January 7, 2025
Putin Celebrates Orthodox Christmas As European Powers “Tremble At Every Tweet” From Mar-A-Lago
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 attended Orthodox Christmas Mass services and told the Russian peoples on this holiest of days: “This bright, much-awaited holiday is dear to millions of people all over the world…It gives believers joy and hope and inspires good thoughts, deeds and actions…During the Christmas season we clearly feel with all our heart how important for us are parental, family traditions that are being handed down from generation to generation…I should say that the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian denominations in Russia play a tremendous creative role in uniting the people and in preserving our historical memory and unique cultural and spiritual heritage”.
Not celebrating Orthodox Christmas, this report notes, are those the Ministry of Defense (MoD) revealed about today: “In 24 hours the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 325 servicemen…In total, during the military operations in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost up to 49,830 servicemen”—a revelation joined by the leftist Washington Post warningly observing this morning: “Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nearing the end of its third bloody year, has reached an inflection point…Ukraine is losing territory, troops and time…The next few weeks will determine whether Ukraine can continue to exist as a sovereign state within its preinvasion borders…Ukraine is also losing troops at a rate far beyond what it can sustain and continue fighting…The official casualty estimate of 400,000 killed or wounded is considered a vast undercount…Thousands of exhausted Ukrainian soldiers are also deserting from the front lines”.
As Ukraine rapidly nears its ending “inflection point”, this report continues, socialist European Union and NATO member leader Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski defiantly declared: “We could soon face intense pressure to strike a deal with Moscow…But what kind of deal would a sensible Europe accept?…Certainly not an ordinary deal that would allow Moscow to regain its strength…Europe is much stronger than Russian leaders believe…Russia is much weaker than many Europeans believe…Ukraine deserves peace, needs peace…But it should be peace on fair terms, not capitulation”—and was a defiant declaration swiftly followed with the news: “US president-elect Donald Trump’s key Ukraine aide has postponed a planned trip to Kiev until after the Republican’s inauguration…Retired lieutenant general Keith Kellogg initially planned to visit the city in early January to meet the Ukrainian leadership…No specific date for a future visit has been set”.
After the abrupt canceling of his top advisor visit to Ukraine, this report details, President Donald Trump responded to a Danish colonial subject in Greenland urging him to “Buy us…Buy Greenland” with the posted message: “I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA’…My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights…Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation…We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World…MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”—and was a posted message followed by the news: “King Frederick of Denmark has introduced a redesigned royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands…The updated version shows a polar bear and ram – animals that symbolize the two territories respectively – being given their own field each”.
At the same time President Trump was posting disdain for socialist European colonialists subjugating the peoples of Greenland, this report notes, his top advisor Elon Musk posted the poll “America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”, which 58% of Americans approved—and the Wall Street Journal observed today:
Elon Musk is throwing grenades into Europe’s political mainstream over issues ranging from immigration to free speech, creating a dilemma for governments as they try to respond to the tech billionaire and key adviser to the incoming Trump administration.
In recent days and weeks, Musk has weighed in with a series of incendiary social-media posts on European politics, including supporting a far-right party ahead of an election in Germany, accusing the British prime minister of being complicit in rape, denouncing judges in Italy and slamming the European Commission.
The stream of posts from the world’s richest man has morphed into a diplomatic headache and caught several mainstream European political parties on the back foot.
Just weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, many European leaders have been wary of publicly calling out Musk, worried it would damage relations with Trump and simply prod the tech entrepreneur to double down on his attacks.
But the repeated posts to his 211 million followers on X, the social-media platform he owns, are now setting the news agenda in several of those countries, making it impossible to ignore.
Europe’s unpopular leaders worry that Musk could use X to mobilize disenchanted voters at a time when weak economic growth has eroded trust in mainstream politics and stoked political instability.
With Europe now under an unrelenting assault by President Trump and his top advisor Elon Musk, this report concludes, it caused socialist European Union member leader French President Emmanuel Macron to fearfully proclaim to his fellow under siege socialist European leaders: “If we decide to be weak and defeatist, there’s little chance of being respected by President Trump’s United States of America”—and was a proclamation quickly followed by the Wall Street Journal most factually observing:
As Donald Trump prepares his triumphant return to the White House, American allies in Europe are waking up to a disagreeable reality.
In Mr. Trump’s second term, the U.S. is going to be more powerful relative to its core allies than at any time in decades—and Mr. Trump’s second term is going to be even more disruptive and confrontational than his first.
Sadly, with the exception of the U.S., much of the West is sunk in decline.
Economically, our European partners and friends are failing the test of the digital age, generating neither the new technologies nor companies that the 21st-century demands. Their embrace of ruinous climate policies reduces their competitiveness. Their NIMBYism throttles growth, and their unsustainable welfare states further diminish their prospects.
Politically, our friends haven’t succeeded in making the EU great.
Europe needs the U.S. more than ever but is less well situated to influence American policy—or to help the U.S. meet our many global challenges—than at any time in decades.
This is why the leaders of once-great European powers tremble at every tweet from Mar-a-Lago and why Mr. Trump’s second term holds more challenges for Europe than his first.
[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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