International
How the US government is thwarting peace efforts in Ukraine and Israel

From LifeSiteNews
By Frank Wright
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh warns of political repercussions for the Biden administration’s handling of the international crises in Europe and the Middle East.
To get to the news these days, you have to look beyond the facade of mainstream media. No major outlet in the West has reported the findings of Seymour Hersh, made in aĀ postĀ on Substack on March 21, which claim that the United States government is determined to prevent peace in Ukraine.
Citing an anonymous āAmerican official,ā Hersh wrote āofficials of the Biden administration, working with [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, continue to rebuff any chances of significant progress in peace talks.ā Referring to his earlierĀ report, which documented ongoing talks between the U.S. and Russia, Hersh says his source is ākept abreastā of this dialogue concerning a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine. According to the unnamed mole, peace was within reach, and the U.S. moved to prevent it with a threat to turn off the money supply to Ukraine.
We were on the verge of a reasonable negotiation several months ago before Putinās re-election and Zelenskyās military degradation.
The U.S. leaders got wind of the possibility and gave Zelensky the ultimatum ā āNo negotiations or settlement or we wonāt support your government with the $45 billion in non-military funds.ā
This is the amount that Ukraine receives now, aside from military aid, to support its government. Without it, Zelenskyās regime would collapse. This was an ultimatum ā but why did the U.S. issue it? The source explained:
Biden has staked his presidency on meeting the Russian threat to NATO and outsmarting the monster, and he will not change course now, under any circumstances, and the end is inevitable.
Does this end justify the means? The source gave a sobering assessment of the Biden administrationās willingness to risk a war with Russia, to save face at home: āThere is no road to victory for Ukraine, and it will end with Putin as an historical icon in Russia, having recovered a national jewel [Kharkov] from the West.ā
What Russia has gained, it is going to keep, said the source. āThe reality,ā he said, is āthat the lands in disputeā ā four oblasts formerly in Ukraineās control and Crimea ā āfrom north to south and east to west all are Russiaās. So stop talking about it and make a deal.ā
This may be news to many ānews-believersā in the subject nations of the U.S. Empire, but it is well known in government circles. Aside from Hershās report, a grim assessment that āUkraine could fall very quicklyā is reported to have fueled French President Emmanuel Macronās recent outbursts, which saw him threaten to send French troops to fight Russia.
Panic in the EU
Macron isĀ reportedĀ by Politico to have made that remark at a dinner in Paris on Tuesday, March 19. It followedĀ leaksĀ from French intelligence which said Ukraine could not win the war, was running out of men to conscript, and that the French army were āmajorettesā compared to that of the Russians.
Germany and other EU nations were quick toĀ distanceĀ themselves from Macronās rhetoric, fearing the direct entry of NATO troops into Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war.
Even Ukraineās Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba downplayed the suggestion,Ā saying Macronās words were āmisinterpretedā by EU leaders who āpanickedā over his talk of sending troops to Ukraine.
Added to this picture, again largely excluded from the news, is the obvious fact that the sanctions intended to weaken Russia haveĀ backfired. In reality, the one beyond the official narrative, the actions of the Biden administration have been a catastrophic failure.
āThis is the world the Biden administration fostered,ā says Hersh, quoting anĀ EconomistĀ report that shows how Russia has not only weathered the storm of sanctions, but has in the process emerged a champion of a strengthening system, parallel to that controlled by the U.S.
According toĀ The EconomistĀ on March 14:
Russiaās economy has been re-engineered. Oil exports bypass sanctions and are shipped to the global south. Western brands from BMW to H&M have been replaced with Chinese and local substitutes⦠Dissent at home has been strangled.
This last line could apply equally to the situation in the West, whose propaganda apparatus overmatches anything seen in the Soviet Union. Our āhypernormalizationā ā the state of unreality created by state propaganda ā differs in one other important regard. Toward the end, most of the people in the Soviet Union knew their government was lying to them.
Biden, Trump, and the end times
Hersh claims that the predicament created by the Biden administration will likely see its undoing in the next election.
āIts refusal to seek a middle ground in the Ukraine war, along with its inability to check Israelās continued assault in Gaza, will become a political liability in Bidenās campaign against Donald Trump, who warns of unending violence if he loses the presidential election in November.ā
Trumpās own remarks on Israel have caused much concern amongst those convinced of his pledge to āend the forever warsā ā a vow he repeated on the campaign trail inĀ January.
Yet his ambiguity on Israel has seen him criticized by Jewish groups, as PBSĀ reportedĀ on March 22.
Trumpās stance on both Israel and Ukraine ā that neither war would have happened had he been president ā is shaded by moves to appease the over 30 million Christian Zionists who PBS says lie at the core of his support. PBS said of Trumpās previous tenure:
Trump pursued policies that were popular among American Christian Zionists and Israeli religious-nationalists, including moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and supporting Jewish settlements in occupied territories.
PBS also noted his family connections to the Jewish community:
His daughter Ivanka is a convert to Orthodox Judaism, and her husband and their children are Jewish. The couple worked as high-profile surrogates to the Jewish community during Trumpās administration.
Finally, the report touched on the evangelical Zionists:
Trumpās core supporters include white evangelicals, many of whom believe the modern state of Israel fulfills biblical prophecy. Prominent evangelicals who support Zionism have also been criticized for inflammatory statements about Jewish people.
This huge constituency includes many Christian Zionists who support the Armageddonist notion of ushering in the āJewish Messiahā ā through the sacrifice of red heifers and the rebuilding of the Jewish Third Temple on the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque.
This process is underway, with five red heifersĀ arrivingĀ in Israel in September 2022, expedited by U.S. Zionist ChristianĀ groupĀ Boneh Israel, and a large altar was constructed in Jerusalem to perform the diabolical ritual to usher in āthe End Times.ā
CBS NewsĀ reportedĀ from the site on March 5, 2024.
Beyond the end?
With the sitting president mired in a disaster of his own making, and his successor with ties to a group dedicated to sparking Armageddon, the story beyond the mainstream media is all about the end times. The end of the Biden administration, the end of the war in Ukraine, and perhaps the end of the world if the factions of insanity succeed in provoking an escalating war with Russia or in the Middle East.
Hershās article ends with what could read as the epitaph for the one-term wonder Joe Biden.
The best that Biden has come up with is continued, if so far empty, talk about a ceasefire in Gaza, and a commitment that no American soldiers will be sent to the front in Ukraine.
The president also promises that the United States will keep on paying for Ukrainians to fight and die in a proxy war that could be ended.
Added to this is the fact that the Biden administration continues to supply Israel with military hardware, without which it could not continue its war. As retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak BrikĀ saidĀ of the U.S. in November,Ā āThe minute they turn off the tap you canāt keep fighting. You have no capability⦠Everyone understands we canāt fight this war without the United States.ā
Brik has returned with an assessment of Israelās war which dovetails with that provided by Hersh on Ukraine. It has been a defeat, both in military and in diplomatic terms.
āWe have already lost the war with Hamas, and we are also losing our allies in the world at a dizzying pace BrikĀ saidĀ to Israeli news outletĀ Maāariv, on March 24.
The realization is growing that the current model of U.S. power is determined to prevent the outbreak of peace. With little promise in the White House but more of the same, the hope is that in November, this will change. Yet, here are forces at work which would prefer that the end times come for us all.
What is needed is a clear statement on the future of Ukraine, of relations with Russia and the state of Israel from a man who once promised he could stop it all. We have a leaderless U.S. in the thrall of an election cycle. Instead of resignation to the end times, we need to hear some serious talk about what comes next. Our future depends upon an alternative to business as usual.
conflict
Why are the globalists so opposed to Trumpās efforts to make peace in Ukraine?

From LifeSiteNews
By Frank Wright
The narrative over Ukraine reveals not only how hard the war economy will fight to rescue its system from peace, but also how the hardest sell these days is hard reality.
The Trump administrationās moves toward peace in Ukraine ā and elsewhere ā have attracted widespread criticism from within and without the globalist establishment.
As the U.S. government nowĀ threatens to āwalk awayā from Ukraine if its seven-point peace plan is rejected, a new battle line is being drawn between permanent war and propaganda ā and the urgent reality demanding radical change from the globalist business as usual.
Trump hasĀ proposedĀ an immediate ceasefire, no NATO membership for Ukraine, and forĀ Russia to keep the territories it has taken during the war ā with the U.S. to recognize Crimea as Russian. The proposal for peaceĀ hasĀ been met with outrage, and even accusations of betrayal. Yet the peace deal appears to be a simple recognition of reality. Whatās the problem?
Dan Davisā deep dive into Ukraine
In his deep dive of April 23, Dan Davis helps to explain why reality is so controversial and the mention of peace akin to treason. He joins German journalist and academic Patrik Baab to show how the pro-war faction in the U.S. and Europe have fought their own line in the media for well over a decade.
Davis, whose appointment to a National Intelligence post was recentlyĀ sabotagedĀ by another war faction ā that of the Israel lobby ā has learned the personal consequences of contradicting the globalist war narrative. So has Baab ā who was fired from his academic post in 2022 for the crime of journalism.
Baab had traveled to Donbass to research a now publishedĀ bookĀ he discusses with Davis. TitledĀ On Both Sides of the Front, it informs his discussion of the āNATO-backed Maidan coupā in 2014 and the media campaign which has sold this war to Westerners as yet another defence of democracy abroad ā as inĀ Iraq. According toĀ Foreign Policy, Ukraine is a magical democracy which āstill functions without elections.ā
Having arrived at the time of the Russian-backed elections in Donetsk and Lugansk regions, Baab wasĀ accusedĀ on his return to Germany of having ālegitimizedā the votes and was dismissed and smeared in the German press.
Both Davis and Raab give important context to U.S. threats to āwalk awayā from Ukraine if a peace deal is not settled, showing the reason why ātwo different storiesā are so often told āabout the same events.ā
Reality vs. fantasy, or life and death
In Western politics and media, one side is invested in the war and the other is not. This can also be seen as the factions of fantasy versus reality.
The globalist faction has told us the Russians were losing, that Putin wasĀ dying, that there would be ātotal victoryā for Ukraine and no negotiations until Putin was toppled. ZelenskyĀ issuedĀ a decree forbidding negotiations with Russia.
EU Chief Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen famouslyĀ claimedĀ in 2022 that Russia was cannibalizing ārefrigerators and washing machinesā to harvest microchips for its war machine, with the UK defense ministerĀ sayingĀ in early 2023 that Russian soldiers had been reduced to fighting with shovels. In the media, Ukraineās victory was only a matter of time ā which was money. Yours.
To keep this money flowing, the Western audience whose taxes provide it must be convinced there is good reason to keep sending it to Zelensky, who cannot pay it back.
U.S./NATO started the war
As Baab explains, the reason why the global faction arranged this war was nothing to do with Ukraine ā the objective was to collapse and balkanize Russia. This would give the globalist British state and its pro-war EU partners a new lease of geopolitical life, as well as shoring up their crippled economies with command of Russiaās near limitless natural resources.
A global war industry
Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken ran WestExec ā a profitable war business consultancy, one of many which monetized forever war through influence peddling.
Former under-secretary of state Victoria Nuland, whoĀ managedĀ the 2014 coup in Ukraine, has her own family business of war. It isĀ calledĀ āthe Kagan-industrial complexā after her husband arch-neocon Robert Kagan and his brother Frederick ā whose ISW urgesĀ escalationĀ in the talking points it supplies to pro-war outlets in the mainstream media. This network runs public relations for the wars its members start. Nice work if you can get it.
Russia has won
This is the reality behind the slogans of āSlava Ukrainiā and the framing of the war as the defense ā and inevitable triumph ā of ādemocracy.ā This fantasy narrative is now collapsing. Why?
In reality, Russia has won the war. As Baab points out,Ā āPutin won the war. That means the West has to meet Putinās proposals.ā
This reality is a problem for the Western media which has sold every disastrous war of the last century as a win and a sacrifice in the defense of democracy. It is also a problem for the liberal-global elite, whose political capital is invested in the defeat of Russia.
U.S. will āwalk awayā if no deal
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ā together with Vice PresidentĀ JD VanceĀ ā have said that if Trumpās seven-point plan is not accepted the U.S. will āwalk awayā from Ukraine ā as retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor has consistently said they should.
Neither Rubio nor chief negotiator Steve Witkoff attended the London conference on April 23, at which Zelensky predictablyĀ rejectedĀ Trumpās seven-point peace deal.
Col. Macgregor told Judge Andrew Napolitano it was clear āZelensky is not going to agreeā to the proposed deal.
Why? It is based on reality. Macgregor agrees that the U.S. should walk away ā reminding viewers āthis war would never have happened had we not mightily supported this regime we helped into power in 2014.ā
Why did the U.S. do that? āTo attack Russia,ā Macgregor says, ābecause the whole idea was to build up a Ukrainian battering ram and hurl it at Russia. Crazy.ā
A frustrated and uncharacteristically alarmedĀ Macgregor asks,Ā āWhy are we even involved?ā
He suggests āthe best President Trump can do is say āItās over. I never wanted this. Itās not my war. Iām suspending all aid, Iām pulling out.āā
The former Trump adviser adds,Ā āWell, he didnāt do that. Whatās next? Iām not sure.ā
āWhatever happens, we look ridiculous. Again.ā
Macgregor adds that āat least we have had the sense to walk away. Whatās important is to normalize relations with Moscow,ā explaining that Zelenskyās claims to Crimea and the Russian regions now absorbed into Russia are ānonsense.ā
Trump: recognizing reality?
The Trump administration hasĀ offeredĀ to recognize Crimea as Russian ā asĀ has beenĀ historically and actually the case. Trump himself has accused Zelensky of sabotaging the peace deal, as the unelected leader of Ukraine refuses this and other concessions made unavoidable by the fact that Russia has won the war.
āThe situation for Ukraine is dire ā He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country.Ā I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever.ā
Trump laid the blame squarely on Zelensky ā saying his impossible demands would simply prolong the killing, as well as resulting in total defeat.
āThe statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the ākilling field,ā and nobody wants that! We are very close to a deal, but the man with āno cards to playā should now, finally, GET IT DONE.ā
In 2014, Crimeans voted āoverwhelminglyā toĀ secedeĀ from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. The territory wasĀ giftedĀ to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic by Nikitia Khrushchev in 1954, though its population remained predominantly ethnic Russian.
Trumpās aim, as Alastair Crooke hasĀ pointedĀ out, is far bigger than merely ending this war. The overall goal here is a reset of the global order ā away from the death cult model of forever war, and toward stabilization and trade abroad to power national renewal at home. As CrookeĀ notes, TrumpĀ āis ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an āindustrial concernā infused with Deep State ideology, centered primarily on preserving U.S. global power (rather than on mending of the economy).ā
Surrender to Russia?
Reports in the globalist media of a total surrender to Russia are overblown:
Trump countered the narrative of āconcessionsā to Russia with the stark riposte that Russiaās choice not to ātake all of Ukraineā was a significant concession in itself.
As Alex Christoforou of The Duran noted, Trumpās position on Crimea presented the EU with a āchoice,ā which the globalistĀ Financial TimesĀ says was āforcedā upon the pro-war bloc.Ā
The EU had a choice, support US or Ukraine. EU chose Ukraine, and rejected Trump's plan for US recognition of Crimea.
The EU rejects the US decision to recognize Crimea.
āCrimea is Ukraine,ā EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told French news agency AFP.Via FT: "For⦠pic.twitter.com/cdfWGEoULO
— Alex Christoforou (@AXChristoforou) April 25, 2025
Russians propose alliance with U.S.
So what do the Russians think?
A remarkable response from the Russians shows some of their perspective. On April 16, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)Ā publishedĀ a call for Washington and Moscow to unite against the EU ā and to thwart the moves of the British state to escalate and prolong the war.
According to RT, the statementĀ said,Ā āThe US and Russia are natural allies against āEurofascismā and the tyrannical tendencies prevalent in Western European countries.ā
From its beginning, the EU has tended to be a totalitarian entity, ruled over by unelected, globalist-minded bureaucrats and elites determined to crush the unique cultures and sovereignty of its member states. Many have warned that that it was created to be the springboard for a New World Order tyranny.
The SVR sounded an optimistic note, suggesting Russian and U.S. officials are working together to secure peace.
āThe agency said that āforeign expert circlesā are hopeful that Russia and the US will work together to prevent āa new global conflictāāÆand confront āpossible provocations both from Ukraine and from the āmaddened Europeansā traditionally urged on by Great Britain.āā
As Davis and Baab discussed,Ā neitherĀ Steve Witkoff nor Marco Rubio attended the recent London conference on Ukraine ā which Macgregor said was pointless due to Zelenskyās refusal to accept reality.
British state vs. Trump peace deal
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has joined the EU in ācontradictingā Trump, according to theĀ Daily Telegraph. Starmer says the unelected Zelensky must have a say in any deal ā and Zelensky is of course saying no.
TheĀ Daily TelegraphĀ blasted Trumpās seven-point peace plan as āsurrender, capitulation, betrayal, appeasement,ā saying āTrumpās dealā to secure peace āwould plunge the world into warā by ārewardingĀ aggressionā and āoverturning [the] rules-based order.ā
War is the rule of the ārules-based orderā
It was the ārules-based orderā which expanded NATO in the 1990s, against George Kennanās 1997Ā warningĀ of this āfateful errorā ā which would provoke war with Russia.
Kennan predicted that moving NATOās borders 300 miles eastward would make conflict with Russia inevitable, describing it as āthe most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.ā
This was no error. The collapse and plunder of Russia and its absorption into the global empire appears to have been the intention all along.
War has been the rule on which the rules-based order is based, as independent journalists have reported for years. This is why it is no surprise to hear the remnants of that order in Europe and in Britain demonize any attempts at peace ā as treason.
British state determined to prolong war
The British state is determined to escalate and prolong the war. GrayZone journalist Kit Klarenberg hasĀ documentedĀ the consistentĀ effortsĀ of the UK Deep State to do so and returned this week with aĀ reportĀ detailing how a secret government unit has been directing military operations in Ukraine and inĀ RussiaĀ ā supporting a strategy of continuing the war even after any ceasefire.
Does Trump have a plan?
Despite Colonel MacgregorāsĀ complaintĀ that he sees āno grand strategyā in the Trump administration, it is clear that the old one is dissolving. As the Trump administrationās peace proposals show, the one which will replace it relies on securing normalized relations ā and trade ā with Russia, instead of a perpetual march to world warĀ traileredĀ in Western media as inevitable.
The Trump administration has invited howls of outrage for its āsurrenderā to Russia in pursuing direct negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, as well as over its secret talks fromĀ beforeĀ day one with Iran toĀ avertĀ a major conflictĀ plannedĀ by another war faction: the Israel lobby.
The move away from the economic model of the liberal global system is a move away from an economic model of permanent war. This forever war model is waged against your Christian civilization at home in the mass media and the culture it transmits, as much as its business model bombs nations abroad.
Significant interests are being mobilized to prevent this move. Trump needs a win on the domestic front in this perilous moment of the detransition from globalism. The U.S. can no longer afford these foreign commitments ā it is facing financial, moral, and diplomatic bankruptcy as the fantasy project of world domination hits real life limits.
The narrative over Ukraine reveals not only how hard the war economy will fight to rescue its system from peace, but also how the hardest sell these days is hard reality.
Automotive
Hyundai moves SUV production to U.S.

MxM News
Quick Hit:
Hyundai is responding swiftly to 47th President Donald Trumpās newly implemented auto tariffs by shifting key vehicle production from Mexico to the U.S. The automaker, heavily reliant on the American market, has formed a specialized task force and committed billions to American manufacturing, highlighting how Trumpās America First economic policies are already impacting global business decisions.
Key Details:
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Hyundai has created a tariffs task force and is relocating Tucson SUV production from Mexico to Alabama.
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Despite a 25% tariff on car imports that began April 3, Hyundai reported a 2% gain in Q1 operating profit and maintained earnings guidance.
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Hyundai and Kia derive one-third of their global sales from the U.S., where two-thirds of their vehicles are imported.
Diving Deeper:
In a direct response to President Trumpās decisive new tariffs on imported automobiles, Hyundai announced Thursday it has mobilized a specialized task force to mitigate the financial impact of the new trade policy and confirmed production shifts of one of its top-selling models to the United States. The move underscores the gravity of the new 25% import tax and the economic leverage wielded by a White House that is now unambiguously prioritizing American industry.
Starting with its popular Tucson SUV, Hyundai is transitioning some manufacturing from Mexico to its Alabama facility. Additional consideration is being given to relocating production away from Seoul for other U.S.-bound vehicles, signaling that the company is bracing for the long-term implications of Trumpās tariffs.
This move comes as the 25% import tax on vehicles went into effect April 3, with a matching tariff on auto parts scheduled to hit May 3. Hyundai, which generates a full third of its global revenue from American consumers, knows it canāt afford to delay action. Notably, U.S. retail sales for Hyundai jumped 11% last quarter, as car buyers rushed to purchase vehicles before prices inevitably climb due to the tariff.
Despite the trade policy, Hyundai reported a 2% uptick in first-quarter operating profit and reaffirmed its earnings projections, indicating confidence in its ability to adapt. Yet the company isnāt taking chances. Ahead of the tariffs, Hyundai stockpiled over three months of inventory in U.S. markets, hoping to blunt the initial shock of the increased import costs.
In a significant show of good faith and commitment to U.S. manufacturing, Hyundai last month pledged a massiveĀ $21 billion investmentĀ into its new Georgia plant. That announcement was made during a visit to the White House, just days before President Trump unveiled the auto tariff policy ā a strategic alignment with a pro-growth, pro-America agenda.
Still, the challenges are substantial. The global auto industry depends on complex, multi-country supply chains, and analysts warn that tariffs will force production costs higher. Hyundai is holding the line on pricing for now, promising to keep current model prices stable through June 2. After that, however, price adjustments are on the table, potentially passing the burden to consumers.
South Korea, which remains one of the largest exporters of automobiles to the U.S., is not standing idle. A South Korean delegation is scheduled to meet with U.S. trade officials in Washington Thursday, marking the start of negotiations that could redefine the two nationsā trade dynamics.
President Trumpās actions represent a sharp pivot from the era of global corporatism that defined trade under the Obama-Biden administration. Hyundaiās swift response proves that when the U.S. government puts its market power to work, foreign companies will move mountains ā or at least entire assembly lines ā to stay in the game.
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