Tag: Russia

Not Much Room for Complaint

There is no reason the God-Emperor 2.0, or anyone else, should take the complaints of the Ukrainians or the Europeans seriously. He’s absolutely correct to point out that the Kiev regime had a seat at the negotiating table in both the Minsk 1.0 and the Minsk 2.0 talks, and not only did it fail to keep their agreements, but they actually passed a law making it illegal to talk to the Russians at all. So they’re out, and they should be out, because they’re part of the problem, not part of the solution.

US President Donald Trump has expressed disappointment with Ukraine’s leadership over its complaints that it was not invited to US-Russia peace talks in Saudi Arabia, suggesting that it has squandered opportunities to end the conflict on its own for years. Speaking to reporters after high-level talks in Riyadh on Tuesday, Trump was asked if he had a message for Ukrainians who may have felt “betrayed or disappointed” about not having a seat at the table.

“I’m really disappointed in what’s happened. I’ve been watching this for three years… I hear that, you know, they’re upset about not having a seat. Well, they’ve had a seat for three years and a long time before that.”

Trump added that the conflict “could have been settled very easily. A half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago without the loss of much land, very little land. Without the loss of any lives and without the loss of cities,” he said.

And as for Europe, if any of the European countries want to be part of any post-surrender peacekeeping, that’s up to them. But it’s not the USA’s problem, the USA’s responsibility, or in line with the wishes of the American people.

Trump said he would welcome an EU peacekeeping force in Ukraine in case of a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev. “If they want to do it, that’s great. I’m all for it. I would not object to it at all,” he said. Trump stressed that US troops would not be involved in any peacekeeping arrangement.

Besides, all those pro-Ukrainian morons have been telling us for years that Russia is weak, that Russia is losing the war, that the Russian economy is crumbling and that Russia is running out of ammunition in two weeks. So why are they suddenly crying about their fears of a Russian invasion of Europe? And why should anyone pay any attention to anything they say ever again?

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Bring. Them. Home.

Simplicius suspects that Trump is going to go a lot bigger on Europe than anyone assumes or even imagines. As do I.

Things are rolling full steam ahead on the ‘negotiations’ front. Russian and American counterparts are set to meet in Riyadh tomorrow, February 18th. The American team is said to consist of Rubio, Witkoff, and Mike Waltz, and the Russian one of Lavrov, Putin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, and Kirill Dmitriev.

Of course the real nub of the negotiations will revolve around what the US is secretly willing to offer. On the surface, Trump and co. must preserve their bold American bravura, but these opening forays are non-starters for Russia. In reality, behind the scenes there are hintings that Trump may be ready to go much farther, perhaps even make some of Lavrov’s earlier dreams into realities. For instance, rumors now abound of Trump really doing a number on Europe unlike anything previously imagined.

If there is one thing we know about the God-Emperor 2.0, it’s that he likes to go big. Bigger than anyone else. The best. Huge. And there is nothing that would be bigger when it comes to Europe, or more to America’s advantage, than a complete withdrawal of its troops from Europe.

Now, the mere fact that Trump proposes something cannot be equated with him actually following through on it; the Wall is not yet built and the Deep State is still undrained. But he likes massive proposals that change the game by the mere fact of them being on the table, which is why I think it is likely that the opening statements on the subject by Vance and Hegseth are a prelude to a proposal to leave European security to the Europeans.

It is telling, is it not, that nothing terrifies the Clown World servants who rule antidemocratically over the European peoples than those peoples being set free to rely upon themselves.

In any event, I’m sure that whatever does come out of these initial discussions will prove interesting and provocative.

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Cold Water

Didactic Mind points out that just because the USA has finally come to its senses and is willing to discuss a peace settlement with the Russians, that doesn’t mean that the Russians will have any interest in outdated proposals that are based on the situation back in 2022 rather than the one that reflects the current one three years later.

When the news broke of Mr. Hegseth’s comments, and Mr. Trump’s call, I was among those who reacted with joy, thinking this meant an imminent set of peace negotiations. But, if you read the Russian reactions carefully – and I did, and do – then you will quickly understand that the Russians are in no mood for tomfoolery, and they are not optimistic about possible negotiations, at all.

Nor do they have any reason to be.

You see, the fundamental realities of the Russian position have not changed. Russia’s list of demands goes far beyond the mere inadmissibility of Ukraine into NATO. This is but a condensed version of the things on the minds of the Russians:

  • Not only can Ukraine not join NATO, but NATO itself must roll back far beyond Russia’s borders, preferably to where it was back in 1991;
  • Russia needs to see treaties signed and ratified between itself and the US, and itself and NATO, that forever solves the problem of Russia’s western border, by ensuring NATO never again expands anywhere near it;
  • The extremely odious Banderite-controlled government in Queef must be disbanded, and held to account for its war crimes against the Russian people of Donbass;
  • Arms control treaties – which THE AMERICANS TORE UP – must be restored and renegotiated in light of new realities (which is to say, the fact that Russia has won the arms race, and by a huge margin);
  • All – I repeat, ALL – Western sanctions against Russia must end, and the insane attempts to box in and bankrupt Russia must end, forever;
  • The rabidly Russophobic elites of Europe must be put back in their box, never to appear again, and Europe itself must never again be in a position to threaten or invade Russia;

This is before we get to a whole host of other questions, like bringing to justice those who destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline (the Americans under Brandon, obviously), or the supply corridors to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, or the competition over the Arctic, and a whole other batch of problems.

I think the Russians will listen to the US proposals, but I don’t see that even the God-Emperor 2.0’s administration, as radical and exceeding of expectations as it has been, is going to be inclined to do what it should, which is a) end all sanctions, b) withdraw all troops from Europe, c) pay the relevant reparations that are owed to Russia for the damages that were caused by the various sanctions and seizures, and d) turn over all of the US and European war criminals to the Russian authorities.

That’s what I would consider to be a reasonable demand from Putin. He has no reason to settle for anything less. Anything short of that, and he will likely continue to strangle both Ukraine and the EU states until they surrender unconditionally. His problem is that even now, the European authorities believe they cannot be touched by the Russian forces. If he’s not going to reach a settlement with President Trump, he is going to have to convince them otherwise.

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Nobody Asked You

It’s amusing that the little sock puppet serving as the figurehead for the Kiev regime actually thinks his opinion matters.

Ukraine must be involved in any negotiations for a peace deal with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted on Sunday. The Ukrainian leader says that he won’t accept any deals made between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin if he and his team are not also invited to the table.

‘I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine – never,’ Zelesnky told NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. ‘And our people, never. And our adults, and children, and everybody, it can’t be so.’

Nobody asked him and nobody cares. Not only can it be so, it will be so. There are precisely two choices:

  1. The USA negotiates a peace settlement with Russia.
  2. Russia dictates an unconditional surrender.

That’s it. That’s the entire list. And it was obvious from the very start back in February 2022. Notice that nowhere on it appears anything about Zelensky, the Kiev regime, the UN, the Terran Confederation, Starfleet, or the European Union. All of those entities are irrelevant to the outcome.

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Kiev Doesn’t Count Either

There isn’t any point in including the Kiev regime in the upcoming talks between the USA and Russia concerning how NATO will surrender to Russia, so it’s good to see that representatives of the unelected regime are not invited.

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has confirmed that Kiev was not invited to the discussions between delegations from Washington and Moscow which are expected to take place in Saudi Arabia in the coming days.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump spoke by phone on Wednesday, marking their first known direct conversation since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. On Saturday, the countries’ top diplomats followed up with a call to discuss “preparations for a potential high-level Russian-American summit.”

Moscow has yet to confirm any details, but according to multiple media reports, a US delegation – likely composed of national security advisers – will travel to Saudi Arabia in the coming days for talks with their Russian counterparts.

These are surrender talks, not “peace negotiations”. So, it’s important to exclude both a) the yapping dogs who still don’t think they have any skin in the game and b) the sacrificial lambs, since neither of them can bring anything rational or meaningful to the table.

The only way a substantive and potentially lasting agreement can be made is if the two relevant powers can reach an accommodation that they will mutually impose on all of the other parties involved. So, the fact that all of those other parties have been excluded from the talks is a positive sign that a resolution may be possible.

Of course the Europeans and the war-criminals in Kiev will be kicking and screaming about their exclusion and the eventual settlement. That’s precisely why they can’t be involved in the first place. If the matter was left up to the clueless, short-sighted retarderati that presently speak for the European Union, the Russian army would end up having go all the way to Lisbon and Barcelona, and no one wants that less than Vladimir Putin.

By the way, I expect Trump’s demand for Ukrainian natural resources is actually aimed at Putin, because Russia controls the region that contains most of them. That’s what he really wants out of the settlement, an agreement to sell them to the USA at a reasonable price, which Putin will likely grant if he’s provided what Russia needs with regards to a) territory it hasn’t taken yet and b) the retreat of NATO from Russia’s borders.

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He Doesn’t Care, Margaret

The corrupt kleptocrats of the EU are very, very worried that they will be left out of the peace negotiations between the USA and Russia. Which, of course, they will be, because they are a) irrelevant and b) worse than useless. The whole war could have been avoided and over one million lives saved if Boris Johnson hadn’t convinced the deranged Kiev regime that NATO could defend them from Russia.

President Donald Trump’s envoy has sparked fury among European leaders after being told they would be excluded from the Ukraine-Russia peace talks, causing Emmanuel Macron to call for an emergency summit.

US Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, 80, has encouraged Europe to join the conversation about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but ultimately said they won’t have a final say in the resolution.

‘That is not going to happen,’ he said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

‘And to my European friends, I would say: get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or no, be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up [defense] spending.’

Kellogg defended America’s desire to keep the meeting small, stating that last time the meeting included too many countries and no agreement was made.

However, many European leaders are worried about being excluded from the conversation over fears the decision will directly – and negatively – affect their countries.

Seriously, even Ghana and Niger don’t care what France thinks, much less Sweden. Why would Russia or the USA? The age of pretending everyone is equal and everyone matters equally is over.

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The Sheep Bare Their Cud-Chewers

The European ex-powers try to intimidate Russia with their feeble and largely nonexistent “unity”:

Statement issued by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom.

We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine. We commit to its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s war of aggression.

We share the goal to keep supporting Ukraine until a just, comprehensive and lasting peace is reached. A peace that guarantees the interest of Ukraine and our own. We are looking forward to discussing the way ahead together with our American allies.

Our shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations. Ukraine should be provided with strong security guarantees. A just and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for a strong transatlantic security.

We recall that the security of the European continent is our common responsibility. We are therefore working together to strengthen our collective defence capabilities.

This is one of the most retarded statements ever issued by a supposedly representative body, which, of course, the so-called “High Representative” isn’t. The only thing the “High Representative” represents is the subset of Clown World that runs its EU puppet leaders.

Everything about it is a lie. Russia is clearly, and as per usual in its history, fighting a defensive war. The fake borders notwithstanding, the Clown World-installed Kiev regime attacked the Russian people of the Donbass, refused to allow them self-representation, and did all of this AFTER the post-1991 expansion of NATO to which the USA had promised would not happen.

“Not one inch eastward” was the promise. The war is the obvious and inevitable result of Clown World’s attempt to expand its fake and gay rule through NATO, not “Russian aggression”.

The God-Emperor 2.0 has made it clear that the USA is not going to be Clown World’s enforcement arm any longer, and the collective forces of Europe would be hard pressed to fight Switzerland, let alone what is now a battle-hardened Russian army that has already defeated two NATO armies in addition to the Ukrainian army, as German military officers clearly know.

Military circles cite “around 120,000 soldiers as the lower limit” for the planned deployment. As the troops have to rotate, around 40,000 men and women would be deployed at any one time. EU military officials expect that the Europeans would be able to provide “up to 25,000 soldiers at most”.

The only move that will permit an immediate peace is if NATO withdraws to its 1991 borders, Russia is allowed to annex Odessa and all of the territory up to the Dnieper, Ukraine agrees to permanent neutrality, demilitarization, and the Kiev regime officials are surrendered to the Hague to face a war crimes tribunal made up of genuinely neutral parties led by China and India. Because if the unelected European “high representatives” don’t agree to this voluntarily, Russia is going to impose this and more unilaterally.

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They’re Not Independent

Clown World’s propaganda organs in Ukraine and Russia are going under because the USAID money pipeline has been cut off:

The suspension of USAID has had a dramatic effect on both Ukrainian and Russian independent news outlets that relied on the grants to operate and produced work often critical of their governments.
The program that provides billions in U.S. assistance internationally is better known for its humanitarian and medical work, but the funding has also been used for democracy promotion as well as supporting journalism.

Ukraine’s independent media, a collection of small regional outlets, muckraking investigative websites and internet news platforms, have been reeling since the announcement, with some organizations saying that they are just weeks away from slashing staff or closing down entirely.

“We risk losing the achievements of three decades of work and increasing threats to Ukraine’s statehood, democratic values, and pro-Western orientation,” Detector Media, a journalism watchdog, said in a statement on its website last week.

In the immortal words of Chuck D from Public Enemy:

Shut ’em down. Shut ’em down. Shut ’em, shut ’em down.

Shut ’em down. Shut ’em down. Shut ’em, shut ’em down.

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They Smoked it Out

Curses! Those cunning Ukrainian disinformation agents have smoked out the plot!

Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation has accused the viral pop song ‘Sigma Boy’ of being part of an “information war” aimed at promoting a positive image of Russia among young people.

Sigma Boy, performed by 11-year-old Betsy (Svetlana Chertishcheva) and 12-year-old Maria Yankovskaya, has gained attention on TikTok and other platforms since its release in October 2024. The track has reached the top ten on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, peaking at seventh place, and has accumulated millions of views.

Ukraine’s disinformation watchdog, which operates under the National Security and Defense Council, has claimed that Moscow could have manipulated the song’s popularity, drawing comparisons to alleged Kremlin interference in the 2016 US elections. The agency has argued that Sigma Boy “erodes critical perceptions of Russian content” and helps normalize the nation’s cultural influence abroad.

“Sigma, sigma boy, sigma boy, sigma boy
Every girl wants to dance with you
Sigma, sigma boy, sigma boy, sigma boy
I’m so special, it will take you a year to win me.”

I’m pretty sure that under ASCAP’s rules I qualify for a writer’s credit on that one. I mean, I wrote nearly one-quarter of the lyrics.

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Ukraine Peace Proposal

Simplicius dutifully reports what appears more like a Ukrainian fever dream than the leaked US peace plan that it is purported to be:

▪️Trump plans to have a telephone conversation with Putin in late January – early February. He also wants to discuss the situation in Ukraine with its authorities.

▪️Based on the results of the negotiations, a decision may be made to continue or suspend the dialogue.

▪️Volodymyr Zelensky must cancel the decree that prohibits negotiations with Putin.

▪️A meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelensky may take place in February or the first half of March. It is not yet clear whether this will be a trilateral meeting or two separate ones. The meeting is planned to discuss the main parameters of the peace plan.

▪️Starting April 20, a ceasefire is planned to be declared along the entire front line, and all Ukrainian troops will be withdrawn from the Kursk region.

▪️An international peace conference is set to begin at the end of April to formalize an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict. The United States, China, and a number of countries in Europe and the Global South will act as mediators.

▪️Also at this time, the exchange of prisoners will begin according to the formula “all for all”.

▪️By May 9, a declaration of the conference on the end of the conflict should be published. Martial law and mobilization will not be extended in Ukraine, and presidential elections will be held at the end of August.

➖ What is included in the agreement?

▪️Ukraine does not seek to return the territories that were liberated by Russia, either militarily or diplomatically, but at the same time does not officially recognize Russia’s sovereignty over these territories.

▪️Ukraine will not become a member of NATO and declares its neutrality. The decision that Ukraine will not be accepted into the alliance must be confirmed at the NATO summit.

▪️Ukraine will become a member of the European Union by 2030. The EU is committed to rebuilding the country after the war.

▪️The number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not decreasing, and the United States is modernizing the Ukrainian army.

▪️After the conclusion of the peace agreement, some anti-Russian sanctions will be lifted, and restrictions on the import of Russian energy resources to the EU will be lifted.

▪️Parties that defend the Russian language and advocate peaceful relations with Russia should participate in the elections in Ukraine. The persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church will also cease.

▪️Separate consultations will be held on the issue of EU peacekeepers.

Very little of this makes any sense. NATO holds no significant cards. Russia can accomplish everything that is being offered to it here without the need to agree with either Washington or Kiev. As a starting point to signal a willingness to negotiate a surrender, it’s just barely plausible, but it’s not even remotely close to what Russia would expect to achieve through negotiations.

As Simplicius himself observers: In short: the deal above is a non-starter should it actually appear in even a remotely similar form; it is the mere deluded fantasy of the West to even think Russia needs to stop fighting any time soon, at a time when major Ukrainian strongholds are folding like cheap lawn chairs on a daily basis.

Some of the missing elements:

  • Demilitarization of Ukraine
  • Odessa
  • The withdrawal of NATO from all countries bordering Russia, especially Finland and the Baltics.
  • Compensatory payments for sanctions and seizures.
  • Future non-interference in Ukrainian and Eastern European elections by US, EU, and Western NGOs.

At the rate that Ukraine is losing territory and soldiers, there soon isn’t going to be any point to negotiations. No amount of bluster by President Trump or anyone else is going to change the facts on the ground.

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