I’ll post the video outcomes of the Paris summit comments below. However, in the interests of time and cutting to the chase, the picture below highlights the reality of things as they present.
The British-based “coalition of the willing” (+1 USA) assembled in Paris as the operation to manipulate the U.S. into forming the cornerstone of the Ukraine “security guarantees” continues. A great deal of this is public relations and psychological operations intended to create something against President Trump’s expressed intention.
However, everything you need to know about the eventual end of this long exposition is evident in the image that everyone pretends not to see.
German Chancellor Merz, Ukraine President Zelenskyy, French President Macron, British Prime Minister Starmer and then you have Mr Witkoff & Mr Kushner. What’s missing? Trump. There’s your answer!
There’s no President Trump because the intent of the principals is against our America-first interest. Hence, the USA did not sign up to the EU created security guarantees, because Trump is demanding they do their own work.
Key word “proposed” [read agreement] …”These elements will be European-led, with the involvement also of non-European members of the Coalition, and the proposed support of the US.”…
President Trump is presenting: The U.S. will provide intelligence *monitoring* assistance, but that’s it.
Not in our strategic interest. Not our war. Not our issue.
The U.S. delegation did not sign up to the statement the EU put forth after the meeting.
Lots of words were said.
Lots of gratitude was expressed.
Lots of support was mentioned. However, ultimately the responsibility for any agreed security guarantees will be carried by Europe, not by the United States.
As noted by Politico-EU: […] The statement from Kyiv’s European allies says they stand ready to commit to “legally binding” security guarantees to support Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia.
Crucially, the monitoring and verification of a future ceasefire would be led by the U.S., with contributions from countries including the U.K. and Germany.
The plan also sets out security guarantees that would include long-term support for the Ukrainian armed forces, the deployment of a European-led multinational force in Ukraine in case of a peace settlement, and “binding” commitments to support Ukraine should there be a future Russian attack.
French President Macron continues misleading the media, changing the intention of President Trump:
“The coalition of the willing declaration for a solid and lasting peace … for the first time recognizes an operational convergence between the 35 countries, Ukraine and the U.S. to build robust security guarantees,” Macron told reporters. Washington will participate in those guarantees, including with the “backstop” that Europeans wanted, he added.
It’s professional parseltongue from Macron, a man well-versed in the art of linguistic manipulation.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that after a ceasefire, the U.K. and France will set up military hubs across Ukraine and “build protected facilities for weapons and military equipment to support Ukraine’s defense needs.”
France, the U.K. and Ukraine signed a separate declaration on Tuesday laying out these commitments.
The European-led multinational force will cover land, air and sea and will be stationed in Western Ukraine, far from the contact line, Macron said. France and the U.K. have previously said they would be willing to put boots on the ground — but most other coalition members, including Germany, have so far shied away from joining that commitment.
Other nations have suggested deploying aircraft based in neighboring NATO countries to monitor Ukrainian skies, and Turkey has agreed to lead the coalition’s maritime segment to secure the Black Sea.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Berlin was open to deploying its troops in a neighboring NATO country that would act in case of Russian aggression, telling reporters “we are not ruling anything out.” But he stressed that the final decision would be up to Germany’s parliament.
“I will only make proposals to the Bundestag once there is a ceasefire and the coalition of the willing has agreed on the procedure to be followed,” he told reporters. “The prerequisite is a ceasefire.”
Some European countries, however, remain reluctant to deploy military assets in a post-war Ukraine. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis repeated that Greece will not participate in a European military force in Ukraine. However, Greek government officials said Mitsotakis has not ruled out other forms of assistance, such as in maritime surveillance. (more)
Witkoff and Kushner continued the Trump approach to heap praise upon the coalition, affirm their best intentions and openly, publicly advocate for the support therein. However, this is a European issue, supported by the U.S, but not operationally engaged with U.S. military despite the EU/Ukraine demands and continued requests.
The U.S. will monitor the Ukraine ceasefire situation and act as a diplomatic peacekeeper, establishing deconfliction channels of open communication between the USA and Russia. However, Europe, this so-called “coalition of the willing,” will be responsible for any military backstop within that approach.
Prime Minister Starmer is all-in to put his British troops on the ground. France less so, with Macron hedging. Germany even less so with Chancellor Merz saying his parliament needs to approve of troop movements.
Everyone is hedging, unsure, seemingly tenuous because they have never operated without the USA acting as the heavy enforcement mechanism. President Trump is coaching them to take responsibility for their own region. The ‘coalition of the willing’ is doing their typically European thing, shouting strong words at Vladimir Putin – but checking to make sure the biggest playground enforcer is standing behind them.
♦ My message to those who worry about President Trump committing us to something protracted that will eventually end in our being pulled into a European theater of conflict, quit worrying. Trump is telling the EU to quit talking and start actively being responsible for their own security. In the background Trump has bigger plans.
Hans Mahncke has a solid take on the bigger picture:
The notion that America wants Greenland for its raw materials is either insanely ignorant or just engagement bait. Extracting anything in the Arctic is prohibitively expensive, and often physically impossible, with extreme cold, thick ice, equipment that won’t function, and no roads, rail or ports to move anything once you have it.
The real reason America needs Greenland is its immense geostrategic military value, which should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain, especially anyone who has ever looked at a map from above, with the North Pole at the center.
Sure, some tasks could be outsourced to NATO, but that alliance is on its last legs, burdened by too many countries with conflicting priorities, and has mainly served as a way for Europe to freeload on US security guarantees. Relying on it for American national security is reckless. It’s far smarter to cut out the endless middlemen and take direct control. (source)
Mahncke is correct. On one side of the ice, you have North America. On the other side of the ice you have, well, the reason for President Trump to order dozens of icebreakers.
October, 2025: Finland is slightly smaller than Montana and wedged between Sweden and Russia. Finland, a nation of approximately 5 million people, has a security outlook shaped by its geography, a strategic position within the new NATO/Arctic strategy.
President Trump holds a bilateral discussion with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, as the two leaders’ complete terms for eleven icebreaker ships valued at $6.1 billion. Under terms of the deal, three of the ships will be built by Davie in Galveston, Texas, and four by Bollinger Shipyards in Houma, Louisiana.
Finland is the world leader in icebreaker ship building and will help teach U.S. ship building companies the latest advances in the technology. [SOURCE]
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December, 2025: Appearing on Fox News to discuss the Ukraine v Russia conflict, Finland President Alexander Stubb is questioned about the conflicting U.S. intelligence reports pushed by Reuters saying Russia will invade Europe, versus DNI Tulsi Gabbard saying Russia has no capability or intent to invade Europe.
President Stubb notes his agencies work closely with U.S. intelligence and in his view, Tulsi Gabbard is correct regarding President Vladimir Putin’s intention. [SOURCE]
President Trump is dancing through a geopolitical minefield, deconstructing numerous long-standing economic and manipulative institutions along the way, while simultaneously keeping 100 domestic agenda plates spinning on sticks.
It is amazing to watch his navigation skills.
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For all of its talk and posturing, Europe wants exactly one thing: to defeat Russia and seize all of her natural resources. Victoria Nuland published a map, showing Russia divided (along natural resource boundaries) into forty-odd little helpless rump countries. She even gave each one a name and a flag. Europeans saw that map, and they lust for it. There was a time when Churchill wanted to launch “Operation Unthinkable” to knife Stalin in the back. They haven’t forgotten that.
Their problem, as Russia has now so ably demonstrated, is that they do not have the military capacity to bring it off. Russia has the general and military industrial capability that Europe gave away in pursuit of “green.” So, this “coalition of the willing,” which has expanded NATO’s boundaries right to Russia’s borders in an obviously offensive posture, needs American boots on the ground to fight the World War III for them.
It bears remembering that the normal state of Europe is to be at war with somebody. It is highly unusual for eighty years to have passed without another “Grand European Military Adventure.”
Exactly!!! Excellent post!!! Europe has been at war with itself since the fall of the Roman Empire and probably before that!!! President Trump is masterly negotiating around our neocons and warmongers, like the infamous Victoria Nuland, to get to a peace deal!!! Godspeed President Trump our Peacemaker!!!
The only reason I can fathom for that eighty years ‘stretch’ between WWII and WWIII, is that American citizens have grown a bit smarter. No longer do we listen to our ENEmedia ‘masters’ and swallow their shameless propaganda.
No longer do we agree to censor ourselves and apologize for being the competent, family-loving, hardworking people we are. No longer do we agree to send our sons and daughters off to die in “bankers wars” that hurt everyone involved except for the puppet masters.
HELL no!
And since we, the American taxpayers, have been generously FUNDING these greedy pigs for the past 80 years whether we realized it or not (maybe we were too busy working our arses off to carry their weight), they haven’t had occasion to complain until now. Well, the party’s over now folks. Build your own damn economy. Fund your own socialist utopia (hint: an impossibility. Lazy socialists NEED other people’s money to function) and spill your own squishy, blue blood!
WE’RE not gonna take it anymore!
Please don’t assume that? If any democrat was in the office of president not a word of truth would escape and DEI and virtue signaling would rule AGAIN.
Look at covid, remember the toilet paper embargo, remember masks, shots, gas shortages, green taxes, people are not using thought. A very few have been allowed to speak with conservatism, character, morals, they have been shot, shot at, beaten. The strong now are taking the podium. Still lies the ignorant sheep to follow.
Remember, schools were to promote thought not tell you what to think, now gone. Even books are obsolete, “read”? Why?
One of our most-decorated Marines, Major General Smedley Butler, aptly said that: “War Is A Racket.”
He won the Marine Corps Brevet Medal, and the Medal of Honor twice.
So, I guess he really knew what he was talking about . . .
Yes, anti-war folks love Butler, as if he was the only one with military knowledge.
Having been raised by a man who served under him and spending half a lifetime listening to stories told by the men who fought along side him, Butler was a conceded prick who crafted his image very carefully and thought very little of those who fought for him. Most legends are just that, merely an exaggerated fable.
Well said, Mike Robinson. At this point even dedicated US leftists refuse to echo EU/NATO calls to defend Zelensky. The war is over.
51 US intelligence officials not withstanding. : ))
Didn’t they sue President Trump over the use of that song at his rallies? Yeah I’m sure they did.
You’re right but the EU is stupid to consider they can ever do. The EU countries act like a gang to of kids challenging the best Russian fighter of all time. Witkoff is funny in his praise to the EU, he’s a good actor in this ridiculous proposal
Europe is broke and NATO is on its last leg, which positions the US to benefit economically. More bilateral trade agreements. They will need us more than ever.
They are desperately stupid. The ship of EU partnership sailed obviously in his second term. Rutte should have understood that.
No borders and Climate Change, why commit societal suicide. Lemmings.
IMO, this administration will never be “America first”. That implies isolationism, which literally means staying out of global affairs.
Over the past 12 months, it’s been a steady stream of Russia, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Greenland, and now Cuba. And that will continue for the forseeable future at rocket speed.
The supporters clinging to America first need to let that concept die. It ain’t happening over the next 3 years.
Your definition of “America First” is wrong. What you define is “America Only”. THAT is what real “isolationism” means.
IMO 😅
Also “Proud”.
Also “Texan”.
Your flop sweat is leaving stains. Please try a different vocation.
America First doesn’t mean America isolationism. It means acting only in the interests of these United States. We will no longer act as a police force for foreign countries. Where we have no geopolitical interest.
Those who would divide us because they are unhappy with a particular policy outcome are forgetting the multitude of political policies, both international and domestic, that have given away our production jobs, destroyed our national work ethic with social programs, eroded our unified culture by importing third world immigrants, and spent us into economy crushing debt.
We’ve raised a generation of whining spoiled brats who have graduated from throwing tantrums and breaking their toys to taking to the streets to loot and destroy property when they don’t get what they want.
Sorry, but I see PDJT as a once in a lifetime leader who doesn’t just talk the talk but who gets big things done.
As a longtime political observer having some experience in DC and in running campaigns, I recognize Trump as our country’s savior. And saviors only come along, at best, once in a lifetime.
America First more reasonably implies The Monroe Doctrine, establishing world financial stability and sovereign Geo-political positioning ( getting out from under City of London and British Imperialism )……but that’s just my personal supporter opinion of where I believe Trump Doctrine is headed. Yee-Haw!
America first means protecting us from those evil Europeans
You couldn’t be more wrong.
I think you are in the wrong place.
Politico is way over there, to the left.
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Daily Kos and Puffy Ho are more their speed!
Your opinion is allowed.
Your wrong go to
PRESIDENT Trump has over 34 busts that cost the drug industry at least 1 Billion up to several billion in seized assets per bust. While you were being proud of yourself he has directed the FBI to put the drug cartels out of business.
In all fairness proud boi the fake news will not broadcast his wins you have to look for it.
He has also brought in our national debt 35 Trillion worth of new businesses investing in America. You see if they want to do business in America due to our clever Tarriffs they have to make it in America or pay the tariff. This also helps the people in the countries who have slave labor.
Our boarder is closed to illegal activity proud boi.
Gas is under $1.98
Prudhoe Bay is in full swing this year. The Rockerfellers wanted it closed for good close to 9000 people working this year.
BTW we can cut Alaska in half making Texas third largest state in the union.
You may want a Doc look at that.
Alaska cannot be split, Texas remains the only state where that would be viable since there’s A clause allowing for it in their states Constitution, but even that is limited to five distinct divisions.
You were doing good until your silly trashing of Texas for not being half as large as Alaska in land acreage. Join the clowns who trashed Texas about their anti-littering campaign 30 years ago by saying ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ was some kind of militaristic bs that only Texans could have the gall to put on highway signs. Yes, Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas if you are counting land area. But in population and impact on Federal elections, they are competing with California while Alaska is competing with States with populations about like North Dakota has.
I believe the great northwest is the most beautiful place in North America, having lived most of my life there. But I have always found Texans to be, on the whole, the nicest people in North America. Just ‘drive friendly’ , like many road signs in Texas also say.
Implies isolationism? Maybe logic is NOT your strong suit.
Next…… Can you tell me what the meaning of “is” is?
“America First” was clearly expanded upon in our recent National Security document – which is pure “The Art of the Deal” Trump.
In this document, he specifically said that America was going to put itself “First” in all negotiations . . . a-n-d(!)(!))(!!!) . . . that it expected all other nations to do likewise.
Do you remember what Dr. Chester Karrass used to say in those “in-flight magazines,” back when airlines actually published them? “In life, you don’t get what you deserve – you get what you negotiate.”
Sit down. At the table. We all know what we all want. It doesn’t align. Now, let us craft a deal.
We do not pretend that [your_country] wants to put [America] first. Of course you don’t.
Wouldn’t that be more aptly described as ” America Only” ? Which by the way I’ve never seen on hats yet.
Blessings, Sundance!
Let us fling away the works of darkness and put on the full armor of light!
Ditto those last few sentences.
Stay informed about current events around the world.
Put your trust in God and be thankful for His kindness to us all.
I suppose Robert Burns’ poem, To A Mouse, adumbrated the Coalition of the Willing?
To A Mouse
Robert Burns, 1785
On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785.
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
O’ what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murdering pattle.
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which maks thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion
An’ fellow mortal!
I doubt na’ whyles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
‘S a sma’ request:
I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
And never miss’t!
Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
O’ foggage green!
An’ bleak December’s win’s ensuin,
Baith snell and keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,
An’ weary winter comin fast,
An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro’ thy cell.
That wee bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble,
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turned out, for a’ thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter’s sleety dribble,
An’ cranreuch cauld.
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men,
Gang aft a-gley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy.
Still thou are blest, compared wi’ me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects drear!
An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men,
Gang aft a-gley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy.
I wrote a paper on this in High School – before the internet existed. My sweet father helped me with it & explained “gang aft a-gley” means often go astray… And why Steinbeck’s beautiful novel was titled Of Mice & Men… Thank God we little mousies are loved by a God who sees the whole farm.
Incredibly He is enough to give everyone his Love and devotion What an amazing God we serve God Bless.
“However, everything you need to know about the eventual end of this long exposition is evident in the image that everyone pretends not to see.”
Exactly. It’s not a deal until President Trump says it’s a deal.
Thank you Sundnce for the reminder to go to God with gratitude for being in this place at this time.
What a fantastic map, helps so much with perspective. Key to our national security. Hemispheric defense.
Eric Prince on War Room Monday pointed out – “It’s much bigger than what it appears on maps. Laden w/significant mineral value. As the Arctic Sea becomes more navigable, and there’s more transits, it becomes super relevant for global shipping.”
As the Nazis are called back to their nest there in the Ukraine there is going to be “Support” for the AZOV military.
WTF
Defund NATO completely because the 700+ billion a year we are forced to hand over to the corrupt globalist will still be completely wasted and stolen.
I am thankful and have been since President’s victory in 2024. When I think of how much he has done in just one short year I am truly thankful. He’s the best president!!
Thank You Sundance..
“The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.”
~Romans 13:12
Five years ago with the overthrow of a duly elected President Trump our America entered its own Dark Age.
The satanic forces which no doubt felt supremely confident they had permanently rid themselves of him…and had silenced the voices of millions. And then these forces proceeded to set fire to our nation, annointing themselves to rule over the ashes.
Oh, the mighty hand of God!!!
My first thought on reading this morning…
Blessings to all 🙏🏻
“Get behind Me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” The EU speaks for Satan. President Trump is a vessel of God and he speaks through President Trump.
Well, he is the prince of this world after all and has to enlist his handmaidens from somewhere…
Subtext to the juvenile name they’ve given themselves…
“The Coalition of his Willing”
Very nice, simple graphic. Almost zen-like (just a bit of bamboo sprig and leaf in the right background would do it!).
Thank you for your clarity of thought, Ms. Betsy. You always focus us on The Truth.
Quietly withdrawing can upset a lot of carts full of rotten apples, Chevy 😎
Coalition of the Willing looks like an attempt to create a NATO II and will be just as rejected by Russia as the current attempt to bring Ukraine into NATO. President Trump will not sign onto the COW (NATO II) because it will extend the war and not contribute to its end.
Effing europeans, let them have their peter cheese with their whine. NO USA in NATO II.
Agreed. Lots of NATO nations not part of the “willing” up on that fake stage.
The COW will have to do its own fighting for a change.
That’s no bull
What an acronym 😂😂😂😂. I do hope they change it.
Putin will not agree to a ceasefire unless his objectives are met. How many times does he have to say it?
And that’s why President Trump will not sign onto this foolishness! He has to avoid weakness if only in appearance to Putin. Like Sundance has allouted to, the mind is blown away at all the stings laid out by Trump that are starting to be pulled back to center gravity! Totally awesome!
Words are cheap. That’s why Macron and Starmer can commit to deploy so many of them.
The ambiguous words in this document isn’t meant for PDJT.
It’s for the person to be sworn in, after he leaves office. It is all written just vague enough for a warpig to step in and contort the meaning, and make a flimsy argument for why the US needs to go to war. .
The intent of this document is to buy time for a restart at a later stage, after rearmament and regrouping. Lasting peace my @$$.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that after a ceasefire, the U.K. and France will set up military hubs across Ukraine and “build protected facilities for weapons and military equipment to support Ukraine’s defense needs.”
what a crock of $#!t.
Great information. The propaganda machine is working overtime to upend anything the President is doing or plans to do. I hope this piece makes the rounds to inform as many people as possible.
Thanks Sundance for cutting to the chase! It is so much fun to read what you write.
I saw the picture you posted “of the willing” and little “z” standing with the willing, not many “willing to be a part of it”. Thanks for the laugh.
I’m scratching my head about Jared Kushner’s involvement. I thought he and Ivanka didn’t want anything to do with Trump’s second term. It looks like Kushner is a tough negotiator that Trump trusts to do what he wants.
“‘We called in Jared,’ Trump told the Knesset on October 13, after Hamas released the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza as part of the ceasefire Kushner helped negotiate.’ We need that brain on occasion. We gotta get Jared in here.'”
“The White House said that Kushner was giving ‘valuable expertise’ while stressing that he was working as an ‘informal, unpaid advisor.'”
“‘President Trump has a trusted family member and talented advisor in Jared Kushner,’ Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement to AFP, citing Kushner’s ‘record of success’ in the Middle East.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jared-kushners-unofficial-role-in-trump-administration-sparks-ethical-questions/
Might have something to do with his family, especially his dad, just saying.
These are people who “private citizen” Trump worked with, in the real estate negotiations which produced his (and their) vast fortune. He fundamentally knows and trusts their skills as negotiators. He is wise in doing that. “International diplomacy” is really not that different from “business negotiations” at that(!) sky-high level.
So, when he seems to be “effortlessly out-classing” the “usual political establishment,” there’s a reason for that. It’s because he (they) possess well-refined skills that the others simply do not have. I will wager that not a single one of them has ever read: “The Art of the Deal.” It would have been very un-wise for any of them to be “negotiating real estate,” when DJT and his team walked into the room . . . 🤡
I thought “Coalition of the Willing” sound familiar.
The term “Coalition of the Willing” was first used by U.S. President George W. Bush in November 2002, declaring that the United States would lead a coalition to disarm Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if he failed to comply with United Nations demands.
20 years ago Russia was building massive nuclear icebreakers as Russia’s prominent scientist Abdussamotiv was predicting by sunspot activity and other signals that a period of cooling would be taking hold by 2016-20, which is proving to be true.
I would say that this is one reason Russia wants warm water ports such as in Crimea.
The Russian economy is the size of Italy’s.
The actual economy of Europe as a whole is 10x to 20x
that of Russia.
Only the fact that Europe is so flakey and
self-crippling allows Russia to be dangerous.
Discuss.
But, the Russian economy is wisely managed. Therein lies the difference.
The Eurps want control, and war covers their fraudulent economic tracks.
The “Eurps” want: Russia. Right now big enough to be an entirely self-contained source of every natural resource they could ever want.
Greenland was used by the US for the first ferrying of bombers to England. There’s a movie about it, turned into a love story by Hollywood of course, but the facts are the Greenland is strategic.
That said, Trumps hyper-insensitive rhetoric, is his Achilles heel and works to incite opposition. If he would only approach this and countless other goals behind the scenes with those who can perhaps garner some alliance, he could accomplish his goals without being so deliberately offensive.
As an example, Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America was announced as a very deliberate poke in the eye to Mexico. I would have fully supported renaming it Gulf of Americas as all bordering nations and continents are Americas.
I think he earned the opportunity to incite opposition, i.e, 2016-2025, We saw what was being done, but he felt and suffered it, the score card is way not done yet. I buy lots of popcorn and just read, just sayin my take on it. He’s an alpha male and human, plus a high achiever, we all have people like that we know what to expect of them. He just plays out on a world stage . God is still in control, we all know the story end, even if we don’t like the path to get there. I’m thankful Trump still talks to God.
Inciting the opposition often causes them to out themselves. Once their heads are out of a foxhole, much easier to ID the enemy…
Exactly.
Exactly. Trumpfare in action.
The western hemisphere is North America, Central America, South America. Gulf of America is appropriate. Besides, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America is a brilliant strategic move our VSGPDJT did. It maneuvers around the horrible Green New Deal that the previous administration signed into law.
Green New Deal for the Gulf of Mexico” refers to regional initiatives, like Gulf South for a Green New Deal, that apply national Green New Deal (GND) goals—clean energy, climate justice, jobs—to the unique challenges of the Gulf Coast, focusing on issues like petrochemical pollution, coastal restoration, climate resilience, and supporting frontline communities against fossil fuel impacts, aiming to transition the region’s economy while addressing environmental injustice. It integrates federal GND concepts with local organizing, pushing for policies to protect vulnerable Gulf communities from climate change and industrial pollution.
Key Focus Areas for the Gulf Coast:
Environmental Justice: Addressing disproportionate pollution burdens on communities of color and Indigenous peoples from the petrochemical industry, ensuring their voices shape solutions.
Climate Resilience & Restoration: Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems, building infrastructure resilient to extreme weather, and mitigating damage from rising sea levels and stronger storms.
Clean Energy Transition: Moving away from fossil fuels while investing in renewable energy and green jobs, particularly given the Gulf’s high CO2 emissions and existing energy infrastructure.
Holding Industry Accountable: Resisting new fossil fuel projects (like pipelines, terminals) that threaten communities and the environment, and enforcing regulations on existing polluters.
How it Connects to the National GND:
Regional Adaptation: Local groups adapt the broad national GND framework (renewable energy, green jobs, infrastructure) to specific regional needs, creating platforms for local accountability.
Community-Led Solutions: Emphasizes grassroots organizing, bringing together diverse local voices (Indigenous, Black, low-income) to develop policy.
Leveraging Federal Policy: Uses tools like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the RESTORE Act to fund climate and justice initiatives in the Gulf, ensuring federal dollars align with local priorities.
Key Players & Efforts:
Gulf South for a Green New Deal (GS4GND): A coalition promoting a just transition for the region.
Healthy Gulf: Works on holding industry accountable, monitoring water quality, and supporting community resistance to projects.
Center for Constitutional Environmental Justice (GCCLP): Facilitates dialogue and policy development for a Gulf South GND.
Above post reference from Google AI, with word prompts of green new deal for the gulf of mexico
Europe has been “dead” for decades. Their main source of life is to steal from African and Asian countries and laundering money for the drug cartels. France and England are the prime examples of countries stealing other countries assets because they long ago used up their own. They have expended what little they have on military actions and corrupt dealings all over the planet. President Trumps actual war on drugs will severely hurt their economy and their ability to support military actions. The London banks are going to miss the billions of dollars of drug money they launder every year.
Ukraine wants to be in NATO. IIRC, in recent posts Sundance related 1) Russia expressed desires to be in NATO 1n the 1990s, and 2) he also mused about how Russia could be a natural ally to NATO and the West, while also splitting the Axis of Evil and forming the most powerful entity in the Entire Freakin’ Known Multiverse.
So how about we extend provisional invitations to join NATO to both Russia and Ukraine with a two year probationary period, freezing the borders Ukraine has already agreed to. Seems to me that this would kill quite a number of birds with one stone, and be right up Trump’s wheelhouse for Making his Deal of the Millennia.
Ukraine was always Obama’s globalist war, which is why they were forced to install Cypher Biden.
I have been following battlefield progress on the neutral Singapore-based Defense Politics Asia website. Recent changes should encourage Zelenskyy to settle as soon as possible. Rapid Russian advances in Ukraine’s eastern provinces resumed on Jan. 5 after a Ukrainian late-December offensive in Kupiansk evaporated. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian army in Myrnohrad continues to be surrounded and may soon have to surrender.
I am frankly astonished that the Ukranian people have not yet done to him what the Italian people sensibly did to Mussolini. 💀
My reading of history books produce this expectation. Ordinarily, in due time you figure out what the problem is, and you get rid of him and his wife. Once that “little chore” is done, you begin to focus on rebuilding your country.
Amen Brother, It is hard to see thru the world craziness that ALL MIGHTY GOD has a plan for good.
We will see all of prophecy fulfilled, focusing on how God Jesus turns all actions into good is a hard thing.
His ways are higher than ours.
Human Emotion causes reaction.
Gods plan however is for all to not perish.
God Bless.
A ceasefire is the biggest trick in the book. Putin will not sign onto this – inviting a militarized and hostile Europe into his geo space.
“It’s professional parseltongue from Macron, a man well-versed in the art of linguistic manipulation.”
As opposed to Vladimir Putin who always speaks with straight tongue and only wants what is rightfully his.
Of the two of them, Putin is the man that I trust. Whether you agree or disagree with what he is saying, at least he does not speak out of both sides of his mouth. When he speaks, I do not think that he is doing so to deceive you. He is speaking for his beloved homeland: Russia.
I trust his actions more so than his words, the man has demonstrated the restraint of a saint. Multiple acts of war have been committed against Russia and he has yet to retaliate. I can’t help but wonder what they talked about in Helsinki.
I’m thinking Starmers willingness to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine is just a way to finish off the white males in Britain.
It reminds me very much of the build up to the American Civil War. One side simply doesn’t realize they’ve already lost before the first shots are fired.
The EU has lost all logic. Their new plan. This is too funny; The “willing” in their plan, always requires American troops, so Borrell is just revealing what all these countries want, our protection but no US input in their countries or their stupid plans.
Sundance, don’t you think the EU should handle Ukraine themselves, based on the article they don’t want our help!
7 Jan, 2026 08:13
EU must stop treating US as its main ally – Borrell (The EU are pissed the U.S. is not babying them and the can’t use Trump, for all their sick plans. Oh well, Trump’s plan is working!)
The bloc’s former top diplomat has pointed to growing tensions, including spats over Europe’s digital rules
The EU should stop considering the US its main ally, the bloc’s former top diplomat Josep Borrell says, as Washington and Brussels are at loggerheads over digital policies and control over Greenland.
In an interview with Spain’s Antena 3 broadcaster last week, Borrell said he “doesn’t know what more [US President Donald] Trump needs to do for us to understand that the United States and Europe are not the allies they once were.”
Borrell also commented on Trump’s concern that Europe’s nuclear powers – France and the UK – could one day have governments that are not friendly to Washington. “There are many people who don’t want to accept this reality” because it is still assumed that the US is the EU’s main ally, “but it no longer is,” the ex-diplomat said.
He also pointed to US visa bans on five Europeans, including former internal market commissioner Thierry Breton, whom Washington officials have accused of spearheading legislative efforts to discriminate against US tech giants.
The crux of the issue centers on the EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, which impose strict obligations on large online platforms, which in practice are mostly US-based. However, EU officials have defended the legislation, portraying it as a way to defend European sovereignty. (But Not for US sovereignty.)
Pivoting to the US attack on Venezuela, Borrell suggested that America’s military intervention should be “a lesson for Europeans” because “if we want to exist in the world, [we] should also have a certain capacity to defend ourselves and not expect the American friend to defend us.” (Oh the US can leave NATO, they should rethink that, none of them have standing armies)
Borrell’s comments also come as Trump doubled down on his claim that the US should “absolutely” secure control of Greenland for national security reasons, with the White House suggesting that employing the US military “is always an option” in pursuing that goal.
The remarks have drawn strong pushback from Denmark, which exercises sovereignty over the strategic island, and European capitals, which stressed that “Greenland belongs to its people.” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also warned that “if the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops.”
https://www.rt.com/news/630689-eu-us-no-allies-borrell/
Dazzle them with brilliance or baffle them with BS. I’m for the latter in this case.
We need Greenland. Its very important for our security. President Trump knows this and will get it for America. The Europeans and NATO are stuck in the stone age. Times are rapidly changing. Thank God for you SD. God bless America.
Against who might we need Greenland to secure ourselves? Still waiting on that detail….
Ballistic missile defense is the traditional reason. But if trans-arctic shipping routes become important then ensuring access (or denying access) could be a factor.
We’ve had Pituffik Space Base since WWII. Question is what more do we need that possession would provide?
I don’t understand their plans because most EU countries are bankrupt and Brussels had to borrow billions from their own people’s money to pay only one year to give Ukraine? None of “Willy-Nilly” leaders have many soldiers in their small armies, except maybe UK, but they are stretched thin by trying to steal more countries. PDJT will said no, but Emmanuel thinks he can convince him. I can hear Macron saying to Trump, “oh no, no, no Donald, you must join us! I can hear Trump laughing loudly
“Coalition of the Willing” reminds me of how the American Dream’s impossibility during the Great Depression was basically how economic hard and social hierachies prevent individuals achieving independence and belonging; the tension between human planning and uncontrollable fate. Look how far America has come.
The “coalition” of multiple (hardly unified) entities, all declaring union concentrated on support for any help they can get, outside of themselves – monetary being first, promises of forces of EU ‘bros’ in Ukraine (should Russia starts any future aggression); while not directly addressing American support does not include forces on the ground in the event of future (either Russian or Ukranian) aggression.
America : “The U.S. will monitor the Ukraine ceasefire situation and act as a diplomatic peacekeeper, establishing de-conflict channels of open communication between the USA and Russia. However, Europe, this so-called “coalition of the willing,” will be responsible for any military backstop within that approach”. It is not that the “bros” don’t understand this. They choose to ignore this based on hope that America being the biggest “playground enforcer is standing behind them”. America’s own internal enemies (opposition forces) salivate at the thought that PDJT
The past years America have seen what the “No Kings” Demons flip to “All Kings” as seen by the recent narratives re. capture of Maduro. These were/are America’s worst enemies who do more than just shout; their rice bowls come first be they legally earned or outside of legal … lame stream media among the top criminals. Those will be purged/brought in line in due time. We will hear more of “No Kings”, “dictator”, “Democracy on the Line” long stale and unpalatable.
Expect the truism of “the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley” (often go awry).
Presidents said after WWI and II we should never get involved with European wars again:
United States non-interventionism
United States non-interventionism primarily refers to the foreign policy that was eventually applied by the United States between the late 18th century and the first half of the 20th century whereby it sought to avoid alliances with other nations in order to prevent itself from being drawn into wars that were not related to the direct territorial self-defense of the United States. Neutrality and non-interventionism found support among elite and popular opinion in the United States, which varied depending on the international context and the country’s interests. At times, the degree and nature of this policy was better known as isolationism, such as the interwar period, while some consider the term isolationism to be a pejorative used to discredit non-interventionist policy.
It is key to decipher between the terms isolationism and non-interventionism as they represent two distinct types of foreign policy.[1] Isolationism is the act of completely disengaging from any global affairs such as military alliances, international organisations and economic treaties. Whereas, non-interventionism although also opposed to military engagement, there was still room for diplomatic and economic relations with the rest of the world.[2] This can be seen during the build up to World War II, where non-interventionists opposed direct military involvement in Europe whilst supporting them with economic aid such as the Lend Lease Act.[3]
Due to the start of the Cold War in the aftermath of World War II and the rise of the United States as a global superpower, its traditional foreign policy turned towards American imperialism with diplomatic and military interventionism, engaging or somehow intervening in virtually any overseas armed conflict ever since, and concluding multiple bilateral and regional military alliances, chiefly the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Non-interventionist policies have had continued support from some Americans since World War II, mostly regarding specific armed conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Syria, and Ukraine.
Yes it is difficult and expensive to extract resources from above the arctic circle, but Russia is doing it today and growing this capability. Need power for a new boomtown to suck methane from the ground? Well just float a nuclear power plant to the town. At least one of these power plants is deployed and several more in construction. Need a new town altogether? Build it on prefab stilts. I think Mahncke has it wrong. The national security angle is secondary but is a better reason to take Greenland away from tiny little Denmark, whose claim to it dates back to the Vikings.
Maybe,just maybe they’re done with Denmark and are considering other relationships?
Keeping NATO troops out of Ukraine is the reason Russia went to war in the first place. They will never agree to having troops there after a ceasefire. Hence no ceasefire. Either the EU/UK leaders are really, really stupid or they are engaging in deliberate sabotage. The war won’t end until the US tells them to stand down or Ukraine collapses.
One thing that Russia has said 1,000s of times, “NATO troops in Ukraine are considered enemy combatants and treated as thus. Meaning NATO troops will be in severe danger. And Nuclear bombs will be considered and could be used
“High-Stakes”… Only for the deluded. Talk about engagement bait.
Photo shows a handful of men that hold a title saying they are the head of their country, but none of them are leaders.
President Trump has shown, without a doubt, that he is a leader.
U.S. forces seized the Russian-flagged oil tanker Marinera (formerly known as the Bella 1) in the North Atlantic on January 7, 2026, after a weeks-long pursuit that began near Venezuela.
The operation, confirmed by U.S. European Command, was conducted pursuant to a warrant issued by a U.S. federal court for violations of American sanctions. The vessel was tracked and intercepted by the USCGC Munro, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, in international waters between Iceland and Scotland.
This marks the first known U.S. military seizure of a Russian-flagged vessel in recent history, escalating geopolitical tensions amid ongoing U.S. efforts to enforce a blockade on sanctioned Venezuelan oil exports.
The United Kingdom provided operational support to the U.S.
effort, including basing rights and aerial surveillance. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Tideforce supported U.S. forces, while the Royal Air Force conducted airborne monitoring. U.S. P-8 surveillance aircraft operated out of RAF Mildenhall in England, and military assets—including C-17s, V-22 Ospreys, and AC-130 gunships—were repositioned to the UK ahead of the operation.
The USCGC Munro played a central role, tracking the tanker through stormy North Atlantic conditions before U.S. special forces boarded and secured it
During the pursuit, a Russian submarine and other naval assets shadowed the Marinera, according to U.S. officials. While no direct confrontation occurred, the incident significantly raised tensions between the U.S. and Russia. The Kremlin condemned the seizure, with Russia’s transport ministry stating it had lost contact with the vessel and calling the act a violation of international law.
But it wasn’t a “Russian flagged” vessel. It was trying to escape by painting the Russian flag on the ship – didn’t work.
. The Kremlin condemned the seizure, with Russia’s transport ministry stating it had lost contact with the vessel and calling the act a violation of international law.
Since the seizure I assume USCG will board CIVMARs and sail the ship to a US port which will have to adjudicate under Admiralty Law if the Bella I was stateless or properly transferred to the flag of Russia while on the high seas.
If these suicidal maniacs get there way history will be repeated. Hundreds of thousands will die because they have been psyoped into a war they cannot win under the false disguise of advancing democracy.
They are going to move NATO into Ukraine. What could possibly go wrong ?
Russia can see, perfectly clearly, that the true intention of “NATO” is offensive. They seek to surround Russia on all sides with “friendly” countries. The last one of which was to be their proxy … Ukraine. The Russians have centuries of experience at “fighting Europeans,” and this is simply the latest historical example.
“We Americans” could not comprehend “Kansas” going to war(!) with “Missouri,” yet the Europeans have been doing exactly such a thing for thousands of years! (For example: “a thirty-years war!”)
Seriously: What is the one “common factor” in “European experience?” I rest my case.
When George Washington, a thoroughly-experienced statesman who also appreciated the value of an ocean, said that we should “avoid foreign [European …] entanglements,” he damned well knew what he was saying.
This. Is. NOT. Our War.
If Europe can provide security guarantees to Ukraine, why can’t they do it for themselves?? Why is the US still paying to have all the bases in Europe?
The Europeans were in this same situation with the USSR when Hitler decided to forcefully act out Stalin’s own agenda. The panicked Europeans had to fight against Germany when they really wanted to stop Stalin. Then the USA got in to help the Europeans AND the USSR defeat Germany and its small cadre of allied countries, after Roosevelt decided he liked the USSR’s brand of Communism better than he liked Germany’s play to be the next great European power. Without Roosevelt supplying the USSR with enough weapons and support to stall the Germans on their Eastern Front, the Europeans would have capitulated first to the USSR and then to Germany.
Apparently only Churchill could see the eventual calamity that would result from the alliance of Roosevelt and Stalin, and he was proven exactly right when the USSR decided to make a few more satellite States out of the carving up of Eastern Europe after the first round of WWII ended. Stalin had managed to expand Communism toward its avowed goal of a Whole World Communist Empire. Truman went along with the Soviets until he finally realized that he would have to fight in Korea to prevent the eventual dominance of the two most populous continents, Europe and Asia, in the world.
Only Mao Se Tung was able to outsmart Stalin and hang on to his control of China after allowing Stalin to invade the Northern Chinese Manchurian region in order to get the USSR to supply armaments to Mao for the Korean fight with Truman. The use of Stalin and Soviet arms helped Mao fight Truman to a draw and cemented the CCP into power nearly everywhere in China. Only Hong Cong and the island of Taiwan remained as enemies of Mao. There was never a fight, in which those two places would have been easily beaten, and Truman got out of Korea in time to save face regarding our complete loss of China as a post WWII ally. At that point, the USA was looking pretty silly because of Roosevelt’s alliance with Stalin and the USSR.
The only Democrat Presidents to ever try to extract their Party from responsibility for the post WWII debacles were a belated Truman and John F Kennedy. In short, the Democrat Party has been in bed with the Communist Collective for all but about 4 years of the last 94 years. Little wonder that we are now unaligned with Western Europe and trying to save our own way of life from the Marxist dream of removal of ownership of anything by private citizens, and all of the misery that has provided for the whole world.
MAGA and no damned Communist sympathizer among these paragraphs. History, if accurately recorded, can explain generally everything going on around us. Finding the accuracy is difficult, but possible to do.
Have news for this “Coalition “, Russia will never agree to any ceasefire. Such an event will only allow Ukrainian’s military to rearm and begin fighting again. Besides, Russia is winning on the battlefield.
And maybe you can see the President forcing their hand in Venezuela by seizing their tanker. Who is bitching the loudest? This is another turn of the screw, along with Greenland, to put more pressure on Putin to end the Ukraine war.
Or is that scenario just me………