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Zelenskyy Pushes Back on Trump as Ukraine Intensifies Strikes on Russia

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 Zelenskyy Pushes Back on Trump as Ukraine Intensifies Strikes on Russia

Wise provides a transparent, global money management solution with no hidden fees and exchange rates comparable to Google, empowering users to manage international finances efficiently. In parallel, the global geopolitical landscape is shifting dramatically, with Ukraine maintaining strong resistance against Russian aggression despite U.S. inaction and delays in delivering promised weapons, such as Patriot interceptors. Ukrainian forces continue striking Russian military and industrial targets, including key ammonia plants, while maintaining technological resilience through decentralized data systems. Russia and the Trump administration are deepening economic ties, including diesel and energy deals, which have failed to lower fuel prices and are raising alarms about foreign influence, especially in Alaska’s LNG facilities. The U.S. military has recently fired or defamed multiple high-ranking generals, undermining military leadership and discipline. Russia is pushing for a bilateral security framework excluding Europe, while also expanding nuclear cooperation with Iran. Meanwhile, Russian-backed propaganda efforts, including media narratives in Oleshky, are being promoted by figures like Melania Trump, raising concerns about misinformation and war minimization. These developments highlight a broader pattern of U.S. strategic weakness and growing alignment with Russia, threatening global stability and democratic values.

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We'll talk about how diesel prices are not going down at the same time. Trump made that unlawful diesel deal with Russia. We'll talk about the United States Senate sending a letter to the tanker bringing the diesel to the United States and warning anybody who unloads that diesel or handles that diesel. We'll be criminally prosecuted in the future. I want to start though by showing what went down where you have President Zelensky and Ukraine not backing down despite the fact that the Trump regime is doing everything they can to get Zelensky to surrender. Take a look right over here at the Tarkin Kut area. This is in Crimea right now occupied by Russia. Let me show you as the Ukrainian drones striking targets there. This was caught on video. Let's play this clip. Now even though the Trump regime is refusing to provide Zelensky with interceptors or interceptor licenses and the Trump regime is also delaying weapons systems being sent over to Ukraine, which were purchased by Ukraine and Europe as part of what was called the Pearl Program, the PURL. This was a program where the US was supposed to sell certain types of weapons to Europe and Ukraine. There are contracts and deals in place, but the Trump regime is refusing to honor him. So we're just delayed and we don't have weapons of our own, so Ukraine doesn't have the weapons it bought, the weapons it was promised, but they're doing everything they can anyway. Using, for example, the F-16s they have now to shoot down Russian drones that were targeting Ukrainian infrastructure, watch this. It was caught on tape as well. Let's play it. And then during a meeting that was taking place between Vladimir Putin and Equatorial Guinea's president about keeping the country safe, you had air alert sirens going off during Putin's meeting and then the TV cut off and said air alert, air alert, air alert, you know, there's potential Ukrainian missiles coming in, there's potential Ukrainian drones coming in. Watch what happened here, play this clip. Now I want to show you one of Russia's largest ammonia producers on fire. This is the Azet chemical plant in the Nomskovosk area over here in the Tula region. This azote chemical plant was struck by Ukraine. It's part of the Eurochem group, one of Russia's largest nitrogen fertilizer producers. The facility manufactures not just ammonia, but also ammonium nitrate, urea, and methanol as well. The plant is significant to Russia's military industrial complex. Let me show you what it looked like when it was on fire. Let's play this clip over here. (Speaking Russian) And far from making Zelensky less popular in Ukraine right now or making it so the Ukrainian people don't support striking Russian diesel refineries, the latest polling data over here, out of Ukraine, about 80% of Ukrainians favor continuing strikes on Russian oil refineries and rejecting Donald Trump's threats. Let me repeat that number 80% of Ukrainians and the latest top credible polling out of Ukraine, 80% of Ukrainians say keep on striking these diesel refineries, Zelensky. Now, as Donald Trump sees his plan to help Putin backfiring in his face, one of the things we now know is happening for sure. Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, will be here in the United States in the next day or two in Atlanta for the minister's conference in advance of the December G20. So, Donald Trump invited Putin to the G20 in Doral, Donald Trump's Gulf Club in December. But there is the minister's meeting of the G20 where the foreign ministers all meet, so Secretary of State Rubio, then you'll have the foreign ministers from the different countries. Lavrov is going to be attending. And one of the things that Russia and the Trump regime have been talking about is that they want to have a negotiation over a future European security architecture, but Putin and Lavrov are saying Europe is not allowed to take part in it. So, there can be either a bilateral or even a trilateral, Ukraine will be invited potentially to a negotiation between Trump and Whitkoff and Kushner on the one hand. Lavrov and Putin are whoever from Russia on the other hand, probably Ushakhov and Korea, Dmitryev, Karel Dmitryev. But what Putin said is Europe's not allowed to attend any meeting over the future of Europe. And so, Ukraine President Zelensky says, so Russia wants to negotiate something about a new security infrastructure in Europe with the United States, but not invite Europe. How do you negotiate a security infrastructure in Europe without Europe's Zelensky said yesterday, play this clip? Yes, any days. There's only as possible. But at the end of the days, they said to you, we will negotiate. Russia wants to negotiate something new, something I don't know what they speak about, some security infrastructure in Europe, how you can negotiate security infrastructure in Europe without Europe. What you will negotiate with whom? With China, interesting. Now, a lot of reports coming out as well that the Trump regime and Putin are working on a lot more deals together, not just this diesel deal where you have what? Like a few hundred thousand barrels of oil heading into the United States on this tanker that will be arriving pretty soon. But the Trump regime wants to do data center deals, fertilizer deals, gas deals, uranium deals, with Russia. And as I've reported on before, it does appear in financial times at a great expose on this. There are probably already right now massive Russian infiltration in places like Alaska, you know, the big LNG facility in Alaska that was funded by $25 billion. The American company thought that the Abu Dhabi investors were actually Abu Dhabi investors, but it turned out that they were strawmen for a Russian money that was sanctioned in Siberia, but instead they moved the operations to Alaska. So as these American executives who were running this LNG factory or plant in Alaska found out that the money was actually Russian money funneled or laundered through, in essence, is what they believed at least alleged. Abu Dhabi strawmen, they all resigned, especially as they see Democrats about to win the House and the Senate. But this project in Alaska appears to be kind of completely Russian controlled already. And this, by the way, is at the same time. that if you actually look at what's been happening in Moscow, like Russia just held its conference, its gas exporting country forum, the GECF, where Iran was like the guest of honor right there. Foreign Minister Aragchi of Iran posted, Iran's energy diplomacy advanced at the GECF summit that was in Moscow. Discussions focused on global gas markets and energy security. And then there was a meeting on the sidelines of that conference between Iran's Foreign Minister Aragchi, Iran's President Pizeskyin, Putin, Lavrov, and others from Russia, where they talked about a lot more nuclear development together, and not just expanding nuclear capabilities within the Russia-Iran joint venture called Bhushir, the Bhushir nuclear plant. They want to add additional units to Bhushir, but they also talked about building eight more nuclear power units throughout Iran together. And then you heard from Rosatom, the main energy and nuclear company in Russia, announcing that they were going to put a lot more staff in the Bhushir nuclear facility in Iran. So as Trump's like, Russia's not helping Iran. They're not only working to do with each other. They're working together on nuclear power plants and military operations and major economic deals together. Meanwhile, you had Vladimir Putin saying the following yesterday about Elon Musk. Elon Musk is an industrial genius. He has more than 5,000 spacecraft in orbit. We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk. That's how Russia now refers to the United States as our American partners because Russia sees itself now as allied with Trump and Trump sees itself allied with Russia and that Europe and Ukraine are thrown under the bus as I noted at the outset of this video as well. Late last night, you had Pete Higgs at the Defense Secretary announced that he was firing Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who was what's called the J5. That's part of the joint staff. That's like the main military planner who gives the advice to the chairman of the joint chiefs. This is a big, big position. Higgs at previously fired the prior J5, the prior Lieutenant General three star in this position. And then late last night, around 1 a.m. Higgs at went on to defame Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia. Right now, the Trump regime has fired or pushed out 26 of our top four star and three star generals and admirals. This is like the biggest gift to Russia and Iran or to any country that was potentially an adversary of the United States. But late last night, Higgs at then defamed this Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia and said the following. Sylvia is the subject of an investigation for leaking classified information about the war between Russia and Ukraine and Higgs at or a leak from the Defense Department went on to say that members of the press who were in the Pentagon have to have escorts around them at all time. And what they claim that Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia would do would he would meet with reporters outside of the Pentagon and give them information. And they say they administered a polygraph to Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia. And he failed Higgs at polygraph. So they announced this major termination of this key position that is like the number two position in the chairman of the joint chiefs. And by the way, the chairman of the joint chiefs issued a very favorable statement when they learned and they were surprised that Higgs had fired Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who by the way was the commanding officer of the 101st Airborne Division as well. You also have Melania Trump reposting the head of Russia's sovereign well fund and the envoy to the US, Carill Demetriov. So Carill Demetriov was posting about the propaganda that Newsmax is doing with Russia in the area of Oleshky. Remember that the Pope was negotiating a limited ceasefire in the Russian occupied area of Oleshky where there's like 1500 to 2000 elderly people they previously lived in Ukrainian territory. There were a lot of Ukrainian journalists who were warning in the Atlantic posted a story about this. Be very mindful of the propaganda that's about to take place. Russia is going to try to open up do a limited ceasefire in Oleshky, then bring in a camera crew that will do propaganda speak with some of the elderly residents there residents there who will speak very negatively about Ukraine and very favorably about Russia. And this is going to be carefully scripted. This is at least what the Ukrainian journalists were saying. And so you have Melania Trump reposting Carill Demetriov. Carill Demetriov says as the local ceasefire in Oleshky holds and and demining efforts progress, Russia welcomes Newsmax journalist this morning to witness and report firsthand on the vital humanitarian mission coordinated by First Lady Melania Trump. Beauty and peace must prevail. Melania Trump then repost Carill Demetriov and then she writes documenting Oleshky for American journalists from Newsmax. Just think about that sentence, folks. Think about just how dystopian all this is that I'm saying right now. For American journalists from Newsmax will be on the ground in Oleshky, embedded with the Russian and Ukrainian humanitarian leaders. Serving as a neutral observers, they will independently record and permanently document this historic humanitarian mission. Ukrainian journalists got ahead of this and predicted that this was what was going to happen. And as I've been warning now for many, many, many months, the better part of a year, I've been talking about these Melania Trump child reunifications that she's claiming are taking place. And I've expressed my opinion. I'm entitled to opinion speech. You can have a different opinion. But I said this feels in my view like it is giving cover to Russia and trying to downplay how catastrophic this war is by both sides in the issue and Melania basically claiming that Ukraine has stolen all of these Russian children. And yes, Russia stole Ukrainian children, but it's really a both sides issue. So there's going to be this exchange and that she's facilitating this exchange. And then every time she does one of these exchanges, we never really get to see the kids or their parents or what this even is. We never really get data or details about it. But they claim this humanitarian mission. And then Steve Whitkoff goes to Russia and he tells Putin, you're a great humanitarian. You're doing great humanitarian work. And so in my view, this was all about creating a kind of storyline that the Trump regime can say Putin and Russia are doing great humanitarian work. And while you have this catastrophic war, that's ongoing and taking place in escalating and getting worse by by the day. A few other developments I want to talk about. Let's talk about what Zelensky just said. You had the Zelensky travel travel to the Netherlands. He was there with the Prime Minister. And here's what he said while he was next to Prime Minister Rob jetten over in the Netherlands. Zelensky says our key shortage right now is Patriot Interceptors to take down Russian ballistic missiles. Russia is betting primarily on ballistic missiles in this war, especially with winter approaching. We now need particular help securing anti-ballistic missile interceptors. Europe has these resources and so do our partners in the United States. It is important that the relevant programs truly work, particularly the pearl initiative. That's what I talked about before PURL and that the US side does not delay deliveries under the program. We are counting heavily on support for this at every level. The pearl program once again is a program where Europe and Ukraine purchased weapons from United States defense contractors and manufacturers. There's contracts and the US is still not providing what's already been paid for by Ukraine and Europe. Zelensky goes on to say every day of delay means losses and destruction for us, given that Russia's ballistic missile campaign against our cities and communities continues every single day nonstop. We need the appropriate deliveries and deliverables. As it relates to the front of the war, the actual kind of trench warfare that's taking place with drones. It's basically World War I trench warfare meets the Terminator, but even more dystopian with the way the drones operate in the kill zone, which is basically like anyone who tries to advance these drones swarm right away. Just kill everybody. This year Ukraine's position on the front where the war is being fought, remained stronger. than they have been in a long time during the war. If our partners support for Ukraine remain just as strong, particularly when it comes to patriots and other air defense capabilities, Ukraine would be in a much better position diplomatically as well. Just now in October alone, since October 14, there have already been several Russian ballistic missile attacks, essentially in two weeks. More than 100 ballistic missiles have been launched against Kiev in the region. Unfortunately, there are significant restrictions on supplies with air defense packages being delayed. The Trump regime delaying packages that have been purchased and there are contracts for. I want to thank all our partners who provide their support on time. The Trump regime is not one of them. Then Zelensky says many people didn't see that Russia was attacking our data and cyber space over a long period of time. And we found a way to weaken Russia's strategy to respond to their attacks on data. We are different here, Ukraine is more technologically advanced. The Russians attacked our data centers so many times and still we had cell service and an internet connection because we are digitally decentralized and advanced. Our responses are more painful for Russia because they are more centralized. They have a different strategy because they have a lot of air defense assets. They are simply defending what they have. We don't have too much air defense, we have a shortage. That is why we decentralized everything, not only data, but we always try to respond and do so only after Russia's attacks against us. And Zelensky there is also talking about the Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers, like the Yandex data center where there have been at least three Yandex data centers that have been destroyed by Ukraine which have resulted in a lot of Russian bot activity being reduced significantly. So this has been a very comprehensive update on everything that's going on right now. And I should note, I mean the Wall Street Journal article, Trump, we know this though. Trump's deal with Putin hasn't done much to ease diesel prices. Trump's deal with Putin had little impact on lowering diesel prices in the US, the Wall Street Journal of Price. The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel in the US has risen by seven cents to $6.35 since the Russian diesel supply agreement was announced. On October 9th, the Trump regime announced that Russia had agreed to ship more than 300,000 tons of fuel to the US global markets last week, a tanker departed, promoskin Russia carrying 300,000 barrels, not 300,000 tons, 300,000 barrels, which is nothing. And it's heading towards New York at the same time you have the bipartisan senators, by the way, Senator Blumenthal posted this letter, but it's from a bipartisan group of senators who are saying to anybody involved in the chain of custody of Russian diesel, we're coming after you, especially, you know, when the House and Senate shift and change power, which is likely going to happen, which is likely going to happen soon. So we'll keep you posted on all of these developments. I was going to say the very large crude carriers that leave the straight of her mouser get hit by Iran, they carry two million barrels per VLCC. So 300,000 barrels is like, you know, a fraction of a VLCC. It's like nothing. It's just nothing. But this is Trump and Putin wanting to be partners and demoralize Ukraine and kind of establish a broader framework of a US Russia alliance, or more like a Trump Russia alliance while screwing over the United States. Trump is the enemy from within. The enemy from within. WTF America. That's our book. Get the hardcover, get the ebook. We are now number two on the New York Times bestseller list. Let's get to number one, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. Thanks everybody for watching. We appreciate you so much. One book, a whole lot of WTF. My brothers and I wrote WTF America about how we got into this mess, the millions of you who refused to back down and how we get out. 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Key Points:

  1. Wise offers transparent, fee-free international money transfers with exchange rates matching those seen on Google, helping users avoid hidden fees.
  2. Ukraine continues striking Russian oil and chemical facilities, with 80% of Ukrainians supporting these actions despite U.S. pressure and Trump’s attempts to push for surrender.
  3. Russia and the Trump administration are pursuing strategic economic deals, including diesel, fertilizer, uranium, and data center partnerships, raising concerns about Russian influence in U.S. infrastructure.
  4. The U.S. military has fired or defamed multiple top generals, including Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, allegedly over alleged leaks, signaling a damaging internal crisis and weakening of defense leadership.
  5. Russia’s foreign minister Lavrov is set to meet with U.S. officials in Atlanta, but Russia insists Europe be excluded from any future security negotiations, undermining multilateral alliances.
  6. Ukraine's drone warfare and cyberattacks have disrupted Russian infrastructure, including key ammonia plants, while Ukraine emphasizes its technological resilience.
  7. Russia and Iran are expanding nuclear cooperation, including plans to build eight new nuclear units in Iran and increase capacity at the Bhushir nuclear facility.
  8. Melania Trump is promoting a narrative of humanitarian exchanges in Oleshky, allegedly with Russian-backed media, raising concerns about propaganda and downplaying war harms.

Summary:

Wise provides a transparent, global money management solution with no hidden fees and exchange rates comparable to Google, empowering users to manage international finances efficiently. S. inaction and delays in delivering promised weapons, such as Patriot interceptors.

Ukrainian forces continue striking Russian military and industrial targets, including key ammonia plants, while maintaining technological resilience through decentralized data systems. Russia and the Trump administration are deepening economic ties, including diesel and energy deals, which have failed to lower fuel prices and are raising alarms about foreign influence, especially in Alaska’s LNG facilities. S.

military has recently fired or defamed multiple high-ranking generals, undermining military leadership and discipline. Russia is pushing for a bilateral security framework excluding Europe, while also expanding nuclear cooperation with Iran. Meanwhile, Russian-backed propaganda efforts, including media narratives in Oleshky, are being promoted by figures like Melania Trump, raising concerns about misinformation and war minimization.

S. strategic weakness and growing alignment with Russia, threatening global stability and democratic values.

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Ukrainian drones have struck Russian targets, including the Azet chemical plant in Russia's Tula region. Ukrainian public opinion strongly supports continued strikes on Russian oil refineries, with 80% favoring such actions.

The Trump administration's deal with Russia to supply diesel has had little impact on US diesel prices, which have risen to $6.35 per gallon. The volume of fuel is small—300,000 barrels—compared to large tanker shipments.

A bipartisan group of senators has issued a warning to anyone handling or unloading Russian diesel, threatening criminal prosecution if they participate in the supply chain.

The Trump administration has fired multiple top generals, including Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, the J5 military planner, citing alleged leaks and failing polygraph tests, raising concerns about military leadership stability.

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