From LifeSiteNews

By Stephen Kokx

The U.S. president is focusing not only on a resolution in Ukraine but bringing peace to the world while pivoting away from Europe.

As the Trump administration’s foreign policy begins to take shape, political observers are looking for clues as to what the next four years will look like. Remarks Donald Trump made while in the Oval Office this week about Russia and China are helpful in this regard.

While seated behind the Resolute Desk — with a portrait of Ronald Reagan hanging over his left shoulder — Trump encouragingly told reporters that “one of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, and I want to say, ‘let’s cut our military budget in half.’ And we can do that.”

Trump exuberantly added, “President Putin and I agreed that we were going to be (de-nuclearizing) in a very big way … we already have so many you could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over.”

Trump’s comments came after he had spoken to Putin by phone, a call where they also agreed to “start negotiations immediately” to end the Ukraine conflict.

Trump’s desire to engage with — as opposed to simply attack — two countries that have long been described as America’s biggest adversaries is a breath of fresh air as it shows he is willing to break with past (failed) operating procedures that have done nothing but increase profits for defense contractors and have heightened the likelihood of a world war breaking out.

At present, the U.S. military has an annual budget of around $850 billion. That is roughly the size of the next nine largest militaries in the world combined. For comparison’s sake, Russia and China purportedly spend $145 billion and $290 billion each year, respectively, on defense.

The U.S. and Russia currently account for the vast majority of the world’s nuclear weapons, collectively owning 11,000. Fox reported that the U.S. has 3,748 nuclear warheads as of September 2023. In the late 1980s, that number was a whopping 22,217. Russia reportedly has 4,380, and China possesses around 600.

A coup for freedom

Trump’s remarks can only be appreciated within the context of recent developments. Not only has the president begun the dismantling of USAID, he instructed his Secretary of Defense and Vice President to put the world on notice that he intends to realign the U.S. toward a more hemispheric focus within a multi-polar world.

Speaking in Munich on Friday, Vice President JD Vance informed European technocrats that their decades-long, U.S.-subsidized vacation from self-reliance has come to an end.

“It’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense,” Vance told a stunned crowd.

“The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor … what I worry about is the threat from within; the retreat of Europe from some of its own fundamental values.”

Vance’s remarks were not well received. Liberal German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius whined that “this is not acceptable,” a comment that prompted anti-war activist Daniel McAdams and Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah to call on the United States to leave Europe behind altogether.

Vance followed his historic broadside by holding a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Early reports indicate that Vance essentially told him to pound sand. Curt Mills of The American Conservative shared the following crucial observation on X:

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered an equally forceful message at NATO headquarters in Brussels this past week.

“The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement,” he said, shattering the dreams of globalists around the world.

If Trump is successful in bringing peace to Ukraine and if he negotiates a lasting deal with Russia and China — all while defanging the U.S. Deep State and stopping the war in the Middle East — he will have accomplished what no other modern president has ever done, and would be entirely deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize. He will have also lived up to his old 2016 promise of draining the swamp.

It’s still early, and plenty of things can go awry from now until 2028, but at this stage in the game, Trump 2.0 is shaping up to be what many of his initial supporters had hoped for the first time around.

From LifeSiteNews

By Frank Wright

Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, ‘I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.’

As the Trump Administration moves forward on its promise to end the war in Ukraine, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made a speech defining the “end of an era.”   

Speaking ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Hegseth announced the end of the 75-year commitment of the U.S. to finance and supervise European national security. 

“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.” 

Hegseth said he would not be attending the Munich Security Conference, as he “would much rather talk to troops than go to cocktail parties.” The new Defense Secretary is visiting U.S. troops in Europe instead of meeting NATO leaders.  

Following a policy announced three years ago for a U.S. draw down to a “Dormant NATO,” Hegseth said today that the U.S. presence in Europe “will not last forever,” and is coming to an end. Vice President JD Vance, also in Munich and who is attending the conference, today echoed the U.S. drawdown from NATO. The message is clear: peace is breaking out in Europe.  

Trump, Putin slated to have immediate peace talks

A phone conversation was held on February 12 between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin with Trump saying right after the call “our respective teams [will] start negotiations immediately.”

As Redacted’s report of February 13 noted, the “warmongers” are in “meltdown” over the prospect of peace – and at Donald Trump’s claims of a far higher death toll and price tag – “350 billion” – than has been made public so far.  

Yet, peace in Ukraine will reveal more than the true cost in financial and human terms. It threatens to unravel a vast network of corruption involving every government, politician and propagandist involved in funding and promoting a war which was never really about Ukraine and was always intended to collapse Russia.  

Instead, its end may sign the death warrant for the globalist death cult which sponsored it. 

USAID-sponsored Politico reports gloom from an irrelevant Olaf Scholz.  

The U.K. government’s rabidly pro-war regime has been “sidelined” by the move to peace, and the proudly pro-war German coalition “ignored” as “it will not be in power much longer.” Olaf Scholz’s coalition collapsed two days after Trump’s election victory on November 7.  

JD Vance has reportedly snubbed the outgoing German leader, with a U.S. official saying “We don’t need to meet him. He won’t be chancellor long.”

The era that is ending is not only an era of enormous waste but also a permanent war that it funded. As Elon Musk’s DOGE purge has revealed, our media, politics, policies, social movements and even COVID-19 itself have all been sponsored by U.S. taxpayers’ money by a “parasite class” of liberal globalists.  

The counterfeit culture sponsored by the Deep State to sell its wars and globalist policies of social revolution is at an end, and NATO was simply the military wing of an attempt to project the power of this agenda worldwide – as this July 2024 piece from Rep. Warren Davidson shows. 

“NATO has shifted…” said Davidson, “from a defensive alliance” to one promoting the “globalist consensus.” The U.S., he said, promising a “diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Ukraine,” and an “America-First foreign policy.” He said, “This other nonsense is bankrupting our country financially and morally.”

Americans will no longer be paying for this “nonsense.” They will find out the truth by following the money.  

Zelensky: I don’t know where all the money is

Donald Trump has said this week that the true cost to U.S. taxpayers of sponsoring the war in Ukraine is over 350 billion dollars.  

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine responded to claims he was given 177 billion dollars by the U.S. government. In a startling admission, he not only counters by saying it may in fact be “200 billion dollars,” but adds “It’s true, I do not know where all this money is.” 

Zelensky says, “We received 75 billion out of this 177 or 200 billion.”

“That is, 100 billion out of this 177, or 200 some people even say, we have never received.”

Zelensky’s shocking statement began to circulate online on February 3.

Soros-backed “fact checkers” at the Poynter Institute sought to undermine the revelations on February 5, saying the disclosure by Zelensky that a hundred billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer’s money has gone missing is “not evidence of money laundering.”

Soros backs Ukraine corruption

George Soros announced his aim was “the dissolution of the Russian empire” in 2023, adding that regime change in Russia “Would be a big change for the better.”  

Soros urged the donation of 50 billion dollars to Ukraine in 2015, following the U.S.-orchestrated Maidan coup of 2014. In the same year, he warned a Russian victory would destabilise the European Union.  

He pledged to invest a billion dollars in Ukraine at the 2015 World Economic Forum. and went on to set up an Open Society Foundations fund to provide a further 100 million dollars in 2022.  

In May 2024, Soros said, “Our civilization may not survive,” a Russian victory. Yuval Noah Harari, World Economic Forum prophet of transhuman homosexualism, explained whose idea of civilization Soros said was under threat of extinction:  

If Russia is allowed to win – that’s the end of the global order we have known for decades.

The end of the globalist order

Another death blow was predicted by Harari.   

“If Trump wins in 2024…it is likely to be the death blow to what remains of the global order.”

This global order of permanent war, open borders and LGBTQ has been revealed in the past weeks as a sponsored worldwide regime change operation run by the U.S. Deep State, through agencies such as USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.  

Elon Musk’s DOGE purge has uncovered the fact that the U.S. taxpayer has been funding the WEF, with over 68 million dollars disbursed to the globalist bureaucracy by the CIA front group USAID. 

People like Harari, along with all the liberal-global governments who sent our money to Ukraine, are rightfully terrified at the end of their corrupt system, which has seen media outlets sponsored to broadcast propaganda about the USAID-funded COVID-19, the mRNA “vaccines” and the Ukraine war, and whose funding networks have promoted global social revolution to destroy traditional cultures across the world – and corrupt our democracies. 

Funding your own deception  

Many institutions involved in promoting this agenda are connected to the demonization of anyone speaking for peace as a foreign agent of Russia. Of course, the CIA has been backing Ukrainian propaganda efforts, as the New York Times reported in February 2024.  

The U.S. and U.K. governments have also been sponsoring a spy network which framed JD Vance, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Candace Owens as “Russian agents of propaganda.”

Carlson has recently claimed that “half the weapons” sent to Ukraine are missing.  

This operation, described by Foreign Policy as a “private company” in March 2023, has placed fake news in U.S. and U.K. news outlets has also targeted journalists and commentators such as Max Blumenthal and George Galloway – all of whom feature on a published list of “Enemies of Ukraine” alongside Hungarian President Viktor Orban – and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie.  

The group, called Molfar, keeps private dossiers on these “enemies,” which also include critics of the COVID-19 regime of the European Union, as well as counter-globalist commentators. 

Responding to a Molfar “dodgy dossier” claiming he was a paid Russian agent, Blumenthal said in July 2022, “The claims made in [Molfar’s] mass email are totally false, as I and the Grayzone do not receive state funding. Unlike the USAID-backed smear factory at Molfar, our support is entirely grassroots and reader-based.”  

Molfar is another example of how our money in the West is used to corrupt our news and smear as traitors anyone who questioned the wisdom of all-out war with Russia – or any other globalist policy. 

The architect of the fake dossier whose lies dragged the U.S. and U.K. into the 2003 Iraq war, Alastair Campbell, continues to echo claims made by this Deep State propaganda outfit to frame Vance, Musk and President Trump himself as “Russian agents.” This is just one example of the decades-old vicious circle of propaganda and lies whose power will be exposed – and likely end – with the end of the Ukraine war. 

US detainee released from Russia

In further good news, Trump’s chief negotiator Steve Witkoff secured the release from Russia of detained U.S. citizen Mark Fogel on February 11, as National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announced. 

Waltz described this as a show of “good faith” from the Russians, and “a sign we are moving in the right direction to end the brutal and terrible war in Ukraine.” 

This is indeed the end of an era. It is the end of NATO, whose actions started this war. It is the end of the globalist system for which the war was orchestrated – and the ensuing revelations of the corruption in Ukraine and in the former regime of the West spell doom for the old globalist order.