Trump continues Obama’s war against Russia in Ukraine, as Biden did.

1 May 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

On Wednesday, April 30th, the AP headlined “US, Ukraine sign economic deal after Trump presses Kyiv to pay back US for help in repelling Russia”, and reported that, “The U.S. and Ukraine announced on Wednesday an economic agreement after a weekslong press by President Donald Trump on Ukraine to compensate Washington for billions in military and economic assistance to help Ukraine repel the Russian invasion.”

On the morning of May 1st, CNN bannered “A ‘historic economic partnership?’ What we know about Trump’s Ukraine mineral deal” and said they had seen the final signed Agreement, and that “the deal also adopts a strong language on the war with Russia itself. It points at Moscow as the aggressor in the conflict, diverging from some of Trump’s previous false statements about Ukraine and Zelensky being responsible for the war.” The U.S. Government, again, just like it had been doing under Biden and before him under Obama, assigns the blame for having caused and started the war, as being fully upon Russia, and not at all upon Ukraine. (Neither Zelensky nor Trump blames the U.S., in any manner, for having started the war in Ukraine.)

America will continue shipping U.S.-made weapons from firms such as Lockheed Martin (paid for by U.S. taxpayers) to Ukraine against Russia, as before, but American investors will get (besides boosted stock-valuations on those U.S. firms) some booty from Ukraine in the form of co-ownership of Ukrainian minerals etcetera that the U.S. Government will then buy (again with U.S. taxpayer money) from those American investors’ firms. (However, CNN’s report, as well as Reuters’s, allege that the Agreement says that only Ukraine owns the “subsoil” minerals; and, if this is true, then Trump’s promises that “America” would somehow get those, are not actually embodied in this Agreement.) The killing and dying in that war will continue, and it is, as it was at the war’s start in 2014 by Obama’s coup that started the war in Ukraine, a war by the U.S. against Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine.

The AP’s article, posted at Yahoo News, on April 30th, has “8.5K Comments” as-of my starting this news-report on Wednesday night, and here are the two reader-comments at that time that have thus far (as of the morning of May 1st) gotten the highest numbers of reader-approvals there:

jon
Economics will force Putin to get a peace deal. If the oil price remains below $70 a barrel, Putin will have to cave in. Nearly 65% of Russian revenue comes from oil, if the price remains below $70, they lose money. The US must do everything possible to keep the price of oil low.
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nfar
Once this deal is signed, then America will have legitimate skin in this game and an economic reason for being in Ukraine. Russia can then back off somewhat gracefully since they've lost and Ukraine will no longer be just a proxy - Putin is by no means willing to actually take on the United States regardless of his saber-rattling and hints about using nukes. That's not goiong to happen, at least not with Russia.
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Both of those comments presume five things: ONE: Putin started the war in February 2022, instead of the reality which was that Obama started it in February 2014, and had started it in the planning stages by no later than June 2011. TWO: The war was started because Putin wanted to conquer Ukraine and add it to Russia, instead of the reality that it was started because the U.S. Government ever since 25 July 1945 (and then reaffirmed again by President GHW Bush on 24 February 1990 — and continued by all post-WW2 U.S. Presidents except JFK after WW2) wants to conquer Russia and add it to America’s empire; Ukraine just happens to have — and this is the crux of the matter — the nearest border to being able to blitz-nuke The Kremlin from a mere 317 miles away (in Ukraine), and is therefore the best staging-area for the U.S. to conquer Russia from. THREE: This war isn’t a must-win matter for the Russian people’s national security; and, so, if Russia were to lose it, “Russia can then back off somewhat gracefully since they've lost and Ukraine will no longer be just a proxy.” But, actually, all of that is false. FOUR: “Nearly 65% of Russian revenue comes from oil.” But, actually, only around 20% does, and this includes not MERELY from “oil,” but from both oil and gas together. FIVE: The U.S. has the world’s best military, instead of the reality, that Russia does.

How is it possible for America to be a functioning democracy if its public has been so consistently, and so long, misinformed about national and international affairs as America’s public obviously is? It isn’t, and it’s not.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.