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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Big Summits Over, What's Next For Settling Ukraine War?


Sott.net
Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:02 UTC
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The upshot of the two big recent summits on the Ukraine War/SMO - the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska followed by the euro-lapdogs scurrying to Washington to yap loudly to 'daddy Trump' - is that Russia and Ukraine's positions remain, to surface appearances, impossible to reconcile. You cannot have a 'lasting' peace settlement where Ukraine is both 'intact within its 1991 borders' and 'cedes 5 regions to Russia', and both 'free of NATO weapons & troops' and 'armed & garrisoned by NATO troops'.

And yet it seems that all parties to the conflict are content that a settlement is likely, indeed 'fairly imminent'?! This week on NewsReal, we lay out the most realistic, thus the most likely, scenario in which the Ukraine War/SMO is settled: by Zelensky's forced removal and his replacement with a regime Moscow approves. In short, a counter-Maidan to fix the roots of the damage done to that country by Western intelligence networks when they germinated and installed neo-Nazi figures across its institutions.


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Cruise Missle

Ukraine kills civilians with US-made rockets - governor


RT
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:47 UTC
Yenakievo, Russia, March 2025
© Taisia Vorontsova / SputnikA building destroyed by Ukrainian shelling in Yenakievo, Russia, March 2025.
A HIMARS system was reportedly used to attack the Russian city of Yenakievo on Thursday.

Two civilians have been killed and 21 others injured in a Ukrainian attack on the Russian city of Yenakievo on Thursday, the top regional official has said.

According to Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) head Denis Pushilin, US-made HIMARS rocket launchers and kamikaze drones were used in the attack. He added that nine houses in Yenakievo and nearby Gorlovka were damaged.

Yenakievo was close to the front line until Russian forces gradually pushed Ukrainian troops westward, liberating the city of Dzerzhinsk (known in Ukraine as Toretsk) in February.
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Gavel

Judge again blocks Trump admin from slashing 'sanctuary city' funding

Ashleigh Fields
The Hill
Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:26 UTC
Judge William Orrick block trump sanctuary city funding
Judge William Orrick
A federal judge on Friday extended a preliminary injunction that blocks President Trump from withholding funds from more than 30 "sanctuary cities" over policies that restrict local police from participating in immigration enforcement.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco, an appointee of former President Obama, wrote in his decision that the Trump administration did little to object to his original order, instead appealing the decision and merely arguing the injunction was wrong. He also barred the administration from imposing conditions on grant programs that provide funding "for a variety of critical needs."

Orrick wrote that the executive orders issued by the president requiring federal agencies to remove funding from jurisdictions that don't adhere to the administration's immigration agenda is a "coercive threat" that is "unconstitutional."

The White House did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.

Comment: Another libtard Fed judge who's done his best to obstruct the Trump administration's mandated goals:

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Putin

Putin reveals Russia's 'military advantage'


RT
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:48 UTC
Knyaz Pozharsky nuclear submarine
© Russia’s Defense Ministry / SputnikRussia’s Knyaz Pozharsky nuclear submarine
Russian nuclear submarines are capable of sailing undetected beneath Arctic ice, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

Speaking at a meeting with nuclear sector workers in Sarov, east of Moscow, Putin stressed that the Arctic region is crucial for Russia's defense.

"Our strategic nuclear submarines dive beneath the Arctic ice, vanishing from radar. This is our military advantage," he said.

He added that Arctic research is also "extremely important" as shipping routes are becoming more accessible due to melting ice.

Comment: This doesn't even get into the advantage that Russia's Oreshnik missiles have on the battlefield. See: The Oreshnik Missile System: Moscow's unrivaled hypersonic capabilities - implications of Russia's 'non-nuclear deterrence'

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Brick Wall

Gabbard barred sharing intelligence on Russia-Ukraine negotiations with "Five Eyes" partners

James LaPorta
CBS News
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:43 UTC
tulsi
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As Russia's war in Ukraine rages on despite high-level meetings to discuss a possible path to peace, CBS News has learned that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, issued a directive weeks ago to the U.S. intelligence community ordering that all information regarding the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations not be shared with U.S.-allied intelligence partners.

The memo, dated July 20 and signed by Gabbard, directed agencies to not share information with the so-called Five Eyes, the post-World War II intelligence alliance comprising the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, multiple U.S. intelligence officials told CBS News. They spoke under condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters.

The officials said the directive classified all analysis and information related to the volatile Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations as "NOFORN," or no foreign dissemination, meaning the information could not be shared with any other country or foreign nationals. The only information that could be shared was information that had already been publicly released. The memo also limited distribution of material regarding peace talks to within the agencies that created or originated the intelligence.
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Attention

Deep state entrenched in US intel community - Gabbard


RT
Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:27 UTC
Tulsi
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesUS Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
Malicious deep state actors have been working against the American people, the US intel chief has said.

The US intelligence community has been infiltrated by deep state actors, who are busy "inserting their own partisan political opinions and views" into intel products and effectively working against the American people, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has said.

The DNI chief, who has repeatedly pledged to root out rogue actors from the US intel community, made the remarks on Thursday while speaking to FOX Business, stating that the deep state has created entire "pockets" within America's intelligence agencies:
"There were a lot of pockets where the Deep State actors were very entrenched and were politicizing their centers or their positions, either against the American people... [or] creating intelligence products and inserting their own partisan political opinions and views.

"These are dangerous people because they believe their views and opinions supersede the US constitution that they all swear an oath to uphold, to support and defend, and... those who are elected by the American people, specifically the president of the United States."
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Document

Shocking NEW documents expose multi-front effort to protect Clintons while framing Trump

Peter Schweizer, Seamus Bruner
Zero Hedge
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 05:40 UTC
Trump Clinton
© Getty Images/KJNUS President Donald Trump • Wannabe US president Hillary Clinton
Newly unearthed documents show deep state government actors once again circling the wagons to protect Bill and Hillary Clinton — and suppressing evidence that implicated them. Last week it was the FBI, this week it is the IRS.

In 2019, the IRS Criminal Investigations Division quietly launched a probe into the Clinton Foundation's tax practices, working closely with whistleblowers John Moynihan and Larry Doyle, financial experts who had compiled thousands of pages of evidence.

According to internal agency memos reported by Just the News, IRS agents reviewed the evidence and at least one agent concluded it meant that the "entire [Clinton Foundation] enterprise is a fraud." Agents then moved to treat the whistleblowers as cooperating witnesses and even set up secure computer servers to hold the material they had collected.

Then, without warning, the lights went out. "Can't talk about the CF," agents told the whistleblowers. By the summer of 2019, their inquiry was dead. Moynihan and Doyle are now battling the agency in Tax Court over the apparent shutdown of the investigation.

Comment: Proof - Justice - Rectification...or is Justice still skimming the top?

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Arrow Down

German opposition slams EU 'hypocrisy' on Ukraine


RT
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:31 UTC
Weidel
© Nicolas Economou/Nur Photo/Getty ImagesAFD co-leader Alice Weidel speaks in the Bundestag in Berlin • June 24, 2015
Those who shunned talks with Moscow now praise Trump's diplomacy, AfD co-chair Alice Weidel has said.

A German opposition leader has accused the EU of hypocrisy, pointing out that those who once rejected dialogue with Moscow are now praising US President Donald Trump's diplomatic efforts to settle the Ukraine conflict.

Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, made the remarks after a White House meeting earlier this week involving Trump, Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky, and key Western European leaders, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The talks came two days after a summit in Alaska between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Weidel wrote on X:
"The same people who for three and a half years denounced diplomacy as the devil's work are now praising Trump for his diplomatic efforts. That is hypocrisy and an admission of their own failure at the same time.

"What Trump has set in motion, responsible European and especially German politicians should have undertaken long ago: namely, establishing lines of communication with Russia to explore possibilities for ending the war."
Following the Washington talks, the White House said a peace deal had become more feasible, describing the outcome as progress and "a light at the end of the tunnel."

Comment: Merz' plan for German troops in Ukraine faces opposition:
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing resistance from within his government over his plan to dispatch troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev.

Merz's reported backing for sending the German military to Ukraine has provoked his coalition partners, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), to announce that "as of now, will only support this if the US also takes the lead, providing its own troops."

US President Donald Trump earlier this week ruled out putting American boots on the ground in Ukraine.

Germany cannot station troops beyond its borders without a parliamentary majority backing the move, and even then there are limits on what operations they could engage in. Bild also noted that if Ukraine were attacked while German troops were stationed there, Berlin would be in "uncharted legal territory."

Publicly, Merz has not ruled out dispatching German soldiers to Ukraine, but has said "the whole of Europe should participate" in potential security guarantees to Kiev. "It is not just about the territory of Ukraine; it is about Europe's political order," he added.

Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, however, has warned that Germany's military capacity is already stretched to the limit. He noted it is currently the only European contributor with a combat-ready brigade stationed in Lithuania, and that simultaneously undertaking a mission in Ukraine "would probably be too much for us."

Although Trump has ruled out deploying US ground troops to Ukraine, he has signaled willingness to offer an air support framework if Moscow and Kiev reach an agreement to end hostilities.


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Warning

The neutrality fraud: The West is about to trick Ukraine again

Alexander Bobrov
RT
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:09 UTC
FinnPres Stubb
© Pierre Crom/Getty ImagesFinnish President Alexander Stubb • NATO summit • June 25, 2025 • The Hague • Netherlands
At the Washington summit on Monday, one guest stood out. The extended session of Euro-Atlantic leaders - hastily convened at the White House right after Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Zelensky - brought together the usual heavyweights: the US, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and the heads of NATO and the EU. Yet seated at the same table was someone who, at first glance, hardly seemed to belong in that club of power brokers: Finland's president, Alexander Stubb.

To an outsider, it might have looked odd. Why was the Finnish leader invited when the leaders of Poland, Hungary, and the Baltic states were not? The answer lies not in protocol courtesy but in the role Stubb now plays. His presence was a nod to a man whose career embodies the whole project of "Euro-Atlantic solidarity" - a project now under strain since Trump's return to the White House.
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Cruise Missle

Russia bombs US-owned factory on Ukraine, while (rightly) insisting on veto power over any 'security guarantees'


ZeroHedge
Sat, 23 Aug 2025 22:33 UTC
russia attack american electronics plant ukraine
© Telegram/AFP via Getty ImagesRussia attacked the U.S.-owned Flextronics plant in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast in Western Ukraine, August 20, 2025.
Now nearly a week out from last Friday's historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, the White House has had to temper its positive predictions on the peace process, after prematurely touting that a Putin and Zelensky bilateral meeting was on the horizon. By Wednesday the Kremlin had made it clear this is not yet the case.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issued some non-committal statements, watering down what appeared an already vague commitment. A future direct meeting with the Ukrainian leader - a president which Moscow previously dubbed illegitimate - would have to be prepared "gradually... starting with the expert level and thereafter going through all the required steps."

A separate Russian official has stated that "it shouldn't be a meeting for the sake of a meeting" - highlighting that despite Trump's strong diplomatic efforts, Russia remains 'open' but doesn't consider the warring sides to have bridged key major gaps on peace terms just yet.
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