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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ultimatums and sanctions threats
BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 17, 2025: To support the United States neocons, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is talking about ultimatums and sanction threats against Russia – which demonstrates that the UK government wants to undermine the settlement of the Ukraine conflict.
“Now, having issued that ultimatum, we must be prepared to follow through, because if Russia won’t come to the negotiating table, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin must pay the price,” Starmer said at a security meeting in Albania on Friday. Adding that “The Russian position is clearly unacceptable, and not for the first time.”
“The British have been behind all the escalatory moves by the West, from supplying offensive weapons to Kiev’s military and to using Western long-range missiles against civilians deep in Russian territory,” the Russian Embassy in the UK wrote. And highlighted that London was the first of Kiev’s Western sponsors to send domestic long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine.
UK’s PM Starmer – Ukraine
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Trump threatens Russia with ‘crushing’ sanctions
BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 17, 2025: The further along into the peace settlement with Ukraine, the signs are showing that in the end it is likely not to amount to anything. Because the US Deep State media is pestering President Donald Trump to rope himself into a corner to give answers regarding if no peace deal is reached.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier in an interview aired Friday, asked Trump whether he would introduce new restrictions on Moscow. The president replied, “Honestly, I will if we’re not going to make a deal,” “Nobody uses leverage better than me.”
Trump noted that the US would assess the outcome of Friday’s Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul. “We’ll see what happens. It will be crushing for Russia because they’re having a hard time with the economy,” the president said. And argued that his plan to boost domestic oil production would lower global prices, which is going to undermine Russia’s energy exports.
President Trump also added that Washington DC would impose new sanctions on Russia if it fails to reach a peace settlement with Ukraine. He said shortly after the two countries enter into direct negotiations since 2022.
The neocons are getting ready to back Trump if the Russia-Ukraine negotiations fails and already a group of senators led by Lindsey Graham has drafted a bill to impose sanctions on Moscow and levy tariffs on countries that purchase Russian oil, gas, and uranium.
Trump at rally
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Macron is behind stolen election in Romania
BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 17, 2025: Member of the Assembly of Deputies of Romania George Simion in an interview with Mario Nawfal said, “They are putting a lot of money and pressure—through their ambassador here—in order to rob the Romanian people of their vote.” That French President Emmanuel Macron is supporting ideas of dictatorship and cancelling the will of the people. The French ambassador in Romania and foreign institutions (NGOs) are pushing a lot of money and pressure to meddle in the election there.
Macron is behind stolen election in Romania – says George Simion
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Former FBI Director James Comey calls for Trump’s assassination
BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 16, 2025: Former FBI Director James Comey is under investigation for an Instagram post seen as a potential threat, calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump.
(Battleforworld.com: Comey is an open conspiracy for a coup, to violently overthrow President Trump.)
The post has since been deleted, showing a photo shared by Comey describing what he calls a “shell formation” on a beach that formed the numbers “8647.” The post was quickly condemned by administration officials, Republican lawmakers and Trump allies who said the Instagram posting blatantly targeted Trump, the 47th president of the United States.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary revealed that “eighty-six” can informally mean “to get rid of.”
Related posting: Is Netanyahu on a Collision Course With Trump?
Former FBI Director James Comey
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US Recognizes Reality on the Ground in Ukraine
BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 16, 2025: Readers, keep in mind that it was the United States under the Obama administration (being chaired along by Deep State minions) that started to instigate the Ukraine conflict against Russia, with the goal to eventually bleed Russia and break the country apart.
Vladimir Zelensky is a side show, who works for the Global Membrane, and can be taken out the picture at anytime, because he’s not the real power running things. Zelensky is only there to fool the public that he’s the problem that is prolonging the Ukraine conflict.
Related posting: The reason for the Ukraine conflict
Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump’s senior director for counterterrorism, noted that “We recognize the reality on the ground,” and that “We’re not utopianists… We have one priority above all else…to stop the bloodshed.” He highlighted that, in the end, the final agreement on Ukraine will be sealed by the US president at a Trump-Putin meeting.
Sebastian Gorka, counterterrorism for President Trump
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Powerful earthquake shakes Türkiye
BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 15, 2025: Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is in the capital Ankara meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the United States deep state and British intelligence coordinate his delay tactics, on his way to the Istanbul Talks to negotiate peace for Ukraine. In the midst of all this leading up to the negotiations, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck central Türkiye on Thursday, shaking the capital Ankara.
Related posting: SEVEN’S Insights of an Earthquake
Zelensky has ruled out making any territorial concessions to Russia, he told the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. And Moscow remains firm that it will not return the new Russian regions of Kherson, Zaporozhye and the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and reiterated that the regions are not up for discussion.
The Ukraine leader also said that “The Crimean peninsula is Ukrainian, and it always will be,” further adding that the same applies to other territories claimed by Ukraine. “We cannot discuss territorial issues – that would violate our Constitution,” Zelensky said. He continues to hope that sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Russia could create conditions for future discussions on “territorial issues.”
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov told Sputnik media that the goal of Zelensky is to sabotage the negotiations with Russia in Istanbul, “To make the Americans impose the toughest sanctions, to ruin everything, and then go home as a winner.”
The peace Zelensky is pursuing for Ukraine is like “a prison with unknown consequences,” Azarov said, further adding that “He will do everything to prevent any peace. Peace means holding elections, lifting martial law. His own people would tear him apart there.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, Ankara, Türkiye
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BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 15, 2025: Is the Pentagon hinting that something is brewing to escalate the Ukraine conflict into a direct US-Russia war? This is what Gen. Gregory Guillot, head of US Northern Command, claims, who has labeled Russia as one of the US’ “principal adversaries.”
Is this a veiled threat to Russia to get ready? – Military analyst and former Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter to Sputnik said, this statement signals brewing tensions within the Pentagon. – Ritter noted that Guillot is speculating on a conflict beyond his remit, which belongs to US strategic command, and that his stance contradicts Trump’s, who acknowledged Russia’s special military operation was provoked by NATO expansion.
“We had Trump say that there was justification for Russia’s actions, that they understood that the expansion of NATO served as a provocation,” Ritter noted.
In addition, the ringing of the Pentagon’s alarm bells into a warmongering position certainly cannot help the situation, because Guillot also claimed the US could be drawn into a “direct military conflict” with Iran, China, or North Korea, and went further saying, that “war with one adversary could quickly expand into war with an enemy coalition.”
Related article: Warning by Seven, the Countdown to War
Pentagon
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The West does not hide the fact that a ceasefire is needed to prepare Kiev for the resumption of hostilities
BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 15, 2025: Volodymyr Zelensky has said numerous times that the Ukraine conflict has to continue, with support from the West in supplying weapons, to eventually win against Russia.
The Istanbul Talks is scheduled to begin Thursday May 15 to negotiate peace, but so far the meeting is plagued with delays as Zelensky tries his best to sour the conference. Zelensky is meeting with Erdogan for a couple hours first, before deciding on whether to meet with the Russian delegation already waiting for the Ukraine representatives.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters on Thursday that “It does not depend on us. Appropriate impulses are needed from Western sponsors. Our delegation has all the instructions and is working precisely within the framework set by the president. And we are ready for a serious exchange of views”.
US President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday that “nothing is going to happen” on the Ukraine peace process until he and Russian President Vladimir Putin “get together.” And that he knows nothing about a [Ukraine] delegation.
Trump further noted that “I am not disappointed in anything … I know nothing about a delegation. I have not even checked. Look, nothing is going to happen until Putin and I get together. Okay? And obviously he was not going to go. He was going to go, but he thought I was going to go. He was not going if I was not there. And I do not believe anything is going to happen … until he and I get together.”
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said at a ceremonial meeting of the Diplomatic Club, that the West does not hide the fact that a ceasefire is needed in order to prepare Kiev to resume hostilities. The English (i.e., the United States and Britain) are leading Zelensky like guides through the jungles of international politics.
The Trump administration in Washington DC is considering an option to deploy armed units from European countries on the right bank of the Dnieper River. This course of action was stated by the American special representative Keith Kellogg on the Fox News channel, about securing control of Kharkiv, Kiev and Odessa for the West. – The “stabilization forces” (previously planned to be represented by the E3 format) have been transformed into E4. That is, to have the Poles joined by the British, French and Germans.
Related postings: 1. The reason for the Ukraine conflict ; 2. US senator says new 9/11 investigation could happen ; 3. UK, France involved in Kiev’s latest attack on Russian energy infrastructure ; 4. The countdown to the pending big event continues ; 5. The Ukraine conflict purpose – to destroy Russia and remove Putin from office ; 6. Zelensky meets King Charles. World War 3 on the way? ; 7. Pending nuclear war
Ukraine Istanbul Talks – reporters outside
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France can’t give Ukraine any more arms
BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | May 14, 2025: President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday in a television interview that France has reached the limit on supplying Ukraine with weapons.
Macron defended his administration for supplying Kiev with weapons to continue the Ukraine conflict, but now say that the French government has done “the maximum we could” to help Kiev, given that Ukraine’s military was not set up to conduct long-term, high-intensity land war.
The French president noted, ”We gave away everything we had,” “But we can’t give away what we don’t have, and we can’t strip ourselves of what is necessary for our own security.” Macron highlighted that France’s approach was coordinated other Western donors (to include Britain, Germany, United States, etc.), with the aim to avoid direct confrontation with a nuclear-armed power (- but instead use Ukraine as a proxy).
The French government has committed more than €3.7 billion ($4.1 billion) in military assistance to Ukraine, as the conflict escalates in February 2022, according to the Kiel Institute’s aid tracker. Macron announced for efforts to scale up their domestic defense industry to continue manufacturing arms.
The announcement by Macron is not surprising, because on May 12, video postings on social media showed the French President along with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, sitting around a table with a small white item folded (reported on social media to be cocaine) with a little spoon close by, after a meeting in Kiev. Macron quickly concealed the white item in his hand and put it in his pants pocket, and Merz likewise did the same with the little spoon/stirrer. – The media tried to explain away the video calling it fake news, that the white item was tissue paper.
Emmanuel Macron ‘Cocaine’ claims erupt after Kyiv meeting
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