#music #rihanna - 4 April 2025 - Happy birthday webmaster John Nichols

4 April 2025

It is with great regret at 89 today I must stop publishing but with the current political scene in the world today with 2 "wannabe" dictators #Trump #netanyahu & the dictator #putin and the atrocities (war crimes) happening in both the #ukraine #Israel / #Gaza  and elsewhere in the world this will be my last post.

Just publishing this news is depressing but you can follow news here

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When I was in Korea in 1955 I was in the United Nation forces stationed opposite Gloucester Hill with the British Royal Signals (video of attack 4 years earlier)

Why are they not keeping the peace in Ukraine

I need to return to enjoying my music for which I am told I have a good ear for noticing music picking the Rolling Stones; Eric Clapton´s first records for being famous + many more and Rihanna´s first CD c2007/2008 when I was diagnosed with cancer. About that time a lady from UA dreams Donetsk (UA Dreams) wrote to me and we corresponded for about 18 months before she moved to Germany. I warned her then about the Russians when they invaded Georgia

Too much hot air throughout the world and not enough action

Future of Ukraine discussed at UN Security Council 

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Hope that history rights itself and that there will be love and peace in the world: those breaking it will meet their karma before they bring their tyranny to the peace lovers of this world

Passing out parade at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Summer 1958 John Nichols Dettingen Company

https://archive.org/details/dettingen-company-royal-military-academy-sandhurst-winter-term-1964.

 

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#Ukraine #Trump #Putin - Why Trump is selling out Ukraine for peace with Russia: Caspian Report

22 March 2025

Stay better informed https://ground.news/caspian and access world-wide perspectives on global developments. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through my link. Behind closed doors, #Trump has allegedly offered #Putin concessions on #Ukraine. Through this appeasement policy, Trump looks to flip Russia to contain #China.

#Ukraine #Trump #Putin

Steve Witkoff is a ‘Kremlin lover’ | Andrew Neil

What it tells us that Russia is sending low-ranking diplomats to the ceasefire talks | DW News

Today, we held meetings focused on diplomatic efforts. I spoke with Rustem Umerov. Yesterday there was a meeting with the U.S. team. Today, U.S. representatives spoke with the war team—that is, with representatives of Russia. After that, another meeting took place between the… pic.twitter.com/ZNNtU86ZLG

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 24, 2025

We know Kremlin's methods well.
1949 March 25, operation Priboi: occupant deported more than 90,000 people from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to inhospitable areas of the Soviet Union. To stop resistance. But over 70% of the deportees were women and children under the age of 16. pic.twitter.com/sKIgT9HfQj

— Lithuania MFA | #StandWithUkraine (@LithuaniaMFA) March 25, 2025

#Russia #Putin #oligarths - Rise and Fall of Putin's Oligarchs | Inside the Russian Elite | ENDEVR Documentary

23 February 2025

Watch 'The Rise of Putin: From KGB Agent to Leader of Russia' here:    • The Rise of Putin: From KGB Agent to ...   When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia’s super rich saw him as a technocrat they could control, just as they had dominated his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.

They had a rude awakening in 2003, when Putin arrested, caged and exiled the richest man in Russia. Looking on from their yachts, jets and castles, the Oligarchs sent the same message to Putin:

“How do I avoid being caged?” His response: “50 percent.” In one bold stroke Putin spread fear across his land, consolidated his power and likely made himself the richest man on earth.

Now, with war raging in Ukraine, the Oligarchs are caught between sanctions in the west and a backlash at home. This is the story of Russia’s super rich and the man who rules over them.

#ENDEVR #FreeDocumentary #russiaukrainewar

#Russia #Putin - The Future of Putin and Russia: A Conversation and Performance: The 92nd Street Y, New York

5 March 2025

Russia’s war in Ukraine has resulted in staggering human and financial costs — over 600,000 Russian casualties according to Pentagon estimates, and war-related expenditures exceeding $211 billion as of early 2024. With economic losses projected to reach $1.3 trillion by 2026, and the Kremlin under intensifying scrutiny, the future of Vladimir Putin’s regime hangs in the balance. Will Putin retain his grip on power? Can the military sustain its support? What role can the West play, and what lies ahead for Ukraine and its NATO aspirations amid shifting US leadership? Join two of Putin’s most prominent critics for a compelling and timely discussion. Vladimir Kara-Murza, twice poisoned by Kremlin operatives and recently released from imprisonment in a landmark East-West prisoner exchange, brings firsthand insights into Putin’s inner workings. Sir Bill Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and leader of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, has been a relentless advocate for human rights and anti-corruption measures, earning him the distinction of being named Putin’s “#1 enemy” by the Russian president himself. Moderating the discussion is Richard Salomon, a Senior Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre and co-founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum. The evening concludes with a powerful recital by acclaimed pianist Mikhail Voskresensky, who fled Russia with his family in 2022 in protest of the war. Voskresensky’s artistry will underscore the enduring spirit of resistance and hope.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza is a Russian-British political activist, journalist, author, filmmaker, and former political prisoner.

Sir William Felix Browder, KCMG (born 23 April 1964) is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage ...

Mikhail Voskresensky is a Russian pianist and music pedagogue who left Russia for the United States in 2022 protesting against Russian invasion of Ukraine.

#usa #russia #ukraine #trump #putin - "Shameful" | Senior Obama defence official on US siding with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine: BBC

25 February 2025

Three years to the day since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the US breaks with its Western allies to side with Russia at the United Nations.

Political Editor Nick Watt explains what took place with reaction from former Senior Obama defence official Jim Townsend, who called the decision by the US "shameful". #usa #russia #ukraine #trump #putin #politics #politicalnews #zelensky #unitednations #victoriaderbyshire #newsnight

#washington #lies #macron #trump #russia - Lawrence: Trump humiliated on the world stage as France's Macron instantly corrects his Ukraine lie: MSNBC

26 February 2025

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how French President Macron humiliated Donald Trump after the United States, for the first time in history, “voted with the dictator against freedom” when it stood with Vladimir Putin in opposing a UN resolution condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine.

#trump #putin #ukraine #russia - On third anniversary of Ukraine war, demonstrations take place around the world • FRANCE 24

24 February 2025

A dozen leaders from Europe and Canada visited Ukraine's capital to mark the third anniversary of the country's war with Russia in a conspicuous show of support for Kyiv amid deepening uncertainty about the Trump administration’s commitment to helping it fend off Russia’s invasion.

Protesters also gathered around the world to march in support of Ukraine.

Story by Vedika Bahl.

#Ukraine #war #protest

#trump #republicans #russia - 'This is a dictator': New York Post cover shows cracks in right-wing over Trump's comments: MSNBC

21 February 2025

‘Politics Nation’ host Rev. Al Sharpton, host of the ‘Bulwark Podcast’ Tim Miller, and Puck News Senior Political Columnist John Heilemann join Nicolle Wallace to discuss the growing cracks in the Republican coalition as they voice dissent over Trump’s comments calling Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a dictator. 

#trump #republicans #russia

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#Putin #Trump #Ukraine #Russia - 'He can't end the war if he's taking sides': Bill Browder on Trump calling Zelenskyy a 'dictator': CTV News

20 February 2025

Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital Management talks about how Europe could change how it supports Ukraine if the U.S. cuts off military aid.

The War in Donbass (also known as the War in Ukraine or War in Eastern Ukraine) is an ongoing armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, together commonly called the "Donbass", in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the Ukrainian government Prior to a change of the top leadership in August, the separatists were largely led by Russian citizens. Russian paramilitaries are reported to make up from 15% to 80% of the combatants.

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Sir William Felix Browder, KCMG is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which was formerly the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. Wikipedia

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#Europe #Ukraine #USA #Russia - Pres. Zelensky Speaks for Ukraine Amid Exclusion From U.S.-Russia Peace Talks | Amanpour and Company

18 February 2025

Europe, Ukraine and much of the world are reeling after senior American officials sent a clear message at the Munich Security Conference:

European security is no longer an American priority. The United States' new direction is already in place as high-level Russian and American teams arrive in Saudi Arabia this week for bilateral talks on ending the war in Ukraine. Notably absent is Ukraine itself.

President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Saudi Arabia this week, but he is not part of the negotiation. Europe is also not invited. European leaders pulled together an emergency meeting in Paris, facing the possibility they may have to implement a Ukraine peace deal despite having no say in it.

Munich was ground zero for this weekend's world-changing events. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was keynote speaker at the security conference there, where. Christiane spoke with him about his plans to speak for Ukraine — even as the U.S. and Russia exclude him from the table. Originally aired on February 17, 2025

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#vlog - TRUMP THANKED PUTIN / ТРАМП ПОБЛАГОДАРИЛ ПУТИНА - NEW GLOBAL COMMON SENSE Vlog 952: War in Ukraine

12 February 2025

President Trump thanked putin, and they both agreed that they both believe in common sense. Guess how I feel about that in Ukraine?

Real life stories about russian war against independent Ukraine. Short war stories that the world needs to know. Ask your questions and get your answers. I am not a professional vlogger, but I feel YouTube community needs more truth. Stand with Ukraine!

World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Wikipedia

WOULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED DURING #WW2?

The only US President elected to serve four terms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation through the Great Depression and World War II.Sep 30, 2016

WOULD HE HAVE THANKED 

Adolf Hitler

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#Ukraine #Russia - Peace Through Weakness in Ukraine? Wall Street Journal Opinion

15 February 2025

Against Vladimir Putin unlike everywhere else, Donald Trump makes concessions first.

What do we know about the Putin-Trump relationship?

3 days ago — Putin said last month he had always had "pragmatic and trusting" relations with Trump, and voiced support for the latter's false claim that he, ...

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Why Rubio and Lavrov's phone call on undoing US sanctions on Russia has Europe scrambling | DW News

#DonaldTrump #Putin - Trump's disregard for Europe confirmed in phone call with Putin over Ukraine • FRANCE 24 English

14 February 2024

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, February 14: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's phone conversation continues to spark concern, panic and worry among European leaders. What does this mean for the future of Europe? Also, The New York Times takes us inside the family succession drama that has torn apart Rupert Murdoch's family. Plus: for the non-romantics this Valentine's Day, name rats after your exes and watch them being devoured by owls! Read more about this story in our article: https://f24.my/Awkg.y

#Russia - Oligarchs - Putin's Gang (1/3) | ARTE.tv Documentary

12 February 2025

In Russia, a handful of businessmen control the oil and gas industry which has been vital to the Russian economy for decades. But who are these Russian oligarchs that surround President Putin? And how did they get their hands on a resource that was entirely nationalised during the Soviet Era?

#artetvdocumentary #putin #russia

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#Trump #Putin #Ukraine - Hayes: Trump’s Putin call proves he hates our allies and loves our enemies: MSNBC

13 February 2025

“It's the fundamental through line of Trump's worldview: he hates our allies—and seems to love our enemies.

Because our enemies see the world as he does,” says Chris Hayes. 

#Trump #Putin #Ukraine

Streamed live 113 minutes ago #NATO #OTAN #Ukraine

Remarks by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with Rustem Umerov, Minister of Defence of Ukraine, 13 FEB 2025.

#Putin #Trump #Russia - Putin: Russia ready for talks with US | DW News

25 January 2025

Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, has given his first public reaction to comments made by his US counterpart, Donald Trump, following his inauguration earlier this week. Putin praised Trump as a quote 'clever, pragmatic man'. Meanwhile, there are growing signs that Russia's war economy is under increasing pressure. Media reports suggest Russian President Vladimir Putin is worried about the state of the economy, while some influential business leaders have raised the alarm over bankruptcies.

#Putin #Trump #Russia

#Trump #Russia #Ukraine - Trump says Putin 'destroying Russia' by refusing Ukraine deal • FRANCE 24 English

21 January  2025

US President Donald Trump said Monday that Vladimir Putin was "destroying Russia" by not making a deal to end the war with Ukraine. "He should make a deal. I think he's destroying Russia by not making a deal," Trump told reporters on his return to the Oval Office.

#Trump #Ukraine #Putin

#trump #pùtin #russia #ukraine - 'Trump doesn't want Ukraine to lose' Ian Bremmer on Donald Trump's geopolitical approach | DW News

16 January 2025

Very soon, Donald Trump will be back in the White House as the US President.

It's a change of power that's expected to have far-reaching consequences for the United States — and also for the rest of the world.

Leaders from America's neighbors, here in Europe, and other capitals around the globe are waiting to see what the new US president will do once he returns to the Oval Office.

During Trump's first term in office, he snubbed some of America's traditional European allies, and pursued closer ties with autocrats like the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Trump also famously said he wanted a better relationship with Russia. Now, Vladimir Putin's Russia is at war with its democratic neighbor Ukraine, and both sides are pinning their hopes for the future on the new US administration.