January 24, 2025
Trump Confronts Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma
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 top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters this morning about a soon expected phone talk between President Putin and President Donald Trump: “Putin is ready, we are waiting for signals…Everyone is ready…It is difficult to read the tea leaves…If something happens, we will let you know”, says this followed President Trump declaring about the conflict in Ukraine during an interview last evening: “Putin shouldn’t have done it…I mean, I’m not blaming only what — Putin shouldn’t have done it…He shouldn’t have done it, and it has to stop…Zelensky shouldn’t have allowed this to happen either…You know, he’s no angel, he shouldn’t have allowed this war to happen…First of all, he’s fighting a much bigger entity, OK?…Much bigger”.
As to what Russia needs from President Trump to end the Ukraine conflict, this report notes, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko clearly stated yesterday: “For us, this is a key element of potential agreements on the conflict in Ukraine and an element of removing the root causes of this conflict…And we will be seeking not only rock-steady legal guarantees, ruling out any Ukrainian membership in NATO, but we will also demand that the alliance itself embrace this policy”—and was a statement quickly followed by President Trump special mission envoy Richard Grenell warning NATO: “I think you’re going to run into a big buzzsaw in America if we have the NATO secretary general talking about adding Ukraine to NATO…The American people are the ones that are paying for the defense…You cannot ask the American people to expand the umbrella of NATO when the current members aren’t paying their fair share”.
While President Trump contemplates how to accommodate his warmongering NATO allies robbing the American people, this report continues, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) revealed today that Russian military forces killed over 1,340 Ukrainian soldiers over the past day and announced: “Air defenses have shot down 121 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the skies over 13 Russian regions overnight, making it the biggest attack outside the zone of the special military operation since the beginning of 2025”.
In a grim warning to President Trump, this report details, Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu observed: “Amid increased conflict behavior and intensified geopolitical rivalry, global risks of a military confrontation between large players, including nuclear powers, are heightening”—and was a grim warning observation joined by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov assessing: “I would like to understand on what basis the US will move towards a settlement…If it is guided by the signals we have heard in recent days, it will not work in 100 days or more…If there is more realism in their policy, then perhaps a certain process will begin, the pace of which is also difficult to predict today”.
As President Trump prepares to confront President Putin, this report concludes, Lex Fridman explained to Joe Rogan the vast difference between the Russian and English languages—Russia analyst Oleg Ignatov for the International Crisis Group observed about President Trump’s past talks with President Putin: “The Russians always want to be spoken to directly; the Kremlin was already annoyed by his messaging style in the first term…It’s not how you deal with Russians”—and the late legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wisely advised Western leaders: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia…It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key…That key is Russian national interest”.
[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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