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 substitutesā¦ 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 capabilityā¦ 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.
Automotive
Auto giant shuts down foreign plants as Trump moves to protect U.S. industry

Ā MxM News
Quick Hit:
Stellantis is pausing vehicle production at two North American facilitiesāone in Canada and another in Mexicoāfollowing President Donald Trumpās announcement of 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars. The move marks one of the first corporate responses to the administration’s push to bring back American manufacturing.
Key Details:
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In an email to workers Thursday, Stellantis North America chief Antonio Filosa directly tied the production pause to the new tariffs, writing that the company is ācontinuing to assess the medium- and long-term effectsā but is ātemporarily pausing productionā at select assembly plants outside the U.S.
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Production at the Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario will be paused for two weeks, while the Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico will be offline for the entire month of April.
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These plants produce the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, the new Dodge Charger Daytona EV, the Jeep Compass SUV, and the Jeep Wagoneer S EV.
Diving Deeper:
On Wednesday afternoon in the White House Rose Garden, President TrumpĀ announcedĀ sweeping new tariffs aimed at revitalizing Americaās auto manufacturing industry. The 25% tariffs on all imported cars are part of a broader āreciprocal tariffsā strategy, which Trump described as ending decades of globalist trade policies that hollowed out U.S. industry.
Just a day later, Stellantis became the first major automaker to act on the new policy, halting production at two of its international plants. According to an internal emailĀ obtainedĀ by CNBC, Stellantis North American COO Antonio Filosa said the company is ātaking immediate actionsā to respond to the tariff policy while continuing to evaluate the broader impact.
āThese actions will impact some employees at several of our U.S. powertrain and stamping facilities that support those operations,ā Filosa wrote.
The Windsor, Ontario plant, which builds the Chrysler Pacifica and the newly introduced Dodge Charger Daytona EV, will shut down for two weeks. The Toluca facility in Mexico, responsible for the Jeep Compass and Jeep Wagoneer S EV, will suspend operations for the entire month of April.
The move comes as Stellantis continues to face scrutiny for its reliance on low-wage labor in foreign markets. AsĀ reportedĀ by Breitbart News, the company has spent years shifting production and engineering jobs to countries like Brazil, India, Morocco, and Mexicoāoften at the expense of American workers. Last year alone, Stellantis cut around 400 U.S.-based engineering positions while ramping up operations overseas.
Meanwhile, General Motors appears to be responding differently. According to Reuters, GMĀ toldĀ employees in a webcast Thursday that it will increase production of light-duty trucks at its Fort Wayne, Indiana plantāwhere it builds the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. These models are also assembled in Mexico and Canada, but GMās decision suggests a shift in production to the U.S. could be underway in light of the tariffs.
As Trumpās trade reset takes effect, more automakers are expected to recalibrate their production strategiesāpotentially signaling a long-awaited shift away from offshoring and toward rebuilding American industry.
Business
āTime To Make The Patient Betterā: JD Vance Says āBig Transitionā Coming To American Economic Policy

JD Vance on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” discussing tariff results
From theĀ Daily Caller News Foundation
By Hailey Gomez
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday on Newsmax that he believes Americans will āreap the benefitsā of the economy as the Trump administration makes a ābig transitionā on tariffs.
The Dow Jones Industrial AverageĀ droppedĀ 1,679.39 points on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump announcedĀ reciprocal tariffsĀ against nations charging imports from the U.S. On āRob Schmitt Tonight,ā Schmitt asked Vance about the stock market hit, asking how the White House felt about the āLiberation Dayā move.
āWeāre feeling good. Look, I frankly thought in some ways it could be worse in the markets, because this is a big transition. You saw what the President said earlier today. Itās like a patient who was very sick,ā Vance said. āWe did the operation, and now itās time to make the patient better. Thatās exactly what weāre doing. We have to remember that for 40 years, weāve been doing this for 40 years.ā
āAmerican economic policy has rewarded people who ship jobs overseas. Itās taxed our workers. Itās made our supply chains more brittle, and itās made our country less prosperous, less free and less secure,ā Vance added.
Vance recalled that one of his children had been sick and needed antibiotics that were not made in the United States. The Vice President called it a āridiculous thingā that some medicines invented in the country are no longer manufactured domestically.
āThatās fundamentally what this is about. The national security of manufacturing and making the things that we need, from steel to pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, and so forth, but also the good jobs that come along when you have economic policies that reward investing in America, rather than investing in foreign countries,ā Vance said.
WATCH:
With a baseline 10% tariffĀ placedĀ on an estimated 60 countries, higher tariffs were applied to nations like China and Israel. For example, China, which has a 67% tariff on U.S. goods, will now face a 34%Ā tariffĀ from the U.S., while Israel, which has a 33% tariff, will face a 17% U.S. tariff.
āOne bad day in the stock market, compared to what President Trump said earlier today, and I think heās right about this. Weāre going to have a booming stock market for a long time because weāre reinvesting in the United States of America. More importantly than that, of course, the people in Wall Street have done well,ā Vance said.
āWe want them to do well. But we care the most about American workers and about American small businesses, and theyāre the ones who are really going to benefit from these policies,ā Vance said.
The number of factories in the U.S., Vance said, has declined, adding that āmillions of workersā have lost their jobs.
āMy town [Middletown, Ohio], where you had 10,000 great American steel workers, and my town was one of the lucky ones, now probably has 1,500 steel workers in that factory because you had economic policies that rewarded shipping our jobs to China instead of investing in American workers,ā Vance said. āPresident Trump ran on changing it. He promised he would change it, and now he has. I think Americans are going to reap the benefits.ā
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