thoughts on Trump's approach to Negotiating with Putin

 The only major issue I see is the Ukraine problem. I know this is a work in progress, and I never second Guess Trump. He has a strong history of flipping a final winning card. He may just have an Ace in the Hole to play against Putin. However, it seems he wants to do almst anything to bring him to a face to face meeting so he can enlighten him, and break the bubble he has build around himself. I am an American who moved to the EU to be with my wife and family. From here I am able to speak and interact with people from Ukraine, Russia, Georgia,Belarus, and others who have taken refuge here. They see UKR flying missiles some 700+ KM into Russia and doing serious damage to all types of industry, power plants, Mil airfields. and recently they blacked out Moscow. All of this shows Putin is a liar just like Stalin in WW2.
He has no defense. he lied to N Korea to get troops. China and 17 of his 41 RU Republics said we are not fighting in Putin’s war. Trump is about to put a big squeeze on the Oligarchs like they never saw under Biden. All this and Putin still talks like he has some great hold card and still has the greatest army in the word. All lies from a desperate Loser who is delusional because he is surrounded by generals and Oligarchs who are all YES MEN that fear torture and death at the hands of this  MADMAN!

Manpower on both sides of Putin's illegal war against Ukraine

 I live in Lithuania, and speak with people in Ukraine each week. Much of what CNN and MSNBC or BBCC report is lies. The reason Putin lost over 750,000 is because he is using the Same Stalin tactic as his mentor Joe Stalin. toss many troops in headlong attacks and follow up with tanks and armillary. UKR having a smaller army generally pull back from such tactics. and dumb reporters see this as retreat. While thy are pulling back. Their Drone army hundreds of Km in the rear echelon launch attacks on all those RU tanks and APCs and Artilleries. Try watching some footage from a site called ANKAR on You Tube. CNN and old broads like Amanpour are not really there to see it happen. As to just dropping their guns. Many Russians do that daily. just two weeks ago the 40K Ru troops isolated in Crimea had 10K desert since they ran out of ammo food and fuel.

UKR has a program ["I want to Live"] where they fly drones over Russian battlefields and tell the Russians if they surrender they will get Food, a warm bed and medical attention [ all things the Russian army sparsely supplies. Over 50,000 Russians have deserted and another 15000 have come over to fight with Ukraine. Some have actually joined in helping URK fight because they have been so badly treated as soldiers in Putin's army. If they came via the "I want to Live" UKR plan, they send messages back to their buddies that upon surrender, they were given food, took warm showers, and are now housed in barracks with beds and all amenities. during exchanges of POW's many do not want to go back to RU.

On the other side, there are many stories of how the Russians torture, beat and starve Ukrainian POW.s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGKcjUpHyik&ab_channel=BBCNews