Trump is one of the other options they are exhausting ;)

Trump is preparing to lift restrictions on Ukraine's use of long-range missiles against Russia, — Senator Graham

📍This is necessary to inflict much more serious damage on Russian troops.
📍Next week, he also intends to introduce a bill to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

https://bsky.app/profile/theukrainianreview.bsky.social/post/3lxaehtncj22z

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Another episode of Trump's waffling, but for a good cause this time. I think that Trump realized that Ukraine will do whatever they want with their locally made weapons, and so there will be little else to do but support that. Trump is also giving Ukraine what i'm guessing are some of America's older missles, not sure if there are any restrictions on these (other than what they have to avoid warcrimes) but it matters not so much now.

Collapse is Inevitable’: The Case for Why Putin’s Russia Is Doomed
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/collapse-is-inevitable-the-case-for-why-putins-russia-is-doomed/

From his keyboard to God's phone screen. 

I will shed no tears over Putin's death, even though his replacement will almost certainly be another piece of sentient human excrement. Hopefully without the same uncanny ability to manipulate the system in Russia.

will only believe it when I see it

At least it will cause a bit of political chaos in Russia for a temporary period which would be a benefit to Ukraine, it may result in another sick bastard taking over, in fact, that is a certainty, but the period between Putin's death and then will be beneficial to Ukraine.

There's so many possible candidates and no clear frontrunner and given Russia's history of assassinating each other, as soon as Putin dies it'll likely be knives out amongst the political elite and Putin's circle.

Ohhhhhhhh yeah.  I have a lot of schaudefreude over trump and putin, wish very poor things for both of them.  And i've never that way towards any president, i guess they just do something that brings out a negative side.  

not to disagree but from the press it seems like it's going to happen.  

https://www.twz.com/air/ukraine-will-receive-first-of-thousands-of-new-u-s-made-standoff-missiles-in-the-coming-weeks

A Times cartoonist sketch of Trump’s negotiating strategy 

It's sad that it's come down to that, but here we are.