There are multiple media reports outlining ‘terms’ that Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced in order to establish the framework for a ceasefire. Every single one of those ‘western media reports‘ are fake news. Putin has not made any statement of terms or conditions for a ceasefire.
What the media are doing is extrapolating on the prior terms Putin announced when he was trying to avoid war with Ukraine. Those terms included: (1) No NATO membership for Ukraine, (2) no western boots-on-ground peacekeepers (IC ops), (3) Ukraine is denazified/demilitarised and (4) the 4 Donbass regions are accepted by Ukraine/NATO as Russian territory. Again, these were the previous pre-war terms.
President Putin visited the Kursk region where fighting was previously intense as Ukraine mounted a counteroffensive last year, and Russia has just completed retaking most of the area. During his visit Russian President Putin made the following statement. [Source Kremlin]
“In this regard, I would like to, as you have already noted Some units that have shown themselves in the best way, I hear almost and you have named some of them every day, lately both in the morning and in the evening, I still want to name those that I have heard of.
These are the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, the 106th Guards Air Assault Division, 11th Guards Separate Air Assault Division brigade and 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade, 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment of the 7th Air Assault Division, 155th Guards Separate Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet, 810th Marine Brigade Infantry of the Black Sea Fleet, 177th Guards Separate Marine Regiment of the Caspian Flotilla, the 34th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade – in the last time, in the last week, probably, she acted especially actively, on the 22nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 72nd Motorized Rifle Division, 1220th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 3rd motorized rifle division and the Akhmat special forces, which have already sounded here, the volunteer formation “Veterans”, which is distinguished by special audacity and efficiency, and all those who acted together with them. I would also like to thank the leadership of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff for what has been done Work.
Indeed, our task in the near future, in the shortest possible time to finally defeat the enemy entrenched in the territory of the Kursk region and still fighting here, to completely liberate the territory of the Kursk region, to restore the situation along the line of the state border. And, of course, it is necessary I would like to ask you to think in the future about creating a security zone along the state borders – this also needs to be thought about.
There is something else I would like to draw your attention to.
All people who are on the territory of the Kursk region, commit crimes against the civilian population here, counteract Our Armed Forces, law enforcement agencies and special services, in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation, are terrorists. So their actions are qualified by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, and it is under these articles that “terrorism”, a criminal case was opened against them by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Valery Vasilyevich has just mentioned the prisoners. But these people, of course, first of all, we must treat as terrorists in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation. We treat all people and must treat all people humanely in the future – everyone who has fallen into our hands. Together At the same time, I would also like to remind you that foreign mercenaries do not fall under the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
And of course, I ask you to convey my gratitude to everything personal squad for what has been done recently. I very much hope that All the combat missions facing our units will certainly be have been fulfilled and the territory of the Kursk region will soon be fully liberated from the enemy.” ~ Russian President Vladimir Putin, 3/12/25
That’s it.
That’s the total confirmed commentary from Russian President Vladimir Putin in advance of President Trump special envoy traveling to Moscow to discuss terms and conditions for a ceasefire as a result of the U.S-Ukraine delegation discussion in Saudi Arabia.
Putin would not make a statement before listening to Witkoff. The Russian President is strategic, not emotional.
Western media are insufferable in their narrative spin and attributing statements that are non-existent. Do not fall for the fake news.
They really are war mongers fearful of losing their money laundering war chest. And, does anyone else notice that Putin has a similar style to Trump because leaders lead and don’t follow. The statement that sticks out is one that SD highlighted “…foreign mercenaries do not fall under the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.”
That’s not an accidental statement nor, IMO, was that meant for the Russian troops; that statement is for the Americans who think they are Rambo, as well as the Europeans doing the same. This is a remainder that you are not a recognized solider but rather a mercenary and not required to be treated under the rules of war.
I love watching liberals, Uniparty asshats, and their propagandists in the media lose their minds over this war. They keep doubling down pretending as if their stance is the popular one. It makes me wonder what they have up their sleeves…..more violence is my guess.
When I see an Ukraine sticker on a car I always look to see if there is commonality in the appearance of people that support war. Unfortunately, there is not.
No, but there is commonality in the alignment behind insane thoughts such as men are women and Ukraine can win, and they don’t need to give up anything….
Appearance maybe not but shared stupidity and lack of critical thought is one thing shared by all of them.
The “far-away people” who carry and harbor such thoughts don’t need to give up anything. To them, “war” is abstract. Maybe it’s a video game.
Good point, my rep is Anna Paulina Luna. Last week, before President Trumps awesome nationally televised speech ( whatever they call it) there was a protest at her local office in Seminole. Ukraine flags, Trans signage, climate change mongers, LGBT etc…. All the same crap. I’ve noticed it over and over. They are cardboard cutouts holding cardboard cutouts. Not a serious person in the bunch, no clear message. Just anti common sense, anti Trump, anti America. Oh, and desperately ugly from the inside out.
That’s called “Fugly”…
But apparently well-paid & able to “protest.”
Yes, until USAID runs out. And it will. Then, you will see less and less of these people; unless, of course, the Soros family and other NGO’s start spending their own money. But that’s the irony- they are commies and never spend their own money, so what are they to do?
Violence.
I particularly notice the “ugly from the inside out”.
In Raleigh NC they had a protest yesterday against Musk/DOGE and as you said all the same old signs and flags. Don’t any of these people have jobs they need to be at or children to watch or something?
They work(ed) for USAID!
Well, I guess one perk of the protestor lifestyle is being able to take prepaid rides on Greyhound and filling out a questionnaire about the quality of service as a prerequisite to enter into a raffle for a free Happy Meal.
Ok, the free happy meal has me….where do I sign up?
Protesting, in many cases, IS their job.
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Their only common characteristic is that they know or remember nothing about what “[World …] War” actually is.
General Sherman said it simply: “War Is Hell.”
The Russian people, meanwhile, celebrate “Victory Day” as one of their most somber national holidays. It was the day when they finally defeated the Nazis in what they call “The Great Patriotic War.” Everyone has a black-and-white photo of a family member lost in that war, including Putin himself. Their eerie so-called “ghost regiment” keeps their honored dead alive, and burns into their successor’s conscience an unspoken image of just what “War” actually means.
Russia paid by far(!) the greatest price in blood in that War, both against Germany and against Japan. (No, the atomic bombs didn’t do it …)
Well said, and great insights to those that were not aware regarding how the Russian’s view V-Day. Russians have more holiday’s celebrating their vets and fallen whereas over the last four years the U.S. now celebrates men pretending to be women more than anything else.
And truly beautiful, poignant monuments and memorials which honour the sacrifices of millions who gave their lives the country which they loved.
The moment a nation does not honour such men is a marker for that nation’s decline.
I pass on the knowledge that in Czarist times the families gave funerals for those young men who were drafted and the 2 careers that exempted family members from military service – personal body guard to the Czar and building the magnificent Russian orthodox churches.
Unfortunately people that I know have memories of the USSR and their minds cannot escape that shadow to view today with fresh eyes. They are firm in their position.
Interesting, I was born in 78’ yet I know of the history. It’s one that mirrors the U.S., if one is willing to oepn their eyes. Yes, Russia has the USSR years but who are we to say anything as U.S. citizens- one only has to look at the Bush policies, combines with Obama and Biden to see that we are in our USSA time period and going through what Gorbachev started in Russia.
Americans are ignorant regarding a lot of things, especially world history. But then, what do you expect under the guidance of the department formally known as the Department of Education.
This video is about the Russian Orthodox Cathedral for Honoring the Armed Forces.
It is beautiful.
If you click on the closed captioning you can read the dialogue.
This is very moving.
Thank you for posting it.
For those who know what the Russian people endured and sacrificed to defeat the Germans, this has been a very long time coming.
Yes, Ma’am. You are most welcome
This one is shorter and shows the cinemas, life size dioramas, and interactive displays.
There are also outdoor views which highlight the expanse of the grounds.
There are many videos of the complex; some are more detailed.
When I found the videos about 4 years ago I couldn’t believe the lengths Russia had gone to in honoring their military.
The videos of the Victory Day Parades are nice as well.
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The full quote…
“I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks or groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
War is Hell.”
All those warmongers should sit down and watch a few documentaries about WW2, specifically footage of German soldiers’ treatment of innocent civilians, men, women and children. It’s enough to turn your stomach. That’s what war is.
Fine. But, this war was not started by Ukraine and it was not started in February 2022. It began in August 2008 with Putin’s invasion of the Republic of Georgia, continued with the annexation of Crimea, and continued in February 2022. Putin will not stop, unless the oligarchs take him out.
As Thomas de Waal explains, “Many people are busy rewriting the history of 2008 in light of Ukraine.” The story that Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili was simply reckless in ordering an attack on South Ossetia, and the Russian peacekeeper contingent isn’t true, but he certainly miscalculated and bears considerable blame for the conflict. Neither is the prevailing simplistic narrative that “Russia invaded Georgia” as though Georgia, and its political leadership, were an empty outline on a map with no role to play in starting this war.
https://warontherocks.com/2018/08/the-august-war-ten-years-on-a-retrospective-on-the-russo-georgian-war/
you need to listen to more MacGregor.
Just stop with the rewrite of history. C’mon.
“stop with the rewrite of history”
Noticing the first 4 letters in this rewriters user creates the word SPIN?
Perhaps, as OG /pol/ famously used to say, “user name checks out”?
The oligarchs started the war.
Period.
You… spinoneone …. before you going to bed check if pesky ruskies are not hide there…..btw.. Ukr.start this war against Russian speaking Ukrainians in the April 2014…….
No, that is not enough. They ought to be sent to the hottest front lines WITH their family to feel the terror and loss. Then if they think war is great they at least know what it is (and probably are demonically driven).
Jap soldiers and the rape of Nanking.
Exactly, war is brutal, inhumane, and final.
For some reasons, westerenrs think war is this fairy tale of rules. No, there are no rules in war, regardless of what UN agreements have been made. In war, you do what is necessary to beat your opposition. That is it, that is war; by any means necessary.
I have seen it first hand, and I was in the Navy. It’s why I hate those pro-Palestine protestors so much- I have seen with my own eyes, first hand, what this savages do to people- people, not just men, but women and children too. Those images are forever etched in my brain- seeing firsthand the burning of people alive in cages, while also drowning them. The mass graves- the only thing differentiating them from Nazi mass graves and ME mass graves- color film and desert instead of posh hills and forests. MY OWN DAMN EYES.
My wife has to wake me from my nightmares every so often; and trust me, I’m not damn wimp.
And REAL Nazis continue to live… in Ukraine. I’ve seen brutal footage of Russian prisoners being shot in the groin and/or kneecaps by Ukrainian soldiers. It was hard to watch.
Indeed, even Castro whose last day is today, thank the Lord, invited a true Nazi living in Canada to the House of Commons where he got a standing ovation and our idiots politicians all sides clapped like a bunch of seals. Oh yes. elinsky was there as well. How disgusting for the once beautiful Canada. Many that are still alive live further up north in Ontario, they stick together is what I read and heard.
It should be mandatory to Nuland/nudelman/kagan/sullivan/powers and all Congress……
No commonality in appearance. Commonality in behavior.
Too much TV watching.
Yes there is. They are almost enirely made up of leftist NPCs, and you can see that by looking at them. Look closer. Look for signs of hatred of western culture, hatred of self. They wear it like a badge of honor in their dress, hair, and facial expression. They are angry and never smile.
We are in the middle of a transition period into a danger zone. I am encountering this frequently now. Notice how the left smoothly transitioned into “action” consisting of violence. I recently saw a Tesla wearing a bumper sticker reading “I bought this before we knew Elon was nuts”. The owner rightly fears genuine left wing violence.
An increasing number of historians are predicting civil wars in the western countries. I think we are just months away from the recognized creation of left wing violent revolutionary groups such as we saw in previous decades, but now trained and led by actual foreign fighters imported by Biden Inc.
More and more I am also being advised to “roll heavy” to be prepared to react to armed violence initiated by the left. I now encounter leftist “true believers” everywhere I go.
We’ve been targeted for regime change? The polarization we are experiencing is what happens in other nations targeted for regime change?
Disagree about the leftist hatred of Western culture. The left has no problem at all with their airport VIP lounges, world travel, private schools for their children, third homes (always in Western countries), etc. Much fun has already been made of the rather minute list of countries peeved leftist celebrities consider moving to. Leftists don’t hate Western culture per se; what they hate is not being in complete charge of it.
They hate the base of the culture – the uncultured masses that do their plumbing, their roofs, all the invisible people that enable their lives – the ones Tom Hanks killed the remnants of his reputation for by portraying them wrongly on SNL.
“”I love watching liberals, Uniparty asshats, and their propagandists in the media lose their minds over this war. They keep doubling down pretending as if their stance is the popular one. It makes me wonder what they have up their sleeves…..more violence is my guess.””
There is nothing at all going on in Europe that is REAL, no wonder they’ve become Censorship Hardliners.
I agree on violence coming, from the people trying to overthrow all these insane “Leaders” hellbent on destroying them.
Yes….as it ever was…
Yes, politicos and rich men send other people’s sons and daughters to go die for their petty disputes while they insulate theirs from ever serving or they get them commissioned and they get cushy desk jobs but come home with more chest candy than the guy or gal who takes the bullets.
The people who started this war are not unknown. They have committed war crimes. For instance staging a coup in a sovereign country. Those people should be made to stand trial for their crimes to include all of the politicians who enabled their crimes.
However don’t hold your breath for Ms. Bondi to doll out any justice.
Agreed.
Thank you.😢💔🎯
A poignant reminder.
Lest we forget, dear Eagle.
But we do forget…
Thank you for posting this, Betsy. It brought tears.
On the site The New Americanist, the woman who runs it posts on the Morning Muster Thread every single morning a photograph of a soldier who died in the wars brought to us by those who will never know the interminable grief of losing a son, husband, brother.
And every morning when I see those faces, sis, my heart skips a beat then sinks. The names of such honourable men are bad enough…but to see a high school photo of such a military member when all in front of these young men was anticipation of a long life and all which comes with it, or of a bride and groom just starting life together, or a father posing with his happy faced children who would come to grow up without him?
I can’t count the number of pieces which my heart has broken into day after day seeing those who were sacrificed for the cruel vanity of the soulless who sent them.
Tears?
Oh yes….many…
yes, war is the final argument of Kings.
Another…note the profound photographs.
What in God’s Holy Name is the point, girl???
(Don’t know if anybody here remembers “Gallipoli”, with a young Mel Gibson.
I could watch it only once, but over the years the horror of that sacrificial battle has never gone away from my memory.)
Had to look it up; I was 3 when it came out. I will now find it and watch it.
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When you finish Gallipoli, go find “Breaker Morant” and “Paths of Glory”.
Breaker Morant. Edward Woodward. Excellent and heartbreaking.
Loved it.
A poem I wrote after reading-studying the Great WW-
For Your Pain
My Dear and Brave Soldier
Hallowed in memory
I burn a candle for thee
A sorrow deep and suspended
Your honour in innocence
Duty – bond for country
Your body given to the soil
Your soul an incense
That forever burns
That forever burns
Before God and man
Your strength born of
Faith – faith in duty
Code of honour,
Bourne by blood – has life.
I am mute – my throat is swollen
My eye’s burn with tears
Shooting straight to my heart
I am in awe – indebted
To your generosity that is
Fresh a century later
We have traveled so far
Out of the periphery
Those of us who cannot sacrifice.
Those of us who cannot sacrifice
Perhaps we can learn to have
Awe for the sanctity of Your life.
Marcia….
This is beautiful. And moving.
I believe the older we get, the more these losses, recent and further back still, prey upon us. Tragic waste. I know this is true for me.
Thank you for this, dear lady. It was impossible to not feel your emotion in composing this poignant and reverential poem for the fallen.
Yeah, Horse, the mercs should pay a price beyond what a ukie conscript pays.
Absolutely. War is not Ghost Recon nor is it Call of Duty- you don’t get to respawn to be shot again in 2 seconds by a guy wearing a tshirt super sprinting and then sliding under you to then run off again all while changing weapons and reloading without ever losing a step.
Real war means real dead and no more breathing.
War is not a game but a grim business filled with agony and death
And too much of both. However, I am a US Navy Veterant that is very fond of the Spartan mantra “”Come back with your shield or on it,” and that was Spartan moms and women saying this, not just the men. I took that seriously when having to deal with life or death situations; my fellow enlisted were all I cared about-I cared more about failing them than dying.
The Sparta quote I shared is tied to Spartan values of bravery and honor, recorded in various forms by ancient historians like Plutarch. In his work Moralia (specifically the section “Sayings of Spartan Women”), he recounts anecdotes of Spartan mothers urging their sons to fight to the death rather than flee. For example, one story tells of a mother handing her son his shield and saying, “Either with this or upon this”, implying the shield was his only acceptable baggage home.
I think most war vets acrosss the globe feel this way. It’s being used by those with nefarious minds to get young men to go and die for the Euros and dollars lining the pockets of western liberals.
“more violence is my guess.” – good guess! My guess is whatever peace talks are agreed to, Zelensky the EU, NATO and our own deep state warmongers and neocons will attempt to thwart them! The failure will of course will be blamed on Putin with fake news reports, imagine that!? During the Vietnam War the msm was used to declare we were losing the war highlighted by constant reports of American casualties and atrocities! There is very little IC run mockingbird msm reporting on this war because this war is favored by the Democrats/Uniparty and deep state and they don’t want to lose public support (which they already have)!! “Do not fall for the fake news.” Amen and Amen!!!
Again I will say…..ahhhhhhhh ain’t sunlight just grand!
It is, and a good source of vitamin D!
It makes me think they have nothing up their sleeves because obviously the first, second and third string quarterbacks in charge of the narrative and such plans have left the bldg.
If you mean those ideologues who are too crazy or stupid to read the room might resort to all they can think of that they may have left in their toolbox is violence, then you may be thinking like Putin who has assured anyone they may hire that, if caught, he will personally make sure they are handled in the worst way possible.
If anything Putin’s making the price for mercenaries go up so high as to be prohibitive.
Li, although I agree with your comment in general, I’m not talking about those in Ukraine. I’m talking about those right here at home. The leftists don’t care if it’s the 5th string QB, the message is the same and the show marches on. Well, until they run out of that money- then, they learn their stooges no longer care.
That’s why they are called useful idiots- the leftists know these people have no allegiance. It’s why they are the first to go once leftists gain full power.
Mr. Horse, I was literally, just totally thinking that same exact thing about Putin……..
As to your last paragraph, the answer is they want WWIII. The money laundering operations would go totally unchecked, goods on the black market, draining the US of its wealth more rapidly, martial law, suffering, war casualties & death….what’s not to love if you’re a warmonger?
That seems so … short-sighted. How is it not obvious that WW III would sooner rather than later be a nuclear conflagration?
Only idiots don’t see that; it’s why the EU and US Marxists use Ukraine as the buffer. It’s all money laundering until the nukes doors are opened.
The Bolsheviks in the United States and Marxists in Europe want to keep killing Ukrainian and Russian soldiers!
And, as Bannon said in his outstanding rant from yesterday, we perfectly predicted this mess from day one and they want our kids as the “security guarantee” after any deal which is an endless commitment. Let them send their own kids:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/13/russian-president-vladimir-putin-visits-frontline-troops-in-kursk-region-ahead-of-u-s-envoy-witkoff-traveling-to-moscow/#comment-11641427
Some liberals are more azov than others.
flashback
-Who are the Britons sentenced to death in Russian-occupied Ukraine?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/aiden-aslin-shaun-pinner-russia-ukraine-death-sentence-b2097589.html
This is a concert, Songs of the War Years.
Елена Ваенга – Песни Военных Лет ✬ LIVE ✬ Elena Vaenga – Songs of the War Years
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This article adds to what we just read here, it’s a great take on the overall situation that touched upon things I’ve not read yet.
Such as Trump working on the elections in Ukraine- as a means to removing Zelensky to attempt to get someone that actually wants peace to the table.
The Euro-Wimps have a replacement in mind though.. A name we’ve not seen. I expect, knowing what they are up to, that he’s perhaps worse than Zelensky.
This article validates the claim that the Europeans really are just totally running themselves right over a cliff.. I predict a revolt by the people not that far from now.
There needs to be Regime Change in Europe too (!!!) they are being led by the delusional suicidals.
Europe Faces A MAGA ‘Vibe-Shift’ As Trump Moves To His Primordial Objective – The Global Reset
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-faces-maga-vibe-shift-trump-moves-his-primordial-objective-global-reset
The point here – which Europe feigns to not understand – is that the end to the Ukraine conflict simply is Trump’s ‘gateway’ to the entire rationale and platform on which he stood: The Great Reset of the Geo-Political landscape. Ukraine, simply said, is the obstacle to Trump’s pursuit of his primordial objective: The Global Reset.
Starmer, Macron and the eastern wing of the Euro-élites are blind to the sheer scale of the global vibe-shift towards traditionalist U.S. politics and ethics. They miss too, the barely concealed fury in the Trump world that exists behind this nascent revolution.
“The Maga Right has none of the inhibitions of its predecessors. It is planning to leverage the power of a recaptured state to annihilate its enemies”, Allister Heath writes.
The European Ruling Class is in desperate trouble and increasingly isolated, in a world shifting ‘Rightward’ at breakneck speed. “The U.S. is now the enemy of the West”, the FT proclaims. European leaders wantonly won’t understand.
The reality is that the U.S. is engaged now in rolling up Europe’s foreign policy. And, is about to start exporting U.S. traditional Republican values to roll up the European wokeist belief-system. The European Ruling strata – far removed from its base – has failed to grasp the threat to its own interests (a scenario outlined here).
The Trump administration is trying to rebuild the ailing Republic, and Americans in this new era do not care for the European obsession with ancient feuds and their entailing wars.
Yes, I work with a lot of Europeans and Brit’s, on a plane, headed to South Korea to meet up with two Brits, a Spaniard, and two Chinese. All people I highly respect on a professional and personal level. And, other than the Chinese (they avoid politics but in the few instances they chime in, it’s not what people would think) the I can say the Brits and Spaniard love Trump, wish their countries would rally behind a similar minded person in thier countries.
The Brits in particular are fed up but can’t speak up at home because they will be arrested, yes, arrested for posts against their government or against the hoards brought in. Arrested while the hoards rape their daughters and brutalize their wives, all while Starmer and his ilk laugh it up.
Good stuff, it confirms what that writer is saying in the article I posted.
Ya know, it’s human nature to simply want to do better and they know they are being held back and held down.
There is no way they don’t revolt fairly soon because there is such a small window of time with Trump there to get this done.
I’ve shared several of my past conversations with some of these same Brits and Euro’s in the past. Over the last two years, I can personally say that the want for a Trump like leader in the UK and EU is growing. For me, it’s amazing how they are being attacked by their governments over free speech all while our media keeps propping up “democracy” in the EU.
Interesting times ahead.
There has to be “one”, Paul, behind whom people can rally.
There’s the rub…
And as someone who pays a great deal of attention to politics across the pond and further, I’m just not seeing anyone…man or, as with Margaret Thatcher, woman. No one.
In Britain, the bottom of a very deep, scum encrusted barrel has finally been reached with Starmer. No statemen to be found.
The people, as you recount, are desperate for a Trump or a Milei. But the rise of such a person is quickly suffocated by illiberal and corrupt EU machinery led by those who have their own ” Big Club” and no moral centres.
There’s nothing left to say.
I’m afraid it may be too late for them. In the absence of a British “Trump” they may have no recourse but revolution. And I believe the British population has been disarmed, no? So even a revolution would be difficult if not impossible. I feel sorry for the good people of any country who have to stand helplessly by and watch their beloved homeland fall to ruin.
It is, I fear, too late.
Guns or not.
I’m not giving up yet..
We can’t under estimate what Victor Orban is doing- and what he can do.
The AfD did just gain in their most recent election.
Marine LePen IS rising.
Geert Wilders over in the Netherlands is still gaining..
There is a lot going on in Poland right now..
There is a lot of action going on to move them out of the insanity they’ve been in..
Their population is way more heavily brainwashed than we are.. so it’s a much larger push, BUT it is happening.
Another point here is the media and the Blob working to not show us what is really going on.
We’re not there living, talking to the people on the street… they could be more ready to start tossing these crazy leaders out on their asses than what we’re aware of.
Orban comes close, and I actually inserted that before scrubbing it after some thought. The only reason being that he, while a man of great honour, is not the charasmatic individual who is needed to rouse the dormant passions of the masses on a scale which will be needed.
Those you mention are nationalists speaking to their own and for their own countries. So far small victories or near victories only. Nothing definitive yet or widespread.
Another issue is the language barrier. So many nations each with its own, though with the right individual that may be less a problem in the end, depending on how bad things get. I thought things were existential enough to cause mass uprisings which might bring forth a leader worthy of the name and the mission and the trust of those who are watching their lives sacrificed for repugnant ideologies, and the madmen who utterly despise and spit on the native populations while feting and bowing to the third world invaders.
Obviously not…or not yet anyway.
Europe’s nations need a firebrand who can inspire. Someone whose rhetoric is enthused with great emotion and courage. And someone who is willing to put everything on the line for the cause of freedom, because such a person will incur the despotic fury of the “elites”. See Romania.
Yes, the man on the street has had enough of the resurrected jackboots. Honestly? I don’t know what will be the lit match.
I think universal conscription may be the one which seems to be on the cards. The forcing of what’s left of young men to serve in the defense of a corrupt Ukraine, while excusing the Moslem invaders from service, leaving their women and girls at the mercies of the rapists back home.
But I’ve been wrong every time.
Good points, you are not wrong.
I’d say cutting off the money and support in any way that we can will force a wakeup call and fast return to reality as well.
Lets face it, they doddle around with all their crazy agendas because of the cushy lives they have because they get so much support.. a whole lot of these people have time on their hands.
If these people were all forced to support themselves entirely on their own, a whole lot would be different.
And it does appear that this is somewhat what the Trump team is aiming to do..
I wholeheartedly agree, sis.
Imagine living your life for the purpose of making everyone else’s miserable while you get filthy rich off the backs of them…keeping them docile by keeping them on the public teat for a great part of their existence.
That’s how Euro and individual nations’ leaders operate. And we’ve given them ridiculous sums of money to enable them to operate that way.
Yep…time to turn the spigots off.
Two can play that game.
Ky, I keep seeing such comments about other places, especially our cousins in GB, being lost to the third world hordes.
While agreeing, my second thought is: Do enough people understand that we ourselves are racing to the same end, if the direction is not massively interrupted? Will President Trump sufficiently reverse direction, or just be a speed bump?
This last question is why the administration is acting so quickly and aggressively, and also why the powers that be blob are fighting back so hard to slow the correction down. Can they outlive this four year term?
Betsy: The Brits (the real ones) are so accustomed to living as subjects that they do not realize that they can simply say “no” and act on their own. That’s how a bunch of American colonists created their own country.
Tell me about it, bill.
Lived there for two decades beginning during the Thatcher years.
I saw it all
And as we still have family there have followed every day since.
The UK’s fall began the moment Thatcher’s cabinet and the Tory party stuck the knife in whilst she was out of the country, in France negotiating on Britain’s behalf.
What you describe is real life Stockholm Syndrome on a massive scale.
Their men seem to be deeply and largely emasculated as well.
My friend married a Brit and she lived there as an American for some 20 years.
She’d tell me she was continually shocked at how passive and outright feminine men were.. and many of the women daft (her word).
So this adds to what you and billrla are saying..
I married a Brit….one of the last real men 😎
All of Europe historically has been trained to be subjects of the various crowns – ingrained after centuries.
Betsy as far as Germany is concerned, I completely agree with Elon Musk in his position that the AfD led by Alice Weidel is the future.
I listened to her speech and was blown away by how impressive and “Trumpian” she is..
Since it’s Germany that is their largest economic engine over there, and Germany is now in big trouble, I think the key to turning things around in Europe is to flip Germany.
You are right in what you say, there is not a whole lot rising up to work with..
If we can get LePen elected in France and Alice continuing to rise in power in Germany, that could be the start of the game changing. Once that happened, much more would then fall into place.
Agreed Betsy, and my counterparts feel that pain. They believe war will break out in England and it will be the long fought civil war between the hierarchy (i.e., globalist and the monarchy combined) and the regulars. They all say if nto them their kids because their adult kids are the angry ones and the ones who no longer feel they have anything to lose whereas my generation and the one before mine (45-60 in age) still feel they have something to lose.
I know there’s talk that will happen…but the further the degradation of the Britain progresses with the few whimpers I am aware of, I’m becoming less and less sure it will. I used to think it would…no more.
I simply do not enjoin fire-laden phrases like: “primordial objective” and “annihilate its enemies.”
I get it Mike, but we’re living in very different times..
Weaponized Language is absolutely a part of this.
You can choose not to play that game if you want, but then you risk not being heard, or clicked on- which means you are trying to be in the battle but yet talking to a wall.
Hard to gain any traction like that.
You ever heard of John Halford Mackinder? He is responsible for modern history and this current crisis.
Thank you for mentioning Mackinder and his prophesies. He is rarely spoken of today, outside the walls of Chatham House and Brussels that is. Here is a video discussion of Mackinder’s seminal theory, applied to today’s geopolitical situation:
George: Thanks for this interesting reference to MacKinder. I was not familiar with his name but have read some books about the “Great Game” and the struggles between Britain and Russia for control of Asia. I think the problem with MacKinder’s theory is that the much of the landmass of north Asia, up to Siberia, cannot produce food.
That’s something I wondered about, with the call for new elections in Ukraine.
Why does anyone think that there would be a “free and fair” election reflecting the will of the people, in that country, at this time?
Zelensky is blocking peace at this time, or appears to be doing so.
He ran, and was elected by Ukraine, on a peace platform. He did, in fact, sit down with Putin to a peace deal.
Look at him now.
What’s different? Yes, President Trump is in office, but that’s here.
What has changed, over in Ukraine or Europe?
You outline the problem. Unfortunately it will probably fall to the Russians to collapse Ukraine to the point that a Trump approved successor can be installed. This successor, if he or she is smart, will only serve to manage the surrender to the Russians.
My guess would be that past the Donbas and the two new regions the Russians will drive on to the East Bank of the Dnieper. This for a buffer zone. Whether they then drive on to Odessa is an open question. If not then I would bet the Russians will require troops garrisoned in the region to inspect all cargo coming in. That would be Ukraine’s best case scenario.
US AID has been defanged.
A free and fair election was impossible without that development.
Breadcrumbs of how money is failing to show up here in the US – dozens, I tell you entire dozens of people showed up to protest the closing of the Dept of Education! – indicate someone (cough cough White Hats) seized the Soros money, I think years ago.
Germany is a paper tiger, militarily and increasingly economically.
The UK is also a paper tiger militarily.
President Trump is posting pictures of himself as The King – meaning guess who isn’t, anymore? Empty throne, in reality beyond the Matrix?
All the EU has left is its ability to throw illusions and rhetoric, its old, tired, threadbare constructs of moral superiority, rules based order, and “free trade.”. . . Yada yada yada.
President Trump is also showing his real hand, more and more. Vance’s speech was a direct, targeted hit at the European fascists. Now today President Trump posts, twice, that the whole intent of the formation of the EU was to screw the US. He frames the formation of the EU as an act of economic war.
War
Gold and silver are rising, again, and the viability of the Bank of England hangs on a thread, perhaps.
War
We are close, very close.
If optics start to go in the direction of WWIII, nuclear war, (and I think they will be optics, real but fake) then we will have been arrived at the crucible from which the future will flow.
Let’s see what happens by Friday night at midnight. If the government suffers a Democrat shut down, the green light may flash.
Absolutely correct..
I mean the election is only going to be as good as who is overseeing it and then counting the ballots.
We know plenty about this here.
This election will be a big thing to pay attention to- this is for sure.
The outcome will be a game changer of course..
Thank you for the heads up. Surely this topic will come up in conversation later today.
If you would have told me prior to 2016 that President Putin would have more credibility and integrity than any Canadian PM, or western leader sans President Trump.
I would have simply “shaken my head”
Cheers to all here at TCTH.
These MSM idiot’s lies will make PDJT much stronger when he extracts a cease fire deal from Putin.
There is only a small chance of that. Russia knows signed parchment means little to their enemies. Why should it to them?
They’ll decide when their strategic objectives are met, and warfare is no longer the proper tool for achieving them. Now? Later?
Putin is not going to accept a “cease fire” which, he knows, will simply give Europe time to regroup and re-arm its proxy. (“Just like the other two times.”) Likewise, he will not accept the intervention of foreign troops as so-called “peacemakers.” (“Merely an excuse to ‘escalate.'”)
Russia is fighting for legitimate state security interests which must now be acknowledged and addressed. It has very clearly demonstrated its military capability, its industrial depth, its economic prowess, and its very-different vision of the international future. Even Donald Trump and his team will not now manage: “Minsk 3.”
It must also be acknowledged that, when Russia finally started this “special operation,” it was to seize the military advantage away from a massive proxy army that was very-obviously poised to invade it. Which is what happened. Russia set very specific objectives, and has never yet varied from them. The final denouement is going to grant those objectives.
I fully concur that even PDJT cannot manage the Ukraine situation. I also wonder if anyone telling him he can is intentionally setting him up for a massive failure. Why would Putin negotiate at this point? Does anyone think he is just winging it and didn’t consider the costs ahead of the effort?
The only question I can’t make up my mind about is whether he has intended objectives beyond Ukraine, or whether that is just western propaganda?
Mike, this is why, IMO, Trump is handling this as he is- he will do his best, putting it all on Zelenskyy, while acting as a mediator. However, I think Trump has a walk-away plan- not if, but when the EU and Zelenskyy keep poking the bear, Trump will pull the U.S. completely out of this, and I’m sure he has made this known to Putin, and then putting it all on the EU an Ukraine. No more U.S. involvement. And once that happens the war will sputter on as the EU pretends, hoping the US jump back in, but we won’t.
Then, you will see a peace treaty where Russia gets more than they would if Trump did it his way. This is the inevitable.
The other option- the bluffs are called, people cave, and Trump gets the deal done with Putin. But not in the favorable terms the EU thinks they are getting….
a ceasefire “will simply give Europe time to regroup and rearm their proxy”
while the whole world watches them try and FAIL since they can’t actually “rearm their proxy” in 30 years much less in 30 days.
But Russia definitely can.
A journey:
Revelations. Realizations. Grief and loss process activated. God connecting REALITY ultimately accepted or rejected.
Which pill to take? Blue. Red. Black. Or white?
particularly after listening to lasov speak quite good english, that statement was nearly incoherent in parts. if it was issued as is by the kremlin, that’s embarrassing. if it was issued in russian and translated, which seems more likely, that translator is pretty defective.
Obviously you are right about this probably not being a direct release of the kremlin in English form. However I would rather have an understandable flawed translation then the wild imaginings of the media
Maybe it was translated by AI?
Thanks for keeping our focus on what is not what the war supporters want us to hear. Putin was direct. Congratulating his troops, reaffirming objectives, mentioning a couple of things important to him, warning those mercenaries. President Trump is also practical so I hope there’s a good chance further talks will br productive and lead to a resolution. Thanks for keeping a clear focus.
Insufferable indeed. Do they not realize how dangerous they are when they make sh-t up?
There are two prominent leaders on the world stage whom I deeply respect. One of them is Donald Trump, who in his very signature way brings a great depth of experience in negotiation and deal-making to the international political table. The other is Vladimir Putin, who continues to be re-elected as President of his vast(!) nation and with evident good reason. I am confident in their ability to – privately – negotiate anything that needs be done.
There is one prominent person – I won’t call him a “leader” nor a “president” because he isn’t anymore – who I consider merely to be the very-dangerous comedian that he is. Like Biden before him, he was installed to be a puppet and he knows nothing of what “his” country now needs. History also teaches me that he is most likely a “dead man standing.” He will soon be removed from the stage, and it will be none too soon.
…do tell
He set the terms for a ceasefire in 2024. He also layed out the reasons and objectives for the military action in the SMO Document. FAFO
“foreign mercenaries do not fall under the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.”
Just read about them yesterday, funny President Putin should mention them.
American Security Contractors Walking Thin Line In Gaza
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Cue Pelosi s silly schoolgirl clap after Trump 45 State of Union…petulant children playing schoolyard games….
The golden years of the left…Represented by Nancy Pelosi…May they rest in Piss.
I have seen no mention yet of the fantastic feat 2 battalions (800 soldiers) did a few days ago. Zelinsky blocked the Russian gas pipes crossing Ukraine. 800 men got into the now empty pipes and travelled 13 kilometres to surface behind the Ukraine troops in a surprise ambush, causing chaos and panic and many Ukrainians to break ranks and run. I would guess this is the reason for Putin’s visit to the troops.
Russia recently posted an article describing the dangerous technicalities of this stunning achievement . . . it was an extremely dangerous and claustrophobic maneuver. But, actually not(!) the first time such a thing has been done.
Sundance, you need to do a post on John Halford Mackinder and the misery he has wrought for over a century. That is the crux of our current world affairs.
My issue with the terms of the current proposed ‘cease fire’ is that the US has advised it will continue to send arms to Ukraine, during the cease fire phase. Does this not sound similar to the Minsk Accord, where there is a ‘treaty’ but the duration of that treaty is in order to restock Ukraine with military weapons? I imagine that Putin remembers when Merkel admitted this.
Fortunately,
President Trump invitation ==
Russia and Ukraine agreeing to have official envoys meet so they can talk with each other to learn whether its worth meeting again to see whether a mutually acceptable ceasefire could be and/or should be crafted.
In other words, President Trumps invitation =/= anything even remotely similar to a “Minsk Accord”
Noticing how for some people “Minsk Accord” == a pavlovian psywar cue word that automatically triggers sentience suppressing toxic emotions?
“War is a Racket” Maj. Gen Smedly Butler 1935
War profits a very small handful of people/demons and it’s distraction value is immeasurable. It has everything, drama, blood (if it bleeds it leads), heroes, et al. This thrills the enemy MSM with ratings and the news actors are so excited with their WAR fame…like a blood lust.
The sad part, for them, people are tired of the bloody show. We have been in constant war for 110+ years, “peace is the prize”.
Enough!
… and let us also remember that Gen. Butler was an extremely decorated commander:
“At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. military history. By the end of his career, Butler had received sixteen medals, including five for heroism. He is the only Marine to be awarded the Marine Corps Brevet Medal, as well as two(!) Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.” (WikiPedia)
So – he knew damned well what he was talking about. Far, far more than [almost …] anyone he was talking to. (In a great many cases, the “Medal of Honor” is awarded posthumously …)
Agreed, Butler along with Patton deserve their place next to Washington.
How sad that in total contravention of his recommendation we haven’t used our troops for an “adequate defense at the coastline…”
Gipper, thank you for sharing this tidbit.
More poignant words have never been spoken. I agree; two reasons; defend your home and defend the bill of rights, that is it. Enough is enough. And this is from someone who has serve over seas, and yes, that damn well means something- as my sons say.
Special Envoy Witkoff has arrived in Moscow to meet with Putin.
I think ‘pressure’ is the wrong word here.
maybe “flail”?
“maybe ‘flail’?”
Verb choices can be very self revealing.
Some psychologists (and psywarfare savvy observers) refer to this type of self revelation as projection.
You know, a really great way to solve the problem of NATO expansion is if there is no more NATO.
And some sort of bilateral trade deal with Russia.
Denazification will be very difficult without a full defeat and occupation of Ukraine. There is no appetite, I think, for the levels of external control required. See also: post war Germany and Japan.
The “foreign mercenaries” problem is important. I don’t think most Americans and Europeans understand the work-around our governments used – contractors – to get around public opposition to boots on the ground in Ukraine.
It is interesting that the president of Poland is stating today that Poland wants nuclear weapons. He says that NATO has expanded eastward and it would make sense for NATO protection of nuclear capabilities to expand eastward also.
Poland is in the process of building up its military rather quickly in the last 2 or 3 years. Finland is also saber-rattling and putting in place more blockage of the Gulf of Finland which is concerning to Russia in the Baltics.
Saadly….there is no cure for russophobic polacks & baltic chihuahuas…
C’mon, it’s not the Russians the Polacks are worried about; it’s the unchecked power of the EU. Think about Poland, their stances, the words used, and how they straddle the fence.
Poland, despite being the butt of many stupid jokes, is the smart one here. They are carefully reading the tealeaves to best understand what is best for them; in this EU world, that requires them to be savvy.
NOW YER TALKIN’ HOKKODA!
“…if there is no more NATO.
And some sort of bilateral trade deal with Russia.”
Let NATO officially become the face of the unelected EU, without any American ties attached…
And with a bilateral trade deal, an attack on Russia is an attack on an ally of the United States.
The globalist puppets tied to the Biden regime want a war with the common people, do they?
Well, here is a whole nation of MAGA patriots just spoiling for a fight…and there are twice as many European and Anglo-Commonwealth patriots waiting for somebody to show them how a War of Independence gets won.
This time, we’ll have reinforcements from Russia, just like we did when Tsaress Catherine aided us in 1812 (and we aided her nation against the British as well, American clipper ships were invented to get past the British blockade of Russia’s coast.)
ps- Hokkoda, I cannot stress enough how much I admire your always fine, informed, and intelligent approach.
Hok, I get your point (at least I think I do) about the “foreign mercenaries” problem but that’s on those merceneries. Too bad, so sad. And, I’m not but if I was Trump, I’m sure this has already been considered and brought up. My guess is Trump said “Do what you will, they are mercenaries, and not very fine ones but mercenaries none the less. Merceneries, no allegiance, none, what so ever, not even good merceneries, peace is the goal but if mercenaries are the issue, then they must go. Geneva convetion says no protection, none. Zero. Not a good thing for mercenaries but could be good for the U.S, could be, depends.”
Some foreigners are more azov than others.
A non-negotiator senior journalist editor clearly expresses the Russian position [as he sees it]. Then, along with the viewpoints of several other senior Russian strategists and philosophers:
https://www.rt.com/russia/614082-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-experts/
“A ceasefire only benefits those who are retreating.”
Importantly, throughout this perspective is literally centuries of European and Russian view. Which now cannot be discounted.
“Thirdly, what is clear and directly follows from President Putin’s statements, is that we have very specific conditions for any peace agreement. A mere ceasefire won’t satisfy us; we need a resolution that addresses our interests and acknowledges the fundamental reasons behind the conflict.”
Well, “that is entirely fair.”
“And, there is much more.” Have a read . . .
It is entirely fair; Russia is winning. Only the western bought and paid for media paints it the other way. But anyone paying attention whether via funding or seeing videos on Reddit or TikTok, knows that Ukraine is not in a good spot.
They are only here because of U.S. tax dollars. Yet, they purposely ignore this fact. And then the EU doubles down on stupidity. Why? Because the U.S. has a base in Rhamstein and has paid for in $$$ and dead U.S. servicemen and women to protect Europe and the EU can’t fathom the U.S. not protecting them…hence the name calling and bullying. This has worked pretty well previously….but not anymore.
They can pack sand.
Were the troops all disarmed?
Kremlin spokesman Peskov, in answer to a reporter’s question said that Russia would hear directly from the Americans, not the media, and formulate an answer after hearing what the Americans tell them.
Here is a link to his statement.
https://tgstat.ru/en/channel/@DDGeopolitics/141971
Lukashenko (Belarus president) is in Moscow today also.
As it should be. The media, especially the American media, is known for being untruthful. Not just confused or misinformed but out right liars.
A great geopolitical analyst discusses US-Russian relations in the context of the recent ceasefire proposal.
The media are nothing more than an organ of the Deep State; why is anyone surprised at their feeding a false narrative to those of us who don’t have an independent source of information?
Putin is winning bigly. Winners don’t accept ceasefires without a very good reason.
The only reason I can fathom why Putin would accept a ceasefire is to give the Ukes time to hold an election, because active fighting is why Zelenskyy said they can’t hold an election.
It’s simple: no Zelenskyy, no war.
The question is, who has the testicular fortitude to run against him, since the gloalists will be gunning for Zelenskyy’s opposition. Literally, and figuratively.
The western media are thoroughly discredited liars to all non-pretenders.
“…a ceasefire…to give the Ukes time to hold an election”
Why, that’s an excellent observation.
Who gives them time- Trump. Because if the globalist interfere- Trump pulls the U.S. all the way out. And that is something no EU politico wants to happen. Why? Because then they have to step up and put THIER MONEY where THEIR MOUTHS are……
They don’t want that, it’s better to have the U.S. as a shield.
They must have the U.S. because they are incapable of doing anything they demand of us, like bigger better weapons and boots on the ground. I recommend you watch Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Col. MacGregor. The colonel explains the state of European armies very clearly. Simply put, they ain’t all that.
So this is Putins starting point for negotiations
Indeed, our task in the near future, in the shortest possible time to finally defeat the enemy entrenched in the territory of the Kursk region and still fighting here, to completely liberate the territory of the Kursk region, to restore the situation along the line of the state border. And, of course, it is necessary I would like to ask you to think in the future about creating a security zone along the state borders – this also needs to be thought about.
Clear your people out of Kursk and respect the new security zone we set up. Further more.
All people who are on the territory of the Kursk region, commit crimes against the civilian population here, counteract Our Armed Forces, law enforcement agencies and special services, in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation, are terrorists.
Any combatants left behind in Kursk will be treated as criminals so we will continue mopping up within our security zone regardless of cease fires. So leave the Kursk region now.
I would expect Russia to offer a safe passage out to the unarmed willing to leave over a period of a few days. Ukraine may not agree to order them out or the cease fire but I believe we have reach this point Russia has what it wants and the forces required to secure it with air and armillary. I am merely speculating (because there is no solid frountline reporting) that Ukraine can no longer organize effective infantry incursion into the Kursk region
There will be no safe passage for any AFU or mercenary who is unarmed willing to leave. They have committed terrible crimes in Kursk, everything from looting to destruction to murder to multiple murders of civilians.
Many of the AFU soldiers in Kursk were prisoners who were taken out of jails and told that they could do whatever they wanted in Kursk. The mercenaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention and they would not be allowed to just walk away.
After capturing Sudzha, the Russians are bringing out the civilians who were left there. Already this morning, they have flown 145 people to Moscow hospitals.
passage
Ukrainian troops were sent to Donbas by someone in 2014.
I’m not sure if those troops trusted those orders or the support units.
fwiw
-Hundreds of Ukrainian troops cross into Russia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-hundreds-ukraine-troops-defect-russia-military-drills-border/
Patrick Lancaster was there recently.
Patrick is independent journalist who
has been covering the conflict..since 2014.
Kursk Frontline: Massacred Civilians Found as Ukraine Soldiers Retreat – YouTube
👆 👆 👆
One month ago
💥 💥 💥 After a group of Ukrainian soldiers
were found shackled together in a room,
given only weapons and ammo…no food
or water ..to force them to fight and not
flee or surrender…were found by Russian
troops.
The video and the response by the Russian
troops definitively conveyed their outrage.
There were survivors, and I have no doubt that
the names of those commanders and whoever
else was responsible are known by the Russians.
In one of the articles was this statement…
“It is not often that we face crimes for which there
is neither a tribunal, nor a court of officer’s honor,
nor even an “eye for an eye” response. It seems
that sometimes absolute evil shows itself in all
its glory just to remind us of its existence. Since
ancient times, the people who committed this evil
have been called host is humani generis
(enemy of the human race).”
It was a recent event…and I did post
the story here…🤷♀️💁♀️
Just saw a report that Putin has rejected Ukraine’s cease fire offer …
Clivus do you have a source ? The media has been reporting Putin turned this down before the deal was minted.
Posted below and it appears to be just posturing, rather than an outright rejection of peace
“i would like to ask you to think about in the future creating security zones along state borders”.i don’t think he will quit until those buffer zones are set up and fortified.he is gonna keep pushing and clearing the land to open up a killing field,while he puts massive divisions along the borders,then pull back to the lines.he gets back what he wanted and is set up to keep it.then and only then will he maybe come to the table with a possible cease-fire agreement.
“Just saw a report that Russia had rejected Ukraine’s ceasefire offer”.
Fortunately, since sophisticated online psyop attacks on our minds and hearts are now happening 24/7, media reports, both mainstream and alt, provide invaluable ” How PsyWarfare Savvy or Still Vulnerable Are You?” diagnostic quizzes each and every day. 😘
Fwiw…..
at this point in Team Trumps official Ukraine/Russia peace negotiation PROCESS between the two parties
there’s obviously been NO “ceasefire offer”.
So what IS Team Trump via President Trumps personal friend and Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, actually in Moscow to offer ” Putin”?
A formal INVITATION for Putins officially appointed envoys to have an exploratory, face to face MEETING with Ukraines officially appointed envoys.
Untrue as usual.
One aide gave a personal opinion.
#ProfessionalLiars
You post a Newsweek article……c’mon. USAID says thanks. As does Victoria Nuland.
obviously there is NO money the war can’t going on continue,
stop contributions money to Ukraine.
peace is the only option for innocent citizens life.
This conflict is NOT the fault of the United States; we didn’t start it. It is not our war.
PDJT is giving it his best shot at “trying” to end it.
It is not PDJT’s fault if the Ukes and Ruskies don’t want to stop fighting it.
We have enough problems at home.
Time to pull the plug on Ukraine and tell them they are on their own.
If the EU bitches and complains – tell them FAFO – we’re pulling 50% of our troops off the Continent.
Obama and Biden did start this war.
Everything else I agree with whole heartedly
I trust PJDT will use this to extract from NATO
Me too. We started this war.
We stopped it from ending already.
PDJT is trying to end it, but it is NOT his responsibility.
NATO and what it represents is the major problem here.
And Bush, Jr.
Extract from NATO, you bet, I hope PJDT extracts us from the neocon-built 20th Century!
(NHNative is right, it is The Great Reset of the Geo-Political landscape.)
This can’t be good.
Poland’s president has called on the US to transfer nuclear weapons to Polish territory as a deterrent against future Russian aggression.
Archived, paywall free link 👉 Poland’s president urges US to move nuclear warheads to Polish territory
He doesn’t look like he’s in the negotiating mood. The Ukies and the Europeans better get their heads around the reality-mind you they purposely avoid reality
He looks to me like he’s toying with Zelensky.
The brand new camo.
Yes, he does not appear to be in a conciliatory mood.
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Won’t Europe Help ‘Rockstar’ Zelenskyy? (5:40)
12 Mar 2025
Good talk. One thing to note though is there is no singular “[federal] Europe” and as sucn there is no entity that has 500 million people.
Europe is a patchwork of sovereign nations, each with their own stakes, language, CULTURE, desires and direction.
They are trying hard to blur the lines between the different nations though. But you can’t really blur away the difference between a German and a France. They are trying hard though.
The “Europe” top is mostly a bunch of UNELECTED and SELF_APPOINTED thieves and thugs that think they know best and their prime mission is to extort through taxes and grants the plebs and peasants that they feel are living in “their Europe”
If Europe wete a “democratic” entity then the irony is it should not even exist. As the Federal crap and european “constitution” were voted against in Referedums in the Netherlands and one other country I forgot. As such “Europe” as it is sold today is an illegal entity – by democratic terms.
Europe as a economic union – up until the 90’s or so – worked. Sort of. And that is all that likely ever worked.
Europe as a “federal” superstate is a flopped project. It is an anti-democratic grift of thugs and thieves.
Once again, Sundance, Thank You for your succinct explanations!
It is a pleasure to “sit in your classroom”.
Continued BLESSINGS!
Putin isn’t stupid. Why, if Ukraine has agreed to a ceasefire with the goal of permanent peace, is President Trump re-starting arms shipments to them? And renewing financial support?
Putin can only see this as a temporary pause to allow Ukraine to regroup and re-arm.
Putin Rejects US Temporary Ceasefire Plan, Appears In Military Fatigues | ZeroHedge
Ushakov has no say in what President Putin will decide and is not a spokesman for the president. This article is posturing and guessing.
“Putin Rejects US Temporary Ceasefire Plan”.
Very curious headline.
Since NO ” US Temporary Ceasefire Plan” exists (thank God) its fascinating to monitor those who actually believe such a reality disconnected headline and/or spread this psyop du jour narrative.
I Pray President Trump is able to wrangle our manufactured U-crane Mafia. IMHO, President Putin has been more than patient with “our” provocations.
I heard Buck Sexton say “Putin started the war” yesterday.. I wonder if Bucko was at
Langley around 2014..
His candor yesterday suggested to me that he is quietly terrified of the UKR Secret Police Death Squads like the one who got Alex Jones’ reporter.
Would you like to know just how stupid Zelensky and his generals really are?
Russia conducted this same pincer movement on Germany as it did with Ukraine and IN THE SAME EXACT LOCATION. That operation even has a name as it’s in the history books: Operation Citadel.
Russia was taking a chance that Zelensky and his generals have never picked up a history book, and the bet paid off.
JEFF CHILDERS:
Unsurprisingly, salients are notorious for causing military disasters. Ironically, one of the most famous examples happened in precisely the same locale, except backwards. In 1943, the Soviets left a massive, tempting bulge in their lines in Kursk, tempting Hitler into an ill-considered attack. Germany launched Operation Citadel, an all-out effort to encircle and destroy the Soviet forces in the Kursk salient.
But the Soviets were ready; they knew the attack was coming. They dug in, prepared deep defenses, and transformed the salient into a German death trap. The Germans’ gross miscalculations ultimately led to the loss of the entire Eastern Front.
Some have speculated that Russia tricked the Ukrainians with a “Reverse Citadel” strategy— tempting Kiev into its own Kursk salient death trap. Like the Soviets in 1943, the Russians were again ready, except this time they flipped the script, becoming the attackers instead of the defenders.
Mark Twain said history never repeats itself, but it often rhymes. Ukraine thought it was breaking through, but fell for the same Kursk temptation that doomed the Germans 80 years ago.
Although the media is silent, this devastating Kursk loss is so big that it is hard to imagine all the possible consequences.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-new-abnormal-wednesday-march
This is why Putin chose Kursk as the place to send his message. He’s saying, “I don’t need peace. You do, because the moment you think you’re winning is the moment you’re really losing.”
Ironically, in the TV show (shown in America on Netflix) that helped push the idea of Zelensky as president, he plays a history teacher.
Now that’s just good stuff right there.
Sounds like you should have voted for Biden instead, then, which I’m betting you probably did.
I struggle to keep up with what’s really happening in the midst of my own life and it’s obligations, so this post is another in the many reasons I come here first; who else is providing this careful assessment? Thank you again Sundance.
We don’t need peace. You do. All we care about is that we don’t pay for your fake wars.
If Zelensky rejects the peace plan, this gives us the out we need to wash our hands of it all and say, “Oh, well, we tried.”
You guys want to kill yourselves off? Have fun. We won’t stop you.
Thank you for your common sense reporting of “just the facts, ma’am. It is too exhausting trying to sift through the mountains of lies and spin, so hanging out at the Treehouse is where i find news. Treehouse is like a local coffee shop; a place to sit and chew the fat and keep up what’s happening in our country.
You are mostly right. Our intel community along with NATO is the root problem, but that’s a longer term fix. Putin is not stupid by any means. What could he possibly think of a stupid 30-day truce concurrent with America IMMEDIATELY recommencing arms and cash shipments to Zelensky (who is demonstably a psychopath)? The easiest way to end this war is to remove Zelensky as quickly as we installed him. Then tell his successor (now no longer controlled by our CIA) what the terms for Ukraine’s survival are.
There’s a theory extant that neocons might have pushed PDJT into the ceasefire request to make him look bad because they knew Putin would reject it.
This person is biased against Trump (it’s a woman, despite the name) so you have to look at it through that filter:
“So what does the Trump Administration think it is doing by retying the Ukraine millstone to its neck? This isn’t Trump’s war. The Oval Office row provided him with the perfect excuse to cut Zelensky loose, even put new elections as the condition for providing much help, and provide only bare bones support (not that the US could do more than that on the weapons front) so as to blunt criticism that the US was abandoning Ukraine, as opposed to getting them to sober up about their true condition.
One possibility is that the US really believes that Russia is faring badly economically and is taking high enough manpower losses so as to make the war hard to sustain, and so all the Putin/Lavrov talk about “no ceasefire” is posturing and they will accept the ceasefire to start talks.
A variant of this line of thinking is the profit rather than cost side: that Russia stands to benefit so much from economic relief and resumed trade with West that it will get over itself and start negotiating with Ukraine. Recall that Rubio has said there would be no sanctions relief before an agreement was reached to end the war.
Another option is that the neocons (and recall Rubio is a neocon) have successfully played on Trump’s fixation with ceasefires, knowing that Russia won’t play ball. So Trump will look foolish (of course assuming Trump does not find some way to fabricate what happened to present himself as driving events). And he’ll get angry at Putin and the Russians, which will either stop or greatly reduce the possibility of better relations.”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/so-much-for-trumps-peace-deal-with-russia-us-backs-zelensky-with-pre-rejected-by-russia-ceasefire-scheme.html#comment-4188085
Every time you see a photo of Rubio he looks “sheepish”. He does not have the Presidents back.
“He does not have the President’s back”.
A Light Hearted reaction question….
Et tu?
Projection, perchance?
#SerenityPrayer #MAGAMAHA
“NakedCaputalism”
Some anonymous armchair fem opiner from Europe goes online to share her current thots about the Dopey Orange Man, PDJT.
Noticing the pavlovian psywar cue word, “NeoCon” that tends to automatically trigger sentience suppressing toxic emotions?
Those who are psywarfare savvy and/or spiritually mature realize that psyop victims typically become victimizers ie psyop spreaders.
Yes
The World’s Longest Serving Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers,
Mario Nawfal, Larry C.Johnson and Andrew Napolitano March 12, 2025
Jeffrey Sachs: “Lavrov is absolutely remarkable. Russia has one of the best diplomats I’ve ever seen.”
https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1899820211450081769
I smelled fake news in this area at the very start when everyone in the media was hyperventilated about how Ukraine was heroically defending Kiev from the all out assault, as if the fate of freedom and democracy itself hung in the balance
And then I kept seeing pics of the eight wheeled troop carriers, the BTR-80 .. which I recognized as a 40 year old piece of equipment. And the numbers I was hearing were 100K Russian
Sorry, but 100K troops using outdated equipment is not a serious attempt to storm a city of 3 million. Seventy years prior, the USSR deployed a million men in three Army Groups (so called Fronts)
And they also deployed their very latest model of a monster tank known as the IS-2 with a 122m gun which abused Tigers in the same way Tigers had toyed with Shermans .. because that’s what you need
There was a dearth of war correspondents.
MARCH 13 2025
Russian thoughts about the ceasefire
Assistant to the Russian President Yuri Ushakov stated that in a conversation with Mike Waltz, he outlined Russia’s position on the need for a long-term settlement in Ukraine.
He emphasized that steps imitating peaceful actions are unnecessary for anyone.
Other statements by him:
The proposed temporary ceasefire in Ukraine is nothing more than a temporary respite for Ukrainian military forces;
Russia hopes that the US will take its demands for a settlement in Ukraine into account;
Russia and the US agree that Ukraine’s accession to NATO cannot be discussed in the context of a settlement.
More Statements from Ushakov:
There is a normal exchange of views between Russia and the U.S., conducted in a calm manner.
The Americans understand that Ukraine’s NATO membership is not up for discussion in the context of a peace settlement.
Steps that merely imitate peace efforts in Ukraine are useless to anyone.
Russia hopes that the U.S. will take its demands into account in the Ukraine settlement process.
The U.S. has designated a mediator for negotiations with Russia—though it is not Steve Witkoff.
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1900145956781203911
Call RFK, Jr..
Get rid of NATO. Then nobody can fight over it.
😍 + 😂😂😂
Nostradoomers, once again, btfo.
Hopfully, more and more of them will begin to wait, watch, ponder, learn and improve…….
before their time to do so runs out.
And? That’s what Trump and Putin are trying to do while the EU, Zelenskyy, and US Senators thwart the process.
“thwart the process”
Fortunately, TRYING to “thwart the process” =/= they succeeded or will succeed.
In fact, its become more and more obvious over the past 10+ years (thank God for PDJT) that their ability to meaningfully thwart anything is a figment of the thwarters pride blinded imaginations and psywarfare fuelled fantasies.
MARCH 13 2025
Savvy move by President Trump and his team.
This move counters the NWO Regimes attack narratives about President Trumps trying to end the killing and destruction in Ukraine because
as /pol/ would trollishly say, “ackshually tRump is PuTiNs PuPpEt”.
Orange Man Rad. And so is Vlad. 😍
Any prisoners of that Kursk attack are not in for a good time. I saw what the Russians did to the surviving terrorists of that concert hall attack. They beat some of those into a pulp.
Those who were part of the Crocus Hall
massacre were not military…but terrorists.
They were not enemies troops facing each
other on a battlefield, but those who were
responsible for killing civilians…including
women and children.
The Russians are not Barbarians that take
the killing of women and children lightly….
it is the worst crime of all.
The Russians have followed the Geneva convention, just stop with the gross misrepresentation. I”m sure some are bad apples but whe are we to say anything….I’m sure you recall our soldiers doing dastardly things to the enemy. But, then, I don’t care if they do- it’s fricking war and I’m not naive.
And Gypsy touched on the key point about the attack on the concert hall- those were terrorists, or, special operators, with “no military” connection. They deserve what they got; and by the way, Putin said that’s exactly what the mercenaries will get when captured- they are not soldiers nor are they covered under the Geneva rules of war.
They will be knee-capped, tortured, and maybe killed. And yes, that means Americans….but oh, well, they chose to be mercenaries. Live the life of a dog you die like a dog and dogs are better than mercenaries.
Well, Vindy, you can always go negotiate peace with Putin instead. You’re good at going behind people’s backs and making backroom deals.
Vindy being an example of the INTENTIONAL domestic blowback of USAID funding overseas.
I have no official confirmation that Russia has dismissed Trump’s offer. This is propaganda and Vindman is certainly not someone to trust.
I believe common sense will tell you Russia won’t accept the offer. Ask yourself what does Russia receive out of this ceasefire? Hell, they are winning and accomplishing the goals they set.
Now what do you say to the fact that Russia just agreed to the peace plan?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/13/russian-president-vladimir-putin-visits-frontline-troops-in-kursk-region-ahead-of-u-s-envoy-witkoff-traveling-to-moscow/#comment-11641641
He will go back to the pretty lady on CNN or MSNBC and cry out to the screen “Oh, they say you lie and I see that a ceasefire in principle is on the table but you are truth,…oh, beautiful liberal woman…..how you are so much smarter than me, tell me the ways of a a man being a a woman!”
One of the things I enjoy about both President Trump AND Putin (plus the countries they represent)
is that both are gifted transcedent trolls.
Military camo wearing Putin’s Kursk photo op was hilarious on so many levels
including as a sly dig at Zelensky, the costume clad actor who is still the Europhilic NWO’s Warlord of Kiev.
But he should be tried.
Why would anyone believe anything this traitor says?
Who cares what this tool says? Why post it? Why share it? Why give him credence.
This is no different than “R infuencers’ claiming to be for the conservative side but all they post is videos of leftists saying leftists things while posing something like “Liberal D-Bag says Putin Bad, Trump Bad, you retards!!” What are your thoughts? Go!!!!!
Usually at this point, I just say, I don’t give a crap what the person you posted says and more so, the only reason I know it exists is because you, a so called conservative influencer, posted the liberal talking points, while only saying something along the lines of “They saying it, what your thoughts? MAGA rules!’ Like a bunch if ignorant douchebags. Don’t repost their crap, thus, they have no reach, thus, if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound, well, no, not one that can be heard, thus it ends, so stop.
To let us know what kind of lies are being said, and by whom?
And if you know they are liars, why does it matter what they say or by whom?
Do you go to liars in real life for advice to weigh on? Why not? Well, because they are known liars and they lie; thus, you don’t go to them or pay them heed. But on the internet…go forth and seek the liars, take in what they say!! Yes, they lie, but take it all in!!!!
Nah, they are liars, so I don’t care.
MARCH 13 2025
COL. Douglas Macgregor : Is Trump For Peace?
The Ceasefire Kabuki
Bannon’s justified rant starts at 2:26 after the MSNBC segment shown.
Bannon: “We’re Certainly Not Prepared To Underwrite The Death Of 1.8 Million People” (16:50)
Bannon’s War Room
12 Mar 2025
https://rumble.com/v6qjtv2-bannon-were-certainly-not-prepared-to-underwrite-the-death-of-1.8-million-p.html
A Light Hearted question reaction to a Bannon “rant”
Bannon == Alex Jones 2.0?
Create stress. Sell stress re!urging supplements. Rinse and repeat.
Witkoff is going to meet directly with Vladimir Putin THIS EVENING. So, they haven’t yet met and no Russian statement on the ceasefire has been released.
Anyone saying that Russia has rejected the ceasefire is LYING.
The units listed in the message from President Putin … have remained the elite of the elite of the Russian Army, even from the days of the USSR.
Some of them were even among the troops used by former FSB Commander, now President Putin to put down the revolt in Moscow in the 1990’s.
Essentially the Praetorian Guard of the Russian Republic.
The Russians meant business, removing the Kursk Bargaining Card from Z-Man.
Now Z-Man has his best NATO Trained and Manned units pocketed in Kursk. From the latest reports, the “new” idiot Ukrainian as well as as panicked NATO Commanders are moving more troops from other fronts in a attempt to help them retreat.
The clock is running … counting down between a “peace deal” vs a total collapse of Ukrainian defense.
And if the defense collapses before the deal is made, well, Zelenskyy will defeinaltey be removed from power and Ukraine will be giving up a larger swath of it’s eastern border, way more than if a deal is made prior.
And the best part will be Trump’s “I told Zelenskyy……..” speech.