{"id":314004,"date":"2025-08-20T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314004"},"modified":"2025-08-22T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:28:01","slug":"trumps-lost-cause-why-ukraine-and-europe-will-never-make-peace-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314004","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s lost cause: Why Ukraine and Europe will never make peace with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter Aug 19, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Don\u2019t be fooled by all the positioning and repositioning by America\u2019s European \u201cpartners\u201d with regard to the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n

A lot has been said over the last week about how much all the parties involved want peace. Whether it\u2019s Trump, Putin, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer, Meloni or Merz, they all claim to want the killing to stop.<\/p>\n

But actions speak louder than words. Remember that old saying, money talks and B.S. walks?<\/em><\/p>\n

As a journalist I learned long ago to follow the money. And I don\u2019t see any real desires to permanently settle the score between Russia and Ukraine. Trump may want to end it but he\u2019s kidding himself if he thinks he can. Why? Because he owes too many political favors to neocons in his own party, for whom priority number one is continuing to escalate the war with Russia. War is what makes them money and keeps them in office. It keeps them in office by enriching their donors.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, this is a border war between two Slavic countries. But instead of treating it as such, the collective West has been building it into a triggering mechanism for World War III. If we take him at his word, Trump seems to want to avoid World War III, but he\u2019s rowing against the tide. All the momentum of the last four or five years has been in the direction of global war and it all boils down to economics. Be wary of commentators who always attempt to explain the world in strictly ideological terms. They will always leave you confused and deceived. It\u2019s about power and money, and who gets to drive that money into which bank accounts.<\/p>\n

The very fact that European and American governments chose to get involved in this war in the first place tells you that they want war with Russia on some level, and likely they want direct war between NATO and Russia at some point. But now is not the time. They know they\u2019re not ready for that. Hence, German Chancellor Freidrich Merz pushed Monday at the White House peace summit for a \u201cceasefire\u201d instead of a long-term solution to the war.<\/p>\n

Trump, after speaking with Putin in Alaska, said he wants a long-term solution, not just a ceasefire. But my gut tells me he\u2019ll end up with something closer to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The problem is these globalist warmongers got more than they bargained for by picking a fight with Putin. The results, after three-and-a-half years of a proxy war against Russia, have not gone according to plans. Russia was supposed to be greatly weakened and on its last leg economically by this point, but that hasn\u2019t happened. Russia is in many ways stronger militarily and economically now than it was in February 2022.<\/p>\n

They thought Russia would be worn down and begging for an off ramp on terms totally in favor of the West. Even better, they thought Russians, weary of war, would rise up against Putin. They miscalculated because they don\u2019t understand Russians or Russia.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the neocons in Washington and Europe, in collusion with their friends in the lapdog corporate media, spun their fantastical propaganda narratives about the brutal dictator in Moscow. He not only brutalizes his own people, he wants to take over the whole of Europe, they say.<\/p>\n

I saw one of these neocons, who is very popular in conservative circles, speaking last week saying that Putin plans to invade the Baltics and Poland by the end of the year. He offered zero evidence to support that wildly inaccurate claim, but it lines up with the statements of neocon politicians like Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, Mike Pence, John Kennedy, John Cornyn, and Marco Rubio before he became secretary of state. Those are just a few neocon names. The House and Senate are full of them. The State Department and Pentagon are run by them. These freaks still live in the 1980s in the way they view the world. Putin has been in high office in Russia since 1999 and has never showed an ounce of interest in rebuilding the \u201cold Soviet Empire.\u201d This group of warmongering Russophobes includes basically all of the Democrats in Congress, yet we are supposed to believe Putin is still a communist. If he were, why would the Democrats (American communists) have such hatred for the man? The only thing the Democrats and Republicans agree on is their love for war. Every warmonger needs a boogyman and Putin is their favorite character to cast in that role.<\/p>\n

They will tell any lie to further press their case against Putin and Russia, a country they hoped would undergo a regime change and they could break up into five or more separate countries that would be demilitarized and reopened for business with the West. If you doubt that this is their goal, go read the Helsinki Commission\u2019s report<\/a><\/strong> to Congress from June 23, 2022. Or, you can watch it here<\/a><\/strong>. They call this plan \u201cdecolonizing Russia.\u201d The Helsinki Commission claims to be \u201cindependent<\/a>,\u201d but it is a U.S. government agency created and overseen by Congress. You can watch the full hearing below (I wonder what Americans would think if Russians held a government hearing on \u2018decolonizing the United States of America\u2019?). The arrogance of this is mind-blowing.<\/p>\n