The world is watching for the peace negotiations promised by you. The world is more concerned about the 1.2 to 1.5 million lost or destroyed Ukrainian lives, and the unknown number of Russian lives, than they are about the $300 B the US has given Ukraine.
Before you put too much hope in getting equivalent wealth back from Ukraine in a commercialized peace deal, remember that most of Ukraine's rare earth resources, about $7.8 trillion dollars worth, sits in the region of eastern Ukraine that is populated with Russians. The Russians already control it.
The remaining wealth of Ukraine is largely agricultural. That is in the west, on land controlled or owned by Cargill, Dupont, and Monsanto.
Prior to any meeting with President Putin, it might be helpful for Gen. Kellogg and your diplomatic staff to study the Austrian State Treaty of1955.
On May 15, 1955, representatives of the governments of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States, and France signed a treaty that granted Austria independence and arranged for the withdrawal of all Soviet occupation forces. These governments signed the agreement with the understanding that the newly independent state of Austria would declare its neutrality, creating a buffer zone between the East and the West. The Austrian State Treaty was the only treaty signed by both the Soviet Union and United States in the decade after the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties, and it marked the only Cold War era withdrawal by the Soviet Union from a territory it occupied. The treaty was honored by the Soviets. Their troops were withdrawn rapidly and efficiently.
Somebody typed a prompt, and a virus came out.
Sixteen of them. Genomes written by artificial intelligence, ordered as synthetic DNA, assembled on a bench, and grown into stocks that replicated and threw off offspring. Thirteen carried mutations that match no known natural sequence. The scientific paper ran in the publication Science, and its senior author disclosed funding from the Gates Foundation.
Six years ago, on April 6, 2020, Bill Gates sat with Trevor Noah and said a vaccine was the only thing that would let us return to normal — and announced that his foundation would start building the factories before anyone had seen efficacy data. Scale during testing, he said, rather than waiting for results. A great many people heard optimism. Some of us heard a schedule.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
"There are times when a people tolerate an evil for so long that they cease to recognize its enormity. The evil acquires procedures, professional language, political constituencies, legal protections and respectable explanations. Eventually bloodshed receives a clinical name, partiality becomes public policy, and injustice—once sufficiently regulated—begins to look almost ordinary."
-- Bill Evans
The @EU_Commission met today with Meta & TikTok on the situation in Ceuta.
"Platforms must act decisively in keeping the integrity of the digital space, in particular during crisis situations. Monitoring must increase, cooperation with fact-checkers to be strengthened."
What has social media been commanded to do? Cover up the fact that 72,000 military aged males invaded Spain over a two day period? Spin the story? Hire fact checkers who say, "Don't believe the misinformation. It was only 72 migrants." What were the orders given to social media regarding the Hungarian election of 2026? What orders are being given to the new puppet government of Hungary by the EU?