I’m still speechless about the band of Trump traitors who have betrayed the West. I leave it to Jake Broe’s latest video on the betrayal of the ages.
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Putin and Trump held a two-hour phone conversation today in which Putin rejected Ukraine’s total 30-day ceasefire across the entire front lines. Putin is still demanding that all military aid to Ukraine be ended from all NATO partners and that Ukraine give up all territory that Russia’s military has failed to capture after three years or war.
As I said a few comments ago, it is difficult to believe that someone in possession of their reason could offer Trump’s assessment of the Russia-Ukraine war.
It is delusionary in the extreme.
It is all the more urgent for the rest of the West to support Ukraine in its resistance to the psychopathic homicidal dictator who rules Russia.
We must shout our continued support for Zelensky and Ukraine and provide all the military equipment they need.
Australia must step up our support.
Jake Broe’s video is recommended for an accurate assessment of Trump’s Russia-Ukraine craziness although I think he bashes the fascist angle more than is proper. Craziness and delusion are a better explanation than fascism.
NOTE: It is fallacious to claim that a person who is delusional in one respect is delusional in all respects. Trump’s mandate was to destroy the left’s hegemony over the West. As long as he continues to take down the woke dictatorship, he is satisfying that mandate.
It’s hard to believe that Trump, Vance, and Hegseth have offered Putin a get-out-of-jail card just when the Russian economy and war machine show signs of collapsing.
Trump and Vance’s fantasy about Putin and the Kremlin gang is like a fetish.
If they dither around, hoping it will all go away, they might find Putin and his crazies in 5 years not only strolling up the Champs Elysee but wandering around Whitehall inspecting the ruins.
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Britain warned it ‘must be ready to go to war with Russia’
Story by Craig Munro, Metro, 14 Feb 2025
The UK must be prepared to go to war with Russia if Vladimir Putin decides to escalate his war in eastern Europe, a senior MP has said.
In the House of Commons today, MPs sharply criticised the move, comparing it to Neville Chamberlain’s ill-fated appeasement campaign that failed to stop the Second World War.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has also drawn a stark line between the US president’s position and his own, saying: ‘There’s no negotiation about Ukraine which doesn’t include Ukraine.’
Directing questions at defence minister Maria Eagle in the chamber this afternoon, MPs made clear their concerns over the potential repercussions of Trump’s move.
Sir Julian Lewis, the Conservative former head of the defence select committee, asked: ‘Will the Government impress on President Trump at every possible opportunity that the reason why appeasement led to World War Two was that it left a vacuum in Europe? ‘
He continued: ‘Whereas the reason why the occupation of Eastern Europe at the end of that war did not lead to World War Three was the United States filled any possible vacuum and contained further aggression.
‘So if he is going for a settlement against the wishes of the Ukrainian people, the least he can do is to guarantee directly the security of that part of Ukraine which remains unoccupied.’
Nothing the Russian governing elite says can be trusted. It’s all propaganda to advance their imperial objectives. In this sense, it is hardly different from the Communist Soviet Union.
In the powerful video below, Jake Broe breaks down the history of Eastern Europe over around a hundred years, to show the aggressor is not NATO but the Russian governing elite – and always has been. It shows just how delusional people like useful Tucker Carlson are.
Vladamir Putin came to power from his position as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian KGB. His mentality is thoroughly KGB – full of lies, deceptions, manoeuvrings, and tricks.
Donald Trump is way ahead of Joe Biden in the race for the next President of America. Biden shows signs of the onset of dementia, but I don’t think it’s as bad as it looks. Elderly people’s cognitive powers slow, but their conceptual powers do not necessarily go with it. I’ve heard Biden speak sensibly about difficult political matters.
No, the real reason Trump is so far ahead of Biden is his connection with the concerns of ordinary Americans who are forced to observe the gradual destruction of the nation’s foundational principles. Trumps’s rhetoric is often rough, abusive and sometimes incoherent.
But the ordinary American can see past these faults to what he thinks about America’s problems and how he proposes to fix them.
Trump understands ordinary Americans and they understand him. The woke elite look on this with incomprehension, dismissing Trump supporters as an ignorant ‘far-right’ rabble. The more they do this, the stronger Trump will hold his constituency.
Trump, however, has an Achilles heel and if he doesn’t do anything about it, I predict he will lose the election to Biden or whoever may replace Biden. The Achilles heel is his attitude to Putin and the war in Ukraine.
It is dismaying to see so many conservatives swallow the narrative that Nato and the West are responsible for the war in Ukraine. They allegedly pushed Putin into a corner where this (alleged) defender of traditional values and Christianity had to come out fighting.
This is utterly delusional.
The cold hard facts about Putin’s idea of Russia’s history and its destiny, his scheming from the moment of the fall of the Soviet Empire, and his barbaric ‘special operation’ in Ukraine where civilians and fundamental infrastructure are targeted, show that Putin can justifiably be compared to Hitler.
Trump should be warned: many of his constituents who understand him also see the real Putin and his objectives. Everything Putin says and does points to his unrelenting efforts to establish a renewed Russian Empire. Their fear of this maniacal dictator will overcome their support for Trump – if he sticks to the false narrative. They will turn their support to whoever stands up to Russia’s delusional megalomaniac.
The video below is from one the best commentators on the war in Ukraine and Putin’s objectives.
Vladimir Putin had reasonable issues regarding Russia’s security – the same America had at the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. John Mearsheimer, to whom I referred in previous comments, outlined a background – NATO’s eastward movement – for Putin’s concerns about security in his video, Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? I found his case compelling.
A second reason I had sympathy for Putin’s position was his projection of a Burkean conservatism in speeches that invoked Russia’s rich history, traditions and culture. But the idea that Putin espoused a Burkean conservatism was a chimera – a chimera destroyed by a brutal invasion that has since degenerated into barbarism and vandalism.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine shows he cannot be trusted and that his nationalism is similar to that of Hitler’s or Mussolini’s, both driven by a warped vision of their history. Their form of nationalism must destroy the sympathy of those who think history, tradition, and custom, circumscribed by the natural law, are of fundamental importance to a healthy nation. Nothing can excuse the indiscriminate pulverising of Ukraine’s cities.
The best outcome now for Putin is a Pyrrhic victory, the worst, total defeat. One must have not only sympathy for the people of Ukraine, but also for the Russian people, most of whom clearly did not want a war with the people of Ukraine and who regard the Ukrainians as brothers and sisters.
The Biden administration claims without any hard evidence that Russia is seeking a pretext to invade Ukraine. Why not the other way around? Biden could just as easily be establishing a pretext for NATO to go to the help of Ukraine. One should not automatically swallow the claims of Biden’s girls and boys.
Russia’s insistence that the US and NATO not expand into territories which have been traditionally in their sphere of influence is reasonable and justified. If the US can create a Cuba principle and a Monroe doctrine, why cannot Russia create the equivalent? The threat of a senseless war which will reverberate worldwide is on present evidence coming from the Biden Oval Office.
Political prudence aims at ‘combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns.’
