Debt Rattle March 1 3025
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Giovanni Bellini Pietà 1474 • Zelensky Not Ready For Peace – Trump (RT) • Trump Names Conditions For Resuming Talks With Zelensky (RT) • Ukrain
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 1 3025]“I am so angry. I really hate what DOGE is doing. They are going to cut off the SS benefits of my 235 year old great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather who fought in the War of 1812. What am I going to tell him and his parents?” — The Internet
So what did they slip into Zelensky’s tea to get a nice over-reaction like that. Too, too perfect. Hard to watch. Not that it isn’t real, that’s how he’s been all along, but all timing, the exact things said, the amount, all perfect. Now Ze has to go and have elections. Wot a coincidence! A minute later we have negotiations and peace. More interested in Starmer’s embarrassment.
Speaking of, Duran read the deal. There is no deal. The U.S. now owns everything in the country, for nothing, there are no security guarantees, no arcane levels-of-how-to-compute-the-oil-price that are all standard, with a guy who is only slightly-more-President than a month ago, and then gets I think 50% residuals on mines they don’t help invest or advance…in perpetuity. Like until the heat death of the sun. And an hour later: this. AFTER waving it in front of Starmer.
I guess he’s the world’s best negotiator then! Tippy Top!
Yeah, ‘cause it’s not “real” in the normal sense. As I said, he how pops over to Russia and “Trades” this deal to them for peace. (Plus a fat business deal of “voluntary” exchange, where everyone does NOT kill each other, get rich and goes to Mars) Why? We won’t need to defend an interest we sold to Russia, because we can’t. Ukraine is “Sold” the Russian “sphere of influence” maginot line by the Anglos. Duran puts on their confused face. Me too, that we NEED to do this for people to be dragged to the obvious conclusion is retarded: YOU LOST.
“But there’s tangible fear among US allies in Europe that Trump will settle for any deal with the Russian leader that validates his illegal conquest of about 20% of Ukraine’s territory, sets the table for an even worse war in the future, and tempts Putin to try to bite off another chunk of Europe – perhaps the Baltic states. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/trump-ukraine-zelensky-putin-starmer-analysis/index.html
They’re worried Russia will take Ukraine then squeeze out even the Baltics? Yeah, THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOST. You think elections have consequences? Try wars. They’re talking about NATO leaving, officially or unofficially back to ‘94 borders? Yeah, I understand that now when YOU LOST.
Britain’s France’s plan – I JUST said – “Well we’re going to keep fighting, with the men and guns we don’t have, and putting on the sanctions that don’t work, until we can figure a way to nuke the U.S. and make them fight it for us for free, or until the heat death of the universe, whichever comes first.” No. You won’t. Because that’s not the sort of thing that happens when YOU LOST.
They’re like, “Sure we lost, but that means we win! Everything will be the same now, and we’ll take more!”
No. You won’t. Because YOU LOST. You are all going to lose your jobs now, and hopefully be hung in Calais and Manchester and Frankfurt so this can be over.
On the back end: yes, clues keep coming up we are in the POST WWII era. Nothing true in the 80 year WWII era exists now. No one cares about your WWII era myths. Sargon was on about “Everyone is Churchill now, EVERYONE is Hitler. Get two scoops? You’re Hitler. Fire employees that can’t read email? Hitler. Are Jewish, wear Jewish necklaces supporting Zion like Elon and/or Trump does? Hitler. Are a gay Zion woman in Germany? Hitler.”
YOUR WORDS MEAN NOTHING TO ME. You can say the magic words…FOREVER…and they’re still going home. The war is over.
Nothing from WWII, all your bulls—t PR works anymore. Everyone who ever heard it has died of old age…Pelosi. They are negotiating the NEXT world, the NEXT 80 years, where we have flying cars run by pocket AI on a world-wide local satellite grid, whatever that may mean.
What is DOES mean, though, is EUROPE IS IRRELEVANT. That’s what the Duran says they fear. Without being the psychotic ex of the U.S. they have nothing. Because they have not ten men in their army and have destroyed all their industry, while importing a 50-50 population that BOTH hate them. What are they bringing to the table? More nagging, scolding, and deranged demands for eternal poverty? Ze is their poster child.
YOU LOST. Losing has consequences.
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I wish the best for Europe, but you know your own problems there better than I do and how impossibly long it’s going to take to fix them. As well as WHAT it’s going to take.Luongo St. Onge interview. When you can CHEAT, you don’t care about the other side. Point. You don’t care about the voters. Point. Ah, but YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR OWN VOTERS either, in YOUR OWN PARTY.
Ohhhhhh. Right, like the DNC and Bernie STILL not even a VOTE on Health Care. Now rabidly pro-war, the Cheney-Bush party. You think their Base is for that?
Worse, far worse in Europe. Pressure is far, far higher. Problems are way, way deeper with 30 bombings a month in the BEST places. STILL won’t lift a finger to help them. And they want to dick with France? Have they learned nothing? If France pops a lid, they will tear every politician on the last 30 years out of their Chateaus and burn them in the street, and I’ll cheer. What do you think Germany will do? YOU DID THAT. Everyone told you, Vance just told you, they put Starmer in who did a clampdown on NO protests over those girls BECAUSE they told you. Your plan is more Orwell, more murder. Sobeit. Now the rest of the world is going to space and you’re headed for 30 years of remedial school. …Juvenile Detention.
“If you can’t survive as a country without $20B of our money on bad trade deals, perhaps you’re not a real country” Trump said. And Europe? On TRILLIONS of war dollars and ONE HUNDRED PERCENT trade deals and (auto) tariffs? What do they look like with no NATO bucks? No Back door EuroDollar open checkbook from the Ex-wife?
Well, that’s all DONE DEAL, past tense today. If you thought Vance doing this was something, Ze’s actions sealed it. With Starmer, who’s barely sentient and couldn’t defend a cheese sandwich. We waved off Macron, look we’re too busy for irrelevant nations like France, we have real issues to deal with.
“”Don’t forget that James Comey’s daughter is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and she worked on the Epstein and Maxwell cases. She’s kind of knee-deep in this.”
Yay! Now we can arrest her.
“I did not think it was possible for the Democrats to even get worse messaging than when they attacked the cuts at USAID on the transgender operas in other countries.”
Yeah, that wasn’t the worst. But Democrats are divided on which is worst, so you have to take a number. In any case, it’s just as if the GOP were running them. And the Left is STILL defending it. ACAB! Burn it all down! …Except ALSO don’t look at, hiatus, or fire anyone in the whole government, ESPECIALLY the police.
Don’t – I dunno – throw USAID as a sacrifice tail to save the rest of it, Medicare, SS or something. NOPE. Defend the worse, craziest, most obvious things to the death.
Now: Remember in 2000, etc, Hillary Clinton was inevitable. A done deal, along with war, vaccines, and FEMA camps. Give up all hope, you Pollyannas. Stop fighting.
“WHY Mr. Anderson, WHY do you still fight? Is it because you’ll get something?”
“Because I Choose to.”That’s true here too, with our Black Pills. I won’t name them but they’re Dr. Rich, Celtic, and Aspnaz when he’s not on duty with the IDF. Now that we’ve all come this far, Epstein is real, the budgets are open, everyone stomping us is getting fired…why now MORE THAN EVER is it time to give up! You can end all foreign wars worldwide, but if you changed your name once, why I say, good sir! There are normal sins, and then there are mortal sins that cannot be forgiven! Laying your career down for free speech at the fair odds of being assassinated is one thing, but dying your hair in one place?? Why, I’d rather the United State collapse than live like that.
How about we extend hope enough not to shoot our own side for a change, while they’re charging San Juan Hill? I mean, we’ve tried shooting our own side for 40 years and it didn’t work, what do we have to lose by NOT shooting our side a while?
Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and Socialism is inevitable, remember. Just a year ago. You will eat ze bugs, live in the pod, do what you’re told. This computer model I just invented says so.
“• Trump Names Conditions For Resuming Talks With Zelensky (RT)
Rumor was, CIA handed off Ze to MI6 and France to “Trump proof” the war. That’s why change of pace and style, why nothing happened until Macron there, nothing with Macron until he reads a letter from Starmer, his boss. What a bunch of punks. You’re deeply embarrassing, and I’m embarrassed for you. Can’t we get better supervillains than this? Ones who can use a fork without help?
And yeah, Trump knows Ze’s been handoff, that’s why he acts this way.
“• Ukraine Should Probably Go With New Leadership At This Point (Hanania)
Hanania: takes USAID money. He’s a mole for the side. Don’t make too much of it, but it’s relevant where he’s positioned.
“I’ve been a fan of Zelensky up to this point, but this showed so much incompetence, if not emotional instability,”
Right there. USAID money makes him a friend of Ze until now. This arrangement has cut off US funding for Ukraine and hundreds of congressmen piped up to confirm. O Rly. That was fast.
“• US May Halt All Military Aid To Ukraine – WaPo (TASS)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand our budget balances. Now already, Luongo, “finding $1T in waste and you can ALREADY fund the Federal government on Tariffs “(Which are about $500B)
“• EU’s Kallas Calls For ‘New Leader of Free World’ (RT)
Hey, Kallas, would that “Leader of the Free World” have an “army”? Since 100% of leaders are Churchill, how do you choose?
• Starmer Insists On Deploying British Troops To Ukraine (RT)Suit yourself, Sargon already noted what the British support for that is. What did Trump say? “Best forces, they don’t need us to back them up.”
“And now we find Europe’s neoliberal elites, having war-mongered their way into the Ukraine morass because the Biden regime told them to do so, wandering on the beaches”
Yes. They needed Europe to COMMIT to the punch. To get in DEEP, over their eyeballs, or this s—t would just keep going on. So that takes 4 years of a plausible Biden and a million dead, that’s what it takes. If you did it for real it would be 100 million, Deagle’s Billions, so… You’re an adult military guy, you do the math.
Here I could post the “Times Radio” and Ukraine YouTube that Ukraine is winnin’ the war! Honest! They’ve stopped all Russian FAB bombs, and Ze’s treatment by Trump is shameful! The tide is turning, walls are closing in!
““If Trump had not won the election, pedophilia would have been legalized in the Kamala regime. Indeed, it is likely that Democrat judges would have legalized marriage between women and dogs as “freedom of choice.”
That’s silly. It would have taken at least one more administration before that happened.
“Putin has fought the conflict in the least effective way possible in order to counter the Western propaganda that he had “invaded Ukraine” and Europe would be next.”
Not exactly, but yes. He stayed in the Russian part to minimize casualties and demonstrate Ukraine was coming to him, not that it mattered. But the POINT was with Oreshnik. They had to antagonize Russia enough they would respond with nukes. Any size, battlefield, anything. And to keep lighting up the ICBM radar like the over-horizon system they took out. The entire POINT, of everything, was to have a nuclear war. ...But he started it! What are we, children? IDGAF. Especially if you have a nuclear war I won’t care who started it. Oreshnik made that not workable, and as Starmer, Macron show, they’re still on Plan A. From Brzezinski, 1981. Haven’t changed a word.
Guys? You do know Russians can read English, right?
The ENTIRE WEST are such retards it almost worked anyway.
“Trump was forced to meet all these guys he didn’t want to see, Macron, Starmer, Zelensky. All three wanted to talk only about war. Trump had enough. He wants peace, he wants to talk to Putin.”
How many times in our lifetime – if you’re 80 years old – have you ever heard a President say we wanted Peace? Once? Or Never? “I just want the killing to STOP!” he keeps saying, exasperated. Everyone carries on like he said, “Meow mew meow mew.” WHAT THE F— DOES IT TAKE? For you all to take “Reality” Seriously?
They’re Gone Girl. Reality is not in them. They clocked out as a child and haven’t been back since.
“• Trump Planning Sweeping Cuts To State Department – Politico (RT)No war means we don’t need those war guys. Floated, but now repeated more, Trump wants 50% reduction in Army. Balanced budget right there. I think that conflicts with the present budget which is larger, so that needs to be doubted and watched, we have to get through the transition, but there you are.
“the WI Supreme Court race because a 4-3 liberal majority will redraw Congressional districts to squeeze out 2 GOP seats,”
Yes, but then Trump would release blackmail on two DNC seats.
“75,000 people accepting deferred resignations, bringing the total affected to nearly 100,000.”Half as many as Clinton.
Kunstler: Epstein, Bill Barr, BFF Forevah.
“• Baltic/Black Sea Power Games and Red Lines In A “Strange War” (Pepe Escobar)
Good. Now we can all see, like I said yesterday. Now the VP could go there and tell them to their face. They’re not hiding in moral deniability anymore.
Musk: “Only the Federal government could get away with this …waste.”Exactly why I’m Conservative. And DOESN’T MATTER if it’s stolen or not. As Eisenhower said, money “spent” takes away money for Schools in Missouri. I don’t actually care why it’s wasted, I’M not getting it. That is, not getting the use of my own hours, labor, products. Yes it’s worse if it’s stolen and worse still if used to oppress you, but generally speaking, don’t care.
Next: Like Canada and National Health, when THEY screw it up, there’s no workaround. EVERYTHING in the whole nation is run only by them. There are no alternative, outside-of-system hospitals or doctors. So when it goes, 99% of all service goes, overnight, and everybody dies. It’s no transition. A blitzkrieg of effects you can’t adjust fast enough for. If it’s Kmart going down, a bunch of people can pre-position and mitigate it. When it’s government, they make that illegal usually. Maximum death. And they know it, as we’ve done this in history many times now. It can only be intentional to mass-murder widely.
Wild Horses. Actually, that’s a really nice cover of that.
Checking the winds: “A friend who frequents 4chan regularly tells me the massive amounts of nazi ranting, porn, tranny and inter-racial agitation in the /pol section has disappeared since USAID funding was cut. The thread-sliders/glowies have largely disappeared.
Interesting.”
Here’s another from the internet. How dare you cut government!!!“A friend retired as a high ranking civil servant in the BC Government. He retired early. He had peaked in the Civil Service, had the maximum pension at 58 years of age. So he quit.
He met his coworkers for lunch a few years after, someone else was retiring.
He was shocked! Shocked, I tell you! He said ‘I asked everybody what they were working on and….they were all working on the same issues we had been working on when I retired. Nothing had changed. Nothing had been solved. I went home thinking how incompetent they were and then I realized these were the SAME PROBLEMS we had been working on for the last fifteen years of my career!’
He said ‘William. We all worked so hard. And we did nothing. Nothing! For decades.’ He told me this like ‘you’re not going to believe this, but….’ He was shocked I said ‘Yeah, we all know In business we all know the bureaucracy does nothing but slow down business’.
They can’t solve problems because solving problems is messy If you have a problem it is because the original plan didn’t work well enough. When you ‘fix’ it it likely won’t be a perfect fix. And it will cost way more than you hoped. If you follow the advice of the engineers it will cost you three times what it should. You have to be prepared to override them or st least argue. Likely you will have to come up with the idea that works as it was the engineers that messed it up in the first place.
Bureaucrats are incapable of doing any of that. They have spent 30 years making sure no decision can be hung on them, while at the same time making sure they are positioned to take credit for the parts that went well. They are far safer saying ‘no’ than ‘yes’. They therefore say no as much as possible.
The Bureaucracy exists for the Bureaucracy. Nothing else.”So we reached a point where the managerial state itself doesn’t believe and are clock-punching?
Same ole, Same ole lies from the hypocrites.
Defense Summit is for the benefit of the elites.The people have a + 2,000 year “Holy Book” as proof of what has happened and continues to happen to the people.
Don’t give up Hope.
One day, Lucy will let you kick the football.
Peace
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• Zelensky Not Ready For Peace – Trump (RT)• Trump Names Conditions For Resuming Talks With Zelensky (RT)
Trump said. “We re not looking to go into a 10-year war”.
Trump reiterated that a ceasefire should be the immediate priority, suggesting that Zelensky was unwilling to consider one.
He also noted that, unlike Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems willing to make peace, and insisted that US policy should focus on de-escalation rather than prolonging hostilities.
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Look at all the bubbles• EU’s Kallas Calls For ‘New Leader of Free World’ (RT)
• Starmer Insists On Deploying British Troops To Ukraine (RT)
• Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans (Patrick Lawrence)
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• Trump Planning Sweeping Cuts To State Department – Politico (RT)The Trump administration has said it seeks to reduce government spending, combat bureaucracy, and fight corruption within the country’s agencies, citing high national debt, with the campaign being spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
————• Musk, White House Respond to Reports of 21 DOGE Employees Resigning (ET)
“There is no official tally for the total firings and layoffs to date.
Still, a review of various reports suggests that it is at least 20,000 people, with an additional 75,000 people accepting deferred resignations, bringing the total affected to nearly 100,000.”• Musk, White House Respond to Reports of 21 DOGE Employees Resigning (ET)
Musk, who leads DOGE, responded to the AP report on social media platform X, calling it “fake news” and “propaganda.”
“These were Dem political holdovers who refused to return to the office,” the businessman wrote.
“They would have been fired had they not resigned.
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Epstein Files will reveal the proof/character of the elites.AG Bondi said a whistleblower informed her that the New York office of the FBI and their
counterparts in the Southern District of NY (Manhattan) DOJ offices were hiding “thousands and thousands” of pages evidence and other stuff (videos? photos?) they had been sitting on for years.• From Epstein To Diddy: Spotlight On James Comey’s Prosecutor Daughter (ZH)
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How about a grey pill? Black is all pessimist. White is all optimist. I think I have moved from 40/60 to 30/70. But shade of grey aside. Fight. And not each other. Play out of the Epstein files is going to move my B/W number.
Did you fall for the propaganda?
Russia must be stopped from conquering all of Ukraine, then all of Europe, then USA.
Trump did not.Even if Canada did not declare war, against Russia, it is still called stealing
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/canadas-plans-to-fuel-ukraines-war-effort-with-russian-cash-explained/
Canada’s plans to fuel Ukraine’s war effort with Russian cash, explained
By The Canadian Press
Published: March 01, 2025OTTAWA — Canada is set to take its first steps toward expropriating assets held by the Russian government and sanctioned Russian citizens to help fund Ukraine’s war effort — measures that could test the limits of international law.
Ottawa is promising action soon, after years of leading an international push to use Moscow’s own financial holdings to help Ukraine respond to the full-scale invasion Russia launched in February 2022.
“Canada is really at the forefront of this,” said William Pellerin, an Ottawa-based trade lawyer with the firm McMillan LLP who has advised clients on navigating Ottawa’s sanctions on Russia.
What’s the idea?
Western countries have moved to isolate Russia by, among other things, sanctioning those accused of helping the war continue or profiting from it.States tend to sanction individuals and freeze their accounts in order to change their behaviour. But a new idea has emerged in G7 capitals in recent years — using the cash in frozen accounts, or interest earned on those accounts, to help fund Ukraine’s defence.
Proponents of the idea say it offers a cheaper way to help Ukraine push back the Russians and rebuild its damaged infrastructure.
They also hope inflicting financial pain on Russia can convince it to stop or slow its deadly airstrikes, and deter other countries from launching similar wars.
But critics warn such a move could violate international law and give adversaries an excuse to steal private property.
What’s Canada’s role?
Ottawa has been leading the push among allies to expropriate Russian cash for Ukraine, even though Russian holdings are rare in Canada.The vast majority of the assets held by Russia’s sovereign fund and central bank are in European banks — the same likely holds for sanctioned Russian citizens. Tapping into these funds would require measures by both the European Union and individual countries and there’s no international consensus on how to proceed.
Pellerin said Ottawa wants to take funds from people who have been sanctioned but are not facing criminal charges.
“The EU has never been willing to go that far,” he said, adding that Canada’s allies are more inclined to redirect the interest earned by these accounts to Ukraine.
The World Refugee and Migration Council has called on countries to use expropriated Russian cash to fuel Ukraine’s war effort and has published analyses explaining how Ottawa could do it.
The group’s president, Carleton University professor Fen Osler Hampson, said former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland played a “critical role” in getting American and European officials to mobilize on the idea.“She deserves a lot of credit for having worked hard on that file, and it was not easy,” he said. ( Chrystia Freeland is in conflict of interest.)
What’s the process?
Canada would have to follow a three-step process to put Russian assets to work for Ukraine: freezing, seizing and forfeiting to the Crown.Freezing assets is fairly straightforward. Ottawa simply orders banks to halt transactions involving accounts owned by people listed for sanctions — especially Russian oligarchs — under federal powers that have existed for decades.
The seizing and forfeiting powers are comparatively new — and untested.
“Canada has given itself a new tool where they can then seize, and then forfeit permanently to the Crown, assets of individuals simply because they were themselves sanctioned,” Pellerin said.
That process would see Ottawa issue a cabinet order to seize assets, then ask a provincial superior court to have the assets forfeited to the Crown. At that point, the federal government could send the funds to Ukraine.
Mark Kersten, an international law professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, said it’s “remarkable” that Canada still hasn’t initiated such court proceedings, and still hasn’t explained the delay.
“We have been … listening to the government say on a regular basis, including in Kyiv, that they’re going to do this, that they’re going to get these assets,” said Kersten, who has been researching the process for years.
“The government talks a big game and then apparently is moving at a glacial pace — and not being transparent with the public as to what it’s actually doing and where things stand. And I find that quite frustrating.”
How much money are we talking about?
In its latest update, the RCMP said it had frozen $140 million in assets under Canada’s Russia sanctions as of Jan. 15, and had blocked $317 million in transactions.It’s not clear how much money Russia’s government and its sanctioned citizens hold in Canada.
Russia’s central bank holdings at the beginning of 2022 included roughly $24 billion denominated in Canadian dollars, including bonds, securities and bank deposits.
Pellerin said there’s a widespread belief that Russian officials anticipated sanctions — which would explain why the RCMP has seized such a modest amount.
“The conclusion that you can draw from this, and that I’ve had confirmed to me by different market participants, is that Russia was able to move its assets out of Canada before being sanctioned,” he said.
Most Russian holdings abroad sit in European banks. Canada helped to design a system, announced last summer, which allows Ottawa to use the revenues generated by these accounts in Europe to secure $5 billion in loans for Ukraine.
“That financing is effectively a loan, guaranteed by the interest that is accruing on all these frozen funds everywhere,” Pellerin said, adding that Ottawa could collect revenues from interest on these frozen accounts for years to come.
“If Ukraine cannot repay (the loan), we’re going to take that interest that those investments are earning to pay ourselves back,” he said.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week in Kyiv that Ottawa would disburse half of the $5 billion in loans “in the coming days,” with the rest to follow later.
Is this even legal?
Kersten said Ottawa’s whole plan tests the limits of the international legal doctrine of countermeasures — the idea that non-violent reprisals that are normally illegal can become legal when they’re used in response to a wrong perpetrated by another state.He said allied governments are much more comfortable with the idea of taking accrued interest from frozen accounts than with emptying the accounts.
“States have been really, really hesitant to try to take state assets and turn them over to the Ukrainians,” he said.
Russian Ambassador Oleg Stepanov said Ottawa is violating international norms and noted there are few Russian holdings in Canada.
“Statements claiming that Ottawa might derive revenue from frozen Russian assets amount to sheer disinformation,” he wrote in a media statement. He claimed that any cash sent to Ukraine “will either be burned or stolen outright.”
Kersten said there are “very significant” legal sanctions against seizing private assets held by a person or a corporation that don’t apply to government-owned assets.
What about that plane in Toronto?
On the tarmac at Pearson Airport near Toronto sits a massive Russian cargo plane that has been parked there since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.In June 2023, Ottawa officially seized the aircraft from the company Volga-Dnepr.
In mid-February, the government reissued cabinet orders to clarify the plane’s ownership, pointing to foreign subsidiaries and affiliates of the Russian corporation thought to own the plane.
Pellerin said these steps bring Canada closer to taking full possession the plane and he believes this will happen “imminently.” The company has launched a formal dispute under the bilateral investment agreement signed by Moscow and Canada.
Meanwhile, Ottawa pledged in late 2022 to try to seize roughly $36 million that it believes is held by oligarch Roman Abramovich, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Canada has never launched a court case to obtain those funds. Kersten noted media reports suggest the money actually belongs to an investment fund in the Cayman Islands.
What happens next?
The Liberals promised last spring to introduce legislation that would allow Ottawa to levy a charge against “windfall profits generated on frozen assets held in Canada,” similar to existing European laws.But political gridlock and Parliament prorogation stalled those efforts and killed a Senate bill that sought to strengthen Ottawa’s powers to access cash held by sanctioned foreign states.
Meanwhile, reports — which The Canadian Press could not confirm — suggest that Moscow is open to using US$300 billion of its frozen assets in Europe to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction — if part of that money goes to Russian-occupied regions that Moscow wants to absorb.
Pellerin said that Canada’s restrictions on Russia writ large have implications for companies doing business around the world, given the intertwined nature of the global economy.
“It does have business effects and considerations for Canadian businesses,” he said. “That forces us to be particularly cautious, because at times, our sanctions regime is more aggressive than those of other jurisdictions.”
It takes money to meddles in elections around the world and to promote revolts and war.
National Endowment for Democracy Confirms Its Funding Has Been Suspended, Forcing It To ‘Halt All Partner Support’
The NED is a US-funded organization set up in the 1980s that meddles in elections around the world in the name of ‘promoting democracy’
by Dave DeCamp February 27, 2025 at 5:54 pm ET CategoriesNewsTagsNED
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US-funded organization that meddles in elections and pushes regime change around the world in the name of spreading democracy, has confirmed reports that its funding from the US government has been frozen, forcing it to suspend operations.
( https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/12/trump-suspends-funding-to-the-national-endowment-for-democracy/ )“The [NED] is currently unable to access its Congressionally appropriated funds, which sustain nearly all of its grantmaking and operations. As a result, for the first time in the organization’s four-decade history, it has been unable to meet its obligations and has been forced to suspend support for nearly 2,000 partners worldwide,” the NED said in a statement on Tuesday. ( https://www.ned.org/statement-on-neds-funding-disruption-and-program-suspensions/ )
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“tête-á-tête”
courtesy Hank Kissinger and 9 letters does the job of Prof. Glenn Diessen’s flowery prose. Glenn and Hank both mean private/confidential when they say and mean diplomacy because those learned men know the proles, the ordinary citizen, the rubes, the goyim, the non-LeadersipS class of country folk can’t handle the truth AND some like d or ctzx prefer the comfort of alcoholic stupor, I’d bet.
The truth about the inhumanity of guys labeled diplomats chosen for their emotional stoicism as they discuss the dimensions of tables and number water pitchers before the killing stops.
So give me more High Oval Office Drama and less contrivance, set-up next time.
Take comfort.
Their numbers are Legion.-
tête-á-tête
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The disastrous meeting between Trump and Zelensky demonstrates why sensitive diplomacy should be done behind closed doors and not in front of the public. At such press conferences, one speaks to both the leader of the other country and the public. Both Zelensky and Trump escalated the rhetoric as they were in front of the cameras to win over the public and not appear weak. The need to prioritise the public as the main audience is a wider problem for diplomacy as, for example, the Europeans have for three years refused to engage in basic diplomacy with Russia (that could have reduced the risk of nuclear war) because it can “legitimise” Putin in the eyes of the public. The immense focus on narrative control in international politics makes it even more important to defend diplomacy.
Prof Glenn D
Before covid, I believed the news media.
Now, because I read many source of info. that did not exist.
I am very aware of all the scams that go after seniors.
The scams go after your mind as well as your money.Everybody must be blind (think of elephant example). I see bubbles of reality/illusions
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/the-oval-office-shouting-match-wrap-up.html#more
The Oval Office Shouting Match – Wrap-UpThe first 40 or so minutes of yesterday’s oval office press talk (vid) went quite normal. Questions were asked and replies were given in general form, addressing the public. There was some mild banter. But then a breakdown (vid) occurred:
It was all destroyed when JD Vance, the US vice-president entered the conversation to declare: “The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy.
“We tried the pathway of Joe Biden of thumping our chest and pretending the Potus’s words counted more than Potus’s actions,” he declared.To anyone who has spent time in or around the Ukraine war, such airy talk of “diplomacy” – as if it means anything without hard force to back it up – is exasperatingly naive.
Mr Zelensky should probably have let it slide. But he was not taking it.
“Can I ask you?” he asked, leaning towards Mr Vance.
“Sure,” replied Mr Vance.
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“What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? What do you mean?”It was a mistake.
There followed a barrage of invective about Ukrainian ungratefulness – in front of the world’s media.
For anyone who remembers how the whole Ukraine conflict was initiated by the U.S., the hypocrisy played out here is overwhelming.
How can one, as Trump and Vance do, lament that the war has destroyed Ukraine and led to countless people dying for no good cause and, at the same time, demand that Ukraine be thankful for all the ‘advice’, weapons and money the U.S. has given in first place to drag Ukraine into a war and to wage it.
But Zelenski wasn’t upset about U.S. hypocrisy. He was upset that he was told to make peace.
The bad mood he was in had already festered for some time. In late 2023 Simon Shuster had portrait Zelenski for Time:
On my first day in Kyiv, I asked one member of his circle how the President was feeling. The response came without a second’s hesitation: “Angry.”
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[M]ost of all, Zelensky feels betrayed by his Western allies. They have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it.
But his convictions haven’t changed. Despite the recent setbacks on the battlefield, he does not intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary, his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic. “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”Trump and Vance tried to tell him – Zelenski exploded. Some say this was trap or set up. I and others disagree. It was Trump who wanted the ‘mineral deal’ to be signed. Why would he sabotage that?
It would have been easy for Zelenski to not react to Vance’s interdiction but he instead started a fight. He even might have dreamed of a knock out.
The incident, in full view of the U.S. public, will allow Trump to drop Ukraine as the bad asset that it now is. As I commented yesterday:
What will Trump do now?
Best guess:He will walk away from Ukraine. (No rare earth deal or anything else.)
Europeans will be ignored (Macron had urged him to meet Zelenski —> bad!)
He will make a deal with Russia. Rare earth, lifting sanctions and much more.
There seems to be no regret by Zelenski who has failed to apologize.Meanwhile USAID has stopped repairs of Ukraine’s energy grid. Other U.S. support is highly endangered:
Trump administration press secretary Caroline Leavitt stated that the U.S. will no longer provide military assistance to Ukraine because their priority is peace negotiations. This decision came after the controversy during Zelensky’s visit.
“We are no longer going to just write blank checks for a war in a very distant country without a real, lasting peace,” Leavitt said.Zelenski hopes that Europe will back him. But while some European bots claim to stand by Ukraine they have neither the men, money nor weapons to do so. There is no European unity on it:
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are ‘very unhappy’ they were betrayed by being excluded from tomorrow’s Ukraine summit in London. They ‘have a plan… but they weren’t invited’ – Sky News
Zelenski will have to go – one way or the other. His former advisor, the slimy Oleksy Arestovych, is already offering himself as replacement:Arestovych @arestovych – 14:03 UTC · Mar 1, 2025
– Zelensky is not just proposing war – he’s proposing war without weapons.
He weakened the army (failed 55% of the defense procurement plan), lost U.S. support, and divided the country.
Without him, Ukraine would fight better and make peace faster and more effectively.
I stand for peace.
There is a way out – Zelensky, step down.The Russians are the big winner in this. Ukraine is in a scuffle with its main sponsor. The western alliance has splintered. The enemies’ frontline is falling apart.
Russia is opposed to Trump’s main demand of a cease-fire along the current frontline. But Zelenski is blamed for sabotaging it.
I do not see how Zelenski can escape from this.
Posted by b on March 1, 2025 at 16:18 UTC
More Support for Trump Administration’s Pursuit of Peace in Ukraine
March 1, 2025
Support continues to roll in for the unwavering commitment of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Vance to the American people and the Trump Administration’s relentless pursuit of peace.Speaker Mike Johnson: “Thanks to President Trump – the days of America being taken advantage of and disrespected are OVER. The death and destruction of the Russian-provoked war needs to stop immediately, and only our American President can put these two countries on a path to lasting peace. President Zelenskyy needed to acknowledge that, and accept the extraordinary mineral rights partnership proposal that President Trump put on the table. What we witnessed in the Oval Office today was an American President putting America first.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “The only person on the planet who is actively trying to bring an end to this conflict is named Donald Trump, the President of the United States.”
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz: “It’s not clear that Zelenskyy truly wants to stop the fighting. He came in, even though he was warned not to, determined to litigate all of that … This was the wrong approach, wrong time in history, and definitely the wrong president to try to do this.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: “Thank you @realDonaldTrump for your unwavering leadership in standing up for the interests of the American people, and peace. What you said is absolutely true: Zelensky has been trying to drag the United States into a nuclear war with Russia/WW3 for years now, and no one has called him on it. Thank you, Vice President @JDVance for speaking out so forcefully and clearly, about the necessity of diplomacy.”
UN Ambassador-designate Elise Stefanik: “President Trump will ALWAYS stand up for the American people – especially in the Oval Office. Peace through strength is back on the world stage because of President Trump’s bold and strong leadership.”
Sen. Eric Schmitt: “Zelensky was probably used to talking this way to American leaders. Apparently, no one told him that things have changed. The age of America Last foreign policy is over. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham: “I have never been more proud of the president. I was very proud of JD Vance, standing up for our country.”
CNN’s Scott Jennings: “All Zelenskyy had to do today was put on a tie, show up, smile, say thank you, sign the papers, and have lunch. That’s it — and he couldn’t do that.”
Marc Thiessen: “There was no ambush. Z was set up for success. All he had to do was not get into a public fight and sign the minerals deal. Not hard. A lot of work went into making a successful moment possible and he blew it and then refused to apologize.”
Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: “The way that President Trump defended Americans after YEARS of being fleeced and abused and taken advantage of and taken for granted — millions of American hearts swelled with overflowing pride today to watch President Trump put Zelenskyy in his place.”
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “[Zelenskyy] refuses to recognize the practical reality of this war. It has been going on for years, his countrymen are dying, and the people who have been funding this effort — the American people — are sick and tired of footing this bill.”
Rep. Victoria Spartz: “It’s such a disservice to the Ukrainian people to play hero and politics and trying to increase his rating … Being so insulting to the American people after how much was done by us for Ukraine and for Europe, I can’t believe it.”
Rep. Kevin Hern: “President Trump is determined to end the war in Ukraine. He is determined for the world to get back at peace, as it was when he was in office before.”
Up to 30 foreign instructors were killed at the AFU training ground in the Dnipropetrovsk region
March 1st, 2025The Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on the Novomoskovskiy military training ground in the Dnipropetrovsk region, destroyed the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as up to 30 foreign instructors. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
There was an assassination attempt on Trump? Has anyone else heard about this?
Apparently there’s a guy named “Crooks”? Has anyone interviewed his family or anything? Who is their lawyer?All this comes up because NY Post says there was some sort of accomplice? Who looked just like him? Had weird ears or something? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oAWUUlIMeT8
Huh. You know what would be the weirdest thing? If he were the worst shot in Butler County history and trained with the local FBI. And then those same Homeland guys were swapped into duty only for that day. Only that after that would be if he was related or paid by Blackrock somehow, or the cell phones had been to D.C. for something.
“Yosemite Employees Hang US Flag Upside Down In Budget Cut Backlash
Yup. All the National Parks ceased to exist and are now craters. Their biomes were lifted up like in “Ultron” and hurled into the sun. Who knew that the Government Parks Service were the only thing preventing this. Buffalo Lives matter.
“Canada would have to follow a three-step process to put Russian assets to work for Ukraine: freezing, seizing and forfeiting to the Crown.”
That is, LONDON. Canada’s going to be kicked in the balls to hand the vig to LONDON. Well, that is what vassals are for and we should know.
“For anyone who remembers how the whole Ukraine conflict was initiated by the U.S., the hypocrisy played out here is overwhelming.
How can one, as Trump and Vance do, lament that the war has destroyed Ukraine and led to countless people dying for no good cause and, at the same time, demand that Ukraine be thankful for all the ‘advice’, weapons and money the U.S. has given in first place to drag Ukraine into a war and to wage it.”One: MAKE PEACE YOU FOOLS. When your 20x larger backer surrenders and says “Make Peace” you say “How fast, sir?” Not because you feel like it, but because that’s reality and every second you delay makes your position worse. Second, it was not this administration that did it. I know that sucks, but that’s at least a half reason and it isn’t like he changed his stripes just now when they saw the tide.
Zelensky/ Ukraine
Gonzalo Lira- arrested, tortured, murdered for being a dissenting American Journalist- In Ukraine
Was that theater and preforming Arts?
No it was torture and murder, for not going along with the murder narrative...
Zelensky is a lying sack of shit.
He claims there was a ceasefire to JD that Russia “broke”.
However, there is video footage of him playing dress up soldier on the lines telling Azov scum to stop shelling civilians as he “is the President” and they should stop breaking the ceasefire…the ignored him.
He took the Billions from Biden.…
Dr D.Rich claims-
the ordinary citizen, the rubes, the goyim, the non-LeadersipS class of country folk can’t handle the truth AND some like d or ctzx prefer the comfort of alcoholic stupor, I’d bet.
You bet wrong asshole. I’m sober by choice, no alcohol, weed, prescription pills or any other drugs.
What I no longer have is any patience or tolerance for Leftist Neo-liberals or Rino Neo-cons spewing bs and lies to justify murderous wars of aggression for profit. The US has become a shithole Nation full of poverty and mental illness-
The US Govt has been busy raping children and sending Billions of dollars to other countries, bankrupting the US while profiting themselves. I’m over that bs. Finally an outsider president, Trump, threatens the entire gravy train of destruction…why are you whining? A little too propagandized in the military is my bet about you.
I am completely against the US empire waging wars around the globe, maintaining one thousand military bases, spending trillions on “defense”…while our own Nation rots and self destructs- being abused by our own Govt.
So a resounding fuck you, you fucking mental coward- to lecture me about your version of “truth”. You still getting a govt paycheck for your military “service” hypocrite? All I’ve heard from you is complaints about how f’d up the Navy is, yet you suck that dick hard now don’t you?
I want a peaceful Nation that is not governed by Tyrannical hypocrite politicians, and we all damn well deserve to speak freely no matter how much we disagree. Biden and Obama were horrendous vile sub human filth Presidents. At least Trump and Vance are not pursuing the same tired destructive bs, for that I’m grateful, at least for now.
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Oh Look-
Elon Musk just revealed that the government handed the Navy $12 billion to build new submarines—and not a single submarine was built.
When investigators asked where the money went, Navy officials shrugged and said they had no idea.
Dr D.richy-
Did you want to mock Musk some more about his hat ?
You’re a fucking coward.
What the fuck have YOU ever accomplished in the Navy? Singing songs and swabbing dicks matey?Now back to your lecturing about “truth”…
Presidential election TRUTH-
We, the people were left with 2 options.
– Kamalalala/ Waltz that were coup’d into power by an entire establishment covering for potato Biden.
Kamalalala said she would not do ONE thing different from her predecessor, Biden.or
– Trump/ Vance who the establishment clearly hated and were foaming at the mouth with TDS derangement.
Wow tough choice for a retard I guess. I’m glad Trump won, particularly after the the Covid 19 horror show, not to mention the woke/ dei/ marxist leftist moar war garbage…
It is also very apparent that a high percentage of Americans are seriously retarded, they want to be governed harder by 1984 brave new world psychopathy, they want to not have personal freedom, they want to be obedient subservient cowardly sheep. Sadly they are incapable of enjoying life.
Not me.
So complaining now about what we did not get- Kamala/ Waltz- seems insane.
Sure Trump has his faults- but for fucks sake allow some room, grace and gratitude for what we did not get, rather than constantly whining and complaining that things are not perfect enough.But again, many Americans are just beyond the pale retarded incapable of any discernment, they are miserable stuck creatures, no thanks to that way of life. Funny thing is- I have zero interests in telling others how to live- but they sure as fuck want to control every aspect of your life, including your thoughts.
The mind virus is real, group think, cults, mass formation psychosis- obsessed with making others miserable as themselves. Fuck no.
Triangulation = did CiNC er ah Musk order U.S. troops home from The Ukraine?
Yet?You sound like my aunt, the lush, while taking the money from Lockheed/QTC and pointing the accusatory finger.
Pick better bamboozlers to follow. Or not.Here’s an easy read for The Usuals.
Then watch The Oval Office video again for Triangulation Bush League-style in practice.https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-self/2019/10/triangulation-and-narcissism#1
Bonus:
So ctzx is a teetotaler….my bad bet.
I put the rest of my money on JD’s agitated state and inappropriate decorum came from being Lit.
JD then executed Eric Berne’s LYHF maneuver expertly. Let’s You and Him Fight another essential tool in the arsenal of Alcoholic Game AficionadosAre you sure “you guys” ((JD))) don’t drink?
It, that would explain alot.In the same vein, what has Trump done for Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell that Don hasn’t already done for Trump stalwarts Hegseth, Patel and Tulsei?
And for christ’s sake, take up Lira’s cross with Scottie Ritter:
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There is only one logical explanation for this chain of events. Gonzalo Lira was arrested by the SBU for crimes he himself admits gets people arrested, tortured, and murdered. He is released five days later—unharmed—and immediately allowed to resume the exact same activity that led to arrest in the first place, only this time on a computer and email account controlled by the SBU.
This is a classic “catch and release” scenario
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/gonzalo-lira-the-sbu-and-information
“I’m sober by choice, no alcohol, weed, prescription pills or any other drugs.”
coffee? tea? chocolate? capiscum? sugar?
c’mon, you’re an animal. every animal’s got one…
Okay I let Ritter’s clever nonsense sink in long enough.
So who is Ritter hinting at as the culprit in Lira’s demise?A. SBU Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny
B. SMO/SVO forces
C. CIA
D. Mi6
E. FSB
F. DoD
or none of the above, Scottie blames no one but Lira himself.Read the whole thing.
The way I see it
every country in the west
needs to replace their
globalist liberal government with
nationalist populist government.Trump is attempting this in America
Everyone should develop their own citizens
Read the unwritten rules
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/Addressing the Threat to National Security from Imports of Timber, Lumber
Presidential Actions March 1, 2025Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production
Presidential Actions March 1, 2025If you want a long and excruciating breakdown of each moment with Ze, this is highly accurate:
I don’t think it’s worth the time, and I find the exchange disturbing. Why? Probably because I feel for both Ze and Ukraine, even as they make bad decisions and nothing but unforced errors.
Going over it in minute detail, he’s exhausted, doesn’t speak the language etc, the only thing I get back to is SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH. SOMETHING…and we don’t have to know what…just went off the rails verbally after 40 very standard minutes in the White House. So SHUT YER MOUTH and say, “Well, we’ll need to take up these negotiations more in private, thank you.” Get your translator’s view, whatever you need to do, and take it up rested.
I’ve heard a great saying: “You can’t talk a guy into a sale, but you sure can talk him out.” Maybe salesmen can, but the rest of us can’t. THEY are doing this for some unfathomable reason, talking themselves into sending another $300B and saving Ukraine. Shut yer mouth and let them.The thing with the suit is odd to me, but I agree it’s a sign of respect, especially as for Ze this is all a costume and dress-up. That was true for Churchill too, so? IDGAF about Churchill, it might have cost him billions in war material at the time too and I hope it did. My point looking it over is more mundane as usual: PEOPLE DIDN’T LIKE IT. Last time he was here, he found out people didn’t like the Green Goblin Dress-Up act. These are people you need the good favors of, so all he needs to do to get $300B is wear a suit. …Couldn’t do it.
I don’t know that Musk should wear a suit since he’s an IT employee and may be sleeping on the floor. Do IT guys USUALLY wear suits throughout Federal Government? I don’t think so. And yes, if he wee a 9-5er he probably should be encouraged to do so, but he’s probably a 16h guy who may not know whether he’s doing press in the next 60 minutes. Both events are strictly and entirely practical.
Of course, doesn’t matter what he does or wears, and the Internets are talking about Musk using his child a “A human shield” who only a psychopath can raise, dropping Q-level secrets about how Trump “Isn’t the President”. Errrr….are you guys feeling alright? Did we watch the same Presser? If he wasn’t there, they would use the same vitriol about how he never sees his children, they are all robots, he’s a demonic, heartless woman-breeder, etc. YOUR WORDS MEAN NOTHING TO ME.
As it doesn’t matter WHAT I do or don’t do. The beatings will continue until they accept female POWER over. Raw, ruthless power to name, scold, and OBEY, violent, grinding, senseless power of no point, focused on no purpose except to FEEL, Power. That they won’t submit to the magic words is why they go insane. They have shrugged off their total lack of Power. Demonstrated it, as a woman, not just divorced in public but openly scorned. However, these actors — who are men — essentially have no idea what’s going on, neither do they care at all, which makes it more infuriating. They are tryign to prevent the bankruptcy of the planet, the deaths of 4Billion humans, and WWIII, as Trump got around to reminding Ze as things escalated. Ze, like the woman he is, didn’t care. “What about MEEEEEE????”
YOU. Are Dicking. With World War Three. Buddy. Stop. It.
This goes with Sargon’s rundown about “Having a damned Peace.” WHAT needs to happen to have God- Damned peace where MILLIONS aren’t dying? To the Managerial State, the very thought does not compute. That is why they misread Trump 99 1/2% of the time. IF killing 2,000 Ukrainians a day fits on this spreadsheet and digits go higher, we do that until the sun burns out. Why? Because they’re not human, they have long abdicated all humanity in them. The 3-point shot rule. 3 point stats say 0.001% fewer hoops inside the line, so we remove all the inside 3 points and ruin the game, everyone leaves, empty stadium, everyone hates your guts, cancels their contracts, BUT I GOT THAT ONE POINT! #Winning!!!!!!
For them it’s Putin is evil. Most evilly-evil with evil sauce because we all wrote it down on the monthly report and now no one in the Weekly committee meeting can admit we made a mistake so Disney/Budweiser/Netflix/A million Ukrainians have to die to keep us from having our egos bruised. Trump very clearly is like, “You want me to PUNCH AND INSULT Putin, THEN go try to make a really tough, bad deal? That’s not how it works.” ….Does not compute for them. Literally does not compute, not a single gear turns, not one synapse goes off for them.
How you make deals IS to insult him, ignore him and his country, refuse to talk to him for years, lose everything on your side slowly and predictably, then insult him MORE, work up the 22 nation agreement on OUR side, take years, then present it to the Russians as an ultimatum having never spoken to them, misunderstand them, get offended when they refuse, and so on. THAT is how these Managerial Elite, AI Stand-ins “make Peace”.
…As you can see sine 1995. Peace = War. Because EGO. Men without chests, heartless, soulless machine minds. Robot minions. Like the Matrix, they go on forever because they have no imagination and no way to get one. The Oracle does that.
On the opposite, you can sit down and talk as MEN. That means you talk to people YOU DON’T LIKE. And don’t even want a peace with. That’s the way it goes. And you treat them with RESPECT, even if you don’t want to, because THAT is the way it goes. There is no “relationship” or “negotiation” or “understanding” IF, like Merkel, another dead robot, you are merely going to double-cross every thing you signed as if you never said it. The minute you get up from the table until the sun burns out. Then there is NOOOOOOO Negotiations. O B V I O U S L Y. They cannot conceive of this, and they’ll shoot Trump and burn the planet because of it. Treating anyone with DIGNITY, of another human life, is merely and fundamentally unthinkable to them. That’s the negotiations of Machines, and of Men.
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