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27 Feb, 2025 18:44
Putin warns of attempts to sabotage talks with US

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Speaking at the meeting of the board of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday, Putin said that contacts with the Trump administration "inspire hope." The two sides are willing to work on restoring bilateral relations, as well as resolving "systemic" issues in the global security architecture that led to the Ukraine conflict and other crises. Yet, some forces want to prevent that from happening, the president warned.

"We realize that not everyone is happy to see Russia-US contacts resume. A portion of Western elites are still committed to maintaining instability in the world, and these forces will try to disrupt or to compromise the newly resumed dialogue," he said. "We need to keep this in mind and leverage every possibility offered by diplomacy and special services to thwart such attempts," he told the gathered FSB officials.

According to Putin, the new US administration is demonstrating "pragmatism and a realistic vision of things." Moscow's "partners" in Washington "have abandoned numerous stereotypes, the so-called rules, and messianic, ideological clichés of their predecessors, which, in fact, caused the crisis of the entire system of international relations," he said.

Putin has indicated Moscow's readiness to resolve the Ukraine conflict through peaceful means. He emphasized Russia's aim of establishing an international system that ensures a balanced and mutual consideration of interests, creating a long-term, indivisible European and global security framework. This system would prevent the security of certain countries from being guaranteed at the expense of others, including Russia.
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Is the following and expression of discontent with peace initiatives?

27 Feb, 2025 21:10
France hands light sentences to Russian consulate attackers

Russia has slammed the eight months of house arrest given to the perpetrators as too lenient for an attempted terror attack

The two French nationals, referred to as Vasile H., 48, and Georges S., 59, were charged with "unauthorized manufacture of an explosive or incendiary device," as well as "attempted property damage by means dangerous to people," Le Figaro wrote on Thursday. Both were sentenced to eight months of home arrest, to be served with mandatory ankle monitoring bracelets, the newspaper added.

The men, both employees of the National Center for Scientific Research, had admitted their guilt in the arson attack, Reuters wrote on Thursday. Prosecutors had been seeking a year of monitoring for the pair, according to the outlet.
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The attackers procured liquid nitrogen from their workplace and used it to fashion explosive devices. The super-cooled liquid gas is usually stored at below -196 degrees Celsius (-321 Fahrenheit) and rapidly turns into a gas once placed into a closed container, increasing the pressure, Le Figaro wrote, citing Vasile H. The two accomplices brought a thermos flask with the chemical, fashioned their makeshift explosives from plastic soda bottles and threw them onto the Russian consulate grounds, he reportedly explained.

"I threw a bottle but it fell next to the neighbor's house. I ran away and I didn't hear anything. I told myself that I had done it for nothing," he reportedly said.

Georges S. admitted that had one of their explosive devices landed on a person, it would have caused injuries, according to Le Figaro.

The suspects were reportedly detained at a rally in support of Ukraine later the same day.
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Ukrainian officials, however, have disputed this figure, insisting that the US has only actually provided Ukraine with only $100 billion in aid

If 100 billion US dollar have been handed off to Ukraine, according to Ukrainian sources, do they include the 5 billion to get a "regime change" going in 2014, which then led to the conflict and war, which then required aid from the US, since the Western supporters rather than asking Kiev to abide by the Minsk agreement signed in 2015, preferred to push for training and rearmament, and once the war had begun in a more intensive format in February 2022, told Kiev, around April of the same year, that it was not allowed to make peace with Russia.

The 100 billion in aid does possibly not include the price of US satellite support for operations. Moreover due to US imposed sanctions against Russia and some related countries, losses have even been incurred even by US companies, including banking institutions, since more countries have begun trading in US offending "non-dollars". Shouldn't Ukraine pay for those sacrifices?

Where is Zelensky's appreciation for the western efforts to make Ukraine a country where corruption is discouraged, but mainly has been improved upon, and without which Zelensky would not be in in office and stay for longer than his legal term according to the constitution?

Comment: ABC News adds:

The Philadelphi corridor was one of the main sticking points in negotiations between Israel and Hamas for months before the current ceasefire deal was reached. This refusal could lead to a crisis with both Hamas and Egypt, the key mediator, at a delicate time for the already fragile truce.

Israel was supposed to begin withdrawing from the Philadelphi corridor -- and the entire Gaza Strip -- on Saturday, the last day of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement. Israel was to complete its withdrawal from the corridor within eight days.

Management of the corridor is a red line for Hamas, which had refused to accept ceasefire proposals that did not require Israel to withdraw its troops from the border region.

Israeli officials have said in recent months that they believed the Israeli army had to stay in the Philadelphi corridor to prevent weapons being smuggled through the Egyptian border, back into Gaza, though Israel has destroyed tunnels in that area.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said at a meeting with local leaders that he had seen tunnels penetrating the border on a recent visit to the corridor.

Former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant had publicly opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that Israel must remain in the corridor -- and in the Netzarim corridor, which divides north and south Gaza -- to maintain its security and achieve its military goals and maintain its security.

In August, then-Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said holding on to any part of Gaza or the Philadelphi corridor are conditions Israel should not use as an excuse to break a potential deal with Hamas. The Israeli army can deal with both being out of Gaza and giving up control of Philadelphi, according to Halevi.

Bibi is so far off the deep end, he ignores his own advisors.