Putin: Russia ready to discuss confidence-building measures

[George II]

Source: Associated Press

By DASHA LITVINOVA and YURAS KARMANAU
10 minutes ago

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow is ready for talks with the U.S. and NATO on limits for missile deployments and military transparency, in a new sign of easing East-West tensions. The statement came after Russia announced it is pulling back some troops from exercises that have raised fears of a potential invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Putin said the U.S. and NATO rejected Moscow’s demand to keep Ukraine and other ex-Soviet nations out of NATO, halt weapons deployments near Russian borders and roll back alliance forces from Eastern Europe.

But the U.S. and NATO have agreed to discuss a range of security measures that Russia had previously proposed.

Putin said Russia is ready to engage in talks on limiting the deployment of intermediate range missiles in Europe, transparency of drills and other confidence-building measures but emphasized the need for the West to heed Russia’s main demands.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. So the threat of destroying Ukraine was just a negotiation strategy?

[L. Coyote]

3. It was a significant jump in the price of oil. Mission accomplished, raking in billions for Putin.

[Irish_Dem]

6. So he more than paid for the deployment expenses.

He is an evil crafty bugger.

[L. Coyote]

8. Russians pays for the military.

The plutocrats profit from oil price spikes, albeit the Russian state does also.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Yes of course, but he doesn't have to worry about PR in terms of the Russian people.

Not that he cares so much about that, but there have been rumblings of dissent.

Autocrats don't care about public sentiment, but they do care about rebellion.

Also China will think he looks smart, to have made such a scary bluff and walked away with cash and agreements.

[inwiththenew]

11. Yep

If you go back to the beginning of December, right about the time all this started to really heat up, oil was at $65 a barrel. Right now it's a $91. That is a 40% increase in basically 2 months.

[paleotn]

7. War is a mere continuation of policy by other means.

Clausewitz.

[Beachnutt]

2. Ok pooty

take your military back to their bases and we'll talk..

[Budi]

4. Putin says a lot of things. It's time to engage the Magnitsky Act.

This is all about the corrupt RU oligarchy's Oil Market. Who Vladimer Putin works on behalf of.
By threatening Ukraine with an invasion, Putin simply united & strengthed NATO.
Now he wants to 'negotiate'.
Magnitsky Act was tailor made just for shitheads like Vladimer Putin.

Heck of a job, Vlad!

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Your former asset in the WH didn't do a good enough job of weakening NATO Poot Poot.

[IronLionZion]

10. Typical gangster extortion behavior

[dalton99a]

12. NATO and Western governments said they had seen no signs of de-escalation

NATO and Western governments said they had seen no signs of de-escalation yet Tuesday, despite the Russian Defense Ministry’s announcement that it is pulling back forces from maneuvers that had heightened concerns about an invasion. Russia gave no details on where the troops were pulling back from, or how many.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-russia-london-europe-moscow-b158645ccf222e05aede08e26b9f62c1