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Trump and Putin Cancel WW3, Label Zelensky a Dictator & Send Peace Envoys to Saudi Arabia to End Ukraine War
- A Radical Dispatch
1) Trump cancels WWIII
President Donald Trump has cancelled World War III by negotiating an end to the proxy war in Ukraine between the US and Russia.
These peace talks are hosted in Saudi Arabia but are very much a bilateral negotiation between America and Russia.
Zelensky was not invited. Nor were the Europeans.
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Maajid Nawaz on WARRIOR CREED:
“Trump is the only leader that could’ve done it. That's why they were so desperate to prevent him getting into power again. He managed to get in again, and the rest is history. World War III will now be cancelled. It's good news for everybody. Congratulations. It's not going to happen. Obviously, we were of the view as that never was going to happen because it was always inevitable that Trump would win after what they tried to do in 2020. But of course, people had their doubts. We hope you can see now what we meant. And those Zelensky fanboys and the globalist fanboys and those cheerleading for the Warhawks are incredulous. You can see here from from Ed Krasenstein's posts. I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. would side with Russia and Putin against Ukraine and Europe. Putin is a war criminal. He's a thug. He's a cheat. He's a murderer. Trump should be ashamed of himself. Well, none of that whinging is going to get them. anywhere, nor indeed is Zelensky's own whinging, nor his rants, his pro-war rants and talk of a European wide army to defend Ukraine.”
What we are now witnessing is merely the end stage of a pre-agreed process that is playing itself out. Just as Radical Media has forecasted, Putin and Trump have cut a deal.
Radical Media reports 11th December 2024:
“…a grand regional settlement led by Trump is already on the table. Russia has been promised a quid pro quo deal in Ukraine in return for acquiescing to a deal in Syria.”
In fact, so warmly has Trump embraced peace with Putin that he has even called for Russia to be readmitted into the G7.
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President Trump: “I'd love to have them back. I think it was a mistake to throw them out. Look, it's not a question of liking Russia or not liking Russia. It was the G8. And, you know, I said, what are you doing? You guys, all you talk about is Russia and they should be sitting at the table. I think Putin would love to be back. Obama and a couple of other people made a mistake and they got Russia out. It's very possible that if that was the G8, you wouldn't have had the problem with Ukraine. And if I was president, you definitely wouldn't have had the problem with Ukraine. Russia would have never attacked Ukraine. But you ask a very good question, the G8. It used to be the G8 and then these people... And I was arguing with Trudeau and with numerous of the people. Actually, Prime Minister Abe, a great man from Japan, agreed with me 100%, and some of the others did too (Abe was curiously assassinated in 2020 - Ed.). But I got there. It was a G7, as you know. They had already been terminated. I think it would have been very helpful, and it still would be helpful, to have Russia be a part of that mix. And I think if they were, I don't think you would.”
These developments, including being cut out entirely of the process, appear to have sent the Europeans into a panic.
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Correspondent: “European leaders have gathered here at the Elysee for an emergency summit to discuss a fast-moving conversation about the future of Ukraine that appears to be excluding them. And they appear to have been rattled, first of all, by the phone call that President Donald Trump had for 90 minutes with Vladimir Putin, but also by the comments of his Defence Secretary in Brussels when he told his counterparts that he believed that a future for Ukraine inside NATO was unrealistic. So why do Europeans feel so strongly about being part of this conversation? Well, first of all, they have since the invasion in 2022 of Ukraine contributed more militarily than the United States did under President Biden. But Europeans are also worried about the tactics. They fear that the United States will negotiate poorly with Russia in their haste to end the war, leaving Ukraine marginalized and giving key concessions to Moscow. There's a question of Ukraine itself not being around the negotiating table. The fear when it comes to that is that the six million Ukrainians currently living under Russian rule simply aren't going to get a say in what happens, but also that Europe could then be sidelined in terms of any talks regarding the continental security of Europeans themselves. So this meeting, which has been described by Emmanuel Macron as informal, is a key moment, not just for the European Union, but for NATO, as both try and figure out how to remain relevant in talks not just about Ukraine’s future but Europe’s as well…”
Putin appears delighted with Trump and gloatingly declared to cameras that Europeans will have no choice but to bow to their new master Trump.
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President Putin: “Trump with his personality, with his firmness. He will establish order pretty quickly. And all of them, you’ll see, it will happen quickly, soon, they’ll all stand at the master’s feet and wag their tails tenderly. It will all fall into place.”
Putin is correct.
2) It’s over for Zelensky
Predictably, Zelensky would rather have Europe raise an army to fight his totally unnecessary battles, than agree to peace.
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Zelensky: “If not us, then who will stop them. Really. Let's be honest, now we can't rule out the possibility that America might say ‘no’ to Europe on issues that threaten it. Many, many leaders have talked about Europe that needs its own military, an army, an army of Europe. And I really, I really believe that time has come, the armed forces of Europe must be created.”
He would also rather receive a further $250 billion from Europe to continue his slush fund for permawar.
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Zelensky: “Good. Give us 250, 250 billions, which are here in Europe frozen Russian assets. No answer.”
But President Trump has made it absolutely clear that Zelensky is way out of line.
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President Trump: “I think I have the power to end this war. And I think it's going very well. But today I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.”
Not being one to catch a hint, Zelensky was quite explicitly rebuffed from flying to Saudi Arabia on the tail end of these peace talks where he tried to elbow his way in.
The Times reports 17th February 2025:
“…Zelensky arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday and said he intended to visit Saudi Arabia…He told an online briefing: ‘Ukraine regards any negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine as ones that have no result, and we cannot recognise … any agreements about us without us’.”
And yet for all his bluster he had to retreat with his tail between his legs…
The Times reports 17th February 2025:
President Trump clearly had enough of Zelensky’s sense of entitlement and openly labelled him a dictator, in need of holding elections.
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Correspondent: “We're hearing that Russia wants to force Ukraine to hold new elections in order to sign any kind of a peace deal. Is that something that the US would ever support?”
President Trump: “Well, we have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I mean, I hate to say it, but he's down at 4% approval rating. And we're a country that's been blown to smithereens. You got most of the cities are laying on their sides. The buildings are collapsed. It looks like a massive demolition site. The whole, I mean, so many of the cities. I mean, they haven't done it in Kiev because I guess they don't want to shoot too many rockets in there. They've done it 20%, but they haven't done it 100%. If they wanted to do it 100%, it would probably happen very quickly. But you have cities that are absolutely decimated. And, yeah, I would say that, you know, when they want a seat at the table, you could say the people have to... Wouldn't the people of Ukraine have to say, like, you know, it's been a long time since we've had an election? That's not a Russia thing. That's something coming from me and coming from many other countries also. You know, Ukraine is being just wiped out. Look at what's happening to the cities. There are cities, there's not even a building standing. It's a massive...You talk about Gaza. I mean, it's literally these cities look like Gaza.”
And because Zelensky spent the day of the Riyadh peace conference in belligerence, Trump doubled down.
The writing is on the wall. Zelensky is finished.
The Times reports 19th February 2025:
“President Trump has launched a vicious attack on Ukraine’s leader, calling President Zelensky a ‘dictator without elections’ and warning him to ‘move fast or he is not going to have a country left’.”
It is just as we had told Tucker Carlson back in 2022 before Carlson was cancelled from Fox News, Zelensky is an undemocratic and corrupt Azov Nazi collaborator.
Radical Media reports 16th May 2022:
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Maajid Nawaz on Fox News with Tucker Carlson: “Ultimately, we've got to ask this question that you've got a country led by a man who even before the war, Axios, The Guardian, the Atlantic Council, all of them were reporting that Zelensky, even though he ran on an anti-corruption ticket, has, through the Panama Papers and other such leaks, has stashed his millions offshore like most corrupt oligarchs have, and so even before the war his corruption was known, and then you fast forward to what he's done over this weekend with the banning of 11 opposition parties and I wanna note at this stage and I want to note at this stage that he banned these opposition parties including, as you mentioned Tucker, the second largest in his parliament while the Nazi elements, and I use the word Nazi not neo-nazi because these are actual Nazis that aren't ‘neo’ in any sense, they're the continuation of Nazis as we know them and study them in history, and Bandera the man that they revere was actually a Nazi and they made him into a national hero and icon, the Nazis in Ukraine have not been banned by Zelensky, and so this is a very interesting point that you've got a man that we're hailing as a democratic icon who's fighting for freedom and democracy and our way of life banning all opposition parties, controlling through the state the media narrative, while refusing not only to ban Nazis, but having, after not banning them, incorporated them into his state, Azov as a battalion formally serves in the Ukrainian National Guard. Now, people say to that in response, ‘yeah, but Maajid there are racists in every country’. No, the analogy here is, imagine Tucker in America, the KKK had a formal battalion in the US military. That's what we've got with swastikas and Nazi insignia inside the Ukrainian army...”
3) Only President Trump could have done this
Only President Trump would have had the power to sideline the UK, EU and Zelensky, and cancel WWIII.
In that vein, Trump sent his Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh in order to meet Russia’s top diplomat, Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov for historic peace talks.
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Secretary of State Rubio: “Again, we're not going to pre-negotiate an end to this conflict. These are the kinds of things that have to happen through hard and difficult diplomacy and closed rooms over a period of time. What's important to understand is two things: the first is the only leader in the world who can make this happen, who can even bring people together to begin to talk about it in a serious way is President Trump. He's the only one in the world that can do that right now. The second thing I would say is that in order for a conflict to end, everyone involved in that conflict has to be okay with it. It has to be acceptable to them. But we have to understand that it's been three and a half years since there's been any sort of regularised contact between the United States and Russia. And in some cases, between any of the participants in this conflict and Russia. So the goal of today's meeting was to follow up on the phone call the President had a week ago and begin to establish those lines of communication. The work remains. Today is the first step of a long and difficult journey, but an important one. And President Trump is committed to bringing an end to this conflict. And as he said when he campaigned for president, and he wants it to end in a way that's fair. He wants it to end in a way that's sustainable and enduring, not that leads to another conflict in two to three years. That's not going to be easy to achieve, but he's the only one in the world that can begin that process. Donald Trump is the only leader in the world that could initiate that process. And today was the first step in that process.”
Russia’s Foreign Secretary Lavrov has also confirmed that the period under former President Biden in which neither side was talking to each other, is well and truly over.
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Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov: “Always when we go to negotiation, what we do first of what we want to do is to listen to what our partners have to offer. When President Trump and Putin talked over the phone, they agreed on the need to put aside the absurd period in the relationship between two great superpowers when they essentially didn't communicate at all aside from certain technical issues. And the president's agreed that the dialogue should be restored and resumed on all matters that can somehow be settled with the contribution of the United States.”
It is clear though, that reinitiating peace talks has only been possible because Presidents Trump and Putin entirely cut out the other parties to war: the UK, Europe and Ukraine.
Russia has gone further, stating that none of these other parties are to be trusted to negotiate the peace.
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Russian ambassador to the UN: “We understand presently that the Minsk guarantors and on the whole EU countries and the United Kingdom are absolutely unfaithful to their word and they cannot be a party to any future agreements on the resolution to the Ukrainian crisis whatsoever. They are blinded by primitive Russophobia, their maniacal desire to inflict a defeat on our country on the battlefield using the Ukrainians who are left alive. Mr. President, we very much should like to hope that the 10th anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 2202 will be a good opportunity for our European colleagues to finally get back to reality, to stop provoking Zelensky and his henchmen towards futile confrontation. He himself, at any cost of clinging power, attempting to save his skin, is willing to engage in any provocation to prolong hostility.”
Once these talks conclude, Britain, then Europe and then Ukraine will simply have to fall into line.
4) Ukraine will not join Nato despite what Nigel Farage may say
As part of the peace deal, Ukraine will be forced to agree to Russia’s terms. These include a concession that Ukraine will never be a member of Nato while also agreeing to an autonomous region in the ethnically Russian area lying North-East of the Dneiper river. We called this back in 2022.
Radical Media reports 2nd March 2022:
“..it is now possible to see what Russia’s interests are in Ukraine, and how to bring this conflict to an end without provoking World War III. The assumption here is that readers do wish to avoid Armageddon. The assumption here is also that - despite the voices of hysterical politicians and geopolitically ignorant media pundits desperately calling for escalation - few war hawks will personally leave to fight Russia themselves..this will likely end with Ukraine being split into two. Putin will probably maintain control East of the Dneiper river, and insist on a return to a neutral regime West of the river. That is, unless certain rabid Western politicians get their way and manage to spark a nuclear catastrophe.”
And Ukraine will not be joining Nato, regardless of what Nigel Farage recently stated with long term Ukraine war supporter Richard Tice sat next to him.
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Nigel Farage: “Again, it's back to the previous question. I don't want to prejudge how these negotiations go, but I would have thought that if we're going to get Putin into a place and Zelensky into a place where we could have a reasonable negotiation, I would have thought, looking ahead, it's probably essential that Ukraine joins NATO. That's going to need to be part of this negotiation.”
That much, Russia has made clear.
The Times reports 18th February 2025:
“Russia will not accept the deployment of troops from Nato countries to Ukraine as part of any peace deal, Moscow’s top diplomat has said following US-Russia talks in Riyadh. ‘The appearance of troops from Nato countries … under a foreign flag, the flag of the European Union or the national flag, is unacceptable,’ Sergei Lavrov said. He also said that Russia welcomed President Trump’s comments that inviting Kyiv to join Nato had caused the war in Ukraine. Britain and Sweden, both Nato members, have said they would consider putting troops on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal.”
So too had Nigel Farage, in no uncertain terms, before he reentered the political frontlines.
In fact, here is video of Farage saying the exact opposite on Ukraine joining Nato….
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