March 16, 2025

Trump Blasts Fake News “Sick Degenerates” As Zelensky Warned Is “Dead Man Walking”

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Donald Trump fired off the blasting post yesterday: “The Fake News, as usual, is at it again!…Why can’t they be honest, just for once?…Last night I read that President Vladimir Putin of Russia kept my Highly Respected Ambassador and Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, waiting for over nine hours when, in fact, there was no wait whatsoever…Other meetings with other Representatives of Russia did take place and, obviously, they took some time, but they were very productive…From there, things went quickly and efficiently, and all signs seem to be, hopefully, very good!…In conclusion, there was no nine hour wait, or any wait at all!…The only reason they made up that story is to try and DEMEAN, because they are sick degenerates, that have to start reporting the News correctly…This is why they have lost their ratings, their audience, and respect…Thank you for your attention to this matter and, GOD BLESS AMERICA!”, says his State Department then announced: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke today with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov…They discussed next steps to follow up on recent meetings in Saudi Arabia and agreed to continue working towards restoring communication between the United States and Russia”.

After President Putin accepted the plea from President Trump to show mercy to the Ukrainian soldiers surrounded by Russian forces in the Kursk Region, this report notes, unelected usurper Ukraine Dictator Vladimir Zelensky declared: “There is no encirclement of our troops…Our troops continue to hold back Russian and North Korean groupings in the Kursk region”—and was a declaration followed by the news: “Ukraine’s General Staff on March 16 confirmed Ukrainian troops’ withdrawal from the logistics hub of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk Oblast…Without confirming the withdrawal with a statement, the General Staff posted the latest battlefield maps on social media, which showed a complete retreat from Sudzha”.

In assessing the mental stability of Dictator Zelensky, this report continues, world-renowned American international relations expert Professor John Mearsheimer at the University of Chicago observed: “Just listening to the way Zelensky speaks, you realize very quickly that this person is delusional…And the fact that he is delusional partly explains why he has been leading his country towards disaster since February 2022”—an observation joined by former United States Marine Corp intelligence officer Scott Ritter warning yesterday: “Zelensky has about two weeks left, he is a dead man walking”.

Along with branding Dictator Zelensky “delusional”, this report concludes, Professor Mearsheimer assessed: “Zelensky and the West are detached from reality in believing Russia can be defeated”—an assessment followed by top American intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler bluntly explaining the truth last week that Russia is impervious to sanctions and it would soundly defeat the United States and NATO in a war—all of which was joined by world-renowned British defense expert Commodore Steven Jeremy, who, in his just released open letter “Right Now NATO Could Not Win A War With Russia”, warningly observed:

In 2024, reflecting a popular Western belief, former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said: “NATO is the most powerful and successful alliance in history”.

Yet just two years earlier in 2022, after a 15-year campaign, NATO was defeated by the Taliban, a rag-tag group of poorly armed insurgents.

How can NATO’s humiliating defeat and Austin’s view be reconciled?

Of course NATO was never the most powerful military alliance in history — that accolade surely goes to the World War II Allies: the U.S., Russia, Britain, and the Commonwealth nations.

Since the Berlin Wall’s fall, though, its record has become tarnished.  Satisfactory in Kosovo.  Humiliated in Afghanistan.  Strategic failure looming in Ukraine.  Are we really sure NATO is up to the job of defending democratic Europe from a supposedly expansionist Russia in the doomsday scenario of a conventional NATO-Russia war?

The doomsday NATO-Russia war scenario is the defining way to explore this question.  “Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics”, and our strategic analysis needs to start all the way back in NATO’s logistics rear areas, then work forward to a future line of battle on the continent of Europe.

First, unlike Russia, no major NATO nation is industrially mobilized for war, as evidenced by the fact that Russia is still outproducing NATO on 155mm shells for Ukraine.  Which, incidentally, gives the lie to the view that Russia is poised to take more of Europe — if we in NATO truly believed this, we would all be mobilizing at speed.

More importantly, it is not clear that NATO could mobilize at the speed or scale needed to produce the levels of equipment, ammunition, and people to match Russia.  And certainly not without a long build up that would signal our intent.  This is not just about lost industrial capacity, but also lost financial capacity.  Of the largest NATO nations, only Germany has a debt to GDP ratio below 100%.

Second, to have the remotest chance of success in this doomsday scenario of a NATO-Russia war, U.S. forces would need to deploy at scale into continental Europe.  Even if the U.S. Army was established at the necessary scale — with a 2023 establishment of 473,000, under one third of the current Russian Army, it is not — the overwhelming majority of American equipment and logistics would have to travel by sea.

There, they would be vulnerable to Russian submarine-launched torpedoes and mines.  As a former underwater warfare specialist, I do not believe that NATO now has the scale of anti-submarine or mine-warfare forces needed to protect Europe’s sea lines of communication.

Nor, for that matter, would these forces be able to successfully protect Europe’s hydrocarbon imports, in particular oil and LNG so critical to Europe’s economic survival.  Losses because of our sea supply vulnerability would not only degrade military production, but also bring accelerating economic hardship to NATO citizens, as soaring prices and energy shortages accompanying an outbreak of war rapidly escalated the political pressure to settle.

Third, our airports, sea ports, training, and logistics bases would be exposed to conventional ballistic missile attack, against which we have extremely limited defenses.  Indeed, in the case of the Oreshnik missile, no defense.

An Oreshnik missile arriving at Mach 10+ would devastate a NATO arms factory, or naval, army and air force base.  As in Ukraine, Russia’s ballistic campaign would also target our transport, logistics, and energy infrastructure.  In 2003, while I was working for the British MOD’s Policy Planning staffs, our post 9/11 threat analysis suggested a successful attack against an LNG terminal, such as Milford Haven, Rotterdam, or Barcelona, would have sub-nuclear consequences.  The follow-on economic shock-waves would rapidly ripple across a European continent, now increasingly dependent on LNG.

Fourth, unlike Russia, NATO nations’ forces are a heterogenous bunch.  My own experience, while leading the offshore training of all European warships at Flag Officer Sea Training in Plymouth, and later working with NATO forces in Afghanistan, was that all NATO forces were exceptionally enthusiastic but had very different levels of technological advancement and trained effectiveness.

Perhaps more contemporarily important, other than a handful of NATO trainers forward deployed in Ukraine, our forces are trained according to a pre-drone “maneuver doctrine” and have no real-world experience of modern peer-to-peer attritional warfighting.  Whereas the Russian Army has close to three years experience now, and is unarguably the world’s most battle-hardened.

Fifth, NATO’s decision-making system is cumbersome, hampered by the need to constantly communicate from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe to national capitals — a complexity made worse each time another nation is admitted.

Worse still, NATO cannot do strategy.  Shortly after arriving in Afghanistan in 2007, I was shocked to find that NATO had no campaign strategy.  In 2022, notwithstanding numerous Russian warnings about NATO expansion constituting a red-line, NATO was wholly unprepared, strategically, for the obvious possibility of war breaking out — as evidenced again by our inability to match Russia’s 155mm shell production.

Even now, in 2025, NATO’s Ukraine strategy is opaque, perhaps best summarized as “double-down and hope”.

In summary, NATO is positioning itself as Europe’s defender, yet lacks the industrial capacity to sustain peer-to-peer warfighting, is wholly dependent on U.S. forces for the remotest chance of success, is unable satisfactorily to defend its sea lines of communication against Russian submarine, or its training and industrial infrastructure against strategic ballistic bombardment, is comprised of a diverse mix of un-bloodied conventional forces, and lacks the capacity to think and act strategically.

An easy NATO victory cannot be assumed, and I am afraid that the opposite looks far more likely to me.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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March 15, 2025

Putin Answers Trump Mercy Plea As Americans Warned They Would Lose War Against Russia

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin announced: “The offer to Ukrainian forces in the Kursk Region to surrender is still valid, but time is running out…Their time is shrinking like the Shagreen skin”, says this announcement was in response to President Donald Trump issuing his urgent plea yesterday: “At this very moment, thousands of Ukrainian troops are completely surrounded by the Russian military, and in a very bad and vulnerable position…I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared…This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II”.

After President Trump issued his urgent plea for mercy to President Putin yesterday, this report notes, the Ukrainian General Staff lyingly proclaimed: “All the reports about the encirclement are false and fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation”—a lying proclamation ignoring the factual reality that American intelligence satellites see everything occurring—came at the same time Russian military forces filmed the weapons and bodies left behind by fleeing Ukrainian soldiers—came at the same time journalists were reporting from behind the trapped Ukrainians—and the Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced today: “Engineering troops have started demining the border areas of the Kursk Region liberated from Ukrainian troops in order to restore socially significant facilities and infrastructure necessary for the establishment of peaceful life and economic activity in the region after the hostilities”.

Across the other battlefronts, this report continues, the MoD revealed today that Russian military forces killed over 1,265 Ukrainian soldiers during the past 24-hours, and announced: “The Russian Armed Forces hit Ukraine’s military airfield infrastructure, drone production workshops, ammunition and logistics warehouses, energy facilities that ensure the work of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex”.

In knowing that Russia has the strongest military in the world and the largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world, this report concludes, President Trump belatedly warned Ukraine yesterday: “You don’t want to pick on somebody that’s a lot larger than you, even with the money”—a belated warning joined by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte most factually observing: “Long-term, Russia is there, Russia will not go away…It’s normal if the war would have stopped for Europe somehow, step by step, and also for the United States, step by step, to restore normal relations with Russia”—and as to why the West needs to restore normal relations with Moscow, this week it saw top American intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler bluntly explaining the truth that Russia is impervious to sanctions and it would soundly defeat the United States and NATO in a war.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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March 14, 2025

Trump Pleads To Putin For Mercy Following Revenge Assassination

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first notes President Putin assessed about the 30-day ceasefire deal proposed by President Donald Trump to end the Western proxy war using Ukraine against Russia:

Before I assess how I view Ukraine’s readiness for a ceasefire, I would first like to begin by thanking the President of the United States, Mr. Trump, for paying so much attention to resolving the conflict in Ukraine.

We all have enough issues to deal with.  But many heads of state, the president of the People’s Republic of China, the Prime Minister of India, the presidents of Brazil and South African Republic are spending a lot of time dealing with this issue.  We are thankful to all of them, because this is aimed at achieving a noble mission, a mission to stop hostilities and the loss of human lives.

Secondly, we agree with the proposals to stop hostilities.  But our position is that this ceasefire should lead to a long-term peace and eliminate the initial causes of this crisis.

Now, about Ukraine’s readiness to cease hostilities.  On the surface it may look like a decision made by Ukraine under US pressure.  In reality, I am absolutely convinced that the Ukrainian side should have insisted on this ceasefire from the Americans based on how the situation on the front line is unfolding, the realities on the ground.

And how is it unfolding?  I’m sure many of you know that yesterday I was in Kursk Region and listened to the reports of the head of the General Staff, the commander of the group of forces ‘North’ and his deputy about the situation at the border, specifically in the incursion area of Kursk Region.

What is going on there?  The situation there is completely under our control, and the group of forces that invaded our territory is completely isolated and under our complete fire control.

Command over Ukrainian troops in this zone is lost.   And if in the first stages, literally a week or two ago, Ukrainian servicemen tried to get out of there in large groups, now it is impossible.  They are trying to get out of there in very small groups, two or three people, because everything is under our full fire control.  The equipment is completely abandoned.  It is impossible to evacuate it. It will remain there.  This is already guaranteed.

And if in the coming days there will be a physical blockade, then no one will be able to leave at all.  There will be only two ways.  To surrender or die.

And in these conditions, I think it would be very good for the Ukrainian side to achieve a truce for at least 30 days.

And we are for it.  But there are nuances.  What are they?  First, what are we going to do with this incursion force in Kursk Region?

If we stop fighting for 30 days, what does it mean?  That everyone who is there will leave without a fight?  We should let them go after they committed mass crimes against civilians? Or will the Ukrainian leadership order them to lay down their arms.  Simply surrender.  How will this work?  It is not clear.

How will other issues be resolved on all the lines of contact?  This is almost 2,000 kilometers.

As you know, Russian troops are advancing almost along the entire front.  And there are ongoing military operations to surround rather large groups of enemy forces.

These 30 days — how will they be used?  To continue forced mobilization in Ukraine?  To receive more arms supplies?  To train newly mobilized units?  Or will none of this happen?

How will the issues of control and verification be resolved?  How can we be guaranteed that nothing like this will happen?  How will the control be organized?

I hope that everyone understands this at the level of common sense.  These are all serious issues.

Who will give orders to stop hostilities?  And what is the price of these orders?  Can you imagine?  Almost 2,000 kilometers.  Who will determine where and who broke the potential ceasefire?  Who will be blamed?

These are all questions that demand a thorough examination from both sides.

Therefore, the idea itself is the right one, and we certainly support it.  But there are questions that we have to discuss.  I think we need to work with our American partners.  Maybe I will speak to President Trump.  But we support the idea of ending this conflict with peaceful means.

Along with top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirming President Putin met with President Trump envoy Steve Witcoff yesterday, this report notes, NBC News reported: “Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Russia and Ukraine, has been barred from taking part in peace talks at Moscow’s request…Russian officials view Kellogg as too hawkish and too close to Ukraine”—and was a report that followed factual articles appearing like “Daughter Of Trump’s Special Envoy To Ukraine Keith Kellogg Caught Organizing Aid to Kyiv”.

After President Putin sidestepped the 30-day ceasefire deal proposed by President Trump until its many “nuances” are clarified, this report continues, it was revealed: “The US Treasury allowed a 60-day waiver for energy-related financial transactions with sanctioned Russian banks to expire on Wednesday”—a revelation showing President Trump is preparing to attack the Russian energy sector quickly followed by the news: “The US has upgraded the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) to counter Russian jamming and is set to reintroduce them to the battlefield in Ukraine within days”—all of which was joined by Ukraine launching a drone strike against Moscow this morning.

Earlier today, this report details, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte declared: “NATO membership for Kiev is off the table in efforts undertaken by the United States and Russia to achieve peace in the Ukraine conflict”—and was a declaration joined by the revelation: “Senior US officials refused to sign a minerals deal with Ukraine during talks in Saudi Arabia earlier this week”.

The “historic turning point” in the present conflict, this report notes, occurred on 2 May 2014, which was when Ukrainian Nazi forces burnt alive 48 Russian peoples in the Trade Unions building in Odessa-Ukraine—and after over a decade of Western silence about this monstrous crime that pushed the Russian peoples to demand for war, the European Court of Human Rights just ruled that the Ukrainian authorities were responsible: “The Court concluded that the relevant authorities had not done everything they reasonably could to prevent the violence, to stop that violence after its outbreak, and to ensure timely rescue measures for those trapped in the fire in the Trade Union Building”.

In response to the European Court of Human Rights ruling blaming Ukraine for the Odessa Massacre, this report continues, top Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov observed: “A very belated decision, but it seems like a glimpse of common sense…To confirm this, we need to see other similar actions…Which, of course, we would like to witness”—and was an observation swiftly followed by the news: “In Odessa, Demyan Hanul – the former head of the “Right Sector” power bloc and one of the direct organizers of the tragedy on May 2, 2014 – has been killed…An unknown person in uniform shot him right on the street and then fled”.

Quickly after the revenge assassination of Demyan Hanul many believe was carried out by Russian secret services, this report concludes, President Trump posted the plea:

We had very good and productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday, and there is a very good chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to an end

BUT, AT THIS VERY MOMENT, THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY, AND IN A VERY BAD AND VULNERABLE POSITION.

I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared.

This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II.

God bless them all!!!

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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