Vice President JD Vance appears on Fox News Sunday to discuss the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, the “deal” that seems close at hand in the Israeli-Hamas war, and the ongoing Russian conflict with Ukraine.
As to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there appears to be a race afoot. NATO and the EU team are funneling more lethal and long-range weapons into Ukraine in order to escalate the attacks deeper into Russia. Alarmingly, it does not seem as if JD Vance is ¹aware of that shift.
Even more concerningly, this weapons escalation in Ukraine is happening simultaneous with the same Intelligence Community team controlling the election outcome in ²Moldova, specifically to increase the likelihood of direct NATO conflict against Russia. Again, both President Trump and Vice President Vance seem unaware of it.
The bottom line is that direct military conflict between NATO allies and Russia is almost a foregone conclusion now, while Trump and Vance ponder the unwillingness of Russia to negotiate with Ukraine or the United States. WATCH:
[¹,² I know this sounds crazy but…. I’m beginning to wonder if the White House is being intentionally kept in the dark by the National Security Council, or by other professionals (Ratcliffe) who should be normally briefing them on significant changes in day-to-day events. There are a lot of unknowns looking from the outside; however, the recent comments from Vance/Trump do not align with demonstrable realities on the ground.]
It don’t sound crazy to me. Its pretty evident EU/NATO wants war with Russia so I don’t doubt they are willing to exclude anyone who doesn’t support that or wants a peace deal.
Again, EU/NATO don’t want a peace deal. They want war.
Many more people are going to die because of them.
Worse, they want to drag in the U.S. to fight their war for them. Expending our blood and treasure to save their failing institutions at all costs.
Europe’s ruling class needs the war to clear the board for an economic reset by defaulting on unsustainable debts. There will be no Marshall plan to save them this time around.
We hope and pray.
Yup !
….AND, to distract the public in Europe from the truth, that they already lost the war at home, and have been invaded by hoards of N. Africans that think sexual assault and rape of women and children is a minor offense
For at least the next three years American soldiers will not be in the meat grinder so where will they get the troops?When rusia decides to invite China onto the battle field to battle harden their forces Where will Europe mobilize a million soldier?.
I havent seen the Italians, Spainish, English, French or German people demonstrating in the street there desire to take out Putin. Who will fight these elites war?
Perhaps they could suit up their immigrant class and offer them citizenship for 5 years of battle. Perhaps this is the Elites plan to downsize their population of folks on the role.
This is an incredibly odd strategy on the part of the elites. They have attacked nationalism for years in their institutions. Populism is rising against them, yet they beleive they can field a world class army.
My Opinion Trump believes nothing he or Vance are saying right now regarding the impending success of the Ukrainian effort. In poker its a check to encourage beleif in the bluff so you can keep the players in the game.
So why is trump encouraging and provoking the empty talk of these polititions to war. To push their downfall. One more reason for the masses to hate the elites.
Les Miserables are speaking. Trump hears them “our money, our health, our futures were not enough? Now you want our lives and our childrens lives so you can live powdered ass lives. ENOUGH”
They will crap their pants when PDT says we’re out.
You’re right the Bible says it’s coming…
We are undeniably in the 6th vial of Revelation:
a) 3 unclean spirits gather the whole world to war = WW1, WW2, and WW3
b) drying up of the Euphrates that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared = collapse of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, which controlled the Euphrates in 1914, and eventually gave land to 9 Middle Eastern nations (kings of the east)
c) Battle of Armageddon = Battle of Megiddo (Sept 1918)
all that’s left is WW3
The 7th vial of Revelation is the complete destruction of Rome and the ‘cities of the nations.’ This is the final judgment before the second coming, and is God’s final punishment on Rome for being the center of anti-Christendom for 2000 years under the Roman Emperors and then the Papal Antichrist.
The 7th vial also has a famine, which suggests the nuclear war that destroys these cities will cause a nuclear winter.
The Old Testament has plenty of evidence for a nuclear war/winter shortly before the second coming:
“We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.” (Isaiah 59:10)
“A day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness…They shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.” (Zephaniah 1:14-18)
“In all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.” (Zechariah 13:8)
^This means two thirds of the world’s population will die from the nuclear war and winter.
“The light shall not be clear, nor dark:” (Zechariah 14:6)
“The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up…the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat” (II Peter 3:10-12)
Y’all have NO clue HOW to read the Bible we put together!
All the Protestant Reformers knew the papacy was the Antichrist (the Historicist, non-pretending view of Revelation). It took until the 16th century to figure that out because the Catholic church, as a matter of official church policy, named the Bible and was killing people who owned or tried to read it. Luckily the printing press started producing Bibles more quickly than the Catholic church could burn them, and the Reformation began.
Why would a “Christian” church not want people to read the Christian Bible???
Anti-Catholicism is the pornography of the inbred.
The first printer was Gutenberg, a Catholic. He first printed bibles in the 1450s, three decades before Luther was born. While Luther was still drooling as an infant, there were printed copies of bibles in virtually all the languages of Europe. All done by Catholic and Orthodox printers.
How, Historicism, did the Apostles spread the Gospel without bibles?
They preached. And they had to agree upon a common doctrine so as not to confuse the faithful.
Due to the persecutions of the Church, no council of bishops could meet till after Constantine overthrew pagan Roman power and ruled as emperor of the Roman Empire. The councils decided which books belonged in the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Of the first three dozen popes, most died as martyrs.
You will never come near that. You probably don’t even go to church on Sundays because you claim you can’t find a preacher who sees the bible your way.
Which brings up another problem. Due to the wrongful idea that anyone can interpret Scripture competently, sex offenders like David Koresh and Tony Alamo and Jim Jones and pimps like Jimmy Swaggart had equal standing to men like godly Protestant martyrs Marcus and Narcissa Whitman or preacher Billy Graham.
Too many “bible believers” read Scripture like a third-grader reading a sex manual. THey can sound out the words but they have no idea what they mean.
Catholics formed 2% of the 13 colonies’ population. Yet they were 30% of the Continental Army, despite Catholicism being legal only in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Blacks likewise were about 10% of the sailors in the American Navy even though slavery was legal in all colonies.
The most biblical of the colonials were the witch-hunting buckle-hatted Puritans, who mostly were Brit-loving Tories during the war. Washington was angry with the bigots in New England who hated Catholics, because it cost us a chance to bring the French-Canadians of Quebec to the American cause. However, the Catholic kings of France and Spain aided the Americans despite the prejudices of too many of our leading citizens. The French of the Ohio Valley and Louisiana likewise worked with us.
The FBI wasn’t spying on Evangelicals — they were spying on Catholics.
Spewing mindless bigotry has no place in the Treehouse. I suspect you are a Deep State plant who is trying to turn us against each other.
Think how many of their own will die as well. All for World Economic Forum desires to get their hands on Russian raw materials and resources. EU may overplay their hand right into regime change. Their people do NOT want a war.
I am beginning to think Mr. Ratcliffe is being controlled by information that is read in to him.
Ratcliff is a career government official who has been collecting our tax dollars and doing nothing his entire career.
Remember in his first term when President Trump told Ratcliff he wanted the Russiagate documents declassified and released.
Do you remember seeing them then? Me neither.
Does anyone remember him producing anything of consequence since he’s been pushed up the ladder because I don’t.
The man would starve in the private sector.
The man made his money practicing law in the public sector.
Sounds like, smells like & seems like LawFare
A lawyer huh? Ok so he neither produced value nor starved.
Most of these gubmint employees would starve in the private sector. The lowest of the low, in terms of character most of all.
I have always pictured in my mind that they gave Ratcliffe an office at the end of a hallway.
All the offices and conference rooms approaching Ratcliffe’s office are empty except for some junk.
There are potted plants in the hallway and in Ratcliffe’s office.
The only person Ratcliffe sees is the gal who comes by to spritz the plants.
Ratcliff is an idiot – should not be anywhere near the levers of power.
I have to totally agree with you, Joan!
I have just finished listening to this 40 minute interview with a German journalist, Patrick Baab, who has been on both sides of the Ukraine war, observing.
It is his belief that for many reasons, which he outlines succinctly and cogently, why the Europeans will continue this war, even unto nuclear engagement with Russia…because they can not afford to stop. Or Europe and the Euro will collapse, which he explains in understandable detail.
We in the US do not get this sort of analysis. And so I think it’s important to listen to a man who is sober and discerning with his observations and conclusions as to the German (Merz) dilemma should by some miracle a peace deal be reached.
I can’t recommend this interview strongly enough.
Neither the reason or the desire is unknown, but glad to see someone in Germany admit to it. There have been several on both sides of the pond who have stated the same, some have shared here. There is only one way to prevent it and unfortunately our current administration seems unwilling to do so, which may well result in the end of us all, as if the EU/UK are allowed to fully engage, once they get the bit in their teeth they will not relent until they either get the jewel they have lusted after for hundreds of years or perish in the attempt. The reaction to such an event is also well known and sure.
Europe is in deep financial trouble, Harrison, something I have often referenced in previous comments.
There is no way out for them but war, a key point Herr Baap was making. There are no clean hands but particularly those of the United States under previous administrations, a thing he also recognizes.
I found it interesting that he mentioned a five year timeline for war preparation, and much can happen within that range. In fact is happening with great speed which could very well upend the plans of many in power, those who would send more bodies for sacrifice for their own godless ends and self preservation (this time from their own countries.)
And here we all sit, watching this potentially existential war move closer.
So yes… one way. Why the reluctance to enact it is anyone’s guess.
(It was an excellent interview, conducted the way interviews on subjects of this gravity should be.)
Betsy. Canada’s elbows up crowd thought that pivoting to the European economy would show the US how truly dependent the US was on Canada.
Now Carney’s own budgetary officer is going viral for saying that Canada is not on a sustainable course.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/heres-what-the-parliamentary-budget-officer-is-warning-of-ahead-of-the-budget/
Absolutely hilarious. You can’t make this stuff up. Trudeau and Carney have brought in millions. There are absolutely no jobs for our youth. Now that the reality is settling into the elbows up crowd many are regretting their hasty and reckless emotion driven actions. Damage is done though.
Let them wallow about in their own filth. They deserve it.
DD
I’ve always thought that people who considered themselves immune from the policies of someone they voted for because they voted for them, as if they were a special set aside group, needed to feel the full effects of theory ideologies, ignorance, foolishness, and yes, stupidity.
People like that can’t be reasoned with or be moved from their devotion to a political party.
We went through that here, Dan. First with the nexus of all the terrible social upheaval which we are enduring, Obama…and then four hideous years of “Biden” (Obama and his operatives in the shadows which left millions iin the same miserable state you in Canada find yourselves.
Regrets? I’m not surprised in the least many of your fellow Canadians have a few.
But I am so sorry that you and your like minded compatriots are suffering. I am truly hoping that lessons are so well learned that at whatever point there’s a chance to get rid of the snake oil salesman Carney, a true Canadian patriot will show him or herself ready to rise like President Trump.
With any luck and God’s good grace, I do pray the time will come sooner than proscribed by your Parliament. Waaaaaay sooner, dear friend.
God bless you. B
You can’t have a war with a nuclear outcome – that means you’re governed by nuts – I got a better idea, remove the nuts.
Hi D.D. out here in British British Columbia things are getting real for many.
Real Estate values are dropping, food costs and crime soaring.
Our economy can only crumble..only the wealthy or those with serious family money can buy a home.
Out in Abbotsford an hour or more east of Vancouver a townhouse that was 900K five years ago, was just bought by friends granddaughter and husband for a little north of 700K.
My friend matched the 200K the couple had saved to afford the place.
Cheers!
May they be peaceful and happy in their new home. So sad for the upcoming generation, all this irresponsible leadership
Theirs is the generation which Charlie Kirk knew he had to reach.
I know Dan Dale’s children knew who he was and had heard his messages. I wonder how many other young Canadians were familiar with him. I pray millions. If there is any hope for that nation, it may be their generation which saves it.
Of course Chrystia Freeland is no good, BUT she did call out Canada’s coming financial crisis, remember that her and Trudy had words about all that?
She was right.
There is a way out Betsy, they could reverse all their failed green energy scams that have shut down the economic engine in Germany.
There is plenty they can do, but they need to simply reverse course.
Their stupid choices got them here..
AND they are spending way too much money on their invaders and the people don’t want them anyway.
If they followed the lead of the US, they could solve a lot.
Great video, thanks Betsy. Our modern day elites are insane, they’ve never suffered a day in their lives, they don’t know hunger, lack of money or anything else. War means nothing to them, they must think they will be unaffected.
Thank you Betsy Jones for posting this interesting and eye-opening interview.
So basically, the EU wants war and a long war to build up their dwindling economies. The EU elites are narcissistic megalomaniacs. They are willing to gamble with the lives of their people. They somehow think they are going to win and beat Russia despite the fact that the great majority of countries in the world are not against Russia.
The have learned nothing from history.
How do we prepare for nuclear winter?
There is no preparation for it.
They have only built ‘armies’ of young alien men. They have not built armies of citizens.
Millions of us were against the kick off of this proxy war against Ukraine because we knew it would go just as it’s gone- and of course there seems to be no way to exit the mess now at this point- so they tell us.
So is this going to replace Afghanistan?
Is this the next 15 year ‘war’ that is nothing but a waste of trillions of dollars and so many young lives?
I’m really pissed off about all this.. I’d like to use a stronger word.
How can you not be pissed?
Europe doesn’t have an alliance with Ukraine. Russia invades Ukraine, and Europe frets that they are next, because Ukraine is the ostensibly their new, Russian border. Russia invades Ukraine because NATO advertised a Ukraine invitation to membership, making Ukraine their new, NATO border.
This is a low-level conflict to preserve a strategic buffer zone. Absent the buffer zone, anxieties wax, and with the proximity making long range weapons faster in delivery, not to mention the advent of hypersonics, the epicenters become prone to decapitatory effect. There is not likely any holocaust level outcome attached to this lower level conflict. Brash personalities lead to bad outcomes regardless, which is one reason why the pseudo-Biden administration was a VERY bad idea, and why identity discovery of J6 device planting and insurrection-stoking should be Patel’s #1 DUTY.
Takeaway: Patel get the job done cleaning house in FBI or get fired for failing to prevent continued global warfare. Should he succeed, then Bondi must close properly, else they have lost the advantage that Trump finally won after all these years.
Europe doesn’t want war with Russia. They want Russia ground up on the Ukraine front.
In a away, this is what the German General staff tried to do in 1943-44 vs the USSR .. using operational maneuver to hurt the Soviets … the Soviet Army was just too large when one factors in Germans had to siphon off significant critical units at critical times to handle the situation in the West …. to make their strategy viable.
The difference this time being that RUSSIA has a manpower pool and over force that is only a small fraction of the USSR of 1940-45 … which makes the operational approach and strategic goal of grinding down the RUSSIANS feasible.
As Sundance states … the events in Moldova are being used as a magnet to keep Russia from calling an end to the war … the Russians accepting they have gained enough land and airspace … and unless EU Military Forces are DIRECTLY ADDED to the Ukraine, the Ukrainians will NOT be able to regain anything.
Except that Ukraine has a much smaller manpower pool that has been severely depleted by battlefields losses – perhaps as high as a million casualties – and emigration of potential conscripts. Ukraine is now conscripting 60 year-olds to fight. Russia, meanwhile, has no shortage of volunteers. The only hope for Ukraine is a massive infusion of troops from NATO countries, but none of them are willing to commit troops beyond peace-keepers after a cease fire. None of them want Russian hypersonic missiles hitting their bases and munitions factories.
Ukraine is being ground down in a war of attrition where Russia has a huge advantage in artillery, glide bombs, drones and MLRS.
Quite why the Europeans are so keen to go to war with a formidable nuclear power is beyond my understanding. This war is making BRICS stronger, bringing Russia and China closer together, and tearing the EU economies apart.
I don’t see why we should be supporting Europe anyway. They are against free speech. They are against Christianity. They are banning conservatives from even running for office. They are inviting millions of Muslim invaders into their countries against the will of their native populations. They want war with Russia through the front-door, provided we pay for it, while they buy Russian oil and gas through the back-door. Scr*w them.
You are speaking too much sense to the end of the world crowd here – too much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth in despair – apparently most here have lost faith in President Trump only eight months in – sad!!!
I hope you all have your bunkers dug and rations stored for the coming apocalypse!
The Prez should be reading CTH. Daily.
Susie Wiles would put a stop to that pretty quick. Same with podcasts, doing his own research, and so on. Gotta keep the Prez inside the bubble of ignorance.
Does Susie Wiles block Baron, Eric, Don Jr, Melania, Tulsi Gabbard, or Marco Rubio from informing President Trump about what is going on?
I find it difficult to believe our genius President Trump is in the dark about this, especially after stolen elections in this country and who is behind them.
I have never been able to reconcile the brilliance of Trump with the astonishing things he is not aware of.
We do not have a dog in this fight. Not our circus, not our monkeys. Let the idiots fight it out on their own. WE will NOT be sending our sons to fight in ANY war.
How do you know he isn’t? Trump isn’t going to send troops unless and maybe then it’s an If. NATO is attacked
If the draft is reinstated, then everyone will have to decide to comply or resist. As a Viet Nam veteran from a family that has been in uniform ever since Yorktown, even having family on both sides of the War Between the States, and family in most every conflict large and small, right through to the Iraq and Afghan dustups, I can say unequivocally that no more members of my family, not sons or daughters, not nieces or nephews, will shed another drop of blood fighting cockamamie foreign wars for the gutless, degenerate, criminal bastards that have seized this country. No more wars for Europe or Israel or anywhere else. Damn them all.
Agree. No more American lives for other countries. Period.
Agree also, and for exactly the same reasons.
Confirmation bias. I spent 4 years thinking ukr was the only problem and once ru had a rational person in the WH they’d settle.
Trump gave Putin 9 months of understanding. No new sanctions. Stop on long range strikes. Defense on the world stage.
This is on Putin. He doesn’t respect the US and when world powers don’t at least respect each other it’s a dangerous thing
I see it this way too. Things could change but I went from seeing Putin as a potentially reasonable leader who wanted an end to the war to seeing him as untrustworthy and deceptive about his true intentions. IMO he had a great opportunity to end this war and he appeared to be in agreement with Trump on this but then he went the opposite way. He continued taking more territory. He made a public show of aligning himself with China and North Korea. He provoked Europe with planes and drone activity towards Estonia, Romania, Poland and a German ship. It seems like he either wants a war with NATO or he is trying to scare them into not retaliating against his continuing advance to take more territory.
I agree 100%. Putin was clearly the adult in the room during the Biden admin. But he’s been incredibly deceptive, and escalatory while playing big bad country fighting all of nato alone (false) also absurdly playing the victim
My opinion on the US and European neocons hasn’t changed. My opinion on Putin has.
Putin has not changed his position. Ukraine demilitarized. Ukraine must not join NATO. Ukraine must restore a neutral or pro-Russian government free of Banderites*. The Russian-speaking regions that Russia now controls become part of Russia.
*Banderites are the lineal descendants of the Ukrainian brigades that fought with the Nazis in WW2 against Russia. The AZOV battalions are part of that heritage and Ukraine deployed them in ethnic cleansing operations in the Donbas after the coup engineered by the CIA.
History is dicey especially in that part of the world. The fact is the Russians weren’t anti nazi because they were Nazis (they allied with them) they were anti Nazi because they were eventually double crossed.
The banderites were Nazi collaborators and engaged in some vile acts of course. Aside from the azov acts of atrocities in Odessa I don’t really see any evidence of “ethnic cleansing” in the Donbas.
It was essentially a civil war. Ukr never set to ban the Russian language they passed a law bann It from being the ukr national language. If the US did that with Spanish no reasonable person would call it ethnic cleansing
Vile acts against Russian speakers are a form of ethnic cleansing. Firing artillery at schools and supermarkets is not military action but state terrorism aimed at its internal enemies.
The Ukrainian regime also took strong actions against the Russian Orthodox church (UOC-MP). The rival Orthodox Church of Ukraine (UOC), formally established in 2019, has taken over some of the (UOC-MP) churches and holy sites. It is understandable that the Zelensky regime would act against a church allied with Moscow and support a church supporting independence from Russia.
In America, our electoral map mixes red and blue states across the whole country. In Ukraine, in recent legitimate elections, the country is split in half. The western “states” voted for pro-EU politicians; the eastern states voted for pro-Russia politicians. After the CIA engineered color revolution, the pro-EU factions took control. This led to a low level civil war between the two sides.
From Russia’s point of view, the last straw was Ukraine joining NATO. That was not going to be allowed, ever. Like nukes in Cuba pointed at DC. Not going to be allowed, ever.
The Russians are doing the same thing regarding schools especially now. But I agree with your point about the civil war and the nato red line
We blew-up the Nordstream Pipelines that cost Russia $100 billion to construct. Why should Russia respect us?
Nobody respected the Biden regime. Trump has shown respect to Russia and Putin And Putin hasn’t reciprocated
Seems as if the perception of respect is most likely an ego manefestation. It don’t mean shi*.
Killing people for such ideas is insane.
It’s not about ego it’s about superpowers respecting redlines and the fact that they’re coequal on the world stage
I hope and pary that Mr. Trump is just in the dark, the other options are not good at all.
Ms. Gabbard needs to rescue him quickly.
The US should not make a deal with the EU/NATO to sell them weapons.
Some transactions should simply not be done.
Just say no.
Stop buying into everything Sundance says. You think Susie is in bed next to him and Melania? Or while he’s talking to don jr on the golf course?
Why is it over the past 3 years I’ve been reading the conservative treehouse. Sundance has never called out Russia? The closest it’s gotten is they have less freedoms.
Over the past 9 months Putin has involved a third country (NK officially) ramped up attacks on civilians, violated NATO airspace (Belarus confirmed over Poland, Estonia has direct flight radar) refused negotiations when Trump gave home 95% of what he wanted.
And still I’ve never heard any of that pointed out on TCH.
Ukraine has had NATO troops mostly Polish , involved for the last 3 years. They have almost every high quality weapon provided by the US and Europe. Now we hear of Columbians and Mexicans, cartel members, fighting for Ukraine. PDT is my guy but he didn’t provide Putin with what he was seeking in accordance with Istanbul 2024. Trumps goal was obtaining a cease fire to allow Ukraine to re-arm.
That’s all speculation there’s never been any proof of nato troops. There are mercs in any war.
Cartels fighting for ukr maybe? Obviously for money. NK fighting with Russia officially. Along with Cubans. RU also aligning with Al Queda
Dopey and Dumbo both “aligned with AQ” and the senate traitor was seen with them and dims in the middle east regularly. Billary also supported them. Now most of the EU is kissing the backside of the beheading terrorist that took over Syria and slaughtered Christians.
None of it matters in regards to the little grifting dictator and the EU/Ukraine war. Go peddle your nonsense to your fellow liberals.
Lmao what in Gods name makes you think I’m a lib? I don’t like the grifting dictator in ukr. I’m just not under the illusion that Putin is anything other than what he is
And I’ll bet you also think the USA won the second world war all by itself, Frank.
You really don’t have a very good grasp of the world, outside what you’re told by the MSM – as is evidenced by your various comments within this thread.
And you prob peddle that RU was the great savior of WW2. Russia would have lost without the US lend lease and the us opening a second front. Ru wasn’t fighting the Nazis because they were Nazis. They mainly agreed with them. They were fighting because they got invaded.
Now we whitewash it and pretend Russia fought the Nazis to liberate anything other than Russia
Any country fighting the Nazis was fighting for its survival. Russia would have won in the end. It just would have taken longer. By the time the allies landed in Normandy, the Russians were already rolling back German armies ten times larger than any that the US faced. Russia lost 25 million people in WW2 and the Russians remember that to this day. The US lost around 400,000 and the average US college kid can’t even tell you who fought who in WW2.
That’s not the relevant point it’s the historic revisionism that Russia was fighting Nazis for some moral reason when the fact is they were aligned until hitler got paranoid and attacked them
I think you just poked the hornets’ nest! 😉
Durov’s moral compass is something to be respected. I’m grateful someone like him exists.
Smells like Ms Grahamnesty has been running the briefings.
If it’s the NSC… then SoS Rubio is being kept in the dark or has allowed his “never Russia” half to control his outlook.
Why Sundance haven’t you once addressed Putins escalation of the conflict? His utter disrespect for the US and Trump? And his unwillingness to actually negotiate.
You’ve also not addressed Russia essentially doing what it’s accused NATO of doing in Venezuela and via intel sharing/ nuclear cooperation with Iran.
It’s intellectually dishonest to act as if Vance’s and Trumps comments are happening in a vacuum. Putin has very deliberately escalated
First, I’m not a Putin apologist. I dislike him. However, I generally understand his thinking.
“Disrespect”? Putin faces the world without pretense. Trump is a 4 year thing, and then what? Putin doesn’t frame his strategic objectives on what works for 4 years; he operates with a generational mindset. It might seem like “disrespect”, but really it’s brutal pragmatism in national policy.
I’m not sure what exactly you mean by escalation, other than Putin taking away some of his own limitations on conflict as a result of facing Western weapons hidden amid civilian infrastructure. Is that what you mean?
I’d never call you an apologist and please don’t take my questioning as disrespect we’ve interacted on platforms on occasion.
I understand that Trump is a 4 year phenomenon. But I also understand that Trump represents Putins last chance of achieving his objectives.
Regarding the civilian attacks. I’ve seen Russia loosen its definition to essentially a Home Depot. I’ve seen dozens of occasions now where there’s no secondary explosion.
I hope I don’t come off as ill informed or hostile I just don’t know any other way to look at Putins response to trumps genuine good will and willingness to give 95% of what he’s asked for.
Putin has without question disrespected Trump and the US something extremely dangerous
I don’t believe you understand what Putin wants from this war. He wants a PERMANENT Buffer Zone between Russia and NATO.
Putin will not come to the negotiating table until there is a very good chance he can have that Permanent buffer zone – a cease fire does nothing good for Russia, it only lets Ukraine rest and rearm. Russia is distrustful of NATO – he was lied to by James Baker when Baker promised NATO would “not expand one inch toward Russia”. Ergo the Permanent Buffer Zone.
Trump will be gone in 4 years so Putin is thinking and planning long term. Not disrespectful, just realistic on Putin’s part.
Buffer zone between NATO and Russia ended when the Baltic states and, eventually, Finland joined NATO.
Pres. Putin is quick to defend enclaves of ethnic Russians along the border. Especially Ukraine where there are long standing cultural ties.
Except it doesn’t really add up. They painted ukr banning Russian as a national language as ethnic cleansing.
Ukr shelling of the Donbas is ugly but when you parse through the propaganda they were fighting a militia that was trying to secede.
Putin doesn’t view the Russians outside of major city centers as equals. He preaches the rights of ethnic minorities but brutally treats the ethnic minority in Russia
Ukraine has by far the largest border with Russia. It also had the largest military in Europe when Putin launched his SMO.
You might recall that the US threatened nuclear war when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Russia feels the same way about NATO bases on its border. NATO should have been disbanded when the USSR fell apart; it had achieved its purpose of containing the Soviet threat to Europe.
It’s not realistic though. Putin could get western economic integration under Trump. Even cold warrior Kellogg agreed and was open to Russias views on nato and nato expansion.
The problem is while they have consistently said one thing they’ve pivoted to others. The whole east of Ukraine could have been a buffer zone settled at the negotiating table. But then they move to wanting Odessa. They say they want a negotiated settlement but then refuse to negotiate.
In reality they don’t want a neutral Ukraine they want a Russian puppet Ukraine like they have in Belarus. (Something I honestly could care less about) but they’re unwilling or unable to achieve that.
Trump was giving them their buffer and Putin refused. He shouldn’t escalate and play the victim when Trump puts on economic leverage and stops holding the Europeans back it’s on him
Putin has said over and over again that he want’s what he sees as the ‘root issues’ to be solved.
They haven’t been, and it’s not looking like they will be, so Putin will fight on..
He’s been very clear about this.
My understanding is Putin is willing to negotiate but Zelensky won’t as Putin is saying Zelensky does not have the authority to sign any legal documents or make any agreements as he is not the authorized official since his term as President to over. He is operating under Marshall Law currently.
It is also my understanding the Russians are saying it is General Keith Kellogg who is not telling Trump the truth about the conditions of the war in Ukraine. The say General Kellogg has Trump’s ear on all things going on in the Ukraine war and is misleading him as he is a war hawk and is working also with the EU NATO countries.
Of course the Russians would say that l. The idea that he only listens to Kellogg on ukr is absurd.
It’s not really up to the Russians to decide if zelensky is legitimate it’s on the Rada who backed him. It’s a convenient excuse that is an exact mirror of the neocon talking point that Putin is illegitimate
Except that some of what Trump has said lately is nonsense.
Russia is suffering far fewer casualties than Trump (and Rubio) have claimed in public statements. One measure is the number of bodies the two sides exchange. According to graphic on X, the score in 2025 is 12,398 Ukrainians to 317 Russians. It makes sense that there is a disparity when one side is advancing while the other is retreating, but not such a massive disparity.
Another indication is that Ukraine is conscripting 60 year-olds while Russia still relies on volunteers.
A third indication is that Russia has a massive advantage in ordinance (artillery, drones, MLRS, and glide bombs), so they are rarely pushing infantry forward. In this new age of drone warfare, where troops can be pursued and killed by FPV drone operators miles behind the lines. This war is more like WW1 than WW2; a war of attrition with static lines and constant bombardment.
If Russia really was suffering massive losses, Putin might be more amenable to some give and take. There is no sign of him doing that.
Trump also said this:
“Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win.”
Perhaps he should have looked the record of the US Military in recent history.
Vietnam. 20 years. US lost to a bunch of peasants.
Afghanistan. 20 years. US lost to a bunch of goat herders.
Who is advising him to say such silly things?
But do you, as many here seem to think, really believe that NATO and the EU actually want a war with Russia?
As for “Disrespect” … what would “qualify” as incentives for Russia to continue their SMO until it meets ALL of its goals, and to expand them (e.g., take additional oblasts as a buffer zone to preclude long-range attacks)?
• President Trump’s assertion that Russia is a “Paper Tiger” qualify?
• VP Vance’s assertion that Russia’s economy is “imploding” qualify?
• NATO supply of long range weapons to attack Moscow?
• NATO support to attack Russia’s Refineries, Nuclear Power Plants & Strategic Nuclear Bombers?
As for “Unwillingness to Negotiate”, let’s remember that
• Russia negotiated a Peace Deal with Ukraine in Turkiye, but former UK PM Boris Johnson was sent to intimidate Zelenskyy not to sign it.
• Russia considers EU & NATO Leaders to be Deal-Incapable after they previously signed the Minsk-I and Minske-II Peace Deals, including their “Enforcement Commitments”, only to violate BOTH, followed by public explanations that they were suckering Russia into giving them time to further arm and prepare Ukraine to again War with Russia.
• Russia has nonetheless had a team negotiating directly with Ukraine.
As for Russia “essentially doing what NATO does”, why wouldn’t they
• “Replicate the Precedent” to protect their Trading Partners and Allies against Aggression?
• “Escalate the Precedent” to make future Provocations & Warfare “Impossible” or “Unthinkable”?
It’s “Intellectually Dishonest” to assert facts you have not confirmed and ignore facts that undermine your case.
Do you think I don’t know the history of this? The Boris Johnson scuttling of negotiations is currently irrelevant.
Refusing to even sit down with Zelensky even with Trump in the room. Having a set of non negotiable terms for the negotiations with Ukraine which amount to the complete dissolve of the countries standing government. Thats negotiating in good faith?
Maybe if you stopped exclusively listening to the Duran, Ritter, Napolitano and crew you’d be aware of the provocative and disrespectful comments Putin made leading up to the paper tiger comments.
You think the Houthis and Iran have their own hypersonics? You think RU backing and providing weapons to Narco terror states
didn’t preempt this?
Yes you’re being intellectually dishonest
Removed. FrankD66 is just not worth my time.
GOD Bless ya’ll~!
You’re not saying much about Zelenskyy, and Ukraine, and the EU’s provocations leading up to this war.
They can want to drag us into the fight, but I strongly suspect that the public backlash to getting involved will be so enormous that even Trump will notice it.
I find it both amusing and frustrating when authors who have no real access to high level intelligence question wether or not the White House knows what’s going on in the world.
Hear! Hear! And I thought I was the only skeptic in the room!
Disappointing, isn’t it?
I expected better here……
The globalist idiots are making a bet that a cornered Putin will NOT use nukes to solve his problems.
Putin is evil enough to do it.
Stay tuned………..
Russia lost at least 27 million in WW 2. There is nothing evil about declaring that he won’t allow Russia to be invaded again
Preventing invasion of Russia is one thing.
Making invaders pay for every inch of trespass, Russia excels at. Russians are accustomed to enduring a lot of hardship in order to defeat thier enemies who decide to foolishly invade their homeland. A determination not to be underestimated.
Nobody invaded Russia
Not yet.
Pillaging Russian resources will require boots on the ground.
Your grasp of history is weak.
No. They just threatened to put a bunch of NATO bases on Russia’s border along with short and intermediate range nuclear missiles that could destroy Moscow in minutes.
We didn’t like it much when the Soviet Union put a bunch of missiles in Cuba, did we? You might look up “Cuban Missile Crisis”.
But Russia is not being invaded. In this situation Russia is the invader and is now rattling its saber in the direction of other bordering countries.
Russia was requested to assist by the people of Donetsk and Lugansk in fighting back the invasion by Ukraine!
It puzzles me greatly why we are taking the side of the non-NATO leader (Zelenskyy) who disrespected our President on our own soil and called our VP a ‘bitch’ on camera in this conflict. If Russia is really doing some sneaky sabotage, President Trump needs to talk openly about it instead of just making general statements about them being ‘uncooperative’. Otherwise, it looks like his ego is involved in that he can’t snap his fingers and diret Putin on what to do. If you are going to plunge your people into a war with Russia, these things need to be laid out very publicly, classified info be damned. I have a fifteen year old son whose future I very much do not want to be extinguished in the interest of winning some economic advantage surrounding where the borders of Russia/Ukraine are.
What happens if tomorrow morning Putin orders every last soldier to retrograde out of the country?? Does this leave the EU, Ukraine and the IC holding the empty bag??
Trump and Putin want that new bridge and highway opened up in Alaska into Russia don’t ya know. 😎
Anyone can use their smartphone and find out the counter-narrative of the Ukraine conflict, its history, recent causes of conflict, key enablers of the proxy war, Russian involvement in the region, and the current situation on the ground. No one’s being kept in the dark, least of all the President of the US,.
President Trump is doing what he always does, focusing on the obvious solution to the conflict, i.e. Russia defeating the DS proxy war and its attempted expansion of NATO to its Eastern borders, both at land and at sea.
As long as the NATO and the EU team to support-and-escalate the Ukrainian conflict militarily, financially and economically, their unintended consequences will snowball:
De-Militarization of Ukraine and ultimately NATO
… as troops, weapons & munitions are destroyed on the battlefield and in staging areas & depots
… while China starves NATO’s Military Industrial Complex of Rare Earths & Components required for Production
… unless escalation triggers Russia’s earlier-destruction of NATO Factories, Power Grids, Refineries and Ports
De-Industrialization of Ukraine and ultimately the EU
… with the eradication of its Military & Civilian Industrial Capacity
… and the destruction of its Power Grid & Logistics Networks
… while EU Member Countries substitute LNG for Russian gas
… forcing relocation of their Industries to the USA
De-NAZIfication of Ukraine
… and overthrow of EU Member Countries’ Leadership as their Economies Implode
Bankruptcy of Ukraine
… and the EU, leading to its Dissolution
I thought Marco Rubio changed his ways. sarc)
President Trump can look more deeper into the Ukraine proxy war if he wanted to or does he know and wants a war with Russia?
We can’t blame Suzie Whales. Trump chose her for COS. He can replace her tomorrow if he wanted to, but he trusts her. That’s on President Trump.
We can’t make excuses for President Trump or JD Vance when the EU and our own IC are intentionally going to war for financial gain.
….I love President Trump but we need to be honest with ourselves when he makes poor decisions.
No excuses (or love) for President Trump or JD Vance, but every excuse (and love) under the sun for Vladimir Putin.
Refusal to see why Trump might be thinking/ doing what he’s doing. He must just not understand altruistic gentle putin
Access to the President is controlled by one person. Ms. Wiles.
And Wiles is good buddies with the totally ineffective Pam Bondi, the lady who tried to rail road George Zimmerman. Sundance was right on top of that sordid story.
Do you have any food in the house?
I’ll go with your hunch anyday. Makes sense the CIA is not being forthcoming.
Be at peace brothers and sisters. Ponder and speculate. Wish and hope. But best of all pray, and as Sundance implores, “Live your best life!” The Will of God prevails! Grab some snacks and enjoy HIS show!
“As to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there appears to be a race afoot. NATO and the EU team are funneling more lethal and long-range weapons into Ukraine in order to escalate the attacks deeper into Russia. Alarmingly, it does not seem as if JD Vance is ¹aware of that shift.”
I think both President Donald J. Trump and Vice-President JD Vance are well aware of what they need to be well aware of, to wit that Vladimir Putin is a two-face, war mongering, kill crazy SOB, who even gets thousands of poor North Korean troops killed and maimed as a tribute to his very un-Christian like depravity..
I’m picturing bug eyes, drool and lots of screaming and throwing things here.
You have a wild imagination. It may have been something you ate.
Putin is protecting Mother Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. He is still the legal President of Russia. I doubt many North Koreans were killed. They fought in Kursk where Zelensky sacrificed countless men and priceless equipment in a propaganda ploy that back-fired big time.
J D Alias pretends to be unaware of the wishes of the Military Industriad Complex. Ratcliffe, Blondie Bondi @ Fox, Pushover Patel; incompetents, all.
[¹,² I know this sounds crazy but…. I’m beginning to wonder if the White House is being intentionally kept in the dark by the National Security Council, or by other professionals (Ratcliffe) who should be normally briefing them on significant changes in day-to-day events. There are a lot of unknowns looking from the outside; however, the recent comments from Vance/Trump do not align with demonstrable realities on the ground.]
Not at all crazy.
And not the first time, either.
” Trump and Vance ponder the unwillingness of Russia to negotiate with Ukraine or the United States. “
Yes, I think they have been pondering that for some time now and that has contributed to their very negative opinion of Vladimir Putin.
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Maybe they should take what Putin says more seriously.
I keep wondering if the desire to be a master negotiator is over-riding the need to be realistic about the strategic importance of Ukraine to our own well-being.
I have very limited information and context. So I don’t have the answer to that. But I certainly keep wondering about it.
(When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
VSG has never publically stated why Russia is doing this and what their goals are. Does he actually know?
Because half of their goals are ridiculous. No NATO, neutrality, mutual security guarantees are all reasonable requests.
A complete restructuring of their government? Protection of the Russian language (already protected) a complete disarmament, territory they don’t currently control.
Trump has stated no NATO a hundred times. He’s said Russia would have to approve of sec guarantees, that Russia would keep the territory they hold
Thank you for the honesty, Sundance.
Like most of us, my sense of what’s “conspiratorial crazy talk” has shrunk considerably over the past decade. What is a reasonable person supposed to think when Occam’s razor leads you to pose a serious question about mind control? Unimaginable!
And yet… what would a sane, informed discussion about the modern capabilities and limitations of mind control sound like today? Is there anything any expert could rule out with 100% certainty?
Look into my eyes. You are getting sleepy. You are getting very sleepy. Now start barking and go bite the nearest mailman.
Can’t see other countries letting EU/NATO fight a battle with Russia and not help Russia. There are too many who don’t want those countries to become more powerful and some would use the opportunity to join in the war. Russia will not be fighting alone.
Ru already isn’t fighting alone. They’ve used thousands of NK and I believe a couple thousand from an African country (Sierra Leone) maybe
That my point. Not many lone standing countries wants the globalists as neighbors. They might be considering that if they let Russia fall, they’d be next. Actually, are we so sure they wouldn’t with greater strength not try to take us out. They’ve been trying to destroy our economy for a long time.
They want to attrite us and deflate us. If we just collapse, something any two-bit power could achieve by crashing our electric grid with infiltraters with rifles, then our death spasms could take down the world with our nukes. All this must be gently done like defusing a bomb. Because we have lots of nukes–and maybe unimaginably worse weapons that we and the world do not want used.
do you actually have to use nukes to take down/cripple a country? Lots of factories with deadly whatever and explosives too. And, like you write, the electric grid will destroy pretty much any country for a good while. Lots of drones everywhere, etc.
“As to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there appears to be a race afoot. NATO and the EU team are funneling more lethal and long-range weapons into Ukraine in order to escalate the attacks deeper into Russia. Alarmingly, it does not seem as if JD Vance is ¹aware of that shift.”
… in line with our President’s recent sabre-rattling.
It finally occurred to me what President Trump’s recent strategy of contradictory and crazy statements is.
First, MAGA Nation must reach out to President Trump and others to let them know we want peace and not endless globalist war.
Here are some emails:
[email protected]
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[email protected]
,
[email protected] (Trump’s money guy Bradley Crate
,
[email protected]
We in America in pre-woke days would call it “Brer Rabbit,” after the beloved Uncle Remus tales, which are now banned because the character Uncle Remus was an old black freedman …. and a white Southerner named Joel Chandler Harris collected black folklore, had Uncle Remus tell children the tales in black dialect. Much like Mark Twain had Jim, Huck, and Tom speak black dialect and Missouri white trash dialect.
Brer Rabbit wanted to escape the clutches of Brer Fox. So he begged not to be thrown in the briar patch. Brer Fox threw the Brer Rabbit into the briar patch, which helped the rabbit escape.
Trump attacked his base over the Epstein case. It is clear that was a feint. It is now coming out that Clinton, former Dem Senate Majority leader George Mitchell, and other top Dems have been implicated in the Epstein investigation. Loudmouthed Dems were suckered into calling for an investigation — thinking they would find something on Trump, and now that the truth is surfacing, they are quieter than a gagged bondage victim. Epstein’s victims and their lawyers and Ghislaine Maxwell have all said Trump tried to help the victims and their lawyers, and attacked Epstein instead of plotting with him.
Prosecutions are just over the horizon.
Speaking of bondage, George Soros’ finance guy Howard Rubin just got arrested for sex trafficking in connection with bringing in models from out of state to NYC and then subjecting them to bondage, beatings, and electrical shocks. He beat one woman so badly he ruptured her implants. He is looking at Mann Act violations.
Soros and his kids will soon be looking at charges for funding criminals and criminal prosecutors. Deportation to Hungary, where he is wanted for looting the property of arrested Jews during WWII, should be on the table.
Trump has recently made some seemingly idiotic comments on Russia and Ukraine. He has recently claimed Russia is running out of steam, and is vulnerable to Ukrainian counterattack. He is critiquing Putin left and right. He is suggesting Turkey (which controls the Straits of Constantinople for now) could harm the Russians.
(In the late 1800s, Russian soldiers helped liberate Romania and Bulgaria and were beseiging Constantinople to take it from the Turks, when the Brits and Germans and French made them give up the siege. They didn’t want Russia to have access to the Aegean Sea. The Turks, protected by the corrupt Euros, then slaughtered Greek and Armenian Christians for the next 40 years. Here in Ohio is a gravestone in a cemetery in New Lexington to Januarius McGahan, who exposed Turkish atrocities against Christian girls in Bulgaria to the world. Bulgarian diplomats vist his grave every year.)
Trump’s seemingly stupid embrace of Ukrainian perv and dictator Zelensky has energized NATO, the Deep State, and the chicken hawks.
I hope his is all misdirection by Trump. Trump won’t sell offensive weapons to the Euros to sell or give to Ukraine. Russia’s troops are advancing. The drone wreckage in Poland has not revealed Russian parts …. otherwise they would be showing proof.
He is playing the Euros to expose themselves. Note Russia’s responses have been subdued.
Trump says Euros in NATO are still buying fuel from Russia instead of America, so he won’t do a thing to help NATO till that changes. And it won’t.
He knows the Euros would rather get cheaper and closer fuel from Russia. THis is why the Ukrianians and CIA assets during Biden’s incontinent time in the White House hit the Nordstream Pipeline … because Euros would rather save money, even while rattling sabers.
Trump doesn’t like or trust the leader of the Turks. He is goading the child molester into doing something stupid. The Russians in Syria backed Assad; the Turks backed those who would make war upon Assad and Christian and Alewite Moslems. Trump has cut the Turks off from receiving American aircraft because they bought Russian anti-aircraft missiles. This means they will have to buy aircraft from someone else, or overpay for replacement parts from third parties.
Calin Georgescu, a nationalist who was cheated out of the Romanian presidency by the globalists, is calling for an active partnership between America and Romania. He is touting the Orthodox character of Romanian society, and its control of the mouth of the Danube as a peaceful trade route into the heart of Europe. Meanwhile, globalists who stole his election are trying to manipulate female Moldova leader Maia Sandu into letting Ukrainian troops cross into her tiny land and attack Russians living there.
Romanian nationalists want Moldova returned to their rule…. Moldovans are Romanian speakers and are of Romanian blood. Globalists are looking for leverage against Russia desperately so they oppose the Romanian nationalists. As Poland starts cutting off its weapons supply routes to Ukraine and Slovakia and Hungary have also cut off weapon routes to Ukraine, Romania is the only country that borders Ukraine that has a seaport (Constanta) that can accept weapons shipments.
RFK Jr and Trump are warning pregnant women to avoid acetominiphen to save their babies from the chance of developing autism. So those leftist women who haven’t aborted their young are taking Tylenol to defy Trump. What morons they are! Even Tylenol’s makers are reiterating the drug is not for pregnant women!
Meanwhile, Trump let Putin roam in Alaska without American official escorts.
He is ordering the bombing or seizing of drug boats.
He is disrupting crime in cities with National Guard troops.
He is ensuring the indicting of Comey and soon Wray as FBI chiefs he fired.
Tulsi Gabbard’s people have uncovered proof about the lying behind the Russia Russia Russia hoax.
And FBI agents who kneeled for BLM have been fired.
Trump publicly undermined globalist Brit leader Keir Starmer while he was in England. Trump admirer Nigel Farage has a good chance to win upcoming elections.
Trump is aware of that 12 year old Scottish girl who has taken to carrying a hatchet and a knife because she is tired of Moslem and Gypsy “immigrants” groping her and beating her. Scottish police, when not cross-dressing in public in skirts, arrested the girl instead of her tormenters. Trump, whose mother was a low-income rural immmigrant from a Scottish fishing island that was so waterlogged at high tide she had to wear rubber boots to church, is pulling a lot of tails in that evil island between Europe and Ireland.
It’s a start.
Here’s another contact email:
[email protected]
We all have been coming up with 4d chess theories for at least the past year for why VSG seems so publically unaware of the real status and casualty count – horrific for Uke – of the war.
Nobody knows the casualties. Russian and ukr casualties are both significantly higher than they say
The last thing Russia wants or needs is war with NATO
And vice versa with spades. Russia has a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles to deliver them. It also has these cool nuclear powered torpedoes that can deliver nuclear strikes across oceans. They can outrun any weapons we might have to intercept them.
Don’t poke the bear. It gets pretty ornery when provoked.
Russia’s Hazel Nut Tree missiles so obviate the need for nukes that Putin has considered getting rid of all their nukes.
Nuke initiation would be coming from the west.
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Zelensky and U.K./E.U. have been impossible to deal with, including, among other things, corrupt interests and legalistic excuses. In light of this, Russia proceeds. Meanwhile, E.U. keeps funding Russia by buying their oil, directly or indirectly. All while European countries are ruining themselves in multifarious other ways. So screw it. The U.S. is making money at the moment selling arms. It’s sad but you can’t save people from themselves. Our job will be solely to protect our bases and interests, if as and when that becomes necessary.
(By the way, analogy to settlement negotiations in a litigation: if you want the best deal, you don’t let up the pressure and stop while talks are going on.)
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/john-mearsheimer-trump-passing-buck-europe
Trump is scared of the CIA, so even if he knew the truth nothing would change.
BTW, the Pentagon estimates 5,000 KIA per day in a ground war!!!!!!!
Sundance,
The only good news that I heard about Ukraine from Vance is that Trump has not yet decided whether to supply Tomahawk Missiles to Ukraine. I agree with you that Vance appears to be misinformed. For example, he was totally mistaken when he claimed that Russia used to be gaining 200 square kilometers per month but is no longer gaining that much. If anything, Russia’s net gains have been accelerating!
I’ve been following the daily Front Line Changes reports by Defense Politics Asia, a non-biased Singapore observer, and I estimate that Russia’s net gains in September will total around 450 square kilometers:
https://rumble.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia
Why oh why does it seem that Trump is allowing himself to get played like this by of all people…The EU?…Plzzz say it ain’t so…He has been refusing to get dragged into this EU quagmire up until now.
My hope is that Vance is not only misinformed about Russia’s territorial gains, but also fails to understand what Trump has been saying. Trump told the Europeans and Zelensky that he will sell them weapons, but that is it. He won’t fight for them and he won’t donate anything to their war effort.
The most tightly controlled silo in existence…
There are Trillions at stake.
Astute. Point taken
Compare VP Vance on a Sunday talk show versus a Sunday talk with VP Harris. Boy, did the country ever dodge a bucket of word vomit.
JMO.
“There are a lot of unknowns looking from the outside; “
Yup, for sure.
Some possibilities.
President Trump will end the Russia / Ucrane(CIA) war in preparation for repurposing the mission of NATO to include deporting all of the illegals out of every European country …… after which TOTALEXIT will become a reality, ending EU and the influence and danger from the anti-Americans globalist elites for the next century.
President Trump will remove the biden, treasonous carryovers in the DOJ and the associated 3-letter departments ending the “inside the wall” threat from the treasonous globalist / communists including the rogue CIA employees.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
I am seriously asking these questions for serious answers, because I’m apparently either too stupid or uninformed to understand:
WHY does the EU actually want war with Russia? Do they seriously think it will not escalate to nuclear? Do they really think they could somehow get anywhere close to defeating Russia without one side or the other destroying cities, then the entire world?
I’m led to believe that it is the only way to maintain their power while their economies face collapse. HOW DOES WAR HELP ANY OF THAT (especially economic depression)? Does printing endless fiat fix anything?
NATO, the idiots of the EU, and the globalists, all seek war. They are doing everything now to prepare for it, poke the bear and DRAW the U.S. into this mess. Once the missiles start to fly, jets get shot down, all hell can break loose too quickly. Battlefield nukes, once used, will lead to larger counter strikes. Meanwhile, China will use any of this to take advantage and invade Taiwan. America, stretched thin, will be forced to choose; surrender defending the island or utilize massive strikes to counter overwhelming superiority in troops and arms. It will not end well.
President Trump…stop this madness.
I am no genius but I beleive he has stopped the madness its just the crazies havent stopped yet.. Without our treasure and trained and ready soldiers Europe has no chance in a ground war, air war, or naval war with Russia. The plan was always the same kind of proxy war fought in Vietnam and Korea.
Europe is not our allies but our competitors. They want to bleed us and Russia dry supporting trading vollies over Ukraine. The assumption is we will stalemate it stop the losses in ukraine and after 15 or 20 years set up a dmz By then Europe will have achieved trade and economic dominance buying and securing resources unprotected by Russia and the US. Europe will own our bonds and use them for toilet paper.
Trumps said he would play Daddy Warbucks and sell them everything they want to buy and man. Europe has NoMoney. No significant Standing Army, and no nationalistic tendencies left in their population to support a war.
We all most admit that , regardless of President Trump’s good intentions and uncanny savvy on most issues, this looming war is taking on a life of its own! We are standing on the precipice and there are many wicked forces
( human and demonic ) who desire it all to be pushed over the edge for a variety of reasons.
We are in the realm of metaphysics now and even the POTUS and his plans are likely not sufficient to avoid what appears to be imminent. We were warned in 1917 by a Woman ( sent as Heaven’s direct Emmisary ) what would happen ( most has come to pass… the rest upon us) if we did not heed Heaven’s request brought by Her on behalf of Her Son.
The Pope is the key .
“ He will do it but it will be late…”
The 3rd Secret of Fatima has yet to play out. There IS a way out for the world.
Our Lady of Fatima … Pray for Us and the Pope to fulfill your request and solemnly consecrate Russia with all the bishops simultaneously to your Immaculate Heart.
“It is never too late to have recourse to Jesus and Mary” ( message of Our Lady of Fatima)…
There is a hope AND a solution …
Art of the Deal.
This war is not ending as readily as Trump thought…concessions and some equivocation needed at least in appearances…
It hurt Trump in his soul to see so much death.
He is playing what cards he was dealt.
Russian Missile Strike Destroys Five F-16’s; Kills Numerous NATO Personnel
Two Russian hypersonic missiles struck Ukraine’s Starokostyantyniv airbase today, destroying five (5) US-supplied F-16 Fighter jets, an unknown number of British-supplied Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles, along with “Dozens” of NATO instructors and targeting crews.
From Hal Turner Radio Show
Mostly French military according to MOA.
Martin Armstrong announced in December 2013 that tensions would erupt in Ukraine. During the war he has repeatedly said all his models reflected that due to EU dire economic issues they had to have war and peace would never occur. The linked article discusses past and June 2026 asa major turning point in the war, and his models have never been wrong in 40+ years.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/eu-nato-zelensky-plotting-against-trump/?
MaineCoon,
I’ve also been following what Martin Armstrong has been saying. He misinterpreted what Trump said in his September 23 message. Trump was indeed upset with Putin for not negotiating with Zelensky, but he was also upset with the Europeans:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/23/president-trump-tells-russia-and-ukraine-good-luck/
Armstrong thinks that Trump was saying that he would help Zelensky take back all of the territory that Ukraine has lost to Russia. On the contrary, Trump was saying that the European NATO countries and Zelensky could try to take back that territory and maybe they could succeed. He wasn’t including the U.S. in their war.
When he said that he will “sell” weapons to NATO, he was saying that he will not donate any weapons. If they want to keep the war going, they will have to pay for it themselves. Furthermore, when he didn’t include himself in NATO and when he told the Europeans to shoot down Russian planes themselves, he was telling them that he was not falling for their NATO Article 4 nonsense. If they want to go to war with Russia, he won’t join them. The Europeans don’t really want to fight — they want to get the U.S. and Russia fighting. Trump’s statement wasn’t starting World War III, it was preventing it:
The headline of a British Telegraph commentary summarized Trump’s message: “Trump is washing his hands of the Ukraine war: What may appear at first glance as stunning U-turn may actually be bad news for Volodymyr Zelensky”:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/09/23/donald-trump-ukraine-war-zelensky-win-back/
Reasonable. Both PDJT’s message and the interpretation of it described here.
How far away it could go from the original message, opinions with fixed-mindset assumptions or prejudices play significant roles.
I agree, HR. Of late, his opinions of Trump are not what mine are either. MA speaks to a worldwide audience, and in his own way (and at his age) he, too, is trying to influence, and he has gotten my bold opinions in the last few years.
His/Socates forecasts are on the money, though.
What you posit would be extremely concerning since Pres. Trump’s Nat Sec Advisor is now also his SECSTATE, one Marco Rubio. As to Ratcliffe, and I’m open to being convinced otherwise, I don’t trust him.
NATO isn’t in a position to go up against Russia militarily.
Their militaries are hollowed out. How long could they last?
Are they hoping the US will step in to pick up the slack?
Others may know more about this and I would like to hear contrary points of view.
Sundance, meet Sun Tzu, the author of President Trump’s “play book.” Sun tells us to hide our goals from the world and then strike like lightening, suddenly to keep the enemy off balance and gain the element of surprise (and a few other good take aways). I suspect Vance & Trump are using the MSM to these ends along with Sun’s thinking that all war is deceit… Time will tell.
at what point do we call a spade a spade. at this rate the world could be in ww3 and we will say Trump wasn’t notified and has no clue. this defense of not knowing basic geopolitical news nevermind top level info gets weary after awhile.
“the unwillingness of Russia to negotiate with Ukraine or the United States.”
These are the operative words. Assess actions, not words. When it looks like 47 might get Putin to settle for his current gains in Ukraine, Putin’s increased attacks make it perfectly clear that he is not willing to settle for the Donbas, but wants all of Ukraine.
Sometimes you just have to walk away and let them slug it out, so long as they understand you’re not going to step in and rescue anyone.
What’s so hard to understand about Russia’s position? They have repeated over and over that “the root causes” must be resolved….. So what are the root causes of this conflict from the Russian perspective? The expansion of NATO (a hostile military alliance) to Russia’s borders. The disenfranchisement of Orthodox Ukrainians, and the proliferation of neo-notsees in Ukrainian government (given that they lost 27 million people to the not-sees its not surprising that they are rather reticent to see them setting up next door). It was the Russians who pressed for negotiations in Minsk and again in Istanbul, with Ukrainians coming along, kicking and screaming at every step.
All of the “talk” from both Ukraine and the US completely avoids concrete answers on any of the issues that the Russian deem critical… Moreover the Europeans are steadfastly against any compromise by Ukraine on Russia’s red lines. You may not like what Russia is saying, but they have been remarkably consistent. So yeah…. the beatings will continue, until morale improves…..
He wants the Dniper River, Crimea, Donbas. No NATO in Ukraine.
MacGregor and others argue he doesn’t want to oversee hostile western areas.