The dynamic is obvious to any intellectually honest observer, which is to say U.S. and Western media disqualify themselves and continue pushing preferred EU narratives.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the latest U.S. proposal for a minerals deal that would create a partnership to repay the United States for ongoing financial support. According to Zelenskyy, the deal to share in oil, gas and mineral revenue would amount to debt that would disqualify them from EU membership due to unstable financials.
However, it is important for U.S. readers to remember the U.S. aid package already underway pays for the entire operation of the Ukraine federal spending liabilities, including pensions, government worker paychecks and everything normally within a govt budget. U.S. taxpayers are not only subsidizing the war with munitions, but we are also subsidizing the government operation and citizens of Ukraine. Within that spending there is MASSIVE corruption ongoing.
When Zelensky rejects (1) the terms of a “minerals deal,” (2) rejects U.N peacekeepers, (3) rejects the predicate for peace that Russia will retain part of Eastern Ukraine geography, and (4) rejects the offered security guarantees, he is also rejecting the idea that American taxpayers should be repaid for all their support.
Almost all of these rejections appear based on Zelensky’s belief the U.K, France and European allies can replace any support lost by President Trump changing his approach toward Ukraine. Zelensky, who has not been elected, is developing a reputation for being so difficult, so demanding, so spoiled and temperamental that neither Vladimir Putin nor President Trump wants to deal with him.
Against this backdrop, the ceasefire deal is tenuous at best. Russia, who previously said they did not expect Zelensky to stand by any ceasefire proposal, continues to launch airstrikes against Ukraine as Zelensky continues to prove Vladimir Putin correct by rejecting U.S. proposed terms for a ceasefire – while claiming Russia is not abiding.
Western Ukrainians are influenced more by the propaganda from the European Union, Brussels, France and the U.K, than they are from NATO military.
The support for war amid the EU member states is directly proportional to the severity of their leftist, socialist and WEF tendencies. The more anti-nationalist the nation state is, the more likely they support the Ukraine war.
As this larger dynamic continues, one can imagine President Trump frustratingly accepting the need for Vladimir Putin to go even harder against Ukraine. The current interim terms include both Ukraine and Russia not targeting energy infrastructure; however, both nations appear to have -at least collaterally- violated that concept.
If a targeted Russian strike takes down a municipal power pole, Zelensky calls it an attack on “energy infrastructure.” If a Russian missile hits the street and disrupts a natural gas line, Zelensky repeats the claim. As the narrative is pushed, if a Ukranian soldier is recharging his cell phone at the time he is hit, energy producing infrastructure has been targeted.
The bottom line is becoming very obvious. NATO countries and the western media who support them, demand President Trump must maintain support for Ukraine, as Zelensky rejects any proposed terms from President Trump to end the conflict.
Russia keeps attacking. A belligerent Volodymyr Zelensky, who will not accept any terms for negotiated peace (so far), continues playing the victim and saying Russia is violating terms needed for peace. NATO and the EU alliance continue telling Zelensky to keep fighting; Zelensky rejects anything that stops the fighting; NATO and the EU alliance continue demanding that President Trump support Zelensky. That’s the current cycle.
The CIA, as viewed through their spokespeople at the Washington Post, continue snarking at President Trump for not ending the war on Day #1; while the same CIA keeps organizing the Ukraine/EU forces to attack Russia, stimulating a continuation of the war they snark at Trump for not stopping.
Toward that end, the CIA carveouts in the EU are refining their North American strategy to install an ideology favorable to their global interventionist efforts on our northern border, Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney represents the interests of the World Economic Forum, the European Union and the traditional CIA control mechanisms.
BRUSSELS — In rejecting Russia’s demand to lift Western sanctions in exchange for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, European leaders are showing they could still be players in Washington’s talks.
Europe is seeking to retain its leverage as President Donald Trump moves to strike a deal with Russia to stop the war in Ukraine. But some of Russia’s key demands — including sanctions relief and the end of military aid to Ukraine — require European buy-in. (more)
If the pretending were to end, I mean if the BIG UGLY really were to start to come into play, President Trump might announce a complete removal of U.S. sanctions against Russia. That would trigger simultaneous ‘splodey heads in DC and throughout Western media. However, I doubt the casual American political observer would understand the reason, and that makes it too politically challenging for President Trump to accomplish.
The retention of pretending is frustrating and obviously something President Trump is trying to eliminate. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are doing a great job so far assisting that effort.
Zed could use some rehab. This is like dealing with a meth addict family member who clings to delusions and constantly shows up to demand money.
When tough love is applied the methed up individual lashes out.
Says and does outrageous things, then after the mania subsides they act like nothing happened and they reassume the pityful victim role.
It’s really something to behold on the National Stage.
This drug addict has deep debt and is a crappy poker player, surrounded by thugs nastier than he.
I don’t believe he is long for this world.
His nation will be humbled forcibly, as he would have it no other way.
Between listening to Putins last presser,
the status of the frontlines tactically/strategically,
the weather conditions….the mud 😖drying
up….the frontlines are about to move quickly and
get really Ugly.
🙏 🙏 🙏 Pray for Peace 🙏🙏
I’m praying for a resolution that makes a sustained peace possible and likely.
I am too, but if that does not happen with our without our support, I don’t want the US involved in WW3.
President Monroe got it right, stay out of European wars.
Zelensky: “Putin will be dead soon.”
Seconds later (reported yesterday)…
One of President Putin’s limos explodes outside Secret Service headquarters in Moscow.
President Trump trying to find that solution with an increasingly bellicose and provocative EU/NATO working against him…with a little help from their friends in dark subterranean confines this side of the pond no doubt.
A modern day Pushmi-Pullyu.
Divine intervention much needed.
Good morning Betsy…..luckily…it was fake news..but with Z all nasty things are possible…
Good morning, sejmon.
I am very glad to hear it. Nevertheless, I’m sure President Putin will be upping all precautions.
The EU/NATO push for actionable confrontation is so obvious now, I am half expecting that one red false flag, that lit match, to give the excuse. Watching Poland (Tusk) with special interest as Von der Leyen and Rutte both are escalating their war rhetoric.
Blessings always, my friend….
Here, sejmon….third place I’ve found it.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/blast-in-one-of-vladimir-putins-official-limousines-triggers-fresh-assassination-concerns/articleshow/119758547.cms?from=mdr
Yes, and as long as we continue to assist him, his behavior will continue. All aid needs to be withdrawn. The sooner, the better.
Agreed
Zellensky showed who he is at the White House a month or so back.
Trump needs to walk away IMO because there is no indication that Zellensky is going to change.
VSGPDJT…. cut of all aid…..concentrate on domestic agenda only !!!!
“According to Zelenskyy, the deal to share in oil, gas and mineral revenue would amount to debt that would disqualify them from EU membership due to unstable financials.”
Well now ain’t that rich! The post-elected little dictator snubbing his primary benefactor to make cozy with the EU.
It’s enough to want the US to make the EU leadership feel the hurt directly in the next gambit of PDJT’s negotiation.
God bless all on this day of Our Lord.
Heaven Forbid we should contaminate an up and coming Country like Ukraine with our Nation wrecking Unstable Financial injections!!
Thank you, Sundance!
We can’t walk away and let Britain and France try to light off WWIII.
But we need to be as hands off as we can manage, and let Russia protect her people, no one else can.
If Peace is our Prize, the Treaty cannot be a second Versailles.
At this point I don’t care if President Putin steamrolls the EU like a tube of toothpaste. Is life in Russia any more Draconian than Starmers United Kaliphate?
Sundance wandered Russia for months without any surveillance.
Nearly twenty years ago I wandered London, found the surveillance oppressive, the angry robed strangers menacing, the yobs hauling cases of booze into my intended quarters for the stay highly unsettling, and refused to even spend the night in the country; and three days later places I had been were bombed in 7/7.
Russia may be Europe’s only hope, which may be why destroying her is Britain’s ancient obsession.
And she usually gets someone else to do much of the dirty work (e.g. France in the Crimean War).
Russia’s original sin is their deep nationalism and orthodox church.
There’s also that matter of not wanting to be beholden to the global financial system run European central banks.
Putin has yet to subdue Ukraine in over three years, and people are worried about him taking over Europe. The Russian assault has not exactly been blitzkrieg. So how is Russia going to conquer and keep all of Europe? Russia has a declining population and a lot of young men not wanting do die for empire.
The only way that happens is if the EU provokes WW3 and China, North Korea, and Iran join Russia. I think Hungary’s Orban will also sit out WW3 and probably Turkey to, though both currently NATO members. They would be very wise to do that.
Putin has shown incredible *restraint* in the face of UN/ NATO aggression via Ukraine. Do not confuse restraint with weakness.
“Putin has yet to subdue Ukraine in over three years”
Was there “ever” an intention for President Putin to “subdue” Ukraine? Or Europe as the TV weenies have been claiming?
I don’t believe so.
I believe it’s more of a brushback and cleanse operation.
His hits appear to have had specific intentions. Bombing biolabs for instance.
He’s not as much fighting Ukraine as he is fighting an infringement closer and closer to his border. He’s fighting a Globalist invasion right on his doorstep.
He hasn’t been shy about saying his exact reasons for his actions. The news can gaslight all they want but he has been very clear all along. The news continues to pretend not to know.
It would appear he’s not so much invading as he is pushing back and cleaning out the Globalist filth that moved in next door. It’s the ultimate NIMBY move. Don’t put your biolabs in my back yard.
Guessing he will ask for the removal of the huge Nunn-Lugar lab in neighboring Georgia too. The one named after two U.S. Senators. Why is it there in the country of Georgia? What the hell are we doing?
Lugar and Obama were the two senators who pushed for and got funding for the original biolabs in Ukraine. Look it up. It was easy to find.
At the start of this, I vaguely remember Putin speaking of preserving Russian heritage which I think included a ‘no’ to transgender stuff. Was he for real or trying to garner average American support, given the immigration issues we are/were facing?
That is for real on transgender, homosexuality and immigration. It is Russian policy and will remain Russian policy. Putin has almost total support in Russia, especially in the rural areas. What dissension there is occurs in the few major cities.
Putin’s approval rating at 80%, trust remains high – intellinews- 3/14/25
Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to enjoy the trust of 83% of the Russian populace, according to a poll by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), conducted between March 7 and 9, TASS reported on March 14.
https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2025/03/intellinews-putins-approval-rating-at-80-trust-remains-high/
You are making my point that Putin wants to restore the Soviet Empire and take over Europe is all fearmongering. Russia wants to be left alone to build their economy. Russia wants friendly nation on her borders. Russia wants ethnic Russians in the Ukraine safe from the government shooting missiles at them. They had that until Obummer and Potato Joe interfered and other threw a Russia friendly Ukraine for a belligerent Neo Nazi Ukraine. Originally Russia wanted the eastern break away provinces that are ethnic Russians and would prefer to stay with Russia. Crimea was never a Ukrainian province until Stalin included them as an administrative measure under the Soviet Union. Again most Crimean’s prefer to be with Russia.
That Putin will take over Europe is pure fearmongering.
Yes, we are in agreement.
I’ve heard Crimea was taken because of “Western” threats to it/encroachment and the threat of Russia losing its access to that warm water port.
Russia’s initial attempt to take Kiev was, in my opinion, only undertaken to try to knock out Ukraine right at the start and end the war very quickly. That did not succeed because, after all, the last time they tried such an assault was 80 years ago and lack of experience or whatever caused it to fail. When it didn’t succeed, they pulled completely away from Kiev and have not tried to go there again, which may be a key to understanding what they are up to. After failing to take Kiev they have contented themselves with a war of attrition slowly grinding away at Ukraine’s military while at the same time establishing a zone to protect those eastern provinces.
It tells me they do not want to occupy all of Ukraine and never did. They just want the eastern Russian areas protected and Ukraine’s ability to threaten them and Russia as a whole ended or seriously reduced. If that is true, then they never were and are not now a real threat to Poland or any of the rest of the EU or NATO.
So why are Z’s globalist backers and controllers so intent on keeping the war going? Is it to protect the many years of using Ukraine for money laundering and other shenanigans? Whatever it is, it must be so important to them that they are willing to see the U.S. end the support we have been giving to Europe for so many decades in order to protect it.
Probably not.
Well put.
European civilization is collapsing. We cannot save them. We need to walk away until and if they step up to defend themselves. We need to tell them and Russia that we are out. We will not stop the Europeans from commiting suicide.
at this point, the US needs to put most of its efforts into saving ourselves first
The whole world almost, is becoming Sodom and Gomorrah.
So true AG. We are on the TItannic. We might be able to save ourselves thanks to electing Trump. It is still a long shot. The incredible fighting against MAGA shows the evil. They prefer illegals to Americans. They prefer killing babies to saving civilization. There is only 1 thing that creates such massive evil.
I will never forget that Tuesday night. The forces of evil clapped for only 1 thing. WAR. WAR in everyway possible. Death and more death.
I believe we have to walk away to get a peace deal! President Trump saying kind words about Zelensky has been rewarded with his recanting of the mineral deal and belligerent, bellicose, outrageous demands for peace! There will be no peace as long as EU supported Zelensky is in charge of the Ukraine and the sooner President Trump realizes it the better! Future aid must be tied to the Ukraine getting rid of Zelensky! JMO
‘drank down my last swallow…bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light….’ and ‘know when to walk away and when to run…’ Time for Zman to fold ’em and run.
For some reason, when I see this picture, I can only think of Joe Piscopo doing Sinatra on SNL singing “Under My Thumb”
“It’s down to me, change has come, Thumb!”
It’s time for truth isn’t it
Cut off immediately all financial aid weather for pension or a bomb
Put the CIA wallahs on notice.. 1 more betrayal and your arrested tried and stripped of everything
Damm the judges
They have cohorts who call on rent a crowd
Put Sorus and his son on notice too… Treason not tolerated
F.. these cowboys who think they own the ranch
If cracking the whip doesn’t play then we play for keeps
When one teat on the CIA cash cow dries up, they milk the other teat! But they sure as hell aren’t happy that they have to choose one teat or the udder because they want them both!
The implosion of USAID is a seismic financial blow to the CIA’s money-guzzling need to maintain its influence in world affairs and the pausing of U.S. aid to the Ukraine war effort is another blow…they can’t afford both, so they’re doing their best to crush Trump’s peace initiative and keep the blood money flowing to Zelenskyy!
But if the CIA and EU believes they can conjure up a stable, globalist Canada over the long term they are sadly mistaken!
Canada cannot long exist as a nation, globalist or otherwise, without the largess of the Trump administration, and none of the Brussel buddies are likely to bail out the Great White North with Euros when they aren’t even willing to pay for their own defense!
The globalist agenda is hated by the majority of us and only embraced by the elite minority so pretense is essential to the success of the Build Back Better crowd.
But pretending is becoming ever more difficult when the smoke screen is clearing and we can see the Unholy Alliance of CIA/EU/WEF for what it is!
I have often thought a realistic but vulgar comment would be, “The Statue of Liberty is now dry and chapped from overuse and abuse.”
Time for a break, a little salve and a weaning off.
Those with “eyes to see and ears to hear” can see the unholy alliance exactly for what it is. And those with eyes wide shut will become ever more brazen in their unholy alliance.
I’ve noticed that all those purple ribbons have made a recent resurgence. Those with evil intent are circling the wagons, and they intend to drag every lost sheep with them down that black hole.
Sympathy for the devil, indeed.
Oh ye of little faith…the Good Shepherd will leave the 99 to find the one that is lost. Be strong and prayerful.
The CIA does not appear to be America First.
President Trump and the entire MAGA movement are America First.
That’s the problem in the simplest of terms. Pretty simple.
Has the Agency ever been America First? If they ain’t helping us they’re hurting us at great frnancial expense.
The USA has been milked for all it’s worth to bankroll all those socialist nations who now threaten our sovereignty. Who will prop them up after they kill the golden goose?
I don’t think those in power have thought this thing all the way through. Or maybe they have, but the welfare of their people is *not* the end goal they have in mind.
The US government hasn’t been American first since at least 1913
Federal Reserve Act of 1913 … The old joke, which is not actually funny because it is strictly true, is that the Federal Reserve is neither federal nor is it a reserve.
I think your last sentence is accurate.
The leaders of the one world government. Subjugating us is part of the long term plan. They subjugate us by wreaking havoc on our economy. If they can’t kill us, they will make us poor.
Drop two big bombs.
One on Davos when the big guys are there. One on Brussels when their big guys are there.
Problem solved.
It’s quite apparent that a peaceful resolution cannot be achieved with the Z man at the helm. Time to cut off all ties to the Ukraine. Let the EU globalists take over this mess that Barack and Victoria got us into.
CIA feels emboldened by SignalGate.
Agree with SD’s comment late last week. Watch for President Trump to continue to shift process leadership to Vance/Rubio/Witkoff, icing out Waltz & the CIA.
At some point later this year the CIA will decide that Zellie has outlived his useful life. Watch what happens then.
Time for a few US checks written to finance Ukraine government to mysteriously bounce while DOGE is working under the hood. Zelensky can always call 1-800-4USAID press *1 for customer service. Our call volumes are high and wait times may be long…Z please stay on the line as your call is important to us and we will answer your call in the order received.
And while on hold please listen to our associate: ‘we would like to get a hold of you about your car warranty’….
President Trump should finally start using his presidential authority and do the things that need to be done without bending to the will of our enemies. Such as, getting the US the hell out of NATO and the UN, closing US military bases around the world, stop funding foreign conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, ignore unconstitutional district court edicts and eject all illegal aliens forthwith, and continue the radical deconstruction of the Derp State. He should just do all this and let the chips fall where they may. We all knew the forces of evil in this country and abroad would fight him tooth and nail. So, I say, let it happen!
While I completely agree with every action you cite, I think President Trump is letting it all play out for us.
The longer the better for waking us all up.
The longer all the Lawfare goes on, the longer we see how the Forever War crew/NATO/UN operate, the longer we see the poo flinging anti-DOGE morons, the longer we see the Greenie Weenies burning the holiest of holy of their religion, the “electric vehicles”, the better it is in waking everyone up.
Through the chaos, people are catching on and waking up.
President Trump has these clowns so wrapped around the axle that they are burning themselves down, both literally and figuratively.
As they say, when the enemy is digging themselves into a hole, do you tell them to put down the shovel or do you let them keep digging?
Here’s Victor Davis Hanson’s take of the Ukraine mess. He starts discussion on Ukraine at the 48:40 mark.
Before that, he talks about how WWI was simply paused by Wilson and lead right into to WWII because of how the end of WWI was handled/mishandled.
At the 48:40 mark he draws connections to/comparisons to what’s taking place now in Ukraine. How Ukraine is expecting the Europeans to come to their aid.
Hanson’s take is “Good luck with that!”
He uses historic examples of how all the mice (EU countries) know they need to put a bell around the cat (Russia), but none of them want to be the one to “bell the cat”.
https://rumble.com/v6rcr44-treaty-of-versailles-and-team-trump-plows-ahead.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
The people that planned WWI ended it badly in order to ensure WWII happened.
Same people have always planned for a WWIII, and we are witnessing their attempt to kick it off.
Which is why I am personally adamant that Russia’s legitimate goals be obtained to ensure that no Russophilic populations live at the mercy of an angry humiliated Ukraine that has a terrible unremediated Nazi problem and has recently committed mass atrocities and war crimes.
To the River!
Deny the Sea!
Novorossiya will be Free!
I tried to edit my post above earlier but was timed out.
In the VDH interview, it’s the 48:45-55:00 where he discusses Ukraine and the EU’s lack of desire/ability to fight and their expectation that Big Daddy USA will come to their rescue.
The usually very dry Hanson is very funny in describing how the conversation would go between all the European countries deciding who of them should fight and who is going to ask Big Daddy USA to help. Pretty funny!
Maybe an errant missile will find Zelensky. I wish, anyway.
That, my friend, would be the Arch Duke Ferdinand moment.
Frankly, my concern is the globalist will do just that. Turn that little coke head into a martyr. They ride themselves off a problem and kick off the war they always wanted.
France, Germany and the British should be left holding this bag. They continue to whisper in Z’s ear, prolonging this conflict.
There are only a few who have that target capability.
It’s all connected. Up tariffs on EU products to protect American jobs. 😉😉😉 Lift sanctions on certain items from Belarus: which results in a twofer, p!ssing off the EU and Canada. ‘Keep’ sanctions on Russia, another wink. 😉 😁
I want my Kaspersky back.
President Trump and USA’s way out. Zelinsky has already promised oil, gas, minerals to EU and Ukraine seeks membership to EU.
EU/UK have openly expressed their intent to continue the war just as Zelinsky has.
President Trump could and should just drop all support calling them all war mongers. Elon , if he chose, could discontinue Skylink.
Let em fight it out on their own.
The USA sends Ukraine billions to pay government salaries and benefits all the while the USA is down sizing their own government work force.
Yes…an interesting contradiction in policies.
And in rural areas of all states, HOSPITALS are closing because of lack of funding.
“NATO and the EU alliance continue demanding that President Trump…”
That’s where the current cycle ends.
President Trump is in the Driver’s Seat. No one demands of him. He’s in charge.
He gave us a hint of this when he slapped back at Z in the Oval, “You don’t tell me what pain I will feel. You don’t know. You have no idea. You don’t know and you are not in any position to say. You don’t hold any of the cards.”
President Trump has a mandate from the will of the people. He is calling ALL the shots. ALL of them.
Some silly people can still think/pretend they can demand of him but one by one they are F@cking Around and Finding Out (FAFO) that they can’t.
Some are quick learners. Others take a little longer.
The key to the Art of the Deal is Leverage. President Trump has all of it. He has all of it and he knows it. Despite some useless pretending, most others know he has all the Leverage too.
Coke please!
Not one more dime. Not one more bullet. Not one more target coordinate.
Zelensky isn’t the problem, the EU is.
Cut the cord.
Stop the cash and arms.
Pull the plug.
Tell the American public that Z-Boy will not play ball and we’re putting our time and money into Main Street and rural AMERICA.
Let the Dems and media wail about that.
What is best for the Ukrainian people ?
“NATO and the EU alliance continue demanding that President Trump support Zelensky.”
The question becomes not what the puppet (and his propped up gov’t) is willing to accept but what the people of Ukraine will accept.
EU membership for Ukraine? Yet another reason the NATO pact has become the tool of the warmongers.
To the world EU and NATO are the same and both are subsidized by the USA.
US foreign policy should not be in the hands of malicious leftists on the continent. Let us end the foreign entanglements and agreements, at this point any military assurances to the EU is MAD for us and the world.
Psalm 140
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
JFK him…..
guys gotta go
The whole thing is a fabricated joke – by all parties.
How is American opinion/support influenced? On the ground reporting – video.
None of that is happening.
Want to keelhaul the laundromat? Daily video of the carnage, tours of hospitals that include doctor/nurses describing in detail the injuries being incurred, reports from Russia and Ukraine of civilian casualties, reports with video of Ukrainian officials and their lifestyles, reports on overseas bank accounts, interviews with citizens, histories of the NAZI factions, detailed reports on mercenaries, detailed reports on EU and US force presence.
No one wants this settled. It’s all a scripted program.
Ah remember the old days when we would take out someone like this … yeah I do
Funny that Zelensky brings up EU “rules” as if that ever prevented malfeasance.
Most of Eastern Europe broke “EU rules” upon joining, as do most of Western Europe these days.
Ukraine will never be anything other than a Great Maw, with a bottomless appetite for foreign aid.
President AutoPen created and Congress ratified our 51st State; where shall we put the star on the flag? (I’d prefer shoving it up his or obongo’s butt, but I suspect obongo would enjoy that too much.)
Is peace the prize, or are the minerals?
The US will never recover the trillions wasted on foreign nations that hate us anyway. Z is not a person of integrity, so even a deal giving the US the mineral rights would not be honored, so then what?
Let’s just get the US out of the tangle and let the chips fall wherever they do. Sadly no one seems to want peace, so let them have war until it’s done, but by any and all means STOP FUNDING THE WAR even by finding their government.
You can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.
Walk away, offer not a dime to support their self-destruction, but be willing to offer a helping hand IF they can manage to save themselves first.
History tells me that “Z” is a dead man standing. Very soon now, he’s going to disappear from the world stage, quickly and permanently, and most likely in the usual way. 💀
Europe continues to clamor for “WW3,” even though they no longer remember what that means. Russia, on the other hand, somberly celebrates “Victory Day” every year.
Or WITSEC….I don’t put anything past the war mongers.
I think an interesting aspect of “project Ukraine” is to watch what happens next week when reciprocal tariffs are announced. The EU leadership took a huge gamble betting on being able to loot frozen RUS assets and get away with it; after further tariffs are announced, however, it is going to be questionable as to whether they will be able to fund their dream army when money is flowing out at a pace with which they cannot keep up. Combined with the deindustrialization which has occurred over the last few years, the EU probably will have a higher chance of splitting than the RUS federation.
Many are calling for the complete withdrawal of all forms of US aid to Ukraine (myself included). While I believe it is the morally best position to take, it would leave the current administration vulnerable to all sorts of criticism and a probable renewable of Russian asset nonsense accompanied by a lot of other issues. But what if there was a way for the current administration to reposition itself as wanting to make peace, but being hindered as a result of belligerent parties not being willing to make concessions and committing acts of sabotage whilst doing so? What would be the most logical outcome of such a conflict?
With that in mind, it appears that there will not be a comprehensive withdrawal of US aid, but that instead the RUS forces will deliver a military defeat to the UKR and NATO forces. The following impact would likely provide the current administration an opportunity to exit all positions, strengthen current objectives of adapting to a multi-polar world and further isolate the EU from their goals of militarization. The conclusion should come within the next four to six months, after which there needs to be a hard pivot to fixing the disaster known as MEFP.
The problem is that PDJT stated he could achieve peace in a matter of days when running for election.
It gets to credibility – and whether he understood all the forces in play.
If US influence/funding is removed and mass deaths occur – that becomes a pretext for mismanagement/culpability accusations similar to the Biden Afghan debacle.
I posted this weeks ago: this all settles quickly if Zelensky is removed.
No, the problems don’t go away with the removal of Z. The neo-Nazi militias are ultimately in charge, backed by the C?A, George Soros and other NGO’s, UK, NATO, France. Their battalions have largely been spared the decimation that has affected most of the Ukrainian armed forces.
They will disrupt elections of anyone but someone they favor and they only favor people that are in agreement with their goals. Their goals are to remove Russia from any part of the country they consider theirs and force Russia to give reparations and rebuild the country.
Opinions vary.
You may underestimate how the US (Trump) can influence what follows a Zelensky “absence”.
If he was working with the world of 2020, I think he would have. New threats, governments and ideologies, new obstacles got in the way.
Does anyone know how many Ukrainians have sought asylum here in the US, as a result of this mess?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1310881/refugees-ukraine-united-states-2022/
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/ukrainian-immigrants-united-states
I think Temporary Protected Status has expired….? The second link is an older longer one but hints at that possibility.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/
It’s long past time to end ALL support for Ukraine.
Not one more penny.
Not one more bullet.
Not one more satellite picture.
Not one more byte of data.
Also bar the little gnome from U.S. entry by classifying him as a terrorist.
Z is the bagman for the corrupt thugs that run Ukraine.
Why can’t they just take out Zelensky?
He has been taken out too many times, and he always leaves them with the bill! 🙂
An entire generation of Ukrainian men is being wiped out. and this asshat only wants to save his own skin. But I also think Zelensky isn’t giving orders as much as he is taking them.
F’ it! Rip the mask off. Pull sections, and side with Russia. What are the leftist, communist media going to do? Cry more? Say Trump is the pocket of Putin, forgetting the hollow rhetoric of the last 10 years? Will the Dems claim Trump is a fascist yet again? Is Brussels going to squeal and whinge harder? Will Canada break up with us like a jilted lover?
Our Funding needs to stop until the Comedian signs a peace agreement and we go 30 days with Ukraine honoring the deal. The best solution is the US walking away from Ukraine.
The problem is, the USA while Bradon was a fake President was controlled by horrible neocons that set up Ukraine as our proxy to fight against Russia. Zalensky is still under the belief with the help of France, UK, and and a number of members in congress that this support still exist.
Russia will continue its assault on Ukraine until Zalensky is removed and replaced with someone who agreeable to peace. Unfortunately, Ukraine will probably lose Odessa by that time. What is worrisome is Zalensky doing something desperate like assassinating Putin that will set off WWIII.
I wish That I was born a little later and understood the internet far better. This would be a perfect time to organize a real grass roots protest to stop funding the war. I estimate it could make Soro’s Musk protest look like childs play.
Born not too long after you, I suspect the internet is more controlled than we’d like to think. “Grass roots” activism (about truly important things) on the internet is an enterprise managed by those who control the information. Our host here SD made huge changes to the Treehouse just to make it available to us. (Thank you!)
It would not surprise me if THE rogue international element of the CIA (living off trillions squirreled away from US) is coaching and advising UK, France and Z, how to weather the Trump peace storm.
I don’t think most people (outside of the treehouse) understand that runaway socialism in the west has led to such a severe debt quagmire that an economic reset via war is their only way out. In this context, I think the only way to put a stop to their violent scheme is to pull out of NATO, align with Russia, and tell the western globalists that they will be fighting Russia and the US together. Not even China would want to face two global superpowers at the same time. That would be an extinction-level event for the globalists.
Seems like The President just has to be still on the subject again and wait for the Euroweenies to call for tariff relief for their auto’s.
Stop supporting them all. Defund England, France and Germany. Shut them off from money and weapons. Bring our soldiers and marines home.
Putin needs to assassinate the midget.
It looks like that was attempted on Putin last week. Once Z is gone there’s a chance for elections and peace.
Putin cannot afford to lose what global political capital he has…Zman needs to vanish without a trace.
Trump and the team are working hard to end this mess. If he keeps this attitude Trump should support him with paint ball guns with a million yellow and blue paint balls and say good luck.
A blessing for the US, and quite frankly North and South America, would be to detach from this iteration of Europe and China and work on creating a “Western” alliance and a connection with Japan and Philippines. There is not much the US needs that isn’t found in the US. It has an abundance of farmland, natural gas for 200+ years, oil, minerals, lumber, technology, it’s covered for every need. What it might need is easily sourced from Canada, Mexico, or South America. A meaningful presence could be kept in Asia via Japan and the Philippines. Japan for technology and the Philippines for the surplus of some of the best trained medical staff available in the world, esp nurses.
We also have an unnumbered amount of military age men via open borders…who could easily destroy ‘everything we need’…
“The CIA, as viewed through their spokespeople at the Washington Post, continue snarking at President Trump for not ending the war on Day #1; while the same CIA keeps organizing the Ukraine/EU forces to attack Russia, stimulating a continuation of the war they snark at Trump for not stopping.” – Sundance
President Trump please stop all military and financial aid to the Ukraine, order the CIA out of the Ukraine, withdraw all military support personnel out and cut all military satellite communications until Zelensky is ready for peace talks! Stop giving them everything before you look like a dupe or fool!!! Let the EU support them all alone! President Trump you’re being played by Zelensky and the EU! JMO
Zelensky would be a drone strike that I support. Mad dogs should be put down.
What would happen if Pres. Trump announced we are done with NATO? Out and no longer funding anything attached to NATO including UKR if serious peace talks are not undertaken and a ceasefire is in place and the war ended sooner than later.
If humanitarian aid is continued to UKR, it must be direct aid distributed and monitored by America to the UKR people in need. No more free money that flows out of DC and magically disappears somewhere between here and UKR and no one knows where it went. Why the USA is supposedly subsidizing pensions etc. in UKR is ludicrous. Stop all of that and getting out of NATO is something that needs to be done it seems.
Pray to LOVING GOD and have GOD inspire you! I have to keep it simple! So enough said! 🙂
not knowing the intricate details of this war debacle and not pretending to –
however, the US taxpayer funds for war materials must be stopped
The goals of the EU and UK are obviously to prolong the situation.
What? The crooks have not made enough money through their war money laundering?
Terms to get you started are ‘Maidan Uprising’ and ‘Minsk Accords’. The TLDR is Hillary Clinton minions Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken, among others and the CIA engineered a coup against the leader Ukrainians elected because he was conciliatory to Russia and wanted peace. That was the Maidan Uprising. The Minsk Accords were sold to Russia as a peace agreement, but actually were just to give time for the West to arm up Ukraine. Promises to bring Ukraine into NATO and the shelling of Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians in eastern Ukraine (The Donbas) set off the war, intended by Clintonites to weaken Russia and make them vulnerable to another CIA-instigated ‘color revolution’.
So a weaker nation took on a greater nation with what aid the West could launder in there, and though Ukrainians are admirably tough fighters the result has been a bloodbath, Ukraine has essentially lost a generation of men, and the war is now grinding to its inevitable conclusion, though Clintonites seem determined to fight to the very last Ukrainian. We need to cut our losses and divest ourselves from this former off-color comedian (Zelenskyy) and the insane EU. Pulling out of NATO would be sauce for the goose, as well as pulling our forces out of Europe. We are paying to defend nations that have refused to meet THEIR obligations for military spending to defend themselves.
The USA is getting extorted by NATO and Ukraine. Stop all funds to NATO and stop pretending. Paying tribute went the way of Barbary pirates.
no One is being extorted-the United States is willingly giving all this aid to Ukraine.
WE are not willing!
open your eyes man, YOU are being extorted! (unless you support the deep state globalist central bank).
Umm…no.
The US taxpayer is being gaslit and manipulated through the blame/shaming and false accusation/projections seen in every abusive relationship.
We are about as “willing” as an abused spouse.
You men”was” giving all this aid to Ukraine don’t you????
Only a Congressional vote can cancel our NATO treaty commitment. But if members can get away with only token financial support than might we not be able to do the same? Effectively close all bases in Europe, starting with Germany by reducing deployments there to the near zero level. Bring virtually ALL our troops home, cut Europe loose.
It may be that Trump is keeping the US in NATO as a leverage point to use against the UK and EU until the appropriate point.
Tempting, Felix, very Tempting.
As our CiC and President, Trump has the power to nullify the NATO treaty, even while we are “participant” in it.
1) As CiC, he can order all US military personnel participant within the NATO command structure home. No judge, Senator, or Congressman can do anything to stop that basic military function. Further, he can shut down all military supply and intelligence to Ukraine going forward. He can also command all private contractors (military and non-military) to cease/desist and leave, and that remaining in Ukraine forfeits all US protections and aid.
2) As the House holds the purse strings as to how much monies go to the Executive budget, it is the President who has the ultimate authority to release those monies – to whom and when, and how much. President Trump can simply not release the US funds to those NATO functions he has authority over.
3) As CiC and our Chief of State, he has the authority to determine whether certain actions actually do trigger an Article 5 response. By declaring Zelensky and the EU to be negotiating in bad faith and provoking the Russian military responses, President Trump can (and should) negate any false flag as disqualifying the Article 5 trigger.
These 3 points will effectively gut any US NATO involvement in Ukraine, as well as any subsequent European conflict that might result from an EU participation that spills out from Ukraine.
Time for the European/Aristocratic abusive relationship over the US to end.
And leave NATO asap.
Perhaps we may not want a rogue NATO Canada to exist while we are not in NATO.
Don’t be fooled after their upcoming election the CANUCKS will drop their shorts to Trump and relax?
That’s a good summary.
I Second your entire post! Well Done!
As J.D. reminded our EU friends, they are also not meeting their moral obligations to support free and fair elections, freedom of speech, or freedom of religion.
Instead of moving to bend the socialist economic trajectory downward, they are aiming ever higher.
As the saying goes, with friends like this, who needs enemies?
Time for a hard stop and thank God we have a President who has the courage to do it if need be.
stripping away the chaff emanating from little z, steimer, macron et all, their bottom line is to fight to the last dead ukrainian.
it might be time to see if they really mean it, with their own eu weapons and money.
They don’t have the expertize, the Jack or the weapons to do a damn thing but Bloviate?
Europe is collapsing, and war is their only option. They have built their economies an sand, and immigration. Either the people of those nations fight to survive with all the terrible consequences, or they succumb to the Islamic flag. It was pointed out to them decades ago, but anyone who raised those concerns were branded Nazis. Fk them is, what I say!
And now you can’t even pray in front of an Abortion clinic without being thrown in jail in just about every Europeeon S hole? That whole continent has already collapsed! F em and feed em fish heads,.
“US taxpayer funds for war materials must be stopped”
You certainly are better informed than most.
I do not understand why Trump does not stop funding the Ukraine
I don’t know if PDJT can stop it. There were 5(?) appropriation bills sent from Congress to the potted plant who likely eagerly signed them. However, PDJT can tell them to pound sand in the future.
We’re paying for everything in Ukraine. That’s the point.