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“I think, on the military front and the intelligence front, the pause that allowed that [referring to recent statements from the Ukrainian president that the country was ready to negotiate] to happen will go away, and I think we’ll work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine, as we have, to push back on the aggression that’s there, to put the world in a better place for these peace negotiations to move forward” – CIA Director John Ratcliffe (05.03.2025)
“Planes with weapons for Ukraine deployed in the air after Trump orders aid halt , — NBC News. Shipments of weapons and equipment bound for Ukraine were halted on Monday night, when the US military was actively sending cargo to Europe” (Blyskavka, 05.03.2025).
Today, Kremlin and Vladimir Putin must be giddy. Heck, Putin and his inner-circle has to celebrate, pop some champagne and feel jubilated. As the enemy in Kyiv is losing one vital partner and all of their military aid. United States of America is retaliating and showing force.
President Trump has been one sided in this affair. Not that this is new. He stopped aid to Ukraine in the previous term too and that got him impeached. However, this time around there will be no internal ramification in Washington D.C. His safe and has all the instruments of the state in his hands. At least how it looks like from afar.
President Volodymyr Zelensky should be worried, but he has been in a much worse conditions than now. At least for now he has European allies and they will hopefully help to fill the void. The European allies should have started earlier, but Trump had to make them move. Now the shift of the burden goes to Europe and that means it will cost even more. The production and the state budgets has to change and be amended to fit this new reality. Because any sane man would rather support and give additional support to Ukraine. Instead of having an imperial threat and the dream of resurrected Soviet Republic controlling Eastern and Central Europe again. That’s what Putin’s propaganda guys are speaking about and they wouldn’t mind conquering Berlin and Paris. Therefore, the Europeans should secure Kyiv and Ukraine. Not just with solidarity in words, but in actions.
President Trump could soon appease things with Russia. We could soon them having calls and holding direct talks. Trump rather meet Putin than meeting Zelensky again. That is well known and isn’t a secret. Washington D.C. and their cronies aren’t showing any signs of anything else either. Department of State could soon issue revised memos and make sure of re-establishing diplomatic attempts with Russia. That’s what is coming next.
Nevertheless, this isn’t about the Oval Office meeting. That was a disaster and a planned means to an end. They were trying to weigh Zelensky down. They wanted him to trade-off their assets and resources, but not give the security guarantees that Ukraine needs. That’s why Zelensky is a leader and not a follower. He could have buckled up and given way. Instead he took the test and hold it on his own.
President Trump is just serving Kremlin right now. He is following their talking-points and ideals. Ukraine have to give up territories, be forgiving and accept the terms. Meanwhile the aggressor and invader gets all the perks. That is a set-up for a cease-fire made to ensure the demise of the whole Republic later. Silence the guns for a moment to later strike harder. That isn’t peace, but a fake peace. A peace for Moscow and the Russian Federation to prepare for another Special Military Operation and this time take Kyiv within a hot minute.
Every action of Washington D.C. is serving Kremlin right now. The lack of intelligence and the lack of military aid. This is just hurting Ukraine’s efforts in their defence and ability to counter Russia. U.S. knows this but wants everyone to act a fool. We can all see the game and it is in plain sight. It isn’t even clever or subtle. Just pure evil and nothing shocking, as this Trump administration only supports billionaires lives to exists and the rest to struggle under their reign. So, it is fitting really that Russian oligarchs are more important that Ukrainian civilians. Peace.









“Over 85 percent of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Ethiopia have paused operations following the Trump administration’s clampdown on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), sources told The Reporter. CSOs working on human rights, peace, health, and development issues have especially been affected by the cutoff of funding from the US Agency, while others are also facing serious disruptions, according to the sources. “Large CSOs in Ethiopia used to access up to 70 percent of their funding from USAID. Now they’re in crisis,” a representative of a prominent CSO told The Reporter, speaking anonymously. “We’ve suspended five of our projects due to the aid suspension.”” (Ashenafi Endale – ‘USAID funding freeze leave over 85pct of Ethiopian nonprofits crippled’ 01.03.2025, The Reporter Ethiopia).
The ones not thinking the termination of the USAID contracts, grands and programs haven’t seen it or thought of the impact. The Prosperity Party and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia must be feeling a pinch.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali should be stressed in his palace. As the Ministry of Health has to stop paying employees and medical personnel. The USAID paid for at least 5000 people for the PREFAR program alone. The medicines and treatment against HIV/AIDs have now been stopped. Therefore, we know things are only getting worse.
Just like all other Humanitarian Assistance in coordination, funded and logistically delivered through the USAID will also be hit. This will cause more trouble in Ethiopia. As these sorts of programs have been used to feed the internally displaced people and the ones who are living in refugee camps, as they have needs awaiting ability to return home or safe travels to Sudan or elsewhere, which they fled warzones across the border from Ethiopia. Therefore, there is millions of people in need and this USAID terminations will only create more suffering.
There is already knowledge of disruptions of humanitarian assistance earlier in February when the USAID paused the payouts. Now that things are terminated, we can only imagine the damage it does to the World Food Programme and UNAIDS or any other bilateral organization who is helping the needy in Ethiopia.
The Prime Minister and FDRE must be worried, as they have no leverage and have little to fight for here. Unless someone wants to fill in the void. The USAID terminations and such are hitting the Ministries. This is hurting an economy that was already weak and tumbling over the years of internal conflict. The warlords of Addis Ababa need foreign funding, because it doesn’t have enough domestic revenue. That’s why Prime Minister will feel the pinch and lack of easy money.
The PM needs viable funding and external support to cover his deficits, as his not creating or able to have enough stability to make it a rising market. Ethiopia has a big need for assistance, both government and citizens, as the state are accustomed to foreign assistance and aid. Abiy knows this and has lost a vital source in the loss of USAID.
Now the PM has to either find money or let people go. Neither are the money that can vanish or misuse, as the FDRE needs to find other sources to cover their deficits. That’s we should worry about what will happen now. The innocent lives are the ones that is in the purge and abandoned by the USAID. The FDRE have also left them behind, because they expected someone else to pay their tab. The EPRDF and PP haven’t changed this and only allowed for this to happen. As there was no Plan B if the USAID stopped to operate. There was always the idea that the foreigners would come in as saviours. Now we have to wait and see, but this will create more insecurity and possible famine as well. Therefore, things aren’t looking good for Ethiopia. Peace.

“Pres Kiir orders arrest of Petroleum Minister in latest violation of R-ARCSS: SouthSudan Minister of Petroleum Puot Kang has been arrested by forces loyal to Pres Kiir in Juba on Wednesday. It’s the latest escalation by Pres kiir against Machar’s SPLM-IO party” (Juba Daily News, 05.03.2025).
“Puot Kang Chol, one of the senior SPLM-IO figures along with his family members arrested by NSS in Juba today at 2:00 am. He was accused of collaborating with White Army against SSPDF in Nasir” (Ezekial Garang, 05.03.2025).
In Juba the continuing to arrest high-ranking officials and officials in association with SPLM/A-IO or the IO. These are the appointees and the officials, which are holding office as a part of the R-ARCSS. This is J1 and the authorities’ picking sides and there is now allegations that the IO is working in collaboration with the White Army in Nasir County, Upper Nile state. Alas, the White Army has dismissed that, but the J1 and the authorities believes this.
There is now rumours and more speculations on what is going on. There was already concerns and such about the mass arrests yesterday. That is happening as the White Army has been able to take Nasir town. This cannot be downplayed, but now the state arrests people, instead of finding solutions or listening to the youths who arms themselves in the Upper Nile state. That’s what the J1 should do, but instead its going against the IO without proof or evidence.
Now rumours of a house-arrest of Dr. Riek Machar. If that happens, than we are in a slippery slop and returning to skirmishes again. We are then returning to the Machar versus Kiir again. They are going back to start and returning to conflict. That instead of resolving matters and ensuring stability. This is so fickle and just worsening the situation by every hour.
The J1 and President Kiir is causing more harm by doing this. He isn’t assuring people and creating more insecurity. This man is playing with fire and using fire to end it. That isn’t what you are supposed to. However, that is the choice and what he does.
SPLM/A-IO or IO are now targeted and most likely more arrests coming their way. Only the ones going into hiding that can get away. The J1 and President Kiir is going after them. He hasn’t arrested others or implicated them. No, he does it to one group and its deliberate.
There is trouble brewing and this is a dangerous precedent. Peace.

“$8 million to promote L.G.B.T.Q.I.+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of” – President Donald J. Trump (04.03.2025).
If you think that the United States will be a reliable or a trusted ally in the next few years. Under President Trump there will be more conflict and more territories in question. Yesterday’s speech in Congress proves what sort of reign that is coming from the United States of America.
The Trump Administration and the Trump Foreign Diplomacy isn’t about peace. The wordings and how he talks about territories says it all. Not just his ignorance about other nations and mocking them like Lesotho. He doesn’t know about the Kingdom of Lesotho. However, that isn’t shocking, as nobody from there has given him a “deal” or let him build a tower in the 1980s in Maseru. If they did, he might have known about them.
Nevertheless, let us just look at these statements about Greenland!
“And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland. We strongly support your right to determine your own future. And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America. We need Greenland for national security and even international security. And we’re working with everybody involved to try and get it. But we need it really for international world security. And I think we’re going to get it — one way or the other, we’re going to get it. We will keep you safe. We will make you rich. And together, we will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before. It’s a very small population but very, very large piece of land and very, very important for military security” (Trump, 04.03.2025).
The ones knowing that Greenland is a part of Denmark. Denmark who happens to be a part of the European Union and NATO. That Greenland. We are seeing the huge island again in eyes of Washington D.C. That’s because of the rare earth minerals and the reports of possible extraction of just that. This is mining and wanting to control that. It isn’t about security or about defending North American hemisphere. That is the shield for taking over Nuuk and the whole Greenland. Not like the Republicans has cared or the GOP has had programs where this has mattered. We know this is just blatant warmongering and imperialism.
This is challenging an ally in NATO, which happens to be Denmark. The Danish are now waged war against and such. The U.S. will have to send troops and annex the Greenland territories. Is that the future of the U.S. and is this who the U.S. Government has become?
President Trump continues…
“To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we’ve already started doing it. Just today a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple other canals. The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others. But others could use it. But it was built at tremendous cost of American blood and treasure. 38,000 workers died building the Panama Canal. They died of malaria, they died of snakebites and mosquitoes. Not a nice place to work. They paid them very highly to go there knowing there was 25 percent chance that they would die. The most expensive project also that was ever built in our country’s history, if you bring it up to modern-day costs. It was given away by the Carter administration for $1. But that agreement has been violated very severely. We didn’t give it to China; we gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back” (Trump, 04.03.2025).
We are seeing a President that is distorting and wanting to downgrade the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, which gave way to guarantees and securities of Panama Canal to Panama. That was to be done by the year of 2000. Now 25 years since that, the U.S. President is taking away the guarantees and the security of the agreement. This sounds like something Kremlin and Russia due to a nation they have agreements with. Now, President Trump is following the book of Putin. He does it to Panama and Putin did it to Ukraine.
U.S. Department of State archive says this about the agreement: “President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian Chief of Government Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty on September 7, 1977. This agreement relinquishes American control over the canal by the year 2000 and guarantees its neutrality. On May 4, 1904, Panama granted the United States the right to build and operate the canal and control the five miles of land on either side of the water passage in exchange for annual payments” (Panama Canal Treaty of 1977).
If you trust Trump Administration or Washington D.C., your time is up. Just like in the first term. President Trump froze funds and stopped to participate in signed agreements. Meanwhile blaming Iran and others of not following it. Which is really showing the two-faced diplomatic missions of the U.S. in regard to anyone else.
The ones believing in Trump or having peaceful actions in mind. They are completely wrong… and he is willing to wage war over the territories of Greenland and Panama Canal. Whatever agreements made in past doesn’t matter. What only matters are the whims of Trump and whatever ignorance believes he has for the moment. That’s what we are seeing.
This is naked imperialism. That all it is. Trump wants to be a colonial master and be a supreme ruler with massive territories. It isn’t for the betterment of the United States, and neither is it for the needs of the people of Greenland or Panama. No, this is about giving himself more power and have a bigger empire. Peace.