Duck, he is losing his air arm of the triad, he is losing his naval arm of the triad. He will only have left the silos of his triad. Now he has a bunch of truck mounts, but can he keep moving them around enough?

Pacific ports? HA! Is his rail track across Siberia going to supply his war machine if he needs to use it? Do you think it might be easy to take out?

War is logistics. We have already seen that with his supply lines getting over extended and cut.

Rump knows that if Putin falls it is bad for business. So Rump demands Ukraine give up land. Rump cuts American health care and schools so the USA is sick and stupid.

The question is was it make hookers on the tape?

Duck, he is losing his air arm of the triad, he is losing his naval arm of the triad. He will only have left the silos of his triad. Now he has a bunch of truck mounts, but can he keep moving them around enough?

Duck is an avatar (daft one... admitted). Michael, if you like.

Ukraine is not responsible whether Russia's ugly and clumsy missile launchers in the Taiga sufficiently deter China from conquering Siberia or not. Naval arm: UA never attacked Russia's big sub 'boomers'; just one Diesel sub destroyed ashore in a Black Sea harbor.

But Ukraine especially attacked these TU-95; a directed and justified defense. The modern Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles launched by TU-95 are difficult to stop for Ukraine's insufficient air defense because of their final attack phase dropping down to low altitudes (~30 meters? ~100ft).

TU-95... is the 'air arm' of Russia's nuclear triad... Really? This plane is (official world record ) the fastest propeller driven one (925 km/h, 500 kn) and therefore (rumours) features the boldest radar signature of any plane with its 6m/20ft propellers. 'First strike' or what?

(Btw. when I was a young teenager in the late 1980s; one of the first model kit planes I glued myself together, then painted in silver, was this TU-20 kit (ebay) (alias TU-95) with red decal stars; then hung on strings in my (children's) room; next to AN-2, IL-28, IL-62, TU-134..., a French Mercuré...). I didn't knew it was a doomsday tool back then.

It's the task of the major powers: U.S., China, Russia to maintain THEIR nuclear deterrence, not Ukraine's. If they don't want Ukraine to change this balance; they better stop Putin from killing Ukrainians with his nuclear triad's 'air arm'. The U.S. (UK, Russia as well) guaranteed Ukraine's security in the Budapest memorandum; China (and France) in a separate, weaker one as well. An annoying situation for Trump, for other major powers, isn't it? Nuclear triad is their business. Or do they want Ukraine to become a club member? What Pakistan achieved, Ukraine cannot? Ukrainians constructed world's heaviest airplane AN-225, liquid-fueled space launch rockets and ICBMs, e.g. SS-18 "Satan", before. A bulky, heavy 'Fat Man' is sufficient for starters... as long as it fits into an ordinary ISO container... for road transport in Russia.

Pacific ports? HA! Is his rail track across Siberia going to supply his war machine if he needs to use it? Do you think it might be easy to take out?

Yes, I'm convinced Transsib would supply; impossible to take it out. Just recently Transsib transported more North Korean artillery guns & shells per month to the warzone than all of Europe was able to supply Ukraine.

Railroad: Already the Tsar forced China (ailing Qing dynasty) to allow a direct, straight rail shortcut from Chita (East of lake Baikal) to Vladivostok via Harbin across Chinese territory (today Chinese Eastern Railway) and a link from Harbin to the (back then) Russian Port Arthur (today's Dalian) as Transsib's 2nd Pacific terminus. Russia lost Port Arthur to Japan in 1905, Soviets regained it in 1945, ceded it to China only in the 1950s. If China agrees, Russia will use it. After WW2 USSR spent decades and billions of dollars (resp. rubles) to improve the railroad around Northern China on Soviet territory. They increased its capacity, electrified it; shortened mountain passes resp. the historic route along rivers. They added a 2nd parallel railroad, the Baikal-Amur Magistral (BAM). It was THE Soviet project in general. map: far away from China's border. "BAM" was in the news all the time, when I was a kid (1980s in Eastern GDR).

Roads: Only in 2010 Putin finished the Amur Highway (Chita-Khabarovsk: 1 lane each direction), as close as ~100 (60 mi) km from China's border. Before 2010, it was almost impossible for ordinary trucks or cars to reach Khabarovsk from Irkutsk(Baikal) due to unpaved tracks, mud season, steep ascents... The final leg, named Ussuri Highway (Khabarovsk-Vladivostok), was already build by Stalin in the 1930s (close to China). Russia currently builds a parallel alternative highway from Khabarovsk down south to Nakhodka harbor more distant from China through mountainous, uninhabited wilderness. Nakhodka is not far (150 km / 90 mi) from Vladivostok, connected by a coastal highway or hinterland railway. The achieved distance from China's border doesn't matter. No vehicle could cross this wilderness (think of primeval forests abeam of Alaska highway). Hmmm... Brits thought the same when a Japanese army pushed bicycles as packhorses through the impenetrable jungle and conquered Singapore in WW2.

Sea transport: Climate change makes the Northeast passage along Russia's Northern Arctic coastline reliable during summers into the autumn. Russia already built a few new nuclear icebreakers, more ordered. And remember, when the Russian-Japanese war of 1904 started, the Tsar immediately deployed the Baltic Fleet around Africa to the Sea of Japan. They reached the Pacific... in time... with all their impressive firepower. Yes, they suffered a humilating defeat, their fleet destroyed, but it wasn't because of the large distance.

It looks like delusional Donny has finally woken up to the real world.

Trump lashes PooTin and U-turns on sending weaponry to Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump says the US "has a lot of bullshit thrown at us" by Russian President Vladimir Putin, vowing to send more weapons to Ukraine to defend itself.

Mr Trump made the comments during a meeting of his cabinet on Tuesday local time, saying he was "very unhappy" that Mr Putin had made no progress on peace talks with Ukraine since the pair held a phone call last week.

The US has been seeking to broker a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia since Mr Trump's inauguration, but so far an agreement has been elusive.

"We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth," Mr Trump told reporters on Tuesday.

"He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless."

Asked about his interest in a bill proposed by the Senate for further sanctions on Russia, Mr Trump said: "I'm looking at it very strongly."

Earlier, Mr Trump said the US would have to continue shipping air defence missiles, precision-guided artillery and other weapons to Ukraine........

If Donny didn't spew so much B.S. around he'd have noticed PooTin's B.S. much sooner instead of being played the fool.

It looks like delusional Donny has finally woken up to the real world.

Has he really woken up? Was he asleep? Or just indifferent?

Then, is it just the delusional, erratic Donny or the larger group of influential pro-Russia lobbyists around him?

They are either (Trump included):

• already corrupted and dependent on Russian money (see Don Jr.'s public comments on how Trump's real estate business was financed).
  
• blackmailed by KGB resp. FSB
  
• greedy to resume business with Russia, resp. with Putin's oligarchs, who offer lucrative bait deals
  

Words vs. verifiable action. Will he act? I doubt it. Only if the U.S. Congress can somehow force him to act.

If Donny didn't spew so much B.S. around he'd have noticed PooTin's B.S. much sooner instead of being played the fool.

Donny will not notice anything. He doesn't care. He won't spend the time or e.g. trust others (intelligence services?) to evaluate plausibility of Putin's arguments. So, Trump's decisions on Russia aren't led by rational facts, but by... [by what?]

I think, they're just impulsive reactions based on what he has just heard, read; or watched on TV. Unpredictable...forgotten the next day. He has a general conviction, that Putin is a powerful, long-time leader of a huge country, to be respected like Xi, or India's Modi. A country which is so large you just can't circumvent it. Size on maps matter for Trump, not economic facts. See Greenland and the rumour that he just want to have it because it looks soooo BIG on maps due to the Mercator projection distorting the true area of polar regions.

Compare his strange admiration for Netanyahu, the strong, assertive leader, the military officer shaped by combat in wars. While he despised and ignored former German Chancelor Merkel's character: a small down-to-earth woman who for a long time represented the "center of gravy" in EU just with reliable ties, arguments... soft power. Ukraine most of its history belonged to "Russia", wasn't it? USSR... Where Reagan denounced an "Evil Empire"; Trump respected the mighty, powerful USSR; and Putin's Russia, its preceived successor.

Zelensky on the other hand, and his insignificant country Ukraine (literally the "border region" to the steppe... in between... significant power blocs). He's just a nuisance, an accident of history; this clown, small stature, an disconcerting entertainment artist, whose successful stage characters didn't shy away from even bizarre gender-fluid, homoerotic provocations. It's exactly what Trump despises the most. Moreso, Zelensky seems to be a stable character with principles, not a politician. You can't buy him, deal with him or corrupt him. He remains a roadblock to profitable business with Russia. I believe Trump would have preferred Yanukovich as Ukraine's president; a respectable leader figure with a passion for ostentatious luxury... Who cares what Ukrainians want?