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🎙️ Join Alex Christoforou as he unpacks a week of unexpected shifts and unraveling narratives.
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00:00We have not repeated steps to stop the fire, never stopped from the dialogue with the Ukrainian side.
00:08I remember once again, that we did not stop the negotiations in 2022.
00:17This did the Ukrainian side.
00:20In this case, we, no matter what,
00:23we would like to do the negotiations in the end of 2022.
00:32We would like to start the negotiations in the end of 2022.
00:36We would like to start the negotiations without any previous regulations.
00:40We would like to start the negotiations in the next week,
00:46on 15 maire in Istanbul,
00:49where they were previously before,
00:52and we would like to start the negotiations.
00:54As you know, the Turkish colleagues
00:55have not repeatedly offered their services
00:57for such negotiations.
00:59This is my video update on this Sunday afternoon.
01:06May the 11th coming to you from Limassol, Cyprus.
01:13Let's talk about some news.
01:18And let's start things off with Putin's late night speech.
01:27A lot of news yesterday.
01:30So much news going on over this weekend.
01:34But Putin, he decided to give a late night speech yesterday.
01:40And he called in the media, no questions, just his prepared statement.
01:49And it did look like Putin had prepared the statement himself.
01:54It was after his final meeting from the events of the victory day.
02:05And he had one final meeting.
02:07And then he took some time to prepare his speech.
02:11It was on written paper, on paper that he was holding.
02:15And he addressed the media.
02:16He had the mainstream media, the collective West mainstream media,
02:20sitting in the front row.
02:22All of this went down at around one, one, two o'clock Moscow time.
02:30So it was very late at night that Putin decided to give this speech.
02:35And he gave this speech following the ultimatums that were issued from Kiev,
02:43from the United States, from US President Trump, from Macron, Stammer, Tusk, Mertz.
02:52I call them the four plus one, Macron, Stammer, Mertz, Tusk, plus Trump.
02:59The four plus one with Churchill number two, Olensky.
03:02They issued an ultimatum yesterday from Kiev saying that Russia has until May 12th
03:09to agree to a 30 day unconditional ceasefire or else bone crushing,
03:15Lindsey Graham bone crushing sanctions will hit Russia.
03:20So they issued an ultimatum, the losing side, the losing side of this conflict,
03:26issuing an ultimatum to the winning side.
03:29But as I said in my video update yesterday, the four European leaders,
03:34along with Churchill number two, they feel very emboldened now that they have Trump's support.
03:42And Trump's support is very public.
03:46He made his support known in a true social post from a couple of days ago,
03:51where he said that after speaking with Olensky, he supports a 30 day unconditional ceasefire.
03:57And Macron, Stammer, Mertz, Tusk, along with Olensky,
04:04they actually called up Trump from Kiev and let Trump know how everything is going in Kiev.
04:13So they made it known that they're all in this together.
04:19The four plus one.
04:20Trump couldn't be in Kiev.
04:21That's why I consider him a plus one.
04:23He's the guy that was not in Kiev.
04:27But anyway, so they issued this ultimatum to Russia, which is nothing more than the Kellogg freeze plan.
04:35They outlined the plan.
04:37This is the Four Seasons Hotel.
04:41They outlined the plan for Putin that they demand Putin accept.
04:48And we're talking about the Kellogg ceasefire freeze plan that was presented two weeks ago in London.
04:54That's basically what we're talking about.
04:56But this time they actually put a date to it that Putin has to agree to, which is tomorrow, May 12th.
05:04So we're talking about the Kellogg ceasefire plan.
05:09Russia was given 24 hours to agree to an unconditional ceasefire as dictated by the losers, the terms dictated by the losers.
05:19But they were feeling confident because they got Trump on their side.
05:24And Putin thought that it was important enough for him to make this very late night, early morning statement to the media.
05:37And I'm going to tell you what Putin said.
05:44Read you some of the quotes from his speech.
05:47It was about a 15, 20 minute speech from the Russian president.
05:56Basically, Putin, in a very skillful and diplomatic way, he he rejected this ultimatum.
06:08And he said that Russia is ready to engage in direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul starting as early as next Thursday.
06:27I believe May 15th and Putin said that he is going to actually contact Erdogan to arrange the negotiations.
06:39And we are talking about negotiations without preconditions.
06:48A statement that Russia has made many times in the past.
06:52Direct talks with Ukraine, but without preconditions.
06:57The collective West, the United States, the Trump administration, Ukraine, they are saying that they want a 30 day unconditional ceasefire and then they will talk to Russia.
07:13So that's a pretty big condition, a massive condition, a condition that will allow NATO, the United States, the collective West to to rearm Ukraine.
07:26To rearm a losing Ukraine military.
07:30A Minsk three is basically what they're trying to pull on on Russia.
07:35So Putin said that the point of of direct talks with Ukraine is to eliminate the root causes of the problem.
07:44That's a direct quote to eliminate the root causes of the problem.
07:48And then he also made his case like like a lawyer would do.
07:54He made his case that that a ceasefire before talks is never going to work because Ukraine has has not been able to to honor any ceasefires to date.
08:14Putin said that they did not honor the the Trump 30 day energy ceasefire.
08:19Ukraine did not honor that.
08:21He said that Ukraine did not honor on Russia's initiative, the Easter ceasefire, a one day ceasefire.
08:28And Putin said that the three day victory day ceasefire that Russia proposed Ukraine did not agree to it, but Ukraine was unable to honor this as well.
08:43Well, actually, he said that the Olenski regime during the three days of victory day.
08:50They threatened world leaders and and they tried to to take to take curse, to take Russian territory.
09:00They launched 500 drones into Russia during the sacred, according to Putin, the sacred victory day celebrations.
09:07That's what he said that they were actually actively attacking Russia and threatening world leaders.
09:12So basically, he laid out the case that the Olenski regime Ukraine is just not possible.
09:19It's just not is not able to to honor any type of ceasefire, whether it be one day, three day or 30 days.
09:29So we now understand, in my opinion, we understand what was going on with all of these ceasefires that Russia agreed with and proposed.
09:42They agreed with a 30 day ceasefire.
09:43A lot of people were saying, why are they agreeing to Trump's energy ceasefire?
09:48Then Russia proposed these the Easter ceasefire.
09:50A lot of people were saying, why is Putin proposing a one day Easter ceasefire?
09:55And then Russia came out with the three day unilateral victory day ceasefire.
10:00And they they offered Ukraine to also take part in a three day victory day ceasefire, which Ukraine denied.
10:07But now we know why Russia put out all of these ceasefire initiatives, because they knew that Ukraine would never be able to comply,
10:17would never be able to honor these ceasefires.
10:20And that would give Putin the case that he needed to make as he is talking about direct negotiations without preconditions and not a 30 day unconditional ceasefire.
10:33So basically, Putin, the lawyer, he he had his case laid out there.
10:40No, no reason to have ceasefires when Ukraine cannot comply with even the most basic of ceasefires.
10:52Let's talk.
10:53Let's talk in Istanbul, direct negotiations.
10:56And maybe he said, maybe from these direct negotiations, we could get to some sort of of a truce once we sit down and talk.
11:06So he did say that as well.
11:10So let's let's get to some of the things that some of the quotes that Putin made one second.
11:21Let me pull it up here.
11:22So Putin said that despite everything, we propose that the Kiev authorities resume the negotiations they interrupted at the end of 2022.
11:37Putin said resume direct negotiations and I emphasize without any preconditions.
11:42Notice that Putin says the negotiations in Istanbul in 2022 that they that Ukraine that the collective West interrupted.
11:55Very important for Putin to to say that the negotiations are going to take place in Istanbul, the direct talks to be located in Istanbul, I believe, for two reasons.
12:08The first reason is that once again, Putin, the lawyer, he he wants to to continue what was agreed on in Istanbul even down to to the very location.
12:22So there was an agreement in Istanbul in March of 2022, Alinsky and Bojo, they decided to break the agreement.
12:31But here's Putin saying, you know what, let's continue those talks which we as Russia complied with.
12:37Let's resume those negotiations in Istanbul, those negotiations from March 2022 and let's even have them at the same location.
12:47So a very, a very clever move from Putin.
12:51And of course, having it in Istanbul and in in Turkey once again highlights the the fact that it was indeed Ukraine and Boris Johnson, the collective West that that broke.
13:06That broke those agreements in in March of 2022.
13:12Putin said we propose to start without delay next Thursday, May 15th in Istanbul, where they were previously held and interrupted.
13:20We are committed to serious negotiations with Ukraine to eliminate the root causes of the conflict and achieve long term sustainable peace.
13:27He added there it is.
13:30The root causes of the conflict, June 2024.
13:34Let's sit down and talk.
13:36And and let's talk about our terms, our June 2024 terms, which address the root causes of the conflict.
13:44That is what Putin is saying here in this statement.
13:46In this statement, he went on to say we do not rule out that in the course of these negotiations, it will be possible to agree on some new ceasefires, real truces that would be observed observed not only by Russia, but by Ukraine as well.
14:02Such an agreement, he argued, could be the first step toward a long term sustainable peace, not a prologue to the continuation of armed conflict after rearming and reorganizing the Ukrainian armed forces.
14:15Quite a statement there.
14:16Quite a statement.
14:17Quite a statement.
14:18Quite a statement.
14:21Putin pointing out that that a ceasefire, an unconditional ceasefire would just be a way to rearm Ukraine.
14:32We don't want none of that Putin is saying.
14:35And where does this go?
14:38It goes to the beach, but does it take me to the beach?
14:45Let's see.
14:47Let's find out.
14:49I don't think so.
14:51I do not think this will provide me a path to the beach, or maybe it will if I go down that way.
15:01So Putin basically saying that we know what you're up to with this 30 day unconditional ceasefire.
15:10We know what you guys are trying to do.
15:13But he also said that real truces that would be observed not only by Russia, but by Ukraine as well.
15:23Yeah.
15:24So he said that in his statement, once again, highlighting that it's Russia that has complied with whatever ceasefires have taken place over the past couple of months.
15:36Maybe this time around, if we have direct negotiations without preconditions, then maybe Ukraine will actually agree to to a ceasefire.
15:45Look at that lizard.
15:46Oh, man, that's a big one.
15:48He is a big guy.
15:55Where are you?
15:57There you are.
16:02I don't know if you guys saw him.
16:06He was huge.
16:07He was big.
16:08He was a big lizard.
16:10All right.
16:11What else did Putin say?
16:13He said, our proposal is on the table.
16:15Putin said the decision now lies with the Ukrainian authorities and their curators and their curators.
16:25Enough said enough said there.
16:28What else?
16:30He said Putin Putin accused Kiev of trying to intimidate visiting world leaders with attacks during the victory day ceasefire.
16:38They not only rejected our proposal for a ceasefire, but also tried to intimidate the leaders gathered in Moscow.
16:43Then Putin said these leaders are not defined by their titles, but by their character and willingness to stand by their beliefs.
16:50Putin added and who tried to intimidate them.
16:55Those who salute and applaud former SS soldiers and elevate Nazi collaborators to the rank of national heroes.
17:02He's referencing Trudeau in Canada in this statement.
17:06The parliament applauding.
17:08What was that guy's name?
17:10Juncker?
17:11Yeah.
17:12That's a direct reference to Trudeau and the Canadian parliament.
17:17So anyway, that was the statement from Putin.
17:22Some of the things that he said yesterday evening.
17:26The ball is now in the Collective West's court.
17:31That is where the ball is.
17:34They thought they had Russia and Putin boxed in.
17:39But nope, that's what they thought yesterday in Kiev.
17:44That they have Putin boxed in.
17:47An ultimatum by tomorrow.
17:49Trump fully supports us.
17:51If you don't agree to surrender Russian President Vladimir Putin, then we will impose bone-crushing Lindsey Graham.
18:01Bone-crushing sanctions.
18:02In which the Kremlin said yesterday that they're not afraid of any sanctions from the Collective West.
18:08They actually came out with a statement that said sanctions do not scare us.
18:15Peskov, he said after Putin's statement that this is for real.
18:24He said this is a serious offer from Putin.
18:27A lasting peace can be achieved only through serious negotiations.
18:31And the readiness for these negotiations has now been shown and demonstrated by the Russian president.
18:37Peskov emphasized.
18:38So there we have it.
18:50There it is.
18:52Very well played by the Russian president.
18:58Very well played.
18:59Perhaps the big thing that was revealed over the past couple of days is not that you had the four European leaders traveling to Kiev and creating this media spectacle with Alensky.
19:21And where they were taking photos, the five of them walking in the streets of Kiev or the five of them in some room calling Trump to update Trump on what's going on in Kiev.
19:32All of that was staged.
19:34Professional photos, professional videos.
19:37As they're walking, as the leaders are walking in Kiev, as someone who does videos, there's no doubt about it.
19:44I don't have anybody that's filming for me, though.
19:46I'm using my left hand, my left arm.
19:50But as they're walking around Kiev, they have professional photographers making sure that everything is perfectly positioned and staged so that they can post these photos on Instagram and TikTok and all of the social media to show the geopolitical brilliance of the four leaders along with Churchill number two.
20:12So all of this was staged, staged media trickery.
20:17They got Trump on board.
20:19They got Trump to agree to all of this.
20:21Trump decided to ignore Witkoff, to ignore Vance, and he decided, much to his detriment, to side with these coalition of the willing, with the coalition of the willing.
20:35That is who Trump decided to go with.
20:39And they thought that they were going to box in Putin by using the media and this trickery, this media trickery.
20:54They thought that they were going to force Putin to agree to a 30 day unconditional ceasefire.
21:05That was what was at play.
21:08And the plan that Putin would agree to is the Kellogg plan.
21:12They didn't really come up with a new plan.
21:14I think we need to we need to say this.
21:19What is this?
21:22I think we need to point out.
21:29Where does that go to?
21:34I think we need to point out that they didn't look at that lizard.
21:40Oh, man.
21:43Oh, wow.
21:44Look at that guy.
21:46Dude.
21:47Where am I?
21:48Built tomb.
21:497th century BC.
21:50Should I go in there?
21:52Let's go in there.
21:54Let's go in there.
22:05Let's go.
22:09If I don't come back.
22:12I'm sure you call the authorities to find me.
22:19So, yeah.
22:20It's important to point out that they didn't come up with any new plans or anything while they were in Kiev.
22:25They just basically rehashed the Kellogg freeze ceasefire plan.
22:46Oh, my child.
22:47Hello.
22:48Okay.
22:49All right.
22:50Interesting.
22:51Nice and cool, though.
22:56Now, my boy.
22:59It's moving around.
23:06It's going to be a Johannes.
23:08Hello?
23:09Hello?
23:10Okay.
23:12All right.
23:13Interesting.
23:14Okay.
23:15nice and cool down here. Oh boy. All right. So, uh, what should we talk about now?
23:28What should we discuss? Yeah, I think the one big, uh, the one big thing that was revealed
23:34was that, uh, that Trump, he, uh, he went in with the neocons and with Kellogg.
23:42I think that's kind of a disappointment for, uh, for the Russians, even though Putin in his speech,
23:50he thanked mediators, the mediators that have been involved in the people that have been helping to,
23:56to negotiate some sort of a peace between Russia and Ukraine. And he actually did thank the Trump
24:01administration. But my sense of things is that the, the Russians, now that it has been revealed
24:08whose side Trump is on, and he is absolutely on Kellogg and the neocon side. That's who he
24:13decided to go with over the, over the past week or two, this has now been revealed. I think they're
24:18a bit, uh, disappointed at that, but you know, everything has now, has now been, uh,
24:27has now been revealed. Uh, Russia, the world knows, knows whose, whose side everybody is on,
24:37including Trump. And, uh, this thing can move forward accordingly. What a beautiful tree.
24:44What a huge lizard. It's the same guy, dude. You're awesome. All right. Today's lizard day. Sunday is
24:57always lizard day. All right. So, uh, let's see here. So there are some people who say that, uh,
25:07because, uh, we're talking about, uh, Istanbul and, uh, Erdogan, by the way, uh, Turkey has said
25:14that there, that they have spoken to, to, uh, Erdogan has said that he has spoken to the Putin
25:21and he absolutely is, is ready to negotiate bilateral, uh, talks. Of course that was to be
25:28expected that Erdogan would come out with this type of statement, but there are people who are saying
25:32that maybe, uh, Trump and Putin are coordinating in all of this because, uh, Trump called Erdogan
25:39six days ago. And, uh, according to the white house statement, uh, Trump mentioned, uh, Ukraine
25:48project Ukraine. And he talked about Turkey, possibly helping out with Ukraine negotiations.
25:56This is possible. I don't want to say that this is not possible, that perhaps there is some
26:01coordination. I don't think so. I think more, more than likely, uh, the masks have now come off and
26:07Russia understands that Trump is aligned with the neocons. He should have chosen Whitcoff and Vance,
26:13but he chose Kellogg, Lindsey Graham, and the neocons. But maybe, maybe there is a chance that
26:18there is, I'm wrong and there is some coordination going on that is possible. So I don't want to discount
26:23that possibility. But the reason I believe that, uh, that more than likely, uh, Putin chose, uh, Istanbul
26:33because that's where the talks took place in 2022. And Putin wants to, wants to make it clear to the
26:44entire world that, uh, that the two sides are going back to Istanbul to perhaps finish what was started in
26:512022. I think there's a lot of, uh, symbolism and continuity there, but, um, but another reason why I
27:00believe that there isn't coordination going on between Trump and Putin, the main reason is because the, uh, the New
27:08York Times is reporting that the Trump administration, they have greenlit missiles and air defense systems
27:16to Ukraine, which, uh, are with Germany. So U S stockpiles that are being held by Germany and Germany
27:25cannot transfer these weapons without the U S's permission. They want to transfer these weapons,
27:29but they can't without U S permission. Well, the U S according to the New York Times has now given
27:37Germany permission to transfer these U S weapons to Ukraine. We're talking about 125 long range artillery
27:47missiles and a hundred Patriot missiles. This is according to the New York times. And this story came out
27:53yesterday. I think this is very much coordinated with the trip to Kiev with Trump saying that he wants Russia
28:00to agree to a 30 day unconditional ceasefire. I think all of this is being coordinated by the white house, by the
28:06Europeans. And I think at the time when this statement came out, when this article came out, it came out
28:11before Putin's speech. So Trump wasn't expecting Putin's speech. No one was expecting Putin's speech.
28:18I think that the Trump white house thought that this type of message of weapons going to, to Kiev,
28:24especially long range, uh, long range artillery missiles that this would, would scare Russia into,
28:30uh, uh, submission into agreeing to a 30 day, uh, ceasefire. So all of this, all of this stuff seems to
28:39have been, uh, coordinated, but, um, for Trump to do this for the Trump white house to green light
28:48these weapons to, uh, Ukraine means that this was probably decided on maybe, maybe a week or two ago,
28:54maybe even further back. And, uh, I would, I would venture to guess that the weapons are already
29:01in Kiev by a Germany. They've already arrived in Ukraine and they're going to be used, uh, very
29:08soon. That would be my guess. There were reports coming out of Germany saying that, uh, and all of
29:14this ties in there are reports coming out of Germany saying that, uh, that the Mertz government
29:20is not going to announce what weapons systems they are going to be sending to Ukraine. So Germany's
29:25not going to be announcing all of the, the weapons that they're funneling to Ukraine anymore. The
29:30Schultz government was doing that. And, uh, and the Mertz government is not going to do that. And I
29:37think one of the reasons is it's because they're going to start transferring a lot of us weapons in
29:41Germany to Ukraine. This also shows that the U S has no appetite to send their own weapons, or maybe
29:49they're short on, uh, on weapons. And so they're, they're, they're digging into their stockpiles in,
29:56uh, in the, in their vassal States. That's, that's another thing that this shows the New York times.
30:05They also put out an article yesterday with the title, Europe wants to arm Ukraine,
30:10but it's losing a race against time. President Trump's insistence that the United States do less
30:16towards securing Europe means that allies scrambling to arm themselves have less to give to Ukraine.
30:22So the New York times is also reporting, they reported on this yesterday as well,
30:28that, uh, that Trump is not sending us weapons weapons in the United States to Ukraine at the moment.
30:35And, uh, and the Europeans, they're trying to, to find their own weapons to send to Ukraine,
30:41but they don't have their own weapons. They've been demilitarized. And then a few hours later,
30:47you get the New York times report saying that the U S weapons in Europe
30:53have now been approved by the United States to go to Ukraine.
31:01I don't think that Trump and Putin are, are, uh, are coordinating when it comes to Turkey and,
31:07uh, and Istanbul. I think Trump made his choice a week or two ago that he's going to side with Kellogg.
31:13He was on the fence. Trump was on the fence for many months. And I think the whole Whitcoff thing
31:20was basically Trump exploring his options. He said, let's, let's go with Kellogg and see what he does.
31:26Let's go with Whitcoff and see what Whitcoff does. And, uh, and Trump was buying time and delaying and
31:32buying time before making a decision. And I think a couple of weeks ago, he finally decided, you know
31:38what I'm going to, to go with Kellogg and Lindsey Graham. So that's what I think was actually going
31:48on. He chose poorly. He chose poorly. So Trump did post on truth social after Putin's speech, Trump posted
32:03a potentially great day for Russia and Ukraine. Think of the hundreds of thousands of lives that
32:10will be saved as this never ending bloodbath, hopefully comes to an end. It will be a whole
32:16new and much better world. It will continue to work with, I will continue to work with both sides to
32:23make sure that it happens. The USA wants to focus instead on rebuilding and trade a big week upcoming.
32:30You know what Trump is saying in this truth social post, he doesn't mention anything about Putin's
32:37speech, even though this truth social post came out just a couple of hours ago. So, uh, well after
32:43Putin's a statement, but he doesn't mention Putin's speech. He doesn't mention Putin's offer, which is
32:48now on the table, direct negotiations without preconditions. He doesn't mention any of that.
32:52He's trying to take, uh, he's trying to now take credit for, uh, for the initiative that, uh, that Putin
33:02now has put on the table. Let me read you what I posted on X one second. I posted this on X in reference
33:11to Trump's truth social post. When you realize you backed the wrong plan and the wrong side should have
33:19gone with Whitcoff and now you are trying to spin Putin's latest move as your own win. It's exactly
33:25what Trump is trying to do. He understands he's been outplayed. He's been outplayed because what's,
33:31what are Trump's options now? His options are either to continue to, to, uh, to align himself with the,
33:39with the four Europeans, the coalition of the, of the unwilling and, uh, and Churchill number two,
33:46in which case the United States and the Trump administration is heading for a big loss,
33:51a major defeat, and it will all be blamed on Trump. And when that defeat comes, the Europeans,
33:57the neocons, the Lindsey Graham's, everybody is going to, to blame Trump. Everyone's going to turn
34:02on Trump and Trump knows this. They're all going to turn on him. Maybe he doesn't know this, but, um,
34:07when the defeat comes, they're all going to turn on him and they're all going to blame Trump. You didn't
34:11send enough weapons. He didn't do enough. You should have sent more. You should have sent troops.
34:16You should have given Ukraine nukes, whatever. They're all going to come up with, with crazy,
34:20uh, excuses, but blaming Trump as to why the U S was defeated in Ukraine. So that's his one option
34:28to continue to go with these guys. His other option is to walk away. You know, Putin is giving
34:34him another off ramp. When you think about it, he's basically telling Trump, I'm giving you another
34:39off ramp. I'm saying direct negotiations where you could do president Trump is you could pressure
34:45Alinsky to, uh, to agree to these direct negotiations without preconditions. And if he doesn't agree,
34:53then you can walk away. You can announce I'm walking away because Alinsky doesn't want to sit down
34:59with, uh, with Russia. So he is giving Putin and he is giving Trump. Putin's giving Trump an off ramp.
35:06So that's another, uh, option that Trump has. The other thing he can do is, is just keep on,
35:13on dithering, man, you know, just keep on saying negotiations are going fine. He can, he can send,
35:19he can send weapons, but then say that, that the U S is mediating. He could just kind of
35:25continue to, to go with, with the status quo. That's another thing that, that he can do and just
35:32kind of hope that all of this goes away. Right? So he's boxed in man. The smart thing for Trump to do,
35:41the very smart thing for him to do, the dumb thing would be to continue to align with, uh,
35:47with the, the four European leaders and the green goblin. That would be a very dumb thing for him to
35:53do. But the smart thing for him to do is to now pressure Alinsky to agree to May 15th,
35:59direct negotiations. And if Alinsky says no, then bro, you have another, another perfect excuse to
36:08walk away. I mean, this is a gift to, uh, to Trump. Otherwise it's your war and you're going to go down
36:17really, really hard. So, uh, that's, that's the Trump post on true social. So Macron,
36:26he responded very quickly to Putin's statements and Macron said an unconditional ceasefire should
36:33not be preceded by negotiations. According to Macron, Putin is looking for a way out,
36:42but he still wants to buy time. Although he offered a first step towards peace Alinsky. He responded on
36:50telegram by saying, we expect Russia to confirm a ceasefire complete long-term and reliable
36:57starting tomorrow, May 12th. And Ukraine is ready to meet. That is what Alinsky posted on telegram.
37:04So Macron, Alinsky, what they're going to say is that the collective West media, they're going to,
37:12to say that Putin is desperate. He's looking for, for a way out. You know, they're going to run with
37:17that one. And, uh, and they're, they're not going to agree. I don't see how they can agree to this.
37:24I don't see how Macron can, can allow Alinsky to agree to this. I don't see how Alinsky can agree to
37:29this because they know that if they agree to bilateral talks with Russia, then we're looking
37:36at Istanbul plus we're looking at root causes because the Russian team is going to meet with
37:40the Ukraine team. And they're going to basically say, you guys have to agree to our June to June,
37:462024 terms. You're losing militarily. This is your only way out. Otherwise you continue the war. And
37:56as our Stovich said in an interview, a couple of months ago, the four territories become six,
38:02the six territories become eight. And we all know how, how everything will, uh, will end. But, uh,
38:08Macron, he wants to keep the war going. So that's basically what he's saying in his statement.
38:13Alinsky with his curators, as Putin called them, he's going to do as Macron and Stammer tell him.
38:20And right now they're telling Alinsky to con to continue to press for the May 12th ultimatum,
38:28unconditional ceasefire. Macron saying an unconditional ceasefire should not be preceded by negotiations.
38:34What a dumb, a dumb statement from Macron. What kind of nonsense is Macron talking about?
38:41The losing side dictating terms, the losing side saying that first, before we sit down and talk,
38:48we have to have an unconditional ceasefire in the air and the sea and in the land. That is what, uh,
38:53Mertz, Mertz and Stammer, that's what they said yesterday from Kiev, an unconditional ceasefire in
38:58the air and the sea and the land because Russia's winning. And, uh, we need Russia's momentum to stop.
39:05And we need 30 days and possibly 60 days and 90 days to, uh, to bail out Ukraine. And then of course,
39:16because this is a Minsk three type of trap, then we will restart the hostilities again.
39:23That is what they're trying to do. Uh, Kellogg, Kellogg, he posted yesterday as the leaders were in
39:32Kiev, the four leaders, a comprehensive air, land, sea infrastructure ceasefire for 30 days.
39:40We'll start the process of ending the largest and longest war in Europe since World War II.
39:46As POTUS has repeatedly said, stop the killing now. Poor Trump, poor Trump, but I'm being polite to
39:54Trump. I could say much nastier stuff, but, uh, man, he chose poorly by going with Kellogg,
40:01man, his choice at the end of the day, he's president and that's what he decided. He's going
40:07to put his trust in Kellogg and Lindsey Graham and the neocons. Not the first time, probably won't be the
40:13last time that Trump has decided to go with the neocons. For some reason, he's fixated on being
40:19accepted by the neocons and being liked by the neocons and also being liked by the Europeans
40:24because Trump, he is, uh, siding with, uh, with leaders in Europe that despise him, have openly
40:31stated that they, that they despise him and have openly campaigned to, uh, to, uh, defeat him in the
40:39last elections, but he just wants to be liked. He wants to be part of that club and that club
40:45will never accept him. And, uh, and when this war is lost, if Trump continues to choose poorly,
40:52when this war is lost, they will put all the blame on president Trump. You better believe it.
40:58That's where this thing is heading. Anyway, uh, one of the, one of the bone crushing sanctions,
41:05according to the wall street journal, that Europe was going to place on Russia. This is no joke.
41:10And I guess, I guess this could be seen as a clown world, but according to the wall street journal,
41:15Europe threatens Nord Stream two sanctions to pressure Russia on ceasefire. Moscow had discussed
41:22reviving gas pipeline and talks with Trump on improving economic ties with Washington.
41:29So because Witkoff was talking with, uh, Dimitriev about possible energy infrastructure
41:37cooperation, and maybe even restarting, uh, Nord Stream, perhaps getting a U S company to buy
41:43the Russian gas. And then the U S company would, uh, would take over sending the gas to Europe. That's
41:51what they were talking about. The Europeans, they said that one of the sanctions that they would place
41:56on Russia would be on Nord Stream two. Oh man. I think the Europeans, the Germans should first focus on,
42:08on apprehending Gilligan first get Gilligan and the skipper and the Andromeda. And then, and then think
42:16about Nord Stream two sanctions towards Russia. I think that's the way to go. Oh man.
42:26So let's, uh, let's move on now. And, uh, and let's talk about a good development, a positive
42:38development from the Trump administration, which is that, uh, Trump announced yesterday that
42:45there is a ceasefire between India and Pakistan. After a long night of talks mediated by the United
42:51States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a full and immediate
42:56ceasefire. Congratulations to both countries on using common sense and great intelligence.
43:00Thank you for your attention to this matter. That's a good development from, uh, the Trump
43:06administration. So they got, uh, the ceasefire, uh, the, the ceasefire when it was announced, of course,
43:14both sides were breaking the ceasefire. That's to be expected. But, um, both sides are also declaring,
43:22uh, victory in this, uh, conflict. Pakistan has declared victory. Uh, India has declared that, uh,
43:30this was an operational success. That's also to be expected. But the important news is that at the
43:37moment it does look like we are getting, uh, a ceasefire between Pakistan and India. So that is,
43:47that is a good development from, uh, from the Trump administration. And yesterday in my video,
43:54I mentioned that Rubio was in contact with, uh, with both sides. So we got some good results there.
44:01Now, all that needs to happen is for Trump to, to just follow Putin's lead, man. That's all Trump has
44:09to do. Is there anybody that can just talk to Trump and just tell him, follow Putin's lead? He's given
44:14you another off ramp. He has given you another off ramp. Take it, take it. Don't listen to,
44:24oh man, please do not feed the cats. Their feeding time is six o'clock daily at the Amethyst Cat House.
44:31This is the Amethyst Hotel. Very popular hotel.
44:41So, uh, so yeah, just, uh, just follow Putin's lead, Trump. Anyway, let's wrap up this video.
44:50Man, I've been rambling for a while, but man, it's been a great walk, huh? So clown world, clown world,
44:58let's, um, let's talk about the four leaders in, in Kiev. And there's a photo that's surfaced,
45:11a couple of photos actually, where Alensky is speaking with Stammer and also Alensky speaking
45:17with Mertz. And there's something going on with Alensky's pants. Now I can't confirm that these
45:23pants were put on backwards. Maybe this is Photoshop. Maybe this is AI. Most likely it's
45:28Photoshop. Most, most likely it's AI. I don't know. Um, there are people who are saying this
45:35is not Photoshop. This is not AI. Uh, Grok, actually the AI Grok on X actually said, someone
45:43asked if this is, uh, AI or Photoshop and Grok said, I think Grok said no, but Grok also said
45:50that most likely these pants were not put on backwards. And most likely this is some sort of
45:55misinformation. That's what's Grok said. Kind of what Grok said anyway. Um,
46:00I don't know. I don't know if, if these pants were put on backwards or not. I don't know. I can't,
46:08I can't make this call. I cannot make this call. I will say that there's a photo of Alensky
46:15with, uh, with Mertz and also with, uh, not yeah, with Mertz and also with Stammer and something's up
46:23with the pants. Maybe it's the stitching. Maybe it's the style of, of pants. I don't know. Maybe that,
46:26that could be what's going on. Or maybe this is AI in Photoshop. I don't know. I don't know.
46:34Anyway, let's do one more quick clown world on this long video.
46:40And today's final clown world was Macron saying goodbye to Alensky. I will play the video of
46:46Macron hugging Alensky nonstop, saying goodbye to him, getting a whiff of that Alensky number five.
46:52Alensky probably getting a whiff of that Dior Savage from, uh, from Macron. And, uh,
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