Financial Times:

The US will provide Ukraine with new intelligence to help guide long-range missile and drone strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, a move that marks an escalation in Washington’s role in the war.

Yet another stupid escalation by the dumb Neocon Trump Administration. We knew this was coming. And we know that it will not change the fact that Russia won this war as soon as we started it.

Military Times:

The two-week deadline that President Donald Trump gave Russian President Vladimir Putin to make a peace deal with Ukraine ended Thursday, with Russia showing no signs of stopping the violence as Western leaders pushed for additional security guarantees for Ukraine.

Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron by phone Thursday following a Paris meeting on the so-called “coalition of the willing” to support Ukraine.

Another dumbass Neocon Trump Administration deadline for Russia to voluntarily lose the war we started and lost against them in Ukraine has come and gone. With our stupid little EUro-peons ramping up their idiotic “coalition of the willing” bullcrap, threatening a 26-state invasion force to shore up our proxy army under the cover of US air support, Russia has no reason to stop fighting. And so the war will continue, Ukraine will continue losing territory, and the Ukrainians will continue dying for nothing.

See also: Trump Administration To End Security Programs Protecting European Allies From Russia

Newsweek:

On July 14, the U.S. president threatened “secondary tariffs” on Russia if Putin did not agree to a deal to end the war in the 50-day timeframe which has just ended.

Since then, Trump revised down the deadline to 10-12 days and there has been a meeting between the U.S. and Russian leaders in Alaska. However, the White House has not announced any economic measures to punish Putin directly linked to not meeting the deadline.

When Trump stupidly issued his dumb 50-day ultimatum, I wrote that “…he effectively gave himself fifty days to back down. Russia will not be intimidated, our sanctions are never going to collapse their economy…”

According to Reuters:

The complex web of Western sanctions targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry has failed to impede Moscow’s energy flows or its war effort, suggesting that time and overuse are blunting the force of U.S. and European financial weapons.

Too bad there is no one with even an ounce of sense in control of US foreign policy.

See also:
–Trump Pushes India Closer To China And Russia, Adding To His Diplomatic Failures
–Russia And China Bless Vast New Power Of Siberia 2 Pipeline, Gazprom Says
–Europe Left In The Cold As Russia Deepens Gas Ties With China
–Putin Says Trump Administration Is Listening To Russia’s Arguments On Ukraine War

Newsweek:

Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Whitaker said: “We’re giving some deeper strike capabilities and most likely the Ukrainians are going to use them and that obviously is much different from what Joe Biden did.”

It is unclear what capabilities or weapons systems Whitaker was referring to. Ukraine has repeatedly requested permission to use U.S.-supplied weapons systems to hit targets farther into Russia.

The Joe Biden administration greenlit Kyiv’s use of American Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles as it left office last year. ATACMS have a range of roughly 190 miles.

Kyiv had long clamored for permission to use long-range Western weaponry far across the border. Ukraine instead turned to its homegrown drones to strike hundreds of miles into Russian territory.

The Neocon Trump Administration’s idiotic quest to escalate our way out of the strategic defeat we earned in Ukraine by re-authorizing long-range strikes into Russia is just as stupid as it is unnecessary. Hoping to force the Russians to let us freeze the conflict with a dumbass ceasefire so that Ukraine can be a constant thorn in our eye for the next century, the Neocon Trump Administration has once again set themselves up for another humiliating failure.

Russia has escalation dominance. They will handle whatever we throw at them. The only thing we can do to end this war is accept the fact that the US/EU/NATO axis of evil has lost. When that happens, and the US taxpayers’ looted treasure stops flowing, the Ukrainians can stop dying for our lost cause.

See also:
–Russia Wages Non-Stop Offensive Along Ukraine Front Line, Says Military Chief
–EU’s Kallas Says Russia Won’t Get Frozen Assets Back Without Paying Reparations
–Russia’s Putin Denounces Financial ‘Neo-Colonialism’ On Eve Of China Visit
–An Indo-Pacific Expert Explains The Importance Of The Russia-China Security Summit

Reuters:

U.S. President Donald Trump renewed a threat to impose sanctions on Russia on Friday if there is no progress toward a peaceful settlement in Ukraine in two weeks, showing frustration at Moscow a week after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Trump cannot threaten his way out of his strategic defeat in Ukraine. It was not his war, the Globalists lost it as soon as they started it, his dumb Neocon administration stupidly took full possession of the defeat upon their inauguration, and now they all have to eat a shit sandwich. It did not have to be this way, but POTUS apparently did something disgusting on Epstein Island. And so the Ukrainians will just have to keep dying for nothing.

See also: Russia’s Foreign Minister Says No Putin-Zelenskyy Summit Planned Despite Trump’s Peace Push

CNN:

A host of key European leaders will join Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky when he meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, marking a significant change in format from his disastrous Oval Office sit-down earlier this year.

If the POTUS was an actual American, we would laser their planes out of the sky. Could you imagine the Founding Fathers in this situation; a bunch of European bozos coming over to demand that the taxpayers be looted and our own troops imperiled to secure the designs of shady foreign Globalists upon the world?

The Neocon idiot Little Marco Rubio “says both Russia and Ukraine ‘have to make concessions,’” but that is stupid because Russia won the war long ago, and Russia holds all the cards right now. The Neocon idiot Lady Lindsey says that if Russia doesn’t make concessions, “we’re going to destroy the Russian economy,” but that is stupid because everything we have tried to undermine the Russian economy has backfired. She is also threatening a “bill designating Russia [a] state sponsor of terror over [the] kidnapping of Ukrainian children,” recycling the old dumb tired propaganda that Russia’s orderly evacuation of children from an active war zone is a bad thing. The Zionist Steve Witkoff “claims Russia agreed to ‘Article 5-like’ security guarantees for Ukraine,” but his allegiances are foreign, nothing he says can be trusted, and it is hard to imagine how “Article 5-like security guarantees” would happen any time soon. And what would be the point of offering such guarantees to a non-NATO country anyway–apart from serving as a trip-wire to reignite the conflict just as soon as these idiots delude themselves into believing they have the upper hand?

Russia will have to keep grinding down the US/EU/NATO proxy army in Ukraine until POTUS gets a clue. Until he stops listening to anti-American ideologues, Ukrainians will continue dying for nothing.

AP News:

“We had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to,” Trump said. “And there are just a very few that are left. Some are not that significant. One is probably the most significant, but we have a very good chance of getting there.”

I did not want to make any predictions about today’s meeting, because I was convinced that POTUS would do something stupid like capture or assassinate Putin. But if I could make a prediction about the results of the meeting, I would say that nothing is going to change. The Neocon Trump Administration will continue fruitlessly attempting to freeze our long-lost war with a ceasefire, the Russians will continue grinding down the US/EU/NATO proxy army in Ukraine, and our puppet government in Kiev will continue losing territory.

News18:

US President Donald Trump ordered two nuclear submarines to be deployed to “appropriate regions” in response to “highly provocative” remarks made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now the Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council and a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

To be clear, Medvedev made zero “provocative” remarks. Russia’s “Dead Hand” is an automated response to a US/NATO first strike. The only way Russia’s Dead Hand could threaten us is if we have already started Nuclear World War III.

Once again, the Russians have epically trolled the POTUS.

The Guardian:

Kyiv has proposed to Moscow a new round of peace talks next week, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, after negotiations stalled in early June.

Two rounds of talks in Istanbul between Moscow and Kyiv failed to result in any progress towards a ceasefire, instead yielding large-scale prisoner exchanges and deals to return the bodies of killed soldiers.

“Security council secretary [Rustem] Umerov also reported that he had proposed the next meeting with the Russian side for next week,” Zelenskyy said in his evening address to the country.

“The momentum of the negotiations must be stepped up,” he added.

Zelenskyy reiterated his readiness to have a face-to-face meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. “A meeting at the leadership level is needed to truly ensure peace – lasting peace,” he said.

A “meeting at the leadership level” would be a meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump–because Zelensky is just a sock puppet. But it does not seem like Trump really has a handle on anything happening in the world, anyway.

What is the angle that Zelensky is trying to work here? Is this merely a reflection of the fact that we understand our proxy army is collapsing while Russian momentum is increasing?

Condoleeza Rice says that Trump’s total betrayal of MAGA is the turning point. She also thought the Iraq war was a great idea, so take that with a grain of salt.

See also: Russia Makes Gains In Ukraine In Summer Offensive

Al Jazeera:

On July 14, United States President Donald Trump teased a sea change in his approach to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Trump declared he would send significant additional air defence units to Ukraine, whose cities are now subject to an average onslaught of more than 100 Russian drones and missiles daily. Leaks from the White House even claimed Trump had inquired with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a preceding phone call about what offensive weaponry Kyiv needed to hit Moscow directly.

Trump also made his most explicit sanction threat to date, proposing a 100 percent “secondary tariff” on countries that buy Russian oil, if the Kremlin does not agree to a ceasefire in 50 days, by September 3. But Trump’s tough talk has fallen far short of moving the dial. Russian officials have laughed off his claims about hitting Moscow. Air defence deliveries may lower the damage from Putin’s aerial onslaught, but delivering them in anything like the numbers Trump floated will take many months.

When President Trump incredibly-stupidly issued his dumb 50-day ultimatum earlier this week for Russia to voluntarily lose our war in Ukraine, he effectively gave himself fifty days to back down. Russia will not be intimidated, our sanctions are never going to collapse their economy, we do not have the defense industrial capacity to match their firepower, and they can shoot down everything we shoot at them.

All President Trump has done is pointlessly escalate himself into an embarrassing corner. He is letting the worst ideologues coax him into all of these idiotic moves. Or he is totally compromised, or he was always full of shit about MAGA, or whatever.

Any way you look at it, President Trump has taken complete ownership of the US/EU/NATO strategic defeat in Ukraine and thus he continues his losing streak.

See also:
–Russia Says Trump’s New Weapons Pledge A Signal For Ukraine To Abandon Peace Efforts
–Russia Says NATO Threatens WWIII In Latest Deterrence Plan That Could Take Down Kaliningrad ‘Faster Than Ever’
–EU Targets Russia With Toughest Sanctions Package In Years

USA Today:

President Donald Trump said he plans to make a “major statement” early next week on Russia as he escalates his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin amid Russia’s recent wave of attacks on Ukraine.

The only “major statement” he needs to make is that all support and assets have been pulled from Ukraine. That is the only way he can end the war. But something happened, the Deep State got him, so we can count on him to only do the stupidest, most wrong, dumb, bad thing ever by escalating.

Agence France-Presse:

US President Donald Trump said Russia just wanted to “keep killing people” and hinted at sanctions  after Moscow launched its largest ever drone and missile attack on Ukraine in the three-year-old war.

Trump said Friday he was “very unhappy” about his telephone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, saying: “He wants to go all the way, just keep killing people, it’s no good”.

The US president said he and Putin talked about sanctions “a lot”, adding: “He understands that it may be coming”.

In yet another example of how President Trump has very stupidly taken full possession of our very stupid war in Ukraine, he is now threatening to hit Russia with even more stupid sanctions which absolutely will not do anything to change the fact that we have lost the war.

This is not “4D chess.” He is not accidentally getting everything wrong, foreign policy-wise. There are currently no active Deep State coup plots being overtly carried out against him, and he is giving them everything they ever wanted. MAGA is dead.

See also: Russia Launches Largest Missile And Drone Barrage On Kyiv Since War In Ukraine Began

CBS News:

The Netherlands’ military intelligence and the security service, together with the German intelligence service, found that the use of prohibited chemical weapons by the Russian military had become “standardized and commonplace” in Ukraine.

I doubt many people are stupid enough to believe any of this. Russia won the war that we started in Ukraine as soon as we started it, and they did so with conventional weapons. But, we better play it safe: the Netherlands better start an Iraq-style war of regime change against Russia.

Al Jazeera:

…56 percent of Ukrainians . . . would agree to a “compromise” to end Europe’s bloodiest armed conflict since 1945, according to a survey released on Thursday by the Janus Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts and the SOCIS Center for Social and Marketing Research, both Kyiv-based pollsters.

The “compromise” means that Kyiv would have to agree to Russia’s de facto control of almost a fifth of Ukraine’s territory.

As the Russians launch their summer offensive, the Ukrainians want out of Project Ukraine.

See also:
–Russia Launches “Largest Aerial Assault” On Ukraine Since Full-Scale Invasion
–Russia Says Moscow Now Occupies All Of Ukraine’s Luhansk Region
–Russian Forces Advance And Take First Village In Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Region, State Media Say
–Russia Deploys 50,000 Troops Around Sumy, Threatening New Push Into Ukraine