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Turncoat Mike Pence Attacks President Trump Again – This Time as Trump Works to Bring Peace to Ukraine

The last time we heard from Turncoat Mike Pence he was urging Republican Senators to block Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Senate confirmation.

Before that, Pence said he was “literally praying” that Trump would not pardon the innocent January 6 political prisoners.

Now, Pence is spouting off trashing President Trump for working to bring peace to Ukraine.

Who’s paying this guy?

President Trump held calls with Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky on Wednesday. Trump is expected to hold meetings with Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. And there is talk that Trump was invited to Russia for talks.

Mike Pence sees this is bad news. On Tuesday Pence tweeted this out.

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US Will Draw Down NATO Contribution, Focus On China – Europe Must Defend Itself, Rebuild Ukraine

“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.”

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaking to NATO ministers in Europe declared:

“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.

“Realities prevent the U.S. from being its security guarantor, and to expect a drawdown of U.S. forces in the region.

“We face a peer competitor in the Communist Chinese with the capability and intent to threaten our homeland and core national interests in the Indo-Pacific.

“The U.S. is prioritizing deterring war with China in the Pacific. Recognizing the reality of scarcity and making the resourcing trade-offs to ensure deterrence does not fail. Deterrence cannot fail.

“European allies must lead from the front. United States will no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency. Rather, our relationship will prioritize empowering Europe to own responsibility for its own security.”

President Trump, when asked if he saw Ukraine as an equal partner in the peace process?, said, “Ummm… interesting question. That was not a good war to go into.”

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From Gaza to the West Bank: Israel’s Unyielding War Machine

“A year of combat” – this is how Israel’s new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, described 2025 at a conference organized by the Israeli ministry of defense.

The exact sentence, translated from Hebrew, was: “The year 2025 will continue to be a year of combat.” The word ‘continue’ is crucial, suggesting that Israel will resume its wars, despite ceasefire agreements signed with the Lebanese government in November and Palestinian groups in January. In other words, it seems that Zamir is signaling that Israel will reopen these two fronts, even in the face of ceasefire deals.

Despite Israel’s insatiable appetite for war, it is hard to imagine what the Israeli army could achieve through renewed violence when it has already failed to accomplish its objectives in nearly 14 months in Lebanon and over 15 months in Gaza.

Israel launched thousands of airstrikes on Lebanon, destroying entire towns and villages and killing and wounding thousands. It also dropped over 85,000 tons of bombs on Gaza, leading to the unprecedented genocide and the killing and wounding of over 170,000. Despite this, Israel has failed on both fronts. In Gaza, as reported by Reuters, Hamas alone managed to recruit up to 15,000 fighters just before the end of Israel’s 471st day of relentless warfare.

Furthermore, the return of nearly one million Palestinians to northern Gaza has reset Israel’s so-called tactical or strategic achievements. These efforts, aimed at depopulating northern Gaza to create permanent military buffer zones, were reversed by the population’s return.

The war also came at a staggering cost to the Israeli army. Ironically, during the same ministry of defense conference, Zamir revealed the actual costs of Israel’s wars in the past year. He stated that the ministry “now provides care for 5,942 new bereaved family members,”, adding that the “Rehabilitation Department has taken in over 15,000 wounded service members, many bearing both physical and mental scars from the war.”

These figures were not broken down by category or war front and did not include casualties from October 7, 2023, to the end of the year. However, they represent the highest estimate of Israeli casualties provided to date, raising the question: Can Israel afford to return to war?

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Analysis of the Military-Industrial Complex Behind the Grayling Saab Ammunition Facility

Saab, a global leader in aerospace and defense manufacturing, announced its plans to construct a $75 million munitions production facility in Grayling Township, Michigan. An investigation into Saab’s new ammunition plant in Grayling reveals the intricate components of the military-industrial complex at the state level, primarily involving politicians, military officials, corporate interests, government agencies, and local representatives.

Since assuming office in 2019, Governor Gretchen Whitmer has actively championed Michigan’s role in defense manufacturing, establishing the Office of Defense and Aerospace Innovation (ODAI) to attract international arms manufacturers. Her administration has provided corporate incentives to military contractors in an effort to position Michigan as a hub for defense production.

Whitmer has cultivated political alliances, including ties with Michigan Senator Gary Peters, to bolster her defense industry initiatives. She has also engaged internationally, visiting NATO and regions such as Taiwan to promote Michigan’s defense sector. Her administration has encouraged military training programs and international exercises to enhance the market demand for Michigan-made weaponry, indirectly escalating global military tensions.

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The Next NATO-Russia Proxy War Could Be in a Country You’ve Never Heard Of

The New Year’s Day decision by Ukraine to suspend a five-year gas transit agreement with Moscow has triggered an energy crisis in Europe and threatened to spill its ongoing conflict with Russia over into neighboring countries.

The termination of Russian gas exports to the continent via Ukrainian pipelines has already impacted several European nations reliant upon fuel from Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy giant, including Slovakia and Moldova.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived an assassination attempt last year over his opposition to the Ukraine proxy war, has threatened to cut off electricity supplies to Kyiv in retaliation. Meanwhile, Moldova has declared a national state of emergency after the gas stoppage plunged the little-known breakaway region of Transnistria, a tiny separatist enclave landlocked along the Moldovan border with Ukraine, into a humanitarian catastrophe.

Officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), the breakaway state is internationally unrecognized and has been deadlocked in a “frozen conflict” with Moldova since the signing of an armistice in 1992 following an armed rebellion.

One of several disputed post-Soviet territories in a never-ending stalemate since the dissolution of the USSR, Transnistria faces imminent collapse as its fuel provisions continue to run out amidst freezing winter temperatures and rolling blackouts. At the same time, Moldova will no longer receive Russian gas-fired electricity from the country’s largest power plant located in the PMR.

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Trump: ‘There’s Nothing to Buy … We Will Have Gaza’

President Donald Trump made liberal heads explode on February 4 when he announced that the United States was going to take over the Gaza Strip. Trump made the remarks in a joint press conference with Isreali Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu. AI images of Trump Hotels among the rubble immediately began circulating. Reaction of conservatives was mixed — do we really want Gaza?

On Tuesday, during a meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan, Trump put to rest any fears that the United States was going to buy Gaza … it was going to take it outright. 

All of the usual liberal accounts posted the video, so you know they think this clip makes Trump look bad. 

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Egypt’s Sisi Cancels Planned White House Visit After Awkward Trump-King Abdullah Meeting

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has canceled a planned February 18 visit to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump. It is being reported Tuesday as an indefinite postponement.

The key factor, which has reportedly brought US-Egypt relations to a low point, is Trump’s ‘takeover’ plan to expel Gazans into Egypt and Jordan. Another factor is Trump’s repeated reference to Sisi as “the general” – which was used publicly when Israel’s PM Netanyahu recently visited the White House.

“Egyptian officials viewed this as dismissive, sources said,” The New Arab reports. And then there was this during Trump’s first term, back in 2019 at a G7 summit:

“Where’s my favorite dictator?” Mr. Trump called out in a voice loud enough to be heard by the small gathering of American and Egyptian officials.

The same report writes of Trump’s controversial Gaza plan, “an Egyptian diplomatic source in Washington said Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty had warned US officials and members of Congress that implementing Trump’s relocation plan could lead to a resurgence of radical Islamist groups in the region.”

Jordan is lockstep with Egypt on this. Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday in an awkward meeting which saw the monarch reject Trump’s pressure.

The king tried to preempt further pressure from Trump by pledging to take in 2,000 Palestinian children. Otherwise Jordanian sources have said they would seal the borders and potentially declare war in Israel if a mass ‘cleansing’ campaign ensues.

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Zelensky Offers Land Swap With Putin To End War

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed his strategic plan for ordering the risky Kursk offensive which began last August, and has resulted in Ukraine forces holding hundreds of square kilometers of Russian territory for the past six months.

Zelensky said in comments published Tuesday that he’s ready to swap territory with Russia as part of a deal to end the war. He described that if President Trump gets the warring sides to the negotiating table, “We will swap one territory for another.”

The Ukrainian leader when asked in The Guardian interview precisely which territories Kiev would demand back, he responded: “I don’t know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority.” Obviously he has the four annexed eastern territories in mind.

In September 2022, Russia declared the annexation of the four eastern Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. In some of these areas, front line war zones are still being fought over, but the consensus is that Russian forces will soon conquer them fully as the Ukrainian army has been in slow but steady retreat.

Moscow considers to four territories to now be part of the Russian Federation, and they have been key to Putin’s war aims, given also they have are largely Russian-speaking from the start. Putin has stressed he will never give them up.

Ukraine’s cross-border offensive into Kursk was always meant to force the Kremlin to divide its forces in order to defend its land, but this by and large has not happened – or in other words Putin has not taken the bait.

Instead, there have long been reports that thousands of North Korean troops have assisted Russian forces in seeking to take it back. But Moscow hasn’t appeared in a hurry, and has not sacrificed its gains in Donetsk to make it happen.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded in a Telegram post on Tuesday, “In the Kursk region, the neo-Nazis operating there … [control] an area of ​​approximately two meters and a depth of one and a half meters” – in apparent sarcasm.

She said, “Zelensky makes similar statements in order to hide the true scale of the disaster for the Armed Forces in this direction.”

Russia’s defense ministry has made frequent statements highlighting Ukraine’s immense losses trying to hold the seized Kursk territory over the last several weeks, stressing that it is Zelensky who has gotten the worse end of the gambit. Some Russian sources have claimed Ukraine has lost some 50,000 troops during the invasion of Russian territory.

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Stunning Plot To Attack Trump’s Plane Is Revealed

An Iranian-backed plot to assassinate President Donald Trump has been foiled by federal authorities who disclosed that the nation’s radical Muslim leaders had placed sleeper cells within the U.S.

The prospect of terrorists living in the U.S. has existed for decades, but until recently, the discovery of Iranian agents had not been known. Those placed in the continental U.S. were equipped with access to surface-to-air missiles capable of taking down Trump’s airplane, according to Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt, who was given “extensive access” to Trump’s inner circle during the 2024 campaign.

In his new book “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power,” Isenstadt chronicles efforts by the FBI and Secret Service to thwart plots against Trump’s life, two of which nearly succeeded. Somewhere along the way, the Secret Service shot down a drone that agents believed was following the president’s motorcade along a predetermined route.

“Law enforcement officials warned Trump last year that Tehran had placed operatives in the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles,” he wrote, the Daily Caller reports. “Trump’s team worried that the Iranians could try to down his easily recognizable personal jet — better known as ‘Trump Force One’ — as it was taking off or landing.”

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Trump confirms Palestinians will have no right of return under Gaza takeover plan: ‘They’re going to have much better housing’

President Trump has confirmed that under his controversial development plan for the war-torn Gaza Strip, Palestinians would not be allowed to return to the Hamas-run enclave.

“No, they wouldn’t, because they’re going to have much better housing. Much better,” Trump told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier in a clip from the weekend interview that aired Monday morning on “Fox & Friends.”

“In other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them because if they have to return now, it’ll be years before you could ever — it’s not habitable,” the president went on. “It would be years before it could happen.”

Last week, Trump revealed his aspirations for the US to “take over the Gaza Strip” and develop the coastal land to turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” while indicating that “all” of its roughly 2 million current inhabitants would be pushed out to neighboring nations.

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