Bad news comes flooding in for Zelensky.
A German economist says that Ukraine needs a minimum of $4 billion a month but as US aid has stopped and now European countries are the main contributors Ukraine is receiving just $1 billion a month.
Meanwhile the European Central Bank has formally refused to provide a guarantee for a loan to Ukraine using the frozen Russian assets and none of the EU countries have stepped forward to guarantee the loan either.
And so van der Moron’s twisted plan to steal the frozen assets to use as collateral for a loan to Zelensky, that would never be paid back, is dead, or should be, but van der Fuckwit is said to be currently working on a new plan to force the theft through.
The real problem is that the EU countries just don’t have any real money to give to Ukraine, sure a couple of hundred million here and there but that’s never going to be enough and when Ukraine falls so too will the EU and NATO (probably), and certainly all these utterly useless globalist politicians will be forced out as well.
On the political front in Ukraine Kiev is rife with talk of coups now that Zelensky's strongman and gatekeeper Yermak is gone.
In the Ukrainian parliament Zelensky only has a few votes majority when the question of continuing martial law comes round again but many look like they are not willing to wait.
On the battlefronts Russia has declared that the cities of Pokrovsk and Volchansk have fallen under complete Russian control and have provided video evidence to prove it. And announced the Russians have reached the center of the city of Konstantinovka as well.
So which will come first? Economic, political, or military collapse?
Remember that there is no plan for Ukraine to win this conflict, there never was.
The plan was always for Russia to fail, Ukraine was just supposed to keep the pressure on while the sanctions destroyed the Russian economy causing the people to rise up.
So Ukraine is now stuck losing a war of attrition, as everyone said they would, if Ukraine ever ended up here.
So why is the fighting still continuing?
Because the elites are still making money that’s why.
Ukrainian elites and western elites. The money keeps flowing from western taxpayers and being distributed to Zelensky’s inner circle and to the US and European Military Industrial Complexes.
Meanwhile back in the US and arch neocon Rubio, who himself refused to go to Moscow to talk with Putin, which is his actual job, and so sent 2 lackeys instead, has just made a speech saying he refused to speak to EU number 2 Karen Callus because she refuses to talk to Putin.
Rubio says you need to talk to your adversaries or nothing will ever be accomplished. Ah, yeah.
And speaking of Kaja Kallas, some reports say her offices were being searched by investigators after Federica Mogherin was detained by Belgian police in Brussels on December 2 over fraud allegations.
‘Raids targeted the European External Action Service (EEAS) headquarters in Brussels, the College of Europe facilities in Bruges, and private residences in an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) emphasizing transparency in handling EU-funded initiatives.’
Latest general updates:
Putin, Witkoff, Kushnar meeting with Putin in Moscow started at 5 pm and went on well after midnight.
Witkoff was going to meet with Zelensky in Ireland after but that meeting was cancelled.
And in the Telegraph finally the western press recognises that ‘Putin is in the driver seat’.
Looks like the US can see the EU is bankrupt and only wants a war they can’t fight, and Ukraine has lost but refuses to stop fighting anyway.
So the US is backing out of that hole as now the best opportunities for the future lie in business with Russia.
That’s what Witkoff, Kushnar (not US state officials) and Putin were really talking about for over 7 hours.
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1923More intrigue on the diplomatic front.
Zelensky hung about in Ireland waiting to meet with Witkoff and Kushnar but then decided he wanted Umerov by his side, but then the whole meeting was cancelled, not sure by who.
Umerov has replaced Yermak as the Ukraine peace delegation leader and proved to be just as hardline as Yermak and is not willing or able to offer any concessions to the Americans and Russians at all.
That’s fine, the Ukrainians just aren't ready for peace yet.
And no wonder, as said yesterday, Ukraine is still receiving 1 billion a month, not the 4 billion needed as Ukraine does not actually have an economy of its own but 1 billion a month is not to be sneezed at.
Zelensky’s inner circle charges a 15% err... admin fee for fund redistribution (50 billion out of the 300 billion US aid), so that’s $150,000 million from the 1 billion every month which is still a good earner and is only costing 1000 Ukraine soldiers being fed into the furnace every week to maintain.
But the intriguing thing is that now Kiev has announced that Umerov is going to Miami to meet with Witkoff and Kushnar.
Why? To simply restate Ukraine's entrenched position?
As inferred yesterday the Americans didn’t go to meet Putin to listen to him repeat for the thousandth time Russia’s position.
We know that Zelensky has been begging to meet with Trump again but Trump has refused and Trump has sacked pro-Ukrainian Kellogg.
Trump seems to be fixed to the Wittkoff pro-Russian view, finally recognising that the comedian Zelensky was bullshiting all along.
Does Umerov think he’s going to turn Witkoff’s head? Unlikely.
And what’s Kushnar doing in all this anyway, presumably Trump’s son-in-law is gaining experience sitting at the big table but he’s also there because he’s trusted by Trump, so is Witkoff.
And Trump clearly doesn’t trust anyone in the US state department whose job it actually is to hammer out international agreements.
But whatever, which way now for Putin?
He is not concerned there’s no deal. His army is steadily pushing the Ukrainian army out of their defensive lines, their losses are down to a tenth of the Ukrainian losses.
The Russians are standing back heaving long-range fires, drones, Grads and Fabs, at the Ukrainians burying them in their basement hideouts.
And the recent Ukrainian escalation of attacking international shipping on the Black Sea provides an excellent excuse for the Russian army to continue onto Odessa.
As Putin said yesterday, ‘Ukraine can’t commit acts of piracy if they don’t have a port.’
And finally, the Reuter’s ‘Ukraine’s Band of Brothers’ feature report where Reuters followed 11 new recruits into the Ukrainian army came to an abrupt premature end when there were suddenly none of them left in the Ukrainian army.
“Four are wounded, three are missing, two deserted, one fell ill, and one committed suicide”.
No real surprise to anyone actually paying attention.
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Zelensky hung about in Ireland waiting to meet with Witkoff and Kushnar but then decided he wanted Umerov by his side, but then the whole meeting was cancelled, not sure by who.
Umerov has replaced Yermak as the Ukraine peace delegation leader and proved to be just as hardline as Yermak and is not willing or able to offer any concessions to the Americans and Russians at all.
That’s fine, the Ukrainians just aren't ready for peace yet.
And no wonder, as said yesterday, Ukraine is still receiving 1 billion a month, not the 4 billion needed as Ukraine does not actually have an economy of its own but 1 billion a month is not to be sneezed at.
Zelensky’s inner circle charges a 15% err... admin fee for fund redistribution (50 billion out of the 300 billion US aid), so that’s $150,000 million from the 1 billion every month which is still a good earner and is only costing 1000 Ukraine soldiers being fed into the furnace every week to maintain.
But the intriguing thing is that now Kiev has announced that Umerov is going to Miami to meet with Witkoff and Kushnar.
Why? To simply restate Ukraine's entrenched position?
As inferred yesterday the Americans didn’t go to meet Putin to listen to him repeat for the thousandth time Russia’s position.
We know that Zelensky has been begging to meet with Trump again but Trump has refused and Trump has sacked pro-Ukrainian Kellogg.
Trump seems to be fixed to the Wittkoff pro-Russian view, finally recognising that the comedian Zelensky was bullshiting all along.
Does Umerov think he’s going to turn Witkoff’s head? Unlikely.
And what’s Kushnar doing in all this anyway, presumably Trump’s son-in-law is gaining experience sitting at the big table but he’s also there because he’s trusted by Trump, so is Witkoff.
And Trump clearly doesn’t trust anyone in the US state department whose job it actually is to hammer out international agreements.
But whatever, which way now for Putin?
He is not concerned there’s no deal. His army is steadily pushing the Ukrainian army out of their defensive lines, their losses are down to a tenth of the Ukrainian losses.
The Russians are standing back heaving long-range fires, drones, Grads and Fabs, at the Ukrainians burying them in their basement hideouts.
And the recent Ukrainian escalation of attacking international shipping on the Black Sea provides an excellent excuse for the Russian army to continue onto Odessa.
As Putin said yesterday, ‘Ukraine can’t commit acts of piracy if they don’t have a port.’
And finally, the Reuter’s ‘Ukraine’s Band of Brothers’ feature report where Reuters followed 11 new recruits into the Ukrainian army came to an abrupt premature end when there were suddenly none of them left in the Ukrainian army.
“Four are wounded, three are missing, two deserted, one fell ill, and one committed suicide”.
No real surprise to anyone actually paying attention.
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