How Does Trump Resume Shipments of Arms to the Regime that Started the War?
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | March 5, 2025
Imagine if war had broken out between the United States and Soviet Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Let’s assume that two American cities — New York and Washington, D.C., and two Russian cities —Moscow and St. Petersburg — were destroyed by nuclear missiles before a peace agreement was entered into.
Who would the U.S. mainstream press, the U.S. national-security establishment, and U.S. public officials today be saying started the war?
There is no doubt that the official narrative would be that it was Russia that started the war when it installed its nuclear missiles in Cuba and then refused to remove them. If Russia had not installed those missiles, their argument would be, the U.S. government would not have had to attack and invade Cuba in order to remove them.
But what if someone were to point out that Cuba had the legitimate authority under international law to invite the Russians to install nuclear missiles in Cuba? After all, even though Cuba is only 90 miles away from the United States, it is a sovereign and independent country. As such, it had the authority to install whatever missiles it wanted in its own country.
Nonetheless, even conceding the legalities of the situation, the official U.S. narrative would have been that as a practical matter, Russia started the war by provoking it with its installation of nuclear missiles pointed at the United States from only 90 miles away and its refusal to remove them.
Undoubtedly, it is this type of reasoning that President Trump had in mind when he recently declared that Ukraine, under the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky, started the Ukraine-Russia war.
But to be more exact, it was the U.S. national-security establishment, in complicity with Zelensky, that started the war by provoking Russia into invading Ukraine, just as it would have been Russia that started the war by provoking the United States into invading Cuba back in 1963.
Provoking war is what U.S. officials were doing when they were violating U.S. promises not to move the old Cold War dinosaur NATO eastward toward Russia after the end of the Cold War. Knowing full well that Russia was objecting to the violation of those U.S. promises, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA used NATO to absorb former members of the Warsaw Pact, which enabled U.S. and German tanks, missiles, armaments, and troops to get ever closer to Russia’s border.
It was President Biden and the U.S. national-security establishment, operating in complicity with Zelensky, that pulled the final trigger to start the war by suggesting that NATO intended to absorb Ukraine, which would enable U.S. and German missiles, tanks, troops, bases, and weapons to be placed on Russia’s border. They knew that Russia would react with an invasion, just as the U.S. would have invaded Cuba had Russia not removed its nuclear missiles from that nation.
What many Americans do not want to confront is the fact that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was precisely what the U.S. national-security establishment wanted, given that this would convert Russia into a renewed Cold War enemy, would avoid a critical examination of the 20-year-long U.S. war in Afghanistan, would “degrade” Russia by having hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers killed, injured, or maimed, and, it was hoped, would result in the removal of Russian president Vladimir Putin from power and his replacement with a pro-U.S. stooge.
The fact is that Zelensky was not forced to participate in this political game. He chose to do so. He chose to sacrifice his country and his countrymen in order to please U.S. officials by having Ukraine join NATO, the old Cold War dinosaur. If he had chosen differently and declared no intention of having Ukraine join NATO, there would have been no deadly and destructive Russian invasion of his country.
Trump obviously gets this. Even though the U.S. mainstream press and the national-security establishment continue to mindlessly repeat the same tiresome official narrative, their mindsets are quite irrelevant. What is relevant is Trump’s mindset, which clearly sees Zelensky, especially with his NATO machinations, as having started the war.
Today, there are many people, including Zelensky, who are exhorting Trump to cancel his suspension of U.S. arms to Ukraine. But how can Trump do that, given his conviction that Ukraine was the one that started the war? How could he possibly justify to himself helping a regime that started the war to kill soldiers in a regime that did not start the war?
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“It was President Biden and the U.S. national-security establishment…”
LOL. And Trump et al are outside of this national-security establishment, fighting like hell for the average Joe!
Remmember, it was the Jewish Zionist controlled national-security establishment that armed Ukraine when Trump was their waterboy the first time around. Previous to this, it was Maidan under Nuland-Obama. Previous to this, it was Jewish Zionist Bush administration. Previous to this, it was Lipton and Sachs, operating on behalf of their Jewish brehtren during the Jewish Zionist Clinton administrattion years, who ‘planned’ the wholesale ‘privitization’ of the Russian economy right into the hands of Jewish oligarchs.
Sachs is now a hero to disgruntled alt-righters, libertarians, and leftists!
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In other news, the Jewish Donald Trump CADA (Continue at Destroying America) Administration just got both Panama and a Hong Kong billionaire to settle their debts by selling out to Blackrock – one of the Trump administration’s many globalist benefactors:
‘Under pressure from the Trump administration over two ports at the Panama canal controlled by CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd., Li’s company announced a plan to sell off the bulk of its global ports business to a consortium led by BlackRock Inc.’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/li-ka-shing-exits-global-ports-business-with-19-billion-in-cash
How will this benefit average Americans?
The question is rhetorical.
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Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush and Clinton are Zionists.
In other news the war in Ukraine is ending.
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There is a long way to go before that part of the script entirely unfolds, aletho.
The spoils have yet to be divied.
I believe the aforementioned Blackrock already has certificate to much of the fertile Ukrainian land?
Resources must now be moved to straight-up Israeli objectives. Hegseth continues to blather on about the China peril endlessly.
Interesting that Trump is saying psycopathic things to Hamas publicly right now, while it’s being reported that he has quietly met with them behind the scenes.
Thank you for allowing me to post here despite my recent brazen behavior. You are one of the few free speech sites left on the internet!
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I just want to mention here, too, that I think it’s really important to know that we’ve heard no serious discussion about actually removing the physical US presence in much of Europe (let alone much of the world) – i.e. closing military installations.
‘NATO’ may or may not go away. But what that actually means nobody knows.
As it now stands, the US is simply getting Europe to double the amount it now spends on what are largely US munitions anyway.
Raising defense spending two or three percent across the board in Europe puts a lot more money in the pockets of the Crown family’s General Dynamics. Or Northrup Grumann.
We can name the companies who will benefit from this, though we probably can’t begin to name all the military-connected contractors and the like who will continue to benefit from the largesse.
And spooks.
But sans massive antitrust action the likes of which Elon Musk, Andresseen, Thiel, Zuckerberg – let alone the entrenched bankers – these people don’t desire that.
The companies need to be broken up and there needs to be a comprehensive industrial POLICY that works for the nation and we the people as a whole. Not more giveaways to the already insanely wealthy.
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter heaven.”
Rich DOGEbags are running the show. Efficiency is the new GOD. People be damned.
Stay safe out there.
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“Industrial policy” commonly means managed immigration and managed trade. You sound very MAGA.
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Reducing the US military budget will never happen without the support of the military industrial contractors. This will be achieved by ensuring their profit margins continue regardless of who the buyer is.
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“Reducing the US military budget will never happen without the support of the military industrial contractors. This will be achieved by ensuring their profit margins continue regardless of who the buyer is.”
The ‘US Military Budget’ = MIC. Or vice versa.
The ‘military industrial contractors’ are wholly-owned ‘subsidiaries’ of said MIC. In fact, they are outsourced SO THAT profits will keep flowing (thereby maintaining the overall power structure, albeit in a different form).
In order to reduce the war machine, you have to reduce the ability of most to gain (‘profit’) from it.
“This will be achieved by ensuring their profit margins continue regardless of who the buyer is.”
No.
This is patently absurd and it’s frightening that someone would attempt to argue this.
Please don’t insult what little intelligence we have.
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Well, the NATO “allies” have announced that they intend to develop their own competence and capability as part of their big $800,000,000,000 spend. So they won’t be the buyers.
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What they’ve announced and what happens in actuality are two very different things.
The bottom line is that Trump could have stopped the Ukraine war within the first two weeks of his administration.
These uber-wealthy psycopaths and their Epsteined-to-the-bone ‘leader’ Donald Trump are rearranging the deck chairs while they continue their masters’ Eretz Israel plan which includes all-out war with Iran.
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I wasn’t sure if I was going to receive the SSDI I depend on this month. I did receive the deposit. The money is a little more than a thousand dollars a month and it’s a necessary supplement to the part-time work I do.
I am looking to move to full-time but I don’t know that my body can manage it.
The churches near me have some food pantries a couple times a week.
They don’t say much about what’s going on in the world at large. It’s as if they don’t even know.
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