President Putin doesn’t want a ceasefire.

The two presidents agreed to meet again.

How many Russian oligarchs came with Putin? They didn’t give him a jet. 

A ceasefire would cost Russia whatever advantage it thinks it has in Ukraine. In stating he is not interested in losing ground and retreating from Donbas however subtly, the stalemate continues. Putin’s politics demands he unite all the Russian speaking people. It isn’t workable unless he can return to an era of benevolence and common economic interests with the Free World. 

Trump is probably hoping to talk NATO down because of the massive loss of life. Trump must be disappointed. The summit was not prepared in a way that maps guarantees of protected sovereignty for all parties.

See, to NATO and Ukraine this is not about politics. It is about national security. Putin defines national security as “Russian speaking people.” That is not a defensible argument. Russian speaking people have no borders. That vague definition only allows for more hostilities in the future.

Ceasefire, at this point, is about any military advantage that can be gained by Russia. Putin seems to believe a ceasefire is not advantageous. A ceasefire is suppose to illustrate a path forward to peace, not simple a military strategy.

With the loss of life to date and Putin walking away from the opportunity to stem those deaths, he does not place human lives in a place of priority. Saving further losses of Russian speaking people is not as important as the communist political agenda. 

I sincerely believe this meeting was to incentivize Trump to leave the NATO alliance. With an agenda that ambitious by Putin there is no chance for productive diplomacy. If Trump sincerely wants a ceasefire leading to peace he needs to have clear goals and guarantees for all parties.

One can only hope Vladimir Putin is more than nostalgic of past benevolence between the USA and Russia. Perhaps that can be leveraged into peace. It has a chance. 

Said differently. Putin came to leverage Trump against NATO. The nostalgia was to propagandize a sentiment that would play well on Truth Social providing Trump with a reason to abandon the friends and allies we have as he is brazen enough to do. Idealize a new world order where communists are stronger and better allies than the world we have now. See, in such a world order NATO is a weakling. An undesirable ally with less muscle than all the strongman dictators.

It is propaganda without substance.

I take it the New Start Treaty was not entertained.

The Alaskan Summit isn't really about Trump. It is about Putin.

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That is a nice picture or the Russian President.

The Alaskan Summit is a really high level meeting that seems unprepared in many ways, but, it is a time when Vladimir Putin is entertaining the end of hostilities in Ukraine.

Putin needs to be serious as he has many lives in his hands. He has imposed his will upon allies that have sacrificed for their ideology. Ukraine is not about hatred or war. It is not about the reconstitution of the Soviet Union, it is about ending hostilities between the enemies of old.

The USA is not alone in it's opposition to the hostile nature of Vladmir Putin. He has gone too far and needs to move back to a place where mutual respect and prosperity can return. Putin's sights needs to be set on making the G7 happy and returning to the economic round table he left not very long ago. Returning to the G7 should never be a gift of intimidation, it needs to be a sincere commitment to peace and prosperity for all the people involved.

Vladimir Putin needs to deliver a document that is calling for peace and mutual respect in trade agreements. That is what Ukraine wanted before 2014 and since as reflected in Minsk. There can be a new beginning and the world will welcome it. But, it needs to be sincere. No more strange ideology to impose the Russia will on other countries, especially that of the Post Soviet States. They need to know this is a time of great healing.

Rarely discussed is the fact why the Soviet Union had such a short lifespan on the timeline of nations. It fell because it's enormous size alone was impossible to defend by any human attempt to do so. The only real answer for the Soviet national security were the threats of nuclear weapons to prevent border problems. As a matter of fact, the artifacts of those old world ideas are still within the borders of the current Ukraine. There are old silos of where nuclear missiles once were coveted as a necessity to the defense of the Soviet Union. Which begs another real world conclusion. Vladimir Putin, as the Russia President, has not lived up to his promises with Ukraine.

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February 21, 2022
By Mary Louise Kelly, Kat Lonsdorf

...Three decades ago, (click here) the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world.

Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize.

In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum (click here).

Now, that agreement is front and center again.

Mariana Budjeryn of Harvard University spoke with All Things Considered about the legacy of the Budapest Memorandum and its impact today....

See, the Free World wants all that wonderful dynamic back. We don't like to be enemies to powerful men with nations of wonderful people within their borders. We much rather have peace and prosperity that is mutually respected. President Putin has a rather incredible moment before him. He can deliver us all from the hell of hatred or he can galvanize it all the more.

The USA and Russia do not exist on Earth alone. They are significant to global dynamics, but, they do not simply hold control over a planet that can be shifted one way or another in political ideology. This is a moment that the entire world can celebrate or realize it is in for decades more entrenchment from ideologies that harm the human condition and not promote it or resolve the problems of it.

Vladimir Putin is indeed an important man when he finds his way to Alaska. He needs to measure the benefits of the potential for peace before him as opposed to continued strife and death of people that do not deserve to suffer further. We all know the will of freedom among the people that enjoy it. This is no time to pretend that will is any different simply because of a radically right president in the White House. Trump speaks for a minority of people in the USA. He speaks for little more globally. Vladimir Putin has been in these spaces before and it is he that can turn the key to peace with both sides of the ideological spectrum satisfied to the security of their children within their own belief systems.

Ukraine

It is tempting to call the war between Ukraine and Russia a stalemate, but, in all honesty, the disadvantaged Ukraine has done rather well. The map below is from two years ago. Russia has accomplished anything. Additionally, Russia has been accused of human rights abuses in Crimea and elections that were far from what is expected by international monitors.

While Russia states Crimea is part of Russia, the Crimean state they are an autonomous government. 

What is troubling about this war is the fact Ukraine has to fight without allied assistance. Russia is pulling in foot soldiers from many countries. Russia can’t hold its ground without sucking in more and more foreign casualties. If one calls this a stalemate, it is not accurate when considering Russia lost this war at least a year ago. The only reason Russia is still drawing breath is because of foreign mercenaries.

If Ukraine continues to hold its own it will wipe out entire foreign units of drones and foot soldiers, if it hasn’t already. Ukraine may end up taking down the Asian communists because Putin won’t admit he lost. 

There is a good chance Syria fell because Russia has slowly imploded because of Putin’s ideology. Iran has had to devote units of drones to Putin. Seriously, the communists are affected by Ukraine’s damnable ability to fight. Think about it. The Ukraine military are heroes for far more than Ukrainians and their land. Every Free World country should be assessing a decline in a communist threat.

Assad isn’t sitting in a palace in Damascus. He is an exile in Russia. 

That Ukraine front represents more than a stalemate with Russia. That front is a victory to a much larger battlefield. The Free World never asked for this war. Quite the contrary. This war is about the continued fall of the Soviet Union.

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Why is Trump interested in the Smithsonian?

Because it has money and it spends it to enrich the history of the USA. Now, every Girl Scout in the country can marvel at the Late First Lady Dolly Madison.

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Trump is compromised.

Putin has the goods on someone important to Trump if not Trump himself. That is what the meeting in Alaska is about. 

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This is great news.

I gave to his campaign. I think he was a great Senator. Why? Because I can accept him at face value, he believed strongly in the work ethic, and realized how hard the people of Ohio worked and at times couldn’t make ends meet. He knew the people of his state and believed as such in them as they could trust him.

Go, Sherrie, go.

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Stop looking at the National Guard as a threat.

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They stood up for us then, they are doing the same now. 

The National Guard are friends and neighbors in uniform. They have jobs they rather be at and reclining at home in a “Lazy Boy.”

They were called up to provide Truth Social it’s propaganda. Just that simple. If they help in some way in the cities then thank them for coming. They are great people who have taken an oath to defend this country. They are not the enemy.

The National Guard left LA as soon as their ratings started to drop.

Relax. This isn’t the end of the USA, just another chapter. 

It looks as though “The Epstein Family” is small.

Both his parents have passed away. Mother was Pauline ne’e Stolofsky. I think that is a Polish name. Father was Seymour G. Epstein. They were Jewish. They lived well in a private gated community near Coney Island. Coney as in Amy Coney Barrett. I guess her family, Barrett’s family, had money. They started their own cult and everything. Which leads me to wonder why she is so religiously rigid in her decisions. But, that chat is for another time.

So, Jeffery Epstein grew up in luxury, wealth, and privilege. Hm. I would think growing up on Coney Island would be a great place to grow up. I wonder if Epstein went to private school. Trump did. New York Military Academy. Junior division of West Point. If graduates did well they would be considered for a spot at West Point. I don’t know how many actually made it, but, Trump didn’t.

I thought maybe Epstein and Trump were friends from childhood but they are seven years apart in age. Their school years and graduation years would be very different. Both were from New York City. 

It would seem the common denominator between the two was New York society and wealth. That explains beautiful women and Ghislaine Maxwell. She was British society. A member of the “jet set.”

It was not unusual for Epstein to live on his jet flying between favorite destinations. His romping around the world without difficulty is sexy. Yes? Attractive to many people. Those less savvy about finances would also be attracted by his effortless lifestyle as he was believed to be successful in the financial markets. 

That financial freedom is sought after by pedophiles. They can hide with the help of money/wealth. I don’t think Epstein was all that successful so much as infiltrating. His parties attracted influential people. I read the birthday essay by Woody Allen. The letter clearly illustrates a social movement. What was also interesting were the yet unknown young women acting more or less as hostesses. 

The social movement Epstein fostered gathered people into a cliche more or less. Epstein had the place and everyone else acted as a palate of talent, business, and government. It was not unusual for Epstein to be elsewhere in the mansion while parties were going on.

The parties according to the letter weren’t orgies so much as gatherings. Gatherings where information can exchange setting up knowledge about business and government that serviced Epstein’s purpose in feeding his wealth. 

I think Jeffery Epstein was spoiled as a child, no different than Trump. Neither of the men had to work at much to get by. Those parties also fed Trump’s ego that would lead to unrealistic business ventures like the gold hotel in Vegas. If one has so called friends in that cliche the need to have lavish variety feeds right into that ego. Trump’s lavish hotels and casinos never were solid business ventures. They, no different than his empty boasting attracts sensational ideas of comfort and wealth. “Big, Beautiful Bill” has nothing to do with beauty, but, perhaps it sold or sells well.

Trump has proven himself a fraud, both, in courts of law and socially. “Truth Social” is a construct that supports the fraud. He exercises illegitimate authority rather than conducting the country’s business as president. His presidency is illegitimate in the fact Musk had his finger on the scale. There was a friendship between Epstein and Trump built on exploitation of others and flamboyant tabloid media. These people are not qualified for office so much as well qualified criminals. I feel badly for the people of the USA, but, they must continue to unmask the people who currently claim to be “in charge.” They are in charge alright, every charge any prosecutor can bring. 

Placing the National Guard in cities is abuse of power and nothing more. It is all racketeering. All of it and why they are trying so hard to buffalo the country with available power. We’ll make it through. I hope the younger generations claim their democracy in the coming elections. 

Ever hear the expression..

…,”Do you think the world owes you a living?” 

Well. I never thought much about it when I heard it, as it is a way a parent puts life into perspective for a young person. But, today, when I reflect on those words it describes Donald John Trump completely.

I think that can be his own motto: “The world owes me a living.”

Rarely would a mayor or police chief consider any circumstances in a city the need for National Guard troops. But, in some ways if it lends help to the daily tasks of police officers, what can it hurt?

There is one thing, the National Guard is not trained to do police work. They are trained as support staff in  emergencies or in assistance to the USA military. I am worried the National Guard will be ordered beyond their training and have consequences no one expected. So, I wish them success in carrying out a domestic initiative to extend the potential of a city’s police work.

I think the LAPD should be able to speak to what to expect with the National Guard. 

The country should realize this is all about visuals for infotainment “Trutj Social.” Unfortunately, the Blue States are the stage for Trump’s performance.

I hope something good comes of it.

The president is not only compromised…

…but willing to be compromised. Drip, drip, drip.

One of the reasons political opponents jump on scandals like this is because enemies of the USA can find leverage in such secrets. This is why, IN THE PAST, vetting was so important. Vetting was never about politics, it was always about national security.

NO SECRETS for very real reasons.

This is an August 8, 2025 entry on his Substack, “The North Star with Shaun King.”

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Congratulations. Deservingly.

He has a great smile.

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People die. They die in horrible countries and in horrible ways. When desperate people come to the USA, they adapt different postures when faced with our society and justice.

Part of our asylum laws is accepting the desperation of the seeker in trying to save their own lives and the people they love. A family is the lifeline of the American people and to remove that part of an asylum seeker’s life by labeling children and spouses as terrible names, like anchor babies is just not appropriate or a hope for the family’s success.

Immigration has been the mainstay to American democracy. So many people who have come from foreign lands have contributed to our society and economy beyond any wild expectations as citizens.

I am sorry, but, the treatment of immigrants, be they legal or otherwise, is horrible. It is as if the USA has completely lost its moral compass due to a minority party that simply hates others because of their skin color or nationality. That is not allowed in this country. A president willing to pander to a four percent of the electorate of this country by sending away basically innocent people simply trying to save their own lives is not a representative of my values nor that of my country.

The President is a leader and not a despot. I am ashamed of the ways this president completely disregards the importance of every human life within the borders of this country and that includes the homeless. 

This is welcome and impressive.

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In realizing the President recognizes the danger of Mr. Maduro, why were the Venezuelan's time in the U.S.A. cut short? 

I am sorry but that makes no sense.  None of the Venezuelans in the USA were traffickers for Maduro. So, why?

And of all things the Venezuelans were wicked away in the dead of night into a horrible prison in El Salvador. I simply don’t get it. Trump will receive static from Putin about this, too. And, where are the missing prisoners? 

Maduro deserves to have a price in his head. He is a horrible man that chronically defies the will of the people seeking democracy. 

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Washington, DC

Trump is carrying out racist rants and a racist agenda. It is also part of his retribution politics.

The DC National Guard were among the first to enter the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 to assist the D.C. and Capitol Police. They would be joined by a total of 20,000 National Guard troops from around the country by January 14, 2021 to secure the inauguration of Former President Biden.

These tactics by Trump are also a more of the continued attempt to bury the facts about Jeffery Epstein.

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Trump thinks a police state is the answer to everything. He doesn’t care about solving problems, just eliminating people and feeding his own greed. I find it worrisome if he actually tries to muscle the homeless in the USA. Where are they going? More disappearances of human beings? 

The Supreme Court (click here) actually legitimized this paradigm. Now, eliminating the visuals of real life problems is happening. The majority of homeless don’t want to be homeless.

There is a much bigger, real life issue before the country; who are the people being eliminated by the Trump regime, and where are they now? 

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The Ukrainian people are like that if Americans.

Ukrainians love peace, beauty, happiness, freedom, and liberty. Their constitutions reflect that, and all those characteristics are at work in the Zelenskyy administration. The people of Ukraine want peace, not war, but they are not willing to relinquish more land to Russia’s chronic annexations. As a matter of fact, Ukraine wants Crimea returned, albeit commercial access to the Black Sea.

Previous to the Minsk Agreements there existed the Russian-Ukraine Friendship Treaty of 1997, which turned into Putin’s opportunity for political corruption and internal dissension. The political corruption brought by Russia resulted in a hostile atmosphere and the rise of Viktor Yanukovych. We all know where that went.

All the hopes of the Minsk Agreements were nothing but more political propaganda by Putin. The then Former President Poroshenko did not renew the agreements because of the egregious nature of Russia toward Ukraine.

The egregious nature of Putin’s Russia was in clear demonstration when Putin initiated the War on Donbas in 2014 before the Minisk Agreements. The casualties of that  Russian invasion numbered in the ten thousands. Those casualties included more than three thousand Ukrainian civilians. St. Michael’s Monestary in Kiev has a memorial to

The war dead of the Donbas War last I read.

The War on Donbas continued and then escalated in 2022 when Russia rolled tanks into Ukraine while President Zelenskyy was engaged in peaceful economic negotiations with Russia and the European Union. That escalation served Putin’s purpose in interrupting the economic ties with the EU. See, Putin believes the Soviet Union needs to be resurrected from its wayward ashes and any economic ties with the Free World means communism is at risk. Hence, the forever fear of NATO. 

The ties with Ukraine were paused by the EU because the entire world believed Russian tanks were invincible after observing the devastation in Syria. “Wrong.” Ukrainians laughed at Russia and began single handedly destroying the Russian invasion while expecting Putin to have a rush of sanity. “Wrong.” Putin has no sanity except his own ideology about the now dead Soviet Union.

Thus, now enters the picture the most corrupt USA president in the history of the country pretending to be the Prince of Peace. There is no viable agreement anywhere on the horizon with Putin. Nowhere. How is an agreement to any form of peace between Ukraine and Russia going to manifest as Russia continues to have the highest war losses in Russian history as Putin ropes in North Korea and who knows who else into soldiers of fortune? That is a skill Putin adapted from the now dead Wagner.

Any TALKS between Putin and Trump are nothing but empty expressions of propaganda designed to change Vladimir’s image to the world view. Enter complaints about Trump and his bromance with a killer in Putin to bring REAL life FACTS to Putin’s propaganda campaign. Could the Russian investment through the NRA and Maria Butina actually pay off? 

Any meeting in Alaska might be a longing for a vacation by Putin to view the endangered Polar Bear. But, it will be nothing more than that while Putin bemoans selling Alaska to the USA. Putin is terrified the U.S.A. might actually annex Canada into statehood and where would that leave Putin’s ideology of the Soviet Union phoenix?

Where ACCOUNTABLY behind in this hellacious war.

The war in Ukraine is considered a war by most Free World countries, not a special military operation. A special military operation is mostly a single unit issue and not an entire military commitment of which has been the case with Russia.

The escalation by Russia is ignored as if Russia has a right to simply romp into a disarmed country for its own purposes. This war began with an illegal annexation of Crimea which is one of Russia’s larger annexations over the recent decades. 

I have yet to witness in my lifetime the annexation of any foreign land defended in freedom by the USA. INSTEAD, we call them allies and conduct economic and prosperity ties, the largest of which is Iraq which is self governing.

The annexation of Crimea concluded 29 March 2014. There were six deaths and ten people remain missing after the hostile Russian ac. This hostile act, carried out by the now defunct Wagner Group, completely destroyed the governance of Ukraine creating a crisis that was answered by reaching back to put past authorities in place including an earlier version of the Ukrainian Constitution.

THAT IS NOT A MINOR ACT OF SAVAGERY. 

Is it clear where this accurate depiction of history is going? It also includes past agreements along the way, shredded by Russia.

By the way, in pride of USA armed forces, the Iraqi wetlands were restored and the religious authority of the Ayatollah Al Sistani was left intact. What replaced Saddam was democracy, no matter how imperfect, and self governance. That democracy AND prosperity didn’t occur out of osmosis; the American people demanded it.

WHICH WAS NO MINOR ACT OF CIVILITY.

The death toll of the illegal Iraq invasion was ridiculous and brought on by the insistence of terrorists. The USA prevailed but at a dear cost of blood and treasure. It was a highly propagandized invasion after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The American people are very aware, even today, of the lethal role propaganda played in that invasion.

What followed the Crimean invasion by Russia were the Minsk Agreements of which both countries were prohibited from conducting war in the other’s lands. 

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Well, ya never know what Trump’s going to run his mouth about either.

The proposed meeting in Alaska is high level and being conducted with two of the world’s biggest propagandists. Quite frankly, it is meaningless for the amount of jet fuel involved. Quite frankly neither Putin or Trump can be trusted for whatever corruption will be agreed upon.

At the very least there should be international observers with record keeping stenographers. 

This is a high level meeting between two international politicians attempting to rewrite history. This meeting of only two parties involved in a very lethal war is normally conducted at lower levels until a desired treaty is realized. This level of meeting is usually the last step of negotiations meant to finalize the treaty; not the first. Any formal agreement between Russia and the USA that ostracizes all other interested parties with a stake in the outcome threatens international stability and the future of peace.

This meeting is an escalation of tensions, not a resolve. I would think that obvious.

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Nuclear brinkmanship is just pure stupidity.

There have been too many close calls with destabilizing regimes. The large nuclear plants are themselves a significant danger.

The idea weapons of mass casualty can exist in a world with artificial intelligence when we know in fact China’s AI has already achieved autonomous deaths of human beings is at the very least nightmarish.

Somehow the idea that AI can be controlled to prevent exchange of nuclear weapons without any real declarations of war is not at all logical. So long as AI remains a capacity that continues to develop it’s own capacity and initiatives, then what enters the picture of advanced technology has to be limited to  what can be benignly invaded by AI. Nuclear weapons can be eliminated so they simply do not exist and AI has no such capacity.

Artificial intelligence must be viewed as the enemy within. Only when AI is identified as having power that is limitless will governments understand the danger they face from their own nuclear stockpiles. So the renewal of the New Start Treaty in February 2026 must begin the denuclearization process between two nuclear powers while the UN nonproliferation treaty takes a new dominance in international relations. All countries with nuclear weapon capacity that does not participate in nonproliferation will have to be ostracized and marginalized in ways that result in compliance.

The candidates in the USA for the 2026 elections have to have a clear vision of non-proliferation as a major marker for voters. The outcome of the renewal and passage of stronger treaties in 2026 by the current House and Senate will provide the insight needed to voting.

No more of the “do nothing” Congress lead around by the nose of million/billionaires.

Candidates must be held responsible for their votes.

Congressional elections 2026

The 2026 elections must represent House and Senate members willing to decrease the use of nuclear arms and mass casualty weapons. The brinkmanship must stop. 

There are far too many countries with nuclear arms capacity. The new legislature to be seated in 2027 must have shown a clear understanding they will continue to pursue peace and non-proliferation by securing a treaty with Russia slated to end February of 2026.

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Trump is chasing his tail.

Zelenskyy is not rejecting anything. The war started over an illegal Russian invasion after occupying Crimea. Russian leadership in the country has been rejected over and over again by the people. The rebels are FED BY RUSSIA to create instability and have always been fed by Russia for that purpose.

Since President Zelensky has been elected before the Russian invasion; he and his cabinet has worked at ending corruption in the government and business sectors (the two go together as witnessed with Bondi now and in Florida) to enter into relationships with both the Free World and Russia. 

The occupation of Crimea was a hostile act that resulted from the intentional disarmament of the Ukraine military and replacing it with oligarch militias. In fact, at that time, it could be stated Ukraine was unable to protect its sovereignty. The truth is the only thing that prevented bloodshed and carnage at the time by Russia was its fear of the burgeoning relationship with EU and its military prowess with NATO.

The problem with the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine is Putin and the countries communists. If Putin ended all aggression today and engaged in trade with Ukraine all the problems would be over. The truth is Russia is an aggressive power that cares nothing about people and will not stop at Eastern Ukraine if offered in surrender in a peace, not ceasefire, treaty. Russia, is like Trump, give an inch and the brinkmanship starts all over again leading to the sane damn tensions that exists today fueling the current war.

So. Alaska? Why bother?

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