President Trump holds an impromptu press conference as he heads back to Washington DC. Topics included the Russia/Ukraine conflict, the fighting in Gaza against Hamas and more.
Presidential Emissary Steve Witkoff will likely be heading to Russia, at the Russian’s request for a discussion, mid-week. WATCH:
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Why is our top General in Europe threatening Russia with an invasion of Kaliningrad?
REALLY stupid.
The guy is an idiot! He’s the one saying that Russia is losing 20,000 soldiers a month. Where do they find these incompetent liars!
Who is ‘this guy”?
https://kyivindependent.com/why-a-us-generals-kaliningrad-threat-to-russia-is-so-significant-07-2025/
This general is not the top is general in Europe. Someone else was just sworn in July 1. For a retiring general
“General Chris Donahue“ is the one making the statements
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-07-01/european-command-grynkewich-cavoli-18301728.html
Talking out of school and prob should be reprimanded by Cain
Son in law was under Donahue and says he is an idiot
He’s the army component commander, serves under the “top general” who is also the top general for NATO in Europe.
Source of threat please. I can’t find any. Thank you
Found this:
“Wesley K. Clark: Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1997-2000), who in a May 2025 discussion with the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), emphasized the critical role of US forces in Europe, particularly regarding the threat posed by Russian military buildup near Kaliningrad and the strategic importance of the Suwałki Gap.
He stated that Russian planners would logically seek to link forces in Kaliningrad with those in Belarus to penetrate NATO territory, threaten the Baltic states, and disrupt Baltic Sea access, underscoring the necessity of rotating US and allied forces in Lithuania and Poland for deterrence.”
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This is not the current events it’s Gen Donahue
Are you saying the Kyiv Independent said it was Donahue that made the statements?
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This is what it says about Clark:
“Clark’s views were detailed in a May 1, 2025 interview with the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), where he discussed the importance of U.S. military presence in Europe, the risks of Russian aggression, and the strategic implications of the Suwałki Gap. ”
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On Donahue:
“U.S. Army Europe and Africa Commander General Christopher Donahue stated in mid-July 2025 that NATO has the capability to neutralize Russian forces in Kaliningrad “in a timeframe that is unheard of” and faster than ever before, emphasizing rapid ground-based operations against anti-access and area-denial (A2AD) systems.
His remarks, made at the LandEuro conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, were part of a deterrence message rather than an indication of imminent offensive plans.”
Sounds like Donahue walked back his careless statements?
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So, basically Clark is 80 years old.
When I ran “Wesley Clark scandal” several interesting things popped up.
However, this was particularly disturbing:
Controversial NATO Bombing Campaign: As SACEUR, Clark led NATO’s Operation Allied Force during the Kosovo War.
The campaign faced criticism for incidents such as the bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters, which killed 16 civilians and was labeled a war crime by Amnesty International, and the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which killed three journalists.
Clark defended the operations, though internal investigations attributed the embassy strike to faulty intelligence and mapping errors.
Some anti-war groups have labeled Clark and President Clinton as war criminals for the bombing campaign, claiming it violated the NATO charter.
That’s the caliber of man we hear running his yap about Russia.
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Rush Limbaugh used to refer to Wesley Clark as Ashley Wilkes. If you are familiar with the ‘Gone With The Wind’ reference, it is quite fitting.
Good heavens…weird Wesley still at it. He was messing things up so badly in Kosovo that the Pentagon had to make an excuse to get him back to DC so the USAFE commander could finish the job. What a trainwreck. It comes as no surprise that he wants to attack the Russians. He wanted to do that in Kosovo, too, until British General Mike Jackson defied him.
Wesley F’n Clarke, all over again…
Like fungus.
Time for a demotion. He’s obviously part of the IC crowd, trying to drag us into conflict, spending more taxpayer money. Frag him!
Steve is getting some serious airmiles for PDJT.
I pray he is successful this week.
I just don’t know how Trump is going to leverage Putin. Economic sanctions? Already in place, no noticeable effects. Putin is winning the war. Beating nato. Ukraine is collapsing. Why should Putin stop? Remember, last time he agreed to a ceasfire and removed his troops, they used it to reconstitute their armies and attacked him again. If I was in Putins position, I would want to finish the job. Not sure how Trump talks him out of it. And why does Trump even care if Russia takes Ukraine? What’s the US interest in keeping Russia from conquering Ukraine? And don’t give me the talking points about Russia won’t stop until they take Europe. I don’t believe that.
I may way off. But, I have tried to think about this from an economics perspective. Who has PDJT isolated via tarrifs? I would suggest he has avoided Brazil, India, and China to put leverage on Russia.
Here are the pressure point, I think:
1) Brazil is Russia’s #1 supplier of ag products. Trump can threaten high ag tariffs or quotas until Brazil freezes exports.
2) India is one of the biggest buyers of Russian energy. India cares deeply about access to U.S. Capital markets and technology.
3) China is the largest enabler of the a Russian effort with chips, machine tools, and industrial chemicals that Russia doesn’t produce or import from the West. He could force Xi to choose between access to U.S. markets or strategic ambiguity with Russia.
These are the countries that he seems to have gone out of his way to vilify.
If Putin gets Ukraine he has then butted himself up directly against another NATO country. Contrast that with his stated desire to have a “buffer” between RUS and NATO. Trump’s emissary should pose that question directly to Putin.
Ukraine is the buffer.
The war is because NATO was taking control of the buffer.
Hoping Steve Witkoff has great security with him the whole time he is in Russia this coming week; especially watch out for poisoning as that seems to be Mr. Putin’s preferred way of getting people out of his way, and the success Mr. Witkoff has been having as President Trump’s emissary might appear to be someone in Mr. Putin’s way given that he has no intention of ending the incursions into Ukraine.
Oh please !!! If anyone is sabatoging the peace talks and Witkoff it is Zelensky & Co. !!!! You have drunk the neocon koolaid
Spy vs. Spy? Grow up!
Hoping Steve Witkoff has great security with him the whole time he is in Russia this coming week; especially watch out for poisoning as that seems to be Mr. Putin’s preferred way of getting people out of his way, and the success Mr. Witkoff has been having as President Trump’s emissary might appear to be someone in Mr. Putin’s way given that he has no intention of ending the incursions into Ukraine.
FUD post much?
Outrageous.
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Lets see, what was a major factor contributing to Putin’s ‘incursion’ into Ukraine? That’s right, NATO and the US causing the overthrow of the DEMOCRATICALLY elected government of Ukraine in 2014. Then installing a (more?)corrupt puppet government which allowed for ACTUAL Nazi’s within it’s military and the shelling of Russian Ukrainians in the eastern part of the country. Not to mention the threatened expansion of NATO to Russia’s border in a historically sensitive area, after the BS promise decades ago from NATO/US that there would not be ONE INCH of expansion eastwards and the equally BS Minsk agreements. BOTH of which were broken by the West. Ending the incursion? Why should he……….
Disrespecting Vladimir Putin in any way is considered a high crime among many of the commenters here as witnessed by your getting only about a quarter of the likes as those calling you names in return.
You can criticize President Trump and that’s fine here, but if you dare to say one negative word about the mob’s beloved hero Vladimir Putin and all hell can break lose.
I guess this is the latest fad, given that the common mindset is becoming an either-or approach to life.
I do approach posting on this site in line with its guidelines – this is a conversation.
I have experiences and memories and so does everyone else and we learn from each other when open to it; sadly, conversation has almost become a lost art, now replaced with the art of who can do a better one-line put down as if that advances insights.
You’re just about as easily triggered by the name ‘Vladimir Putin’ as Mimsey Gram or Roger Wicker.
Too funny.
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The funny thing is you are absolutely correct.
I can only imagine what CTH was like when the North Korean dictator was in the news constantly a few years ago.
I’m sure some of the commenters here still have his poster on the wall.
Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist who was poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent in August 2020 while on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow; he accused Vladimir Putin of being responsible, and investigations by Bellingcat and The Insider implicated FSB agents in the attack. German, French, and Swedish laboratories confirmed the use of Novichok, a Soviet-era military-grade nerve agent developed in Russia.
Alexander Litvinenko: Former Russian FSB officer who defected to the UK and was poisoned in London in 2006 with polonium-210, a rare radioactive isotope, during a meeting at the Millennium Hotel; British authorities concluded the killing was likely approved by Putin himself.
Sergei Skripal: Former Russian double agent for British intelligence who, along with his daughter, was poisoned in 2018 in Salisbury, UK, using the Novichok nerve agent; UK officials blamed Russian intelligence, though Moscow denied involvement.
Viktor Yushchenko: Ukrainian presidential candidate who was poisoned in 2004 with dioxin during the campaign; the incident drew international attention and comparisons to later poisonings of Kremlin critics.
Anna Politkovskaya: Investigative journalist known for her criticism of Putin and reporting on Chechen war abuses; she fell ill during a flight in 2004 after drinking tea in what was believed to be a poisoning attempt, and was later assassinated in 2006.
Pyotr Verzilov: Pussy Riot activist who was hospitalized in Moscow in 2018 and later transferred to Berlin, where doctors said it was “highly probable” he was poisoned, echoing patterns seen in other anti-Kremlin figures.
The repeated use of poison against political opponents, particularly with rare and sophisticated agents like Novichok and polonium-210, suggests a pattern of state-linked attempts to silence critics of the Kremlin. Multiple experts and international bodies, including the OPCW, have confirmed the use of banned chemical agents in these cases, though Russian authorities consistently deny involvement.
“German and French authorities”…
“British authorities…”
“Uk officials”..
People Like Angela Merkel? Or like Macron? Or Boris Johnson, Piers Morgan, or 008 license to bore you Starmer?
The sources you’re quoting are
from the same countries that intentionally perpetrated false treaties with Russia since 2014, then broke those treaties, and openly admit today that they only signed them in order to give NATO time to arm Ukraine. (Aka the Minsk accords).
I’m sorry, but these countries are sworn adversaries of Russia and have been consistently demonizing the Russian government for two decades. Their accusations of Russia/Putin poisoning political opponents hold absolutely no weight.
Accused, implicated, likely approved, officials blamed but Moscow denied, comparisons, was believed, “highly probable”, all ASSUMPTIONS of guilt but not actual PROOF. Is it possible that Russian agents were responsible? Sure. The same probability that CIA/MI5/6 agents have done similar acts over time. There are no innocent parties here. To believe so is highly naive.
I remember these, and is what came to mind when thinking of Witkoff’s upcoming, at the Kremlin’s, request, visit and the open recalcitrance by the Russian leader to take actual steps toward peace, antics by Zelensky notwithstanding.
What do you think “actual steps towards peace’ would look like? Because an actual step towards peace would be for the US to stop starting wars all around the world. Trump was elected in part in the expectation that he would correct that bad US habit.
Please. Everyone has access to former soviet Novichok. US intel used it in London to drum up support for the war by framing Russia. Remember? They couldn’t get the funding? Suddenly, Russian assassination! So obvious.
Putin repeatedly requested to review the report and the results but we’re denied; this kinda of corruption is easy to understand we’re dealing with a decade of it right here in our own government with the coup that is currently still underway
I have so much to worry about, this is not even at the bottom of my list. It’s not even on the list:)
Morning Bessie 2003.
As far as poisoning goes the Russians should have a word with the British Military germ warfare lab in Porton Down.
They are experts at it and blaming Russia.
Give me a break.
He is safer in Moscow than he is in Kiev.
He is safer in Moscow than he is in Washington DC.
I don’t believe Putin has or will poison anyone, that sounds like something the media would try to have us believe
That would be terminally stupid on the part of the Russian government.
Not that they wouldn’t be capable of doing such a thing — they do have a history of it — but it wouldn’t be conducive to good outcomes.
Here is the master of the chopper boppers…!
GET TO DA CHOPPA!!!…
I wish witkoff want going with a necon general all the time!!!
Hmmm:…
…- So, this is from 4Chan, so YMMV, but *If True*, is *Beaucoup Importante*…
(…- I’m still bird-dogging much of this stuff myself to confirm/corroborate, although the main WEF article appears legit… – Anyone else feel like diving in?… – good hunting, frens…)
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/512090550
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/01/how-to-harness-health-data-to-improve-patient-outcomes-wef24
… – Quick precis (from the thread):…
>CBDCs arent le banned they just got renamed
>palantir involved in AI healthcare social credit system
>dynamic AI pricing for flights and insurance premiums based on if you have an emergency
>lockstep online censorship and age verification acts in every western country
Logical, given current technology, the need for control, amd the ability to monetize it…..but probably not a good thing.
Also wondering if they can get accurite battle stats for Mr Trump……something not right there.
Sydney Sweeney has a new movie coming out—called Echo Valley. I know a guy who helped get her body in shape. He likes Trump. Apparently she does too..
Every day, we are so blessed to have this greatly transparent, loving, smart Patriot as our President!
President Trump has said yet again that a tremendous number of Russian soldiers are being killed, but unlike that fool, who is clearly being lead around by the nose by Miss Lindsey, we know it is hardly any at all because we get our numbers from much more reliable sources like StormFront, Douglas Macgregor, Larry Johnson, Baghdad Bob and Tokyo Rose..
Da zdravstvuyet Vladimir Putin !!!
Trump is repeating what the Ukrainian and US “intelligence services” are saying.
You might recall that they also said Trump was a Putin puppet. The real Baghdad Bob’s are working for the CIA.
So you are slandering President Trump by saying he is just a parrot with little, if any, mind of his own.
I think you are somehow mixing him up with Joe Bide.
Russian KIA around 150,000-250,000.
Ukraine KIA between 1 million and 1.5 million.
Russian men under arms around 1-2 million + nukes + China.
Highly Functioning!
Of course Ukraine has only lost 3 or 4 thousand sir – that’s why they are having to go around and recruit seniors and abduct people off the streets…
To negotiate peace, there has to be a willingness on both sides. From the mouth of the little corrupt turd that is head of Ukraine, there is absolutely zero willingness to do so – all he cares about is stealing aid money and remaining in power.
Sorry, there are many things you are doing well – but you’re being fed lies by the neocons.
Does anyone have an explanation for prices dropping >100%? A few people have challenged me on this.
No one does an impromptu presser quite like President Trump.
Our President is WRONG about Russia. It seems like the NeoCons have taken control of his brain…
FUBAR!!
Does anyone know what is acceptable to Trump for Russia to end the war? Do they go back to the original borders, abandoning the people of Donbass, their culture and language? What guarantees🤣would Trump give that NATO wouldn’t encroach after 2028 with a Lindsey Graham or Alexander Vindman administration?
Full marks for your emoji mid sentence, Pegon.
No angry, surly looks
🚨 LMAO! A reporter just asked Trump about Sydney Sweeney…his reaction is PRICELESS.
REPORTER: What do you think about her being a registered Republican?
TRUMP: “She’s a registered REPUBLICAN? Oh, now I LOVE her [American Eagle] ad. Sydney Sweeney? You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That’s one I wouldn’t have known.”
“But I’m glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is FANTASTIC.”
And she knows how to use firearms! ZeroHedge had a post with her shooting at a gun range!
See here: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-sydney-sweeney-goes-john-wick-style-handgun
Great song. I love the Amer Eagle guy🤣 Hopefully he doesn’t apologize (nor Sydney)
Update on Sydney Sweeney from PDJT truth
I pray our Lord watches over PDJT. I don’t know where he finds the energy to keep the schedule he keeps!
Not many could.
Somebody needs to talk to Trump. We voted to end wars not start or finish incompetents wars!
US Ambassador to NATO, Matt Whitaker:
“It’s impossible to get into the mind of Vladimir Putin because it’s sick
and twisted and probably not logical.
But I’m guessing he doesn’t want to take on the most powerful military
in the world, which is the United States of America.”
Europe needs this war since their economy is collapsing and they think they can do with their debt what they did with WWII. I say heres your jumpsuit and your Rifle Starmer, Macron and anybody else who is promoting this nonsense. And Whitaker you dont mind nuclear incoming. We are being governed by idiots!