Trump enters the stage

That is true. Some such trumpeted echoes are just meant as ironic disbursements, as do comic relief hide deeper shadows ghosting the global environment.

Why indeed? The deeper one goes , the more pressure to cope with, as visibility is further encrusted with false starts, traveling downwards to spaces less traveled.

The sleight of hand gesture exhibited here masks the global irony which could no ways be expressed as a majority opinion, and the proof is in the pudding there.

But to take a stab at it, the economy is still based on Wall Street through Washington DC and not the other way around, and that is the answer to the deeply stated question, where conjunctive variables are not meant to mystify, only to simplify so that some sense other then the ones written on walls could bring some sanity world wide.

And again;

Why? Because the line in the sand is more not less is evidently pushed as a marker, beyond which patience ceases to function by Putin than by Trump, as the agreed to peace talks break down, for even while promising more talks of agreements, Putin lets go barrages of missles, targeting day care centers and hospitals,

Then. Trump signs agreements with Germany to accelerate patriot missle production so as to sell them to said Germans as replacements.

It is proven that the middles are highly valuable protection.

Trump not actually being an asshole for once?

Genuinely doing something that doesn’t make the world worse?

https://rumble.com/v6wym60-big-pharma-just-got-obliterated..html?e9s=rel_v2_ep

Yes it actually seems legitimate this time.

In a Surprise to No One who is paying the slightess attention, U.S. Inflation Report Shows Effects of Trump’s Tariffs

More evidence that Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing, in case anyone is unclear about that: The Consumer Price Index rose 2.7 percent from a year ago, as President Trump’s tariffs intensified price pressures across a wider range of consumer goods and services.

Time to Fire whoever reported that stat

Another plus for Trump this time around. The last one was not nearly as significant but as I remember, it had to be the one where Trump approved the resumption of weapon shipments to Ukraine.

Question: how do these pronouncements gear to a neutral observer status for the US?

Are rules of law signify a frame , within which substance can be filled in, or out , or up and or down whatever like a blank check Putin will rubber stamp?

Tomorrow the face off. Who thinks who wins? 2 strikes (above) - good (@ face value,

Ok. Let’s consider another face in yesterdays face off, which relates to the question posed above.

In order to fathom it, it’s worthwhile to look at the following commentary from a proto-objective stance:

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“A Death Blow Is Coming for the
Dollar” — Peter Schiff

Putin’s Revenge
Putin and His Allies Met to End America’s Might on the Global Monetary Stage.

Discover the Immediate Actions to Take in the Next 48 Hours to Protect Your Wealth and Family From Financial Devastation as the U.S. Loses Its Most Powerful Weapon . . .

Hello, my name is John Browne.

As a former adviser to President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . . .

I’ve been the media’s go-to guy for the biggest developments in international affairs.

From the terrorist attacks in Paris . . .

To the rise of Brexit . . .

The rise of socialism in America . . .

As well as the war in Ukraine.

But today, I’m reaching out to share a message that is far too controversial for the mainstream press.

If you’re one of the people who thinks there’s much more to the war in Ukraine than the media has reported, I’m here to confirm your suspicions.

This war marks a turning point in history for the Western World.

Especially after what just happened.

Vladimir Putin launched an attack that we cannot turn back from.

The clock has been set. And it will affect the lives of everyone — yours, mine and our families — for decades to come.

This attack was launched neither by land nor by sea.

It was carried out in secret — 6,000 miles away from the battlefront.

And it won’t just help Russia win the war in Ukraine.

No. This time, Putin’s thinking much bigger than that.

If he has his way, this attack will reestablish Russia as the world’s next superpower — and change the face of the international monetary order for generations.

Putin — as well as his allies in China, Brazil, India, and South Africa — met to deliver a fatal blow to Ukraine’s most powerful ally . . .

The United States of America.

Again, this wasn’t a military attack.

Instead, they went after America’s most vital resource.

Not our oil. Not our technology. Not even our electric grid.

Instead, they attacked our money.

In short, Putin and his allies are plotting to overthrow the U.S. dollar . . .

And establish a new “Anti-Dollar” — to govern the world in its place.

These are no minor opponents.

They’re among the world’s fastest-growing economies — wielding a quarter of the Earth’s land, nearly half of the population, and $25 trillion in global trade.

And they’ve just doubled in size.

For the first time in more than a decade, new countries are joining their alliance . . .

Including . . .

Argentina — the second largest economy in South America after Brazil
Egypt — the largest economy in Africa
Ethiopia — one of the fastest growing and second most populous nations in Africa
Iran — the second largest nation in the Middle East
Saudi Arabia — the oil giant with a $2.3 trillion economy
And the United Arab Emirates — another resource-rich nation with $1 trillion in its sovereign wealth funds

And this may just be the start.

40 nations in total have expressed interest in joining this new Anti-Dollar alliance.

And it’s likely Putin will admit more of these countries to join them with each passing year.

Never before have so many nations moved to abandon the dollar all at once.

But make no mistake . . .

This is a plot that Putin has been devising for some time — ever since 2014, when the U.S. first placed sanctions against Russia after the invasion of Crimea.

So far, the media has failed to report the extent of this deadly offensive — likely because they have no idea what’s really going on.

I’m here to tell you the full story.

But I won’t stop there.

I’m also going to tell you how to position yourself to withstand this attack . . .

And even GROW your wealth before this attack reaches American shores.

This Attack Marks the End of American Dominance

But before I do . . .

First, to understand the extent of this blow . . .

We have to go back to July 1944.

That month, representatives from 44 countries met at a secluded resort in the mountains of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

As World War II was coming to an end, these men met to establish a new monetary order to govern the globe.

The results were three-fold:

The creation of the International Monetary Fund, or IMF . . .
The formation of the World Bank . . .
And the establishment of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency, a position it has held to this day.
Ever since, America has used this position to flex its power and might on the world stage.

From its 72 attempts at regime change during the Cold War . . .

Its questionable war in Iraq . . .

And the most recent sanctions against Russia.

But thanks to the events of Aug. 24, 2023, that power is coming to an end.

It all started when Putin invaded the neighboring country of Ukraine in March 2022, after NATO had pushed Ukraine to join their alliance.

Ukraine is arguably the most powerful military force in Europe. So, NATO membership was a major threat to Russia.

This is why Putin invaded, promising “consequences you have never seen” to any nation that interfered.

But America didn’t back down.

They responded by imposing additional sanctions that didn’t work . . .

So, the U.S. tried interfering in the war itself, authorizing $164 billion in Ukrainian aid.

$164 billion. That’s the same amount Congress proposed we cut from our own education, healthcare, and affordable housing for the poor.

Of that amount, $67 billion of it went straight to Ukrainian defense — that’s almost as much as Russia spends on its military in an entire year.

These attacks have proven ineffective as well.

Which is why Putin went on the offensive — by hitting America where it hurts the most.

The End of the Dollar

Putin’s allies assembled in Johannesburg, South Africa — 6,000 miles away from the war in Ukraine — to free themselves from the U.S. once and for all.

They did it by attacking America’s most powerful weapon . . .

The dollar.

You see, more so than our powerful military, the dollar has been America’s key source of strength for the last 80 years.

It’s how we can afford our $2 trillion spending in annual defense . . .

Over $3 trillion a year in entitlement spending . . .

And our colossal, $1.5 trillion deficit.

It’s also how we’ve been able to bail out massive, multinational corporations anytime there’s a major crash — like the $4 trillion we spent to stimulate the economy after 2008, and again after the economic shutdown in 2020.

The only reason we’re able to pay for it all is because the dollar has been the world’s reserve currency.

Without that status, the dollar will suffer a serious decline . . .

Risking massive hyperinflation — far worse than the 9% rate we saw last year, even worse than the 20% we saw in the 1970s.

As you can see, the effects of this attack have already started.

The dollar has been steadily losing ground over the last year, and even saw its worst two-day decline since 2009.

But friends, this is just the beginning.

As mentioned, Putin and his allies make up 25% of the world’s trade. Just 5 countries . . . and now 40 nations in total have expressed interest in joining them.

They include Pakistan . . . Afghanistan . . . Cuba . . . North Korea . . . even our neighboring country of Mexico.

Add them up, and all 40 nations make up over HALF of world trade.

And they’re all uniting under a single goal . . .

To create their own sovereign currency — and bypass the dollar once and for all.

I call it the “Anti-Dollar.”

Because it has the power to wreck the dollar’s might on the world stage.

You see, the reason why the dollar is so powerful is because the world’s central banks hold more of them in their foreign reserves than every other currency combined.

That’s because countries typically don’t pay each other in yuan, yen, ruble, rupee, or any of the other currencies . . .

They pay each other in dollars because it’s the global standard.

That’s why, as recently as last year, nearly 90% of the world’s trade was still settled in American currency.

Now, with 40 nations looking to join the new Anti-Dollar alliance, we could see the dollar’s share of global trade fall from almost 90% . . . to less than half.

And there’s nothing America can do to stop it.

Biden’s Biggest Blunder

You see, if President Trump was in charge, most countries wouldn’t have dared to bypass the dollar like this.

But that all changed the moment former President Biden declared sanctions against Russia.

Biden hoped that this tactic would get Putin to back down.

It didn’t. After all, Russia is a massive, oil-rich nation. It produces almost as many barrels per day as the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

So, it simply set up new trade deals with its allies — namely China and India.

These trade deals were so effective that Putin is now selling MORE oil than before he entered Ukraine.

And it’s all happened at the dollar’s expense.

Take a look at this chart.

As you can see, since abandoning the dollar, the volume of Russian-Chinese trade done in China’s currency, the yuan, has skyrocketed. In eight months, it’s up 8,000%.

This sent a message to the entire world:

We don’t need to fear American sanctions.
We’re stronger when we don’t let America tell us what to do.
And we don’t need to use the dollar as a middleman to trade with each other.
That’s why, ever since the war in Ukraine, more and more nations have been plotting to cut the dollar out of international trade.

This has all been happening over the last two years while few in the mainstream press were paying attention.

Brazil and Argentina — the two most dominant economies in South America — discussed adopting a joint currency to bypass the dollar.

China also replaced the U.S. as Brazil’s top trading partner — and struck a trade deal to ditch the dollar as well.

The United Arab Emirates and India both signed an agreement to settle trade in India’s currency, the rupee.

And for the first time in 50 years, Saudi Arabia’s minister of finance said they’re willing to drop the dollar as well.

Even the U.K. has begun settling a third of its trade in yuan.

This is a massive paradigm shift.

All at once, dozens of nations are conspiring to de-weaponize America’s most powerful tool — the dollar.

And now, they are uniting to establish their own Anti-Dollar, teaming up to pose a true threat to the dollar’s reign.

The results, for Americans, will be catastrophic.“

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Is this humongous issue is simply a test, of the NWO, wether capital could withstand the major shifts in geopolitical effects of gross decolonialism?

Or in other words, can the kinds of shortcuts be liberally taken using simulated programs, to decide the structural ordering that’s coming up?

Do Brave New World and Future Shock aligne themselves to such scenario? Have millennials even read them?

More questions then answers, but certainly no basis to evaluate AI on the basis of good&bad, where supposed entrance-exit issues determine the state , the status of some kind of baseline to argument.

Here is some comic relief to those worn to seeking any base lines:

https://youtube.com/shorts/whCyn_wFgWo?si=5N-jxipIzJl7m4s6

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But back to reality: The beat goes on, of the drums of non ending war drums, so the field changes accordingly:

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‘White House
Europe is sending heavy hitters to Washington alongside Ukraine’s president to bolster Kyiv
European leaders are on an all-out push to forestall Oval Office conflict at a crucial stage in diplomacy to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
President Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Friday has European leaders anxious that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won’t get the same friendly treatment. And they’re taking action to bolster Kyiv’s chances.
Plans are in the works to send at least one of Trump’s favorite interlocutors, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, along with Zelenskyy when he comes to Washington Monday to meet with Trump, according to two European diplomats and a person familiar with the matter. The idea is that Stubb can help prevent any flare-ups between Trump and Zelenskyy and convince the U.S. president to include Europe in any further talks.
Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska on Friday failed to deliver any breakthroughs and left the road ahead uncertain. Trump said he will meet Zelenskyy in Washington on Monday and then would try to bring the Ukrainian and Russian leaders together to work toward a peace agreement.
Europe and Ukraine see Monday’s summit as key to making sure that Trump does not accede to demands from Putin that they find unacceptable, such as ceding Ukrainian territory to Russia that Moscow has only partially taken control of.
Ukraine’s European allies are also keen to avoid another ambush of Zelenskyy that could upend ties in this delicate moment. A disastrous White House meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy in February set the relationship back for months.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte — who has cultivated a close relationship with Trump — may also make the trip to Washington, according to one person familiar with the matter.
Diplomats, European officials and people familiar with the negotiations were all granted anonymity so they could speak candidly and share details about tense international deliberations ahead of Monday’s Zelenskyy meeting in the Oval Office.
Trump said that he would meet first with Zelenskyy on Monday and then would look to bring Putin and the Ukrainian leader together for a trilateral session. Putin has so far rejected meeting with Zelenskyy and he gave no indication on Friday he had changed that position.
“It is clear that the outcome of the Alaska summit has risen concerns in Europe, as Trump seems to have bought a large portion of Putin’s argument,” said Camille Grand, a former top NATO official who has been in touch with senior European officials involved.
Trump has abandoned his threat of immediate sanctions on Russia should the meeting not yield a breakthrough and shifted away from seeking an immediate ceasefire to a comprehensive deal, adopting language close to Putin’s to talk about the end to the fighting. “The meeting is not viewed as a total disaster, but Europeans are definitely worried about the direction of travel,” added Grand, now a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “Hence the effort to avoid another drama during Zelenskyy’s upcoming visit.”
While publicly Europe and Ukraine have appeared upbeat, privately officials were wary of Putin’s red carpet welcome back to the West, where he secured the veneer of global legitimacy without making the kind of gestures toward peace the U.S., Europe and Ukraine have sought.
“Worries have been there all the way this year, and yesterday’s meeting did not really help,” a European official said.
Trump’s position on the war has yo-yoed in recent weeks. While he had for months blamed Ukraine for the conflict, he had been more critical of Putin and Russia in the lead-up to the summit. He even said Putin would face “severe consequences,” if he did not agree to stop the war after Friday’s gathering.
But after several hours of meetings with Putin in Alaska, Trump backtracked on a demand for an immediate ceasefire, again said it would be up to Ukraine to end the fighting and advised Kyiv to “take the deal,” without specifying what Putin had suggested.
Trump said after the summit that he negotiated with Putin over land swaps but declined to provide more details.
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday will lead a teleconference among the “coalition of the willing” — countries that have indicated they will provide troops and other support to Ukraine at the end of the war, according to a European official.
Ahead of the summit, Trump said he supported some American role in providing security guarantees — some form of assurance or support from Washington to deter Russia from attacking again after a peace deal is agreed. Nordic and Baltic leaders welcomed those commitments again after Trump spoke with European officials late Friday.
While Trump did much more than usual to consult with Europe in the lead-up to the summit with Putin and after, the frequent contact does not seem to have yielded tangible results. European officials are relieved that Trump did not agree to a deal with Putin but disappointed that the threat of steep secondary tariffs targeting third countries buying Russian oil was tabled.
“They want to try to influence the negotiation process as much as possible, because they know Trump really wants to do it this way, and they don’t want to leave the initiative to Putin,” said Giuseppe Spatafora, a former NATO official who is now a research analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies. “In general, the Europeans talk much more often to Trump than during the first 100 days, which is good. They have influence. But it’s limited.”
Zelenskyy’s last visit to the Oval Office in February quickly went off the rails when Vice President JD Vance and later Trump both lectured him for not being grateful enough for American support and overplaying what they said was a weak diplomatic position. Zelenskyy’s decision to wear a black polo, black pants and boots rather than a suit further soured the atmosphere.
But Trump and Zelenskyy have been on better terms in recent meetings, as Kyiv’s allies sought to improve the relationship and Trump’s frustration with Putin mounted.’

POLITICO

…and this is what’s it about:

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https://youtu.be/TVOunzyp0MY?si=rbMUj9MlClMM1E4j

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After viewing the above, it’s interesying to note, or denote, the apparent shift that took place by Trump, an of second importance the optiics( illusions) of such things as the comments made on clothes worn and Trump’s speech entirely read of a manuscript. Does this present a scenario of duplicitous intent, separating outward appearances from the sources that rises out of the inner workings of the government beuoracrocy?

Stay tuned as it unfolds begging a definite reprocessed final offficial approval, rather than separating the heretofore common denominator into the ‘rational’ and the reasonable’ parts .

Yet again I’m proven right. I said it was the British Empire. All satyr says is “its da joos, its da joos” over and over again. Like its as simple as “da joos” with no complexity besides that.

The power dynamic seems to be British Empire, then America, then Israel. However, Putin seems to control Trump so its not as simple as that.

True, but the majority rules now, it thinks at does at least, do the rules having been changed accordingly, and there really is no getting back, with everyone needing peace,

But why that is and what ‘Peace’ really means apart of its entertainment value.

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Sounds like pushing the buck right? It certainly seems that way, doesn’t it.

We’re forgetting the other side of the triad, that of Egypt, and the slavery issue , the juwre and de facto. Colonialism can not forget that but of history, even if Fukuyama tries. The British waged war with China over the rights to opium around two hundred years ago, and that belittles our uncle l@s efforts on the war on drugs..

Yak yak

What really is going on when Trump feels he is between a rock and a hard place?

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“ utin Calls Zelensky the West’s Illegitimate Puppet. Can He Talk Peace With Him?

Trump seeks to broker a meeting of the two leaders to end Europe’s most destructive war in generations

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If Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees to meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, as urged by President Trump, he will come face-to-face with a man he has spent 3½ years excoriating as an illegitimate leader and puppet.

Negotiating directly with Zelensky would run sharply counter to the narrative Putin has carefully constructed and sold to Russians in an effort to justify his 2022 invasion of Ukraine: that the war is part of a broader conflict with the West in which Zelensky and his country are mere pawns.

Trump’s call for a meeting puts Putin in a bind. If he declines, he risks angering the U.S. president, who has already threatened him with more sanctions. But sitting down with Zelensky could damage him politically with the Russian elite and the broader public.

Trump said Tuesday that he was working to bring the two leaders together as the next phase in his efforts to forge a lasting peace in Ukraine, but he nodded to the challenge at hand.

“They haven’t been exactly best friends,” he said in an interview with Fox News, adding that Putin and Zelensky will have to iron out details of a possible meeting if they agree to one.

The question of Putin’s willingness to meet his Ukrainian counterpart has taken center stage following a Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and discussions Monday at the White House between Trump, Zelensky and European leaders.

On Tuesday, Russian officials gave little indication they were working toward such a meeting. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said plans for any contacts between officials should be laid out “with the utmost care.” Other Russian officials ridiculed Zelensky as an unserious politician.

Agreement from Putin to meet Zelensky won’t likely come quickly—or easily. He has dismissed the Ukrainian leader repeatedly as a servant of the West, and has insisted that various complex issues be solved before the two leaders sit down. He has also questioned Zelensky’s legitimacy after he extended his mandate beyond the usual five-year term, citing the problems with holding an election during a war. Putin has questioned his authority to sign any peace agreement.

Putin has said a meeting between the two leaders should come at the end of a peace process—and more as a formality to sign the necessary documents. “I’m ready to meet, but if it’s some kind of final stage, so we don’t sit there endlessly dividing things up, but bring this to an end,” he said in June. “But we will need the signature of the legitimate authorities.”

The issues also go far beyond Zelensky. Putin sees the war as part of a broader Russian push to relitigate grievances the country has felt since the end of the Cold War, analysts say. Putin’s engagement with the Trump administration is part of an effort to secure an agreement that goes far beyond territorial concessions in Ukraine and concerns the very makeup of Europe’s security architecture.

“For Putin, this is a much wider confrontation with the West. And Ukraine is a battlefield between Russia and the West,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. “In Putin’s eyes, Zelensky is not a player,” she added. “The fact Ukrainians are fighting at all is because of Western support.”

Most important, a meeting with Zelensky could end the delicate dance Putin has performed around Trump’s peace efforts. To avoid more punishing sanctions, the Kremlin leader has professed his desire for peace while escalating offensives have won Russian troops important gains in the country’s east. A summit with Zelensky could bring an unwelcome moment of truth.

“A meeting could indicate that he’s really willing to negotiate the end of this war, and I don’t think he’s ready,” said Samuel Charap, veteran Russia watcher and senior political analyst at Rand Corporation.

The first and only time Putin met Zelensky was in 2019 at a very different moment in Russian-Ukrainian relations. At the time, Putin appeared to have high hopes for a relationship with his newly elected counterpart who had made peace with Russia a main campaign priority.

The meeting between Putin and Zelensky was hailed as a step toward peace after Russia had seized Crimea and backed separatists in eastern Ukraine with soldiers and money. But far from being the start of a working relationship, disagreements erupted over the details of a peace deal, including disengagement across the front line. Ties quickly deteriorated thereafter and the two haven’t met since.

Since the start of the war, Zelensky has believed that he could make headway in his relationship with Putin if he could sit down face-to-face with the Kremlin leader, but he has also drawn the ire of Moscow by issuing a vaguely worded decree that calls talks with the Kremlin leader impossible.

To satisfy Trump and Zelensky’s own desire to meet, Putin has said he isn’t opposed to talking face-to-face, but that various conditions would need to be met, including signals from Kyiv that it is ready to make serious concessions. Zelensky, for his part, has shown openness to meet without preconditions, most recently abandoning an earlier demand for a cease-fire to facilitate talks.

“If Ukraine begins setting various preconditions for a meeting—including justified ones regarding a cease-fire—then the Russians will present 100 of their own,” he said after his meeting with Trump and European leaders in Washington on Monday. “I think we should meet without conditions and explore what further progress there can be on this path to ending the war.”

Zelensky has successfully used the Kremlin leader’s resistance against him. In May, Trump had expressed his desire for Putin to come to Turkey where he could meet face-to-face with Zelensky. When Putin passed up the chance, Zelensky flew into Turkey and bemoaned how the Kremlin was “too afraid” to meet. This time, however, the political stakes are higher, adding pressure on the Kremlin leader.

With rising demands from Trump and European leaders, Moscow has hinted it will double down on its refusal and continue to paint Zelensky as a dilettante that Putin shouldn’t stoop to meet.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova went on the offensive on Tuesday to level accusations against the Ukrainian leader to justify Putin’s own refusal to meet.

Ultimately, analysts say, Putin is likely to pour cold water on the idea of a meeting without actually refusing one outright—a strategy he has previously deployed in response to calls for a cease-fire.

Agreement over maximalist peace terms that Russia handed to Ukraine in Istanbul, according to Stanovaya, is likely to serve as Moscow’s precondition for a meeting. Those terms include Ukraine’s disarmament, political neutrality, and abandonment of its aspiration to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The War in Ukraine

News and insights, selected by the editors

How Will the War in Ukraine End? Two Scenarios

Trump Plans to Get Putin, Zelensky Talking. That’s Not Even the Hard Part.

Trump Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Putin. He Got Little in Return.

Zelensky’s Sartorial Evolution

Essay | Can the U.S. Still Be Europe’s Peacemaker?

Inside Ukraine’s Effort to Fortify Miles of Defensive Lines

A Never-Ending Supply of Drones Has Frozen the Front Lines

Trump to Resume Sending Weapons to Ukraine

“What Putin will say now is ‘let’s do it,’ but first we need to talk about common documents we can finalize in such a meeting,” she said. “And we’ll find ourselves in the same situation as before the Alaska summit.”

Write to Thomas Grove at thomas.grove@wsj.com and Matthew Luxmoore at matthew.luxmoore@wsj.com

The War in Ukraine

News and insights, selected by the editors

How Will the War in Ukraine End? Two Scenarios

Trump Plans to Get Putin, Zelensky Talking. That’s Not Even the Hard Part.

Trump Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Putin. He Got Little in Return.

Zelensky’s Sartorial Evolution

Essay | Can the U.S. Still Be Europe’s Peacemaker?

Inside Ukraine’s Effort to Fortify Miles of Defensive Lines

A Never-Ending Supply of Drones Has Frozen the Front Lines

It’s merely may be a memetic/genetic adaptation/(compensation/decompensation, of familial , traceable types.

But, and this is a big but, is is insidiously protectively , enacting as a state, with equal chances of overcoming a concurring split, and resolving hence? Or is it something more fundamental, leading to increased value, as weighed in processing subconsistent simulations, to prevent further alienation , and memory replacement on a general rather then a specific feeling , through transcendent simulation?

Structurally, the duration of sequential motives of apprehension will recollect the way processing will seek to overcome it’s own approximate deviation by such relevant compensatory memetic/genetic ‘hardness’ and through even one type of immediate state of clarity, set the proxxx? In a new variable fiel of apprehension.

So synthetic renewal is a possible baseline to refer to from then on.

Or is Dawkins’ selfish gene irreparable?

Guess: yes , in fact extrinsic factors signal it’s axiomatic value in that very processing.

Ergo-

  • ergo

Is AI the effect of memetic evolution?

AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), is indeed a significant effect of memetic evolution. LLMs are trained on vast amounts of human language data, which shapes their understanding and production of language. This training process allows LLMs to mimic human desires and behaviors, leading to a cycle of imitation and blame where both AI and humanity become scapegoats of rivalry. This mimetic cycle highlights the role of AI as a tool rather than a threat, as it reflects the cultural and social dynamics that drive human desire and imitation.

By the way, contrary to Donald Trump‘s claims that he would end inflation, in the first half of 2025, utility costs in the United States have risen significantly, with electricity prices increasing by 4.8% on average, according to Electric Choice. Some areas have seen even steeper increases, with residential electricity prices rising by 6.5% between May 2024 and May 2025. For example, in Florida, residential electricity rates have increased by roughly 10% from May 2024 to May 2025. The average residential electricity rate in Florida is now around 15.27 ¢/kWh. An average residential electric bill in Florida is around $152.70 per month.

Trump wants to criminalize homelessness.

Anti-homeless laws philosophically seem like an absurdity, because it is saying its a crime to be alive. Making it a crime to be alive is an absurdity. One could argue its not a crime to be alive, but the crime is to not buy property. So they are making it a crime to not buy property, which is another absurdity.

https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/trump-executive-order-criminalizing-unhoused-people-explained/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-estate/2025/08/14/report-trump-homeless-crisis-worsens/85641719007/

Just as I felt I thought on a previous occasions, it so so close to call, :telephone_receiver:

Yet not even a photo finish yet ,

But whomever can begin to appreciate the wording, on the original testament, can begin to understand that it takes a miracle to believe in one, as when copies can not be distinguished either way from the original

Hate to be blunt,but all of he chips are in, reproducing at an enormous rate, so I plead no contest.

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Let the chips fall where they will

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& they certainly falling quick:

Analysis

Putin had a good hand in Alaska, but the D.C. summit shows he overplayed it

Putin’s hard-line approach to resolving the Ukraine conflict doesn’t fit with the White House’s desire for a quick solution.

The dueling summits over the fate of Ukraine held in Anchorage and then Washington over the last few days yielded dramatically contrasting results for Russian President Vladimir Putin, indicating — at least for now — he overplayed his hand in attempting to woo the United States to his view of the conflict.

Despite the opportunity for a peace deal, Putin’s resistance to compromise and his potentially misplaced confidence in a military victory over Ukraine risked missing the chance to capitalize on his warm vibe with President Donald Trump, while dragging out a war that is killing thousands every week and undermining Russia’s economy and its global strategic position.

Since the summits, Russia has continued to throw obstacles in the way of any measures recommended to move the process forward, suggesting Putin is not willing to move at the same pace as Trump. On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made clear that Russia expects to have a veto over any security arrangements Europe and the U.S. come up with to defend Ukraine from future attacks.

The risks are still growing over Putin’s recalcitrance. “Putin knows that in the last weeks he’s been facing a crisis. He sensed the danger, the red alarm went off,” a Kremlin insider said before the summit when Trump was still threatening tougher sanctions and Putin realized he needed to mend ties. “He really wants to stop the war, but he needs to stop it in a way that looks like a victory.”

Putin did buy time and stave off sanctions after he persuaded Trump on Friday to abandon his pressure for a ceasefire and instead pursue the Russian preference for a comprehensive peace deal that could take years to negotiate — allowing Russia to fight on without the risk of tough new U.S. sanctions.

But Trump’s subsequent genial White House meeting Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Europeans showed the perils for Putin facing determined European backing for Ukraine’s fight to remain independent with a strong army. The summit marked a setback in Putin’s decades-long goal to gain dominion over Ukraine and in his efforts to peel the U.S. away from Europe.

The Washington meeting shifted the onus back onto Putin to take the next step in the peace process and meet with Zelensky, disappointing nationalist Russian commentators who were convinced that Putin had persuaded Trump at the Anchorage summit to force a disadvantageous deal onto Zelensky.

“I don’t know what the thinking is inside the Kremlin. If the goal was to manipulate Trump at Anchorage, I think they didn’t do a very good job of it,” said Thomas Graham, a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former senior director for Russia on the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration.

Putin also did not appear to succeed in luring Trump into a broader conversation about the benefits of economic cooperation between Russia and the U.S. — a card he’d hoped to use to sway Trump into accepting Moscow’s view of the conflict, said Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. “A lot didn’t work out.”

The White House now expects an imminent summit between Putin and Zelensky, but Russia has sent out very different signals in a dynamic that characterized the pattern of misunderstandings in the discussions between Washington and Moscow over the war.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Putin and Zelensky had both shown “a willingness to sit down with each other” and preparations for the meeting were underway. But that same day, Lavrov played down the meeting, saying “any contacts between top officials would have to be prepared very thoroughly,” an argument that Russia has used for years to deflect any meeting with Zelensky.

Putin is unlikely to accept an imminent meeting, according to a Russian academic close to senior Russian diplomats, because it would confer “a certain legitimization of the Ukrainian political regime by Moscow, which would present problems.” The Russian position maintains that a meeting can only come once the terms of a deal have been worked out — which for Russia involves Ukraine’s capitulation.

Lavrov, meanwhile, referred to Zelensky on Tuesday as an untrustworthy “character.” Putin has previously called Zelensky illegitimate and depicted his administration as “drug addicts and neo-Nazis.”

With such views on Zelensky and insistence on addressing “root causes” of the conflict — which means turning Ukraine back into a client state — Russia is sticking to maximalist goals in the conflict and has not been open to the compromises needed for a Trump-led peace agreement.

“Part of the reason that Russia is unwilling to bend reflects the fact that Ukraine is basically Putin’s white whale. This is what he wants, and he’s not going to stop until he gets it, or until he’s convinced that he can’t get it,” said Nate Reynolds, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Russia director at the National Security Council.

At times, he said, Russia seemed to struggle to get its message through to the Trump administration.

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“The Russians, to some extent, probably have been surprised by a couple of things. One, that they can’t get the U.S. to understand what they’re asking for, and two, that they can’t get the United States to accept it,” he said. “Putin and his advisers keep coming out of these meetings with U.S. interlocutors, who then highlight what seem to be misunderstandings, frankly, about what the Russian demands are.”

Lavrov said Tuesday that Trump and his team increasingly showed an “understanding that it is necessary to eliminate the root causes.” But when Trump was asked the day before about his understanding of the “root causes of the crisis,” he avoided answering.

Moscow’s demands that Ukraine cede territory not yet captured by Russia and that it be permanently shut out of other alliances and groupings have both been dismissed by senior U.S. officials, including Vice President JD Vance in May and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in recent days.

Russia’s conditions for peace were spelled out in a June 2 memorandum and there is no indication that it has backed down from them, including curbing Ukraine’s sovereignty, drastically downsizing its military and dictating what international organizations it can join. The demands are designed to force Ukraine into a close, unwanted economic and political partnership with Russia.

Putin sees Russians and Ukrainians as “one people” and Ukraine not as a real country, making any kind of peace deal difficult. “The true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia,” he wrote in a 2021 essay.

While Trump has compared the conflict to a struggle over prime oceanfront property, analysts say Russia sees it as more than a conflict between two countries but as a chance to relitigate the Soviet Union’s humiliating loss of the Cold War and to transform Europe’s security architecture.

“There is no war between Russia and Ukraine. There is a war of the united globalist West against Russia at the hands of its Ukrainian neocolonial regime. It is impossible to negotiate peace with Zelensky, a puppet of the neocolonial regime,” wrote Sergei Markov, a pro-Kremlin analyst. “Peace can only be achieved through negotiations with the master of this neocolonial regime.”

There was probably a misunderstanding even over the matter of security guarantees that Russia envoy Steve Witkoff said Moscow had agreed to. According to Graham, Putin’s understanding of security guarantees and Witkoff’s are “very different things.” According to a 2022 draft peace agreement with Ukraine, Russia would be a co-guarantor to any security arrangement giving it an effective veto over any response, “which is not quite what Ukrainians would have in mind, and not what Witkoff understood.”

On Wednesday Lavrov said that any security arrangement had to include Russia. “Discussing security issues without the Russian Federation is a utopia, a road to nowhere.”

Putin’s goal in power has been to rebuild Russia as a great global power, which to him entails the subjugation of Ukraine. His emotional investment highlights the perils of failure in a highly charged peace process that Graham says could take months or even years.

“The idea that you are going to get a comprehensive peace deal any time soon — that’s delusional. The issues are too complex,” he said.

Meanwhile, Russia is confident that it will win on the battlefield and doesn’t really need a peace process, said Reynolds, a position that is not likely to endear it to the U.S. administration hoping for a foreign policy win.

“They basically have two theories,” he said. “One is that the West gives up and walks away. And the other is that the political center in Kyiv collapses under pressure. But neither one of those things is fully under Russia’s control.”

Robyn Dixon is a foreign correspondent on her third stint in Russia, after almost a decade reporting there beginning in the early 1990s. In November 2019 she joined The Washington Post as Moscow bureau chief.

Catherine Belton is an international investigative reporter for The Washington Post, reporting on Russia. She is the author of “Putin’s People,” a New York Times Critics’ Book of 2020 and a book of the year for the Times, the Economist and the Financial Times. Belton has worked for Reuters and the Financial Times.

Francesca Ebel is The Washington’s Post’s Russia correspondent. Before joining The Post in 2022, Ebel was the Associated Press’s Tunis correspondent.

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Russia doesn’t want American oilfags near its terroriry. Ukraine is a proxy for the American empire. American oilfags want the world to be poor and stuck on oil. America only feels safe when everyone is poor.

Putin is a genocidal maniac. And he doesn’t want American NATO bases next to Russia. And he wants to force orthodox Christianity on the world. If Russia, hypothetically took over Europe he would have racist policies including anti-white policies giving ethnic bias in favor of native Russians.

So what’s anyone’s opinion on the Ukraine war? There isn’t any opinion on the Ukraine war. The purpose of the war is for the rich to become even richer. The war has two sides: imperial oilfags vs trad tyrants. Which side do you choose, well I don’t want to pick a side because neither appeal to me. Same reason I don’t play WW2 videogames. Neither allied or axis appeal to me, both are the “bad guys”.

Actually there are plenty of opinions, and if an optical illusionist was to describe it a simple formula , it would be a one of identity. As such the big question is not its inception within boundaries of time and space, but in a quagmire of many factors too numerous to account for by a single fact. Triggers all over the place, the genesis ironically devolves into colonialism, from Katherine The Great, through World War II, Sztalun’s deliberate starving of Ukraine’s population, to neo-Nazism, to the reason for such grounded in the familiar excuse to invade Crimea, that Russian people were mistreated there by Ukrainians, the post hlasnost rationales falling apart as Post Yeltsin euphoria gave way to the realpolitik of capitalist ‘competition’, and the rise of greed leading to the famous trickle down’s Reagan expiration

And then the empire building competition came into vogue in earnest, after the transformative power of the Holy Roman Empire took root, within excessively between the Hohenzollern and the Austrian-Hungarian kingdom, the residual power motives left of the Ottoman’s demise after wWI. The mainland theatre’s last competitive edge coincided with that of the British empire, a foreshadow of its modern Brexit version.

The trigger of triggers then can not be reduced to a single incident in fact Ctimea, or US-Natio provocation of invading closely held territories too close to comfort to Holy Russia, nor the divisiveness staged by religious differences between Ukraine or Russia.

The whole scenario is almost a split image of what came before, , Fromm hurried visit by the German foreign minister to Moscow to sign a formal non aggression pact to Trump’s apparent visit to the president of North Korea, to the hast meet set up by Trump to the almost triggering good will gesture of the Alaskan-Washington summits.

All so familiar, but such quickly resolved to the familial cultish territorial question, yes but what counts is who was there first? That question is a red herring, begging its self with injunctive pathos, questions which belong in the past’s shadow of irresolute and opinionated creduality.

Rather the a reduced simplicity, a formal gem of statesmanship, , akin to the one which sought to bring peace to The Continent after the Napolianic Wars.

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Is nIvere the result from an intent to sustain political optical illusions, which are obviously fractured, so that ‘democracy’ can go on unchallenged, while overtly proclaiming that YES, even the sacrosanct Consitution can be changed to adapt to democratic principle’s myopic, that yes, privilege can work with underprivileged in a harmonious melange, of echoes through a wishing well?

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Contributor: Russia wants what it cannot have

The real ‘root cause’ of the war in Ukraine is Russia’s inability to accept that centuries of empire do not confer the right to dominate former colonies forever.

Vladimir Putin is on a roll the past few weeks. First President Trump invited him to Anchorage. Then he got a three-way hug with China’s President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in China. And an invitation to a grand military parade in Beijing.

Since the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Putin had been shunted to the fringes of summit group photos. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he had been treated as a pariah by the United States and Europe. Indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, he could travel only to countries that wouldn’t arrest him. In short, Moscow was not being treated with the respect it believed it deserved.

Trump thought that by literally rolling out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska — and clapping as the Russian loped down the red carpet — he could reset the bilateral relationship. And it did. But not the way Trump intended.

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The Alaskan summit convinced the Russians that the current administration is willing to throw the sources of American global power out the window.

Trade partners, geopolitical allies and alliances — everything is on the table for Trump. The U.S. president believes this shows his power; the Russians see this as a low-cost opportunity to degrade American influence. Putin was trained by the KGB to recognize weakness and exploit it.

There is no evidence that being friendly to Putin and agreeing with Russian positions are going to make Moscow more willing to stop fighting in Ukraine. Overlooking Russia’s intensifying hybrid attacks on Europe, in February, Vice President JD Vance warned Europe that it should be focusing instead on the threat to democracy “from within.” This followed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth‘s assurances that Ukraine would never join NATO. Trump has suggested that U.S. support for NATO and Europe is contingent on those countries paying up. In an event that sent Moscow pundits to pop the Champagne, Trump told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office that he just didn’t “have the cards” and should stop trying to beat Russia.

Did any of this bring Putin to the negotiating table? No.

In fact, the Kremlin indicated a readiness to talk with Trump about the war only when Trump threatened “very, very powerful” sanctions in mid-July. This time, he seemed serious about it. The Alaska summit happened a month later. The tougher Trump is with Russia, the more likely he is to get any kind of traction in negotiations. It’s unfortunate that the president has now gone back to vague two-week deadlines for imposing sanctions that never materialize.

Russia believes it will win the war. China has been a steady friend, willing to sell Russia cars and dual-use technology that ends up in drones that are attacking Ukrainian cities. It has also become Russia’s largest buyer of crude oil and coal. Western sanctions have not been biting the Russian economy, though they have nibbled away at state revenues. Europe and the United States have not been willing to apply the kind of economic pressure that would seriously dent Russia’s ability to carry on the war.

Putin keeps saying that a resolution to the war requires that the West address the “root causes” of the war. These causes, for Russia, relate to the way it was treated after losing the Cold War. The three Baltic nations joined Europe as fast as they could. Central and Eastern European countries decided that they would rather be part of NATO than the Warsaw Pact. When Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine started asking for membership in the European Union and NATO, Russia realized it wouldn’t be able to convince them to stay with economic appeal or soft power. It had to use force. Unable to demonstrate the attraction of its suffocating embrace, or the value of its Eurasian Economic Union, Russia believed it had to use force to keep Ukraine by its side. It reminds one of a grotesque Russian expression: “If he beats you, it means he loves you.”

The real “root cause” of the war in Ukraine is Russia’s inability to accept that centuries of empire do not confer the right to dominate former colonies forever. Mongolia learned this. As did the British. And the French. And the Ottomans. The Austro-Hungarians.

Eventually this war will end. But not soon. Russia is insisting on maximalist demands that Ukraine cannot agree to, which include control over territory it hasn’t managed to occupy. Ukraine will not stop fighting until it is sure that Russia will not attack again. Achieving that degree of certainty with flimsy security guarantees is impossible.

In the meantime, Ukrainian cities on the frontline will continue being wiped out, citizens in Kherson will continue being subjects of “human safari” for Russian drone operators, people across Ukraine will continue experiencing daily air raids that send them scurrying into shelters. Soldiers, volunteers, civilians and children will continue dying. Trump appears to care about the thousands of daily casualties. Most of these are Russian soldiers who have been sent to their death by a Russian state that doesn’t see their lives as worth preserving.

Trump is understandably frustrated with his inability to “stop the killing” because he has assumed that satisfying Russian demands is the answer. The opposite is true: Only by showing — proving — to Russia that its demands are unattainable will the U.S. persuade the Kremlin to consider meaningful negotiations. Countries at war come to the negotiating table not because they are convinced to abandon their objectives. They sit down when they realize their goals are unattainable.

Alexandra Vacroux is the vice president for strategic engagement at the Kyiv School of Economics.

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