Various News - 2025-02-18
‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 Europe and Trump risk clash over Russia sanctions — Reuters
▪️Despite the synchronized adoption of sanctions by the EU and the US, the countries have not yet come to a unified development of measures against Russia, imposing restrictions only within their own side.
▪️And now that Trump has found a common language with the Russian president, the EU fears that the United States may unilaterally lift its sanctions, further weakening the union’s position against Russia.
▪️Given recent trends, such unilateral actions by the US could divide Europeans.
➖“ Oil majors like TotalEnergies or BP will be lobbying their governments while their rivals on the other side of the Atlantic resume business with Russia. And industrial groups in the bloc may be hungry for cheap Russian pipeline gas: since February 12, local prices for fuel delivered in March have fallen by 10%.”
▪️If the US president cannot be convinced, the EU will find it difficult to remain the only party applying sanctions against an adversary camped at its door.
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‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸 Zelensky and his office chief Yermak will not attend Russia-US meeting in Saudi Arabia — The Washington Post
▪️The publication notes that the Trump administration's approach to ending the conflict has led to increased tension in US-Ukrainian relations.
▪️The newspaper emphasizes that Bankova is still extremely dissatisfied with the policy of the president, who no longer wanted to extend Washington's "indefinite military commitments" towards Kyiv.
▪️Now the Ukrainian president does not rely on Trump's influence, fearing that the US president will calmly make a deal with Putin without Kyiv's participation.
▪️ Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and the US leader's special representative for the Middle East Witkoff are expected to participate on the US side in the early talks in Riyadh.
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‼️🇬🇧🇺🇦 Britain ready to deploy troops in Ukraine as security guarantees, - PM Starmer
▪️"A contingent of 25,000 troops has already been assembled, which France and Britain can send to Ukraine," Rada deputy Goncharenko said earlier in the day.
▪️British Prime Minister Starmer will travel to Washington to persuade Trump to engage Europe in Ukraine talks , the Financial Times writes.
▪️Britain is expecting another meeting of European leaders, including Zelensky. They believe it will take place after Starmer returns from his talks with Trump.
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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 The war in Ukraine is coming to its logical end — The National Interest
▪️The publication reports that despite the fact that military actions in Ukraine are still ongoing, the conflict has effectively ended without Kyiv’s participation.
▪️Of course, Trump has not yet spoken about this directly. But with their thoughts and actions, the Americans have made it so that the war cannot continue. Moreover, the publication directly reports that the Russians have defeated Ukraine. Therefore, Moscow has defeated NATO.
▪️Representatives of the Trump administration have made it clear that they are already discussing the possibility of ending the conflict in Ukraine without the participation of Ukraine itself, since they do not consider the country an independent entity ready to confront Russia alone.
▪️ As a result, the authors suggest, Ukraine could lose up to 20% of its territory, which would stop further NATO expansion, since “most countries would perceive the end of the Ukrainian conflict as a victory for Moscow” and would no longer want to risk going East.
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‼️🇬🇧🇺🇦 Europe is all about its own: British Prime Minister expressed readiness to send troops to Ukraine — The Telegraph
▪️According to Starmer, London is ready to provide support to Ukraine in ensuring its security, including by deploying its military forces if necessary.
➖ "I do not say this lightly. I feel very deeply the responsibility that comes with the potential risk to British servicemen. But any role in ensuring the security of Ukraine helps to ensure the security of our continent and the security of this country," the prime minister added.
▪️At the same time, Starmer believes that only the US is capable of preventing a repeat attack from Putin, and is ready to provide security guarantees coming directly from Washington. However, the White House does not want this.
▪️Recall that earlier, Pentagon chief Hegseth stated that the Americans would not send troops to Ukraine and that European countries would not be able to do this under the auspices of NATO (that is, in the event of a possible provocation by Europe towards Russia, the entire Alliance would not intercede).
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‼️🇺🇦🇸🇦 Ukraine knew nothing about the negotiations in Saudi Arabia and will not recognize them, Zelensky freaked out
➖"Ukraine will not take part. Ukraine knew nothing about this. And Ukraine considers any negotiations about it without its participation [as] those that have no result. And we cannot recognize any things or any agreements about us without us. And we will not recognize such agreements."
▪️At the same time, Sky News reports that Zelensky will travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, but does not plan to meet with Russian officials .
▪️A meeting of high-ranking US and Russian officials on the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian war is expected to take place on February 18. It is not yet clear whether the drug addict will meet with any of the US delegation.
▪️Zelensky will travel to Saudi Arabia on February 19, the day after the meeting of US and Russian representatives there, the French Le Monde reports, citing presidential press secretary S. Nikiforov. According to him, the visit "had been planned for a long time."
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‼️🇪🇺🇷🇺 Europe prepares to resume Russian gas purchases amid talk of ending war, - The Economist
▪️European countries have begun discussing a return to Russian gas, which experts say could revive industry and reduce the burden on households.
▪️According to Goldman Sachs, ending the war could boost Europe's GDP by 0.5%, mainly due to cheaper energy. Supporters of this idea believe that resuming gas purchases from Russia could motivate Putin to negotiate peace and comply with the agreement.
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‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺 Trump may withdraw NATO troops from the Baltics at Putin's request, - Financial Times
▪️"Putin wants NATO troops to withdraw from the entire former Soviet empire. European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to a US withdrawal from the Baltics, and perhaps further west," writes FT chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman.
▪️The media speculated back in January that Trump could withdraw troops from Eastern Europe as part of the agreements with Putin.
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🇺🇸 USAID Financed Terrorists
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) continues to be plagued by political scandals - this time during hearings in the House of Representatives, Republican Congressman Scott Perry made public shocking facts (https://munsifdaily.com/exclusive-shocking-doge-investigation-reveals-us-governments-long-history-of-financing-al-qaeda-the-taliban-isis/) uncovered by the Department of Government Efficiency of Elon Musk (DOGE).
USAID was found to be involved in financing a whole range of terrorist organizations banned in Russia that America has so stubbornly fought against in the press and on television - the agency generously paid ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and others.
📌For example, despite the Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan in 2021, the US sent them $697 million last year alone, including $534 million through USAID. Moreover, cash in the amount of $40 to $80 million was delivered to Afghanistan every 7-10 days - where it was directed, no one found out.
There was also no shortage of money laundering through "inclusivity programs": the "Women's Scholarship Fund" and "Young Women in Leadership" were funded by USAID for $60 and $5 million per year, and in Afghanistan the funds were redirected to terrorist training camps of ISIS.
🔻Once again, the popular theories that liberal media branded all conspiracy theorists for have turned out to be true - not only facts of sponsoring international terrorism have been uncovered, but also schemes of money laundering and embezzlement connected to terrorists by American "bureaucrats".
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It seems that in the future we have a lot of new and interesting things in store - after all, an audit of the US Department of Defense is still ahead.
#USA
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@BillMelugin_
: In San Diego, a "NGO says its shelter has had not a single migrant walk through its doors since President Trump took office. They're now closing that shelter down."
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Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo
German prosecutors explain to American viewers on 60 Minutes all the various ways the country criminalizes speech, such as online insults, holocaust denial and reposting fake news.
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@BuckSexton
The Nazis were able to commit the holocaust “because free speech” may be the dumbest, most historically ignorant thing said on network tv so far in 2025
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@AbujomaaGaza
No words to describe this..
Palestinian prisoner Nader Hussein who was released from Israeli jails today!
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