US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and their man god are trying to railroad the world into cutting funding for Ukraine. After a meeting in Alaska Vlad pushed hard to gain ground in a costly offensive to capture a 60K resident town. This is a pace the Russians cannot keep up.
The accompanying propaganda for this push is designed to make everyone think the Russians are winning the war in Ukraine. According to the Institute for the Study of War, an American think tank;
ISW assesses that the Russian rate of advance intensified since the Alaska summit, with Russian forces advancing an average of 9.3 square kilometers per day between August 15 and November 20. Russian gains notably have still been confined to a foot pace even during this period of faster advances. Russian forces would finalize the seizure of the remainder of Donetsk Oblast only in August 2027 at this rate of advance, assuming Russian forces can maintain the current faster rate of advance Institute for the Study of War
An Oblast is like a province or state in the US.
The corps reported that Ukrainian forces killed 1,221 Russian servicemembers and wounded 545 in the Pokrovsk agglomeration in November 2025, including 519 killed and 131 wounded within Pokrovsk alone. ISW continues to assess that Russian forces have incurred significant casualties in their monthslong campaign to seize Pokrovsk ISW
ISW has not yet observed evidence to confirm that Russian forces have completed the seizure of Pokrovsk as of this writing. The Kremlin may have announced the seizure of Pokrovsk prematurely on December 1 — as it has for numerous other settlements in Ukraine — as part of a cognitive warfare effort in order to shape the US-Russian negotiations in Moscow on December 2. ISW
Trump has been trying to defund Ukraine since his first term. This is a political trick he and Putin agreed to in Alaska to make that happen. Putin’s forces cannot maintain this pace and do not have the capability to win in Ukraine. This stunt show’s Putin’s desperation.
History has shown us that appeasement doesn’t work with dictators. If Ukraine cuts the size of it’s military by 1/3 and gives the entire Donetsk Oblast to Putin he will re-invade in a few years.
Putin has threatened NATO with war saying they have sabotaged this railroad effort by Trump and himself (New York Post). Putin can’t even defeat Ukraine; this is an empty threat. Putin’s losses on the battlefield and cost to Russian society will make his reign untenable. Let him kick his own ass – stay the course.
Let’s see those Epstein Files.