Tuesday, 4 March 2025

A day of Infamy

A day of Infamy

Trump’s ego bruised so he lets Ukraine die

Ukraine is dying

And Trump just wants to steal their Rare Earth

A blockage of Money and Bitcoin too

would end it all in a month

BUT Trump wants to act as Midwife

and all he produces is Death

PUTIN is the Invader

Would Trump give away Florida and Alaska and California

For “Peace”

Its easy when it’s not your Country

SHAME

So Everybody Pray, Putin is beat fast

Because Trump has ran away

me in lourdes 30+ years ago

Leave

Monday, 3 March 2025

Give Ukraine all the Frozen Russian money, Reparations for all the damage

Give all the money to UKRAINE then Putin will Fall


UK-France tensions over plan to seize $350bn Russia assets for US arms

Macron fears approach would breach principle of immunity of sovereign assets and undermine efforts to strengthen European defence

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editorMon 3 Mar 2025 18.11 GMTShare

Tensions have surfaced between France and the UK over whether $350bn of frozen Russian assets can be seized and then offered to the US to buy defence equipment, binding America closer to the defence of Europe.

The UK’s willingness to seize the assets is longstanding, but its position has become more pronounced in recent weeks, with a high-level endorsement by the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy. The proposal has also had the support of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

However, in common with the European Central Bank and Germany, Emmanuel Macron opposes the move over fears that it would breach the principle of the immunity of sovereign assets and thereby have a deterrent effect on investment in the eurozone area by countries like Saudi Arabia and China.

HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier leads a 15-ship formation as jets fly past during an exercise.

Speaking alongside Trump last week, the French president said: “We have $250bn frozen Russian assets in Europe, but this does not belong to us so they are frozen. If at the end of the day in the negotiation we would have with Russia, they are ready to give it to us, super.” Macron has also long argued that Europe must end its reliance on US weapons for its defence, and feels vindicated by Donald Trump’s treatment of Ukraine. He would also be reluctant to see frozen Russian assets being used to boost the US defence industry, as opposed to strengthening the ability of Europe to protect Ukraine.

When he was UK foreign secretary, David Cameron repeatedly said he instinctively favoured seizing the assets, arguing there was little practical difference since the UK was already committed to not returning the frozen assets to Russia until Russia had paid war reparations to Ukraine.

The Guardian understands there is some tension over the assets question between the UK and France, which have committed to leading a “coalition of the willing” to help end the fighting in Ukraine.

Inside the EU the Czech Republic, Estonia and Poland have been the strongest supporters of seizing the assets and not just using the interest to secure loans for Ukraine.

The assets question has become more urgent as Europe casts around for a means of keeping Trump from entirely withdrawing US support for Ukraine. The UK and France have both said some sort of US security guarantee is required for them to send peacekeeping forces into Ukraine.

The European Union is to discuss relaxing rules on defence spending at a summit this week.

A proposal for a large part of the Russian assets to be spent on the US defence industry is seen as the kind of offer that might make Trump change course.

Disagreements over the feasibility of the proposal stem from differing opinions over whether Trump would take up the offer, and whether it would undermine the need to build a European defence industry independent of the US. France has been frustrated since the war began that EU countries have only ordered 22% of their military equipment from Europe, with the majority coming from the US.

Macron has focused on raising defence spending inside Nato to 3.5% of GDP, with the funding coming from a variety of sources including unused EU cohesion funds, a joint defence bond or increases in national defence spending. In a weekend interview with Le Figaro he admitted it might take a decade for Europe to become fully self-reliant as a defence force.skip past newsletter promotion

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The UK’s commitment to maintaining the transatlantic alliance has been underlined by it arguing that the stalled raw minerals agreement between Ukraine and the US will have to be revived, and probably on terms that make it appear more favourable to the US. The aim would be to let Trump feel vindication for his showdown with Zelenskyy in the White House on Friday.

The near two-year debate in the UK and across Europe about the legality and wisdom of seizing Russian state assets was given a boost last week when the former Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak argued the legal challenges to seizure can be overcome.

Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend the European leaders' summit in London.

Writing in the Economist, he argued: “Russia’s brutal assault on Ukraine has so violated the principle of ‘sovereign equality’- that all states have a duty to respect the territorial integrity and political independence of other states – that it is hard to see how this concept can be invoked to stop these assets from being seized.”

It is estimated about $240bn of the Russian frozen assets are in the EU, up to $28bn to $30bn in the UK and the rest elsewhere.

The UK former national security adviser Lord Ricketts has argued France and the UK can avoid tensions by handing the assets to Ukraine. He said if the UK and EU agreed to raise a large fund of up to €100bn using frozen Russian assets it would be possible for Ukraine to buy arms from both European suppliers, but also large quantities from the US, creating a double win.

Give the money to Ukraine in reparations for the 500 billion worth of Damage

Then the Russian Czars will remove Putin immediately

and then you’ll have Peace very fast

Finally got up, been hiding from Tinnitus

Finally got up, been hiding in bed from Tinnitus

the sound of embers burning in my head, after a fire has been extinguished

it's so horrible

not just the thought of being in bed with me

the tinnitus

its worse that all the pain I get daily

anyway

USA and France you are the big readers now

Is it the Press Corps

or am I a guilty pleasure on the West Wing

Will Trump proclaim himself King tomorrow

I pray he changes like Saul on the road to Damascus

Putin is EVIL no two ways about it

CUT OFF ALL THE MONEY

and he'll fold

if you want the card playing metaphor

100% no Money, no back door Bitcoin

Cut it all off

Cos

Moscow Czars love money more than anything

So Putin will be thrown out with the bath water

Garde de L'eau as the say

Rouen le pot de Normandie

was another expression

And Normandy 1944 is remembered for a reason


the student side of my study


and this is the rest of it


Sunday, 2 March 2025

For the Press Corps Sanity in USA

 You must have heard about

10. points where was that line come from

Bible maybe, where he started and went about preaching

am I right or are you all unwashed Heathens 

Unwashed Heathens

Why did you not wear a suit

20. points where did that line come from

Where are you now

30. points for Hiding in Vermont on a Skiing holiday

and where are you little man

Trying to save my country from being slaughtered

and having its resources stolen from an aggressor

40.points who is the aggressor  

Do I have to give you a hint

The one that invaded

Do you need another clue

The one who has an Evil Empire

NO NOT LUKE SKYWALKER

For God's Sake

And on it goes

IGNORANCE

Does a doctor refuse to road traffic victim 

If they are not wearing a tie?

911

do you remember

what did Trump do then?

Who came to the defence of USA

NATO came , Article 5 was activated

Now, to Hell with them is all he can say

as he walks on the fairway 

You keep the enemy far away

that's why you help defend across the sea

or is he too busy with his holes in one

AND ON IT GOES

Churchill was all alone

now Europe is too

I believe the word of the KGB

where is the sanity

We've seen all his picks, half wits

and %%%% lickers

Is he deliberately weakening the USA

or just wants to make sure we won't be impeached

or have a Cabinet sack him

So guys in the bunker

Just read my stuff

171 countries have so far

even Kyrgyzstan today and 12 different languages downloaded today

no doubt because it is free to read

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So there you all go, somebody is reading me big time in USA

it might be all the Press Corps cowering in the toilets

waiting for Trump to pass

I recommend a plumber...

oh I forgot who is your neighbour JD

will he have a skiing holiday or will he be dodging bombs in his garden



rely on your mother and your friends with rosaries, only they are prepared to defend you

May Peace be Upon all the world


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