In reaction to the pending arrival of President Trump, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now saying the conflict with Russia is possible to end with diplomacy:

(Via CBS) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv would like to end the war with Russia next year through “diplomatic means” as both countries prepare for President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

In an interview with the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne, Zelenskyy said he is certain that the war will end “sooner” than it otherwise would have once Mr. Trump becomes president. (read more)

It is important to remember that in this “new democracy” framed by the support of U.S-led NATO, Zelenskyy cancelled all elections within Ukraine in order to maintain his alignment with western influence.

Zelenskyy’s new position is a natural outcome of President Trump’s pending arrival.

President Trump really doesn’t have to do much; all he needs to do is withdraw U.S. support, wait a little while, demand Ukraine hold elections, and Zelenskyy will flee the nation because the political support he needs to retain the illusion of the fight is not present in the will of the Ukraine majority.

Calling for diplomacy is an outcome of Ukraine’s inherent weakness if even the slightest measure of U.S. support is withdrawn. Ukraine can only maintain the battle as long as the U.S. continues funneling money, weapons and direct targeting assistance into the battlefield.

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In mid-April of this year, I was sitting in a Starbucks (renamed Stars Coffee) in the Galleria Mall in downtown Saint Petersburg, Russia, watching the massive crowds of shoppers that looked like something out of a mid-1990’s Christmas season in the USA. The place was packed with people shopping.

As I sipped my coffee, on my phone I was reading a Wall Street Journal report about the devastating impact of the Western sanctions against Russia, “according to those with an understanding of Moscow’s situation.”  I read a paragraph, looked up at the crowd, read a paragraph, looked around and the bags being carried, I laughed.

A little later, I filled the gas tank in my rent-a-car for $15 and drove past miles upon miles of towering apartment buildings under construction, having just read about the shortage of ‘steel’ in Russia, “according to sources familiar with the matter.”  Stopping to buy a week’s worth of groceries for $70, I referenced the other article from the Washington Post that day about massive inflation in Russia, “according to expert western economists.”

Several weeks later I had another cup of coffee at a cafe’ in eastern Ukraine, while reading a New York Times article about mass casualties and alarming bombing that was apparently happening all around me.  The sun was shining, but it was a little chilly.  It was very odd, to read the USA publication describing “despair” evident to them, somehow, while I see smiling faces of people all around me doing ordinary things and enjoying sausage rolls.

The journey to understand the manipulation of information flow from the U.S. Intelligence Community to Americans, really solidified in those moments.  Yes Alice, this is why the IC controls social media, I thought to myself.

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Responding to reporters’ questions, today President of the European Union commission Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Donald Trump then immediately began the framework to explain EU background discussions in economic terms. “We still get a lot of [liquified natural gas] from Russia, and why not replace it by American LNG, which is cheaper for us and brings down our energy prices,” said Ursula von der Leyen.

The EU realizes the seismic shift that is upon them as a result of the U.S. election.  Everything from the Ukraine-Russia war; the economics of energy which President Trump will use in negotiations for peace; to the factual lowered prices within the EU created by Joe Biden energy policy to punish Americans; to funding for NATO in combination with the potential for the end of the Marshal Plan one-way tariffs are looming.  President von der Leyen is in a very precarious position.

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Ursula was speaking from ¹Budapest, Hungary.

While many are interpreting her remarks about purchasing LNG to be snuggling up to President Trump, factually it is a much bigger problem than western media will openly discuss.

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In the Reuters report you have to understand the difference in Russian cultural language to appreciate what President Vladimir Putin means when he says, “[Trump] behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct way, courageously, like a real man.”

Russians speak in very blunt terms when the behavior of men and women are evaluated.  It sounds odd through a politically correct western filter, but Putin was just praising the ‘honesty’ and ‘strength’ of President Trump.

[Example: A Russian woman describing her husband would say to another Russian, “he is my best man.”]

The bottom-line indication from President Putin is that he welcomes the change in geopolitical dynamic that a pragmatic, honest and strong man brings to the table.  Putin respects Trump.  The baseline for a negotiated peace deal exists.

(Reuters) – SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. election, praised him for showing courage when a gunman tried to assassinate him, and said Moscow was ready for dialogue with the Republican president-elect.

In his first public remarks since Trump’s win, Putin said Trump had acted like a real man during an assassination attempt on him while he was speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July.

“He behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct way, courageously, like a real man,” Putin said at the Valdai discussion club in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. “I take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election.”

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First, a repeat of what I have said for over two years, “WATCH MOLDOVA“👀 – Their vote is today.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently reminded the EU collective, they will need to revise their pro-war stance if President Donald Trump wins the election on Tuesday.  Orban is a good friend of President Trump and ideological ally of MAGA.

Despite the trillions at stake and the WEF/EU alignment that continues promoting the meat grinder in Ukraine, Prime Minister Orban is well aware that things will seismically change if President Donald Trump wins and brings the peace solution to the frenzy.

(Via Politico) – A Donald Trump victory in the United States election on Nov. 5 would force the European Union to adapt its stance on the war in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Sunday.

“Europe cannot bear the burden of [the war] alone, and if Americans switch to peace, then we also need to adapt, and this is what we will discuss in Budapest,” Orbán said, according to a Reuters report, referring to a Nov. 7-8 meeting of European leaders in the Hungarian capital.

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The nation of Georgia has learned from watching what the USA did in Ukraine; they want no part of it.  The “Georgia Dream” party is essentially the Georgia equivalent of the U.S. MAGA party.  Pragmatic, clear-eyed, nationalist-minded voters who do not want the CIA arm of USAID meddling in their affairs.

The majority of the people in Georgia do not support the continual bloodshed in Ukraine, they are pragmatic with their views toward Russia, and they don’t want the USA and Brussels determining their politics for them.  Georgia Dream is like a Georgia-First party.   They had an election last weekend and retained control over parliament.

Having spent tens of millions financing an attempted color revolution, and with Samantha Power having traveled to Georgia three times (twice while I watched her), the CIA and State Department are not happy with the result.

Power’s only victory was in Poland, she struck out in Hungary, Slovenia, Mexico, Israel and now Georgia.

Once again, Brussels leadership just cannot accept the result of the Georgia election and have vowed an investigation. The U.S. is promising to punish the people of Georgia for supporting the conservative government. A previous application to join the EU bloc is now in limbo, as Brussels and the U.S State Dept now try to figure out their next steps.

Making matters worse, the Georgia people voted to support a referendum that requires any political activist group to make the source of their funding from foreign government a matter of public record. Georgia’s opposition political parties will now have to reveal if they get more than 20% of their activist funding from the USA (they do). This type of transparency makes a color revolution more difficult. Hence, the EU and USA are very angry.

According to the process, Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili does not want expanded war with Russia. Therefore, just like Viktor Orban (Hungary), the prime minister of Georgia was targeted for removal and replacement with a pro-war leader.

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This USA collaborative pearl-clutching between the Defense Department and their media stenographers is laughable, at best.

Before getting to the crux of their story also remember the U.S conducts joint military training operations with dozens of nations, including NATO.  Additionally, Ukraine military have been training in the United States for almost two years {Citation Link}.  Also, the U.S and U.K have official and unofficial “advisors” and intelligence operatives on the ground in Ukraine; they have been there for three years.

Secondly, Russia and North Korea share a border (Rajin). Third, this is NOT about Ukraine, although Secretary Lloyd Austin has to pretend not to know this (emphasis mine).

Associated Press – Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed Wednesday the U.S. has evidence that North Korean troops are in Russia. “What exactly they’re doing” remains to be seen, Austin told journalists while in Rome, Italy. “These are things that we need to sort out.”

Ukraine and South Korea have warned that North Korean soldiers have traveled to Russia for training ahead of planned deployment to fight on battlefields in eastern Ukraine and western Russia.

Austin said Wednesday that the U.S. would “continue to pull this thread” to establish whether Pyongyang can be considered a co-belligerent in the conflict. “That is a very, very serious issue and it will have impacts not only in Europe, it will also impact things in the Indo-Pacific as well,” Austin warned. (read more)

Chairman Xi Jing Ping does not want President Donald Trump to win the election because Chairman Xi knows President Trump is the only person who can stop China from taking Taiwan without a single U.S. troop being involved.

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Oh, what fun to be a fly on the proverbial wall.

After Joe Biden recently worked with both Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Mitch McConnell to pledge another $8 billion through the Ukraine laundry, ten percent for the “big guy” notwithstanding, bagman Zelenskyy now plans to meet with laundry business disruptor President Trump.

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— Golden Advice 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 (@RichardStiller4) September 26, 2024

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would meet with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday morning at Trump Tower in New York. (read more)

24 hours earlier President Trump said this about Ukraine’s #1 lobbyist….

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I’m going to drop a series of short video segments highlighting how the Biden administration is coaxing NATO allies into a position of war against Russia using an escalation within the proxy state of Ukraine. This is not getting nearly enough attention.

Ukraine (Zelensky), Canada (Trudeau), the U.K. (Starmer) and the United States (Biden) are currently discussing the shipment of Storm Shadow missiles from the U.K that have the ability to reach deep into Russia. Zelensky has been asking for them; however, the current conversation amid the NATO partnership essentially boils down to whether the missiles should be deployed to Ukraine or not.

When Vladimir Putin was asked about the long-range missile deployment and potential for strikes deep into Russia, the Russian Federation President spoke clearly about what was at stake.

Putin noted that Ukraine does not currently have long range missiles, nor do they have anything remotely close to the targeting system needed to use them. Therefore, as the Russian president noted, if such missiles are launched and strike Russia they are coming directly from NATO. President Putin said Russia will respond accordingly. WATCH (the translation is accurate):

I rarely, if ever, tweet about what Putin says but this is something that folks in NATO countries might want to be aware of: Putin says decision to allow long-range strikes into Russia changes everything, and means direct war between Russia and NATO pic.twitter.com/ptV60NTRAg

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— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 13, 2024

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As of this moment in late Saturday (9/14/24), British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is heading home from a meeting with Joe Biden without any agreement on the deployment of the missiles. The threat seemingly remains, as a threat to deploy them.

NATO would be foolish to escalate this level of provocation toward Russia. I can tell you from experience, my boots on the ground looking very carefully at the preparation within Russia, that Vladimir Putin is not bluffing. The Russian government has well prepared the Russian people on the possibility of war against segments of the “west” and perhaps all of NATO if needed.

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The details of the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are now clarified.

When is the debate?
Harris and Trump will debate on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. ET. The debate will run for 90 minutes with two commercial breaks.

Where is the debate?
ABC News is hosting the debate at the National Constitution Center, a private nonprofit education center and museum dedicated to the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia.

Who is moderating the debate?
ABC News’ “World News Tonight” host David Muir and anchor Linsey Davis are moderating the debate.

Neither Muir nor Davis have moderated a general election debate, though both have moderated presidential primary debates: Muir in the 2016 and 2020 election cycles and Davis in the 2020 cycle.

Muir secured the first TV sit-down interview with Trump after he became president and the first joint interview with Biden and Harris before the 2020 election.

How can I watch the debate?
The debate will air live on ABC and stream on ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu. Viewers who do not have a cable subscription can watch on ABC.com.

ABC is also offering the debate for simulcast, which several networks have agreed to carry.

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