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π Why peace in Ukraine may not be what Washington wants
The deeper agenda behind pushing for prolonged conflict
ποΈ What this means for the future of Europe and global security
π¨ The world stands at a dangerous crossroads β will diplomacy be silenced?
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In this powerful report, Rachel Blevins exposes:
The U.S. threats aimed at Russia during critical peace efforts
π Why peace in Ukraine may not be what Washington wants
The deeper agenda behind pushing for prolonged conflict
ποΈ What this means for the future of Europe and global security
π¨ The world stands at a dangerous crossroads β will diplomacy be silenced?
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00:00It is April 18th, 2025, and after hours and hours of talks between the U.S. and Russia,
00:07the Trump administration has reportedly come up with the solution to end the war in Ukraine.
00:14They're just going to freeze the conflict because no one has ever proposed that before,
00:18and Russia certainly hasn't said time and time again that that sort of a quote-unquote solution,
00:25which really isn't one when you think about it, would not be acceptable to them. Yet,
00:29we have another report from Bloomberg claiming that that is exactly what the Trump administration is
00:35telling their European allies that they are planning to do when it comes to the war in Ukraine.
00:42It feels like madness, but I really think that we have reached the point where there is no excuse
00:49at this point. If the Trump administration is still floating a frozen conflict, right, claiming that,
00:57oh, we'll just keep Kiev out of NATO, that that is going to help fix everything, then they don't
01:03really want a deal. And yet, they're pointing the finger at Russia, saying Russia is the one that
01:09doesn't really want a deal, as we had Secretary of State Marco Rubio making a few comments to
01:15reporters. And apparently, the Trump administration is about ready to walk away from peace talks, at least
01:21that's how they're making it sound. We are going to be getting into all of the latest here in today's
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01:58are supporting my work. All right, now let's get into the latest madness coming out of Paris, as we just
02:05had talks wrap up that included representatives from the US, France, Germany, the UK, and Ukraine.
02:12And I want to start off with this soundbite from Marco Rubio, because that's what really kicked
02:17things off, right? He led the US delegation to these talks. So he's the one, not Donald Trump.
02:24Marco Rubio is the one. And we already have had reports this week that Rubio is the one putting
02:30pressure on Trump to take a harder stance on Russia. And Rubio has been the one who has been
02:36speaking out this month and saying, oh, well, we'll know here pretty quick whether Russia is
02:42serious about peace talks. So Rubio is the one who seems to be completely fed up with this process.
02:49He's frustrated with talks about talks. And now he's the one talking to US allies in Europe and
02:56apparently giving them some sort of a plan or at least what the US is presenting. So then Rubio
03:02talks to reporters. And this is what he has to say.
03:06I think it's important to remind everybody that the Ukraine war is a terrible thing,
03:10but it's not our war. We didn't start it. The United States has been helping Ukraine for over
03:14the last three years and we want it to end. But it's not our war. I want everyone to understand
03:19that. And the reason why I make that point is the president has spent 87 days at the highest level
03:24of his government repeatedly taking efforts to bring this war to an end. We are now reaching a point
03:30where we need to decide and determine whether this is even possible or not,
03:34which is why we're engaging both sides.
03:36It's not our war. Really? Okay. Well, if that's the case, then the US should be able to just stop
03:43all of its support for Kiev tomorrow, right? I mean, it's not our war, right? We're just providing some
03:48support, except that we're not. The US is actively playing the lead role in propping up Kiev's
03:56government and military, providing intelligence sharing. There would not be a war today without
04:02the US. Russia has made that very clear. The fact that these talks are happening right now,
04:07not between Russia and Ukraine, but between Russia and the US, is a reminder of who the main parties
04:14are in this war, right? Who was the leader of this proxy war against Russia? Russia knows that it's
04:20the United States. Apparently, Marco Rubio hasn't figured that out yet. But the fact that he's sitting
04:25there and saying, this isn't our war. Oh, okay. Well, it's just Russia, right? Russia is the one.
04:31They are the aggressor. They are the ones who just created this alliance and kept moving it closer
04:39and closer to the US border up until the point where they were right there. And they have this
04:43thing called Article 5, which means that just any different border disputes or land disputes between
04:50us and the country next to us, where, oh, let's also add in the fact that Russia was the one that
04:56supported a government overthrow in the country next to us. Oh, and they installed a government
05:02there that hates Americans, except just flip-flop all of that. And then you'll have the current
05:09situation that is going on in Ukraine. Because for decades now, you've had Russia in this position
05:14where they have been openly voicing their security concern, openly looking at NATO and saying, hey,
05:20your alliance keeps growing. It keeps getting further and further east, even though y'all literally sat
05:25there and said that you would not do that. Oh, you've gotten your way all the way up to our border.
05:31Oh, you're wanting to include a country like Ukraine, where you just backed this government coup in 2014,
05:37install the regime that hates Russians. Oh, and you're continuing to target the ethnic Russians in
05:45eastern Ukraine. This conflict that we're seeing today did not happen overnight. It has been built
05:51up over the course of years. And Rubio was doing, and Trump does this too, right? They act as if,
05:57oh, it's just Biden's war, right? Biden is the one who let things escalate. He had a weird thing with
06:03Ukraine. I don't know. And now Trump is coming in, and he's acting like this is not his war.
06:09Except that it is. Except that when Trump sits there and he brags about giving javelins to Ukraine,
06:15well, what do you think that they were using those to do? Oh, they were using them directly in
06:19war against Russia. So this idea that the US has, you know, just no place whatsoever is just a fight
06:26between Russia and Ukraine. And now we're starting to get annoyed because Russia isn't agreeing to a deal.
06:33as quickly as we want them to. And why isn't Russia agreeing to a deal as quickly as we want? Oh,
06:38well, because they are the ones winning this war. Because they don't need a ceasefire. They don't
06:44need a peace deal. Now, are they pursuing direct dialogue with the US to keep us away from World
06:50War III? Yes, that's what they're actively doing right now. But this idea that the US is just this
06:57third party, right? That they are the one who is coming in and trying to broker peace between these
07:03two warring countries on the other side of the world. Well, if that's the case, then the US needs
07:08to stop all support for Ukraine tomorrow. If that's the case, then we should see how well Kiev can stand
07:15on its own. We should really see how much the US has been doing to prop up Kiev to continue this proxy
07:21war against Russia. Because I'm telling you, that will not happen. And the fact that the Trump
07:27administration is acting like, oh, you know, they're just a third party. It's like that is not
07:32only denying reality, but it is ignoring just how involved in this war the US continues to be to this
07:41day. And yes, that's under the Trump administration. I'm also old enough to remember when Rubio was the
07:48one admitting that the war in Ukraine was part of the overall proxy war that the US was engaged in
07:55against Russia, because he said it just over a month ago. It's been very clear from the beginning
08:00that President Trump views this as a protracted stalemated conflict. And frankly, it's a proxy
08:05war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine and Russia. So we have the Trump
08:10administration in this position where now we're watching their rhetoric shift right now. They're
08:16saying, okay, we need to make a deal. Let's get done. We know that according to those previous reports
08:21that came out between the time that Trump was elected and he was inaugurated, that the timeline
08:26was supposed to include a full ceasefire by Easter Sunday, which is obviously coming up this Sunday on
08:33the 20th of April. Obviously, we're not going to get a full ceasefire from everything we've seen. If we
08:39did, that would be a massive surprise. And I don't think it would last more than five minutes. So we have
08:45the current predicament. Well, then you get Rubio going to Paris. Now, as a reminder, as we talked
08:51about earlier this week, Trump's Middle East on voice Steve Wyckoff, he met with Russian President
08:57Putin for a third time, their conversation lasted nearly five hours. And when Wyckoff came out of that,
09:03he said, okay, we have the framework for a deal. And that deal is going to include the recognition or
09:12Russia is demanding that it include the recognition of these five territories, right? Crimea, Donetsk,
09:18Lugansk, Kyrgyzstan, and Zaporozhye. Five territories that were previously part of Ukraine that have since
09:24voted to join Russia. Crimea, it's already part of Russia, right? It's really these other four
09:30territories that need to have some sort of a negotiation over simply because Russia views them
09:38as part of the Russian Federation under Russian law, but it doesn't have full control of them right now.
09:44So there is no, we just stop this war right where it is. We end things and draw the battle lines where
09:51they are. And then we never have future conflict again. That's not really possible at the moment.
09:57Now, we don't know what Wyckoff and Putin discussed exactly, right? We don't know what the exact framework
10:03for a deal looked like, but we do know that it seems like the Trump administration took whatever
10:09that was, and then they presented it to their European allies as, okay, this is a version of it.
10:15And then now we get this Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. And in it, they say that the
10:22U.S. presented allies with proposals to enable a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, including an
10:28outline of terms to end the fighting and ease sanctions on Moscow in the event of a lasting
10:34ceasefire. They said the proposal would effectively freeze the war with Ukrainian territories now occupied
10:41by Russia remaining under Moscow's control. And the Kiev's aspirations of joining NATO would also be
10:48off the table, but it's that term freeze the conflict, right? And this may just be Bloomberg's
10:54interpretation or whoever they were talking to their read on it. But that's the exact opposite
11:00of what Russia has been saying, right? Russia this entire time has said, we will not accept a frozen
11:06conflict. So if they do, if they accept a deal, which this would just be a Minsk three style deal,
11:13right? We may as well go back to Minsk, take the framework of the previous deal, adjust it a little
11:19bit and then decide we have a new version of it. And we're going right back to talking about no NATO
11:25membership for Ukraine as if that is some sort of progress, right? The West is acting like they're
11:30giving Russia something here, right? They're claiming that, oh, but what's not mentioned in this
11:35report I noticed is the question of, okay, well, what does that mean for NATO support for Kiev? What does
11:42that mean for Kiev's neutrality? Because that's been another major factor here. And Russia has mentioned
11:47this a number of times, the fact that they're saying, hey, we have moved into a time where
11:54Kiev is completely propped up by the West. We're saying that we're not okay with that. We're saying
12:00we're not okay with this constant NATO support with NATO pretty much rebuilding Kiev's military,
12:06which would be what would happen if the war stopped today, if there was a full ceasefire.
12:11There's no guarantee there that there isn't going to be meddling in the Kiev military that we know it
12:20to be today. And on top of that, Zelensky has repeatedly said that there would never be a full
12:25recognition of these territories as Russian, right? He came out this week and in an interview, he said,
12:31well, you know, yeah, sure. We're going to have a diplomatic resolution. Kiev would agree to a deal,
12:36but we would still view those territories as occupied. Well, if that's the case, then there's
12:42no point. There is no point in any kind of diplomatic settlement, any kind of Minsk 3 style
12:48deal. We would literally just be freezing the conflict and pausing the conflict. And I get that
12:55the Trump administration wants to, you know, wrap this up and put a nice bow on top of it and say,
13:00hey, look at us. We negotiated peace in Ukraine. We were able to bring about a quote unquote end to
13:06this war. But the thing that Russia keeps bringing up, and I think rightfully so, is the fact that
13:12they are not talking about real solutions here. They're talking about, you know, slapping a band-aid
13:17on it. But for as long as there is still a government in Kiev that is fully supported by NATO, fully
13:24backed by NATO, going to be rebuilt by NATO in the event of any kind of ceasefire, then what's the point
13:32of having an agreement where you talk about how, oh, Ukraine is not going to become a member of NATO?
13:38Well, that's literally in name only because they are built by NATO, backed by NATO. And so for as long
13:45as that is the case, it's hard to see Russia agreeing to some sort of a deal like the one that is being
13:52presented in Bloomberg right now. Okay, so we've been over this, right? There's this framework for a deal.
13:59Let's say that Russia says no. Let's say that the Trump administration, which it seems like right
14:04now with some of the rhetoric that we're getting from Marco Rubio, he's trying to push the fact that,
14:10hey, we need to give Russia an ultimatum. We need to say, this is the day you either agree to this or
14:16you don't. And that's it. So let's say that Russia doesn't agree to that, that they give a flat out no
14:22instead of kind of the answer that Putin gave before where Trump was calling for a ceasefire. And Putin
14:28said, hey, yeah, I would love to have a ceasefire. Here's the 87 things we need to work out before
14:34we get to that point before that happens. Let's say that Russia doesn't play the diplomatic game and
14:39that they just come out and they say, no, the terms of your deal are not acceptable. We've been telling
14:44you that they are not acceptable for literal years now, and you have not adjusted it enough to where
14:51we are satisfied. Or they could even point to the fact that, look, Kiev has said that, sure,
14:57they would agree to a diplomatic deal, but that they would never fully recognize these territories
15:03as Russian. Therefore, we can't agree to a deal because it's not being negotiated in good faith.
15:09Just like with the Minsk Corps is where you had former German Chancellor Angela Merkel coming out in
15:14the aftermath of it and saying, oh, well, yeah, that was really just to buy time so that NATO could
15:20rearm and build up Ukraine and its military. Well, Russia is able to, right? They are able to point
15:27to Zelensky's latest comments and say, hey, we have the evidence this time around before the fact that
15:34this is what Kiev is planning to do, that they are just going to use a frozen conflict to buy time.
15:39Well, if that's the case, that the Trump administration gives them some sort of an ultimatum,
15:44then what happens after that, right? Instead of easing sanctions, is the Trump administration going to put on
15:49more sanctions? Are they going to add more sanctions to Russia, already the most sanctioned nation in the
15:55world? Are they going to ramp up sanctions on countries that do business with Russia, that have
16:00continued to do business with Russia, even in the face of all of those threats of U.S. sanctions?
16:05Is the Trump administration going to then provide more support for Kiev? Because that's the thing,
16:10when you look at Rubio's rhetoric and Trump's rhetoric, they talk about, oh, you know, if these peace
16:16talks don't go anywhere, we're just going to move on, or we're just going to walk away. It's like,
16:21okay, but you're going to walk away from the talks. You're not going to walk away from support for
16:26Kiev. And there's going to come a point with, especially the way that things are going right
16:32now, where the Trump administration is going to face a crossroads. And that crossroads is going to
16:37be over whether or not they approve more aid for Kiev. Right now, Biden did all that he could,
16:44he approved as much as he could. We're still kind of on that timeline, but the way things are going
16:49right now, there's going to come a point where Kiev is going to run out of weapons and they're still
16:54going to be facing massive manpower shortages. So if that's the case, then the Trump administration
17:00needs to decide just how involved they want to be in this war. Are they going to walk away from it
17:06altogether? Are they going to let Kiev fall and let Russia do whatever they decide to do in the
17:12aftermath of that? And it is forever concerning to me that the Trump administration had the
17:17opportunity to come in and to say, you know what, this was Joe Biden's war. We're not going to support
17:23it. We're removing support. We're pushing for some sort of a peace deal. We're putting our full
17:28emphasis behind that. We're not going to continue another day of military aid or intelligence sharing or
17:35however else it is that the U.S. is directly involved in this proxy war against Russia.
17:40That ends on day one. They had the opportunity to do that. And because they did it, because they did
17:47not do that, and because we continue to watch Trump and Rubio play this game of claiming, well,
17:53it's not our war, right? It's not our war. When we all know just how involved the U.S. is directly
18:00in continuing this war. We all know that there would not be a war if it were not for the U.S.
18:06That's when I start to get concerned, because that does not tell me that the Trump administration is
18:12planning to pull all support for Ukraine to say, hey, we've done what we could do. That's it. We're
18:17going to let Russia do what they want. We tried to negotiate a deal with them. That didn't work out.
18:22No, no, no. What this is telling me is that if Russia does not give the U.S., it does not give the
18:27Trump administration what they want, that tells me that the Trump administration is going to turn
18:32right back around, and they're going to try to do exactly what the Biden administration did, which
18:38is more sanctions on Russia and more support for Ukraine, more war. Are they going to get us to
18:44the brink of World War III? Well, that's a legitimate question on this route that they're on, because this
18:51idea that we're just going to force Russia into peace talks, we're going to force them onto our timeline,
18:57for ending a war that they are actively winning. That does not sound like it's coming from an honest
19:05broker. That does not sound like it's coming from a side that really wants to work with Russia, that really
19:10wants to see peace in Ukraine. So for as long as the Trump administration is actively supporting this
19:17war, but acting like they're just some third party and they're just waiting for Russia to hurry up and get on it
19:23and decide as to whether or not they want a peace deal. Well, the message that that should be sending
19:28to the entire world is that Trump is not truly done with this war. It's not done with supporting those
19:36European allies who are also actively supporting this war. And that should be incredibly troubling to
19:43everyone who voted for Trump thinking that he was truly going to support an end to this war in 24 hours,
19:51right? Immediately when he got into office, that he was going to pull support for Ukraine. And that's
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