Oh wait, never mind. B posted it on the weekly thread.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Mar 30 2025 15:17 utc | 4

NBC news reports that DJT is “pissed off” @ VVP on account of VVP’s questioning Zelensky’s legitimacy as Ukraine’s president—and NBC news says DJT is contemplating “secondary sanctions on Russia’s oil & energy sector” in response.
Moreover, NBC news reports that DJT will phone VVP this week to discuss matters. He has allegedly told NBC news that he may impose secondary sanctions on Russia oil & energy whether VVP or Russia is actually culpable for x, y & z. DJT will impose the sanctions regardless of VVP or Russia’s fault.
Sadly flailing DJT, searching for relevance & leverage in Project Ukraine… He has no cards. More to the point: if DJT slaps Russian oil & energy w/ secondary sanctions, he will continue to destabilize global markets, fomenting *secondary* inflation in the U.S., for instance, where prices @ the pump rose 5-cents this past week.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 30 2025 15:38 utc | 6

NBC reported something about Trump? Save yourself the energy analyzing it. It’s a lie.

Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 30 2025 15:47 utc | 8

NBC news reports that DJT is “pissed off” @ VVP on account of VVP’s questioning Zelensky’s legitimacy as Ukraine’s president
That is a fascinating development. Z as dictator for life? No one is interested in ‘saving Ukraine’s democracy”? We don’t need no stinking elections?
It gets worse by the day.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Mar 30 2025 16:10 utc | 10

A missile strike from the RAF on a temporary deployment area of SBU units and formations of Special Operations Forces (S[O]F) of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate destroyed up to 170 Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 30 2025 16:35 utc | 12

NBC reported something about Trump? Save yourself the energy analyzing it. It’s a lie.
Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 30 2025 15:47 utc | 8
Mmhmm. Honestly, while I’m not surprised that Americans of below average intelligence can’t see the game unfold, I’m impressed that so many resistance types haven’t figured it out. President Trump manipulates the media like a master, and Russia respects the Trump presidency more than most of its Western fans can imagine. And why not? The sheer war hysteria among left-leaning Europeans and their globalist fellows is likely to end Europe as a threat to Russia for a generation.

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Mar 30 2025 16:45 utc | 14

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Mar 30 2025 16:10 utc | 10
RE: DJT is ‘pissed off’ and it gets worse by the day
<< Going granular on the NBC Report of DJT being "pissed off," we find that DJT won a golf tournament w/ the prime minister of Finland yesterday, Stubb, who really impressed DJT on the golf course. The two reportedly jawed a lot about the icebreakers Finland could potentially build for the U.S. in support of the U.S.'s Greenmark adventure---erm, Greenland adventure---and also the U.S.'s sojourns in the Arctic. Scuttlebutt has it that Stubb, an arch-Russophobe, poured poison in DJT's ear about VVP, comments which may kick off a week of angry discourse from DJT directed @ the Russian president. Fasten your seatbelts. Stubb was all smiles, giving a thumbs up from the golf course in a photo w/ DJT.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 30 2025 16:51 utc | 16

Trump Is Angry… Oops ( Tass 30.03.25 18.30 Uhr )
The US President has announced that he will impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil if a ceasefire in Ukraine fails on the Russian side. Donald Trump has now said he is “very angry” about the recent statements from Moscow.
US President Donald Trump has threatened new sanctions against Russian oil if peace in Ukraine is not achieved through Moscow’s fault. He said this in an interview with NBC News. Trump warned:
“If we cannot reach an agreement with Russia to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I believe Russia is to blame… I will impose secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil that comes out of Russia.”
Putin’s Move: Why Kyiv Fears the Ceasefire Agreement It Helped to Create
Analysis
Putin’s Move: Why Kyiv Fears the Ceasefire Agreement It Helped to Create
This would mean that those who buy oil from Russia would not be able to do business in the US, the White House chief explained. He said that “25 percent tariffs on oil and on other products sold in the United States, secondary tariffs” would be imposed within a month if a ceasefire agreement was not reached.
Trump also announced that he would speak with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, later this week.
The US leader said he was “upset” and “very angry” about Putin’s proposal to discuss the establishment of an interim government in Ukraine. According to the Russian president, one option is to install an interim government under the auspices of the United Nations, which would allow elections to be held in Ukraine and bring to power a “capable and trustworthy” government with which Moscow could negotiate.
Trump said Putin knew he was “angry,” but noted that he had a “very good relationship” with him and that “the anger quickly dissipates” if his Russian counterpart “does the right thing.”
Vladimir Putin: Russia will “finish” Kyiv’s armed forces
In March 2022, Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, banned all oil and gas imports from Russia to the United States. Furthermore, the G7 and EU countries later imposed a price cap on Russian oil. Russia refused to supply oil to the countries that had imposed the price cap. The US also imposed sanctions on Russian oil companies and tankers, which it considers part of the “Russian shadow fleet.”
Trump did not rule out lifting or tightening sanctions against Russia “at some point” “until a ceasefire and a final peace agreement are reached.” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Moscow’s conditions for halting attacks in the Black Sea included the lifting of not only US but also European restrictions. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen emphasized that the sanctions would remain in place until “a just peace is established in Ukraine.” The Kremlin justified the EU’s refusal to ease the sanctions by arguing that it “does not want to act in accordance with the efforts” of Russia and the US to achieve “a peaceful outcome” in Ukraine.
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P.S.
Moscow is rather relaxed about “sanctions,” and as far as so-called base oil prices go…Trump is more interested in ensuring that Russia doesn’t throttle the supply along with the oil multinationals.
Trump can’t afford expensive fuel in America right now, especially since his tariffs are hitting consumers in the US.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 30 2025 17:04 utc | 18

Posted by: marcjf | Mar 30 2025 16:48 utc | 15
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In my experience, one cannot fix stupid. Maintain distance as it can be contagious.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 17:13 utc | 20

Resentment is his worst enemy and it is finally starting to sink in.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 30 2025 17:11 utc | 19
Trump will have to get used to it before he realizes that the US started the war AND has now lost it.
The question remains: what else will he do to save face before the downfall?
The dangerous thing about his character is his unpredictability, but Putin knew that from the start.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 30 2025 17:17 utc | 22

Posted by: berthold | Mar 30 2025 17:17 utc | 22
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I am beginning to think that DJT could well be bipolar.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 30 2025 17:27 utc | 24

I am beginning to think that DJT could well be bipolar.
Posted by: pepe | Mar 30 2025 17:27 utc | 24
On this:
Well, anyone who has thought Trump falls under the term “normal” should keep dreaming!
The man is pathologically self-confident and can never accept that someone else can do or knows more.
I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of his intelligence chief, who has to explain the situation to him bit by bit WITHOUT getting fired.
His Highness isn’t very good with realities outside his imagination.
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Regarding this:
Well, anyone who has believed that Trump falls under the term “normal” should keep dreaming!
The man is pathologically self-confident and can never accept that someone else can do or knows more.
I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of his secret service chief, who has to explain the situation to him bit by bit WITHOUT getting fired.
His Highness doesn’t have much of a grasp of realities beyond his imagination.
A character trait you’ll find in almost all “leaders” mentioned in history…
There were highly intelligent people among them, which doesn’t mean they were more realistic… they just knew how to achieve their goals.
I don’t think he falls under that category, just as he won’t make it to the four-year mark.
But that’s just my impression, with 79 years of life experience. I could be wrong, though, and I only hope that I live to see the end.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 30 2025 17:40 utc | 26

Donald Trump. Not the King of Diplomacy, but rather the King of Duplicity. And may I add he reminds me of Mussolini. Read a great biography of Mussolini. He was on the front page of Time magazine at least once. A man who understood the media because he ran a newspaper for some time. Very much like Trump who is a product of mass media and entertainment. From casinos to Miss Universe to his own television shows, he understands the mechanisms of stirring people up. From Ethiopia to Greenland to the Panama Canal and beyond, there’s not much difference between Mussolini and Trump. The pomposity, abrasivness and the call for the return of past glories is telling. To me, that is. So let’s see what the Fates have prepared for us these next four years. And beyond.

Posted by: Jose Garcia | Mar 30 2025 17:48 utc | 28

The jaw-jaw is a tremendous net gain for VVP and Russia, even when it consists of bluster and hard-flung insults, as we might see occur this week from Washington. Excepting Medvedev, who can be spicy, the Russians are quite nonreactive in the face of such behavior.
They’ve said their piece. I mean, VVP stood next to a nuclear submarine in Murmansk, extolled the virtues of the hypersonics loaded aboard, and then turned his attention to Russia’s momentum on the battlefield. It was Force Projection par excellence. VVP is not worried about DJT’s trademark bluster.
The U.S. provoked Russia into this war, and DJT was *part* of the provocation, boasting about the Javelins he sent to Ukraine in 2017. The U.S. *can’t* lose a war it elaborately set up in order to provoke Russia, but that is indeed what is happening.
DJT has no cards. The deal-maker has no pivot space. In blustering a threat toward Russia, DJT is running-in-place.
The U.S. is in a proxy war w/ Russia, and the U.S.’s proxy has lost. How fundamental can it get-? VVP, in the midst of securing a Victor’s Peace, has prepared the terms. Until the U.S. capitulates, it will twist & squirm.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 30 2025 18:10 utc | 30

Posted by: too scents | Mar 30 2025 18:28 utc | 31
The translated title of Lavrov’s statment is:

Interview with S. Lavrov for the project “No Statute of Limitations. Front without a Front Line”

Posted by: too scents | Mar 30 2025 18:29 utc | 32

In response to : ‘I met some Swedes last night…’ – it happened to me also many times with people from different eu regions. The new generation was indoctrinated by the “grandpa stories” how the war ended.. and how brutal and inhumane the Russians are… in fact the all grandpas from different eu regions fought on Nazis/fascist side… so they all omit to say the grandpa was a nazi sympathizer and sacrifice their life for fascists ideas. Sad. Second I tell them … look how many times Russia really invaded Europe??? And how many times actually Europe invaded Russia… all this individuals memorized the fascist grandpa stories instead of studying history..

Posted by: Innuendo | Mar 30 2025 18:31 utc | 34

Trump is the classic insomniac. Allergic to Sleep. It’s right in there in his “Art of the Deal” book. The book about how to make millions selling a book about platitudes and incongruity.
Read 100% of what he says and does as the guy that could use a really good sleep.
“Don’t need ’nuffing from Canada.” but sure would like to steal Canada’s, Greenland’s, and Ukraine’s resources to shore up the Private Federal Reserve Currency (there is no such beast as the US dollar).
Most of T’s 5D chess is random chucking of sheet at the wall. Something, somehow sticks and he crows at his great successes.
Dissing pansy Trudeau, now a big fan of WEF plant Marx Carnage, Canada’s appointed Prime Minister.
Inflation rising again. $2 Trillion Federal Deficit to bump US fake GDP $1 Trillion. Must be something special about Daddy’s donation to the Wharton School of Finance. Basic arithmetic not needed.

Posted by: kupkee | Mar 30 2025 18:38 utc | 36

It was an amateuristic comment from Putin about the legitimacy of Zelensky. It doesnt matter if it is true or not, those kind of discussions are for at the negotiation table, not for placing in the media.
Posted by: alek_a | Mar 30 2025 17:43 utc | 26
no, Putin never says anything without considering its effect. That was a reminder of Western duplicity, addressed to everyone, so that everyone understands that peace does not depend on Ukraine, but on the West.

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 30 2025 18:56 utc | 38

What Putin meant by his proposal for a UN administration of Ukraine
The Russian president had suggested that a UN-backed external government in Kyiv could provide a legitimate basis for peace negotiations. A representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry now cites precedents for this.
What Putin meant by his proposal for a UN administration of Ukraine
Source: Sputnik © Alexei Maishev
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to establish a temporary international administration in Ukraine under UN supervision is based on historical precedents, according to Kirill Logvinov, head of the Department of International Organizations at the Russian Foreign Ministry. He told TASS on Saturday that the UN already has experience with this process.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not possible to sign peace agreements with Kyiv because the current Ukrainian leadership is illegitimate. Vladimir Zelensky’s term as Ukrainian president ended in May 2024, although he remained in office without holding elections, citing martial law.
Zelensky prepares to shoot his own people
Analysis
Zelensky prepares to shoot his own people
Putin suggested earlier this week that the creation of an “external management or temporary administration” under the United Nations could facilitate elections in Ukraine and provide a legitimate basis for negotiations. A peace agreement signed with a newly elected head of state “would be recognized throughout the world,” he said, and could not be overturned later.
“There is no formal mechanism at the UN to create such administrations,” Logvinov admitted. However, he pointed out that the UN had established such transitional governments in several post-conflict areas, including Cambodia, East Timor, and Slavonia, thus setting precedents for this type of arrangement.
“In all these cases, the first step was to establish an agreement between conflicting parties—directly or through intermediaries—on the appropriate transfer of power to the UN,” he explained. Once an agreement is reached, the parties or their mediators would make a formal appeal to the UN. The Security Council would instruct the Secretary-General to establish a framework for the provisional administration, including a timetable and a budget.
Logvinov emphasized that the final decision would rest with the UN Security Council after the Secretary-General had reported on the form and functions of the provisional administration.
Kyiv officials have rejected the idea. Andrei Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian Center for Combating Disinformation, said on Telegram that the plan was an attempt by Moscow to delay peace talks.
Kremlin spokesman Peskov calls Europe’s policy on the Ukraine crisis “paradoxical”
Kremlin spokesman Peskov calls Europe’s policy on the Ukraine crisis “paradoxical”
Washington has not officially commented on the proposal. However, Reuters quoted an unnamed White House national security spokesman as saying that Ukraine’s government should be determined by its constitution and its people.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres rejected the proposal on Friday, insisting that “Ukraine has a legitimate government, and so that obviously must be respected.”
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, currently deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, criticized Guterres’ remark, calling it a “double lie.” In a post on X, he wrote, referring to Zelensky: “The nit is illegitimate. There is nothing to respect him for. He has failed, his people are dying, and his country is disappearing.”

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 30 2025 19:23 utc | 40

No amount of “demagoguery on the part of European leaders” about “distancing themselves” from the Washington will convince Russia that the US is going to fold up its nuclear umbrella over Europe, says veteran Russian military analyst Viktor Litovkin.
“In fact, they would be quite happy if the US continued to hold the [nuclear] umbrella over them, and the US itself continues to do so, simply demanding that European countries pay significantly more for their security than they do today,” Litovkin said, citing what he estimates to be a 85%-15% imbalance in the US’s favor.
As for the new B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs, which began arriving in Europe in January, their presence signals the US and NATO’s readiness to continue to ignore its treaty obligations, Litovkin said, citing their deployment as a “gross violation” of US commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
“It’s not only about the deployment of nuclear weapons on foreign territory at six bases across five countries (Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Turkiye), but the fact that the US has trained pilots from these countries to use these bombs, outfitted their planes with equipment for using these bombs,” and facilitated their operation from Baltic bases right next door to Russia, Litovkin said.
“The first article [of the NPT, ed.] states that a nuclear power may not, directly or indirectly, under any pretext, familiarize other countries that do not possess nuclear weapons with the operation, storage or production of nuclear weapons,” the military analyst pointed out.
With that said, Litovkin doesn’t believe the European powers would ever decide to trigger an independent nuclear attack against Russia without orders from the US, “because NATO is an instrument of the US in governing Europe, not an independent body or organization.”
NATO’s nuclear strategy is about putting “pressure” on Russia as part of the broader Jekyll and Hyde strategy of “containment and dialog,” the observer says.
The effectiveness of this strategy is another story, according to Litovkin, who pointed out that Russia’s nuclear deterrent is presently 95% modernized, while the US, which has committed $2 trillion toward modernization, still lacks the long-promised new strategic missiles, is having problems with its Minuteman III and Trident arsenals, and even difficulties with weapons-grade uranium enrichment.

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 30 2025 19:37 utc | 42

@pepe | Mar 30 2025 17:27 utc | 24

I am beginning to think that DJT could well be bipolar.

We need multipolar.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 30 2025 19:55 utc | 44

I am beginning to think that DJT could well be bipolar.
@pepe | Mar 30 2025 17:27 utc | 24
We need multipolar.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 30 2025 19:55 utc | 44
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Soon™

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 20:03 utc | 46

“NBC reported something about Trump? Save yourself the energy analyzing it. It’s a lie.”
Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 30 2025 15:47 utc | 8
Of course.
Trump is keeping the neo cons, many of them RINOS, on the wrong foot, with fake news.
Trump is doing the best he can with the cards he holds (a 9 and a ten) in Ukraine; however, recently he is fucking up in the Israel/Houthi/Hezbollah/Gaza theatre which I find very disturbing.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 30 2025 20:16 utc | 48

From Simplicious

⚡️🇷🇺Bild reports on the new tactics of Russian “Geranium-2” drones during strikes on Ukraine. These drones, known as “Geraniums,” assemble a few kilometers from the target at 1 km altitude, gathering in groups ranging from a few to dozens. They then attack simultaneously with minimal time gaps. Previously, “Geraniums” attacked individually, often minutes apart, allowing enemy air defenses to shoot them down one by one and reload.
This swarm tactic has been used for some time, but the enemy conceals their awareness, and our side remains silent for secrecy reasons.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 20:22 utc | 50

Trump is angry: Angry Trump (U-Toob)
You don’t want Trump to be angry.
Bad things happen when Trump gets angry.
Note: TDS victims will not understand.

Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 30 2025 20:24 utc | 52

SHOCKING REvEAL: Confirms Kremlin Insider, Putin’s Body Double Spills All!!!!!!!
Putin Is The Double! I’m The Original, He Says,
They Just Picked Him Cuz He Kinda Looked Like Me.
In a shocking inside reveal, anonymous tipsters have broken the ice on the biggest kept secret ever. Who is Vladimir Putin? Now an exclusive interview with the real Putin sets the record straight. The real Putin, who for various reasons wishes to remain anonymous, is a stunt double. The stunt double really is Putin, but of course his name is not Putin. We’ll call him Mike. Mike was always the go to guy, and when it came time to switch out presidents, he was waiting in the wings. Just listen to what he says. I’m Putin, he says They just picked him cuz he kinda looks like I do. That’s all.Putin is really my body double, I’m the real Putin. But my name isn’t Putin.
Time to rewrite the history books.

Posted by: Nothingburgers | Mar 30 2025 20:38 utc | 54

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 30 2025 20:18 utc | 49
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What’s funny is that he is the one who called up Kristen Welker to go on the crazed rant.
He wanted this to dominate the info space on Sunday.
The question becomes, what exactly is he trying to distract from?
About China, I don’t think America has any idea what a “civilization” is. It’s not a surprise that they cannot identify a civilizational war.
I disagree with you about China’s involvement, China has been fully engaged in a soft power war for months. Red Note + Deepseek + Western influencers broadcasting from China.
By the time America gets around to fighting that war, it may be over with the supercharged pace of Chinese development. As I posted yesterday, China is on the 3rd iteration of its independent space station and is working on a dark side of the moon lunar science base to study the universe.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 20:44 utc | 56

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 30 2025 20:27 utc | 53
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Since 2015, Trump has consumed much of the planet’s bandwidth.
Whether it’s golfing with Neocons or mass murdering starving children, he is always the main event.
As Will Gruff would say, this is all 33rd-dimensional chess beyond our ken. 😂😂😂

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 20:48 utc | 58

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 20:48 utc | 58
RE: our planet’s bandwidth
<< Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 20:44 utc | 56 RE: what is DJT trying to distract from-? << Obviously misdirection is afoot. Tariffs kicking in on 2 April perchance-? DJT is *so* multi-polar and *so* multi-dimensional he plays a whole game of chess *between* each hole on the golf course.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 30 2025 20:57 utc | 60

Cossak Feint:
NATO intel use crowd source obituary to calculate success.
Downplay/hiding casualties risks getting caught, and lie.
So
Uplay it Inflate AI fake casualty.
Why? War not over. Losing most peaceful in propaganda contest.
Inflate losses via fake obits Make dill think they winning, want more war, say they winning. Fake obits confirm. They reject peace as you call out for it, cements in minds hungry for any victory, the deception.
Win “most peaceful” propaganda war.
Harmless lie. deaths are fake, therefore grief is fake, therefore no harm to people or truth.
Adds Jokers to hand:
Big offensive, set up fake obits nato AI flag as certain brigade. They think they big winner after two weeks, only to find “fully functional and armed battlestation” upon optimitic counter attack.
May even be able to play a few Jokers until they figure out your cossak feint.
Then, although figured out, they no longer can trust their crowdsourced intelligence. Powerful weapon destroyed.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 30 2025 21:24 utc | 62

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 20:48 utc | 58
Funnier how the outrages make his enemies his unwitting tools, and the harder they fight, the more he wins.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 30 2025 21:26 utc | 64

psychohistorian | Mar 30 2025 20:18 utc | 49&51–
Trump & Europe are tearing their hair out because the world no longer needs or wants them–their primacy is kaput. I’ve been touting the Hudson/Diesen chat where that dynamic is explained. The only remaining “strength” the Collective West has is the sowing of chaos–and that includes the Zionists. That’s the grand reality the West is currently going through denial over, and it’s a reality it cannot change, which is even more frustrating for its principal actors.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 30 2025 21:30 utc | 66

The chuckle brothers are at it again.
Here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcn7mvilTMw
Gold standard, fixed exchange rate type nonsense regarding the fully monetary sovereign UK. It’s ability to fund Ukraine.
These fools still think the UK is like Cyprus or Greece. Who threw their monetary sovereignty away when they joined the Euro.
Are using fixed rate exchange rate analysis when talking about the UK.
Every economic myth the chuckle brothers are using in their video are here …
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=32931
They need to read it and learn it ASAP.. Rather than saying and lying to their followers that the UK can run out of £’s. That foreigners are funding the UK. So they can’t find Ukraine lol..PMSL..
What a pair of clowns these two are.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 30 2025 21:35 utc | 68

Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 30 2025 21:26 utc | 63
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One thing I admire about Trump is how he juggles multiple conflicts simultaneously.
Russia/Ukraine
Canada/Mexico
Panama
China
Europe
Greenland
Yemen
Iran
etc.
A mortal man might drown trying to drink from so many cups at once.
Trump’s appetite is insatiable. His ambition is limitless.
Remains to be seen if he can pull much of it off.
If he gets the tariff war right, he will be fine. If he gets the tariff thing wrong, his goose is cooked regardless of how the military actions play out.
At the end of the day, people will forgive killing their kids in another war for Israel if they can buy more stuff.
I think that is what cooked Bush and ushered in Obama, the lousy timing of the 2008 crash relative to the election.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 30 2025 21:39 utc | 70

▪️An “urgent meeting in a narrow circle” will be held in Kiev within a week
According to Zelensky, it will be attended by countries that are “ready to send a contingent to the territory of Ukraine.”
He also said that he could agree to negotiations “with any of the Russians, but not with Putin.”
@ukr_leaks_eng
will UK and France satellites by neutralised as a warning message because they assist Ukr targeting? Seems logical to me.

Posted by: Jo | Mar 30 2025 21:50 utc | 72

Can somebody email the chuckle brothers and explain to them these very simple facts about modern money and the UK’s ability to fund itself. Fund Ukraine.
“A current account deficit can only occur if the foreign sector desires to accumulate financial (or other) assets denominated in the currency of issue of the country with the Current account deficit”
In this case a current account deficit can only occur in the UK if the foreign sector desires to accumulate financial (or other) assets denominated in £’s.
Once you fully understand that. Then it is worth describing this from the other side of the coin and describe how an export-led growth country running an export surplus against the UK in a floating system would not be able to run an export surplus unless it did save in foreign currency. ( £’s )
And furthermore show that the saving of the foreign currency (£’s) is how the export-led nation injects sufficient money into its own economy (via the discounting process in the banking system). And how this leads to the explicit or implicit ‘sovereign wealth funds’.
Ultimately an export led economy cannot afford to allow its customer to disappear because there is nowhere else to shift the exports to in aggregate. Overall world demand grows only with world income and exporting is a way of importing demand.
So they either have to maintain the import of demand, or internal generate more domestic demand and do the import substitution – which doesn’t happen overnight.
Moving capital around doesn’t seem to affect this underlying dynamic. Capital movements may be vast, but they are ultimately zero sum – unless the central bank starts reading the Volcker playbook again and acts as patsy in the market.
The UK could send £100 trillion to Ukraine tomorrow morning if it wanted to. By keystroking numbers into Ukraine ‘s reserve account at the BOE.
Even though there are not £100 trillion worth goods or services that Ukraine could then buy from the UK.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 30 2025 21:55 utc | 74

DS map update recently dropped:
https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4383200/32.0526800
Overall: Another bad day for the RFA. Only 4.2 kmsq taken. That kind of pace equates to decades to achieve war aims. “Muh stalemate”.
Specific changes, S to N:
1. Several individual, isolated, blocks of Rozlyv. Still looks very strange. Barring a UFA counterattack, I have to think this converts to a larger chunk of territory in near future. Something to watch for. (Don’t worry, copers…you will get credit for that territory then.)
2. Another advance W of the NY salient. This is third day in a row. Something to keep watching.
3. Couple polygons W of Nevske. As expected, the strangely thin salient towards Katerynivka has been widened.

Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 30 2025 21:56 utc | 76

Sorry to keep posting, but does anyone have that NY Times article without the paywall?
Posted by: wagelaborer | Mar 30 2025 15:22 utc | 5

The website https://dnyuz.com/ somehow gets away with reposting the New York Times.

Posted by: Cheney | Mar 30 2025 22:24 utc | 78

Why is Trump upset with Putin because he said Zelensky is the illegitimate head of Ukraine?
Because Trump want Zelensky to sign the minerals,energy, and infrastructure deal. If Zelensky signs and he is the illegitimate head of Ukraine, his signature is not valid.

Posted by: Jerr | Mar 30 2025 22:30 utc | 80

95% of people who drink at this bar know the US treasuries scam.
The US government stuffs US treasuries down people’s throats and return the US gets goods and services sent to them by other countries that improve American’s standard of living.
Approximately $1 trillion trade deficit translates into over 150 million non US residents, which is far more than the US domestic workforce, working full time to net supply America with goods and services.
Yet, when it comes to the UK who use gilts ( gilt edged savings certificates) instead of US treasuries to perform the same trick.
They simply can’t see it.
They would rather use some defunct gold standard, fixed exchange rate type to analysis and say the UK is going bankrupt or living beyond its means.
When all the UK is doing is stuffing gilts down people’s throats and getting goods and services from other countries in return to improve people’s standard of living in the UK.
While other countries are working long hours and in poor conditions to provide these goods and services. This allows the UK workforce to concentrate on other things. Like medical science, high end manufacturing, high end services and work less and longer public holidays and have more free time.
It will continue until these countries exporting to the UK realise they are being had. These countries move away from export led growth.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 30 2025 22:34 utc | 82

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-angry-putin-zelenskyy-iran-sanctions-rcna198729

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 30 2025 22:41 utc | 84

A *ceasefire* in this conflict was always problematic, not only because Russia was winning on the battlefield against a media backdrop which insisted that *Ukraine* was winning, but because the paymaster/hegemon/shadow belligerent could not really come out from behind its fig-leaf role and actually proclaim, announcing loud & proud, that it was at war w/ Russia.
So a *ceasefire* mediated by the shadow belligerent is simply nonsensical.
Had DJT stepped forward and said, “Listen, Collective Biden fomented this conflict to a hot-war level, and we are not going to continue that…”
And if DJT had from that point forward withdrawn all U.S. assets from Ukraine, including intel agency assets, and allowed Russia to prosecute matters, he would not have entangled his fledgling administration in what was, realistically, Joe’s Debacle.
Instead, we have this worsification, not made any better than DJT’s pants-less efforts to bulldoze Russia into concessions-?
In what world-?

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 30 2025 22:46 utc | 86

UWDude @71:
Yep. Some people can tell the difference between rattling the monkey’s cage for fun and actual anger. As I expected, the TDS didn’t understand what they were seeing.
It is actually tragic, since some of these TDS people were probably relatively intelligent before their minds imploded from too much histrionic overstimulation from sensationalist mass media programming.

Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 30 2025 23:08 utc | 88

Re: all things Trump…
Regardless of who sits in the White House, US foreign policy is to foment disturbance. It has zero ability to do anything positive so being an indiscriminant wrecking ball is the remaining option.
The US should change its motto from In God We Trust to “I’ll Show You, I’ll Fuck Me.”
It is a nice thing watching Trumpo deliberately swinging the wrecking ball at US institutions infested with deep state swamp creatures. Self “Orechniking.”

Posted by: comrade simba | Mar 30 2025 23:26 utc | 90

Both of Trump’s initiatives are not working as expected: the ceasefire on energy is only being held unilaterally, so it is to be expected that Putin will not extend it. The Wheat and Black Sea Agreement cannot be implemented because the Europeans are blocking it.
Negotiations with Iran are not possible as expected. Putin was/is a mediator and has made it clear to Putin that there is no danger from Iran unless it is attacked, otherwise Jerusalem is the target. Trump doesn’t want that at all.
So three losses of face, which could lead to an impulsive reaction from Trump, as he wants to be able to present something at Easter.
On the other hand, he can’t really do anything about the China plans. The risk of a real escalation by the US is relatively low, the Europeans are more likely, although FR and GB are effectively on their own, nobody wants to take the lead for them.

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 30 2025 23:34 utc | 92

Overall: Another bad day for the RFA. Only 4.2 kmsq taken. That kind of pace equates to decades to achieve war aims.
Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 30 2025 21:56 utc | 76
And you actually believe deep state maps? A kiev based propoganda outfit?

Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Mar 30 2025 23:39 utc | 94

Russian soldier explains quite a bit in Dimitri Simes jr / NewRulesGeopolitics dubbed interview on twitter. Including why their advance is slow. Advances are restricted to small drone teams moving stealthily. Because of the ISR, drones, and the open fields this is the only way. First war in history like this.

Posted by: JustSomeOldGuy | Mar 30 2025 23:48 utc | 96

Trump, as he wants to be able to present something at Easter.
Posted by: smartfox | Mar 30 2025 23:34 utc | 92
silliness

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 30 2025 23:52 utc | 98

Recently in Gulyolva, AFU casualties were FOUR TIMES that of Russia’s. This is not an anomaly.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 30 2025 23:11 utc | 89
It is, those are some serious AFU troops there, elsewhere the ratio is much more lopsided.
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AFU is currently engaging, maybe 50-60% of troops just to hold the 4 or 5 major axis. Those 50-60% are absolute, no rotation, no R&R.
Guess what happens soon?

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 31 2025 0:17 utc | 100