Arriving at Nato headquarters early on Thursday, Europe's defence ministers had one common message - that there could be no negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine and Europe at the table too.

The question is to what extent the US is listening.

After a frenetic 24 hours of US declarations, there is a tangible sense that Europe's leaders have been caught by surprise; that they now fear being bypassed on any potential Ukraine deal and being deprived of a voice on the future of European security.

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock spoke of Donald Trump's call with Vladimir Putin as being "very much out of the blue", even if the US president had made it clear for months that he was aiming to bring a quick end to the war.

Despite US President Donald Trump threatening Brics with 100% tariffs and declaring its death, the group remains important to India and is central to India’s multilateral engagement to secure national interests

 

Continuing his criticism of Brics, US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the death of the group.

For months, Trump has been threatening Brics members with 100 per cent tariffs over concern regarding ‘dedollarisation’, referring to the purported efforts to dislodge US Dollar as the primary currency of international trade.

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage have been announced as speakers at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference later this month alongside close allies of President Donald Trump and his anti-climate agenda, DeSmog can reveal.

ARC is a network of influential right-wing figures from across the world, and the group claims that its conference in London will “work to re-lay the foundations of civilisation”.

 

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to Speak at ‘Glastonbury for Climate Deniers’

 

By Sam Bright

 

 

 

CNN — Federal agencies across Washington are finding ways to keep funding frozen even after judges last month temporarily blocked the White House’s effort to pause trillions of dollars in federal assistance.

Ukraine was never promised NATO membership as part of any peace agreement with Russia, the US-led military bloc’s Secretary-General Mark Rutte has said. He added that the bloc should only ensure a new conflict between Moscow and Kiev will not break out in the future, he added.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Rutte said Kiev’s potential accession had never been tied to resolution of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“We have to make sure that Vladimir Putin never ever tries again to attack Ukraine, that is crucial ... but it has never been a promise to Ukraine that as part of [a] peace deal they would be part of NATO,” Rutte said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWXzye1ozf4

Mitch McConnell TORCHED as Secretary of HHS is sworn in

 

Watch Mitch McConnell get TORCHED by Trump after he voted NO again. This comes as the Secretary of HHS has been sworn in. Left Wing Media continues to MELTDOWN. Linda McMahon calls out the federal bureaucracy during her nomination hearing. And New York AG Letitia James fires back at Pam Bondi after getting slapped with a stunning lawsuit.

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

The presentation discusses President Donald Trump’s approach to negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. Analysts, including John Bolton and former British Commodore Steve Jeremy, argue that Trump has effectively "surrendered" to Putin by adopting negotiation terms that align with Russia’s interests before formal talks have even begun.

Key points include:

European Shock & Strategic Failures: Many European leaders and U.S. officials express surprise and concern over Trump’s stance, but analysts argue that this reaction stems from a long-standing strategic miscalculation by Western elites. NATO and Western leaders have consistently misjudged the situation by pushing political narratives rather than military strategy.

The depth of Australia’s slide into an irrelevant and untrustworthy minnow on the global stage was demonstrated when distinguished UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese described the Australian prime minister’s refusal to criticise Donald Trump’s plan to turn Gaza into a neo-colonial capitalist venture for the benefit of his family and friends, as “pathetic”.

 

Australian politicians are now just pathetic beyond measure    By Peter Henning

 

“Let’s not mince words about what this represents: a surrender of Ukraine’s interests and our own, even before negotiations begin,” says U.S. Senator Adam Schiff.

Kyiv’s backers reacted with shock and outrage to U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he had spoken with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and would “start negotiations immediately” with him about the Ukraine war.

U.S. Senator Adam Schiff, a long-time Trump critic who was the lead prosecutor in the Republican’s first impeachment trial, called the president “a great dealmaker all right — for the Kremlin.”

 

Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism.

 

It is hard to overestimate the significance of the recent phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He also noted that the presidents have instructed their teams to lay the groundwork for the summit.

The call on Wednesday marked the first known conversation between the US and Russian leaders since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. Trump has since signaled that he is “okay” with keeping Ukraine out of NATO and suggested that it is “unlikely” that Kiev could regain all of the territory it has lost to Russia over the past decade. Trump also noted that the presidents had exchanged invitations to visit each other’s countries.

Donald Trump stated that he wants the European Union to purchase weapons for Ukraine. Ursula von der Leyen has met with JD Vance and they discussed energy security, trade between the EU and the US and also the situation in Ukraine. Pete Hegseth will not announce a new military support package for Ukraine during the Ramstein meeting of Ukraine Defence Contact Group.

Ursula Has Just Decided The FATE Of Europe

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9WCpd--l1I

 

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

Donald Trump has announced his intention to build a gigantic anti-ballistic missile system to counter Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons, and he is recruiting Elon Musk to help him. The Pentagon has long dreamed of constructing an American “Iron Dome.”

 

“Trump appears to have a better understanding of the causes and conditions of the Ukraine-Russia and US/NATO versus Russia conflict,” retired US Air Force Lt. Col and ex-DoD analyst Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik, commenting on Wednesday’s lengthy telephone conversation between the Russian and US leaders and its focus on Ukraine.

“His tendency to be practical (something we are not seeing in his Israel-Gaza policy) is apparent here. The signal is one of deal making and practicality,” Kwiatkowski said.

The call comes at a decisive moment, the observer stressed, pointing out that Congress will be teeing up a new package of aid to Ukraine shortly, with current commitments to run dry in March, as Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE sniff out “the fraud and corruption of the Biden Ukraine project.”

“Take wisdom from the mouths of mad men” is an old Arabic proverb. It sprang to mind a couple of days ago, when I heard the narcissist leader of the “civilised” world, President Donald Trump, openly calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

 

Letter to the leaders of the civilised world    By Jafar Ramini

 

Trump clearly said that Gaza is a “hell”; Gaza is totally destroyed, Gaza is uninhabitable and that Israel will hand it over to him, “when they finish the job”, that is, and that he will turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East. 

I agree with Trump. Gaza is hell. Gaza is totally flattened. Gaza is not fit for human habitation.