Sunday night, Mr. Trump made clear that his scheduled phone conversation with Mr. Putin on Tuesday would be focused on what lands and assets Russia would retain in any cease-fire with Ukraine.

He will, in essence, be negotiating over how large a reward Russia will receive for its 11 years of open aggression against Ukraine, starting with its seizure of Crimea in 2014 and extending through the full-scale war Mr. Putin started three years ago.

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  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Words are failing me. Maybe if I could time travel 200 years into the future, and draw on the entirety of human linguistic progress, I might be able to express how repulsive Donald Trump is.

    I don’t know if we deserve better, but Ukraine certainly does.

    • Sektor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      11 hours ago

      Deserve don’t mean nothing. Palestinians deserve better. Women in muslim countries deserve better. Uighurs deserve better. Kurds deserve better. Damn, even animals and trees deserve better. But humans are stupid, weak and easily manipulated. Still a long way and a heavy fight ahead of us.