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Sections of a so-called whistleblower’s complaint alleging President Donald Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 presidential race relies upon a self-described investigative journalism organization bankrolled massively by billionaire activist George Soros. The complainer admits, “I was not a direct witness to most of the events described.” Still, the so-called whistleblower goes on to allege that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The transcript of the phone call authorized for release by President Trump evidences no such pressure or quid pro...

JD Vance and his family were confronted by angry pro-Ukraine protesters during their trip to Vermont. The family was then moved to an 'undisclosed location'. US Vice-President JD Vance and his family were met with intense protests during their weekend trip to Vermont. Angry pro-Ukraine protesters criticized Vance for being 'mean' to Volodymyr Zelensky during the Ukrainian President's visit to the White House on Friday. The protesters booed Vance and told him to 'go ski in Russia"...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance put down President Volodymyr Zelensky after he dismissed the effectiveness of American diplomacy, forcefully telling the Ukrainian he was acting without respect. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the White House on Friday for talks with President Donald Trump and, it is thought, to sign the much-discussed minerals deal. As is customary, Trump and his senior colleagues sat down with Zelensky in the oval office with press cameras present for a brief discussion before the real talks would begin in private, but a beligerent attitude from Zelensky derailed proceedings before they even began. Responding to...

So, does anyone want to buy a used war, and take it over? I can't think why they would do so. You might as well rush to obtain an unexploded bomb, or a leaking canister of some horrible virus. Whatever has come over the leaders of Europe, jostling to keep the Ukraine war going when it might at last be ending? This moronic, needless conflict has done this continent nothing but harm. As an event, it is horrible, a hellish panorama of innocent people shivering without electricity in half-ruined cities, broken homes, broken hearts and broken bodies, hospitals crammed with...

The British paper The Telegraph claims to have has access to a draft of the ‘pre-decisional contract’, sent by the US to Volodymyr Zelensky, dealing with a demand for a $500bn ‘payback’ from Ukraine for the aid already delivered. The document, marked ‘Privileged & Confidential’ and dated Feb 7 2025, has caused ‘consternation and panic’ in Kiev, according to the Telegraph report. The writer Ambrose Evans Pritchard is ‘shocked’ by the draconian terms, calls it ‘economic colonization of Ukraine’, a ‘burden of reparations that cannot possibly be achieved’. (“It states that the US and Ukraine should form a joint investment...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted in an interview that he hasn’t even seen half of the nearly $200 billion in foreign aid that the United States has sent to Ukraine since war broke out with Russia. According to Ukraineoversight.gov, As of September 30, 2024, the U.S. Ukraine response funding totals nearly $183 billion, with $130.1 billion obligated and $86.7 billion disbursed. Congress appropriated $174.2 billion through the five Ukraine supplemental appropriation acts enacted FY 2022 through FY 2024, of which $163.6 billion was allocated for OAR and the Ukraine response. Additional funds of $18.2 billion were allocated from annual agency...

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned European leaders Donald Trump will ignore them if the continent doesn’t take better care of its own defences. The Ukrainian president insisted the continent had to become more independent of Washington because there was no guarantee his American counterpart was committed to Nato. “Will president Trump even notice Europe? Does he see Nato as necessary? And will he respect EU institutions?” Mr Zelensky asked in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The wartime leader presented his scathing address as a wake-up call for European leaders, including in Britain and France, following Mr Trump’s...

The Prime Minister will meet former US president Donald Trump later. It will be the first time Sir Keir Starmer has met the Republican candidate for US president. Sir Keir is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, but will make time to meet Trump at his New York base - Trump Tower. The prime minister said it was “good” he had the opportunity to meet the Republican presidential nominee and that it was “really to establish a relationship between the two of us”. Speaking ahead of their meeting, Mr Trump said of the PM: "I actually think...

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Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky is back in the United States in an attempt to rally more support for his country's defensive war against Russia. But while his past visits have largely remained standard fare for foreign dignitaries (aside from his refusal to wear anything but olive drab), this latest trip has Republicans justifiably crying foul. [snip] Zelensky arrived in Pennsylvania on Monday, a hotly-contested election battleground state, courtesy of a U.S. taxpayer-funded C-17 Globemaster. What followed looked and sounded much more like a campaign stop than a diplomatic event, leaving onlookers to wonder exactly what the real purpose was. The day...

Russian air defenses downing... The notion that Iran could produce materials needed for a nuclear weapon in 'one or two weeks'... The man who tried to kill President Trump flew a drone over the site... Democrat US Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio joining the list of Democrats calling for Joe Biden to step aside... The Biden Administration setting a goal for the federal government to eliminate single-use plastic... Donald Trump speaking with Ukraine's President... Tunisian President Kais Saied, who has ruled with wide ranging powers since July of 2021, wants re-election... In Kenya President William Ruto announcing 11 cabinet appointments......

“He’s doomed to not be loved!” Never was there a more clear-cut case of “commentator’s curse” than when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was inaugurated on a sunny Kyiv day exactly five years ago. The TV narrator’s inference was that, after a landslide election victory with 73% of the vote, it could only go downhill for him. While his approval ratings have inevitably waned, Volodymyr Zelensky has been able to use his enduring appeal, along with a desire for stability, to extend his term in office. In peacetime it would have expired, and an election would have been called. But the...

Many Ukrainians see Volodymyr Zelensky as a dictator who has betrayed his own country for a handful of silver. From tomorrow, May 20th, Zelensky’s presidential term is formally at an end—but no new elections will be held as long as Ukraine is under martial law because he would be overwhelmingly voted out. He preaches that Ukraine is fighting for freedom and then denies them the right to vote on his policies – so much for freedom and democracy. Zelensky has no incentive for peace at this point in time. Zelensjy won the election, which some say was rigged, promising PEACE...

Abraham lincoln won a presidential election in civil-war-torn America in 1864, and fdr secured his fourth term in 1944 while American troops were in action across the globe. Winston Churchill, by contrast, avoided the electorate until the war in Europe was over in 1945, at which point he was turfed out. Holding an election when enemies are occupying your territory or raining bombs on it, and when huge numbers of your citizens are away fighting, is tricky. Not holding one is tricky in a different way, opening those in power to the charge of illegitimacy. That is the bind that...

Remember Eric Ciaramella? He’s the Ukraine whistleblower who lobbed a report sent to Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) office in 2019, which set off the first Trump impeachment effort. It’s where the whole drama started between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the perfect phone call where the crux of the charge against Trump is that there was an attempted quid pro quo arrangement: Zelensky would investigate Biden’s alleged felonious activities during the Burisma investigation, where a top Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was fired, in return for the United States not cutting off military aid. [snip] Ciaramella’s role – including high-level discussions...

It seemed just a play on Kiev’s shadow civil war, but it turns out there are also Burisma corruption ties involved. The Ukrainian lawmaker charged with treason for ‘misinformation’ has been remanded in detention for 60 days – and, as the story unfolds and we get a better notion of who Oleksandr Dubinsky is, it turns out the story involves Joe and Hunter Biden, Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani. Initial information was that Dubinsky was in hot water for his recent comments on the chaotic situation in the country, the unchecked corruption in Volodymyr Zelensky’s circle. He wrote that the...

VIDEOIt has finally come to this. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, due to sheer desperation, has outed himself as really nothing more than a Nigerian Prince email scammer trying to extract just a few bucks more from the sucker who was fooled into paying him BILLIONS.

The 120-14 vote came after the General Assembly rejected an amendment to condemn Hamas and demand that it release all hostages The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday in support of a "humanitarian ceasefire" in the war between Israel and the Hamas terror group 120-14. In addition to Israel, which has vowed to eradicate Hamas, the only other countries to oppose the resolution were:' The United States Austria Croatia Czech Republic Fiji Guatemala Hungary Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru Papua New Guinea Paraguay Tonga There were 45 abstentions including by India, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Australia...

The trip to Canada by Ukrainian President Zelensky was meant to divert from his lackluster United Nations and US Congress appearances, and give Kiev some semblance of a victorious Foreign Relations moment.To do that, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau had his guest come to a special Parliament session, in which ‘he was interrupted by standing ovations seven times’ – as the MSM lore goes.However, Zelensky and Trudeau have unwittingly detonated a PR bomb that is hurting both of their reputations, and exposed the horrible reality of the Nazi ties of the Ukrainian ‘banderite’ regime.The unforced error was to bring 98-year-old Ukrainian...

In Guatemala the anti-corruption 'Progressive' candidate Bernardo Arevalo is the winner of the Presidential Runoff Election... Pakistan's President refusing to sign legislation designed to crack down on political opponents... The commander of a US Navy destroyer based in Japan relieved of command... In the Netherlands today Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seeking US F-16 fighters...Zelensky arrived in Denmark later Sunday saying "we are moving forward in the F-16 issue"... Ukraine threatening Israel over what is says is poor treatment of refugees... A terrorist attack in Israel this weekend... Today was Election Day in Ecuador...Tonight's results in the election for President show...