Trump Calls Zelensky a Dictator, Accuses Him of Misusing U.S. Aid

So Ukraine was part of the peace talks, but is now being thrown to the wolves because they didn't want to give up their sovereign mineral rights to "close a deal". All of this is purely retaliative.

Three-way plan to divide the world in three. Trump, Putin, Xi. Sounds familiar.

Financial Times, archived article [0]

Canada, Trump and the new world order

Real short summary:

> Focusing American power on its own hemisphere would allow Trump, in other words, to square many circles: to make America great again by making America’s imperial footprint smaller, to reduce the tax burden on the rich by cutting into the apparatus that a global imperium required.

So there it is. Give Europe to Putin, the rest of Asia (and presumably Africa) to Xi, and give most of the defense budget (and education and health care) money to the rich.

Confirmed Thursday. (02/13/2025) [1]

Defense stocks drop after Trump says Pentagon spending could be halved

> "At some point, when things settle down, I'm going to meet with China and I'm going to meet with Russia, in particular those two, and I'm going to say there's no reason for us to be spending almost $1 trillion on the military ... and I'm going to say we can spend this on other things," Trump said.

> "When we straighten it all out, then one of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia, and I want to say let's cut our military budget in half. And we can do that, and I think we'll be able to do that," he added.

[0] https://archive.md/XEEtx

[1] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/defens...

It's just parroting Russian propaganda but you must still marvel at the mental gymnastics here.