RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 10.01.2025
Including geopolitical issues affecting the balance of power in the ongoing end game war to establish our common future, a closely monitored prison planet or tolerance for diverse modes of governance.
TEN DAYS TO GO: HAS DONALD TRUMP SEEN THE STRATEGIC BENEFIT OF GOOD RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AS EUROPE DECLINES? A SHOCKING ALLIANCE EMERGING?
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Kremlin ‘would welcome’ contact from Trump.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed the need for a dialogue, his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov has said.
Moscow would be willing to talk to US President-elect Donald Trump if he sticks to his plan of restoring contacts, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Thursday. It has not received any specific requests from Washington in this regard, he added.
Trump has promised on several occasions that he could achieve a negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict in just one day. In December, he also said that he would wait for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the hostilities.
Moscow has repeatedly said that it is ready for a dialogue about a potential peace settlement and accused Kiev of refusing to engage in negotiations.
On Thursday, Peskov said that Putin “would only welcome” a situation in which Trump would “retain his political will to restore contacts at the highest level” after his inauguration on January 20. The Russian president “has repeatedly spoken about his readiness for a dialogue” and the need for it, the spokesman added.
According to Peskov, Moscow has not received any specific requests from the US on the issue.
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He suggested that “for obvious reasons” it would be prudent to wait until Trump assumes office.
Speaking to journalists at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this week, Trump said that he might need up to six months after taking office to help Moscow and Kiev reach a deal. His special envoy on the Ukraine conflict, retired US Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, told Fox News that he would like to set a 100-day timeline to end the conflict.
According to some media reports, Trump’s team is considering a freeze of the conflict along the current front line. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it seeks to end the conflict, not freeze it.
In December, Putin told a press conference that he was ready to meet and talk with Trump. Earlier, he also outlined conditions for a peaceful resolution, including an immediate ceasefire and readiness for negotiations, if Ukrainian forces withdraw from all Russian territory, including the regions that joined the country following referendums in autumn 2022. Putin has also called on Kiev to abandon its NATO ambitions and adopt a neutral and nuclear weapon-free status.
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Kremlin responds to Trump’s Greenland acquisition proposal.
Russia will maintain its presence in the Arctic and is interested in peace and stability in the region, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Moscow has called for peace and stability to be maintained in the Arctic after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to deny that he could annex Greenland for national security and economic purposes.
The incoming president has refused to rule out taking the Danish autonomous territory, which is rich in gold and uranium and is believed to have vast oil reserves in its territorial waters, by military force if necessary.
Speaking to journalists at a press briefing on Thursday, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov highlighted that the Arctic is also in the sphere of Russia’s national and strategic interests.
“We are present in the Arctic zone, and we will continue to be present there,” Peskov said, adding that Russia is “interested in maintaining an atmosphere of peace and stability” in the region and is “ready to cooperate with all countries of the world in the name of this peace and stability.”
Russia’s ambassador to Denmark, Vladimir Barbin, has also emphasized that Russia aims to keep the Arctic stable and warned that “an attempt to strengthen US national security at the expense of other countries… will be taken into account by Russia in its military planning.”
READ MORE: Trump serious about acquiring Greenland – Reuters
Barbin also stated that the fate of Greenland should be decided only on the basis of the will of its people within the framework of current Danish legislation and without “interference from outside.”
Former Russian President and the deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has also described Trump’s plans as “over the top and eccentric - and totally unworkable.”
Trump floated the intention of gaining control over the Panama Canal and buying Greenland from Denmark earlier this week. He argued that control over the Arctic island was an “absolute necessity” for US national security.
“People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up because we need it,” he told journalists at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.
The Danish government and Greenland’s leaders, however, have repeatedly rejected the idea of selling the autonomous territory. Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede stated that “we are not for sale, and we will not be for sale.”
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In Europe, Even Trump's Allies are Nervous Over Annexation Talk: Should They Be?
Donald Trump has riled up the internet, and world leaders, with 'quiet part out loud' musings about turning Canada into the 51st state, annexing Greenland and seizing the Panama Canal. As Europe braces for his return, Sputnik asked a pair of veteran international politics observers what Trump 2.0 will mean for Transatlantic ties.
It’s “not a very wise move on Trump’s part” to talk about “potentially annexing other countries” before he’s even back in the White House, veteran European politics and economics observer Christian Schweiger told Sputnik, commenting on the president-elect’s string of viral social media posts and statements seemingly outlining a vision of a 21st century manifest destiny for North America.
“My country, Germany, is definitely looking at this in a very negative way. As you know, the mainstream German view on Trump is very negative anyway. But I think this type of claiming of the territory of other countries will also not ring well in other European countries, including those where Trump usually has at least some sympathy or even partnership, like in Central and Eastern Europe,” Schweiger explained.
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Besides Hungary's Viktor Orban, Trump can expect to find partners in Europe among the populist Left and Right leaderships of Slovakia and Italy, Schweiger noted. He can also look forward to the possibility of Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl coming to power in Austria, and enhanced cooperation with Germany's AfD as the German populist party’s poll numbers surge ahead of February's federal elections.
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On security and defense issues, Trump’s support for peace negotiations to end the Ukrainian crisis will likely find support among Europe’s populists (with the exception of Italy’s Georgia Maloney, who supports a continuation of the conflict), but the reaction to his demand that Europe boosts its defense spending to 5% of GDP is likely to be negative, Schweiger believes.
As for the incoming administration’s relations with the EU, Schweiger expects them to “deteriorate substantially, because within the EU we have Ursula von der Leyen as the head of the European Commission,” the antithesis of Trump politically and supporter of “escalating the conflict [in Ukraine] and confronting Russia militarily.”
“If the European Union doesn’t find a way to engage with Trump’s point of view, relations are going to be in very, very bad shape at the end of the second term of [his] presidency,” Schweiger said.
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Donald Trump’s talk of seizing Greenland may very well be serious, and aimed at distracting the American public while Washington seeks to extricate itself from the Ukrainian crisis, veteran international affairs analyst Gilbert Doctorow told Sputnik, suggesting there may be more to the president-elect's seemingly odd strategy than first meets the eye.
“He has been advised to do this by assistants who have studied their history of the Reagan presidency. In October 1983, more than 140 American soldiers posted in Lebanon were killed in a Hezbollah attack on their barracks. Two days later Reagan invaded Grenada. Moral of the story: ensure that the public forgets a war defeat ASAP by a greater victory elsewhere,” Doctorow said.
“Trump will get Greenland without having to send an aircraft carrier with escort to Jutland: the Prime Minister of Denmark has already given it away by saying the decision will rest with the inhabitants (total 56,000) of Greenland itself,” the observer emphasized.
As for French, German and other US allies' pouting over Trump’s imperialist plans for the Western Hemisphere, their leaders can basically be “ignored,” and “count for nothing today,” according to Doctorow, who suggested that the ‘international law’ they reference is long dead, “killed by the USA in a number of shocking cases going back to Kosovo ‘independence’, then on to the illegal invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.”
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VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
TEN DAYS TO GO: HAS DONALD TRUMP SEEN THE STRATEGIC BENEFIT OF GOOD RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AS EUROPE DECLINES? A SHOCKING ALLIANCE EMERGING?
