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Trump To Force Ukraine Peace on Europe - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
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Zelensky fobs off question on when elections in Ukraine happening
'If somebody doesn't like, they can choose another citizenship'
He even manages to confuse the interviewer...
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'I would challenge equating liberalism with democracy. Different societies have different values'
There's reaction to self-appointed custodians who have NOTHING TO DO WITH DEMOCRACY telling rest of the world what's wrong in democracy — India's FM shreds meddling West and NGOs
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JD Vance Gobsmacks NATO https://sonar21.com/jd-vance-gobsmacks-nato/
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🇺🇸 U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has once again addressed a Wall Street Journal report that suggested he indicated the U.S. might send troops to Ukraine. Vance previously denied making such a statement.
In his latest response, he issued an even stronger rebuke of the WSJ’s reporting.
Earlier today, the Kremlin requested an explanation regarding Vance's alleged comments. It turns out the Wall Street Journal was just trying to start World War III—again.
You can compare the headline to the actual transcript of the conversation.
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❗️TASS News Roundup, February 14:
▪️Russia has little interest in returning to the Group of Seven (G7), as announced by US President Donald Trump, but sees great opportunities in the G20, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
▪️ Hamas will release Alexander Trufanov, a hostage with Russian and Israeli citizenship, during the first phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as a sign of respect to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mousa Abu Marzouk, the Deputy Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, told TASS.
▪️ Israel will release 369 Palestinians, including 36 serving life sentences, from its prisons on February 15 in exchange for the release of three hostages who are held in the Gaza Strip.
▪️The Bank of Russia expectedly kept the key rate at 21% per annum at its first meeting in 2025
▪️The United States believes that the biggest threat to Europe’s security is coming neither from Russia nor from China, but is inside Europe, US Vice President JD Vance said at the Munich Security Conference.
▪️Should the European Union be excluded from talks on the Ukraine issue, it could mark a turning point in Europe’s relations with the US, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said.
▪️Russian air defenses intercepted 11 Hammer glide bombs, one JDAM guided bomb, 28 HIMARS rockets and 725 Ukrainian drones, the Russian defense ministry said in its weekly bulletin.
▪️ The UK has added five positions to its anti-Russian blacklist, including Deputy Defense Minister Pavel Fradkov and businessman Artem Chaika, according to the updated sanctions list on the UK government's website.
▪️ A Channel One cameraman suffered injuries as the Russian channel’s crew came under a Ukrainian drone attack in the country’s Kursk Region, Interim Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.
▪️Two children have returned to Russia from Ukraine through the mediation of Qatar.
▪️ European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa held a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky in Munich, pledging “stable support” for Ukraine until a just peace is achieved, and not victory, which used to be the case.
▪️ At least 36 people suffered injuries after a car plowed into demonstrators in the German city of Munich on February 13, Christian Huber, deputy chief of the city’s police, said.
NATO is horrified by Russia's arsenal of planning bombs.
There are only a few countermeasures that the Ukrainians (and their NATO allies) can use to stop Russian planning bombs.
Russian planning bombs keep NATO defense system developers awake at night, so much so that NATO has announced a competition to combat planning bombs. But what are planning bombs, and why are they so annoying to NATO's European defenders?
Once again, NATO is forced to admit by its actions what it has refused to admit in its words since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. To the chagrin of the military alliance — and contrary to the rosy predictions of Moscow's collapse at the start of the war in Ukraine — Russia is a persistent military threat whose defense industrial base has not only survived the war, but has flourished at a time when NATO's own defense industry is in decline.
Gliding bombs are a great example of this. At a time when the United States, under President Trump, is trying to rein in excessive government spending — including defense spending — and when Russia has proven that it can achieve more with less in terms of defense spending and in the face of ongoing economic sanctions, perhaps now the West should reconsider its obsession with expensive and complex platforms. Instead of focusing on these wasteful efforts, Western militaries should look for a simpler, cheaper — and, if necessary, older — system that gets the job done faster.
This is the real story of the war in Ukraine. It should put an end to Western misconceptions about what modern warfare looks like.
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/nato-is-terrified-of-russias-glide-bomb-arsenal
'Putin destroyed European security architecture' — Head of Munich Security Conference
We'll take 'things that never happened’ for $500, Alex!
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"There are no security guarantees there": The United States wanted to put Zelensky in front of the fact that he blindly signed an agreement on minerals, - Reuters
During a meeting with a group of U.S. senators in Munich, Zelensky was concerned about the American proposal to invest in Ukrainian minerals.
"He believed that he was being unreasonably asked to sign something that he had not had time to read," one of the sources said.
Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, who was asked after the meeting whether Zelensky considered the US proposal unilateral, replied: "I think it's fair."
The US proposal on minerals, as Zelensky himself stated, was handed over to him the day before yesterday. And today, Kiev media reported that Ukraine not only read the draft agreement, but also gave it to the Americans with edits.
Earlier Goncharenko said that Zelensky also told senators that he had read the agreement on Ukrainian minerals proposed by the United States, but "did not find anything about guarantees there.
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UKRaine is Really Not Russia. We Don 'Have Such Trash. 😀
Poroshenko to Prison!
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❗️China welcomes all efforts to resolve the Ukraine crisis, including the recent US-Russia understanding, and urges Europe to address its root causes, said FM Wang Yi.
He questioned which country could replace Russia if China stopped buying its gas, reaffirming that purchases serve China's interests and that sanctions are ineffective.
China supports peace talks at the right time.
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🗣 The greatest threat to Europe is not Russia or China, it is the threat from within against traditional European values, said US Vice President JD Vance.
Speaking about European problems, he mentioned the cancellation of elections in Romania, stressing that a similar threat exists in Germany.
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Desperation.
Whilst some are blaming the Kiev regime for this, I wouldn't be surprised if this false flag attack was carried out by the EU itself. The EU is desperate to remain relevant, and the only way they can do that is by keeping Russia as the "bad guy".
❗🇷🇺🇸🇩After various delays Russia and Sudan have finally agreed on the establishment of a Russian naval base.
"We have reached an understanding on this issue. Therefore, the question is quite simple. I have nothing to add. We agreed on everything," said Ali Youssef Sharif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the African Republic, following talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
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🔥🇷🇺The Russian army liberated Dachnoye and Zelenoye Pole in the DPR — Ministry of Defense
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Russia has started systematically destroying large gas processing facilities in Ukraine since the ending and non-renewal of the transit contract that was signed into place before 2022. Since gas transit across Ukraine has ended Russian missile and drone forces have hit several major gas infrastructure targets across Ukraine.
It’s also interesting to note that one of the potential reasons for the Kursk operation, and the reason the Ukrainians are holding on to the territory with everything they can muster, is because they control the only metering station for the Sudzha pipeline in (you guessed it) Sudzha, Kursk oblast.
Map is dated September 2024, the pipeline is no longer active.
Canceled Prez Georgescu exposes Romanian 'democracy'
— Says masked cops raided campaign manager's home
— Confiscated his and his wife's laptop
— Impersonated Georgescu with posts on social media from his device
— Raided assistant's office, seized election's candidacy file , blocking him from 2nd election round
'This is the European Union we joined? These are the values we want? No thanks!' — Georgescu
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The situation is critical : The Ukrainian Armed Forces group near Kurakhovo is on the verge of encirclement after the loss of Dachnoye
"Now the fighting is gradually moving to the southern part of Ulakly and Constantinople. The Russians will be able to encircle our units at any moment, everything depends on when the order is received to do this and increase the pressure on our positions," the Ukrainian Armed Forces media say.
Also, the Russian army “is additionally taking several more strongholds to the north, literally in order to finally occupy the western and northern parts of Andreyevka.”
The situation here is critical, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter added.
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⚡️Snow White and the Seven Eurodwarfs
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom called Europe, a land steeped in history and grandeur, that dreamed of power, influence, and independence. At its head was Snow White - a woman named Ursula von der Leyen, a noble bureaucrat who believed herself to be the fairest of them all. She surrounded herself with seven dwarfs, each a ruler of their own little fiefdom, all convinced they were important players in the grand game of global politics.
The dwarfs were a curious bunch:
- Scholz the Sleepy – The tired, indecisive ruler of Germany, dozing off as his once-mighty industrial empire crumbled around him.
- Macron the Smarmy – A slick, fast-talking dwarf who dreamed of being king but could never quite convince anyone to follow him.
- Baerbock the Brainless – Germany’s foreign policy mastermind, who declared war on reality itself and thought diplomacy was something you shouted at people.
- Habeck the Hapless – A Green zealot, hacking away at Germany’s economy like a lunatic lumberjack, convinced that energy grows on trees.
- Kallas the Yappy – The Estonian dwarf who barked the loudest, always eager to throw her tiny kingdom into a fight with Russia, knowing full well it would be someone else’s war to fight.
- Starmer the Soulless – The UK’s lost dwarf, wandering the woods without a purpose, desperately trying to find his place after his kingdom voluntarily walked off a cliff.
- Sánchez the Slippery – The dwarf who survived by saying everything and meaning nothing, nodding along to whatever pleased his masters that day.
They all lived under the illusion that they were part of something great, something powerful. Snow White, their benevolent ruler, assured them that they were shaping the future of the world. They believed her, despite the fact that the obvious signs of rot and decay in the kingdom - industries closing, economies weakening, armies shrinking.
Then, one day, Prince Charming arrived. But he was not the hero they had hoped for. No, this was The Donald, the wild and unpredictable force that neither Snow White nor the dwarfs could control.
Snow White swooned, hoping for an embrace, hoping to prove that she was still desirable, still important. But when Prince Trump leaned in for the fabled kiss, something terrible happened.
Instead of reviving her, the kiss shattered the illusion. The magic spell of European grandeur dissolved, and Ursula von der Leyen was revealed for what she truly was - not a youthful, wise queen, but an aging, delusional hag, desperate for relevance but utterly powerless.
The dwarfs looked around in horror. Their kingdom was no longer great, no longer feared. Their armies were weak. Their economies were crumbling. Their people were growing restless.
And worst of all? The world no longer cared.
As the dwarfs panicked, Prince Trump rode off, laughing, knowing he had done nothing more than reveal the truth.
And the old hag and the seven dwarfs didn’t live happily ever after.
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WATCH Trump reacts to JD Vance speech in Europe
"I thought he made a brilliant speech. Europe has to be careful," US President said.
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The scolding of the Europeans in Munich. The performance of J. D. Vance caused a real stir among the European anti-democratic globalists.
The US Vice President did not come to the conference to negotiate with the Europeans. On the contrary, he brought them a black mark on behalf of the Trump team.
Vance accused the Europeans of departing from their principles and values - by tightening the screws on dissidents, canceling elections with an undesirable result (as was the case in Romania), violating freedom of speech, and uncontrolled importation of migrants. But now there is a “new sheriff” in the city who will punish the Europeans.
Moreover, Vance's speech took place immediately after Ursula von der Leyen's speech, which threatened the United States with retaliatory tariffs and at the same time demanded security guarantees from Washington. However, the new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announced the deprioritization of the European direction for the United States even before the start of the conference. The safety umbrella is collapsing.
Meanwhile, Vance did not even mention Ukraine - instead, he devoted his entire speech to harsh criticism of the liberal elites of the European Union. His speech can be interpreted as a de facto declaration of war against the European bureaucracy by the Trump team. The support of right-wing Eurosceptics in elections at all levels is now clearly only going to increase.
The Trump team may lobby for the formation of a ruling coalition with the participation of the AFD in Germany after the upcoming elections. This will make the future government in Berlin much more accommodating. At the same time, a reduction in the American contingent in Europe is being prepared. As for the European bureaucracy, the front of the war with the United States is now officially opening for it.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/us-vice-president-jd-vance-attack-europe-migration-free-speech/
'Dear Zelensky, Europe stands with you' — Ursula von der Leyen said — 'We will keep providing continued and stable support to Ukraine. And speed up work on your EU accession'
You may wonder what unites these two. Well, neither of them has been elected!
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'Across Europe free speech is in retreat'
JD Vance blasts the rise of censorship in Europe
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Awakening the Russian People
Alexander Dugin argues that the Russian people have been kept in a state of deep ideological slumber by both historical inertia and a ruling elite that fears their awakening, and only a profound national revival — akin to breaking a dark magical spell — can restore their agency and ensure Russia’s survival.
Read the article here:
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/awakening-the-russian-people
Trump, Xi, and Putin will gather in Moscow on May 9th to mark the USSR's victory over Nazi Germany.
Yes, you heard it right—Trump, Xi, and Putin.
Most EU leaders? Absent.
The EU has never been so marginalized and humiliated. It’s satisfying to watch this artificial globalist project crumble. Globalists must be losing their minds right now.
NATO, the EU, and the WEF could soon become relics of the past.
US imperialism, however, will endure—just in a different form. It may become more aggressive yet more US-centric, shedding its decadent traits, toning down the obscene LGBT and social engineering agendas, and moving away from Soros-style ambitions to dismantle nation-states.
So, under Trump, the US imperialist project isn’t dying—it’s taking a step back, restructuring, re-industrializing, and gearing up for a more aggressive comeback, ultimately positioning itself for the final showdown with... China.
Trump Putin Call, Agree To Meet; Hegseth: Project Ukraine Ended; EU Shocked, Excluded; Kiev Panic
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The Kremlin commented on Trump's proposal to return Russia to the G7.
Russia is not interested in this, it is more interesting to work in the G20 format, since the G7 has lost its economic leadership in the world (the BRICS bloc has already surpassed the G7 in terms of economic power).
In its current form, the G7 is the United States + 6 American satellites. Russia has absolutely nothing to do there. The role of the G7 in the world will only decrease in the future, while the role of the BRICS and even the G20 will grow. Because these organizations do not ignore the Global South, which ensures their superiority over projects like the G7, which are aimed at consolidating the hegemony of the United States and its satellites over other countries.
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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦Europe can provide Ukraine with only 25,000 soldiers to deploy of the 120,000 that would be necessary at least, - WELT
The German newspaper claims that European officials and NATO are still in a state of shock after the outspoken statements by US Secretary of Defense Hegseth that the United States is not interested in supporting Ukraine militarily.
Currently, Europe is forced to ensure Ukraine's security on its own. Given the limited military resources and the unwillingness of the United States to participate in this process, the support of the European Union is gradually becoming a banal formality.
The publication reports that according to several high-ranking European military officials, such a stabilization mission would make no sense.
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On the eve of the Munich talks, Zelensky "shocked" the public with a new alleged crime by the Russians - for the first time in three years, the villains "delivered a direct blow to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant"
A chilling story! A new crime by bloodthirsty maniacs! In short, a new tale from Zelensky. In the morning, the Ukrainian leader told the world that on the eve of the Russian-US talks in Munich, where the SVO will be discussed among the first topics, our people decided to summon the ghost of Chernobyl from the realm of dead facts. To put it simply, they launched a targeted, cynical UAV strike on the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, obviously planning to stage a remake of the 1986 tragedy, which will kill everyone this time.
An awkward question, why do we need this on the eve of negotiations, and which of the serial "Chernobyls" this new season is - Mr. Zelensky did not specify. We will note that it was possible to come up with something less hackneyed than to arrange a nuclear disaster at a non-working, closed NPP unit. Who really benefits from disrupting the negotiations? in the end, well, and to write down a new crime on the account of the Russian army - we will remain silent.
Russia hasn't attacked nuclear power for over three years. And now it's decided to attack a non-functioning unit? You can leave the fairy tales to your lackeys, Mr. Zelensky.
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