Dmitry Peskov had the hopeful message being reported in world fish wrappers..
Putin’s mouthpiece said today: ‘There have been worse things in human history… but we weren’t alive then, so it seems to us that the end of the world is upon us.’
Amid the war in the Middle East, Putin, who illegally invaded Ukraine four years ago, believes ‘we have all lost what we call international law’, said Peskov.
‘To be honest, I don’t even understand how anyone can call on others to follow the norms and principles of international law. It no longer exists.”
In one of the strangest twists yet in an already chaotic political landscape, conservative YouTuber and commentator Candace Owens dropped a bizarre bombshell on her show this week. According to her, she was at the center of Ukraine–Russia peace negotiations earlier this year.
Yes, really.
Owens claimed she received a phone call from someone close to former President Donald Trump, asking her to stop talking about Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron. Owens had been airing a controversial series suggesting Brigitte is secretly transgender..
But then came the wildest part.
According to Owens, she was told that peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were being held up because Macron was allegedly furious over her coverage of his wife. The implication? That he wouldn’t move forward diplomatically until she shut up about Brigitte.
Owens said the message came straight from Trump himself, who allegedly phoned her while in Florida. She described the call as a mix of charm and pressure—a classic Art of the Deal moment—with Trump praising her beauty and podcasting skills before asking her to stand down on Macron.
She reached out to Tucker Carlson for advice. His response? Agree to the silence, but only for a limited time. Owens reportedly relayed that back to Trump, who, she says, seemed disinterested in temporary deals.
The whole scenario raises a ton of questions:
Is it plausible that a French president would stall global peace talks over a YouTuber’s commentary?
Is Owens exaggerating, or is there something deeper here?
And what does it say about the current Trump administration, now in its second term, that these are the kinds of international fire drills reportedly happening behind the scenes?
Even more concerning are the implications for free speech, the reach of social media personalities, and just how thin-skinned world leaders might actually be.
According to Owens, her self-imposed gag order on the Macron-Brigitte content has now officially ended. What happens next might depend on whether the next phone call she gets is diplomatic… or something else…
High drama at the G7 as Zelensky arrives.. but with what cost with the arrival of more western weapons and aircraft be for the world?
The war drums just keep on banging louder and louder with each new addition of United States arsenal ..
The West’s effort to potentially send modern fighter jets to Ukraine “carries enormous risks,” Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko warned on Saturday, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
The minister’s comments in an interview with TASS come in the wake of the U.S. getting behind a joint international effort to train Ukrainian pilots to use modern fighter aircraft including F-16s. This could also pave the way to eventually send advanced Western combat jets to Ukraine, according to a senior administration official.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States, announcing the move Tuesday in a bitter speech where he made clear he would not change his strategy in the war in Ukraine.
In his long-delayed state-of-the-nation address, Putin cast his country — and Ukraine — as victims of Western double-dealing and said it was Russia, not Ukraine, fighting for its very existence.
“We aren’t fighting the Ukrainian people,” Putin said ahead of the war’s first anniversary Friday. “The Ukrainian people have become hostages of the Kyiv regime and its Western masters, which have effectively occupied the country.”
President Biden announced that United States tax dollars will go to fund pensions to Ukrainians .. that headline juxtaposed to another news headline of the United States social security system becoming insolvent even faster cannot be escaped..
Two people have been killed in Poland after two stray rockets landed near the border with Ukraine.
It has not yet been confirmed if the rockets landed in the NATO state as a result of Russia’s mass bombardment of Ukrainian cities earlier today, which saw over 100 rockets launched.
Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has convened the Committee of the Council of Ministers for National Security and Defense Affairs “as a matter of urgency”, government spokesman Piotr Müller confirmed, with local news sites claiming this is likely the result of the explosions.
According to analysis from Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, Moscow has pumped military equipment into the site, including close to reactor buildings and other key plots.
It comes after separate video emerged online showing Russian military vehicles, including one marked up with the pro-war “Z” symbol, inside a turbine hall connected to a nuke reactor.
A number of pallets could also be seen close to the trucks, though it is unclear when the footage, verified by CNN, was taken.
Built by the then-Soviet Union in the 1980s, Zaporizhzhia’s six light-water reactors make it among the 10 most powerful nuclear power stations in the world.
After the invasion began Feb. 24, the Kremlin war machine took a little over a week to capture the plant at Enerhodar, a city that is around a 2-hour drive southwest of the larger Zaporizhzhia.
That offensive marked the first time in history that war had broken out in a country with such a large and advanced nuclear power infrastructure, according to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, which reports to the United Nations.
That panic renewed this week after shelling damaged several buildings and a power cable, and put one reactor offline, according to Energoatom, Ukraine’s national energy company.
The plant provides Ukraine with more than 20% of its power.
Moscow is “blackmailing the whole world with the possibility of a nuclear disaster,” according to Hryhoriy Plachkov, former head of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine.
Russia, which is occupying the plant, has traded accusations of responsibility with Ukraine, which appears to be mounting a renewed offensive in the south of the country.
It is not known how many of the plant’s 11,000 prewar staff continue to work at the site. One former employee told NBC News that it was “very scary for them to work” under Russian control, amid reports that some of them were being held hostage.
“Russian officials are also openly threatening the world that there will be famine in dozens of countries,” he said. “And what could be the consequences of such a famine? What political instability and migration flows will this lead to? How much will you have to spend then to overcome the consequences?”
