Zelenskiy's attempt to push Trump backfires
European pressure to extend war by stealth is exposed
Trump is forced to declare for peace after earlier quibble
Trump had put new sanctions on Russia, warning peace soon or not at all
It seemed for a moment that he was watering down peace proposals
Then Zelenskiy sent a long-range missile up his own smoke stack
Related:
Eurasia note #77 - Ukraine: The War Everyone Saw Coming - The dispossession of human and mineral in the service of Monsanto-Bayer (May 05, 2023)
Great Reset Exposed As Replacement - Globalists have nowhere to hide (Oct 22, 2024)
The Great Replacement Of Everything - Dollar, Western civilisation sidelined: what gives? (Jul 21, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2025
It ain't over until the fat lady sings — or until the parade of European leaders was bested by the appearance of the man in green.
No-one expected the fireworks: president Donald Trump accused Volodymyr Zelenskiy of disrespect, and told him to come back when he was ready to "make a deal — or we’re out!”
Ukraine had been excluded from peace talks. Both Washington and Moscow doubted if the other would honour a deal with the ruler of Kyiv whose term has expired.
Under pressure from European leaders Trump agreed to see Mr Z. They must have looked on with horror as Trump told Zelenskiy he was gambling with world war three.
Trump then cancelled the press conference.
All change
This altered the trajectory of the past few days, of mixed messaging. Was Trump following his Art of the Deal routine or were we being tricked with smoke and mirrors?
Anyone following the words emanating daily from the White House, blow by blow, is justifiably confused.
And the target of confusion is you, the public — not Russia: for the longer peace is delayed, the more land they will take, slowly but steadily.
Long game
Since the war began in 2014, Moscow has played a long game: first taking Crimea, and then seeking autonomy for ethnic Russians — of whom Kyiv killed 14,000 before Moscow invaded in 2022.
Neither is Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a hurry for peace. His career and perhaps his life depends on more of the same.
This suits the European leaders who are relentless in demanding "boots on the ground" and striking Moscow with long-range missiles.
A peace deal is a “very long way off," according to Sir David Manning, British ambassador to Washington who served during the 2003 invasion of Iraq — the first of the "seven countries in five years" to be invaded on the pretext of Nine Eleven.
Want war
Powerful globalist forces want war: Ukraine is just one of many.
European politicians, or the corporations to which they answer, want to increase weapons spending. That is likely to continue even if fighting stops in Ukraine.
We might suspect Trump of colluding with the warmongers except that he has spoken also of renewing arms control treaties and the limits on nuclear weapons with Russia.
Before and after
Consider and contrast the following section that I penned hours before Zelenskiy's appearance.
There's a run on tinfoil... and rightly so. Get your hat now.
European leaders — of Poland, France, Britain and Ukraine — make their way to the court of Trump where he talks peace and they, of war.
Who is misleading whom — there is deception underway but who has the upper hand?
Britain's Keir Starmer was courier with a hand-written letter from King Charles inviting Trump to a private visit, to be followed by the full taffeta and bustle of a state reception.
Why is Charles seeking to inveigle Trump into his private circle? He surely doesn't need a golf course; Balmoral already has a very nice 18 holes. The King can match Trump in the hospitality business, at Dumfries House for example. His royal line of merch beats anything in the Donald Trump Store.
Their shared company would doubtless be simply charming, but to what purpose?
Peace, trade
Trump does indeed seek peace through commerce, as much as peace through strength. He is one man, however, in a tank of sharks.
The European press is baying for Russian blood. European old money, not just corporations — the late Queen Elizabeth referred to the monarchy as "the firm" — has not let go of its centuries old animosity towards the boyars.
Reading the runes: the Europeans are dead set on continuing the war in Russia, like much of the American "deep state" — the permanent bureaucracy is keener than ever for a distraction from DOGE-meister Elon Musk.
Hurry up; wait
There are many pointers to war that suggest the current headlines of peace may be a distraction.
We saw during the Covid response that when governments were keen to tighten rules and regulations, they would temporarily lift the regulations and change the rules. It kept people on their toes; they had to check the rules all over again.
Are we seeing a calm before the storm?
Does action in the European elections tell us something: the lengths to which the Commission in Brussels, which I now call the Directoire, will go to ensure that only like-minded warmongers may be elected?
The legacy media speaks with one voice — there is a generation of young people who have no memory of a divergent media, in which newspapers would seek to beat their rivals to the truth.
Cynical, moi?
Consider the evidence. The West with its expensive health and welfare systems is being de-industralised: who is going to pick up the bill for the largely unfunded public pension schemes?
Look at he promotion of assisted dying, or read Jacqui Deevoy's reporting on premature deaths in hospitals.
What of the still unexplained open borders policy and the arrival mostly of single men of fighting age?
Why are the host countries closing farms, reducing food production, closing traditional energy sources and thus losing industry and outsourcing jobs to Asia — pursuing degrowth while increasing their population?
With all these industries closing or moving abroad, why do politicians talk about the need to restore only the weapons industry?
See Great Reset Exposed As Replacement - Globalists have nowhere to hide (Oct 22, 2024)
The Great Replacement Of Everything - Dollar, Western civilisation sidelined: what gives? (Jul 21, 2024)
Something's afoot
Witness the governments' reaction if you notice this and post the words on social media: police visited a British woman in her fifties for criticising local politicians.
See the huge money and effort put into thought control by the censorship industrial complex — often under the pretext of hate speech, but only of "protected classes." The latest example is Australia's hate crimes bill.
The same countries with these censorship laws, open the borders, talk of remilitarization and the draft, while forming new military alliances.
Despite leaving the European Union Britain is part of the European Defence Union, and AUKUS, a partnership between Australia, the U.S. and UK.
Finally, if you think these are purely military exercises for a rainy day, consider that investors are demanding physical gold and taking it out of Europe.
The noticing
These facts almost beg you to notice. Yet many don't. Their outlook is shaped by the media, which frames everything as the reds and the blues, urging you to pick a side!
Once you invest your emotional energy, they have you — the media controlled by the military financial complex and the corporate cartels. Some of these, like Bayer which now owns Monsanto, are the same cartels that backed the wars in Europe in 1939 and in Asia in the three decades that followed. The same firms are buying up Ukraine.
See Eurasia note #77 - Ukraine: The War Everyone Saw Coming - The dispossession of human and mineral in the service of Monsanto-Bayer (May 05, 2023)
What this means is that despite signs of hope, the danger of world war remains. After which there will be no team red or blue to take a victory lap.
Let’s hope Zelenskiy’s crass behaviour may have saved the day.
Very excellent MC. Appreciate the humor, that is all we have left and it's not a small thing. At the present moment, I speculate that laughter arises from an excess of light.
Merci beaucoup.