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March 15, 2025

A timeline and a question.

March 6 John Healy UK defense secretary meets with Pete Hegseth his US counterpart

March 10 Marco Rubio makes a quickly planned trip to Riyadh to meet with Ukraine delegation ...topic: Ceasefire

March 10 Steve Witkoff goes to Moscow for an abruptly planned meeting with President Putin.

March 10 the beginning of the fall of Sudzah/ Ukrainian defeat

John Healy met with Pete Hegseth in an abruptly planned meeting on the 6th of March. Topic of discussion: Ukraine. My thinking is Healy met with Hegseth to explain to him the REAL situation on the ground in Kursk. The British, the French, and the Americans as well more than likely have imbedded troops with the Ukrainians. Healy knew that Kursk was dire and that the Russians were closing in.

My guess is they tried to come up with a strategy to remove th ...

eir men from the situation. I don't need to explain to anyone that finding actual UK US and other troops from other nations inside of Russia is an act of war.

March 10 there is a meeting in Riyadh between the US and Ukraine about a ceasefire. Everyone was scratching their heads about...Um you're discussing a ceasefire with one party and not the other? My guess is Rubio was explaining to the Ukrainians you need to agree to a ceasefire so we can get your people and OUR people out of the cauldron. I think the Russians knew EXACTLY why the US tried to get the ceasefire. They know who is in Kursk at least for the most part.

March 10 Steve Witkoff goes to Moscow too bad for him it was on the same day as the start of the fall of Sudzah. And from what I understand Witkoff was left waiting for hours. I could be wrong but that's what I read.

March 14 Trump makes plea on social media for the lives of the enemy troops inside the cauldron to be spared. Why didn't he just call Putin or have one of his lower level people contact the Russians to make this plea?Why? My guess, because the situation was dire and he was informed as to who was in there and he couldn't say... Hey Putin can we discuss extraction of our people? Foreign troops inside of Russia without a declaration of war is an ACT of war.

Here's my question...what flavor ice cream do you think Putin likes to eat?

Just kidding. What are your thoughts on my assessment.

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