Newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned Russian President Putin that he would face taxes, tariffs and sanctions if Russia did agree to opening negotiations on a deal to end the war in Ukraine. The threat was delivered on his Truth Social platform:
'If we don’t make a "deal," and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries,' Trump posted with his usual mix of idiosyncratic capitalization.
'Let’s get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with!' he claimed.
While campaigning Trump frequently said he would end the war in Ukraine in his first 24 hours in office. That deadline was never a serious possibility but he has made clear that the conflict must come to a halt with a mix of incentives and threats aimed at both Russia and Ukraine.
Trump has hinted that he could intensify the supply of arms to the Kiev regime if Moscow does not come to the negotiating table, yet at the same time has signaled the supply could be shut off if Kyiv refuses to countenance a deal on any but the outrageoust terms they have demanded from the start, which involve total surrender by Russia.
On Tuesday, Trump was asked by reporters about the possibility of choking off arms to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky.
'Well, we'll look into that. We're talking to Zelensky,' he said.
'We're going to be talking with President Putin very soon, and we'll see what, how it all happens. We're going to look at it.'
As things stand Ukraine is a broken nation, its infrastructure, economy and social cohesion have been destroyed by the war but the Zelensky regime is still insanely demanding more weapons, cash and technical support from the west so that they may keep fighting, a policy which would only result in more death (on both sides,) and destruction of Ukraine's energy, telecommunications, trabsport and industry while serving to delay the inevitable defeat on Zelensky's hopelessly outgunned and outnubered military..
For most of the past year Russia has been moving methodically forward, taking more land and more towns and villages in Eastern Ukraine. They are in no hurry because their aim is to destroy Ukraine’s ability for military resistance – further territorial conquest is a secondary aim now that they have liberated the southern and eastern oblasts and are only a few kilometers from the Donetsk/Dnipropetrovsk border.
The sooner the West starts responding to what Putin actually says and not to what the propagandists say he says then the sooner a settlement can be reached. The bombast and aggression from the West is only making any ceasfire terms Moscow might propose less attractive for Ukraine.
Meanwhile Russia has brished off western sanctions and shifted its trade to the east and global south, areas where few nations have any sympathey for Ukraine, the NATO allies or the USA so Trump’s threat of further sanctions will be seen by the Russians as an empty one.
The most useful thing Trump could do at this stage would be to insist on elections to be held in Ukraine, since Zelenky’s mandate is now a year out of date and he now rules as an unelected tyrant, and to tie any further aid to the successful outcome of the elections..
For this to happen would need to ask Russia and Ukraine to hold off further action on the front line by either side until voting is complete, and also to provide a secure environment for Western and Russian observers to oversee the elections. The four oblasts that the West now concedes should remain Russian would need to be excluded from the voting for Putin’s agreement.
To have any hope of brokering an agreement however, Trump needs to get some decent advisors on the Ukraine conflict and Russian diplomacy. His recent statement that Russia has a million dead as a result of the war and therefore Putin cannot continue, just shows the continuing effect of Biden’s team’s propaganda.
And what precisely is meany by Trump's phrase “the hard way”? So far Russia has defeated everything the West has thrown, and continues to throw, at it. Putting European troops ‘on the ground’ would similarly mean the complete end of the anyway dwindling European ‘defence’ forces.
USA has always been happy to intervene in the intenal or international affairs of countries with inferior military defence capabilities but Russia is not such a country, and logistics-wise USA would be at a huge disadvantage vis-à-vis Russian supply lines.
Furthermore, such an open confrontation between Russia and US / NATO forces in Ukraine would certainly lead to nuclear war, something none of us should want. Russia has already shown enormous restraint, knowing full well that US and UK military personnel are currently operational in Ukraine, providing the UAF with reconnaissance data and firing off ATACMS or Storm Shadow missiles at Russian sites.
With the billions spent so far by so many countries on supporting Ukraine's war effort, surely now is the time to ask just what on earth for? And why are Washington hawks and certain NATO leaders, including UK's Starmer, still pushing the case for escalating the war?The Ukrainian people have been slaughtered or dispersed, and many of remaining are being forced to exist under freezing conditions, with intermittent energy supplies and food strictly rationed, all in the name of NATO expansion and Washington's desire to weaken Russia without direct military involvement. Is it really worth it? Surely it is clear by now that NATO is the expansionist threat and not Russia.
So what is Trump's threat aimed at, escalating warfare or inviting Russia to put its cards on the table and set out a position negotiations can start from? The Boggart Bloggers hope it is the latter.
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Western leaders Still Want To Let Ukraine Join NATO Though Even They Must Know It Would Start WW3
‘When are you going to let us use the Storm Shadow?’ a maimed Ukrainian soldier is reported to have asked Boris Johnson during the former Prime Minister's most recent visit to Ukraine. The young man was referring to the Storm Shadw missiles donated to the Ukie was effort by the UK. His comment was prompted by the mass murderer Zelensky's latest idiotic whine about the US /UK / NATO refusal to sanction the use of such missiles to strike targets deep within Russian territory.
Storm Shadow for Ukraine? Starmers Says Yes, Uncle Sam Says No
Ukraine's President Zelensky, after meeting UK Prime Minister and current warmonger in chief 'Sir' Keir SStürmer has ben relying on Britain to lead the charge of the Allies to be first to supply Kiev with weapons enabling then to strike targets deep within Russian territory.
It is true Starmer has said he wants the UK to 'lead he world' in giving the Ukies the support they need to start World War Three and several other policies whivh can only result in the destruction of civilised society.
Risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant,’ because of Ukie drone strikes warns IAEA“There is a risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant,” said Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) following his visit on Tuesday (27 August) to the facility in Kurchatov, close to the Russian border and the area curenly occupied by Ukrainian troops. He added that he had been shown evidence of damage caused by Ukie drone strikes during his visit to the plant.
If You're Afraid Of Nuclear War You're Not Supporting Ukraine Enough Is Zelensky's Latest Message
The follow up to Elon Musk's refusal to open his Starlink satellite network for the benefit of Ukrainian military leaders as they fantasise about attacking Crimea and driving out the Russian occupying force this past week showcases how completely unhinged and dangerous the Ukrainian government's desire to escalate the war has become.
Storm Shadow for Ukraine? Starmers Says Yes, Uncle Sam Says No
Ukraine's President Zelensky, after meeting UK Prime Minister and current warmonger in chief 'Sir' Keir SStürmer has ben relying on Britain to lead the charge of the Allies to be first to supply Kiev with weapons enabling then to strike targets deep within Russian territory.
It is true Starmer has said he wants the UK to 'lead he world' in giving the Ukies the support they need to start World War Three and several other policies whivh can only result in the destruction of civilised society.
Will Commodities Be The New Reserve Currency As The Death Knell Of The Dollar Sounds?
Many respected economists and market analysts who favour the free markets approach concur that we are heading towards a new economic reality that will see the collapse of the US$ as the default reserve currency, to be replaced not by any other fiat currency such as the Euro or the Renminbi, but by a system in which commodities are the
primary denominator of value. Should this turn out to be the case we can expect an acceleration of the shift in geopolitical power from west to East.
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...
Russia Just Sent out a Message NATO Should Better Listen To
The key paragraph from the latest official Russian naval doctrine is that Putin and his military advisers have sent a clear message that NATO encroachment is unacceptable. To be honest, there is nothing earth shattering in this, The Daily Stirrer and many other alternative media news and analysis sites have been warning for about two years that Obama's foreign policy was making conflict inevitable.
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