In what will be remembered as the 'Righteous Oval Office Reality Show,' the actor-president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, clashed with President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance at the White House on Friday.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly stressed his profound admiration for McKinley as one of America's greatest presidents, and he has often cited McKinley as the inspiration for his policy of reciprocal tariffs.
The Brits Are Coming to Trump’s White House; They Might as Well Go Home
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits the White House, seeking U.S. support for Ukraine's security. However, President Trump rejects security guarantees, emphasizing Europe's responsibility. Trump plans to secure U.S. rights to develop Ukraine's natural resources, countering European interests.
"Well, I’m not going to make security guarantees [Ukraine] beyond very much. We’re going to have Europe do that, because it’s in — you know, we’re talking about Europe is their next-door neighbor." President Trump, Cabinet Meeting, Feb 26, 2025
The current public face of the modern British Financial Empire, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, is coming to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday.
Starmer is desperately scheming to get Trump to agree to an extension of the Ukraine war under the guise of “security guarantees” and “military cover” for Ukraine.
The British Pitch
If the United States, Russia, and Ukraine agree to a ceasefire or a more comprehensive agreement, British, French, and other NATO troops would serve as peacekeepers in Ukraine, or so the British argument goes.
The United States would not put boots on the ground but the United States would “backstop” them with intelligence, logistical support, and guarantees to do even more if hostilities resumed.
No more raids on the American treasury like the thievery conducted by President Joe Biden on behalf of his Atlanticist masters. Or at least that will be Starmer’s pitch.
Trump Shoots Starmer Down Before He Even Arrives in Washington
In remarks during his first cabinet meeting Wednesday, Trump might as well have told Starmer to turn his plane around and return to London. He will not give Ukraine security guarantees, he said, and Ukraine can forget about membership in NATO, the reason the war started. Discussion of peacekeepers is premature because there first has to be peace, which has not yet been negotiated.
Trump's First Cabinet Meeting
Europe, not the United States, must take responsibility for Ukraine’s security.
Trump is anticipating that Ukraine will sign an agreement granting the U.S. the right to develop 50% of Ukraine’s natural resources by Friday, February 28th, in a ceremony which may involve Volodymir Zelensky personally at the White House. It includes Ukraine’s oil and gas, lithium, graphite, titanium and uranium deposits, much of which is undeveloped.
It is anticipated that the proceeds from development by American companies would be used to reconstruct Ukraine after a peace agreement is reached while paying back the U.S. Treasury for the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars Joe Biden spent on a war which could never be won.
The EU had attempted to offer its own minerals development deal to Ukraine to sabotage Trump’s plan.
There are reports that the British and the Europeans had already divided up post war Ukraine among themselves and Trump’s effort to recoup on behalf of the United States left them with nothing. In Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, Trump pointedly referenced this backdrop by noting that the EU was set up to “screw the United States” and had done a good job of that.
President Putin is also offering joint development of the strategic metals necessary to build a modern industrial economy as part of any peace agreement. He notes that Russia has far more of the necessary minerals than Ukraine at a higher degree of development. His offer includes the parts of Ukraine which have become part of Russia during the war, the areas where most of Ukraine’s assets are located.
President Putin has also indicated that he is open to cutting the Russian defense budget in half.
President Trump had suggested that the U.S., Russia, and China cut their defense budgets in half and “denuclearize” the world in a truly global peace settlement, freeing up trillions of dollars for economic development and space exploration.
This would, of course, permanently end the power of the predatory British financial empire.
Ukraine Bombs a Vital U.S./Italian Pipeline
On February 17th, the Ukrainians seriously compromised their own position in these negotiations when the National Security and Defense Council, a stronghold of Ukraine’s “integral nationalists” who are the real rulers of the country, ordered the bombing of the pipeline linking Kazakhstan to Russia’s Novorossiysk port.
It allows the export of enormous amounts of Kazakh and Russian oil and is owned by Italy’s ENI, US Chevron, and US Mobil, in part. It supplies most of the oil consumed in Israel.
This pipeline is a major US interest in Russia, and Ukraine deliberately attacked it in what might be called a national suicide bombing.
Russia Will Never Trust Europe Regarding Ukraine
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated that the presence of European peacekeepers in post war Ukraine is not acceptable to Russia. Having hostile military forces on its borders is the reason for the conflict in the first instance.
Lavrov also rejected the idea of a ceasefire along the present conflict lines. Russia was previously subject to a massive deception operation by European powers when it agreed to a ceasefire in place in Ukraine.
In 2014, following the Anglo-American coup against the duly elected President of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, the Nazi infested post-coup Ukrainian government, supported by MI6 and John Brennan’s CIA, launched an ethnic cleansing military operation against the Russian speaking Donbass region of Ukraine.
The Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in the Donbass had declared their independence from Kiev’s new government and fought back. A ceasefire was negotiated under the rubric of the so-called Minsk agreements, guaranteed by Russia, Germany, France, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the UN.
But former German Prime Minister Merkel revealed in her memoirs that the Minsk agreements were a European ruse to allow Ukraine time to arm itself for the future war with Russia.
During his Wednesday cabinet meeting, President Trump was asked whether Russia could be forced to give up the territories it had absorbed as part of its Special Operation at a cost of perhaps 100,000 Russian KIAS. He laughed at the reporter, remarking, “You try and get it back from them.”
Meanwhile, the Russians continue their advance across Ukraine and as Donald Trump said last week, Zelensky has no cards in his hand as the war is already lost.
The British and their European and Canadian Vassals Get Desperate
Since Trump opened peace negotiations with a phone call to President Putin on February 12th, the British imperial reaction has been as revealing as it is increasingly desperate.
In an article in the Financial Times this past Tuesday, Martin Wolf declared that the United States is now the enemy of “the West.”
Well, he is the City of London’s preeminent economics scribe, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Bilderberg Society honcho, a World Economic Forum honcho, a dedicated globalist and an architect of the deadly worldwide financial bailout of 2008. An ally of the British agent George Soros, Wolf has led the charge for the total legalization of all drugs in campaigns dating back to 1997.
Similarly, Chrystia Freeland, the former Canadian Vice-Premier and current candidate to replace Justin Trudeau, is calling for a nuclear armed alliance of Canada, Britain, France and Germany to fight the United States.
Freeland is the woman, schooled in the finest British traditions in London, who led the efforts to jail, debank, and socially neuter the Canadian truckers when they staged their peaceful protest against the Canadian government.
She is a leader of the Stepan Bandera fascist elements of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the United States. Her maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak, was a Ukrainian Nazi from whom she inherited her rabid hatred of Russia.
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In what will be remembered as the 'Righteous Oval Office Reality Show,' the actor-president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, clashed with President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance at the White House on Friday.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly stressed his profound admiration for McKinley as one of America's greatest presidents, and he has often cited McKinley as the inspiration for his policy of reciprocal tariffs.
In this Midweek Update, Susan Kokinda explores the unfolding revolutions in U.S. foreign and economic policy, especially between Russia and the United States.
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