Posted by Thorn on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:38 | #

Zelenskyy, With EU Support, Continues Looking for Any Excuse to Derail or Avoid Peace Talks – Rejects Mineral Deal, Demands EU Ascension and Security Guarantees
March 30, 2025 | Sundance |

The dynamic is obvious to any intellectually honest observer, which is to say U.S. and Western media disqualify themselves and continue pushing preferred EU narratives.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the latest U.S. proposal for a minerals deal that would create a partnership to repay the United States for ongoing financial support.  According to Zelenskyy, the deal to share in oil, gas and mineral revenue would amount to debt that would disqualify them from EU membership due to unstable financials.

However, it is important for U.S. readers to remember the U.S. aid package already underway pays for the entire operation of the Ukraine federal spending liabilities, including pensions, government worker paychecks and everything normally within a govt budget.  U.S. taxpayers are not only subsidizing the war with munitions, but we are also subsidizing the government operation and citizens of Ukraine.  Within that spending there is MASSIVE corruption ongoing.

When Zelensky rejects (1) the terms of a “minerals deal,” (2) rejects U.N peacekeepers, (3) rejects the predicate for peace that Russia will retain part of Eastern Ukraine geography, and (4) rejects the offered security guarantees, he is also rejecting the idea that American taxpayers should be repaid for all their support.

Almost all of these rejections appear based on Zelensky’s belief the U.K, France and European allies can replace any support lost by President Trump changing his approach toward Ukraine.  Zelensky, who has not been elected, is developing a reputation for being so difficult, so demanding, so spoiled and temperamental that neither Vladimir Putin nor President Trump wants to deal with him.

Against this backdrop, the ceasefire deal is tenuous at best.  Russia, who previously said they did not expect Zelensky to stand by any ceasefire proposal, continues to launch airstrikes against Ukraine as Zelensky continues to prove Vladimir Putin correct by rejecting U.S. proposed terms for a ceasefire – while claiming Russia is not abiding.

Western Ukrainians are influenced more by the propaganda from the European Union, Brussels, France and the U.K, than they are from NATO military.

The support for war amid the EU member states is directly proportional to the severity of their leftist, socialist and WEF tendencies.  The more anti-nationalist the nation state is, the more likely they support the Ukraine war.

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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/30/zelenskyy-with-eu-support-continues-looking-for-any-excuse-to-derail-or-avoid-peace-talks-rejects-mineral-deal-demands-eu-ascension-and-security-guarantees/

A sampling of the comments:

Musings from the fringe aka Jinxy Cat
March 30, 2025 4:58 am
Reply to Maquis

At this point I don’t care if President Putin steamrolls the EU like a tube of toothpaste. Is life in Russia any more Draconian than Starmers United Kaliphate?

March 30, 2025 5:39 am
Reply to Musings from the fringe aka Jinxy Cat

Sundance wandered Russia for months without any surveillance.

Russia may be Europe’s only hope, which may be why destroying her is Britain’s ancient obsession.

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:43 | #

It is weak-minded to go along with the Russian security service’s victim-blaming propaganda.  It is much worse than weak-minded to actually want the vestiges of western freedom and democracy cast out in favour of Muscovy’s autocracy and state terror.

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:52 | #

GW, the reasons for explaining the cause of the Ukraine-Russo war cannot reduced to black-and-white terms. There are many reasons to support either the Ukrainian or Russian side. It is important to continuously examine those various reasons as new information becomes available to us. For instance, you may want to consider this bit of info. when you make a determination as to who should bear the greatest responsibility for initiating the carnage.

The USA Attacked Russia

To absolutely no one’s surprise, the New York Times reveals that the USA, under the Fake Biden interregnum, was a co-belligerent in the NATO war against Russia:

The administration of US President Joe Biden was far more deeply involved in backing Ukraine’s fight against Russia than previously acknowledged, a New York Times investigation has claimed, stressing that Washington’s intelligence was indispensable for Kiev’s military operations.

The lengthy report released on Saturday offers a deep dive into an “extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology” that became Kiev’s “secret weapon” in countering Russia.

While the Pentagon supplied Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in military aid, it also provided crucial intelligence that enabled Kiev to attack Russian command and control centers and other high-value targets starting in mid-2022, the NYT said.

According to the article, the heart of this partnership lay at the US Army facility in Wiesbaden, Germany, where American and Ukrainian officers set daily targeting priorities which they reportedly referred to as “points of interest,” for fear of appearing too provocative.

American and Ukrainian officers planned major counteroffensives together and launched large long-range high-precision strikes, using Western-supplied weapons on Russia’s Crimea, the NYT also claimed. The US has also dispatched dozens of military advisers to Ukraine, some of whom were allowed to travel close to the frontline.

In 2024, the US extended its permissions to allow Ukraine carry out limited long-range strikes using American-supplied weapons into internationally recognized Russian territory – for years considered a “red line.” Washington provided Kiev with the targeting data for the strikes. One European intelligence official was shocked by the level of US involvement in the conflict, telling the Times, “they are part of the kill chain now.”

Russia would be perfectly within its rights to launch retaliatory strikes on London, Paris, Brussels, or Washington DC now. The globalist organizations headquartered in those four cities are 100-percent guilty of having attacked Russia. The only reason it won’t do so is because time is on its side; the last desperate hope of Clown World is to provoke Russia into striking back hard enough to galvanize widespread Western support for a war on Russia.

The fact that Clown World’s very clever and not-at-all transparent strategy rests on such an obvious non-starter only serves to underline how fragile their globalist neo-tower of Babel is now. At this point, Americans wouldn’t care if Russian troops not only took Kiev and Odessa, they wouldn’t care if they occupied Berlin and Brussels as well.

The constant portrayal of the patient, cautious Putin, who is probably the individual most responsible for preventing WWIII, as an aggressive dictator is such a complete inversion of the truth that it is probably going to be genuinely shocking to most people when he is eventually succeeded by a much more hardline figure who is much more willing to hold Russia’s enemies accountable for their constant provocations.

https://voxday.net/2025/03/30/the-usa-attacked-russia/

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:33 | #

BTW, explain to me how the vestiges of western freedom and democracy are being protected by your own government? Is Starmer doing such?

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:34 | #

You are repeating Russian state propaganda, Thorn.  You do not understand or suspect your suggestibility to it (which is probably to be expected with the religious mind).

To those who moralise and lionise Putin I ask: what has he done to the people of Belarus, and do they want it?  Any of it?  Or do they want to be independent and free?  I never receive a reply.  Does not compute with their binary thinking.

There is no advantage to submission to a terror state.  Follow Ukrainian media if you want to know what the Russian state is actually doing to Ukrainians.  Today they missiled a military hospital in Kharkiv and the city centre of Kupiansk, as well as targeted civilians evacuating Sumy Oblast.  This is what an order without rules generates.  This is the order you are supporting, and want in the west (or just cannot understand that it is what we will get).

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:59 | #

The intellectual joke Alexandr <strike>Putin</strike>, sorry, Dugin talking to Fareed Zakaria at CNN:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/30/world/video/gps0330-putin-russia-ukraine-dugin

Even as he is selling Russian dominion “from Vladivostok in the east to Lisbon in the west” he repeatedly claims that Putin’s Russia protects peoples’ sovereignty and is only hostile to globalism.  He seems blind to the glaringly obvious fact that any form of empire is contra sovereignty, or that great power ideology has no defence against the Money Power.  Quite the contrary, it is a six-lane highway for it.

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:52 | #

“This is the order you are supporting, and want in the west (or just cannot understand that it is what we will get).”

I suggest you take a break from trying to figure out Putin’s intentions and consider reading The Death of the West by Pat Buchanan. This book might help you refocus and get back on track with the correct perspective on where the Western leaders have led us. (By the way, I hope you understand that Western leaders are preparing plans for substantial immigration into Ukraine from Asia and Africa to compensate for its population loss.)

The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization

The national bestseller that shocked the nation—The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power.

The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation.

The Death of the West details how a civilization, culture, and moral order are passing away and foresees a new world order that has terrifying implications for our freedom, our faith, and the preeminence of American democracy.

The Death of the West is a timely, provocative study that asks the question that quietly troubles millions: Is the America we grew up in gone forever?

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:55 | #

https://www.amazon.com/Death-West-Populations-Immigrant-Civilization/dp/0312302592

Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:24 | #

More binary thinking ... basically, “race-replacement bad ergo Putin good”!  Why would the introduction of a global order of force produce an end to race-replacement?  What’s the linkage?  Trump isn’t interested in that.  His clients in the Middle East aren’t interested.  Putin isn’t interested.  Xi isn’t interested.  The only political entity which has such an interest is ethnic nationalism.

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:47 | #

Ummm .... the binary thinking is on your part. You think Putin is bad ergo Western leaders are good.

Let me clue you in: Putin is a thug. OTOH, the corrupt Western leaders are leading us down the path to extinction. At least Putin is looking out for the best interests of Russia. Western leaders are primarily looking out for themselves, i.e., the preservation of their own power.

What is your opinion on what the Western globalist elitist power structure did to Marine Le Pen? What about Bolsonaro or what they tried to do to Trump? Is asking those questions exhibiting a “mechanistically” hatred towards Western leaders or is there a despicable pattern to their behavior which should be acknowledged?

Posted by Thorn on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:28 | #

Western elites’ handiwork:

Romanian far-right candidate barred from May presidential vote

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/romanian-far-right-candidate-barred-from-may-presidential-vote.html?msockid=2ba39c9ed8f3692d0d778921d96568e2

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:49 | #

In all circumstances the binary thinker reduces his inputs to two opposing positions.  His is a fixed linear form of organisation which imposes itself on whatever hoves into view.  It is a mechanically reductive form of cognition.  But I am talking to you about a non-reductive organisation or complex of tiered but inter-acting opposing pairs.  These include the Judaic and technocratic forms of globalism as well as the competition of the Asiatic and European Minds, the orders of rules and force, the competing teleologies of global and regional hegemony, the competitions of dictatorship and autonomy and/or of money power (or oligarchy) and democracy.  All these contextualise in, and are ultimately parts of, the historical, indeed manichean struggle of human aggrandisement versus human sovereignty.  Ethnic nationalism is the supreme political form of the latter, bestowing the value of kin upon all within the group and cohering all interests within it accordingly.  As such it contests on the bases of relation and truth with all other organising ideas.

Posted by Thorn on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:08 | #

GW, it is perfectly acceptable to endeavor to comprehend the complexities of the various factors that drive world events. However, it is a futile endeavor because you, GW, woefully lack the necessary information to attain an entirely accurate understanding. Thus, what you are engaged in merely constitutes forming a hypothesis or an educated guess ... an opinion

The issue is race-replacement of White people in their homelands. Your primary focus should be preventing Western leaders from intentionally assisting and promoting race-replacement concomitant with psychological warfare against “whiteness.” It’s freaking obvious that it will soon become impossible for any form of ethnic nationalism for Whites to occur. Most Western leaders are moving apace to make sure of that. The process of race-replacement is concrete and measurable.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:18 | #

Facts are not relative.  They are either solid or they do not exist at all.  They cannot be liquid, fungible.  The fact that the moon is made of rock and dust and is held in its orbit by the earth’s gravity may not be all there is to know about it, but it is sufficient to know that it isn’t made of swiss cheese, and it does not die and become reborn each day.  Sufficiency, therefore, is the rule and not absolutism.  This is double true in that the human Mind is an information processor, and can never participate directly in Creation itself.  The body and brain, yes, as physical objects.  Mind, no.  Yet Mind’s access to solidity is sufficient to guarantee the selection of a surfeit of evolutionarily adaptive life-choices over maladaptive choices, on which basis alone human existence is sustained.

As regards processing the complex of opposites which I have outlined in #12, the absence of absolute knowledge does not invalidate the factual solidity of the outline OR render it relative to the simple and erroneous conclusion of the MAGA folk.  As regards Trump and his administration, he and it do not have to remain within the outline.  Control over Greenland, for instance, is not coveted by these people for the upholding of global peace.  As an autonomous dependency of Denmark the island is already covered by NATO’s article 5.  Control of Canada is not about fentanyl.  The “minerals deal” with Ukraine is not a method of debt repayment.  Security is not implicit to it.  And so forth.  The lies can stop.  Facts can be acknowledged and accommodated.  Great Power ideology does not have to drive out morality.  America can represent higher principles than corporate greed and national aggrandisement.

Posted by Thorn on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:59 | #

“simple and erroneous conclusion of the MAGA folk.”

lol

You were doing quite well until that point. To paint MAGA supporters with a broad bush is a novice mistake, considering there are over 80 million Americans who voted for Trump and his MAGA agenda. Who knows how many non-Americans support Trump’s MAGA movement—perhaps billions. Each and every one of the “MAGA folk” has differing opinions and abilities. Not all of them are geniuses like Elon Musk and his DOGE team; conversely, not all of them are low-information voters either.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:24 | #

One surely cannot conflate MAGA advocates with Republicans voters.  The MAGA rank and file concentrated on the threads at, say, Breitbart or ZH is lumpen in its ignorance and morally grotesque, as well, of course, as suggestible to the point of slavishness.  Every Russian propaganda and disinfo point is blared into the ether relentlessly.  Zelensky - a war hero with massive national support - is treated to the most shocking bile and hatred.  Putin - a war criminal and murderous dictator - is treated like a political deity fighting for Jehovah and white babies.  It is embarrassing, and 180 degrees out.  The Daily Wire is a little more thoughtful, but only a very little.  Even if one trades up to The American Thinker fully half of the comments (much reduced in number, of course) are still pro-Putin.  But this is the ordinariness of the masses in our time ... the sports fans and TV watchers, and consumers of the latest garbage nobody needs, whose inner life has been cheapened and morally relativised, and who are today thrashing around looking for someone to save them from the totems of postmodernity.  Ecce Narcissus.

MAGA in itself is civic and thus race-blind, imperialist, corporatist, Israel-crazy, and not a little messianic.  It is also amoral and deceitful, but not exceptionally so in the American political context.  The one good service it can perform - and it is considerable - is to expose and wage war on progressivism within America and, possibly, without.  For that alone it should be given time to develop.  But if the cost is great powers carving up the globe to the detriment of nationhood and human freedom, then maybe it’s not worth it.

Posted by Thorn on Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:29 | #

“The one good service it can perform - and it is considerable - is to expose and wage war on progressivism within America and, possibly, without.  For that alone it should be given time to develop.”

I suspect the MAGA movement is destined to be short-lived. The demographic shift to an overwhelming “progressive” majority will squash it. The demise of it can happen as soon as the 2026 midterm elections. If the Dems win the House - and in all likelihood they will - then it’s curtains for Trump and MAGA. If the GOP succeeds in retaining control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections, then who will be capable of stepping into Trump’s role come 2028? I can’t see any Republican who is popular enough to attract enough support to win against even a mediocre Democrat candidate. Again, in politics demographics is destiny and the Dems have a clear and growing advantage. Probably a permanent advantage.