Repost by Permission: Russia Issues “Don’t Go Down The Sleepy Joe Road!” Dire Warning To Trump
July 29, 2025
Russia Issues “Don’t Go Down The Sleepy Joe Road!” Dire Warning To Trump
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting that a fortnight after giving Russia a 50 day ultimatum to end the conflict in Ukraine or face sweeping sanctions on its energy buying allies like China and India, which Moscow immediately rejected, yesterday it saw President Donald Trump issuing the new threat: “I’m going to set a new deadline, about 10 or 12 days from today…There’s no reason to wait…I wanted to be generous, but we’re just not seeing any progress” and declaring: “Russia is a rich nation that could be thriving like practically no other country…I don’t want to do that to Russia, I love the Russian people”—and was a threat that caused Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev to issue the dire warning: “Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember 2 things: 1. Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran…2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war…Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country…Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe road!”.
Following President Trump threatening and declaring his love for the Russian peoples, this report notes, warmongering neocon Senator Lindsey Graham warned: “Those in Russia who believe that President Trump is not serious about ending the bloodbath between Russia and Ukraine: You and your customers will soon be sadly mistaken…You will also soon see that Joe Biden is no longer president…Get to the peace table”—a warning followed by Security Council Deputy Chairman Medvedev declaring to “war pig” Senator Graham: “It’s not for you or Trump to dictate when to get at the peace table…Negotiations will end when all the objectives of our military operation have been achieved…Work on America first, gramps!”
In highlighting the unprecedented geopolitical landscape Russia now finds itself in, this report continues, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov factually assessed yesterday: “The main task is to defeat the enemy…For the first time in history, Russia is fighting alone against the entire West…In World War I and World War II, we had allies…Now we have no allies on the battlefield…So we must rely on ourselves and not allow any weakness”—an assessment that followed the United States Army in Europe releasing its 357-page document “How Russia Fights” last week, wherein it warningly observed: “Conceptually, this war is far bigger than Ukraine…Russia sees itself in a global conflict with the West, of which Ukraine is but one theater…Neither success nor failure in Ukraine will alter Russia’s global calculus”.
In 2003, this report concludes, world-renowned retired top CIA analyst Larry Johnson co-founded the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) organization made up of top retired United States Intelligence Community officials—VIPS was founded to warn the American peoples that their own government and propaganda media was lying them into a war with Iraq they had no chance at all of winning—and yesterday, former CIA analyst Johnson released his open letter ”12 Days, Then What?”, wherein he truthfully revealed:
Donald Trump made another move in his feckless game of global checkers today in Scotland, with the announcement that he is giving Russia a new, much shorter deadline—10 to 12 days from now—to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump warned that if President Vladimir Putin does not reach a deal by around August 7–9, the US will impose new sanctions and “severe tariffs” on Russia and countries supporting its war effort. Trump’s new deadline elicited a collective yawn in Moscow.
Since the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO), trade between the US and Russia has shrunk dramatically. In 2021, US exports to Russia totaled approximately $6.4 billion and US imports from Russia totaled about $29.7 billion. This resulted in a US trade deficit with Russia of about $23.3 billion for that year.
In 2024, total trade in goods between the United States and Russia declined sharply due to ongoing sanctions, war-related restrictions, and other political measures. US exports to Russia in 2024:
Approximately $526 million, marking a decrease of over 12% compared to 2023. Major U.S. exports included medical/technical equipment, pharmaceuticals, machinery, and some food and chemical products.
US imports from Russia in 2024:
About $3.0–$3.27 billion, down more than 34% compared to 2023 and down over 75% from pre-war levels in 2021–2022. Key Russian exports to the U.S. were fertilizers (about $1.3 billion), precious metals (about $878 million), and inorganic chemicals (about $683 million). Energy imports have almost entirely ceased.
Trump’s threat of new sanctions is just a blowhard bloviating. Ending shipments of fertilizers and precious metals is not going to hurt the Russian economy one bit.
Thanks to the sanctions Biden levied in 2022, Russia’s economy grew to be the fourth largest in the world as measured by purchasing power parity.
Western propaganda that the Russian economy is failing–citing current growth of 1.4%–ignores the fiscal policies that the Russian central bank put in place in 2024 to cool inflation. But those measures were only temporary, with the central bank announcing a 2% cut in interest rates late last week.
That means that Trump, if he is serious, will impose bone-crunching tariffs on China and India. Both countries appear unfazed by Trump’s bullying bluster. China, in particular, holds some very strong cards. Rare-earth minerals desperately needed by the US military industrial complex. I think this will be another Trump nothing-burger.
So why did Trump whittle down the deadline? One possible explanation concerns the rapid deterioration of the military situation for Ukraine. Russia is making rapid advances all along the line of contact and even Ukrainian media and social media outlets are expressing alarm. Is that what sparked Trump’s decision to shorten the time for Russia to agree to a ceasefire? 50 days or 12 days, it does not matter. Trump has no leverage to compel Russia to agree to the ceasefire that the US and Europe want to be imposed.
Russia is going to continue with its offensive and will take more territory in the coming weeks. Russian troops are pushing north in Zaporhyzhia, moving south through Sumy and Kharkiv, and advancing to the west, having already taken territory in Dniepropetrovsk. No pressure from Washington or Europe will alter this reality.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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Repost by Permission: Trump Gorges On “Ursula Breakfast” While Squashing European Union
July 28, 2025
Trump Gorges On “Ursula Breakfast” While Squashing European Union
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Donald Trump reached a trade deal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday, says this beyond lopsided deal to avoid a trade war sees the United States slamming 15% tariffs on all EU goods and services, while the European Union is forced to buy $750 billion worth of expensive American energy and pay $600 billion to move its industries from Europe to America—and about which Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev most factually observed: “President Donald Trump has squashed Europe…The new deal with the European Union is totally humiliating for the Europeans as it only serves the United States by leaving the European market unprotected and zeroing out tariffs on US goods, creates huge additional costs for industries and agriculture in many EU countries stemming from the need to pay for expensive US energy; and diverts a massive investment flow from Europe to the US”.
In quick response to the beyond lopsided trade deal that squashes the EU, this report notes, socialist European Union member leader Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban raged: “Trump had Ursula for breakfast…The US president is a heavyweight negotiator, while the president of the European Commission is a lightweight”—and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov assessed: “It’s clear that American energy will be significantly more expensive than Russian…It’s clear that this approach will lead to further deindustrialization of Europe and a shift of investments from Europe to the United States”.
After watching President Trump gorge on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast yesterday, this report continues, top French opposition leader Marine Le Pen proclaimed: “The new EU-US trade agreement is an economic and political fiasco that undermines the bloc’s sovereignty”—a proclamation joined with the economic article “The European Disease: Germany Enters The Debt Spiral” wherein it warns: “Whether we like it or not, we are all part of a vast social experiment…The question is: Can Europe shed its degenerative socialism—the ideology that has inflicted so much harm on the continent and the world—or will we fall back into infantile patterns, refusing reform out of fear and sentimentality?…All this culminates in a permanent state of government crisis—translating into a collapse in public trust…Economic volatility, long suppressed by the welfare state, is now erupting as social unrest in the streets”.
The reason European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen allowed President Trump to gorge on her for breakfast yesterday, this report details, was due to her belief that it will keep America fighting its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine—a war that saw nearly 100 Ukrainian drones intercepted in Russian airspace overnight, one of which killed a civilian—and was an attack followed by the Ukrainian Air Force announcing: “Russia launched 324 Shahed-type attack drones and other drones, four Kh-101 cruise missiles, and three Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles against Ukraine overnight on 28 July”.
Along with the news today: “Protesters have taken to the streets of Kiev for a fifth consecutive day to decry Vladimir Zelensky’s crackdown on two anti-corruption agencies”, this report notes, President Trump top political ally Steve Cortes most factually observed last week: “Corruption remains entrenched in Ukrainian politics and governance, starting at the very highest levels of the administration in Kyiv…Just this week, the office charged with fighting and prosecuting corruption was raided in an extra-judicial attack on decency and due process…This raid reeks—and it smells like gangsterism, not democracy”.
At the United Nations Security Council meeting last week, this report concludes, the United States raged against China for buying cheap energy from Russia comically claiming it was fueling the war in Ukraine—the United States remained oblivious to the truth that the weapons it floods into Ukraine are what is actually fueling the war—and Chinese Deputy United Nations Ambassador Geng Shuang factually declared: “China did not start the war in Ukraine, is not a party to the conflict, has never provided lethal weapons, and has always strictly controlled dual-use materials, including the export of drones…We urge the US to stop shifting blame on the Ukraine issue or creating confrontation and instead play a more constructive role in promoting a ceasefire and peace talks”.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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