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Chapter 1: Why did Zelenskyy declare checkmate against Trump?
Zelensky calls checkmate, Donald Trump surrenders and surrenders publicly with shame and humiliation. Donald Trump sent Marco Rubio to this NATO meeting in Sweden where Rubio announced the US was officially quitting. was surrendering its role in having any mediated discussions between Ukraine and Russia.
So whereas Donald Trump promised that even before day one in office, it would be so easy for him to bring peace, between Ukraine and Russia. Officially, Marco Rubio announced in Sweden at this NATO meeting that the US is out, no longer going to have a role in mediated negotiations. This has happened at the same time Ukrainian drones are successfully reaching into Moscow.
In the past 12 hours, Ukrainian drones were able to hit port infrastructure in the Novorossiysk, Russia region.
Chapter 2: What announcement did Marco Rubio make at the NATO meeting?
This is this Black Sea hub, critical area that Russia uses to transport weapons and to transport oil. Also, Ukraine was able to hit the Cizran oil refinery in Russia's Samara region. Over and over again, Ukraine is hitting these big Russian oil depots. Let me bring you to what went down yesterday when Marco Rubio was there in Sweden and saying, we're done with peace talks. America's out.
What we did has not been able to yield results. Surrender by Donald Trump and his weak, cowardly, and pathetic regime. Play this clip.
Yeah, the peace negotiations on Ukraine under American leadership, let me just say, we got involved, okay? Because we were told we were the only ones that could do it. We were the only ones that the Russians and the Ukrainians would talk to. So we got involved. They were not fruitful, unfortunately.
We stand ready to continue to play that role, despite leaks that are not true, despite stories out there about us forcing the Ukrainians to take this position or that position, which are not true. If we see an opportunity to pull together Ukraine talks that are productive, not counterproductive, and that have the chance to be fruitful, we're prepared to play that role.
There are no such talks occurring at this time. But we hope that will change because that war can only end with a negotiated settlement. It will not end with a military victory by one side or the other, at least from a traditional standpoint of how military victories are defined. So it will have to lead.
And if we can play a role in making that happen, the president is very much interested in doing it. We just, you know, over the last few months, just sort of sensed that there wasn't a lot of progress being made, but maybe dynamics will change. And if they do, we stand ready to play whatever constructive role we can play. If someone else would like to handle it, they should.
But it doesn't appear to be anybody else in the world right now that can handle it. So we're more than happy to do that if the opportunity presents itself to have constructive and productive talks. We're also not interested in getting involved in an endless cycle of meetings that lead to nothing.
Okay. Former ambassador to Russia, Michael McCall writes, what a complete failure. Trump gave Putin all sorts of concessions, including cutting aid to Ukraine and denying Ukraine's membership in NATO. And then taking off all oil sanctions from Russia, taking off sanctions from financial institutions from Russia and Belarus. And Trump got nothing in return.
A sad chapter in American diplomatic history. A sad chapter. in history, indeed. And this surrender comes at the same time that Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's envoy to Russia and Ukraine supposedly, announced that he would be taking his seventh visit to Russia to meet with his idol, Vladimir Putin.
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Chapter 3: How are Ukrainian drone strikes impacting Russia?
Trump envoy Witkoff expected to visit Russia again in the near future to meet with Putin and Kirill Dmitriev. That was announced two days ago before the official surrender. And of course, we saw Witkoff arriving in Moscow multiple times before, where he basically kisses Vladimir Putin's feet. He puts his hands on his heart and he says, Putin, you are such a strong man. Putin, you are so strong.
utterly pathetic behavior. Let me just remind you the type of things that Witkoff would say, this loser. March 10th, 2026, Witkoff on CNBC. Here's what he said regarding the talks with Russia and Ukraine back on March 10th, 2026. Let's play this clip.
This year, you think you can get a deal this year? I'm sorry? You think you can get a deal to negotiate a peaceful end this year in Ukraine?
Well, I mean, look, I'm just I'm a logical person. And and for me, again, I think that President Trump is generally successful in in getting these things settled in this particular circumstance. And he said it. It's taking longer than he thought. But we're beginning, we're seeing signs that both sides are weary and tired. And hopefully that's the beginning inflection point.
Same thing in the Middle East. There was an inflection point where we just, Jared and I both sensed that they were done with the war. And let's hope that we're at that place today or soon. All right.
Now, Zelensky issued the following message. Ukraine's position is stronger now than in previous years. Since the beginning of the year, 590 square kilometers of our territory have been liberated and brought under Ukrainian control. This trend is certainly not in the occupier's favor, we continue to increase the rate at which Russian personnel are being eliminated.
And together with sanctions in all their forms, this is forcing Russia toward diplomacy. Sanctions in all of their forms refers to, well, yes, the U.S. has removed sanctions against Russian oil, but Ukraine has imposed its long-range sanctions against Russia against in the form of Ukrainian FPV drone strikes, destroying Russian oil depots, destroying Russia's fleet.
Zelensky also posted that he had a call with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, The E3 Ukrainian format is what they call it. And as the Trump regime surrenders, they're not being involved in settlement discussions anymore. You have this discussion taking place now amongst Starmer, Macron, Merz, and...
Zelensky about their involvement in diplomacy, all of these nations working together. Now, Kate from Kharkiv, she posted the following message. So Rubio says that the US led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were not fruitful, not fruitful. Let's look at the facts. Your negotiator visited Russia seven times, Witkoff, and Ukraine zero times.
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Chapter 4: What does Trump’s surrender mean for US involvement in Ukraine?
Over in Sweden, you had Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO. Here's what he said about Ukraine's ability. Let's play this clip.
Ukraine is putting up a strong defense. And when you look at the front line at the moment, it is stabilizing. There are even reports that Ukraine is... in net terms regaining territory, not massively, but at least it is stabilizing and potentially even moving now in the right direction and not any longer in the wrong direction. So from the west to the east and not from the east to the west.
um and and and this is amazing and this is what ukrainians are doing and ukrainians have been incredible ingenious in terms of their ability to innovate and and this is one of the things we are learning all over nato from ukraine for example that comes to the drone warfare and the anti-drone technologies this is why we have jtech this joint organization in poland where we capture all the lessons from the war so that we can figure them in the nato plan so uh
And I would not be too happy if I was Putin today, but I was never happy if I was Putin, but particularly not the last couple of weeks because things are not going in the right direction.
Indeed, Ukraine is gaining territory. Also, you had Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar. What a change from Putin's bootlicker Orban to Magyar. What a breath of fresh air over Orban's nonsense, as Kate from Kharkiv puts it. Here's what Magyar had to say. Play this clip.
You know, the territorial integrity of Ukraine was guaranteed in 1994 in the Budapest Memorandum. It was signed in Budapest, of course. And the problem is that the international stage didn't really and do its job and not guarantee the integrity and the independence of Ukraine. And now we need a peace agreement with real guarantees.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Ukraine's recent military successes?
Liar. Play this clip.
I would fix that within 24 hours. And if I win, before I get into the office, I will have that war settled. 100% sure. As president-elect, if I win this election, the first thing I'm gonna do is call up Zelensky and call up President Putin, and I'm gonna say, you gotta make a deal.
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