Trump Proposes Largest Military Budget in History, Strikes Deal to Support Ukraine for Minerals, Pulls out of Peace Talks with Russia and Iran and Threatens Iran with War
It's always all about the oil and now rare-earth minerals and grabbing land and spreading global control.
It doesn’t seem to matter who you pick as president, even the guy who claims he’s going to be all about stopping wars, all you get is more wars. Today, President Trump presented the largest military budget request in the history of the nation—$1.32-trillion. It wasn’t long ago that such an amount was greater than the entire national budget.
At the same time, Trump revealed today that his interest in parleying between Russia and Ukraine was all about the energy and other mineral rights. He just signed a deal to split equal halves of Ukraine’s mineral rights between the US and Kyiv in exchange for US protection because, even if Ukraine never becomes part of NATO, so long as the US has a huge national interest in mineral rights that it is exploiting there, it will be very much present in Ukraine. For Russia, that means blowing up Ukraine risks blowing up US operations, putting Russia directly into a war confrontation with the US.
This combination of the Ukraine deal and the gargantuan military budget increase means the US taxpayer is on the hook to protect the licensed mineral rights of US companies that will be working the dirt in Ukraine. It could be a good deal for the US financially, except that the war costs could also be endless, and they won’t be paid just by the people benefiting off the mineral rights, but by the average citizen; and we may someday all find ourselves in a nuclear confrontation of the kind Trump loyalist kept saying Biden was risking.
The proposed budget will, of course, also pile an annual new mountain of debt on top of our existing mountain of debt; but it serves up a great feeding frenzy for the US military industrial complex. It will, as Gregory Mannarino says,
transfer … trillions in future wealth from the hands of the people to the hands of the central banks and global contractors. This is not national security, it’s national surrender.
As could be expected, Russia expressed its displeasure with the deal today:
“Trump has finally pressured the Kyiv regime to pay for US aid with mineral resources,” Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on Telegram.
“Now, the country that is about to disappear will have to use its national wealth to pay for military supplies.”
The deal will keep us engaged in aid, but it now is specifically aid for mineral rights/territorial advantage, becoming all the more explicitly imperial than President Obama was when he was accused of trying to take Ukraine deeper into the US orbit and sway it away from Russia. This is clearly about stacking up pieces on the Risk game board of global empires.
“President Trump’s US-Ukraine Minerals Deal is a masterstroke,” Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) said in a post on X. “Ukraine is now a permanent partner to the United States and both sides will benefit greatly.”
That could be, and I’ve never stood against helping Ukraine defend itself from invasion; but stepping physically into the middle of the fray really does change the game. I never believed for a minute Putin would risk total annihilation by starting a nuclear war when he was flapping his silo doors all the time, and he hasn’t, but this deal hugely expands the US footprint of influence in Ukraine, and Putin cannot possibly miss seeing all of Trump’s grand imperial vision to expand US hegemony, even as his tariffs take down the dollar (conveniently just as he is doing all he can to pump up his own personally branded cryptocurrency.)
The irony here is stunning for all those who voted for Trump because they hoped he would end this war and because they hated the way the US under Obama tried to pull Ukraine into tighter ties with financial assistance of a coup. As of today, they find themselves to have voted for president who is pulling Ukraine into far tighter ties with the US than Obama ever did via financial assistance for an actual war. That goes far beyond a coup that threw out a newly elected Ukrainian president who had already been thrown out by the Ukraine court in the previous election for having run a fraudulent election. (Putin’s Ukraine puppet then hired Trump’s notorious Paul Manifest to cleanse the image of the Putin Oligarch and rerun him for a successful second attempt, which starts the Maidan rebellions, which fed into the coup the US sponsored.)
So, if funding a coup that started as a grassroots rebellion against a crime-ridden oligarch was bad when Obama did it because the US interfered in an election outcome (and I spoke out against that funding of the coup back when it happened, saying it would just create all kinds of future troubles), funding an actual war to draw Ukraine in closer to the US just for the sake of gaining its mineral rights is worse on steroids.
Oh, the irony.
And, of course, Republican Representative Wilson takes the next step with this logic:
The next step is strong secondary sanctions on Russia.
So, let’s turn up Putin’s temperature even more.
Opposite of Russia, of course, Ukraine welcomes the deal:
Following this, Ukrainian officials lauded the accord, with deputy economy minister Taras Kachka expressing his approval to Axios: "It is written in friendly language. it is about investments, investments and investments".
Volodymyr Zelensky said the historic agreement with the US will be ratified soon, “and we are interested in having no delays with it”.
The Ukrainian president said negotiators did a good job, creating “truly an equal partnership” between the US and Ukraine.
I really wonder how all of Trump most intense supporters who were so stridently against helping Ukraine are going to rationalize and justify all of this!
The risks are described as such:
"Unlike the China case, there’s no similar dependence between the U.S. and Russia. Trump’s decision on Russia is much more complicated, more risky and requires more thought…. [Trump] may or may not take draconian economic steps against Russia, as Putin may take devastating, non-kinetic actions against the U.S.
Well, he already did today, as I’ll describe below.
"It’s Trump’s risk tolerance vs. Putin’s now," [DIA intelligence officer and Russia expert Rebekah] Koffler said. "And both like to win and both have risk tolerance way above average."
So, now we really have a heated nuclear risk that is more intense than just saber rattling where Putin was leveraging his nukes to get some use out of them as a fear tactic to try to keep the West from aiding Ukraine, which ultimately did not work.
The move on this trade deal also appears to be Trump’s way of fulfilling his recent ultimatum where he said that, if both sides did not clearly work for peace, the US would walk away from negotiating peace because that also happened today:
In a move that marks a major shift in US foreign policy, the Trump administration has announced it will step back from its role as mediator in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
As of the end of the day, it even appears the sanctions against Russia have been completed along with this first phase, at least, of a pull-out from peace negotiations:
US officials have finalised new economic sanctions against Russia to intensify pressure on Moscow to embrace President Trump’s efforts to end its war, sources say.
The targets include state-owned energy giant Gazprom and major organisations in the natural resources and banking sectors, an administration official said. Mr Trump would need to approve the package.
Earlier, the US pulled out of mediating in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
State department official Tammy Bruce said envoys would no longer “fly around the world at the drop of a hat” to mediate.
All of that transpired today, totally changing the title of the Ukrainian battlefield. It repositions the US to become much more tight with Ukraine under a transactional agreement for natural resources. Presumably, if Russia were to step forward with some serious peace ideas, Trump would still listen; but we’ll have to see.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has likely shifted his immediate war objectives and now aims at holding occupied Ukrainian territories and ramping up Russia’s depleted economy, western officials aware of the intelligence have said.
"The Russian objective is to get as much territory recognized as possible and have as weak of a Ukraine as possible," the US official said, reported CNN, at a time the Trump administration is engaging in peace talks with Moscow and Kyiv.
According to the unnamed US and Western officials, the assessment suggests a shift in Mr Putin’s calculus of the situation.
However, a senior US official told CNN that despite Russian forces making slower battlefield gains and holding small pockets of territory near the frontline, there is “zero indication” that Russia would be successful in securing massive Ukrainian territory in the immediate future….
“The agreement foresees no debt. It stipulates the establishment of a Reconstruction Fund that will invest in Ukraine and generate returns in Ukraine,” he said.
“This means joint work with America, based on fair terms, allowing both Ukraine and the United States, which supports us in our defence, to make money in partnership.”
So, what Russia winds up with is something may be tighter between Ukraine and the US than a NATO alliance. It winds up with the US plundering the resources it had hoped to capture and with the US camped out right on its border in major energy projects. No wonder Trump will be celebrating his birthday in old Soviet and North Korean style with a huge military parade.
The Iranian reaction starts to go critical
For his second act, Trump also increased threats of war against Iran today. As he did today with Russia, he just pulled out of peace talks with Iran. One thing is for certain, he wastes no time moving and changing the world:
According to a source in the Oman Foreign Ministry, the next round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran, scheduled for this coming weekend, have suddenly been "postponed…."
This news comes after President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth made aggressive postings on social media:
That is a clear and direct threat that the US will now consider moving from attacking the Houthis over their actions to attacking Iran directly.
Pete Hegseth chimed in as follows:
I don’t stand on party or persons but on principle
You may not agree with my principle, but I’ll lay out what it is. Here’s where I stand on ALL US imperial actions and on pumping endless fortunes into the US military industrial complex, with no apparent regard to how it adds to our overwhelming debt, which is already starting to shudder under its massive weight:
First, I find it a real brain-strain to understand how those who used to call themselves the true "conservatives," who used to complain about the neocons in their own Republican Party who wanted to start wars to take control over other nations, now bend over backward to justify Trump trying to seize control of peaceful Canada, of all things. I guess the New Republicans, or whatever they should be called because they are nothing like any Republican or conservative I remember, ran out of hostile terrorist lands to put under US control for oil, so it's' time to take over friendly oil-rich Canada with a hostile siege
That is what surrounding them with extreme tariffs does. It cuts off their supply lines like a siege around a city to starve them into submission. Trump has stated this outright, telling Canada it’s a shame they don’t just capitulate and become part of the US because then they would beautifully enjoy absolutely no tariffs at all. His purposeful use of the tariffs could not be more clear than that. He’s using them to try to strong-arm Canadians into all becoming Americans.
It's also hard for me to understand why Trump and his followers want to add such a liberal-leaning populace all across the northern frontier (other than to grab the land and it resources). Politically, it will become the bluest state or set of states the US has ever known. Canada is way more liberal than most US states. That is why liberals who are upset with Trump keep saying they want to flee there.
It's even more peculiar to me that they apparently want to add French as a new national language after they so strenuously (and rightly) resisted Spanish as an official extra language. The French Quebecois will certainly go to war before they join a nation where the only legal official language is, according to Trump’s decree, English!
Because a huge land grab over all of Canada was not imperially ambitious enough as a path to making America much greater, Trump, in essence, said, “Let's double down on that and take Greenland, too! Make it a clean sweep of the northern frontier from Alaska to Greenland, covering half the arctic. After all we are so great and so envied by the whole world that we DESERVE to have those lands and master them. They should be happy to kiss the sovereign's ring.” Greenland, of course, comes with more oil rich area under the Arctic Ocean and with lots of minerals. It’s always about the oil (and now the rare-earth minerals because China has cut those off).
The US has long been allowed by Denmark to have an arctic military base from which to defend NATO nations and the US, so I don’t buy that it is essential for security reasons. Greenland, as part of NATO under Denmark, does, of course, share in that benefit. So, we don’t have to have it for military reasons, as we’ve been pretty free to operate there already. Yet, the US is doing all it can to entice Greenland to rebel and vote for succession from Denmark, not caring what a wedge that drives between the US and a NATO ally. This has even included talks of bribery in the form of annual payments to each individual resident of Greenland if they will vote to succeed and join themselves to the US. That sounds just like a Putin op.
Stirring up such dissension between Greenland and Denmark is right out of Russia’s playbook in Ukraine. (And right out of Obama’s playbook in Ukraine.) Anyone who seeks to justify that is essentially saying the US should try to stir up rebellions and elections for succession in any NATO nation or other nation where joining that region to the US would help expand our empire. Russia did that throughout the Donbas region of Ukraine and Crimea. The US did it during the Maidan Rebellion in backing a coup. This kind of evil stirring of civil dissension within nations by someone who seems to love nothing more than creating chaos, division and disruption will create endless animosity between all European nations and the newly ultra-imperial US.
What I now find the oddest of all, however, is how Trump’s supporters were so against any aid to Ukraine when Biden was giving it, and now their champion has just signed a long-term agreement with Ukraine that will put us directly in harm’s way with Russia and has proposed the biggest military budget of any nation ever, most likely because of the support he foresees giving to Ukraine’s defense and because of the war he appears ready to start with Iran on behalf of Israel.
I have not been against our helping Ukraine retain its own land from an aggressive nation on its border so long as we stayed out of the actual fighting (which we didn’t fully do), but I have been against imperialism for as long as I’ve been writing this site and the site I had before it and since even before that.
I railed against Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, during the Arab spring. I've republished articles that I wrote back then on this website, where I was EXTREMELY and CONSTANTLY critical of what I called "Hillary's Wars," often referring to her as “Chillary” or “Killary” or “Pillary” for her endless warmongering and saying she never saw a war she didn't vote for.
I constantly wrote against Hillary's intrusions in Libya and Syria as her masterplan to placate Israel while Obama negotiated his "peace" deal with Iran, and about how she and Obama ignited the Arab spring. I even presented leaked documents from her State Department that I got through Wikileaks, that exposed her master plan with absolute clarity.
I also constantly derided George Bush in years past for his regime-change war in Iraq, even though I voted for him the first time (but not the second by any means). He started that war with the false claims of WMD, which I called baloney on from the day Colin Powell presented his “evidence” to the United Nations. I was fine with going into Afghanistan to pursue Al Qaeda until that also became more about regime change than capturing bin Laden and his thugs, but I thought Biden's withdrawal was a total disgrace in how it was carried out. The worst.
You see, I’m not a party man. I’m against the imperialism and mercantile military mindset of both major political parties.
I consistently stand by the same principle, which is that it is fine to defend yourself and to help nations you feel friendly toward defend themselves, while argue against all imperialism, including Trump’s, because I am impartial as to where the imperial drive comes from. I hate imperialism when the US is engaging in nation-building under Democrats, and I hate it when it is under warmongering Republicans. Now, whether we can afford that aid is a different question than principle. And now we cannot. Our debt is now actually starting to crack and crumble.
I don't mind when we are defending a nation like Ukraine from invasion, but I hate it when our CIA sponsors coups to stir up trouble and spreads election disinformation just like Putin (a former mastermind at that sort of thing in Eastern Europe as head of Soviet disinformation in Europe) did to increase the USSR’s own influence in those regions. I see Russia as being every bit as imperial for decades as the US. It's all about land grabs and resources. Putin is the world’s most skillful liar because that is what disinformation is all about, and he was head of one of the biggest lying agencies ever run in the world. I say “one of” because I’m sure the CIA is doing plenty of the same. Trump has made his imperialism abundantly clear with Canada and Greenland by his focus on their resources, and now with Ukraine where he has focused on their resources, too. It’s always all about the minerals—liquid or solid.
(Since I didn’t have time to write an editorial and publish the news yesterday, I’ve combined it all into today. Now it is, once again, very late at night with so much to write about outside of my day job; so, I hope you’ll pardon the typos, but I wanted to get this out before the day is over, since I didn’t get anything out yesterday.)
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David, good article as always, which I will be linking today as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
I also link Greg Mannarino's daily videos as I like his perspective and he's usually pretty spot on about the economy and the bigger picture as I call it. He has always said that the economy is about war, oil, etc. and the transfer of wealth and nothing to do with the actual working people.