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Trump takes spectacular actions to finally ‘stop all the killing’ and corruption in Ukraine war

From LifeSiteNews
By Frank Wright
Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, ‘I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.’
As the Trump Administration moves forward on its promise to end the war in Ukraine, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made a speech defining the “end of an era.”
Speaking ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Hegseth announced the end of the 75-year commitment of the U.S. to finance and supervise European national security.
“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.”
Hegseth said he would not be attending the Munich Security Conference, as he “would much rather talk to troops than go to cocktail parties.” The new Defense Secretary is visiting U.S. troops in Europe instead of meeting NATO leaders.
Following a policy announced three years ago for a U.S. draw down to a “Dormant NATO,” Hegseth said today that the U.S. presence in Europe “will not last forever,” and is coming to an end. Vice President JD Vance, also in Munich and who is attending the conference, today echoed the U.S. drawdown from NATO. The message is clear: peace is breaking out in Europe.
Trump, Putin slated to have immediate peace talks
A phone conversation was held on February 12 between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin with Trump saying right after the call “our respective teams [will] start negotiations immediately.”
As Redacted’s report of February 13 noted, the “warmongers” are in “meltdown” over the prospect of peace – and at Donald Trump’s claims of a far higher death toll and price tag – “350 billion” – than has been made public so far.
Yet, peace in Ukraine will reveal more than the true cost in financial and human terms. It threatens to unravel a vast network of corruption involving every government, politician and propagandist involved in funding and promoting a war which was never really about Ukraine and was always intended to collapse Russia.
Instead, its end may sign the death warrant for the globalist death cult which sponsored it.
USAID-sponsored Politico reports gloom from an irrelevant Olaf Scholz.
The U.K. government’s rabidly pro-war regime has been “sidelined” by the move to peace, and the proudly pro-war German coalition “ignored” as “it will not be in power much longer.” Olaf Scholz’s coalition collapsed two days after Trump’s election victory on November 7.
JD Vance has reportedly snubbed the outgoing German leader, with a U.S. official saying “We don’t need to meet him. He won’t be chancellor long.”
The era that is ending is not only an era of enormous waste but also a permanent war that it funded. As Elon Musk’s DOGE purge has revealed, our media, politics, policies, social movements and even COVID-19 itself have all been sponsored by U.S. taxpayers’ money by a “parasite class” of liberal globalists.
The counterfeit culture sponsored by the Deep State to sell its wars and globalist policies of social revolution is at an end, and NATO was simply the military wing of an attempt to project the power of this agenda worldwide – as this July 2024 piece from Rep. Warren Davidson shows.
“NATO has shifted…” said Davidson, “from a defensive alliance” to one promoting the “globalist consensus.” The U.S., he said, promising a “diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Ukraine,” and an “America-First foreign policy.” He said, “This other nonsense is bankrupting our country financially and morally.”
Americans will no longer be paying for this “nonsense.” They will find out the truth by following the money.
Zelensky: I don’t know where all the money is
Donald Trump has said this week that the true cost to U.S. taxpayers of sponsoring the war in Ukraine is over 350 billion dollars.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine responded to claims he was given 177 billion dollars by the U.S. government. In a startling admission, he not only counters by saying it may in fact be “200 billion dollars,” but adds “It’s true, I do not know where all this money is.”
Zelensky says, “We received 75 billion out of this 177 or 200 billion.”
“That is, 100 billion out of this 177, or 200 some people even say, we have never received.”
Zelensky’s shocking statement began to circulate online on February 3.
Soros-backed “fact checkers” at the Poynter Institute sought to undermine the revelations on February 5, saying the disclosure by Zelensky that a hundred billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer’s money has gone missing is “not evidence of money laundering.”
Soros backs Ukraine corruption
George Soros announced his aim was “the dissolution of the Russian empire” in 2023, adding that regime change in Russia “Would be a big change for the better.”
Soros urged the donation of 50 billion dollars to Ukraine in 2015, following the U.S.-orchestrated Maidan coup of 2014. In the same year, he warned a Russian victory would destabilise the European Union.
He pledged to invest a billion dollars in Ukraine at the 2015 World Economic Forum. and went on to set up an Open Society Foundations fund to provide a further 100 million dollars in 2022.
In May 2024, Soros said, “Our civilization may not survive,” a Russian victory. Yuval Noah Harari, World Economic Forum prophet of transhuman homosexualism, explained whose idea of civilization Soros said was under threat of extinction:
If Russia is allowed to win – that’s the end of the global order we have known for decades.
The end of the globalist order
Another death blow was predicted by Harari.
“If Trump wins in 2024…it is likely to be the death blow to what remains of the global order.”
This global order of permanent war, open borders and LGBTQ has been revealed in the past weeks as a sponsored worldwide regime change operation run by the U.S. Deep State, through agencies such as USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.
Elon Musk’s DOGE purge has uncovered the fact that the U.S. taxpayer has been funding the WEF, with over 68 million dollars disbursed to the globalist bureaucracy by the CIA front group USAID.
People like Harari, along with all the liberal-global governments who sent our money to Ukraine, are rightfully terrified at the end of their corrupt system, which has seen media outlets sponsored to broadcast propaganda about the USAID-funded COVID-19, the mRNA “vaccines” and the Ukraine war, and whose funding networks have promoted global social revolution to destroy traditional cultures across the world – and corrupt our democracies.
Funding your own deception
Many institutions involved in promoting this agenda are connected to the demonization of anyone speaking for peace as a foreign agent of Russia. Of course, the CIA has been backing Ukrainian propaganda efforts, as the New York Times reported in February 2024.
The U.S. and U.K. governments have also been sponsoring a spy network which framed JD Vance, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Candace Owens as “Russian agents of propaganda.”
Carlson has recently claimed that “half the weapons” sent to Ukraine are missing.
This operation, described by Foreign Policy as a “private company” in March 2023, has placed fake news in U.S. and U.K. news outlets has also targeted journalists and commentators such as Max Blumenthal and George Galloway – all of whom feature on a published list of “Enemies of Ukraine” alongside Hungarian President Viktor Orban – and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie.
The group, called Molfar, keeps private dossiers on these “enemies,” which also include critics of the COVID-19 regime of the European Union, as well as counter-globalist commentators.
Responding to a Molfar “dodgy dossier” claiming he was a paid Russian agent, Blumenthal said in July 2022, “The claims made in [Molfar’s] mass email are totally false, as I and the Grayzone do not receive state funding. Unlike the USAID-backed smear factory at Molfar, our support is entirely grassroots and reader-based.”
Molfar is another example of how our money in the West is used to corrupt our news and smear as traitors anyone who questioned the wisdom of all-out war with Russia – or any other globalist policy.
The architect of the fake dossier whose lies dragged the U.S. and U.K. into the 2003 Iraq war, Alastair Campbell, continues to echo claims made by this Deep State propaganda outfit to frame Vance, Musk and President Trump himself as “Russian agents.” This is just one example of the decades-old vicious circle of propaganda and lies whose power will be exposed – and likely end – with the end of the Ukraine war.
US detainee released from Russia
In further good news, Trump’s chief negotiator Steve Witkoff secured the release from Russia of detained U.S. citizen Mark Fogel on February 11, as National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announced.
Waltz described this as a show of “good faith” from the Russians, and “a sign we are moving in the right direction to end the brutal and terrible war in Ukraine.”
This is indeed the end of an era. It is the end of NATO, whose actions started this war. It is the end of the globalist system for which the war was orchestrated – and the ensuing revelations of the corruption in Ukraine and in the former regime of the West spell doom for the old globalist order.
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Obama Dropped Over 26K Bombs Without Congressional Approval

@miss_stacey_ Biden, Clinton, Obama & Harris on Iran #biden #clinton #obama #harris #trump #iran #nuclear
Iran has been the target for decades. Biden, Harris, and Clinton—all the Democrats have said that they would attack Iran if given the opportunity. It appears that Donald Trump is attempting to mitigate a potentially irresolvable situation. As he bluntly told reporters: We basically — we have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f‑‑‑ they’re doing.”
A portion of the nation believes Trump acted like a dictator by attacking Iran without Congressional approval. I explained how former President Barack Obama decimated the War Powers Resolution Act when he decided Libya was overdue for a regime change. The War Powers Act, or War Powers Resolution of 1973, grants the POTUS the ability to send American troops into battle if Congress receives a 48-hour notice. The stipulation here is that troops cannot remain in battle for over 60 days unless Congress authorizes a declaration of war. Congress could also remove US forces at any time by passing a resolution.
Libya is one of seven nations that Obama bombed without Congressional approval, yet no one remembers him as a wartime president, as the United States was not technically at war. Over 26,000 bombs were deployed across 7 nations under his command in 2016 alone. Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, and Pakistan were attacked without a single vote. Donald Trump’s recent orders saw 36 bombs deployed in Iran.
The majority of those bombings happened in Syria, Libya, and Iraq under the premise of targeting extremist groups like ISIS. Drone strikes were carried out across Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan as the Obama Administration accused those nations of hosting al-Qaeda affiliated groups. Coincidentally, USAID was also providing funding to those groups.
The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) was initially implemented to hunt down the Taliban and al-Qaeda after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Obama broadened his interpretation of the AUMF and incorporated newly formed militant groups that were allegedly expanding across the entire Middle East. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism believes there were up to 1,100 civilian casualties in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Thousands of civilians died in Syria and Iraq but the death toll was never calculated. At least 100 innocent people died in the 2016 attacks in Afghanistan alone.
The government will always augment the law for their personal agenda. The War Powers Resolution was ignored and the AUMF was altered. Congress was, however, successful in preventing Obama from putting US troops on the ground and fighting a full-scale war. In 2013, Obama sought congressional approval for military action in Syria but was denied. Obama again attempted to deploy troops in 2015 but was denied. Congress has to redraft the AUMF to specifically prevent Obama from deploying troops in the Middle East. “The authorization… does not authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces on the ground in Syria for the purpose of combat operations.” Obama attempted to redraft the AUMF on his own by insisting he would prohibit “enduring offensive ground combat operations” or long-term deployment of troops. He was met with bipartisan disapproval as both sides believed he was attempting to drag the United States into another unnecessary war.
The United States should not be involved in any of these battles, but here we are. Those living in fear that Donald Trump is a dictator fail to recognize that past leadership had every intention of sending American men and women into battle unilaterally without a single vote cast.
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The Oil Price Spike That Didn’t Happen

From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By David Blackmon
What if they gave an oil price spike and nobody came? That is admittedly kind of a lame play on an old saying about parties, but it’s exactly what has happened over the two weeks since June 12, when Israel launched its initial assault on Iran.
At that day’s close of trading, the domestic U.S. WTI price sat at $68.04 per barrel. As of this writing on June 24, the price stands at $64.50. That’s not just the absence of a price spike, it is the opposite of one, a drop of 5% in just two weeks.
So, what happened? Why didn’t crude prices spike significantly? For such a seemingly complex trading market that is impacted daily by a broad variety of factors, the answer here is surprisingly simple, boiling down to just two key factors.
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- Neither Israel nor the United States made an effort to target Iran’s refining or export infrastructures.
- Despite some tepid, sporadic saber rattling by Iranian officials, they mounted no real effort to block the flow of crude tankers through the region’s critical choke point, the Strait of Hormuz.
Hitting Iran’s infrastructure could have taken its substantial crude exports – which the International Energy Agency estimates to be 1.7 million barrels per day – off the global market, a big hit. Shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of global crude supplies flow every day, would have been a much bigger hit, one that would have set prices on an upward spiral.
But the oil kept flowing, muting the few comparatively small increases in prices which did come about.
Respected analyst David Ramsden-Wood, writing at his “HotTakeOfTheDay” Substack newsletter, summed it up quite well. “Oil is still structurally bearish. U.S. producers are in PR mode—talking up ‘Drill, baby, drill’ while actually slowing down. Capex is flat to declining. Rig counts are down. Shareholders want returns, not growth. So we’re left with this: Tension in the Middle East, no supply impact, and U.S. production that’s quietly rolling over. Oil shrugged.”
There was a time, as recently as 10 years ago, when crude prices would have no doubt rocketed skywards at the news of both the commencement of Israel’s initial June 12 assault on Iran’s military and political targets and of last Saturday’s U.S. bombing operation. In those days, we could have expected crude prices to go as high as $100 per barrel or even higher. Markets used to really react to the “tension in the Middle East” to which Ramsden-Wood refers, in large part, because they had no real way to parse through all the uncertainties such events might create.
Now it’s different. Things have changed. The rise of machine learning, AI and other technological and communications advancements has played a major role.
In the past, a lack of real-time information during any rise in Middle East tensions left traders in the dark for some period of time – often extended periods – about potential impacts on production in the world’s biggest oil producing region. But that is no longer the case. Traders can now gauge potential impacts almost immediately.
That was especially true throughout this most recent upset, due to President Donald Trump’s transparency about everything that was taking place. You were able to know exactly what the U.S. was planning to do or had done just by regularly pressing the “refresh” button at Trump’s Truth Social feed.
Tim Stewart, President of the D.C.-based U.S. Oil and Gas Association, has a term for this. “The Markets are becoming much better at building the ‘47 Variable’ into their short-term models,” he said in an email. “This is not a Republican Administration – it is a Disrupter Administration and disruption happens both ways, so the old playbooks just don’t apply anymore. Traders are taking into account a President who means what he says, and it is best to plan for it.”
Add to all that the reality that a high percentage of crude trading is now conducted via automated, AI-controlled programs, and few trades are any longer made in the dark.
Thus, the world saw a price spike which, despite being widely predicted by many smart people, didn’t happen, and the reasons why are pretty simple.
David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.
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