Old Hu got up late today and took a quick look at the report, which basically means that Trump and Putin didn't achieve any meaningful results in their talks. The ceasefire and peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were originally Putin's initiative. Trump said his conversation with Putin went smoothly, but that was just to save face for himself. Trump has no way of dealing with Putin, but he doesn't want to look foolish, after all, he once boasted about ending the war in "24 hours".
The key is that the Ukrainian army supported by the West is performing very poorly on the battlefield. Now the Russian army is capturing dozens of square kilometers of land almost every day, so the demands in the negotiation are very high, almost requiring the Ukrainian army in the east to "surrender". Ukraine and Europe want to get on the negotiation table what they cannot obtain on the battlefield, which makes it difficult.
Russia previously mentioned that they would fight for 21 years like they did against Sweden three centuries ago. But it probably won't happen. Such a long war will bring nothing but suffering. According to media reports, in just over three years, more than 100,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in battle, including a large number of officers, with more than ten generals among them.
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