Glory to Ukraine!

Glory to the inhabitants of Ukraine and all modern civilization!

News from the USA. Tuesday, December 9, 2025 Today in the issue:.

* We all live in the real world, in which what really happens happens. In which only what is real can happen.

In the real world there is a war, Russia is striving to destroy Ukraine, has already lost many of its draconian heads in this quest, has already broken off all its imperial teeth in the remaining draconian heads in this quest, but so far has time to grow new teeth... In the real world, free Ukraine is resisting draconian tyranny, defending itself and defending in reality the entire liberal-democratic civilization, which, if Ukraine does not survive, is threatened with disaster.

In the real world, the former leader of that part of this world, which is a liberal-democratic civilization, proclaimed a rejection of the values \u200b\u200bof this civilization, a refusal to defend it and demands that a free Ukraine let the dragon swallow itself.

In the real world, the 47th President of the United States allowed NVIDIA to sell to China chips that are still prohibited for sale, used for the hardware construction of neural networks for artificial intelligence systems, with the condition that 25% of these sales will go to the US budget, and China will increase the purchase of soybeans from American farmers, which, according to the 47th President, can help raise his and the Republican ratings among farmers.

In the real world, Republicans lost their last mayoral position in a major city in the country on Tuesday.. In Miami, Democrat Eileen Higgins defeated Trump-backed Republican Emilio Gonzalez.. Republicans have won elections in Miami for 30 years, but the big city has turned its back on them..

In the real world, responsible politicians and statesmen understand that stopping Putin and stopping the war can only be done by significantly increasing military, financial and economic assistance to Ukraine and significantly increasing economic pressure on Russia.

In the real world, responsible government officials gather in London at 10 Downing Street and discuss how to ensure support for Ukraine in today's situation.

In the real world, the 47th President of the United States and his family earn billions of dollars from the sale of cryptocurrency virtual soap bubbles, receive undisguised bribes in the form of an airplane from Qatar, financing the construction of Trump Towers and Trump golf clubs in different countries.

In the real world, the 47th President sleeps through his cabinet meeting while his ministers tell him how brilliant he is.

And a lot more is happening in the real world around us..

Everyone can have their own virtual world. Everyone is free to invent something for themselves. The virtual world may not exist at all for many people who prefer to live in reality and think how to improve reality, if, to put it mildly, it is very far from ideal.

There are many events happening in the virtual world of the 47th President of the United States. He generally prefers a virtual one to a real one.. And he even makes money from it by selling his virtual crypto coins in the real world..

In the virtual world, he stopped 8 wars (when giving an interview, he takes out a piece of paper with a list from his pocket, since without a piece of paper it turns out that he stopped the wars between Azerbaijan and Albania, Armenia and Cambodia), defeated inflation (but in the real world he postpones the publication of official economic data so that no one knows that prices are rising, but people go to stores located in the real world, and prices in this real world are rising). In his virtual world, he prevented hurricanes, forced foreign countries to contribute customs duties to the American treasury (although in the real world they are paid by American buyers).

In the virtual world, the 47th president stops the war between Russia and Ukraine, says that the “peace plan” drawn up by Ushakov is his “peace plan”, that Putin agrees with him and wants to stop the war, but he is disappointed in Zelensky, he has not read his “peace plan” and in general Ukraine, in his opinion, is not a democracy, since it does not hold elections.

In the virtual world, many heads of state, in order not to spoil relations with the United States, participate in this virtual peacekeeping. In which he sends his friend and his brother-in-law on a real visit to Moscow to listen to lectures on virtual history from Putin and virtual stories about the virtual billions they will earn once they start a joint business with Russia.

* And in the real world, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman published an article in the New York Times on December 4 entitled “Useful idiots from America who are being manipulated by Putin like puppets.”. Here is the translation of this article.

Thomas Friedman. New York Times, December 4, 2025.

“I am confident that President Trump and his Russia envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, sincerely want to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, but they are failing and will continue to fail as long as they are naive in their belief that this is just a big real estate deal and that their real estate experience gives them an advantage.. This is complete nonsense on many levels..

Firstly, yes, we can say that Vladimir Putin is involved in real estate in Ukraine, but not in the same way as Trump, Vitkoff or Kushner. Putin is involved in real estate in Ukraine the same way Hitler was involved in real estate in Poland. Hitler coveted the territory not for the construction of hotels or housing in order to make a profit and improve the lives of local residents. He craved territory to fulfill a nationalist fantasy. It's the same with Putin. He shows no interest in the well-being of the people of Ukraine.

In such a situation, having a group of “real estate transaction specialists” as American negotiators is a disadvantage, not an advantage.. We need a statesman like Henry Kissinger or James Baker who understands the difference between real estate and war and peace. Real estate is a positive-sum game - both parties can benefit from a well-done deal. And this is the goal (in real estate trading). In war and peace, when one side is fascist and the obvious aggressor, and the other side is democratic and is the clear victim, it is a zero-sum game.

Or, as Ronald Reagan aptly put it when asked how the Cold War should end: “We win, they lose.”.

Reagan understood that real estate transactions were based solely on cost (price per square foot) and interest rates. He understood that transactions relating to war and peace were aimed at promoting and preserving moral values \u200b\u200band strategic interests. And in this you cannot compromise with the fascist aggressor. We fought three wars, including the Cold War, with our allies in Europe to preserve the spread of our common democratic values \u200b\u200band our common interests - namely, to ensure that no major power in Europe that did not share these values \u200b\u200bcould dominate the continent.

I cannot imagine another American president who would act as if America's values \u200b\u200band interests dictate that we be a neutral arbiter between Russia and Ukraine, and, moreover, an arbiter who tries to benefit both sides in this process, as Trump does. This is one of the most shameful episodes in American foreign policy, and the entire Republican Party is complicit in making it part of our history..

I also can't think of another American foreign policy leader who would say about Putin what Witkoff said about this dictator whose political opponents often get killed, who engages in massive corruption for himself and those around him, and who does everything he can to undermine free and fair elections in America and the West: "

Russian communists had a term for foreigners who held similar views of their leaders: "

You can imagine the response (to these words of mine) from isolationists like J.D. Vance: “Hey, Friedman, you and your friends just want to drag America into endless wars.”.

No, sorry, you're wrong. From the first weeks of this war, and repeatedly after that, I wrote that it would end, at best, in a “dirty deal.”. Russia is too big compared to Ukraine, and its willingness to continue the war dictates that Ukraine will have to make concessions to end it. It's sad but it's true - and most Ukrainians today will tell you the same thing.

But as I wrote last month, there is a huge difference between a " A dirty deal would allow Putin to keep the territories he has already captured, but would have Western military forces on Ukrainian soil, ensuring that he could never resume the war unless he went to war with the entire West; it would ensure that Putin's illegally acquired territories would never receive formal diplomatic recognition, which would reward taking territory by force; and it would guarantee that Ukraine could maintain an army of any size needed for self-defense, and could become a member of the European Union (though not NATO) when it was ready. Such an unholy deal would secure the core interests and values \u200b\u200bof Ukraine and America.

Isolationists like J.D. Vance counter: "

The reason you can't put pressure on Putin is because you don't know what you're doing, and you have a president who is rushing around, announcing different policies on his social media and then demanding that the Pentagon and State Department adjust their policies on the fly.. There is no decision-making process, and there appear to be at least five people serving as Secretary of State: Witkoff, Kushner, Vance, Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, and someone with an official title, Marco Rubio.

What would any normal American president do now He would start by understanding that negotiations in any area - be it real estate or geopolitics - are always determined by one factor: influence. Whether you're buying a hotel or trying to stop a military invasion, you want maximum influence to ensure your profits, interests and values \u200b\u200bare factored into the final deal..

In real estate, influence is measured by the amount of money you have.. In diplomacy, influence is measured by how much military force you can bring to the battlefield, how much economic isolation you can create and how much damage you can inflict on your enemy and, last but not least, how much you can turn the enemy's population against his own leadership to force him to change course..

And what did Trump do, judging by these criteria He cut off all U.S. funding to provide Ukraine with U.S. weapons, he denied it access to critical weapons such as Tomahawk cruise missiles that would have caused serious damage to Putin on his own soil - and which the Europeans would have paid for - and he blatantly lied, saying that Ukraine, not Russia, started the war, and that the Ukrainian leader, not the Russian one, is an illegitimate dictator. He also quite openly told Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky that “you have no trump card” without American help in the fight against Russia.

What if Trump behaved like a decent American president, acting in the best interests and values \u200b\u200bof America He would not tell brave Ukrainians that they have no trump cards; he would give them trump cards to maximize their influence, while loudly telling the Russian people that they have no future because Vladimir Putin stole all their trump cards.

What would it sound like? It would sound like this:.

" Where is Russia in this process Let's take a look at Stanford's ranking of global AI activity.

\? No. Well, she's definitely in the top twenty! No. Then she must be in her thirties! Yes, she barely made it to 28th place. Far behind Luxembourg in 12th place. Population of Luxembourg? About 680 thousand people. Russia's population is roughly 144 million - minus the roughly quarter-million soldiers Putin sent to their deaths on Ukrainian battlefields and at least 100,000 high-tech professionals who have fled Russia since the war began..

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Putin is an incredible fool who will be remembered for his war against Ukraine, which turned Russia into an energy colony of China and an insignificant artificial intelligence country compared to Luxembourg..

Yes, Putin loves to brag about his hypersonic missiles. I wonder if they function better than the main launch pad that Russia uses to send astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station; this site collapsed last week after the launch of three astronauts. This means Russia has "

The Russian threat to Ukraine will not go away until Putin leaves. But getting rid of it is the task of the Russian people. The job of the American president and vice president—if they understand what they are doing—is not to tell the Ukrainian president that he has no “trump cards.”. Their task is to increase pressure on Putin, including daily telling the Russian people that their leader is stealing all their cards, their entire future and the future of their children..

This is how we can increase our leverage to make a good deal, not a dirty one."

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There are 1138 days left until the end of the story called “Fear: Trump in the White House” (c) (the title of the book by Bob Woodward, published in 2018).

Thanks to everyone who read. Take care of yourself and your loved ones. Take care of each other, help each other. Health to everyone.

Ultimately, what happens in the world depends on us.

Whether we fight evil, do Good, remain simply observers, wait passively and believe that someone somewhere will decide something for us, or fight evil and do everything possible so that Good wins.

We must not allow evil to win.. The victory of evil will mean the end of the world we live in. We cannot allow this. Especially now.

Ukrainian Friends, I hug and love you so much. Take care of one another, I beg you.

Ukraine is and will forever be.

And evil will be overcome and punished. І tse immediately.