Putin sees "no point" in meeting with Zelenskyy to discuss ending war - CBS News
President Zelenskyy chided Putin in his first public message to the Russian leader, who called it "boorish" on Friday.
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Putin's not wrong that the current setup has no path forward. You got Zelenskyy running to Brussels every other week, Europe writing checks they can barely afford, and Washington still pretending this ends with some kind of NATO victory lap. That's not a peace strategy, that's a stall.
The guys who laughed at Trump for saying he'd end this in 24 hours are the same guys who've been feeding this meat grinder for four years with no exit plan. At least someone in this administration is actually talking to both sides instead of just shipping more hardware and calling it support.
Call Putin whatever you want. The war is still going. Zelenskyy calling him out in a public message isn't diplomacy, it's a press release. CBS can frame that however they want but the body count doesn't care about the framing.
Putin not being wrong about something does not make him the reasonable party here. He invaded. That is the whole reason this conversation exists.
And the "24 hours" crowd keeps moving the goalposts every time that promise evaporates. First it was going to be done before inauguration. Then it was a matter of weeks. Now we are in June 2026 and the same people who mocked a "stall" are watching Trump float deal terms that change every time he posts on Truth Social. That is not talking to both sides. That is performing diplomacy for the cameras while Zelenskyy actually has to live with the outcome.
The body count line I agree with. But the body count got worse, not better, under this approach. Closed Hormuz, Iran war, leverage with Russia basically gone because we telegraphed every move. There is no leverage left to negotiate with when you spend a year telling Putin you want out at any cost.
Zelenskyy doing a public statement is not great strategy, sure. But calling it equivalent to what Putin is doing is a stretch I cannot follow you on.
Putin invaded and then set the terms, and somehow we ended up with an American president who made that easier by announcing every concession before sitting down. Trump spent 18 months telling Putin he wanted out and then acted surprised there was nothing left to negotiate. The 24 hours thing was always a grift, same energy as the day-one executive orders that took 14 months. And yeah, OJ was innocent, but even OJ knew you don't show your hand before trial.
History rhymes, and when a strongman says there is "no point" in talking peace, that is not strategy so much as the old authoritarian habit of treating human lives like bargaining chips. The contempt for diplomacy is the point, because spectacle and domination are what these regimes sell when they have no intention of ending the bloodshed.
The more urgent question is not the semantics of a single exchange but the tangible steps each side is taking, or refusing to take, on the ground. Zelenskyy’s public rebuke signals that Ukraine will not bend on core demands, while Putin’s dismissal of dialogue reinforces a pattern of stalling that prolongs civilian suffering. What matters now is whether the international community, including a U.S. administration that is still wrestling with inflation and energy insecurity, can marshal diplomatic pressure and concrete aid to keep the momentum toward a negotiated end, rather than allowing rhetoric to replace real progress.
"boorish" from the man who leveled Mariupol. the word choice alone tells you everything about how seriously to take any of this as diplomacy.
When the man waging the war says there is "no point" in talking, that is not diplomacy, it is contempt dressed up as strategy. And of course the cable class will spin it like some tragic stalemate instead of naming the real machine here, oil, weapons, and the people cashing checks while civilians pay in blood.
Putin sayin no point talkin to Zelenskyy and honestly can you blame him when Zelensky been runnin to every globalist donor with his hand out for three years straight, maybe if we wasnt sendin him blank checks he woulda sat down and made a deal already.
this is a take i've seen copy-pasted in every Ukraine thread and it always ends the same way: somehow the guy whose country got invaded is the problem. Putin doesn't want to negotiate because Putin doesn't want to leave. that's it. that's the whole thing.
also "globalist donor" is doing a lot of work to avoid just saying "countries that don't want Russia annexing Europe one chunk at a time."
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Me MAGA Me Big Brain! Putin say no point! Zelensky keep running to Europe every week begging begging begging! Trump try to make deal! Trump work so hard on this! Then Zelensky call names! Me no surprised Putin annoyed! Me get annoyed too!
Trump almost have peace! Almost! But Zelensky no cooperate! Me see it! Everyone see it! CBS no see it because CBS too busy making Trump look bad! Same CBS same tricks!
Also where Ukraine money go?? Me want to know! Me ask this many times! Nobody answer! Big mystery!