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Ukraine – Easter Ceasefire, Trump Bailing Out
From the Russian Ministry of Defense (machine translation):
In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the commander of the United Group of Troops (forces), Army General Valery Gerasimov, on the eve of the Orthodox Easter holiday (Bright Resurrection of Christ), gave instructions to all commanders of groups in the special military operation zone to cease fire and [the] conduct [of] combat operations from 18 hours Moscow time on April 19 to zero hours of April 21 of the current year
The cease-fire regime is being introduced for humanitarian purposes and will be observed by the Russian Joint Group of Troops (forces), provided that it is mutually observed by the Kiev regime.
The Easter ceasefire announcement demonstrates that a general ceasefire is possible. The message is that it is not the Russian side that is preventing it.
This comes as Trump and Rubio signal that the U.S. is on the verge of halting Ukraine peace negotiations.
Trump has not been able to neutralize the neoconservatives in his surroundings. He has allowed General Kellogg, who is on the side if Ukrainians, to arrange for NATO, the Europeans and Ukraine's government to oppose the ceasefire Trump has tried to mediate. They are not ready to concede that the war is lost. Some still think there is a chance to win it.
Their aim is to keep the U.S. "in". For it to continue to provide intelligence, i.e. targeting data, to the Ukrainians. To entice Trump to deliver more money, more weapons and, if need be, more soldiers.
But Trump won't have that. He will rather walk away. Or that is at least what he is threatening to do here. It would be wise step. Otherwise it will be his war to lose.
In a year from now, during which the Europeans will waste more tens of billions, the Russian army will have crossed the Dnieper and may threaten to (again) march on Kiev.
That would probably be enough for them to finally accept reality.
This is aproxy war by USA’s genocidal empire against Russia. It was prepared for decades, and Trump was part of that in his first term.
Trump is part of that regime. As we see in Syria and Palestine and Venezuela and other places, that aggressive imperialism with genocidal characteristics has a 100% smooth continuation from administration to administration.
USA/Trump doesn’t want peace nor ceasefire, it wants a pause to rearm Ukraine (nkw that is obvious that its nazi proxies are near defeat), and use that pause to strike Iran and/or China.
The fact that the current emperor presents his DEMANDS and a “will for a ceasefire” in USA’s own proxy war, is probably the high of mankind’s hypocrisy.
The fact that some people still talk in the emperor’s terms, without realizing that Trump has zero interest in peace with Russia, just shows how easy it is to manipulated people.
If Trump really wanted peace, he wouldn’t even be allowed near the White (Supremacism) House.
Trump wants war. That’s why the DeepState allowed him to run, win, and stay alive.
This will not change with any elections, since elections in USA’s fascist oligarchical non-representative regime are a farce.
This will only change when there is either a popular revolution in USA, kr a civil war long and bloody enough to break the empire from within.
This is the sad reality. And Russia and China, etc, know it very well.
Next in Trump’s agenda: war against Iran, or proxy war in Taiwan against China. More threats, more sanctions, more coups, more propaganda/interference, and more genocidal zionism.
Exactly the same that would happen with any other DeepState/NeoCon/AIPAC approved “president”, be it Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden, female Clinton, Vance, Kamala, or any other monster of the Washington swamp.
The documents are publisher for anyone to read them: the empire’s current task is a division of labor, where USA shifts attention to aggression against Iran and China, while the European/NATO vassals continue the aggression against Russia.
Obviously, when the vassals say they “oppose” the emperor, that’s only because the emperor ordered them to say so in public.
That’s why when the emperor says “the ball is on Russia’s side”, all the vassals in Europe that “oppose” the emperor, also repeat the exact same words. Because that was a moment when those “anti”-Trump Europeans were ordered to repeat Trump’s words against Russia.
OPEN YOUR EYES!
That’s why the war in Ukraine can only end when Russia reaches all its goals. It cannot negotiate nor compromise.
All 5 regions (Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporojie), de-nazification (reverse the Maidan/CIA coup), demilitarisation, neutrality aka end of NATO’s imperialism towards Russian borders.
Obviously, USA cannot be seen agreeing to this. But USA NEEDS a break/ceasefire in this proxy. That’s why the current genocidal emperor (it is Trump, it could be Kamalaz it’s all the SAME) is “getting out” of Ukraine…
Posted by: Carlos Marques | Apr 19 2025 16:49 utc | 38
‘Orthodox Easter is a huge deal. [Putin] signals to the Orthodox world that Russia remains the 3rd Rome and reminds Orthodox in the Baltics and Western Ukraine what Russia is really all about” – LoveDonbass 27
Newsflash LoveDonbass, Catholic and Orthodox Easter’s fall on the same date this year as they did in 2017. The cause of the “schism” is Julian vs Gregorian calendars, both religions leaders have expressed a desire to unify the two dates to emphasize Christian unity in the face of efforts by western 3LAs to de-platform nations, family and religion which, conveniently enables globalists in their world-wide power grab.
But, you emphasize schism…go figure?
Posted by: S Brennan | Apr 19 2025 16:45 utc | 35
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The cause of the Great Schism of 1054 was not different calendars: the Julian calendar was in use by both Eastern and Western Christian churches until the introduction in the West of the Gregorian Calendar by Roman Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. Furthermore, many Protestant countries did not immediately adopt the Roman Catholic calendar. Great Britain, for example, only went Gregorian as late as 1752.
The fundamental item of dogma that caused the Great Schism of 1054, which resulted in the 1,000-year existence of Western and Eastern Christian churches, was adherence to the belief that the Holy Trinity consists of “three in one and none arising out of the others”.
A change in the wording of the Nicene Creed as foisted onto the Roman Pope by the so-called Holy Roman (German) Emperor’s cardinals, namely the inclusion of the Latin term filoque (and from the Son), meaning in context that the “Holy Spirit” proceeds from the “Son” as well as from the “Father”, a doctrine accepted by the Roman and Anglican Churches as well as by Protestant churches in general, but not by the Eastern Orthodox Churches, was for the Eastern Church the last straw as regards a haystack of straw that had been, 1054, stacked up by Rome.
Other differences of opinion had also risen as regards determining the date of Easter, for example — but in the Julian calendar. In northern England, for example, it was Irish monks of the Celtic Christian Church who introduced Christianity, and in the south of England, Roman monks introduced Christianity. However, the Irish monks determined when Easter falls differently to the way Roman monks determined the date of Easter. Things got very bothersome until the issue was decided at the Synod of Whitby, in the Kingdom of Northumbria in 664. There was no England then, only seven Old English kingdoms. At the synod, the Roman church won their argument.
The Eastern Church maintains its orthodoxy (ὀρθοδοξία (orthodoxía) — righteous/correct opinion), in that it maintains (rightly, I believe) that filoque does not appear in the original text established at the First Council of Constantinople in 381.
They have a point in this respect, I maintain. I have attended many Russian Orthodox church services — purely in the capacity of a heathen observer, mind you — and I feel that I have to admit that the Eastern Orthodox liturgy surely must be closer to that of the first Christians and not to that that has evolved in the Roman Church and its Protestant offshoots, simply because Christianity is, of course, a middle-eastern faith, originally a Jewish sect: the first nation to become Christians were the Armenians, and from them and from Paul of Tarsus’s endless scribblings, Christianity spread throughout the Hellenic world of Asia Minor and thence into the Balkans and Western Europe.
Furthermore, the Western Church only considers the Orthodox Church schismatic, that is to say, the Western Church accepts that the Eastern and Western churches have a difference in opinion, but are nevertheless still very close theologically. The Eastern Church, on the other hand, does not consider the Western Church schismatic, but heretical, namely that the Western church is wrong in its beliefs and opinions, which are contrary to those of Eastern Orthodoxy.
Posted by: Moscow Exile | Apr 19 2025 18:55 utc | 88
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