by Glenn Diesen [8-10-2025 published].

(RAD: Ever since the end of the Cold War, the US has been focused on finding ways to defeat Russia & split it up into smaller regions that could be controlled by the US & NATO & the West. The US & NATO & Europe have repeatedly broken promises & treaties, instead of improving better relations between Russia & the West. The US is hell bent on maintaining their hegemonic dominion over the entire world, even as major geopolitical & geoeconomic changes are taking place that the US no longer controls. Trump has also declared war on all 20 BRICS nations.

Recently, the US falsely lured Iran into negotiations while backing Israel to attack Iran in the 12-day war in an attempt to overthrow the Iranian government. Trump even sent B-2 bombers in an attempt to destroy Iran's peaceful enrichment of uranium. Of course it is ok for Israel to have many nuclear weapons & threaten all of their neighbors & wage genocide in Gaza.

Brian quotes position papers from the Heritage Foundation that lay out how the US plans to defeat Russia, Iran, China & any other nations that threaten the US hegemonic position. Trump has surrounded himself with neocons who ascribe to these objectives.

It seems foolish to assume that Trump is actually focusing on real peace in Ukraine when he continued supplying weapons, intelligence, and financial aid. Now he wants Europe to purchase weapons from the US to give to Ukraine. Also, when you examine the historical context of the Ukrainian conflict, the US is the key player. Trump has shown no interest of resolving the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine that the US is behind.

Brian & Glenn raise a lot of questions that we should be concerned about, no matter what 'agreement' might emerge from a Trump-Putin negotiation in Alaska. Even if there seem to be some short-term agreements, will they be honored by the US & what are the long-term implications of the root causes not addressed? — RAD)

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US Vice President JD Vance Once Again Performing "The US and Europe are Split" + "the US Wants Out of Ukraine" Theater

by Brian Berletic's New Atlas [8-11-2025 published].

1. This is AMERICA'S WAR in the first place (one Trump himself helped precipitate) - and the US controls Europe's senior leadership no matter what theater they perform to try and convince the public otherwise;

2. The US has publicly declared its need to implement division of labor and strategic sequencing and this is the narrative they need to sell it to different target audiences both in the US and across Europe;

3. JD Vance even before he became VP repeatedly said the US needs to focus on war with China (which is the central theme in all policy papers the Trump admin is now implementing verbatim) - and that Europe needs to "step up" in America's stead until it can return in force;

He never once sincerely talked about actually ending the war;

4. The war in Ukraine - if the US really wanted out - would end overnight - the US would pull the CIA from Ukraine, its commanding generals from Germany and all of its material support, and Ukraine would utterly collapse.

The fact that NONE of these things are happening is the clearest evidence of all that US intentions to end the conflict or "walk away" from it are fiction, and that it is merely implementing its "division of labor" strategy as it has repeatedly said it would;

5. Europe gains nothing by continuing a US proxy war with Russia - it is overtly destroying Europe's economy - an economy that benefited greatly from peace and cooperation with Russia prior to the US-overthrow of Ukraine in 2014 and the subsequent escalation that has taken place;

Finally...

Those hallucinating a "US-Europe split" have yet to explain why Europe would continue this war the US itself started and only US hegemony benefits from.

They also haven't accounted for US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's directive in February this year demanding Europe "step up" and "double down" on Ukraine (not end the war) while the US pivots to China and Europe's obedience in carrying it out even while play-acting some sort of "split" from the US.

The obvious explanation is that the spit narrative is merely required to sell Europe's continued and otherwise self-destructive investment in Ukraine to the European public - especially to Europeans who dislike the current Trump administration.

Despite how elementary and obvious this game is, because of wishful thinking and a desperate desire among many to believe this war is coming to an end, and also the deep, artificial divisions created by Western "left/right" politics, people are overwhelmingly buying into it - despite serial betrayals over the past few months by the Trump administration alone demonstrating uninterrupted continuity of agenda from the Biden administration...