Various News - 2025-02-22

Judge gives go-ahead for the Trump administration to gut USAID's workforce - Story Here

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠ Starmer's plan to deploy peacekeeping troops in Ukraine is published by The Telegraph

▪️British Prime Minister Starmer to offer his "peace plan" to Trump, details:

➖A 30,000-strong contingent of peacekeepers is being sent to Ukraine;

➖peacekeepers do not go to the battlefield, but protect strategic cities (Poltava, Dnepr, Krivoy Rog), ports and infrastructure facilities (for example, nuclear power plants);

➖European military will conduct technical monitoring – reconnaissance using aircraft, satellites, drones;

➖ patrols will take place in the Black Sea;

➖ the mission will include weapons and technical means to repel possible attacks by the Russian Federation;

➖ The US is providing fighter jets and missiles to protect European peacekeepers and facilities in Ukraine from Russian air attacks. This includes aircraft based in Poland and Romania;

➖NATO members are deciding what to do with Article 5 of the Treaty, since Russia could respond with a strike on the territory of countries that have joined the peacekeeping mission.

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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇫🇷 Zelensky should "immediately" leave Ukraine for France, - New York Post, citing Trump's entourage

▪️According to a source in the US presidential administration, the head of state’s inner circle has been discussing the possibility of changing power in Ukraine using methods available to them for several months.

▪️Many representatives of the White House, especially from President Trump’s office, are, to put it mildly, not happy with the policies of the current Ukrainian president.

▪️Over the past three years, Trumpists have grown tired of watching senseless spending on Zelensky, who, in addition to failing to live up to expectations, also worsened the situation in relations between the US and Ukraine through his rhetoric.

▪️The turning point for Trump was Kyiv's refusal to sign the rare minerals deal. They regard it as a deception, since Zelensky had previously "agreed" to it.

▪️At the same time, sources say that Trump does not yet have an obvious candidate that the US would prefer if elections were held in Ukraine.

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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦US to Bring Russia Sanctions Up for Discussion in Ukraine Talks — Bloomberg

▪️President Trump has made it clear that he is very keen to reach an agreement to end the three-year standoff. In this regard, the US is also prepared to ease sanctions against Russia as part of the settlement.

▪️The decision to quickly lift sanctions against Russia was also influenced by the controversy between the US and Ukraine.

▪️According to Bessent, before the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky assured him that Ukraine would sign a $500 billion deal handing over rights to Ukrainian minerals, but then refused to do so, which only inflamed relations between Kiev and Washington, pushing Trump to engage in a more constructive dialogue with Russia.

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‼️🇨🇳🇺🇸🇷🇺 China Approves New U.S.-Russia Deal on Ukraine — Politico

▪️This was stated by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the G20 summit in South Africa during his meeting with Lavrov.

▪️The minister said that Beijing hopes that the parties concerned can find a sustainable and long-term solution that takes into account mutual interests.

➖"China supports all efforts aimed at achieving peace, including the recent consensus reached by the United States and Russia, and is willing to play a "constructive role" in peace talks," Wang Yi said.

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‼️🇧🇪🇺🇦🇺🇸 Trump began to "strangle" Zelensky: Belgium will not send Ukraine 30 F-16 fighters by the end of the year, as the US delays the delivery of F-35s — Soir

▪️This was announced by the Chief of the Belgian General Staff, Frederic Vansina.

▪️Earlier, Western media reported that US President Trump could influence the decision of European countries to supply F-16s to Ukraine.

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🇺🇸🖕 🇺🇦"It's Time for Him to Go": Trump Got So Angry at Zelensky During US-Russia Talks That He Almost Cut Off Military Aid to Ukraine - Axios

▪️The White House believes that the Ukrainian president "has become too accustomed to unconditional support from Biden, NATO, and favorable media coverage," which is why he "overdid it" in the negotiations.

▪️One official said the US "has created a monster out of Zelensky" and that European allies "obsessed with Trump but unwilling to send troops" are giving him bad advice.

▪️Another White House official involved in the talks compared Zelensky to an actor who made "the typical mistake of theater kids" by beginning to associate himself with the character he plays.

▪️Without American financial assistance, he would not have coped long ago.

➖"It's time for him to leave the stage along with all this drama," the official added.

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🇺🇸🖕🇺🇦 Trump: Zelensky has no "trump cards" for negotiations with Russia, it is better to hold negotiations without him 😀

▪️US President Wants to Hold Peace Talks on Ukraine Without Zelensky:

➖"I don't think he's important enough to be in the meetings," Trump told CBS News.

▪️Finance Minister Bessent had a "futile trip" to Kyiv [he brought an American agreement on the deposits, but Zelensky did not sign it].

▪️Putin "wants to make a deal" although he "doesn't need to make a deal, because if he wanted, he would get all of Ukraine."

▪️Zelensky was not invited to negotiations with the Russian Federation because he “has conducted negotiations poorly so far,” because he allowed the war to start and did not end it earlier.

▪️The war started because Biden and Zelensky said the "wrong things." Russia "could have been easily dissuaded."

➖“You know, every time I say it’s not Russia’s fault, I always get criticized for fake news. But I’m telling you, Biden said the wrong thing. Zelensky said the wrong thing. They were attacked by someone much bigger and much stronger, which is bad, and it’s not right to do that. But Russia could have been talked out of it so easily. It never should have been a war, and all those dead people shouldn’t have been dead, and all those cities shouldn’t have been destroyed right now. “So when Zelensky said, ‘Oh, he wasn’t invited to the meeting,’ I mean, it wasn’t a priority because he’s been a bad negotiator so far. There shouldn’t have been a war in the first place, and if there was, it should have been resolved and settled immediately,” Trump said.

▪️The day before, the US President said that Russia has “cards up its sleeve” because it “has seized a lot of territory.”

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