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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:08 PM Aug 2025

Trump tells Zelensky to give up Crimea and never join NATO ahead of White House talks - CNN



European leaders will join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, DC, ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump this afternoon. Trump says Zelensky must agree to some of Russia’s conditions — including that Ukraine cede Crimea and agree never to join NATO — for the war to end.

CNN's Alayna Treene reports from the White House, and Kate Bolduan speaks with CNN global affairs commentator Sabrina Singh.
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Trump tells Zelensky to give up Crimea and never join NATO ahead of White House talks - CNN (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2025 OP
If true, the war criminal Putin has come down on his demands. riversedge Aug 2025 #1
Crimea is merely an appetizer EYESORE 9001 Aug 2025 #2
If Ukraine doesn't join NATO they have no security at all. Putin will not hesitate to invade again. Biophilic Aug 2025 #3
I guess if timms139 Aug 2025 #4
Ukraine Ladythatvotesblue Aug 2025 #5

EYESORE 9001

(29,889 posts)
2. Crimea is merely an appetizer
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:17 PM
Aug 2025

I don’t believe the demands for eastern provinces in Ukraine have gone away.

Biophilic

(6,685 posts)
3. If Ukraine doesn't join NATO they have no security at all. Putin will not hesitate to invade again.
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:45 PM
Aug 2025

timms139

(564 posts)
4. I guess if
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:48 PM
Aug 2025

Russia were to invade Florida or Alaska Trump would take his own advise and give up one or the other to have peace .Or say he would give the other as consolation and maybe get him a Nobel peace prize .

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