The two countries signed the accord in Washington after months of sometimes fraught negotiations, with uncertainty persisting until the last-moment with word of an eleventh-hour snag.

“In recognition of the significant financial and material support that the people of the United States have provided to the defense of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, this economic partnership positions our two countries to … accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery,” the U.S. Treasury Department said.

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Things are happening fast.  So fast that the political enemies have no time to respond.  I could have done without finding out where some of our tax dollars have gone.  The list is startling, and goes on and on.  For years we didn’t want to know.  We knew there were evil forces in our government directing money to things we never contemplated.  To hear the list is unbelievable.  Who else knew about all this massive funding of stuff we never heard of?  Somebody knew and was OK with it.

The media is trying desperately to get some disagreement between Trump appointees.  There will be some hurt feelings along the way, no doubt about it.  But its got to be done.  We’ve lived our lives knowing that someday the U. S. would run out of money and credit.  Well now, maybe not.

Trump thinks our debt, huge as it is, is only a drop in the bucket compared to our assets.  He’s no spring chicken when it comes to assets and liabilities.

We can finally sleep at night knowing that geniuses are on the job, and they mean business.  Are you kidding me?  The richest man in the world going after government waste?  He’s cut the lion’s share of the workforce in the businesses he’s acquired, and knows a thing or two about cutting inefficiencies.

I don’t know about Tesla, but everything else he touches turns to gold.  The media is making like he’s going to reap trillions with inside knowledge after auditing (for lack of a better term) the Federal Government.  

On other fronts, who knows.  I never liked Zelensky after I saw a poster advertising his comedy tour in Russia.  I’m not going to describe it.  He made a fool of himself during the televised White House meeting.  Now, who knows?  I have a feeling he promised Ukraine’s minerals to the Brits and is stuck.  We’re hearing that most of the minerals are on lands that the Russians have already taken, so he may be bluffing.  Anyway, he acted like… well, you’ve presumably seen it, so you already know.  

He started in on this diatribe, when he started telling us what we would feel.  That was a mistake.  Trump interrupted saying, “Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel.”  That was when things blew up.  Apparently Zelensky was escorted off the White House grounds, and it served him right.

Cross your arms and talk to president Trump, and all of us, like we owe you something.  That’s how I reacted, and I’m sure there’s room for other reactions.  He’s well practiced at getting Western nations to pony up.  But it didn’t work out too well in the White House.

It’s time to make a deal and stop the slaughter.  Trump is being tough on Putin too.  He promised tariffs that’ll have everybody crying if they don’t stop shooting in Ukraine.  

Trump has warned the terrorists.  They better come up with those hostages quickly, and I’m talking this weekend, or there’s going to be trouble.  Maybe they’ll be the first to call Trump’s bluff.  If that happens I’ll try to sleep through it.  I’ve heard it all, having been in the Middle East many years ago.  These must be the grandchildren of the people I talked to.  They must have been raised in the same system, because they all say the same thing over and over.  “The Jews took our land.”  Somebody’s land always gets taken in war.  You idiots started it!  Sorry.  I don’t have much sympathy.

But the hostages better get released or there’s going to be a reckoning.

Everybody’s on notice.  They’re jumping around all over the world, wondering what they can do to keep their heads down.  If we’re sending them money, it’s about to stop.  You think they’re going to stick their heads up and complain?

Two things are muddying the water right now.  The war in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East.  The U. S. is in a crazy situation right now, and we need to stop funding these wars.  It’s not like we have direct involvement, but we might get sucked into one of these conflagrations.  I hope, for whoever decides to take Trump on, they won’t.                            

For a long time we thought there wouldn’t be a revival of the United States.  It looks like we were wrong.   

Mark

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Zelenskyy said in a social media post that it is “time to make things right” with the American president and his administration. He expressed gratitude for prior U.S. support for Ukraine in its battle to beat back Russia’s military forces and praised Trump, whom he fought with last Friday in the Oval Office.

“None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday, describing their previous encounter as “regrettable.”

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