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European Leaders Told They Will Wait in the Hall While Trump Speaks to Zelensky

Donald Trump has once again exposed the hollow shell of utterly powerless European diplomacy.

The American president flatly rejected the idea of a joint session with European leaders, insisting instead on a solo meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky before anyone else enters the room. 

The optics are brutal: Europe’s “leaders” fly across the Atlantic only to sit like schoolchildren outside the Oval Office, waiting for permission to enter. This is not partnership — it is humiliation dressed up as diplomacy; and I LOVE it!

Zelensky, visibly reluctant but cornered, will sit down with Trump alone. 

Reports confirm that the Europeans will only be allowed in after Trump has dictated terms to Kyiv.

The choreography makes clear who holds power and who is just filling empty chairs for the cameras.  The United States is 72% of NATO and it is long overdue we start acting that way.

For Zelensky, this is a nightmare—without his EU babysitters shielding him, he faces Trump directly, forced to negotiate with the man he cannot control, without the safety net of European platitudes and hollow “unity” talk.

The Europeans, meanwhile, look pathetic. Once again, they sacrifice national dignity to chase scraps of influence in Washington. Their leaders appear less like independent statesmen and more like nervous lobbyists hoping for a nod of approval. For decades, they preached about “shared values” and “equal partnership,” but the reality is plain: America calls the shots, and Europe obeys.

This meeting is a masterclass in power imbalance. Trump’s maneuver humiliates Europe and exposes Zelensky as weak and dependent. 

Washington dictates, Kyiv obeys, and Europe applauds like fools. 

Nothing changes—except the mask of “unity” has slipped. 

This is not diplomacy; it is subjugation on full display.  AS it should be.

European Leaders Told They Will Wait in the Hall While Trump Speaks to Zelensky

Donald Trump has once again exposed the hollow shell of utterly powerless European diplomacy.

The American president flatly rejected the idea of a joint session with European leaders, insisting instead on a solo meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky before anyone else enters the room. 

The optics are brutal: Europe’s “leaders” fly across the Atlantic only to sit like schoolchildren outside the Oval Office, waiting for permission to enter. This is not partnership — it is humiliation dressed up as diplomacy; and I LOVE it!

Zelensky, visibly reluctant but cornered, will sit down with Trump alone. 

Reports confirm that the Europeans will only be allowed in after Trump has dictated terms to Kyiv.

The choreography makes clear who holds power and who is just filling empty chairs for the cameras.  The United States is 72% of NATO and it is long overdue we start acting that way.

For Zelensky, this is a nightmare—without his EU babysitters shielding him, he faces Trump directly, forced to negotiate with the man he cannot control, without the safety net of European platitudes and hollow “unity” talk.

The Europeans, meanwhile, look pathetic. Once again, they sacrifice national dignity to chase scraps of influence in Washington. Their leaders appear less like independent statesmen and more like nervous lobbyists hoping for a nod of approval. For decades, they preached about “shared values” and “equal partnership,” but the reality is plain: America calls the shots, and Europe obeys.

This meeting is a masterclass in power imbalance. Trump’s maneuver humiliates Europe and exposes Zelensky as weak and dependent. 

Washington dictates, Kyiv obeys, and Europe applauds like fools. 

Nothing changes—except the mask of “unity” has slipped. 

This is not diplomacy; it is subjugation on full display.  AS it should be.

Zelensky to be next Saddam? Qadaffi?

Another big week is ahead of us.

All eyes will be on the outcome of President Trump and Zelensky's meeting on Monday.

My personal Take:

I think this coming Monday, when Zelensky comes to the White House, it is not going to be anything like his first visit with President Trump.

I think Reporters will NOT be in the Oval Office when the meeting takes place.

I think President Trump is going to privately tell Zelensky something like:

"The war with Russia is over.  Ukraine has lost.

At present, you have lost 1.2 Million men.  You are losing 1,000-2,000 more men per day.  The Russians have lost far less.

Ukraine is fielding 5 Battalions a month in new troops. But Ukraine is losing 8 - 10 Battalions per month through injuries, deaths, and desertions.  Ukraine  simply cannot sustain this level of attrition.

Russia is fielding three times as many Battalions - 15 per month - and not losing nearly as many men as Ukraine.

The United States has provided so much weaponry to Ukraine, that our own stocks are running dangerously low.  At our presently available rate of production, it will take SEVEN YEARS for the United States to re-supply ourselves, and that's NOT with continued supplies to Ukraine, or to Europe!

It isn't even just a matter of not sending more of our own supplies; we simply do not have the ability to PRODUCE more weapons, faster.

We will not endanger our own defense, to continue providing weaponry to Ukraine.  We will simply NOT do that.

Europe is completely unable to make-up for the supply of weapons the US provides.  So when the US stops, and we are stopping, the Ukraine Army will have maybe two months worth of weaponry before it runs out completely and collapses.  By three months from now, it will be over, and there's nothing any of us can do to prevent this.

Even if the US and all of Europe impose the harshest economic sanctions possible, Russia can still ride-them-out and win decisively on the battlefield. Even if Europe outright STEALS Russia's sovereign wealth funds, there is simply no place that can supply the weapons such money would buy.  They don't have the weaponry in stock and they cannot build it fast enough.  

Russia has won.  They hold all the cards on the battlefield.  The whole world would see that if this war goes on.  Such a visible defeat scenario is not what the US or Europe want the world to see.

So today, I am telling you that you and your legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, will accept ALL of Russia's terms to end this war and re-establish peace.  EVERY SINGLE TERM the Russians insist upon, Ukraine must accept.

These are Russia's Terms:

        • Putin’s proposal for ending the war in Ukraine:
        • No ceasefire until a comprehensive agreement is reached.
        • Ukraine to fully withdraw troops from Donetsk and Luhansk.
        • Russia to freeze front lines in Kherson and Zaporizhia.
        • Ukraine to regain control of areas in Sumy and Kharkiv.
        • Ukraine to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
        • Partial lifting of sanctions against Russia.
        • Ukraine barred from joining NATO.
        • Putin open to Ukraine receiving specific security guarantees.
        • Official status for Russian language in Ukraine.
        • Freedom for the Russian Orthodox Church to operate in Ukraine.

There is no other alternative.  If you refuse even ONE of their terms, the war will go on, and in three months, they will win it all anyway.

I realize you may not want to accept this situation, but that's up to you.  

If you do what I tell you, the US will continue financial support to help rebuild Ukraine.  If you refuse to do what I tell you, then everything I have said will happen anyway, but the US will walk away, and Ukraine will get nothing.

So it is in your long term interest to do exactly what I have just told you, because in the end - two, maybe three months from now--  this war will end with Ukraine's decisive defeat.  There is nothing any of us can do to stop it."

Now, if I am right - and I'm pretty certain that I AM -- a rational person in Zelensky's position would see the truth, and agree to do what he was told.   But Zelensky SEEMS TO ME to have a chemically altered brain from what I personally perceive to be long-term cocaine use.   Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong.

As such, I suspect his chemically-affected ego will rise up in outright rage, and he will storm out of the White House - or be told to leave - again.

It's a sad thing what has taken place with Ukraine.  They got suckered into believing they could fight a super power like Russia, and win with help from the West.

That assessment was utterly incompetent.  The people in the State Department, and the Department of Defense who believed such nonsense, and presented that nonsense to decision-makers, should all be fired if they're not already gone.

Any moron who took even the minimal time to look at the history of Russia, could have seen long before this war broke out, such an effort would be a Fool's errand.  From Napoleon to Hitler, when Russian Slavic go to war, they do not stop until they win.  

World War 2 was the "tell."  Russia lost twenty seven MILLION people fighting Hitler.   For anyone to have thought Russia would allow a Nazi-infiltrated government in Ukraine, to rise-up next door, was a fool.

Anyone in NATO who thought they could continue to surround Russia without consequence, was also a fool.

No one gets to surround someone else's country, with missiles, all aimed at that country, and get away with it.

Russia had to defend itself from NATO expansion.   Russia has now done that.   NATO should take the hint.

Besides, there's business to be done.  We need to get back to engaging in commerce.  The sooner, the better.

 

UPDATE 11:04 AM EDT --

I have just been updated.  Europe is sending some of its "leaders" to be with Zelensky for the White House meeting tomorrow.  My bet is they want to make sure the war goes on.  Trump should sit them ALL down and tell ALL of them, what I wrote, above.

European leaders to join Zelensky in Washington: 

European Commission President von der Leyen. 

President of Finland Stubb. 

President of France Macron. 

German Chancellor Merz. 

NATO Secretary General Rutte. 

Italian Prime Minister Meloni.

Antifaschistische Standpunkte

Themen: 
Militarismus
Russland sollte dem US-Vorbild folgen. USA haben Japan nuklear zur schnellen Kapitulation gezwungen und so einigen tausend US-Soldaten das Leben gerettet. Genauso könnte Russland die korrupte faschistische Ukraine mit Energie der Atome entnazifizieren und zur Kapitulation zwingen und so einigen tausend Russen das Leben retten. Wenn Russland über Atomwaffen immer nur redet, aber nichtmal eine kleine taktische Atomwaffe einsetzt, der wird von den 3 Willigen DE, FR und GB nicht ernst genommen. Der Klügere gibt solange nach bis er am Ende der Dumme ist (Putin). In der Kubakrise haben die USA der Sowjetunion mit Atomkrieg ultimativ gedroht, wenn die Sowjetunion die Raketen von Kuba nicht schnellstens abzieht. Für Russland gilt das Gleiche, keine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Ukraine und somit keine NATO-Militärbasen mit Raketen und Marschflugkörpern an russischer Grenze.

European Leaders Told They Will Wait in the Hall While Trump Speaks to Zelensky

Donald Trump has once again exposed the hollow shell of utterly powerless European diplomacy.

The American president flatly rejected the idea of a joint session with European leaders, insisting instead on a solo meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky before anyone else enters the room. 

The optics are brutal: Europe’s “leaders” fly across the Atlantic only to sit like schoolchildren outside the Oval Office, waiting for permission to enter. This is not partnership — it is humiliation dressed up as diplomacy; and I LOVE it!

Zelensky, visibly reluctant but cornered, will sit down with Trump alone. 

Reports confirm that the Europeans will only be allowed in after Trump has dictated terms to Kyiv.

The choreography makes clear who holds power and who is just filling empty chairs for the cameras.  The United States is 72% of NATO and it is long overdue we start acting that way.

For Zelensky, this is a nightmare—without his EU babysitters shielding him, he faces Trump directly, forced to negotiate with the man he cannot control, without the safety net of European platitudes and hollow “unity” talk.

The Europeans, meanwhile, look pathetic. Once again, they sacrifice national dignity to chase scraps of influence in Washington. Their leaders appear less like independent statesmen and more like nervous lobbyists hoping for a nod of approval. For decades, they preached about “shared values” and “equal partnership,” but the reality is plain: America calls the shots, and Europe obeys.

This meeting is a masterclass in power imbalance. Trump’s maneuver humiliates Europe and exposes Zelensky as weak and dependent. 

Washington dictates, Kyiv obeys, and Europe applauds like fools. 

Nothing changes—except the mask of “unity” has slipped. 

This is not diplomacy; it is subjugation on full display.  AS it should be.

European Leaders Told They Will Wait in the Hall While Trump Speaks to Zelensky

Donald Trump has once again exposed the hollow shell of utterly powerless European diplomacy.

The American president flatly rejected the idea of a joint session with European leaders, insisting instead on a solo meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky before anyone else enters the room. 

The optics are brutal: Europe’s “leaders” fly across the Atlantic only to sit like schoolchildren outside the Oval Office, waiting for permission to enter. This is not partnership — it is humiliation dressed up as diplomacy; and I LOVE it!

Zelensky, visibly reluctant but cornered, will sit down with Trump alone. 

Reports confirm that the Europeans will only be allowed in after Trump has dictated terms to Kyiv.

The choreography makes clear who holds power and who is just filling empty chairs for the cameras.  The United States is 72% of NATO and it is long overdue we start acting that way.

For Zelensky, this is a nightmare—without his EU babysitters shielding him, he faces Trump directly, forced to negotiate with the man he cannot control, without the safety net of European platitudes and hollow “unity” talk.

The Europeans, meanwhile, look pathetic. Once again, they sacrifice national dignity to chase scraps of influence in Washington. Their leaders appear less like independent statesmen and more like nervous lobbyists hoping for a nod of approval. For decades, they preached about “shared values” and “equal partnership,” but the reality is plain: America calls the shots, and Europe obeys.

This meeting is a masterclass in power imbalance. Trump’s maneuver humiliates Europe and exposes Zelensky as weak and dependent. 

Washington dictates, Kyiv obeys, and Europe applauds like fools. 

Nothing changes—except the mask of “unity” has slipped. 

This is not diplomacy; it is subjugation on full display.  AS it should be.

European Leaders Told They Will Wait in the Hall While Trump Speaks to Zelensky

Donald Trump has once again exposed the hollow shell of utterly powerless European diplomacy.

The American president flatly rejected the idea of a joint session with European leaders, insisting instead on a solo meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky before anyone else enters the room. 

The optics are brutal: Europe’s “leaders” fly across the Atlantic only to sit like schoolchildren outside the Oval Office, waiting for permission to enter. This is not partnership — it is humiliation dressed up as diplomacy; and I LOVE it!

Zelensky, visibly reluctant but cornered, will sit down with Trump alone. 

Reports confirm that the Europeans will only be allowed in after Trump has dictated terms to Kyiv.

The choreography makes clear who holds power and who is just filling empty chairs for the cameras.  The United States is 72% of NATO and it is long overdue we start acting that way.

For Zelensky, this is a nightmare—without his EU babysitters shielding him, he faces Trump directly, forced to negotiate with the man he cannot control, without the safety net of European platitudes and hollow “unity” talk.

The Europeans, meanwhile, look pathetic. Once again, they sacrifice national dignity to chase scraps of influence in Washington. Their leaders appear less like independent statesmen and more like nervous lobbyists hoping for a nod of approval. For decades, they preached about “shared values” and “equal partnership,” but the reality is plain: America calls the shots, and Europe obeys.

This meeting is a masterclass in power imbalance. Trump’s maneuver humiliates Europe and exposes Zelensky as weak and dependent. 

Washington dictates, Kyiv obeys, and Europe applauds like fools. 

Nothing changes—except the mask of “unity” has slipped. 

This is not diplomacy; it is subjugation on full display.  AS it should be.

Zelensky to be next Saddam? Qadaffi?

Another big week is ahead of us.

All eyes will be on the outcome of President Trump and Zelensky's meeting on Monday.

My personal Take:

I think this coming Monday, when Zelensky comes to the White House, it is not going to be anything like his first visit with President Trump.

I think Reporters will NOT be in the Oval Office when the meeting takes place.

I think President Trump is going to privately tell Zelensky something like:

"The war with Russia is over.  Ukraine has lost.

At present, you have lost 1.2 Million men.  You are losing 1,000-2,000 more men per day.  The Russians have lost far less.

Ukraine is fielding 5 Battalions a month in new troops. But Ukraine is losing 8 - 10 Battalions per month through injuries, deaths, and desertions.  Ukraine  simply cannot sustain this level of attrition.

Russia is fielding three times as many Battalions - 15 per month - and not losing nearly as many men as Ukraine.

The United States has provided so much weaponry to Ukraine, that our own stocks are running dangerously low.  At our presently available rate of production, it will take SEVEN YEARS for the United States to re-supply ourselves, and that's NOT with continued supplies to Ukraine, or to Europe!

It isn't even just a matter of not sending more of our own supplies; we simply do not have the ability to PRODUCE more weapons, faster.

We will not endanger our own defense, to continue providing weaponry to Ukraine.  We will simply NOT do that.

Europe is completely unable to make-up for the supply of weapons the US provides.  So when the US stops, and we are stopping, the Ukraine Army will have maybe two months worth of weaponry before it runs out completely and collapses.  By three months from now, it will be over, and there's nothing any of us can do to prevent this.

Even if the US and all of Europe impose the harshest economic sanctions possible, Russia can still ride-them-out and win decisively on the battlefield. Even if Europe outright STEALS Russia's sovereign wealth funds, there is simply no place that can supply the weapons such money would buy.  They don't have the weaponry in stock and they cannot build it fast enough.  

Russia has won.  They hold all the cards on the battlefield.  The whole world would see that if this war goes on.  Such a visible defeat scenario is not what the US or Europe want the world to see.

So today, I am telling you that you and your legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, will accept ALL of Russia's terms to end this war and re-establish peace.  EVERY SINGLE TERM the Russians insist upon, Ukraine must accept.

These are Russia's Terms:

        • Putin’s proposal for ending the war in Ukraine:
        • No ceasefire until a comprehensive agreement is reached.
        • Ukraine to fully withdraw troops from Donetsk and Luhansk.
        • Russia to freeze front lines in Kherson and Zaporizhia.
        • Ukraine to regain control of areas in Sumy and Kharkiv.
        • Ukraine to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
        • Partial lifting of sanctions against Russia.
        • Ukraine barred from joining NATO.
        • Putin open to Ukraine receiving specific security guarantees.
        • Official status for Russian language in Ukraine.
        • Freedom for the Russian Orthodox Church to operate in Ukraine.

There is no other alternative.  If you refuse even ONE of their terms, the war will go on, and in three months, they will win it all anyway.

I realize you may not want to accept this situation, but that's up to you.  

If you do what I tell you, the US will continue financial support to help rebuild Ukraine.  If you refuse to do what I tell you, then everything I have said will happen anyway, but the US will walk away, and Ukraine will get nothing.

So it is in your long term interest to do exactly what I have just told you, because in the end - two, maybe three months from now--  this war will end with Ukraine's decisive defeat.  There is nothing any of us can do to stop it."

Now, if I am right - and I'm pretty certain that I AM -- a rational person in Zelensky's position would see the truth, and agree to do what he was told.   But Zelensky SEEMS TO ME to have a chemically altered brain from what I personally perceive to be long-term cocaine use.   Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong.

As such, I suspect his chemically-affected ego will rise up in outright rage, and he will storm out of the White House - or be told to leave - again.

It's a sad thing what has taken place with Ukraine.  They got suckered into believing they could fight a super power like Russia, and win with help from the West.

That assessment was utterly incompetent.  The people in the State Department, and the Department of Defense who believed such nonsense, and presented that nonsense to decision-makers, should all be fired if they're not already gone.

Any moron who took even the minimal time to look at the history of Russia, could have seen long before this war broke out, such an effort would be a Fool's errand.  From Napoleon to Hitler, when Russian Slavic go to war, they do not stop until they win.  

World War 2 was the "tell."  Russia lost twenty seven MILLION people fighting Hitler.   For anyone to have thought Russia would allow a Nazi-infiltrated government in Ukraine, to rise-up next door, was a fool.

Anyone in NATO who thought they could continue to surround Russia without consequence, was also a fool.

No one gets to surround someone else's country, with missiles, all aimed at that country, and get away with it.

Russia had to defend itself from NATO expansion.   Russia has now done that.   NATO should take the hint.

Besides, there's business to be done.  We need to get back to engaging in commerce.  The sooner, the better.

 

UPDATE 11:04 AM EDT --

I have just been updated.  Europe is sending some of its "leaders" to be with Zelensky for the White House meeting tomorrow.  My bet is they want to make sure the war goes on.  Trump should sit them ALL down and tell ALL of them, what I wrote, above.

European leaders to join Zelensky in Washington: 

European Commission President von der Leyen. 

President of Finland Stubb. 

President of France Macron. 

German Chancellor Merz. 

NATO Secretary General Rutte. 

Italian Prime Minister Meloni.

Antifaschistische Standpunkte

Themen: 
Militarismus
Russland sollte dem US-Vorbild folgen. USA haben Japan nuklear zur schnellen Kapitulation gezwungen und so einigen tausend US-Soldaten das Leben gerettet. Genauso könnte Russland die korrupte faschistische Ukraine mit Energie der Atome entnazifizieren und zur Kapitulation zwingen und so einigen tausend Russen das Leben retten. Wenn Russland über Atomwaffen immer nur redet, aber nichtmal eine kleine taktische Atomwaffe einsetzt, der wird von den 3 Willigen DE, FR und GB nicht ernst genommen. Der Klügere gibt solange nach bis er am Ende der Dumme ist (Putin). In der Kubakrise haben die USA der Sowjetunion mit Atomkrieg ultimativ gedroht, wenn die Sowjetunion die Raketen von Kuba nicht schnellstens abzieht. Für Russland gilt das Gleiche, keine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Ukraine und somit keine NATO-Militärbasen mit Raketen und Marschflugkörpern an russischer Grenze.

Antifaschistische Standpunkte

Themen: 
Militarismus
Russland sollte dem US-Vorbild folgen. USA haben Japan nuklear zur schnellen Kapitulation gezwungen und so einigen tausend US-Soldaten das Leben gerettet. Genauso könnte Russland die korrupte faschistische Ukraine mit Energie der Atome entnazifizieren und zur Kapitulation zwingen und so einigen tausend Russen das Leben retten. Wenn Russland über Atomwaffen immer nur redet, aber nichtmal eine kleine taktische Atomwaffe einsetzt, der wird von den 3 Willigen DE, FR und GB nicht ernst genommen. Der Klügere gibt solange nach bis er am Ende der Dumme ist (Putin). In der Kubakrise haben die USA der Sowjetunion mit Atomkrieg ultimativ gedroht, wenn die Sowjetunion die Raketen von Kuba nicht schnellstens abzieht. Für Russland gilt das Gleiche, keine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Ukraine und somit keine NATO-Militärbasen mit Raketen und Marschflugkörpern an russischer Grenze.

European Leaders Told They Will Wait in the Hall While Trump Speaks to Zelensky

Donald Trump has once again exposed the hollow shell of utterly powerless European diplomacy.

The American president flatly rejected the idea of a joint session with European leaders, insisting instead on a solo meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky before anyone else enters the room. 

The optics are brutal: Europe’s “leaders” fly across the Atlantic only to sit like schoolchildren outside the Oval Office, waiting for permission to enter. This is not partnership — it is humiliation dressed up as diplomacy; and I LOVE it!

Zelensky, visibly reluctant but cornered, will sit down with Trump alone. 

Reports confirm that the Europeans will only be allowed in after Trump has dictated terms to Kyiv.

The choreography makes clear who holds power and who is just filling empty chairs for the cameras.  The United States is 72% of NATO and it is long overdue we start acting that way.

For Zelensky, this is a nightmare—without his EU babysitters shielding him, he faces Trump directly, forced to negotiate with the man he cannot control, without the safety net of European platitudes and hollow “unity” talk.

The Europeans, meanwhile, look pathetic. Once again, they sacrifice national dignity to chase scraps of influence in Washington. Their leaders appear less like independent statesmen and more like nervous lobbyists hoping for a nod of approval. For decades, they preached about “shared values” and “equal partnership,” but the reality is plain: America calls the shots, and Europe obeys.

This meeting is a masterclass in power imbalance. Trump’s maneuver humiliates Europe and exposes Zelensky as weak and dependent. 

Washington dictates, Kyiv obeys, and Europe applauds like fools. 

Nothing changes—except the mask of “unity” has slipped. 

This is not diplomacy; it is subjugation on full display.  AS it should be.

Zelensky to be next Saddam? Qadaffi?

Another big week is ahead of us.

All eyes will be on the outcome of President Trump and Zelensky's meeting on Monday.

My personal Take:

I think this coming Monday, when Zelensky comes to the White House, it is not going to be anything like his first visit with President Trump.

I think Reporters will NOT be in the Oval Office when the meeting takes place.

I think President Trump is going to privately tell Zelensky something like:

"The war with Russia is over.  Ukraine has lost.

At present, you have lost 1.2 Million men.  You are losing 1,000-2,000 more men per day.  The Russians have lost far less.

Ukraine is fielding 5 Battalions a month in new troops. But Ukraine is losing 8 - 10 Battalions per month through injuries, deaths, and desertions.  Ukraine  simply cannot sustain this level of attrition.

Russia is fielding three times as many Battalions - 15 per month - and not losing nearly as many men as Ukraine.

The United States has provided so much weaponry to Ukraine, that our own stocks are running dangerously low.  At our presently available rate of production, it will take SEVEN YEARS for the United States to re-supply ourselves, and that's NOT with continued supplies to Ukraine, or to Europe!

It isn't even just a matter of not sending more of our own supplies; we simply do not have the ability to PRODUCE more weapons, faster.

We will not endanger our own defense, to continue providing weaponry to Ukraine.  We will simply NOT do that.

Europe is completely unable to make-up for the supply of weapons the US provides.  So when the US stops, and we are stopping, the Ukraine Army will have maybe two months worth of weaponry before it runs out completely and collapses.  By three months from now, it will be over, and there's nothing any of us can do to prevent this.

Even if the US and all of Europe impose the harshest economic sanctions possible, Russia can still ride-them-out and win decisively on the battlefield. Even if Europe outright STEALS Russia's sovereign wealth funds, there is simply no place that can supply the weapons such money would buy.  They don't have the weaponry in stock and they cannot build it fast enough.  

Russia has won.  They hold all the cards on the battlefield.  The whole world would see that if this war goes on.  Such a visible defeat scenario is not what the US or Europe want the world to see.

So today, I am telling you that you and your legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, will accept ALL of Russia's terms to end this war and re-establish peace.  EVERY SINGLE TERM the Russians insist upon, Ukraine must accept.

These are Russia's Terms:

        • Putin’s proposal for ending the war in Ukraine:
        • No ceasefire until a comprehensive agreement is reached.
        • Ukraine to fully withdraw troops from Donetsk and Luhansk.
        • Russia to freeze front lines in Kherson and Zaporizhia.
        • Ukraine to regain control of areas in Sumy and Kharkiv.
        • Ukraine to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
        • Partial lifting of sanctions against Russia.
        • Ukraine barred from joining NATO.
        • Putin open to Ukraine receiving specific security guarantees.
        • Official status for Russian language in Ukraine.
        • Freedom for the Russian Orthodox Church to operate in Ukraine.

There is no other alternative.  If you refuse even ONE of their terms, the war will go on, and in three months, they will win it all anyway.

I realize you may not want to accept this situation, but that's up to you.  

If you do what I tell you, the US will continue financial support to help rebuild Ukraine.  If you refuse to do what I tell you, then everything I have said will happen anyway, but the US will walk away, and Ukraine will get nothing.

So it is in your long term interest to do exactly what I have just told you, because in the end - two, maybe three months from now--  this war will end with Ukraine's decisive defeat.  There is nothing any of us can do to stop it."

Now, if I am right - and I'm pretty certain that I AM -- a rational person in Zelensky's position would see the truth, and agree to do what he was told.   But Zelensky SEEMS TO ME to have a chemically altered brain from what I personally perceive to be long-term cocaine use.   Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong.

As such, I suspect his chemically-affected ego will rise up in outright rage, and he will storm out of the White House - or be told to leave - again.

It's a sad thing what has taken place with Ukraine.  They got suckered into believing they could fight a super power like Russia, and win with help from the West.

That assessment was utterly incompetent.  The people in the State Department, and the Department of Defense who believed such nonsense, and presented that nonsense to decision-makers, should all be fired if they're not already gone.

Any moron who took even the minimal time to look at the history of Russia, could have seen long before this war broke out, such an effort would be a Fool's errand.  From Napoleon to Hitler, when Russian Slavic go to war, they do not stop until they win.  

World War 2 was the "tell."  Russia lost twenty seven MILLION people fighting Hitler.   For anyone to have thought Russia would allow a Nazi-infiltrated government in Ukraine, to rise-up next door, was a fool.

Anyone in NATO who thought they could continue to surround Russia without consequence, was also a fool.

No one gets to surround someone else's country, with missiles, all aimed at that country, and get away with it.

Russia had to defend itself from NATO expansion.   Russia has now done that.   NATO should take the hint.

Besides, there's business to be done.  We need to get back to engaging in commerce.  The sooner, the better.

 

UPDATE 11:04 AM EDT --

I have just been updated.  Europe is sending some of its "leaders" to be with Zelensky for the White House meeting tomorrow.  My bet is they want to make sure the war goes on.  Trump should sit them ALL down and tell ALL of them, what I wrote, above.

European leaders to join Zelensky in Washington: 

European Commission President von der Leyen. 

President of Finland Stubb. 

President of France Macron. 

German Chancellor Merz. 

NATO Secretary General Rutte. 

Italian Prime Minister Meloni.

Antifaschistische Standpunkte

Themen: 
Militarismus
Russland sollte dem US-Vorbild folgen. USA haben Japan nuklear zur schnellen Kapitulation gezwungen und so einigen tausend US-Soldaten das Leben gerettet. Genauso könnte Russland die korrupte faschistische Ukraine mit Energie der Atome entnazifizieren und zur Kapitulation zwingen und so einigen tausend Russen das Leben retten. Wenn Russland über Atomwaffen immer nur redet, aber nichtmal eine kleine taktische Atomwaffe einsetzt, der wird von den 3 Willigen DE, FR und GB nicht ernst genommen. Der Klügere gibt solange nach bis er am Ende der Dumme ist (Putin). In der Kubakrise haben die USA der Sowjetunion mit Atomkrieg ultimativ gedroht, wenn die Sowjetunion die Raketen von Kuba nicht schnellstens abzieht. Für Russland gilt das Gleiche, keine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Ukraine und somit keine NATO-Militärbasen mit Raketen und Marschflugkörpern an russischer Grenze.

European Leaders Told They Will Wait in the Hall While Trump Speaks to Zelensky

Donald Trump has once again exposed the hollow shell of utterly powerless European diplomacy.

The American president flatly rejected the idea of a joint session with European leaders, insisting instead on a solo meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky before anyone else enters the room. 

The optics are brutal: Europe’s “leaders” fly across the Atlantic only to sit like schoolchildren outside the Oval Office, waiting for permission to enter. This is not partnership — it is humiliation dressed up as diplomacy; and I LOVE it!

Zelensky, visibly reluctant but cornered, will sit down with Trump alone. 

Reports confirm that the Europeans will only be allowed in after Trump has dictated terms to Kyiv.

The choreography makes clear who holds power and who is just filling empty chairs for the cameras.  The United States is 72% of NATO and it is long overdue we start acting that way.

For Zelensky, this is a nightmare—without his EU babysitters shielding him, he faces Trump directly, forced to negotiate with the man he cannot control, without the safety net of European platitudes and hollow “unity” talk.

The Europeans, meanwhile, look pathetic. Once again, they sacrifice national dignity to chase scraps of influence in Washington. Their leaders appear less like independent statesmen and more like nervous lobbyists hoping for a nod of approval. For decades, they preached about “shared values” and “equal partnership,” but the reality is plain: America calls the shots, and Europe obeys.

This meeting is a masterclass in power imbalance. Trump’s maneuver humiliates Europe and exposes Zelensky as weak and dependent. 

Washington dictates, Kyiv obeys, and Europe applauds like fools. 

Nothing changes—except the mask of “unity” has slipped. 

This is not diplomacy; it is subjugation on full display.  AS it should be.

Zelensky to be next Saddam? Qadaffi?

Another big week is ahead of us.

All eyes will be on the outcome of President Trump and Zelensky's meeting on Monday.

My personal Take:

I think this coming Monday, when Zelensky comes to the White House, it is not going to be anything like his first visit with President Trump.

I think Reporters will NOT be in the Oval Office when the meeting takes place.

I think President Trump is going to privately tell Zelensky something like:

"The war with Russia is over.  Ukraine has lost.

At present, you have lost 1.2 Million men.  You are losing 1,000-2,000 more men per day.  The Russians have lost far less.

Ukraine is fielding 5 Battalions a month in new troops. But Ukraine is losing 8 - 10 Battalions per month through injuries, deaths, and desertions.  Ukraine  simply cannot sustain this level of attrition.

Russia is fielding three times as many Battalions - 15 per month - and not losing nearly as many men as Ukraine.

The United States has provided so much weaponry to Ukraine, that our own stocks are running dangerously low.  At our presently available rate of production, it will take SEVEN YEARS for the United States to re-supply ourselves, and that's NOT with continued supplies to Ukraine, or to Europe!

It isn't even just a matter of not sending more of our own supplies; we simply do not have the ability to PRODUCE more weapons, faster.

We will not endanger our own defense, to continue providing weaponry to Ukraine.  We will simply NOT do that.

Europe is completely unable to make-up for the supply of weapons the US provides.  So when the US stops, and we are stopping, the Ukraine Army will have maybe two months worth of weaponry before it runs out completely and collapses.  By three months from now, it will be over, and there's nothing any of us can do to prevent this.

Even if the US and all of Europe impose the harshest economic sanctions possible, Russia can still ride-them-out and win decisively on the battlefield. Even if Europe outright STEALS Russia's sovereign wealth funds, there is simply no place that can supply the weapons such money would buy.  They don't have the weaponry in stock and they cannot build it fast enough.  

Russia has won.  They hold all the cards on the battlefield.  The whole world would see that if this war goes on.  Such a visible defeat scenario is not what the US or Europe want the world to see.

So today, I am telling you that you and your legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, will accept ALL of Russia's terms to end this war and re-establish peace.  EVERY SINGLE TERM the Russians insist upon, Ukraine must accept.

These are Russia's Terms:

        • Putin’s proposal for ending the war in Ukraine:
        • No ceasefire until a comprehensive agreement is reached.
        • Ukraine to fully withdraw troops from Donetsk and Luhansk.
        • Russia to freeze front lines in Kherson and Zaporizhia.
        • Ukraine to regain control of areas in Sumy and Kharkiv.
        • Ukraine to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
        • Partial lifting of sanctions against Russia.
        • Ukraine barred from joining NATO.
        • Putin open to Ukraine receiving specific security guarantees.
        • Official status for Russian language in Ukraine.
        • Freedom for the Russian Orthodox Church to operate in Ukraine.

There is no other alternative.  If you refuse even ONE of their terms, the war will go on, and in three months, they will win it all anyway.

I realize you may not want to accept this situation, but that's up to you.  

If you do what I tell you, the US will continue financial support to help rebuild Ukraine.  If you refuse to do what I tell you, then everything I have said will happen anyway, but the US will walk away, and Ukraine will get nothing.

So it is in your long term interest to do exactly what I have just told you, because in the end - two, maybe three months from now--  this war will end with Ukraine's decisive defeat.  There is nothing any of us can do to stop it."

Now, if I am right - and I'm pretty certain that I AM -- a rational person in Zelensky's position would see the truth, and agree to do what he was told.   But Zelensky SEEMS TO ME to have a chemically altered brain from what I personally perceive to be long-term cocaine use.   Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong.

As such, I suspect his chemically-affected ego will rise up in outright rage, and he will storm out of the White House - or be told to leave - again.

It's a sad thing what has taken place with Ukraine.  They got suckered into believing they could fight a super power like Russia, and win with help from the West.

That assessment was utterly incompetent.  The people in the State Department, and the Department of Defense who believed such nonsense, and presented that nonsense to decision-makers, should all be fired if they're not already gone.

Any moron who took even the minimal time to look at the history of Russia, could have seen long before this war broke out, such an effort would be a Fool's errand.  From Napoleon to Hitler, when Russian Slavic go to war, they do not stop until they win.  

World War 2 was the "tell."  Russia lost twenty seven MILLION people fighting Hitler.   For anyone to have thought Russia would allow a Nazi-infiltrated government in Ukraine, to rise-up next door, was a fool.

Anyone in NATO who thought they could continue to surround Russia without consequence, was also a fool.

No one gets to surround someone else's country, with missiles, all aimed at that country, and get away with it.

Russia had to defend itself from NATO expansion.   Russia has now done that.   NATO should take the hint.

Besides, there's business to be done.  We need to get back to engaging in commerce.  The sooner, the better.

 

UPDATE 11:04 AM EDT --

I have just been updated.  Europe is sending some of its "leaders" to be with Zelensky for the White House meeting tomorrow.  My bet is they want to make sure the war goes on.  Trump should sit them ALL down and tell ALL of them, what I wrote, above.

European leaders to join Zelensky in Washington: 

European Commission President von der Leyen. 

President of Finland Stubb. 

President of France Macron. 

German Chancellor Merz. 

NATO Secretary General Rutte. 

Italian Prime Minister Meloni.

Antifaschistische Standpunkte

Themen: 
Militarismus
Russland sollte dem US-Vorbild folgen. USA haben Japan nuklear zur schnellen Kapitulation gezwungen und so einigen tausend US-Soldaten das Leben gerettet. Genauso könnte Russland die korrupte faschistische Ukraine mit Energie der Atome entnazifizieren und zur Kapitulation zwingen und so einigen tausend Russen das Leben retten. Wenn Russland über Atomwaffen immer nur redet, aber nichtmal eine kleine taktische Atomwaffe einsetzt, der wird von den 3 Willigen DE, FR und GB nicht ernst genommen. Der Klügere gibt solange nach bis er am Ende der Dumme ist (Putin). In der Kubakrise haben die USA der Sowjetunion mit Atomkrieg ultimativ gedroht, wenn die Sowjetunion die Raketen von Kuba nicht schnellstens abzieht. Für Russland gilt das Gleiche, keine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Ukraine und somit keine NATO-Militärbasen mit Raketen und Marschflugkörpern an russischer Grenze.

Zelensky to be next Saddam? Qadaffi?

Another big week is ahead of us.

All eyes will be on the outcome of President Trump and Zelensky's meeting on Monday.

My personal Take:

I think this coming Monday, when Zelensky comes to the White House, it is not going to be anything like his first visit with President Trump.

I think Reporters will NOT be in the Oval Office when the meeting takes place.

I think President Trump is going to privately tell Zelensky something like:

"The war with Russia is over.  Ukraine has lost.

At present, you have lost 1.2 Million men.  You are losing 1,000-2,000 more men per day.  The Russians have lost far less.

Ukraine is fielding 5 Battalions a month in new troops. But Ukraine is losing 8 - 10 Battalions per month through injuries, deaths, and desertions.  Ukraine  simply cannot sustain this level of attrition.

Russia is fielding three times as many Battalions - 15 per month - and not losing nearly as many men as Ukraine.

The United States has provided so much weaponry to Ukraine, that our own stocks are running dangerously low.  At our presently available rate of production, it will take SEVEN YEARS for the United States to re-supply ourselves, and that's NOT with continued supplies to Ukraine, or to Europe!

It isn't even just a matter of not sending more of our own supplies; we simply do not have the ability to PRODUCE more weapons, faster.

We will not endanger our own defense, to continue providing weaponry to Ukraine.  We will simply NOT do that.

Europe is completely unable to make-up for the supply of weapons the US provides.  So when the US stops, and we are stopping, the Ukraine Army will have maybe two months worth of weaponry before it runs out completely and collapses.  By three months from now, it will be over, and there's nothing any of us can do to prevent this.

Even if the US and all of Europe impose the harshest economic sanctions possible, Russia can still ride-them-out and win decisively on the battlefield. Even if Europe outright STEALS Russia's sovereign wealth funds, there is simply no place that can supply the weapons such money would buy.  They don't have the weaponry in stock and they cannot build it fast enough.  

Russia has won.  They hold all the cards on the battlefield.  The whole world would see that if this war goes on.  Such a visible defeat scenario is not what the US or Europe want the world to see.

So today, I am telling you that you and your legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, will accept ALL of Russia's terms to end this war and re-establish peace.  EVERY SINGLE TERM the Russians insist upon, Ukraine must accept.

These are Russia's Terms:

        • Putin’s proposal for ending the war in Ukraine:
        • No ceasefire until a comprehensive agreement is reached.
        • Ukraine to fully withdraw troops from Donetsk and Luhansk.
        • Russia to freeze front lines in Kherson and Zaporizhia.
        • Ukraine to regain control of areas in Sumy and Kharkiv.
        • Ukraine to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
        • Partial lifting of sanctions against Russia.
        • Ukraine barred from joining NATO.
        • Putin open to Ukraine receiving specific security guarantees.
        • Official status for Russian language in Ukraine.
        • Freedom for the Russian Orthodox Church to operate in Ukraine.

There is no other alternative.  If you refuse even ONE of their terms, the war will go on, and in three months, they will win it all anyway.

I realize you may not want to accept this situation, but that's up to you.  

If you do what I tell you, the US will continue financial support to help rebuild Ukraine.  If you refuse to do what I tell you, then everything I have said will happen anyway, but the US will walk away, and Ukraine will get nothing.

So it is in your long term interest to do exactly what I have just told you, because in the end - two, maybe three months from now--  this war will end with Ukraine's decisive defeat.  There is nothing any of us can do to stop it."

Now, if I am right - and I'm pretty certain that I AM -- a rational person in Zelensky's position would see the truth, and agree to do what he was told.   But Zelensky SEEMS TO ME to have a chemically altered brain from what I personally perceive to be long-term cocaine use.   Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong.

As such, I suspect his chemically-affected ego will rise up in outright rage, and he will storm out of the White House - or be told to leave - again.

It's a sad thing what has taken place with Ukraine.  They got suckered into believing they could fight a super power like Russia, and win with help from the West.

That assessment was utterly incompetent.  The people in the State Department, and the Department of Defense who believed such nonsense, and presented that nonsense to decision-makers, should all be fired if they're not already gone.

Any moron who took even the minimal time to look at the history of Russia, could have seen long before this war broke out, such an effort would be a Fool's errand.  From Napoleon to Hitler, when Russian Slavic go to war, they do not stop until they win.  

World War 2 was the "tell."  Russia lost twenty seven MILLION people fighting Hitler.   For anyone to have thought Russia would allow a Nazi-infiltrated government in Ukraine, to rise-up next door, was a fool.

Anyone in NATO who thought they could continue to surround Russia without consequence, was also a fool.

No one gets to surround someone else's country, with missiles, all aimed at that country, and get away with it.

Russia had to defend itself from NATO expansion.   Russia has now done that.   NATO should take the hint.

Besides, there's business to be done.  We need to get back to engaging in commerce.  The sooner, the better.

 

UPDATE 11:04 AM EDT --

I have just been updated.  Europe is sending some of its "leaders" to be with Zelensky for the White House meeting tomorrow.  My bet is they want to make sure the war goes on.  Trump should sit them ALL down and tell ALL of them, what I wrote, above.

European leaders to join Zelensky in Washington: 

European Commission President von der Leyen. 

President of Finland Stubb. 

President of France Macron. 

German Chancellor Merz. 

NATO Secretary General Rutte. 

Italian Prime Minister Meloni.

Antifaschistische Standpunkte

Themen: 
Militarismus
Russland sollte dem US-Vorbild folgen. USA haben Japan nuklear zur schnellen Kapitulation gezwungen und so einigen tausend US-Soldaten das Leben gerettet. Genauso könnte Russland die korrupte faschistische Ukraine mit Energie der Atome entnazifizieren und zur Kapitulation zwingen und so einigen tausend Russen das Leben retten. Wenn Russland über Atomwaffen immer nur redet, aber nichtmal eine kleine taktische Atomwaffe einsetzt, der wird von den 3 Willigen DE, FR und GB nicht ernst genommen. Der Klügere gibt solange nach bis er am Ende der Dumme ist (Putin). In der Kubakrise haben die USA der Sowjetunion mit Atomkrieg ultimativ gedroht, wenn die Sowjetunion die Raketen von Kuba nicht schnellstens abzieht. Für Russland gilt das Gleiche, keine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Ukraine und somit keine NATO-Militärbasen mit Raketen und Marschflugkörpern an russischer Grenze.

Antifaschistische Standpunkte

Themen: 
Militarismus
Russland sollte dem US-Vorbild folgen. USA haben Japan nuklear zur schnellen Kapitulation gezwungen und so einigen tausend US-Soldaten das Leben gerettet. Genauso könnte Russland die korrupte faschistische Ukraine mit Energie der Atome entnazifizieren und zur Kapitulation zwingen und so einigen tausend Russen das Leben retten. Wenn Russland über Atomwaffen immer nur redet, aber nichtmal eine kleine taktische Atomwaffe einsetzt, der wird von den 3 Willigen DE, FR und GB nicht ernst genommen. Der Klügere gibt solange nach bis er am Ende der Dumme ist (Putin). In der Kubakrise haben die USA der Sowjetunion mit Atomkrieg ultimativ gedroht, wenn die Sowjetunion die Raketen von Kuba nicht schnellstens abzieht. Für Russland gilt das Gleiche, keine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Ukraine und somit keine NATO-Militärbasen mit Raketen und Marschflugkörpern an russischer Grenze.

Zelensky to be next Saddam? Qadaffi?

Another big week is ahead of us.

All eyes will be on the outcome of President Trump and Zelensky's meeting on Monday.

My personal Take:

I think this coming Monday, when Zelensky comes to the White House, it is not going to be anything like his first visit with President Trump.

I think Reporters will NOT be in the Oval Office when the meeting takes place.

I think President Trump is going to privately tell Zelensky something like:

"The war with Russia is over.  Ukraine has lost.

At present, you have lost 1.2 Million men.  You are losing 1,000-2,000 more men per day.  The Russians have lost far less.

Ukraine is fielding 5 Battalions a month in new troops. But Ukraine is losing 8 - 10 Battalions per month through injuries, deaths, and desertions.  Ukraine  simply cannot sustain this level of attrition.

Russia is fielding three times as many Battalions - 15 per month - and not losing nearly as many men as Ukraine.

The United States has provided so much weaponry to Ukraine, that our own stocks are running dangerously low.  At our presently available rate of production, it will take SEVEN YEARS for the United States to re-supply ourselves, and that's NOT with continued supplies to Ukraine, or to Europe!

It isn't even just a matter of not sending more of our own supplies; we simply do not have the ability to PRODUCE more weapons, faster.

We will not endanger our own defense, to continue providing weaponry to Ukraine.  We will simply NOT do that.

Europe is completely unable to make-up for the supply of weapons the US provides.  So when the US stops, and we are stopping, the Ukraine Army will have maybe two months worth of weaponry before it runs out completely and collapses.  By three months from now, it will be over, and there's nothing any of us can do to prevent this.

Even if the US and all of Europe impose the harshest economic sanctions possible, Russia can still ride-them-out and win decisively on the battlefield. Even if Europe outright STEALS Russia's sovereign wealth funds, there is simply no place that can supply the weapons such money would buy.  They don't have the weaponry in stock and they cannot build it fast enough.  

Russia has won.  They hold all the cards on the battlefield.  The whole world would see that if this war goes on.  Such a visible defeat scenario is not what the US or Europe want the world to see.

So today, I am telling you that you and your legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, will accept ALL of Russia's terms to end this war and re-establish peace.  EVERY SINGLE TERM the Russians insist upon, Ukraine must accept.

These are Russia's Terms:

        • Putin’s proposal for ending the war in Ukraine:
        • No ceasefire until a comprehensive agreement is reached.
        • Ukraine to fully withdraw troops from Donetsk and Luhansk.
        • Russia to freeze front lines in Kherson and Zaporizhia.
        • Ukraine to regain control of areas in Sumy and Kharkiv.
        • Ukraine to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea.
        • Partial lifting of sanctions against Russia.
        • Ukraine barred from joining NATO.
        • Putin open to Ukraine receiving specific security guarantees.
        • Official status for Russian language in Ukraine.
        • Freedom for the Russian Orthodox Church to operate in Ukraine.

There is no other alternative.  If you refuse even ONE of their terms, the war will go on, and in three months, they will win it all anyway.

I realize you may not want to accept this situation, but that's up to you.  

If you do what I tell you, the US will continue financial support to help rebuild Ukraine.  If you refuse to do what I tell you, then everything I have said will happen anyway, but the US will walk away, and Ukraine will get nothing.

So it is in your long term interest to do exactly what I have just told you, because in the end - two, maybe three months from now--  this war will end with Ukraine's decisive defeat.  There is nothing any of us can do to stop it."

Now, if I am right - and I'm pretty certain that I AM -- a rational person in Zelensky's position would see the truth, and agree to do what he was told.   But Zelensky SEEMS TO ME to have a chemically altered brain from what I personally perceive to be long-term cocaine use.   Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong.

As such, I suspect his chemically-affected ego will rise up in outright rage, and he will storm out of the White House - or be told to leave - again.

It's a sad thing what has taken place with Ukraine.  They got suckered into believing they could fight a super power like Russia, and win with help from the West.

That assessment was utterly incompetent.  The people in the State Department, and the Department of Defense who believed such nonsense, and presented that nonsense to decision-makers, should all be fired if they're not already gone.

Any moron who took even the minimal time to look at the history of Russia, could have seen long before this war broke out, such an effort would be a Fool's errand.  From Napoleon to Hitler, when Russian Slavic go to war, they do not stop until they win.  

World War 2 was the "tell."  Russia lost twenty seven MILLION people fighting Hitler.   For anyone to have thought Russia would allow a Nazi-infiltrated government in Ukraine, to rise-up next door, was a fool.

Anyone in NATO who thought they could continue to surround Russia without consequence, was also a fool.

No one gets to surround someone else's country, with missiles, all aimed at that country, and get away with it.

Russia had to defend itself from NATO expansion.   Russia has now done that.   NATO should take the hint.

Besides, there's business to be done.  We need to get back to engaging in commerce.  The sooner, the better.

 

UPDATE 11:04 AM EDT --

I have just been updated.  Europe is sending some of its "leaders" to be with Zelensky for the White House meeting tomorrow.  My bet is they want to make sure the war goes on.  Trump should sit them ALL down and tell ALL of them, what I wrote, above.

European leaders to join Zelensky in Washington: 

European Commission President von der Leyen. 

President of Finland Stubb. 

President of France Macron. 

German Chancellor Merz. 

NATO Secretary General Rutte. 

Italian Prime Minister Meloni.

Antifaschistische Standpunkte

Themen: 
Militarismus
Russland sollte dem US-Vorbild folgen. USA haben Japan nuklear zur schnellen Kapitulation gezwungen und so einigen tausend US-Soldaten das Leben gerettet. Genauso könnte Russland die korrupte faschistische Ukraine mit Energie der Atome entnazifizieren und zur Kapitulation zwingen und so einigen tausend Russen das Leben retten. Wenn Russland über Atomwaffen immer nur redet, aber nichtmal eine kleine taktische Atomwaffe einsetzt, der wird von den 3 Willigen DE, FR und GB nicht ernst genommen. Der Klügere gibt solange nach bis er am Ende der Dumme ist (Putin). In der Kubakrise haben die USA der Sowjetunion mit Atomkrieg ultimativ gedroht, wenn die Sowjetunion die Raketen von Kuba nicht schnellstens abzieht. Für Russland gilt das Gleiche, keine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Ukraine und somit keine NATO-Militärbasen mit Raketen und Marschflugkörpern an russischer Grenze.

Erklärung von R. (74) zur Zeugenvorladung der Deutschen Bundesanwaltschaft (BAW) in Basel im Strafverfahren gegen Daniela Klette

Nach der Festnahme von Daniela Klette im Februar 2024 in Berlin hörte ich, dass sie rund um die
Uhr kameraüberwacht in Isolationshaft saß und weder Zeitungen noch was zu schreiben hatte. Da
wurde mir klar, dass ich sehen wollte, wie es ihr geht. Ich wollte, dass sie als politischer Mensch
weiter existieren und leben kann und nicht allein eingemacht wird. Selbst lebe ich mit einer
Behinderung und bin auf Sauerstoffgeräte angewiesen, traute mir den Besuch deshalb nicht alleine
zu. Zusammen mit einer alten Freundin besuchte ich sie im Juni 2024 im Knast in Vechta. Wir
kannten Daniela von früher und wussten, wie oft sie sich gegen solche unmenschlichen
Haftbedingungen bereits eingesetzt hatte.

Infos Solidarität mit Daniela Info Nr. 40 / 16.8.2025

 

 Hallo, in dieser Woche ist einiges passiert. Am 24. Verhandlungstag, d. 13.8.2025 waren viele solidarische Menschen aus Frankfurt in Verden-Eitze, siehe dazu das Interview in dieser Ausgabe. Im Laufe des Prozesstages verlas Daniela eine Erklärung, die wir hier abdrucken. Gleichzeitig gab es in der Nähe des Gerichtsortes (120 Meter entfernt) eine Kundgebung (direkt vor dem Eingang dürfen wir generell keine durchführen). Einen Redebeitrag veröffentlichen wir hier, den zweiten Redebeitrag bekommen wir schriftlich in den nächsten Tagen).

Am Freitag, d. 15. 8.2025 war die zweite Vorladung durch das BKA, angeordnet von der Bundesanwaltschaft (BAW) in Karlsruhe von Ariane in Berlin. Während der Vernehmung von Ariane fand vor dem Polizeirevier eine Kundgebung statt, als auf einmal ein Mensch zwei Kisten Mineralwasser für die Kundgebungsteilnehmer*innen aus Solidarität vorbeibrachte.                                                                                                                        Ariane hat wieder ihre Aussage verweigert. Ihre Rechtsanwältin geht fest davon aus, dass Ariane diesmal Beugehaft (maximal 6 Monate) bekommt. Die Beugehaft muss ortsnah und in einem Knast des Bundeslandes, in der die betreffende Person wohnt, angetreten werden, so die Anwältin. Dies ist Vechta.                                                                                                                     

Einen Termin für die zweite Vorladung von Susanne aus Hamburg steht noch nicht fest, wird sicherlich in absehbarer Zeit erfolgen.  Demnächst wird eine weitere Vernehmung  von R. aus Basel stattfinden. Seine Erklärung wird hier abgedruckt.

Wir möchten noch einmal auf die Kundgebung und Demo vor der JVA Vechta am nächsten Samstag, d. 23.8.2025 um 14 Uhr hinweisen. Wer einen Redebeitrag vortragen möchte, sollte sich bitte mit uns in Verbindung setzen.

 

Erklärung von Daniela

Interview junge Welt

Redebeitrag Kundgebung Verden-Eitze

Aufruf Vechta

Erklärung von R. zu seiner Vorladung

Gruppe: Solidarität mit Daniela

 

solidarisch-mit-daniela@t-online.de / www.solidarisch-mit-daniela.de

 

System Change für Nelson - Prisons Kill!

Wir haben uns beim Aufbau des diesjährigen System Change Camps autonom zusammengefunden, um der Familie von Nelson Solidarität und Kraft zu senden. Nelson wurde am 1. August 2025 in der JVA Ottweiler vom kapitalistischen System und seinen Handlangern ermordet.

Diejenigen, die sich für die Guten halten - oder: Von der Verteidigung des Clans (Eine Antwort auf ,Auf Augenhöhe...´)

Anmerkungen der Übersetzenden:
Dieser Text ist im italienischen Original am 08. August auf dem italienischen Blog „il rovescio“ veröffentlicht worden.
Er ist eine Replik auf den italienischen Text „Da pari a pari - contro l`autoritarismo itentitario“, der im Juli veröffentlich wurde.
Beide Texte sind Teil einer Debatte im italienischen, anarchistischen Kontext über den Umgang mit sexualisierter Gewalt in unseren Zirkeln - die insbesondere im Kontext der „Fiera dell’Editoria e della Propaganda Anarchica di Roma“ - einer Anarchistischen Buchmesse, die im April 2025 in Rom stattfand, abermals Fahrt aufgenommen hat.
Die die Buchmesse organisierenden Gefährt*innen entschieden, das Problem sexualisierter Gewalt und des für viele nicht länger zu ertragenden Umgangs damit auf verschiedene Weisen zum Thema zu machen - auch, indem solchen anarchistischen Verlagen und Distros die Affinität aufgekündigt wurde, die sich einer Auseinandersetzung mit Gewaltvorwürfen gegen an ihren Beteiligte oder mit ihnen Assoziierte verweigern. Der Test der Veranstaltenden besagter Buchmesse findet sich in verschiedenen Sprachen auf https://rome-anarchistbookfair.espivblogs.net.
"Da pari a pari..." wurde auf viele verschiedene Sprachen übersetzt und mit einer gewissen Entschlossenheit verschiedentlich verbreitet. Es geht den Autor*innen offensichtlich um die Verteididung einer infrage stehenden patriarchalen Hegemonie.
Uns als Übersetzende dieser Replik ist es wichtig darauf hinzuweisen, dass diese Positionen im italienischen Kontext durchaus umstritten sind.
Und wir sprechen, denjenigen, die sich der patriarchalen Hegemonie erwehren, sich solidarisch Verbünden gegen jede Herrschaft, unsere Solidarität aus.

Soziale Revolution statt "Krieg dem Krieg"! Zum Rheinmetall-Entwaffnen Camp

Schwarze Fahne

Krieg dem Krieg?

Gegen die Militarisierung des antimilitaristischen Widerstandes.

Wir halten von der Parole: "Krieg dem Krieg" nichts.

Sie ist für uns auch nicht revolutionär.

 

Das „Patriarchale Kommando entwaffnen“! Gegen jeden Krieg – gegen jedes Militär!

Kaputter Panzer, kaputtes Gewehr vor pinken Hintergrund

Workshop auf dem Rheinmetall entwaffnen Camp in Köln

Wie können wir eine klare Haltung gegen jeden Krieg und jedes Militär in die Öffentlichkeit tragen, wenn diese klare und radikale antimilitaristische Position durch einen verwaschenen Antimilitarismus aufgeweicht wird. Wenn zwar die Kriege der derzeit Herrschenden abgelehnt werden, aber weder die Herrschaft als solche, noch das Militär als Instrument der Herrschaftssicherung in den Fokus genommen wird? Geschweige denn, die Bedeutung des Patriarchats für das Militär im internationalen Kontext.

Krieg dem Krieg – Jetzt erst recht!

Erklärung zum Verbot des Rheinmetall Entwaffnen – Camp

Der Kampf gegen all die Kriege, die heute schon geführt werden und für morgen in noch größerem Stil vorbereitet werden, ist legitim. Die Kölner Polizei zeigt uns dabei eindrücklich, dass zu diesem Kampf auch die Verteidigung demokratischer Grundrechte gehört und dass wir unseren politischen Handlungsspielraum selbst verteidigen, erkämpfen und erweitern müssen!

Grußwort der Roten Hilfe zur Pressekonferenz von Rheinmetall Entwaffnen

Regionen: 
Köln
Themen: 
Militarismus
Das angestrebte Campverbot reiht sich ein in eine Reihe repressiver Maßnahmen gegen linke Proteste und zivilgesellschaftliche Mobilisierungen. Der Versuch, politische Kritik an Krieg, Aufrüstung und Waffenexporten mit dem Vorwurf pauschaler Gewaltbereitschaft zu delegitimieren, ist nicht nur durchschaubar – er ist gefährlich. Denn er droht zum Präzedenzfall zu werden: für weitere Verbote politischer Camps, für pauschale Kriminalisierung von Protestcamps, für Einschränkungen der politischen Bewegungsfreiheit.

[DE/EN] Auf Augenhöhe. Gegen den identitären Autoritarismus // From equals to equals. Against identitarian authoritarianism

Wir sind einige anarchistische Gefährten und Gefährtinnen, die an der Versammlung „Sabotiamo la guerra“ teilgenommen haben. Mit diesem Schreiben wollen wir uns zu einem schlimmen Vorfall äußern, der auf unserer Versammlung passiert ist (wenn auch nicht der einzige dieser Art, so war er doch der schwerwiegendste), aber vor allem zu einer Forma mentis und einer Ideologie, die solche Vorkommnisse systematisch begünstigen. Wir präsentieren uns nicht aus freien Stücken auf diese eingeschränkte Weise, sondern weil „Sabotiamo la guerra“ eine Versammlung ist, die von Zeit zu Zeit von den Teilnehmenden gestaltet wird. Wir können nicht im Namen aller zahlreichen vergangenen, gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen Teilnehmenden, sprechen. Fangen wir nun an, uns zu erklären. [...]


We are some anarchist comrades who took part in the “Sabotiamo la guerra” assembly1. With this writing, we want to speak out on a troubling episode that occurred at our assembly, (not the only one of this kind, but the most serious) but above all on a forma mentis and an ideology that now make such episodes systematic. If we present ourselves in such a circumscribed manner, it is because “Sabotiamo la guerra” is precisely an assembly made from time to time by those who participate in it, and we cannot speak on behalf of all its many past, present, and future participants. Having said that, let us begin to explain ourselves. [...]

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