March 19, 2025
Putin Declares “No Hope” As Russian Nuke Strike On Europe Nears
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A forewarning new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first notes that the released phone call summary of the talks held yesterday between President Putin and President Donald Trump was joined with the news: “The Kremlin has confirmed that Putin supported Trump’s proposal for Russia and Ukraine to halt strikes on energy infrastructure for 30 days, and instructed his military accordingly”.
After President Trump ended the talks with President Putin yesterday, this report notes, his top envoy Steve Witkoff announced that diplomatic talks between the United States and Russia will take place on 23 March in Jeddah-Saudi Arabia—an announcement followed by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova most factually assessing: “I would like to say that they – the people of Ukraine and the state of Ukraine – were betrayed by the people in Washington, and the way they were betrayed by Washington, by Biden, by Nuland, by Blinken and others is unprecedented…They were deceived, they were betrayed, they were destroyed”.
To comply with the order issued by President Putin not to strike energy targets in Ukraine as part of the deal reached with President Trump, this report continues, the Russian military shot down two of its own drones before they reached their energy targets in Ukraine—it then saw Ukraine immediately breaking the Putin-Trump deal by striking energy targets in Russia—which caused top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to announce: “We regret to note that, so far, there has been no reciprocity from the Kiev regime…There have been attempts to attack our energy infrastructure facilities”.
Following Ukraine immediately breaking the Putin-Trump deal, this report details, leftist Washington Post columnist David Ignatius assessed: “President Donald Trump appears far more eager for a peace deal in Ukraine than does Russian President Vladimir Putin…That’s the obvious takeaway from Tuesday’s two-hour call between the two leaders”—leftist New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman then proclaimed: “I do not trust a single word that Trump and Putin say about their private conversations on Ukraine — including the words “and” and “the”…Because something has not smelled right from the start with this whole Trump-Putin deal-making on Ukraine ”—and world-renowned history Tarik Cyril Amar observed: “The presidents of Russia and the US, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, have had a long telephone call…Yet the sky has not fallen and the Earth is not shaking…In other words, at least as far as we know now, those expecting instant sensations must have been disappointed…No, Odessa has not been handed over to Russia; no, Moscow has not suddenly agreed to abandon its main war aims, such as making and keeping Ukraine neutral again; and no, the call did not produce a finished map of territorial adjustments…But then, to be frank, those expecting such sensations only have themselves to blame”.
Speaking for the warmongering American neocons supporting the military-industrial-complex, this report notes, the Wall Street Journal assessed: “President Trump insisted Russia would be the easier partner on the path to peace with Ukraine…But his Tuesday phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin only underscored the Kremlin is so far the bigger obstacle…The question now facing Trump is whether to apply real pressure on Putin to make concessions or try to wring more compromises out of Kyiv than he already has”.
As to what kind of “real pressure” anyone in the West can apply against Russia that they already haven’t tried, this report continues, President Putin revealed yesterday: “Western sanctions are not a temporary measure but rather a tool for applying strategic pressure on Russia…A total of 28,595 sanctions have been imposed against Russian companies and individuals in recent years, more than all other restrictions against other countries combined”, then he declared: “It’s obvious that things won’t go back to how they were…There is no hope for full freedom of trade, payments, and transfer of capital…And there can be no reliance on Western mechanisms for protection of the rights of investors and entrepreneurs”.
Shortly after President Putin declared yesterday that there is “no hope” of Russia ever achieving normal relations with the West, this report concludes, NBC News revealed: “The Trump administration is considering scrapping the longstanding role of the U.S. in leading NATO’s military operations in Europe”—and is a revelation about President Trump abandoning Europe that followed top Kremlin senior advisor Sergey Karaganov granting a rare interview to the BBC this week, wherein he warned how close Russia is to launching a nuclear first strike on Europe.
[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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