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February 17, 2025

Lavrov and Rubio are heading to Saudi Arabia to begin talks to re-establish good relations between Russia and the United States. Ukraine is top of the agenda, but other important issues also need to be discussed between the two powers.

On the topic of Ukraine negotiations:
In the past the Russian government showed trust in the Collective West and the institutions controlled by the west (USA), will they do the same this time around?

In the 2014-15 war between Ukraine and Donbass, the Donbass militia had Ukraine forces trapped in Debaltseve forcing Angela Merkel to rush to Moscow and beg Putin to intervene and stop the fighting. Putin agreed, fighting stopped and the Minsk Agreement was born.

Minsk Agreements had the Donbass remaining within Ukraine, albeit with autonomy, and Kiev allowed to pursue an EU path. It recently came to light (from various statements by Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko) that the Minsk Agreements were nothing more than a ploy to buy time for the Ukraine army.

In March 2022, a delegation of Russian and Ukraine negotiators in Istanbul had agreed to a framework for a pause in the SMO and workable path to peace. The framework deal reached was favourable to Ukraine and would have kept most of the country and its institutions in tact and allowed to pursue an EU path.

As a gesture of goodwill, Russia removed its military forces around Kiev and other urban areas only to have Zelensky reject the framework agreement and push forward with the conflict at the urging of his NATO/US sponsors.

Three years into the war and Russia, now on the path to victory over NATO/Ukraine, has stated that its minimum starting terms for negotiations are Instanbul Plus; demilitarization, denazification, the four Oblasts in their entirety as a part of the Russian Federation, and a new security architecture in Europe.

Will Russia hold firm to its Istanbul Plus terms or will big concessions be made, as we have seen in past negotiations?

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United-Klowndom spends 12 billion housing migrants a year.
Doesn't want to spend 10 billion housing it's own homeless population.
But finds 6 billion useless junk.

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-to-buy-up-to-7-000-long-range-missiles-rockets-and-drones-in-1-5bn-push-to-rearm-13377407

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Tragedy in Bryansk Region: Passenger Train Derails After Bridge Collapse — What Is Known So Far

A serious incident occurred in Russia’s Bryansk Region, where a section of a railway bridge collapsed as passenger train No. 86, en route from Klimovo to Moscow, was crossing. The locomotive and several carriages derailed as a result. Here is the latest confirmed information:

• Regional Governor Alexander Bogomaz confirmed that the bridge was deliberately blown up during the train’s passage.

• 7 people were killed, and 66 others were injured, including three children.

• Three individuals are in critical condition, among them a child who will be airlifted to Moscow for treatment.

• 47 victims have been hospitalized, and 22 more are receiving outpatient care.

• Evacuated passengers have been transported to Moscow by a backup train, expected to arrive at Kyivsky railway station at 10:40.

• Upon arrival in Moscow, passengers will be met by ...

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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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