After Contentious White House Meeting with Zelensky, Trump Cancels Military Aid to the Ukraine
Breaking news. White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt has just announced that the US will no longer be funding the war in the Ukraine, but will be focusing on peace.
The reports are spawning constantly now, so I will leave you to search up the source you prefer, rather than whatever I can link here. It is obvious that the contentious discussion with Volodomyr Zelensky has impacted US policy towards that war, and President Trump has doubled down on his stated intention to bring peace to the war torn country - even if it's President Zelensky wants to keep the war going.
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Good news bro!
I have to agree, regardless of why we aren't funding war, I don't think we should be funding war.
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I doubt they even know what that is.
But I see this is good news also. If Zelonskies can't ride the snowy slopes on his own, during the Russians blizzard storm his administration created and all other third parties involved, like NATO, he shouldn't ride it. But it's too late now. He's going down hill fast. I wonder if he can make the big jump.
Zelensky has too obviously extracted his share of kickbacks from the constant stream of $B's in war funding. He has a mansion in Miami ~$40M, and another in Egypt, at least, and he didn't buy those with is salary as Ukraine's President. So, he's got to disappear, but how he can disappear, and where he could go, isn't immediately obvious. He can't follow Assad to Russia, for obvious reasons. Iran maybe? Somalia? His mentor Ihor Kholomoisky retired in Israel. Maybe Tel Aviv is where he'll alight under a new name, like Zebenyahu or something.
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Who didn't see this coming?
I suppose a lot of people do not have a good handle on the rampant corruption wars are really all about, and are shocked anyone could do such a thing. I wish I could be shocked by it again. I miss being naive.
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Dear @valued-customer !
Many East Asians also consider Zelensky to be corrupt and incompetent!
By the way, Do you think Trump will hand Ukraine over to Putin?
Trump has no say over over what gets handed over land wise. Russia won and the Russian ethnics in east Ukraine will indeed split off. Trump isn’t giving anything. Russia won it in war.
Dear @yuribezmenov !
I am glad meet to you!
Are you russian?
I am east asian!
I guess Russia will have a hard time because of the damage it suffered in the Ukraine war!
I think America has gained the most from the war in Ukraine!
Russia is stronger now than before the war.
Dear @geneeverett !
I am glad meet to you!
I am east asian!
Where are you from?
East Asians like me believe that America has benefited the most from the war in Ukraine!
The corrupt leaders yes. The people no. (In terms of America benefiting)
I am curious what you think America gained from the war in the Ukraine?
Dear my respected senior, @valued-customer !
Many Japanese and Koreans now speculate that the United States has ambitions to dominate China!
Russia suffered heavy casualties and material damage in the war in Ukraine. So, when China confronts the United States and Japan, Russia cannot support China.
I assumed that China would succumb to pressure from the US and Japan!
I hope to see you in the US soon in the future!
I believe you will teach me a lot of important knowledge!
I want to tell you the hidden truths of East Asia! I want the whole of Asia to receive the gospel of Jesus!
I hope your health and long life!😃
I have no confidence in that claim. During WWII Russia spent tens of millions of lives to defeat Germany. I doubt it has lost 1M so far in this war for it's survival. However, I am confident Trump seeks economic prosperity first, and if he can gain a mutual trade with China - undefiled by illegal infiltration of criminals and fentanyl across the US border - Trump will happily develop an accord with China, with Russia, and even with the EU, if such can be created without military conflict.
Now China wants to dominate Taiwan to dominate the global semiconductor market!
But, Japan intends to compete with China to dominate the global semiconductor market.
So, Japan and China want to dominate Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
Trump seeks a peaceful agreement with China for economic gain, but Japan and China are willing to start a war to seize Taiwan.
Allied together, or each separately to benefit themselves? I do not see any potential today for China and Japan to ally.
Also, the cost to either of taking Taiwan would be far beyond any benefits they might gain, particularly as the chip foundries are mined and will be blown to smithereens if a foreign military gains possession of Taiwan. China has far more economic benefit potential from cooperation with the USA, and so does Japan to continue it, than either has to gain from military hostilities over Taiwan.
Taiwan will never be ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. The Taiwanese would rather be ruled by Japan!
I have sometimes speculated that Taiwan could conquer the mainland, and China be re-united.
Dear @valued-customer !
As a normalperson who studies Chinese history, I don't remember any historical event where Taiwan conquered China!😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koxinga
The separation of the mainland and people of the island of Formosa has never before been informed by all but unlimited military support of the Islanders by the USA.
Since ancient times, Taiwan has always had a history of being conquered and ruled by mainland Chinese.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-relations-tension-us-policy-trump
I didn't say I planned on it. I did use the word speculate, which isn't even a hypothesis. There are different forces at play today than there have been in the past, such as the power of the USG being behind Taiwan.
China certainly has to consider that possibility, even though it's never happened before, at least as far as we know. There is an old aphorism I believe China keeps in mind regarding this novel circumstance, which is that 'There's always a first time.'
USA will get all the Oil, Gas, Minerals and Russia will get nothing. Putin was tricked by Trump. It’s all a big show.
We should be so lucky.
Hopefully they get some Potash…. Without Potash American farmers can’t grow food.
First, I don't think Trump has the Ukraine to hand over. The Ukrainians have most of it, and Russia has reclaimed the rest. >1000 years ago, the area that is now called the Ukraine was where Russia came into being, as the Kievan Rus came to power there.
IMG source - Original.Antiwar.com - Before the US Constitution had been written the Donbass was part of Russia
The borders of the modern Ukrainian state were created by the Tsars, in the 1920s by Lenin, and variously expanded thereafter, as parts of Poland, Hungary, and Romania were added to the Ukraine, which was an administrative region of the USSR. Similarly states in the USA can scarcely be considered sovereign nations after the Civil war proved they were administrative units of the USA in actual fact.
IMG source - Original.Antiwar.com
The collapse of the USSR in 1991 changed that, and that is what actually created the modern Ukrainian state. While we don't hear much from states that have been shredded and reformed by WWII, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, at least, all have claims on clay today in the possession of the Ukraine, and I find it far more likely that they will gain that clay than that Russia will. Were I Putin, I would try very hard to convince the Donald to offer those states in the EU that clay back - if the EU would cease funding war in the Ukraine. If Trump makes the offer, and Putin agrees, that puts enormous pressure on both the EU and the Ukraine to end the war at the cost of clay that was never rightfully theirs, but gains them agreements of peace from all belligerents, and the prospect of international commerce that isn't covert military operations funded by spooks. The only clay that is truly Ukrainian was that held by the Zaporozhian Cossacks, and gaining the north of the Ukraine as a concession from Russia would be in incredible boon worth $T's, because it includes the actual birthplace of the Russian empire, Kiev.
The affliction of Donald Tusk on Poland was a remarkable coup when it was recently done, and occasioned extraordinary political disruption, unprecedented arrests of Polish opposition politicians, and desecration of Polish law and political traditions. Hungary has withstood such nonsense, to the great gnashing of Ursula Von der Leyen's vicious fangs. Romania has recently been very obviously couped by the EU, and just now hundreds of thousands of Romanians protest in the streets against that coup, and demand their preferred candidate, Calin Georgescu, be allowed to assume his rightful office of President they have chosen him to serve.
IMG source - daily_romania on x.com
It is quite possible all three of those countries have a large majority of their civilian populations that are vehemently against EU warmongering in the Ukraine, and would rise up in fervent support were their rightful clay, seized by the USSR after WWI and WWII, returned in exchange for mutual peace, or even alliance against the EU that has proved willing to overthrow those countries to press for war in the Ukraine. Certainly the relevant populations presently in the Ukraine would be enormously in favor of joining the countries that are part of the EU.
So, no, Trump will not give Putin the Ukraine, but might help give the Ukraine back to the countries from which it was carved by the USSR, in exchange for peace with Russia for all parties.
I didn't know that Hungary, Poland and Romania wanted Ukrainian territory!😯
I assumed that Russia invaded Ukraine because it wanted Ukraine to become part of NATO!
Just as it would be painful if your mother married your enemy, it is similarly painful for Russia to see it's birthplace become allied with it's enemies. The complex legal machinations that have been employed to cow and bribe EU states, even recent coups, have buried those claims of traditional lands in the actions of the EU, it's economic power, and generations of disconnect, all create shade cast on prior holdings. The peoples descended from those nations presently part of the Ukraine would clamor to be rejoined to those nations today part of the EU, not least for the economic and political benefits they would gain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
The Crimean War that took place in the 19th century was caused by Russia's desire to advance into the Mediterranean through Ukraine.
I wonder if the EU can drive Russia out of Ukraine without US support!
They don't. Even with US support, Russia has been winning the war. Without US support, which was the bulk of money and materiel availed the Ukraine, there soon would be little to no resistance of the Ukraine to Russian advance.
That is unhappy!
I’d disagree. It means this will finally end. That’s good.
Dear @yuribezmenov !
I said it in the sense of being unhappy from a Ukrainian point of view!😂
The Russian empire began in the land today called the Ukraine, more than 1000 years ago, when the Kievan Rus became powerful there. Many of the people of the Ukraine are Russian ethnically, have extended families in Russia, speak Russian, eat Russian food. When the Russian empire was overthrown in the early 20th Century, Lenin created the Ukraine as an administrative region of the newly created USSR. As the USSR expanded, particularly after WWII, more land was added to that administrative entity.
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, that is when the Ukraine became a country separate from Russia.
The part in the middle was ruled by the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who weren't really anything other than warlords, so it wasn't a state. Today Cossacks are an ethnic group granted certain privileges in Russia.
The war was incited by Zionazi gangs like Azov and Right Sector - actually Nazis and actually Zionist, run by Ihor Kholomoisky - gaining power from NED/CIA training them and providing them funds and weapons to use to overthrow the government of the Ukraine during the Maidan, and then to commit terrorist attacks on Russian speaking Ukrainians, whom are almost the whole population in the south and southeast of the Ukraine, which is called the Donbass.
When Ukrainian forces massed on the border of the Donbass and threatened to genocide those people with families in Russia, that is when Russia began the SMO and Russian forces invaded the Ukraine to protect those people and 'denazify' the Ukraine.
So, the Ukrainian people have never really had a Ukrainian state, having always been part of Poland, Hungary, Sweden, and Russia variously for the last 1000 years or so, and the only people that really lose anything are the Zionazi thugs that the CIA armed and trained to wage a terror campaign against the Ukrainian people.
For almost all the people of the Ukraine, the most important thing is to end the war and to have a stable government again. Most of them would rather be part of the EU, because the EU has been more prosperous than Russia in recent decades. But even peace under Russia is better than war, and Russia has been greatly improving it's economic circumstances since Putin and the oligarchs gained power. All governments are organized crime, and centralizing control of the gang running Russia has enabled the crimelords to benefit from investments that improve the economy.
Other than the Zionazis, I don't think most Ukrainians will be unhappy the war ends and their families are no longer in danger of being captured and thrown into the trenches at the front.
Dear @valued-customer !
Your arguments are shocking!😦
People around me think that the war in Ukraine happened because Ukraine wanted to become part of NATO!
I assumed that after the end of the Ukrainian war, the US would ally with Japan to dominate China!
You have demonstrated a facility with history, and have a grasp of English that makes the requisite written material of use to you. You can undertake to read a history of Russia to divine the specifics of the wars and conquests of the region, and by doing so will come to understand why it is referred to as the Ukraine, not generally as Ukraine. Ukraine means 'borderlands' and the Ukraine has continually been the perimeter of the Eastern European states and the Western Asian states. Because of where geographical features are, the mountains to the south and west, swamps to the north and west, frigid wastes further north unworthy of contemplation by men with any better prospects, and the Black Sea that presents an impassable barrier to carts and horse, the Ukraine becomes the boundary that is defended on the east, and must be penetrated to press further west by any Asian steppe lord that would sack Europe, pillage it's villages, and take their women.
Dear @valued-customer !
I always appreciate your kindness and generosity!😄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avret_Pazarlar%C4%B1
Historians of East Asia know the historical fact that the Islamic Empire and the Ottoman Empire always hunted and traded Europeans as slaves! Since the slave hunting and slave trade of Islamic civilization has been taking place since the Middle Ages in Southeast Asia, India, and East Asia, modern East Asians do not like Islamic civilization!
The taking of slaves almost certainly predates history, and has sullied every polity prior to the present day I am aware of. I don't like slavers either.
Why does everyone insist that Zelensky is the one who wants war? There is no guarantee that Putin will stop the killing, even if Zelensky capitulates.
Putin wants to keep the war going more than anyone else involved, yet nobody asks him to withdraw the troops that are perpetuating this war. The idea that Zelensky alone determines whether or not Ukraine stays at war is not factual, or even sensible; it's a distraction from reality.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the genesis of the ongoing invasion of the Ukraine, and any of the voluminous evidence of the fraud and theft of the aid provided to the Ukraine by the West. Military weapons and materiel that have been sent to the Ukraine have turned up in the possession of Mexican cartels, terrorists in the EU and MENA, and fielded by the Russian MOD, and have been shown to be for sale on the dark web for pennies on the dollar.
Zelensky has been shown to have purchased a mansion in Miami for ~$40M, and another property in Egypt under a family member's name. An almost inexhaustible litany of accusations and proofs of theft by fraud, kickbacks to facilitating politicians, and the full breadth of ways in which corruption can be implemented, has been demonstrated to be the common practice of the Ukrainian government.
Additionally, after the initial burst of patriotic Ukrainian men have been killed, the Ukraine today resorts to snatch and grab operations to acquire men to throw into the trenches at the fronts. The best estimates I have seen are that >1M Ukrainians have already been killed by these means, and their surviving friends and family rightfully hold Zelensky responsible for their deaths. Absent the ongoing war Zelensky has no flow of $B's from the West to steal, and the legal processes that have been implemented in the Ukraine to prevent elections, investigations of fraud and abuse, and prosecutions for treason and murder will no longer be potential. Zelensky's pipeline of funds to steal will end, and his ability to avoid execution for his war crimes will no longer protect him. If the war ends, he will have no hope of survival except flight to some haven for criminals, such as Israel, where his mentor Ihor Kholomoisky today resides, enjoying the $B's he has acquired by his crimes in the Ukraine.
Putin has no reason to want the war at all, and never did. The Russian peoples in the Donbass were being attacked by terrorists for years, and in 2022 Ukrainian military forces massed on the borders of the Donbass to undertake a genocide of the families of Russians that lived there, and that is why the Russian MOD entered the Ukraine with the purpose of denazification, because it is the Zionazi street gangs that Ihor Kholomoisky used to physically seize Ukrainian businesses, and that were later trained and funded by the NED/CIA to overthrow the Ukrainian government during the Maidan, that have been the core of the terrorist forces in the Ukrainian military, such as Azov and Right Sector.
IMG source - CommunCommune.com
Corrupt politicians, their enemedia lapdogs, and the criminal organizations that have concentrated in the Ukraine since it's creation in the collapse of the USSR in 1991 has enabled Zelensky to steal a lot of money by killing a lot of people, and as long as he can continue to kill people and steal money he will. The end of war will be the end of his murderous crime spree, and begin his forced retirement - if he can manage to avoid execution for his crimes.
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The Russians in the Donbas attacked others for years, then cried 'terrorist' when the people attacked back. Classic false flag, to create a reason for the war.
Zelensky has not been the president since 1991, we wasn't elected in a landslide until 2019. Until he became president, oligarchs were fleecing the nation. Russian oligarchs.
If Putin doesn't want the war, he can leave, and declare Russia a safe place for all Russians that want to flee Ukraine.
He sure didn't have to cross borders, unless he wanted war.
Putin has stated, often and publicly, that he desires to return Russia to the full glory of the USSR. That's why he went in to Ukraine, and it's probably the only reason. He sure didn't do it to save any Russians, unless he's incredibly stupid, because hundreds of thousands of Russians have been killed during the invasion. That's close to 10x the number of Russians you think he wanted to 'save' in Donbas.
You have no evidence of this. It's a baseless claim.
They always have, and his patron Ihor Kholomoisky right at the top of the heap.
You mention his election, when he ran on a peace platform, which was why he won - and a platform he completely belied.
You're just making shit up.
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