A press conference in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Zelensky turned contentious after Vance slammed Zelensky for campaigning with former Vice President Kamala Harris. The chaotic meeting appears to have squashed Zelensky’s opportunity to sign a mineral deal with the US.
During the presser, Zelensky posed a question to Vance, “what kind of diplomacy JD” can you have with Russian President Vladimir Putin?
Vance fired back, “I’m talking about the kind of diplomacy that will bring an end to the destruction of your country.” After Zelensky attempted to interject, the Vice President stopped him and said it was “disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you are forcing conscripts to the first lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the President for trying to bring an end to the conflict.”
‼️A heated back and forth between @ZelenskyyUa, @POTUS, and @VP now in the Oval. pic.twitter.com/j1YCy4Jm3K
— Misha Komadovsky (@komadovsky) February 28, 2025
In his response, Zelensky irritated Trump when he argued that Russia would one day threaten the US. Trump cut off Zelensky saying, “Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. We’re trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we are going to feel because you are in no position to dictate that.” He continued as he talked over Zelensky, “You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with WWIII. What you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.”
Vance then attacked Zelensky over campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris shortly before the election. After a brief exchange, Trump interrupted Zelensky stating, “You’ve done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. You’re not winning.” He added, “It’s going to be very hard to do business like this.”
At the start of the press conference, Trump said he expected Zelensky to sign the mineral deal on Friday. As the press conference continued, Trump questioned whether Zelensky wanted an agreement and implied that future US aid to Ukraine depended on Kiev signing the deal. He told Zelensky, “You’re either going to make a deal or we’re out, and if we’re out, you’ll fight it out. I don’t think it’s going to be pretty, but you’ll fight it out.”
The deal would have established a fund where Ukraine will put 50% of its proceeds from rare earth minerals and other resources that will be used for investment projects in Ukraine. The deal would not have explicitly given security guarantees to Ukraine.
Throughout the press conference, Trump said he wanted to end the deal and would make a deal with Putin. Zelensky said he would be unwilling to make compromises with Russia. Trump disagreed saying both sides would have to make concessions.
Following the presser, Trump posted on TruthSocial that the deal was off. “We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”
Below is a longer version of the clash:
Here is a link to the entire event.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com and news editor of the Libertarian Institute. He hosts The Kyle Anzalone Show and is co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Connor Freeman.
JD Vance and Trump are extremely despicable characters. While their fat asses sit in comfort, they judge Zelenskyy, who is an actual leader whom his people love. All while they endorse the state of Israel's genocidal behavior and support it with billions of dollars in aid.
" . . . whom his people love"? Approval rating at 4%?
Trump's GISS Army followers suck at math. They think low numbers for approval ratings are like golf scores, lower is better.
His approval is not 4% dumb kid
https://www.dw.com/en/what-ukrainian-opinion-polls-say-about-volodymyr-zelenskyy/a-71774172
https://www.euronews.com/2025/02/19/zelenskyys-approval-rating-grows-to-57-debunking-trumps-4-support-claim
https://kyivindependent.com/63-of-ukrainians-approve-zelensky-as-president-poll-shows/
Howeve,r of course, Trumpers and the truth are like oil and water
A good correction. I did not realize the 4% number came from Trump.
From your first source listed:
"roughly one-third of Ukrainians trusted Zelenskyy completely, one-third trusted him somewhat, and one-third didn't trust the Ukrainian president at all."
So your info comes from kyivindependent.com ,euronews, and dw. great impartial sources….
RT and RIA Novosti must be your preferred sources
…. according to Trump? LOL!
In reality, since dictator Don called Zelensky a dictator, Zelensky's approval rating went to 65% while Trump's approval rating dropped to 34%.
Does that count all the Ukrainian men hiding in cellars from the press gang? Also, who is doing the "reporting" on this, since Z-man shut down ALL opposition media?
Does that count for Trump dodging the draft by getting a false medical report from a friend of Fred Trump?
In reality, Putin shut down ALL political opposition and independent Russian media. Even the Ukraine opposition party support Zelensky, who's approval rating is now double that of dictator Donald's.
You don’t know that; because no truth can come out of Ukraine, z-man won’t allow it.
I am, by the way, just fine with Trump dodging the draft for a stupid, pointless war, just as I support the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men doing the exact same thing, and the hundreds of thousands who deserted, so try again, little man. But bring me my sandwich first!
Crap. The invention of the Internet means that the truth about continued Russian attacks are still coming out of Ukraine.
I can see you are struggling with the facts.
if Zelensky does not flee, he will be hanged by the Ukrainians
If I were Ukrainian I'd be looking for a new leader. This guy just destroyed his relationship with the indispensable ally. Today was a disastrous day in Ukrainian diplomacy.
Trump himself is a disaster
Ukraine is a disaster. You can thank Trump later for saving whatever will be left as Russia continues to absorb more and more territory.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock………..
Trump is a walking disaster.
The ICC arrest warrants for Putin and Netanyahu won't just magically disappear.
Zelensky……"You're fired!"
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/993d36b8c82eb3ee20b43fa34790a3fba55dbdcabd234a475682ffea7524052e.png
Well; if you and Z-boy feel that way, then leave him and the USA alone and go fight your own battles, without your hands in our pockets. We certainly won't miss you; had our fill of NZs in 1945.
Yeah. Trump’s bragging about sending Javelins to Ukraine when Obama sent only sheets, makes Trump an owner of this war as much as Biden. Trump’s mouth gets him exposed.
The US was an indispensable ally only to Z and the band of Ukronazis who support him, not to the whole Ukrainian population. Those who want peace have no use for the warmongering American empire.
Apparently. The U.S. actually has a society that changes leadership. I would think a wise statesman would seek damage control, even if he didn't believe an ally "indispensable".
Trump is not used to people not bowing down to him. He expected that and did not get it. Trump acted like a child.
Mr Vance & Mr Trump are leaders in their own right. They don't need the admiration, it is Ukrainian "asses" who have became accustomed to North American resources. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a 'red herring' to the topic-at-hand.
LOL! Red herring arguments are your specialty.
Trump and Vance are leaders of the new GOP clown show. Claiming that narcissists don't need admiration is like saying you don't need oxygen.
Trump is now fully complicit in Israel's genocidal war crimes.
Israel is your topic. When you find or declare a leader correct on that policy; I am sure you will let us know (reguardless, if we care or not).
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da31038099ccd71a44914dd45a0abbccc42e401d804dca4596a6cd9123146792.jpg
Very bad leaders
Are you giving yourself thumbs=up?
Palestine responds to Trump's video with their own videos:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/palestinians-gaza-react-counter-video-bizarre-ai-trump-video
Great.
Both videos beat Trump's…!
This is why Trump is back … he will say what others think and not say, very good (as in this case) and very bad.
Poor Z … he thought he could pressure him by going to the Press here … very foolish. Nobody holds a grudge like Trump.
Well, Trump had all the tools including the vp…!
I speculated this before, but this presentation comes with multiple receipts. “Peace” with Russia is a ruse to buy time and pivot toward China. I’m not certain if Zelensky is an actor in this play. If he is, he really is a better thespian than I gave him credit for. Kissinger’s soul is reincarnated from hell:
The US-EU "Division of Labor" to Continue Confronting Russia & China
While many believe the US has fundamentally changed its foreign policy in pursuit of "peace" over primacy, both precedent and evidence suggests the US is simply upholding continuity of agenda with overtures of "peace" merely a means of buying desperately needed time.
The think tank policy papers being drawn from by the current US administration do not mention "peace" or finding a place for the US at the multipolar table, and instead prescribe the means to reassert US dominance across the planet including in regards to both Russia and China.
https://rumble.com/v6p11s3-the-us-eu-division-of-labor-to-continue-confronting-russia-and-china.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Thanks Dread. I find myself disagreeing with the list on this too.
First: The great "rare earth mineral deal" could not be more offensive, forcing him to agree to the rape of his exhausted Mother Land. Trump was fully expecting a triumph and Zelensky pricked his bubble and showed him up for a gas-bag. All of Europe, having also recently been treated to an outrageously hypocritical tongue lashing from Hillbilly Vance, must be cheering his pluck.
Second: As Lyndsey Graham and Mitch McConnel had preened themselves on their genius in using Ukrainian bodies to bleed Russia for US NeoCon policy, excluding Ukraine from the peace table (regardless Z's prior war-leader foolishness), and generally treating them like "you have no cards", needed to be called out, and Z did it.
Ergo: Zelensky comes off as the prince among these theives.
If it grinds on, our true overlords are happy.
https://globaleuronews.com/2023/07/08/goloborodko-rejected-but-zelensky-accepted-blackrock-shares-ukrainian-pie/
There is no peace deal. Until then?
I wouldn't look to Black Rock for wisdom in eastern Europe. The farmlands that they acquired from the Ukrainian government lie almost completely in the Russian regions, most of them were already behind Russian lines when they bought them. Apparently someone couldn't read a map?
They were the largest bondholders and the USAID paid off the debt:
USAID paid off $4.5 billion worth of Ukraine’s sovereign debt through payments made to the World Bank — all while Congress went to loggerheads over America’s ballooning national debt. (Western financial interests including BlackRock Inc. are among the largest holders of Ukrainian government bonds.) …
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/27/gravy-train-independent-audit-ukraine/
They are also willing to get back to Russia.
BlackRock funds hit by $17bn in losses on Russian exposure
Sharp markdowns at world’s largest asset manager show broad impact of sanctions and shuttered markets
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has taken about $17bn in losses on its Russian securities holdings of because of the attack on Ukraine..
If tensions and sanctions ease, Russian securities could start trading more freely again and recover some of their value. In that scenario, BlackRock’s funds and clients could benefit as prices recover.
https://www.ft.com/content/e7967c06-77f3-45f6-9bf5-f141f899dba5
A lot of what happens with the war depends on what the true overlords want.
BlackRock & Wall Street banks are profiting from Israel’s crimes in Gaza, UN experts say
Top UN human rights experts called on Western weapons corporations to stop sending arms to Israel, saying they could be complicit in war crimes. Asset managers like BlackRock and Wall Street banks are also profiting…
The transfer of weapons and ammunition to Israel may constitute serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian laws and risk State complicity in international crimes, possibly including genocide, UN experts said today, reiterating their demand to stop transfers immediately”, the press release said.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/07/07/blackrock-wall-street-banks-profit-israel-gaza-un/
Lee Camp [Redacted] @LeeCamp
The Secret Cabal That Owns The World
Feb 22
https://x.com/LeeCamp/status/1893364480148709417
They are everywhere and in every industry and spreading like cancer:
Can Germany trust Friedrich Merz?
The frontrunner is a faux populist
Merz, let’s not forget, has long represented the interests of some of the world’s most powerful corporate and financial elites, most notably as a key representative of BlackRock in Germany between 2016 and 2020….
As Werner Rügemer, author of BlackRock Germany, explains, at Mayer Brown Merz helped facilitate deals that promoted the interests of US capital in Germany, encouraging American investors to buy companies in the Federal Republic. The result was the sale and restructuring of thousands of German firms, which involved slashing jobs and freezing wages — an approach openly praised by Merz in his book Dare to Be More Capitalist. No doubt keen to embody his book’s thesis, during this period Merz also sat on the supervisory and administrative boards of several major corporations. And then BlackRock, arguably one of the most powerful companies to ever exist, came knocking. How could Merz say no? Pharmaceuticals, entertainment, media and, of course, war — there is virtually no sector that BlackRock won’t try and profit from….
The attraction of hiring Merz isn’t hard to glean. He facilitated meetings between BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and German politicians, helping to shape the policies that would benefit the company and its vast portfolio of investments. Under Merz’s influence, for instance, BlackRock became one of the largest non-German shareholders in many of the country’s most important companies — from Deutsche Bank to Volkswagen, BMW to Siemens. Yet his work wasn’t just about increasing profits for shareholders; it was also about shaping a political environment where corporate interests were aligned with government policy. By happy coincidence, it also created a climate in which someone like Merz could easily flit between big business and the Bundestag…
Merz is a strong supporter of the privatisation of social welfare systems — to the benefit of companies such as BlackRock, a leader in private pension schemes. He has also traditionally been a staunch opponent of the minimum wage and of laws against unfair dismissal. Under his watch, German workers are very likely to see their wages continue to stagnate, or worse.
https://unherd.com/2025/02/will-merz-sell-germany-to-blackrock/
The farmlands that Russia illegally acquired through force were not behind Russian borders when they were annexed.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eb2c7bf3dc9b5518298a64e073883cd61c97be4bd1445865ec2b56575b548e24.jpg
Not only that, but I also hear the "rare earth minerals" in Ukraine is not that big of a deal: https://youtu.be/Ya9WKaveRXU?si=8WCrQw5c4FN37dtp
It subsequently expanded the meaning of "raw earth" to include mineral wealth generally, oil and gas, and pipelines, ports, …. The point is Trump was so keen on this "deal" that "peace" was contingent on it, not the other way round.
Trump and Putin are two macho strongmen who don't understand that the US and Russia can't impose a settlement of the Ukraine war without Ukraine. From a Ukrainian perspective the war is between Ukraine and Russia. Trump and Putin both believe that they can impose a peace on Ukraine. But even if the Ukrainian army collapses, the Ukrainians will continue to resist the Russian invasion until the Russians leave, even if it takes years, decades or centuries. The tragedy is that double alpha strong men like Trump and Putin just don't have the empathy necessary to understand the tenacity of wars of national resistance.
Which is why Russia has no interest whatsoever in annexing terroritory in Western Ukraine. It is because despite all the pretending or at this point more likely wilful ignorance, there is no such singular monolithic thing as an Ukrainian perspective. There are Ukrianian perspectives. And as they Ukrainians themselves have made a point of showing at least since 2014, these perspectives differ by enough to make them kill each other over them.
Your wilful ignorance makes you think Russia has no interest in annexing territory in Western Ukraine. LMAO! And you have made a good point of displaying your stupidity enough. There is no such thing as a Ukrainian perspective to a bigoted pro-Kremlin piece of shit.
The thing that is really fecking with delusional twats like yourself is reality. No matter how hysterical you get, and let it eat away at your sanity, It. Will. Just. Not. Go. Away. Behaving like a whiny bitch doesn't alter it. And it's certainly not like it hasn't been tried.
So still Russia has no interest in annexation of any territory in Western Ukraine. And the division, political and cultural, among Ukrainians is all too real, hence a civil war from 2014 to the eve of the unnecessary and easily avoidable invasion of 2022.
The Soviet Union lost more than 20 million souls fighting the Wehrmacht during WWII (basically defeating the Wehrmacht).
The reward? Patton and other generals wanted to turn on the Soviet Union, attack while the Soviets were weak from the war, even contemplating using some of the left over German forces in the endeavor.
Fast forward to 1991. The Soviet Union collapses. Germany is reunited. The Cold War ended. Peace was at hand.
Or was it? The newly formed Russia wanted to be normalized, become a member of the Western Alliance. We, the only unscathed nation at the end of WWII said NO.
Fast forward to 2000 and the election that saw the Supreme Court hand the Presidency to George W. Bush.
President Bush proceeded to dash the ABM Treaty with Russia.
Then, the Clinton administration began the ill-fated gathering up of nations to join NATO (existence of which should have ended with the end of the Cold War), to then put weapons on the Russian borders. The gathering storm to conflict began.
Then, the first Trump administration. Mr. Trump walked away from two treaties with Russia. Open Skies. INF Treaty. Both critical to the prevention of a nuclear war with Russia.
Now we have that same mane, as President, who is berserk, trashing allies, pushing for annexation of an ally, Canada, taking over Greenland for its mineral wealth and to control sea routes, exacting tariffs against the world, including allies, while setting the U.S. on a course that could bring a recession, with massive unemployment, to pay for an extension of the "tax reform act of 2017" for the wealthy, and for himself, taking out programs that bring medical assitance, survival, to the poor,working poor, and the middle class.
Gaza? West Bank? I defy anyone who did not find the video posted on the internet of "Trump Gaza", the representation of what he perceives to be after the Palestinians have been moved, exterminated, or both.
To the 77 million who voted for him I say, are you proud of yourselves, and do you have a friend or family member who also voted for him who is now filing for unemployment, losing their home, losisng their medical coverage, perhaps eventually losing their marriage, screaming , "why me, and not them?".
Well, I'm not a fan of Trump but if he does something right, and especially when it comes at possibly great cost and/or risk, I have no problem crediting him with it. And so I do. It can hardly be exaggerated how important achieving peace with Russia is and I'm grateful that the US under Trump is at least making a serious effort.
We are today in much less immediate danger of dying in a nuclear holocaust thanks to Trump. That would have not been the case if Harris won.
However atrocious Trump is on the Palestinians, Harris would have been worse still. She delivered the proof for that during her support for asnd advocacy of genocide.
However atrocious Trump is on the Palestinians, Harris would have been worse still.
I have to disagree with you about this. It's a draw. Trump didn't have to do much to be "better" than Harris but he didn't even come close to doing that. He's just "finishing the job". Of course, his supporters will say he's fulfilling a campaign promise by doing so.
Okay, I have to concede to you that point. Harris and Trump's competition in the realm of evil with regard to Palestine and Palestinians for a large part exists beyond the horizon of what is imaginable for psychologically healthy human beings.
So I might have overstated. The point I wanted to stress is that Harris as VP was overseeing and is and remains forever responsible for a genocide. She did not distance herself from that in any way. These are indefensible and unforgivable crimes. Absolutely grotesquely evil and inhuman. And there is nothing to suspect that as a President she suddenly would develop any human traits or the most rudimentary moral sense when dealing with Palestinians. She as a person is as disgusting as humans are able to get. She easily makes a Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy or Richard Ramirez or even Albert Fish look like naively innocent choir boys in comparison.
But alas you're right all the evidence points in the direction Trump equalling her sickeningness, with a reserve and willingness to surpass. Him serving his extremist Zionist electorate and billionaire funders would probably guarantee as much.
I can tell you didn’t watch the video.
I can tell a lot of things about you.
That’s nice.
Never mind who or what "Aint Teef" is.
TROLL………..
I have a stalker, or a couple of them, who sockpuppet under different names. I don’t know if related. This person or persons usually downvote when you go against msm propaganda.
And so it goes.
The acquisition of a personal stalker is the internet equivalent of an honorary degree. Getting the right people to hate you is a good measure of success in getting your message across.
lol. Thanks Albert.
I value your opinions even when we disagree. But I don’t have time to watch an hour and fifteen minute video. Could you summarize the salient points? Thanks!
He meticulously points to papers of thinktanks, Rand, comments of this administration, past precedent, on why he doesn’t think this is any kind of true change of US policy.
Actually I need to correct myself via Smedley Butler, before WWII. How can people know that the Iraq war, the Libyan war and all these other wars were built on bullshit pretexts, and yet come away with this one being the one that is moral and just? Do people unlearn things five minutes after they happen?
~Smedley Butler
I have his book on my Kindle, and on my bookshelf.
It’s free online, but I don’t have the link handy.
There are 3 justifications for war:
1. Self defense against an actual or imminent armed attack , like Ukraine defending itself against Russian invasion;
2. Wars of national liberation against a colonial or neo-colonial power like the Vietnamese war against the French colonists and the American neo-colonists,
3. War to stop or prevent a holocaust level genocide like India’s 1971 invasion of East Pakistan to stop the Bengali genocide.
Except for those three exceptions a just war is just a war.
What about Civil War and revolution like 18th century France or 1917 Russia?
Excellent point! Thank-you!
I suppose it might be a stretch to consider the American civil war a war of national liberation of the African American peoplle.
As for the Russian Revolution it was more a coup with mass support followed by a civil war and an invasion which could be considered a war of self-defense. But you are right I need t refine my paradigm to include revolutions and civil war. But clearly every civil war would not automatically qualify as a war of national liberation.. Many civil wars are wars between factons of the elites, or competing dynasties.
Proxy wars?
Proxy wars are unjustified. The Ukraine war is not a proxy war from the point of view of Ukrainians. It is a war of self defense in response to an invasion by Ukraine’s former imperial overlord. The relationship between Russia and Ukraine is very similar to the relationship between England and Ireland. A lot of Americans don’t get that Ukrainians are very united in resistance to the Russian invasion and will continue to resist even if the US and NATO cut all aid and the Ukrainian army collapses. This is a war that Russia can’t win. But Trump and Putin will have to learn that the hard way.
“Point of view” doesn’t equal reality.
The US spent decades trying to sever ties and to instigate animus.
They used the far right as tools to accomplish this, just like they have in other wars with radicals or “extremists” to create chaos.
Zelensky ran on “peace”. Obviously “the people” wanted an end to the conflict.
Victoria Nuland: Since 1991 we’ve invested over five billion dollars for a “democratic Ukraine”
Publication date 2013-12-13
Topics ukraine
Language English
Item Size 85.0M
You aren’t promoting “democracy” when you coup a government and pick out a leader:
“Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991 the United States has supported Ukrainians as they built democratic skills and institutions, as they promoted civic participation and good governance […] We’ve invested over five billion dollars to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.”
Ukraine in Washington 2013. Address by Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland.
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0y-JUsPTU
https://archive.org/details/victoria-nuland-ukrainians-deserve-for-respect-from-their-government-480p-30fps-h-264-128kbit-aac
‘I’m not a loser’: Zelensky clashes with veterans over Donbas disengagement (VIDEO)
It started as an argument. On Oct. 26, President Volodymyr Zelensky locked horns with war veterans in the front-line town of Zolote in Luhansk Oblast. The president was pushing a mutual disengagement
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/6652
US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev
This article is more than 20 years old
Ian Traynor
Thu 25 Nov 2004 19.03 EST
….But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.
Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.
Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze….
The Democratic party's National Democratic Institute, the Republican party's International Republican Institute, the US state department and USAid are the main agencies involved in these grassroots campaigns as well as the Freedom House NGO and billionaire George Soros's open society institute.
US pollsters and professional consultants are hired to organise focus groups and use psephological data to plot strategy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
2014:
It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict
In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger
2013:
John McCain Went To Ukraine And Stood On Stage With A Man Accused Of Being An Anti-Semitic Neo-Nazi
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahnybok-in-ukraine-2013-12?op=1
CNN reporting on Kiev's attack on Donbas after the 2014 coup
(Video)
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1892410776905797983
George Soros: I may invest $1 billion in Ukraine
https://money.cnn.com/2015/03/30/investing/ukraine-soros-billion-russia/index.html
More: The Rand papers and project 2025 make this Trump TV episode appear to be a giant psy-op.
It helped that Zelensky looked sympathetic to his supporters and Europe. For those who feel Zelensky is greedy and actively killing Ukrainians for his own benefit, this is satisfyingly validating. Trump even said, “This is great TV”.
Europe will continue funding Ukraine? Russia will get caught in an agreement trap again?
Special interests and mega corporations have been driving foreign policy since WWII. Do we really think Trump suddenly is not a frontman after all other presidents were? And if there is an agreement for real, its purpose would be to separate China’s allies a la Kissinger.
Editing to add, I would like nothing more than peace and for Ukrainians to live and for the west to stop vilifying Russians as some unique boogeyman. I wouldn’t care who the architect was. But I’m now having doubts.
Please watch this video, since you didn’t watch the last one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMhgwI33bAI
I have seen the argument Brian Berletic makes here and am subscriber to the New Atlas. He makes a very compelling argument on the credibility of a new "reset" ploy. But I don't buy this spat with Zelenky being scripted and I do believe that the US seeks a way to cut its losses as there really is no way forward resulting in anything other than losing even worse. So I am going to take the risk of being wrong.
The Russians have agency also, they will assess carefully what is and what is not in their interest.
Trump did say, “This is great TV”.
He did. And it was, anyone present probably realized that as the thing unfolded. And Zelenksy for a moment gestured a thumbs up also. I don't know what that really meant of course but I am not attaching great importance to that as such things can easily be explained in multiple ways.
There’s another comment in moderation, so catch up later. I fleshed out thoughts more.
Well, I might be skeptical for now, I'm not at all counting out Berletic in the end is going to be proven right and we are indeed witnessing just a division of labor. It is one possibility to explain the seemingly erratic, irrational and self-destructive behavior of European leadership if it is to be explained by something other than a desire to commit suicide.
I’m considering that Zelensky was an actor in the kayfabe:
Trump made it clear that it was the US, not Zelensky, seeking negotiations. He might have saved his @ss from internal Ukrainian threats:
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2023/09/28/volodymyr-zelensky-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/
I think there are layers. Clearly Trump despises Zelensky for campaigning with Dems and being an “enemy”. So I’m sure he relishes the beatdown. And Zelensky is a giant con, as they say, “it takes one to know one”. All the money Zelensky et al skimmed would piss him off. The whole plucky little protector of democracy and puppet of Nuland/Biden/Blinken is vomit inducing. But Trump may not even know the underlying plot.
Trump is influenced by the last person he talked to. Berletic states from the Rand Report that the US is incapable of fighting and winning a world war. I read that report months, if not a year back. We can’t churn out weaponry. We don’t have existing industry like WWII where a president could turn factories into wartime production of arms. We don’t have battle ready troops or enough of them. Our technology is behind Russia and China. The list went on…
It is a recognition that there won’t be total victory over Russia now. That doesn’t mean the US empire won’t try to double back at a later time. Does Trump know? Fuck if I know.
“Special interests and mega corporations have been driving foreign policy since WWII. Do we really think Trump suddenly is not a frontman after all other presidents were? And if there is an agreement for real, its purpose would be to separate China’s allies a la Kissinger.”
Voila!
I do think that the US got a shock when its Wonderwaffen largely flopped against the Russians. I doubt anyone in the elites ever thought Ukraine could win, but they very likely thought that the weapons would be enough to do some serious damage to Russia and keep them poor and contained for longer. China's likely breathing a sigh of relief at how poorly the Pentagon's toys performed, they may mistakenly think that this will dissuade DC from doing something stupid though.
Rump's deal for rare earth minerals turns out to be based on 50 year old Soviet data, there likely isn't any worth mining in the whole country.
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-qa-credible-evidence-ukraine-rare.html
They hammered Russia with sanctions, then the war, hoping they would bleed out financially, if not by deaths. Instead they gave them a booming war economy.
He was set up for a good old fashion wrestling theatrics. Public consumption only.
This is exactly the kind of transparency in government the American people voted for. In a healthy thriving democracy you show the American people what kind of foreign leaders we are dealing with. Zalenskyy came into the Oval office with a cocky attitude and was smirking and making other sarcastic faces throughout his meeting with the President and Vice President. He must have thought he was dealing with the old White House where he got whatever he wanted.
It was funny when they talked over each other like two old women in a marketplace.
By funny I think we mean 'strange'. It was a dumpster fire, in all honesty. If I was an Ukrainian, I wouldn't be happy now.
Why do you think Ukrainians should be unhappy about that? Sure, some of them are, but not the majority who are hiding now from recruitment sonderkommandos.
War, & what it does to society is a very dirty game.
Dirty Don is a real coward. He tried to blackmail Zelensky by illegally withholding aid and demanding they find "dirt" on the Bidens. Impeachable.
Now he's trying to blackmail Ukraine on behalf of a wanted war criminal.
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You're such a dumb ass with your idiotic cartoons.
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LOL!
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Your big warmonger Biden feigned Asthma
Genocide Joe received five student draft deferments for asthma. First as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University.
And after a medical exam in April 1968, he received the "1-Y" classification, which meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency.
Your fascist orange warmonger is now threatening the highest court in the world to protect a wanted war criminal.
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And as an American I am unhappy that we have a clown as a President. If he gets this upset how is he going to handle a real problem?
Life, liberty & the pursuit of Hapiness. Mr Zelensky wanted Security Gurantees, I am glad he didn’t get them. You pursue your happiness & I will remain happy that my faction has power. Ukraine & Russia has had differences before The Constitution was even written in the United States. The money & resources continued to drain “was a real problem”.
The NPT is all about Ukraine's security guarantees. You should read it.
The US Constitution clearly disqualifies Trump from holding office. You should read it.
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So, where was Trump indicted let alone convicted of "insurrection". Answer: he wasn't.
BTW, this provision of the 14th Amendment was one of the " Reconstruction Amendments " and had to do with post Civil War Confederates. Unless you think Trump was involved in the American Civil War 160 years ago.
“So, where was Trump indicted let alone convicted of ‘insurrection’. Answer: he wasn’t.”
By your logic, no one who is constitutionally unqualified to run for president can be disqualified unless charged and convicted of the disqualification.
So if a 17-year-old decides to run for president, states have to put her on the ballot and if she gets the votes she gets to be president, unless she is charged with and convicted of not being 35 years of age.
And does that just apply to the presidency, or to other offices as well? If I declare myself to be the secretary of defense, do I have to be charged with and convicted of not having been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate to keep me from waltzing into DoD and sitting in the chair?
That’s absurd. Too stupid to answer.
Where does it say that Trump justices have to follow the laws of the U.S. Constitution?
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Typical that Trump talked over Zelensky like a fascist dictator and bullied him like a MAGA mob boss.
If you read "The Rise and Fall of Third Reich" you will see that Trump conducts his meeting in the same way as Hitler. Hopefully the end results will not be the same.
"I wish I had Hitler's Generals."
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There is really no solidarity between "The servant of the People" party of Mr Zelensky & large amount of the American people. He is a wartime President no matter how it is dressed-up.
You mean, war criminal president, no matter how much you dress it up.
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"He (<—— Mr Zelensky) is a wartime President"
Describing himself as a "wartime president", Trump vowed the US will achieve "total victory" over the coronavirus.
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Trump acted like a child who did not get his way. The winner in all of this is Putin. I never expected to see the day that GOP sides with the Russians. Or the day the GOP turns its back on the police allows hundreds of criminal convicted of assaulting police as seen on TV go free.
Those violent rioters served years in prison. Others after the "obstruction of the official proceeding (18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).7 )" was dismissed by SCOTUS as being a phoney charge, were only guilty of trespass charges. Many of those served years in prison and have 8th Amendment claims against the government.
Are you suggesting that the few dozens of rioters who assaulted police should have been given life terms? Or that those that walked through open doors were treated harshly by the DC political courts for POLITICAL reasons?
You're not a proponent of "equal justice under the law" I guess.
No standing ovations this time. Poor green goblin.
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You know in his heart this Zalenskyy character is dreaming of bringing the US into World War III against Russia the way Churchill dreamed of bringing the US into his War with Germany in World War II. But President Trump is not Franklin Roosevelt and he just woke Zalenskyy up and out of that dream.
So after all they were right when compared him with Churchill?
Maybe in the end he will right some books too.
"But President Trump is not Franklin Roosevelt " That is for sure. FDR will be remember for long time, trump will be remember as a bad bump in the road of a great nation.
Trump will be remembered as the first convicted criminal to become POTUS, in direct violation of the US Constitution.
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What part of the US Constitution are you referring to?
The Fourteenth Amendment – Section 3. Disqualification from holding office.
I already answered this claim try to keep up. I know it’s hard for you. But to wit: No indictment, no charges, no conviction. The principle of innocent until proven guilty and the 14th Amendment was a Reconstruction Amendment for Confederates 160 years ago post American Civil War.
You didn't explain why the Supremely corrupt Court overruled the Fourteenth Amendment Section 3.
Try to keep up. Trump's justices acted in violation of the US Constitution.
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Your IQ is dropping quickly. Suggest getting help ASAP.. An unproven CLAIM of insurrection was made against Trump. Trump could not be disqualified bases on a claim.
You have the IQ of a Trumpanzee.
In reality, Trump was indicted on felony charges for working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the run-up to the violent riot.
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Dropping lower.
That’s right. Your IQ test came back negative.
Cowardly Americans speak out.
It's not just Zelensky. They have the same dream in Poland and the Baltic states. Their hatred of Russia is pathological to the point where apparently they wouldn't mind being destroyed in an atomic holocaust if it destroyed Russia too.
Just to be clear; Tusk and his ilk (the old school "greater Poland" nationalists, who still covet the lost territories in Belarus and want the Germans to pay them reparations), who are philosophically identical to the banderites in their insane outlook, and the Polish people who are overwhelmingly against getting involved in this war. Hopefully the May elections will show those clowns the door.
Funny how they crave the territories they lost but are in no hurry to return the German territories they acquired.
It’s a disease. These people (not all Poles, just the insane Nationalists) have the mindset that, “wherever a Pole once stood belongs to us, now and forever”; they look at maps from the “Lithuanian-Polish confederation” and claim that all still belongs to Poland. The same sort of mental illness shared by the “greater Israel” lunatics. The sheer lunacy is mind boggling; in the 20 years between WW1 and WW2, Poland fought with Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, and Germany over disputed territory, and somehow managed to be remembered by history as a “peaceful little democracy invaded by the evil Germans in 1939”.
Or, in the new retelling of history, “peaceful little democracy invaded by the evil Russians in 1939”.
Anyway, you make a very good point, some Poles, not all of them. Same for the Baltic States. I should have used “some” in my post.
Thanks. It’s hilarious how they remember history; that Poland, plucky little freedom and peace loving Poland, was treacherously invaded by the Bolsheviks in 1919; yet somehow forget it was the poles who, taking advantage of the Russian civil war, helped themselves to big slices of what was then “White Russia” and Ukraine first. (Oh no; those were territories that “should have” been given to Poland in the first place, they never attacked anyone!)
It's the same story in every conflict – f-ing nationalist idiots whipping out ancient maps (often conveniently doctored) to prove they have a God-given right to this or that piece of land.
Before WW I such a country as Poland didn't existed on the maps.
Warsaw was a Russian town.
"big slices of what was then White Russia and Ukraine" – also a slice of what is now Lithuania. More exactly, Lithuanian capital Vilnius between WW I and WW II was in Poland. Stalin gave Vilnius to Lithuanians and some German lands to Poland. Now both Lithuanians and Poles hate Stalin the same as Ukrainians hate Lenin who created Ukraine.
How did indiginous polish Warsaw end up in Russian empire? I don’t remember it asked to join Russia
While you mention who Stalin gave lands to, you interestingly fail to admit that he gave the whole Prussia to himself… at least we can argue and I know it’s not a great argument what’s now western Poland (former German empire) was at some point indigenous Polish lands. All modern eastern German lands were Slavic including Serbian before states emerged. Prussia was never Russian, yet it still is a part of it
No. Most of Prussia he gave to Poland.
"Before WW I such a country as Poland didn't existed on the maps." That depends on what maps you are looking at. Google map Europe in 1700. You will see Poland on it. Poland has been around in various forms since 1000 AD.
There were no Google in 1700, but that's true, Poland existed at the time.
At the beginning of WW I, Warsaw and many other towns which are now in Poland, were in Russian Empire. Finland too.
It's amazing how you forget history.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan all gained independence after the fall of Soviet Union.
Yes, it was invaded by Russia in 1790s, then again after 1918, 1939 and enslaved by Russia for another 50 years again. It doesn’t mean that every Russian is bad and sometimes the irrational hate some Polish have towards Russia is not justified! In polands best interest it’s to have good relationships with Russia. But most people commenting here don’t know the whole history and why so many poles don’t like Russia. Just like Greeks aren’t big fan of Turkey
In 1939 Poland was divided almost exactly along Curzon Line which was recommended by UK/France commission at the end of WW I. The proposed border was much fairer than many other borders.
You are missing to point that in 1790s indiginous Polish lands were stolen by prussia, Russia, and Austro Hungary and exploited for over 120 years with the goal of total ereasure of Polish language history and culture. Many fighting the is opressikn have been killed also. No one believes that Poland would rise from its knees but after 1918 it did. Not only that, this new reborn country was able to stop the Reds. So really Poland didn’t fight Germany Russia czechislovakia, it was fighting to regain its pre partition lands
Fascism is like a disease.
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You are aware that the Banderites fought with the Nazis, right? And their dislike of Russians stems from WW2 and is a large reason there is a war in Ukraine now.
The current dislike for Russia has something to do with their war crimes. Right?
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You are wrong here again. Tusk is definitely NOT pro Greater Poland, he is very pro German and his granddparenrs family is German. His own mother didn’t speak Polish till she was a teenager. Those naive Polish who dream of ‘Greater Poland’ are NOT nationalist! They are imperialist and true Polish nationalist despise them. No sane nationalist would dream of recreating the former commonwealth borders from 500 years ago, only imperialist and globalist would she such a dream
What a Show…!
Perhaps it was his last show in Washington.
The Final Act
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Trump's greatest award
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Are you talking about counterinsurgency by the secret services?
Perhaps he should fly to Florida instead of going back to Ukraine…!
Maybe Israel would be better.
Less chance to get in prison.
He's safer in Ukraine, believe me. He's been readjusting the local deep state for this contingency.
Trump: Do you own a suit…?
Zelenski: I do but they're all in the dry cleaner…! 🙂
I'm watching the reaction of so-called "European leaders" to the Z-Trump fiasco.
Sane people would stop digging when they find themselves in a hole, but they have thrown away the shovel and reached for the backhoe.
Really? Is it that bad?
The crab's strategy. You'll be surprised of how many years a good crab can resist in a hole, really.
Yes, European "leaders" just double down on their folly. They are railing against Trump. They have dug themselves in the deepest hole alright. But who cares? They don't matter about anything. The extent of their powers are limited solely to the speed by which they self demolish. And so now those fools saw fit to press the accelerator once more.
I wonder if this is all part of Zelensky's 'Victory Plan'?
LOL!
I never liked Trump; but after today, he's starting to grow on me. Zelensky needs to be shown the door; it's about time someone kicked his beggardly, whiny, dishonest, grifting butt out. Time for the banderite oligarchs to send in another stooge; maybe one with some fashion sense this time.
In this, I am firmly with Trump; Not One More Penny for this disastrous war; Make Peace Now. Or, if the banderites and the eurotrash want to keep fighting, they can do it on their own dime, until the poor Ukrainians have finally had enough and give the neoNZs the mussolini treatment.
And stop with the "Russia has to make concessions"; they offered many concessions in 2021, and 2022, and Zelensky turned his back on them. Putin would be a fool to give back anything his countrymen have shed blood to take.
Or, if the Russian and American fascists keep violating international law, they may get the comeuppance they truly deserve.
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I'm thinking the banderites will get their comeuppance first.
I'm thinking the robber barons will get their comeuppance. It's called Karma.
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Another clown for appeasement. Sure you were never a Trump supporter. Sure.
The Banderites can't and should not replace Zelensky: they have below zero legitimacy and they are the core of the problem. Suppossedly Russia is fighting against the Banderites in fact, as one of the goals of the SMO is "denazification". Zelensky must go but not because Trump says so, much less the nazis.
Trump is arrogant and can't manage this war, the European powers will take over from here and will remain supporting Zelensky (for the time being), NATO will be over as result of this most likely. That has also consequences for Israel, because the USA can't support Israel without Europe.
As long as Zelensky goes. U would prefer he be Mussolinied, but that probably won’t happen, Re Israel, if all this ends up lessening their support from the EU, that’s also a win.
Holy crap! At times it reminded me of street fights I've seen, without, fortunately, the violence.
Feb 28, 2025 BREAKING NEWS: Trump, Zelensky, And JD Vance Have Shocking Explosive Argument In The Oval Office
The end of a meeting in the Oval Office between President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and their aides ended in an explosive argument.
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John Mearsheimer has said that the U.S. led Ukraine down the primrose path. Instead of everything coming up flowers for Ukraine everything is coming up turds.
Yes, the US empire is like old King Midas in reverse. Instead of gold, everything it touches turns to shit.
The far right 2014 putsch began the civil war in Ukraine.
“Maidan” was a CIA supported coup that shattered democracy in Ukraine and eventually threw the entire region into turmoil.
The OSS (also Frank Wisner’s OPC* at State) & CIA backed fascists in Ukraine from the end of WW2 onward.
*the Office of Policy Coordination was a temporary clandestine operation that bridged the gap between the end of the OSS in’45 and the founding of the CIA in 47. Wisner led subversion efforts in Easter Europe and also began the CIA’s infiltration of the news media, the Arts, the Academy and civil society groups, through surveillance, infiltration, funding and co-opting leadership.
Mearsheimer, the great revealer of the massive power of the Israel Lobby!
And the MSM goes berserk. Putin will now take over Europe.
He won't. Russian troops are not that powerful, they do win but very slowly. It's still many years ahead until they can reach Kiev, let alone the Polish border.
I know. My comment was sarcasm. I was imitating the MSM. I didn't put the /s after my comment since I thought it was obvious.
What happens when an Ukrainian president meets an American president who is anxious to impose a “deal“ to Ukraine about releasing its mineral deposits to the U.S. and who pokes fun of his guest's clothes?
They fight in public.
It is very sad that Ukraine is still involved in a disastrous war with its neighboring Russia, while serving as a proxy of the US government and NATO to “weaken Russia", as former US Secretary of Defense Austin has said.
Those countries, (and that includes the Europeans), who pushed Ukraine into a three-year war with its neighbor should not only apologize, they should compensate greatly Ukraine for all the mess their so-called “diplomacy“ has created.
At the very least, they should not try to take economic advantage of Ukraine, as D. Trump has hinted when he told Zelensky “you're not really in a good position right now!“
What happened to the NPT and the Minsk agreement? Those treaties were broken by Russia.
It's sad that we have a clueless convicted orange felon and war criminal working on behalf of a another wanted war criminal.
They where broken also when selected units of Ukrainian armed forces flew Turkish drones in violation to gain advantage. The Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe noted the violation. When sides cheat, agreements fall apart.
Crap. They were broken when Russia illegally annexed Crimea, in violation of international law.
Self determination by the Russian Crimeans.
Russian colonizers. FIFY.
If ethnic Ukrainians wanted a ethno state then they should have accepted a division of that country as happened in other areas of Europe.
The Russians should have respected the borders. But imperialism was more important wasn’t it?
Russia respects the borders of Donbass republics and according to the agreement of February 2022 is defending them.
Too bad that’s Ukranian territory by the Budapest accords Russia signed.
It’s nice seeing clowns like you still pretending naked imperialism is OK as long as it’s Russian imperialism.
Russia is fighting against American imperialism in Russian lands where all local people are speaking Russian.
Fighting imperialism by invading a sovereign nation to take that nation’s territory. Sure.
Either you truly believe that, in which case you’re just dumb, or you know you’re lying.
Which is it? Just kidding, I don’t care because you know you’re lying.
We’re done now. Run along.
At the beginning of year 2022, Ukraine was no more sovereign country than the republics of Donbass. Only really dumb and brainwashed people don't understand that.
Donbass republics proclaimed their independence from Kiev regime after the coup 2014. They acted within the international law. Why they should recognize the coup? In 2010 they voted by overwhelming majority for Yanukovich. According to Ukrainian constitution, in March 2014, Yanukovich was their president, not appointed by Americans Turchinov who started the war against people of Donbass.
Donbass dumbass.
LMAO!
Russian imperialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_imperialism
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Trump endorses wanted war criminals.
The US and Western countries should not engage in overthrowing governments. Ethno Ukrainians should not have taken the bait of Victoria Nuland. It was poisoned.
Ukrainian nationalists of western Ukrainian regions wouldn't mind the division of Ukraine in two or more independent states. Actually some of their leaders talked about their intention to get independence from Kiev. It was before the coup 2014. Then CIA explained them that it is not what U.S. wants. Since that time they started to act as American puppets. Some of them became fabulously rich on American taxpayers' money.
Right. And the self-determination of the 20 thousand Ukrainian children that Putin forcibly abducted and assigned to Russian citizenship means nothing to you?
You seen to be highly vested in Ukrainian nationalism. Unfortunately (for you), your faction is not currently in power, in the United States.
Unlike yourself, I support international law. Unfortunately for you, my country is committed to supporting Ukraine's independence within internationally recognized borders.
Russia invaded Ukraine. You seem to be unaware of this.
Imperialism is great if it's Russian imperialism. Colonialism is the best as long as you're cheerleading the colonizers, yes?
Ukraine doesn't really exist since the NATO coup of 2014 that destroyed the democracy in favor of racist ultra-nationalism and had every single oblast (autonomous region) that could manage to locally counter the coup breaking apart. Since then, Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk are not Ukraine (democratic self-determination, which is part of the UN Charter) and Russia intervened in 2022 against an illegal (broke the Minsk Accords) Kievan invasion (and massacres of civilians) of Donetsk and Lugansk. The stated goals of the Russian so-called "special military operation" were originally to liberate these two republics but have now shifted, as two other oblasts have (more arguably) voted to join Russia and Russia has enshrined the annexation of all five oblasts.
A few words ino your first sentence and its a lie. There's no need to bother with the rest of the wall of text. I assume the rest is justifying the lie with more lies.
So, you're a liar.
Run along.
The last legitimate President of Ukraine was Viktor Yanukovich, all the rest is a nazi farce, and you’re apparently accomplice with that.
Keep lying.
The US organized and funded a coup in Ukraine in 2014. This lead to mass protests in the Eastern and Southern Ukraine. Several Oblasts sought to secede from a Kiev puppet government that was installed by a foreign power. Ie. a civil war. Western countries armed and trained the Armed Forces of Ukraine. So, Russia invaded AFTER Western countries supported hostile successor regimes in Kiev. The Russian Federation had no interest in having a NATO proxy on it's border.
All party's have dirty hands in this debacle. The Minsk Accords and the duplicity of the German and French leaders implicated the EU. Experts on Russia predicted that Russia would react this way.
The killing must stop. The sooner the better. The disastrous destruction of the demographics of Ukraine must end.
Another one who’s first sentence is a lie. Why would you think I care what a liar has to say?
His first sentence is the truth. It is an undeniable fact.
Sure it is. Putin told you so.
Nuland also confirmed this fact.
No she didn’t. You’re lying.
That is you who is lying.
Sorry to inform you that the books on USAID funding of NGO’s activities in Ukraine are now being exposed.
You’ve been had.
No wonder why you’ll just believe the lies.
You’re just stupid.
Adding more like to the lies.
In 1962, the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba aimed at the US. The Kennedy administration said that this had crossed a red line.
Starting in 2014, the US government and NATO pushed the neocon idea of a military encerclement of Russia by showing interest in accepting Ukraine as a full-fledged NATO member.
The Russian government responded like the US Kennedy administration did in 1962 and said that this was crossing a red line. Russia will never accept to have American or NATO missiles on its borders.
All efforts to keep Ukraine as an unaligned country failed or were sabotaged.
That is why the proxy Ukraine-Russia war has been going on over the last three years.
All the propaganda and lies to the contrary won't hide these facts.
So you don’t understand Russia invaded Ukraine.
You’re just another clown repeating what your betters told you to say.
For over 33 consecutive years, with overwhelming backing from the international community, a total of 187 countries have voted in favour of the U.N. resolution to demand the end of the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba, with the fascist United States and Israel voting against.
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There is no blockade. There’s an embargo. They’re not the same thing.
From 1 March 2022 to 28 February 2023, the blockade cost Cuba an estimated $4.87 billion in losses. https://press.un.org/en/2023/ga12552.doc.htm
The blockade cost Cuba nothing, because there is no blockade.
The embargo is wrong and evil, but words mean things.
Pointless arguments cost you nothing, but there is a blockade.
A blockade is the act of preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications. An embargo is a ban on trade for all transactions. A sanction is a prohibition on certain exports or activities.
Are pedantics your game?
“A blockade is the act of preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications.”
Exactly.
The US has an embargo on Cuba — it prohibits US trade with Cuba.
The US does not however, blockade Cuba, which would involve militarily preventing Cuba from trading with anyone anywhere.
They’re both bad things. They’re not the same thing, any more than larceny and murder are the same thing.
Getting that fact right isn’t sufficient to get the desired result (an end to the embargo), but getting it wrong doesn’t help achieve that result either.
Quibbling over semantics is rather quite petty.
Axioms and defintions are not 'quibbling over semantics"
embargo /ĕm-bär′gō/noun
A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation. A prohibition; a ban.
Words mean things.
You don't have to like it.
It's true whether you like it or not.
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Wrong! Does Cuba not export or import goods with regard to the USA?
Are you consciously reading your offered internet source of the UN, because this source writes about embargo?
https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub3398.pdf The Economic Impact of U.S. Sanctions With Respect to Cuba
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2022-02-02/cuba-embargoed-us-trade-sanctions-turn-sixty
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=senior_theses Cuban Trade Relations Under the U.S. Embargo and their Impact on Human Development
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/august/u-s-cuba-agricultural-trade-past-present-and-possible-future U.S.-Cuba Past: Cuba was the Largest Foreign Market for U.S. Rice
https://www.ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/outlooks/35794/53141_aes87.pdf U.S.-Cuba Agricultural Trade: Past, Present, and Possible Future
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d567 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Cuba
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=fjil US-Cuba Trade and the Challenge of Diversifying a Sugar Economy, 1902-1962
https://globalsanctions.com/region/cuba/
https://cubaminrex.cu/en/node/3714 Cuba has been under the United States economic embargo since 1962.
https://www.state.gov/cuba-sanctions/
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/cuba-sanctions
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-cuba/
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46791 U.S. Agricultural Trade with Cuba: Current Limitations and Future Prospects
https://wits.worldbank.org/countrysnapshot/en/CUB Cuba Trade
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2015/548984/EPRS_ATA(2015)548984_REV1_EN.pdf Cuba's international trade
https://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/us-agricultural-exports-to-cuba-composition-trends-and-prospects-for-the-future
https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-cuba-relations
187 countries voted in favor of the UN resolution to end the US blockade against Cuba in 2024, with only the United States and Israel voting against it and Moldova abstaining. https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/30/the-world-once-again-votes-to-end-the-us-blockade-against-cuba/
How would Havana explain to the people that their traditional boogy man, and big capitalism has to come to their rescue? Communism is self sufficient, you know (at least in theory).
More than 3,400 medical students from 23 Latin American, African and Caribbean countries are already being trained at Cuba's expense.
Cuba trains American medical students — to work in the US. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC81080/
Thomas_L._Knapp: "There's an embargo."
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/192/ Page 63 et seqq. (embargo!) Embargo or Blockade? The Legal and Moral Dimensions of the U.S. Economic Sanctions on Cuba
Communist countries don't need to trade with capitalist countries, communism is self sufficient, in theory only. Taking aid from the US would be a bad policy move for Havana, who would have to admit the 'revolution' failed.
Are you a supporter of Stalin and his theory of socialism in one country? China actually thinks differently. Incidentally, your opinion means isolation, protectionism, which is not progressive but paralyzing.
Moreover, you do not take into account the theory of opportunity costs and the theory of comparative cost advantages.
I notice pleasantly your anarchist internet link in another comment in this thread: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-r-tucker-state-socialism-and-anarchism
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/benjamin-tucker
https://www.libertarianism.org/topics/tucker-benjamin-r-1854-1939
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/benjamin-r-tucker/benjamin-r-tucker-1854-1939/
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/benjamin-tucker-birthplace/
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAtuckerB.htm
https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/tucker-benjamin-1854-1939
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/curtiss/1941/11/staltheory.html The Stalinist Theory of “Socialism in One Country”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch12.htm The Revolution Betrayed, Appendix “Socialism in One Country”
https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1924-2/industrialization-debate/industrialization-debate-texts/socialism-in-one-country-versus-permanent-revolution/
https://newleftreview.org/issues/i100/articles/jean-paul-sartre-socialism-in-one-country.pdf
https://www.socialistalternative.org/russia-bureaucracy-seized-power/socialism-one-country/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/opportunitycost.asp
https://www.munich-business-school.de/en/l/business-studies-dictionary/financial-knowledge/opportunity-costs
https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/College/opportunitycost.html
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/comparativeadvantage.asp
https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativeadvantage.html
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/ap-macroeconomics/basic-economics-concepts-macro/scarcity-and-growth/a/lesson-summary-comparative-advantage-and-gains-from-trade
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/economics/comparative-advantage/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221723004071 Comparative advantage with many goods: New treatment and results
Not a blockade. An embargo just means the US can't do business with Cuba. They can do business with other countries, but that hasn't helped the quality of life in Cuba; they can't even keep the lights on. Communism has been a disaster everywhere it's been tried and the two big countries who tried it abandoned it.
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Gradually your illustrated posts degenerate into troll activity, because you behave in a narrow-minded, unreasonable, silly way.
Do you even read the replies to your intrusive, illustrated comments?
You mean, like the way you trolled Javy Lopez because of your silly ways?
Only a narrow-minded bigot would argue that the embargo on Cuba is not a blockade.
Only someone who can’t use a fucking dictionary would argue that the embargo on Cuba IS a blockade.
Not all bad things are whatever bad things you happen to fantasize they are.
Rape is bad, but it’s not murder. Robbery is bad but it’s not driving under the influence. Embargo is bad but it’s not blockade.
Ironic how you ignored the fúcking dictionary's definition of a blockade…
the act of using force or the threat of force to stop the movement of people or goods into or out of a country or area, or the people or objects used to prevent such movement.
I don't fantasize about how the US economic blockade on Cuba has cost the Cuban economy over $1 trillion in the years since its inception. The facts aren't fantasies.
The severe effects of the U.S. embargo on the economic activity and political affairs of Cuba has led political scientists to classify the effort as a full-scale "blockade."
Remember when JFK decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba?
General Assembly Overwhelmingly Adopts Resolution Calling on United States to End Economic, Commercial, Financial Embargo against Cuba.
Foreign Minister from Havana Says 62-Year-Old Blockade Is ‘Crime of Genocide’. https://press.un.org/en/202…
You fantasize that an embargo is a blockade.
The last US blockade of Cuba was the “Missile Crisis.”
The embargo is stupid. The embargo is evil. The embargo is not a “blockade.”
Words mean things.
You don’t have to like it.
It’s true whether you like it or not.
You argue like an incorrigible pettifogger, sophist. Do you work as a Secret Service agent? End of the discussion with you.
You argue like a typical arrogant American.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Cuba
The world with Cuba: 187 voices for the end of the blockade.
Havana, october 31, 2024.- Once again, the majority of the member countries of the United Nations voted in favor of the Resolution that demands the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba. https://cubaminrex.cu/en/world-cuba-187-voices-end-blockade
China is still a communist country.
China is communist in name only, they have most of the attributes of a fascist state, formerly called ‘red fascism’.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) frames its ideology as Marxism–Leninism adapted to the historical context of China, often expressing it as socialism with Chinese characteristics. Unlike America, basic public health services are provided to all Chinese residents free of charge.
The U$A has most of the attributes of a fascist state … formally known as ‘American Imperialism’.
China also has imperialistic plans for their part of the world. All political systems lead to fascism eventually when money and power combine to ensure both factions continue to receive more money and power. It’s a cycle of corruption which always ends in war, destruction and bloodshed.
Silly Lily.
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Fascism also can provide social services. The USA provides them only for the (so called) disabled and seniors, but for today’s seniors, unlike the WWII generation, Medicare is no longer free. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=social+services+health+care+in+fascist+italy+and+germany&t=lm&ia=web
My country provides free Medicare for all citizens. The US remains the only country in the developed world without a system of universal healthcare.
Trump’s plan to slash Medicaid will harm older women – and the economy. https://nationalpartnership.org/report/trumps-plan-slash-medicaid-will-harm-older-women-and-economy/
Trump’s Plans to Screw Over America’s Seniors: Gutting Social Security and Medicare. https://democrats.org/news/trumps-plans-to-screw-over-americas-seniors-gutting-social-security-and-medicare/
Where else can all that money for Ukraine and Israel come from? Trump’s agenda has nothing to do with helping Americans, just Israel and Ukraine. Seems obvious.
You deny Nato's military and geopolitical relations with Russia, because Nato troops are stationed in Nato member states such as Finland, Norway, Lithuania, and Turkey close to the Russian border.
https://www.nato.int/cps/em/natohq/topics_52044.htm NATO member countries
https://www.nato.int/nato-on-the-map/#layer-1&lat=51.72673918960763&lon=4.84911701440904&zoom=0
https://www.nato.int/cps/em/natohq/topics_52044.htm#gre-tur 1952 – The accession of Greece and Türkiye
https://www.mfa.gov.tr/ii_—turkey_s-contributions-to-international-peace-keeping-activities.en.mfa Turkey's and NATO’s views on current issues of the Alliance
https://www.nato.int/cps/cn/natohq/topics_136388.htm NATO’s military presence in the east of the Alliance
https://www.56ac.army.mil/Exercises/Dynamic-Front/
https://www.eucom.mil/pressrelease/42812/us-air-force-conducts-bomber-task-force-mission-to-turkiye
https://www.incirlik.af.mil/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_territorial_claims_against_Turkey
https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/LimitsinSeas/pdf/ibs029.pdf International Boundary Study No. 29 – February 24, 1964 Turkey – U.S.S.R. Boundary
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The world just witnessed the disgusting spectacle of Donald Trump bullying Volodymyr Zelensky. The "Art of the Steal".
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Very true. But that is reality. Don't fight a war with a more powerful country that will defeat you. Don't disrespect a country that is propping you up.
And Buy Yourself a Decent Suit! God Knows, he's looted enough money from this country to be able to afford one!
The reality of the NPT is lost on you.
Lesson for Ukraine: Don't give up your nuclear weapons out of respect for false promises.
The U.S. has been "propping up" Zionist war crimes for 60 years. The U.S. clearly does not respect international law.
Ukraine never had nuclear weapons. Those that existed on the territory of Ukraine were Soviet weapons and post Soviet Union collapse were in the hands and control of Russia.
Really? You never had a brain.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine held about one-third of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, the third largest in the world at the time, as well as significant means of its design and production.
While all these weapons were located on Ukrainian territory, they were not under Ukraine's control. In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer these weapons to Russia for dismantlement and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for economic compensation and assurances from Russia, the United States, United Kingdom and France to respect the Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.
Years later, Russia, one of the parties to the agreement, invaded Ukraine.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 1968
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/npt
Timeline of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/timeline-nuclear-nonproliferation-treaty-npt
Again, those weapons were never in control of Ukraine. If you care to look you can find the truth.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/ukraine-and-bomb-myths-and-misconceptions-201717
To wit: ” At the end of the Cold War, Ukraine inherited the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. However, the weapons left on Ukrainian territory were Soviet-era weapons, and Moscow had control of them. As Rublee explains, “all the maintenance on them had to be carried out by Soviet scientists, so essentially, [Ukraine] hosted these weapons, but they had almost no capability of maintaining them or moderniz[ing] them, let alone having the codes to actually use them.” Therefore, those insisting that keeping these weapons would have made Ukraine safer are ignoring the reality that Ukraine did not have the technical capabilities to keep or use these weapons in the first place.”
Again, thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize, under pressure from the United States and Russia.
Russia signed the NPT and the Minsk agreement. Russia violated the NPT and the Minsk agreement, and Russia started an illegal war in Ukraine.
Putin is a murderous, fascist dictator and a wanted war criminal, Donald Trump is fascist, wannabe dictator, a convicted felon, a war criminal, and a fúcking moron.
Here's the truth:
" At the end of the Cold War, Ukraine inherited the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. However, the weapons left on Ukrainian territory were Soviet-era weapons, and Moscow had control of them. As Rublee explains, “all the maintenance on them had to be carried out by Soviet scientists, so essentially, [Ukraine] hosted these weapons, but they had almost no capability of maintaining them or moderniz[ing] them, let alone having the codes to actually use them.” Therefore, those insisting that keeping these weapons would have made Ukraine safer are ignoring the reality that Ukraine did not have the technical capabilities to keep or use these weapons in the first place.".
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/ukraine-and-bomb-myths-and-misconceptions-201717
Ukraine didn't have nuclear weapons anymore than Turkey had nukes prior to he Cuban missile crisis. Or when a nuclear sub visits a foreign harbor. The nukes might be in the territory of a foreign country but they aren't the property of the host country. Those on Ukrainian soil were Soviet and then Russian nukes. Under Russian control.
Ukraine got a sweetheart deal. Russia could have just withdrawn them just like the US withdrawal of nukes from Turkey. Russia was playing nice.
Here’s the truth:
Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize, under pressure from the United States and Russia.
Putin doesn’t want Ukraine to join NATO because Ukraine might reconsider its status as a non-nuclear weapon state to guarantee its defense.
As Senator Mike Lee said: “NATO can have either have Ukraine or the United States……. not both.”.
Should Ukraine be admitted to NATO without the USA, several European countries will withdraw. The remaining NATO countries cannot field more than 7 divisions within the next 2 years.
Ukraine should make the best deal it can or it will become a rump state dependent on EU aid.
Michael Shumway Lee is a flip-flop Trump Supporter. Lee advocates for the US to dump NATO. Like yourself, his opinions on NATO are worthless.
You should stop talking bullshit and understand that the EU has spent more on supporting Ukraine than the U$A.
You are aware Russia invaded Ukraine?.
Russia intervened on behalf of the Russian population which was being slaughtered by the neo-Nazi factions supported by Kiev. That also happened in the new world when Mexico City was persecuting the 'Anglos' in the Mexican state of Texas. The US intervened and took all Mexican territory above the Rio Grande. We'll see what Russia does after the war ends. Will Russia take it all or only the designated territory.
You’re just going to lie too. Good deal. At least you’ve had years to work out the lies to make them somewhat consistent.
Of course Russia claimed changing road signs to use the Ukranian spelling was genocide. So they just might be lying.
You are lying though.
I expect Trump will offer Putin sanctions relief, an end to the US role in NATO and a favorable peace in Ukraine in return for Putin abandoning his alliance with China. What will Putin do?
I don't expect anything coherent from Trump in this regard, really. Russia doesn't either: although they're trying to talk the talk, they also say that they don't understand Trump's plan nor that it fits at all with their demands either.
In any case very flat chance about persuading the Kremlin to break apart with China or Iran. They know that "the West" lies pathologically and are not be trusted. They won't sign anything, they're winning the war and know they will get a much better deal next month or next year.
Putin and Trump don’t understand that Russia has lost the war and a great power deal can’t save it. This is an asymmetric war of national resistance where the Ukrainian resistance has popular support. Such wars are determined by hearts and minds, not force of arms when there is popular support for the resistance. The Taliban defeated the USA in such a war even though they had no significant foreign backing. The Ukrainians have taken incredible casualties. Their resistance would have crumbled if they did not have strong popular support. Even if the Ukrainian army is defeated the resistance will continue until the Russians leave. Sadly, macho strong men like Putin and Trump can’t understand the limits of military power in asymmetric wars.
“Russia has lost the war”? LOL. You’re delirious and surely the last Ukrainian Nazi propagandist around. I thought that USAID had been cancelled, seems that Soros keeps paying his useless puppets. Spare me in any case: I know better.
You are obviously a socialists, and I challenge you to read this. 'State Socialism and Anarchism'. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-r-tucker-state-socialism-and-anarchism
Anarchism is a form of socialism or rather communism, Bakunin called himself a “revolutionary socialist” and used “anarchist” as slur for the followers of Proudhom, Kropotkin called himself “libertarian communist”. I used to be an anarchist in my youth, I’ve been twice affiliated to CNT (and twice left because of their state-nationalist stand against nation-peoples, all dressed in fake internationalism). No need to lecture me. I’ve since then evolved to Apoism (the Kurdish+ variant based on Bookchin’s ideas) but yesterday I had a “crisis of faith” when I read that Öcalan is calling for dismantling the PKK. But that’s anyhow my idea more or less: something between Marxism and Bakuninism, the 1st International updated.
Maju, you can do better than name calling. I may be just another dumb bozo in the peanut gallery but I ain't a Nazi propagandist.
Maju, you can do better than name calling. I may be just another dumb bozo in the peanut gallery but I ain't a Nazi propagandist.
Trump operates on instinct more than a cerebral plan. But i believe he has a goal. He sees a New Workd order with Trump and Putin at the center of it.
The New World Order according to Trump:
Bloc #1: US/Russia/India/Israel/North Korea/Arab Monarchies/Egypt/African Military Juntas/Japan/Canada/Australia/New Zealand
Bloc #2: China/EU/Pakistan/Iran/Iraq/Brazil/Turkiye/AU [non militarized African states] /Singapore
I am not sure where Indonesia, South Korea, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand will wind up under Trump's "plan". Latin American countries will be a source of contention between Bloc #1 and Bloc #2..
The question is will Putin trade his connection with China and BRICS for an end to sanctions, a peace agreement on Ukraine and an end to the US role in NATO? In a few weeks we will know whether Putin's professed solidarity with China and the Global South is sincere.
His goals are 200% unrealistic in terms of global politics: he knows almost nothing about the world and he behaves like the proverbial elephant in the China shop, fixing nothing, making everything worse. Just look at the “Trump Gaza” video (and the mad destructive idea behind it), just look at how he humiliated the King of Jordan…
By starting the normalization of relations with Russia, he made the world a bit safer, and that is more important than all his blunders.
No one knows how it may develop further but what he is doing is more good than bad.
Also he is treating well the problems of Mexican border and gender madness.
He’s doing it in such an uncouth way that he may well bring that to a disaster anyhow. His notion that the USA can go around bullying everyone into blind obedience is just wrong: the USA carefully tweaks everyone into alignment, they can’t just order around and demand that countries give up everything in exchange of nothing. I think he’s totally alienating Europe and Europe definitely does not need the USA for anything at all (except as market, just like China, but that he’s also sabotaging with his tariffs).
Wow, the voice of reason! I agree.
Silly Lily.
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Trump sees a world like the one George Orwell depicted in his book '1984', i.e. a world with three imperial powers, with two of them fighting against the third one, in rotation.
In this Orwellian world, there is no nation and no democracy, only empires fighting against one another.
'1984' is the policy manual of the new world order to be instituted by the globalists.
Silly Lily. You don't even know what "globalists" means.
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Putin was happy to be part of the G8 and aspired to be part of NATO. So we will see how he plays Trump’s offer of a partnership. This is the litmus test of whether Putin believes in the BRICS project or if he is an imperialist. We will know more in the coming weeks or months.
That’s the past, now he says that the G7 is dead and NATO is not just their enemy but a most untrustworthy pile of BS.
And the worst of all is that he’s right.
I don’t think BRICS is the opposite of “imperialist”, sorry. China is imperialist, Russia is imperialist, India is imperialist, and the lesser members would be imperialist if their size allowed (South Africa, Iran, etc.) or if they managed to get a proper national bourgeoisie (Brazil). Capitalist countries are all imperialist or more precisely they partake of Imperialism as conflict-system for the resources and markets of Earth.
BRICS is anyhow IMO not a very real thing: mostly a yearly forum with a payment system. Their alt-currency project is stuck and going nowehere and they do not form a mutual defense alliance either. There are US vassals in the expanded BRICS even (Egypt, UAE, Uganda, Brazil even). It’s a total mess rather than an alternative and some of the most interesting mid-sized powers like Mexico, Algeria or Vietnam have clearly rejected to join it (the former because of its regional entanglement with the USA, the latter two because they totally distrust China and realize that what matters in the “multipolar world” is bilateral relations primarily).
As the US Empire declines and stops being the hegemon, we’re poised to growing instability and ever shifting alliances, however Russia and China understand they’re back on back (also Iran) and that nothing good will come from them fighting each other. In fact, while Russia has become aloof, especially after 2022, China is trying by all means to remain attached… to the USA.
I more or less agree about BRICS. But I have not made up my mind about China. I don’t approve of their treatment of the Uyghurs But that is an internal matter. Do you have examples with citations of China being acting as an imperialist beyond its borders?
No matter is internal (people have human rights, both individual and collective) but, regardless, Uyghurs are the least on my concerns re. China, West Sahara as something very close to my heart and geography and in general the “I don’t give a f*** about humanism, let’s make business” attitude of the totalitarian capitalist regime in China is what worries me.
West Sahara is a prime example because just 3-4 years ago Algeria, which is the last democratic, socialist and secularist Arab country and a little powerhouse in terms of Africa, which has supported the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic since I was a toddler, against Spain first and Morocco later, was beating chest about how good their alliance with China was. In 2023 China began selling drones to Morocco and snubbed Algeria’s request to join BRICS. In 2024 Algeria snubbed BRICS invitation, didn’t go to the Kazan summit and proclaimed that they only trust bilateral relations (i.e. “Russia good, China evil”, they are in good terms with Putin).
The real background issue is the phosphate mine of Bucraa, in occupied West Sahara, which produces like 85% of world’s phosphates (a key fertilizer that cannot be synthesized, unlike nitrates). In 1975, Spain illegally ceded those provinces (fully annexed to Spain, they were as much Spanish citizens as I was and still am, want it or not) to Morocco under US and French pressure. The occupation is deemed illegal by the UN and AU but Morocco de facto occupies 2/3 of the country by force, with full support of the USA (especially Trump, who recognized the annexation in his previous term) and Israel (which threatened Algeria when the war with Morocco was about to happen — Morocco is much much weaker than Algeria in terms military and economic but has best relations with Israel and other reactionary regional powers like Turkey, Qatar, etc.)
It’s not the only case: Vietnam, whose regime and economic praxis is very similar to that of China, also distrusts Beijing on many historical reasons and also currently the South China Sea dispute (another instance in which China behaves as imperialist, making arbitrary demands and bullying its neighbors). In Sri Lanka, China has got paid an outstanding massive debt by effectively annexing a key port for 99 years, just one year less than Britain’s “lease” of Hong-Kong after the Opium Wars. They have also made a deal with the putschist president of Peru Dina Boluarte, who had the real President, Pedro Castillo, a honest socialist teacher who won by landslide, under arrest. And the bad attitude of China goes on and on: I’m trying to figure out if the claims that China trained the Rwandan troops are real and if that explains the sudden fall from Western grace of Paul Kagame, who suddenly fell ill this very week and whose successor found himself under unexpected Western sanctions overnight, while their DR Congo rivals are giving away the mineral riches as if they were Trump’s idea of Ukraine.
In any case China is definitely imperialist, immoral in their dealings and almost totally indistinct from the USA or any other capitalist power. The BRI is their core imperialist agenda, it may be soft-gloved but soft glove imperialist is still imperialism, just like Baghdad Railroad was for the 2nd Reich.
February 27, 2025 Ukrainians Do Not Want to Fight
According to a Ukrainian official, the local people want peace and there is no support for Zelensky's war plans. Apparently, some Ukrainian politicians are beginning to dissent against Vladimir Zelensky’s dictatorship. Recently, an official challenged the country’s illegitimate president, questioning his claim that the Ukrainian people want to continue fighting. This is just more evidence of how Ukraine is on the verge of collapse, with a clear fatigue in society and a lack of will to fight among the troops.
https://infobrics.org/post/43553/
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Caitlin Johnstone:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/anyone-who-wants-the-ukraine-war
These histrionics are as ridiculous as they are depraved. Obviously the war in Ukraine needs to end. Polls say Ukrainians themselves want the war to end. If you want Ukrainians to keep dying in this war against the will of the Ukrainians themselves while you sit safe at home eating snacks and posting on the internet, you’re a monster.
Thanks for your insightful share Bixby!
Hope you are kidding.
You are, aren't you?
Can you be more precise. I am just being engaging and interactive.
Caitlin Johnstone is a depraved pro-Putin propagandist. She always seems to be arguing that people who criticize and protest against dictators and despots must be “empire apologists.” LOL!
Any discredited bullshit artist who denies Russia's war crimes for profit is a threat to democracy.
She does that while cheering on a new Russian empire and blatant Russian colonialism.
She's so far up her own ass I'm surprised she can still breath.
Exactly. She's an 'anti-Western' shit stirrer who benefits from a great life here in Australia.
Her defense of Assad's war crimes in Syria is well documented.
She's just another political hack with zero credibility.
She has credibility among idiots. Hence her being quoted by idiots.
Fake news idiots love the tripe that her and her husband churn out.
If you are from Israel, which your name may give away, can you justify the genocide being carried on by Israel?
I would recommend that you sit shiva for the 200,000 Palestinians exterminated on behalf of Zionism, colonialism.
I’m not from Isreal. Or Jewish. You’re assumption is wrong.
You don’t get to complain about colonialism while cheering on colonialism.
I thought all the USAID paid shills were out of work … you do this crap for free now?
Caity Johnstone is so far above your level of moral understanding that you'd have to stand on a ladder to touch her toes.
"thought all the USAID paid shills were out of work"
get where yr coming from – but, a thought:
is a post that tees-off with russia-baiting, and ends labeling a journalist a "threat to democracy" – ie, clear anti-first amendment language – worth bothering with?
what does the post do except avoid engaging the point of bixby's johnstone quote – ie, the fraudulent morality of elite outrage at trump when they're fine w/ukrainian kids' endless slaughter in an unpopular war.
'where was the outrage,' as they say, when blinken told ukraine to start drafting 18-yr-olds? – 'their part' in return for u.s. weapons.
I thought USAID was saving lives. Something you oppose, I take it.
Caitlin Johnstone's morals are in the gutter. And her pro Kremlin, pro-Assad propaganda is gutter journalism at its finest. She's well known for parroting the convoluted lies that Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett were pushing, after Beeley kissed Assad's ass for a photo opp and deliberately spread Kremlin propaganda regarding the Douma chlorine attack, the White Helmets, and Russian war crimes in Syria. … All completely debunked.
Roger Waters has the same brain-rot when it comes to spreading blatant disinformation.
SPREAD Caitlin Johnstone's WORD!
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I guess you have missed the interviews with former USAID employees.
Also, it was proposed by JFK and approved by Congress.
Only Congress can axe it. Not Muskrat.
I guess you missed the Project 2025 agenda. https://www.project2025.org/
The Project 2025 Platform:
* Implement an authoritarian theocracy.
* Enact sweeping draconian executive orders.
* Remove elected officials.
* Place Trump loyalists into positions of power.
* Eliminate all checks and balances.
* Prevent cooperation with foreign nations.
* Remove all civil liberties.
* Cripple the economy.
* Destroy democracy.
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You are right about one thing. Profit is what the war is about. Follow the money all the way to the US weapons manufacturers.
Trump told Europe to buy more American weapons. ….Join the dots.
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You wouldn't recognize democracy if it sat on your forehead.
Yes, I would. Democracy is the opposite of a dictatorship. Democracy is free and fair elections under the principal of one person, one vote. Unlike the corrupt and outdated US electoral college system.
Interesting, according to you the US is a dictatorship, but Ukraine is a democracy?
Yep, according to dictator Don, you don’t have to vote anymore. The U.S. is now a dictatorship.
I don't think it has been seriously contested Trump has won in free and fair elections. In fact it was a pretty convincing win.
Zelensky once won pretty convincing in free and fair elections in 2019 also.
We can guess about Trump's intentions, but we know with certainty that Ukrainians today don't have a vote anymore.
They also have no political opposition to vote for and no free press to inform them either.
For certain meanings of “free” and “fair.” The US has been rigging its elections since the 1890s when it stopped having all elections by write-in and adopted the “Australian” ballot with “access” requirements that left the establishment parties in control of who could run.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is the independent statutory authority of the Australian Government responsible for the management of free and fair federal elections, by-elections and referendums.
Eligible voters enroll with the AEC and voting "access" requirements are simple. No ID required.
Unlike the US, there are three main parties in the House of Representatives.
I believe it is still mandatory that all eligible persons have to vote.
Yes. Enrolment and voting is compulsory for every Australian citizen aged 18 years or older. The AEC's goal is to ensure at least 95% of eligible Australians are on the electoral roll at all times.
Most Australians see voting as a civic duty. A legitimate excuse for failing to vote means that you won't receive a $50 fine.
I’m not talking about Australia’s political system. I’m talking about a ballot that, as of the late 19th century, was referred to as the “Australian ballot.”
Prior to the 1890s, all US presidential elections were conducted entirely by write-in. You could write the names of the candidates you supported, or verbally dictate those names to a polling place official if you weren’t literate, or cast a pre-printed ballot provided to you by the political party or other association of your choice.
The “Australian” ballot is controlled by the government. The government decides who gets to be on the ballot and who can’t be on the ballot. And as soon as it was adopted, the two wings — Republican and Democrat — of the establishment party went to work making it as difficult and expensive as possible for “third” parties and “independent” candidates to get on that ballot. And then, later, to get into the presidential debates.
It’s called election-rigging, and the US has been doing it for 130 years now.
Evident what was done to Sanders by the DNC.
Twice.
Fair enough, but that wasn't really the point I was driving at. Unless of course the claim is that America is a dictatorship, then my point is that it isn't. I don't think at this time Ukraine is a dictatorship either, but it is edging very closely to it.
Zelensky suspended elections, excluded Russian-speaking Ukraine citizens from voting (also banning the Russian language).
Zelensky's term ended months ago. He is no longer a legal representative of Ukraine. He cannot sign documents on behalf of Ukraine.
Do you have an example of a US election that wasn't rigged before 1890?
The US rigged every election since 1776 by denying Black people and Native people the right to vote. Until the 1828 election even white people without property were denied the right to vote.
After the civil war the Ku Klux Klan and the white militias rigged the elections of the 1870's in the South. Black people who tried to vote or run for office in the South and white radicals who supported them faced the threat of murder, beatings and the loss of their jobs. Elections during reconstruction were usually determined by whether the Klan and the white militia or the Union Leagues and the Black militias had military superiority at the polls. In 1876 the warfare at the polls produced three contested states where warring state governments certified separate slates of electors. Most Native people were not made citizens until the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. So were there any fair elections before 1890?
Good points.
Zelensky won after the previous "free and fair" elected President was run out of the country via a coup.
The error made by the previous president was taking a better oil deal with Russia.
There is some history between the Maidan coup in 2014 and Zelensky's election in 2019, some of which has to do with the platform on which Zelensky was preferred over Poroshenko in the last round.
Yes, the 2020 election was a pretty convincing win. But even after Trump admitted he lost by a "whisker" he returned to his baseless claim that he won.
We know with certainty that Ukraine is under martial law and can't hold an election during a war, especially with no security for the voters. Get a clue, you fúcking moron. Even the Ukrainian opposition party agrees that elections should not be held until six months after the war has ended.
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He lost the popular vote by over 3 million.
Hillary got 2.9 million more votes than Trump.
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I can kind of agree with you.
Trump may be assumed to be going after the "Deep State", but something more sinister may be being constructed.
How is democracy the opposite of dictatorship? Cannot a majority of voters choose to enact laws that are just as dictatorial as a single leader?
If democracy was truly the opposite of dictatorship, why include a bill of rights into a constitution other than to prevent the majority from trampling the rights of the minority?
How is democracy the opposite of dictatorship? Democracy gives “we the people” the right to vote. A dictatorship, not so much. It is form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power, without effective elections and constitutional limitations.
Why do you not understand that dictators trample the rights of the majority?
Then what happened in 2000?
Florida Supreme Court ordered a recount.
Florida AG sends matter to SCOTUS.
SCOTUS could have refused to hear the case, Bush v Gore, sending it back to Florida. Instead it gave the presidency to Bush.
The long dissent by Justice John Paul Stevens should be read by you.
Especially the last sentence,which I have lifted from his dissent: "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."
Democracy? Or Ideology?
The (Republican) Florida Supreme Court ordered a statewide recount of all undervotes, over 61,000 ballots that the vote tabulation machines had missed. The Bush campaign immediately asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the decision and halt the recount. Corrupt Republican Justice Antonin Scalia, contending that all the manual recounts being performed in Florida's counties were illegitimate, urged his colleagues to grant the stay immediately. On December 9, the five corrupt conservative justices on the Court granted the stay, with Scalia citing "irreparable harm" that could befall Bush, as the recounts would cast "a needless and unjustified cloud" over Bush's legitimacy.
In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that "counting every legally cast vote cannot constitute irreparable harm."
According to the Florida Ballot Project, a statewide recount would have shown that Gore received the most votes. Florida later retired the punch-card voting machines that produced the ballots disputed in the case. …The rest is history.
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All governments are dictatorships whether by one person or a committee, they just vary in degrees of controlling the masses.
I doubt either one of you read for comprehension.
I find her writings to be on the mark much of the time, particularly her writings about the Zionist in Tel Aviv and the genocide they are exacting on the Palestinians, after oppressing the Palestinians for 75 years.
Pro-Putin? Not really. She has condemned Putin.
Caitlin Johnstone was banned from Facebook for promoting conspiracy theories about 'false flags'. LOL!
RT regularly promoted Johnstone's shameless, pro-Kremlin propaganda.
Johnstone quote: "Russian propaganda is just a spooky story we are told to keep us from noticing that our civilisation is saturated in US propaganda.” … LMAO!
Caitlin Johnstone – https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Caitlin_Johnstone
"Hi, hello, I'm Tim Foley, Caitlin’s collaborator here, and I’m as American as mass shootings."… "So, while I am admittedly extremely biased, I also happen to be the world’s foremost authority on Caitlin Johnstone." https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/10-facts-about-caitlin-johnstone-from-the-guy-who-knows-her-better-than-anyone-6691236aa634
Woke: A Field Guide For Utopia Preppers.
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Cuckoo, cuckoo…
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Johnstone is a pretty perceptive critic of US foreign policy.
Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem to hold any other regime to the same standard.
Johnstone and Foley have something most people around the world do not have, i.e. common sense and the ability to observe reality and write about it.
Johnstone and Foley have something most people around the world do not have, a bullhorn for Kremlin propaganda.
That's true but Ukraine can resist for years anyhow, provided that the Regime does not collapse overnight and some Lukashenko-style alternative emerges from the ashes.
If the Ukrainian resistance did not have popular support it would have collapsed over two years ago. The Fall of Kabul and Saigon are proof that no amount of external military aid can motivate people to fight for an unpopular regime.
When Minsk was signed, Donbass, specifically Donetsk People’s Republic, which had become a very serious contender on its own right (but had socialist tendencies Putin did not like) was totally defeating the highly demoralized Ukrainian Army and about to liberate Mariupol and Slavyansk (i.e. all its territory), with less clear potential of either marching against Kiev or the Ukrainian Army turning against the nazi regime themselves even.
We all like peace but Minsk Accords was a total disaster for Ukraine. The war could have ended in 2015 or 2016 with antifascist victory but Putin preferred to negotiate with the nazi regime and those liars from Western Europe: Merkel and Hollande.
You are really wrong to believe that Ukraine is run by Nazis. Most Ukrainians East and West fought against the Nazis in WWII. Seven million Ukrainians were in the Red Army. Over 4 million Ukrainians were killed by the Nazis. And Zelensky himself is not a Nazi.
No, I’m not wrong at all. These are my blog notes from March 2014: https://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/2014/03/who-is-who-in-ukraines-putschist.html
Nothing has changed in the essence since then. Yes, Zelensky was an opportunist (surely US-groomed) candidate who run on a peace platform and then radically shifted gears. Ukrainians, I know, are fed up with all the Maidan manipulation, so much that their favored candidate was Darth Vader… who was not allowed to run under the mask, so their favorite TV comedy actor was chosen instead.
"If the Ukrainian resistance did not have popular support it would have collapsed over two years ago."
polls suggest Ukrainians increasingly want negotiations:
"Poll: Majority of Ukrainians Want Peace Talks to End War with Russia"
"survey marked the first time since the Russian invasion that a Gallup poll found…majority of Ukrainians favored negotiations to end the war. (antiwar)
The majority of Ukrainians want an end to the war with the Russians leaving, returning the captured territory and paying for reconstruction and reparations. That is not inconsistent with the polls you cite.
More important than the polls is the fact that the Ukrainian army is still fighting a war of attrition for three years after incurring hundreds of thousands of casualties. That would simply not be possible if there was not widespread support for the resistance.
If Ukraine didn't have financial and weapons support from the US taxpayers, it would have collapsed a long time ago. Until people realize everything is about MONEY, they'll just drift in their ignorance and imagine other reasons as the basis of most issues here in real time. Always ask who benefits and follow the money for the real answer to how it all works.
Europe paid twice the money and sent more gear than the USA. Also most Western weapons have been proven useless and the “great Ukrainian offensive” fiasco was a suicidal decision imposed by the Pentagon on Kiev. When Ukrainians do their own thing with USSR era gear or random new stuff they get better results than when they do what the USA/NATO leads (among other reasons because they have no air superiority, which is what NATO tactical doctrine is based on).
Anyhow, Ukraine would not be in this predicament if the USA would have not putsched Yanukovich in 2014. Since then Ukraine does not exist properly, only a US-imposed totalitarian regime.
After this week's meetings with Macron, Starmer, and Zelensky, many Americans may be clamoring for continuing transparency with foreign leaders who visit the White House.
Conservative Karl Rove opined today this isn't the way things are done with foreign leaders. I don't think anyone invented a template, but such openness may prevent administration Neocons from mucking up the status quo after foreign dignitaries visit Mr. Trump.
I hate Trump
What kind of fucking idiot treats another global leader like how he treated Zelenskyy
A Republican senator, I forgot who, was asked what America's allies' responses would be.
Right en point, he curtly replied
"I don't think America has any allies anymore."
I followed the conversation between presidents V. Zelensky and D. Trump at the latter's office.
Respect for Zelensky – for the first time – that he stood firm under those circumstances.
For the first time I also felt sympathy for him.
Good also that he did not squander Ukraine's resources to the US and does not give in to the profit that the US regime tries to make from its proxy war in Ukraine.
Proxy war? Bullshit.
I concur.
To squander Ukraine's alledged minerals was Zelensky's idea, not Trump's. It had Lindsey salivating on a couple of microphones, way before Trump had any chance to reflect on it. True, Zelensky had a somewhat different deal in mind, one involving paying for it with American lives – a part Lindsey left out – and still get the money for free.
Zelensky might have garnered some sympathy with some well meaning folk because he looked like a small toddler almost sitting on the lap of Santa getting a stern talking to and fighting back his tears realizing he's not getting that brand new toy.
What kind of Americans defend Putin's war crimes?
Republicans.
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not all republicans like russia
most of the old guard dont
'Moscow Mitch' McConnell announced he would not run for an eighth Senate term in 2026 and would retire from politics.
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Hating Russia keeps the MIC money coming into Congress and the two parties.
America doesn’t have allies, America has vassals. It’s been that way for a long time. And like Napoleon, America will eventually learn of the problems with this strategy
In order to have vassals you have to treat them with some "left hand", you can't just go around yelling at them and threatening them, especially when you are at your lowest point in all your imperial history and even rag-tag Yemen laughs at you. You can only do that (if at all, it's very bad style) from a position of strength that the USA doesn't have anymore.
Indeed, the vassal-lord relationship includes some very specific obligation for the lord in order to retain the fealty of the vassal.
Trump has no sense of that. He doesn't even have the common sense of a mob boss.
He is a charlatan…!
If you look closely without any party or faction bias, you'll see they are ALL charlatans, because that's what politicians have always been.
Or…, at least some of them have been straight honest people until they assumed office…!
Yes, he’s totally a one-sided hothead bully. And Vance is even worse!
They are willing vassals because they get all those goodies from the US taxpayers.
Not really. We don’t get anything from the USA other than maybe YouTube videos and hyper-expensive useless military gear almost forced down our throats (European taxpayers pay the US military-industrial complex). The USA is producing almost nothing anymore (too expensive to compete in the global free market) and anyhow you don’t get a country like Ukraine to sacrifice their people to your US proxy imperial war without at least paying something and providing some military aid. Trump should go, if anything, to the DNC and Soros’ home and demand repayment from them, not Ukraine.
European oligarchs behave like vassals because Wall Street owns almost everything in Europe right now, incl. the media. That’s why I say that Europe needs a socialist revolution, because we need our sovereignty back and that can’t be done without expropriating the likes of BlackRock first.
Like who?
Israel only. But that's a hell of an ally.
Demonic, you mean.
Also. But I meant as in very demanding and hard to control rather.
Lol
Zelensky is not a global leader. He is at best the leader of a failing banana Republic.
Trump is not a global leader, he's the leader of a neo-fascist dictatorship.
I was talking about Zelensky. Do you have a valid talking point on the subject?
I made a valid point. Do you admire fascist war criminals?
You were deflecting. I am staying on point and am focusing on Zelensky. Other than that, I don’t like nazis, I especially have no respect for a country which decorates its tanks with the Balkenkreuz.
Zelensky was born to a Ukrainian Jewish family. And your point is?
I don't like Nazis, either. Fascist war criminal Vladimir Putin hired a private Nazi paramilitary company to exterminate Ukrainians.
The neo-Nazi Wagner Group's second in command, Dmitry Utkin, who named the organization, was literally covered in Nazi symbol tattoos. The Wagner Group includes a contingent known as Rusich, which are described as a far-right extremist or neo-Nazi unit, and their logo features a Slavic swastika. They left Nazi graffiti all over the battlefield in Ukraine and Syria.
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White crosses on Ukrainian military vehicles and Nazi symbolism? https://fakenews.pl/en/politics/there-is-no-evidence-that-white-crosses-on-ukrainian-military-vehicles-are-associated-with-nazi-symbolism/
I don’t like Ukrainian nazis any more than Zionist nazis and Wagner nazis. You are still deflecting. FACT: EVERY SINGLE Ukrainian family owning property in the Lviv region lives on land stolen from the Poles. These poles were savagely savagely killed by UPA militant in 1943. This was a mere two generations ago. These Ukrainians living in the Westernmost part of Ukraine still believe, with the same ardor, in the same nazi bullshit their grandfathers did. And they do show it. The latest polls indicate that at least 30% of this population believes in the teachings of AH, and it’s a secret to nobody that the very same people hold the true reins of power in Kiev, thanks to unwavering Americans and European support.
You are deflecting from the fact that Putin is a murderous dictator and a wanted war criminal. He hired real neo-Nazis to exterminate Ukrainian civilians.
FACT: You can’t twist documented history to suit your own anti-Ukraine narrative, dummy. You seem to have completely dismissed the significance of ‘The Polish–Ukrainian War’, from November 1918 to July 1919. … Your bullshit doesn’t cut it, anymore.
Due to the intervention of Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, who adopted a Ukrainian identity and considered himself a Ukrainian patriot, in October 1918 two regiments of mostly Ukrainian troops were garrisoned in Lemberg (modern Lviv).
Fighting between Ukrainian and Polish forces was concentrated around the declared Ukrainian capital of Lviv and the approaches to that city. After two weeks of heavy fighting within Lviv, an armed unit under the command of Lt. Colonel Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski of the renascent Polish Army broke through the Ukrainian siege on November 21 and arrived in the city. The Ukrainians were repelled, the entire Ukrainian Sich Riflemen regiment sent to support the Ukrainians being annihilated.
Immediately after capturing the city, some in the local Jewish militia attacked Polish troops, while at the same time elements of the Polish forces as well as common criminals looted the Jewish and Ukrainian quarters of the city, killing up to 340 civilians. The Poles also interned a number of Ukrainian activists in detention camps. The Ukrainian government provided financial assistance to the Jewish victims of the violence and were able to recruit a Jewish battalion into their army.
By the end of November 1918, Polish forces controlled Lviv and the railroad linking Lviv to central Poland through Przemyśl, while Ukrainians controlled the rest of Eastern Galicia east of the river San, including the areas south and north of the railroad into Lviv. Thus, the Polish-controlled city of Lviv (Lwów) faced Ukrainian forces on three sides.
Trump indicates that he believes in the teachings of Adolf Hitler.
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No, he a better leader than most american leaders
Your desperation is starting to show through your one-sided, irrational posts.
I am not desparate.
I am nonchalant.
Like there was one good guy in the room? People amaze me that they think everything is black and white; sometimes everything and everybody is black. That's the definition of the state, regardless of which state. “A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.
Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them." -Nietzsche
In my view of the event, it was an intentional televised beat-down of Zelensky in the style of WWE TV wrestling. Trump and Vance played like a tag-team against the solo Zelensky. And we know that Trump loves WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment).
It was excruciating to watch the two bullies drag international diplomacy into a trash-filled alley. Trump's incoherent ranting about 'who holds the cards' demonstrated once and for all that there is only one facet to his character; he is an overgrown child, a schoolyard bully who thinks he can get his way through shouts and threats.
Diplomats across the world must have watched with disbelief. The damage Trump has done to the US in that one show, along with his assignment of incompetent cronies to ambassadorships around the world, will persist for decades.
He has made America a laughing stock for the rest of the world.
Sounds like exactly what Comrade Z needed to hear.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, Z's intellect is highly deficient.
EVERYBODY knows that with Trump you have to kiss his ass and flatter his ego. Macron was in the White House on Monday, gave a masterclass demonstration in ass kissing. Then Starmer did the same yesterday. So what did Zelensky learn? NOTHING! Probably because he was too busy doing drugs.
It would have been funny to watch if people were not dying in a brutal war because a stupid actor was installed president in Kiev.
Your last sentence was spot-on. Zelensky will not be welcomed back home. He'd be better off fleeing to a beach somewhere to live off his ill-gotten gains. Ukraine needs a real leader who can negotiate with the Russians and come up with something that works for both sides.
Eventually, yes, Z will end up on the gallows or in exile. But for now his grip on power (and the grip of the Ukronazis who support him) is too great.
Ngo Dinh Diem also thought he had the Americans by the tail.
Haha! Yes! But do you think Zelensky is reading history books while snorting c*caine?
Spending his spare time practicing playing his piano.
Trump now has America by the balls.
"(and the grip of the Ukronazis who support him)"
To that end, I would be delighted to see Zelenskiyy out of the picture (either fled into exile or Gone Mussolini Style) and Trump & the West confronted with his replacement in Kiev who is openly and unabashedly neo-Nazi.
Watch the MSM pretend the situation came up ex-nihilo, like the coup and the war before it.
You are delighted to support the Rusich neo-Nazis. Right?
The Minsk agreements were a series of international agreements which sought to end the Donbas war fought between armed Russian separatist groups and Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The agreement was signed by Separatist leaders Alexander Zakharchenko, Igor Plotnitsky, and Russian representative Mikhail Zurabov.
However, the agreement failed to stop Russia from illegally invading the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexing it.
In December 2019, Ukraine and Russia agreed to implement a "full and comprehensive ceasefire." The agreement followed prisoner swaps and the withdrawal of Ukrainian military in three areas.
In 2021, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin "agreed to pursue diplomacy related to the Minsk agreement."
In 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion on Ukraine, in breach of all international diplomatic protocols.
Watch the fascist pro-Putin fan club pretend the war was started by Ukraine.
No. Minsk Agreements were structured to buy time for Ukraine and build up military and defenses.
Buy Angela a coffee and she'll fill you in.
Wrong. The NPT was about the U.S. and Russia stripping Ukraine of its mitiary defenses.
After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine became the third largest nuclear power in the world and held about one third of the former Soviet nuclear weapons, delivery system, and significant knowledge of its design and production.
Ukraine now regrets its decision to give up its nuclear defense capabilities.
Kiss Putin's arse, you'll feel much better.
Hello. Any brain between your ears?
The NPT was presented late 1960's. One of the earliest signatories was Iran.
Signed by Iranians officials in 1968, ratified in 1970.
Hello! We were discussing Ukraine and Russia. In 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, UK, and the US signed a memorandum to provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with its accession to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state.
Yes, Iran was one of the original 62 signatories to the NPT. It went into effect in 1970 and has been the standard of nuclear arms control ever since. It banned countries other than United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Hahahahaha. They had no way to use those nukes, they had no launch codes, and IIRC the Soviets took the triggers with them when they pulled out. Essentially they had a gigantic pile of hazardous waste that they were able to foist on Russia.
Still spinning Kremlin propaganda, I see.
So a missile that you can’t launch loaded with a warhead that you can’t detonate . . . in what way is that useful?
You mean, the missiles that the U.S. was concerned Ukraine would sell to whoever was prepared to pay for them?
They were a **LOT** concerned about Condi Rice’s occasional business associate Victor Bout, who was hawking a couple of apparently functional nukes for the bargain basement price of $60 million. (Intercepting them was the operation that Shrub disrupted when he blew Valerie Plame’s cover.)
The only use for Ukraine’s nukes was to build dirty bombs, and the source would have been easily traced.
There are a lot of people concerned about Russia’s attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, that has become the center of an ongoing nuclear safety crisis, described by Ukraine as an act of nuclear terrorism by Russia.
According to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, “The situation in Ukraine is unprecedented. It is the first time a military conflict has occurred amid the facilities of a large, established nuclear power program.”
Holy freaking carp, that is the most dishonest post I’ve seen from you yet. Russia has had to station two air defense batteries at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to defend it against Ukraine’s constant shelling. The neo-Nazis don’t even hesitate to lob missiles at it **WHILE THE INSPECTORS ARE THERE**, because they know the western press corpse (spelling deliberate) will consistently ignore their actions. For that matter, the incursion into Kursk seems to have been an attempt to capture and destroy the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant according to Ukrainian POWs, fortunately they were slowed by the Russian border guards until reinforcements could arrive and stop them.
The Russian government has successfully blackmailed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into exchanging or rotating their current mission out of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant for the first time via Russia and Russian occupied Ukraine, Greenpeace warned today. https://www.greenpeace.org/ukraine/en/news/3469/grossi-violates-sovereignty-of-ukraine-by-rotating-zaporizhzhia-npp-mission-team-through-occupied-ukraine-territory/
IAEA inspectors have been trapped at the nuclear plant since December, as Russian drones have been attacking IAEA mission vehicles trying to rotate the mission. The IAEA mission moved via the Russian border to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant between 28 February and 1 March.
It's a shame that Putin's neo-Nazi Wagner group turned on him and marched towards Moscow to seek “revenge” after accusing Russia’s military leadership of killing his forces.
Prigozhin said that the government's justifications for invading Ukraine were based on falsehoods, and that the invasion was designed only to further the interests of Russian elites.
OK, so you’re just going to continue lying. We’re done.
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Coffee and a strudel.
According to Merkel, the agreements were intended to stall things, to allow Ukraine to be armed and re-armed.
(By the way, Trump was the first President to send Kiev weapons)
The Trilateral Process: The United States, Ukraine, Russia and Nuclear Weapons https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-trilateral-process-the-united-states-ukraine-russia-and-nuclear-weapons/
Since Feb. 24, 2022, the United States and its allies and partners have provided equipment and training to Ukraine, capabilities necessary for Ukraine’s defense of its sovereign territory. By the way, under Trump, the flow of U.S. weapons to Ukraine has nearly stopped and may end completely.
You’re lying. Honestly I’m real close to just blocking your memefest dishonest spamtroll bulls**t, so when there’s one less person calling out your nonsense, that’s why.
Please block me, turdbrain.
You’re a bot and a troll. Not wasting more time
Crimea was not part of the Donbass, and not covered by Minsk. I suspect you knew that though.
Russia never stopped occupying Crimea, even during the chaos of the '90s. The vast majority of residents of the Crimean oblast (including almost all of the ethnic Ukrainian minority) voted to abandon the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe and join Russia, formalizing the then-current state of affairs. This is allowed under the UN Charter, which Ukraine agreed to when it joined.
The only valid claim that Ukraine might have on Crimea was their half of the Sevastopol naval base (which they tried to lease to NATO).
I suspect that you know Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it, in violation of international law. This marked the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The events in Kyiv that ousted corrupt Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 sparked pro-Russian and anti-separatism demonstrations in Crimea. At the same time, Vladimir Putin discussed Ukrainian events with security chiefs, remarking that "we must start working on returning Crimea to Russia".
As Russian troops occupied Crimea's parliament, it dismissed the Crimean government, installed the pro-Russian Aksyonov government, and announced a referendum on Crimea's status. The referendum was held under Russian occupation and, according to the Russian-installed authorities, the result, of course, was overwhelmingly in favor of joining Russia.
Most of the world refuses to recognize this sham election.
EU condemns sham elections in Russian-occupied Crimea. https:// kyivindependent.com/eu-cond…
Russia’s Sham Elections in Crimea. https://osce.usmission.gov/…
Obama condemns Crimea referendum – Ukraine crisis. https://www.bbc.com/news/av…
That happened only in your imagination. You are clueless.
Which alternative universe are you living in?… Trumpworld?
The restoration of the Soviet Union is all in Putin's imagination.
Putin hired a private neo-Nazi paramilitary company to exterminate Ukrainians.
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America needs a real leader, not a Putin puppet.
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Humor works in times like these because the realities are so abysmal…
No one can take the Trump-Vance-Musk clown show seriously.
Not a puppet, a real estate developer, 5 time bankrupt developer, failed casino owner, who wanted and still wants his d*mn hotel in Moscow.
Common knowledge during his run for the presidency in 2015.
Six bankruptcies.
He could wind up in an armored carrier, then deposited somewhere in a casket.
He is going to need a heavy guard at his pad in Italy.
The UAE?
He is used to a different treatment in Washington. Not a long time ago Pelosi kissed his hand. Maybe they kissed his ass too.
Wanted war criminal Netanyahu recently had his ass kissed in U.S. Congress.
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I hear the severe rash one gets from such A$$ kissing doesn't respond to any medical treatment.
I'm sure the entire MIC and deep state were kissing his ass.
LOL
Yes; but need to point out, neither Macron or Starmer, for all their obsequious butt-kissing, got anything out of it. Trump is susceptible to flattery, no doubt; but he also has a looooooong memory. and has raised vindictiveness to an art form; and both Macron and Starmer have big mouths, and have said a lot of really stupid and pointless nonsense in the past, and Trump will remember every word of it even as the eurotrash tongues him.
It's true, Macron and Starmer got nothing. But at least they didn't blow up the relationship. There are people locked up in lunatic asylums who would have negotiated better than Zelensky did.
Also, I suspect both Macron and Starmer hope that something could be quietly negotiated behind Trump's back. But Zelensky is so radioactive now that nobody in the American deep state would dare touch him. For instance, before he could count on traditional (neocon) Republicans in Congress. Now he can't count on even a single one.
Which can make Trump his own worst enemy.
Does it hurt to be as stupid as you appear to be?
Not clear to me what Trump's mineral deal was. A week ago in Saudi Arabia with Lavrov it seemed the Trump reps understood no peacekeepers etc. in Ukraine to settle the "peace." Then with Z Trump was talking how "our people" would be part of the mineral deal (implying troops) and nobody would mess with them (implying Russia). This was very confusing. It seemed a complete reversal from a week before. Plus the deposits are apparently in Russia-controlled territory. The deal appears doomed to fail anyway.
I enjoy how my s**tball Google News feed was crowing about Trump "fawning over Zelenskiyy as a hero" just in advance of their meeting, which apparently went hard-south.
If the deposits are in Russian-controlled territory, that's a mild inconvenience. As Iraq & Kuwait and Iraq & Iran demonstrated, if your rivals have resources on their side of a shared border, it's nothing a little slant-drilling can't fix…
Very interesting. Today MOA has a good review of the deal looking at several viewpoints aired on Judge Napolitano. Someone responded with an old American saying: “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/the-guessing-game-over-trumps-real-aims-in-ukraine.html#more
Great source. LMAO!
Moon of Alabama is known for the promotion of pro-Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories, the use of poor sources, false claims, and a lack of transparency.
https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-the-full-text-of-the-final-us-ukraine-mineral-agreement/
The autocratic President Trump is booting out the European states in the competition for mineral resources for the future of the innovative, renewable energy industry and the reconstruction of Ukraine and, in cooperation with the autocratic President Putin, is probably creating a divided Ukraine in bilateral peace negotiations like a divided Korea, Vietnam, or Germany after the Second World War in favor of the resource-rich, nuclear power Russia.
There ARE no "minerals"; at least, none economically worth developing. Mining in Ukraine has been declining for decades, as they cannot compete with the world markets, and NO ONE with any sense would invest in that corrupt country; not pre-war, and certainly not now, after the infrastructure has been devastated.
https://www.mei.edu/publications/ukraines-critical-minerals-and-europes-energy-transition-motivation-russian-aggression
https://www.cirsd.org/en/horizons/horizons-winter-2025-issue-no-29/the-mineral-wars
https://www.iforex.in/news/ukraine-war-all-about-control-rare-earth-202502251600
https://jamestown.org/program/u-s-firms-to-invest-in-ukraines-rare-earth-elements-in-return-for-continued-aid/
https://www.enseccoe.org/publications/ukraines-resources/ The NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (ENSEC COE)
https://ukraineinvest.gov.ua/en/industries/mining/
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep09099 Sedimentary geology of the middle Carboniferous of the Donbas region (Dniepr-Donets basin, Ukraine)
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/ukraines-resource-curse/
https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/donald-trumps-imperial-dreams/
All nonsense. If there were anything economically profitable there (after, you know, the corrupt banderite government takes their share in graft and bribes), SOMEONE would have developed them in the THIRTY YEARS since independence; instead, they sat fallow, and mining declined year after year while Ukraine sank into poverty and millions of skilled workers left. Peddle that trash to the unknowing.
Nonsense is your middle name.
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Your opinion exposes President Trump and his entourage as bunglers, doesn't it?
Trump is not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to geography, or history, or science; Lindsay Graham (also a dimbulb) was duped by Zelensky into thinking there was “a fortune there” and he sold it to Trump. The inability to “make a deal” though (because that would actually reveal the truth to the world) is a good indicator that this is all a fantasy.
If the mineral resources exist only in the imagination, then President Zelenskyy acts correctly.
How is that? By making “promises” he can’t fulfill? Do you really believe that will work on anyone?
According to your dubious narrative,
you are rhetorically engaging in a false accusation against President Zelenskyy in favor of President Trump because,
first, President Trump is taking the initiative to extort a mineral agreement and,
second, President Zelenskyy is obviously not promising anything as he is leaving without a treaty.
Trump and Vance meet with Zelenskyy, exchange turns tense
It's all for show. Much of the mineral land already being developed are in private hands, some partly Western owned already. Ukraine offered the rest to the UK in January, now the US instead. But it is dubious the Ukraine parliament or the private rights owners will go along. It's also one of the most corrupt countries in the world so not surprising the phony dealings of this.
Now THAT'S comedy…
"The Ukrainian leader told Fox News that Ukraine wouldn’t enter peace talks with Russia until it had security guarantees against another Russian offensive."
So Z won't end the war until the US promises to go to war with Russia when Z finds a way to sabotage or not fully implement any peace deal. Another war for peace.
Z and Ukraine have nothing to lose at this point. Trump is even demanding payment for Ukraine's massive sacrifice for the US Empire and offering nothing at all. For the first time in my life, I stand with Zelensky.
People amaze me. Sometimes there are no good people to 'stand with'. This fiasco is one of them. The metaphysical war between good and evil, where one side is totally 'good' and the other totally 'evil' doesn't apply to everything, but people think it does, it's a cultural belief in the west due to the Judeo/Christian/Islamic/Zoroastrian religions' which shaped culture and philosophy.
Yeah, we’re temporarilly almost dislodged from “good” altogether. But it will have to be reconstructed because “evil” is utterly improductive in terms social (political, economic).
In reality, Putin won't end the war and Trump is trying to sabotage the peace deal.
Trump made out as if Ukraine is the biggest obstacle to peace when it is Russia that is the biggest obstacle.
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Get in Voda's shoes, please.
Trump: give us all of Ukraine rare and valuable minerals.
Zelensky: alright but we want security guarantees.
Trump: you're in no position to demand anything.
Zelensky: security guarantees…
Vance: shut up, midget!
…
The New World Order according to Trump:
Bloc #1: US/Russia/India/Israel/North Korea/Arab Monarchies/Egypt/African Military Juntas/Japan/Canada/Australia/New Zealand
Bloc #2: China/EU/Pakistan/Iran/Iraq/Brazil/Turkiye/AU [non militarized African states] /Singapore
I am not sure where Indonesia, South Korea, Phillippines, Vietnam and Thailand will wind up under Trump's "plan". Latin American countries will be a source of contention between Bloc #1 and Bloc #2..
The question is will Putin trade his solidarity with China and BRICS for an end to sanctions, a peace agreement on Ukraine and an end to the US role in NATO? In a few weeks we will know whether Putin's professed solidarity with China and the Global South is sincere.
Trump has a lot of cards to play and Putin has a big decision to make.
Putin will not trade solidarity with China and BRICS for an end to sanctions. So far, all the sanctions have done is make the Russian economy stronger, and the European economy weaker.
Where does we in Europe fit into that?
Why would USA ever ally with half the states you mentioned?
This would be Trump's dream. It may not come to fruition. The key part for Trump is the partnership with Russia. I agree that if it had to choose, North Korea might side with China rather than Russia. But North Korea has been one of Russia's most reliable allies although China is its main trade partner. India resents being outstripped by China and their relationship is contentious although they both manage it well. Canada might resent it, but it is a dependency of the USA. Australia and New Zealand have European roots, but they both see China as the a threat to their sovereignty. Unless China succeeded in allaying their fears, they are likely to seek the anti-China bloc's protection. The African juntas are aligned with Russia who has supported and assisted the coups that brought them to power. The Arab states and Israel are dependencies of the US. And China's animosity toward Japan assures its alignment with the US bloc.
Who did Zelensky think he was? Netanyahu?
Who does Trump support? Netanyahu.
Anyone who can make him money.
When he dies and his body turns to a decomposed slop, will he be able to take it with him?
Whoever cannot make him money, nor bows in the proper manner, is not matter for him to consider. His kids have to take note. Any person who would attempt to get his or her father, in the throes of dementia, to sign over to that person a family trust in the millions, to the exclusion of that person's siblings, is one evil S.O.B.
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It was a time when U.S. paid him generously and he was met in Congress with standing ovations. Why should he think that he is worse than Satanyahu? U.S. and other NATO countries made of him a superstar.
EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kallas denounced Trump as unfit in X:
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
She was also offended by Rubio previously, who rejected to meet her in her visit to Washington just a few days ago.
I'm finding all this extremely amusing because the USA is overplaying their declining superpower status and the EU (and Britain?) are being forced to assume a responsibility they didn't want… but they do have.
One can imagine the difficulty of cordial in-person relations between Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
That's one hell of an art of the deal, isn't it? It's the greatest art of a deal you've ever seen!
Everyone got to see how Donald Trump deals…!
My takeaway – Vance really is as dumb as Trump.
Oddly appropriate.
Who Knows, Marion Black
War, Edwin Starr
Spooky, Dusty Springfield
Mearsheimer appears to support the view that the main cause of this fiasco is Zelensky's presumption to challenge the Oval Office, This included wearing the wrong clothes to start with, which became a topic from the time Trump met him at the door and then in the meeting itself. His behavior was the wrong strategy, which translates into his not being the sycophant bending over backwards to placate “the boss” Trump. Trump is a classic narcissist who brooks no opposing view to his own plus assumes the default position of holier than thou. “You've talked enough” and a wagging finger for example. Zelesnky was supposed to squirm and indicate “yes, sir” to this type of personality and be all things servile to the tyrant or get nowhere or in effect be thrown out of the meeting. The King of Jordan understood this last week. Cow down and try not to look pale and sick, then clarify your position afterwards when it's safe. This is the dominant view of what happened I'm getting from discussion and news coverage, with some even going so far as being “proud” of the Donald and how he stood up to the upstart.
JM is a US conservative: he doesn't grasp the world, much as Trump or Vance don't either.
Trump apparently has not grasped that a ceasefire is not going to work for Russia and they have clearly stated it isn't going to work. They want surrender to start with, not ceasefire and peace keepers. If Trump can't keep this straight he's not playing 4d chess he's a confused old man.
Absolutely. Russia wants much more than a freeze of the war or even the annexations, they want, guess what, exactly the same as Zelensky wants: security guarantees, very strong ones and they won’t settle for less.
President Trump mentioned "peace" maybe three times during the heated exchange with Zelensky.
I interpret that as the president won't send a large US troop contingent to Ukraine to maintain the peace should a resolute deal with Russia be signed. The option remains for Trump to withdraw America from NATO. It appears highly improbable.
What's the price for enduring peace?
The Brits and the French have got this covered. I'm unsure what Paris and London are going to engineer regarding Ukraine's destruction amid Europe's financial and economic implosion.
With no political or diplomatic skill Zelensky just made a mortal enemy of President Trump and Vice President Vance for all time.
Let Europe fund this guy as he drags the human race towards a nuclear holocaust.
I think you have it backward. Trump and Vance just made an enemy of Zelensky and also showed the rest of the world that the US is incapable of negotiation.
And it's the US that is dragging us toward thermonuclear destruction.
If he doesn't surrender, if the Ukrainians don't just stop fighting, Russia is going to use the nukes.
They swear it for real this time.
No. Russia won't use the nukes, that's preposterous.
More likely the globalists who support Ukraine will do just that. Nuclear war will eliminate the over-populated earth which is part of their agenda.
It doesn’t work that way: nuclear war will almost certainly kill everyone and not just some select few. Additionally “overpopulated” regions like Africa or India are much more likely to survive (if anyone does at all) than North America, Europe or East Asia in such an unthinkable scenario.
In any case Russia won’t use nukes.
Silly Lily. Elon Musk is the epitome of a "globalist". Unlike the corrupt U$A, the countries that support Ukraine adhere to international law.
It'll eliminate everything.
I know they won’t use them. They’ll just keep threatening to use them.
It depends of what “we” do, of course: if a NATO army marchs against Moscow… if NATO airplanes or missiles are heading to Russia… then they will use everything. But broadly speaking they’re quite committed to keep things under the nuclear threshhold, and let’s hope everyone is.
Oddly enough everyone is applauding Zelensky (except for Trump and Putin fanatics). Even those of us who rather hate him see in his attitude a sliver of pride and hope, while there's nothing salvageable from Trump's "let's loot Ukraine, yeeeeha!"
That's diametric opposition in action, TDS has a little to do with it among the masses, but to lionize Zelensky is plain nutty, but so is diametric opposition. The EU is completely on Zelensky's side and now he's a 'martyr' who came begging and didn't get his alms. Remember, 'beggars can't be choosers'?
It’s crazy but whatever… if it serves to get Europe back on its feet. It won’t probably but for the time being I’m applauding the clown of Kiev, if only any of the other “leaders” who visited Trump recently had the guts… Just remember what the King of Jordan did to himself a week or two ago, that was utterly shameful!
Zelensky has accidentally become the kid who laughed at the naked Emperor and now everybody is laughing (or angry) at Trump.
Remember, Putin is a war criminal.
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Zelensky acted like a cocaine hazed drug addict constantly touching his nose. False bravado induced by cocaine high is a known behavior.
As one of my favorite punk bands sung in my teenage years (back in the 80s): “I don’t fear ruin, I don’t fear death, that’s why I always carry “aspirin””. ;p
Trump does not want peace, he demands UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, he even wants the Ukrainians to pay the costs for killing their sons and daughters.
Europe is the next piece of meat on Trump's plate, Merz, Macron, and Starmer are the next Zelinskyys in line to be slaughtered.
Zelenskyy has nothing to lose, he is a dead man walking.
It's gonna be unconditional surrender eventually, so why not now and save some lives and real estate?
President Trump wants American taxpayers’ money returned from Ukraine. Zelensky already admitted that $100 Billion of the $350 Billion Joey Biden gave to Ukraine is missing and cannot be accounted for.
Who forced the Americans to support Ukraine since the Obama/Biden regime change? Trump continued it during his first term in office and so did Biden, just normal politics. At least Trump has the courage to admit what everyone with a brain knows USA/NATO lost, Putin still is the president of the RF and Russia is still exists.
They were just as corrupt during Trumps first term in office as they are now. Nothing changed, it is not only US money it includes all NATO members. The Ukrainians failed the US/NATO expectations, the regime change failed; they must be punished.
So what, people are missing also, many are dead. So the US lost some money, Sen. Graham said Ukraine is most profitable for American business. Our ruling class owes us the American people billions of $$, for their incompetence, they can’t even get an accounting from the Pentagon the biggest part of the nations budget. What a circus, when so much money is circulating expect $$$ billions $$$ disappear, that is to be expected. Who pays for all the lost lives and the suffering and misery of the Ukrainian people? Trump or Biden and all the neocons in the administration responsible for the death and suffering of the people? Trump is right, the Russians did not start it, the US and the Ukrainian neo-Nazis started it. Biden could have prevented it, it is Joe Biden’s war.
It was a GD set up.
Vance pounced. Zelensky responded. Trump pounced.
Everyone in the room, as well as most who were watching (I didn't, just saw the replay) know that peace could have been at hand early 2022 had not the U.S. sicced Boris to stop the negotiations.
Both sides had agreed in principle to end the hostilities. Documents had been signed or initialed by representatives on both the Ukraine side and the Russian side.
Many thousands of dead Ukraine soldiers later, the U.S. now wants to hustle Ukraine mineral wealth.
Contrary to what Mr. Drumpf and his V.P. sidekick allege, Zelensky has thanked the U.S. quite a few times for the support given.
What Kissinger said about allies and enemies is evident right here.
"To be an enemy is dangerous, to be an ally is fatal".
Has the carnage always been about the mineral wealth of Ukraine?
Yes, plus the mineral wealth of Russia.
Macron, Merz, and Starmer are Trump's puppets, licking Trumps boots.
They were normal silent US regime changes, rigged elections.
In Russia it did not work out, recall NAVALNY, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua?
Now the man of peace wants Canada, Greenland, Panama canal, Gaza, Iran and who knows what else; to be confrontational is only to bring peace, freedom and democracy to other nations
Trump wants UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER from Ukraine, he wants to undermine Russia and divide and conquer Russia and China. He wants what is left of NATO to confront Russia and turn Europe to rubble in the process. That would save the US unilateral hegemon, his kind of peace, if he even knows the meaning of the word.
Trump is the biggest and most deceptive war monger, he even beats Biden.
Maybe. But I don't think he's able to think that much. Gerontocracy is bad, sad…
He is a brainless AI on legs, he is programmed no thinking possible.
Occasionally he does have lucid moments and spills the beans.
Wow, now Trump is worse that Biden? I don't know about that, but the future is not yet written, you may be right.
Trump is very vindictive, he must spend lots of his time to think how to get even with people who crossed his way, his sense of revenge controls much of his thinking IMHO. Of course I could be wrong, frankly I hope I am wrong.
Biden and the Dems. are also vindictive, it’s a uni-party of hate, stupidity, greed and disregard for the people they are supposed to support and represent.
True, Washington DC is intellectual and moral no man’s land.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/zelensky-shows-the-world-he-is-no-diplomat/
So… Trump is the diplomat then? Totally expecting Ukraine to give away its subsoil for nothing? LOL
Now you're on Mr. Z side? What would your statement be if the same thing wasn't done by Trump and Vance? Diametric opposition between factions is helping to destroy both America and eventually the world. But factions in Wash. suck, and that's all I have to say about those factions.
I’m no Bidenist/Blinkenist, mind you. I’m not Zelenskyist nor Macronist either, not even Putinist. All the opposite (I always stand with the oppressed peoples, be them Kosovo or Donbass, Palestine or Tibet, West Sahara or Kurdistan). But Trump is just ridiculous in the international arena: he has no idea of what he’s doing, he’s just catering to his “taxpayer cryptobros from Texas” and the rest of the world doesn’t roll that way (except the Israelis maybe).
Trump has Israelis, Lebanese and Cubans in his clique/cabinet but he clearly lacks a European-expert advisor of any sort, even a Canadian one! And Europe is half of the US Empire, without us the USA is weak and can’t project almost any power in Eurasia-Africa, and Trump doesn’t even grasp that!
I am ultimately Europeanist and I know that Europe needs to shake the US yoke off and stand on its feet, becoming a consolidated federation like India. Especially since 2022 we have become a colony that is forced to buy US hyper-costly junk and obey everything the US says and does, such as bombing the Nord Stream pipeline. It’s not at all unlike the situation that the 13 colonies were at when the Boston Tea Party happened, we need our Rotterdam LNG party or something in that line, else Europe is doomed.
Are Ukrainians not being oppressed by Putanic russia?
Nope, they’re happy to have joined Russia, who doesn’t murder them, gouge the eyes from their children nor bombs their markets. Putin is whatever but he doesn’t go around massacring civilians, at least not in Ukraine (Chechnya was something else).
You're a Europeanist?
Mate we are so similar in beliefs!
Not at all: you’re a Francoist and thus a damn fascist.
ok man where even did you originally come up with that thought ?
You said so. You defended Franco and his many crimes. I blocked several of your many profiles, remember?
When did I EVER defend the bastard Franco?
I’m pretty sure you did and also defended Ukro-Nazis, all red lines for me. I don’t keep record since I repeatedly blocked your previous avatars as result.
You're the epitome of "anyone who isn't with me must be against me"
Emotions are complex.
I know that can be understand to comprehend for an emotionless Drumpfer like youse;f
Show me where I’ve stumped for Trump, my comments are open, do you know how to use Disqus?
This is the equivalent of a Commander abandoning his army in the field. Trump is Bonaparte returning to Paris after the disastrous Russian campaign without his army of 500K and declaring "Your Emperor has returned."
It's not over yet, too many rich people are getting richer from the war in Ukraine, war is good business, peace isn't.
Trump made it clear to Zelenskyy he has only one choice which is unconditional surrender, much like Versailles only the loser claims victory and punishes his proxy for having lost the war, and never mind the real victor.
That surrender will eventually happen, but why not now so more lives won't be lost in another fiasco war where the US war industry and the politicians who support the war are the only ones who benefit. What good has this or any war started since WWII been of any benefit to the majority of Americans?
That is so true of all wars, common sense diplomacy is called for.
Demented Biden prevented any diplomatic contact, that alone and his age should have rung every alarm bell about his mental health condition.
And Trump is on the same path, he is an oxymoron, a pathological liar , and irrational. Who controls Trump, maybe Musk?
As long as Trump can get the war ended, and with the Russians (and perhaps Chinese) navigate us toward a security architecture which encompasses both sides of borders, I'll put up with his personality.
For me Biden, the worst president by far in my 80+ years, was a complete disaster.
I too am in the 80+ range. I never expected Biden to be that bad a president, I expected him to be average at best. I hoped he would make good appointments, he did not. Trump has the same issue in my opinion, I hope I am wrong and there are some competent people able to grow into the job and the responsibility that comes with the job, not just a big paycheck .
I always enjoy reading your comments here 😉
Trump has a royal flush, all Rabid Zionist Neocons in his cabinet.
The good news is that an American president finally stood up to a grifter and conman who came to pick America’s pockets. The bad news is that it wasn’t Netanyahu. Europe and Mr. Z do not want peace, they want the war to go on in the hope Russia will capitulate, but I don't think that will happen. Trump fawns all over Netanyahu, whose genocidal government has already destroyed Gaza and killed thousands of people, mostly women and children. However, Trump is right about one thing: The EU needs to leave NATO and build a military to defend itself. But, the EU uses scare tactics, telling the masses Russia is about to roll over Europe. Can't see how that will happen with Russia's small and shrinking population and gigantic land mass, why would Russia want to expand? Russia knows this. but the EU is unrelenting in their propaganda policy. American blood and money 'saved' Europe from itself twice in the 20th Century. Europe starts wars and then the US jumps in, mostly for MIC profits which come back to the politicians. War is good business, peace isn't.
The sad news is that Trump is little more than a grifter, a conman, a convicted felon and a rapist, who uses his abuse of power to pick America's pockets.
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This is just a narrative — reality is less exciting. And the craving of mimicry makes followers fiercelly protective of their narrative. As opposed to other, opposing equally oversimlified narrative with their own throngs of mimicking followers.
The only good thing is that they cannot unite over a common scapegoat. It was almost going in that direction, with Putin monster being identified. But a consensus was not formed to release the tension of competing narratives. So — as we see — the competing narratives continue. And the planned scapegoat further and further out of grasp. Another scapegoat is needed.
One is younger and has the most money and the other is older and the powerful title, which one is the bigger dog?
That remains to be seen.
One is a draft-dodging convicted felon who abuses his power, and the other is a war hero.
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Who is the war hero?
There is no record of Zelenskyy having served in the military.
“President Zelensky is a hero,” says UK conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.
Who is the war criminal?
The war hero, the Putin stooge and the champion boxer: Who could replace Zelensky?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/19/who-could-replace-zelensky/
This is a repeating theme of Western civilizations. It probably goes back to hunter-gatherer societies. As Western peoples moved into agriculture relatively late historically speaking, societal package coming with agriculture is not strong. Thus, the predominsnt behaviour is MIMICRY. Societies need a narrative to rally arround, There are often competing narratives, and people use mimicry to adopt narrstives and values that they imply, Mimicry is craved, as a means of being part of group — one is uncomfortable being outside. But often competing natrattives, that is mimicry subjects — ones creating narratives, and mimicry objects -/ their mindless followers, can resolve their tennsions only by creating a scapegoat.
Once scapegoat is identified, various mimicry subject snd objects can unite over having to eliminate scapegoat violently to insure it is destroyed, and for a time being, common narrative — both mimicry subjects or objects — are at peace. New promising adventures. New hunting grounds. Soon, competing mimicry subect and their objects will be at it again, and new scapegoat is needed. .
Trump is the bigger and more talented grifter. Zelensky is not stupid, he must have known he gambled playing with the big dogs.
A couple of points: The USSR did more to save Europe from the Nazi menace than the USA. Of course, the USSR did it to save itself. The EU is butt hurt that exploitation of Russia didn't continue after Yeltsin drank himself into the next world. Good point on Russia having enough to do without having to deal with a Europe that has massive problems. .Only a masochist would want such.
The Electoral College is a form of election-rigging. The majority of Americans (68%) say they want to abolish this corrupt system.
Maybe you should hold an Australian-style referendum, where everyone gets to vote whether to keep or abolish the electoral college.
True, the electoral college is absolutely a form of election-rigging, and was openly conceived as such insofar as it reflected the congressional apportionment scheme based on the treatment of each slave as “three fifths of a person.”
There’s all kinds of election-rigging. The “Australian” ballot with its “access” laws is one kind, a kind designed specifically to maintain the power of an existing party structure.
While I’m an anarchist, I do believe the US could do a lot worse than to adopt a plebiscite/referendum system either for everything or some specific things. My late friend Mike Gravel advocated that.
Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system under its Constitution, the world's tenth oldest, since Federation in 1901. Australia is the world's sixth oldest continuous democracy and largely operates as a two-party system with a three-candidate preferred vote.
As traditional two party preferred electorates began to turn into three party contests, the order of elimination began to become more important in determining the result, which often would not become clear until all but three candidates were excluded. Independent candidates have now historically moved more voters away from the two major parties.
Apparently, when the Australian Labor Party briefly took power at the state level in Queensland in 1899 – it was the first socialist government in the world at any level.
MAGA would label the Aussie Labor Party as "Communist."
That's nice.
But about as relevant to this conversation as an essay on the Mexican state of Chihuahua would be to my dog.
Okay. I thought you might be interested in how democracy works, in a democratic country.
I am in fact interested in that, although skeptical that Australia is really any more a "democracy" than any of the other claimants to that title.
Australia, as with almost all other democratic nations, offers universal healthcare for all citizens. I'm curious to know how a skeptical "anarchist" like yourself imagines a world without governments to provide such services?
I don’t expect the state to provide any “services” at all, and understand that any “services” a state provides are incidental to its purpose (which is maximizing its own discretionary power).
Right, so you oppose social services. You don’t expect a state to provide any of these services:
Public education
Public transportation
Fire departments
Police departments
Public libraries
Every branch of the US military
Roads & highways
Social Security
Medicare/medicaid
Public, not private prisons & jails
Public hospitals
The Veterans Affairs Administration
Public universities
Public parks
Public toilets
Public drinking fountains
Public parking
Public anything.
Done. 💩
Drumpf called Zel a dictator
Doesn't that mean they should be friends?
Don't you know that Ukraine is a USA/NATO proxy?
Zelensky should have known that going to bed with the big dog is dangerous! He was part of the criminal cartel destroying Ukraine, the price for a regime change in Moscow, they did not win and Navalny croaked on Biden, he never had a chance to replace Putin.
He knows there is a price to be paid, he may never get a chance to enjoy his mansion, at least his spouse liked her Bugatti.
Sorry if I got you wrong but taking sides for Maidan-Ukraine, which is a nazi regime that has comitted heinous crimes against its own population, beginning with the Odessa massacre, which was what kickstarted the conflict pretty much, the no-return point in which everyone knew the Ukro-nazis would stop at nothing and something had to be done… such as seceding. Well, taking such sides and claiming happily that "Russia is losing the war", something that is against all realism and factualism, is highly suspect.
The good news is that an American president finally stood up to a grifter and conman who came to pick America’s pockets. The bad news is that it wasn’t Netanyahu. Europe and Mr. Z do not want peace, they want the war to go on in the hope Russia will capitulate, but I don't think that will happen. Trump fawns all over Netanyahu, whose genocidal “Jewish state,” has already destroyed Gaza and killed thousands of people, mostly women and children. However, Trump is right about one thing: The EU needs to leave NATO and build a military to defend itself. But, the EU uses scare tactics, telling the masses Russia is about to roll over Europe. Can't see how that will happen with Russia's small and shrinking population and gigantic land mass, why would Russia want to expand? Russia knows this. but the EU is unrelenting in their propaganda policy. American blood and money 'saved' Europe from itself twice in the 20th Century. Europe starts wars and then the US jumps in, mostly for MIC profits which come back to the politicians. War is good business, peace isn't.
Silly Lily.
Estonia's Käja Kallas is what a real leader looks like for Europe
Determined, strong, and unbending
I will not die until I see a European Federation
Niech żyje Europa!
Either you are a comedian or well you know.
Estonia's Käja Kallas is from a country with less than 2 million Estonians and pretends to be a world leader.
Estonia's Käja Kallas is a yappy chihuahua trying to provoke awar that her country can't fight. She wants the US to go to war with Russia.
America will no longer protect Chihuahua countries.
Note that 25% of Estonia is Russian speaking. The Estonian government has instituted ethnic policies similar to those that the Ukrainian regime has.
Hang on your hats kids as the we spin down the drain faster and faster as we get closer to Universe 25…
It is well past time the EU shoulders their own problems.
There is not good reason for the US to remain in NATO.
There never was a good reason for NATO in the first place, it has been used to execute wars of aggression by the USA in support of US economical hegemon interests, at no time did Russia pose a military threat to Europe, the Warsaw pact was a response to USA CONTROLLED NATO.
Russia wanted to recover from the war, they were the victors and paid with millions of Russian lives lost and was fought on their soil. They wanted peace, the people AND their leaders.
Biden destroyed the EU when he blew up the pipeline to Russia.
The US are bloodsuckers, and only friends as long as the friendship pays off. They used NATO to fund American military aggressions, Iraq and Afghanistan come to mind, and Libya, scorched earth, failed nations is all the USA left behind, but when stealing the resources from the victims they need no help. they take the booty and walk away. NATO owes nothing to Trump or the USA.
”Should I stay or should I go?!”
Putin, not Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, remains the main obstacle to a lasting peace agreement on Ukraine.
Zelenskyy has continuously reiterated his commitment to obtaining a just and lasting peace in Ukraine through negotiations. Zelensky has indicated several times — including in his February 28 Fox News interview — that he is willing to make concessions on territory, Ukraine's NATO membership, and even his own tenure in office to secure a just and sustainable peace.
Zelensky did, true, but Biden send Boris from London to tell him to not do it. Zelensky obeyed and DID AS ORDERED.
THAT WAS REPORTED in main stream media.
Well given that most people didn't think that Ukraine would survive past the 1st week I think he had a right to be worried
Not an answer.
People with common sense knew, the conflict was avoidable and that Ukraine could not win it. Ukrainians had the option to be a neutral nation and not become a NATO member, peace and prosperity, but Biden said NO WAY, and said so over and over again, it is THE NEO CON and Ukrainian NAZI war, Biden's war, he could have prevented it had he wanted it.
You're right, it was avoidable, if only Putin didnt send his men to annex Crimea and invade Ukraine
Clearly you're not familiar with European geopolitics if you think that Putin would accept a "neutral" nation on his borders.
Why did Finland and Sweden end neutrality and join NATO?
They saw what would happen to a "neutral" nation and now Putin hates those countries
Again with the "Ukrainians are NATZEEEES" trope. Does it hurt to be this repetitive and predictable?
How? Please explain
The annexation of Crimea followed the 2014 coup in Kiev, not during the time of the talks in 2022.
By Russia
And the coup was not sponsored by America
Conclusion not based on evidence. Based on your absurd statement, I assume you have absolutely no knowledge of American foreign policy over the past 60+ years. So where are you from?
Polska
You are stupid or extremely ignorant.
The facts are clear: NGO's that paid for the coup were funded in turn by USAID. Stay tuned! And, an accounting of the money sent to Ukraine is going to be upcoming.
They were pressured and/or are corrupt. No common sense government would give up their peace and prosperity to jump on a sinking ship, which the NATO IS. There have been reports of pressure on Switzerland to join NATO, NATO needs more money to fund more wars, they can now milk Sweden and Finland, but the Swiss is not likely to be that stupid. FYI
Typical reactionary logic; anyone who does something I don’t like MUST HAVE been coerced.
If only Obama/Biden and neo-Nazis had not implemented a bloody regime change starting an 8 year long bloody civil war against the Russian Ukrainians and making Ukraine a de facto NATO member which was enough reason for Russia to take Crimea back.
Wars come wrapped in contexts, they don't just fall out of the sky.
We're beating a dead horse.
So true, it is like religion, facts mean nothing.
THe neo nazi trope gets old and tiring
Its like arguing with a brick wall
"So what is the Azov regiment?
Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.
The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and people opposing their views."
Do a little research to back up what you believe.
Wow!!!
What was that?
Gee, 900 angry teens?
UKRAINIANS ARE NATZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS
Try the Right Sector, Svoboda and others. Curious about how you feel about Ukrainian Nazi's mass murdering Poles during WW 2.
"Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit whose members – estimated at 900 – are ultra-nationalists"
" infantry military unit whose members"
It is not about all the Nazis, just the "military unit" who are "ultra-nationalists"
They were not a major party but with US support became influential and powerful. Ask Victoria Nuland, she was in charge in Kiev Ukraine, you live in Poland and you don't know Ukraine and you are not sacrificing anything for Ukraine.
Exactly!!!
Azov Battalion's Andriy Biletsky has toned down his far-right rhetoric in recent years and has not publicly made racist remarks since 2014. Biletsky has stated "to be a Ukrainian nationalist today is to believe in values, not racial prejudice," and announced that his party does not use ethnicity to define who can, or cannot, be part of the nation Ukraine.
Putin hired a private neo-Nazi paramilitary company to exterminate Ukrainians.
The Wagner Group was named by Dmitry Utkin, Prigozhins' second in command, who was literally covered in Nazi symbol tattoos. The Wagner Group includes a contingent known as Rusich, which are described as a far-right extremist or neo-Nazi unit, and their logo features a Slavic swastika. They left Nazi graffiti all over the battlefield in Ukraine and Syria.
Yes, people do grow and change their minds, but tattoos are permanent.
Yes, Dmitry Utkin's death, ordered by Vladimir Putin, is permanent.
Feb, 2022 de facto NATO member Ukraine had the best equipped and NATO trained continental NATO army, and they lost it within a few weeks. Russia had plane B if Ukraine would not honor the Minsk agreement, they had prepared for military conflict because they knew what the de facto NATO Ukrainians were doing. NATO exercises in Ukraine to the Russian border were no secret. That is called provoking an opponent, that is never reported in our controlled MSM. 10 exercises had been planned for 2022 per Army Times.
Then why isn’t Ukraine dead?
RUssia has yet to break Ukraine
Putin is not a vindictive man, he does respect life, and he knows what war does to people, he is humane, and he loves animals.
Hitler was vegan
Is Hitler humane?
Thats a logic fallacy
What does Hitler have to do with this?
Well he was as human as people like Netanyahu and many other dehumanized monsters, he has lots of company.
Blah blah blah.
Zelensky is the guy who in 2022 decided to fight a war against his next door neighbor. He could have negotiated a resolution which carried out the agreements reached in the Minsk talks – including but not limited to – the continuation of Ukrainian rule over the four Oblasts in the east, but instead swallowed the bullshit proposed by the British and Americans and went forth to do battle with a nation with five times the Ukrainian population. Zelensky is not only culpable. He is an idiot.
Get your head out and try to pay attention.
I envy your gullibility. On Feb. 24, 2022, did Russia not invade Ukraine? Or am I just missing something?
Russia would have never allowed that, and even still, the Minsk accords were extremely generous to Russia
Zelenskyy didn't choose the war, Russia invaded Ukraine because Putin was never told "no" as a child, and Putin convinced himself that NATO is somehow a threat to Russia's sovereignty.
Zelenskyy has shown amazing leadership skills throughout the war, with his approval ratings currently sitting in the high 50's to low 60's
I would recommend the same for you
You still don't get it, you had plenty of time to think about, research it, that is if you really want to know, but you have a narrative and the reality on the ground does not matter to you. Your hate of Russia are your blinder.
Get down to earth and look at the results of so much irrationality.
You are too blinded by NATO bad Russia good to realise when russia acts horribly
Ok, so you don't actually read peoples' comments here, as you most certainly know nothing about Lysistrata.
I can make good guesses from their ideas
Guesses is all I see from you. I'll block you now, as you have nothing of value to say by way of facts based on citations.
Lol
Tyypical maga freak cannot handle the opposite view
Educated people respect the people they disagree with. No matter how stupid the opinion is, they don't insult the other person. They may think he/she is stupid but would never say it.
To get to the point, please mind your manners.
I respect your opinion
I just hate it
If it makes you feel better, go ahead, be my guest.
You know something? There comes a point when one admits that it is time to forgive and forget and enjoy life, to go on hating relentlessly is wasting valuable time to enjoy life like quality family time, a great movie, a museum and a nice dinner. Hating is so negative and such a waste of time. Russian people are good people, enjoy their company, their ballet dancing and music, parks and restaurants, get to know each other, it is a real pleasure.
NATO, who needs NATO? Europe does not need NATO, the USA abused NATO membership by using NATO fighting wars of aggression to satisfy US hegemon interests and steal other nations resources.
Stop preaching this moral equivalency bull crap.
If I ever forgive the treachery of the Russians for what they have done to Poland, and Ukraine as extension, you should forgive your little 900 little angry Ukrainian nazi teens
Grow up, you are pretty immature and ill informed.
And you preach moral equivalency
Your upbringing leaves a lot to be desired. You have no manners.
I would love to see your sources of the history of this conflict.
"Russia would have never allowed that, and even still, the Minsk accords were extremely generous to Russia"
This is a conclusion – not an argument.
"Zelenskyy has shown amazing leadership skills throughout the war, with his approval ratings currently sitting in the high 50's to low 60's"
Conclusion not an argument.
Explain in detail, how the Minsk agreements favored Russia to any significant extent. Be detailed and please use facts.
There are no historic sources, the inability of thinking and conclusions is based on irrational hate of Russia.
Of course. There may not be sources, but the Minsk accords on which the discussions were based, did not include Russian annexation of the four Oblasts.
It was a fair and very rational sensible agreement, they had the chance to be another Austria.
Russia annexed those 4 Oblasts after 8 years of trying to get the Minsk Accords implemented. Note that both Merkel and Hollande later admitted that there was never any attention to have the Minsk Accords implemented. The fraudulent agreement was only to allow the buildup of the Kiev regime armed forces to crush the breakaway Lugansk and Donesk regions. That, in turn, was designed to create domestic problems for Putin. Since the Eastern regions of Ukraine had close ties, including family living on both sides of the Ukrainian Russian border, a bloodbath resulting from a AFU assault to crush the rebellion would have discredited Putin within Russia. This was the intention. Putin and the Russian Federation was always the target.
I am convinced that is why the Russians were prepared and had plan B at the ready.
You are right, the Minsk accords are on the table. They are generous and fair to both sides, but the US never supported them. Merkel, Holland and Putin all knew the US WAS NOT SUPPORTING THE ACCORDS.
I think Putin and Merkel, Holland all three knew they took a chance. Putin knew as well as the other two that Ukraine was a de facto NATO member. I believe the Russians had their plan B ready, they gained time to be prepared for a possible conflict.
They mean more to me than to you
The suffering of the Ukrainian people including children means a lot to me, they deserve better than to be used for cannon fodder by ruthless politicians. Your religion is just BS to me.
So they'd fair better under russia?
Yes, they would have, they had a chance, the Nazis sold their country to the USA.
In case you don't know, they were not welcome in the EU and not in NATO, Europeans at that time knew neutrality was best for Ukraine, that is why they supported Minsk but were cowards to fight for it. They are corrupt democracies, no decency and no integrity. Despicable people.
MUH NATZESSSSSS
Poland wants Galicia back, it will be a pile of rubble before that happens, if it happens. It is more likely to end up under the bus like the rest of Ukraine.
For the US oligarchs Poland means nothing, keep dreaming.
You know nothing about us. Only far right freaks like yourself have any irridentist desire for any Ukrainian lands.
Unlike russia, we are not imperialist pigs
You must be blind, don't you see how Ukraine is put through the meatgrinder, the Americans are making mincemeat out of Ukraine and you can't see it?
They will treat Poland no better, they use nations and walk away when it benefits them.
Who invaded who?
WHO invaded who?
1796: President George Washington's Farewell Address:
In his farewell address, he advised American citizens to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties and issued a special warning to be wary of attachment and entanglement with other nations.
He called for men [women] to put aside party and unite for the common good, an "American character" wholly free of foreign attachment. The United States must concentrate only on American interests, and while the country ought to be friendly and open its commerce to all nations….
Vice President Vance had to be protected from Ukrainian agents yesterday on their vacation holiday in Vermont.
There are Ukrainian foreign agents operating in Virginia also. Hopefully secret Service is up to the task of protecting our government officials.
By disagreeing with the Zelensky the Ukrainian Secret Police are running amuck. Don't forget that Ukraine has a kill list published on the internet with American journalists and politicians on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets
My heart goes out for the poor American victims.
All vice presidents always have to be “protected” from protesters. That’s what the Secret Service is for.
Vice presidents don’t have to flee in terror from the possibility that they might be exposed to a mean sign, though.
Like the bang up job they did for Trump?
There’s no such thing as “free Medicare.” Someone’s paying for it. Even if whatever regime you live under just enslaved all the doctors, they’d still have to be fed.