Trump, Vance, and Hegseth show what delusion is. Why wouldn’t psychopathic Putin and his mafia laugh their heads off?
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Russian state TV and Kremlin insiders laughing at Trump’s concessions to Putin over Ukraine: report
Story by Gustaf Kilander, The Independent, 14 Feb 2025
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Kremlin insiders spent Wednesday night laughing on Russian state TV after President Donald Trump handed his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, significant concessions in the upcoming peace talks over the war in Ukraine before the negotiations had even begun.
Trump and his administration in recent days have put the kibosh on the notion that Ukraine could become a member of NATO and that it could take back territories currently under Russian control.
Propagandists on Russian state TV and radio broke into elated laughter as Ukraine and its allies were left bewildered. Olga Skabeeva, the host of the Russian state TV program 60 Minutes, called the events “unthinkable” and “unimaginable,” according to Julia Davis, an analyst of Russian media, writing for The Daily Beast.
Skabeeva asked the network’s Europe correspondent Mikhail Antonov: “What does it all mean? Ukraine is left without NATO? Ukraine is left without money?”
Antonov argued that the era of American dominance has ended. He added that Europe wouldn’t be able to provide Ukraine with the same level of military assistance as the U.S. as Skabeeva struggled to hide her glee.
Meanwhile, 60 Minutes co-host Evgeny Popov celebrated that Trump is doing Moscow’s work for it by doing away with Western alliances and cutting Europe into pieces, which the Kremlin aimed to do from the beginning.
Russian TV pundits have said for years that Trump’s return to the White House would mean the end of U.S. aid to Ukraine, which would turn the war in Russia’s direction. But the experts appeared to marvel at the speed at which Trump seems to be doing Moscow’s bidding and that he’s treating Putin as his equal.