Various News - 2025-03-04

Ukraine debacle signals the death of Atlanticism

When Trump-led peace returns to Ukraine, Europe would do well to analyze the ideological role reversal that fueled the tragedy

by Jan Krikke - Asia Times

https://asiatimes.com/2025/03/ukraine-debacle-signals-the-death-of-atlanticism/

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠ Moratorium on shelling for a month, then peacekeepers: Macron spoke about the plan for Ukraine that Europe is preparing

▪️Macron told Le Figaro that he does not believe in a ceasefire that could be agreed upon by the US and Russia: “In the event of a complete ceasefire, it would be extremely difficult to monitor its observance.”

▪️Instead, he and Starmer proposed a “ceasefire in the air, at sea and on energy infrastructure” for one month.

▪️In his opinion, foreign troops will be deployed in Ukraine only at the second stage

➖"There will be no European troops on Ukrainian territory in the coming weeks. The question is how to use this time to reach an accessible ceasefire, which will take several weeks to negotiate, and then, after the peace is signed, the deployment of forces will follow," Macron said.

▪️He believes that “this plan will allow Europeans to enter a game where Trump and Putin would gladly remain one-on-one.”

▪️Macron also expresses confidence in the possibility of "de-escalation" between Trump and Zelensky. He already spoke with the American president on Friday and Saturday: "In the coming days, we should be able to re-establish dialogue."

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠ The agreement to end the war is still "very, very far away," - Zelensky.

➖"Nobody has started this yet," he added.

▪️Zelensky also rejected territorial concessions, the need for which on the part of Ukraine was stated today by Trump's adviser.

▪️Ukraine is still ready to sign a raw materials deal with the Americans.

▪️Western support for Ukraine will continue.

▪️Zelensky again made it clear that he has no intention of resigning. He said he would be "difficult to replace."

➖"It is not enough to simply hold elections. They should not allow me to participate. And that will be a little more difficult. Because they still need to negotiate with me," he said.

▪️This is how the clown commented on today's statements by Waltz and Johnson, who hinted that the US is in favor of replacing Zelensky if he does not agree to a peaceful settlement.

▪️Zelensky added that he is ready to exchange his resignation for Ukraine’s admission to NATO.

▪️The presence of Western troops "at sea, on land and in the sky" can be seen as a guarantee of security.

▪️Before leaving Britain, he stated that his relationship with Trump would continue.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky rejects calls for immediate ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia — The Financial Times

▪️The Ukrainian president said that ending hostilities without detailed security guarantees would be “a disaster for everyone.”

▪️He claims that Russia's alleged failure to comply with the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine in 2014 convinced him that it would be a mistake to agree to a cessation of hostilities without a coercive mechanism backed by military force.

▪️In addition, the madman sees no need to correct the consequences of the heated quarrel with Donald Trump in the White House or to develop a plan to save relations with the US President.

▪️Zelensky also confirmed that he had not had direct contact with Trump after Friday's heated meeting, but there had been contact between officials and he was "ready to continue the dialogue."

▪️Asked how long Ukraine could defend itself against a full-scale Russian invasion without additional U.S. military aid, Zelensky said Kyiv “would like to hope for new aid,” like the supplies approved at the end of former President Joe Biden’s administration.

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‼️🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇸 The European Nightmare Is Here: Now the EU Will Fight Russia Without the US

▪️Warm-hearted European leaders face a worst-case scenario, fearing they will be left to confront Russia alone.

▪️The American resolution at the UN, as well as the disagreements between Trump and Zelensky in the Oval Office, have seriously alarmed Europe, indicating a serious crisis in transatlantic relations.

▪️Now the European Union intends to provide Ukraine with urgent military aid worth 20 billion euros. However, this is only the beginning of an independent reckless policy.

▪️To ensure security without US support, Europe will need to raise hundreds of billions of euros in the coming months, which will be the most difficult or even impossible task in the last 80 years.

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‼️🇷🇺🏴‍☠️ Alarm bells for militants: Russia plans to simultaneously launch about 500 drones in Ukraine this year, - Deputy Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate Skibitsky

➖"Their intentions are to expand the number of launch sites for unmanned aerial vehicles on our territory. According to their forecasts, if they successfully implement their plans for the first half of the year, they will be able to launch about 500 drones at a time. This is a significant increase," Skibitsky noted.

▪️Currently, militants claim that Russia is launching between 150 and 200 unmanned aerial vehicles, including reconnaissance and simulation ones.

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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ukraine fears being left with useless Patriot air defense systems due to ammunition shortage — Forbes

▪️After a disastrous press conference in the Oval Office, Ukraine and its allies are urgently trying to replace key American-made weapons in Ukraine's arsenal, including air defense missiles.

▪️Ukraine can get almost all other types of weapons from its European partners. However, the US is not the only supplier of advanced surface-to-air missiles, launchers and radars for them.

▪️At the moment, it is known that only six Patriot batteries are protecting major Ukrainian cities from the most dangerous Russian missiles, including hypersonic ballistic missiles, which are extremely difficult to intercept.

▪️While Trump seeks to bring the US closer to Russia, Ukraine and Europe cannot count on America's continued support.

▪️According to the publication, Ukraine may not have enough Patriot missiles, since the Americans are refusing to help.

▪️European countries will likely have to allocate funds and equip Ukraine with fully European systems, such as SAMP/T, developed jointly by MBDA.

▪️However, it took Europe's Eurosam almost four years from signing a contract to build and deliver one Aster missile for the European air defense system. The consortium has promised to reduce that timeframe to 18 months by next year, but even that is not fast enough given the severity of the transatlantic security crisis.

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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 US National Intelligence Director Gabbard Criticizes Zelensky for Conflict with Trump, Accusing Him of Undermining Democracy in Ukraine

▪️In her interview, she ridiculed Zelensky for his supposed fight for freedom and democracy, saying that Zelensky had created his own screen, while in reality building a real dictatorship.

➖ "Political parties are being silenced or outlawed, and their members are being thrown into jail. We're seeing churches being closed. The media is under total government control. We can go on and on about the problems that run counter to the values ​​of democracy and freedom," Gabbard said on Fox News.

▪️She claims that the disagreement with the White House arose due to "an unexpected escalation of the situation by Zelensky," although the visit was prepared in advance. In her opinion, this conflict has seriously damaged relations between the United States and Ukraine.

▪️Gabbard claims that Zelensky is now ready to go for any unrealistic deal for Ukraine, even if it leads to the start of World War III.

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‼️🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦Britain and France propose partial ceasefire in Ukraine for one month — details

▪️A partial one-month ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is expected to cover air, sea and energy attacks, but will not include ground combat, the French president and foreign minister said.

▪️European authorities say the temporary ceasefire will allow them to assess how faithfully the president is fulfilling his obligations.

▪️However, it is still unclear what the second stage of the partial truce will look like. On Sunday, Macron spoke about the introduction of troops at this stage, but on Monday, British Defense Secretary Pollard did not confirm these plans.

▪️In addition, economists who advise the parties have calculated that all the measures taken to organize the European world will cost the European Union a pretty penny and amount to about 400 billion euros.

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According to Biden, Ukraine was winning. Why a ceasefire?

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‼️ 🇬🇧🇺🇦Urgent preparations underway: Britain ready to close airspace over Ukraine to secure peace deal, - Sky News

▪️The country's Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that in addition to troops, the country is ready to provide aircraft to ensure compliance with the peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia.

➖"Britain is ready to support this with boots on the ground and planes in the air. Europe must take on all the heavy lifting," he stressed.

▪️Starmer added that some European countries are "stepping up planning for a peacekeeping mission right now with real urgency."

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Coalition of killing

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‼️🇺🇦👶 Zelensky has a "schoolboy's worldview" - high-ranking Ukrainian officials

➖“He still has the worldview of a schoolboy,” the official told Der Spiegel.

➖Another source, who worked closely with the clown before the war, agrees with him.

➖"Zelensky is like a child. He thinks: if you only want something badly and truly believe in it, then you will get it," the person said.

▪️A former employee of Zelensky's team, recalling Zelensky's election promises to end the war, says that "Zelensky didn't just talk like a populist, he actually thought so."

➖"For a man who has spent years making jokes about politicians on television, Zelensky knew surprisingly little about politics," writes Spiegel.

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‼️🇬🇧🇺🇦 The British ambassador to the US called on Ukraine to unilaterally declare a ceasefire, supporting Trump's peace plan, - Politico.

➖"The reset has to consist of the US and Ukraine getting back on the same page, President Zelenskyy giving his full support to President Trump's initiative to end the war and establish a just and lasting peace in Ukraine. And the Europeans should also support calls for a ceasefire, and - by the way - I think Ukraine should be the first to commit to a ceasefire and challenge the Russians," Peter Mandelson told ABC News.

▪️At the same time, the Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Luke Pollard, stated that Mandelson’s call is “not government policy”.

▪️Zelensky, however, rejects calls for a ceasefire until he receives security guarantees from the West.

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‼️🇷🇺🏴‍☠ Ukrainian fascism on Kursk land: new bodies of civilians brutally murdered by Ukrainian Armed Forces militants discovered (https://t.me/warriorofnorth) in Russkoye Porechny 🔞🔞

▪️Having suppressed enemy firing positions in the nearby village of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, the Northerners were able to inspect houses on one of the outskirts of Russkoye Porechnoye.

▪️The bodies of local residents brutally murdered by fascists from the Ukrainian Armed Forces were discovered again.

▪️The data has been transferred to the Investigative Authorities; the terrorists must be brought to justice.

➖"Just as all residents of Germany still bear responsibility for the Holocaust, so the residents of the quasi-state that will remain from Ukraine will have to answer for the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sudzhan borderland."

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🇺🇦🤬🇺🇸 Trump's National Security Advisor Made Harsh Statements Against Zelensky

▪️Michael Waltz said that Zelensky is not yet ready for peace talks, but he needs to start peace talks because "time is not on his side" and "the patience and wallets of the United States are not unlimited."

▪️Waltz said continuing a World War I-style war is a "road to nowhere," but the White House does not see Zelensky's willingness to make the compromises needed to end the fighting.

▪️He says the Ukrainian president "missed the chance to economically tie the US and Ukraine together for a generation."

▪️At the same time, Waltz said that Trump is open to resuming negotiations with Zelensky on natural resources, but only on the condition that he changes his position.

▪️US presidential adviser Waltz says Zelensky tried to revise an already agreed deal on rare earth metals, provoking a conflict with the US.

▪️Waltz previously said that Trump is open to resuming talks with Zelensky on natural resources, but only on the condition that he changes his position.

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🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦 The front may crumble, the Russian army may make a dash to the Dnieper or Poltava, or try an offensive from Belarus to Kiev through Zhitomir , - former chief of staff of "Azov" Bogdan "Tavr" Krotevich.

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🇺🇸🤬🇺🇦Trump made a series of statements on Ukraine, threatening Zelensky

➖If someone [Zelensky] does not want to conclude an agreement on mineral resources, then he will not stay for long,

➖a resolution to the conflict can be achieved very quickly, but some are against peace.

➖Russia and the people of Ukraine, “who suffer the most,” want a peace agreement.

▪️Anyone who speaks out against peace in Ukraine will not stay long.

▪️The US wants the fighting in Ukraine to end as soon as possible, and not to drag out the conflict for years to come,

▪️Zelensky needs to demonstrate to a greater extent that he values ​​Washington’s support.

▪️The deal on the development of Ukrainian resources by the Americans is not dead yet,

▪️Zelensky would do well to be proven wrong that fighting in Ukraine will continue for years to come,

▪️Halting military aid to Ukraine has not yet been discussed. "We'll see, because there's a lot going on right now as we speak," Trump added.

▪️Previously, Trump has repeatedly accused Zelensky of not wanting peace.

▪️Trump does not deny that he may lift sanctions against Russia:

➖"We will make deals to end the Ukraine conflict," Trump said in response to a question.

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The Puppet Strings Snap: Washington Hints Zelensky Needs to Go

When the organ grinder’s patience runs out, the monkey gets tossed, and that’s precisely where we are with Washington’s golden puppet, Vladimir Zelensky. After Friday’s disastrous White House showdown, where Trump and Vance dressed him down like a petulant child, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is now openly floating the unthinkable: Zelensky may need to step aside for someone who can actually negotiate peace instead of hustling for more war cash.

The mask is slipping, and faster than Zelensky’s poll numbers, and the Empire itself is now wondering if its favorite comedian-turned-warlord is more liability than asset.

This was never about democracy, sovereignty, or freedom for Ukraine, it was about turning a corrupt fiefdom into NATO’s sacrificial pawn, a geopolitical speed bump designed to bleed Russia and serve Washington’s hegemonic hallucinations. Zelensky, in his cocaine-fueled, olive-clad arrogance, actually started to believe his own propaganda, imagining himself as some Churchillian figure. Instead, he’s the discount Saakashvili, a disposable errand boy (minus the tie) who outlived his usefulness.

What triggered this latest shift? Simple. Trump and Vance want peace. Not out of love for Russia, but because the American empire is exhausted, bleeding from every orifice, and can’t afford to bankroll endless wars while the homeland crumbles. Zelensky, with his perpetual victim act, his whining, his arrogance, and his utter refusal to accept reality, is now the last obstacle to even the most humiliating face-saving deal Washington could cut.

The “you don’t have the cards” smackdown wasn’t just a one-liner. It was the death knell for the entire Zelensky regime. Washington knows the frontlines are collapsing. The Pentagon sees the satellite feeds. The illusion of “heroic Ukrainian resistance” is dead, replaced by desperate mobilization drives, NATO “volunteers” dying in Kharkov trenches, and rampant corruption so cartoonish it makes Afghanistan blush.

The truth: the dirty, imperial truth, is Zelensky was never supposed to survive this long. His job was to play his part, escalate, provoke, and then exit the stage before anyone realized Ukraine had been carved up for scrap, its resources pledged to Western oligarchs, its sovereignty dissolved into NATO supply lines, its people reduced to cannon fodder and refugee labor.

But like every puppet who starts to think he’s a king, Zelensky mistook the handler’s patience for loyalty. Now, even Lindsey “Forever War” Graham, who once called Zelensky his dream ally, is openly calling for regime change in Kiev.

And let’s not forget the real reason they’re panicking, that minerals deal. Zelensky was supposed to hand over Ukraine’s lithium, rare earths, and natural resources to American conglomerates on a silver platter, a colonial carve-up masquerading as economic aid. When Zelensky couldn’t seal the deal and threw a tantrum instead, the knives came out.

This is how Empire operates. It builds you up, scripts your lines, funds your war, then discards you the moment you threaten the larger play. And now, the play is shifting from “bleed Russia” to “cut a deal before the whole NATO house of cards collapses.” There’s no room in that script for Zelensky, a tragic cocaine clown whose performance is no longer entertaining.

The Bandera cosplay is over.

The grift has run dry. The Empire is looking for a new puppet, one with just enough self-awareness to know when to kneel.

Meanwhile, Russia continues winning methodically, patiently, inexorably — knowing that every Western betrayal only accelerates the collapse.

Zelensky was never the hero, just another Western asset, now past his expiry date.

- Gerry Nolan

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Fwd from @vysokygovorit

If the Americans really stop supplying weapons to the Ukrainians, this will not significantly affect their capabilities in drone production and drone operations. Therefore, I will say once again that for every drone launched by the enemy, we must respond with three of ours.

Here is another video of the work of the "Upyr" night kamikaze drones, which are destroying the enemy's manpower, equipment, and heavy drones on a daily and, most importantly, nightly basis. The enemy has placed all its bets on unmanned strike aviation, and we must surpass them in this component. Original msg (https://t.me/vysokygovorit/19028)

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