Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Kier Starmer and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in London to discuss their collective next steps in their plan for opposition to Russia.
Politico is reporting that Germany is going to replace the United States as the direct contact for negotiations with Russia; that’s according to a spokesperson for Merz. However, if you read the actual printout from their collective agreement there is nothing of the sort mentioned [SEE HERE].
Instead, what actually exists within the statement are five terms they have agreed upon in order to start direct discussions between Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. At least two of the terms are non-starters for Russia:
[…] Conditions that would need to be in place for a just and lasting peace.
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- First, a stop to the fighting. They called on President Putin to agree to an immediate and complete ceasefire.
- Second, the current line of contact should be the starting point for negotiations. International borders must not be changed by force, and Ukraine’s sovereign right to choose its own security arrangements and alliances must be fully respected.
- Third, Ukraine must have robust and legally binding security guarantees in place once a ceasefire enters into force, building on commitments made in Berlin in December 2025 and Paris in January 2026. This includes the deployment of the Multinational Force – Ukraine.
- Fourth, Russian assets will remain immobilised until Russia ceases its war of aggression and compensates Ukraine for the damage caused by the war.
- Fifth, that European security interests must be safeguarded in any deal. Elements of any negotiation related to the EU and NATO would need the consent of the EU and its Member States and NATO Allies respectively.
- [SOURCE]
The #3, #4 and #5 points are not going to go anywhere.
Germany, France, the U.K and/or EU participants are not going to put troops on the ground in Ukraine without United States security guarantees. President Trump has already rejected that proposal on three occasions.
The Russian sovereign fund that was seized by the EU is not the property of Vladimir Putin; it is wealth belonging to the Russian people and President Putin will not accept that term. Additionally, two-thirds of the world has been against that seizure bolstering Russia’s position.
The fifth point is laughable. The EU collective in Brussels is going to be required to give consent to any peace agreement? Highly doubtful Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin would even entertain that condition. Ukraine is not an EU member state, and Ukraine is not a NATO member.
Why would the EU put themselves into the conflict resolution when Ukraine is not in the EU. From a brutally obvious and pragmatic Russian position, this makes no sense. However, I would look for Putin to do something funny with this, like force the EU to adopt Ukraine first as a ‘put up – or shut up‘ type challenge.
Putin knows the people of Europe do not want the corrupt nation of Ukraine as part of their wealth draining operation.
Hey, at least the ‘coalition of the willing’ is now begging for an audience with Putin.
Magomed Nurbagandov was a young policeman from Dagestan, on holiday there with his family, when he and his brother were kidnapped by militants and executed as a warning. It was videotaped by his murderers.
His final act was to look into the lens of those who killed him and in an act of courageous defiance say, “Work, Brothers.”
This was edited out of the terrible tape, though it was later discovered on the phone of a dead militant…and posted in its entirety.
There is more in the link which I am leaving below.
These ineffectual, emasculated members of the “Coalition of the Willing” and their pet Zelensky, poltroons all of them, underestimate the resolve of President Putin who has seen this video and taken up this young man’s final words, ending his address to the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum with them.
Who in the nations ruled by the detestable weaklings above would be inspired to go to war on their behalf? None I suspect.
How many men in Russia, infuriated by Magomed’s heroic, tragic death, would remember their country’s history and in his memory step up if needed to defend their homeland…
“Work, Brothers.”
In overwhelming numbers I’m positive.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/meaning-behind-putins-response-zelensky-keep-working-brothers
I hope readers here will take a moment to read this short piece.
Wow! What a sad story. Amazing how the unedited video on the phone was recovered.
I am so excited for the time when Jesus reigns and true justice is established. Every day it seems the evil is being foisted onto us in ever increasing amounts and degree!
DD
This one affected me in ways I can’t explain, Dan.
The good and righteous Lord has claimed vengeance as His own. It will be delivered.
Onward Christian soldiers.
Amen.
Jesus is Lord RFN.
RIGHT. NOW. ✝️🫵
Amen. I can’t wait.
I read that yesterday. That brave man had the same courage as many of our WW2 veterans. God bless him.
and one of the first killed in Iraq – an Italian, he ripped off the head covering before they shot him and screamed, “I will show you how and Italian dies!”
Thank you for posting his story, it adds more context about the conflict.
How God uses an evil for good.
Thank you Betsy for sharing this man’s incredible courage.
His legacy is inspiring a nation and more.
❤️✝️🙏
What a wonderful find, Miss B!
True goodness sprouts out in the unlikeliest and most unexpected places, often during times of duress and distress.
The Russians, like Americans, are mutts…. our fellow and sister “brothers to a bunch of mothers.” It is only in the last few decades since the fall of Communism, that they have been allowed to begin to realize their birthrights, and more importantly, embrace Christianity in western areas and beyond! 🙂
PS: I Don’t trust the Russians, but I really do respect aspects of their culture and peoples! 🙂
This is what the coalition would do with masks on while bombing children in schools while being egged on by the Clowns In Action and MI6 and the dirty EU
Oh Betsy, these faces that should launch a thousand ships.
May this brave young man rest in eternal peace.
May his murderers, and any others out there responsible for such heiness crimes, find no peace in the hell they’ve chosen.
Thank you for sharing.
Great post, Betsy.
The Zerohedge article is very good and the comments below it are overwhelmingly in support.
Within easy walking distance from the EU offices in Brussels one will see the mess in the city.
If they cannot sort out problems here why would Russian trust them to help resolve the Ukraine/Russian conflict?
They live in Clown World.
Clowns, yes. More of a distraction for other things going on.
They’re all but completely irrelevant and President Putin is going to make that painfully obvious for anyone that has not been paying attention up to this point.
Speaking of which, the Masters of the Universe™ have a call waiting from Reality on line one.
Yup, cloud cuckoo land.
Wolkenkuckucksheim.
Going by their positions on the carpet, Z and Stammer are all in, Macron is hedging his bet and Merz is weighing his options.
Looks like Zelenskyy’s being called out on the carpet 🙂
Zeppo
Fake War. Our President should be the only one allowed to pretend not to notice.
Russia turned down meeting directly with Zekensky recently. So, it seems unlikely they would agree to meeting with EU.
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Putin shoots down Zelensky’s request for face-to-face meeting
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5912561-putin-zelensky-meeting-rejected-russia-ukraine/
This is Promethean Babara Boyd explaining what is happening in her last segment of today’s Utube. Sorry but I do have enough Tech savvy to actually set up the video.
Oops. I actually did it. Who knew 😃
Wow, Such a great POST!
Thank you CTH fan🙏 I’m gonna subscribe😎
Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Harpo. The Marx brothers have finally reunited.
Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp
Stooges all. 😁
Russia should ignore this blather and take all of Ukraine and march all the way to the English Channel.
If that’s what it takes to end this stupid war, I’m all for it!
Larry, Moe, Curly and Shemp had a better chance of replacing the Four Tenors at Windsor Castle than this crew has of bringing an end to the war in Ukraine!
Don’t forget “The Three Terrors”
Musical parody from 15 years ago. More focused on the mid east than Ukraine, but not really off topic.
Enjoy!
ManBear, er PigDog: THIS IS AN EPIC FIND! Thanks for sharing, and I am truly sorry you did not get more up votes!
15 years ago, this would have been MUST-SEE viewing here at TCTH. It is still so very relevant now. I wonder if those wonderful talents on stage (including the hooded conductor) didn’t have FATWAs issued against them! 🙂
LTB, I missed this post when I did mine. You said it SOOOO much more succinctly than I! Kudos and Saludos! 🙂
Europe’s tragic and startling military weakness is being exposed daily. They are not in a position to demand or negotiate anything. Putin probably will file it in the round cabinet on arrival.
The entire British submarine fleet is in maintenance.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/royal-navy-subs-unfit-war-37259472
Actually, it just the fast attack squadron, but still WHAT AN EMBARRASSMENT! 😉
Just flush it.
I call it the suggestion box rather than the round file. I think my way jabs just a little bit harder.
Whats that term? “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”? Making Putin laugh uncontrollably at those EUnuchs should fall under that category.
More pantomime by irrelevant non-players trying to create the illusion that they are doing something meaningful. Or productive.
these four idiots are as bent in the head as Scott Pelley is.
“Guess what! You lost!”
And all of Europe/NATO did, too!
Russia doesn’t have to “negotiate with” you. The loser of a battle does not get to dictate surrender terms.
You’ve now had several years to demonstrate your “stunning military superiority.” We’re still waiting. The Russians continue to grind meat. They’re not running out of anything. Meanwhile: “The united armies of Europe” apparently can’t even deliver a credible Navy presence, nor operational(!) submarines, to the Gulf of Hormuz. Things are not looking very well for any of you, lately.
None of the 5 deal points will go anywhere.
The adorable Garden Gnome already mentioned the first two points in his open letter to Putin.
Putin rejected the offer. Instead, Putin bombarded one of the last towns in Donetsk.
Pres. Trump already negotiated that certain Russian Oblasts would be completely included in
the new border with Russia. The Garden Gnome already pushed back on that.
Now comes this new offer to protect Euroweenie interests and leave the new boundary
“at the point of contact.”
That dog just won’t hunt; ain’t gonna happen.
The Coalition of the Willing are trying to lore Putin into an assanation setup.
Get rid of Putin and z at same time.
If Putin is gone a hardliner will take his place and start WWIII.
I’m pretty sure that the Russians still remember enough about their “Great Patriotic War” not to start the third installment.
I’m not at all sure of the various Europeans … None of them have ever had a “Victory Day.”
Nor a “Ghost Regiment.” 💀
I was merely commenting on the immediate result.
Dmitry Medvedev.
Merz, Macron, and Starmer trying really hard to remain relevant. That’s all this is. They have no power to move the needle on this unless they are willing to make major changes in Europe that none of them are willing to make.
Their countries are essentially broke, and the Muslims are taking over. What would happen if the US pulled out of NATO pulled all our troops out of Europe and left them to defend themselves?
“Their countries are essentially broke, and the Muslims are taking over.” That is a brick wall they are careening out of control towards. They are under a delusion that if the U.S. simply stayed involved in Europe the same way we have been all these years that everything would be okay and they could manage all their problems just fine. But they are likely going to hit that brick wall whether we stayed or pulled out. If we stayed it would be inevitable because they would fail to make any changes, but maybe by pulling out it might be just enough of a kick in the rear to wake them up to do what is necessary to avoid that brick wall, if it is not already too late.
One flew over the coocoo’s nest. The rest were inside it.
These EU Eunuchs don’t seem to understand the concept of leverage. They have none.
So self-important, so preening, so tone deaf.
Putin will do what they fear MOST. Not an escalation of the war, which they actually WANT. He’ll do something much worse. He’ll IGNORE them.
Telling photo.
Just look at them sitting there in their big meeting, pathetically trying to emulate Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. And of course Macron sits there as well, ready and eager to fetch them tea and crumpets if they so desire……………
Yep, you nailed it…that’s exactly what they are portraying. 👏👏👏
Tehran or Yalta? LOL
…or some white dust like they shared on some train ride
These guys are hilarious. How many will be in office two years from now? I think they are desperate to be relevant and it’s not working.
They’re like the little kid brother who runs after the big kids saying, “Can I play, too? Can I play, too?”
Larry, Moe, Curly and Shemp
No comparison. Larry, Moe, Curly and Shemp were talented entertainers who left a positive mark on society with both their humor and sarcastic political interpretations. Their lives were meaningful. They made a positive contribution to our social fabric. Same can not be said of the (used) turd paper in the above photo.
Considering Europe
s zest for immigrants who dont want to integrate with European culture and norms, I think Europe may have bigger problems. Unfortunately, the commoner is not allowed to object to any of it.When I see those 4 together in a photo I think Coalition of the Irrelevant.
Coalition of the Whining perhaps?
Give Z what he wants, after he expels all the nazi’s from the military and civilian government and destroys all the nazi monuments.
Has Europe officially entered the war against Russia ?
More performative BS from the coalition of cowards!
Thank you Sundance. I was feeling pretty good finishing the grass 5 min. before the the thunderstorm front hit. But THIS is simply splendid, and hilarious, reading. Like dessert. Also, plain language backstop your ABM production; by all means, tell Putin about all your parallel activities you plan during the fire drill. Where’s Bugs? “What a maroon, eh eh eh.”
I got soaked working the gardens and chasing squirrel holes, but I concur with your sentiments, b52! 🙂
PS – Thank Goodness I don’t have a badger problem! 🙂
If anybody has seen YouTube video by KurtCaz about Brussels and its horrendous high crime? lol….maybe they should remove the 80% of RapeUgees dealing drugs in open and knife attacks daily (47) ….these morons can’t even tie their shoes…
I bet Trump is laughing….they have no military.
Entertaining tidbit:
If you can stand to pay attention to photos of Macron, notice that he almost always has his hand inserted in the suit pocket on whichever side faces the camera!
Then, he expects to be admired as he models and preens while “making important decisions” affecting the lives of others, as he prepares for yet another expensive trip of being wined and dined.
IT MUST BE EXHAUSTING!
Macron is a very much a vain, narcissistic, small man. He thrives on the attention that he thinks he gets.
It is more exhausting being witness to a perverted pusillanimous pretentious preening pustule of pomposity performing.
Macron’s image is magnified in this photo.
“If you can stand to pay attention to photos of Macron, notice that he almost always has his hand inserted in the suit pocket on whichever side faces the camera!”
I went through a phase where I always had a hand in my pocket too. Haven’t had to do that since having successful hernia surgery.
This sounds as if it was copied from a foolish fiction story.
The EU has no spine to back lip service.
What are the odds Putin will communicate with any of them?
I wouldn’t trust them to watch my dead cat.
SOOOOO………
An anally-retentive German, a effete Frenchman, an oafish Englander, and a Ukrainian actor of Russian-Jewish roots leading a neo-Nazi movement speaking Ukrainian as his second, barely-passable language, walk into a bar……..
Gomenasai, the punchlines and memes are boundless with this one….
Putin has already said NYET! Bringing in the Tree Stooges is like asking the Russian Bear NOT to gorge on an all-you-can-eat Borscht Buffet! 🙂
They’ve forgotten that Russia gets a vote?
Nyet!
Da, SM! 🙂
Having lost the war on the ground, NATO and its pet hope to talk their way to some outcome that they can sell to their overtaxed citizens as a victory.
The EU was conned into this war by the Deep State and the CIA, but they are extending it on their own.
Russia’s goal has not changed; Ukraine is neutral, de-Nazified, and NATO is out of Ukraine.
There is nothing to talk about.
Minsk I and Minsk II were not followed through by the EU, and they think Russia is going to be conned into Minsk III?
Sorry what’s the name of this circus? These clowns look familiar
Making plans to keep the money streams flowing. Opposition to Russia is a code phrase.
It will be interesting to find out if anyone from the US has visited recently or will visit in the near future. Possible contacts on this side of the pond.
These beta soy boys are so pathetically weak it’s a shame we have to call them Men.
I see what they are doing as something that will only aggravate an already bad situation- Mr.Putin is a serious man and what they are attempting is insulting.
I am expecting the whole situation to grow worse- not better and that is likely exactly what their plan is.
We’ve known all along they want to profit off this ongoing war- it’s not in their own best interest to end anything.
Have they specified their pronouns?
It reads like a wet dream of socially awkward autistics… no offense to autistics.
I’ll take extremely stupid world leaders for $200, Ken!!!
President Trump should buy a large popcorn, find a comfortable seat and enjoy the show. It’s a tired and old saying, but you just cannot fix stupid.
My belief is suspended somewhere between The Three Stooges and Gulliver’s Travels.
I title this photo, the coalition of the corrupt and irrelevant.
Apologies if someone beat me to it.
Crypio king Sam Bankman-Fried is formally asking President Trump for a pardon. Maybe he will explain the US aid to Ukraine and the portion that was converted to crypio and returned to the politicians that voted for the aid.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/disgraced-crypto-bro-sam-bankman-fried-formally-asks/
That`s stupid thinking me, sorry. Quick way to commit suicide.
I would hope their military would stand down if ordered to go to war with Russia.Who would want to die for these stooges???
Have these august leaders of Europe figured out what they are going to do when the Russian Presisdent simply says “no” ?
They will hire Scott Pelley to make an emotional appeal to the public on their behalf, and hope for a Nobel peace prize.
😂 😂 😂
Read #2 very closely as it is also a NON-Starter as it allows the Ukraine to join NATO.
“Second ….. and Ukraine’s sovereign right to choose its own security arrangements and alliances must be fully respected.”
The whole document is a load of crap and nothing more than a long-form “get stuffed” message to President Putin.