The Russian Federation is known to possess or have possessed … nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons. … Russia possesses a total of 5,459 nuclear warheads as of 2025, the largest confirmed stockpile of nuclear warheads in the world. Russia’s deployed missiles ready to be launched number about 1,718, the largest confirmed strategically deployed arsenal in the world as of 2025.
Russia and Weapons of Mass Destruction, 8/17/25
The US chemical weapons … ended … in 1990 with [it’s] practical adoption of the Chemical Weapons Convention … Destruction of stockpiled chemical weapons … completed July 7, 2023.
US Chemical Weapons Program, 8/17/25
In 1969, President Nixon ended all offensive (i.e., non-defensive) aspects of the U.S. bio-weapons program.
US Biological Weapons Program, 8/17/25
[Trump] gave credibility to a war criminal. I don’t count that as progress. [And that was] the weirdest press conference to have to comment about, because it was like watching two guys eat salad, and then I’m supposed to say what it means for world history…. [And] Trump was making moon eyes at his dear friend Vladimir.
NYT/PBS “journalist,” David Brooks, 8/16/26
[T]he underlying premise of Trump’s peace-making is that the force of his personality and supposedly unique status as the world’s greatest dealmaker can end wars. That myth looking very ragged [now]. … Trump’s Nobel campaign [has] suffered a setback … [H]e seems back under Putin’s spell.
CNN “Journalist” Stephen Collinson, 8/16/25
Last week, [Trump] blew past its own deadline of imposing sanctions on Russia for continuing its 3-year invasion of Ukraine, and then, in a misguided effort to clean up that mistake, Trump gifted Russian Putin a one-on-one meeting in Alaska. It was impossible to make sense of what Trump expected to gain by doing so. It’s not even clear what Trump wants, other than a Nobel Peace Prize.
MSDNC “journalist”, Nayyera Haq, 8/16/25
I think people were disturbed by sort of the warm atmosphere between Trump and Putin …. Trump seemed rather effusive in his compliments of Putin, calling him a strong guy, tough as hell.
CNN “journalist” Ben Wedeman, 8/12/25
[Trump] wants to be a peacemaker. He wants the Nobel Peace Prize, that whole thing. And this has been elusive because Putin is not that interested in the deal. So, is Trump going into this a little bit naive, thinking that Putin is actually ready to deal when what he really wants is complete victory?
CNN “journalist” Abby Phillip, 8/12/25
I think Putin [is] manipulating [Trump]. [Everybody is] trying to find some way to manipulate Trump into using American strength to get to the right outcome. And … we’ve been successful enough that he hasn’t totally sold Ukraine out. But, somehow, he’s incapable of getting angry with Putin. He’ll get angry at … our democratic allies, and yet even when Putin spits in his face, as he did in Alaska, he’s still incapable of doing that, and we haven’t cracked the code of how to change that aspect of Trump’s personality.
TOM MALINOWSKI (former member of Obama administration), 8/12/25
If I had a magic wand, I would wave it to make Russia end the war, give back all territory it conquered in Ukraine (including Crimea which it grabbed during the Messiah’s genius administration), pay reparations to Ukraine for its illegal attack on the country and apologize to Ukraine for its thuggish militarism. Unfortunately, unlike many in the Democrat Party and in the Democrat Party Propaganda Collective or DPPC (aka the mainstream or legacy media), I don’t think I have a magic wand, which means I will have to deal with the one thing the Democrats and DPPC always have trouble with, i.e., “Reality.”
As expected (because they go hysterical about everything Trump does), the Democrats and their DPPC poodles are all distressed that though Trump claimed a vague kind of success for the summit there was no announced ceasefire or framework to end the war, etc. What was accomplished?
They are, in addition, as usual, claiming to know many things they cannot possibly know. David Brooks, the NYT’s fake conservative, claims that Trump “gave credibility to a war criminal”. Newsflash for David. Putin has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, larger that the US, and probably has biological and chemical stockpiles, neither of which the US has, as well. Trump is trying to solve the problem. But since Brooks doesn’t have to actually do anything, he just dumps on Trump per the usual PBS script. Nor did I notice Trump making “moon eyes” at his “dear friend” Putin, but I do understand the need for hyperbolic language by the thoroughly defeated Left. And if Brooks wants to watch people “eat salad” and try to explain what it means for world history, perhaps he should watch his own conversations with comrade Capehart on PBS.
Similarly, despite the fact that Trump has signed the allegedly Abraham Accords, and trade deals with Japan, the UK, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, the EU and a preliminary deal with China, CNN’s Stephen Collinson, employing the standard CNN script, whines, transparently falsely, that Trump’s deal-making is a myth. I also confess that I have no idea why Collinson thinks Trump is “under Putin’s spell”, but I do understand that this is the hoax Democrats and the DPPC have been pushing for almost 10 years.
Comrade Malinowski from the Messiah’s administration thinks Putin is manipulating Trump. How does he know that without seeing the end results? It’s just a shame that no one manipulated the Messiah’s administration into preventing Putin from grabbing Crimea, or in President Autopen’s administration from invading Ukraine.
MSDNC’s Nayeera Haq whines that Trump ignored his own deadline” of imposing sanctions on Russia and then “gifted” Putin a one-on-one meeting in Alaska. Well, he is dealing with a nuclear, chemical and biological armed thug while he works behind the scenes to get a deal. And, no, it’s not impossible to get a sense of what Trump expected to gain. He wants the fighting to stop and make the minimal land concessions to Russia. Duh!!!
CNN’s Ben Wedeman is distressed by the “warm atmosphere”. Tell me genius Ben, would there be a better chance of solving the problem if there was a cold relationship between them? The question answers itself.
CNN’s Abby Phillips, on one of her regular laughing, giggling, yelling and interrupting-conservatives sessions, announces that Trump wants to be a peacemaker and win a Nobel Peace Prize and that Putin wants a complete victory. Thanks for the inconsequential platitudes and speculations about Trump’s alleged motivations, Abby. But tell us, was the Messiah naïve when Russia grabbed Crimea on his watch and was President Autopen naïve when he literally stupidly said that maybe a “minor” Russian “incursion” into Ukraine might not be significant?
Since, unlike the Democrats and DPPC, I do not claim to have the telepathic powers of Carnac the Magnificent, I admit that I do not claim to know that Trump accomplished something important in Alaska. Nor do I claim to know that nothing was accomplished. Like the Democrats and DPPC, I was not there. However, from the fact that Zelensky has been invited to the WH on Monday, and the Europeans involved, I consider it likely that Trump is going to present Zelinsky and the EU with Trump’s estimate of the most Ukraine can get to end the killing. Perhaps Zelinsky cannot take that deal and the killing will continue. However, Trump is trying to solve an incredibly deadly and dangerous problem that began under the Messiah’s and President Autopen’s astonishing level of incompetence.
Since none of these Democrat or DPPC geniuses have any idea whatsoever how they would push nuclear, biological and chemical armed thug Putin off the Ukraine land he grabbed under Obama and Biden, they can only get attention, and satisfy their contracts, by expelling noxious gasses from their bleating mouths.
It’s not our fault they’re demonstrably delusional.
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