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Ukraine – Trump Continues To Humiliate Europe
Nothing changed due to yesterday's meetings.
Ukraine offers $100bn weapons deal to Trump to win security guarantees (archived) – Financial Times, Aug 19 2025
Ukraine will promise to buy $100bn of American weapons financed by Europe in a bid to obtain US guarantees for its security after a peace settlement with Russia, according to a document seen by the Financial Times.
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Alexander G. Rubio @AlexanderGRubi2 – 2:22 UTC · Aug 19, 2025
The plan is for the US to sell weapons to the Europeans, who will then provide them to Kiev. However, the US doesn’t have the weapons to sell, the Europeans don’t have the money to buy, and Kiev doesn’t have the soldiers to use them. Other than that it's a foolproof plan.
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[Putin] noted that these individuals have “happily carried out any order from the president in Washington under Biden,” but “got confused when Trump suddenly won” the November election.
“They just don’t like Trump, they actively fought him, interfered in political life, in the US election… Trump has different ideas about what is good and what is bad, including in gender policy, in some other issues, and they don’t like it,” Putin said. […]
“I assure you, Trump, with his character and persistence, will restore order quite quickly. And all of them, you’ll see, soon all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails,” Putin argued.
European leaders will ‘wag tails’ for Trump – Putin – RT, Feb 2 2025
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand – 7:48 UTC · Aug 19, 2025
This is beyond parody: not only is the EU doing virtually nothing to escape the protection racket it's under with the US, it's now supposed to pay for Ukraine's…
All the more absurd when one considers that NATO expansion – the institutionalization of this protection racket – was the primary catalyst for this conflict.
VVP in Anchorage: “As I’ve said, the situation in Ukraine has to do with fundamental threats to our security. We’re convinced that in order to make the peace settlement lasting and long term, we need to eliminate all the primary root causes, and we’ve said it multiple times—-to consider all legitimate concerns of Russia and to reinstate a just balance of security in Europe, and I agree with President Trump, as he said today, that naturally the security of Ukraine should be ensured as well. Naturally, we are prepared to work on that.”
Ukraine and Euro-leaders have urged the US. to provide security guarantees modeled on NATO’s Article 5 defense, while the UK & France have offered to deploy a Coalition of the Willing to serve as *peacekeepers* should the war end in Ukraine. I write the word *peacekeepers* w/ emphasis, because the Coalition of the Willing would in actuality serve as convenient tripwire troops for False Flag ops, a way to agitate for more war after the war has supposedly ended.
Like an after-party after the party, this would be an after-war after the war.
Russia has stressed on numerous occasions that it is important to see to Ukraine’s post-war security, of which it—Russia—will serve as a guarantor too, but that it will not tolerate any U.S. or European troops in Ukraine.
Implicit in this is the notion that Russia needs to secure a neutral Ukraine’s future against further interference from the U.S. or the Europeans.
When Zelensky and the Euro-leaders met w/ DJT in the Oval, ostensibly a peace agreement was the topic, but Zelensky ended up requesting $100bn in new U.S. weapons, paid for on Europe’s dime.
The meeting seemed a cover merely for acquiring more arms & extending the hostilities. The upshot is that Europe wants NATO-style protections for Ukraine, and Russia does not want NATO in Ukraine.
Recall that the SMO commenced as a means of preventing NATO’s parking itself on Russia’s doorstep.
In fact, this meeting w/ DJT in the Oval devolved into a fevered discussion among the Euro-leaders of the security guarantees DJT was promising—giving DJT the bum’s rush in fact to make it seem a priori that of course he was promising taut security guarantees, backed by the U.S. The Euro-leaders excitedly yammered on about the NATO-style military support, the potential U.S. boots-on-the-ground. None of this jibed in any meaningful way w/ Russia’s non-negotiable: no NATO in Ukraine; no Western *peacekeepers.*
While the Euro-leaders fantasized publicly for the cameras & mikes about the security guarantees the U.S. was offering, etc., Russia’s Foreign Ministry—-5000 miles from D.C.—-emphasized in a statement that a NATO-style security guarantee was a non-starter for Russia: no NATO in Ukraine; no Western *peacekeepers.*
After Anchorage, after the break-out consonance DJT experienced w/ VVP in the U.S.’s Last Frontier, the expectation was that DJT would sit down w/ Zelensky and the Euro-leaders in the Oval urge Ukraine and urge them to work on a peace agreement w/ Russia and leave off all that nonsense about ceasefires. Peculiarly, however, the meeting in the Oval derailed into a full-court press by the Euro-leaders to get DJT to agree to NATO-style security for Ukraine.
They basted DJT in flattery, just as we’ve seen members of DJT’s Cabinet do, one after the other after the other heaping over-the-top praise on the vainglorious man. Their mission in coming to the Oval was to trick DJT into agreeing to do as they wished—extend the hostilities *after* the war by stationing NATO-style *peacekeepers* there. DJT, aglow w/ the golden butter—erm flattery—affably danced close to giving them exactly what they wanted.
Having invited the vacuum cleaner salesmen into his home, he now had to buy the vacuum cleaner.
Those entities who guard hegemonic powers, the Deep State, are eager for DJT to ensure Ukraine’s fate w/ U.S. military might. This from the nytimes: “President Trump has offered only vague assurances of security guarantees for Ukraine if President Zelensky agrees to cut a deal with Russia.”
The problem w/ this nytimes snippet-? The Gray Lady, a mouthpiece for those guarding hegemonic powers, is making DJT responsible for sweetening the deal Zelensky eventually gets from Russia by turning those “vague assurances” into weaponized specifics.
Since when does the loser of a war dictate terms-? Those who guard the U.S.’s hegemony make certain that the hegemon’s proxy, who has lost the war, dictates terms.
This from The Telegraph: “U.S. Forces to Protect Ukraine as Part of a Peace Deal.”
The bum’s rush.
Legacy media, a tool of those who guard hegemonic powers, describes how Zelensky and the Euro-leaders charmed DJT into promising moves to which Russia would never agree, an important way to put Russia in its place.
Predatory. Parasitical. De-lu-lu.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 19 2025 9:16 utc | 8
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