Guardedly Optimistic,
Russia has been very clear about what the objectives are in Ukraine: Demilitarization, Denazification, No NATO ever, and the oblasts that voted to rejoin Russia, which are Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhia. Now Russia's chief Ukraine-negotiator reports an "acceptable offer" from the US.
Russia has received an “acceptable” offer from the US on settling the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said, following a visit by US special envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow.....The Kremlin aide earlier called the Putin-Witkoff meeting “business-like and constructive,” adding that “Russian-American ties could develop according to a completely different, mutually beneficial scenario,” as compared to the long-running tensions over Ukraine.
He also revealed that Putin could meet Trump as soon as next week. The Russian president later suggested that the United Arab Emirates could potentially host the summit. https://swentr.site/russia/622622-us-acceptable-offer-kremlin/
He also revealed that Putin could meet Trump as soon as next week. The Russian president later suggested that the United Arab Emirates could potentially host the summit. https://swentr.site/russia/622622-us-acceptable-offer-kremlin/
Russia Holds All Cards in Trump Talks
Russia was winning the Ukraine conflict on its own terms well before the recent sharp increase in territorial gains, international relations and Russian affairs analyst Gilbert Doctorow tells Sputnik.
"But now with the undeniable territorial gains which even the Western newspapers are daily recording, of course this strengthens the Russian negotiating position," the pundit stresses.
Doctorow rules out Russian leaders making any compromises on Ukraine...
"But now with the undeniable territorial gains which even the Western newspapers are daily recording, of course this strengthens the Russian negotiating position," the pundit stresses.
Doctorow rules out Russian leaders making any compromises on Ukraine...
..A tangible shift in US-Russia relations is possible, Doctorow argues.
What will the talks focus on?
The talks will center primarily on the broader dialogue of European security.
Only after there is agreement can there be detailed discussions of territorial and other aspects of a settlement. https://sputnikglobe.com/20250808/russia-holds-all-cards-in-trump-talks-1122579635.html
What will the talks focus on?
The talks will center primarily on the broader dialogue of European security.
Only after there is agreement can there be detailed discussions of territorial and other aspects of a settlement. https://sputnikglobe.com/20250808/russia-holds-all-cards-in-trump-talks-1122579635.html
Zero Hedge is rough around the edges: Russian President Putin has detailed his demands for a cease-fire in Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal reports that the sweeping proposal demands major territorial concessions by Kiev and a push for global recognition of its claims in exchange for a halt to the fighting.
Putin told Witkoff he would agree to a complete cease-fire if Ukraine agreed to withdraw forces from all of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, according to officials briefed on the call. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/oil-tumbles-report-us-backed-russia-ukraine-truce-deal
Kremlin Confirms Trump-Putin Meeting 'In Coming DaysPutin told Witkoff he would agree to a complete cease-fire if Ukraine agreed to withdraw forces from all of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, according to officials briefed on the call. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/oil-tumbles-report-us-backed-russia-ukraine-truce-deal
He laid out that the idea of a Trump-Putin-Zelensky meeting (which apparently Washington pushed for) "for some reason was mentioned by Washington yesterday" but "not specifically discussed,” Ushakov added, explaining that the Russian side "left this option completely, completely without comment." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-confirms-trump-putin-meeting-coming-days-tariffs-dozens-countries-take-effect
The Kremlin confirmed on Thursday that preparations for direct talks have advanced to the point that a venue has been selected. The meeting could be held as early as next week...
..Moscow has expressed a desire to address the root causes of the conflict, opposing any scenario that would freeze the conflict in its current state. Putin has stated that his government prefers to achieve its objectives through peaceful means.
Kiev has consistently rejected Moscow’s proposed settlement terms and continues to call for Western military support and further sanctions on Russia. Ukrainian officials argue that these measures could halt or even reverse Russian advances on the battlefield. https://swentr.site/russia/622607-putin-trump-historic-summit/
Kiev has consistently rejected Moscow’s proposed settlement terms and continues to call for Western military support and further sanctions on Russia. Ukrainian officials argue that these measures could halt or even reverse Russian advances on the battlefield. https://swentr.site/russia/622607-putin-trump-historic-summit/
Trump will meet with Putin and Zelensky separately "soon," perhaps as early as next week.
“We propose, first of all, to focus on preparing a bilateral meeting with Trump, and we consider it most important that this meeting be successful and productive,” said Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov.
Ushakov dismissed the prospect of Zelensky joining the meeting, although Trump said he wasn't ruling it out. https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/08/07/trump-to-meet-separately-with-putin-and-zelensky-in-bid-to-end-the-ukraine-war-n4942480
“We propose, first of all, to focus on preparing a bilateral meeting with Trump, and we consider it most important that this meeting be successful and productive,” said Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov.
Ushakov dismissed the prospect of Zelensky joining the meeting, although Trump said he wasn't ruling it out. https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/08/07/trump-to-meet-separately-with-putin-and-zelensky-in-bid-to-end-the-ukraine-war-n4942480
He will need protection. Zelensky Says 'It's Time To End The War' - But Won't Identify Any Concessions https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-says-its-time-end-war-wont-identify-any-concessions
Go home: Germany to slash payments for Ukrainians – media
The country’s labor ministry has proposed a 20% drop by replacing “citizen’s allowance” with asylum support https://swentr.site/news/622613-germany-ukrainians-slash-benefits/Military Summary had a detailed update yesterday: Doomsday - Battle for Kherson Pokrovsk: Survival Game - Elimination of the Kleban-Byk Pocket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3CPbrKGTo
The Russian Foreign Ministry says the attack happened under the acquiescence of Israeli military personnel present on site, who didn't try to prevent the aggression.
"We consider this incident as a gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, which, among other things, obliges the receiving state to ensure respect for the principle of inviolability of foreign missions' property and treat foreign diplomats with due respect, taking all appropriate measures to prevent any attacks on their person, freedom, or dignity," it said.
The ministry highlighted that a corresponding protest has been submitted to Israeli authorities by the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv.
"We hope that the Israeli side will draw appropriate conclusions from this situation," it said. https://trt.global/world/article/70f1913148b9
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday evening, met with an AIPAC-organized delegation of Republican members of the US Congress,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. “The Prime Minister briefed the members of Congress on the war in the Gaza Strip and commented on the issue of the humanitarian assistance and the mendacious campaign being waged by Hamas against the State of Israel.” https://news.antiwar.com/2025/08/06/netanyahu-hosts-20-aipac-sponsored-house-republicans-in-israel/
What Netanyahu said: Huckabee: Israel not committing genocide or starvation in Gaza
In a Fox News interview, the U.S. ambassador blamed the Hamas terrorist organization for the region's suffering. https://www.jns.org/huckabee-israel-not-committing-genocide-or-starvation-in-gaza/Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it is 'necessary' to 'ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.' A UN official said that the fighting risked 'catastrophic consequences,' including to the hostages. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/05/netanyahu-says-israel-must-complete-defeat-of-hamas-to-free-hostages_6744097_4.html
UN Report: Gaza: As aid trucks enter, videos of Israeli hostages and attack on Red Crescent staffers spark outrage https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165568
'This government and these leaders will be remembered with revulsion for the horrors they’ve overseen,' says J Street president https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/head-of-us-based-pro-israel-group-acknowledges-israel-breaking-genocide-convention-in-gaza/3651453
Gilbert Doctorow, Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 6 August
The connection between the Gaza genocide and a possible attack on Iran: well, I don’t believe there will be any attack on Iran, simply because Iran is capable of annihilating Israel in a day or two if they want to use those several thousand ballistic missiles that are safely stored underground and which the Israelis were unable to damage.
Therefore, there’s a lot of talk about attacking Iran. The Israelis by themselves, unless they use nuclear weapons, will achieve nothing. And if they do use a nuclear weapon, they probably will have a nuclear weapon coming back at them, because there is a lot of talk that Iran actually has the bomb. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/08/07/transcript-of-judging-freedom-edition-of-6-august/
Therefore, there’s a lot of talk about attacking Iran. The Israelis by themselves, unless they use nuclear weapons, will achieve nothing. And if they do use a nuclear weapon, they probably will have a nuclear weapon coming back at them, because there is a lot of talk that Iran actually has the bomb. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/08/07/transcript-of-judging-freedom-edition-of-6-august/
The Vigilant Fox: Tulsi Gabbard says the Russia Hoax wasn’t James Clapper’s first intel scandal—she says he “manufactured” the WMD lie that led to the Iraq War. https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1953126714621522032
The State Department has reportedly ordered diplomats to campaign against the legislation over free speech concerns https://swentr.site/news/622628-us-lobby-against-eu-dsa/
Very poor judgement to admit this: Swedish PM Slammed After Admitting He Uses ChatGPT To Help Run Government https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/swedish-pm-slammed-after-admitting-he-uses-chatgpt-help-run-government
She wants out, right? Still; we should know by now if there was porn-dirt on him: Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly Cleared Trump's Name In DOJ Interview https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ghislaine-maxwell-reportedly-cleared-trumps-name-doj-interview
Terrorist-gangs of juveniles, like "Lord of the Flies": DOGE Worker "Big Balls" Bloodied After DC Attack; Trump, Musk Call To Federalize DC https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doge-worker-big-balls-bloodied-after-dc-attack-trump-musk-call-federalize-dc
They thought he was gone for good: Trump says JPMorgan, Bank of America rejected his deposits
“The banks discriminated against me very badly,” Trump said, reviving his criticism that large Wall Street banks had “debanked” conservatives for political reasons. On the campaign trail in 2024, Trump vowed to crack down on the practice and earlier this year publicly scolded Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan over the issue.Trump’s latest comments come as his administration is considering an executive order on “debanking” that directs banking regulators to address any politically motivated account closures. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/trump-jpmorgan-bank-america-debanking-00494729 The founding of the Bank of Amsterdam, the Bank of Sweden, and the Bank of England in the 1600s launched the beginning of the economic paradigm I call the “central banking-warfare model”—but we could just as easily call the dominant economic model the “central banking-plunder model.” Plunder in its many forms has been essential to the rich accumulation of capital that helped to build the Western world. You can grow wealth, or you can take it—and in many cases, taking it is the preferred method...
..The Russian people have not forgotten the “Rape of Russia”2 after the Soviet Union collapsed. As Samuel Huntington observed in his 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations:
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”...
..As David A. Hughes explained in our recent Omniwar report,3 “Omniwar” involves “the weaponization of everything.” Thus, instead of killing their prey physically in open combat, plunderers now can simply empty victims’ bank accounts while distracting them with propaganda and pornography... “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”...
..Plunder also encompasses the politically engineered health, food, and education policies that poison children. Moreover, the poisoning has a profitable postscript: the medical establishment claims that the children are sick (instead of poisoned), and parents liquidate their savings to try to heal their children...
..The 21st-Century Panopticon The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single prison officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.”10 Davis, Webb, and Goodwin use “panopticon” to describe U.S. and Israeli surveillance, assassination, and warfare systems—including those supported by Palantir—as well as the public distributed ledger systems, including blockchain, being used to shift the financial system into a control grid...
..Israel launched its war on Iran by assassinating 11 of Iran’s top military leaders and nuclear scientists. Some were reportedly targeted at home, resulting in the death of their families and neighbors.....War has been converted to a high-powered manhunt with assassination as the end point. This is possible because, according to technology entrepreneur and economist Dr. Pippa Malmgren, U.S. and Israeli systems now can track all 92 million Iranians and identify each of them by their unique biometrics...
..The Economist commented last year with respect to the legality of assassinations in Gaza, it is possible no military officer can be found guilty of an international war crime because it is software that is now choosing the targets.....Ulrike Granögger and I described how an automated and cost-effective control system has been built that is customized for each unique human. Thus, it did not surprise me when, following the deaths of the Iranian leaders and their families and neighbors, most European leaders fell right in line with increasing their country’s NATO contributions to 5% and agreeing to new tariff conditions...
..Although each one of us can be surveilled, tracked, and eliminated, the system doing the observation and pulling the trigger is invisible. No one is accountable. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/plunder-financing-the-panopticoncatherineSurplus Energy Economics does another fine job, but what comes next? The coming deconstruction of global money https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/308-the-coming-deconstruction-of-global-money/#like-44866
Meryl Nass MD, Maine Organic Farmers Organization Suing EPA over PFAS in sludge--which has shut down many farms in Maine
Are we gonna MAHA or are we gonna poison? Does EPA exist to prevent us creating a true environmental protection agency? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lee-zeldin-and-epas-promises-sound
Invasion of toxic herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides warrants action to protect public health — not shield the chemical industry from liability. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/47-pesticides-found-in-us-homes-water
Bayer has settled another 61,000 cases. 192,000 lawsuits total have been brought against it for cancer. It will report earnings later today. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/bayer-doubles-down-allots-another
Teamwork! His friends filed this suit against his agency: RFK Jr. Seeks Extra Time to Explore ‘Early Resolution’ in Vaccine Safety Lawsuit
The lawsuit, funded by Children’s Health Defense, alleges U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. violated the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 by failing to establish a task force to make vaccines safer. Ray Flores, who filed the lawsuit, said an early resolution would simply involve creating the task force and following the law. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-seeks-extra-time-explore-early-resolution-vaccine-safety-lawsuit-hhs/ Meryl Nass MD, Globalization aka Harmonization of regulatory authority for drugs and vaccines proceeds apace at the WHO
The point is to roll out medical products so fast that the entire world gets them before the side effects are identified. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/globalization-aka-harmonization-ofHere are the 9 studies from Vaxxed-Unvaxxed, thanks to Brian Hooker. 100% show your kids are far better off avoiding all vaccines. Where's the science showing the opposite? Nowhere to be found! https://kirschsubstack.com/p/9-studies-vaxxed-vs-unvaxxed-all
Pierre Kory MD on SIDS-deaths, caused by routine vaccinations: We Published an Op-Ed About Children Killed By Vaccines In A Mainstream Media Outlet
Our Op-Ed exposed apparent cases of SIDS that were actually caused by childhood vaccines. It was published in a highly read news outlet... in New York City. https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/we-published-an-op-ed-about-childrenRFK JR: "The data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu." https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-hhs-to-terminate-22-barda
The Vigilant Fox (and as you may have known for years) HHS Senior Adviser Dr. Steven Hatfill revealed that RFK Jr. pulled mRNA funding after the data showed getting vaccinated was MORE dangerous than COVID itself.
In other words, the “cure” was WORSE than the disease.
Dr. Hatfill said, “It was more dangerous to take a vaccine than it was to contract COVID-19 and be hospitalized with it.” https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/senior-hhs-adviser-confirms-covid
Meryl Nass MD, Great news: The US' pandemic preparedness behemoth is being whittled awayIn other words, the “cure” was WORSE than the disease.
Dr. Hatfill said, “It was more dangerous to take a vaccine than it was to contract COVID-19 and be hospitalized with it.” https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/senior-hhs-adviser-confirms-covid
Earlier this week, HHS Secretary Kennedy ended nearly $500 million in contracts for mRNA projects managed by BARDA, HHS’ answer to DARPA, an agency whose job it was to identify early stage “countermeasures” and fund them because industry allegedly would not do so and we desperately needed them.
This was all part of the post 9/11/2001 anthrax letters fear-mongering to justify huge expenses for biodefense materiel we might never need or want, and usher in an era of taxpayer funded gain of function (bio-offense) research.
In addition, but quietly, the relatively new (2023) White House office of pandemic preparedness and response seems to have been quietly dismantled as well. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/great-news-the-us-pandemic-preparedness
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