By Professor Roman Sheremeta
Sept 15, 2026
Trump is a russian asset.
A russian oligarch close to Putin secretly paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding celebration.
Umar Kremlev paid for major parts of the three-day celebration in the Bahamas, including renting a private island and an elaborate fireworks show.
Kremlev is the head of the International Boxing Association, an organization financed by russia’s state-owned Gazprom. Putin himself awarded Kremlev russia’s Order of Friendship just one month before the wedding.
And Kremlev wasn’t alone. A group of russians attended the celebration alongside roughly 50 of Trump Jr.’s closest friends and family. The russian contingent included executives connected to russia’s defense and energy industries. Yet their presence was largely absent from the social-media photos and videos documenting the celebration.
Perhaps the most remarkable part is the response. Trump Jr.’s spokesman did not dispute that Kremlev paid the expenses. Instead, he described Kremlev as a “personal friend of Don.” Kremlev’s office likewise acknowledged that the two have a “friendly relationship.”
Does anyone still have a shred of doubt that Trump is a russian asset?!
Source: ProPublica
Full Propublica article here :
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Donald Trump Jr and Bettina Trump say Putin ally paid for some wedding festivities as a ‘gift’
By Daniel Bush
Washington correspondent
- Published Sept 15, 2026
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmqjkg121kr9o
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Quote :
“Our dear friend Umar very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding. It was an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend, and something for which we were and remain incredibly grateful,” the couple said in the statement.
Ariana Gic :
A sanctioned Russian oligarch close to Putin and a “close friend” of Donald Trump’s helped fund Donald Trump Jr.’s three-day wedding celebrations of May 2026.
How the hell is it not clear to all who Trump serves? Western nations must isolate the US before it’s too late.
We should dispense with all pretenses that the US under Trump is a neutral mediator in the Russia-Ukraine war, and not an agent pursuing Moscow’s interests. Trump works to help Putin by coercing Ukraine to make concessions to Russia – i.e. to give up fighting and let Russia win.
The Trump regime is full of evil liars who should be isolated, not be in a position of trying to broker victory for Russia under the lie of working to “bring peace” for Ukraine. NATO and EU nations should be more than ashamed for playing along with this evil farce.
Trump calls on Ukraine to stop exercising its legal right to self defence against illegal Russian aggression & genocide. The Trump regime should be cut off from the rest of the free world. Time to drop the pretences that the US is a democracy and deal with reality that it’s rogue.
For over a year I have said that the United States under Trump is a threat to Canada and, as a result, is an enemy. Those who think that Trump will not resort to military force to achieve his objective to destroy Canadian sovereignty are not paying attention.
Trump is making not-so-thinly veiled threats of the use of force against Canada when he puts Canada and Iran “in the same sentence” as he has in Ireland.
Time for all to acknowledge that the United States is in the same group of rogue regimes as Russia, North Korea, China and Iran.
Oleksii Fokardi :
It’s almost surreal:
One of Ukraine’s security guarantors under the Budapest Memorandum is asking Ukraine not to bomb another of Ukraine’s security guarantors under the Budapest Memorandum—the very one that has attacked Ukraine and is destroying it…
And yet the Ukrainians gave up the third-largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world.
Oleksii Fokardi :
U.S. Congressman on the War in Ukraine: “Russia Is a Syndicate Disguised as a Country, Led by a Mafia Boss Named Putin”
U.S. Representative Jim Costa spoke at the annual Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference. He called the war against Ukraine a clash between good and evil, and described Putin as a war criminal.
The congressman’s harshest remarks concerned the nature of the Russian state. According to him, modern Russia is not a country but a criminal syndicate that merely masquerades as a country, and at the head of this syndicate stands a mafia boss.
Costa, a Democrat from California and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke of this as a test for the entire Western world. He emphasized that this is the test of our time and a turning point in history.
Robert Potter :
Donald Trump Jr. Says a Putin Aligned Russian Oligarch Helped Pay for His Wedding Celebrations
Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Trump have now acknowledged that Russian businessman Umar Kremlev funded two nights of celebrations following their wedding in the Bahamas.
Who is Kremlev?
Kremlev heads the International Boxing Association, an organisation previously sponsored by Gazprom. Under his leadership, the IBA has moved its operations to Russia, banned Ukraine from competition and lost recognition from the International Olympic Committee. Ukraine has also sanctioned Kremlev over his links to the Russian state.
Just before the wedding celebrations, Putin awarded him Russia’s Order of Friendship.
Trump Jr. says the gift was simply the generosity of a friend and should not be politicised. That’s probably an unsustainable position.
The problem is that politics becomes difficult to separate from the story when the friend paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for celebrations is a well-connected Russian figure close to Putin while Trump Jr.’s own family is simultaneously deeply involved in shaping US policy toward Russia and Ukraine.
Donald Trump Jr. does not hold an official government position. That distinction matters.
But influence does not begin and end with a job title. He has been politically active, publicly critical of support for Ukraine, and reportedly involved in political contacts concerning the war.
None of this by itself proves improper influence.
But it creates an obvious appearance problem.
When individuals close to a sitting president accept extraordinary financial generosity from people embedded in the political ecosystem of an adversarial state, the appropriate response is not simply to insist that the relationship is personal.
Transparency and scrutiny are exactly what should follow.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jr-umar-kremlev-bettina-trump-wedding-russia-54b191b7d19ae09ab599ef5966523ab4
Krasnov Jr is a deeply evil and corrupt bastard. He’s even worse than his loathsome father. There are well known quotes from him and another Kraskov sprog; Eric, boasting of the enormous amounts of putinaZi cash invested in the Krasnov Crime Family businesses.
These scum are not only evil, but brazen in their open putinaZi allegiance.
Yuri Josef Koszarycz :
𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧?
I think the question is inappropriate. It assumes there’s any real difference in intelligence between these two sorry excuses for human beings. The question should be rephrased: “Who is the bigger idiot- Trump or Putin? ”
To most observers of global politics, Trump is clearly the bigger idiot. He’s truly ignorant of any meaningful understanding of Economics, Diplomacy, History, Geography, Political Science, Constitutional Law, Environmental science, meteorology, military history, or anything else necessary to successfully run a country. He can’t manage people, can’t listen and doesn’t learn from his mistakes. He is a bloated windbag, a braggart, a know-all, an inarticulate stumbling moron, a deluded dimwit.
And yet I put it to you Putin is even more idiotic. Here we have a cunning ex-KGB schemer who, having bullshitted his way into power and consolidated his grip through ruthless murders and imprisoning his foes, actually managed through good fortune to lead Russia into a state of semi-prosperity, at least for some. With Western know-how, investment, and soaring fossil fuel prices, he built a healthy economy and a reasonably content population.
He then, for some lunatic reason based on a mythical history of Russia and his own dreams of immortality, decided to risk his entire reputation, the economy of his nation and the lives of his own people on a crazy war with Ukraine. With this end in sight, he has emptied Russia’s vast savings account, almost bankrupted the nation, watched his oil and gas industries be destroyed, lost all his influence abroad, strengthened NATO, and killed or maimed over a million and a half of his own people just to gain a tiny sliver of a neighbour’s land. A sliver which is now poisoned and ruined for decades.
He has set his nation back decades into reliving the old Soviet era. His Eastern lands are rapidly falling under Chinese control. The Siberians talk of secession. The Caucuses see their future with Europe. And a million angry, traumatised veterans are poised to return to their homes, where they will find nothing but scorn and poverty awaiting them. All for what, Vlad? The dream of being a venerated Czar who rebuilt the Russian Empire?
No Sir. You are the biggest idiot!
Ukraine Matters :
So apparently peace is almost upon us. Jared Kushner came out at the Yalta European Strategy conference and explained that Putin is basically ready for peace, wants negotiations, and there is just this small territorial issue preventing the whole thing.
Yeah. No.
This is just not true.
I think once again we are seeing how badly Kushner and Witkoff misunderstand what is actually happening between Ukraine and russia. Eight visits to Moscow, one visit to Ukraine, countless hours of talking to russians, and somehow the main lesson they came away with is that putin really wants peace but Ukraine is making things difficult. But it’s obvious that putin does not want peace.
He could stop firing tomorrow. He could agree to a ceasefire tomorrow. He could accept literally any of the off-ramps that have been offered to him over the last years and start an actual peace process.
He accepted none of them.
Even when Trump basically rolled out the red carpet for him and treated him with more respect than almost any western leader has given him since the invasion, russia gave absolutely nothing in return. No meaningful concession. No change in demands. Nothing.
If you ONLY listen to russian statements aimed at western audiences, you can almost convince yourself that Moscow is looking for some reasonable compromise.
Then you listen to what they are actually saying inside russia in russian talking between themselves – they are laughing.
They openly treat western politicians as weak and naive people who can be played. The assumption is that the West is getting tired, Trump desperately wants a deal, Ukraine is under pressure, and therefore russia should just keep pushing and asking for more.
They are taking these people for suckers.
And unfortunately Kushner seems determined to prove them right.
Now let’s get to the actual territorial issue he is talking about.
Because even this is constantly being misrepresented as something like:
“Ukraine just needs to accept that some occupied territory cannot be liberated right now.”
That is not the proposal that russians are giving.
There is a huge difference between saying that some territory remains under russian occupation for now, while Ukraine and its allies never recognize that occupation, and telling Ukraine to withdraw from territory russia has FAILED to capture.
russia wants the rest of Donbas.
That includes the Ukrainian fortress belt, some of the strongest defensive positions Ukraine still has.
russia has been trying to reach these areas for years.
It still has no meaningful path to doing so.
And the idea that “well, russia will take it eventually anyway” is becoming more ridiculous with every passing month.
russian advances have slowed down massively. Ukraine is now counterattacking around Lyman. russia is still spending enormous amounts of people and equipment just to move through areas that are far less difficult than the major fortified cities still ahead.
Even if we take last year’s faster russian advance as some kind of baseline, capturing the remaining fortress belt would take MINIMUM 5 years and cost an absurd amount of manpower, some estimating to be in the ballpark of another 1.5kk.
But with this year’s tempo it gets even worse for russia arguably successful Ukrainian defenes have added at least couple more years to that calculation ALREADY this year.
And this is before we even account for the fact that conditions are changing.
russia had a gigantic Soviet warehouse to burn through during the first years of the war. Tanks, artillery, ammunition, vehicles, all sitting there for decades.
That cushion is basically gone.
Now the actual, current russian economy has to increasingly carry the war.
And suddenly all those problems we have been discussing for years start mattering much more.
So no, Ukraine is not sitting on territory that russia is going to capture next Tuesday anyway.
And therefore this idea that Ukraine should peacefully hand over one of its strongest defensive zones to “help negotiations” is insane.
Then we see that new putin claim is to get the whole Zaporizhzhia region together with Zaporizhzhia city. The city’s population pre war was over 700k People. It’s HUGE!
And again, when people say “territory”, they make it sound like we are discussing empty dirt on a map.
We are talking about cities. Homes. Families. Businesses. Actual human beings.
russia claims the entire region even though it does not control it, not in the slightest.
And this is exactly why I hate when western commentators reduce this to some abstract territorial compromise.
And then comes probably the most ridiculous part.
Ukraine is apparently supposed to withdraw first.
Give away the land.
Make its military position worse.
And THEN NEGOTIATIONS CAN BEGIN!
Listen carefully to how russians actually phrase this.
They are not saying:
“Ukraine withdraws and then there is peace.”
They are saying Ukraine needs to fulfill conditions so the negotiation process can start.
That means after Ukraine gives away the territory, russia still wants to discuss all the other things it has been demanding.
And most important is that they still use the known keywords:
“Root causes of the conflict.”
I have talked about this phrase so many times because it sounds almost reasonable if you don’t know what they mean by it.
The “root causes” are basically Ukraine existing as an independent state outside russian control.
Ukraine’s relationship with NATO, own military, sovereign political direction, ability to decide what and how people live on their own.
So the proposal basically becomes:
Ukraine gives russia territory that russia failed to conquer.
Ukraine removes its troops from strong defensive positions.
russia moves in.
And then Ukraine gets the privilege of negotiating away the rest of its sovereignty.
Amazing deal.
Where are the security guarantees here?
What stops russia six months later from saying negotiations failed and continuing the war from much better positions? – NOTHING
It is basically a giant “trust me bro” from Putin.
And apparently this is now considered serious diplomacy.
The thing that makes this even more absurd is that Ukraine today is much stronger than the picture these people seem to have in their heads.
Ukraine is not 2022 Ukraine anymore.
Its drone industry is completely different.
Its long-range and mid-range strike capabilities are completely different.
Its domestic defense production is completely different.
The military itself has changed enormously.
russia is still extremely dangerous. Obviously ukraine is basically forced to fight alone against a country that has trains from chinese manufacturers and North Korean labor.
But this idea that russia is some unstoppable machine and Ukraine has no choice except to slowly give away everything Putin asks for does not match reality.
Ukraine has problems. Plenty of them.
But the situation is nowhere near as simple as the russian narrative that Kushner seems to have swallowed whole.
So I see two possibilities here.
Either these people genuinely still do not understand russia after all these meetings.
Or they understand perfectly well and are repeating the russian framing because it is politically or presonally useful for them.
I am not going to pretend I know which one it is.
But I think we all can have some idea about it.
So when the media starts telling you that peace is almost here and Ukraine just needs to “give up some territory”, remember what is actually being proposed.
russia: “Give us territory we failed to conquer first. Then we can start negotiating all of our other demands.”
Stop being suckers.