Posted on 05/09/2025 12:05:35 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
The United States and its European allies are finalising a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine that if refused would see them jointly impose new sanctions on Russia, a French diplomatic source said on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump called on Thursday for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, warning that Washington and its partners would impose further sanctions if the ceasefire was not respected.
Ukraine has expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal.
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I was watching a special last night with Bill O Reilly, he says that Putin is TERRIFIED of Trump because he knows if Trump wants to he can crush Russia, can utterly destroy them..so if Putin is smart he’d agree to a deal that ends this war..also that Zelenskky is going to have to put on his big boy pants and concede that he wont get everything that he wants
Pro -- professional. Pose -- creating an image or stance. Pro-posers.
And the buffets and happy hours are sure to be very posh. "What could happen in the coming hours and days, there could be an announcement of a ceasefire either of 30 days or compartmentalized, which is still being discussed."
Yes, I'm sure President Trump and Vice President Vance remember the "Russian" disrespect to American Proposals like the surrender monkey Frog source does.
Tell Putin to accept President Trump’s 30 day ceasefire.
I suggest in person, then it might be on Pay-Per-View.
The side winning isn't going to agree to a temporary ceasefire to give the enemy a chance to rearm and round up more unwilling conscripts.
Ukraine, the side losing, must be forced into unconditional peace talks.
We have every incentive to do that given that we're not getting anything out of minerals deal until the war ends.
Tell Putin to get with the program and accept President Trump’s 30 day ceasefire.
He took the day off to get new trolling guidance from his handlers at the Institute for Grifting on War [the Nulands].
It would be easier to get a long-term deal than a 30-day deal because a 30-day deal would not end the fighting, it would just postpone it.
Putin would very much like to be able to say it’s over.
The fears of Russian and Ukrainian mothers would not end with a mere ceasefire.
On this Thursday, May 8th, the media tersely warns that we have reached the decision point as to whether the United States will continue to fight to end the war against Russia. That war is led by the modern British financial empire. Presently a new “coalition of the willing,” is being assembled to continue that war from the captive globalist satrapy and increasingly fascist entity known as the European Union, egged on by all those here who profit from what Major General Smedley Butler rightly called “the war racket.” In addition, they are seeking further sanctions to collapse the Russian economy.
And yes, they are so utopian and crazy that they revived the same brand, “coalition of the willing” that the U.S. used in its disastrous occupation of Iraq. Despite substantial chest beating about the concept, every indication is that this coalition will fail since it has neither the arms, personnel, industrial base, or military expertise to fulfill its declared purpose. Only six nations the British and French extorted say they will send troops and that total formation is capped at 25,000. Further, the concept will only work with U.S. backing which President Trump has so far resisted.
UK intel behind Ukraine’s disastrous Krynky invasion, leaked documents reveal - The Grayzone
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There is a gathering storm in Europe as populations there vote their support for President Trump’s immigration, energy, and peace policies, and reject the open society and forever war policies paid for by the World Economic Forum and George Soros. The EU has responded with force to suppress this revolt. They say they are “protecting democracy,” a way of branding fascism spawned by Winston Churchill.
The AFD, Germany’s now leading political party, was declared to be terrorist by the government and subject to state surveillance and neutralization. Marie Le Pen in France, the leader of the opposition, was framed, convicted, and sentenced to House arrest and banned from running for election. Back in December, Romania’s election winner Calin Georgescu had his first-round election cancelled by the Courts because of classified claims that Russian social media manipulation had won him the election. That claim went up in flames this week when another pro-Trumper, George Simion, won the new election’s first round with 40% of the vote. In England, dissidents are being arrested and imprisoned for thought crimes.
Where the Negotiations Are Now
On Wednesday, Vice President Vance said that the next step to end the war involves Ukrainians and Russians sitting down and talking directly to one another to negotiate a peace.
He said he was optimistic that a deal could be reached, but that the parties are still far apart because of the hatreds flowing from the past.
In addition to talking to one another, what Vance referred to as a “fixation” on a thirty-day ceasefire has to be abandoned in favor of both sides putting forth a plan for a permanent peace. That is what Russia has been asking for since the 2014 Anglo-American Ukraine coup which deployed Ukrainian neo-Nazis as its shock troops and then launched a violent civil war and ethnic cleansing against Ukraine’s historically Russian regions. While western media outlets were originally horrified by the Ukrainian Nazis, they have since recognized them as “the best fighters.”
Out of that Vance statement, the media, so determined that the war continue, picked out Vance’s musing that perhaps Russia was asking for too much and blasted it throughout the world.
Truth Social
On Thursday, President Trump produced a new statement on Truth Social reiterating that he was committed to pursuing peace, starting with an unconditional 30-day ceasefire which would be a test of willingness to pursue a permanent peace. New sanctions would be imposed if the ceasefire were violated.
Russia is already observing a three-day good will ceasefire as it celebrates Victory Day in World War II. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping conducted a 7-hour meeting on Thursday in which they strengthened their burgeoning trade, economic, and strategic relationship. Among the plans announced this week is a plan to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon to power a joint moon base the two nations plan to produce together. In the war itself, Russia is advancing to its goal of controlling the four Russian speaking oblasts and Crimea as Ukraine’s defenses are collapsing.
These fluid and often contradictory statements are typical, as all parties deal with the politics of settling this war. In the U.S., Trump must deal with Ukrainian caucuses in both the House and the Senate. They played critical roles in promoting this murderous British proxy war. In addition, the powerful Deep State intelligence, military, and foundation apparatus, which Trump is attempting to dismantle, is fully committed to this war.
Lady Lindsey Graham has been loose this week claiming that he has rounded up 72 Senators who will pass “bone crushing” sanctions on Russia for the President to impose if he chooses. The President, of course, needs the votes from this corrupted Congress to realize his agenda. Senator Thom Tillis, who just killed the important nomination of Ed Martin to continue as U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, is a passionate Ukraine Caucus member.
Now, for Some Truthful History
Since the very beginning of the Special Operation, Russia has repeatedly offered direct negotiations. Typically, Ukraine and its British, French, and NATO supporters have spent the last week suggesting that they will attack Moscow’s solemn World War II Victory Day celebrations on Friday, where many world leaders, including Xi, will be in attendance.
Ukraine, since the Obama Administration’s coup in 2014 has been a vassal state and laboratory for hybrid warfare against Russia conducted by MI6, the CIA, and NATO. In 2016, that capacity was turned against the Trump campaign and the Trump presidency by the British and their American toadies.
More recently two people attempting to assassinate Donald Trump have been directly linked to Ukrainian intelligence and Ukrainian neo-Nazis. That does not even take into account Thomas Matthew Crooks and his encrypted cellphones.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Tass on Tuesday almost all of Europe wages war on Russia under Nazi banners. That “certain forces have united against us, literally under Nazi banners, as they support Zelensky’s anti-Russian, racist regime, which holds torchlight processions while the soldiers it sends to fight wear the patches of Nazi divisions on their sleeves. They have declared the goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on us on the battlefield like they did in the Operation Unthinkable plan.”
Churchill’s Operation Unthinkable is Continued by the British
The Operation Unthinkable plan, to which Lavrov referred, was the brainchild of the demented Winston Churchill. According to documents declassified in 2018, it envisioned a 1945 shock invasion of Russia by Britain, the U.S. and captured Nazi divisions to impose the “will of the British Empire” on Russia. That was even before World War II concluded. The British military rejected this utopian plan as unfeasible. Churchill followed up by counseling Harry Truman to drop the atom bombs on Japan as a terrorist message to the world. This gave rise to Churchill’s threat of preemptive nuclear war against Russia, again, to absorb it into the Empire, a threat which only ended when Russia obtained the bomb.
Lavrov’s statement came as he laid a wreath in remembrance of the 27 million Russian citizens, most of them civilians, sacrificed to Hitler’s barbarous, but failed World War II Russian invasion. He noted that now, “all of Europe, called to arms under Nazi banners, is waging war on us.”
On April 18th, Russia’s intelligence service, the SVR, released a document on the emergence of Eurofascism yet again in Europe. It promoted the idea that there is a natural, historical, and righteous alliance possible between the United States and Russia fighting Eurofascism.
SVR: Eurofascism, just as 80 years ago, is the common enemy for Moscow and Washington - International Affairs
The official SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation) website published this article. The translati…
International Affairs
Historically, our nations have fought this sort of fascism together, specifically that form of imperialism which emerged from British liberalism and the modern British Empire and caused World War II. Then as now, it campaigned under the banner of “democracy,” while seeking to breakup and absorb Russia and all of Eurasia into the modern British Empire, just as Britain sought to breakup and absorb the United States during the Civil War and subsequently.
The Russian document, correctly, lays the birth of the Nazi and Synarchist ideologies which motivated World War II with British secret intelligence and the Synarchist Martinist cult in Vichy France. The Russians have also repeatedly called out Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Utopian plan to balkanize Russia as the key to conquering Eurasia for purposes of controlling the world. Brzezinski was not original. He simply plagiarized the British geopolitical strategy which resulted in two world wars. Aside from the second World War, the SVR document notes many instances when Russia and the United States fought together to defeat fascism.
Lyndon LaRouche warned repeatedly that pragmatic politics will blind you faster than a laser beam to the eyes. So will a failure to study and learn from history. Here in the United States our moral compass keeps getting bent by the necessity of dealing with the criminal laggards with money and power who cling relentlessly to the past, to holding on to what they never deserved in the first place, to evading history’s righteous judgment for the evil they have wrought. The Russian proposal to fight Eurofascism together lands on the right side of history. It was implicit in JD Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech and President Trump’s original approach to these negotiations. It is only something like this which might work.
It would be very useful if those who love peace and want to end the forever wars found a way to make everything public about the Ukrainian and British involvement in the Trump assassination attempts, the coup against the 45th president, and the Russiagate hoax against President Trump’s 2016 campaign about right now.
Correct. It’s just political posturing. They come up with a “peace deal” they know the Ukrainians will accept and the Russians cannot. Then they can say “See? We tried to make peace, but those Russians are meanies.” Then it’s sanctions package #597 and more arms and aid packages to Ukraine. And so it goes on and on.
Ref the minerals deal, the alleged minerals are either unproven or deemed commercially unviable. Maybe something will someday come of the oil, gas and aluminum, but it won’t be any.time soon. Sorry it’s AI, but it does quick and easy bullet points:
Here’s a more detailed breakdown:
Joint Investment Fund:
The agreement establishes a joint investment fund managed by the U.S. and Ukraine.
Funded by New Projects:
The fund will be financed by revenues from new projects related to critical minerals, oil, and gas, not from existing projects.
10-Year Period:
No profits from the fund will be taken out for the first 10 years, and the money will be reinvested in infrastructure projects.
Future Aid:
Future U.S. military aid to Ukraine will be considered a contribution to the fund, meaning Ukraine will need to match that aid with resource wealth.
Strategic Significance:
The deal is seen as a way for Ukraine to secure continued U.S. support, especially regarding future military aid.
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