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I think Trump is sincere in wanting to broker a peace deal with Russia, but I do not think he has grasped the fact that Russia has no desire to end the war with Ukraine until it is defeated, along with NATO, or the United States accepts the conditions President Putin presented last June. Europe is a different matter entirely. The European Union bureaucrats and the leaders of France, Germany and the UK want to keep the war going.

 

Trump and Europe Fail to Realize that Russia Has a Vote

     24 February 2025 by 

 

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Rybakov, provided a pithy definition of the Russian position:

All I’m seeing the U.S. do to appease Russia in the short term is repealing completely pointless resolutions, empty gestures and good faith promises.

We’ve seen this before and until something concrete happens from the U.S. side I’ll remain pessimistic.

By the time you read this, the second meeting between the United States and Russian delegations will be underway in Saudi Arabia. The Russian plan is already on the table. We have to wait to see what the Trump team is proposing.

I hope the Russians understand that Donald Trump’s views towards Russia reflect a minority view in the United States. Most of the Republican and Democrat politicians, as well as the majority of intelligence and defense officers, see no difference between the Russia that exists today and the Soviet Union. Today, for example, a friend shared an email with me that he received from his buddy, a recently retired CIA case officer who is still doing contract work for the Agency. I am an acquaintance of that former CIA officer. In the email he voiced outrage at Trump “cozying up” to Putin and exclaimed: “I’ve spent forty years fighting those bastards and Trump is surrendering.”

The US foreign policy establishment is like a prehistoric bug frozen in amber. They are trapped in the past. They have a fixed image of Russia as an authoritarian communist dictatorship and cannot accept the reality that modern Russia has reverted to its nationalist, Christian roots.

The foreign policy mavens in the US labor under the delusion that the United States has some leverage over Russia. They fail to understand that Russia does not need a damn thing from the United States. The same cannot be said for the US, which relies on Russia’s ability to supply fertilizer and some enriched uranium.

Despite all the tough talk from Washington about sanctioning Russia, the United States continues to import significant amounts of fertilizer from Russia. In 2023, the U.S. imported $1.62 billion worth of fertilizers from Russia, making it the third-largest destination for Russian fertilizer exports8. This represents a substantial portion of the U.S. fertilizer import market.

More recent data from 2024 shows:

  1. In March 2024, American companies spent $174 million on fertilizers imported from Russia, a 10% increase from February of the same year1.
  2. Russian fertilizers accounted for 17.1% of all fertilizers imported into the United States, up from 9.7% a year earlier1.
  3. For the first 11 months of 2024, fertilizers were the most-imported commodity to the U.S. from Russia, with a value of almost one billion U.S. dollars3.

The imports include various types of fertilizers:

  • Potash fertilizers: $95.5 million in March 2024
  • Nitrogen-containing fertilizers: $75.3 million in March 2024
  • Phosphorous fertilizers: $3.1 million in March 20241

While the U.S. does not impose direct sanctions on Russian fertilizer, this practice has been criticized as potentially funding Russia’s war efforts2. Despite these concerns, the import of Russian fertilizers continues to play a significant role in the U.S. agricultural sector.

Uranium is a different story. According to recent data, the United States imports relatively little uranium ore directly from Russia. In 2022, Russia accounted for about 12% of U.S. uranium purchases6. Russia plays a more significant role in other parts of the nuclear fuel supply chain, particularly in uranium enrichment.

The United States is totally dependent on uranium imports. The supply comes from the following countries:

  • Canada: 27%
  • Kazakhstan: 25%
  • Russia: 12%
  • Uzbekistan: 11%
  • Australia: 9%
  • Other countries: 16%6

In 2023, U.S. nuclear generators used 32 million pounds of imported uranium concentrate (U3O8), with only 0.05 million pounds coming from domestic production5. This means that imports accounted for 99% of the U3O8 used in 2023 to make nuclear fuel5.

While Russia’s direct uranium ore exports to the U.S. are relatively small, Russia has a significant impact on the global nuclear fuel market due to its large uranium enrichment capacity. Russia accounts for approximately 44% of the world’s uranium enrichment capacity and supplies about 35% of U.S. imports for nuclear fuel4.

In May 2024, the United States enacted a ban on imports of uranium products from Russia, which took effect in August 2024. 5 This ban is expected to significantly alter the U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain in the coming years.

Trump’s hopes of crafting a deal with Russia may be sabotaged by the petulance and belligerence of the Europeans. Here is Ursula Fond of Lying speaking in Kiev:

 

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Most of the leaders in Europe are keen on keeping the war going. Yet, they lack the economic and military muscle to back up their bold proclamations. These clowns do not realize that Europe is no longer a relevant player on the world stage. Russia understands this, which is why it is focused on talking to Donald Trump. Without Washington’s continued support, Ukraine’s ability to sustain the war will be crippled.

There was some interesting political theater in Washington today surrounding the visit of French President Macron. Trump sent him a subtle, but direct message. Watch the video:

 

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Did you catch it? When Macron first arrived he was greeted by a White House staffer. Macron got the message and asked President Trump for a proper photo op. Trump complied, but he had put Macron on notice.

I did my normal Monday routine — started the morning chatting with Nima, followed by the Judge. Most of the time was spent talking about Europe and Ukraine. Enjoy:

SEE VIDEO...

https://sonar21.com/trump-and-europe-fail-to-realize-that-russia-has-a-vote/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

the war continues....

Written by Julian Macfarlane, Tokyo based investigative journalist, writer, author, geopolitical and military analyst

Russia continues to demilitarize the Kiev Regime along the entire contact line.

Kiev has responded with terrorist attacks on civilian sites and infrastructure in Russian Ukraine and Russia itself, as well as is usual atrocities – murdering civilians.

But the war that the US started so many years ago is clearly lost and now the US needs to withdraw— and pretend they had nothing to do with the fiasco. What it wants is Minsk 3.0, which leves most geographic ‘Ukraine” intact— along with the investments of American companies like Blackrock.

It is therefore trying to shift responsibility to Europe, as if this was always Europe’s war instead of theirs. If Trump had wanted, he could have kept the peace by supporting Minsk 2.0 back when . Instead he undermined that agreement, piling on sanctions on Russia and facilitating arms transfers that allowed Ukraine to build Europe’s strongest, best equipped and trained army to carry out a “final solution”, scheduled for 2022,

Let us keep in mind that the peoples of Donbas and Lugansk were resisting the denial or their language and culture by a regime that had seized power illegitimately, and which was trying to enforce its will by shelling civilian centers killing women and children. While the peoples of the DPR and LPR had voted overwhelming for independence, MInsk 2.0 was a compromise — guaranteeing their ethnic rights and local autonomy in a federal system controlled from Kiev.

Kiev was and occupying power – two-thirds of their land—and there wasn’t much they could do, until the Russians recognized their independence and came to their aid in 2022 .

Trump didn’t care about any of this during his first term.

But now he doesn’t have any choice to accept whatever the Russians offer him.

Trump’s support for democracy

When the US starts talking about “democracy”, you know they are really talking about something else. They don’t care about human rights in Europe – or at home even — and certainly not in Palestine.

The US support for “democracy” in Europe—means support for rightwing populist movements, similar in spirit to Trump’s. They also are as tired of fighting a losing war as he is. That doesn’t mean anything will improve under their rule any more than anything will improve under Trumps. Birds of a feather? Not exactly.

Not all birds are equal.

The European elites had thought they belonged to the American flock. Now they realized they were being raised for slaughter.

The US is doing to Europe what it had hoped to do to Russia in the 20th Century – balkanization and control. Transnational rape.

Europe was once a collection of small ethnically defined kingdoms which became nation states only in the 19th Century. Now it is returning to that state.

https://southfront.press/minsk-3-0-return-to-the-age-of-empires/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.