Various News - 2025-03-02
Trump gives Zelensky bum’s rush and flushes the European ploy to escalate war against Russia
Finian Cunningham March 1, 2025 Strategic Culture - Strategic Culture
After his mauling from President Trump live on TV and then being booted out of the White House, Ukraine’s Zelensky immediately phoned European leaders.
That reaction shows that the Ukrainian actor-turned-president had flown to Washington from Kiev not to merely sign a supposed minerals deal with the U.S., but to inveigle Trump into a trap to escalate the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.
No doubt there is consternation and alarm among the Europeans that their agenda for prolonging the war against Russia is in disarray. Worst still, a furious Trump may now cut Ukraine loose and leave it completely at the mercy of Russia.
European leaders are huddling in London on Sunday for an emergency meeting convened by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Zelensky is to attend and be showered with European expressions of support and billions more of taxpayer money. Incredibly, they still champion the impudent conman as a “Churchillian hero”.
The fallout in the Oval Office on Friday was a sordid spectacle. Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, tore into Zelensky under the full glare of TV cameras for daring to make more demands for U.S. security guarantees as part of a deal giving American companies access to Ukraine’s alleged mineral wealth, including oil, gas and rare earth metals.
The meeting started cordially, but Trump refrained from giving specific “security guarantees” to Ukraine. Zelensky’s sniveling insistence on getting explicit U.S. commitments for military support following any peace deal with Russia triggered Trump and his officials to rebuke the Ukrainian leader for wrangling in public and not being respectful.
After their fireside fireworks, an incensed Trump gave Zelensky the bum’s rush. No minerals deal was signed and Zelensky left Washington empty handed. That’s not the end of it either. Trump later told reporters that Zelensky is not welcome back until he is ready to make the peace with Russia.
Trump was astute to the attempted rumble. He told reporters on the White House lawn following the slap-down of Zelensky: “We want peace. We’re not looking for somebody to sign up a strong power and then not make a peace deal because they feel emboldened. That’s what I saw happening. He wants to fight, fight, fight. I am not looking to get into anything protracted.”
Zelensky’s immediate phone calls to French President Emmanuel Macron and the NATO chief Mark Rutte after the White House fiasco is the big reveal here.
Days before Zelensky’s visit to the White House on Friday, European leaders had lobbied Trump for U.S. security guarantees as part of any peace deal with Russia.
Macron met Trump on Monday. On Thursday, it was Starmer’s turn to ingratiate with Trump. The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas was also in Washington. Significantly, her meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was abruptly called off “due to scheduling issues.”
The main objective for Macron and Starmer was to extract a commitment from Trump for a military “backstop” in Ukraine to beef up their proposal to deploy French and British troops under the guise of “peacekeepers”.
The British wanted American “air cover” for their troops, according to the BBC.
Both Macron and Starmer were palmed away with vague nothings despite the bonhomie and compliments, and a British sweetener from King Charles to invite Trump on a royal visit.
Trump’s diplomatic overture to Russian President Vladimir Putin, beginning with a phone call on February 12 followed by a high-level meeting of U.S. and Russian diplomats in Saudi Arabia on February 18, has sent shockwaves across the European NATO members.
They feel aggrieved that Trump is going to make a peace deal with Putin without them. The Europeans are still beholden to the propaganda narrative of the previous Biden administration about “defending democracy and sovereignty in Ukraine from Russian aggression.”
Trump wants out of the extravagant mess in Ukraine. He recognizes that the conflict was always a proxy war with an ulterior agenda to defeat Russia. Hundreds of billions of dollars and euros have been wasted fueling a futile proxy war that, as it turns out, Russia is decisively winning.
Marco Rubio, the U.S. top diplomat, disclosed in an interview to CNN after the Oval Office spat, that a European foreign minister had told him that “their plan” was to keep the war in Ukraine going for another year in the hope that it would eventually “weaken Russia” and make Moscow “beg for peace.”
The callousness of the Europeans and their Russophobic obsession are grotesque. The three-year conflict in Ukraine has cost up to one million military deaths, millions of refugees across Europe, and broken economies, not to mention the danger of it turning into World War Three.
Sneakily, the Europeans are covering their desire for continuing the proxy war with a belated apparent concern for making peace and backing Trump’s diplomacy.
Macron and Starmer ostensibly commend Trump (after initially being in a flap over this call with Putin) and they talk about “finding a path to a lasting peace.”
However, their seeming offer of deploying French and British soldiers as “peacekeepers” is a Trojan Horse that has nothing to do with keeping the peace. For its part, Moscow has categorically stated that any NATO troops in Ukraine will not be acceptable and will be attacked as combatants.
That is why Macron, Starmer and other European leaders were so insistent on trying to get Trump to give “security guarantees”. The so-called American military “backstop” would be a way to escalate the proxy war against Russia.
Zelensky was in Washington on a mission to beguile Trump into giving a security guarantee while dangling the bait of a lucrative minerals deal.
It was reported that the Trump White House wanted to cancel the meeting for Friday before Zelensky departed from Ukraine on Thursday. But Macron intervened and implored Trump to go ahead with the reception.
Zelensky, having got used to being indulged with endless blank checks, thought he could wheedle more out of Trump than just a mining deal. He was expected to extract the direct U.S. military involvement that the European Russophobic leaders want. In that way, the proxy war would escalate and those riding the war-racket gravy train would continue to extort the world’s biggest security crisis.
Fortunately, Trump gave Zelensky the bum’s rush and flushed out the European ploy.
The irony is that Trump had earlier in the week lavished praise on Macron and Starmer, exalting France for being America’s “oldest ally” and Britain for its “special relationship”. Trump might want to radically revise those cliched notions.
Finian Cunningham March 1, 2025 Strategic Culture - Strategic Culture
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🇺🇦🤬🇺🇸 How Zelensky swore at the US Vice President
- Have you been to Ukraine?
- I watched the stories.
- F*ck b*tch.
▪️A video has emerged from a different angle and with clearer audio, from which we can more confidently draw conclusions about the clown's reaction to Vance's words.
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🇺🇸🤬🇺🇦 Trump was angry that Zelensky arrived not in a suit, but in military clothes
▪️The US presidential administration reported this to Axios (https://www.axios.com/2025/02/28/trump-zelensky-oval-office-meeting-details) .
▪️Earlier, Trump asked Zelensky when he would put on the costume, the clown replied: "We'll see"
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🇺🇸🖕🇺🇦 Trump administration considering halting all current military aid to Ukraine - The Washington Post
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🇺🇸⚔🇺🇦 Trump refuses to talk to Zelensky after White House spat , - CBS News
▪️The US administration is not confident that it will be able to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine after Zelensky's spat with Trump in the White House.
▪️Ukrainian officials are desperately trying to get the White House to return to discussions, but to no avail.
▪️Trump's national security adviser explained to Zelensky that he made a "huge mistake" by starting a squabble in the White House.
▪️The US authorities thought that settlement negotiations would be much more difficult with Putin, but now they see Zelensky as posing greater difficulties .
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump: To return to dialogue, Zelensky must stop criticizing Putin and declare a desire to make peace
▪️ Zelensky did not look like a person who was seeking to make peace with Russia, the US president added.
▪️Trump insists on an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
▪️ We strive for peace, not a 10-year war.
▪️Zelensky is losing hundreds of thousands of people, this needs to be stopped, but he doesn’t want it.
▪️" Putin wants peace, and Zelensky wants to continue the war. Either we end this, or we give him the opportunity to fight to the end (without the US) and see what happens."
▪️Zelensky "overestimated his capabilities" and must declare his desire for peace . " Without us, he will not win."
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🇺🇸🖕🇺🇦 Media: Was Zelensky kicked out of the White House?
Trump: I don't have to tell you that. I think you know the answer.
▪️The Ukrainian delegation waited another hour after the squabble, still hoping to sign the resource agreement — Axios.
▪️Trump: Zelensky doesn't want the conflict to end, he suddenly became a "big shot" because the US is on his side, but he won't win without us
▪️ Trump : 2,000 soldiers died this week, even more - young Ukrainians and Russians. Some will say - why are you worried about the soldiers of Russia and Ukraine? I worry about them, I worry about everyone
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‼️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Sad Zelensky in an interview with Fox News about the spat with Trump and the future
▪️ Host: If you had the chance to go back to the White House right now, would you?
Zelensky: No.
▪️ Host: Do you regret what happened?
Zelensky: Yes, I think it was bad.
▪️I can't tell my people: "Stop." No one will stop, because everyone is afraid that Putin will return tomorrow;
▪️It's good if Ukraine is not accepted into NATO, no one insists. Let's build NATO in Ukraine;
➖ Zelensky on his resignation: Only the people of Ukraine can make this decision.
▪️ I don’t want to lose our good partnership with the USA .
▪️When asked whether the conflict in the White House was planned in advance, Zelensky said that he knew nothing about it.
▪️Zelensky said that it will be difficult for Ukraine to win without American support, but he believes that Europe is ready to continue funding Kiev.
▪️Zelensky: We don’t have any million losses.
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🇺🇦🤡🇺🇸 'They Begged to Come Back' After Zelensky Was Ousted From White House - US Treasury Secretary
➖“They were sending messages to everyone they knew, begging them to let them come back and sign the deal,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that after being scolded by Trump and Vance, Zelensky left the White House, and the Kiev delegation was frantically looking for ways to fix everything.
▪️Zelensky may have wanted to get into a spat with Trump and Vance in advance, but he did not expect a tough response, the minister believes.
▪️Now Trump will determine whether he can make further attempts to reach an agreement with Zelensky, Bessent added.
▪️He criticized Zelensky for arguing with Trump in front of the media at the White House.
➖"You can't negotiate with the US president in public like this," he said.
▪️The minister recalled that during his recent visit to Kyiv, he himself had “emotional conversations” with Zelensky, but they took place behind closed doors.
▪️It was Zelensky who behaved hostilely towards the US Vice President and decided to quarrel with him, the White House said earlier.
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🇺🇸🖕🇺🇦 After the "Oval Office show on Friday," Trump may cut off US aid to Ukraine, from weapons and ammunition to intelligence sharing and training of Ukrainian troops
➖“A Trump administration official said later Friday that all U.S. aid to Ukraine, including final deliveries of ammunition and equipment authorized and paid for during the Biden administration, could be canceled soon,” the New York Times reported, citing a White House official.
▪️The work of the center that manages international aid at the US military base in Germany (apparently, we are talking about “Rammstein”) is also in question.
▪️According to the Pentagon, there is about $3.85 billion left of what Congress has allocated for supplies from the U.S. stockpile. They were supposed to be delivered within six months.
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 In 2022, J.D. Vance stated that "honestly, he doesn't care what happens to Ukraine and its borders one way or another," Kiev media complain
The Economist, citing sources close to Zelensky, also reports that Vance was a real problem during the negotiations and was pleased with their breakdown, as he had prepared and fulfilled his task well, Ukrainian resources write.
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ukraine's Double Agony: Putin Is Now Trump — FT
▪️Ukrainians fear that the US may stop supporting them, which will lead to the loss of territories. The country is again on the brink, despite promises from European states.
▪️The US is apparently finally leaving the game of supporting Ukraine, after yesterday's display of disrespect in the White House. Now the Americans will even more actively discuss exclusively personal gain and resources of Ukraine, counting only on a constructive dialogue with Russia.
▪️Experts say the loss of American equipment is not critical, but intelligence support is important.
▪️Earlier, it was reported that the US could deprive Kyiv of access to Starlink if the rare earth metals deal fails.
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‼️🇺🇸 🇪🇺🇺🇦International Panorama: The West is Shocked by the Failure of Trump-Zelensky Talks, Promising the Latter a Quick Political Death
▪️USA Today: No suit, no lunch, no respect. As soon as Zelensky stepped out of the car, Trump immediately attacked his appearance. From there, everything went wrong.
▪️Financial Times: Zelensky found himself in a difficult situation, the White House set a trap for him, humiliating him.
▪️Wall Street Journal: Zelensky needed to show his wits and defuse the situation by expressing gratitude to the United States and deferring to Trump.
▪️The Spectator: Zelensky put his vanity and pride above Ukraine's interests in responding to Trump's comments and behavior.
▪️Bloomberg: "Zelensky is done." European officials are shocked by the "reality show with screams" in the Oval Office and call what happened a "catastrophe."
▪️The Economist: When Zelensky arrived at the White House on February 28, relations between the US and Ukraine were fragile and uncertain. By the time he left, they were in tatters.
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🇺🇸⚔🇲🇽 US threatens Mexico with "military action" if it fails to deal with drug cartels - WSJ.
▪️Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth told officials that if Mexico "does not address the collusion between its government and drug cartels, the U.S. military is prepared to take unilateral action."
▪️A telephone conversation on this topic took place on January 31, writes the Wall Street Journal.
▪️The top Mexican military leaders involved in the call were shocked and outraged, perceiving his words as a hint of a US invasion of Mexico.
▪️Hegseth's warning added to the pressure on trade talks as Mexico seeks to avoid 25% tariffs that Trump has promised to impose starting Tuesday along with a 10% tariff on imports from China.
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‼️🏴☠🇱🇻 Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are 'very unhappy' they were betrayed by being excluded from tomorrow's Ukraine summit in London. They 'have a plan... but they weren't invited' - Sky News
▪️The leaders of the Baltic dwarf states are "offended" by Britain for not inviting them to the Ukrainian summit. London and Paris "betrayed" them, Sky News reports. As a consolation, Prime Minister Starmer will "grace" them with a phone conversation, but the Baltic diplomats complain to the media that they wanted to attend in person.
▪️Representatives of the three countries said they "have a plan" and the Baltics "are the most active in supporting Kyiv, risking their own security." The dwarf countries are demanding an explanation from Downing Street.
▪️The summit on Ukraine will take place in London tomorrow, where Starmer will talk to Zelensky. More than 10 heads of state and government of the European Union have also been invited.
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‼️🇷🇺🇹🇷 Lavrov informed the head of the Turkish MFA about Ukraine's attack on the infrastructure of the Turkish Stream, he promised to take measures — Russian MFA
▪️In a telephone conversation with the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Lavrov informed Fidan about the Ukrainian attack on the Russkaya compressor station on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline.
▪️Fidan assured that the necessary measures will be taken.
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‼️🇭🇺🇷🇺 Hungarian PM demands EU to start "direct talks with Russia on ceasefire" in Ukraine conflict, — FT
▪️In a letter to the head of the European Council, António Costa, Orbán also expressed disagreement with attempts to develop a unified approach to the Ukrainian issue among EU countries.
➖“It has become clear that there are strategic differences in our approach to Ukraine that cannot be overcome through drafting laws or communication,”
— the letter says.
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🇺🇸🖕 🇺🇦"There's a new sheriff in town": Zelensky will no longer hear that only Kiev determines the future settlement, - Trump adviser.
▪️Mike Waltz says Zelensky doesn't realize there's a "new sheriff in town." "He's used to hearing 'whatever it takes,' getting blank checks, 'you, not the U.S., are going to determine how this is going to be resolved,' that's what he heard during the Biden years. And he didn't get the memo that there's a new sheriff in town, a new president, a new approach to peace," Waltz told Fox News.
▪️Zelensky's approach is "wrong, untimely." "Trump is definitely not the right US president to try to do this. This is not Joe Biden," Waltz said.
▪️He stressed that "time is not on Kyiv's side."
"US aid and taxpayer patience are not unlimited," Waltz added.
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📝Germans Will Be Made to Dig Deeper for Defense Again📝
Our German colleagues at @analytik_news report (https://t.me/analytik_news/51928) that the first of three "high-tech reconnaissance cutters of the 424 class" has been laid down in Germany. The Germans promise to hurry up with the construction, as the situation in the Baltic Sea is becoming increasingly tense.
However, there are serious doubts about this costly undertaking: the government initially allocated 2.1 billion euros for the contract, but it recently became clear that the budget has grown - to a whopping 3.26 billion euros. And most likely, even this amount will not be the final one - the cutters will end up even more expensive.
🖍The German economy is clearly going through, to put it mildly, difficult times, and the country's budget is obviously lacking resources as it is. But the authorities are allocating huge sums of money for this kind of project, which looks more like a simple money laundering scheme.
🚩The main proof of this is that all high-tech production is moving (https://t.me/rybar/42606) out of Germany to the US and other countries, and in Germany itself, they are mostly just stamping ammunition. At the same time, the maximum that the German industry is capable of in its current position and with today's resources is probably just riveting parts for these cutters.
❗️Although this crazy project will quite cope with its main task - the further economic destruction of Germany.
#Germany #economy
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great post, big TQ!