Various News - 2025-02-28
Trump’s Jumbled Messaging on Ukraine and Russia
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The West’s Political Hit Job on Milorad Dodik: A Warning Shot to All Sovereign Leaders
The kangaroo court in Sarajevo has done exactly what Washington and Brussels demanded: put a political bullet in Milorad Dodik, the democratically elected president of Republika Srpska. A one-year prison sentence, a six-year ban from office and all for defying the illegitimate Western-backed viceroy masquerading as an “international envoy,” Christian Schmidt. This isn’t justice. It’s a colonial dictate.
Viktor Orban called it what it is: a “political witch hunt.” Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic has convened a national security meeting. Dodik himself is preparing “radical measures.” Republika Srpska isn’t rolling over.
Let’s be clear: this is about crushing anti-NATO resistance in the Balkans. Dodik refused to let Bosnia become a Western military outpost. He rejected sanctions on Russia. He dared to uphold Republika Srpska’s sovereignty. Now, they want to neutralize him, just like they did to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine before the 2014 coup.
But this might backfire. Instead of submission, this could be the spark that pushes Republika Srpska toward full independence. The so-called “court ruling” is meaningless if Banja Luka refuses to recognize it. Dodik’s government is already moving to block Sarajevo’s decrees inside RS territory.
The real question is: Will Belgrade, Budapest, and Moscow let this stand? Or will this be the moment the Western Balkan power play explodes?
One thing is certain: Dodik isn’t backing down. And neither should anyone who values sovereignty over Western diktats.
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Fwd from @dva_majors
Morning Summary on February 27, 2025
▪️ Overnight, the Russian Armed Forces struck "Geraniums" at targets in Kyiv, Odesa, Starokostiantyniv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, and Poltava Regions. The enemy's channels collectively counted more than 60 of our strike drones.
▪️ In Kursk Region, the liberation of the settlements of Orlovka and Pogrebki has been officially confirmed. The "North" tactical group reported that the settlement of Novaya Sorochina has also been liberated. There are reports of successful advances in Lebedivka, with fighting ongoing near Malaya Loknya. Pressure is being exerted on the enemy in the direction of Huyevo and Kurylivka. Overall, the use of heavy FAB bombs with JDAM (https://t.me/dva_majors/65421) remains relevant on the Kursk sector of the front, as the enemy seems unable to effectively build a system to replace satellite coordinates, and here combat aviation sorties are not just for statistics.
▪️ In the north of the Kupiansk direction, fighting continues to expand our presence on the right bank of the Oskol River in the area of the settlements of Zapadnoye and Dvurechnoye occupied by the Russian Armed Forces.
▪️ South of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmiisk), the AFU spokespersons reported a successful counterattack in Kotlino. Heavy fighting continues in the direction, with settlements changing hands multiple times. Combat operations in the areas of the settlements of Nadeyevka, Udachne, Uspenovka, and Preobrazhenske.
▪️ Fighting continues in the Konstantynopil direction, with the Russian Armed Forces building up logistics and pulling in troops after the closure of the "Kurakhovo pocket".
▪️ The offensive is developing in the areas of the liberated Novoselivka and Novoocheretate. Russian troops have advanced under the settlement of Skudne. Fighting is ongoing in the area of the settlement of Burlatskoye.
▪️ On the Zaporizhia front, in the Pyatikhatkі area, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting offensive operations. Our troops are outflanking from the west and pinching the enemy in the direction of Stepove and Lobkove. Our aviation is striking enemy concentration points and armored vehicles in the Shcherbaky and Kamianske areas. The enemy struck the energy infrastructure of the Polohy and Vasylivka municipalities.
▪️ In Graivoron, Belgorod Region, as a result of a drone dropping an explosive device on a vehicle, a civilian was killed, and another man received multiple shrapnel wounds.
▪️ Daily strikes by the AFU on Horlivka continue. As a result of the use of barrel artillery by the enemy, a boy born in 2016 and women born in 1989 and 1994 were injured.
Summary compiled by: Two Majors (https://t.me/dva_majors/) Original msg (https://t.me/dva_majors/65500)
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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺 The US and Russia are discussing the possibility of joint extraction of natural resources in the Arctic, cooperation on trade routes , - Bloomberg
▪️Discussions included exploration of natural resources and trade routes, the agency's sources said.
▪️US officials see Arctic cooperation as a way to drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing, but some understand it is unlikely to succeed given how close Russia and China have grown in recent years.
▪️The Arctic, surrounded by Russia and seven NATO members - the United States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - has attracted increasing attention in recent years as melting ice due to climate change opens up shipping routes and the possibility of exploring for energy and mineral resources.
▪️Earlier it was also reported that Russia offered Trump's representatives the extraction of rare earth elements.
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump officials have been pushing hard to remove security guarantees from Ukraine resource deal , - New York Times
▪️In the US view, these formulations went beyond the discussion of mineral rights.
▪️As a result, the draft agreement, which provides for the transfer of Ukraine’s income from natural resources to the United States, does include a mention of guarantees, but in such a vague form that it does not impose any specific obligations on the United States.
➖The agreement contains the wording that the United States “supports Ukraine’s efforts to obtain the security guarantees necessary to establish lasting peace.”
▪️It is still unknown whether this option is final.
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‼️🇺🇸 Trump administration says it is terminating most foreign aid contracts from USAID — Associated Press
▪️In addition, the administration is cutting the total amount of US aid worldwide by $60 billion.
▪️The White House plans to cancel 5,800 of 6,200 contracts that last more than one year. It will also cancel 4,100 of 9,100 grants awarded by the State Department.
▪️After President Trump took office, the US government suspended funding to USAID for 90 days. According to the AP, this decision will not be reversed.
➖ Earlier, a US court ruled to resume payments under USAID programs during the trial. After that, the president began to terminate aid agreements.
➖ It recently became known that the US has stopped funding another major fund, which, among other things, provided support to Ukraine - NED.
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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠ After the ceasefire, Kiev should take advantage of the pause of several years to accumulate forces and prepare for the "next phase of the war," - the head of the Council of Reservists of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▪️Ivan Tymochko believes that Ukraine needs to quickly conduct general training of the population, as well as expand missile and drone programs, so Russia can do the same, taking advantage of the pause.
➖"If we are talking about a certain truce, we must understand that "if you want peace, prepare for war." At the moment of some kind of truce, when theoretically the enemy can try to take advantage of the pause in order to accumulate forces, we will also need to work in this direction," said Tymochko.
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