17 Dec, 2024 19:31

Trump says he wants to talk to Putin

The incoming US president has refused to comment on whether any contact with the Kremlin has already taken place

US President-elect Donald Trump has said that he will speak to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in a bid to stop the “carnage” between Moscow and Kiev.

During a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday,Trump refused to comment when asked whether he had spoken to Putinsince he won last month’s presidential election. However, Trump said that he intends to do so.

“We’ll be talking to President Putinand we’ll be talking to the representatives, Zelensky and representatives from Ukraine,” he said. “We’ve got to stop it. It’s carnage,” he added, referring to the almost three-year conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“It’s a carnage that we haven’t seen since the Second World War,” he continued. “It’s got to be stopped. And I’m doing my best to stop [it].”

Trump vowed on the campaign trail to end the conflict within a day of taking office, although he has since admitted that doing this may be “more difficult” than he previously thought. The incoming president met with Zelensky in Paris earlier this month, and said immediately after last month’s election that he will likely speak to Putin in the near future.

Trump and his prospective cabinet officials have refused to comment on media reports claiming that they have been in contact with Moscow, while the Kremlin last month denied a report by the Washington Post suggesting that Trump reached out to Putin by phone immediately after the election.

Putin has said that Trump’s statements on ending the conflict “deserve attention,” and that he is open to talks with the president-elect. “It wouldn’t be beneath me to call him myself,” the Russian president said at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi last month.

As Trump has not revealed any details on the kind of settlement he intends to propose to Putin and Zelensky, his plans have remained the subject of media speculation. Most American news outlets have predicted that Trump will push for the conflict to be frozen along the current line of contact, with Ukraine abandoning its aspirations of NATO membership in exchange for security guarantees from the West.

Trump has explicitly said that the US will leave the enforcement of such a deal up to NATO’s European members.

Moscow maintains that any settlement must begin with Ukraine ceasing military operations and acknowledging the “territorial reality” that it will never regain control of the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, as well as Crimea. In addition, the Kremlin insists that the goals of its military operation – which include Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification – will be achieved.

https://www.rt.com/news/609500-trump-talk-putin-ukraine/

(Interesting picture once again that RT uses for this article.)

18 Dec, 2024 10:39

(The Brat) Zelensky says he won’t ‘rush’ to end conflict

The Ukrainian leader has claimed that a freeze would give Russia an opportunity to “attack” at a later date

Kiev will not “rush” into any agreements with Russia, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said. In an interview with French news outlet Le Parisien published on Wednesday,Zelensky declared his reluctance to make concessions, either territorial or in relation to Kiev's NATO and EU ambitions, to achieve peace.

Zelensky has previously insisted that the only viable path to peace with Russia was his ten-point ‘peace formula’, which includes a complete withdrawal of Russian forces from former Ukrainian territories and the restoration of the country’s 1991 borders. Widely touted by the West, the proposal was never taken seriously in Moscow.

However, Zelensky has signaled in recent weeks that he would be willing to relinquish territorial claims if Kiev becomes a NATO member. Recent media reports have also suggested that US President-elect Donald Trump, who met Zelensky in Paris earlier this month, could persuade the Ukrainian leader to ‘freeze’ the conflict along the current line of contact and enforce negotiations between Kiev and Moscow. Trump previously pledged to end the conflict within 24 hours upon returning to the White House in January next year.

“He really wants to move quickly [but] he is not yet in the White House and cannot have access to all the information. He also knows my firm desire to not rush to the detriment of Ukraine,”Zelensky stated.

“No matter how many presidents or prime ministers want to decree an end of the war, we are not going to simply give in and give up our independence,” he added. Zelensky claimed that freezing the conflict at its current stage would give Russia an opportunity to “attack” Ukraine at a later date.

“Putin is a boomerang: he comes back until he gets what he wants… If we do not stop Putin, he will continue to destroy us,” he stated. Zelensky said he would be ready to negotiate peace with Moscow only from “a position of strength,” and in order to get there, Ukraine must become part of the EU and NATO.

Zelensky rejected claims that he would acknowledge the loss of former Ukrainian territories that have joined Russia, namely the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye, and Crimea.

“We cannot give up our territories. The Ukrainian Constitution forbids us to do so,” he stated, admitting, however, that Kiev does not currently have “the strength to regain” these territories.

Moscow has maintained that freezing the conflict unacceptable. It has repeatedly said it is open to negotiations and would welcome a diplomatic settlement, but insisted that this is only possible if Kiev ceased military operations, withdrew its forces from Russian territory, including former Ukrainian regions, ensured the rights of Russian-speaking residents, and became a neutral, nuclear-free state.

(Zelensky has made it very clear, he disrespects Trump and has no problem saying so. His arrogance and threats will be ended soon. He doesn’t have the power, all Trump needs to do, is to stop all funding for arms, they government, and any money going there. And then send Interpol to the accounts of Zelensky and all the thieves there, and seize them, and return them to the US for paying off part of the loans to them. In mind opinion, the only way to expose this farce and theft, is to arrest all oligarchs in the Ukraine Government once and for all. Zelensky underestimates Trump, and that’s a big mistake.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/609523-zelensky-conflict-rush-peace/

BTW, I wonder what the Ukrainian’s dying in the battle think of Zelensky not wanting to stop the war and save their lives?

18 Dec, 2024 13:43

Ukrainian currency hits all-time low against dollar

The grivna is expected to slide further in the coming weeks, local media say

Ukraine’s national currency, the grivna, dropped to 41.83 to the US dollar on Tuesday, according to data from the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). The figure is a record low, multiple media outlets reported.

The devaluation of the Ukrainian currency could be a result of an easing of foreign currency controls by the regulator, noted online outlet Strana.ua.

The weakening of the grivna also follows a rejection by Kiev of a proposal to hold a ceasefire over Christmas, and the assassination of the head of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces in Moscow, which is believed to have been carried out by Ukraine. Moscow has accused Kiev of resorting to terrorist tactics due to its military failures.

Over the past year, the grivna has lost over 13% of its value. Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022,the currency has devalued by over 44%.

Previously, the exchange rate of the Ukrainian grivna reached a record low of 40.69 per $1 in mid-June. The fall followed the central bank’s decision to cut the key rate by 0.5 percentage points to 13%.

The Ukrainian currency is expected to fall further to 42.10 grivna to the dollar, the rate set in the state budget for the end of 2024, noted Strana.

“The government needs to make a lot of social payments at the end of the year, so it wants to get more grivnas for the dollars and euros it received from international partners,” the treasury director of one major Ukrainian bank told the publication.

The European Union has been providing billions of euro in financial support to Kiev through its Ukraine Facility. The United States has given at least $26.8 billion in budget support to the government of Ukraine since 2022.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609535-ukrainian-currency-grivna-record-low/

18 Dec, 2024 07:49

Nuclear war would be good for Ukraine – neo-Nazi activist

Ukrainians are best prepared for the end of civilization thanks to a popular video game, Evgeny Karas has said

Ukraine would benefit from being targeted by a Russian nuclear strike, which is why Moscow will never undertake such a step, a notorious far-right activist and head of a hate group has claimed.

Prominent Ukrainian neo-Nazi Evgeny Karas has said he would welcome a nuclear escalation in the Ukraine conflict, in an interview on Tuesday with Ukrainian broadcaster Radio Bayraktar. Karas is leader of the S14 far-right group, whose members have a record of harassing minorities and have been accused of high-profile political murder.

”Nuclear war is good,” he told the station, named after a Turkish-made attack drone.“When it happens, we’ll have no more reasons to whine. Nothing worse could happen after a nuclear strike.”

Countries like India and China would turn against Moscow, Karas argued, adding thatnuclear fallout in Ukraine may even be good for evolutionn. “A nuclear war may help us evolve in a way that we could see through an official and tell whether he is a thief or not.”

Karas claimed that the November release of the video game ‘S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl’, which was developed in Ukraine, has prepared the country for a nuclear war.The country will come through a nuclear crisis and make a leap forward in technology, producing artificial intelligence and advanced robots, Karas believes.

The remarks were part of his dismissal of Russia’s new hypersonic ballistic missile Oreshnik, which he called poorly-named and not really scary.

Russia demonstrated the Oreshnik’s capability in late November in response to Ukraine’s use of long-range Western-donated weapons for strikes deep inside its territory. It fired a non-nuclear version of the medium-range missile at a Soviet-built arms factory in the city of Dnepr, Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609517-nuclear-war-ukraine-karas/

Ukrainians NAZI'S seem like evil and depressed freaks

18 Dec, 2024 17:05

RT winning ‘cognitive war’ – BBC director

Tim Davie has told lawmakers that the British state broadcaster needs more money to compete with Russia and China

RT and Chinese media outlets are winning public trust and waging a “cognitive war” on Western audiences, the director of British state broadcaster the BBC has told parliament,at a hearing during which he asked for more taxpayer money.

Tim Davie appeared before lawmakers on Tuesday to argue for continued funding of the BBC World Service, which broadcasts in around 40 languages to an audience it claims is up to 320 million people per week.

Maintaining this service is vital to Britain’s strategic interests, he claimed, arguing that“we are facing a tsunami of bad actors, disinformation, [and] fakery. The threats are overwhelming.”

“As a nation we’ve got a public service broadcaster with the most trusted news service in the world. That’s something,” he said. “The trouble is around us… you’re seeing trust ratings for RT and other Chinese services grow as they just take over more slots.”

“It is cognitive warfare, as it’s been called, as people try and win the hearts and minds of populations and people around the world.”

Davie made similar claims at a speech in London in October, stating that theBBC’s axing of more than 380 jobsand cancelation of radio broadcasts in ten languages, including Arabic and Persian,amounted to a loss in the “propaganda” battle against Russia and China.

Davie told lawmakers that a recently approved £32.6 million cash boost from the UK Foreign Office will preserve the World Service’s current language services,but that additional taxpayer money would be needed to keep these services running past 2026. (It's pretty sick to make the citizens pay for propaganda against themselves and others.)

The BBC is an almost entirely state-funded operation, financed by an annual license fee of £169.50 ($221) owed by every British householdwith a television or device capable of receiving broadcasts. The UK’s Office for National Statistics classifies the fee as a tax, and the BBC as part of the “central government sector” of the UK economy.

The British Foreign Office also pays £104 million ($135.5 million) of the World Service’s £334 million ($435.3 million) annual budget, and is the largest financial backer of the BBC’s ‘Media Action’ department. This department, which isalso funded by the governments of the US, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the EU, UN, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, claims that it spends this money fighting “disinformation, division and distrust” in two dozen developing countries. (DOGE NEEDS TO BE NOTIFIED OF THIS USELESS WASTE OF MONEY FOR THE FEAR PORN)

Davie’s grievances echo those of the US State Department. After announcing a raft of sanctions on RT and its parent company in September, department official Jamie Rubin told reporters that “one of the reasons… why so much of the world has not been as fully supportive of Ukraine as you would think they would be… is because of the broad scope and reach of RT.”

In a report published on Tuesday, theCenter for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank funded by the US government and almost a dozen arms manufacturers, expressed concern that RTen Espanol is the second-most popular media outlet in Colombia, and along with Sputnik’s Spanish-language service, has an audience of approximately 32 million in Latin America and the Caribbean. US state-run Voice of America (VOA) is not even among the top 100 outlets in the region, CSIS noted.

Like Davie,CSIS claimed that the problem can be fixed with more money. Ukraine and its Western backers, the report recommended, should invest in pro-Kiev news outletsin Latin America and hire local influencers and social media personalitiesto spread “high-quality” propaganda created in the US.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609555-rt-bbc-cognitive-war/

Face BBC everyone hates you, even the citizens there, you lie, cheat, cover up and never tell the truth, EVERYONE HATES YOUNo amount of money is going to change that.

18 Dec, 2024 16:05

Ukraine’s secret service urges neo-Nazis to target MP

Yury Boyko has defended the Russian language and criticized Kiev’s church bans and demolition of monuments

The spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR), Andrey Yusov, has called on “radicals” to go after opposition MP Yury Boyko for criticizing Kiev’s crackdown on the Russian language and attempts to “de-communize” the country.

Over the weekend, Boyko, who had previously served as the co-chairman of the now-banned Opposition Platform – For Life party, published avideo in which he spoke in defense of the Russian language and condemned Kiev’s demolition of monuments, renaming of cities, and the ban on the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The politician currently heads the parliamentary group Platform for Life and Peace in the Ukrainian Rada.

Boyko’s video sparked a backlash from a number of top Ukrainian officials, including the head of the presidential office, Andrey Ermak, who called the criticisms “Russian narratives.”

Meanwhile, writing on Facebook,Yusov claimed that the fact that Boyko was still free was a call for action for radical groups in Ukraine and suggested that the “Derussification, decolonization and decommunization of Ukraineshould move so fast that no bastard could even have the time to record a Тiktok.”

Evgeny Karas, a notorious far-right activist and leader of the neo-Nazi S14 group, whose members have a record of harassing minorities and have been accused of high-profile political murders, also called for violence against Boyko.

”Commissioned officers, civilians and demobilized for family reasons,join the squadron of the Holy Inquisition,” Karas wrote on Telegram, calling on them to “roll up their sleeves” and punish Boyko.

On Tuesday,Boyko was summoned for questioning by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), after which he posted another video in which he apologized for his previous comments.

“If any Ukrainians <…were offended by my words, I want to apologize and say that we must all be united,” the politician said in a video published by the news outlet Strana.

Boyko’s Opposition Platform – For Life party, which was the second largest party in terms of seats in parliament, was banned along with other opposition parties following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. The authorities in Kiev claimed that the opposition had been involved in subversive activities and have prosecuted several MPs linked to the party.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609551-ukraine-opposition-mp-backlash/

This is the country the US, EU, Canada and many other countries are supporting in the Proxy War with Russia, a Nazi resurrected country. 1984 exists in real life

Something Very Important to Remember

December 18, 2024 | Sundance |

As you contemplate the past few months, something very important to remember.Approximately 70 million people cast ballots to support Kamala Harris for President. Keep that in mind while watching this.

Kamala Harris speaks to an audience at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland. WATCH:

How anyone can watch Kamala Harris assemble words out loud, and then pretend she is organizing thoughts into cognitive sequencing that makes any form of sense, is just literally silly

Harris is not a person of stable mindset, with commonly held definitions of intelligence or commonsense; she just isn’t.

I am so glad Obama 3.0 was not installed.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/18/something-very-important-to-remember/

Collin Rugg

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NEW: Kamala Harris shocks herself after thinking she said something smart while dropping her famous "context in which you exist" line.

I must say, this was impressive. "And as we approach and I ask you to remember the context in which you exist."

"Yeah, I did that," Harris said, clearly impressed with herself. The profound comments were made during a post-election speech to students in Maryland.

12:30 PM · Dec 17, 2024

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https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1869072669385150616

Why are they allowing her to speak to students, she’s a perverse example of adoring and training stupidity.

President Trump Sues Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register for Fraudulent Polling and Election Interference

December 17, 2024 | Sundance

If President Trump could succeed in getting the Des Moines Register and Ann Selzer to the point of discovery in the lawsuit, he would win- BIG TIME. However, getting a judge to allow Trump as a plaintiff to advance a lawsuit to the level that would expose the fraud, is a very uphill battle.

Intellectually honest people know exactly what happened. Ideological political operatives in/around Ann Selzer’s polling operation,perhaps even Ann Selzer herself, manufactured, meaning completely fabricated, a polling outcome of Kamala Harris +3 in the final weekend before the November election.

It likely wasn’t an actual poll per se’, andno one is even sure if any voters were contacted; however, the assembled data analysis was sold as a genuine poll outcome.The poll was 16 points wrong.The claimed Kamala +3 poll was actually Trump +13 in the voter result in Iowa.Quit Pretending – Pollsters don’t miss by 16 points unless they are trying to miss by 16 points.

Selzer didn’t get it wrong or make a mistake. With malicious intent and malice of forethought, Selzer created a fraudulent narrative using a manufactured poll to push it.

If Trump could get to the emails, text messages and various communications from the people in/around Selzer’s polling operation, he would find the explosive planning and coordination in the background. But I doubt it’s going to get that far; a judge will likely try and stop it.

The motive for the poll was simple. In the final days of theKamala campaign, they were pushing the abortion message as hard as possibleto get out the votes. The Iowa +3 poll was the launch vehicle where Selzer proclaimed that a“MASSIVE UPSWING” in Iowa womensuddenly shifted the entire race as the women were showing up inside the data to support Kamala.

The corporate media ran with that shock polling narrative on Saturday, Sunday and Monday before election day on Tuesday.It was all nonsense, and Ann Selzer knew it. That’s why Trump is suing her.

(Via Politico) – President-elect Donald Trump is suing retired Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer over her pre-election survey that showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in the state, calling it “brazen election interference.”

The shock poll, which drew national attention given Selzer’s record of success in Iowa, proved incorrect: Trump won the state by more than 13 points. But that has not stopped the president-elect from claiming the poll was intended to manipulate the results of the election. “While Selzer is not the only pollster to engage in this corrupt practice, she had a huge platform and following and, thus, a significant and impactful opportunity to deceive voters,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit also represents an escalation of Trump’s pledge to more aggressively pursue litigation against media he views as unfair to him. The case against Selzer comes just after Trump settled another media lawsuit with ABC News and its political anchor George Stephanopoulos for $15 million. (read more) Just like the ABC case, if President Trump can get to the discovery phase, he wins.

The Des Moines Register will never permit Ann Selzer to sit for a deposition where she likely describes the people who did everything for her, under her name, and claims she had no idea what they were doing. Nor will anyone associated with the plan allow their emails and text messages, which clearly evidence the structure of the fraud, being reviewed in discovery.

If President Trump’s lawyers got close to discovery where depositions and communications were going to be revealed, the DMR and Selzer would throw massive money at him to settle the lawsuit, just like ABC did…. for exactly the same reason.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/17/president-trump-sues-ann-selzer-and-des-moines-register-for-fraudulent-polling-and-election-interference/

Thom Tillis Threatens Trump Supporters to “Stand Down” on Pressure Because He Only Needs 4 Votes in Senate to Destroy Any Nomination

December 16, 2024 | Sundance

Senator Thom Tillis appears to have been granted a larger slice of the lobbyist money from Thune and McConnell because he certainly is taking up a position next to Joni Ernst in strategic opposition to President Donald Trump.

The level of passive aggressive threat-speak within Tillis’ very carefully selected wording is quite concerning.

“President Trump enjoyed a great deal of Republican support in his first term,” Tillis notes. “But if people want to play the outside [pressure] game, they run a lot of risk,” he continues. “Four votes is all it’s going to take to kill a nomination here, so they should take pause,” Tillis reminds everyone.

Senator Tillis from North Carolina represents the aloof mindset of the Senate at large, and the detached mindset of the Republicans in the senate specifically.

The republicans in North Carolina in 2024 are highlighting just how similar they are to the republicans in Georgia, circa 2020.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/16/thom-tillis-threatens-trump-supporters-to-stand-down-on-pressure-because-he-only-needs-4-votes-in-senate-to-destroy-any-nomination/

(My guess is the people of NC that elected President Trump will not forget of what Tillis just promised, to sabotage Trump if they don’t shut to fuck up on how corrupt they are.)

https://youtu.be/M6vhZbdl3WI

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