I am primarily concerned about domestic social issues. That is what I prefer to write about. Primarily, I hate women and like to share that message of hate with the world. However, for many years now I have been compelled to write about geopolitics because there is so much gibberish flooding the public space regarding these issues that it appears to be a moral obligation for me to add my piece.

I am all too well aware that I am the only English speaking person who can say anything intelligent about China. But I never viewed myself as the sole voice of reason on the Ukraine-Russia situation. Yet, I go away for a few weeks and the public conversation on the right degrades into garbled madness. Following a wild series of confusing events, there are a few quick things I want to put out there and hopefully it will clear things up.

The first and most obvious thing to note is that it was very easy for the American right to be pro-Russia, or at least anti-Ukraine, when the cancer-riddled old coot Joe Brandon was in charge of the US government and serving as the face of Ukrainemania. Right wingers, while sometimes critical of Trump, do not view him as villainous in the way they viewed the rotting corpse Brandon as villainous.

Unfortunately, nothing has changed insofar as the Ukraine-Russia situation is concerned now that Trump is president. Despite a very funny scene in the Oval Office in which trump berated the Jewish dwarf dictator of the Ukraine, the US military has continued arming the country and has continued to support NATO escalating the conflict.

Following along with the theatre that took place during the zelensky meeting, Trump has used rhetoric to give the impression there has been some substantive change in US war policy. Biden publicly committed to the idea that the war would never end, saying constantly that the war should go on forever no matter the cost, while Trump is publicly saying the war should end at some point in the (near?) future. However, even while Biden was saying “endless war forever,” his own officials were acknowledging that it would have to end at some point. Just so, while Trump says he wants it to end, his own officials are saying that sure, it will have to be sometime, but who really knows.

Aside from the change in rhetoric, Trump has vaguely attempted to start a peace process, which Biden refused to even entertain. So, I should give credit where due there. But there is as of yet no reason to believe the peace process will go anywhere.

It’s a bit disappointing for me personally. Although I obviously supported Trump over Kamala, in the run-up to the “election,” I was overwhelmingly negative about the whole thing, and repeatedly stressed the point that though Trump would win, it was only because he was allowed to win (given that we know for a fact that US elections can be rigged), which meant that he wasn’t likely to do much of significance. I did say that I expected him to end the Ukraine war (even if only to free up resources for more adventurism in the Middle East). It now appears that my optimism, as it were, might have been misplaced. (Of course, on the other end, to also give credit where due, he is at least pushing back against Bibi in ways which could turn out to be substantive. Though I’m not really holding my breath on that, I stand by what I wrote last week about the possibility that Trump could move to try to oust Bibi. I also stand by my instinct that it probably won’t work.)

The important thing to understand is that trumps talk of a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire is complete bullshit and every serious person is aware of this. It is not a starting point for peace negotiations, it is not anything at all other than a tactic to try to convince deeply stupid or totally uninformed people that Russia is not committed to peace and is rejecting an olive branch. It is not an olive branch. If there was a deal on the table and Zelensky and Putin had a meeting setup with a draft proposal and Trump was asking for a week ceasefire, okay, but asking for an open-ended ceasefire and then whining when Putin refuses to agree to let the Ukraine rearm for no reason is just childish and dumb.

Russia’s demands have been the same since before they invaded the Ukraine. In substance, they’ve been consistent since the Ukraine, backed by the US, started the war in 2014, but the specifics have not changed since February of 2022 when Putin gave a speech outlining the purpose of the invasion and the goals that would have to be achieved before there could be peace between the two states. There is no room for confusion about what Russia is demanding, and the single most important demand is a serious, carved in stone agreement that the Ukraine will never join NATO. This includes not only a ban on officially joining NATO, but also a ban on being a de facto NATO state through a treaty that does the same thing without official NATO membership. (The current chatter coming from the State Department and from Germany is to make the Ukraine a de facto NATO member without actually calling it that.)

Trump is not offering Russia a peace deal. He is demanding that Russia, which is winning the war, agree to stop fighting so that the US and its allies can rearm and fortify the Ukraine. This is like if a losing football team in the fourth quarter demanded that the game be paused so everyone can rest up and then come back and finish the game tomorrow. It is completely ridiculous.

If Trump were in charge of the United States, and it might be childish to suggest he is but if he were, he could offer a peace deal that meets Russias terms and end the war immediately. If there were a serious peace deal, there would be no need for a ceasefire, because you would have a cessation of hostilities.

Russia is not demanding anything crazy. There would be nothing shameful in simply doing the deal. It would not make Trump look weak or whatever it is people suggest he is concerned about. Trump has spent months now claiming that Putin is planning to conquer the entirety of the Ukraine, and I can tell you as a matter of fact, no one in Russia is going to be mad about Trump signing a peace deal and then going around saying he stopped Russia from marching on Galicia and forcing everyone to use correct Russian grammar and drink Russian vodka (instead of that fruity crap they drink).

I said from the beginning that when the US finally surrenders they will say “we stopped Putin from taking all of the Ukraine,” and that is clearly what Trump will claim and that is fine.

But there is no other room for a “win.” Maybe Russia will cede some of the territory that they’ve officially claimed but don’t currently occupy. I would assume they would do that and the Kremlin seems to have indicated as much. But that can’t be any kind of a big public “win” because no one in the West knows or cares where those lines are.

Russia doing a big bombing campaign this week is sending a signal that they are not playing a game and they are not interested in this ridiculous kiddie nonsense that Trump is pushing. Trump is trying to bully them by claiming they look bad for not agreeing to a ceasefire that allows the sickening pervert Americans and those German sickos to come in and fortify towns again, to ship in more weapons, to train soldiers, and so on.

Trump is offering nothing at all. In part that is because there is nothing he can offer other than the deal that has always been on the table. I have no idea how this is going to play long term with his own supporters. Trump is now taking a position not qualitatively different than that of Joe Biden on the conflict and it’s unclear if his supporters are going to notice that. Probably, if you combine this with things like Dan Bongino and that odious Indian coming out and saying the Epstein suicide was on the up and up, and the ongoing discontent with Trump’s support for the Gaza genocide, Trump is probably going to be facing some pretty serious negativity in the coming weeks and months. The euphoria over the barrage of toothless, symbolic executive orders is probably wearing off.

It seems to me that Trump has enough problems with being perceived as a warmonger and if he has the ability, ending the Ukraine war would be a very easy win for his image, even if it isn’t a “win” in the other sense that he often uses that word.

Issuing a series of threats seems very ill-advised and is definitely not going to lead to any positive outcome for Trump or anyone else.

He can escalate, of course. He can send in US troops to fight Russians. He has that ability. But is that what he wants? If not, then threats are not useful, because Russia is not going to respond to threats. I don’t think they will get mad about them, but they will issue statements about how Trump is very emotional, which just seems embarrassing for Trump. If he decides to escalate the war, then he goes down as the guy who started World War III in the face of the most obvious peace deal imaginable, with the narrative being that he did it because he was unable to control his emotions.

He campaigned on saying Joe Biden was right about Israel-Palestine but just wasn’t extreme enough. Everyone knew that was his position. However he now does seem to be bothered by the fact that all of his supporters, save whatever evangelical boomers are still around, view him as a puppet of Netanyahu who is personally responsible for a genocide. It’s possible he can’t get out of that, as he actually is just totally controlled by Israel. But if he can, why not take the PR win and end the Ukraine war? Why go around spewing gibberish that no adult takes seriously?

For the record, I take Trump at his word that he wants to have a legacy as a peacemaker, and I think if he was a dictator, in complete control of the executive branch of the US government, he would end these wars. I am not against him as a person, and I think people who portray him as being secretly ideologically pro-war are not very serious people. The problem is that his own opinions are totally irrelevant, the only thing that matters being his actions, and all of his actions thus far have shown that he’s no more anti-war than Joe Biden.

It’s great that he’s complained about Bibi and said it’s sad Palestinians are being slaughtered and starved. But Biden also said that. His rhetoric on the Ukraine is less deranged than Biden’s, but his policies are the same. And it’s pretty much the same across the board. It’s great he’s talking about a new Iran Nike deal, but Biden also talked about that. There’s nothing new here, and it’s kind of hilarious that after he appointed Marco Rubio as the Secretary of State, anyone thought there would be anything new.

What is much more hilarious is that the Trump administration’s attacks on the freedom of speech make Biden look like a hardcore civil libertarian. There is a bill in Congress that will put people in prison for ten years if they boycott Israel. I had a conversation with AI about the bill. Laws are very long and purposefully confusing, but AI is able to break this stuff down. (Obviously, you need to check it for accuracy, but I’ve found it is now very accurate when it comes to simply analyzing long documents.) I asked if this bill became law and I was in a store and there was a bar of Israeli soap and a bar of Jordanian soap, and I bought the Jordanian soap because I am against the genocide in Gaza if I could be prosecuted. The AI said no. I think asked if I owned a company, and my company chose to buy the Jordanian soap because I am against the genocide if I could be prosecuted, and the AI said it was possible I could be prosecuted and face up to ten years in prison. The bill has been tabled, but according to the media, this was done single-handedly by Matt Gaetz and Republicans want to bring it back. (Gaetz pointed out that the bill seems to imply every American is legally obligated to buy Israeli products. Again, no one understands the way these laws are written, but in my example above, it seems possible that if my company chose to buy the Jordanian soap, even if I did it arbitrarily, and not because I oppose the Gazan genocide, I could be accused of having hateful reasons for the decision, and thrown in prison.)

We all love Trump. But there is a lot of stuff like this going on that is really not great. I’m glad Elon got thrown under the bus, but compared to some of this other stuff, whatever the hell he was up to seems like small potatoes. Stopping wars and bringing back freedom of speech were two of the most prominent things in the Trump campaign, and rhetoric aside, we are so far getting the opposite on both counts.

But hey. We hope for the best.

Ultimately, we need to not lose sight of why the American people elected Trump in the first place: to protect women’s sports.

Trump’s foreign policy might be the same as Biden’s, he will likely be the president to implement the first hate speech laws in American history, but none of that matters much in light of the fact that we’ve gotten rid of the radical gender ideology that was causing female swimmers to be denied their sports medals.

🇺🇸TRUMP: WE NEED TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF HELPING UKRAINE

“They may be Russian someday or they may not be Russian someday, but we’re gonna have all this money in there.

I say, ‘I want it back.’

I told them that I want the equivalent, like, $500B worth of rare earth, and… https://t.co/QfVyzJAuq7 pic.twitter.com/6zxHqYNa3k

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 10, 2025

When Trump first made his statements about how the Ukraine should be forced to give America their rare earth minerals, it sounded to some like he was saying “we’ll keep sending you weapons if you start paying for them.” And that is how Zelensky seemed to interpret it.

However, it sounded to me like Trump was saying “give us that shit for all the money we already gave you.”

Trump has  clarified that this is what he means. He’s not offering the Ukraine more money, he’s just demanding the US get paid.

RT:

US President Donald Trump has said he wants to secure a deal with Kiev to ensure Washington gets its money back by trading aid for Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals – regardless of whether “they may be Russian someday.”

In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Trump claimed that “the United States is in for more than $300 billion, probably 350” in various forms of aid to Ukraine, adding that it would be “stupid” for Washington to continue bankrolling Kiev without receiving anything in return.

“I want to have our money secured because we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars,” he said. “They have tremendously valuable land in terms of rare earth, in terms of oil and gas, in terms of other things.”

“I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earths, and they’ve essentially agreed to do that,” Trump stated. “So at least we don’t feel stupid. Otherwise, we’re stupid. I said to them, we have to get something.”

“You know, they may make a deal, they may not make a deal, they may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday, but we’re gonna have all this money in there, and I say, I want it back,” he added.

He sounds like he’s talking about the whole country becoming Russia again, which is funny.

That should happen, even though Russia doesn’t have any interest in trying to sheep-herd those morons in the West of the country.

Kiev still has quite a few deposits of these rare earths.

Trump should just sign the deal with Putin, giving him the East of the country, then go in and strip mine the other half of the country for payback. No one will be able to say he lost in this case.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky claims all Ukrainians are against democratic elections pic.twitter.com/YDAyGj15Qm

— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) February 9, 2025

Let’s work through the reasoning here. Let’s try and figure it.

Democracy values are not just elections, but free and fair elections. That means that a US-backed candidate, in league with the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID (CIA) must be allowed to run and if he doesn’t win it’s not a free and fair election. If a country is not a democracy, it is an enemy of the United States, and is therefore subject to sanctions and wars.

For example, the 2024 Russian election was not free and fair, because the neo-Nazi and cosmetics fraud artist Alexi Navalny, a CIA asset, was not allowed to run in the election. With a record 77% voter turnout, Putin won 88% of the vote, but that is meaningless. If Trump had been banned from running in the 2024 election, 77% of the population would have turned out to vote and 88% would have voted for Kamala Harris. But Trump was allowed to run even though he attacked our democracy worse than the Civil War because of our values, so only 59% of people turned out to vote, and only 48% voted for Kamala, because Alexi Navalny wasn’t on that ballot either.

However, if Russia wants you to have an election, and you cancel elections, you are doing democracy because Russia is against democracy, and therefore if they want you to have an election, they are using elections to prevent democracy.

It’s all very simple.

RT:

Holding a vote amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine would spell a disaster for Kiev for a large number of reasons ranging from popular disapproval to literally “losing” its Armed Forces, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky claimed this week.

Earlier, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Ukraine conflict, Keith Kellogg, stated that Washington would like to see Kiev holding presidential and parliamentary votes before the end of the year. Zelensky had previously suspended both elections indefinitely, citing the martial law.

Elections in Ukraine at a time like this would only benefit Russia, the Ukrainian leader claimed in an interview with the ITV News broadcaster. “The topic of elections has been brought up by Russians,” he stated.

…

In his interview, Zelensky still maintained that Russia only wanted to see elections in Ukraine to bring about “destabilization” to its neighbor. He also claimed that Ukrainians themselves do not want to any vote while he himself was “absolutely not afraid of them.” “During this war, our population is against elections, all people are against it,” he stated.

According to the Ukrainian leader, holding an election would require the Ukrainian government to lift martial law as no voting is allowed as long as one is in place. “If we suspend the martial law we will lose our army,” he said, adding that Kiev would not be able to make the troops stay on the frontlines otherwise.

He’s right. People hate elections. All of the people in the Ukraine are against elections, because they support Zelensky and his endless war to ethnically cleanse the Former Territory of the Eastern Ukraine, because they fear he would lose the election and it could amazing end this war which has helped the Ukraine so much.

It’s known well by Zelensky that all people in the country support him. So what would be the point of having an election, when he could lose and voters could overturn the will of the people?

Elections are straight out of the Kremlin playbook.

The Ukraine is one of the happiest places on earth, because they know what they are doing is right. Once they finally take back this rural territory that is inhabited by Russians, which none of the soldiers fighting in the war have ever been to or ever even thought about before the US government ordered them to start attacking it, they will each reach self-actualization and potentially even transcend to a higher level of existence and become beings of pure light.

A being of pure light, living on the astral plane, doesn’t need elections.

And yet, page 327 of the Kremlin playbook states: “Ethereal beings living on the astral plane should be allowed to vote if it’s the law in their country that elections need to be held regularly. This is even true if they are ruled by the Maitria.”

Another episode of forced and harsh mobilization in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/5D0r8X095L

— Venik (@venik44) February 9, 2025

It is unknown if Volomondorogor Zelensky is the Maitreya, but many astrological signs indicate he probably is. Yet, on page 741 of the Kremlin playbook, it states, “Vladimir Zelensky is probably not the Maitreya.” The playbook provides no evidence for the baseless and controversial claim.

But yeah, I mean, yo dog, I buried the lede.

The real story here is that, as I predicted, Trump is demanding Zelensky hold elections. He obviously can’t win, and would lose by a massive margin which would serve as a referendum on the war, showing that no one in the Ukraine wants this to keep going, which would be a mandate for Trump to force the country to end the war.

Furthermore, Russia is actually stating a matter of fact that because Zelensky has no legal status as the leader of the Ukraine, him signing a peace agreement doesn’t mean anything. To be clear, Russia is not saying this because they care about elections or try to force countries to honor the values of democracy. What Putin is saying is that because under Ukrainian law, Zelensky is not actually a valid leader of the country, if he signed a peace treaty it could be ignored by a future Ukrainian government because, they could say, Zelensky had no legal standing upon which to sign such a treaty.

Russia has said that they will talk to him, of course, but they are saying that they want someone who is legally the leader of the Ukraine to sign the deal so it can’t be later thrown out. If Zelensky changed the country’s constitution to make him leader for life, I think Russia would be fine signing an agreement with him.

I think Trump should put a better deadline on this than “by the end of the year,” however. It’s February. No one wants this to keep going for months. It’s time to wrap it up.

Finally, the Pope says something I actually agree with.

Hopefully, he doesn’t ruin it by following it up with “you can join gay relationships with the Russians, and you can all become trannies together.”

RT:

Pope Francis has urged young Ukrainians to exercise forgiveness in the face of the country’s conflict with Russia, despite all the suffering and destruction that has ensued. The leader of the Catholic church has previously drawn sharp rebukes from Kiev for calling on the Ukrainian leadership to negotiate peace with Moscow.

Speaking via video link during a Q&A session with Ukrainian youth in and outside the country last Saturday, the Pope said it was important to resist the urge to “respond to a punch with another punch.”

“Forgiveness is one of the hardest things. It is difficult for everyone, even for me,” he expounded, urging the listeners to “keep moving forward and always forgive.”

According to the pontiff, “life today is devalued. Money and war positions are given more importance than human life itself.”

Pope Francis suggested that the “remedy is dialogue… even with those who oppose us.”

“Please, never grow tired of dialogue,” the pope added.

I don’t totally agree with it, because the Russians don’t need to be forgiven, because they literally did nothing wrong.

But the general sentiment, that the country needs to move on from this psychopathic hatred of their countrymen (who they’ve been convinced are not their countrymen by stupid American propaganda), is a good message for the youth.

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

Strong security always has many elements, and each one matters. Ukraine possesses some of the largest strategic resource reserves in Europe, and protecting Ukraine also means protecting these resources. Resources that can either strengthen our state and our partners—or Russia and… pic.twitter.com/EcRCYRiGkm

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) 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.

REPORTER: What you said about Ukraine earlier — the rare earth. Do you want them to give the rare earth to the United States?

TRUMP: Yeah pic.twitter.com/LdTT5H7Yri

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 3, 2025

Aleksey Arestovich

Arestovich is my favorite Ukrainian, and he’s a Russian from Georgia.

He’s a total psychopath who doesn’t afraid of anything, and he’s usually right about everything.

He went viral years ago for saying that the Ukraine is a fake country and the government just made up the concept of “Ukraine identity” to get people to agree to fight a war with Russia.

He was formerly the right-hand man of Zelensky.

RT:

Ukraine has lost the armed conflict with Russia, primarily due to the inability of the Ukrainian people to take personal responsibility for their failures, Aleksey Arestovich, a former aide to Vladimir Zelensky, has argued. He expects the US, Russia, and China to decide on a resolution without consulting Kiev.

Arestovich resigned from his government post in early 2023 after contradicting the official narrative around a missile incident. Now a sharp critic of the Zelensky administration, he argued in a Telegram post on Sunday that the changing tone of Western discourse about Ukraine has signaled a significant policy change.

US President Donald Trump will sort things out with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping “without consulting us, because engaging with those who deny reality is futile,” he wrote.

“We have lost the war due to our own stupidity, pride and stubbornness. In truth, we have defeated ourselves,” Arestovich added. “We have created a society of mutual hatred and intolerance, in which every individual is right and everyone collectively is to blame.”

That’s clever.

I don’t know if he’s currently getting money from Moscow. Maybe so, maybe not. But either way, he’s positioning himself for some kind of high-level role in post-war Ukraine.

“I Trust Putin More Than Zelenskyy” – Exiled Zelenskyy Top Insider Alexey Arestovich TELLS ALL.@patrickbetdavid @arestovych pic.twitter.com/c9YAaywB1C

— PBD Podcast (@PBDsPodcast) December 23, 2024

Frankly, Trump should just make him Prime Minister.

He would be easy to deal with, because he’s a total psychopath.

BREAKING: President Trump just announced that he is demanding Ukraine to give its rare earth minerals to the United States as payment for all the aid.

“So we’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earth and other… pic.twitter.com/M9xZbHTIMl

— George (@BehizyTweets) February 3, 2025

Pay up, you sickening tranny kikes!

We’re abandoning you anyway, but give us all your shit for that money we already gave you!

Give it all!

We also want your top hookers!

No deals! We don’t do deals!

RT:

Kiev will have to supply Washington with rare-earth minerals if it wants to continue receiving American assistance, US President Donald Trump told journalists on Monday. Ukraine will need to enter a new agreement with the US, he added, calling it a “guarantee” for Washington.

According to the 2024 World Economic Forum report, Ukraine “holds immense potential as a major global supplier of critical raw materials” that could be “essential” for defense, high-tech and green energy industries. The nation boasts the largest titanium reserves in Europe, amounting to 7% of global reserves. Before the escalation of the conflict with Moscow in 2022, Ukraine was a key titanium supplier for military industries.

The list of rare-earth metals that can be found in Ukraine also includes beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, graphite, apatite, fluorite, and nickel. The country also possesses Europe’s largest confirmed lithium reserves, estimated at 500,000 tons. The mineral is particularly important for use in batteries and accumulators.

“Ukraine has very valuable rare earths,” Trump told journalists on Monday. According to the president, the US was “handing them [Ukraine] money hand over fist” and wanted some “guarantees.”

“We are looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they are going to secure what we are giving to them with the rare earths and other things,” he added.

Trump isn’t going to continue the war. At least, it sure doesn’t look like it.

But sucking the Ukraine dry is just common sense. Get all we can from these sickening faggots before we turn them over to Russian Justice!

US Senator Lindsey Graham says Ukraine is a “gold mine” with $12 trillion worth of critical minerals, which the West “can’t afford to lose”.

US companies want these resources, and Washington hopes to block China’s access to them to hurt its tech industries.

(Full video below) pic.twitter.com/Q9AR8YUpfN

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) June 12, 2024

🇷🇺🇺🇦 “You can negotiate with virtually anyone, but due to his illegitimacy, Zelensky has no right to sign anything”
– Putin https://t.co/kqxQWiLcLW pic.twitter.com/NHYdmM9uoH

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 28, 2025

Does this mean Putin is pushing for Zelensky to be removed before he is willing to talk about a deal?

Apparently!

RT:

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky can participate in possible talks with Moscow if he wishes to, but he lacks the legitimacy to actually sign a peace deal, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalist Pavel Zarubin on Tuesday.

…

In 2022, Zelensky, whose presidential term officially ended in May 2024, issued a decree prohibiting negotiations with Russia, and President Vladimir Putin specifically, a measure that remains in effect. Last week, Zelensky claimed the ban applies to all Ukrainian officials except himself, although the original decree did not specify a list of entities barred from talking to Russia, stating only that such negotiations were “impossible.”

“If we start negotiations now, they will be illegitimate… Because when the current head of the regime, that’s the only way to call [Zelensky] today, signed this decree, he was a somewhat legitimate president. But now he can’t cancel it, because he is illegitimate. That’s the trick, the catch, the trap,” Putin explained.

…

“It’s possible to negotiate with anyone. However, due to his illegitimacy, [Zelensky] has no right to sign anything. If he wishes to participate in talks, I will deploy people who will conduct such negotiations,” Putin said. He stressed that signing any deal would be a “very serious question” and the agreement must “guarantee the security of both Ukraine and Russia” for a “serious” period of time.

It could actually create a legal problem, if a deal was signed by a president who is not legitimate.

It’s totally unclear whether Zelensky had the legal ability to keep himself in power by skipping elections. Typically, this is never allowed. He says because it’s martial law, it is allowed, but is that even true?

Zelensky: Russia restored all the buildings in Mariupol very quickly. To hide their atrocities there.

It’s like in Grozny. They destroyed the entire city. They built a new city. Grozny is brand new. This is really bad.🤡

“Russia is hiding things.”🤡

pic.twitter.com/lRxiW3zOGk

— Alternative News (@AlternatNews) January 28, 2025

🇷🇺🇺🇦 “You can negotiate with virtually anyone, but due to his illegitimacy, Zelensky has no right to sign anything”
– Putin https://t.co/kqxQWiLcLW pic.twitter.com/NHYdmM9uoH

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 28, 2025

Does this mean Putin is pushing for Zelensky to be removed before he is willing to talk about a deal?

Apparently!

RT:

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky can participate in possible talks with Moscow if he wishes to, but he lacks the legitimacy to actually sign a peace deal, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalist Pavel Zarubin on Tuesday.

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In 2022, Zelensky, whose presidential term officially ended in May 2024, issued a decree prohibiting negotiations with Russia, and President Vladimir Putin specifically, a measure that remains in effect. Last week, Zelensky claimed the ban applies to all Ukrainian officials except himself, although the original decree did not specify a list of entities barred from talking to Russia, stating only that such negotiations were “impossible.”

“If we start negotiations now, they will be illegitimate… Because when the current head of the regime, that’s the only way to call [Zelensky] today, signed this decree, he was a somewhat legitimate president. But now he can’t cancel it, because he is illegitimate. That’s the trick, the catch, the trap,” Putin explained.

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“It’s possible to negotiate with anyone. However, due to his illegitimacy, [Zelensky] has no right to sign anything. If he wishes to participate in talks, I will deploy people who will conduct such negotiations,” Putin said. He stressed that signing any deal would be a “very serious question” and the agreement must “guarantee the security of both Ukraine and Russia” for a “serious” period of time.

It could actually create a legal problem, if a deal was signed by a president who is not legitimate.

It’s totally unclear whether Zelensky had the legal ability to keep himself in power by skipping elections. Typically, this is never allowed. He says because it’s martial law, it is allowed, but is that even true?

Zelensky: Russia restored all the buildings in Mariupol very quickly. To hide their atrocities there.

It’s like in Grozny. They destroyed the entire city. They built a new city. Grozny is brand new. This is really bad.🤡

“Russia is hiding things.”🤡

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— Alternative News (@AlternatNews) January 28, 2025

Civ VII is going to to utter garbage. I’ve seen the clips.

The mf has Harriet Tubman leading American civilization.

And of course, Peter the Great got replaced with some woman no one has ever heard of.

But the Jews still mad, damn.

RT:

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII video game has sparked a heated debate online over the history of Russia and Ukraine, and the role of Empress Catherine the Great. A number of pro-Kiev X users have called for the Russian civilization to be axed from the latest installment of the popular series in light of the ongoing Ukraine conflict.

Since the escalation of the hostilities in February 2022, multiple Western countries have banned performances by certain Russian artists. Ukrainian authorities have been removing all things Russian from the public domain for years, with the trend recently intensifying.

Moscow has consistently denounced such policies as attempts to “cancel” Russian culture.

Scheduled for release on February 11, Civilization VII is the latest installment in the series that dates back to 1991, and allows players to “assume the role of a famous historical leader” and “guide a civilization through history.”

According to previews and information provided by the developers, the game features Russian Empress Catherine the Great, whose rule spanned more than 30 years in the second half of the 18th century.

It was on her watch that the Russian Empire crushed the Crimean Khanate and absorbed the peninsula following the Russo-Turkish War.

Am I supposed to reveal here that yes, I do know who Catherine the Great was?

Because there was a time I didn’t have to do that. There was a time when calling Catherine the Great “some woman no one has ever heard of” would have been considered classic Anglin humor.

However, it feels like now, there is a significant part of the audience that is retarded.

I don’t know how that happened.

I think it’s probably that boomers started reading the site after I stopped using so much explicit Nazi imagery.

But yeah, don’t pay $70 for this game, please.

I’m not joking about Harriet Tubman*.

If the oversees at 2K were demanding “woke,” the devs should have just made George Floyd the leader of American civilization and then if the suits were like “uhhhhh” they should have looked them straight in the eye and said: “is that going to be a problem? Because if the inclusion of George Floyd as the leader of America in this video game is a problem, then I think the New York Times would like to know about that.”

Agree and amplify still works.

But… maybe that was what they were doing by making Harriet Tubman the leader of American civilization?

I support making everything about George Floyd and calling people racists and threatening to tattle to the Times if they don’t support it.

Demand the Statue of Liberty’s face be replaced with George Floyd’s face.

Demand he be put on the $100 bill.

Demand a picture of his face replace the US flag in Congress.

Just claim anyone who disagrees is a white supremacist, then pull out your phone and say “hold on, I’m just texting the New York Times.”

*I was joking when I said that Fort Bragg had been renamed Fort Harriet Tubman. Some people did not get the joke, because it was apparently too plausible. Biden actually renamed it something benign, like “Fort Values” or whatever. 99% of the jokes here are obvious, I hope, but it sometimes makes the joke funnier when they are almost believable. But of course, we don’t want people going around repeating things I wrote as a joke. So I do be careful.