Elvis Dunderhoff – DS https://www.anglinarchive.com Daily Stormer Historical Archive Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.17 https://www.anglinarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Elvis Dunderhoff – DS https://www.anglinarchive.com 32 32 The Ukraine Now Running “Voluntary” Recruitment Campaign for Men Aged 18 to 24 https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/13/the-ukraine-now-running-voluntary-recruitment-campaign-for-men-aged-18-to-24/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ukraine is now actively recruiting 18-24 year olds for a 1 year military contract in select brigades that includes 3 months of NATO-standard basic military training.
– $24,000 signing bonus
– Interest-free mortgage
– Free college education pic.twitter.com/IlRuThbn3I

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) February 11, 2025

Ah yes, good old voluntary Ukraine recruitment.

Many strapping young volunteers are stepping up and ready to go die in a ditch after a drone drops a grenade on them, even while the Europeans are admitting aloud that the war is already over.

The Ukraine is just that excited about feeding the EU ladies their constant stream of blood.

RT:

Ukraine’s new voluntary military recruitment campaign for men aged 18 to 24 is a “one-way ticket,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

Zakharova was referring to the initiative announced by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday, aimed at attracting young people to a one-year military contract in a bid to address a critical manpower shortage on the front line. Although Kiev significantly tightened the mobilization regulations last year and lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25, the measures have failed to boost enlistment or replenish battlefield losses.

The “special contracts” have been offered to volunteers aged 18 to 24, who are exempt from mobilization, promising a payment equivalent to $24,000 for one-year’s service, with $5,400 paid upfront and the remainder distributed over the service period. Young recruits are also promised at least $2,800 in monthly compensation, access to zero-interest mortgages, and state-funded education. Additional benefits include free medical care and the right to travel abroad after one year of service. Upon completing their contract, volunteers are granted a 12-month exemption from mobilization.

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Zakharova questioned the campaign in an interview with Sputnik on Wednesday, asking: “Does anyone have any doubts about what kind of contract this is? It’s just a one-way ticket.” The diplomat added that “right now, they have begun annihilating their own citizens aged 18 to 24.”

Yeah, it does seem that they want the country’s male population to be as low as possible.

I wonder why…?

]]> Zelensky Denies That Boris Johnson Told Him Not to Sign Istanbul Peace Deal https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/13/zelensky-denies-that-boris-johnson-told-him-not-to-sign-istanbul-peace-deal/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, this particular bit of history was always going to need to be rewritten when the Ukraine finally surrendered.

If the Ukraine would have just signed that deal in 2022, which was incredibly unfavorable to Russia, they would have more of their precious territory, saved a million lives, and not destroyed all those buildings. Half their population wouldn’t have left as refugees.

There was no benefit whatsoever to the war, and there never could have been a benefit to the war (at least for the Ukraine, the argument from the West was that it benefited them to drain Russian resources).

The Guardian:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rubbished claims that Boris Johnson scuppered a possible peace deal between Ukraine and Russia in spring 2022, calling them “illogical” in an interview with the Guardian.

“There were several approaches with ultimatums and I never gave my approval for it,” said Zelenskyy of Russian demands for ending its full-scale invasion.

He actually did.

He said he was going to do the deal and then Johnson flew in.

This is a matter of historical fact.

Johnson had nothing to do with his decision, said Zelenskyy, directly addressing the claims for the first time: “It doesn’t fit with logic; what was he supposed to be talking us out of?”

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The then British prime minister made a surprise visit to Kyiv in April 2022, six weeks after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. He walked through the streets of Kyiv with Zelenskyy and publicly affirmed British support for Ukraine.

The idea that Johnson also used the visit to ensure Ukraine did not sign a peace agreement with Russia first emerged in an article in the respected Ukrainska Pravda outlet in May 2022, which said that Ukrainian and Russian negotiators had agreed on a broad possible agreement after a meeting in Istanbul in late March.

A week later, Johnson arrived with a message that “Putin is a war criminal, he needs to be pressured, not negotiated with”, according to one of the outlet’s sources.

In November 2023, David Arakhamia, a member of Zelenskyy’s own negotiating team in Istanbul, appeared to lend the idea credence. “When we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and said that we would not sign anything with them at all, and let’s just fight,” he said in a November 2023 interview.

Russian sources seized on these words, ignoring another part of the interview in which Arakhamia had said the Ukrainian delegation had not planned to sign anything in any case. In an interview with Tucker Carlson last year, Putin brought up the story, claiming it showed the west had pushed Ukraine further into the war.

Ukrainian and Russian negotiators held several rounds of talks in Belarus and Turkey, but the conditions demanded by the Russians were always punishing, said Zelenskyy. “I said: ‘This cannot be. It violates the rights of our citizens, of the constitution. It would be a full betrayal. We will not submit to the ultimatums of Putin,’” Zelenskyy claimed.

Simon Shuster, a journalist who has written a biography of Zelenskyy, said he believed the Ukrainian president was serious in late March 2022 about trying to meet Putin and negotiate an end to the war based on a draft agreement reached in Istanbul.

It’s nice that Zelensky is taking the time to protect Boris Johnson and the British.

When this surrender becomes widely understood, he’s going to have a lot of his own problems to deal with.

]]> China: Free Speech Fraud’s Tesla Suing Journalists and Crash Survivors for Defamation https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/12/china-free-speech-frauds-tesla-suing-journalists-and-crash-survivors-for-defamation/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

China should just ban these “cars.”

They are a threat to public safety.

AP:

Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.

Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

Zhang is not the only one to find herself in the crosshairs of Tesla, which is led by Elon Musk, among the richest men in the world and a self-described “ free speech absolutist.” Over the last four years, Tesla has sued at least six car owners in China who had sudden vehicle malfunctions, quality complaints or accidents they claimed were caused by mechanical failures.

The company has also sued at least six bloggers and two Chinese media outlets that wrote critically about the company, according to a review of public court documents and Chinese media reports by The Associated Press. Tesla won all eleven cases for which AP could determine the verdicts. Two judgments, including Zhang’s, are on appeal. One case was settled out of court.

The February 2021 crash in central China’s Henan province sent Zhang’s mother and father, who had a concussion, to the hospital for four days, medical records show. Zhang — who was unharmed in the accident, as was her baby niece — wanted to understand what had happened: How could her dream car have turned into such a nightmare?

Traffic police determined that the crash was her dad’s fault because he hadn’t maintained a safe following distance. Zhang, however, insisted that the brakes had malfunctioned, sending the car out of control. She filed a complaint with a local market regulator, requesting a refund and compensation. Teslas are among the most computerized cars on the market, so Zhang asked the automaker to turn over the full pre-crash data from her car, hoping it might help explain what went wrong. Tesla refused.

“Tesla’s employees were very arrogant and tough in dealing with my complaints,” Zhang said in an interview. “I was burning with anger.”

After weeks of stewing, she draped her damaged car with a banner proclaiming “Tesla brake failure” in front of the Tesla dealership in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, some 200 km (124 miles) from her home. She sat on the Tesla’s roof and blared her protest through a bullhorn: “Tesla Model 3 brakes failed,” she said. “A family of four almost died.” The next month, she parked her damaged car outside an auto show in Zhengzhou. It was all to no avail — Tesla refused to turn over the full data and mediation went nowhere.

Tesla said Zhang had deliberately spread false information that damaged the brand and asked for 5 million yuan ($684,000) in damages.

The case, which a court took up in October 2021, came as Tesla faced a barrage of criticism in China.

Dozens of Tesla owners had been publicly complaining about alleged brake failures, battery fires, unintended acceleration and other defects, as well as what they claimed were misleading sales practices. The same month as Zhang’s crash, Chinese regulators summoned Tesla to respond to quality concerns raised by such reports.

Zhang’s emotional protest sparked a rare burst of criticism of Tesla in Chinese media. Under pressure from regulators, Tesla finally released the data from her car, which the company said showed her father had been driving nearly 120 km per hour (75 mph) and that the brakes had functioned to reduce the magnitude of the collision.

Tesla had finally given Zhang what she’d been asking for, but they’d published the data publicly and included her vehicle identification number. She said she and her family started getting threatened and doxed online. Besides, she wondered, how could she be sure Tesla hadn’t modified or redacted the data from her car? It was less than the victory she’d hoped for. Feeling besieged, she sued Tesla a second time, in March 2022, for invading her privacy.

Zhang lost both cases she brought against Tesla.

Meanwhile, the defamation case against her was grinding along. Back in court as a defendant, Zhang was unable to prove that the brakes on her Tesla had indeed failed. In a closed trial, a Shanghai court ruled in May 2024 that Zhang’s public complaints went beyond what magistrates considered reasonable, factual criticism and ordered her to publicly apologize and pay 170,000 RMB ($23,000) to cover damages and the legal costs of the world’s most valuable car company.

Zhang appealed the ruling. She maintains that her lawsuit is a cry for transparency and accountability and that a company as rich and powerful as Tesla should be able to tolerate legitimate criticism from its customers.

“I refuse to accept it,” Zhang told the Associated Press, “As a consumer, even if I said something wrong, I have the right to comment and criticize. I spoke about my feelings as a user of the car. It has nothing to do with damaging their reputation.”

Her odds of winning the appeal against Tesla do not look good. Tesla has not only won the defamation cases it brought against unhappy car owners and critical journalists, it’s also prevailed in lawsuits customers have filed against it.

Zhang posted videos about it on her Weibo account.

Safety advocates worry about the implications of Musk’s proximity to power in the United States. Federal investigations and safety initiatives Musk has long railed against could be easily snuffed out by the new administration.

In the U.S., Tesla also has been subject to a raft of customer safety complaints and lawsuits over autopilot function, battery charging, alleged suspension defects, sudden braking or acceleration, faulty airbags and allegedly monopolistic practices on repairs and parts. Judges have dismissed some cases. In others, Tesla settled out of court or paid hefty settlements.

Tesla has not publicly sued any of its U.S. customers for speaking out, though in January, Musk said on X that “maybe it is time” to sue media outlets for coverage that could stain Tesla’s brand. His post has been viewed more than 22 million times.

Tesla has already successfully done that in China.

It’s sort of ironic about the “free speech” thing, no?

]]> Watch: Trump Meets Jordan’s King, Says the US Will Just Take Gaza https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/12/watch-trump-meets-jordans-king-says-the-us-will-just-take-gaza/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

‘We are going to have Gaza, we don’t have to buy it. There is nothing to buy. It’s a war-torn area, we are going to take it’ says US President Donald Trump.

He adds his redevelopment plan will bring ‘peace and stability to the Middle East’. https://t.co/7YO75xCpGF

📺 Sky 501 pic.twitter.com/x3Wlrnm6xK

— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 11, 2025

Just gonna take it.

He’s not saying this about Canada and Greenland, by the way, despite the fact that the US needs those territories and does not need Gaza at all.

The Guardian:

Donald Trump has pressed Jordan’s King Abdullah to take in Palestinians who would be permanently displaced under the US president’s idea for the US to take over the Gaza Strip – even as the king said his country was firmly opposed to the move.

Speaking alongside the Arab country’s ruler in the White House, Trump signaled he would not budge on his idea that involves moving the Gaza Strip’s shell-shocked residents and transforming the war-ravaged territory into what he billed a “Riviera of the Middle East”.

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“We’re going to take it. We’re going to hold it, we’re going to cherish it. We’re going to get it going eventually, where a lot of jobs are going to be created for the people in the Middle East,” Trump said in the Oval Office, saying his plan would “bring peace” to the region.

King Abdullah said later that he had reiterated Jordan’s “steadfast position” against the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, as well as in the occupied West Bank that borders his country.

“This is the unified Arab position,” he said in a post on Twitter/X. “Rebuilding Gaza without displacing the Palestinians and addressing the dire humanitarian situation should be the priority for all.“

Despite the views of his Jordanian counterpart, Trump said Jordan, as well as Egypt, would ultimately agree to house displaced residents of Gaza. Both countries rely on Washington for economic and military aid.

“I believe we’ll have a parcel of land in Jordan. I believe we’ll have a parcel of land in Egypt,” said Trump. “We may have someplace else, but I think when we finish our talks, we’ll have a place where they’re going to live very happily and very safely.“

Trump, who has suggested he could consider withholding aid to Jordan, said he was not using support as a threat.

“We contribute a lot of money to Jordan, and to Egypt by the way – a lot to both. But I don’t have to threaten that. I think we’re above that,” Trump said.

Well, that is true.

For now.

The populations of these countries might go ahead and rise up. That’s always possible. Especially if they’re facing millions more immigrants.

]]> Scammers Use AI to Clone Voice of Italian Defense Minister to Target Businessmen https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/11/scammers-use-ai-to-clone-voice-of-italian-defense-minister-to-target-businessmen/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Are people not aware that AI exists?

Who falls for something like this?

RT:

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has declared his voice a “masterpiece,” after discovering that scammers used AI to impersonate him last week in a reported attempt to solicit funds from the country’s wealthiest business people.

Crosetto first alerted the public to the ongoing scam on Thursday in a post on X, warning that several prominent figures had been approached by imposters.

The scammers reportedly aimed to capitalize on a recent high-profile prisoner exchange with Iran, during which Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was released. The AI-generated “Crosetto” claimed urgent funding was needed to pay ransom for other reporters supposedly held in the Middle East, framing it as a matter of national security.

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Crosetto shared some jokes he was told about the situation, noting a suggestion from a friend that he could take solace in the fact that “fake copies of all masterpieces circulate.”

Yeah, that’s probably funnier in Italian, I would assume.

Original tweet here.

]]> Hamas Pauses Release of Hostages Over Israel’s Violations of Ceasefire Deal https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/11/hamas-pauses-release-of-hostages-over-israels-violations-of-ceasefire-deal/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hamas says it is delaying the next release of captives held in Gaza until further notice, accusing Israel of not abiding by the terms of the ceasefire agreement. pic.twitter.com/5suuYY9CBn

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) February 10, 2025

Welp.

So much for that, I guess.

Who could have predicted that this ceasefire deal wouldn’t work out?

The Guardian:

Hamas has said it is delaying the release of Israeli hostages indefinitely over “violations” of the ceasefire deal, prompting Israel’s defence minister to put the country’s military on alert with orders to prepare for “any scenario in Gaza”.

Mediators fear a breakdown of the three-week-old ceasefire, Egyptian security sources told Reuters, and have postponed talks until they receive a clear indication of Washington’s intent to continue with the phased deal.

Israel’s security cabinet has moved forward a meeting to discuss negotiations on the second phase, which had been set for Tuesday evening. The army has cancelled all leave for soldiers in the Gaza division, the Kan news outlet reported, in another sign that Israeli authorities are preparing for the resumption of war.

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage in Gaza said they have contacted the negotiators – who are from Qatar, Egypt and the US – asking for urgent help to “restore and implement” an agreement that took more than a year to seal.

Although a Hamas spokesperson cited past Israeli violations for halting the exchanges, the decision comes against a backdrop of US and Israeli leaders taking increasingly hardline positions about the long-term future of the strip.

Donald Trump has repeatedly called for a Gaza without Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly praised Trump’s “fresh idea” for the territory and privately insists the war will only end if Hamas agrees to “cease to exist”, Israeli media reported.

The militant group treats its Israeli hostages as leverage and was releasing them partly to secure prisoner releases but mostly in order to have a role in determining the future of a postwar Gaza, even though it is widely accepted it will no longer govern there.

But the group no longer believes US guarantees for the ceasefire will hold and it does not think Israel is serious about implementing the plan, Reuters reported.

Qatar had warned Israeli officials at the weekend that even the first stage of the ceasefire deal was being put in jeopardy by provocative statements from Netanyahu and by his government’s approach to talks on a second stage, Haaretz reported. Qatari diplomats sent angry messages to Israeli counterparts, reminding them that as hosts, key mediators and guarantors of the deal’s implementation, they too have a stake in its survival, an Israeli source said.

The Qatari foreign ministry, which usually tries to stay scrupulously neutral, had also issued a rare public condemnation of Israel after Netanyahu suggested Saudi Arabia should provide land for a Palestinian state. It described the Israeli leader’s comments as “a flagrant violation of international law” in a statement that urged the international community to “decisively address Israel’s provocations”.

In public remarks, Abu Obeida, a spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing, accused Israel of delaying the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza, blocking the arrival of aid and attacking civilians. There would be no more hostage releases until Israel “complies and compensates for the past weeks”, he said.

This is what Israel always planned: they violate the ceasefire, Hamas stops the prisoner releases, then they say Hamas is at fault and start the war back up again.

Of course, with Trump saying he’s going to forcibly remove the entire population of Gaza, it was weird that Hamas hadn’t called that out as something that effectively made the ceasefire meaningless.

]]> Farmers “Very Worried” as Pesticide Companies Push Law Blocking Litigation Against Them https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/11/farmers-very-worried-as-pesticide-companies-push-law-blocking-litigation-against-them/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

They’ve known for many decades that these pesticides cause cancer, not just in the farmers that have to deal with them directly, but in the people who eat the produce.

The government doesn’t care about your health.

They say they do when they are trying to ban you from smoking or trying to force you to take experimental gene therapies, but they do not care about your health. They will give you cancer on purpose. They will give themselves cancer if it means they can make a few bucks off donations from these chemical manufacturers.

The Guardian:

Pesticide company efforts to push through laws that could block litigation against them is igniting battles in several US farm states and pitting some farm groups against each other.

Laws have been introduced in at least eight states so far and drafts are circulating in more than 20 states, backed by a deluge of advertising supporting the measures.

The fight is particularly fierce now in Iowa, where opponents call the pesticide-backed proposed law the “Cancer Gag Act”, due to high levels of cancer in Iowa that many fear are linked to the state’s large agricultural use of pesticides. Iowa has the second-highest rate of new cancer cases in the United States and the fastest growing rate.

The bill would bar people from suing pesticide manufacturers for failing to warn them of health risks, as long as the product labels are approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Organizers against the Iowa bill are planning a rally at the state capitol today after the state senate voted last week to advance the measure.

Opponents say the legislation will rob farmers and others who use pesticides from holding companies accountable in court if their pesticide products cause disease or injury.

“We’re very worried. Our farmers feel that if they have injuries or illnesses due to their use of a pesticide they should have access to the courts,” said Aaron Lehman, an Iowa corn and soybean farmer who is president of the Iowa Farmers Union. “We just don’t think the playing field should be tilted.”

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The actions in the states come alongside a simultaneous push for changes in federal law that would in effect shield companies from lawsuits brought by people claiming they developed cancers or other diseases due to their use of pesticides.

Bayer, the Germany-based owner of the former Monsanto Co, is the chief architect of the strategy, designed as a means to beat back thousands of lawsuits filed by farmers and others who blame their use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides for causing them to develop cancer.

The litigation has so far cost Bayer billions of dollars in settlements and jury verdicts favoring plaintiffs, and more cases are pending. The company says the pursuit of the legislative changes is necessary to protect its “important investments” and to ensure farmers don’t lose access to Roundup.

Hopefully RFK can get involved in this.

He’s the only man in America that can do that job.

There have been some settlements recently that indicated there could be some changes.

But there are never really any changes, are there?

Companies pay out some tiny fraction of their profits to a few of the people whose lives they’ve destroyed, and it just keeps on going.

]]> Israeli President Says Trump Will Talk to Arab Leaders About Resettling Palestinians https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/10/israeli-president-says-trump-will-talk-to-arab-leaders-about-resettling-palestinians/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today on @sundayfutures with @MariaBartiromo, Israeli President Isaac Herzog @Isaac_Herzog spoke about President Trump’s proposal for the Gaza Strip.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/ym89unshWG

— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) February 9, 2025

Everyone knows they’re all going to end up in Europe and the US, regardless of where they are first transported.

We all know that.

Talking about it is just silly.

RT:

US President Donald Trump will begin talks with Arab leaders regarding his proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries while the enclave is being rebuilt, Israeli President Isaac Herzog told Fox News on Sunday. Trump’s plan has drawn international condemnation.

In the interview, Herzog insisted that the US president is not talking about taking over Gaza militarily and urged neighboring nations to offer alternative solutions.

“President Trump is due to meet with major, major Arab leaders, first and foremost, the king of Jordan and the president of Egypt, and I think also the crown prince of Saudi Arabia as well… They are partners that must be listened to, must be discussed with. We have to know their fields as well and see how we build a plan that is sustainable for the future,” Herzog stated.

When the boomers end up with their neighborhood filled with Arab refugees, they going to scream about “how did this happen???” just like Trump is screaming “how did this happen???” about the hostages in Gaza looking a bit skinny.

This sort of stuff is not really any better than Democrats believing trannies are real.

No one feels any obligation to reality.

]]> War Mommy Ursula Demands New Version of NATO Without America https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/10/war-mommy-ursula-demands-new-version-of-nato-without-america/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ursula Von Der Liar has basically announced that “Europe will take its security into its own hands”

This is potentially the end of NATO. Because the so called “Defensive alliance” is completely toothless without the United States. pic.twitter.com/pVTcGLB4De

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) February 10, 2025

The singular reason that NATO still exists is that the US wants it to. The US pays for virtually the entire thing.

The idea that without American pressure, Germany would be blowing up its own pipes and rolling tanks into Russia is nonsensical.

These psycho women are committed to the war agenda, because “war is nagging by other means.” But “continue digging yourself into poverty because the US deep state wants endless war but the current American president is against it.”

RT:

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called for an alternative to NATO, arguing that Europe must take greater responsibility for its own security. Her remarks come amid growing US demands for increased defense spending among members of the US-led military bloc, uncertainty over future support for Ukraine, and fears of a potential shift in Washington’s commitment to European security.

“NATO remains the foundation of our defense. But it is evident that we need a pan-European defense,” von der Leyen said during a press briefing in Lithuania on Sunday.

“Modern warfare requires a scale, technology, and coordination too big for any one nation to handle alone,” she added, asking for more funding, “both public and private”.

The strategy for the future of European defense is set to be presented to EU leaders by mid-March, she claimed.

Why engage in modern warfare?

What is the purpose of this?

As we all know, as everyone in the world knows, European states are vassals of the US, and that’s why they do all these wars. The US gained control of these countries after WWII just like Russia gained control of the Warsaw Pact states.

No one can explain the benefit of this war to Europe, but if you ask one of these hysterical old bags, they’ll tell you that although Russia ran out off missiles and fuel in early March 2022 because their army is so weak and pathetic, they are also on the verge of marching on Berlin.

]]> Zelensky Tells Trump “Let’s Do a Deal,” Offers Rare Earths https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/02/08/zelensky-tells-trump-lets-do-a-deal-offers-rare-earths/ Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pored over a once-classified map of vast deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals during an interview with @Reuters, part of a push to appeal to Donald Trump’s penchant for a deal https://t.co/1kQnfqx2u5 pic.twitter.com/XxOAwUNb3n

— Reuters (@Reuters) February 7, 2025


He’s just throwing anything out there at this point.

He’s got billions of dollars he stole in offshore accounts, but what good is that if he can’t walk around without 40 million Ukrainians trying to assassinate him for what he did to their country? He ends up in a gilded cage.

Reuters:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pored over a once-classified map of vast deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals during an interview with Reuters on Friday, part of a push to appeal to Donald Trump’s penchant for a deal.

The U.S. president, whose administration is pressing for a rapid end to Ukraine’s war with Russia, said on Monday he wanted Ukraine to supply the U.S. with rare earths and other minerals in return for financially supporting its war effort.

“If we are talking about a deal, then let’s do a deal, we are only for it,” Zelenskiy said, emphasising Ukraine’s need for security guarantees from its allies as part of any settlement.

Ukraine floated the idea of opening its critical minerals to investment by allies last autumn, as it presented a “victory plan” that sought to put it in the strongest position for talks and force Moscow to the table.

Zelenskiy said less than 20% of Ukraine’s mineral resources, including about half its rare earth deposits, were under Russian occupation.

Rare earths are important in the manufacture of high-performance magnets, electric motors and consumer electronics; Zelenskiy said Moscow could open those resources to its allies North Korea and Iran, both sworn U.S. enemies.

“We need to stop Putin and protect what we have – a very rich Dnipro region, central Ukraine,” he said.

…

Ukraine has rapidly retuned its foreign policy approach to align with the transactional world view set out by the new occupant of the White House, Ukraine’s most important ally.

But Zelenskiy emphasised that Kyiv was not proposing “giving away” its resources, but offering a mutually beneficial partnership to develop them jointly:

“The Americans helped the most, and therefore the Americans should earn the most. And they should have this priority, and they will. I would also like to talk about this with President Trump.”

Trump is probably going to take the resources, and then offer a reconstruction deal after the peace deal, which Zelensky can’t be a part of.

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