The Trump-Putin Meeting: Who Will Dominate?
The Trump-Putin Meeting: Who Will Dominate?
Paul Craig Roberts
John Helmer wonders if Elvira Nabiullina, the Russian Central Bank director, has set up her protector Vladimir Putin for failure.
Elvira is known to be opposed to the rescue of Donbas Russians from oppression and extermination by Washington’s puppet in Kiev. Elvira’s first act of treason against Putin and the Russian state was arranging to leave Russia’s central bank reserves in Western institutions where Washington could seize them.
Her current treason is 21% interest rates which suppress investment and GDP growth and cause inflation which she then uses to justify her economy-killing high interest rates. Helmer provides the ruinous inflation rates Elvia’s anti-Russian, pro-Washington policy is causing in Russia. https://www.unz.com/article/cost-of-potatoes-cost-of-blood-when-inflation-is-lethal/
The inflation is being used by pro-western elements in Russia to blame the high cost of living on Putin’s never-ending war.
President Trump has concluded that inflation has weakened Putin’s position and that concessions can be wrung from him in exchange for an end to Washington’s support for the war. Additional pressure is put on Putin by President Trump’s aggressive move against Greenland in keeping with the Biden regime’s “2024 Arctic Strategy” that identifies Russia as the principal target.
From Putin’s standpoint, Ukrainian strongholds are falling rapidly without the drawn-out house by house clearing operations of previous advances. The liberation of the Russian areas of Ukraine likely will be complete prior to a Trump-Putin meeting. The meeting will be about the terms of peace with Trump pressuring Putin with more sanctions and Greenland threat to drop some part of Russia’s demand that Ukraine be de-militarized, de-Nazified, and forbidden NATO membership. Putin has received forceful warning not to negotiate away the reasons for which Russia fought an expensive three year war: https://www.rt.com/news/611694-russia-europe-political-elites/ The Art of the Deal Trump cannot very well agree to the end of the conflict on Putin’s terms without being slammed with the media headline: “Trump Sells Out Ukraine to Putin.”
As Putin has permitted Washington and NATO to attack Russian cities, school children, infrastructure, and military bases with missiles fired by Washington and NATO into Russia without response, Putin is regarded by Washington as a nonentity, a pushover. If Putin and Trump meet, Trump could assume the dominant position and fail to realize that Putin, having fought for more than three years at enormous cost, cannot negotiate away the goals for which Russia has fought, especially with Russia having won the battlefield. There doesn’t seem to be much room for a mutually face-saving compromise.
Looking at Putin’s situation, President Trump assesses it as “Russia is kind of in big trouble. You take a look at their economy, you take a look at their inflation in Russia. I got along with Putin great, I would hope he wants to make a deal.”
Here is Helmer’s account. Come to your own conclusion. https://www.unz.com/article/cost-of-potatoes-cost-of-blood-when-inflation-is-lethal/
A Cabinet of the Cancelled
A Cabinet of the Cancelled
Paul Craig Roberts
Abigail Shrier writes in the City Journal that the members of Trump’s “Cabinet of the Cancelled” understand the danger of government coercion because they have experienced it firsthand. And so has Trump and thousands of his supporters.
Shrier does a service by reminding us of the intense attempt of the Biden regime to revolutionize our society by attacking our principles and replacing a merit-based color-blind society with a status-based society of privileges based on race, gender, and sexual preference. The Biden regime weaponized law in order to cancel people who spoke truth to the regimes’ official narratives and to silence people by censoring and imprisoning them. 1,500 Trump supporters were sentenced for attending a rally, and right-to-life protesters were imprisoned for opposing a practice that during the first part of my life the law considered murder.
With Biden regime protection, Child Protective Services considered it child abuse for parents to oppose sex change operations or fail to use a child’s pronouns chosen for him by DEI propagandists at his public school, and children were seized from “abusive” parents. Large numbers of traditional Americans found themselves living in a dystopian novel.
An effort was made to destroy the US military with DEI and mandated vaccination. Traditional military families turned their sons away from military service.
Covid “vaccines” were forced on those who had too much sense to submit to vaccination with an untested experimental and known dangerous substance. The great horror of abortion advocates spread into the male population. Both genders lost control over their own bodies to coerced vaccination.
The examples are endless. Tulsi Gabbard was placed on a government watch list and subjected to airport harassment simply for being critical of the Biden regime. Stanford University Medical School professor Jay Bhattacharya was “cancelled” by social media companies at the insistence of the Biden regime’s Surgeon General. Elon Musk’s companies were targeted with regulatory harassment because he returned free speech to Twitter, now known as X. Skepticism expressed about the safety and effectiveness of the Covid “vaccine” got doctors fired, their medical licenses confiscated by utterly corrupt “medical boards” acting on Big Pharma’s orders under the protection of Fauci and the Biden FDA. Others who interfered with Big Pharma’s profits were branded “enemies of the people” and threatened with arrest.
Americans were not even permitted to object to males participating in female sports or to men gaining access to female locker rooms by self-declaring themselves to be women.
During the Biden attack on America, the most serious crime was not treason or mass murder. The most serious crime was opposition to DEI.
As I explained yesterday, the enemies arrayed against Trump and his supporters are in control of all American institutions, public and private. The federal bureaucracy is against him. His appointees must be culture warriors, because they are greatly outnumbered by a force that has been conducting culture war against America for decades.
The agenda of the Woke Democrats is no less than the revolutionary overthrow of the United States and its replacement with a race and gender status-based hierarchy in which white heterosexual males are second class citizens in law. White males who vote Democrat are endorsing their own demise and are the epitome of insouciant dumbshits.
During the next four years the fate of America’s constitutional order will be determined.
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