LOS ANGELES ()c).--Wrapping up the Ukraine War, 38-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky doesn’t trust President Donald Trump’s security arrangements, fearing with a long-term settlement the U.S. would abandon any security provisions.  Zelensky doubts any settlement with Russian President Vladimir Putin fearing the U.S. would not follow up with any arrangement to defend Ukraine.  Trump has been clear that while he backs Ukrainian security, he doesn’t want to set back U.S.-Russian relations, something he’s...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Sending the Abraham Lincoln carrier task force to the Mediterranean to get within striking distance of Iran, President Donald Trump made good on his warning to Iran’s 96-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  Trump warned Khamenei about slaughtering young protesters taking to the streets to rebel against the 47-year-old mullah regime that has repressed the population since the 1979 Iranian Revolution where Shiite Islamic radicals drove Shah Reza Mohammad Pahlavi from power.  Iranian youth...

LOS ANGELES (oc).--Showing the degree of deterioration in European Union [EU] and Russia relations, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov had some harsh words for the EU when it came to ending the Ukraine War.  Peskov made it clear that the Kremlin feels comfortable dealing with President Donald Trump, a far cry from the days of former President Joe Biden when he funded proxy war in Ukraine with Moscow.  Biden pushed U.S.-Russian relations to the brink, the first and only U.S. president to go to war with Moscow.  By the time...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Two lethal incidents in Minneapolis at the hands to Immigration Customs Enforcement [ICE] involving 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good Jan. 7 and 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti in two weeks exposes undeniable culpability by ICE.  In both instances, ICE officials, led by 54-year-old Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem, give the same excuse, that the suspects threatened ICE agents prompting draconic defense actions.  When it came to Renee Good, ICE officials accused her of weaponizing...

LOS ANGELES (OC).-- Ukraine’s 48-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky has run out of options on Ukraine peace talks with President Donald Trump taking over in Abu Dhabi.  Zelensky has resisted for months compromising on territory in eastern Donbas to end the Ukraine War.  Russian President Vladimir Putin who started the war Feb. 24, 2022 has made steady progress in four-years of war, seizing about 25% of Ukraine’s best sovereign territory along the Black Sea.  Zelensky thought he could avoid Trump’s peace plan by playing...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--U.S. delegation led by President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Ukrainian and Russian officials in Abu Dhabi to work on a settlement to the Ukraine War.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not at the meeting but let his chief negotiator Rusterm Umerov and his new chief-of-stafff Kyrylo Budanov negotiate with U.S. and Russian officials.  Witkoff and Kushner flew from the Kremlin meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to Abu Dhabi to enter into...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed his European Union benefactor in a speech at the Davos Economic Forum, complaining about inaction on Russian President Vladimir Putin. After receiving over 100 billion euros, Zelensky’s missive tells the real story of survival and greed for the Ukrainian president.  Zelensky keeps asking for more arms-and-cash from the U.S. and EU, with the EU responding recently to his claims that if he loses the war to Russia, Putin would train his eyes on more European...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump went to the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland knowing he was not Mr. popularity, with the European Union [EU] angry over his attempt to buy Greenland after told repeatedly it wasn’t for sale. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took full advantage slamming Trump obliquely saying powerful nations should show more respect for less powerful ones.  Canada ranks10th in world Gross Domestic Product [GDP] at $2.3 trillion compared to the United States at over $30 trillion, at least $11...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Heading to the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, 79-year-old President Donald Trump finds himself under the gun, with EU leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron threatening to use the “trade bazooka” against the United States.  Trump warned EU leaders opposing his desire to buy Greenland they face 10% more in U.S. duties if they don’t back his plan to buy Greenland from Denmark.  Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens Frederrik Nielsen oppose any sale of...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--French President Emmanuel Macron threatened President Donald Trump with the EU’s “trade baziooka,” a draconic economic measure designed to stop unfair trade practices with countries like China.  Macron responded to Trump’s warning that he would slap at least eight EU countries with 10% additional tarrifs for opposing Trump’s attempt to buy or, in the worst case scenario, to take over Greeland. Traump likes the idea of adding 836,000 square miles of territory to the U.S., exceeding the Alaskan wilderness...