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Andrew Rowley's avatar

The fact that the chief warmongers in Europe can clear their schedules at a moments notice and rush off to DC in a desperate attempt to continue the war, rather than take the opportunity to back a peace agreement, speaks volumes.

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Kika's avatar
Aug 24Edited

Key question - who was not there and why. Terrific article on the meeting between (some) European leaders and Trump, by Aussie, Dr Gerry Brady.

https://boomfinanceandeconomics.substack.com/

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James Schwartz's avatar

The European leaders weren’t invited to the US. That is a big deal to notice. This shows how desperate the globalists are to keep this war going. Trump meeting alone with Zelensky is when I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the room housing the eurotards. Aside from Meloni. The EU and Starmer and Macron will be shitting themselves. France no doubt spent money that wasn’t theirs and they believe they should face no recourse from it. It’s theft clear and simple. I can’t wait to see Trump end this war and Russian money that will be needed to be returned and it most likely will end up going to the US first as that basically ensures Russia gets it back. The globalists hold on the world is slipping and if Trump wins the mid terms and keeps congress he might just kill it.

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Lisa's avatar

Re: "I expect that Trump will offer Zelensky a life-saving way out" ..I had that thought too. The only thing that will save Zelensky is safe passage out of Ukraine so that the country can have its long overdue election.

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Vonu's avatar

If there was anyone with any sense in the Ukrainian military, they would have shot Zelensky by now.

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J D K's avatar

MAGA make assassinations great again

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Mouzer's avatar

Ooooh!

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Lisa's avatar

The Azov Battalion has his back, one "wrong" move and they'll pop him. He's always been a dead man walking.

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Anna's avatar

The rat-face homoerotic dancer is protected in situ by MI6

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

and the CIA and Mossad. I'm sure they take their orders from George Soros before they consult Trump.

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Mouzer's avatar

Except right now they are assured pay as long as Z keeps the grift going. Hard decision for them.

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Mouzer's avatar

Zelensky has already created an escape plan by transferring millions into accounts in other countries. A high-heeled thief, traitor to his own country, war monger, and liar--I'm sure I left a lot off this list.

"For the same low price he’ll get to deliver another humiliating kick to the duplicitous, warmongering Europeans..." I welcome an increased trade and relationship with Russia. The EU is modelling itself after the old Soviet Union, and like it, is collapsing. Would that this happens.

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Realist's avatar

Spot on.

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Cesare di Monte Calvi's avatar

The meeting is like kryptonite for the ongoing, rabid anti-Russian hatred. Alas, I watched the EU and US legacy propaganda media—apparently, they are immune. The sheer hatred toward Putin and the absolute dismissal of peace efforts, delivered in the language of street brawls and drunken rants, shocked me. (Forgive me: it was the first time in years that I watched this mass media slop, and it produced nothing but nausea.)

The murderers in the arcane halls of power are alive and well, doing their best not to let peace survive. What’s conspicuous is China’s silence.

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IGW's avatar

"What’s conspicuous is China’s silence."

Indeed. But China's silence & low profile does not equate with weakness; the opposite, imo. China stands back & observes.

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Loon's avatar

Nice to read some details of what it means to be a neighbour .

EU nightmare team of leadership antiquities bound for a museum display by its citizens.

Nice split between America and the EU feudal royalty coming from the Summit.

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Pierre's avatar

What’s interesting is that it could open the door to coopration between US and the brics, which could put an end to the british empire… hopefully.

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Davy Alba's avatar

I shall raise a glass of Scots' Whisky to that moment which will hopefully lead to the end of my country's 308 year long colonisation.

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Iain McCausland's avatar

The colonisation of the US (and UK, EU etc.) is continuing under another guise by the likes of Blackrock, Vanguard, the technocracy and global corporate oligarchy to whom Trump is the bag man. But don’t let that stop your enjoyment of Scotch whisky!

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Davy Alba's avatar

Every Scottish and current Western leader is a BlackRock technocrat. Of that I am painfully aware. This is why liberation must be taken rather than naiively expecting someone to grant us it. Therefore, the people themselves need to deliver it. The key to that starts with education and that can only be done by encouraging the uncoupling from Globalist media and the spread of truth by word of mouth.

That, for now, is the field where Scotland's Great Patriotic War must be fought.

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Kun Bela's avatar

Well, how about for this extraordinary occasion, I open not an excellent Hungarian pálinka made by myself, but a bottle of Triple Wood Auchentoshan whyskie here in Central Europe ?

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Galina Lewan's avatar

I will raise my glass of whatever found in my house with all of you!

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Robert Hughes's avatar

aye , me too , and it'll be a glass of the finest Islay Malt :)

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Anna's avatar

that would upset the owners of the EU

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IGW's avatar

As a British passport holder fairly recently made aware of true British history, I concur

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Galina Lewan's avatar

There is a new, not yet official name for the British history - the Brutish history.

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Iain McCausland's avatar

To be replaced by the Blackrock, Vanguard, global technocracy. Plus ca change...

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Vonu's avatar

The BRICS will put an end to SWIFT, which both the US and the UK rely upon.

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Kukimon's avatar

Dream team? It’s more like nightmare team 😂

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IGW's avatar

If the Author is correct in his analysis, their nightmare has just begun.

One hopes..

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Nick's avatar
Aug 18Edited

I sincerely hope the economic collapse of America is even worse than that of the EU & UK.

The American empire & American exceptionalism needs to disappear from earth.

I sincerely hope Russia is NOT seeking economic cooperation with America, recognizing America as it's greatest threat and America as the primary driver and supporter of this proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

I further sincerely hope the "system" keeps the war going so Russia can completely crush the "west" economically and give the citizens of Ukraine a much better future in the Russian Federation.

If "peace" arrives quickly it is going to be a disaster for Ukrainians & Russians.

I hope the Russians are just humoring Trump, the epitome of the ignorant, arrogant ugly American.

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Anna's avatar

Russians are trying to prevent a hot phase of WWIII. It is not America that is an enemy of humanity but the financial capital and supranational fascist mega corporations.

Hopefully, the banking cabal/BlackRock "deciders," their families and their bunkers will be doxed by hackers.

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Davy Alba's avatar

Perhaps these bunkers are the true intended target of our new friend, Mr Oreshnik... 😉

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Galina Lewan's avatar

The coalition of the “hallucinating self righteous imbeciles” should go to the high security lunatics asylum with tall walls and barbed wire, not to Washington. Not sure what Melloni and the Finnish apparatchik are joining for?

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Anna's avatar

The EU Compradors have been first hand-picked and then well-cared for by banking cartel and BlackRock, the true owners of the EU.

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John Day MD's avatar

Thanks for "following the money", Alex.

;-)

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Jytte's avatar

Secretary of State Marco Rubio: "The Russians landed in Alaska they had to pay in cash because they cannot use our banking system”

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Kika's avatar

I wonder if they used rubles or dollars? Could be significant.

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Noveskes Rock's avatar

Landing / parking fees paid to Anchorage airport in dollars, ditto for air navigation charges. Presumably they paid the aircraft handling / fuel charges in euros or dollars. Whenever I organized a 747 charter with "pay in cash" terms the fun part was deciding what exchange rate to use. Effectively it was whatever the vendor decided - after all, the plane wasn't coming off the blocks until they had the amount of money they wanted.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Little Marco should keep his mouth shut and just watch, he adds nothing.

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Vonu's avatar

I can't help but think that Trump thinks the same about what Putin told him as what Tulsi Gabbard told him. He still doesn't appear to know about the Ukrainian timeline that forced the Russians to do the SMO to enforce the Minsk agreements. Trump should be required to read https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/25/ukraine-timeline-tells-the-tale/ until he groks it.

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

Maybe the 3 hours of side room conversations were as important as the main event?

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Vonu's avatar

They would have been more than long enough for Putin to explain the timeline given in https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/25/ukraine-timeline-tells-the-tale/ to Trump. Their skipping the lunch told me that had happened to no avail.

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Yoni Reinón's avatar

I think Laurouchians are dellusional. Trump is never going to tackle corporate America. This is Reagan 2.0. Look at his response to the major US problems. Unaffordable Abusive Health? End Medicare, free market, no public investment, deregulation. Homelessness? Criminalise it, Hide it, Estimulate the prison police system. Real Estate? Free market, unaffordable lodging. Social violence, arms? Nothing. National debt? More QE on steroids. Big Pharma? Nothing. Covid? Nothing. Truth? Nothing. Clean the alphabet agencies and thr DC swamp? Yes, he closed USAid, the only thing.. Israel? Nope..Gaza? Nope. Syria? welcome jijadists. Ukraine? well there are talks while feeding the nazis, fantastic. Meanwhile the US prepares to invade Venezuela and steal their oil. Good old predatory imperialism. Thats your Trump

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grr's avatar

And there is the Armenian Azeri corridor. And USAID wasn't closed, it was streamlined.

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Christ is King's avatar

You make the same "mistake" normal people do. Truth? Nothing. Gaza? Nothing. Those two should lead the list, but they don't. Frozen assets and secret deals, yeah, that bone is fun to chew. We will be remembered in history as a generation that watched live broadcast of mass murder and said nothing; instead, read clever analyses on games that immoral degenerates play.

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Yoni Reinón's avatar

But what can we do? Even in Egypt, Jordan or Lebanon people cant/wont do anything. The Turks are powerful..They wont do anything… The people in my country are powerless and in addition, most of them dont care. You can show youre doing something but it doesnt work like that. Thats the real western self dellusional way, to show people care, to protest, regardless of the effectiveness of it, only good for spectacle. Look, a pedophile just scaped to Israel with the help of the US government, Epstein is probably alive in Tel Aviv, and the palestinians are going to be deported in the coming weeks. And thats the way it is. Its easy to preach moral lessons. Dreaming is for free. Its harder to acknowledge the ugliness and disempowerment of reality. Go fight a SS panzer division with your sword. You’ll have all my admiration

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Christ is King's avatar

Prayer is my sword. It is also for free.

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Yoni Reinón's avatar

how easy to content oneself in impotency and self contentment.

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Bridget McDammit's avatar

Trump may be exasperating:

He takes the scenic route to a point. He ruminates in past betrayals and often loses focus in debate.

Yet both he and Putin keep their word historically, and are looking out for the good of their respective nations. That much cannot be said for any other world leaders right now.

‘Nationalist’ is used as an epitaph. This is by design.

I am a Nationalist. There, I said it.

Trump has won me over.

The Epstein non-disclosure was disappointing but I understand the reason why it will remain undisclosed.

I choose not to dwell.

I choose my country’s sovereignty over globalism.

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Mouzer's avatar

IMO there are potential legal problems with releasing names associated with accusations or who may have been to the island but with no other evidence, also there may be the statute of limitations. As much as I would like to know who was involved beyond the court records, and wish those people to be thorougly investigated particularly for blackmail, it makes sense to me some records may be withheld.

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Kika's avatar

The US hates Russia. It will not stop trying to weaken Russia now that the US has lost its war in Ukraine. Michael Hudson explains the US change in targeting countries friendly to Russia and BRICS. Same old game with different countries now being targeted.

https://michael-hudson.com/2025/08/nato-shifts-to-new-fronts/

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