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Sve i da istog sekunda prestane da obavlja funkciju predsednika, i ode na zasluzeni 'odmor', bilo u zatvor, bilo u mentalnu instituciju (kako doktori odluce), steta koju je napravio sopstvenoj zemlji tesko da moze da se sanira i u narednih 10 godina. Bukvalno ne prodje jedan dan da covek ne izgovori javno neku novu, lako proverljivu laz. Potpuna devalvacija ugleda USA predsednika. Sto se Ukrajne tice, gde su sada Republikanci iz Senata koji su u plavo/zutom docekivali Zelenskog I aplaudirali mu? Gde je obecanje 'what ever it takes'? Marko Rubio? Sta je sa njegovom podrskom Zelenskom i kritikama Putinu? Kao da nije bilo pre dve -tri godine, nego u proslom zivotu. Jel moguce da su se svi toliko usr.li? Kako mogu sebe da pogledaju u ogledalo?

cnn President Donald Trump’s job approval rating stands in the mid-40s across three new polls released Wednesday, all of which show roughly half of the public disapproving of his performance. A Gallup poll found 45% of US adults approving and 51% disapproving Similarly, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found 44% of US adults approving In a Quinnipiac University poll, 45% of registered voters approve, while 49% disapprove All three surveys, which were conducted in early and mid-February, show Trump’s approval rating little changed from the same firms’ late-January surveys, but reflect an uptick in the share who say they disapprove — Gallup by 3 percentage points, Reuters/Ipsos by 5 points and Quinnipiac by 6 points. As Gallup notes, “Trump’s job approval rating is 15 points below the historical average for all other elected presidents in mid-February since 1953” in their polling, “but it is five points higher than the February reading in his first term.” The poll finds Trump’s overall approval rating closely echoed by his ratings for handling immigration (46%) and foreign affairs (44%), with the president posting slightly lower ratings on the economy (42%), foreign trade (42%), the situation in Ukraine (40%) and the situation in the Middle East (40%). Quinnipiac’s survey finds that just 38% of registered voters say that the system of checks and balances between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government is working even somewhat well, with 54% saying it’s not working so well or not working well at all.

A koje je tvoje vidjenje slobode govora, nisam u toku. Jel u liniji sa Vensovim ili nekim drugim?

Sto bi Vens rekao, ne nosis se dobro sa slobodnom govora. Nekako mi je najcudnije od svega kako je cela USA pala u zagrljaj ove osobe, skoro da se ne cuju drugacija misljenja, a o nekim protestima ili pobuni nema ni govora. Cak je i u Rusiji bilo protesta i okupljanja ljudi koji drugacije misle kad je krenula invazija na Ukrajnu. A ovde, potpuno mrtvilo.

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Nisam ni mislio da je lose. Ukrajni trebaju izbori, ali preduslov da se odrze je neki mir i ukidanje vanrednog stanja. Ovo ispitivanje javnog mnjenja i gadjanje procentima je besmisleno koliko i ruski ili beloruski izbori. Sto se tice ovih evropskih trupa, prvo Francuzi i UK moraju da potegnu uz neki simbolicni americki kontigent. Za njima mogu Poljaci i Nemci, a ja bih ukljucio i Kineze i Turke iz mnogo razloga. Kad se situacija stabilizuje, USA moze da se povuce.

cnn Two prominent GOP senators, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and seemed to break with President Donald Trump over negotiations in the peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.

Nema dileme da Zelenski i Vlada u Kijevu trebaju potvrdu kroz slobodne izbore. Ali bez mira nije moguce odrzati takve izbore, tako da mora da postoji neki redosled poteza. Prvo mir, pa onda izbori. Ko dobije podrsku od stanovnistva, imace mandat i da potpisuje sporazume. Inace, Makron nastavlja gde je stao prekjuce: DW French President Emmanuel Macron is holding another meeting on Ukraine on Wednesday that will include several European and non-European countries. Countries including Norway, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Romania, Sweden and Belgium have been invited, the Reuters news agency quoted unnamed sources as saying. The format of the meeting would be hybrid, including video participation, Reuters added. --- Inace su americke diplomate trazile od Lavrova da Rusija prekine da gadja energetsku infrastrukturu u Ukrajni, lepa ilustracija s kim pregovaraju i koliki su napredak ostvarili. DW Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, leaving most residents without power, water or heat, Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov said. "Hospitals, clinics and social infrastructure sites were left without heating," Trukhanov wrote on the Telegram messaging app, describing the strike on Odesa as "massive."

Rojtersova slika dana, koja govori mnogo toga. Americke diplomate sa licima istucenog deteta koje bi radije bilo na bilo kom drugom mestu, osim na ovom na kom je sada. Nadmeni, cinicni Lavrov proslavlja pobedu, i to na mnogo polja; istovremeno postavlja nove uslove oko daljih pregovora i "pregovora". Nema normalnog coveka koji je ovu sliku danas video, a da nije dobio nagon za povracanjem. Predstavnici zemalja koje su najodgovornije za smrt desetine i stotine hiljada ljudi, desetine miliona unistenih zivota. Milijarde, mozda i trilioni spiskani u jednom nerazumnom, anticivilizacijskom i divljackom pohodu. "Odjednom" imaju zelju da pregovaraju. Uzasno licemerje koje progovara iz ove slike prakticno je ogolilo ove dve sile, i treba ceo svet da ih vidi, gleda i dobro razmisli. U tom smislu, mislim da je bas dobro sto nije bilo Ukrajinaca ni EU predstavnika danas. I treba ova slika sto vise puta da obidje svet i svaki obican covek da je vidi i razmisli o svim uzasima o kojima slusa vec tri godine. Iako se cesto govori o evropskim zemljama kao prevrtljivim i licemernim, u konkretnom slucaju su pokazali mnogo vise od USA. Evropse zemlje, makar one ozbiljnije, su ostale uz svog saveznika i pokazale da ima ideala i saveznika zbog koji se ne napustaju zbog kese zlatnika. Mogli su umesto Rubija i ekipe danas tu da sede Makron i Solc, ali nisu, i dobro je sto nisu. Svet treba da vidi ko je uz svoje saveznike, a ko igra prevrtljive igre. --- Sto se mene tice, za neko moje razmisljanje, dva kljucna takeawaysa od danas su: - nece biti sastanka Putina i Trumpa u februaru, iako je to Trump gurao ovih dana vrlo zestoko. - Kina je rekla da za stolom moraju biti svi stakeholderi rata u Ukrajni. Implicitna poruka i Putinu i Trumpu, da malo razmisle jer su se mozda "malo" zaigrali. ili makar ja zelim da je tako razumem. --- bbc o slici iz Rijada The sight of senior Russian and American officials back around a giant negotiating table is extraordinary. For many, most of all Ukrainians, it will have been very hard to take. In Saudi Arabia, Moscow achieved something major: after three years of all-out war on its neighbour and isolation by the West, it was back at the "top table" of global diplomacy. Not only that, Russia looked for all the world like it was the one calling the shots. Even as air raid sirens continue to sound across Ukraine, that's exactly the image Moscow wants to project. This was not a defeated Russia, forced to the negotiating table. It was more like the US inviting the aggressor to set out its terms. True, US officials went into the process saying they wanted to feel out Russia, check whether it's serious about peace. But Donald Trump had already drawn his conclusions. Last week, after he spoke to Vladimir Putin by phone, he announced that the Russian leader "wants to see people stop dying". Trump could have responded by telling him to withdraw all his troops. Instead, he clearly wants to cut a deal with Moscow to end the war, as he promised voters, and move on. After more than four hours of talks in Riyadh, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio emerged to the press and announced the first steps towards negotiations had been agreed, with teams to be formed on both sides. He'd concluded that Russia was ready to engage in a "serious process" to end the war. But why was he so sure? Across the table was Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, still under sanctions for what the US Treasury called Russia's "brutal war of choice". When Lavrov met the Russian media, he told them the US had proposed a moratorium on attacking energy infrastructure. "We explained that we have never endangered the civilian energy supply and only target what directly serves Ukraine's military," was the minister's reply. That's not true. I have personally walked through the ruins of civilian power plants that have been directly targeted by Russian missiles. This is the country that the US is attempting to engage with, although there is ample evidence that it can't be trusted. Russia has also shown zero sign of conceding any ground: why would it, when the Trump administration has already agreed that Ukraine will never join Nato, as Moscow demands, and won't get its occupied land back? That's why, for Ukraine's allies, it won't only be the image of US and Russian officials seated at the shiny Saudi table that jarred. It's also how they talked. "Laying the ground" for future investment sounds like a promise of dropping sanctions: no reckoning for Russia's war of aggression, then, just reward. These are, of course, the earliest of early days. But in Moscow, officials and state media sense the start of Russia's return to where it believes it belongs: face to face with the US, as an equal.

bbc Laying out Turkey's position on the terms for peace, Erdogan tells the news conference that Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty are "indisputable". --- On possible peacekeeping forces in Ukraine - whether from Nato or "under the flag of the EU" - Lavrov said "any appearance by armed forces under some other flag does not change anything. It is of course completely unacceptable".

bbc After today's meeting, the US and Russia have agreed to appoint "high-level teams" to begin working on a path to end Russia's war in Ukraine, the US State Department says. The pair have also agreed to address "irritants" in the "bilateral relationship", spokesperson Tammy Bruce says in a statement on the agency's website. "One phone call followed by one meeting is not sufficient to establish enduring peace. We must take action, and today we took an important step forward," she adds.

bbc The meeting between Russia and the US has 'rejected' the logic of talks under the Biden administration, says Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund. Dmitriev, a key member of the Russian delegation in Riyadh, tells Russian state TV: “This was a very respectful, calm conversation... the logic that existed under President Biden has been rejected. A meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin next week is "unlikely", according to Putin's foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov. “We have agreed that separate team of negotiators will establish contact in due course,” he says. Yuri Ushakov says on Russian state TV of the talks: "Not bad, not bad... it's hard to say if [Russia and the US] are getting closer, but that's what we discussed... it was a very serious discussion of all the issues we wanted to touch upon... we have agreed to take account of each other's interests and develop bilateral relations, since both Moscow and Washington are interested in this."

Slazem se, treba da ga popravimo da bude bolji. Prvi korak je da se ne mirimo, tek tako, sa njim.

bbc China says it hopes "all parties... can participate in peace talks in due course". A foreign ministry spokesman tells reporters he is "happy to see all efforts towards peace".

Ima ma(l)ko i do nas u kom svetu zivimo. Ako pristanemo na to da su trenutni interesi bitniji od slobode (sloboda) i da mi tu nista ne mozemo, onda i ne zasluzujemo vise od toga nego da ulazemo u rusko oruzje koje ce nastaviti da ubija sirom Evrope. Ne moze se ulagati u obrazovanje i medicinu dok je u pitanju goli zivot i osnovna sloboda.

Ne mene ne bi previse iznenadilo, ali je takav potez toliko kratkovid i nerazuman u smislu da svaki cent koji EU da Rusiji za gas je cent koji ulaze u rusku armiju i rusko oruzje kojim Kremlj planira da ubija i osvaja dalje po Evropi.

DW French President Emmanuel Macron said he spoke with US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Monday's meeting of European leaders. Macron stressed that a peace agreement could only be sustainable if Russia ends its aggression and there are credible security guarantees for Ukraine. "We will work on this together with all Europeans, Americans, and Ukrainians. This is the key," he wrote on social media.

Ko je slusao juce ruskog ambasadora u UN, cuo je i da traze demilitarizaciju Ukrajne, potpunu zabranu isporuke naoruzanja od drugih zemalja i slicne stvari koje prakticno znace gubitak suvereniteta i slobode. Odnosno da se pri sledecem napadu na Ukrajnu ne uperi na rusku armiju nista vise od lovackog naoruzanja.

Najavljeno je jos jutros da nece biti saopstenja ni pressa posle sastanka.

cnn In the blue states, the percentage of repeat Tesla buyers fell, from 72% in the last quarter of 2023 to 65% in the last quarter of 2024. Meanwhile, repeat Tesla buyers in red states edged up very slightly from 47.6% at the end of 2023 to 48.2% during the last three months of last year. There’s some additional anecdotal evidence to suggest that some buyers may have been turned off by Musk’s political activism. Valdez Streaty points to polling of potential car buyers this month by Morning Consult that shows that nearly 32% of US buyers “would not consider” buying a Tesla. That’s up from 27% in a Morning Consult survey a year ago, and only 17% when it asked the question in in February 2021. Tesla sales in Germany in January fell 59% compared to a year ago, according to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority. And just as Musk has been a key supporter of Trump, he has become a high profile supporter of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. There is also significant new competition from Chinese automaker BYD, which has nearly caught Tesla in worldwide EV sales and actually topped it by a large margin in the fourth quarter of 2024. BYD is taking market share away from Tesla in China and Europe but it has yet to enter the US market.

Nije, u UAE je. Tamo se dogovara razmena zatvorenika. U sredu je u KSA, u Rijadu. Za sledecu nedelju je zakazano dosta toga, British PM ide Trumpu, a najvisi EU predstavnici idu u Kijev na obelezavanje godisnjice agresije.

Zadnja vest kaze da ce i Zelenski u sredu biti u Rijadu.

bbc Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, ex-MI6 boss Sir John Sawers explains that the border between Russia and Ukraine would be a “very substantial frontline to police”. And, in the event that troops are overrun, Sawers suggests that this “could cost British lives”, but also “our capacity to uphold the peace that we are there to keep”. “We have to be very clear what the mission is, what the rules of engagement are should the Russians attack," he adds. "Do we fight back or do we simply report it to some other body?"

Prime Minister Keir Starmer outlined the UK's position on Ukraine in the Daily Telegraph: • On defence spending, he wrote: "Europe must step up further to meet the demands of its own security... we have talked about it for too long – and President Trump is right to demand that we get on with it" • On putting British troops on the ground, he said the UK is "ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our own troops on the ground if necessary" • On Ukraine joining Nato, he said it "may take time [but] we should continue to support Ukraine’s irreversible path to joining the alliance" • And Starmer concluded: "As I will say in Paris, peace comes through strength. But the reverse is also true. Weakness leads to war" --- bbc "I think he [Putin] wants to stop fighting," Trump told reporters after a flight on Air Force One last night. "I think he wants to end it, and they want to end it fast. Both of them," he said, adding, "Zelensky wants to end it too". Asked whether he believes Putin wants to seize all of Ukraine, Trump said: "That was my question to him. "If he's going to go on... that would have caused me a big problem."

Da, ima u tom upitniku i jos nekih zanimljivih pitanja, kao sta vam je potrebno od USA da bi mogli da uradite to, i da li ste spremni i sposobni da poostrite primenu sankcija Rusiji. Reuters je dobio taj upitnik i nasiroko su pisali o njemu.