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work swiftly to restore deterrence and bring an end to the conflict.....

US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz, has laid out the incoming administration’s strategy for addressing the Ukraine conflict. He said the Trump team will begin working on negotiations from the very first day of Trump’s term, which begins on January 20.

Speaking on Fox News on Sunday, Waltz emphasized that a key priority will be organizing talks between Russia and Ukraine, with the aim of bringing both sides together to negotiate a ceasefire or peace agreement. “We need to discuss who is at this table, whether it will be an agreement, a truce, how to put both sides at the negotiating table, and then what is the scope of the deal,” he said.

Waltz, a congressman from Florida, also highlighted the importance of involving America’s European allies in the process. “All our allies and partners need to bear this burden,” he stated, stressing that the conflict’s resolution will require international cooperation.

Trump has repeatedly promised to end the conflict, and has voiced concerns over its escalating nature, especially following the increased use of advanced weaponry. Waltz noted that recent decisions, such as President Joe Biden’s approval of Kiev’s missile strikes deep inside Russia, have led to more intense fighting. He described the situation as an “absolute meat grinder” for those at the front.

As a retired colonel and someone seen as an expert on national security threats, Waltz expressed confidence that the Trump administration would work swiftly to restore deterrence and bring an end to the conflict. 

“We need to bring this to a responsible end. We need to restore deterrence and peace, prevent this escalation later, instead of reacting to it,” he said.

While Trump has committed to ending the fighting, skepticism remains in both the US and Russia. Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota has questioned the viability of direct negotiations between Moscow and Kiev. 

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has also firmly rejected any suggestion of territorial concessions to Russia and vowed not to formally give up any land.

Waltz’s comments come amid rising tensions, with Moscow responding to the new US missile authorization for Ukraine by launching its own advanced new missile called the Oreshnik. 

The Trump administration’s peace plan will likely be front and center once he takes office, with the expectation that America’s NATO colleagues will also play a critical role in any negotiations. Waltz stressed that foreign nations will not be able to exploit the leadership change from Biden to Trump. “We are hand in glove,” he said, reaffirming a united front during the transition.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/608139-trump-waltz-ukraine-peace/

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

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double deceit....

Waltz Must Go [GUS: OR NOT]...
The national security advisor’s incompetence is one thing; chumminess with the enemies of the administration is another.

 

BY Scott McConnell

 

I don’t see how National Security Advisor Mike Waltz organizing a group chat with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg goes away without Waltz’s resignation. There may be some ambiguity about whether Signal, the app used for the chat, is authorized for government communication and in what contexts; Senator Tom Cotton said recently there is an “understanding” that the Biden administration had authorized its use. Presumably there will soon be a more informed consensus about how reckless using Signal was from a pure national-security perspective.  

But the inclusion of Goldberg in the chat puzzles, and may turn out to be the main issue in the entire affair. Goldberg is one of the most prominent and influential ideological foes of the Trump administration, especially on foreign policy. He is committed to exactly the opposite of what President Donald Trump is trying to achieve. He has been consistent over a long career. He played an important role in starting the Iraq War, spreading falsehoods about Saddam Hussein’s ties to Al Qaeda; he has spread derogatory information about Trump, and he has made the Atlantic more or less the epicenter of the elite effort to portray the Trump’s administration’s foreign policy as a moral abomination because of the president’s efforts to end the Ukraine war. So the obvious question is: Why did the president’s national security advisor include him in a group chat about military action in the Middle East?

Apparently by accident is the claim. Goldberg has written he was surprised to see a message from Mike Waltz inviting him to the chat. Goldberg’s associate Hanna Rosin writes in the Atlantic that, you know how it is, sometimes your mother gets accidentally included in a text chain with your sisters, and that can be embarrassing. Well, fine. But Goldberg, by this explanation, is not a random figure in Michael Waltz’s digital world, but someone who comes up quickly in the prompts—from the list of people previously communicated with. 

It would be interesting to know how often Michael Waltz has used Signal with Goldberg, assuming this wasn’t the first time—a top Trump official communicating with a sworn enemy of the Trump administration. Reportedly there are some in MAGA world who were worried previously that Waltz was playing for the other team—he has hired many people from neoconservative think tanks to his staff. Waltz has gone out of his way to proclaim public loyalty to Trump and his foreign policy. But the whole episode leaves one with a feeling redolent of Trump’s first term, when Trump hired people like John Bolton, whose private agenda was to undermine Trump’s efforts to redirect American foreign policy away from the neo-liberal, neoconservative, “forever war” consensus. 

I hope there is an FBI investigation. We need to know how reckless the use of Signal was in this context, how easy or not easy it was for foreign intelligence to access the ruminations of Trump’s national security decision-making. And we need to know how often Waltz used Signal to communicate, and leak, to Goldberg. 

There is a broader context here: Trump (through Elon Musk) is firing tens of thousands of government workers, most of whom have done nothing wrong. Already there are reports of extreme disarray in agencies, like Social Security, that Trump did not and would not disparage during his campaign. It seems to me it would be politically difficult for Trump to fire blameless government employees and yet keep someone who is leaking information to a powerful ideological enemy of his administration.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/waltz-must-go/

 

METHINKS THAT THE KERFUFFLE ABOUT MIKE WALTZ HAS BEEN CAREFULLY CRAFTED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO DRIVE ATTENTION OF SCRIBOLOGISTS AWAY FROM THE REAL ISSUE: THE BOMBING OF YEMEN BY TRUMP WITHOUT A DECLARATION OF WAR... YEMEN IS THE ONLY "MUSLIM" COUNTRY DOING SOMETHING POSITIVE TO STOP THE ISRAELI GENOCIDE...

 

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         Gus Leonisky

bomb leak...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX33hc5DTtU

U.S. BOMBS Yemen, D.C. Only Cares About A Leak

 

Senate hearings took place today on Capitol Hill as Trump Administration officials were questioned over leaked Signal messaging application chats.

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.