UPDATE: Russia -v- Ukraine, Delegations Expected to Meet in London Tomorrow, Then Witkoff Heads to Moscow

April 22, 2025 | Sundance |

Interesting series of events converging. According to multiple media outlets, a delegation from the U.S, Europe and Ukraine are scheduled to meet again in London tomorrow for further discussions of the peace proposal.

President Trump said Monday they had “very good meetings” about Ukraine and Russia recently as Trump was likely debriefedfrom the meeting that Secretary Rubio and Envoy Steve Witkoff held in Paris, France with Emmanuel Macron, Ukraine, EU and U.K officials.

However, this was the same Paris meeting that preceded Secretary Rubio saying if progress was not made quickly, the USA would exit their role in negotiating a peace deal==.

President Trump and Secretary Rubio areputting pressure on Ukraine, EU, U.K as well as the CIA background playersto get to a place of earnest peace discussion, by threatening to pull back from their effort and likely allowing Russian President Putin a lot of implied latitude to increase hostile action.

The belligerent Ukraine officials (harsh Nazi tones on display) feel emboldened to keep fighting with enhanced funding and support from the EU, U.K, NATO and CIA operativesembedded with Ukraine forces. As an ancillary matter, the potential for Trump to pull back standsas a visible motive for the USA Deep State to keep attacking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

At a certain point President Trump is going to have to make a decision on further support.If Trump exits the proxy war, that’s when the real internal battle with the CIA will likely surface.This is a very interesting dynamic to keep watching asCIA Director John Ratcliffe appears to be a bystander, incapable of stopping the independent elements of the CIA from operating their own agenda.

According to the Moscow Times, “Putin aide Yuri Ushakov told Russian media on Tuesday that Witkoff will visit Russia later this week, though he did not specify what day he would arrive, nor did he say whether the Trump envoy would meet with Putin.” If Witkoff is in London on Wednesday, that would put him traveling to Russia Thursday or Friday.

Again, a simple reminder. It appears Steve Witkoff is the traveling ears and voice of President Trump back and forth to Moscow, which -as we identified for quite a while- is the best way to handle the discussions. Normal diplomatic lines ofcontact between President Trump and Vladimir Putinwould be risky given the oppositional nature of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The emissary/envoy approach removes the IC influence and control agents from the issue.

On the ‘ceasefire’ table is still the subject of European countries being the peacekeepers on the demilitarized zone between Ukraine and Russian forces. France and the U.K want assurances that U.S. troops would protect the “coalition of the willing” if the EU puts peacekeeping boots on the ground in Ukraine.

There is a lot of contradictory narrative engineeringvery visible in western media about the ongoing dynamic [SEE HERE] and [SEE HERE]. I would estimate that well over half the information inside those articles is fabricated,intelligence-manipulated information control; ie. totally fake news.

Rubio (?) and Witkoff will be in London tomorrow. From there, Witkoff will likely return to Moscow to debrief Putin on the talks and enhance with President Trump’s advice on status. Then President Trump and President Zelenskyy will cross paths again on Saturday at the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome.

As an ancillary note,it does seem a little obvious that Nat Sec Advisor Mike Waltz has been completely removed from the negotiating team, instead being dispatched to the job of just cleaning up and reformatting the National Security Council.

We keep watching…..

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/22/update-russia-v-ukraine-delegations-expected-to-meet-in-london-tomorrow-then-witkoff-heads-to-moscow/

(Posting next: Zelensky arrogance towards Russia on Crimea, he has no intention of making peace imo.)

>>22940686

22 Apr, 2025 17:34

Zelensky refuses to recognize Russia’s Crimea

The Crimean peninsula officially joined the Russian Federation after an overwhelmingly positive vote in 2014

Kiev will not discuss recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky told journalists on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian outlet Suspilne.

The US will propose officially accepting the peninsula as part of the Russian Federation at a meeting with Kiev and its European backers on Wednesday, as part of a broader peace deal to stop the conflict, the Washington Post wrote on Tuesday citing anonymous sources.

“[Crimea] is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine. We have nothing to talk about on this topic – it is outside our Constitution,”Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian leader claimed that discussing the issue of sovereignty over Crimea could only lead to additional fighting.

“As soon as we start talking about Crimea, about our sovereign territories, we enter the format of prolonging the war,” he said, adding that this is “what Russia wants.”

Last week, Zelensky lashed out over the subject in a press conference, saying that US special envoy Steve Witkoff had no authority to discuss such issues with Russia.

The US proposal on Crimea was already presented to Ukraine in Paris last week, and includes eventual sanctions relief for Moscow in exchange for a peace deal, the Post reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the deliberations.

Ukrainian officials interpreted the plan as Washington’s final offer before the US washes its hands of peace efforts, the newspaper wrote, citing anonymous sources.

US President Donald Trump is expected to present Washington’s “final offer” on a full ceasefire dealas early as next week, the New York Post wrote on Saturday, citing a senior administration official. (This aligns with Sundance article)

In 2014, the predominantly ethnically Russian population of Crimea voted to join Russia following a Western-backed armed coup in Kiev. Both Ukraine and its Western supporters continue to claim that the referendum was illegitimate.

https://www.rt.com/russia/616120-ukraine-crimea-recognition-zelensky/

It’s pretty clear Kiev, Zelensky, CIA and others there, have no intention of a peace deal, or negotiating, based on this, Trump Team withdraws, and takes all the weapons with them, including the funding of the government and just about everything in Ukraine, and lets Russia go for it. That’s the end of Ukraine and the fake leaders there.

CBS 60-Minutes Executive Producer Resigns Citing New Constraints Blocking Anti-Trump Propaganda Efforts

April 22, 2025 | Sundance |

CBS 60-Minutes has been one of the most deliberately manipulated news and opinion programs in the past several years. They have been so over-the-top in their gaslighting and biased media coverage, that all credibility within the weekly broadcast TV show has been eviscerated. (So the guy has no intention of trying to help the program and trying to become less biased. I wonder how many others have stayed that continue to do this?)

Bill Owens has been the executive producerof the show since 2019,specifically responsible for increasing the bias and propaganda openly displayed. President Trump has sued 60-Minutes over their extremely manipulative editing of an interview with Kamala Harris in 2014. That lawsuit is ongoing.

Today, Bill Owens announced he is resigning as executive producer of the broadcast, citing his inability to continue making independent decisions about the subject matter presented on the broadcast.

(VIA MSM) – Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, said Tuesday that he is resigning from the program, telling staffers he had lost his ability to make independent decisions about the show.

“Over the past months, it has also become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it,” Owens wrote in a memo obtained by Deadline. “To make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience. So, having defended this show – and what we stand for – from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward. (read more

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/22/cbs-60-minutes-executive-producer-resigns-citing-new-constraints-blocking-anti-trump-propaganda-efforts/

Secretary Rubio Starts Downsizing the Department of State

April 22, 2025 | Sundance | (This is massive, Presidents have been trying for 40 years to clean and exorcise the State Department, because is was originally and still filled with Communists from US universities; as stated by Glen Beck and Steve Bannon today.)1/2

I said right after the election the foreign policy and econ institutions would be the first and easiest to deconstruct. I also said the Intelligence, Main Justice, National Security and Defense apparatus would be the most difficult.

Here’s the high elevation picture of how it works.The more President Trump (the Executive Branch) doesn’t use the institution, the easier it is to take them apart. Foreign policy is being run out of the White House, with Rubio doing well. All economic policy is being run out of the White House, with Bessent and Lutnick doing well. [Meanwhile, Trump is ignoring (for now) the CIA silo, as if they didn’t exist; but that cannot last long (see Ukraine). HHS, Ed, Energy, Interior and EPA are making slow and steady progress]

Conversely, President Trump leaves Pam Bondi (Justice), Kash Patel (FBI) and Tulsi Gabbard (DNI) to run/manage their own shops. It’s an issue of (in)ability, and you can see Main Justice and the FBI remains a hot mess.Bondi and Patel refuse to call their institutions corrupt, so the operators within them just keep doing what they have always done. This was predictable, if you just look honestly at the big picture dynamic.

Today, Marco Rubio starts taking apart around 20% of Foggy Bottom. “The Trump administration has begun an aggressive shake-up at the State Department that will close 132 agency offices, including those launched to further human rights, advance democracy overseas, counter extremism, and prevent war crimes.” {READ MORE}

MARCO RUBIO – “Today America confronts a new era of great power competition and the rise of a multipolar order with a State Department that stifles creativity, lacks accountability, and occasionally veers into outright hostility to American interests. The Department has long struggled to perform basic diplomatic functions, even as both its size and cost to the American taxpayer has ballooned over the past fifteen years.

The problem is not a lack of money, or even dedicated talent, but rather a system where everything takes too much time, costs too much money, involves too many individuals, and all too often ends up failing the American people.”

“Bureaus and offices fight to be included on the approval chains for the most mundane of memos, only then to reach agreement on drafts that are bloated in length while stripped of all meaning. Motivated and creative State Department employees see their ideas watered down by turf battles until they give up, disillusioned, while the inboxes of senior officials are inundated with hundreds of requests for approval. While the talented and loyal are driven into indifference, radical ideologues and bureaucratic infighters have learned to play on this exhaustion to push through their own agendas that are often at odds with those of the President and undermine the interests of the United States.

An example of an out-of-control Department is the Global Engagement Center (GEC) that I shuttered last week.

The office engaged with media outlets and platforms to censor speech it disagreed with, including that of the President of the United States, who its director in 2019 accused of employing “the same techniques of disinformation as the Russians.” Despite Congress voting to shutter it, the GEC simply renamed itself and continued operating as if nothing had changed.

Unless we confront the underlying bureaucratic culture that prevents the State Department from carrying out an effective foreign policy, while allowing offices like GEC to flourish in the shadows, nothing will change. That is why I am initiating a broad reorganization of the Department to address the steady growth of bureaucracy, duplication of functions, and capture by special interests that have crippled American Foreign Policy.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/22/secretary-rubio-starts-downsizing-the-department-of-state/

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We will drain the bloated, bureaucratic swamp, empowering the Department from the ground up.That means regional bureaus and our embassies will now have the tools necessary to advance America’s interests abroad because region-specific functions will be streamlined to increase functionality. Redundant offices will also be removed, and non-statutory programs misaligned with America’s core national interests will cease to exist. All non-security foreign assistance will be consolidated in regional bureaus charged with implementing U.S. foreign policy in specific geographic areas.

This will ensure every bureau and office in the Department of State has clear responsibility and mission. If something concerns Africa, the bureau of African Affairs will handle it. Economic policy will be consolidated under the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, while the responsibilities for security assistance and arms control will be united under the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security.

Until now, overlapping mandates paired with conflicting responsibilities created an environment ripe for ideological capture and meaningless turf wars. With a bloated budget and unclear mandate, the expansive domain of the former Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Human Rights, and Democracy (known internally as the “J Family”), provided a fertile environment for activists to redefine “human rights” and “democracy” and to pursue their projects at the taxpayer expense, even when they were in direct conflict with the goals of the Secretary, the President, and the American people.

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor became a platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas against “anti-woke” leadersin nations such as Poland, Hungary, and Brazil, and to transform their hatred of Israel into concrete policies such as arms embargoes. The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to international organizations and NGOs that facilitated mass migration around the world, including the invasion on our southern border.

To transfer the remaining functions of USAID to such a monstrosity of bureaus would be to undo DOGE’s workto build a more efficient and accountable government. Consequently, the bureaus and offices in the J Family will be placed under the new Coordinator for Foreign Assistance and Humanitarian Affairs charged with returning them to their original mission of advancing human rights and religious freedom, not promoting radical causes at taxpayer expense.

The American people deserve a State Department willing and able to advance their safety, security, and prosperity around the world, one respectful of their tax dollars and the sacred trust of government service, and one prepared to meet the immense challenges of the 21st Century. Starting this week, they will have one.” (link)

~ Rubio Recommended Article Here ~

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/22/secretary-rubio-starts-downsizing-the-department-of-state/

This is pretty impressive by Marco Rubio, do you know how many Senators & Congressmen on both sides never wanted anything to change. They are losing all the laundered money for their life and re-election, but mostly their life with lots of money. I really didn't think Rubio had the courage and strength to do something of this nature.