Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Ukraine will “not recognize” upcoming talks between the US and Russia and denied that his country was invited to participate.
“Ukraine will not accept. Ukraine knew nothing about this. And Ukraine regards any negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine as having no results,” Zelensky told reporters while visiting the UAE.
The Kremlin has confirmed the peace talks with the US will be held in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The negotiations will involve high-level Russian and American officials, including Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Zelensky denied claims from US officials that Ukraine was invited. “Ukraine will not take part in the negotiations. Ukraine did not know they were planned. And the visit to the region was planned long before the US decided to meet Russia there,” he said.
Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, and he is expected to be joined by US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy who has been involved in some diplomacy with Russia. Lavrov will be joined by Yury Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky has said that European countries should be involved in the talks, but that idea has been rejected by both the US and Russia. Lavrov said Monday that most European leaders aren’t interested in peace.
“I don’t know what they could do at the negotiating table. If their aim is to cunningly extract a deceptive truce while secretly preparing for continued war—true to their habits and nature—then why invite them at all?” Lavrov said, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
While it’s still unclear how the war will end, the Trump administration’s policy toward Russia is a dramatic shift from the Biden administration, which essentially cut off high-level contacts with Moscow after the Russian invasion of Ukraine despite the risk of nuclear war.
Good
Do you blame them? They are being treated like a child in a custody battle.
Obvious leftists like you support dictators that jail opposition, close churches, violate neutrality agreements, accept bioweapons labs, launder money, stop elections, … and so on.
A child has little say so in a custody battle.
I blame any nation which behaves like corrupt Ukraine does.
I can see Noriega, Sadam Hussein and General Kaddafi's fait awaiting Zelenski…!
He’ll just relocate to a mansion in Miami or move to Israel.
Maybe the mansion in Miami that used to belong to Luis Posada Carriles. It would be fitting.
Hah!
Funny!
I think someone should send Zelensky a text to explain he has ZERO say in the matter.
Russia has won this war of attrition, as predicted, there is no NATO and no EU.
The experiment has failed.
Russia hasnt won shit
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You’re correct. It was always Russian land. Just reclaimed Berezivka. And there will be more.
Your parents must be overjoyed that you won’t be fighting in this war Christian Vila!
Please stay in school. It’s the best place for you.
That is, sadly, the true face of some of the "anti-war" movement.
Pure imperialistic absolute garbage. You don't represent the millions of people who are actually against war, some of which are on this very website
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Reasonable people know that, without the USA election coup of 2020, Trump would have prevented the war. You folks are the war lovers. not us.
Trump was the one who escalated the war — which started in 2014 — by providing Ukraine with weapons after Obama refused to do so. What makes you fantasize that he would have suddenly done a 180 if he'd been re-elected in 2020, other than your love of fantasizing?
putin started the war by annexing crimea
NATO started the war when they broke the agreement not to expand NATO, Russia is fighting a war of prevention protecting their border AGAINST DE FACTO NATO MEMBER Ukraine.
which agreement do you speak of
The USA began this war during the Obama regime with the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government in 2014. This effort was organized and funded by the USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy which are both CIA fronts. This is going to likely come out soon as these organizations are being exposed.
Yes, Trump did officially provide lethal weapons to the puppet regime in Kiev. But numerous sources indicate that those weapons were being provided by covert means in 2015 as well as training for the AFU including neo- Nazi militia groups.
So…. the Trump regime did escalate the conflict. But that merely continued the foreign policy of destabilization, overthrowing governments and wars of previous US regimes going back decades…
I agree. But saying NOTHING would have happened if Trump was president is getting old. No Ukraine. No Gaza, No inflation. No crime. No homeless. No…….
Trump was being run by deep state actors. As had been said, the figure heads change, but the polices haven't.
First unconstitutional change of power in Ukraine was organized by Americans in time of president Bush (the son) in 2004. So called "Orange Revolution". At the time they didn't prepared sufficient number of radical militants, so they failed to install a fascist regime. 10 years later they tried it again and that time they organized it better.
One quibble. Obama allowed (small) direct shipments of arms from the defense industry.
True MAGAt claiming the 2020 election was stolen
If Trump farted the smell would come out of your ears.
Easy to say now, he would not have avoided the war, he funded the arming of Ukrainians with NATO weapons and NATO training including NATO exercises in Ukraine and supported the arming of the neo-Nazis against Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East of Ukraine. In Feb, 2022 Ukraine had the best equipped and biggest de facto NATO army. Trump armed the Ukrainians, he would have done what Biden did, the goal was regime change in Moscow and breaking the RF. Trump implemented all the sanctions against Russia in his first term. He is a liar, it would have been Trump's war instead of Biden's war.
Care to point out what in my comment was pro-imperialism?
Empire imperialism is what destroyed your country.
I was doing it in support of you
You haven't ever made sense or been literate.
Russia defied the entire corrupt NWO and survived.
Oh wow it mentioned the NWO
MAGA freak is digging in
Oh yes it has, child.
Russia has won. It is a decisive, strategic military victory – not just against the Ukrainians, but most importantly against the NATO, the EU & the US.
The West has also lost. People like you can deny it all you like, but in reality Ukraine is the worst strategic defeat ever experienced by the West. It is a total and utter disaster. The implications for the West are profound and will continue to be, likely for decades.
Moscow has won, the West has lost & Putin holds all the cards. Trump & Co know this is a bad, bad, VERY bad situation for the US. They will now do whatever they can to get the US the hell out of there as quickly as possible, leaving the weak, hapless Europeans on their own.
As for negotiations, Moscow will get everything it wants including its stated objectives of the SMO in Feb 2022. There is nothing the West can do, including Washington DC, to prevent this.
Putin doesn't give a damn about the useless Europeans (neither does Trump) – because Europe is irrelevant. Putin might compromise a bit with the Americans – eg he might throw Trump a bone or two to allow the US to save face – but only if it is in Russia's geopolitical interests to do so. If it isn't, Putin won't compromise at all, because he has no need to.
Each day that passes without a deal (that will include all of Moscow's key demands and more), the situation gets better for Moscow and worse for Ukraine/the West. The Russians will simply continue to grind forward – they've been advancing in methodical fashion for months now and nothing can stop them.
Did you just arrive from a different timeline, or do you just have a very vivid imagination?
Three years into the war, the Russian forces have yet to secure the Donbas.
You assume that securing the Donbas is the most important goal for the Russians. Look at it from the Russian perspective. Huge amounts of military equipment is sourced from industrial areas that Russia cannot destroy short of a nuclear exchange.
So…. what can Russia do if they don't want to fight an endless war or a series of wars? Depleting Ukrainian manpower and exhausting Ukrainian Western sponsors appears to be the strategy. And that seems to be happening.
I don’t “assume that it’s the most important goal.”
I “notice that it’s the bare minimum bottom of the barrel scraping definition of anything remotely resembling even marginal military success.”
You don’t even realize you made my point.
One problem has been solved there will be no NATO left for Ukraine to join to threaten Russian security. That was the # 1 issue, Ukrainian NATO membership.
Biden did the job for the Russians when he sabotaged the pipeline and the EU economy, most NATO members are EU members.
The Europeans will need Russian help to
renew their economies. The Russians as knew that Ukraine was a de facto NATO member and they had to get ready for a war with NATO, they knew it as well as Merkel and Holland, the USA DID NOT SIT at THE TABLE in Minsk. Putin is not stupid, he knew the USA did not support the Minsk agreement and that Merkel and Holland knew it as well as he did. The USA was missing at the table that spoke louder than words.
There are certain things that intrigue me about this conflict. One, is the restraint Russia is displaying in not bombing strategic targets in Kiev.
Fro instance, 'decision-making centres', quoting Putin.
Putin thinks of the day after, he knows what it means for a nation to get back up on its feet, and he knows what average people have to deal with, he is still a man of the people, he is not out for revenge, that alone makes him outstanding,
Is that you, Medvedev?
When do the MAGA freaks regain consciousness from yesterday’s bender of fentanyl, booze and Big Macs ?
The MAGA people too are trapped in their bias and hopes, much like you hate an abstract object, the Russians, who are the Russians you hate? Your hate is based solely on what others told you, you don't know if it is true.
i do know if its true via their genocide in ukraine
What you typed makes no sense.
The world will soon be rid of this dictator homosexual war maker Zelensky.
What makes you think he’s homosexual? At least publicly he is in a heterosexual marriage to his high school sweetheart.
of course the maga freak has a problem with gay people
"of course the maga freak has a problem with gay people"
But he makes up for it by being tolerant of men who boast how they can grab women's "p*ssies":
"When you’re a star, [women] let you do…anything…Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything."
["Transcript: Donald Trump’s Taped Comments About Women," New York Times, 10/8/16]
Trump really is a freak
What does him being a homosexual, if he is, have to do with anything?
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The reason most of the people here are self-described leftists
is because the truth tends to lean left
No problem. If the Euros want to keep fighting, good for them. Mannie Macaroni, the Frog Prince, can assemble his own Grande Armée européene and march on Moscow. But the Frog Prince had better member what happened to one of his predecessors, a certain Corsican, when he tried to pull that kind of a stunt a couple hundred or so years ago.
The march from Ukraine to Moscow is a day's ride. Just saying.
Not that I believe Europe will do anything at all without US approval but technically speaking… such thing is not unimaginable.
Definitely imaginable. And the Corsican got to Moscow too….
Both France and Germany have done that before, it’d be a memorable day when they try to do it together. It’s not clear why they would try such madness but it’s not clear why the lied to Russia before or aligned wth the USA either. That we don’t understand their reasons is not that they won’t do it. A “multipolar” Europe does look frightening to me the more I think of it, not so much scary for the rest of the world but scary like too many frustrated animals crumped together in too little space.
Oops, wait, for a second I forgot the reason. All hail to our new old masters at BlackRock, kicking your neighbor into the streets, electing your prime minister through the press.
1605-1618 War between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Tsardom of Russia. Polish troops entered Moscow. Poland wanted to take over the throne of the tsardom but failed. The PLC conquered territory from the Tsardom of Russia.
In Poland some people in our times have boasted that the polish army accomplished what french and german armies did not: actually enter and occupy Moscow – or so I’ve once read. That would show polish nationalism.
The war of 1605-1618 shows that historically the relation between Poland and Russia was not simply one in which Russia was the perpetual offensive aggressor and Poland on the defense. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a large state with the ambition to expand its territory.
Yes, of course. There's that myth that Russia is unconquerable but it has been conquered several times, always when divided.
What is really almost impossible to conquer is Spain.
As Starmer has just made it crystal clear, they need the American "backstop", otherwise they won't dare.
Of course. But in principle…
European states used to be more autonmous than that and there is no objective reason for them not to act independently from the USA in local matters. Russia is not that powerful, France is not that weak…
Washington is not that powerful anymore, NATO is in shreds and there will be elections in Europe and inevitably changes.
When Europeans had real governments they opposed any Ukraine membership in NATO and EU. But that was when they had honorable common sense politicians with integrity and principles, that is gone and the same is true for Washington, it is bizarre after Trump and Biden now they have Trump/Musk, which one is the president? Who is in charge?
“Honorable common sense politicians with integrity and principles”? Haven’t seen any since Miterrand’s first term, unless they’re excluded from power like Wagenknecht or Melenchon, I guess. That’s because the rich own the media and the media largely decides elections.
I agree. Politics and integrity don’t go together, maybe sometimes there is an exception.
Lots of people in politics are honorable, think for example Petra Kelly in the past or Sarah Wagenknecht now. They are however silenced, ridiculed, slandered but the bourgeois media and eventually maybe murdered by their death squads.
Sarah Wagenknecht is young and a big hope and so is Alice Weidel, both are strong women, well educated and pragmatic.
Wagenkencht is just one year my junior and I’m already 56, she’s not “young” at all.
Weidel is a dangerous fascist, totally unrelated.
Sarah is young compared to Biden and Trump, old enough to have some wisdom without being demented. Alice is right of center conservative. She is a conservative but as is the custom, she is being demonized because she is convincing. She is conservative like any CDU or GOP politician. As far as I know, she is an economist and lived in China and speaks Chinese. Yes she is nationalistic and that being German makes her automatically a NAZI, by German standards we in the USA have many RW NAZIS too. Americans have a nationalistic streak too, they are proud Americans they are the good people.
She’s (arguably) in the best age to be a leader IMO: mature (and thus presumably wise) enough but not elderly yet. Gerontocracy is a bad thing. Anyway Europe is not yet suffering from gerontocracy: it has many other issues but age of leaders is not one of them, unlike the USA, Russia, China, Iran, etc.
Sahra is not by any means “a conservative”: she’s a radical socialist, just not idiotically bourgeoisized like her former comrades of Die Linke. She clearly prioritizes class struggle over distracting “culture wars” (extreme center vs far right demagoguery for the greatest part). I’d say that her nationalism is moderate, within reason (and yet more genuine than the AfD farce, which will ultimately bow to the USA, no matter the pretense, just look at Musk and Vance wooing them, just look at Meloni’s policies) and aligned with the feelings of much of German society.
Both Germany and the USA have much self-criticism to make, especially in regards to Palestine and Ukraine. Today’s Nazism is called Zionism, today’s Antisemitism is Islamophobia.
Sarah is married to Oscar LaFontaine, a famous old school Socialist, when social democrats where real Socialists and a positive political influence, they were the better times, when Sweden was really neutral, Scandinavians were outstanding societies , materialism has taken over, profit is what counts.
Lafontaine was co-founder of Die Linke, he was SPD dissident: confronted with Schröder (who looks good in comparison what has come later but was anyhow rather Blairite, i.e. extreme center), he led genuine socialists to join forces with the then somewhat popular PSD, successor of the KPD. I respect that.
I agree, pragmatism is sometimes needed. You know more than I do. I always liked Oskar. And yes Schroeder looks much better now.
No individual European nation is strong enough to take on Russia. And a unified European army is impossible because it would have 15 commanders in chief pulling in 15 different directions. That's why Europe has always needed America and always will.
Only problem is, the boogieman threatening Europe is a complete fabrication. Russia is not going to march on Western Europe despite the caterwauling of MIC propagandists. Quite to the contrary, it's been NATO who marched east.
That’s not the reason: chain of command is a thing and Europeans are not that stupid, even if we sometimes appear to be. The EU is basically France+Germany+others, it’s the very concept of the Carolingian Empire updated. If France and Germany are on the same page, there is unity (there can be some lesser dissident in Central-East Europe such as Hungary, Slovakia or Poland, but they do not matter much).
According to Global Firepower, these are the high ranking European powers (first number is their global rank, second their “power index”, smaller is better, rounded to two decimal digits):
2. Russia: 0.08
6. UK: 0.18
7. France: 0.19
9. Turkey: 0.19
10. Italy: 0.22
14. Germany: 0.26
17. Spain: 0.32
20. Ukraine: 0.38
21. Poland: 0.38
Much below are Sweden, Canada, Greece and the like.
IF, as Trump wants, Germany and such rearm to near 5% of GDP (which is massive and won’t happen but some fraction of it may anyhow), I think that the EU alone or with the UK can definitely pose a problem, at least in principle, to any US-Russia deal. I’m not saying that it will happen but that it is very doable if there is political will. The real question is therefore political will, not military capability.
There 's some holes in the GF analysis…!
Probably, no analysis can be perfect.
The Europeans do not want to end up looking like Gaza.
Germany was not threatened to be invaded, so why rearm and be confrontational with the neighbors who depend on a strong German economy?
The USA/ UK are the real trouble makers.
Germany “should” rearm in order to be independent from the USA and to exert whatever leadership they still may have in Europe with something more than a declining industrial base. You can’t expect anyone to follow your lead if you look weak. And Germany looks very very weak. And the Germans know that.
I’m antimilitarist but really… Germany is not a serious European leader: it lacks both the “physical strength” needed to get others to respect you and also a veritable Europeanist faith since Schröder was replaced by that Merkel (and then her VC Scholz, who is not a bit better). How can the most powerful country in Europe be much weaker in terms military than all its major associates?
That was always the goal of the US/UK, to keep Germany down and Russia out and the US in. This will be the third time the UK/US lead the destruction of Germany. They needed Germany to destroy Russia, that saved Germany in 1945. Versailles was the same, to wipe out the Bismarck Germany economically and they needed Russia to beat the Hitler Germany, and NATO to beat Russia and Germany, the pipeline was the way to go. Biden did a perfect job to destroy the EU and NATO.
I know the phrase but it was meant for NATO. Now that Britain is out of the EU, there’s nothing but Poland (who can be tamed or kicked out) standing before the true unification of Europe, including a joint army and breaking up with the USA. And, sure, I know I sound like Von der Rotten or maybe more like Macron but it’s for the sake of argument: those are suppossedly the goals of the EU anyhow, getting rid of NATO (US fake alliance, extorsion racket) is something we could all agree to unless someone is lying. For example German leaders tend to lie about unification as a goal, they actually see the EU as a mere tool for nationalist-bourgeois goals, and that’s even worse in Poland or Hungary, even in Italy now under Meloni. These nationalist-bourgeois goals may of course destroy the EU and leave Europe balcanized for the joy of the Trumps and Putins to come.
From the very beginning NATO was to protect American interests in Europe with the dying British empire # 2 against German economic power. That was to keep Russia and Germany separated. The humiliating Versailles unconditional surrender was to destroy Germany, they were close to succeed until Hitler. The Warsaw pact was Russia’s response to NATO in 1948.
The Europeans should have more than enough of the insanity destroying Europe, let the UK and the USA fight it out, whatever it is, on their own soil. Drop bombs on the Pentagon and the WH, maybe they will learn to understand how other people feel, the American people don't get it, no one bombed them except years ago the Philadelphia police bombed a house they thought DRUG DEALERS where in it.
Define “the Europeans”, there are 450 million of them only in the EU. I’ll presume you mean the current European leadership, especially of the EU and 2nd-3rd tier powers from France to Poland, from Britain to Italy, from Spain to Germany.
The questions are:
1. Without conflict with Russia, Europe as subservient semi-privileged US protectorate becomes expendable and even dangerous for the USA, as it becomes a natural rival if unified.
2. Germany has a long history of Östpolitik from the 1st to the 3rd Reich, going through the 2nd Reich, which is at the direct root of this war (the Hetmanate and the Banderists are pretty much the same thing, Ukraine was first created as German puppet state). This, together with their dependence on the USA as market (not unlike China’s) and their lack of Europeanist enthusiasm and leadership (very especially under Merkel), all contribute to their leaders favoring aggressive Eastern policies, even if most of them are manipulated by the Anglos.
3. France used to be somewhat pro-Russia not so long ago but, after the African chain of events, Macron is totally angry with Putin and won’t let it go: he’s for a revenge and only his fall will change things in France (Putin always liked Le Pen but, even if the NFP wins, they are also in favor of peace in Ukraine and not anti-Russian).
4. It’s unclear which is the true US direction: Trump is not yet wholly consolidated in power and anyhow he won’t be in command four years in the future. Most importantly it’s unclear which is the directive emanating from Wall Street’s Dark Lords, who are a much more decisive power than whatever anyone sitting in the Oval Office says or does (other than clicking the nuclear button, I guess). It’s not Trump who owns our media after all.
Anyway, I concur that Russia will not invade Europe, not even the small troublemaker little Baltics, who are asking for it. But that's not the real issue, it never was. Right now countries like France seem determined to keep the war going. Macron is the most anti-Russian now, even if was all diplomatic in 2022, and that has a lot to do with Africa rather than Ukraine, also Turkey, which France hates, while Germany loves perilously.
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The Ukraine peace deal can also be a leverage vs Trump's tariff war anyhow. In any case I think that France alone (and they are not alone) could well keep Ukraine going for a relatively long time.
The biggest enemy of France in Africa is their own damn colonial mentality and their strategic blunder in instigating the war on Gaddafi.
But it's easier to blame Russia than to look in the mirror.
So true, but some time ago there was DE Gaulle.
I can agree to that, although I’m sure that Africans will also get tired of Russia and China, who are there mostly for the resources and are not much better than the Western Europeans anyhow. Anyhow, it’s not about what I, Luis (alias Maju), feels (I don’t feel threatened by the neo-Sankarist leadership of Burkina Faso, much less by the new democratic government of Senegal, for which I protested myself locally), it is about how Macron and his “Macronie” establishment feel rather.
But the people are not likely to put up with that, they want peace and prosperity.
And Macron, the coward, is hiding behind the people.
Ukrainians also want peace and prosperity and yet they have been totally manipulated into this war. And they don’t seem able to rise up and topple the regime that forces them to die and kill at gunpoint.
The US hegemon is the real destabilizer on the continent. Greedy and corrupt neo-Nazis fell for US promises, Zelensky is only a little pawn on the board. They don’t need him anymore, he should just go away while he still can.
Maybe but Europeans let them do, instead of activelly saying: if you do that, you get kicked out of NATO and your miltary bases out of Europe. Nobody in the European political class even blinked, not even when North Stream was bombed!
Germany is still occupied, the US is not likely to just pack up and empty Rammstein AB and Grafenwoehr and go home. It is the military HQ for the ME and control over Germany.
Germany is NOT occupied: the US military presence is only there because Merkel begged for it to remain in the previous Trump mandate and also it was requested by Germany in the 90s, when the occupation ended together with the unification. Germany can do as it pleases (within reason, like everyone) but what it pleases is to do Östpolitik within NATO and EU and to allow Poland to get away with cheating the Eurozone rules.
It used to be a more discreet occupation, but the sabotage of Nordstream changed that. The current government is serving US interests, they can’t hide that, not German interests, that is why Scholz and his coalition has to go.
The NS sabotage only shows how cowardly and treacherous the German political leadership is: all of them.
I am convinced they are really corrupt, the same powers that gave us Biden and Trump did the same in Europe. They are specialists, USAID and NGOs provide cover for under- cover agents, in the same way embassies provide diplomatic cover for agents and the state department is handling the CIA is funded without any accountability. We don’t know anything about the CIA budget, and Musk is not wasting time to find out, 150 year old getting SS benefits makes more sense. EO are the best and most efficient way to govern, and Trump is not responsible for his co-president.
There is not much left of Democracies in the advanced Western nations. The USA is the wealthiest Banana Republic, governed by the three or four richest men, billionaires, on earth.
Corrupt and treacherous and not just German politicians, all across Europe, even if more towards the right than towards the left (broadly speaking, case on case analysis is required). The worst of all is Ursula von der Pfizer, and yet she got re-elected by the conservative majority in the European Council and European Parliament. I was raised in naive believes of North Europeans being “more civic” and “less corrupt” but that’s clearly not true: they are even more corrupt and corruption is massive at EU level.
There’s anyhow another key “materialistic” determiner, which is who owns the European economy overall, including the decisive media? And also who controls NATO and its secret army, manned largely by fascists, Gladio Network? And the answer to both is “the USA”, its oligarchs especially. And that’s a fundamental problem, because it does not only meddle in our politics but destroys our sovereignty as Europeans (be it at continental or state level). We are thus being turned into a colony and nowhere is that more apparent than in Germany (or also Britain but they’re not in the EU anymore).
Your last question, I believe that US and European oligarchs together own the economies, the governments, and the electronic and print media. Merz, the CDU chancellor candidate, is a former BlackRock CEO, of course they manage his wealth.
What business does Musk have to meddle in German elections? These sleazy people are really criminals with conflicts of interest without a doubt, Trump is a convicted felon already. They are the kind of people who meet in Davos every January.
Democracies do have sleazy politicians and sleazy billionaire business people. Sleazy Trump is less than a month in office and approves of the sleazy Musk wrecking the government institutions and the lives of thousands of families, the sleazy Trump/Musk team is up to their chin in crime and scandal. A nightmare for the people, disgusting.
European oligarchs are of course involved but the dominant force are clearly the Yankees, resides for all practical purposes in Wall Street and has a US Empire focus in which Europe is at least semi-expendable. This I realized first when Trump first reached the Oval Office in 2016 but that has been executed even more perfectly and deviously by the Biden/Blinken administration, masterfully exploiting the Ukraine war to loot Europe and very especially Germany.
My thoughts about Trump and Europe in 2016: https://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/2017/01/europe-is-bound-to-become-colony-or.html (old closed political blog)
And my thoughts about Biden and Europe in 2022: https://bagaudaberri.wordpress.com/2022/04/07/europa-auto-derrotada/ (in Spanish language, guess you can use autotranslate of some sort)
I know it a little longer. The Yankees opposed Bismarck Germany with the beginning industrialization and their own colonial empire was shrinking. Germany was a growing power and so was the USA. The Yankees were really the moving power turning continental wars into the WW I, the US joining and imposing the unconditional surrender and humiliation on Germany, destroying the savings and businesses in FOR MIDDLE CLASS working Germans made Hitler possible. After the war they needed the continent and Germany to fight communism, that saved Germany after WWII, but it also made Germany and EU an economic competitor. The pipeline sabotage solved the problem. They also destroyed the Japanese competition in the 80th and now they must take care of China. I am sure, we now have the governments that come with regime change, the USA has expertise, and the geopolitical, neoliberal economics and the for profit motivation works well. Merz, the right of center CDU candidate is a former BlackRock CEO.
This is just my opinion. I can’t believe the changes in Europe happened naturally over night.
The refugee issue is understandable, the USA can’t handle the issue at the Mexican border. And Germany and Europe have to deal with a refugee issue caused by US policies on top of their economies the Americans have deliberately destroyed, housing and education and healthcare and jobs and cultural and language problem and demands for more military spending all come together and the people have enough.
The AFD and Sarah’s party are responding, ( I do prefer Sarah over Alice, but both are impressive) Merz is supporting more war in Ukraine, Lord knows why, it makes no sense at all and I hope the CDU loses big time coming Sunday.
I believe those reparations were rather imposed by Britain and France, the USA was not that interested on European affairs yet and they often despaired in the post-war peace negotiations (Versailles treaty), as their positions went unheeded by the West European victors. France particularly wanted to destroy Germany into de-industrialized smaller polities and annex Saarland (coal, which they lacked) but were prevented from going that far by the Anglosaxons AFAIK.
There’s some debate about reparations and hyperinflation being actually cause of the rise of nazism, which happened much later than the real troubles and rode on lies about who was to blame for the defeat: they blamed communists and Jews, when in fact it was pretty much unavoidable, especially after the surrender of Bulgaria. The November Revolution (wannabe soviet German revolution that only went half way) happened months after the capitulation in fact. My take is that Britain particularly sponsored the rise of fascism all across Europe, being particularly friendly to Mussolini and Franco, as counter-measure to the revolutionary wave of 1917-21, which had the capitalists on their toes and pretty much gave us the 8 hr journey, a long-standing socialist demand at the origin of May Day, as well as other advancements like social security. The problem with the Nazis was that they were not just “good dogs” but they were ambitious megalomaniac hyenas rather who wanted to conquer the USSR (at least its European part) to make it “the India of Germany”. That was something Britain would not tolerate even if they were in agreement re. destroying the USSR and thus they intervened at Poland, ironically to defend the USSR from their fascist brainchild in Germany.
The immigration debate is unavoidable (on cultural-assimilation parameters particularly) but really most of those immigrants take jobs we do not want, such as taking care of our elderly relatives, cleaning rich homes in very harsh conditions, etc. In any case you can’t fence the sea: globalization is very very real, international travel very very easy, and heat goes to colder regions naturally (demographically overheated areas, economically difficult ones, push people out to wealthier regions). You can only thermo-insulate so much. Often “we” cause big trouble pushing people out or favoring migration routes, for example Libya disaster, for example Syrian civil war (Syria was a wonderful secularist country in 2011, now it has become a Taliban reign of patriarchal terror), for example the 2009 Peter Thiel and Lib-Dem sponsored coup in Honduras, which is behind the recent mass migration of Hondurans to the USA (and eventually concluded with the restoration of democracy and the rise to power of Xiomara Castro, wife of ousted President Manuel Zelaya). It’s something that must be debated and addressed but not like the far right does, neither from the point of view of “buenismo” (goodism, approx. “wokeism”), which just pretends that all is fine and that there are no problems. That’s why I find positions like those of Wagenknecht adequate.
To think the once major party the CDU/CSU are in the opposition, yet they oppose practically nothing, the SPD, once a great party now part of the ruling coalition is only a shadow of itself. They deserve what they get, they are traitors, they sold the nation. Sarah and Alice two women who stand up and show spine, 23rd Sunday is the election, it will be a very interesting day. Be prepared, get the pop corn.
Grosse Koalition = Twin Party Regime = new Weimar system = Coke & Pepsi = McDonalds & Burger King = fake democracy
Worst for me is anyhow the betrayals of the left, from the “culturalist” and “anti-German” decadence of Die Linke to the horrible spiraling into the extreme center of the Greens (Petra Kelly must be revolving in her tomb, really). That’s why I have some moderate respect for and hope in people like Wagenknecht, who know at least where their priorities are. I truly hope she gets a good support, although I fear that the media are rather pushing for the “populist” (demogogue) far right rather.
I hope the FDP and GREENS WILL BECOME HAS BEEN. I wonder about Merz and his support from BlackRock were he was a CEO and where most likely the greatest part of his wealth is invested.
I read that BlackRock is heavily invested in Ukraine and Merz supports to continue the war in Ukraine. Looks like money is fighting money about how best to end or continue to protect their investments for their private investors?
That’s something I don’t have very clear: what the “Dark Lords of Wall Street” (BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, etc.) think or plan, how much they are “tense” with Trump (in which case they may well use European countries against him) or how much they’re willing to go along with him.
I don’t understand much about business, as I understand it BlackRock manages trillions of $$ for private equity investors, as I understand it they are set and ready to go to buy and invest in Ukraine, maybe like Gaza and Kushner, Trump knows more about that than politics. The may buy for pennies on the $$$, could one call the investors war-profiteers?
We forget, it is geopolitical power politics, big money sticks together, the big boys have the same interests, they can move and produce where the profit is best. Nationalism is for the little people.
It depends: the US oligarchs don’t have the same interests as the Russian or Chinese oligarchs and cannot easily change passport at such level. All these three powers (and possibly some others like India) have what is called a national bourgeoisie, attached to their country and thus necessarily associated to nationalist goals, which can be and often are imperialistic.
Little people’s nationalism is of a different nature, it can be imperialistic or bigotric too, if rallied/manipulated by the oligarchs, but at the core is affectionate and defensive only.
All true, but little people’s nationalism, like religion, is useful to sell the profitable business of war to the little people who will pay for the wars.
Furthermore, "coalition building" at Global Firepower. Russia (blue) vs 6 major European powers (France, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland, red):
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d65fdf4de72f436c7513fb2e3e0e2c369646adf966058a2b6f6439f76f2de9c6.jpg
I'd say it's quite balanced, and while the Russian military investment is already quite high, the European one can still be increased quite a bit.
Don't forget, the Europeans, which includes Russia, a European power, do not want any war on their continent, only the Anglo Saxons with nothing to lose want that and are willing to do it at the costs of the continental Europeans, to hell with the Anglo-Saxons.
I concur that the Anglosaxons are the most dangerous for Europe and have been actively fighting against European unity since at least the days of Elizabeth I. And that’s exactly why they’re fighting Russia now: weaken the strongest European power, rally the rest against them, typical “splendid isolation”.
However Russia is definitely not a power than can or even want to unify Europe: they want to toy with Europe much like the Brits in the past. And that’s why US-Russia entente is somewhat possible and why Europeans distrust it. Even I do.
The British have opposed any coalition between Germany and Russia going back to the Westphalian Peace in 1648. They never were continental Europeans. Even in the EU they were the US proxy.
Russia did not invade Europe, Napoleon crossed the continent to conquer Moscow, he lost of course , ending up in Elba.
London’ strategy is not specifically anti-German, anti-Russian, anti-French or anti-Spanish: it’s anti-Europe. The most insidious case of petty bourgeois nationalism against pan-European continentalism.
It is about power and control over other nations and their natural resources.
And from Moscow to Paris or Berlin and London it is only minutes, Just saying. Maybe just a few minutes more to Washington and the Pentagon and the WH, Mar-o-Lago may not be safe.
Not by land.
Missiles will do the job faster.
Missiles don’t conquest, only destroy.
True, that is what bombs do too, to win a war it takes boots on the ground. Only bombs and missiles are massacres of mostly civilians, women and children as in Gaza and then it is called genocide.
You can probably win a war (but not conquer) only with missiles: Yemen (and other Resistance forces) did so in favor of Palestine and Humanity. They invaded nobody but kept everybody in check until they conceded.
You can bomb your enemy to surrender probably, as long as you target what they really value (the economy probably), as Sun Tzu stated, and not bomb around randomly without a clear stategy.
If to conquer rubble is winning a war, what can one say? Will they never learn, is Gaza not a grim reminder of the price of victory?
A defensive war in which you don’t aim to conquer as much as to protect. For example the recent Gaza “war” (semi-failed genocide) in which “the Resistance” just made Israel and allies pay a hefty cost in terms material and economic, and very especially in prestige and credibility. Not all wars or rather all sides involved in a war are on the offensive or have conquest as war goal, you know, often you just try to defend your country, rights, human dignity…
But the ruling class still wins, the people on both sides lose.
If the war is imposed on you, not fighting is worse than fighting. The people will lose more as conquered quasi-slaves than as armed freedom fighters.
True, but the people will lose more or less, the big guns win and the ruling elite usually is siding with the big guns and wealth. The Batista Cubans are doing well in Florida too.
Hamas is fighting for their own and family’s human rights and dignity and that includes their homes in Gaza, Palestine. They are not dying to conquer other people’s land and resources and for profits, they don’t get paid, they are not mercenaries.
Both parties like the same thing namely what one party owns, and the bigger guns always win, nuclear power is the big gun, in many ways an equalizer, see the USA v Russia.
The "euros" don't want to fight at all. Just some of their leaders, who are increasingly unpopular; but it's unlikely Starmer and Macron will survive the next elections, and Scholz certainly won't. Italy has never been supportive of this war, and would never send any troops to fight; Orban and Fico are actively against, as will Georgescu be if Romania ever actually holds a fair election. Poland just ruled out their participation. Turkey wants no part of this.
Only the Baltics, and for some inexplicable reason the new-to-NATO Swedes and Finns are enthusiastic, and all put together those yappy dog countries couldn't put together a single viable armored corps.
There were reports of pressure on the Swiss to join NATO, of course they would not jump on a sinking ship, it is now mute, which makes me wonder that Ukraine joining NATO is even an issue, since it looks like the end of NATO and the EU.
There had to be pressure/treason on the Swedes and Fins to give up their precious neutrality without any real public debate. Just another inexplicable stupidity of the Europeans. They are not that stupid, but corrupt.
They better hurry, in Germany an election is coming up in less than a week, Scholz and his coalition are toast, they will have to go, that may change some things. Merz, a former BlackRock CEO may become chancellor, but he will need a coalition. BlackRock is already heavily invested in Ukraine.
I wonder how deep Trump is invested, they are the biggest private equity investor, managing trillion $$$ investment business.
Zelensky just flew to the United Arab Emirates to deposit "his" looted wealth. Next stop? Probably Tel Aviv. In any case he's clearly readying his golden exile.
We can be sure he has his flight tickets, he is not stupid.
Maju i'm not a nazi please stop ignoring me
This means the proxy war is being negotiated to end.
What Ukraine can or will do depends on European replacement of, not just arms purchases, but replacing enormous amounts of USAID money that kept every element of the government afloat. US was even paying for pensions. What happens with Musk’s satellites used for intelligence and drone target acquisition?
Zelensky hasn’t accepted that the marionette operator might be cutting strings.
What Biden and all of his accomplices did to Ukraine is sickening. One day they will come to despise both he and Trump.
***Ukraine was the top recipient of foreign assistance funds in FY 2023, with over $16 billion issued.
With apology to Karl Marx (I hope he'll forgive me), a spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of the far-right. I don't think European leaders can continue paying Ukrainian f-ing pensions while cutting social services in their own countries… and fending off the far-right at the same time.
For Europe, this is a clusterf*ck moment, no wonder the panic in EU capitals. They've bet all their chips on the idiotic notion that Russia will collapse… and now there's the devil to pay. Not only in regards to Russia, but also reconstructing Ukraine and accepting it into the EU. A Ukraine that's gonna be very bitter towards Europeans who let them down.
Michael Hudson quipped that they should join BRICS.
LOL!
No joke. They should make separate peace with Russia, China, and Iran; and as soon as they cashier their NeoConNazi political caste, they can and will.
It would be even funnier if Ukraine joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization instead of NATO. 😂
Er… wait… it it actually makes perfect sense. If they want a guarantee that Russia won't invade them again, the SCO is a safer better bet than NATO. It's always better to cooperate than to antagonize.
What your erroneously call far right is really decent politics. The UK, France and Germany are ruled by far left parties. The EU is with the corrupt globalist leftist NWO.
Pardon my ignorance, I had no idea the Comintern had somehow morphed into the NWO. 😜
That is correct commonda..The U.S. left can’t distinguish U.S. right and European right.
"When the past is dying and the future is not yet born, it is the time of monsters" (Gramsci from his cell under fascist imprisonment).
Fascism is just normal Capitalism (well, almost normal, a bit too medievalist for their own good anyhow) and in our time it's just a desperate flight forward that can't work, because neither the extreme center nor the far right offer any solution whatsoever, being identical except maybe in a few "cultural" details.
That is the real fear. We are in for a period of deep fascism. Trump is too much a part of his class to grasp the need to transition to socialism and face competently the real crises on the horizon.
His class is naturally and radically oppossed to any form of socialism. Even if some bourgeois can take the socialist side (not unheard of, Engels for example but also many of the early “utopian socialists”), they are still forced to align with their class interests in practical terms and will suffer intra-class shunning.
LOL
Wait are you joking?
Send in the French!
In a way, that could well be Zelensky's get out of jail card. The narcofuhrer of Kiev and his loathsome appratchiks are hard core criminals and as hard core criminals, theyd have a lot of very incriminating dirt on US and EU politicians / corrupt bubreaucrats stashed away, ready for release. I think that one of the reasons the scumbag is still alive is because he has a deadman's switch ready to go, if a move is made against him.
If he was smart, he'd be using what he knows as negotiation leverage to step down and be given safe passage somewhere.
Corruption is a minor thing. Terrorism is more serious. Both U.S. and UK were involved in that. On the other hand, it is a normal practice for U.S./UK secret services. Current Kiev regime isn't any better than the fascist regimes of 20th century. It was created by U.S./UK. Trump is not in position to point finger at CIA. Both he and Vance are ardent supporters of Zionist atrocities in Gaza.
The Green Goblin will be given asylum in the west, there is no doubt about that, I don't think he needs a deadman's switch for that.
And anyway, what does Trump care if Zelensky's deadman's switch reveals the corruption of the Biden administration?
It wouldn’t work, because he has his own corruption.
Also, the US propaganda media machine gets busy with smears on “whistleblowers” or those who know too much, who get sanctioned or arrested : Kolomoisky and Telizhenko.
Busy much ED?!…
😉
A couple of people have floated the theory that no high level person in government, in the US or its global puppetry, is without a blackmail-able background.
This way, if they step out of line, there exists already a pile of dirt to shovel over them.
Some have attached this theory to the Jeffrey Epstein operation. (I’m not claiming any Epstein connection to Zelensky). His dirt seems financial.
I don’t know.
I agree completely. If I was a Ukrainian I would hate the West forever. Just as if I was a Kurd, or an Iraqi Shiite, I would never trust, listen to, or believe anything the USA says.
Those Ukrainians who migrated to West, have no reason to hate West. Most of them are okay. Those who remained in Ukraine and got in trouble, they should first of all blame themselves because they accepted radical nationalistic ideology as condition for integration into prosperous EU. They even accepted the destruction of their Church. Actually they sold their soul.
The EU did not want Ukraine to become an EU member. They offered very poor conditions, that is why Ukrainians would have been much better off to do business with Russia, and the Europeans opposed NATO membership to.
As a nation, if there is such a nation as Ukrainian, they acted extremely stupid.
And now, because of their own stupidity, they should hate West?
The Ukrainian people had voted for peace when they elected Zelensky, the corrupt elite sold the country and that is true of the ruling elite in Europe. The US MIC and ISRAEL have been the most destabilizing factor globally, in MHO.
What they were put through with destruction and deaths, and then you have these @hole politicians saying how good of an investment it is since no US soldiers died, and also “look at the money we could make off their deaths from natural resources”.
I mean, we know this is a repeated performance across the globe. But these ghouls are now perfectly comfortable saying it right out loud. Which, actually, is good. Now they telegraph motive right out in the open.
Adding: with additional context, Biden was, at one point, holding FEMA money ransom (for a Democratic Party state-Hawaii) so he could fund more death in Ukraine.
The de-nazification still needs to be done… Which would also weaken Zionism…!
I don’t think it weakens Zionism, at all.
How much is Musk making on his government satellites deals? He is a war profiteer, any conflict of interest maybe? did he fire any of his employees?
At this point my question, and one Zelenskyyyy [only a Russian bot spells it with one -y] should be asking himself, is whether it's more important for anti-Trump DC to have him dead and take the skeletons with him, or if pro-Trump DC would like him alive conditionally for more Bidencentric corruption fodder. Z's best bet for going out like Noriega instead of Qadafi might be to go with team MAGA and provide Hunter meeting transcripts.
There may be some Trump related transcripts too. There was an 8 year long civil war before the military conflict started. The Trump administration supplied the weapons and funding for a de facto NATO member Ukraine, looks like Trump would have continued like Biden, had he won the election.
The end of Afghanistan making the Ukraine/Russia conflict more possible. Trump would have continued, it would have been Trump's war instead.
https://x.com/i/status/1891756275668504761
Who owns X? Musk maybe?
By not inviting Zel to the meeting and saying Zel is not real leader of Ukraine, this is Russia setting the informational stage to claim that since Ukraine had no official government, any treaty they negotiate is null and void and Russia doesn't have to recognise it
Ukraine has no legal head of state. Zelensky's term ended a long time ago. His signature is useless, when he was the legal head of state and ready to settle with Russia based on the MINSK agreement Biden had Boris come from London to tell him, NO WAY, Biden is not ready. That is HISTORY, Biden was in charge, his war not the Zelensky clown's war.
Zelensky is nothing but a big POS with a spouse driving Bugatti and some villas on the Riviera and maybe FL.
Proving my point exactly
Nice, we do agree.
That doesn't make sense. Russia will be there. They will have to agree to something before they have to recognize something.
You are right, Russia is the victor and the only power able to maintain order. I trust the Russians are not out for any revenge against the Ukrainian people, they understand the price, the losses and suffering of the average Ukrainians. The Russian people too suffered.
Only the war mongering ruling elite creatures are sitting at the beaches on other continents. They don't get it and don't care and feel no remorse as long as they get all the money and power their megalomaniac greed demands.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ukraine-ready-carved-up-trump-34700823
Then Don't…! You're not a Legal President…!
They should take the keys of his villas and the Bugatti away from him, making him face the music like the people he put in the meat grinder.
He should go back to being a standup comedian…!
he was good at that
Irrelevant warmongers need not attend negotiations if peace is the desired outcome. The US and Russia are cutting through the BS and stepping out of the carefully laid European traps back into permanent war. Better years late than never.
Trumps is a real estate dealer, not a peacemaker, that is what conmen do, they change suits and neck-ties depending what is needed, it helps to obfuscate the dealing.
He can't be both, or perhaps all 3..?
It depends on Trump’s mentors, he has obligations.
Maybe he believes he can do all.
If Russia DARES to step foot into Poland, we will OCCUPY MOSCOW AGAIN like we did under glorious Poland-Lithuania in 1620!
Chława Polska!
Gee, Krzysztóf, you're so smart
Wait thats me!
For the sake of the Polish people I hope the leadership in Warsaw are using common sense and stop the hostile anti Russia propaganda. The polish people like the Russian people want nothing more than peace
, a nice standard of living, quality of life for all. Building beats military destruction and killing any time. In war, all of us are losers except the war profiteers. The profiteers should go to hell.
We alreayd have that
We really do hate Russia
Give me one good example of something good russia has done for us
You know, you ruin your life if you go on hating people who did nothing to you. Enjoy living, meet Russian people, it is always the ruling elite fighting wars on the back of the people. I know Russian and Polish people, and guess what, they are the same as we are, they even marry across the line, the French and Germans had no problem learning to like and love, and yes fall in love and get married. People are being taught, manipulated to hate where there is nothing to hate.
Vietnam taught people to believe and say:" Make love, not war"
I remember all the young men and women who lost their lives, who never had a chance to live and love, you still have the chance, don't waste it.
I have lived my life, I am retired and would be proud to pass on a little of the wisdom I collected in my life time.
Please, think a little about it and see what is best for you.
If it up to me, Russia would be lead by a democracy and would embrace the European dream of peace, solidarity, and friendship
Just to clear up a point, President Putin has been reelected several times and he has a high approval rating around 80%. Under Yeltsin, an alcoholic, the Russian people were starving while western oligarchs were robbing Russia blind. Putin cleaned up and even reduced much of the corruption, he put food on the tables and made the people proud to be Russian. that is why the Russian people like him. There is much demonizing of Putin, allegations and no credible evidence. Listen to his speeches and press conferences yourself and judge. He has a quality cabinet, compare Lavrov with Blinken or Baerbock. Putin would have fired them a long time ago. Anyway, President Putin is an elected president liked and respected by the Russian people he governs. He is a stateman with integrity and decency, no scandals I know of. He will go down in the history books as a great statesman. The people elected him if we like him or not is no concern to them, they don’t tell us whom we should elect. And all that goes for Poland too. We need real statesmen with good will to bring us peace and with it prosperity. Look what war has brought to Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq, and regime changes in Libya, a failed state, sanctions and poverty to Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, the destruction of the WB in Israel and on and on. In war both sides are the losers even in conventional wars.
It’s pretty easy to get reelected several times when you bar all credible opponents from the ballot and send the police in to bust up any opposition political rallies.
Its comedic when people complain about Z being a dictator when Putin has been doing the same things for 20 years
Furthermore, according to the Verkhovna Rada, what he is doing is perfectly legal under martial law
Credible opponents? Like Navalny?
What about Navalny?
fym no credible evidence
google human rights abuses by the russian regime
Dictators always have high approval ratings, they can contort the truth however they please
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
That means nothing
Stop making putin seem like a good man, he is not
I have met many Russian people
before the war I went on many trips with my family to Russia. They are all nice.
However, that does not excuse the fact that they are complicit in genocide of Ukraine and that their relatives have occupied every country in eastern europe for decades
Remember the abandonment during the Warsaw Uprising, when the whole red army sat right across the river, watching us die?
Remember the Polish-Soviet war, where not even 2 years after gaining freedom, Moscow tried to put us down? Luckily, they failed, unlike in Ukraine, setting them up for decades of foreign occupation
Remember Russia keeping us poor during the Tsarist era? Then people wonder why the eastern part of our country always votes far right
Remember the Partitions in the late 1700's, which saw the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth die to foreign thumb?
You can’t go on stuck in the past, that was then now we live in different times, our problems are not the same as the, remember only the ruling elites go to war at the price of other people’s lives. You must live your life now, you live in the present not in the past. In the end every nation has blood on their hands, that includes the Polish people, we need to forgive and forget and move on making life better for the living.
One thing I noticed in the Israel genocide, it is the people who survived the concentration camps who oppose the Netanyahu regime and the crimes against the Palestinian people, the haters are people who never suffered any pain and real consequences like watching the babies starve to death or amputations without anesthetics even on children. They don’t wish that kind of pain and suffering on their enemies.
Israeli children are taught to hate, I feel sorry for all the happiness they never experience because all they know is to hate, to not feel compassion for others is a big loss to anyone with a heart. Haters have no hearts.
Wars are brutal. Think about the genocide of the American Indians, the colonization by the British of other continents and slavery and more. We had the reformation and the age of enlightenment. Times change and people change, we are better informed, believe in human rights and advanced nations gave up the death penalty, being more humane has made life much better, and still we have a long way to go.
And yet Russia and Israel are still the same genocide settler-colonialist states stuck in the past
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Ukraine will 'not recognize' upcoming talks between the US and Russia."
Zelensky underscored his 'See no evil, Hear no evil' message by cupping his hands over his eyes and making funny noises, wiggling his tongue while humming.
To relieve the seriousness of his fighting words, the ex-comedian concluded the press conference by breaking into one of his old skits, stumbling and groping off the political stage with his eyes squeezed shut, crying out:
"Hey! Who put out the lights! Sláva Ukrayíni! But I mean that! Who put out the lights!"
”F Trump!’…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/17/trump-deal-putin-us-military-volunteers-ukraine-peace/
Donna, did you type that? LOL
"Seduced and Abandoned". I ALMOST feel sorry for Zelensky. But he, like leaders of other nations in the US sphere, should know that getting "help" from the US is the start of their death knell.
Will President Donald Trump ban Volodymyr Zelensky from entering the US? We know he owns at least one property in America. He may own more, along with multiple bank accounts under assumed names.
He owns a villa in Italy and perhaps one or two in South America and Africa. What price of admission will Zelensky be compelled to pay as a global war criminal with multiple citizenships or just seeking asylum?
He's threading the needle.
The Russia-US discussions may continue for up to three months, depending on which Russian diplomat is quoted.
In a slightly different vein and tone, does the US have moral authority regarding Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon?
He might prefer the French Riviera, culture and so, you know. If he lives long enough to get there before the roof comes crushing down.
You know those tiny dogs that love to bark a lot but you know if they piss you off long enough, you can kick them very far to break every bone in their tiny body?
The only reason I make new account is because some dingo's keep ignoring me
Namely, Maju, which is a shame, because I like him
He thinks i'm a nazi?
Do I really give off Nazi vibes?
I think not too
Some quotes from some of my ""greatest inspirations""
But, those are the good guys, right?
NATO bad!
Russia Good!