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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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“Evacuate”: Netanyahu Warns Tehran as Israel Expands Strikes on Iran’s Military Command

Sam Cooper
As President Donald J. Trump opened meetings with Western leaders at the G7 summit in Alberta early Monday, multiple reports signaled a dramatic escalation in Israel’s military campaign against Iran—a broader and potentially more lethal phase of the conflict. In a televised address, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged citizens of Tehran to “evacuate,” confirming Israeli aircraft were operating deep inside Iranian airspace. Meanwhile, as U.S. military assets approach the Middle East by sea and air, Trump issued a stark warning to Iran’s leadership, cautioning against any retaliation targeting U.S. military assets in the region.
“We are telling the citizens of Tehran: evacuate,” Netanyahu reportedly declared from a secure facility beneath Tel Aviv. “We are taking action to eliminate the existential threat posed by Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile program.”
Trump, speaking from Calgary hours before his closed-door G7 meetings, warned that any attack on U.S. military personnel or facilities “would be met with overwhelming force,” according to statements confirmed by Reuters.
The warnings accompanied a new wave of Israeli airstrikes early Monday targeting underground missile facilities, command bunkers, and air defense batteries across central Iran. Reuters, citing Israeli military officials, confirmed that dozens of warplanes were involved in the overnight operation, striking missile storage sites near Qom and key military complexes southwest of Tehran.
Israel also said it had struck the Tehran command center of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in what The New York Times and Reuters described as a major escalation in the deadliest confrontation between the two countries to date. Analysts note the Quds Force plays a central role in organizing the Iranian regime’s network of regional proxy militias.
Now in its fourth day, the conflict has claimed at least 224 lives in Iran and more than 20 in Israel, with thousands wounded. Israeli officials said eight people were killed in Monday’s strikes alone.
Iran’s Health Ministry reported more than 1,400 wounded, while Israeli authorities said some 600 have been injured since hostilities began.
Meanwhile, President Trump reportedly rejected an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three U.S. officials told CBS according to BBC, in a report published Sunday. Trump reportedly told Netanyahu the plan was “not a good idea,” and the conversation is said to have taken place after Israel launched its first strike on Friday.
Unverified reports on Monday suggested that Iranian leaders may be seeking a diplomatic exit from the conflict by pledging to halt nuclear enrichment—but are also searching for a face-saving mechanism that would allow them to preserve regime legitimacy. These claims have not been confirmed by U.S. or Israeli intelligence but are circulating among regional analysts.
BBC News, citing regional correspondents and satellite imagery, reported sustained Israeli bombardments along a corridor stretching from Esfahan to the outskirts of Tehran. Footage broadcast by Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency showed thick plumes of black smoke rising from industrial zones in Kermanshah and explosions near known missile research installations long suspected by Western governments of contributing to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Iranian authorities, while acknowledging the scale of the attacks, have characterized them as “limited,” claiming that their air defense systems intercepted many incoming missiles.
According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. early warning systems detected a flurry of retaliatory missile activity inside western Iran shortly after the Israeli strikes began. However, no launches were confirmed—fueling speculation that Iran’s top leadership is seeking to avoid a direct confrontation with the United States or Israel at this stage.
Still, the risks of an expanding war remain acute. U.S. Central Command has confirmed that naval and air assets—including carrier strike groups and long-range bombers—have been repositioned to heightened readiness levels across the Persian Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean.
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One dead, over 60 injured after Iranian missiles pierce Iron Dome

MxM News
Quick Hit:
Iran launched four waves of missile attacks Friday night, breaching Israel’s defenses and killing at least one person. Over 60 others were injured, with the IDF confirming direct strikes on civilian areas in Tel Aviv and central Israel.
Key Details:
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The Israel Defense Forces reported four rounds of Iranian missile fire, with at least ten missiles making impact inside Israel.
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One person was killed and 63 wounded, including several in critical condition, according to The Jerusalem Post.
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The IDF said Iran deliberately targeted civilians, contrasting its own earlier strikes that focused on Iranian military assets.
⚠️RAW FOOTAGE: Iran launched multiple ballistic missiles toward Israel in the past hours.
The IDF cannot, and will not, allow Iran to attack our civilians. pic.twitter.com/IrDK05uErm
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 13, 2025
Diving Deeper:
Several Iranian missiles broke through Israel’s air defenses during Friday night’s attack, striking Tel Aviv and other civilian areas. According to The Jerusalem Post, at least 63 people were wounded and one person was killed after four waves of Iranian ballistic missile strikes hit cities across Israel.
The IDF reportedly said roughly 100 missiles were fired in total. While the Iron Dome intercepted many, multiple missiles made it through and exploded in densely populated areas. Dramatic video showed a missile striking near downtown Tel Aviv, sending fire and debris into the air as people ran for cover.
Army Radio confirmed that ten missiles landed inside Israel between the first two waves. By the time the third and fourth waves hit, injuries had climbed sharply, with several listed in critical condition. The one fatality was reported late Friday night.
The Israeli Home Front Command temporarily allowed civilians to exit shelters but quickly reversed that guidance, urging residents to stay near protected areas amid fears of further attacks.
The IDF emphasized the nature of the targets, calling out Iran for targeting civilians. The IDF also released maps showing where air raid sirens were triggered throughout the night. Though Israel’s Home Front Command briefly allowed civilians to exit shelters, it advised them to remain nearby in case of continued strikes. As of late Friday, Iranian officials claimed a fifth wave could follow.
With tensions still high, Israeli defense officials are preparing for potential further escalation—and weighing how to respond to a direct Iranian attack on civilians.
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