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euronazis supporting yuckrainian nazi losers....![]() Zelenskyy and Europe agree five principles for peace deal with Russia German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Ukraine's European allies have agreed on five main requirements for a peace deal with Russia. "We want President Donald Trump to be successful in Anchorage on Friday," Merz said following the virtual call he organized ahead of Trump's Alaska summit with Putin. "We want negotiations to take place in the right order," said Merz, alongside the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin. Merz stressed that the ceasefire must be the starting point. Essential elements should then be agreed in a framework agreement, he added. Thirdly, Merz said, "Ukraine is ready to negotiate on territorial issues." He added, "However, the so-called line of contact must be the starting point and legal recognition of Russian occupation is out of the question. The principle that borders may not be changed by force must continue to apply." Fourthly, Merz called for "robust security guarantees for Kyiv" and for Ukraine's ability to defend itself to be maintained. Lastly, any future negotiations must be part of "a common trans-Atlantic strategy," he added.
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What Ukrainians expect of the Putin-Trump summit Soon after the August 15 meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska was announced, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put out a video warning against excluding his country from the talks. "Any decisions made against us, any decisions made without Ukraine, are decisions made against peace. They will not work," said Zelenskyy. Are Ukrainian experts and politicians optimistic about the upcoming talks between Trump and Putin? Or do they doubt there will be a real breakthrough? Read more to find out what Ukrainians hope to see from the high-stakes Putin-Trump summit
=========================== US urges Europe to join sanctions against nations buying Russia oil US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called on Europe to join sanctions against countries that purchase Russian oil. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Bessent said that European countries must be willing to support these secondary sanctions. Last week, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order, hitting India with an additional 25% tariffs as punishment for the country's purchase of Russian oil. Bessent also said that Trump will "make it clear" to Russian President Vladimir Putin at their meeting in Alaska on Friday that "all options are on the table." "Sanctions can go up, or they can be loosened. They can have a definitive life, they can go on indefinitely," he added.
======================== 'Coalition of the Willing' leaders present their stance on Ukraine ceasefire pathway After a virtual meeting, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, co-chairs of the so-called "Coalition of the Willing," presented their stance on the path to peace in Ukraine. "Ukraine must have robust and credible security guarantees to effectively defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity," said the joint statement, two days ahead of the planned Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Sanctions and wider economic measures to put pressure on Russia's war economy should be strengthened if Russia does not agree to a ceasefire in Alaska," it said. According to the statement, the alliance is ready to play an active role, "including through plans by those willing to deploy a reassurance force once hostilities have ceased." "No limitations should be placed on Ukraine's armed forces or on its cooperation with third countries. Russia could not have a veto against Ukraine's pathway to EU and NATO," it added.
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Poland's Tusk: Russia wants to link reducing NATO troops in any Ukraine talks Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that Russia wants to include the reduction of NATO troops in any talks about the future of Ukraine. "We are hearing for the past several days that the Russians would very much like to include talks about reducing NATO's presence, for example in Poland, in talks about the future of Ukraine," he said. "That is why it is so important that we build such a strong and united group of states, both in relation to Russia, but also in relation to other allies, like the United States," Tusk added. He held two separate virtual calls with European leaders on Wednesday, according to government spokesman Adam Szlapka. But during a teleconference with US President Donald Trump, it was Polish President Karol Nawrocki who took part — not Tusk. Nawrocki, who won a narrow victory over his pro-EU rival in June, was backed by Trump during the presidential campaign. He has pledged continued support for Ukraine's defense against Russia, but opposes its accession to NATO.
===================== Germany to pay for US arms for Ukraine through NATO Germany plans to fund a $500 million (€426 million) package of US-sourced military equipment and munitions for Ukraine, according to a NATO statement published on Wednesday. This will be carried out under NATO's new Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte applauded Germany for the decision. "I commend Germany for stepping up once again. This delivery will help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression," said the NATO chief. After the US, Germany is the largest military backer of Ukraine. "Germany is the largest European contributor of military aid to Ukraine, and today’s announcement further underlines its commitment to help the Ukrainian people defend their freedom and sovereignty," Rutte added.
=================== Trump suggests three-way call with Putin, Zelenskyy after Alaska meeting US President Donald Trump said that if the Alaska meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin goes okay, "we'll have a quick second meeting." "I would like to do it almost immediately, And we'll have a quick second meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy and myself, if they'd like to have me there," Trump added. He also said there may be a second meeting. "If I feel that it’s not appropriate to have it, because I didn't get the answers that we have to have, then we're not going to have a second meeting," said Trump. He also said after his talks with the Russian leader, he would call Zelenskyy and European leaders to debrief. The US president stressed that if Putin doesn't agree to stop the war after Friday's summit, there will be "very severe consequences
================= UK's Starmer: Military plans ready in event of ceasefireBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that military plans to support Ukraine are ready to be implemented in the event of a ceasefire in its war with Russia. The military plans "are now ready in a form that can be used if we get to that ceasefire," Starmer said at the the virtual meeting between the Coalition of the Willing, an alliance supporting Ukraine. Starmer added that, in an earlier teleconference with US President Donald Trump, they had made "real progress" on security guarantees for Ukraine to ensure a lasting peace. The British leader also said that there is now a "viable" chance for a Ukraine ceasefire due to Trump's work. "For three and a bit years this conflict has been going, we haven't got anywhere near... a viable way of bringing it to a ceasefire," Starmer told European leaders. "Now we do have that chance because of the work that the (US) president has put in," he added.
=========== Macron: US wants to achieve ceasefire at Alaska summit Following the teleconference with US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Trump was "very clear" that the US wants to achieve a ceasefire at the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The second point on which things were very clear, as expressed by President Trump, is that territories belonging to Ukraine cannot be negotiated and will only be negotiated by the Ukrainian president," Macron told reporters. Following his meeting with the Russian leader, Trump will also push for a future trilateral meeting — one involving Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy, according to Macron. The French president said that he hoped such a meeting could be held in Europe "in a neutral country that is acceptable to all parties." "There are currently no serious territorial exchange schemes on the table," Macron added.
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THERE SHOULD NOT BE A CEASEFIRE... A PEACE DEAL, SURE... THE EURONAZIS ARE IN A PANIC BECAUSE A PERMANENT PEACE DEAL WHICH HAS TO BE FAVOURABLE TO RUSSIA WOULD SHOW THE USELESSNESS OF THEIR SUPPORT FOR A YUCKRAINE THAT HAS LOST THE HISTORICAL MOMENTUM FOR GOOD REASONS... YUCKRAINE HAS BEEN CORRUPT AND NAZI FOR FAR TOO LONG....
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.
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HAVING TURNED NAZI, THE WEST KNOWS IT BUT CANNOT STOMACH IT.
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When the World Meets on the Edge of the Map
BY Phil Butler
In the frozen calculus of modern geopolitics, Alaska is more than a speck on the map—it is a listening post between two worlds that never stopped staring at each other. Now, whispers of a Trump–Putin meeting on this northern edge of America carry the weight of both history and unfinished business. As Washington prepares for another “dialogue” with Moscow, the same undercurrents that defined the Cold War churn just beneath the ice.An anticipated Trump–Putin meeting in Alaska promises high-stakes diplomacy wrapped in Cold War echoes, where the venue, the optics, and the silences may prove as consequential as any agreements reached.
There are places where power gathers that seem to hum with a strange electricity—rooms, islands, border posts—but sometimes the map itself becomes the stage. On August 15, the long Arctic light of Alaska illuminates two men whose shadowplay has been running for decades: Vladimir Putin, coming not as the vanquished pariah the ICC hoped to brand him, but as a leader who still bends the narrative, and Donald Trump, arriving with that gambler’s grin that hides either a winning hand or a bluff big enough to change the table. Between them, the suggestion—never the promise—of peace.
The whole world awaits the outcome of what may become one of the most significant moments of the early 21st centuryThe Messages of Geography
From Moscow’s view, the choice of venue is not an accident but a precision strike in optics: a half-remembered American frontier, stitched to Russia by the history of a sale that once seemed foolish and now looks almost prophetic, a place far enough from Brussels and Kyiv to hold conversations in the clear air without the polite suffocation of European chancelleries. The West can read it as a risk or an opening; Putin reads it as a negotiation without witnesses, a chance to set the terms not just for Ukraine’s bleeding borders but for the story the world will tell in twenty years.
Meanwhile, on the European continent, there is already stiffening against the script. Donald Tusk and other leaders have made it plain that Ukraine’s absence from the table would be more than a snub—it would be the quiet drafting of a surrender document. Yet even in their objections, there is the weary recognition that major settlements are rarely brokered in the daylight of public forums; they are born in closed rooms where the language is plausible deniability, and the ink is a handshake. If Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears in Alaska, it will be as both witness and insurance policy, though one suspects his chair will be placed just slightly off-center, the better to keep an eye on the two men in the middle.
The Frontier Stage
For Trump, this meetup is more than diplomacy; it is theater. Alaska offers him a platform to stand not as a candidate but as a statesman-in-waiting, the man who could bring home a peace his predecessors failed to secure. The Arctic backdrop, the faint taste of the frontier, and the subtle reminder of U.S.-Russian entanglements long before NATO—all these give him the cinematic frame he craves. But theater can be costly. If the meeting produces nothing, the optics will turn, and the man who came as a peacemaker will be painted as a showman playing with the fate of nations.
For Russia’s Putin, it is the inverse. He does not need a spectacle; he needs a stage on which his presence alone rewrites the narrative of isolation. Alaska is far enough from the red carpets of Beijing or the negotiating tables of Tehran to suggest an unforced choice, a place where the Kremlin can signal openness without conceding ground. Whether or not a deal is struck, the very act of arriving will be cast in Moscow as proof that the West must speak with him directly, not through proxies or ultimatums.
Between the Lines
The thing about meetings like this is that they are never just about what’s on the agenda. They are about who has the initiative when the doors open, who will be able to claim later that they “secured the peace,” and whether the rest of us notice that peace in such contexts is often a synonym for a pause between moves. The world will watch the handshake in Alaska, but the real game will unfold in the silences between sentences and in the agreements that will never be printed. In that sense, the summit is not an event—it is a maneuver, a shift in position on the global chessboard, the meaning of which will only be clear years from now, when we can see which pieces were quietly moved in those long, Arctic hours.
The whole world awaits the outcome of what may become one of the most significant moments of the early 21st century, where détente and the saving of human life are concerned, at least.
https://journal-neo.su/2025/08/12/when-the-world-meets-on-the-edge-of-the-map/
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