Zelenskyy 'ready' to sign minerals deal after Oval Office blowup, Nowafter meeting with EU on how to lie to Trump

Fox News' Madeleine Rivera reports the latest. The 'Fox & Friends' co-hosts weigh in on the news after the explosive meeting with President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the White House

They say Zelenskyy was told to show up in a suit and tie by the White House before coming. Kilmeade is full of shit.

Zelensky already signed those over to UK in 2023, this is a stupid trap.

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https://youtu.be/DWCbE2qKBZE

Zelenskyy handed Putin a victory: Mark Levin

Fox News host Mark Levin unpacks why Democrats are 'giddy' about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy failing to reach a minerals deal with President Donald Trump on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.'

Why do all these people hate Putin so much?

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https://youtu.be/qHRZ0tfc_qE

>>22692860

Mark says Russia and China wants those minerals, which is BS Russia has more abundant minerals then Ukraine

Lisa Boothe: Zelenskyy would love to see this escalated

'The Big Weekend Show' co-hosts discuss the spat at the White House between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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https://youtu.be/m0no7-NwhkM

Trump commerce sec dings Zelenskyy over 'ridiculous' requests

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick weighs in on the heated Oval Office meeting, the president's tariffs policy, economic growth and more on 'Sunday Morning Futures.'

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https://youtu.be/3izoRfurWko

'FOOL OF HIMSELF': Zelenskyy called out for 'ridiculous reaction' in Oval Office

Critical Metals CEO Tony Sage joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly changing his mind about the U.S. minerals deal that created a spat in the Oval Office.

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https://youtu.be/EOPKKQOdD0w

Rubio takes on ABC host: It's only bad when Trump does this

The 'Fox & Friends' co-hosts react to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's heated White House meeting with President Donald Trump, prompting him to leave without signing the minerals deal.

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https://youtu.be/E3bT8smBqJs

EU leaders fear Commission power grab on defense after Trump’s exit

Tensions around defense spending will take center stage during an emergency meeting of EU leaders on Thursday.1/2

MARCH 3, 2025 4:15 AM CET

BRUSSELS — The European Union is preparing for a military spending bonanza. But for governments, it's not only about the cash.

An emergency meeting of EU leaders on Thursday to figure out how to boost Europe’s security, amid United States President Donald Trump’s looming military disengagement from the continent, should be a chance to project a show of unity.But instead, it looks like a power grab is on the cards.

National capitals fear European CommissionPresident Ursula von der Leyen will exploit this crisis to extend Brussels' powers to new areas and strengthen her influence vis-à-vis national governments.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, she sidelined countries to purchase vaccines on their behalf, and at the start of the war in Ukraine, she took the lead on Russia sanctions and weapons deliveries for Kyiv.This centralizing approach earned her the moniker of “Queen Ursula.”

EU leaders don't want this to happen again on a sensitive issue like defense spending.

“Defense is still very much also a national responsibility,” said a senior EU diplomat last week explaining their country's opposition toward an defense cash pot handled by the Commission. Like others in this story, they were granted anonymity to speak about a sensitive topic.

Countries such as Poland and Finland in particular want to shield defense from the Commission’s attempted overreach.

“Poland has a clear idea about wanting to do this outside of the Commission,” said a second EU diplomat from another country.

They added, however, these lofty arguments are really a “fig leaf to hide more sensitive issues such as member states not wanting to have any outsider saying what you should do.”

Tensions will come to a head during the March 6 emergency meeting of EU leaders,where von der Leyen said she will present a "comprehensive plan to re-arm Europe."

A draft document prepared by EU governments for that meeting, seen by POLITICO, urges the Commission to give countries more fiscal room "without delay" and to propose "additional funding sources" for defense "at EU level," including making it possible to redirect funds for regional development. They call for the EU executive to "present swiftly relevant proposals."

According to that paper, the Commission will offer different "funding options" in a letter to EU leaders.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leaders-fear-european-commission-power-grab-defense-donald-trumps-exit/

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The Trump effect

This week von der Leyen will outline how sheintends to loosen the EU’s spending rules to allow countries to effectively exempt military spending from Brussels’ tightly controlled budget deficit limits, several officials said, as the bloc reels from mounting fears that Trump will abandon Ukraine and Europe.

EU countries, however, are divided over the fine print of the "national escape clause" — an emergency mechanism designed to ease pressure on countries facing a sudden emergency.

Von der Leyen said that this mechanism will be applied “in a controlled and conditional way” to prevent rampant spending from highly indebted countries.

But fiscally conservative states such as Germany and the Netherlands, and military heavy hitters like Greece, want tolimit the emergency clause to countries that already spend more than 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, as an incentive for others to hit that target.

The idea has angered states that are short of this target, including Italy and Spain.

“That’s absurd because it would prevent countries that most need to increase spending from doing that," said a third senior EU diplomat.

A separate proposal championed by Poland consists of granting more flexibility to national capitals by broadening the definition of defense spending in EU rules.

Crucially, this option would allow EU countries to decide independently which investments are to be exempted — limiting the Commission’s policing role and potentially allowing unrestricted spending.

A fourth diplomat cautioned that the “Commission [will] hold more power to themselves” if this idea does not come to pass.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leaders-fear-european-commission-power-grab-defense-donald-trumps-exit/

Trump-Zelenskyy meeting was a ‘total disaster’: Dem lawmaker

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., joins ‘Fox News Sunday’ to give his take on the state of U.S.-Ukrainian relations after President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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https://youtu.be/U8-prWfJWYI

>>22693363

This is BS, not worth watching

>>22693374

That’s a dem blaming Trump and Rubio

Trump senior adviser reveals 'two keys' president will 'go into' for congressional address

Senior adviser to Donald Trump Jason Miller previews the president's upcoming address to Congress on 'Fox & Friends Weekend.' #foxnews

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https://youtu.be/8-TyBcid6v8

Republican Johnson wants 'clean' US funding measure, wait on spending cuts

Katharine Jackson and David Morgan

Sun, March 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM EST

Typical Johnson Chicken

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday that he wants to pass a "clean" stopgap funding measure to keep federal agencies operating at current spending levels through September and leave proposed cuts for legislation for the next fiscal year.

During a series of television appearances, Johnson dispelled the notion that cuts identified by billionaire Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which Democrats vehemently oppose, could be included in a continuing resolution, known as a CR, intended to avert a partial government shutdown when current funding expires on March 14.

"We're looking to pass a clean CR to freeze funding at current levels to make sure that the government can stay open," Johnson told NBC's "Meet the Press."

"We are working hard to do our responsibility to keep the government open. Democrats have to help negotiate this," he said.

But his comments did not appear to move Congress closer to a deal on government funding, with both Democrats and Republicans pushing back.

"There has been zero outreach from the Trump administration, and House Republicans have walked away from the negotiating table," the House of Representatives Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, said in a statement on Sunday.

Republicans need Democratic support in the Senate, where their 53-47 majority falls short of the 60-vote margin needed to pass most legislation. In the House, Republicans need only a simple majority to pass a stopgap measure and hold a 218-215 advantage over Democrats.

It was not clear, however, if Republicans can muster the necessary support.

"I am a NO on the CR. Congress needs to do its job and pass a conservative budget! CR’s are code for Continued Rubberstamp of fraud, waste, and abuse," Republican Representative Tony Gonzales wrote on X.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-house-looks-pass-stopgap-145539784.html

Centrist Dem group rails against leftist identity politics and purity tests 1/2

Adam Wren

Sun, March 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM EST

When several dozen Democratic political operatives and elected officials gathered at a tony resort off the Potomac River last month, frustration boiled over at the left wing of their party.

Democrats had become too obsessed with “ideological purity tests” and should push back “against far-left staffers and groups that exert a disproportionate influence on policy and messaging,” according to a document of takeaways from the gathering produced by the center-left group Third Way and obtained by POLITICO.

The group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials and party leaders who gathered in Loudoun County, Virginiafor a day-and-a-half retreat, where they plotted their party’s comeback, searched for why the party lost in November — and what to do about it. Much of what they focused their ire on centered on the kind of identity politics that they believed lost them races up and down the ballot.

One of the key ways to win back the trust of the working class, some gathered there argued, was to “reduce far-left influence and infrastructure” on the party, according to the takeaways document. That included building a more moderate campaign infrastructure and talent pipeline, pushing “back against far-left staffers and groups that exert a disproportionate influence on policy and messaging,” and refusing to participate in “far-left candidate questionnaires” and “forums that create ideological purity tests.”

The gathering resulted in five pages of takeaways, a document POLITICO obtained from one of the participants. (Not all attendees endorsed each point, and the document — and Third Way — kept the identities of participants private.)

“In the wake of this election, where it became so evident that the things that the left was doing and saying deeply hurt [Kamala] Harris and down-ballot Democrats, a lot of people are looking to us, not just Third Way, but the moderates in the party, and saying, ‘We got to do it your way, because the other way ain’t working,’” said Third Way’s Matt Bennett, who helped organize the February retreat.

The document itself is perhaps one of the most comprehensive and sweeping of its kind following the election — both in its analysis of what went wrong and how to fix it.

The retreat's conversation centered on the party’s disconnect with the working class. Among the causes of that detachment: weak messaging and communication, failure to prioritize economic concerns, overemphasis on identity politics, allowing the far left to define the party, and attachment to unpopular institutions such as academia, media and government bureaucracy.

If Trump’s first term energized the party’s progressives, there are early signs his second term is doing the same for Democratic moderates.

The party chose the battleground-state moderate Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan to deliver its response to Trump’s address to Congress and the nation on Tuesday. Slotkin outperformed Harris by more than a full percentage point in all but 28 of the state’s 83 counties, according to a Detroit Newsanalysis.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/centrist-group-dems-reject-radical-181032506.

Good luck Dems

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Those gathered then laid out 20 solutions for how Democrats can regain working-class trust and reconnect with them culturally.

Among their takeaways:

• The party should “embrace patriotism, community, and traditional American imagery.”

• Candidates should “get out of elite circles and into real communities (e.g., tailgates, gun shows, local restaurants, churches).”

• The party needs to “own the failures of Democratic governance in large cities and commit to improving local government.”

The party, many of those gathered also argued, needs to “develop a stronger, more relatable Democratic media presence (podcasts, social media, sports broadcasting).”

Bennett said that, with the meeting coming just three months after the election, “we didn't expect to have a lot of answers about exactly what the Democratic offer to the working class on the economy ought to be going forward. We were still kind of picking through the rubble here.”

Bennett added, “I think what we discussed there on economic issues was the profound disconnect that we saw between the way that leading Democrats were talking about the economy and the way that people were actually experiencing it.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/centrist-group-dems-reject-radical-181032506.html

These are the best minds, Kek

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸

@ImMeme0

Never forget that the Biden administration used $25 BILLION of taxpayers’ money through USAID to subsidize small businesses in Ukraine:

$2,000,000: Custom Carpet Manufacturer

$678,000: Specialty Biscuit and Confectionery Company

$733,000: Fashion Photographer, Luxury Bridal Brand, Contemporary Knitwear, designer artisanal pieces and Fashion Mission

$94,000: Condiment Manufacturer

$148,000: Pickle Maker

$255,000: Organic Coffee-Tea Producer

$89,000: Vineyard

$104,000: Artisanal Fruit Tea Company

$319,000: Meatpacking Plant

$205,000: Furniture Manufacturers

$300,000: Pet Tracking App

$300,000: Dog Collar Manufacturer

$109,000: Pet Food Packaging Producer

https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1896273049361490072

>>22693507

When the day comes I never hear about Ukraine, I will be at peace. That was just a drop in the bucket what was sent to Ukraine.

The Trump-Vance Doctrine: A Monumental Shift, Not Just a ‘Spat.’1/23/3/25

Steve Sailer’s prescient September 2001 article, “What Will Happen in Afghanistan,” was published just eight days after President Bush’s joint resolution authorizing the use of force, and just over a week before the bombs of Operation Enduring Freedom began to drop.

In the piece, Sailer cites Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, specifically the Sean Connery and Michael Caine movie adaptation.

Both the article and the movie make for frustrating consumption, being 24 and 48 years old, respectively.Sailer’s assertion is that after the destruction of Osama Bin Ladenand/or his network, theU.S. should steer clear of nation-building. He cites the experiences of the protagonists(?) Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan as exemplars.

“I’ve an educated taste in whiskey and women, waistcoats, and bills of fare, but I’ve had few chances to exercise it lately.Because them that governs spend all their time making up new laws to stop men like you and me from getting anywhere. And whose loss is it? Why England’s, of course.” – Peachy Carnehan, reflecting on a new governing class

The above quote, from early in the film,stands out, especially as our modern political debate wrestleswith swingeing cuts to bureaucracy and the toll said apparatchiks take on the instincts of men, patriotic and cultural, as if the two are separable.

Now toss in the temper tantrums of those who wish to see Volodymyr Zelensky, a man himself who would be king, treated like royalty in America’s Oval Office and think to yourself if you want the nation to endure another Afghan-style debacle or as King Daniel in the movie says, “A nation I shall make of it, with an anthem and a flag.”

If you haven’t already,watch the film. ‘STAND WITH UKRAINE OR ELSE!’We’re always told we should “stand with Ukraine,”but we’re rarely (not never) told why. The adage that we should necessarily side with a liberal “democracy” (elections, when?) is farcical, given how the Western world has propped up dictators and terror factions and has scarcely showered itself in glory in recent decades in the context of classical liberalism (free speech) and democratic values (stolen, canceled, or defrauded elections).

From lawfare to outright cheating, the finger-wagging that once convinced an entire hemisphere to cheer on the dropping of billions of dollarsof bombs in the desert for the short-term aid of the defense industry and the long-term aid of the Taliban no longer works.So no, we don’t always need to side with the so-called victim, and that presupposes we view Ukraine as a victimized Western liberal democracy in the first instance. We do not.

When I visited the Maidan protests in 2014, it was abundantly obvious the fight was the salient of an expansionist bureaucracy(the European Union) more than anything else. Ideology played almost no part, political philosophy was out the window. This was a good old-fashioned power game, an Eurasian civil war for resources and, dare I say, lebensraum. That’s not to defend Putin’s response but rather to contextualize it.

I can think of no other rational reply to the European Union, NATO, and the CIA literallyparking their tanks on Russia’s lawn, which should not be considered an endorsement, rather than an “I told you so” from those of us who have been warning about this escalating war for over a decade.

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/the-trump-vance-doctrine-a-monumental-shift-not-just-a-spat/

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APPEASEMENT AND MISUNDERSTANDING. The only other excuse we are given is “anti-appeasement,” which is perhaps the most poignant argument in favor of Ukraine. This strikes especially hard with Europeans, whether in London or Warsaw. A continent still reeling from the ravages of the First and Second World Wars is rational in its polemophobia.

Europe, as President Trump and his cadre have been pointing out for years, is disturbingly ill-equipped to fight a real ground war. For all of Sir Keir Starmer’s bluster about boots on the ground, Britain has but a handful of operable tanks, none of which are suited to the Eurasian theater.

But while anti-appeasement resonates, arguablythe most important part of the conflict resolution here is driving a wedge between Russia and China(sorry again, Ukraine, but we’re just not that into you). Europe sees this more like the last century’s major wars.America sees it more like the Cold War. Zelensky had a point in the Oval Office when he said, “you have nice ocean,”but lost the room with the follow-up, “you will feel it in the future.”

THE TRUMP-VANCE DOCTRINE. This line made Trump and Vance so irate because their resolution doesn’t involve a decades-long conflict—a ‘white Iraq’, as I wrote for Newsweek in 2022. It involves afundamental shift in global power dynamics that ends with China on the back foot and Russia squarely more interested in the West than the East. Ukraine is actually too small for the Trump-Vance doctrine. America’s appetite (see Greenland, Canada, etc) is greater today, but requires no blood sacrifice nor billion-dollar bombs to sate.

This is all against the backdrop of a prope mortem Putin andan impending opportunity for Russians to see Americans as their friends and allies rather than their natural enemies.The neoconservatives, neoliberals, and globalists should be pleased, if they held true to their public pronouncements about democracy promotion, Westernization, and even regime change in Russia. Those are an almost certainty in the coming decade if America plays its cards right.

But they’re not cheering Trump and Vance’s efforts because,quite simply, they were always more interested in war than peace, conflict over resolution, and cash piles from their lobbyists in Arlington, McClean, and Chantilly, Virginia.

It feels almost trite, at this point, to write it. But it is true.The elites want war.As surely as the pro-life lobby found reasons to nitpick against President Trump during the GOP primary,fearing an end to a decades-long gravy train, the defense industry is now jerking its knees,triggered by the only horror that could ever force them to wince: peace.

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/the-trump-vance-doctrine-a-monumental-shift-not-just-a-spat/

UK Prime Minister Promises ‘Boots on the Ground’ in Ukraine—But Wants U.S. Backing

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer unveiled a tentative framework for a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia on Sunday. He committed to British “boots on the ground”—but emphasized the necessity of American backing. In a concession to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, he admitted that European nations must “step up their share of the burden” in terms of providing military-backed security guarantees.“

We are at a crossroads in history today,” Starmer said.

“This is not a moment for more talk. It’s time to act. Time to step up and lead and to unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace. We have to learn from the mistakes of the past, we cannot accept a weak deal which Russia can breach with ease, instead any deal must be backed by strength.”

The British leader added that the United Kingdom would commit to a security guarantee for Ukraine and pledged to provide “boots on the ground and planes in the air.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who joined Prime Minister Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, has repeatedly insisted that any peace planmust include some form of defensive guarantee for his country against future Russian aggression.(They just rehashed what Zelensky and Macron has talked about for two years, they just have more idiots to join them)

The issue of U.S. military-backed security guarantees set off a tense exchange between Zelensky and U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and President Trump during a White House press event last Friday. The heated row scuttled a planned signing of a rare earth minerals deal between the U.S. and Ukraine.

(For the idiots dancing around like elegant Birdbrains, the answer from the U.S., is No, and another Hell No. You have no power to dictate to President Trump or our people what we need to do for your stupid plan for WWIII)

Starmer and Macron missed or ignored that Trump told both of them, your countries can handle that, the U.S. will not be involved.And if they are trying to shame Trump, he can’t be shamed. Have they not noticed over the last 10 years?

https://thenationalpulse.com/

>>22693571

True all of NATO would have to vote on it, there’s no requirements for rogue NATO countries starting their own fake war.