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President Trump is making a renewed attempt to end the Russia-Ukraine war but he is getting heavy push back from Europe and I question just how serious Trump is about ending this war. Let’s break it down.
The European Union wants no part of Trump’s new 28-point plan to end the nearly 4-year-old war, saying any settlement must reflect the positions of both Brussels and Ukraine.
Trump’s draft framework, which Western media claim was developed in coordination with Moscow, would reportedly include some kind of Western security guarantees while requiring Ukraine to withdraw from the parts of the new Russian regions in Donbass still under Kiev’s control. Ukraine would also need to cut its armed forces by at least half, surrender some weaponry and abandon its drive for NATO membership.
The draft plan has drawn criticism from Kiev’s supporters in the EU. They convened a meeting in Brussels on Thursday, where EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas argued that the US proposal offered “no concessions” from Russian.
Trump, meanwhile, has sent a team to Ukraine to pressure the regime into accepting the deal.
Heading the effort to convince Zelensky to take the deal is retired Army Secretary Daniel Patrick Driscoll.
Here’s a report from Channel 14 out of the U.K.
News flash to EU bureaucrats: The winning side in a war doesn’t make “concessions.” That’s typically a role reserved for the losers. The losers make concessions because by losing the war they lost the right to dictate the peace. It’s happened that way in just about every war throughout history. That’s the whole reason wars are fought, because one nation seeks to gain the upper hand over another and force it to submit to certain demands.
God knows, the Europeans have been involved in enough wars over the centuries to know that’s how it works.
For it’s part, Moscow says it has not discussed the details of Trump’s latest 28-point peace plan with Washington, but hoped negotiations could begin soon.
According to the New York Post, Trump has given Ukraine until Thanksgiving to sign the deal, or lose all weapons shipments and intelligence sharing. This is exactly what should have been done on DAY ONE of Trump’s presidency, but he held fast to the advice of his neocon advisers and let the war drag on for another year, which has only put Ukraine in a worse position to negotiate terms of the peace because Ukraine is now losing the war badly.
Instead of taking decisive action to break with the previous administration of Joe Biden and end the war by cutting off the arms flow, Trump seems to vacillate between threatening Russia and threatening Ukraine while keeping the weapons flow to Ukraine going, even escalating it. Trump has the power to end the war quickly by simply cutting off all funding, weapons flows and intelligence sharing, including Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service to Ukraine but he hasn’t taken any of these actions.
This tells me Trump is not serious about ending this war. I believe this is all classic Trump bluster. I simply can’t see him going against his neocon inner circle, headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy to Ukraine Lt. General Keith Kellogg, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and UN Ambassador Mike Waltz. These men are all raging neocon warmongers and Russiaphobes. They will see to it that Trump keeps toeing the neocon line by fueling this proxy war against Russia. Because, in the end, this war is not about saving Ukraine’s “democracy” or freedom. It’s about removing Putin, carving up Russia into several smaller countries, and stealing its resource wealth.
For this reason, I would say the chances that Trump will be able to get the two sides to come together are slim. Ukraine will likely keep fighting, keep throwing more of its men into the meat grinder, wasting their lives on a war that has proven to be unwinnable. The only way it could be winnable is if NATO broadens the war and inserts Western troops from the U.S. and other countries. I believe that’s the ultimate goal of the neocons but I don’t think they are ready quite yet to take it to the Russians directly. They know that would be a disaster because our military-industrial capacity is not ready to compete with that of Russia-China-North Korea-Iran. If Germany and the U.S. can ramp up their munitions factories over the next couple of years, I think World War III is a good possibility. But not yet.
So, until they are ready, we will continue to see the NATO countries play good cop-bad cop, with Trump acting like he really wants to end the war and Europe protesting against such efforts. It’s all meant to stall and give Putin reason to believe Trump can be an honest broker, even as new weapons systems get built and turned over to Ukraine.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday blasted a group of House Democrats who called for troops to disobey any illegal orders from the Commander in Chief.
Trump demanded that the legislators be arrested for posting a social media video where they urged military members to refuse unspecified unlawful orders.
Writing Thursday on Truth Social, Trump said the lawmakers had engaged in “seditious behavior at the highest level” and called the senators and representatives, all of whom are military veterans, “traitors to our country” who should be “arrested and put on trial.”
The lawmakers included senators Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mark Kelly of Arizona, along with Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodlander and Pennsylvania’s Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan.
Trump added that, “Their words cannot be allowed to stand. We won’t have a Country anymore!!!”
In a second post written after he’d deleted the previous one, Trump called the Democrats’ statements “really bad, and Dangerous to our Country.”
Trump then added: “Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”
The president later posted a third message in which he repeated his all-caps accusation of SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR before claiming that such behavior is “punishable by DEATH.”
You can watch the video that got Trump so upset below.
Honestly, anyone can see that these handful of Democrats in Congress have pulled a political stunt. They could care less about whether any order from a president is legal or illegal as long as it’s being issued by a Democrat president. Rather, the goal here, I believe, was to score political points with the left while provoking the current resident of the White House into irrational and illegal actions. Unfortunately, I think Trump is all too eager to take the bait, which could throw us into a constiutional crisis and potential civil war.
BOTTOM LINE: President Trump has become unhinged of late. He was always bombastic but his latest rhetoric shows a man who is no longer emotionally stable and may be willing to do anything if he thinks it will solidify his power and gain the upper hand over his political enemies. He’s already threatened to deport American citizens he doesn’t like, to pull the broadcast licenses of networks whose reporters ask him “mean” questions, and now he’s threatening to execute members of Congress. Words have meaning, Mr. President. You are either wanting to become a dictator or you are grandstanding in an extreme manner, willing to say anything that will get attention and perhaps distract from unfavorable news coverage. I wonder what particular news coverage he is so afraid of… Epstein issues? The collapsiong economic conditions? I don’t know, but it appears we are looking at an increasingly desperate and unstable man in the Oval Office. But maybe he is totally stable and just serving as an actor. Either way, it puts the country on the edge of extreme volatility and escalating strife. We should all stay prepared for when things go awry.
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The White House is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as today (Friday) that enlists the power of the federal government to block states from regulating artificial intelligence, according to four people familiar with the matter and a leaked draft of the order obtained by POLITICO.
The draft document, confirmed as authentic by three people familiar with the matter, would launch several efforts to challenge state AI laws, including a so-called AI Litigation Task Force to be run by the Department of Justice.
The executive order plays into a contentious national debate over whether Washington or state capitals should set the direction of national AI policy. The industry and its Republican supporters argue that existing and future state laws on AI could lead to a conflicting patchwork that slows down the expansion of AI.
A congressional effort to block state AI laws as part of the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act collapsed this summer. But the Republicans aren’t giving up.
This week, the prospect of a ban on state AI regulations surfaced once again in Congress. They may try to bury it in a massive year-end annual defense bill. President Trump threw his weight behind the legislative effort in a post on Tuesday.
The executive order would be a different approach, deploying the muscle of several federal agencies to quash state AI regulations.
Government lawyers would be directed to challenge state laws on the grounds that they unconstitutionally regulate interstate commerce, are preempted by existing federal regulations or otherwise at the attorney general’s discretion.
The task force would consult with administration officials, including the special adviser for AI and crypto, a role currently occupied by investor David Sacks, to determine which state AI laws would be worth challenging, according to the document.
It is possible that the final order could look different, or that the White House could ultimately decide against its release. Reached for comment, a White House official said that until an executive order is “officially announced” by the White House, “discussion about potential executive orders is speculation.”
The executive order, in the draft obtained by POLITICO, would also empower Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to publish a review of “onerous” state AI laws within 90 days and restrict federal broadband funds to states whose AI laws are found to be objectionable.
BOTTOM LINE: Trump is doing everything in his power to unleash the full power of the technocratic surveillance state, which, when completely built out using the power of AI, will become a digital concentration camp. Every facet of our lives will be watched, assessed, and controlled using a system of rewards and punishments. Rights will be replaced with privileges. Anyone who protests will be simply kicked out of the systems needed to function. Their bank accounts will be closed. Their digital “money” will be turned off or re-programmed to only work at certain stores for certain products a certain amount of times per week or month. Trump may not be the one to weaponize the beast system in this way but he is certainly the man put in charge of building it.
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LifeSite News reports that gunmen have stormed a church in Nigeria, killing at least two, and kidnapping the pastor and several other Christians.
A video shared by local news outlets showed a church service at the Christ Apostolic Church being interrupted by gunfire. Armed men entered the building and took people’s belongings as the parishioners were running for cover. The attack occurred Wednesday in the town of Eruku.
When the police arrived, they found two people fatally shot, while witnesses said they thought at least three were killed during the assault.
Parishioner Joseph Bitrus told Reuters:
“They later rounded up some worshippers, including the pastor, and took them into the bush.”
A spokesperson for the local governor said he asked the federal government for the deployment of more security forces after the latest church attack.
Nigeria has been suffering from a brutal Islamist insurgency in the northeast, with killing sprees and abductions, often targeting Christians, happening on a regular basis.
Due to the ongoing massacring of Christians and the government’s apparent inability or unwillingness to curb the attacks, President Donald Trump has announced that he is preparing the U.S. military to potentially “wipe out” Islamic terrorists who are killing and kidnapping thousands of Christians each year in Nigeria.
Christians will continue to be targeted by Islamic and Marxist extremists around the world. I personally don’t believe Trump will lift a finger to help them, unless there’s something in it for the U.S.’s broader economic interests. If he can go in and take resources while claiming it was to help Christians, it might happen. Otherwise, it’s just talk.
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Breitbart reports that the number of anti-Christian arson attacks on churches in Germany has surged to a record high amid a climate of growing intolerance, according to findings in a report from the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe).
In its annual report published this week, based on data collected from European police forces, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and various civil society groups, OIDAC Europe reported that there were 33 arson attacks against German churches in 2024.
In August, the German Bishops’ Conference warned that attacks on churches have been escalating and that “all taboos have now been broken.”
A Bishops’ Conference spokesman said at the time:
“For several years now, we have been dealing with an escalating problem: excrement in holy water fonts and confessionals, decapitated statues of Christ and saints, cigarette butts and other litter in front of devotional images, damaged prayer and hymn books, overturned pews, smashed windows, altarpieces and entire altars destroyed by arson.”
In addition to arson attacks, the report found that police recorded anti-Christian hate crimes in Germany rose by 22 percent last year to 337. This followed a 105 percent increase in 2023.
Meanwhile, France experienced the most anti-Christian hate crimes of any European country, according to the report, which identified 770 police-recorded incidents and a further 139 reported by civil society groups.
France, the report said, experienced a “disproportionately high number of incidents with an Islamist background,” including the desecration of a cemetery in southern France, which saw over 50 graves and the church vandalized with slogans such as “Submit to Islam.”
This is par for the course, and not at all surprising, given that Europe has been basically handed over to Islamic migrants.
A nation without an agreed-upon set of values cannot continue to exist indefinitely. As Jesus said, a house divided against itself cannot stand.
It’s just a matter of time before these countries collapse under the weight of globalist policies.
That may, in fact, be why the Western European nations are so eager to go to war. They know their days are numbered, that their societies are ready to implode from within, due to decades of insane immigration policies and idiotic economic policies based on the so-called green agenda and sustainable development.
As Gerald Celente says, when all else fails they take you to war.
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Thanks to a law passed in April, Canadians visiting the U.S. must submit biometric data if they wish to stay longer than 29 days. Beginning December 26th, everyone will be forced to submit their fingerprints and face scan to the U.S. government.
The Canadian government may issue an I-94 electronic record to air passengers ahead of arrival if they plan on an extended stay. This form should be valid for six months. The rules are a bit stricter for those driving across the border, but it is possible to pre-apply online to avoid waiting at the border. For either method, the U.S. government will require fingerprints and a photograph that will be kept on file.
Customs and Border Patrol notes on its website:
“This technology compares your live facial features with the photo in your travel documents to verify your identity, creating a more seamless, secure, and safer travel experience. CBP is leading the way in innovative identity verification through its use of facial biometric comparison technology. This technology compares your live facial features with the photo in your travel documents to verify your identity, creating a more seamless, secure, and safer travel experience.”
Biometric kiosks are appearing at airports across the globe.
Economist and trends forecaster Martin Armstrong writes:
“Not only will your government have your biometric profile, but EVERY nation you visit will soon have your unique profile on file. You can no longer avoid this process by entering the U.S. by land or sea as border agents will simply not let anyone in unless they surrender their data.”
And make a note of it: All of this is happening on the watch of a supposedly conservative Republican administration.
This administration is not only refusing to protect American citizens traveling abroad from this type of invasive digital identification, but it’s requiring the same dehumanizing digital data on foreigners coming here.
By 2030, perhaps even before then, you can see how this system will be fully functional and ready to rapidly expand into all phases of life, not just travel, but your spending habits, your social-media posts, your bank accounts, even your access to the internet, will all be monitored and controlled.
It will all be done in the name of watching out for your safety and security.
Big Brother is here. In the form of an AI algorithm.
Now is the time to resist this anti-human system and refuse to be drawn into its algorithmic clutches.
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Hope ths is of interest. A lengthy but somewhat detailed summary of the global government’s progress since the end of WWII and some of its compromised personnel. “The United Nations’ Global Straitjacket (1999),” By Joan Veon – 30 Q&As – Unbekoming Book Summary
https://open.substack.com/pub/unbekoming/p/the-united-nations-global-straitjacket?r=2mnu5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Now is the time in this Masonic-Orwellian ‘Digital Age’ to resist Big Brother’s anti-human Socialistic-eugenic Security System and refuse to be digitally-marked [SS#] chattel, that are from cradle to grave, dependent-wards compliantly being held captive within its WHO’s algorithmic euthanasia clutches.
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