Various News - 2025-02-21
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel to lead the FBI.
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‼️🇺🇸 The Trump administration has ordered the Pentagon to prepare plans to cut the defense budget by 40% over the next five years, - Washington Post.
▪️The newspaper also writes that layoffs in the US Department of Defense will begin in the near future.
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🇺🇸👊🇺🇦 The US under Trump's leadership has effectively broken the alliance with Ukraine , — WELT (https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/plus255476622/Trump-und-die-Ukraine-Europa-bleibt-nur-eine-Wahl.html)
▪️Three years after the start of the war in Ukraine, another turning point is happening before our eyes. The US under Donald Trump is shaking the foundations of the world order in which Europe could feel safe for decades. Now this period is over, writes the German newspaper Welt.
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‼️🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 "Peace" plan: British PM Starmer to present Trump with his plan to demarcate Russia and Ukraine — The Telegraph
▪️The publication reports that the plan is aimed at maintaining the ceasefire and ensuring American protection and includes the deployment of European forces in Ukrainian cities and ports such as Krivoy Rog and Dnepropetrovsk.
▪️The main focus of the mission will be on “technical monitoring” on land and at sea, using reconnaissance equipment, including drones and satellites.
▪️In total, Starmer is going to send 30,000 European troops to Ukraine. However, even with this plan, Europe is counting on assistance from the United States in the form of aircraft and troops stationed in Eastern Europe.
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Inside the Week That Turned U.S.-Ukraine Relations Upside Down — NBC News
▪️The publication claims that tensions between the Trump administration and the Ukrainian government have been growing behind the scenes over the past week.
▪️Public hysteria of Ukraine regarding the productive dialogue between the USA and Russia, the lack of restraint of Ukrainian politicians and the president of "Nezalezhnaya" himself towards the Trump administration, and of course the disrupted deal on rare earth metals greatly angered the American president, changing his attitude towards Ukraine from loyal to more negative.
▪️Not the least important role was played by the successful start in restoring pre-sanctions relations between the US and Russia, within the framework of which the countries are mutually trying to find a common language between themselves, holding conversations, exchanges and joint meetings.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Trump: Russia has "trump cards" in Ukraine negotiations, it "has seized a lot of territory."
▪️The conflict in Ukraine can be resolved within a year, otherwise a third world war could begin, the US President said in Miami.
▪️ A "modestly successful comedian" convinced the US to spend $350 billion on a conflict it couldn't win;
▪️ Ukraine needs to hold elections - "the time has come";
▪️Zelensky has a low rating. Trump rejected the drug addict's claims that 57% of Ukrainians are for him;
▪️Ukraine treated the US Treasury Secretary rudely during his visit, Kyiv thwarted a deal with the US on rare earth metals. But the US is still going to conclude it;
▪️It's time to figure out where the money allocated by the United States to Ukraine is;
➖"I think the Russians want to end this war, I really do. I think they have the cards because they've captured a lot of territory";
▪️Cooperation with Putin on nuclear disarmament before the coronavirus pandemic was very successful.
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Without US military assistance, Ukraine may not hold out against Russia for more than 6 months , - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▪️Lieutenant General Romanenko stated this at the Munich Conference.
▪️According to his assessment, Europe cannot replace US aid.
▪️The University of Bremen believes that current supplies, if used sparingly, will last until mid-summer or autumn.
▪️American aid is crucial for Ukraine's air and missile defense, which consists mainly of Patriot systems. ATACMS are often used in deep strikes on Russian territory. The US is a major supplier of 155mm artillery shells. The US could influence the transfer of F-16 fighters by Europe, which has just begun, or all support provided in terms of intelligence sharing and ensuring the security of Ukrainian telecommunications.
▪️There have been no comments on any of these areas yet. But the freeze on USAID funds already concerns the Starlink satellite terminals, which were financed by the American agency. And it is not yet clear whether Musk will keep them running in the future.
▪️Volunteer Berlinskaya stated that Musk could turn off Starlink at the front at any moment and the Ukrainian Armed Forces would lose many people.
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🇺🇸🖕🇺🇦 US stops arms sales to Ukraine , - head of Rada defense committee
➖"According to my information, the weapons (from the US) that were going to be sold (to Ukraine - ed.) - the deliveries have stopped. Those companies that were supposed to transfer these weapons are now waiting, because there is no decision," said Roman Kostenko.
▪️The reasons for this decision are still unknown.
➖"And everyone is waiting to see if there will be a decision to at least supply weapons here for money," he added.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Today, the Hamas movement handed over to Israel the bodies of the deceased hostages: 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz, as well as Shiri Bibas and her two sons - Kfir Bibas (10 months) and Ariel Bibas (4 years).
For Israel, the fate of the Bibas family was a painful topic: for more than a year, it was believed that the mother and underage children were alive, and there was a chance of their release. However, in the end, a message about their death was received.
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🔻Israelis accuse Hamas militants of their death, while Palestinians claim that the hostages were killed as a result of one of the IDF's mass strikes.
In Israel, there are predictable demands to wipe the entire Gaza Strip off the face of the earth for the death of a family with an infant. Palestinians, in turn, point out that a much larger number of children have been killed in the bombings of the enclave.
In any case, this is a very painful topic for Israel, and it is used by various parties - from Hamas propaganda to Israel's own political forces.
#Israel #Palestine
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I can understand why many people are upset with Trump accusing Kiev for starting the war. However, we should admit that 2014 has been purged from our collective memory and banned from the war narrative
- This was CNN reporting on Kiev's attack on Donbas after the 2014 coup
Glenn Diesen