Trump has boldly taken the important first step. Reality and sanity seem to be returning to U.S.-Russia relations after years of reckless and criminal warmongering.
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The much-anticipated phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took place this week. The 90-minute call was apparently initiated by the U.S. president. It delivered on his oft-made promise during last year’s election campaign to engage in diplomacy with his Russian counterpart to find a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Ukraine.
The importance of personal contact cannot be overstated. The three-year war in Ukraine had pushed the world to the abyss of an all-out global and catastrophic nuclear war. Now that the leaders of the U.S. and Russia have found common ground to end the slaughter in Ukraine, the rest of the world is relieved of a nightmare scenario – at least for the foreseeable future.
Incredibly, and shamefully, the conversation between Trump and Putin was the first time in over three years that an American president had engaged directly with the Russian leader. That absence of basic diplomacy was due to the ideological fixation and obnoxious mentality of Trump’s predecessor. (A mentality that continues to warp the European leaders.)
Russia’s senior diplomat Sergei Ryabkov had recently stated that the first step must be taken by the American side to open communications with Russia based on mutual respect and equality. Then the two sides might be able to proceed with negotiating substantive issues. First thing first was to learn some manners.
Trump took that first step this week. His conversation with President Putin was cordial and constructive. Trump expressed his admiration for the Russian nation and its historic sacrifice in defeating Nazi Germany. He aspired to work with the Russian leadership on a range of global issues.
This was a seismic breakthrough from the logjam of stupid hostility and utter rudeness that has prevailed in Washington (as well as Brussels and other European capitals).
The Russophobia that the former American president, Joe Biden, had indulged in was discarded for the worthless and toxic mindset it is. Trump seems to genuinely have a healthy and reasonable attitude toward normalizing bilateral relations.
The shock among European leaders was palpable. They remain stuck in their ideological wilderness of Russophobia. It was hilarious to see them recoiling from the “horror” of Trump talking one-to-one with Putin in amicable terms.
Laughably too, Trump did not inform the European allies in advance about his intended breakthrough dialogue with Putin.
Earlier on the same day, Wednesday, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, started the cold shower treatment on the pathetic lackeys. In Brussels, while meeting NATO defense chiefs, Hegseth announced that it would be unrealistic for Ukraine to join the transatlantic alliance. Furthermore, he said that Ukraine would have to concede the territories that Russia has gained, referring to: Crimea (since 2014) and Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye (since the 2022 hostilities escalated.)
In one fell swoop, the Trump administration effectively ditched the erstwhile Washington and NATO position. The Europeans and the Kiev regime were stunned, upended and left high and dry.
Then – as if that was not enough cold water – there followed the news about Trump’s friendly and respectful phone conversation with Putin in which both leaders vowed to begin negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine.
What this says is that the European leaders and the Kiev regime’s illegitimate puppet Vladimir Zelensky are irrelevant. They are part of the problem, not the solution.
Trump is right to engage directly with Putin and to override the European lackeys. They all subscribed to the gaslighting of the transatlantic alliance that projected the illusion of Russia as an aggressor violating Ukraine. They deny the reality that NATO instigated the conflict, at least as far back as the CIA-backed coup in Kiev in 2014.
At the Munich Security Conference which opened Friday, Zelensky has tried to peddle the same nonsense, claiming that Russia could attack any NATO member in the future. The whole scam has become threadbare. The U.S. under Biden and the European Union have funneled at least $500 billion into Ukraine over the past three years which has been siphoned off in corruption and embezzlement by the NeoNazi Kiev regime.
Trump and his administration know that the Ukraine conflict is a war racket that has to stop before the world crashes over the abyss.
It is welcome that Trump has taken the crucial first step. The next steps will be more challenging. This will involve addressing the root causes of conflict, as Putin pointed out in their phone call.
Russia has set its terms and will not accept anything less, given its control of the battlefield. There will be no NATO membership for Ukraine, Russia will retain its recovered historic territories (about 20 percent of pre-2022 Ukraine) and the Kiev NeoNazi regime must be eradicated, never to threaten the rights of Russian-speaking people living in Ukraine.
There are additional issues about ceasing NATO expansion and the creation of a new security treaty for Europe.
Trump’s diplomatic engagement with Putin dispels the NATO propaganda in a dramatic clearing of the table. Russia has been vindicated in launching its Special Military Operation on February 24, 2022.
The positive sign going forward is that President Trump appears to recognize the root causes of conflict and is willing to accept Russia’s terms. He reiterated that Ukraine will not be a member of NATO and that Russia has just claim to the territories it has regained. Trump said the conflict in Ukraine was started because the previous U.S. administration recklessly offered NATO membership to Ukraine.
The White House and the Kremlin have initiated negotiating teams to begin drawing up a peace settlement.
Trump said he intends to meet Putin soon in a neutral third country. Saudi Arabia is a proposed location. Meanwhile, the Kremlin has invited Trump to attend the annual Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9 marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Red Army’s defeat of Nazi Germany.
No wonder the Euro quislings like Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas, Annalena Baerbock and NATO puppet Mark Rutte are stunned and flabbergasted. Their fraudulent self-aggrandizing narrative demonizing Russia has been shredded for the whole world to see.
However, there are pitfalls remaining in the direction ahead. The U.S. deep state forces may sabotage Trump’s peace overtures to Russia, given that much of the American corporate capitalist economy is dependent on militarism and the continuation of conflict. A lot of wealth has been made on Wall Street out of the bloodbath that Ukraine was plunged into.
The European elites may try to make themselves relevant by propping up the Zelensky regime with separate military aid, thereby trying to prolong the war. The corrupt Zelensky may even be assassinated by rivals in Kiev who think they will be more successful in waging the Russophobic agenda of the European elites.
Significantly, the Kiev regime launched drone and artillery attacks on the nuclear sites at Chernobyl and Zaporozhye this week in a desperate attempt to blame Russia with false-flag provocations. A so-called Black Swan disaster is not out of the question to derail a potential historic detente.
Thus, there is no guarantee that Trump will succeed in delivering a peace deal with Russia. But the intention is there and he seems disposed to making a substantive deal. It is a good sign that his newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence is Tulsi Gabbard who has long been a critic of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine.
Trump has boldly taken the important first step. That alone is something to commend. Reality and sanity seem to be returning to U.S.-Russia relations after years of reckless and criminal warmongering.
