Trump Comments on His Relations with Putin
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said he had an excellent relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin while in office, adding that the Ukraine conflict would have never started on his watch.
In an interview with the Impaulsive podcast, released on Thursday, Trump recalled that full-scale hostilities in Ukraine did not start while he was president between 2017 and 2021, claiming that the escalation would not have happened had he been reelected in 2020.
When asked to comment on his relationship with Putin, Trump described it as “very good,” adding that he also got along with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky. “But I was tough with him [Putin]. You know, I ended… the Nord Stream 2,” he noted, referring to the pipeline which was designed to transport natural gas between Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea, but was never put into full operation.
The former US president said he had voiced discontent with the EU over the project, asking why Europe was paying Russia “billions” a month for gas supplies, while America was providing the bloc with protection from Moscow.Read more Biden could cause nuclear war – Trump
According to the ex-US president, Putin acknowledged his role in killing Nord Stream 2. “Putin said to me: ‘It’s the biggest thing… you ended the pipeline… You and I are friendly but I’d hate to see you as enemy.’”
Still, Trump insisted that he managed to forge good relations not only with the Russian president but also with Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “The funny thing [is] I got along with the tough ones much better with the weak ones.”
The Trump administration was a long-time critic of Nord Stream 2, and on numerous occasions pressured Germany to drop the project. The process of commissioning of the already-completed pipeline was finally halted in February 2022, when tensions between the West and Russia flared up before the start of the Ukraine conflict.
In the fall of 2022, several lines of Nord Stream 1 and 2 were sabotaged, with Russia demanding an international investigation and suggesting that US intelligence services must have orchestrated the explosions. Washington has denied responsibility, although US President Joe Biden had previously threatened to “bring an end” to the pipeline if Russian troops were to enter Ukraine.
Trump has repeatedly promised to resolve the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours if reelected by sitting down with both Zelensky and Putin. The Kremlin said last month that the Russian president was not in contact with Trump, while Zelensky expressed doubts about the ex-US president’s ability to stop the hostilities.
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Eight Illegal Aliens, Suspected to be Terrorists, Arrested in New York, Philadelphia & Los Angeles
Ever since 9/11, the United States government via the Patriot Act has been illegally spying on Americans under the guise of fighting terrorism. Why, then, do illegal aliens continue to flood the country with reckless abandon?
The latest illegal alien incident occurred in three major U.S. cities – New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles – where eight men from Tajikistan, suspected to have connections to ISIS, were arrested.
For months before their arrest, the men were under surveillance by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and Customs Enforcement after they strolled across America’s open southern border in the spring of 2023, compliments of the Biden regime.
According to reports, none of the men have yet been charged with any kind of terrorist connection or plot. However, the FBI reportedly alerted ICE that the men could be connected to ISIS and should thus be arrested on immigration charges.
Two sources familiar with the matter who spoke with NBC News said the men are detained and now face removal proceedings before an immigration judge. At some point in the future, the men could also face terrorism-related charges.
(Related: Meanwhile, politicians are devoting their time to criminalizing “hate speech” with stricter punishments.)
FBI warning of “coordinated attack” in major U.S. cities
The news of this comes just months after FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Congress that his agency fears a “coordinated attack” in major U.S. cities. Just prior to that warning, ISIS, or so we are told, attacked a concert hall in Moscow, killing 145 people.
“Our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home,” Wray told a House Appropriations subcommittee back in April.
“But now, increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia concert hall a couple weeks ago.”
As all of this is happening, an Iranian intelligence officer by the name of Majid Dastjani Farahani is said to still be on the loose with plans to “kill Trump-era officials,” according to the media.
Much like what happened in the aftermath of 9/11, we are witnessing what appears to be the makings of another “war on terror” situation where the powers that be want us all to be fearful of ISIS or whatever boogeyman they trot out next so that we will sacrifice more of our freedoms of the altar of “peace and safety.”
If the government was really concerned about the threat of terror, it would close the southern border and stop the illegal invasion that fuels terror incidents in the first place.
Do not forget that these eight now-detained men are just a drop in the bucket. At least 434,800 migrants have been flown directly into the U.S. via the Biden regime’s CHNV mass parole program. They hail from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
“And a huge number of them are going to Florida,” someone wrote on X about these migrants. “It’s intentional replacement and overwhelming American states with a flood of third world nationals.”
“Problem, reaction, solution,” wrote another about the nightmare being unleashed on America. “The government allows millions to illegally come into the country, now they have to pass laws to take everyone’s freedom away. All by design.”
Instead of dealing with the real problems this country faces, the powers that be are instead prosecuting children for leaving tire marks on LGBT “rainbow” street murals and going after supporters of Donald Trump – imagine that, emphasized someone else.
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Russian Troops Never Intended to Capture Kiev – Putin
Russian forces did not plan to storm Kiev when they advanced towards the Ukrainian capital in the first weeks of the conflict between the two countries, President Vladimir Putin has said.
During a meeting with his Russia’s top diplomats on Friday, Putin noted continued “speculation” in Ukraine and the West about the intentions of Russian units when they reached the outskirts of Kiev in late February 2022.
“But there was no political decision to storm the city of 3 million, no matter what anyone says due to their lack of thought,” Putin insisted.
According to the president, the Russian advance towards Kiev was “nothing more than an operation to persuade the Ukrainian regime to [make] peace.”
“The troops were there to motivate the Ukrainian side to engage in negotiations, to try to find an acceptable solution and this way end the war unleashed by Kiev against Donbass back in 2014,” he said.
The conflict between the Ukrainian government and the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, which erupted after the Western-backed coup in Kiev in February 2014, “posed a threat to the security of our country, to the security of Russia,” Putin stressed.
The move by Russia did result in talks that led to agreements that “in principle, suited both Moscow and Kiev,” he said, referring to the negotiations that took place between the two sides in the Turkish city of Istanbul in late March 2022.
“On March 29, 2022, we withdrew our troops from Kiev because we were assured that it was essential to create conditions for the conclusion of the political negotiating process,” the president recalled. “Our Western colleagues”insisted back then that the Ukrainian authorities “cannot sign such agreements… with a gun to their head,” he added.
However, Kiev and its Western backers have been claiming that the Russian withdrawal from the area of the Ukrainian capital was not a goodwill gesture by Moscow, but the result of military successes achieved by Kiev’s troops. Already in April 2022, US President Joe Biden said “the ‘Battle of Kiev’ was a historic victory… won by the Ukrainian people with unprecedented assistance by the US and our allies.”
Putin Names Conditions for Ukraine Peace Talks
Ukraine must remove its troops from Russia’s new regions before any meaningful peace talks can begin, President Vladimir Putin has said.
Moscow disputes Kiev’s claim of sovereignty over five formerly Ukrainian regions, four of which have joined Russia amid the ongoing hostilities. People in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions voted for the transition in late 2022. Hostilities continue to some extent in each region.
Ukrainian troops must be removed from these territories, Putin said on Friday at a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other senior Russian diplomats.
“I stress: the entire territory of those regions as defined by their administrative borders at the time they joined Ukraine [in August 1991],” Putin stated.
“Our side will order a ceasefire and start negotiations the minute Kiev declares that it is prepared to take this decision and starts actual withdrawal of troops from those regions, and also formally informs us that it no longer plans to join NATO,” the Russian leader pledged.
Putin outlined the conditions after condemning Kiev’s Western backers for allegedly preventing it from holding peace talks with Moscow while accusing Russia of rejecting negotiations.
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“We are counting on Kiev to take such a decision on withdrawal, neutral status, and dialogue with Russia, on which the future existence of Ukraine depends, independently based on the current realities and guided by the true interests of the Ukrainian people and not at Western orders,” Putin stated.
At this point, Moscow will not accept a frozen conflict, which would allow the US and its allies to rearm and rebuild the Ukrainian military, Putin claimed. The full resolution of the issue will involve Kiev recognizing the four new regions as well as Crimea as part of Russia, he insisted.
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“In the future, all those basic principled positions have to be enshrined in fundamental international agreements. Naturally, that includes the lifting of all Western sanctions against Russia,” Putin stated.
Accepting these terms will allow everyone involved to turn the page and gradually rebuild damaged relations, the president said. Eventually, a pan-European security system that works for all nations on the continent could be created, Putin added, noting that Moscow has sought this outcome for years.
The Russian president’s keynote remarks came ahead of a Swiss-hosted summit supposedly meant to further peace in Ukraine. Kiev has insisted that Moscow could not be invited to the event because it would try to “hijack” it by promoting alternatives to the “peace formula” pushed by the Ukrainian government.
Putin claimed that the event was meant to distract public opinion from the “true roots” of the conflict, and that Vladimir Zelensky has usurped power in Ukraine after his presidential term expired last month. Nothing but demagoguery and accusations against Russia can come out of the Swiss gathering, he predicted.