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🇺🇸 Senator Marco Rubio says the US is ready to “move on” from the Ukraine narrative.
🤝 Donald Trump meets Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, hinting at stronger EU ties — but makes it clear: he’s not a fan of Elensky.
🇷🇸 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic confirms his visit to Moscow on May 9, a major symbolic move.
In this deep-dive with Alex Christoforou, we unpack:
🌍 The West’s changing stance on Ukraine
🧩 Realignments in global leadership
⚖️ What May 9 means for Russia’s global positioning
💥 The fading influence of Elensky on the world stage
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🇺🇸 Senator Marco Rubio says the US is ready to “move on” from the Ukraine narrative.
🤝 Donald Trump meets Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, hinting at stronger EU ties — but makes it clear: he’s not a fan of Elensky.
🇷🇸 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic confirms his visit to Moscow on May 9, a major symbolic move.
In this deep-dive with Alex Christoforou, we unpack:
🌍 The West’s changing stance on Ukraine
🧩 Realignments in global leadership
⚖️ What May 9 means for Russia’s global positioning
💥 The fading influence of Elensky on the world stage
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00:00As you know, Russia's a lot bigger.
00:03It's a bigger military force.
00:06And if you're smart, you don't go involved and get involved in wars that...
00:13You can blame the man that was sitting in this seat, Biden.
00:16He didn't know what the hell was going on.
00:18But I can guarantee you that...
00:20And everybody agrees to it.
00:21If I were president, that war would have never taken place.
00:23I'm not blaming him.
00:25But what I am saying is that...
00:27I wouldn't say he's done the greatest job.
00:30Okay?
00:31I'm not a big fan.
00:32I really am.
00:33I'm not a big fan.
00:37This is my video update on this Friday, midday, April the 18th.
00:47Coming to you from Larnica, Cyprus.
00:52Let's talk about some news.
00:56And let's start things off.
01:00With the meeting in Paris.
01:05The mini Ukraine summit that took place in France.
01:14With the United States in attendance.
01:17The UK, Germany, of course, France was also there.
01:25And so was Ukraine, represented by Alensky's entertainment lawyer, Yermak.
01:34And the foreign minister and the foreign minister and the defense minister.
01:44Salt, huh?
01:45I feel like I'm walking on the moon, as the police once sang.
01:56Walking on the moon.
01:57Anyway, yeah.
01:59Yeah, so we had the meeting in Paris.
02:04I believe Whitcoff also met with Macron.
02:07Rubio met with the French foreign minister, whose name no one knows.
02:15I don't know it.
02:16But anyway, we had this meeting that took place.
02:20And the reports are that the United States presented some sort of a roadmap, a plan going forward for Project Ukraine.
02:34And if everybody can agree to this plan, Ukraine, the Europeans, Russia, then everything is good.
02:44But if they can't agree to this roadmap or this plan that they presented, then it looks like the Trump White House is ready to walk away.
02:53That's a summary of what they're telling us happened in France.
03:01And it's actually what Rubio said as he was leaving France, as he was at the airport talking to the media.
03:09He pretty much said that this was the purpose of the trip, to try and get everybody on board.
03:15And if we can't get everybody on board for this roadmap, then the United States has to move on.
03:21I think those are the exact words that he used.
03:23The United States has to move on.
03:29Rubio called Lavrov after the meeting, and he briefed Lavrov as to what was discussed.
03:38Lavrov told Rubio that Russia remains committed to trying to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
03:46Always with the goal to address the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine.
03:58That's pretty much what Lavrov said, the foreign ministry.
04:03And Kellogg was also there, actually.
04:09Rubio was there, Witkoff was there, and Kellogg was there.
04:13So you had, on the one side of things, you had the neocons with their unconditional ceasefire plan.
04:21And on the other side of things, you had Witkoff with June 2024, Istanbul Plus.
04:30Witkoff is someone who understands that in order to get to some sort of a resolution with Project Ukraine,
04:40then the territories, the four territories, plus Crimea, they have to be recognized as part of the Russian Federation,
04:50something that Ukraine has said, that the Alenska regime has said, they will never accept.
04:56France, they said that any deal has to, has to be based in reality, must start from reality.
05:10That is what France said.
05:11That's the way they're spinning it.
05:15And when I mean spinning it, not my words, Politico's words.
05:20Politico says, France says, Ukraine's ceasefire must start from reality.
05:25After U.S. meeting, the LSA spun the meetings as the start of a positive process in which Europeans are involved.
05:34Yeah, if you go by this title from Politico, it's basically saying that the meeting did not go well.
05:41When they use words like spun, they spun the meeting as something positive.
05:46And that the Europeans, they believe that now they're going to be part of the, of the negotiations.
05:54That means that this meeting did not go well.
05:57Did not go well at all, if you're the, the Europeans.
06:01At least that's the way I'm reading this reporting from Politico.
06:07The ceasefire has to be based in reality.
06:10Start from reality.
06:12Has to start from reality.
06:13That's coming from France.
06:14The delusional Macron, the delusional Macron government says that, uh, that peace has to start from reality when it comes to Ukraine.
06:26A France that believes that it can, uh, it can enter Ukraine, make its way to Odessa, and that Russia is going to do nothing.
06:35And they're talking about reality.
06:38Okay.
06:39Anyway, that is, uh, that's a summary of the, of the meeting.
06:43My sense of things is that, uh, that the United States went to, went to France.
06:50They briefed, uh, Germany, UK, and, uh, and France as to what the Trump administration is, is thinking when it comes to project Ukraine.
06:59And that is that, uh, that, uh, the United States is going to, to walk away.
07:05I think that's, that's pretty much what they told the Europeans.
07:09Either, either we go with the five territories, accepting the five territories are now part of the Russian Federation.
07:16And we start from there or, uh, where we're, we're walking away from project Ukraine.
07:22That's my sense of things.
07:25And I believe that Kellogg was there.
07:28This would just be a guess, but I believe that, uh, Kellogg was at, was Kellogg was at this meeting in order to tell the, the Europeans that, that his unconditional ceasefire plan, freezing the conflict and creating a DMZ and having European peacekeepers is, is a no-go.
07:45So that's, that would be my guess.
07:47Kellogg was there to tell the, the French, the British, the Germans, president Trump is not so hot on my, uh, unconditional ceasefire plan.
07:56But who knows?
07:57Maybe it's the other way around.
07:58Maybe Whitcoff was there to say that, uh, Trump's not going to go with the, with the June, 2024, five territories root causes plan.
08:08And he wants to go with the, uh, with the unconditional ceasefire.
08:12And we're going to escalate when it comes to project Ukraine.
08:14I don't know it could be the opposite, but I doubt it.
08:16I absolutely doubt it.
08:17And the reason I say, I doubt it is, uh, is because of what Rubio said when he was at the airport about to, to leave, uh, France.
08:27And, uh, let me read you what Rubio said.
08:30This is coming from CNN.
08:33Rubio warns, if it's not possible to end the war in Ukraine, U.S. needs to move on.
08:40U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that if it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, the United States needs to abandon its efforts and move on.
08:49Quote, if it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on.
08:54He told reporters before departing Paris, we need to determine very quickly now.
08:59And I'm talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable.
09:03Speaking Friday, Rubio said he and Whitcoff had come to Paris to begin to talk about more specific outlines of what it might take to end the war and whether or not this is a war that can be ended.
09:14If it's not possible, if we're so far apart that this is not going to happen, then I think the president is probably at a point where he's going to say we're done, he said.
09:25It's not our war.
09:27We didn't start it.
09:29The United States has been helping Ukraine for the past three years and we want it to end.
09:34But it's not our war, he added.
09:36President Trump has spent 87 days at the highest level of this government repeatedly taking efforts to bring this war to an end.
09:45We are now reaching the point when we need to decide and determine whether this is even possible or not, which is why we're engaging both sides.
09:55That's a pretty clear statement from Rubio.
09:59If we can't get an agreement between Ukraine and the Europeans, then we're moving on.
10:10And he said, it's not our war twice, which is what President Trump said.
10:17And Rubio is repeating it to the Europeans face to face.
10:21It's not our war.
10:23It is your war.
10:24You started it.
10:26We know that.
10:26I'm not going to get into all of that, the history of everything.
10:30But the U.S. can walk away from this.
10:34They can walk away from this war.
10:37The United States is very far away.
10:40The Europeans are right there, but the U.S. is far away.
10:44And they can say, you know what, we're done.
10:46We have a new administration, a new president, Biden's war.
10:50We're done with Project Ukraine.
10:52We're wrapping things up.
10:54See you later.
10:56The U.S. has the ability and the power to do that.
11:04So I believe I did read that Kellogg was there.
11:06I do believe that Kellogg was at this meeting.
11:13But now I'm starting to have doubts.
11:15I think he was there.
11:16Anyway, whatever.
11:18The message, I think, is very clear from Rubio.
11:24Very, very clear.
11:25I wonder if Rubio told Macron, if Whitcoff and Rubio, if they told Macron and the U.K., Germany as well, the coalition of the willing, the coalition of the losers.
11:38I wonder if he told them, don't don't go into Ukraine.
11:43If you go into Ukraine and try to move on on the Black Sea.
11:47We're not going to be there to back you guys up.
11:50I wonder if he told them that.
11:53I sure hope he did.
11:54Because it does look like the coalition of the willing is preparing to enter Ukraine.
12:02That's the way it looks.
12:03And we recorded a video on the Duran and Alexander actually, he actually had a good take on how this is going to most likely go down.
12:17It's going to be Alensky, Ukraine, calling some sort of a unilateral ceasefire.
12:27Right.
12:27They're going to say, OK, we're going to have a unilateral ceasefire.
12:31And we're going to invite as Ukraine, as a sovereign nation, we have the right to invite a military into Ukraine in order to secure the Black Sea.
12:43And that's going to be France along with with the U.K.
12:47And that's most likely how this is going to go down, probably in the summertime.
12:51But we are getting reports.
12:53I read this morning that that Macron is actually pressing for a ceasefire, even a unilateral ceasefire.
13:02A Ukraine calling a ceasefire in a couple of days on April 20th.
13:07So I don't know.
13:07Maybe maybe they're going to to make their move sooner.
13:11I don't know.
13:11I doubt it.
13:12I seriously doubt it.
13:13But we'll find out April 20th.
13:17Easter Easter Sunday is in a couple of days.
13:20So we'll we'll we'll soon find out if if they're going to make their move in a couple of days or if they're going to wait until summertime.
13:31But that's most likely how this is going to play out.
13:33If if France and the U.K. are serious about securing, as they call it, securing the Black Sea, it'll be an invitation by by Olenski.
13:46So that is the that is the update from France.
13:56And back in back in the United States.
14:03Once in the White House, Trump was meeting with Meloni.
14:10And and he was asked about Project Ukraine.
14:14And Trump said that that he's not a big fan of Olenski.
14:19He said he doesn't blame Olenski for for the conflict in Ukraine.
14:24But he also said that he repeated what he said a couple of days ago, which is that you don't start a war with with someone that is 20 times your size.
14:36And he said, I'm not a big fan of Olenski.
14:39He said, I'm not a big fan.
14:43That must have that must have angered the Green Goblin back in Kiev.
14:48Bedoliak, what what this man say?
14:50He's not my fan.
14:52What's he talk about?
14:53I can play piano with my pee pee.
14:56I can dance, wearing high heels.
14:59How can you not be my fan?
15:05Yeah, so let me read you what Trump said.
15:08And always keep in mind, he's saying this with Meloni right next to him.
15:13So I think he's putting the message out there to Meloni, who is without a doubt moving in the direction of of Trump.
15:23She is, at least it appears that she is breaking from Ursula van der Krasy and she is moving towards Trump.
15:30But of course, you always have to be careful with Meloni.
15:33She is she is a Trojan horse.
15:35And and she can definitely play both sides.
15:39But she's sitting next to Trump and Trump says this.
15:46I don't hold Alinsky responsible, but I'm not exactly thrilled with the fact that that war started.
15:55So I'm not happy with him.
15:57I'm not happy with anybody involved.
16:00Trump went on to say that Russia has a bigger military force than Ukraine.
16:03If you're smart, you don't get involved in wars.
16:07I'm not blaming him.
16:09But what I am saying is that I wouldn't say he's done the greatest job.
16:14OK, I'm not a big fan.
16:20I'm not a big fan.
16:22That's got to hurt the Green Goblin.
16:24That has got to hurt the Green Goblin deep down inside.
16:29You know, that hurts.
16:30It always hurts an actor when someone says I'm not your fan.
16:34It always hurts an actor to hear those words.
16:37Because Alinsky has given quite, quite a Churchillian, a Churchillian performance, hasn't he, over the years.
16:50So that's that's what's happening in the United States.
16:59Maloney, she told the media that that she is she is in the U.S., of course, because she believes.
17:07That that Europe and the United States are stronger together.
17:11She's repeating some Ursula lines there.
17:14We're stronger if we're united and together.
17:16But she also talked about how she's she's looking for some sort of of a deal that serves Italy's best interests as well.
17:26So Maloney always always playing both sides.
17:30Right.
17:31Be careful with Maloney.
17:33In Kiev, the Green Goblin, as the meeting was taking place in Paris with Alinsky's entertainment lawyer, Yermak.
17:45Like, Alinsky was talking to the media and he lashed out at Whitcoff again.
17:57Again, again, he lashed out at Whitcoff.
18:01And Alinsky once again said that Whitcoff is some sort of of a Russian stooge, or at least that's what he implied.
18:13He didn't say those exact words, but he implied that Whitcoff is either.
18:17Or is either willingly or or he doesn't know it, but he is parroting Russian disinformation.
18:28He has been compromised.
18:32K plus G.
18:34Who could that be?
18:35K plus G.
18:36I don't know.
18:37I don't know.
18:39But let me let me read you what Alinsky said about Whitcoff.
18:43So this is now what the third or fourth time that he has lashed out at Whitcoff.
18:48He said, I believe Mr. Whitcoff has adopted the strategy of the Russian side.
18:53I think this is very dangerous as he is wittingly or unwittingly spreading Russian narratives.
19:00As Alinsky said on Thursday, he added that Whitcoff had no mandate to discuss potential territorial changes.
19:07He has no mandate to discuss these changes, except that he does have the mandate from the president of the United States.
19:14But anyway, he does have a mandate.
19:19Now, you may not like that mandate.
19:21But given the fact that the United States has spent $300 billion, $400 billion, $500 billion, who knows, on Project Ukraine,
19:31and they have been running Project Ukraine for the last three, four years from a command center in Germany,
19:39providing weapons, providing intel and targeting,
19:43I would say that that President Trump, if he wants to give Whitcoff a mandate,
19:52he can give Whitcoff a mandate to negotiate Project Ukraine, at least on the United States' behalf.
20:02And the United States is part of the conflict.
20:03So maybe Whitcoff cannot cannot speak for Ukraine, for the Alinsky regime,
20:10but he can definitely speak for the United States of America.
20:14And if Whitcoff says that the U.S. is on board with Istanbul Plus,
20:20then so be it.
20:23And if there is no deal based around Istanbul Plus,
20:26then the United States can take all of their money and weapons and toys and everything and leave.
20:35And walk away.
20:36Absolutely.
20:36He has that mandate.
20:37No doubt about that.
20:40So, let's go to the United Nations.
20:46The United Nations.
20:49And we had...
20:53Look at that.
20:58Isn't that pretty?
20:59We had in the U.N. another resolution trying to condemn Russia when it comes to Project Ukraine.
21:15And what happened is incredible.
21:22It's happened before under President Trump.
21:25But it's incredible that it has happened again.
21:28And that is that the resolution was turned down by the United States.
21:40The U.S. voted against this resolution, as did, of course, Russia and Belarus.
21:44And a whole lot of other countries.
21:52Let me see here.
21:55Do I have a list of countries that voted against this resolution?
21:57I believe 107 countries voted for this resolution.
22:02And a lot of other countries voted against this resolution.
22:06The United States voted against it.
22:08With Russia voting against it.
22:10Belarus, Mali, Congo, Nicaragua, Niger, Sudan, Eritrea, and a whole bunch of other countries.
22:16They voted against this resolution.
22:20So, once again, the United States is teaming up with Russia and with Belarus at the U.N.
22:28to vote down a resolution that condemns Moscow.
22:37That says a lot.
22:39That absolutely says a lot as to what Trump is...
22:46is moving towards when it comes to Russia.
22:53Normalization of diplomatic relations.
22:59That's what's going on here.
23:09Cyprus.
23:10Cyprus.
23:16If you like speed, then Cyprus is a pretty good place.
23:23So, what can we talk about next?
23:27How about the Reuters report, which I believe now is all but confirmed,
23:33with LNG, with Russian LNG and the European Union, 17th Sanctions Package.
23:41I discussed this four or five days ago.
23:44And it looks like this is what is going to go down with the 17th Sanctions Package and Russian LNG,
23:52which is that the European Union will not include Russian LNG in their 17th Sanctions Package.
24:06And as I said a couple of days ago, the reason behind this is that the EU believes that by not banning Russian LNG,
24:20sanctioning Russian LNG, they can use this as leverage with the United States as they enter into trade talks.
24:30I read an article this morning which claimed that if the trade talks, the tariff trade talks between the United States and the EU break down,
24:40then you could be looking at a cost of $1.3 trillion for the European Union.
24:49If Trump tariffs hold at that 20% and if they cannot work out some sort of a deal,
24:57it's going to be very costly for the European Union and very costly, especially for Germany.
25:03So the decision, one official told the agency, Reuters, was driven by internal opposition,
25:14uncertainty over replacing the supply, but also concerns that a ban could weaken the EU's negotiating power with the United States.
25:24The European Commission is reportedly seeking to use energy imports, including LNG,
25:29as leverage to persuade the U.S. to lift tariffs on EU goods.
25:38So that's the negotiating strategy from the European Union.
25:45It's not a very good strategy.
25:47Not a very good strategy at all.
25:49But what else could you expect from Ursula and Kaya Kallis?
25:56Yeah, so basically the European Union,
25:59they are going to tell the United States
26:04that either you lower the tariffs or get rid of the tariffs,
26:09or else we're going to, what, buy more Russian LNG?
26:14But, but if you lower the tariffs, then we'll buy U.S. LNG.
26:21I don't think they've thought this one through at all.
26:25Lower the tariffs, we'll buy U.S. LNG.
26:28Don't lower the tariffs, we're going to buy Russian LNG.
26:33Trump or Putin? Putin or Trump?
26:35Who do we choose?
26:36Yeah, I think this is going to be an easy negotiation for the Trump administration.
26:43The European Union tariff negotiation is going to be pretty,
26:48pretty straightforward for the United States, if you ask me.
26:52Oh, man.
26:53So anyway, that's, that's an update with that story.
26:57In Germany, we are getting reports that, uh, that the Taurus missiles are, uh,
27:05are going to be a no-go even for Chancellor Mertz.
27:11The next wonder weapon, the Taurus missiles that Mertz was talking up
27:15and threatening Russia with.
27:18Remember six months ago, Mertz actually threatened Putin.
27:23And he said, if Putin does not capitulate in 24 hours,
27:26then I am going to suggest that the German parliament
27:30approve Taurus long-range missiles to Alensky.
27:34Remember that threat from, uh, BlackRock Mertz?
27:37Yeah, well, as he's about to become Chancellor,
27:41we have a statement from Reinmetl, the weapons manufacturer in Germany.
27:48Their director said that the Taurus missiles will not help Kiev.
27:53That is what the, I believe the CEO of, uh, Reinmetl said.
27:59So Taurus missiles will, will do nothing for the, uh, the Alensky regime.
28:06And we also have the leader of the SPD coming out with a statement,
28:11the coalition partner of, uh, of Germany, of the CDU, of Mertz's CDU.
28:16And he came out with a statement and said that Mertz is not going to give the Taurus missiles
28:22once he, uh, is briefed on the dangers of, uh, giving the Taurus missiles to Ukraine.
28:32And what, uh, what the SPD leader was referencing was the fact that everyone knows
28:39if the Taurus missiles were given to Ukraine,
28:43then that would mean that German military officials
28:48would have to be the ones operating those Taurus missiles,
28:53which would mean that Germany is directly a party in the, uh, conflict in Ukraine.
29:04I'll also say this.
29:05I bet you Germany understands that without the United States providing, uh, satellite intel
29:16and targeting stuff like that, the Taurus missiles have, uh, no chance of, of accomplishing anything
29:23in, uh, the conflict in Ukraine.
29:26So anyway, that's an update on the, uh, the Taurus missiles and let's now talk about
29:36Vucic, Serbia and the victory day, May 9th event.
29:46And, uh, Vucic has come out with a statement.
29:49And as I said in my video, a couple of days ago, Vucic has indeed said that he will attend
29:56the May 9th victory day.
30:00He has to go to the May 9th victory day.
30:03He actually said he was going to go to the event nine months ago.
30:08I believe he was one of the first, uh, leaders to, to commit to going to the, uh, the victory
30:16day parade.
30:17Anyway, Vucic, he came out and he said, I have not changed my decision.
30:25I am ready for the whole sky to fall on my head from the pressure to go to Moscow.
30:31Eight months ago, I announced my visit to Moscow publicly, Vucic said on Wednesday, as cited by
30:36Serbian media.
30:46So, yeah, he had to go.
30:48He has to go.
30:49As I said, he has to go.
30:51If he were to cancel his trip to Moscow, then, then that would look beyond weak.
30:59Who knows?
31:00His government might've collapsed if, uh, he canceled that trip.
31:05I don't know.
31:06But, uh, you cannot fold to the threats of, uh, Kayakalas.
31:14So that's an update there.
31:17And, and what else should we get to?
31:22Do I even have a clown world for today?
31:24I don't even have a clown world for today.
31:25I think that's all the news on this good Friday.
31:38Clown world, clown world.
31:40I don't have anything.
31:41I saw a video of, uh, Maloney saying hello to, to Musk as she was in the, in the United States.
31:49She was in, uh, in the White House.
31:52She said hello to Elon Musk, her crush.
32:01Yeah.
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