Why Europe Shies from Ukraine Showdown

March 26, 2014

(“Obama the most destructive leader from Hell, still playing out with Russia and the EU to this day. The beginning of the plan by Obama-US, Merkel-Germany, opposed by Putin-Russia, and the West’s plan to use Ukraine as for the destruction of Russia.One of the first articles on Russia and Ukraine).1/3

Exclusive: Despitepressure from President Obama to escalate the fight with Russian President Putin over Ukraine, theEuropeans are reluctant to stoke the crisisany further because it could consume their fragile recovery and ignite more fires of political discontent, notes Andrés Cala.

By Andrés Cala

The crisis over Ukraine and Crimea threatens to touch off a new version of the Cold War’s“mutual assured destruction” or MAD not from nuclear warfare but from the economic damage== that the two sides, particularly Russia and the European Union, could inflict on each other, with fallout reaching the United States.

Though the EU and the U.S. may have started this crisisby trying to pull Ukraine away from Russia and into the European foldmaneuvers that led to a violent coup d’etat in Kiev last monthRussian President Vladimir Putin countered the West’s moves by annexing a willing Crimeaand asserting Russia’s right to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine’s east and south.

That prompted the West to impose targeted sanctions against some prominent Russians,to oust Russia from the G-8 meeting of industrialized nations, and to threaten more severe sanctionsthat would damage the Russian economy if Putin won’t back down. President Barack Obama added insult to the injury on Tuesday bydismissing Russia as “a regional power.”

But Putin finds himself with a strategic advantage in that Europeis struggling to emerge from a long and painful recession that has divided the Continent between the EU’s stronger and weaker economies. Europe’s fragile recovery would likely suffer acrushing blow if the economic warfare with Russia escalates.

A new economic downturn would be particularly devastating to the so-called “periphery countries” such as Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus which still suffer from painful levels of unemployment andwhich could experience devastating political upheavals if the EUgoes into another recessionary dip.

It is those countries and others insouthern and eastern Europe that are putting up the most resistance to a determined campaign to punish Russia. Portugal and Spain are the least exposed to direct Russian ties, but their economies might not survive another external shock.

That’s whyEuropean leaders, in general, decided to take a more cautious approach than the U.S. inretaliating against Russia for annexing Crimea. The broadened blacklist of targeted individuals is still shy of seeking a direct showdown with Russia.

But theEU did sign the association agreementwith Ukraine’s interim government which took power after last month’scoup oustedelected President Viktor Yanukovych, who had rebuffed the EU’s offer astoo harshandinstead accepted a more generous aid package of $15 billion from Russia.

Greater Risks

TheEU’s reluctance to join Obamain an escalation of the tit-for-tat sanctions war with Russiareflects the reality that U.S. bilateral trade with Russia is less than a tenth of EU’s trade. While it’s hard to quantify the exact impact of an escalation on Europe’s fragile recovery, it’s fair to say thatthe closer a country is to Russia the more severe the likely consequences, especially ifRussia’s energy shipments are disrupted.

Before the Ukraine crisis erupted in February, the EU Commission was gettingslightly more optimisticabout the Continent’s economic growth, raising the 2014 outlook from 1.1 percent to 1.2 percent and the 2015 outlook from 1.7 percent to 1.8 percent.But those pallid numbers themselves explain why the EU is nervous. It wouldn’t take much to cause a new contraction and set off a new wave of political unrest.

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/26/why-europe-shies-from-ukraine-showdown/

Merkel was called by a leader in the EU the other day, was the most destructive leader that caused all kinds of destruction on Europe!

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According to several bank research notes,the GDP impact of a sustained crisis with Russiacould be a decline of about 1.5 percent in the Eurozone,but nearly a 3 percent hit for Poland. Particular harm would be inflicted on the weakened banking sectors of the emerging European economies. Even stronger economies, like Germany’s, could feel some effect, a possible 0.5 percent drop.

A 1.5 percent economicslowdown for the Eurozone could prove intolerable for European populationsthat have already felt severe pain from the Wall Street crash of 2008 and the austerity that wasprescribed by Europe’s central bankand some political leaders, including Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Given thelikely economic damage from a prolonged standoff with Russia, it is hard to imagine that the EU’s leadership couldsustain the political support necessary, especially given themurky circumstances surrounding the Ukrainian uprising and the clear desire of Crimean voters, expressed in a referendum, toabandon Ukraine’s failing state and to rejoin Russia.

The five years of recessionhave already caused many European leaders to be voted out of office and for the EU’s unity to be strained by the uneven impact of austerity across the Continent. There appears to be no appetite for more belt-tightening to make some geopolitical point.

Instead, the European bloc is struggling to jump start an economic recovery and build a more solid institutional framework for sustained growth, such as a banking union. Furthermore, harsh economic sanctions severe enough to deter Russia would require unanimity from the 28-member European Union, a unity that is lacking.

Though Great Britain leads a small group of European countries demanding a more robust response to the annexation of Crimea,most southern and central European countries prefer to defuse the crisis. In the middle of both is Germany, which stands to lose a lot from an economic war but also sees itself as the de facto leader of Europe.

Russia’s Stake

While it’s true thatRussia’s economy would likely suffer exponentially morein terms of percentage damage from a sanctions and trade war with the West,Russia’s energy exports would eventually find new markets in energy-hungry countriessuch as India and China.

Plus, theissue of Ukraine and Crimea has a much greater emotional pull on the Russian populationthan on the rest of Europe, giving Putin more political leeway than his European counterparts have.

Still, Russia is not in a great position to engage in a protracted economic war. Its economy is small, the size of Italy’s, and it’s very dependent on Europe, its most important trading partner.Europe accounts for 75 percent of Russia’s foreign investment stocks.

But Russia is vital to global oil and gas supplies, and as such wields tremendous power.About a third of Europe’s oil and even more of its natural gas comes from Russia. While it’s true that Russia would not survive without its energy industry,neither could Europe function without Russia’s critical oil and gas supply.

Even a small economic conflict could have serious repercussions. Supply disruptions, regardless if it’s over sanctions against Russia or Russian gas cutoffs, would cause energy prices to rise.Gas shortfalls would especially affect Eastern Europe and perhaps Italy.

The West also would find it hard to isolate Russia’s economy with sanctions given its land mass and its relations with other expanding economies, such as India and China. Europe and Russia additionally share significant economic interests beyond energy, especially in terms of investment and joint ventures that span the globe.

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/26/why-europe-shies-from-ukraine-showdown/

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Business leaders of both sidesare already lobbying for more caution, lest their mutual investments be threatened, causingcollateral damageto countries far from the front lines of Russia and Ukraine.

One of theKremlin’s strongest weapons in an economic war would be its ability to destabilize Ukraine’s economy, where European countries also have significant interests.Europe will need to help Kiev’s near-bankrupt government in any event, but thesituation would get even costlierif Ukraine has todeal with the instability that Russia can cause, particularly by turning off Ukraine’s natural gas supplies if back debts aren’t paid.

With Russia also ending its gas discounts to Ukraine, the interim government may have to grapple with prices doubling.Russia entrenched itself in Ukraine precisely to make the cost of any switching sides to Europe very costly. Putin knows that. And he is wagering that even though Russia is more exposed economically,Europe is less prepared to weather the economic storm or to pay the staggering bill for rebuilding Ukraine’s economy. (Which to the day is still failing. The EU backed the sucking DS in Ukraine.)

So, most observers expect that the EU will wait forRussia’s next movebefore entering what some call “phase three” of the crisis the first two being the original sanctions list plus the expanded one. Though theWest has refused to recognizethelegality of Crimea’s secession from Ukraineand its annexation by Russia, the sanctions war is onlylikely to escalate if Russia intervenes in Ukraine’s east and south to protect ethnic Russians.

To avert that possibility, theinterim government in Kiev has softened its initial aggressivenessin asserting firm control over the eastern and southern regions which were the political strongholds of ousted President Yanukovych.A key question, however, iswhether the Kiev regime can rein in the armed far-right militias that spearheaded the violent overthrow of Yanukovych.

If the civil violencein Ukraine worsens and if Russia intervenes militarily, the result would likely be morepainful commercial, economic and migratory sanctions, which the EUis calculating would be more damaging to Russia than to Europe.But the consequences would be so serious that EU leaders agreedto economically compensate the most affected countries.

The reality is that Russia and Europe are mutually dependent, though each side may believe it has the upper hand. But the fundamental question boils down towhich side can muster the most support at home for enduring the economic pain.

And,therein lies Europe’s weakness. In pressing for an association agreement with Yanukovych’s government last year and then quickly recognizing the coup regime that ousted him last month,the EU clearly miscalculated the Kremlin’s resolve over Ukraine. But Putin may be underestimating Europe’s vulnerability at a moment of economic weakness.

Still, considering Russia’s resolve throughout history, specifically when it comes toCrimea, which has been part of Russia since the 1700s, and Russia’s willingness to sacrifice economic benefits for its strategic advantage,Putin is unlikely to flinch first.

Given the stakes, the EU and Russia will most likely try to avoid having the crisis escalate further. That would be the economic equivalent of a nuclear bomb,or mutual assured destruction.

(Interesting this analysis played out the damage to both sides. But Russia today is still winning with the exposure of the sheer corruption that has destroyed the country, by current and past leaders. Who would have believed this would continue from 2014 to today 2026, and longer. All because of Obama.)

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/page/2/

Obama Ensnared in Bush’s Abuses

March 24, 2014. 1/3

Note the Date. Nothing has changed and Obama never intended to punish the DS, he actually grew it larger. Many writers at that time thought Obama could be the hero, to fix the mess, he was installed specifically make it worse.)

President Obama’s fateful decision after winning the 2008 election to seek “continuity” rather than “change” and “to look forward, not backward” has trapped him in a web of constitutional abuses that began in the Bush-43 presidency and extended into his own, as Coleen Rowley describes.

By Coleen Rowley

It’s ironic, to put it lightly,that whistleblower Edward Snowden — whose message of the need for CHANGE essentially repeats President Barack Obama’s own original campaign promise — is now so threatened and persecuted by that very same “Change” president that he must seek asylum in foreign countries and cannot safely travel outside of Russia(which granted him temporary asylum).

Snowden’s disclosures, backed up by documents, served as a grave warnings thatno good can come from empowering a “Deep State, Top Secret America” to secretly and illegally spy on its own citizens. Freedom of the press is now threatened andordinary citizens are not allowed to know about — or democratically control — the Deep State’s “security” surveillance.

We have also reached the point where the CIA secretly and illegally attempts to thwart the Senate Intelligence Committee from investigating the CIA’s torture, an assault on congressional oversight powers and responsibilities that has created a real constitutional crisis. This level of dangerous blowback is exactly the danger that Snowden blew the whistle on!

But isn’t it also what Sen. Obama campaigned he would change, if elected to the presidency, before further damage could occur to our Constitutional rule of law? And isn’t the current perilous situation a parallel to the similar constitutional crisis involving the FBI’s COINTELPRO, CIA’s CHAOS and NSA’s MINARET programs that occurred in the final years of the Vietnam War, which led to Watergate and President Richard Nixon’s resignation?

The spying and intimidation of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s committee is very similar to the spying on Senators Frank Church and Howard Baker, civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Whitney Young, and top New York Times and Washington Post newspaper editors and columnists along with thousands of other innocent Americans who found themselves targeted by these secret spy programs during the last six years of the Vietnam War.

These “national security” programs claimed authority not only to listen but to “disrupt” Americans domestically. Wasn’t this the important history lesson that Obama actually based his campaign for “Change” on?! Senators Church and Baker have passed on but surviving Church Committee members and staffers have quickly realized that history is repeating which is why they’re so urgently calling for a new Church Committee-type investigation.

When Obama came into power, he had a choice to make as to whether to put into effect the “change” that he had promised, a change away from the illegal, unethical and highly counter-productive actions “justified” in secret memos that his predecessor, George W. Bush, had ordered, just days after 9/11 to wage his “war on terror.” Obama unfortunately decided to go against his promises.

Maybe the history lesson was lost on him or maybe he believed the strength of his speechifying could distract people from the fact there was to be NO (significant) CHANGE, just some minor tweaking, i.e. in the verbiage from “war on terror” to “overseas contingency operations”; switching the emphasis from capture to kill (in “kill or capture”) and the like.

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/24/obama-ensnared-in-bushs-abuses/

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Perhaps Obama gambled that the secret programs would not get out of hand so quickly or that no one would see the official hypocrisy in telling the troops they are fighting “for freedom” when here in the U.S.,government officials had already put the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments — freedoms of speech, association, religion, and press; protection from unreasonable search and seizure; rights against self-incrimination and for due process — on the chopping block.

Unfortunately, that decision dropped us so far down the rabbit hole that Chairman Feinstein’s apt warning of “constitutional crisis” hardly gets a rise out of her fellow spied-on colleagues, many of whom still seem inclined to continue the partisan gaming of such serious wrongdoing as torture.

By contrast, similar COINTELPRO-type revelations at the end of the Vietnam War and outing of war deceits and cover-ups did meet with widespread outrage and concern, making for bipartisanship that led to the end of the Vietnam War, the Church and Pike Committees’ investigations and Nixon’s resignation.

Does anyone know whether Senators Frank Church and Howard Baker ever realized (or even guessed) they were themselves being targeted by the NSA’s secret Minaret Program? (The NSA also monitored 1,650 other Americans — whose identities still remain largely unknown.)

It seems that Feinstein’s seeing of the light could be a kind of deja-vu from that moment when Senators Church, Baker and maybe others realized that the war, its corollary spying, Kent State-type repression, and attempt at public information control, etc., weren’t merely directed toward others. They may have realized that they were no longer seen as “us” in “us versus them.”

When that truth hits, then the Congress, media and public opinion can turn against continuing the status quo — see the funny “no problem” cartoon depiction — and some real change can become possible.

In this vein, it’s darkly funny that the Secret Spy Machine’s greatest defender Michael Hayden only seems to have shown concern once about any potential adverse repercussions of his hasty post 9/11 decision to turn the massive spy operation upon U.S. citizens as well as foreign people. It was when some FBI agent (probably not understanding who’s in the “Us” insider club) applied “collect it all” to Hayden’s buddy, General David Petraeus’ sex affairs. Hayden finally became a little concerned that “collect it all” had gone too far when it took down his friend. Information IS power!

I just hope that Feinstein and other congresspersons now understand they really aren’t in the trusted top echelons of the Deep State Secret Spy Club and ultimately this “nearly Orwellian” apparatus has already been turned onto even other branches of government just as it was upon those foreign country leaders termed “allies.” It’s very much a constitutional crisis!

Recall also that the only time Feinstein seemed concerned about NSA spying was learning it included German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone. Maybe she identified with the other powerful female leader who previously thought she was in the Club. A little light was starting to go on. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi should wake up too that “collect it all” means her legislative oversight efforts are also in the crosshairs.

(https://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/24/obama-ensnared-in-bushs-abuses

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Congress should realize it must rein in this out-of-control Security State which now threatens the balance of power set up under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The President needs to fulfill his promises to change the rotten system that has resulted from years of deceitful “war on terror.”

A good first step would be to listen to Edward Snowden along with other NSA whistleblowers (as well as those from other agencies) who know the truth about these programs instead of threatening them with prison terms and equating them with being “spies.”

Instead of magnifying the vilification of Edward Snowden who happens, for better or worse, to have no option but to remain in a country of asylum,Obama ought to recognize that Snowden and earlier NSA and other government whistleblowers are the ones who possess the insights to help him climb out of this rabbit hole, fix the constitutional mess, and restore the rule of law. Edward Snowden should become the first witness called by a new Church Committee!

Ultimately, common sense tells us that restoring the rule of law will entail: 1) ending the “global war on terror”; 2) focusing on the bad guys, not the innocent. Stop adding hay to the haystack. Restoring due process that allows greater intrusiveness upon individuals’ freedom only as the level of evidence and judicial certitude increases; 3) reducing governmental secrecy to a necessary minimum by making it temporary instead of perpetual; 4) increasing independent oversight of and whistleblower protection in all intelligence agencies and national security contractors; 5) reducing governmental corruption and “revolving door==” conflicts of interest that Eisenhower was first to warn about and which were supposed to be banned by Office of Government Ethics rules; and 6) repealing the two provisions of the 1917 Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. 793 (d) and (e), that are being used to prosecute disclosures to the press, i.e. the copying and retaining of classified information as well as potentially prosecuting news reporters and organizations directly.

We hope to get this message across this week in Washington DC at the Press Club at 1 pm on Tuesday, March 25, and also via delivery of 100,000 “Roots Action” signed petitions to Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder at the Departments of State and Justice (further details here).

We may also read aloud some of the 100,000 signers’ comments outside the White House. The moment again seems reminiscent of the days after the popularity of Lyndon Johnson’s war presidency dropped and so many American citizens were forced to shout messages over the fence that he needed to change course.

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/24/obama-ensnared-in-bushs-abuses/

Coleen Rowley is a retired FBI agent and former chief division counsel in Minneapolis. She’s now a dedicated peace and justice activist and board member of the Women Against Military Madness and works with the Veterans for Peace chapter in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The only President that is dutifully destroying the DS, is the President that is threatened every month of more of assassination, and that’s President Trump. All the other presidents pushed the destruction of America for money they still make.

Following Phone Call with Arab Allies, Turkey and Pakistan, President Trump Notes Memorandum of Understanding with Iran to Be Announced Shortly

May 23, 2026 | Sundance |

The Gulf Arab allies had been negotiating through Pakistan with Iran.

Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are now joined by Turkey in the construction of the agreement, which is importantbecause Turkey now represents the figurative center of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The GCC and President Trump are not going to end Iranian Islamic extremism without the umbrella political organization of the Brotherhood accepting terms.

[VIA TRUTH SOCIAL] – “I am in the Oval Office at the White House where we just had a very good call with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of The United Arab Emirates, Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Minister Ali al-Thawadi, of Qatar, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, of Pakistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Türkiye, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of Egypt, King Abdullah II, of Jordan, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, of Bahrain, concerning the Islamic Republic of Iran, andall things related to a Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE. An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran,and the various other Countries, as listed.Separately, I had a call with Prime MinisterBibi Netanyahu, of Israel, which, likewise, went very well. Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed,and will be announced shortly. In addition to many other elements of the Agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

~ President DONALD J. TRUMP

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/23/following-phone-call-with-arab-allies-turkey-and-pakistan-president-trump-notes-memorandum-of-understanding-with-iran-to-be-announced-shortly/

Trump has a magic connection to extremely powerful leaders in the World. I hope that can make Peace on Earth!

With USMCA Exit Looming, Urgency Arrives – Mexico Signs Trade Deal with European Union

May 23, 2026 | Sundance |

It’s not Mexico that needs a trade deal with Europe,it’s the opposite.

For almost two decades Europe has been investing heavily inside Mexico, particularly noted in the auto industry,as they positioned themselves to take advantage of NAFTA and later the USMCA as an entry to the U.S. market.

European auto companies spent billions on assembly plants in Mexico, where they could ship EU manufactured component goods to be assembled into NAFTA/USMCA compliant vehicles. As President Trump and USTR Greer begin focusing on eliminating the USMCA trade agreement in favor of two bilateral deals (U.S-Canada and U.S-Mexico), Europe now needs to protect prior investment.

The prior Mexico-EU trade agreement has existed since 2000 (NAFTA timeframe).In 2025 they agreed to a revised Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and finalized the terms and conditions yesterday.

MEXICO CITY, May 22 (Reuters) –Mexico and the European Union signed a long-stalled free trade agreementon Friday as theyseek to decrease dependence on the U.S.and partially insulate themselves from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The accord, which they reached broad agreement on in 2025 but have delayed signing, expands a Mexico-EU trade accord from 2000, which covered only industrial goods.The new pact adds services, government procurement, digital trade, investment and farm produce.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa are to sign the deal in Mexico City in their first summit in over a decade.

“This agreement is a true geopolitical statement,” Costa said on Friday, shortly after signing the agreement.“With the modernized global agreement, we are better prepared to face the challenges of our time.”

[…] Mexico’s economy ministry estimates the new agreement could increase Mexican exports to the EU from around $24 billion a year to $36 billion by 2030.The EU exports around $65 billion in goods annually to Mexico.

Trade between Mexico and the EU has increased 75% in a decade, dominated by transport equipment, machinery, chemicals, fuels and mining products.

The new deal provides duty-free access for almost all goods including farm products such as Mexican chicken and asparagus and European milk powder, cheese and pork, albeit with some quotas. (read more)

I love how Reuters uses the term “transportation equipment” to cloud the actual content, EU vehicle components for auto assembly. Sometimes you just have to snicker at the silliness of it all.

In essence,in order for the EU to retain their investment status, they are telling Mexico they will import more chickens, pork, dairy and row crops. All of itsubject to “quotas” established as an outcome of analysis aboutwhat bureaucrats in Brussels will tell EU farmers they have to accept.

A conversation akin to,‘we’re going to buy more vegetables in order to keep our auto manufacturing systems in place.’ However, once those EU vehicles like BMW are assembled in Mexico, then what?It’s not like Mexican workers are going to be running to the showrooms to purchase exotic cars.

All of these maneuvers are designed aroundone central strategic intent, keep the auto assembly close to the USA marketand then pay Mexican officials through roots and vegetables to negotiate the best bilateral trade agreementwith the United States that keeps European investment alive.

Europe needs Mexico to think about -and represent- their interests when Mexico is negotiating a bilateral with Trump.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/23/with-usmca-exit-looming-urgency-arrives-mexico-signs-trade-deal-with-european-union/

It’s funny we never hear Carney’s name anymore, he exited Canada from any U.S. Trade because of the Climate change policies. Carney destroyed Canada’s standing in the world.

>>24640732. You are welcome. Fascinating on how the DS tried to destroy Russia. That’s why they hate Russia so much, it’s didn’t work

>>24640442 Meet Alexandria Underwood, who was disappointed that President Trump wasn’t k*lledPN

My understanding and boring dialogue on free speech:

Being a normal citizen, I think the consequences of inappropriate public discussions or saying dangerous, hateful or evil things, or just inappropriate speech in public to anyone, and most especially the current President is stupid. I have said things about Obama that were not harmful but truthful, like he is and was the worst President Ever. That wouldn’t be a threatening crime.

If I was to have a hateful or dangerous threats in conversation like that, it’d be at home, or a private place and only friends, where it won’t be repeated, like “I’ve always hated Obama”. That would be inappropriate and bad taste publicly but refreshing privately; and in some cases publicly. But that won’t land me in jail.

Since I’m not a hateful nut, like some others, that don’t understand the blessing of being born on the land of the free and brave. Social media statements like that are diarrhea hatred.

I love Real America. Fortunately or unfortunately our free speech, allows all of us, including crazies and weirdos to announce whatever they believe, whether it be kill the president, and many other hideous radical thoughts or beliefs.

==But I also know with the gift of free speech, I will not abuse the gift and announce publicly free hate speech, just because of decorum. My Mother had a fiery Irish anger when he children were inappropriate. (And sometimes she laughed a lot.)

I’m also know, if I said hate or threatening speech publicly, on social media, etc. ==law enforcement agencies can put me on a list and either track me,

arrest me or worse, because threatening the President is far more dangerous than telling or friend or someone to drop dead==

Along with the gift of free speech, we’ve got a responsibility not to break any law related to our free speech. ==It’s not defined as “no punishment for free speech”. You can hate anyone you want, but we cannot break the law with free speech, to harm ourselves or others.

And we should be aware whoever hears your hate speech may think it’s a threatening and citizens can call the police, FBI or other agencies to report them.

Sure it’s free speech, but vile or hateful speech can break the law, and you can be arrested, and be punished or put in jail by threatening anyone and especially the President of the U.S.

It’s best for loud mouth hate talkers, should refrain or stuff their mouth with a bandana, so they are not added to law enforcement agencies or followed, tracked down, listening via wire, or just picked up if very dangerous.

It really is a crime to call for the President or anyone to be killed, publicly or on social media; and even privately if very dangerous.

I honestly don’t know why these assholes don’t know this. Most of the work the Secret Service does is track down and interrogate all the people that have done this, many have gone to jail.

(I’m sure this is boring, I just wanted to reset my parameters)

THEY CAN'T STOP THIS TEAM!!!😎🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥

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KEK

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SHE NEVER RECOVERED FROM THIS…🤪🤣🤣🤣

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This was the moment I decided to vote for him and no one else

he has the magic of having a sense a humor with the Truth!

https://rumble.com/embed/v784y74/?pub=4

>>24641253. Why to fuck does rumble play the videos over and over! I’m going to write them and tell them to stop it

Ok one more, this is funny! Ivanka is like her Father, hidden arts and knowledge

THESE TERRORISTS DON'T KNOW WHO THEY MESSED WITH!!!😂😂😂

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Rubio VOWS Trump won’t make deal that puts Iran in ‘stronger position’

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discusses how a potential U.S.-Iran deal could impact the economy and whether rising gas prices may affect summer travel

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(Rubio is great are warning people about Trump! KEK)

https://youtu.be/UMiS9ffnHCk

DEVELOPING: At least 2 killed, dozens wounded in Russian strike in Ukraine

Shame on US and EU news

Fox publishes Russia events but the don’t report the bombing and killing of more than 32 students. This hideous reporting should be snubbed and called heartless world leaders.

Fox News correspondent Alex Hogan gives details on a Russian attack on Ukraine, a shooting near the White House and the ongoing conflict in Iran.

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https://youtu.be/hSg2wWbz_wI

Trump has 'CUT THE LEGS' off of Iran, Sen. Barrasso says

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., discusses President Donald Trump's largely negotiated Iran deal, detailing plans for the Strait of Hormuz and addressing Iran's nuclear program. He emphasizes the deal's potential impact on oil prices and American security

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https://youtu.be/juVhHNnFSPk

EU leaders silent on deadly Ukrainian attack on college dorm

Western officials have condemned Russian retaliatory strikes on Kiev, while omitting to mention the Friday drone attack that killed 21 people

Published 24 May, 2026 18:58

The European Union’s top brass and the leaders of several member states have issued statements on the latest exchange of strikes between Kiev and Moscow that ignore the recent deadly Ukrainian attack on a college dormitory that preceded Russian retaliatory strikes.

According to the Russian authorities, 21 people, mostly teenage girls, lost their lives and 60 more sustained injuries after three waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the main academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk Professional College in the Lugansk People’s Republic overnight from Thursday to Friday.

The Russian military responded early on Sunday by conducting a “massive strike” against military targets in Ukraine, including in Kiev, that featured the intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik system, Iskander ballistic missiles, Kinzhal and Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles, among other strike capabilities. The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that Ukrainian military command and control facilities, air bases, as well as defense industry enterprises were struck.

In a post on X on Sunday,European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen accused Moscow of displaying “brutality and disregard for both human life and peace negotiations.” She went on to claim that the Russian military had targeted Ukrainian civilians – an allegation Moscow has rejected.

The bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has similarly spoken of a “political scare-tactic” on the part of Russia.

French President Emmanuel Macron, in turn, has vowed to double down on backing the Ukrainian leadership, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz denouncing “this reckless escalation.”

However, none of the said EU leaders mentioned the deadly Ukrainian UAV attack on the college dormitory in Starobelsk that served as the cause of Moscow’s retaliation.

Russia’s UN envoy, Vassily Nebenzia, previously accusedWestern diplomats of “turning a blind eye” to the crimes of the “neo-Nazi Kiev regime.”

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman MariaZakharova said on Sunday that the BBC and CNN rejected Moscow’s invitation to visit the site of the attack, while Tokyo explicitly banned Japanese reporters from making the trip.

This is sickeningly hard hearted, when every terrorist event around the world gets attention and mourning. Our world not only hates the leaders of countries but also their citizens that are killed. No wonder Russia disdains the west. Russia has always reported on events like this in all countries.

https://www.rt.com/news/640521-eu-leaders-silent-deadly-ukrainian-attack-college-dorm/

Western media ‘afraid to see truth’ – Russia’s human rights chief

Mainstream outlets could not even offer a plausible excuse for not visiting the college dorm destroyed by Kiev, Yana Lantratova has said

Published 24 May, 2026 15:29

Western mainstream media are “afraid to see the truth” about the Ukrainian attack on the Starobelsk college dorm, Russia’s newly appointed human rights commissioner,Yana Lantratova, has said, slamming the incident as a “deliberate murder of children.”

The attack on the dorm, staged overnight from Thursday to Friday, left at least 21 people dead, mainly teenage girls.=The massacre has been largely ignored by the Western media and politicians, and Moscow has urged foreign reporters to come to the site.

The Russian ForeignMinistry arranged the media trip to Starobelsk on Sunday, with more than 50 reporters from 19 nations accepting the invitation. Speaking to the journalists at the location of the attack, Lantratova slammed those Western outlets that ignored the opportunity to report first-hand from the site.

“It was a deliberate murder of children. That’s what it’s called. And what are we seeing now? What’s happening on foreign platforms?Representatives fromvarious countries are saying it is staged, that it’s a liefrom the Russian media, and that ‘independent’ media could not confirm it because they could not come here,” she said, adding that someoutlets did not even offer a “plausible explanation” for skipping the opportunity.

Where’s the BBC? Where’s CNN? Where are the Tokyo representatives? Where are their journalists? …They’re simply afraid to see the truth. They don’t want to see it and they don’t want to hear it.

On Saturday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that both the BBC and CNN rejected the invitation to visit Starobelsk, while the Japanese government explicitly banned reporters from making the trip.

The attack on Starobelsk prompted a large-scale retaliatory strike on the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev, which was conducted overnight. The strike featured the intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik system, as well as other ballistic and cruise missiles. The command centers of the Ukrainian ground forces and military intelligence were targeted, as well as air bases and defense industry sites, according to the Russian military.

https://www.rt.com/russia/640516-western-media-college-attack/

I can’t even believe the hideous hard hearted politicians for any countries tragedies. They really want the death of all Russians.

I hope Trump gets time to give his condolences to Putin! If he hasn’t already.

International journalists visit site of Ukrainian drone attack atrocity (VIDEO)

BBC and CNN declined to report from the site where 21 trainee teachers were killed, the Foreign Ministry has said

Published 24 May, 2026 12:29 |

Footage by RT has shows foreign journalists touring the site of the deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic.

Ukraine targeted a teacher training college dormitory in the town of Starobelsk with several waves of UAVs on Friday, killing 21 people, mostly teenage girls, and injuring 60 others.

Russian Foreign Ministry arranged a trip to Starobelsk on Sunday for more than 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries: Austria, Brazil, UK, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, UAE, Pakistan, the US, Turkey, Finland, and France, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

BBC and CNN rejected an invitation to visit the site of the attack, while Japan’s government explicitly banned Japanese reporters from making the trip, she added.

Russia’s newly appointed human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, who also arrived in Starobelsk,said that Western mainstream media outlets “are simply afraid to see the truth. They just don’t want to see or hear it!

Those of their colleagues who accepted the offer to visit the site of theterrorist attack will see for themselves that there are no military facilities nearby, she said.

The foreign journalists will also realize that claims of the drones hitting the dorm after being shot down by Russian air defenses are false, the commissioner insisted.It’s “absolutely impossible” for 16 UAVs to hit the same building after being intercepted, she explained.

What happened in Starobelskwas a “deliberate killing of children” by Ukraine, Lantratova stressed.

A correspondent for China’s Phoenix Television, Lu Yuguang,told RT that he hasn’t seen even a hint of any military facilities in the vicinity of the dorm.

Giovanni Pigni, from Italian newspaper La Stampa, told TASS thatwhat he saw in Starobelsk is “horrible.”

“The destruction is so immense… I just see that there was a college here and that people have died,” he said.

On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported carrying out a large-scale strike against military targets in Ukraine in response to the terrorist attacks by Kiev.

The Russian response, which involved the intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik system and other types of missiles and drones,targeted command centers of the Ukrainian ground forces and military intelligence, air bases, and defense industry enterprises, the ministry said.

(This pisses me off, if the news don’t go, they cannot confirm what actually happened, that’s their excuse of not reporting terrorism from Zelensky and Ukraine!)

https://www.rt.com/russia/640512-foreign-journalists-visit-russian-college/