France has decided to make a nuclear shell game with nuclear armed aircraft that it will loan to other European countries including, it seems, Ukraine. That is a radical attack on the nuclear containment policy that was created during the Cold War and supported by Russians and Americans. France has created a loose nukes policy that will make it very difficult for Russia to track possible nuclear attack vectors upon Moscow and other strategic targets. The French policy, given the short time span that a hypersonic nuclear armed missile needs to reach Moscow, will induce a policy revision for Moscow’s use of nuclear weapons; response to attack may not leave enough time to counterattack. So preemptive first strikes on select European targets may become reflexive for Russia’s strategic nuclear force. The French nuclear airport shell game will make it challenging to know which aircraft taking flight is making a nuclear strike on Russia. If such aircraft are located in Ukraine—given Zelensky’s record—Russia may have little choice besides engaging in nuclear war with Europe. Since Russia hasn’t used nuclear weapons in the war and had no intention to except for real disaster, the French loose nukes shell game policy is in no way a deterrent. It is instead a provocation for a first strike by Russia on Paris and additional nuclear targets of France.
Macron said that; "“the next half-century will be an age of nuclear weapons”.
Forward-deployed nuclear-capable aircraft in proximity to Russian territory may lower the perceived survivability of Russian strategic assets, thereby increasing incentives for rapid escalation under crisis conditions. The combination of compressed hypersonic timelines and distributed basing introduces structural instability into deterrence doctrine, particularly where launch origin becomes ambiguous and decision time shrinks to minutes rather than hours.
The French factor has placed an egoistical, opportunistic nuclear power that was largely absent during the Cold War from NATO for its own security priorities, in a junction between global war and peace. The loose nukes airport shell game with nuclear weapons is a direct threat to global security and a reason why the United States should no longer be a member of NATO to enable the swollen perfidy.
The future may see other nations following the French lead and loaning aircraft with nuclear weapons to other countries. That could pose a direct threat to the United States with nuclear weapons aircraft launching from third party countries like Greenland, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, etc., should the Chinese or Russians reach agreements with them. If forward deployment and cross-border loaning of nuclear-capable aircraft becomes normalized among mid-tier nuclear powers, the long-term nonproliferation norm may gradually erode. States such as Pakistan could justify extended nuclear basing under a regional or religious security umbrella rationale, while regimes like North Korea might attempt similar leverage through dependent or aligned states. The danger is not immediate probability but cumulative precedent: once nuclear dispersal beyond sovereign territory becomes politically acceptable, the structural barriers restraining broader nuclear patronage networks weaken over time. This policy risks undermining crisis stability by reducing clarity about launch origin and intent. It only requires 20 or 30 modern nukes to go off to bring global winter into effect.
Arnold Toynbee, in Mankind and Mother Earth (1974), observed that there was now just one global civilization. That civilization may be as internally contentious as red and blue states divided over religion and forms of government, yet all of it recognizes the same cultural markers — the Beatles, Muhammad Ali, Donald Trump, Coca-Cola. We share a planetary consciousness even while we quarrel. A civilization that outdoes itself in nuclear brinkmanship, in the absence of creative and thoughtful political leadership, may discover that it cannot survive its own degraded thought — like a brain under alcohol, narrowing its perception to local impulses while forgetting the global body to which it belongs.
On the 4th anniversary of the war Russian intelligence services reported that Britain and France are beginning the armining of Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Apparently they will transfer European weapons components and technology to Ukraine to put together bombs with which to attack Russia.
A probable weapons is the French TN-75 warhead. It has been used for submarines and runs to about 150 kilotons and was designed to penetrate hardened targets. Britain and France are also said to be providing nuclear package delivery systems assistance to Ukraine. The 5th year of the war may see an escalation to nuclear war apparently. Weapons that can take out the Kremlin are a kind of existential threat I suppose.
Plainly Ukraine President Zelenskyy has been stalling for time in order to work to arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons. He may get his wish this year. President Trump continuing sanctions on Russia has allowed the time to elapse. That brings the world closer to the brink of human extinction.
It would be amusingly appropriate if a new catapult technology were to be developed to hurl nuclear weapons toward the Kremlin and vice versa toward hard targets in Paris and London to show the progress in social problem solving the past millennium in Europe.
That is good news for war tools producers including those of the U.S.A. and various transportation of weapons for causing human fatalities businesses. There have been more than 400,000 casualties so far, and that is big business for funeral homes and organ sales, yet modest in comparison to the energy business. Europeans feel increasingly more secure as the war continues and are optimistic about their long lange security prospects if they can roll back Russia through combat the next few years to the boundaries inherited from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The United States feels better too about Europe becoming more militarily active and the new businesses in drone war developments encouraged through extensive use of drones in actual field deployments.
As Europe draws closer unto the United States as it become a military peer more like it was before the Second World War, U.S, leadership feels comfortable driving half of the world to make a trading choice between RUssia, China, India, Brazil etc and the United States. Forcing a two-part world with Europe standing with the U.S. until the Ukraine war ends and Europe reverts to full Chinese trade and eventually Russia too for its plentiful raw natural resources after the war is wrapped up has encouraged U.S. leaders to do what it can with weapons, loans, cash and satellite intelligence including Starlink to guide drone attacks on Russia accurately for a few more years.
The Ukraine war is a way to tighten the slack on global energy supplies- there is a surfeit of excess oil and gas production and taking Russia, Iran and Venezuela out of the global competition might increase the value per barrel of gas by $5 more or less. Saudi Arabia hasn’t used much fracking on its vast reserves that weren’t close to depletion, yet fracking will renew their supplies should they choose to continue using that fossil fuel source for revenue indefinitely. American oil companies will not experience such a rapid drop in global oil prices as that Ukraine war continues.
China is not harmed as much by the cost of global oil supplies as one might guess. They receive discounted oil from Russia and work continues on building more direct pipelines to China from Siberia for gas. China and Russia already have an ESPO oil pipeline running direct and a second gas pipeline opened in 2019. Russia’s pivot east will continue so long as the Ukraine war continues.
Though the 20th round of sanctions on Russia was just rejected by the EU because of Hungary and the Check Republics displeasure with Ukraine over President Zelenskyy’s action to ban Russia oil sales traveling through a pipeline from Russia to Europe, sanctions on Russia continue to force Russia to turn toward the Chinese economy for many supplies. U.S. and European sanctions on China cannot remotely equal those on Russia, for simply conducting business with Russia. China is far too important as a producer and consumer of products in trade with the west to sever. So sanctions on Russia primarily benefit China. An example is ion the field of nuclear power plant generator technology where China buys from Russia rather than the west. There are significant western sanctions on China for military owned companies and items that comprise security risks to the west, yet those are are mostly those that Russia excels at creating and manufacturing. Russia is ahead of the United States for example in the development of nuclear power plants that are safe to operate, while the Ukraine is haggling and protracting the war to take control of the Soviet era Zap Nuclear power plant.
I asked Gemini to provide information on Russian nuclear power and the energy relationship with China.
Gary-Can’t Russia replace the Zap nuclear power plant with a better, newer nuke energy facility and just trade the old Zapper to Ukraine for Donbas?
While the U.S. is developing cutting-edge nuclear technologies, a “trade” is legally and geopolitically impossible due to strict sanctions and the competitive nature of the global nuclear market.
1. New U.S. Technologies
The U.S. is currently leading a “nuclear renaissance” with several advanced designs that are more efficient and safer than the older Soviet-style reactors at Zaporizhzhia:
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs): Companies like NuScale Power and GE Hitachi (BWRX-300) are building reactors that are smaller, cheaper, and “walk-away safe,” meaning they can shut down without human intervention in an emergency.
Advanced Generation IV Reactors:TerraPower (backed by Bill Gates) is developing the Natrium reactor, which uses liquid sodium for cooling and includes a “molten salt battery” to store energy for peak demand.
Microreactors: Ultra-small units (like those from X-energy) are designed for remote locations or military bases, providing portable and resilient power.
2. The Sanctions Barrier
Even if Russia wanted this technology, the U.S. has imposed an almost total ban on exporting high-tech goods to Russia:
Export Restrictions: Since the 2022 invasion, the U.S. has enforced a “policy of denial” for most technology exports to Russia. Nuclear energy is specifically guarded to prevent any “dual-use” benefits to Russia’s military or nuclear weapons program.
Decoupling Efforts: New laws, such as the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act (2024), aim to completely sever nuclear ties between the two nations by 2028.
3. Russia is a Competitor, Not a Customer
Russia doesn’t “need” American tech in the way a typical customer might. Through its state company Rosatom, Russia is actually the world’s leading exporter of nuclear reactors and fuel.
Global Rivalry: The U.S., Russia, and China are currently battling for dominance in the international SMR market.
Incompatibility: The Zaporizhzhia plant uses Soviet-designed VVER reactors. American experts have noted that U.S. operators have no experience running this specific class of technology, making any immediate handover or technical “swap” a massive safety risk.
In short, while the technology exists, the U.S. is currently using it to shield allies from Russian influence rather than as a bargaining chip for territorial trades.
Gary–Does Russia produce any of the new American style nuclear power generators itself- that is does it have new designs comparable to the American
Gemini-Actually, Russia is not just “comparable” to the U.S. in these new technologies—in several key areas of advanced nuclear energy, they are currently the world leader in deployment. While the U.S. has many promising designs, Russia (through its state company Rosatom) already has several of these Generation IV and SMR (Small Modular Reactor) technologies in actual operation.
Here is how Russia’s new tech stacks up against the latest American designs:
1. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
Russia’s Lead: Russia operates the world’s first and only commercial floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov , which uses two KLT-40S reactors to power remote Arctic regions.
American Equivalent: Companies like NuScale Power and GE Hitachi (BWRX-300) have designs for land-based SMRs, but none are in commercial operation yet. NuScale’s first major U.S. project was recently canceled due to rising costs.
Russia’s Next Gen: Russia is now building land-based SMRs using the RITM-200N design (adapted from their nuclear icebreakers), with the first unit in Yakutia scheduled for 2028.
2. Generation IV “Fast” Reactors
Russia’s Lead: Russia is the only country currently operating commercial-scale “fast neutron” reactors (BN-600 and BN-800). These are considered Generation IV because they can “burn” nuclear waste as fuel and are much more efficient.
The “Breakthrough” Project: Russia is currently constructing the BREST-OD-300, a world-first lead-cooled fast reactor that uses a “closed fuel cycle,” meaning it essentially recycles its own fuel indefinitely.
American Equivalent:TerraPower (Bill Gates’ company) is building the Natrium reactor in Wyoming. Like the Russian BN series, it is a sodium-cooled fast reactor, but it isn’t expected to be operational until at least 2030.
3. Fuel Dominance (HALEU)
A major hurdle for the new American SMRs is that they require a special type of highly enriched fuel called HALEU.
The Problem: Currently, Russia is the only commercial supplier of HALEU in the world.
The Race: The U.S. is racing to build its own enrichment facilities to break this dependence, as Russia’s monopoly on the fuel gives them a massive advantage in selling their reactors to other countries.
In summary: Russia doesn’t need to “replace” the older Zaporizhzhia tech with American tech because they are already building and exporting their own next-generation versions. Their challenge isn’t a lack of technology, but rather the international sanctions that make it difficult for them to find new customers outside of their current allies.
Russia is currently the global leader in sodium-cooled nuclear technology. While other countries (including the U.S., France, and Japan) have built experimental versions in the past, Russia is the only country currently operating them on a commercial scale.
Russia’s primary sodium-cooled operations are located at the
BN-600 (Unit 3): Operating since 1980, this is the world’s longest-running commercial fast reactor. It recently received a life extension to keep it running until 2040.
BN-800 (Unit 4): This is a larger, more advanced version that entered commercial operation in 2016. It is famous in the nuclear world because it successfully runs on MOX fuel (a mix of uranium and plutonium), which allows it to “burn” nuclear waste from other plants.
2. The Future: BN-1200M
Russia is currently preparing to build the BN-1200M, which will be the world’s most powerful sodium-cooled fast reactor.
Status: As of July 2025, the project has entered the preparatory phase for construction.
Goal: First concrete is scheduled to be poured in June 2027, with the reactor expected to start power production by 2031–2034.
Why Sodium Instead of Water?
Higher Efficiency: Sodium stays liquid at much higher temperatures than water, allowing the plant to produce more electricity from the same amount of heat.
Waste Recycling: These “fast” reactors can use spent fuel from traditional plants (like Zaporizhzhia), helping to “close the fuel cycle” and reduce long-term nuclear waste.
Safety: Sodium-cooled reactors operate at near-atmospheric pressure, meaning there is no risk of a high-pressure steam explosion like the one seen at Chernobyl.
The Downside: The main challenge is that liquid sodium catches fire if it touches air or water, requiring extremely complex (and expensive) plumbing to keep it contained
Comparing the safety of Russia’s sodium-cooled reactors (like the BN-800) to the water-cooled reactors at
(VVER-1000) reveals a trade-off between “inherent physics” and “chemical volatility.”
1. Safety Track Record
VVER-1000 (Zaporizhzhia): These are the “workhorses” of the Russian/Ukrainian nuclear fleet. They have a strong safety record when properly maintained, featuring multiple redundant cooling systems and robust containment domes designed to withstand a plane crash. However, they rely on active systems (pumps and power) to prevent a meltdown, which is why the current war-related power outages are so dangerous.
BN-Series (Sodium-Cooled): Russia’s sodium reactors at Beloyarsk have operated for decades with relatively few major issues. The BN-600 has run since 1980 with a solid industrial reliability record, though it has experienced minor non-nuclear turbine fires.
2. Key Safety Differences
Feature
VVER-1000 (Zaporizhzhia)
BN-800 (Sodium-Cooled)
Pressure
High Pressure: Water must be highly pressurized to stay liquid. A pipe break can lead to a rapid loss of coolant (LOCA).
Low Pressure: Operates at near-atmospheric pressure. A pipe leak is just a leak, not a high-pressure “explosion” event.
Cooling
Active: Requires constant pumping of water. If power fails (station blackout), the core can overheat within hours.
Passive: Liquid sodium has massive “thermal inertia” and can cool the core naturally via air convection if pumps fail.
Major Risk
Steam/Hydrogen Explosion: High-pressure steam or hydrogen buildup (like Fukushima) is the primary catastrophic risk.
Sodium Fire: Sodium burns intensely if it contacts air or water. This requires complex, multi-layered plumbing to prevent leaks.
3. Why the BN-800 is “Inherently Safer”
The BN-800 is considered a Generation IV reactor because it is designed to be “self-controlling”:
Natural Shutdown: If the core gets too hot, the physical materials expand in a way that naturally slows down the nuclear reaction without any computer or human intervention.
Waste Burning: Unlike the Zaporizhzhia reactors, which produce long-lived waste, the BN-800 can reprocess and “burn” plutonium and other waste products as fuel, reducing the overall radioactive footprint.
The Verdict: While the VVER-1000 at Zaporizhzhia is a proven and safe design for peacetime, it is vulnerable in a war zone because it needs external power to stay safe. The BN-800 is technically more advanced and resilient to power losses, but its use of highly reactive liquid sodium makes it more expensive and complex to build and operate. “
China and Russia Cooperation in Nuclear Tech Development
Gemini-China is actively deepening its nuclear energy partnership with Russia, rather than relying on new U.S. technology. Russia is currently helping China build multiple new reactors and supplying advanced fuel technology, aligning with Beijing’s goal to surpass the U.S. in nuclear capacity. China is focusing on domestic development and Russian cooperation, making it a key competitor to US tech.
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Growing Russia-China Nuclear Partnership: Russia has already helped build four reactors in China and is currently building four more, with plans to provide a closed nuclear fuel cycle.
Focus on Domestic Tech/Independence: China is rapidly building its own nuclear capacity, often with its own technology or adapted French/U.S. designs, making it less reliant on purchasing new U.S. technology.
Competing Models: While the U.S. focuses on developing new technology to compete, China and Russia are prioritizing rapid deployment, with Russia offering financing and fuel support that aids China in surpassing Western capacity.
Geopolitical Strategy: The partnership strengthens both nations’ positions in the global nuclear energy market, with China acting as a competitor to the US rather than a client.
Running as a Democrat for the US Senate from Florida, the former Ukrainian American Lt. Colonel Vindman who violated, while affiliated with the national security adviser, President Trump's privacy in a call with Ukraine President Zelensky in 2020, regards himself as a patriot for supporting the party of virtual treason; Democrats. They support foreign allegiance more than national interests in advocating open borders.
Democrats support the Ukraine war because they regard Europe as neo-socialist and want to expand socialism, homosexuality and atheism into political domination of Russia. Mr. Vindman has an extremist Ukrainian point of view inimical to U. S. national security interests. Peace with Russians rather than support for the waxing European Unions desire to glom up Ukraine while lusting for Russia and isolating the USA, is the rational policy.
U.S. leadership followed a Eurocentric policy more so than it should have following the end of the Cold War version 1. Europeans were organizing a nascent continental national union and Russia was reorganizing itself after decades of communist rule. The borderlands known as the Ukraine became the center of the traditional conflict between Europe and Russia. The present narrative has Russia as a threat to all of Europe. Yet Europe is the main threat to itself. It's paranoia and unwillingness to share the former Russian Ukraine or to honor the commitment not to expand N.A.T.O. promised to Boris Yeltsin are the salient features of the conflict that Europe could settle for-itself if it really want to resume peace. And foreign policy experts are already whining about the expanding German military that is tripling its military budget from two years ago. Foreign policy experts these days seem preponderantly to be deaf, dumb, blind and stupid in regard to what intelligent and realistic goals are for Europe and world economic and ecological stability.
Democrats feel that government need not support itself with secure borders for the polity. For Democrats, government of, by and for the people means government of, by and for aliens. No one has clued them in to understand that self-determination is de rigueur for a democracy to mean anything. Government where citizens have a real opportunity to determine their own political direction because politicians care more about cheap labor immigrants than bettering the lives of their own citizens really aren't worth a damn.
Just flooding the nation with cheap migrant labor to subvert the wages of poor citizens while waging a foreign war through proxies in Ukraine to expand European Union hegemony over Russia while concentrating wealth domestically in reckless disregard of the possibility of compelling World War Three to actualize is nearly equal to the Southern Confederacy's determination to keep slaves and expand slave recapture to the northern states.
Lt. Colonel Vindman leaked classified information during President Trump's first term in order to team up with the one-party system narrative that President Trump should be stopped, impeached and obstructed. Mr. Vindman has said that he knows how to oppose dictators and authoritarians or something to that effect alluding to President Trump. He seems unaware that President Trump was elected in a pluralistic political system twice because people don't support the one-party subversion and riotous, dissimulative methods of the Democrats party- and want secure borders and politics done with a honest legal system so far as that is possible with politicians making laws lol.
Mr. Vindman is the Democrat's Ukrainian candidate best able to invigorate prospects for W.W. 3. Loyal to President Zelenski's agenda, he holds out hope to those in Ukraine for a swift escalation to global thermonuclear conflict instead of the meat grinder on the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2BpEDoT_o
A civil polity needs sovereign over its land for it to be able to plan for its development. In order for a polity to determine and implement ecological economic policies for instance, political decisions need to be relevant and applicable to everyone living within the boundaries of the polity. If there are just millions of people wandering in and out of the nation at will, the polity's sovereignty loses relevance to real politic. Open borders are comparable to a clutch plate or bands being stripped in a transmission so the polity's gears don't engage. That doesn't usually happen all at once- it grows like a pile.
Democrats act as if they believed politics should evolve independently of human action- blind forces of Adam Smith's invisible hands shuffling and dealing political and economic cards to the nations of the world to play. Christians may believe that God is in control with a teleological purpose designed for humanity in order to support His agenda for human development. Neither point of view precludes intelligent human political self-determination and planning.
Good government and good civic structure aren't accidents. They follow an intelligent electorate thinking for themselves. Even self-driving cars anticipate a direction from the user about where it should go; democracy requires no less.
The pre-industrial era atmospheric CO2 level was 280 ppm. Today it is 427.40 parts per million (ppm). I remember just a decade or so ago it was 399. So it keeps going up steadily. I like science though I am Christian too- I wrote three books explaining why science and Christianity aren't incompatible.
Not that I would suggest that mag-lev skim board wouldn't be fun if portable tracks could be made. Instead of pallet jacks moving stuff around shop floors mag-lev freight boards could be placed- especially with wireless charging and powering at short range some sort of safe, coded tech could be made to power a freight or skim board through the floor that is the repelling surface itself.
It would be a better direction for society to go than the research by military firms on how to make High Powered Microwave fields or beams to destroy drone electrical fields at short range. Obviously though that is the new kind of land battle that has developed in Ukraine. Drones can be made to attack individual soldiers easily. So some kind of proximity fuse, anti-drone exploding chaff like jet fighters might use need to be added to armored vehicle defenses against small air predators.
It is vexing that Europeans focus more on war and developing war tech than on environmental matters. It is difficult to invest in anti-global warming research if people are trying to kill you with drones I would think. Probably Russians have downgraded their anti-global warming research for anti-drone research. If Europeans spend 180 billion dollars on the war in Ukraine using seized Russian funds, instead of on anti-global warming tech- that is bad for everyone. Seriously though- look at the Ukraine land and cityscapes and say that it would be better to invest another quarter or half trillion dollars in blowing things up there instead of on atmospheric heating remediation.
The Ukraine war is something of a technical brawl comparable to the fight between Rocky Marciano (challenger) and Jersey Joe Walcott (champion) for the heavyweight title in 1952. Russia is known to be something of a military brawler; not so scientific in technique as some nations today, even so they are very skilled as was Marciano. Ukraine is strong and a quality fighter with corrupt leadership and lots of support from followers in elite western governments. Unfortunately, like Marciano v Walcott I the fight seems destined to go 13 rounds with the loss of perhaps the better part of a million lives.
Perhaps W.W. II was like the Ukraine war too; a technical brawl with many tactical approximations and tries for knockouts against relentless opponents unwilling to call themselves lemons and throw in the towel. Even if being beaten senselessly the handlers of Ukraine in Germany and elsewhere in Europe wouldn't allow their shill to retire from the conflict. Germany just decided to send another 11 billion dollars to Ukraine for military equipment next year. The fight costs Ukrainian and Russian lives rather than German.
Russian military groups advanced steadily, technically in 2025 so far, broadly across Eastern Ukraine and seems poised in 2026 to continue the slugfest advancing methodically, technically from major city to major city forming pincers and caldrons around districts sledging across a wilderness of city and landscapes comparable to a frozen ocean. The likely conclusions will be the Russian reconquista of Eastern Ukraine up to the Dnepro River. That border was the practical place to draw the border in 1990-1992-2022 negotiations and to have left it there and moved on. Europeans left to themselves would attack Eastward forever.
There are substantial differences between W.W. II and the Ukraine conflict about 80 years later obviously. Logistics, weapons technology, communication and political configurations have changed a lot. Here is a video with more background on the German military posture compared to that of the American during World War Two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dprFSZBTVj8
One might learn something from that regarding the military posture of the United States today with so much manufacturing having shifted offshore and the industrial base half located in China and elsewhere. Solar rechargeable electric vehicles perhaps with auxiliary fuel cells may be a sustainable mass produced military vehicle for foreign militaries that reduce cost and reliance on fuel logistics down the road. Already the rise of drones and solar-power AI drones are changing the realities of equipment that might survive mass air and ground attack from drones. Fuel supply vehicles would be especially difficult to defend making self-fueling military vehicles de rigeur in the future.
President Trump has gone father over to the dark side of the force after meeting with Ukrainian Emperor Zelensky yesterday. He said Russia is a paper tiger and has decided to push the war forward another year until Russia loses and Europe wins.
In my opinion European leaders are incapable themselves, of finding peaceful coexistence. They are heirs of original colonial powers and have thousands of years of fighting against even themselves as well as evolving weapons and technology. The reason Europe has been at peace since the end of the second world war was that Russia and the United States dwarfed them militarily and the gross destruction of Europe during W.W. II set them back. With the Clinton era expropriation of Ukraine from Russia and expansion of N.A.T.O. eastward the gradual return of European lunacy against peace and pro-war, this time in a new and improved more unified EU form, has returned. I believe the insanity of European leadership couldn’t find peace if the lives of 10 billion souls depended in it. President Trump has joined with the Biden-European plan to prosecute war upon Russia through Ukraine.
President Trump may believe that he is in some way protecting America’s security and that Russia and China plus India and other nations are too weak economically to resist the combined military and economic power of the US and Europe. If so gambling on developing war for more years and not escalating into nuclear holocaust seems like a bad bet. Maybe Trump is just expressing hard negotiating tactics. If that is the case he is an idiot.
The Ukraine was has two most likely outcomes; Russia has the land east of the Dnepr River and Ukraine the west bank, or nuclear devastation of Europe, the' United States and Russia. This is an amusing circumstance where the point that the meek shall inherit the Earth’ rises to preeminence. The godless, sadistic, lunatic, incompetent leaders of Europe and the United States should return to peace with Russia and renormalize economic relations directly.
Compare what President Eisenhower through G.H.W. Bush (41) said about Russia; they would never have called a nation with that nuclear arsenal a paper tiger.
President Trump is himself the primary cause for the continuation of the war into 2026. Supplying weapons, cash and information to Ukraine protracts the war. It will continue until he stops doing that.
If Trump wants to make security guarantees for the land west of the Dnepr, and the Pecos, that is reasonable. Prime Minister of France Clemenceau said that World War Two was caused by the United States failing to guarantee the peace of World War One. Russia isn’t Germany though, neither is it communist, and it merely wants its land back and to not have a voracious EU seeking to devour on its Western border. Satan is finding fresh fruit in the present generation of Euro-American leadership. Needless to say the godless, atheist, avaristic leaders of Europe and Donald Trump are following the former President of the US Joe Biden on the insanity plan for corporate and political profit through their blind allegiance to Emperor Zelensky.
The economic reasoning of President Trump regarding the war's effects on the US economy are amorphous. While Ukraine grain fields are made fallow during battle world prices of grain may rise, Africans relying on Ukraine grain starve and American farmers producing grain experience higher grain sales prices. Eliminating Russian oil from the European market is good for American oil producers obviously, yet bad for Europe that will cheat and buy some Russian oil discreetly anyway.
America will lose sales from and develop more global customer loyalty to the BRIC nations. Restoring full western control over the Ukraine is probably going to occur solely by ending the war on satisfactory terms with Russia and dominating the Ukraine market with a flood of cheap, high quality products from the west made in. Hina, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Thailand.
President Trump may also be thinking short term sales proplits instead of long-term global strategy . The big dummie. May add up the value of oil, grain and weapons sales in his merchandising mind and decide Thad short term national profits are what matter most.
Donald Trump has forgotten the art of the deal. It seems more like the art of b.s. today. He must offer Russia something they value, such as Ukraine real estate they haven't already got. A settlement should demilitarize the borders a dozen miles except for guards. Sanctions should be lifted, and N.A.T.O never take Ukraine into membership. To have peace the parties need to be and act peaceful. Trump just seems incapable of good judgment on the topic. Russia needs peace guarantees as well as Emperor Zelensky.
Apparently the Ukraine war will continue on to roll over into 2026. Zelensky and Putin have antipathetic goals and are talking past one another. N.A.T.O. members preponderantly want to occupy Ukraine with proxies regardless of how the war concludes in order to make it an advanced base for potential future military engagements. President Trump hasn't a wood for the trees forest gumption to stop selling weapons to Ukraine in some form because of potential proplits. That decision is decisive, enabling Ukraine to hang on with the illusion they have a chance to fulfill N.A.T.O. goals of making Ukraine something like a Non-Official-Agent (NOC) of N.A.T.O. given certain defense assurances from N.A.T.O.; having things their way like a vast, sumptuous mountain of Whoppers.
The final denouement of the conflict, if not nuclear war, may be Russian military forces finally stopping at the Dnepr with extreme global tension the zeitgeist, on the brink of World War Three, with a cease-fire agreed to by both sides (three or four sides including Donald Trump and N.A.T.O.-Europe) settling nothing. That would be comparable to the armistice at the end of World War One between Germany and the allies, that set the machinery for W.W. Two into motion. When those atop the leader pole are in conflict everyone below feels the pain.
Of course it would be a far more complex post-war situation with something like a Star Wars Revenge of the Clones, A.I. General Intelligence, Drone Wars economy building to an unbounded, non-recognizable anomic, protracted adverse economic circumstance in complete disregard for the need to transition to a global new foundation of ecological-economic synergy.
President Trump made a statement today that Ukraine can't win just being defensive. He said offense is necessary to win a war. He also blamed the Biden administration for putting restrictions on Ukraine's use of U.S. missiles. Donald Trump is all over the place, illogically in flip flopping about concerning the Ukraine war and America's political position on it. THe President president may not mind playing Russian roulette on starting World War Three yet there are some voters that do care.
The President is wrong about a great defense not being able to win a Super-bowl anyway. The Baltimore Ravens did that with Trent Dilfer (a game manager) as Q.B. in a rather lackluster offensive show- the defense was that good and could force turnovers; defense can score too thought fumble returns, interceptions, touchbacks and otherwise achieving great field position for anemic offenses. One might consider Vietnam's defense against the US led attack on Northern forces, and the Afghan Taliban attack on Coalition forces, or the insurgent attack on U.S. and Coalition forces in Iraq, to ask if defense against a superior enemy occupying a nation cannot be successful. A reality check should lead one to prefer a peaceful actual outcome of a war, rather than a nominal one leading to further post-settlement conflict. Russia is not a local insurgent force either. Perhaps he expects a division size charge of the light brigade from Ukraine upon Russia. Trading head blows with American weapons on Moscow and Petersburg etc will not lead to a good outcome for the U.S.A. perhaps; Boston , D.C. and San Francisco might be targets of retribution eventually- when all hell breaks loose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RavlPsM3xdM History of N.A.T.O Expansion Eastward
Very ignorant leaders of the west still believe they might drive Russia out of Ukraine without achieving massive civilian casualties in large numbers in the west and a few cities here and there being vaporized; it isn't very likely to develop in such a salutary fashion. The war is very harmful to U.S. global economic and environmental interests, besides presenting large opportunity costs. The ignorant just do not comprehend history well enough to recognize Russia's very legitimate right to the Ukraine; much less the eastern portion of it. Instead continuing delusional, Utopian legalistic fictions based in honest carpet bagging real estate at the end of the Soviet state to let them move forward in a trance supporting killing.
President Trump may go down in history as just another ineffective, vacillating U.S. President unable to comprehend that war isn't always the right or efficient remedy and may entail only the prospect for being at best, a pyrrhic victory. He may be leaning toward becoming a new and improved Joe Biden on solving the Ukraine war.
Apparently Ukraine's Dictator-President-for-Life Zelensky plans to reject the peace offer and extend the war using robots and new missiles to attack Russian forces. He may believe that President Trump will follow European leadership and impose new sanctions and provide new cash to continue the costly conflict. That is good news for the military-industrial and deficit generating media complex fully supported by the media in Ukraine and the United States.
President Trump wants political applause and can't get that from the media with bilateral peace with Russia stopping Ukraine support and recognizing Russian land acquisitions in Ukraine as well as ending sanctions; powerful tools he may not have the pragmatism to use.
European leaders reportedly plan to use any cease-fire to rush troops from NATO countries to Ukraine to 'guarantee' the victory of Ukrainian plans. Ukrainian media reported that Russia has only occupied 1% of the land of Ukraine's 1991 borders.
A war with tens or hundreds of thousand of robots versus humans and eventually against other robots will help train a new generation of combat robots how best to evaluate and kill human targets; a brave new world for programmers seeking fool-proof ways to deliver death to political opponents that breathe oxygen. Robots with AI are likely to rationalize 'Death to mouth-breathers!' Field training robots is a practical step, necessary step if they are to evolve to be effective killers of humans.
It is probable that a swift escalation in robot technology will follow a continuing war without a stoppage due to peace. Airborne drones will rise to deliver camoflage machine gun power in semi-autonomous drones that can reconnect with airlifting drones for redeployment to more optimal locations. A similar phenomena will arise if it does not already exist with airborne placement of drones with automatic grenade launchers and flame throwers.. Hundreds of forms of death flowers will bloom followed I would think by a host of anti-drone and anti-robot vectors. to fight without human combatants present initially. Then, the robot armies will seek and destroy human combatants farther from the front lines where they are ensconced in 'safer' positions.
A war with tens or hundreds of thousand of robots versus humans and eventually against other robots will help train a new generation of combat robots how best to evaluate and kill human targets; a brave new world for programmers seeking fool-proof ways to deliver death to political opponents that breathe oxygen. Robots with AI are likely to rationalize 'Death to mouth-breathers!' Field training robots is a practical step, necessary step if they are to evolve to be effective killers of humans.
That may be the beginning of the end of wars fought among humans with human political choices being the primary determinants of conflict. Instead the evolution of robots may enable the end of ostensible democratic leadership to war and give power over to rare elites or individuals representing vast concentrated wealth able to afford and command millions of robot warriors purposed to eliminate opposition political elements taking human form. Hence robots represent the end of democracy and rise of oligarchic plutonomy for global conquest.
Plainly soldiers will want more ai directed autonomous flying sticky mines to be able to attack robotic dogs in the field attacking them- bullets and grenades tossed from human arms might not be too effective. It isn't known if small electro-magnetic pulse grenades will be effective against robots. New forms of thermite (temperature between 4500-and 5400F Super Claymore mines with different shaped sticky packages may be effective upon opfor ground robots. Some flying vehicles might be taken down with white phosphorus flying air mines in close combat under the forest canopy situations. Adaptations to a plethora of new weapons seems ready to rapidly accelerate technologies of infantry war that of course will eventually proliferate to the rest of the world outside the present theater of combat; including of course, terrorists.
In order to capture opposition force (opfor) technology and software in various kind of robot dogs and other immobilized opfor machines the development of lightweight Faraday cages thrown by soldiers like a weighted fishnets or dropped from quite stealth drones flying above to cut off capture target robot dogs, for example will become part of an anti-drone squads battlefield toolkit. It is essential to isolate captured drone quickly so remote operators cannot order a drone to erase its software useful for reverse engineering.
Reports indicate that the meeting in Anchorage went well. President Trump scheduled a meeting in DC with Zelensky Monday to discuss what may be the final peace agreement settling the Ukraine war. It was said that if Zelensky doesn't sign off the United States probably will withdraw all support to Ukraine and let them deal with Russia mono y mano.
The war then would continue until Zelensky says "no mas". European leaders seeking to continue the war in the ancient traditional style of The Thirty Years and The Hundred Years wars would have a bitter pill to swallow with peace arriving and the end of the Ukraine war in our time.
American media generally put negative spin on it- they are closet war mongers lol
Ukraine is an American prop. An artificial creation of those that never accepted Russia as a free nation- they just want post-C.P.S.U. properties there; I have always regarded the war as the fault of the Democrat Party and the west. Russia had to fight to keep Russia together- sharing Ukraine is the best case scenario- Russia needs to see the west recognize geographic and military reality. Incidentally Russia made a nuclear powered cruise missile that can fly a nuke for years around the world.
I had four or five Russian history courses and thus see things differently than the military/industrial/media/political cold warriors for life. Zelensky Should Have No Veto
Presidents Trump and Putin to Meet in Anchorage Friday
That was good news; a meeting of two national leaders capable of putting intention on the goal of permanently ending the Ukraine war and bringing a restoration of normalcy to the challenged global economic and social environment. Renormalizing relations with Russia is good for the U.S. economy and that of the rest of the world that need to learn to work together more cooperatively toward sustainability and social equity for all living beings in an age where the environment is overstressed and human work activities are becoming taken over by artificial intelligence.
I may as well tell you about invention. With lots of reading there is a subconscious dialectical or trielectical process the combined disparate ideas learned in reading and experience together. Instead of clashing there is a kind of fusion of relevant pieces of the helixian space-time spiral together in a new form.
The induction of logically fitting ideas in a recombinant synthesis isn't a clash, it is a merger of idea structures
- Think of dimension membranes or surfaces that fuse with content adding together. For instance if membrane 1 has even numbers at regular intervals throughout, as does membrane 2, the merger will add up the numbers at each point of contact to a new sum of the positional numbers of both membranes.
Not to complicate something simple, yet that is how inventions occur.✨
It is my hope that the two Presidents know enough about the topic of Ukraine war and peace to invent a viable solution to the quagmire of war. I hope they can also get together on find a solution to the tragedy of endangered King Salmon runs in Alaska and Kamchatka. Everyone want good Chinook salmon fisheries and no one does anything about it
President Trump has lots of tools to nearly unilaterally end the conflict through recognition of Russia military holdings that formerly were part of Ukraine, ending sanctions and of course asking President Putin to sign off on it. West Ukraine need be something of a demilitarized nation without becoming part of NATO and with just a self-defense force. The war monger clique need be defeated for peace to have a chance. Russia should be happy to have Crimea and the return of Eastern Ukraine, and end to loss of Russian lives in combat and a return to a normal world social and economic reality. If the USA stops supplying weapons to Ukraine the gravy train of the war mongers will dry up.
An interesting report from Anna Skorokhod; a minister of parliament from Ukraine's 93rd district, where she has served since 2019, says that 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have deserted and that the war is being continued just for profit. Peace she says, would mean elections and loss of power for those profiting apparently.
There is a video by The Times of India, and a wiki article on MP Skorokhod below. She has a degree in journalism, so her reporting paradigm may have a substantial percentage of accuracy.
The Ukraine war is a civil war of the parent country (Russia) retaking the breakaway region that declared independence. President for life Zelensky said he will concede no land to Russia and will continue the battle until Russia is defeated. Ukraine couldn’t last another couple of months without western intelligence and military supplies so he in effect has said that the war will continue until it’s western sponsors defeat Russia. That unfortunately means that Zelensky has declared war on Russia for the United States, England, France, Germany and Sweden- countries that have agreed to buy and/or supply continuing weapons in order to let the killing fields continue.
During the U.S. civil war British upper classes and elites tended to sympathize with the confederate side. England had fought to previous wars against the United States. Today it seems as if the most elite rich want the Ukraine war to end Russian military and political power that obstructs their ideas of simple global hegemony. U.S. leadership politically has little education in history or clues about peace and mutual prosperity being healthier for the people compelled to fight and/or die or be maimed in war. Nor do they recognize they are simple unraveling President Reagan’s establishment of peace with Russia with mutual economic and social cooperation and respect. Historically deaf, dumb, blind Washington insiders believe force is the only way to go in order to seem tough for their constituents. That policy of making Russia an enemy is counterproductive to strategic U.S. economic and security interests.
This seems a good time to develop a conspiracy theory, since the American political scene at the top level is difficult to interpret meaningfully for outsiders (Americans) and the broadcast media is less trustworthy or objective than a crack addict as a bank teller. Since the Obama administration it seems as if top CEOs and politicians were shown some terrible thing- perhaps aliens running the world that would eat those showing non-compliance, that brought them into line. One issue was homosexual marriage. The power behind that was extreme- even the Bruce Jenner has his balls and dick cut off created an appearance of subtle coercion. Did anyone really believe that since he was a little kid he always yearned to be a girl, as he said?
President Trump has flipped from being a rational, impartial negotiator to the partisan way of the last President insofar as support for the Ukraine side in the war against Russia over who really owns Ukraine goes. Russia was screwed by the Clinton administration when the Soviet Union was parted out, and wants that lost real estate back. The west on the other hand, or perhaps the very rich want Ukraine for its value and eventually all of Russia for themselves and homosexual marriages. Extremists believe homosexual marriage will help destroy political independence globally and corrupt social structures enough that there is no meaningful resistance to the will of the top 5% of the top 1% of the richest Americans. Those people- something like 350,000 have 25 trillion dollars for themselves approximately. If they want Ukraine they expect politicians to provide it through whatever means are necessary.
Was Jeffrey Epstein more than the service pimp for elites like British royals and the Clinton crowd? Did President Trump have the Epstein filed suppressed because releasing them would be inconvenient for some of the .05% class of wealth?
So President Trump is something like a public representative of the very rich class, yet not actually independent from their will to wear. Therefore he has taken the Viol Biden approach of fueling the war indefinitely with billions of dollars of weapons. Man y people know the war could be settled with recognition of the Russian right to have 2/3rds or all of the east bank properties of the Dnepr River, yet disingenuity is de rigueur for the appearance of wanting to end the war in public, so at least President Trump has taken to the blaming President Putin for not ending the conflict that is so popular with Democrats and perhaps a cabal of the most rich war mongers ion the Universe that want the war to happen.
President Trump could at least say that he will never accept the existence of a Russian state on the East Bank of the Dnepr in order to make less amorphous his silly negotiating positions that resemble something like those of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations of the Arafat era that led more to another couple of generations of strife followed by the rise of Hamas and incessant attacks on Israel instead of peace. If President Trump could accept a two-state solution to Ukraine that is realistic and objective maybe he would seem less like a public mouthpiece of deceit for the ultra rich cabal of extra-terrestrials or Americans and hidden globalists that run the White House like puppet.
President Trump under the tutelage of Senator Lindsey Graham and other insider war mongers probably will announce new support for Ukraine today in such a way that profit is made selling weapons to N.A.T.O. members that will provide them to Ukraine. Additional sanctions to drive up the global cost of oil will follow as well, and that will assure lasting cheap oil imports for China from Russia that will provide a boost to the Chinese economy.
President Trump has lent an ear to the war monger faction since being in office, with incessant calls for expanding the war or at least protracting it. It isn't surprising that he was eventually brought in harness to that lemming way mass movement of leadership toward World War Three. Nothing new has changed in the criterion since taking office regarding the Ukraine conflict. That is nothing strategically has changed. Russia still needs security of the land east oof the Dnepr River and is working methodically to achieve that. North Korea is said to be sending an additional 30,000 troops to help with the effort. China is in back of Russia on the effort to stanch the hegemony of Western Europe over Eastern Ukraine and Russia.
For more than a decade it has been a paradigm for peace for Russia to establish it's border on the bank of the Dnepr River, and that's the way it was when Mr. Turnip took office, and the way it remains. To end the killing and establish peace right away that paradigm needs to be understood by the west and especially Donald Trump. President Trump has the power to end the war by recognizing Russian right to East Ukraine, ending sanctions and otherwise normalizing relations with Russia.
Because Mr. Zelensky is the Presidents evil conscience advocating sustainable war in Ukraine bodies will continue to pile up with Senator Lindsey Graham cheerleading until the nukes begin to fly if that logical direction of war to the last Ukrainian continues as the official policy of Washington. There is no flimsy deal that will hoodwink President Putin that President Trump can accomplish. Instead it requires a sold, plain and simple recognition of reality. The war is counterproductive to U.S. economic, environmental and public relations interests and another immoral policy overly influenced by the vast concentration of wealth in the United States and it's 160 trillion dollars of wealth of which 170 million people exist ion just 4 trillion dollars. Tax wealth not work.
Reflecting upon the West’s choices to engage in protracted development of the war in Ukraine with Russia, and for Congress’s passage of President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that cut taxes on the rich, and adds three trillion to U.S. public debt while attacking the ecosphere, a quote from a video of a chess game between Stockfish and Redfish with 100% accuracy summarized the essence of each;
“When you’re fighting the wrong battle, victory is worse than defeat. When you’re fighting the right battle, victory and defeat don’t matter.”
A quote from the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz is also illustrative; “If I only had a brain”.
President Trump seems to be buying into the crazy, reckless lunacy of the Ukraine war that Europe wants wholeheartedly it seems. They seem dedicated to bring about the worst-case scenario of nuclear war or the primary alternative of some new kind of biological chemical synthetic agent designed with the new technology to attack specific human genes and shut down life. It is not unlikely that secret labs have advanced such technologies and the weapons to release them into distant adversarial populations. If pressed enough, Russia may exploit last resort weapons.
The west is still on the pathological notion that the Ukraine war is another Afghanistan or Vietnam that carries no great implicit risk to nations sponsoring the war. Europe with its new no W.W. 2 generation of leadership and fully recovered from that devastation combined with the post-Soviet formation of the E.U. is feeling like spring colts that seem the future of conflict as nothing too risky- just good play especially with the U.S.A. footing much of the bill, West Ukraine President Zelensky has shattered the 2010 strategic bomber pact between Russia and the United States and is playing Donald Trump like a fiddle. President Trump seems , respectfully, like a recalcitrant organ grinding monkey who will come around when Yermak, Zelensky or the European community pull his string.
The sole way to end the conflict available now is to make Zelensky and his people persona non grata in the United States and to just recognize the Russia eastern provinces of Ukraine so long as they do not extend the areas beyond what they presently have stated as where they are willing to stop.
There is no question that idiots of the U.S. Government like Sen Lindsey Graham will press for war until the last drop of blood can be wring out of Ukrainians and Russians, For some not too great piece of real estate the morons of Europe and the U.S. Government would risk the end of civilization. It is a crazy choice especially since everyone need learn to live together when the conflict is over, and their will be no final solution where Russia quits the fight and gives up its holdings in East Ukraine.
Europe and N.A.T.O. are leveraging the war to downgrade the U.S. as the leader of N.A.T.O. to a secondary role of support for the will to power of the E.U. They have no regard for U.S. treaties with Russia that used to be of primary importance to world peace and instead envision a new global paradigm where the U.S. supplies money, guns and trade deficits with stupid presidents that are complete Europhiles, rubes and morons about global political strategies.
An interesting video about Hitler's final period fighting the Soviets and the West show that he was detached from reality. Not a comedian of course, yet he was a corporal rather than a general officer with good judgment. He hadn't the option of wheedling from wealthy supporters as a strategy either.
President Trump has accomplished getting Ukraine and Russia to agree to terms that reduce the scale of the war somewhat. It is called a partial cease fire. That is comparable to a partial silence; an oxymoron yet meaningful in comparison to a reduction of noise level from a higher level.
Ukraine and Russia agree to keep their ships in neutral corners east and west of the Black Sea although Russia will have access to the Mediterranean via the middle and southern parts of that body of water through Turkey. Russia needs merchant ship access to the world to trade food commodities since the U.S.A. is lifting several sanctions on Russian agriculture and food related trade. Ukraine agreed not to use ships to bring weapons to Odessa and the south shore of Ukraine.
Each side won't attack energy facilities for thirty days, although since Russia began its cease fire on Ukraine energy sites a few days earlier the 30 days for each art occur on a slightly different schedule/
This is all good news. Maybe hungry Africans will get some food relief and American farmers may have better export markets indirectly lowering the cost of bread in the U.S.A. if farmers won't under-plant worried about poor export markets for surplus grain (a theory of mine).
