FEBRUARY 24, 2025
TWO EVENTS THAT MAY TURN OUT TO BE MUCH MORE EVENTFUL – PART 1
THE RUSSO-US NEGOTIATIONS TO END UKRAINE WAR – EVENTFUL IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL PEACE
This is not a fairy tale although it begins with “ONCE UPON A TIME …”
ONCE UPON A TIME, on one fine day, February 12, US President Donald Trump picked up the phone to call his long lost “buddy”, Russian President Vladimir Putin, NOT with the greetings or small talks of “Hi, how’re you? Long time no hear one from you, how have you been?”
Rather it was a serious talk on the first get go: “Hi buddy, let’s put our minds together to end this stupid war in Ukraine started by that jackass comedian Zelensky who should have remained a third rate comedian instead of going into politics, and his equally jackass comrades-in-arm, leaders of Europe, foremost among them is that bitch Ursula von der Layen, the unelected president of the EU with her famous BS of ‘Russian economy in tatters’.”
Which may just elicit the following response from Putin: “I’ve been doing this all these donkey years but they shut me out, and mind you, it’s not just them but your very own predecessor, the demented Biden and the usurper Blinken who despite his Ivy League credential are an imbecile of the highest order when it comes to diplomacy and negotiations unlike my Sergey Lavrov, and Blinken is helped a lot by that fat neo-con cookie monster bitch, Victoria Nuland … oops I’m not in the habit of insulting people, even my enemies, but since your VP said insulting people is not a crime and this is a private conversation, Let’s Do It!”
And so, within hours after that tele-conversation, things moved at lightning speed, and the result – an unprecedented Russo-American talk on Feb 19 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on ending the Ukraine war, with the EU being sidelined and Zelensky trying his best to get a seat at the talks even if he is under the table!
As we are approaching the third anniversary of the Special Military Operation today (Feb 24), let’s take a moment to appreciate the evolution of Western narratives (propaganda?) throughout the conflict. A true rollercoaster of denial, delusion, and desperation:
Russia will collapse in a few weeks – any day now, just wait!
Russian logistics are so bad they don’t have food – they’re eating dogs, trust me, bro.
Russians don’t even have night vision – and yet somehow, they keep advancing?
The Crimea Summer Beach Party proposed by the North Atlantic Fella Organisation (NAFO – an Internet meme and social media movement dedicated to countering Russian propaganda and disinformation) in anticipation of the capture of Crimea in light of a Ukrainian counter offensive in 2023 – still waiting for the invites, guys.
Putin has had cancer – about seven different times.
Russia is stealing microchips to build weapons and Russian economy in tatters – Silly Ursula.
Russia has missiles left for a few weeks – a very long, few weeks.
Russian civilian aviation will collapse – just like their economy, right?
Russians are using shovels to fight – this one was next level.
Prigozhin’s stunt will collapse Russia – spoiler: it didn’t.
“For as long as it takes” – until funding runs dry.
Russia can’t defeat Ukraine but will somehow invade Europe if Ukraine loses.
We must send troops to Ukraine! – don’t ask where they’ll come from.
If the US doesn’t support Ukraine, Europe will! – for as long as necessary.
Oh wait, Europe actually can’t support Ukraine.
Europe, please invent “security guarantees” out of thin air!
And if you go by my articles written when the US, EU, Nato and Ukraine were in their utmost denial mode from 2022 to 2024, it’s indeed a long journey of insanity by all these countries.
In August 2023, for instance, I wrote about Russia has already won the sanctions war in my newsletter, Let’s Talk! The article was published by the New Straits Times on September 1. But it took the global mainstream media, Newsweek for example, to acknowledge this victory four months later on Jan 2024. See:
Russia’s integrated strategies and tactics paid off in the proxy war with Nato and the west
Russia has already won sanctions war
Russia won sanctions war with the west
Another example of this denial mode is when the West refused to acknowledge the reality of Russia’s superiority on the battlefield via adopting an attrition war strategy beginning with the Battle of Bakhmut in 2023. See:
The US and Israel may just be defeated in a war of attrition
The anatomy of a war of attrition
Although the Western media has caught up with the realities on the ground by early 2024, their politicians remain in a denial mode throughout 2024, until they got a rude shock from Trump when they were sidelined in the Russo-American talks in 2025.
But some reality check here! One phone call and one meeting, important though all these, won’t immediately stop the war!
Since Biden, Jake Sullivan and especially Blinken and their neo-con thugs have made a mess of diplomatic protocols with Russia that the first order of business is to remove the bilateral “irritants” created by Biden and company which means the US is looking for off-ramps from its own disastrous policies, sanctions, diplomatic isolation and economic warfare that had backfired spectacularly.
But even before the talks took place, Trump has already spelt out his stance following his tele-conversation with Putin that the Ukraine war began with NATO expansion, hence Ukraine’s membership is off the table.
Unlike Biden, he acknowledges that Moscow’s security concerns are real and that Ukraine will never be allowed to become NATO’s forward operating base on Russia’s doorstep.
The message is clear: The world is moving toward a post-Kiev reality, and the usual Western power brokers are no longer calling the shots. Europe’s been ‘CUT OFF’. And so is Ukraine.
This is succinctly stated by Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov who said:
“Everyone had that opportunity. Everyone could have sat down at the negotiating table a long time ago. But they only met with each other, Putin was not allowed to enter anywhere, but he opened the door to everyone, they did not come, no one heard him. Trump was disgusting to them, too. Well, now the two people no one wanted to talk to are going to sit down together.”
The reason for this consonance in thinking between the Russians and the Americans under Trump is that Europe had been given the chance twice in brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine via the Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 agreements, but they failed miserably in this role of being a peacekeeper because of their devious and evil intention.
Exactly 11 years ago, the CIA led a coup against the democratically elected government in Kiev known as the Maidan.
The president at the time Viktor Yanukovych wasn’t anti-Russian enough for the collective West, and the warmongers in London and Washington (Anglo-Saxons) wanted to start a war against Russia but needed someone else to fight for them.
So they sent the cookie monster known as Victoria Nuland to lead the regime change operation in Kiev where she quite literally hand-picked the new government as per the leaked phone call.
Once they got their stooge Petro Poroshenko installed, they wasted no time in commencing hostilities in the Donbas against the local population who spoke Russian and refused to accept this illegitimate puppet regime.
This pro Washington client regime began persecuting the populations in the two eastern most provinces of Ukraine known as Donetsk and Lugansk by banning the Russian language.
This was for the purpose of antagonising Moscow by goading Putin into launching an intervention. This was a trap being set in order to get Russia to fire the first shot and to appear as the aggressor.
Is the Russian occupation of Ukraine an unprovoked war?
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Putin “fell” into this trap, and so the first Ukraine war occurred in 2014 in the aftermath of the Maidan Revolution. The US and the collective West were delighted with this development because somehow they thought the Russian army has grown weaker and hopeless since the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991, and was suffering war fatigue due to the Chechen and the Georgian wars, all instigated by the US and its western allies.
Oh how they miscalculated BIG time and underestimated Putin BIG time too. Putin’s first action in that war was to unexpectedly seize Crimea where the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based, while at the same time assisting the two Donbass regions of Donetsk and Luhansk with defence against the neo-Nazi forces of Ukraine.
As a masterstroke, Putin then suggested for a ceasefire and agreed to Germany and France playing a leading role in brokering the ceasefire known as the Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 agreements.
Herein lies the evil of Germany and France when they brokered the two Minsk agreements it was to buy time (eight years) for them to turn the hopeless Ukrainian army whom they discovered was terribly weak into the most well-trained, well equipped, most fearsome (with the neo-Nazi battalions formally being absorbed and integrated in the Ukrainian army) and most powerful army in Europe, as a battering ram against Russia.
And their mission is to inflict a strategic defeat of Russia via Project Ukraine in order to partition Russia, loot the minerals and natural resources that Russia is abundantly endowed with, in order to enrich themselves with these spoils of war.
Many analysts thought Putin was duped by Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande into agreeing with the Minsk agreements but I beg to differ because this is tantamount to a simplistic thinking about the man who had brought Russia some semblance of sanity from the insanities of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin years when the Russian oligarchs were allowed to cooperate with the West to destroy Russia.
Putin, it turns out, is a very patient man who is willing to give Europe more than enough time to draw up a new European security architecture where the interests of every country including Russia is taken into account which involves halting the eastward expansion of NATO very near to its border which it considers an existential threat.
And Putin quietly during the same period that the US (starting from the administration of that evil scum, Barack Obama) and Europe was arming Ukraine introduced new weapons, which were unveiled in March 2018 as six novel nuclear or dual-use weapons systems, popularly dubbed “super weapons”.
Putin stated that together the weapons provided Russia with a strategic capability that was impossible for the US to intercept, restoring Russia’s nuclear deterrence in the face of American technological developments following the US’ unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
The “super weapons” named were:
The Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle
The 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile
The 3M22 Zircon scramjet-powered anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile
The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile
The Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicle
The RS-28 Sarmat liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped super-heavy ICBM
The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missile started test operations in December 2017 and has been deployed since 2018. On Dec 27, 2019, TASS reported the first missile regiment armed with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle officially entered combat duty.
TASS also reported that the first contract for producing the RS-28 Sarmat missiles was signed in August 2022. On Jan 16, 2023, TASS reported the first batch of the Poseidon nuclear-powered UUVs had been manufactured.
Of the six systems, only two are known to have been used in action: the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal, which has been employed in a non-nuclear capacity during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and 3M22 Zircon launched from the Black Sea onto land target.
Then came Nov 21 – the silent black-and-white surveillance camera video of the Russian missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was brief but chilling: Six huge fireballs pierced the darkness and slammed into the ground at astonishing speed.
Within hours of that attack on the military facility, Putin took the rare step of speaking on national TV to declare about the new, hypersonic missile, and warned the West that its next use could be against Ukraine’s NATO allies who allowed Kiev to use their longer-range missiles to strike inside Russia.
Putin said the missile was called the “Oreshnik” – Russian for “hazelnut tree” and he described how the Oreshnik streaks to its target at 10 times the speed of sound, or Mach 10, “like a meteorite,” and claimed it was immune to any missile defence system. Ukrainian military officials said it reached Mach 11.
General Sergei Karakayev, head of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces, said the Oreshnik could carry nuclear or conventional warheads and has a range to reach any European target.
The Pentagon said the Oreshnik was an experimental type of intermediate-range ballistic missile, or IRBM, based on Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM. The attack marked the first time such a weapon was used in a war.
Intermediate-range missiles can fly between 500 to 5,500 km (310 to 3,400 miles). Such weapons were banned under a Soviet-era treaty that Washington and Moscow abandoned in 2019.
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate said the missile had six warheads, each carrying six submunitions. Its payload of independently targetable warheads, like a cluster of hazelnuts growing on a tree, could be the inspiration for the missile’s name.
Video of the attack appeared to show six warheads surrounded by clouds of plasma raining down in a fiery descent. The six submunitions released by each warhead apparently were unarmed but had high kinetic energy estimated to deliver a destructive force equivalent to tons of explosives.
Putin claimed the weapon is so powerful that using several such missiles – even fitted with conventional warheads — could be as devastating as a nuclear strike. It’s capable of destroying underground bunkers “three, four or more floors down,” he said, threatening to use it against the government district in Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Security Service showed The Associated Press wreckage of the missile – charred, mangled wires and an ashen airframe at Dnipro’s Pivdenmash plant that built missiles when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. There were no fatalities in the attack.
This could be one of the reasons the US under Trump say that’s the war is over and Russia has won. Even NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte has called Putin a “strong negotiator,” saying his involvement in negotiations is necessary to achieve peace.
His remarks came at a press conference following a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels early this month, signifying how this blabbering-and-blustering-against-Russia NATO Secretary General, just like his predecessor, Jen Stoltenberg, has come a long way to behave himself in his public pronouncement.
Latest developments on these confluence of ideas and actions between Russia and the US point to a significantly excellent implications for global peace with the exception of event in the Middle East.
First and foremost, the US and Russia are to meet AGAIN in Saudi Arabia tomorrow (February 25) for negotiations, according to news report on the Telegram news channels. There was no mention if Ukrainians will be invited!
Zelensky is under the bus – Trump is demanding that Ukraine pays compensation for all the financial assistances the US has given it in the Ukraine war, amounting to some USD500 billion, and also for the comedian to organise an election in Ukraine.
Also the US is pressuring Kiev to replace its UN resolution condemning Russia with a toned down version that felt overly sympathetic to Russia.
In fact, US officials have intimated that Zelensky should leave Ukraine immediately now, for France. Why France is specifically mentioned is not clear but perhaps it is a subtle, but strong signal to French president Emmanuelle Macron to shut up his mouth up against the current fold-up of Project Ukraine and to stop having wild and erotic dreams of sending European forces to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
Meanwhile, Reuters, an Anglo Saxon’s mouthpiece, in an exclusive report said Elon Musk’s Starlink, the digital crutch propping up what’s left of Ukraine’s battered forces, could soon be pulled out from under them. And not because of battlefield defeats, but because of American empire-style realpolitik.
The message from Washington is clear: Sign Trump’s rare-earth metals deal, or kiss your precious satellites goodbye.
Veteran military expert Andrei Koshkin lays it out: “The most powerful military-technical blow to the combat capabilities of Ukrainian armed forces.” Without Starlink, Ukraine’s war effort is literally blind and crumbles as this would mean:.
No battlefield coordination – artillery strikes become blind gambles.
No drones – say goodbye to those kamikaze UAVs and reconnaissance ops.
No secure comms – Ukrainian forces will be deaf, dumb, and blind (summum bukmum).
No NATO handholding – the West loses its real-time tactical babysitting.
This isn’t about tech – it’s about power. And right now, Trump holds the keys to Ukraine’s ability to function on the battlefield. Zelensky’s forced to choose between Washington’s corporate overlords or watching Ukraine’s military collapse like a house of cards.
Meanwhile, Russia is winning on every front: militarily, economically, and geopolitically. The multipolar world is rising, and Ukraine? Just another Western proxy being bled dry.
Although ending the Ukraine war is still a distant dream with some sceptics questioning Trump’s “agreement-capable” ability, as seen in how he has torn the nuclear agreement with Iran during his first presidency, but obviously, the initial conversations between Trump and Putin, or the statements of the US Secretary of Defence, and the talks in Saudi Arabia do show how geopolitically irrelevant that Europe, the EU and the UK are.
In 1956, the Suez crisis led the UK to become completely subservient to the US, while France became far more independent (arguably not terribly successfully, given the losses in Vietnam and Algeria). But it must be said, that in 1956 there still existed statesmen in Britain and France, people who cared about their countries and who had a minimum of intelligence and competence, who despite the shock and humiliation, were able to react.
The current leadership in Europe, at the EU level with such luminaries as Ursula and Kallas, and at the national level – Scholtz and Baerbock, Starmer et al – are absolute pygmies who have based their entire political careers on globalist, WEF, pro-Americanism.
It will be quite interesting to see their reactions to the “discovery” that America doesn’t actually care all that much about them and that they could be discarded like Kurds or Afghans or other previous American “allies”. Welcome to the Jungle!
Just saying …
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