https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer these weapons to Russia for dismantlement and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for economic compensation and assurances from Russia, the United States and United Kingdom to respect the Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.[6][7] Years later, Russia, one of the parties to the agreement, invaded Ukraine.
Thanks, joj!
This is very true and a solid point.
This is also true:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/110205/#110574
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVt-WXTLIZM
++++++++++++++++++
December 12, 2017
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/documents-show-gorbachev-was-assured-us-wouldnt-ex
U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University
++++++++++++++++++++++
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/110205/#110278
++++++++++++++++++++++++
NATO's propaganda machine(military-industrial-political-media complex) keeps manufacturing a Russia boogyman threat. That RUSSIA is a major threat to invade Europe. Over and over they repeat this nonsense.
1 look at the NATO expansion map below tells us that its NATO expanding NOT Russia. The diametrically opposed polar opposite of the fake threat that we are told about to justify this.
Should Russia be concerned?
Is the sun hot?
Is water wet?
Does NATO/the military-industrial-policital-media complex steal our intelligence with their manufactured, fake realities to accomplish their agenda and enrich themselves?
https://cvafoundation.org/how-should-united-states-view-alliances-us-allies/
Look how far east Ukraine is on this map, along the Russia border. Putin drew the red line and insisted that he would never let NATO expand into Ukraine. In late 2021, as NATO continued to insist they were expanding in Ukraine, Putin said he would stop them with an invasion and insisted on negotiations to get an assurance this would not happen.
Joe Biden told Putin to take a hike and STOPPED the negotiations. Instead telling his puppet, Zelensky that with the US providing all the weapons and Zelensky sacrificing his army for the NATO cause, together they would defeat Russia in a war fought for NATO membership.
WHO WON THE WAR? WHO LOST THE WAR? How is this not crystal clear by every possible standard and definition?
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/110205/#110559
We should have negotiated with Russia in 2021 instead of deciding to fight a war for NATO.
Where was Donald Trump when these key decisions were being made?
Who seems to be the only one doing something to TRY to bring peace to Ukrainians?
Do Ukrainians want peace? Or do they want to fight and die forever for a pipe dream of getting into NATO?
Their deaths, very sadly have been meaningless(to the outcome of the war), counter productive deaths to this point. Let's start focusing on SAVING LIVES, (of brave soldiers ON BOTH SIDES and stop the permanent, DEVASTATING losses their families take) INSTEAD OF the political agenda of NATO-the military-industrial-political-media complex using them as pawns.
Forget the propaganda monopoly of our news about Ukraine. Use critical thinking and compassion/empathy for humanity to trump that.
We are NOT going to defeat Putin. Ukraine is NOT going to get into NATO. The war is going to end at some point. Why not make it sooner than later to reduce the human suffering/casualties?
+++++++++++
Previous thread:
Putin's Lapdog in Chief
54 responses |
Started by joj - March 1, 2025, 8:09 a.m.
More typical main stream media toxic propaganda stealing our intelligence by elevating this nonsense to headline (fake) news with glorified Zelensky always elevated as a credible source to quote:
But Zelensky says Putin has ambitions to attack five other European nations before he dies. It comes as Putin has been given a stern warning as Ukraine peace talks ramp up and a pro-Russia TV star has been killed.
++++++++++++++++++++++
Hogwash fiction!
More nonsense from Newsweek, which is a source that I use more than any other ones here(I actually have a service that sends me all their new articles). This time, they are playing up another really bad military decision(designed for the military-industrial-media complex to make more money at the expense of more human beings forced to die for them from the worst military leaders in human history:
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-belgorod-map-ukraine-2052545
Ukrainian troops have made marginal gains in Russia's Belgorod region, it has been reported, as a map shows the state of play along the front line.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Let's all cheer for any escalation in fighting deaths and losses to families on both sides with the fake impression that it means something good for Ukraine. In real world, it's always just worse than before.....except for the self enriching military-industrial-political-media message gatekeepers in cahoots with NATO.
Now, let's take you to the REAL world.
+++++++++++++++++++++
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-zelenskyy-866a2541b7e296cf48a8ea6a2c15dd1d
++++++++++++++++++++++++
An annual intelligence assessment of global threats also questions both countries’ willingness to reach a quick settlement to the war.
++++++++++++++
After the defeat in the Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded a sharp increase in desertion — according to unofficial data, up to 40% of personnel over the past month.
Подробнее: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/03/28/in-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-a-sharp-surge-in-desertion-after-the-defeat-in-the-kursk-region-resident
+++++++++++++++
Previous news that the MSM UNDER reports:
Updated 11:24 PM CDT, November 28, 2024
https://apnews.com/article/deserters-awol-ukraine-russia-war-def676562552d42bc5d593363c9e5ea0
+++++++++++++++++
Updated Dec 02, 2024
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-desertion-russia-war-1993760
"Russian demands and ultimatums have remained unchanged over the years. Russia wants to limit Ukraine’s army, defense capabilities, and military assistance from partners and block Ukraine’s accession to NATO," Sybiha said.
++++++++++++++++
So be it. Insisting they would get into NATO and defeat Russia is how this all got started over 3 years ago, when they could have just agreed to not let NATO in BEFORE the war. But they "rejected any peace deal that weakens it's position" back then.
How has that turned out?
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/110205/
When you are continuing to let many of the same, worst military leaders in the history of humanity make decisions, every decision keeps making it worse. In this case, NATO is making the decisions (and still controlling Zelensky) without Biden to assist them.
+++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++
As the MSM continues to mislead with blatant propaganda that serves the interests of NATO and the military-industrial-policial-media complex NOT the people. Can you say "enemy of the people?"
They just don't get it or don't want to get it. This is about NATO getting Ukraine. As long as NATO and Ukraine continue to blabber on about their demands for NATO to get Ukraine, Putin will continue to do what he's been doing BECAUSE OF THAT POSITION. This isn't rocket science.
Ukraine, Zelensky, NATO and the MEDIA need to stop the NATO in Ukraine nonsense or this will keep getting worse and worse for Ukraine.
Ukrainians WANT PEACE, not NATO. For once, give the most weighting to the people/brave soldiers and their families, you're sending on suicide missions to fight for YOUR war.
+++++++++++++++++
"enemy of the people"
https://www.newsweek.com/kremlin-responds-trump-angry-remarks-putin-2052959
Ex-MI6 head Richard Dearlove warned Trump that rushing into a truce and giving Russia concessions could pose grave danger to the West.
++++++++++++++++
Another NATO no nothing that feeds us constant propaganda with the desire of the war going as long as possible and NATO finally getting Ukraine. Feeding us complete bull about Russia invading Europe next as if Putin would think that he can defeat all of NATO, the most absurd lie of all.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-war-map-donetsk-russia-gains-slow-2056359
++++++++++++++
Their position is that Ukraine should continue to fight and lose more territory in a war they lost and have 0 chance to win or even make gains in because Russia is winning 1 sided battles and taking land at a slower pace then 4 months ago( which was at an incredibly fast rate after most of Ukraine's army just basically gave up and deserted.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-belgorod-incursion-zelensky-2056750
Ukraine has lost much of the territory it gained during its incursion into Russia's Kursk region last August which had been intended as leverage in peace negotiations.
Kyiv's forces then moved into Belgorod, further south, which also borders Ukraine and Zelensky's admission of this shows he wants to amplify the message that his country is very much in the fight, despite setbacks in peace negotiations.
+++++++++++++++
The military leaders on Ukraine's side the past 3+ years have been THE worst in human history. Making nothing but bad, then worse, then even worse, then even worse yet decisions, 1 after the other. Now comes the dumbest ones yet.
They know the war is lost but the politicians and gatekeepers making these decisions and reporting them are all being enriched by the military-industrial-military-media complex. The longer the war goes on, the more the enrichment lasts. The amount of corruption in Ukraine has also soared higher with many millions of unaccounted for US money gushing in that's going into the hands of politicians.
Ukrainians have always wanted peace. They voted for Zelensky in 2019 because he promised to negotiate for peace with Russia. Instead, he betrayed them and send Ukrainians on suicide missions for NATO and the military-industrial-political-media complex.
Most of Ukraines army deserting tells us they don't want to fight for NATO anymore THEY WANT PEACE!
Zelensky also knows that if the war ends, his excuse to prevent elections will be over and his term, that expired a year ago will likely end too.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-6-2025
+++++++++++++
Every map shows that Ukraine was decimated and without much army left. One only needs to apply critical thinking to appreciate its always going to be more and more losses for Ukraine, regardless of the rate of losses........faster or slower, its STILL more lost land. More wounded and dead people. More families losing members. More destroyed infastructure that needs to be rebuilt.
What is the point of doing this for Ukraine?
NATO will never get Ukraine. Stop this ludicrous idea and negotiate for peace.
Putin is NOT going to stop until Zelensky stops insisting on a path to NATO and insists on really dumb military decisions. Puppet Zelensky is not going to concede until the NATO/European countries stop controlling him
Trump had legitimate control of him earlier this year and much progress could have been made for peace......but then NATO did a full court press to regain control of THEIR puppet man.
Putin is a very evil man but we know how to make him stop.
No, NOT defeating him on the battlefield.
Agreeing to his demand that NATO will NOT get Ukraine!
All this would have been avoided if Biden hadn't intentionally shut down the negotiations with Putin in late 2021 and told Zelensky that with the US supporting Ukraine, they would defeat Russia, then Ukraine would get into NATO and they would be protected forever and ever.
Biden was the worst president in US history but Trump is on a path to take that title away.
Mike said, “Biden was the worst president in US history”
———-
Hey Mike,
Of course, this is just your opinion, one which you already know I and many peoplevdon’t at all share and never have.
Thanks much, Larry!
However, its interesting to note that you WILL agree with me, that Trump is the worst president in history.
In fact, strongly agree with me on that.
While at the same time, the Rs here and most other places, strongly agree with me that Biden was the worst president during his 4 years., while at the same time very strongly disagree with me on anything Trump………..exactly where you and I have the strongest of agreement.
Don’t you think that’s fascinating?
Thats what happens at an ANTI echo chamber where the moderator doesn’t tell readers/posters what they want to read or what they wish were true.
He tries(to the best of his ability)to use authentic, objective, apolitical facts for assessments and opinions.
Making mistakes along the way and learning things too.
I learned a lot about carbon credits today, thanks to a cutworm post.
ive learned many things from you too. Stratospheric warming information, stock market stats recently. Weather and natural gas statics galore.
As always, posts like yours that disagree with me that come with solid reasoning are still my favorite.
Those are the best for learning.
A group of people that know all the same things and have the same opinions and hang out at echo chambers to repeat what they think they know to each other is the closed minded recipe for NOT learning.
Larry,
Even though I’m responding to your post, let me be clear that you are extremely open minded, independent and unbiased on everything(other than Trump but almost nobody is unbiased on (trump) so don’t let me unintentionally give any other impression.
i understand why you don’t think Biden was the worst president ever.
when you do disagree with somebody here, you make me happy to have people like you here that always show tremendous respect in every conversation.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5249294-steve-witkoff-russia-ukraine-peace-talks/
NATO will need to let go of their objective of getting all of Ukraine and convincing Zelensky to sacrifice his soldiers for NATO (and its future protection of Ukraine from Russia).
This was the main issue that started the war. Putin DID invade but he was preventing NATO from expanding into Ukraine and Zelensky/Biden told him to go ahead and invade, negotiations are over and we will defeat you in the war for NATO.
They lost!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kremlin-warns-against-rushing-ukraine-121243732.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
Trump, who promised on the campaign trail to strike a deal between Moscow and Kyiv in 24 hours, has failed since his return to office three months ago to wrangle concessions from Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt his troops' offensive in Ukraine.
++++++++++++
The MSM hates it that Trump might bring peace to Ukraine and continually tells us that he's a failure because he didn't do it in 24 hours.........as if we believed that and as if that's the correct standard to judge him by.............NOT!
If Trump brings peace to Ukraine, he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, regardless of the fact that I think he's mentally ill and making extremely damaging decisions to everybody related to his delusional tariffs scheme.
The Vatican long ago had offered to help facilitate peace talks and Francis had regularly called for peace and dialogue from the altar of the basilica. That Trump and Zelenskyy spoke privately, face to face and hunched over on chairs on the marbled floors of the pope’s home, on the day of his funeral, was perhaps a fitting way to honor his wishes.
Trump said on social media, after he arrived in Italy late Friday, that Russia and Ukraine should meet for “very high level talks” on ending the war.
+++++++++++++
I don't give much credibility to some of this news and the interpretations of the MSM and politicians who use propaganda to support their agendas.
The media is continuing to blast Trump for not ending the war in 24 hours, as if they really believed he meant it and could do it.
Trump NOT ending the war in Ukraine would be a pretty big blow to his ego and be a broken promise that the media would haunt him over forever.
Putin is a diabolical man that can't be trusted and NATOs power over Zelensky. along with the very powerful Military-Industrial-Political-Media complex that wants the war to continue are all tough obstacles to overcome.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ukraine-signs-deal-give-us-access-rare-minerals
++++++++++++
Let's hope
Look who's been back on the speaking engagement circuit the past week.
The one person that had control to negotiate peace in 2021/early 2022 that would have stopped the war. Instead, he told Putin to go ahead and invade. Telling Zelensky that he would arm his people in Ukraine with the weapons needed to defeat Russia. ............so go ahead of sacrifice countless lives for the Biden/NATO war against Russian.
Why isn't the media asking him about that?
Or his intentionally created southern border crisis?
Or his corruption with Hunter in Ukraine?
Or his serious cognitive losses?
Trump appeasing Putin with pressure on Ukraine, Biden tells BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m9mvemxrwo
Joe Biden Looks TERRIBLE in his First Interview Since Leaving the White House
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=659983916846032
+++++++++++++++
Can you imagine this guy as the president for another 4 years?????
Easily the worst president in history for America and for his party in my life time (resulting in Trump getting elected).
The one conciliation to that tarnished legacy is that Trump is well on his way to being MUCH WORSE for numerous reasons right now. ...........which will make him look LESS bad.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 29, 2025
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-29-2025
It appears that Putin may be making Trump look bad.
Trumps penchant for way over reacting with impunity and sometimes in a way that doesn't make sense, along with his pathological thinking that causes him to feel omnipotent, along with his promise to end the war is being tested by Putin's refusal to cooperate with him is turning this into a sad but fascinating show down between 2 mentally ill dudes. Netanyahu shares a similar mentality.
At least with Trump he abhors wars that kill people which is why I voted for him..........to try to end this 3+ year horrible war in Ukraine.
Putin is extremely evil. Also clever and calculating. For sure he understands what makes Trump tick.
His pathological thinking, like Trumps is related to his mental illness with delusions of grandeurism.
I think that Trump announcing that he would end the war in 24 hours extremely violated Putin's galaxy sized ego. President Trump gave the impression that HE ALONE could control Putin. Bad messaging. Putin is showing us that, NO, President Trump can't control him.
Trumps mouth is his worst enemy, as well as hurting many other people. He constantly shoots it off, often impulsively to say impossible boastful things that include profoundly offending other people and other countries.
In this war, the brave Russian soldiers being permanently injured or killed and the FAMILIES that suffer their loss are just as much victims as their Ukrainian counterparts.
++++++++++++++++==
Another important point in this war are the brave Russian soldiers and their families that are greaetly suffering. As well as most of their citizens.
They aren't evil units that Putin manufactured in a factory for his war.
They are human beings too.
Both sides feature human beings with families that love and depend on them, fighting other human beings with families in a war they played no decision in.........other than, unfortunately being born in the country they were born in and being forced to serve because of the politics of diabolical leaders.
I think that you will find that the vast majority of Russians are good people too, just like Ukrainians.
How lucky we are to live in this country.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5327835-trump-ukraine-attack-russia/
++++++++++++++
I understand why they didn't tell Trump. He would have likely objected because it will mess up his negotiations with Putin.
Putin has had way more than enough time..........too much time in fact to negotiate peace with Trump this year.
I guess that he figures that he's improving his position to get more when they finally agree on what the terms are. That might be true.
We need to show him that delaying will just incur increasing losses to Russia.
Will he respond to this latest attack, instead?
I was wrong about thinking that Trump would have peace by now.
Still think now that Putin didn't want the world to see Trump manipulating him. And he could be trying to get as much of Ukraine that he can as he is easily gaining more land every week with Ukraine not having much of an army left.
The weather has warmed up too. It must have been pretty brutal for his army during the frigid Ukraine Winter.
++++++++++++++++
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-drone-strikes-2079485
++++++++++++++
OK, if peace talks are about to get underway, maybe this wasn't such a great idea.
I was very excited and impressed by these clever attacks in Russia by Ukraine reported by the news media...... but then remembered that 99 out of the last 100 MSN and Ukraine reports were propaganda that totally distorted the authentic facts.
Considering that, my enthusiasm is toned down by reality of knowing the sources complete lack of credibility.
Despite the sharp escalation in the war making any breakthrough appear even less likely than it had before, Russian and Ukrainian delegations did sit down opposite each other Monday in Istanbul for the second round of negotiations in a bid for peace.
+++++++++++
If this is true, then sadly this sabotaged efforts to end the war.
Dang, and I thought Zelensky made his first smart military decision in 3+ years
+++++++++++++++
Regardless, the war needs to end and Trump is the first person on our side trying to do that ASAP. Depending on President Trump to make responsible/smart decisions that benefit the most people is a scary thought.
+++++++++++++++++
In thinking about this more, it's likely that Trump shooting off his big mouth about how he was going to bring peace in Ukraine quickly was greatly offensive to Putin's ego as it suggested that Trump can control Putin.
Trump, Putin and Netanyahu suffer from the same mental illness causing their pathological, delusions of grandeur thinking. They see themselves as omnipotent humans that can impose their agenda's with impunity.
What makes them so dangerous is the fact that all 3 have tremendous power that and in fact, its allowing them to impose their agenda's which is reinforcing the pathological thinking/mental illness.
Don't anybody, anywhere dare tell them what to do or try to manipulate them. The only way to makes deals with them is if they think it's THEIR deal.
Trump bragging about how easy it would be for him to manipulate Putin MUST HAVE really ticked off Putin(violating his galactic sized ego) and caused him to do the complete opposite.
+++++++++++++++
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2r108l785o
+++++++++++++=
Appears to be another Zelensky blunder against 0 smart decisions the past 3 years. Why do this immediately in front of peace talks unless you want the war to continue?
The attack on Friday, which killed at least four people in the capital, came two days after Russia vowed retaliation for an audacious drone assault on its strategic bomber bases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/world/europe/russia-missile-attack-ukraine-kyiv.html
+++++++++++++
For the umpteenth time, Zelensky has done something that has backfired and caused things to get WORSE for Ukraine against 0 decisions to make things better.
If he would come out and say that Ukraine will not join NATO instead, there's an excellent chance Putin would stop the attacking. But he's tied at the hip to NATO and this has been Ukraine's biggest downfall.
Trump is completely powerless, especially since his early messaging suggested that he was capable of controlling Putin which was counter productive for creating the right mindset for omnipotent Putin.
Trump really meant/means well and made some strong inroads with Zelensky but NATO hates him and isn't on the same page and Omnipotent Putin isn't going to let the Omnipotent Bloviater from across the big pond tell him what to do
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-zelenskyy-trump-80c8984bc2e52da0212da4e0d4cf8220
NATO's dilemma: How Zelenskyy can attend summit without provoking Trump
The careful steps are all being taken to avoid angering Washington, much less provoking any repeat of February's White House blow-up between Trump and Zelenskyy that almost torp...
https://www.deccanherald.com/world/natos-dilemma-how-zelenskyy-can-attend-summit-without-provoking-trump-3574361
+++++++++++++++++++
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-4-2025
+++++++++++++++++++
Chances that Zelensky's decision to bomb Russian planes pays dividends in some way?
Near 0.
Here we are in June 2025 with Zelensky and NATO still not getting it. Ukraine is never getting into NATO and the sooner they concede that, the sooner the war ends.
As Trump’s ‘two week’ deadline for Russia expires, he faces a series of unresolved foreign conflicts
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/politics/trump-unresolved-foreign-conflicts
++++++++++++
Trump appears to have blown the opportunity because of how he operates.
1. He's ruined his credibility in most of the world. Putin is not dumb. He's can see how deranged our president is.
2. He likely made another big mistake by shooting off his big mouth, boasting about his omnipotence, being able to end the war and control Putin FAST. He WAS in fact able to manipulate Zelensky (the puppet) to some extent but that claim, mostly certainly rubbed Putin ( who also suffers from pathological delusions of grandeurism thinking) the wrong way. Putin is a deranged killer/war criminal that only cares about keeping NATO out of Ukraine and getting as much of Ukraine as he can before negotiating ON HIS TERMS, not Trumps.
The U.S. has canceled the next round of talks with Russia on restoring diplomatic relations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova claimed on June 16.
Zakharova's statement came days after Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Alexander Darchiev announced that delegations from both countries were expected to meet in Moscow in the near future.
The planned talks were supposed to be part of discussions between the U.S. and Russia that focused on peace efforts in Ukraine and the resumption of bilateral ties.
According to Zakharova, the upcoming round was intended to "eliminate irritants" and help normalize the operations of both nations' diplomatic missions.
"We hope that the pause taken by them (the U.S.) will not become too long," the Russian spokesperson said.
Washington is yet to comment on Zakharova's claims.
The Evolving Russia-Iran Relationship
Political, Military, and Economic Dimensions of an Improving Partnership
https://www.cna.org/reports/2025/01/the-evolving-russia-iran-relationship
https://kyivindependent.com/why-have-trumps-peace-efforts-in-ukraine-middle-east-failed/
Russian president says Russians and Ukrainians are one people – which Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected – and warns Moscow could also seize Sumy city. What we know on day 1,214
“Putin’s cynical statements demonstrate complete disdain for US peace efforts.
++++++++++++++++++
People forget about the fact that Iran is a close ally to Russia and Trump's lack of comprehension of the understanding of complicated relationships between countries and basic global economic trading principles between rich country's and poor countries is causing him to leave an increasingly long trail of blunders, counterproductive to global interests and especially damaging to US interests.
So let me point out this latest catastrophic blunder.
The US, led by President Trump is focused on helping its diabolical partner in crime, Israel because Israel is it's closest ally. It just included the obliteration of Iran's nuclear facilities (Trumps words), with Trump bragging about how easy it was, how successful it was because Iran has no capability to defend itself against the bullies, Israel and the United States that are bombing and killing in the Middle East with impunity for the absurd, umbrella justification that includes everything imaginable "defending Israel". This obviously includes getting Gaza and the West Bank for Israel.
Trump says ‘US will take over the Gaza Strip’ after relocating ‘all’ Palestinians
34 responses |
Started by WxFollower - Feb. 4, 2025, 8:13 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/109838/
++++++++++++++++
There are numerous, major ethical and international law violations with this agenda and now Netanyahu, drunk with unlimited power and no accountability has included his 3 decades long dream of bombing Iran to take out its nuclear program. Again, this has serious implications with regards to international law and credibility issues because of the propaganda used to justify it but the catastrophic, never going back from blunder that Trump is unable to comprehend in his decision to "obliterate" Iran with our superior military is that IRAN IS A CLOSE ALLY OF RUSSIA!!!!!!
(China, North Korea and Pakistan too).
Russia has been closely observing what the US is doing in the Middle East, blatantly abusing their military power for a genocide and to help Israel take what is theirs, now includes obliterating Russia's closest ally, Iran.
You can bet that this is the most ANTI negotiating for peace with Russia tactic and demonstrates to Russia that what Russia is doing is the same thing WE ARE DOING in the Middle East.
Russia claims that Ukraine belongs to Russia and is using a far superior military force to take it back.
Israel (and the United States) are doing the exact same thing. Israel is using its far superior military force for an ethnic cleansing of people in Gaza and the West Bank under the absurd guise of "defending Israel" because it believes that those regions should belong to Israel.
There is no difference in the mentality with what Russia is doing except Israel is so much more diabolical to humanity. Russia is fighting an army that provides resistance, while unavoidably causing tremendous losses to civilians.
Israel is intentionally targeting innocent civilians, mostly children and women, using the most offensive ANTI humanity methods imaginable........with the US, not just defending it but also providing the bombs and support to cause it.
What Netanyahu(and the United States) are doing to innocents in the Middle East makes Putin look like a saint and it now includes a cherished ally of Russia/Putin.
President Trump, is completely oblivious to this.
There are sometimes, unintended consequences to unjustifiable wars and this one, could be seen a mile away from a competent leader, which unfortunately is NOT President Trump, who has turned into a big joke with his claims of being able to manipulate Putin for a quick peace in Ukraine.
Like in the Middle East, where Netanyahu is completely manipulating President Trump(while Trump, absurdly pretends that he's the one calling the shots because of his massive ego), in Ukraine it's Russia calling all the shots and Trump is just a hypocritical impulsive , big mouth joke that is incapable of seeing the BIG picture that includes his own actions in Iran that profoundly violated the international rights of Putin's close alley.
Trump likes to make personal insults of people that disagree with him, often calling them "stupid" or "low intelligence" to bump up his ego and always suggest he's smarter than them and his MAGA people, captured by this idea always assume that those other people, just have TDS because they are not brilliant enough to understand Trump's plan.
The profound reality relating to our relationship with Russia/Putin is described above.
President Trump has been completely oblivious to that and sabotaged any semblance of credibility that he might have in being a mediator/negotiator for peace in Ukraine.
If anything, his illegal actions in the Middle East, against a country that was doing nothing to threaten the United States and has some powerful allies in the world are MUCH MORE likely to start WW-3.
The Trump side will insist that the world will now be too afraid of opposing the United States because we just showed our military might.
Putin is thinking the exact same thing to justify his actions in Ukraine!
++++++++++++++++++
BTW, when I call Donald Trump mentally ill and having pathological thinking.........stuff like that I am NOT name calling (like him) or making a personal attack. That's not me. I'm basing it purely on my objective analysis as a scientist using the authentic facts that include analyzing how and why people think a certain way which includes their psychiatric disorders when those are present.
Some thing with the many unkind descriptions of Netanyahu. They are not intended to be insults or personal attacks as much as using the best, authentic verbiage as much as possible to accurately depict their thinking and actions.......even if I admittedly use overkill.
I was using the same (psycho) analysis of who Trump is last November (and previous) even when I voted for him because I mistakenly believed he would end the war in Ukraine.
None of that has changed............other than now we have Trumps words and actions in 2025 to judge him by.
OBJECTIVELY judge him based on the authentic facts.
In thinking about it objectively, I admit that on Netanyahu my descriptions cross the boundary into personal attack-land sometimes.
The world clearly knows who Putin is. No need for enlightenment there.
However, in the United States Netanyahu is seen by half+ of the people as a great leader and ally doing the right thing.
He got 50 standing ovations when he spoke to Congress last year. People are NOT enlightened about who Netanyahu is. I feel compelled to help provide that enlightenment(always with evidence/facts) about this diabolical, very charismatic, psychopath and charlatan here because that's exactly who he is and the profound impact its having on the world, especially the United States.
Political, Military, and Economic Dimensions of an Improving Partnership
https://www.cna.org/reports/2025/01/the-evolving-russia-iran-relationship
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Abbas Araghchi emphasized the “strategic partnership” between Tehran and Moscow as he announced the trip just hours after the U.S. targeted three Iranian nuclear sites. .
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-withdrawn-ukraine-russia-2089818
Merezhko said Trump had "virtually no reaction" to recent large-scale strikes on the Ukrainian capital, adding: "He has chosen the path of appeasement.
+++++++++++++++
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-191202113.html
Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination has been withdrawn by a senior Ukraine politician who accused the US president of appeasing Vladimir Putin.
Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of Ukraine’s foreign affairs committee, said he had lost “any kind of faith” in Mr Trump’s ability to end the war.
He nominated Mr Trump in late 2024, revealing to The Telegraph that he believed it would encourage the president-elect to follow through on a pledge to end the war.
“This appeasement of aggression encourages Putin to continue the attack. Trump just turns a blind eye to all of it,” Mr Merezhko said in a letter to the Nobel committee.
“I lost any kind of faith that Trump will deliver in any of his promises.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l0k4389g2o
The US, Ukraine's strongest military ally, has been pursuing an end to the war - now in its fourth year - through negotiation since Trump took office at the start of the year.
However, Zelensky and Trump have repeatedly clashed and tensions have been high since a heated confrontation at the White House in February during which Trump accused Zelensky of "gambling with World War Three" and chided him for not starting peace talks with Russia earlier.
By contrast, the US president has made efforts to improve relations with Moscow, although he did say he was "very angry" with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the end of March after ceasefire talks between US and Russian officials stalled.
On 30 April the US and Ukraine signed a long-discussed deal to share profits from the future sale of Ukraine's mineral and energy reserves.
The deal aims to provide an economic incentive for the US to continue to invest in Ukraine's defence and reconstruction - as well as to address Washington's concerns over the amount of aid it has already contributed.
One problem with the great minerals and energy sources deal that Trump made with Ukraine is that Putin is TAKING THE LAND where the richest sources are located in Ukraine for Russia right now.
The more of Ukraine that Putin takes, the less value of their minerals/energy! And Trump has been letting him do it with almost no resistance in 2025.
I've been opposed to spending hundreds of billions of US tax dollars, flushing money down the toilet for a kill-fest in Ukraine the previous 3 years, when Biden refused to negotiate about NATO and instead challenged Putin to a war over NATO in Ukraine.
However, there is added incentive when Putin is taking US minerals and energy reserve rights, as he's doing now. Mr. America First seems to not be interpreting it that way.
Trump's huge blunders and flaws always seem to greatly exceed his brilliant moves(in many realms) because his tunnel vision and ego cause a lack of "big picture" objective comprehension that would provide valuable, authentic insights that he consistently misses.
In total, between January and April 2025, funeral service providers in the country earned nearly 40bn rubles – (£380m), a 12.7% year-on-year increase, according to Rosstat, Russia’s federal state statistics service.
This month, Russia’s wartime toll of dead and wounded reached a historic milestone.
According to the British Ministry of Defence, more than one million Russian troops have been killed or injured since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022.
The estimate aligns with a recent study by the US-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which puts Russian military deaths at up to 250,000 and total casualties, including the wounded, at over 950,000. Ukraine has suffered very high losses as well, with between 60,000 and 100,000 personnel killed and total casualties reaching approximately 400,000.
+++++++++++++++
These Russian soldiers are also human beings that are suffering the unfortunate/bad luck fate of being born in Russia and having a psychopathic dictator that places no value on human lives that are just pawns to sacrifice for his self enriching, political agenda.
We should mourn the casualties of the bad side as well as the brave soldiers forced to fight for the good side...now totaling close to 1.5 million(including the injured).
++++++++++++++
++++++++++++
Complete hogwash and stories that suggest this are propaganda.
Putin is very diabolical but he's a brilliant war strategist that is doing what he's doing because HE KNOWS HE CAN WIN A WAR AGAINST UKRAINE in its current state. He knew that on day one, when bad news Biden thought Ukraine could win the war if we just sent them enough weapons.
He is completely crushing Ukraine..........at the expense of losing a tremendous portion of his active military. But this was always predictable from the get go. Russia was always going to win a war of attrition in Ukraine because Putin is willing to sacrifice as many lives as it takes to win.
If Putin invades ANY countries outside of Ukraine, he invades a NATO country and he immediately picks a fight with ALL OF NATO. This is why he is taking Ukraine NOW before NATO can get it which would mean he can never have a chance to win a war then.
His current massive military advantages in Ukraine would become very lopsided DISadvantages against NATO. Invading any other country or Europe would be a suicidal venture for Russia with little hope to win, little to gain and everything to lose.
Anybody that understands anything about warfare(Putin is a skilled authority) and the math/dynamics knows there is a near 0 chance that Putin would be so dumb.
He may be a psychopathic killer but he knows how to win wars and to avoid stupid wars. Putin is no threat to Europe or NATO countries.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Military size by country
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/military-size-by-country
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/
++++++++++++++++++++++++
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/
+++++++++++++++++
Military capability of Western alliance remains 'formidable' despite questions around untested 'mutual assistance' agreement as Trump pivots away from Europe
https://theweek.com/news/defence/104574/nato-vs-russia-who-would-win
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/europe/trumps-sudden-shift-weapons-ukraine-latam-intl
+++++++++++++++
Russian claim of deadly Ukrainian attack on Kursk beach; convictions over Wager arson attack in London. What we know on day 1,232
+++++++++++++++++++++
President Trump lashed out at the Russian leader on Tuesday, signaling a change in his posture toward the conflict.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/trump-putin-ukraine.html
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Give that man a Nobel PEACE prize for .....................
Promising peace and letting Putin control him in Ukraine and NOT obtaining peace.
And for letting Netanyahu control him.......sending millions of pounds of bombs to Israel to kill innocent people, mostly children and women in Gaza.
And for surprise bombing Iran in the middle of peace negotiations, unprovoked and against international law because Netanyahu told him to!
By metmike - July 8, 2025, 12:59 p.m.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-record-drone-attack-ukraine-war-fe3d23673b9b5696bb5097def9ed0775
A top ally of Trump, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said Sunday that the conflict is nearing an inflection point as Trump shows growing interest in helping Ukraine fight back against Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Although Trump had previously dismissed the effort as a waste of U.S. taxpayer money, Graham told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “you’ll see weapons flowing at a record level.”
The legislation increases sanctions and places 500% tariffs on products imported from countries that buy Russian oil, gas and other exports. Trump on Monday proposed unilaterally implementing 100% tariffs.
“I use trade for a lot of things,” he said. “But it’s great for settling wars.”
Adding a 100% tariff on China, on top of import taxes already in place, would essentially halt trade between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies.
+++++++++++++
Trump has been bragging constantly about how his crazy tariffs schemes have been so successful (in his delusional mind). He really is convinced of this. Unbelievable. They have been an almost complete failure(other than us collecting the tariff money). They absolutely do punish US consumers and free trade, which will be getting passed on to us later this year after US companies work thru inventory and have to pass on their higher cost to products they sell.
Now, drunk with delusional power over his backfiring tariffs that only brought 2 crappy deals in 90 days, not 90 he wants to expand the potential damage to free trade and punish US consumers even more with his new tariffs as he practices America LAST and continues to display lack of comprehension on the comprehension of global trade principles between countries.
He's obsessed with collecting tariffs and completely blind to how this is punishing us in 3 ways.
1. The tariff will cause consumers to pay a higher price for goods from other countries later this year. It's just basic math.
2. It's reducing trade with other countries that includes our exports, especially as other countries respond in kind to his loony tariffs by putting tariffs on our goods they buy from us. Have you noticed how much soybeans that China has bought from us recently? Usually our biggest customer. NOTHING. He's screwing our farmers.
3. Trumps punishing other countries with tariffs is wrecking long term trading relationships between us and all these countries. Their response is going to be replacing the trade between us by making NEW long term relationships with other countries that use free trade. A smart president that understood the principles of global free trade between rich and poor countries would be trying to ENCOURAGE MORE TRADE between the United States and other counties. His actions are doing the 100% opposite of that and it will cause long term damage to the United States on both sides of the trade. Not maybe but FOR SURE!!!! He is completely unable to comprehend this!
His tariffs on China, for instance are backfiring. Instead of punishing China.......he's punishing the United States!!1
https://qz.com/china-exports-trump-tariffs
In that case, the consequences could be broad. Targeting these flows could increase prices for U.S. consumers and complicate already-fragile supply chains, all the more so if the rules shift faster than companies can adapt.
Another possibility for booming Chinese exports: U.S. policy may be, in effect, helping China. By targeting a wide swath of countries with tariffs — not just China but also longtime allies like the E.U., Mexico, Japan, and South Korea — the Trump administration may have created an incentive for other countries to deepen trade ties with Beijing, effectively creating more demand for Chinese goods, not less.
Similarly, a recent Invesco survey found that almost 60% of global sovereign wealth funds plan to increase their investments in China over the next five years, citing the country’s strength in advanced tech and clean energy. That's a sign geopolitical headwinds may be pushing capital toward, not away from, Beijing.
If so, such an outcome would be ironic. If Trump’s goal was to isolate and weaken China, the latest export numbers suggest the opposite may be happening.
This could go down in history as the dumbest, self imposed/intentional policy by a president of the United States.
3 months after he first imposed the tariffs, Trump is claiming victory, so with this continued delusional interpretation, we can guess that Trump will continue to not waiver on his tariffs and continue to have a delusional interpretation, even when they start having increasing damage later this year. .
Many companies stocked up on inventory ahead of the tariffs. When this inventory is depleted and the higher cost of goods/imports hits, its just a matter of math later this year.
1. Either US companies pass the higher cost on to US consumers or
2. US companies make less money by taking a profit margin hit.
3. There is no #3 with the current Trump schemes. Tariffs make the cost of our goods more expensive by the amount of the tariff.
Even worse is the reciprocal tariffs on our exports. Supposedly, the reason for the tariffs is to improve the trade deficit between our country and poor countries(which can NEVER happen because of the economic principles). One of the best ways to do that is to INCREASE our exports. Trumps loony tariffs schemes are causing the 100% opposite of that. Our products are now MORE expensive in most country's with tariffs against us, so many of them are striking up new relationships with countries that are not penalizing them with tariffs.
It's no brainer math and about as basic in understanding the basics of selling anything.
For instance. If you are a company in the United States selling widgets in a very competitive widget producing business and you want to increase sales what do you do?
1. Reduce prices by 25% compared to competitors?
2. Increase prices by 25% compared to competitors?
The answer is so crystal clear that it seems like an insult to your intelligence to ask it.
However, President Trump has picked #2 as a method to supposedly fix an unfixable trade imbalance. And at the same time, punishing US consumers for paying the higher prices that he is forcing on goods coming to this country.
He is fixated on being able to collect the tariffs fees for our government at the expense of Americans. His Big(NOT) Beautiful Act is advertised as reducing taxes to Americans. But he ignores that his tariff penalties end up being just like an additional tax on all American consumers, hurting the lower incomes people with less disposable income the most.
Anyway, what would the world do if the United States didn't exist?
They would find other ways to buy and sell their products. Trump is giving the world incentive to do just that when a smart marketer and president would be giving them more incentive to do the opposite and do MORE business with us not less.
Trump's biggest driving force, as shown repeatedly by his decisions is Donald Trump.
He is most concerned about actions to get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Though he is an authoritarian, recklessly abusing his powers as president of the United , he is manipulated by foreign powers in foreign affairs and entities that know how to manipulate him.
Can you say $400 million jet airplane/bribe from Saudi Arabia that was ACCEPTED?
Trump accepts Qatar AF-1 replacement
Started by WxFollower - May 13, 2025, 9:43 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/111808/
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-withdrawn-ukraine-russia-2089818