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@FinalTelegraph "The age of the globalist client state is over. The era of the blank check, the photo-op, and the heroic narrative laundered by the media died in the Oval Office last night."
X.com ^ | Aug 19, 2025 | Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph

Posted on 08/20/2025 9:18:02 AM PDT by ransomnote

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@FinalTelegraph

The age of the globalist client state is over. The era of the blank check, the photo-op, and the heroic narrative laundered by the media died in the Oval Office last night.

President Trump's meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasn't a negotiation between peers. It was a reckoning. It was the new CEO of America calling in a regional manager to inform him the business model has fundamentally changed.

They fear this meeting not because it will escalate the war, but because it will end their racket.

This thread is the breakdown of the masterclass in power politics that just occurred. 🧵 The one demand that has the entire D.C. swamp terrified is at #4.


@FinalTelegraph · Aug 19

The media and the foreign policy establishment are in a state of controlled panic today, trying to spin what happened last night. They can't. The optics were undeniable: a supplicant from a faraway land facing a leader who puts America's interests—and its money—first.


@FinalTelegraph · Aug 19

TAKEAWAY 1: The Power Shift is Total. Gone was the fawning celebrity treatment Zelenskyy received from the previous administration. Trump was in command, driving the agenda. This wasn't about shared values; it was about the cold, hard reality of the US Treasury. The message was clear: the party is over.


@FinalTelegraph Aug 19

TAKEAWAY 2: The Beggar. Zelenskyy’s green t-shirt charm has lost its magic. Without the bottomless well of U.S. taxpayer money, he is not a global hero; he is the leader of a corrupt, struggling nation. For the first time, he was forced to listen instead of lecture. He came for a check; he left with a list of demands. 


@FinalTelegraph · Aug 19

TAKEAWAY 3: The Audit is Non-Negotiable. This was the bombshell. Trump's primary focus wasn't on maps or battle lines. It was on receipts. He demanded a full, independent, forensic audit of the $200B+ in U.S. aid. "Show us the money" is the new foreign policy doctrine. This is what terrifies the swamp more than any Russian tank.


@FinalTelegraph · Aug 19

TAKEAWAY 4: The Ultimatum, Not a Treaty. Trump's "peace plan" is the embodiment of America First. It's not a complex 12-point plan; it's an ultimatum. "The American ATM is officially closed. Your war is no longer funded by our grandchildren. Make a deal, or fight with your own money." It's that simple.

 
 @FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
TAKEAWAY 5: The Unspoken Leverage. The audit isn't just about accountability; it's a weapon. A full accounting of where our money went will inevitably expose the vast kickback schemes involving D.C. politicians, their families, and NGOs. Trump isn't just threatening to end the war; he's threatening to expose the criminals who profited from it.
 
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
So what are the global implications of this shift? It's a political earthquake that signals the death of the old order and the return to realism. The world that existed two days ago is gone.
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
IMPLICATION 1: Panic in the Beltway. The neocon/liberal interventionist blob that has driven our foreign policy for 30 years is in meltdown. Their business model—endless war funded by endless debt—has been rejected. Peace is a direct threat to the military-industrial complex and its Praetorian Guard in the media.
 
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
IMPLICATION 2: Europe is on its Own. A terrified silence has fallen over Brussels and Berlin. For decades, they've outsourced their security to the American taxpayer while lecturing us on morality. Trump has just informed them that they must finally pay for their own defense. The American security blanket has been pulled away.
 
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19 
 
IMPLICATION 3: The Real Target is D.C. Corruption. This maneuver is not just about Ukraine. It's about using the audit to disinfect the rot in Washington. The defense contractors, the USAID grifters, the political families who suddenly got rich—they are the real target of this new policy. The cleanup starts abroad but ends at home. 
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
IMPLICATION 4: This Isn't Pro-Russia; It's Pro-America. The media will scream that Trump is "siding with Putin." This is a childish analysis. A true statesman forces an end to conflicts that bleed his nation dry. Forcing a settlement on terms that serve U.S. interests is the definition of a strong foreign policy.
 
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
IMPLICATION 5: The "Rules-Based Order" is Dead. The globalist fantasy of a world run by international committees and NGOs is over. What replaced it last night is an order based on sovereign nations acting in their own self-interest, led by an America that is unashamed to put its own people first.
 
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
The media is warning this could "escalate" the war. They are right, but they misunderstand which war. The war in Ukraine is about to end. The war that's about to escalate is the one between Trump and the corrupt globalist establishment in Washington D.C. when the findings of that audit are made public.
 
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
Last night's meeting was a triumph for American sovereignty and a return to sanity. It replaced the emotional, ideological, and catastrophically expensive foreign policy of the past with a clinical, strategic, and transactional approach that serves the American people. This is what leadership looks like.
 
@FinalTelegraph Aug 19
 
After decades of lies from the war machine, Trump is forcing a conclusion. The establishment fears a realist in the White House more than any foreign adversary. Will his 'peace through strength' ultimatum finally end the war in Ukraine?


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To: ransomnote

Thanks for posting this, excellent article.
Praying people will wake up to the truth of where “we the sheeple” have been heading. So many have been misled.

May God turn many, many hearts to Himself, Who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

I can’t stop there...3:17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who practices the truth (true believers) comes to the light, that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

These were Jesus’ words to Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler and teacher of Israel, when He was telling him that unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
[John 3] It is a spiritual new birth.

Praying for our nation, for the world we’re living in.

The spiritual new birth:

John 6:40, For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him, may have eternal life; and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”


21 posted on 08/20/2025 12:19:10 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey ( )
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To: ransomnote

Thanks for posting this, excellent article.
Praying people will wake up to the truth of where “we the sheeple” have been heading. So many have been misled.

May God turn many, many hearts to Himself, Who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

I can’t stop there...3:17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who practices the truth (true believers) comes to the light, that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

These were Jesus’ words to Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler and teacher of Israel, when He was telling him that unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
[John 3] It is a spiritual new birth.

Praying for our nation, for the world we’re living in.

The spiritual new birth:

John 6:40, For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him, may have eternal life; and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”


22 posted on 08/20/2025 12:19:54 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey ( )
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To: ransomnote

Ransom, what do you know about @FinalTelegraph? Apparently, you hold him in high esteem.


23 posted on 08/20/2025 12:41:26 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: ransomnote

That audit will never happen.

Everyone knows it will show millions diverted to offshore bank accounts, Bidet* Crime Family, etc.


24 posted on 08/20/2025 3:33:54 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: citizen
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled @FinalTelegraph "The age of the globalist client state is over. The era of the blank check, the photo-op, and the heroic narrative laundered by the media died in the Oval Office last night."citizen wrote:

Ransom, what do you know about @FinalTelegraph? Apparently, you hold him in high esteem.

I don't know that account. If it's a 'him' then you know more about it than I do.

I posted that account because Trump has been hinting at some of this, Hegseth has said some, and I've been saying parts of it.

Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem

I don't know if all parts of @FinalTelegraph's post have already happened, I think it likely but I don't know. But I believe all parts of that post WILL happen. Logically, I see no other way.

I've been saying the Ukraine is 'Deep State Headquarters' for quite awhile now.  I transcribed a 1 hour+ video of Ukrainian investigators laying out the case against corrupt US officials. Our country 's traitors launder money through Ukraine, and it's the hub of funds and crime for the DNC. If Trump wants to finish the corruption of the DNC, he has no choice but to cut off Ukraine.   

Biden, Biden's brother, Biden's son - they all obtained large sums of money, tax payer funds and influence peddling, in Ukraine.

As did Pelosi (her son), Schumer (his son), Romney (relative) etc. If Trump wants to halt the use of US taxpayers funding the DNC and the Deep State machinery trying to kill him, he has to 'stop' the Ukraine's function in it. 

Supporting Ukraine keeps the grift flowing to our enemies going.

 

If Trump wants to hold Pelosi, Schumer, Biden etc. accountable, Trump must have an accounting for the 200 Billion in tax payer funds. The public needs to understand their tax dollars fund the DNC and various crimes. Burisma - hey maybe Hunter's 'salary' was just US taxpayer funds....

When Trump was being framed and asked Zelensky to investigate the crimes of Hunter Biden, Zelensky said 'no'.  Trump has to get rid of the Deep State's protective nest of crime in Ukraine.

Biden owned a biolab there. There are approximately 20 US biolabs in Ukraine, or were until the start of the war when Putin bombed those locations. No US inspections by people I trust. Oh but Zelensky ordered the destruction of documentation at Biden's lab in the 24 hr lead up to the war in Ukraine. If we don't want Deep Staters using Ukraine as a private lair for things like biowarfare, then we need to know what went on in those labs, and where the money went.

One of the assassins hunting Trump had ties to Ukraine. Child trafficking in Ukraine. Organ harvesting in Ukraine. Endless lists of fraud - they used US funds to create an exam to use to determine which Ukrainian applicants would receive a license to be a lawyer. They hired some people who had no background in test writing or law to create a rigged test. They made their lawyers take it and were able to 'get rid' of the ones who were not in on the grift. The Ukraine even defrauded the US over printer ink. Our officials were in on it.

If it was just legal exams and printer ink it would still be worth ending, but the Ukraine has been functioning as NATO's proxy in the war against Russia. The goal was to get the US to fight Russia on behalf of NATO, which wants to install their NATO pick in place of Putin.  NATO/Zelensky want that war so bad. Zelensky called for pre-emptive strikes on Russia. Zelensky and NATO tried to start WWIII by having Ukraine fire a missile into Poland and blame it on Russia. They've held that card and almost launched it the night Trump announced he was running for 2024.  They STILL want war and they want the US to fight RUssia for them.

The graft, threat of starting WWIII war etc. - it all has to stop if Trump wants peace and stability in the United STates.

Tuberville accuses Zelensky of attempting to ‘lure NATO’ into Russian conflict

Lately Ukrainian shills have been shrieking that Ukraine can keep fighting until Russia folds. They're always saying Russia is folding, losing more weapons and men etc. They are saying Ukraine is winning.

In response I've been saying that Ukraine has no functioning economy - that it's held up by US tax payer funds.

Volodymyr Zelensky Demands $40 Billion in Annual Budget Support for Ukraine

6/23/2025

The US pays for many key services in Ukraine. The US pays the salaries and pensions of Ukraine's government officials. Without the US, the Ukraine would not have a functioning government. The US pays for emergency services and other humanitarian aid.

EIther FReeper Allegra and/or Bimboeruption have previously posted a jaw dropping list of  Ukraine's domestic expenses the US has paid to keep their society going. So I reject their assertions that they are 'winning' since Russia has not been living off foreign gifts, can manfucture weapons, has it's own manpower and access to satellite technology. 

The US cannot uphold the economy of Ukraine forever, and why should it when this is NATO's proxy war?

At a recent (months ago) meeting with NATO, a member asked Trump to confirm the US would support Article 5 (mutual defense). Hegseth had already flat out told them we would not when he first took office. Trump replied, "Well, it depends on what you consider 'defense'.' I believe he said it because NATO has been trying to provoke Russia to attack in a way that would 'require' the US to directly enter the war. So provoking RUssia repeatedly for years is not the grounds for defense if Russia retaliates. Don't call  the US and claim you need 'defense'.

NATO members let their militaries completely atrophy - the UK has two functioning battle tanks. But what was the plan if they didn't maintain their military? I believe their plan was to use a controlled President like Biden, to fight and defeat Russia (even if both sides suffer sovereignty ending damage), and swoop in, acquire our resources, and control both nuclear arsenals. NATO would keep it's hands clean and take control, acquire US and Russian weapons and install puppets. That's my view. NATO/UN/WEF are just the business arms of the Deep State consolidating power.

Because of the threat President Trump poses to NATO and and Zelensky's aspirations, I don't believe it's a coincidence that one of the attempted assasinations had Ukrainian ties. Did you see some of the speculation behind Trump's possible reason(s) to point out the painting of the assasination attempt to NATO/Zelensky? Some believe their response is telling.

Below I'll post the thread of GROK's responses to questions which ultimately seem to point to the fact  that NATO/Zelensky were more directly involved than I first thought. But why wouldn't they be, when Trump has the ability to cut off everything they value?

Analyst Alexander Mercouris laughed when the UK's PM composed an official announcement in a manner to imply that UK and US were bookends - a balance of power in each which guided the rest of NATO's members. Mercouris laughed because the UK has so very little to contribute, and no real power to point to.

I've never thought Ukraine's demands for iron clad security guarantees from the US were realistic - for how long? And will Ukraine still be provoking to start the war while the US is on hand to 'help'? I've been saying President Trump can just stop giving them money and walk away. That's what seems logical to me.

The NATO game had to end sooner or later - Trump wants to stop the grift, theft, fraud, assasination attempts etc. and cutting off the funding they thrive on, cut the ground out from under the DNC etc., and asking for accountability, are such powerfull, necessary steps to undertake, that I pounced on the @FinalTelegraph post because it says what I believe to be true in a far more concise and well written manner.

Okay I'm posting these last pictures because it's strange how much Z looks like Soros. Then there's a picture which compares his face to Hilter. Z must have a rubbery face that looks a little bit like thousands of people.

 


25 posted on 08/20/2025 3:51:36 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
"... died in the Oval Office..."

I still remember back 30 years ago, when it was called the Oral Office.

26 posted on 08/20/2025 4:10:53 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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To: ransomnote
I asked AI to try describing what Ukrainian civil services are funded by the US.:
U.S. Payments to Ukraine

The United States has provided financial support to Ukraine that includes funding for the salaries of Ukrainian government workers, particularly those in essential services, as well as support for pensions and other domestic expenses critical to maintaining government operations during the ongoing conflict with Russia.

  • First Responders and Civilian Government Workers: U.S. aid has supported the salaries of over 57,000 Ukrainian first responders, including health workers, educators, and other civil servants, to maintain essential public services.

  • Pensions and Social Payments: While not explicitly detailed in the sources, economic support funding has helped the Ukrainian government maintain its civilian budget, which includes pension and social welfare payments.

  • Emergency Services Personnel: Funding has been used to pay emergency services such as firefighters, medical personnel, and other frontline workers critical to national resilience during the war.

  • Local Government Operations: U.S. assistance has enabled the continuation of local government functions by financing public sector wages and administrative costs in areas affected by the conflict.


27 posted on 08/20/2025 4:39:07 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

U.S. Payments to Ukraine

The United States has provided financial support to Ukraine that includes funding for the salaries of Ukrainian government workers, particularly those in essential services, as well as support for pensions and other domestic expenses critical to maintaining government operations during the ongoing conflict with Russia.

First Responders and Civilian Government Workers: U.S. aid has supported the salaries of over 57,000 Ukrainian first responders, including health workers, educators, and other civil servants, to maintain essential public services.

Pensions and Social Payments: While not explicitly detailed in the sources, economic support funding has helped the Ukrainian government maintain its civilian budget, which includes pension and social welfare payments.

Emergency Services Personnel: Funding has been used to pay emergency services such as firefighters, medical personnel, and other frontline workers critical to national resilience during the war.

Local Government Operations: U.S. assistance has enabled the continuation of local government functions by financing public sector wages and administrative costs in areas affected by the conflict.


thank you for this post/info.

BEYOND APPALLING!!


28 posted on 08/20/2025 4:41:56 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Semper Vigilantis

That would be funny... maybe ‘the people’ of a country should vote on whether they want to fight a war or not. It would be a nice warning to corrupt leaders that their people might rather live under a different countries’ rule...


29 posted on 08/20/2025 6:08:57 PM PDT by GOPJ (Superman joined ICE: - - Lex Luthor drinks Bud light, drives a Jaguar and is a registered democrat)
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