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Isn't it funny that the Putin fluffers never consider that Putin can end the war today if he chooses to?

Ooh - more histrionics.

- "Don't defend yourself against Russia's invasion militarily, they have nukes!!"
- "Don't you dare liberate your land from Russian invaders, Putin might get deposed and you won't like who comes next!"
- "Don't you dare provide Ukraine with weapons to defend themselves, that will start WWIII"

Last week, media was ambushed by a Ukrainian (but US-controlled) “anti-corruption agency,” NABU, which chased a bunch of top officials out of the war-torn country, including Zelensky’s best friend and longtime business partner, affectionately known as “Zelensky’s wallet.” He fled to a non-extradition country (Israel). It rocked Zelensky’s regime. Just three days ago, the Economist said the scandal “marks his biggest crisis since the invasion.”

Even more ministers have resigned and/or fled, like cockroaches scattering when you turn the shed lights on. One of them —Kyiv’s former Defense Minister— was rumored to have scurried to the U.S., asked for asylum, and offered to cooperate with the feds.

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/11/17/umerov-wants-to-testify-to-the-fbi-on-zelensky-and-ermak-shariy

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

The agreement is legally binding

(If this is true)

That requires 67 votes in the Senate to ratify. The Russians are the ones insisting upon that after how the West didn't comply with the Minsk Accords and other agreements that weren't formalized via Binding Treaties.

If the Senate doesn't go along, the war resumes. This puts the ballsacks of the Globalist Senate Fucks (in both parties) and Dem Senators in general (who will be under pressure to not ratify any such Treaty negotiated by Team Trump) into a real hard & sharp vise.

Either way, this list totally fucks over the bs the Ukey Fluffers have been posting for years on PatNet.

France sucks Trump's cock:

Ursula is not being coherent with that "therefore".

Patrick says

Ursula is not being coherent with that "therefore".

It doesn't matter WTF she thinks. She is no head of government.

MolotovCocktail says

Patrick says

Ursula is not being coherent with that "therefore".

It doesn't matter WTF she thinks. She is no head of government.

EU is nothing but a trade & customs union. That's it. It is not a government any more than the UN is. It has zero remit to engage in national security issues or foreign policy outside of trade issues.

The closest orgs that do are NATO & the Council for Europe (anti-NATO) -- both of which are silent as tombs right now.

Euro Hillary is utterly powerless and a waste of time.

It’s House of Cards: Kiev Edition. There was always an implied consequence attached to Trump’s public demands that Ukraine agree to a peace deal by Thanksgiving. Or else. Early speculation was that Trump would pause or cancel U.S. intelligence sharing. But yesterday, we found out. The New York Times ran the story, headlined, “In Firing His No. 2, Zelensky Loses Both a Negotiator and an Enforcer.” As Agatha Christie would say: and then there was one.

In 2019, with loving assistance from USAID, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s career as an actor playing Ukraine’s president wrapped— and he stepped right into the role for real. It was his first time holding any public office. The cosmic joke —not so hilarious to Ukrainian citizens— was that he ran as an “outsider” on an anti-corruption crusade. And he hauled his two best friends along with him, under the official story that Zelensky needed people around him whom he could “trust.”

Tymur Mindich, Zelensky’s business partner and personal money manager, was handed the keys to the kingdom— the Energy Ministry, tax revenue levers, power structures, the whole bureaucratic buffet. Locals called him “Zelensky’s wallet.” Last week, the wallet snapped shut and bolted. Mindich caught the Midnight Express to Israel after NABU —Ukraine’s “corruption investigation agency” with unmistakable State Department fingerprints— raided his apartment and offices. And then there were two. (Collateral damage from NABU’s “Kyiv Massacre” also vaporized roughly half a dozen cabinet ministers who were in the blast radius.)

One week ago, Mindich’s departure prompted the Washington Post to announce Zelensky was scraping the bottom.

Zelensky’s only other oldest and best friend is Andriy “the Giant” Yermak. From 2011 till the 2019 elections, Yermak was Zelensky’s personal lawyer— handling media, finance, and intellectual-property issues while Zelensky built his entertainment empire. As Zelensky’s wealth grew, Yermak became an all-in-one producer, fixer, consigliere, and legal counsel. So after Zelensky won the presidency, Yermak oozed into power along with him.

Yermak became Chief of Staff— arguably the second-most powerful man in Ukraine, and on most days, the first.

The Times called Yermak “a sharp-elbowed and imperious political operative, to the point that opposition politicians and journalists accused him of repression and abuse,” and who “nearly always remained physically close to the president.” (You may rightly wonder which journalists accused Yermak of abuse and repression— and why you never ever heard that story from the Times’s journalists. It was independent media.)

Till last week, we’d basically never even heard of Yermak, the powerful giant who “always remained physically close to the president.” In other words, Yermak never lets Zelensky out of his sight. (It is widely reported that the men often even sleep in the same room.) The Times, for sure, never mentioned the oversized man constantly looming over the little wartime president. But now, the Grey Lady is heaping on the scorn: “Yermak struck an almost cartoonish contrast to the diminutive Mr. Zelensky in photographs.”

It is a physical metaphor; Yermak was the real power behind the tiny throne.

Yermak was merely grazed, a flesh wound, when NABU took down Zelensky’s best friend and top minister, Mindich. Last week, NABU dramatically released glossy video and audio of intercepts, featuring unidentified corrupt government ministers conspiring to carve up Ukraine like a Thanksgiving turkey. One of the voices, who used the code-name “Ali Baba,” was widely believed to be Yermak. Sporadic calls began to emerge for his resignation.

Right around that time, Yermak —who hadn’t been charged with anything or openly investigated— decided to earnestly begin negotiating with the US on a peace deal for real this time. I’ve previously surmised that the timing of NABU’s dramatic release was not coincidental, but was a US-led pressure campaign focused on the Green Sweatshirt himself. As the negotiations unfolded, Trump alluded to the aforementioned deadline.

Then the deadline came and went without a deal.

Yesterday —one day post-deadline— NABU promptly raided Yermak’s offices and his home address. A few hours later, like clockwork, Yermak abruptly resigned as Chief of Staff. And then there was one. A wide-eyed Zelensky made the announcement, claiming Yermak was only removed out of an abundance of caution, to avoid unspecified “distractions.” He did not mention the corruption investigation.

“Mr. Yermak’s departure,” the Times said, “is a seismic event in Ukraine’s wartime politics.” I bet. Who’ll keep Zelensky away from the tender embraces of his white powder now?

Zelensky said the search for Yermak’s replacement would begin soon, which proves that his departure was unexpected and unplanned. For his part, Yermak gave a bizarre, “impassioned” interview by text message to the New York Post (of all places), in which he comically claimed that he planned to join the Army and go fight on the front lines. Okay.

What will Zelensky do now, without his wallet and his enforcer? He’s been isolated. He’s a man on an island.

We have some clue. Yermak led the peace negotiations with the US. With Yermak gone, that duty falls to Ukraine’s Defense Secretary Rustem Umerov, who, the Post reported, “spoke with FBI Director Kash Patel ahead of his meeting with Witkoff.” If that sounds odd, it’s not just you. “It is unclear why that meeting took place,” the Post primly noted, since it couldn’t say more.

But I’ll say more. Umerov’s meetings with FBI Director Patel suggest he is a cooperating witness. It also suggests he will be much more receptive to the U.S. position than was the “sharp-elbowed” Yermak. (Nobody talks about Zelensky, the former actor, as any force of personality in the negotiations. He is a nullity; a spent force. He’s just the one who must sign.)

Umerov will meet with Trump’s negotiating team at luxurious Mar-a-Lago this weekend. Yermak was supposed to go; but he’s apparently now headed for the front lines instead. ...

Remember, Yermak was “Ukraine’s chief negotiator” who “said conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.” That was a bold position to take. Then, immediately after Yermak suddenly fell under investigation, a UK Telegraph headline struck a decidedly different tone:

Trump to hand Putin Ukraine's occupied territories
US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia's war gains

Two days ago, media crowed about Yermak defiantly insisting that even conceding 20% of territory was “off-limits.” Now, according to the Guardian’s op-editor, it’s fine; it’s a glass mostly full. “The vast majority of its people and its land remain intact,” the article reassured readers. “That is a win worth taking,” it encouraged.

All the turnaround took was one morning’s office raid.

Trumps’ team just slew another giant. And they even kept leverage, since it was a half step. Yermak wasn’t charged, just raided. They could still file charges, or withhold them, depending on whether Yermak plays ball by staying out of the way. Brilliant.

Reading between the lines, I think President Trump and his team have decided they want this war wrapped up before the end of the year. Let’s see if I’m right.

MolotovCocktail says

Patrick says

Ursula is not being coherent with that "therefore".

It doesn't matter WTF she thinks. She is no head of government.

EU is nothing but a trade & customs union. That's it. It is not a government any more than the UN is. It has zero remit to engage in national security issues or foreign policy outside of trade issues.

The closest orgs that do are NATO & the Council for Europe (anti-NATO) -- both of which are silent as tombs right now.

Euro Hillary is utterly powerless and a waste of time.

In a stunning escalation, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of NATO’s Military Committee, warned that the alliance could soon abandon its long-standing defensive posture and move toward preemptive attacks on Russian targets.

The revelation is a dramatic shift that risks plunging Europe into a full-scale war engineered by globalists who have been agitating for direct confrontation for years. ...

NATO leaders are no longer hiding it as the globalist war machine is preparing Europe for direct conflict with a nuclear superpower.

“Preemptive strikes” are now being marketed as “defensive,” while diplomats scramble to piece together a peace deal that Western elites seem determined to undermine.

This is how world wars start:

Manufactured crises
Shadowy sabotage blamed on political enemies
Unelected bureaucrats quietly rewrite the rules of engagement while the public is distracted

Chances are we're all gonna wake up in an even darker world tomorrow, following whatever secret addendums they'll be signing here today.
Tymofiy Mylovanov

Europe faces a hard choice: sovereignty or dependence on Trump’s America.

Three times Trump pushed Ukraine to concede to Russia. Three times EU leaders scrambled to stop him. The transatlantic relationship is effectively over, writes Martin Sandbu for FT.

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BREAKING: The €300 Billion Betrayal

Few hours ago, the European Central Bank killed Europe’s last credible plan to fund Ukraine.

The ECB refused to backstop the €140 billion reparations loan. Reason: violates their mandate. Translation: monetary policy cannot become fiscal policy, even to save an ally.

But here is what no one is telling you.

The United States does not want those frozen Russian assets used at all.

According to Politico, citing two senior European diplomats, Washington told the EU’s sanctions envoy “in no uncertain terms” that their plan is to return the assets to Russia after any peace deal is signed.

Read that again.

The Trump administration’s 28-point peace plan proposes unfreezing €300 billion in Russian central bank reserves. One hundred billion goes to a “US-led” reconstruction fund. America takes 50% of profits. The rest gets returned to Moscow.

Europe holds the assets. America dictates their fate. Ukraine gets nothing.

The math is devastating:

Ukraine faces a €90 billion funding gap for 2026 and 2027. The IMF program just ended. US bilateral aid is frozen pending peace negotiations. The EU’s alternative requires unanimous consent from 27 member states, including Hungary.

Belgium refuses to move without “legally binding, unconditional, irrevocable” guarantees covering €185 billion in potential Russian lawsuits. Slovakia has opted out entirely.

December 18. That is the EU summit deadline. Without a deal, Ukraine enters 2026 rationing defense spending while Russia advances daily.

The ECB just demonstrated that institutional mandate trumps geopolitical emergency. Washington just revealed that frozen assets are bargaining chips, not Ukrainian reparations.

Two pillars of Western support, collapsing simultaneously.

This is not a policy dispute. This is the architecture of abandonment being built in real time.

The money exists. The will does not.

Panic indeed. When US controlled NABU (reportedly) opens cases against 70 MPs from the ruling party, that’s not anti-corruption. That’s D.C. executing a controlled demolition. Zelensky’s entourage is fleeing because everyone can smell the verdict: the actor’s run is over.

Neither Trump nor Putin will legitimize him, and Kiev's political class is already sneaking to Moscow for terms because they know the Americans have cut the power. The post-Zelensky transition has begun, the only people still pretending it’s not happening are his corrupt European handlers.

Zelensky outlawed negations with Putin, and is unelected with zero legal mandate to negotiate. Russia and the Trump admin are merely honouring Zelensky's wishes... You didn't want to negotiate with Putin? Great stop whinning, there's the door. Elections will come and a settlement that reflects Russia's legitimate interests and the battlefield reality, will be finalized.

Capitulation, with cosmic humiliation downloaded onto the Europeans. Speaking of corruption — look at Ursula von der Leyen, the Empress of Corruption herself, drowning in scandal after scandal. From the secret-text multimillion-dose vaccine contract with Pfizer (Pfizergate), to the revolving-door influence networks she’s spent her career cultivating, to the latest detonation: her own former High Representative, Federica Mogherini, and top EEAS official Stefano Sannino detained over a rigged Diplomatic Academy tender. Procurement fraud, corruption, conflict of interest, the whole arsenal.

The judge now has 48 hours to decide how deep the rot runs, but the symbolism is already terminal. The very institution meant to train Europe’s diplomats has become a crime scene. And the more the Commission sermonizes about “values” and “rule of law,” the clearer it becomes that the swamp isn’t in Kiev, it’s in Brussels. Kiev is merely a franchise.

Ukraine’s corruption is a mirror, while Brussels keeps smashing the glass in vain so no one sees their reflection.

Europe is exposed, and the West’s entire Ukraine project is entering its terminal hour. The great irony? Moscow may not have to bring it all down. Washington seems to have cut the power, Brussels pretendingthe lights are still on, and Kiev? Too busy stripping the place for copper, to notice the whole grid collapsing.

The era of illusions is over. The settlement is coming, on the battlefield or via the pen. And Europe, drunk on its own propaganda and hypocrisy, is about to wake up with the kind of hangover that ends empires.

MolotovCocktail says

WTF happened with socal2 ?

He's AWOL for a while now.