Trump is just warming up. That is my view. And unless he is stopped, he will not stop. The same as Putin.

Here are some postings I read online :

Wanna hear a joke?
International law.

Let’s be clear: the Trump Admin is lying to the American people. This has never been about stopping drugs from coming to the US — it’s about grabbing Venezuela’s oil for his billionaire buddies. Trump has put American troops in harm’s way to boost oil company profits. Outrageous.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Trump removed Maduro from power but is refusing to recognize Venezuela’s democratically elected president as the new president. Trump only wants to swap out an anti-American dictator with a pro-Trump dictator in Venezuela so he can take their oil. If you ever wondered what the United States would be like without a functioning Congress or Supreme Court, now you know.

Saddam wasn’t removed for ‘freedom’ – he started selling oil in Euros. Gaddafi wasn’t bombed for ‘human rights’ – he threatened the dollar with a gold-backed African currency. Maduro wasn’t targeted because of ‘democracy’- Venezuela dared to sell oil in Yuan and step outside U.S. financial control. Every time someone messes with the petrodollar, they magically become a dictator overnight. Call it what it is, racketeering with flags. ‘Liberation’ is what they sell to the evening news.

You know America has a huge problem when a quarter of the country went from worshiping GOD to worshiping a mentally unstable pedophile with the intellect of a rotten garden salad.

Mark Kelly is spot on. Like Trump, Nicolás Maduro is a despotic scumbag. By kidnapping Maduro, Trump just made the world infinitely more dangerous. The stupidity of Trump’s attack, kidnapping, occupation, and plundering and pillaging of Venezuela’s oil and natural resources cannot be understated. With Putin and Xi now seeing what they can get away with, the world is horrified.

I’m guessing we’re about to learn Greenland’s prime minister is also a narco-terrorist.

Whoever leaks the unredacted Epstein files in full might just end up saving the entire world.

Hear me out: Maybe it’s the United States that needs a regime change? Believing Trump bombed Venezuela to stop drug trafficking is like believing he redacted the Epstein files to protect the victims.

I have a 5 year old son. I wonder about the world he is going to grow up in. God knows how to guide him. I would like to teach him that honesty is the most important thing. Honest and integrity. But if I look at what is going in the modern world I don’t see much of that. What I do see is greed and bullshit.

Happy new year !

Please God peace comes this year.

“Donald Trump is not just a failure as a President, he is a failure as a human being.”

I read this text below on LinkedIn – I am sharing it here :

Putin called Trump yesterday morning. Said Ukraine hit his house with 91 drones.

Trump believed him. Got angry. Blamed Kyiv.

One problem.

Russia’s own Defense Ministry said 18 drones hit that region. Not 91.

Fourteen residents who live near Valdai told reporters they heard nothing. No explosions. No sirens. No alerts on their phones. Nothing. Zero photos of debris. Zero video. Zero evidence of any kind.

When a journalist asked Trump if maybe the attack never happened, he said “it’s possible too, I guess.”

But he’d already told the world he was furious at Ukraine.

The damage was done in fifteen minutes.

This is the real story everyone is missing.

Russia just ran a live test. They wanted to know if one phone call with zero proof could blow up months of peace negotiations.

It can.

Whatever security guarantees the US promises Ukraine, they now have an expiration date of exactly one Putin phone call. He picks up the phone, invents an attack, plays the victim, and watches the whole thing collapse.

No evidence required. No verification needed. Just vibes and outrage.

This will happen again. I’d bet money we see the exact same play within 90 days, timed to kill whatever deal gets closest to the finish line.

The 91 drones that never existed aren’t the story.

The story is that we just watched a proof of concept for how to destroy Western security commitments using nothing but a telephone and a lie.

And it worked perfectly.

This is how supposedly ironclad “security guarantees for Ukraine” would fall apart: one Russian false-flag operation — or just a lie (why even bother staging anything in this beautiful post-truth world) — and they’re gone.

Back in September of this year the Russians launched a missile into Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers building and attempted to assassinate Ukraine’s Prime Minister in her office. Why wasn’t Trump “very angry” about this?

“Trump isn’t the worst president in American history. Trump is the worst American in American history,”

Here are the facts:
– Russia is the aggressor and the criminal.
– Ukraine is the victim.
– Ukraine wants peace more than anyone.
– Security on the continent is important to Europe. There are very nice highways from the Ukrainian border towards Budapest, perfect for Russian tanks.
– Europe’s strength is in unity.
– Hoping for Putin’s mercy is a bad strategy. Everyone should fasten their seat-belts and rely on common sense.

Until Trump acknowledges that Putin started the war and that he did so without any justifiable cause, Trump can’t be taken seriously when it comes to diplomacy involving Ukraine.

Trump also constantly undermines Zelensky: “He’s always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don’t start a war against somebody that’s 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”

It is hard to take Trump seriously, but yes, he is the President of America, so everyone has to pander to him and his madness. But he is full of shit. And he is not honest. When people talk about corruption in Ukraine they should first look at America. Ukraine’s corruption problems are small potatoes compared with Trump and his family.

“Russians should be the ones to compromise,” Zelensky said, adding that in the current negotiations the US is effectively conveying Russia’s position, as there is no direct dialogue with Moscow. “We don’t have direct dialogue with Russia, and in talks with Americans, they essentially represent the Russian side by relaying their signals, demands, and readiness levels. From our side, we discuss with America both our bilateral security guarantees and our responses to Russian signals. So regarding compromises with Russia, if America or partners apply pressure, and if America wants to end this war as they’re currently demonstrating at high levels, I believe Russians should be the ones to compromise.”

European leaders will be responsible for the even greater catastrophe of Russia’s next war if they do not do everything now to guarantee Ukraine stops Russia. Russia will not stop, unless they are stopped. Why most people don’t see this is beyond me.

The challenge for Russia is that Putin cannot accept any peace that leaves 80% of Ukraine free and able to continue pursuing a European future. That would be seen in Moscow as a Russian defeat of historic proportions. He may agree to a pause – but the war will restart unless steps are taken to secure Ukraine.

The free world on one side, the US on the other :

A closing thought : If Russia isn’t a terrorist state, then who is … ?!

I reckon Paramount buys WB and CNN gets included in the deal. And then under pressure from Trump, all the journalists that Trump doesn’t like at CNN get fired.

I also reckon that 2026 is going to make 2025 look like a walk in the park. Trump is just warming up. No one is stopping him, and he feels he can do whatever he wants.

“In one of the most pathetic and humiliating moments in history, Trump just received a FIFA Peace Prize. They literally invented a “peace prize” to keep him happy after he didn’t receive the actual Nobel Peace Prize. Beyond parody.

At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.”

“When my brother was 3, I used to give him an Xbox controller that wasn’t plugged in – but looked like it was – so he could pretend to play. FIFA doing the same thing to the president is wild.”

“Can’t wait for the FIFA Prize for Literature.”

The joke is still all on us because this maniac is not going anywhere soon.

That former Honduran president who was extradited, tried and convicted in the US for aiding drug traffickers receives a pardon from Trump and at the same time the US is blowing up boats by Venezuela that are said to be drug traffickers. It doesn’t add up. And just now Netanyahu will get a pardon, well, because Trump has normalized this.

So many people say “follow the money”. Trump is all about money and he and his greedy family are all in. There is now friction with Nigeria, and, well, they have oil. Venezuela is the oil motherload. And as for Russia and their war in Ukraine, well, Trump and his family are clearly doing everything they can to help Russia, and they think (stupidly) there is a lot of money to be made. All of this while Ukraine, who are the victims here, are told to accept this nonsense peace plan, and that’s it. Where is the morality in the world … ???

The war in Ukraine is the biggest threat to Europe since the EU’s creation. Lagarde and Belgium have their heads in the sand. If only Belgium’s PM and the rest of Europe’s leaders defended Ukraine’s children with as much conviction as they defend Russia’s frozen assets. And then there is Trump, who blames President Biden, not Vladimir Putin, for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

From what I can see Europe is pretty much doing business as usual with Russia. The fact that almost wherever you go in the world there are Russians on holiday means that all of these sanction and restrictions are window dressing. If Russia does attack the Baltic countries then the only country they will be able to count on is Ukraine. Yup, we can forget about America as Trump is insane. The US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed and this makes no sense. Here is Trump’s plan: Russia destroys Ukraine, Europe has to pay for the reconstruction, and Trump and his family/friends does business with the Russians.

It seems some Europeans are afraid of the wrong thing. “Russia goes nuclear” is not the worst-case scenario. Russian occupation is. This is 10 times scarier than a nuclear bomb.

The current nonsense negotiations are designed to prevent stronger actions against Russia with the excuse that such measures could hurt the so-called peace plan. Senator Graham’s sanctions bill goes nowhere, weapons aren’t sent, and Europe has another excuse to talk instead of act.

There was never any intention from Russia to settle this war. Russia’s entire aim is to derail the oil sanctions that had been tee’d up and also, to mess up the EU plan to transfer the Russian frozen assets to Ukraine. As a result of these so called “peace negotiations” both of these serious consequences have been kicked into the long grass. Putin is happy and Trump will say “we can’t impose sanctions on Russia while we’re trying to get peace”. And he will lean heavily on the EU to not confiscate the frozen assets so they don’t “derail these productive negotiations”. For anyone who understands what Russia cares about, this whole thing is so obvious. America and the West got played by Putin. And, sadly, the Russian terrorism against innocent Ukrainians will continue.

If Europe gives back the Russian frozen assets, it will be pretty ironic when Russia uses that money to rebuild its military and attack Europe.

Ukraine also has the corruption issue that is not helping. And it is getting way too much airtime, thanks to Russian propaganda. Yes, it is not a good thing, and Zelensky is feeling the heat, but the real issue is still Russian aggression. The war is the way bigger problem.

I can’t see Ukraine giving in to these insane and unfair demands that Trump and his merry men are driving. I can’t see the war ending any time soon. It is one big tragedy and evil is on the rise. Trump and Putin are disgusting, and if they both left this world I think everyone I know would celebrate.

I will bet he gets off. This is the new normal thanks to the Trumpster.

Fareed is spot on. Trump has normalized this. God knows when this madness will end. Seems it won’t. Greed is the reason.

I read a good piece of writing on LinkedIn recently. I am cutting and pasting it here.

The paradox of Putin’s Russia isn’t that it fears the West, it thrives off it. London, Paris, Zurich, cities criticised as ‘decadent’ are where Russia’s elite send their money, educate their children, and secure their futures.

Russia’s influence in the West isn’t hidden; it’s quieter, more intentional. Since 2016, individuals linked to the Kremlin or state corruption have funneled over £1.5 billion into UK real estate, turning parts of Westminster and Kensington into safety deposit boxes in white stone. Eaton Square is nicknamed ‘Red Square’.

London has always attracted global wealth from Americans, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Ukrainian investors alike. That isn’t new. But there’s a difference between those seeking stability and those who insulate themselves from systems they exploit. Russia’s elite do both: denouncing the West in public while relying on it in private.

The reach goes further. Over the last five years, British universities have accepted millions from Russian donors. The same names appear on think-tank boards and cultural foundations. The influence is rarely overt, it seeps in through proximity and prestige, not policy.

Online, the strategies are just as calculated. Narratives spread across social media, questioning Ukraine’s integrity or Western support, not to persuade but to create doubt and weaken conviction. Support for Ukraine remains strong, but domestic fatigue is growing and distraction is part of the strategy.

Then there’s the hypocrisy. The loudest critics of Western ‘decadence’ quietly build lives within it. Lavrov’s stepdaughter bought a £4.4 million Kensington flat at 21. Before Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, thousands of Russian children, many from elite families, attended Britain’s best schools. They seek ‘the rule of law in London’ that they deny at home, the same rule of law Ukraine is fighting to retain.

Consider Vladimir Solovyov, who calls for nuclear strikes on Ukraine while owning a villa on Lake Como. When sanctions took it from him, he decried Europe’s ‘persecution’, discovering his newfound respect for Western rights only when his wealth was threatened.

This reveals more than corruption, it reflects a deeper issue. The systems defining democratic societies, our markets, institutions, and freedoms, can be exploited. We’ve long valued openness. Moscow sees it as leverage.

Ukraine is fighting for its freedom and its liberty. Its struggle shows how easily comfort can dull vigilance, and how disinformation can slowly erode resolve.

So the question isn’t just how to counter Russian influence but how to restore confidence in the values that justify resisting it. When power mocks freedom yet shelters under it, the problem lies not only in their cynicism but in our complacency.

Then there is this piece I read in the Kyiv Independent also recently about a specific column on Ukraine by Roger Boyes, diplomatic editor of The Times of London, entitled, rather undiplomatically, “I hate to say it, but Kyiv won’t last till spring.” The KI journalist was spot when she said that this is cruel and irresponsible, knowing one is speaking about the lives of several millions of people living in Kyiv. “Perhaps it was the questionable professionalism of the author, who seemed not to have a very good grasp on events, judging from his arguments.”

The Times journalist went on, “…the critical question facing the West: is there anything worth fighting for?” The KI journalist further wrote, “I won’t judge the immorality of this open-ended question, but I will judge its inexcusable short-sightedness. If an educated British man, who presumably isn’t an idiot and isn’t paid by Russia, doesn’t see the point of fighting against Russian aggression, it means he’s taking his freedoms for granted. Fortunately, many of his compatriots don’t.”