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the triumph of hype over substance....

Treasury chief Bessent says President Trump handed Zelensky "a royal flush" with the US-Ukraine mineral deal which he can use in negotiations with Russia, signalling that there's "no daylight between the Ukrainian people, the American people, between our goals." There's just one problem, experts say: the entire deal looks like a propaganda stunt.

The Trump administration desperately needs a foreign policy victory amid the chaos and uncertainty surrounding it, hence its officials’ boasting about the minerals deal in “a typical case of speculative promotion,” veteran French geopolitical analyst Come Carpentier de Gourdon told Sputnik.

As for Zelensky, he can now claim the deal will ‘save Ukraine’, hoping “that Trump’s America will now be bound to support his regime militarily in exchange for a monopoly on the exploitation of some valuable Ukrainian natural resources.”

The real question is whether the US will be able to provide Ukraine with enough support “to enable the exhausted Ukrainian army to regain a military advantage,” which is doubtful, Carpentier says.

On top of that, the minerals’ accessibility, and the fact that a good chunk of proven reserves are now part of Russia, leaves important questions unanswered.

“How does Trump plan to help Ukraine recover the ‘lost territories’? That would require a full-fledged US military effort to back Ukraine without assurance of success and would reverse Trump's repeated commitment to make peace 'now'.”

In that context, Treasury chief Scott Bessent’s “royal flush” comment “denotes the triumph of hype over substance,” the observer emphasized.

Propaganda Trumps Reality

“The deal is nothing more than a cover for Washington to avoid giving any security guarantees to Ukraine while skimming revenue from any extractive industry that may develop,” says veteran international relations specialist Dr. Gilbert Doctorow.

Bessent’s comments “are propagandistic rather than factual,” and what’s been touted as a “royal flush” is really an agreement that “enslaves Ukraine in the position of beggar,” according to Doctorow.

“Real facts are not relevant to the game Washington is playing, namely to wash its hands of the war,” the observer summed up.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20250502/geopolitical-royal-flush-or-empty-promises-whats-behind-trumps-minerals-deal-with-zelensky-1121968515.html

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

napoleon....

I, Volodymir Napoleonskyyy-y,

Will win this Waterloony-skyyy-y

As long as the big cannons

By the USA promised, turn up —

And are not completely blown up

By the nasty Duke of Putington’s.

We will fight with pulled slingshots

Like bitty Davids versus Goliaths

Against insane Russian Visigoths.

 

I, great deluded Napoleonskyyy-y,

Will win this Waterloony-skyyy-y

By many momentous occasions,

As the Germans on my side are,

Seeking fervent cold revenge —

For Russky-ya destroyed their Hitler,

Their nice conqueror benevolent —

My hero and sanity consultant,

Back into the dark stone age…

 

I, mad and loony Napoleonskyyy-y

Will win this Waterloony-skyyy-y

With my Azov nazi companions

Who fought in steely Mariupol

And took a heavy big toll,

And with the Western fascists

With the God-chosen warmongering Zionists

I will win pure death for this country

To heaven or hell, I will die happy-loony…

 

                       — Robert Urbanoski

                           FIRST POSTED 30 MAY 2022

polishing a turd....

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said that US President Donald Trump adjusted his view of the Russia-Ukraine conflict following their brief, impromptu meeting at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican last week. According to him, the discussion stood in sharp contrast to the heated argument the two had in the White House in February.

On April 26, Zelensky and Trump met on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral and spoke for 15 minutes without aides or interpreters. “I think the conversation I had with Trump was the best we’ve had so far. It was possibly the shortest, but also the most substantive. With all due respect to our teams, I believe the tête-à-tête format worked well. The discussion had the right atmosphere,” Zelensky told reporters on Saturday.

“I’m sure that after our meeting at the Vatican, President Trump will see things a bit differently … I believe we conducted ourselves constructively and with decency, which is important,” he added.

I see him as calmer. I think he understands the picture. And I think he wants to make a deal,” Trump said of Zelensky last Sunday. “It was a beautiful meeting, I tell you, it was the nicest office I’ve ever seen. It was a beautiful scene.”

Zelensky’s trip to the US in February was cut short after Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance accused him of being ungrateful for military aid and acting disrespectfully during their meeting in the Oval Office. Zelensky later said he regretted the incident but refused to issue a formal apology.

Trump has since toned down his criticism of Kiev, as his team continues efforts to broker a truce between Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky, however, has accused Trump’s top negotiator, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, of “spreading Russian narratives.”

Ukraine has rejected Russia’s proposal for a 72-hour truce starting on May 8, instead pushing for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire. Russia has insisted that for any comprehensive ceasefire to succeed, Ukraine must halt its mobilization drive and stop receiving weapons from abroad. Moscow also demanded that Kiev withdraw troops from territories it claims are under “illegal occupation.”

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/616715-zelensky-reflecting-trump-meeting/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.