{"id":84038,"date":"2026-10-16T19:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=84038"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:07:33","slug":"trump-zelensky-and-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=84038","title":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trump, Zelensky and Putin<\/span><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Renee Parsons<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an inadvertent attempt to recoup his prestige in time for the mid term elections, President Donald Trump canceled the public execution of Nidel Malik Hasan which was scheduled for December 3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0 The execution will take place but just not with thousands of public witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may have noticed that since the US\u00a0 and Russia agreed on their diesel deal, there has\u00a0 been a spat with President Trump calling out President Zelensky.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced for all the world to hear \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that\u2019s a war that should have never started\u00a0 and I think it\u2019s time for Ukraine to get a new president.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump was exactly correct to assert that the Ukraine war was not an adequate reason for beginning a war.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t so long ago that candidate Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in \u2018day one\u2019 which he failed to do.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To reiterate;\u00a0 the war began because the US failed to recognize a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/documents-show-gorbachev-was-assured-us-wouldnt-ex\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1990 agreement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between Secretary of State Baker and President Bush that NATO would never be allowed to \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">move not one inch eastward<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d\u00a0 to the Ukraine \u2013 Russian Border.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So despite belief that the war was wrong, every American administration since Trump\u00a0 has continued to supply Ukraine with American money and weapons and intel info and targeting and whatever else they needed to keep their ugly wars going.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And after the war was well underway, Trump told Zelensky <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cwe said do whatever you want to Russia but don\u2019t hit their refineries because that\u2019s a world problem\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but Zelensky did not listen so he continued to keep bombing Russian infrastructure, energy fixtures and civilians.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, the point here is that Trump had opportunity to get that war off his back and instead the President kept playing the game.\u00a0 And then there\u2019 the Alaska Summit with Putin when a deal could have been agreed to end the war but still \u2013 no deal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov uttered the words that will live on to describe\u00a0 that the President is \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">incapable of agreement\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and we see today that same Presidential dynamic in Iran that same \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">incapable<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 agreement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time that President Trump is bragging on his diesel deal with Putin, certain that he has saved the mid term election with his stroke of political brilliance, Russian Data Centers are being bombed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No fewer than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2026\/10\/13\/yandex-waives-cloud-and-software-fees-after-ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-data-centers-a93958\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">three drone attacks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Yandex data centers in four days, which took three of the company\u2019s six data centers offline, with one receiving considerable damage and knocked out two Russian super computers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question is who is doing the bombing while asking the essential question does <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2026\/10\/13\/yandex-waives-cloud-and-software-fees-after-ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-data-centers-a93958\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump\u00a0 know the bombing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Russian data centers occurred. \u00a0 And whether Trump had an knowledge of the bombings or gave the Order to begin the Bombing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, it was reported\u00a0 by Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak that Ukraine hit two Russian refineries despite Trump\u2019s demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is believes that US efforts is being guided by Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO.\u00a0 Schmidt is directly involved in developing and managing a U.S. counter\u2011drone system, the Merops interceptor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schmidt\u2019s has his own defensive initiative, Perennial Autonomy, which has secured major U.S. Army contracts and is deployed in NATO and Middle East operations. Backed by Schmidt\u2019s long standing relationship with the Pentagon has been shaped by combat data from Ukraine as well as Iranian made Shahed munitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schmidt also chairs U.S. AI\u2011national\u2011security advisory bodies and has been active bridging Silicon Valley and the Pentagon through advisory roles and investments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the question remains: while US and Russia shake hands over the deal for diesel,\u00a0 who is bombing those Data Centers? Did President Trump give the Order to Bomb those sites<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"about:blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iullia Mendel, former Secretary to Zelensky<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provided recent testimony to Tucker Carlson and pod caster Daniel Davis. \u00a0 Mendel talked of how without peace, the Ukraine people are looking at extinction and that she believed that Zelensky is the best obstacle to peace today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In\u00a0 what was once the largest country in Europe estimated at approximately 30 million, its current population is difficult to determine but is estimated at 10 \u2013 20,000.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She pointed out that Zelensky cancelled elections and did not believe Ukraine was ready for democracy and that he campaigned\u00a0 promising that he would beg in front of Putin to give peace to Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He campaigned as a peace candidate and conducted personal conversations\u00a0 in 2019 with Putin and promised Ukraine would never want to become a part of NATO .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She said that Zelensky was like Goebbels and needed to repeat propaganda like a \u2018thousand talk heads\u2019.\u00a0 While\u00a0 Ukraine received $5.5 billion from the IMF, there was also a grant from the EU.\u00a0 No one knew how much it was worth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, Zelensky would deliberately prolong the conflict.\u00a0 He avoided holding elections because he afraid he would lose and mentioned that he did like to read. \u00a0 He has repeatedly postponed elections as his term in office expired Spring 2024.\u00a0 He has since declared martial law to avoid election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mendel told the story about British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss 2021-2022\u00a0 told\u00a0 Zelensky\u00a0 that Britain\u2019s aim was for the war to continue for as long as possible; that their desire was\u00a0 to bleed the Russians out .\u00a0 The price would be the nation of Ukraine\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She spoke of Boris Johnson and the Istanbul peace meeting in 2022.\u00a0 There is no freedom of speech in Ukraine\u00a0 \u00a0 She said Zelensky is \u201cnot a guy of substance.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She felt both Biden and Zelensky had mental problems regarding\u00a0 how to deal with\u00a0 40 Million people and questioned how politicians justify war? \u00a0 Zelensky has had two chances to end the war. She\u00a0 reported that she never saw him take drugs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And lastly, Tucker gave her an opportunity to tape a video to Vladimir Putin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">**<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an example of how some media can twist or manipulate the issues, Rick presented a journalist interview of Zelensky.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Journalist explained to Zelensky : \u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018It\u2019s not just President Trump; we\u00a0 also heard from Elon Musk who said\u00a0 \u2018Zelensky has gone too far;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The journalist conducting\u00a0 the interview then asked to Zelensky \u00a0 \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why are they blaming <\/span><\/i><b><i>you <\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the continuation of this war?\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rick Sanchez of RT News replayed a question he asked Putin at last year\u2019s\u00a0 Economic Forum in Valdai.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou talked about Minsk, you were ready to deal. \u00a0 You talked about Istanbul, You were ready to deal.\u00a0 You talked about Anchorage, you had a compromise you were all but ready to agree to. \u00a0 In all those instances you seem to be turned down.\u00a0 So my question is given how many times, you Sir you have been turned down and given what\u2019s going on right now in this conflict, why should you negotiate?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a wide, friendly smile, Putin responded \u00a0 \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after this question, I don\u2019t have to answer\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 with a laugh.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Renee Parsons\u00a0<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representative in Washington, DC. Before its demise, she was also a member of the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84039,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84038\/revisions\/84039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}