DW P.
Producer and Film Director @ Ukraine Story | Documentary Filmmaker | Attorney | Journalist |
George Mason University – Antonin Scalia Law School Ukraine Story
United States
May 21, 2025
Why Was Trump “Defeated” Negotiating “Peace”?
To achieve peace, first you must seek it.
At no point has the Trump Administration communicated a meaningful idea of a just peace. Not once.
Yesterday’s spin on the Trump/Putin call was the latest false flag in the war for a brokered “deal” coming from the White House. What makes yesterday distinctive is that the White House officially threw in the towel, ended its foray into deal making between Russia and Ukraine, accepted the Russian narrative again, and sought to pawn off further mediations on the Vatican.
No candidate has boasted more of an intended outcome as a reason for his election. And it is hard to think of a president who has failed to deliver on a promise on a more epic scale – the future of the world for the next half century.
At the beginning of his term as #47, conservatives and Republicans astonished by President Trump’s appeasement of Russia and bullying of Ukraine, clung to the notion that we should “watch what he does, not what he says,” hoping that there was a grand secret strategy. They were proven wrong.
Why has President Trump failed?
Three things were prerequisite for the President to keep his promise: A Moral Compass; Truth and Pressure.
The first is a moral compass. There can be no peace without a just peace. There can be no peace without the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. The President has modeled a policy of submission to Putin, appeasement and moral capitulation.
The second is truth. Without a clear understanding of the facts, there can be no meaningful discussion of ending carnage. The president does not even appear to understand who the victims of the carnage really are. They are not the rapists, torturers and war criminals of the Russian army, whose death Trump repeatedly laments as a mantra. They are the babies, children, women, elderly and defenders unjustly killed by the criminals. The President has built four months of leadership on misinformation and disinformation, rendering his ability to negotiate peace an absolute impossibility. The result has been that Putin’s rapes, murders, thefts and kidnappings have been ratified and validated by Trump, making the American president an enabler of ongoing crimes.
The third is pressure: When dealing with a bully, only meaningful applied pressure brings about results. President Trump and his team have elected a strategy of unprecedented unilateral concessions and appeasement to the brutalitarian aggressors, and bullying of victims. The policy emboldened more war crimes from Putin, and represented the greatest foreign policy reversal in the history of the U.S.. It has included the dismantling of U.S. intelligence aimed at protecting against ongoing Russian hybrid warfare, voting with Marxist Leninists and authoritarians at the United Nations and against allies, and breaking formal agreements between the U.S. and Ukraine.
What do I mean by “pressure” on Putin? Answer – the following: (1) Military coercion – Putin pulls out on his own, or America and the allies makes sure that he will be forced out. He backs down or we will be relentless in ensuring his defeat in Ukraine. This includes our full blessing on Ukraine using American weapons to target inside Russia. The point is that Putin will only respond to having his ass kicked. Nothing else. (2) Moral and Social Pressure: The United States communicates that Russia is the pariah of the world, and that every Russian alive who supports Putin is an accessory to rape, torture, and murder. Do not underestimate the power of unified moral clarity from the West to undermine Putin’s base from within. This includes pressure for war crime trials, and advocacy for the arrest of Putin and Lavrov if they travels in nations doing business with USA, (3) Comprehensive economic pressure. It is frankly an embarrassment that Europeans and Americans hove more sanctions options available now. Why were they not employed in 2022?
Comment from ;
Nestor Rivera
Fundamentally, peace is not a detached, transactional thing akin to a real estate closing. Peace is a goal made of a complex framework of resources and commitments, defined clearly as cumulative milestones, all of which are sustained by effort and respect. Simply put, peace is not a “deal” but a prolonged, long-term service agreement covenant between the parties that respect it (Russia not being such a party, so no agreement is possible from the get-go). Peace depends on its stakeholders’ prolonged commitments at diverse levels. Trump and his tribe of idiots are not known for prolonged anything, much less complex anything. Standing proof is the proverbial circus they’ve created (for their amusement) of our economy and legal system. It’s 24/7 amateur hour, driven by a cadre of narcissistic entertainers, each looking out for their own personal benefit, and where the rest of the stakeholders who suddenly find themselves caught in “decisions” are left with no recourse but to slap back the clowns concocting it.
Brilliant comment from : Ksenia Barabanovskaya
The refusal to impose new sanctions is a profound disgrace, a rotten hypocritical filth that stains the hands of Donald Trump and his enablers – T.Carlson, J.D. Vance, M.Rubio, S.Witkoff, and others – who actively parrot ruzziian propaganda. Their complicity transforms a bloodthirsty butcher, a ruthless despot, terrorist, a genocidal liar, and an international pariah like Putin into a kind of handshakeable figure.
The entire world is witnessing this, yet remains dangerously passive. For three terrifying years, Ukrainians pleaded for a “closed” sky, for weapons, for resources – three long, agonizing years known not from “stories,” but from lived horror.
History (2nd World War) clearly showed us that fascism was defeated not by words or sanctions alone, but by powerful, coordinated actions. Wake up, realize which side you’re on, and act now!
The time for decisive, collective intervention is long overdue!
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Another post from DW P:
Putin Will Never Go to the Vatican for Negotiations
Today President Trump washed his hands and absolved himself of further meaningful involvement in keeping his promise to end the war in Ukraine.
He concluded by explaining that (1) he trusts Putin and believes he is sincerely seeking peace, (2) Russia and Ukraine need to work it out for themselves “since they have the facts,” and (3) suggesting the Pope provide the forum.
Some are expressing hope at Vatican mediation – after all, Pope Leo has condemned the Russian invasion and called for a “just peace.”
The purpose of this article is to call for realism, not further waste of time on delays, daydreams and butterflies.
There are four reasons why Putin will never go to the Vatican, and Trump’s effort to pawn off negotiations on the Pope should be recognized as a red herring:
- Putin is in a State of Declared War with the Vatican
The Russian Orthodox Church (Muscovite Patriarchate) has officially declared “Holy War” on Ukraine and all Christians outside of the control of KGB agent, Patriarch Kirill. To hold negotiations in the Vatican would undermine the authority of the false, government-run church of Moscow and undermine the mythology perpetuated by Putin, Dugin and Carlson, of a righteous, traditionalist Russia at war with the West, and its heretical faith, including the Roman Catholic Church.
- Putin is Assaulting RC Priests in Temporarily Occupied Ukraine.
Wherever the Russian army occupies, Christians die, spiritual leaders are tortured and killed, and churches are burned to the ground or appropriated as headquarters for ongoing crimes. Were Putin to go to Rome, he would be confronted with the murder and torture of Roman Catholics, and the destruction of church buildings.
- Putin Will Not Meet Zelensky as an Equal:
We have already crossed this bridge in Turkey. To meet Zelensky as an equal in negotiation, is a non starter for Putin who has already made it clear that he rejects Zelensky’s authority.
- Why Would He Go? Only Military Pressure Will Get Putin to Back Down.
President Trump has effectively absolved Putin of warcrimes and guaranteed no meaningful response to the rape, torture, theft and murders committed by Putin. He has no incentive to seek peace and less with a mediator (the Pope) who recognizes that the Russian leader is a criminal.
Conclusion – We have the facts. We understand the motivations, objectives and tactics of all key parties. Let’s not be confused by the sleight of hand coming out of the White House. It does not matter that the Pope has generously offered to host negotiations, or that President Trump is all too willing to pawn off responsibility on the Vatican — absent moral and military pressure from the United States PUTIN WILL NEVER SIT DOWN WITH ZELENSKY AT THE VATICAN. NEVER.
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Ukraine
May 21, 2025
The behavior of Putin reminds me of the behavior of monkeys in some countries. People feed them, and get bitten in result. Why? Because in the monkey world, only low-ranking individual gives something, and high-ranking individual takes. So, if you are giving anything to a monkey, do not expect gratitude like you expect from civilized humans. Monkey will see it as a low-ranking individual that can (and should) be assaulted. If you want a monkey to take you seriously and respect you, you have to threaten it.
The logic of Putin is similar. If you do not impose any sanctions, do not condemn him, do not threaten military defeat, he takes you as weakling. Unfortunately “the greatest negotiator in the Universe” and many “progressive leaders” does not get it.
And prehistoric humans behaved much the same. Our current idea that kindness will be repaid works even among those who have passed to the higher level of social organisation. Russia is a culture where kindness is still often taken as weakness. Many of them respect you and talk politely to you only if you show teeth. I’ve seen it at many business conferences in negotiations.
So when Trump does not impose sanctions or says he “had a nice talk” with Putin, he gets screwed every time. Ronald Reagan did it differently. He installed Pershing rockets in Europe, with 10-12 mins ETA. And when the Kremlin woke up next morning, they suddenly got VERY polite and cooperative. This is how it works on them, no the other way round.
