Russia Rejects Ceasefire, Zelensky’s Mineral Deals Exposed: A Global Power Struggle

This grip­ping pod­cast dives into the esca­lat­ing Rus­sia-Ukraine proxy war, where Putin sees no need for a cease­fire with a defense­less Ukraine—unless the West pours in equip­ment. But with Ukraine’s man­pow­er deplet­ed, who will oper­ate it? The episode expos­es the media’s dra­ma, spot­light­ing Trump’s rejec­tion of Zelen­sky over cor­rup­tion, black-mar­ket equip­ment sales, and mon­ey laun­der­ing. Zelen­sky flees to the UK, where Starmer pledges sup­port, while Macron com­mits French troops and Zelen­sky inks a 30-day deal in Sau­di Ara­bia, des­per­ate­ly sell­ing Ukraine’s min­er­als.

Putin, backed by Belarus’ Lukashenko dur­ing a Moscow vis­it, demands more than a ceasefire—he wants long-term peace address­ing NATO’s expan­sion to Russia’s bor­ders. As U.S. del­e­ga­tions shut­tle between Sau­di Ara­bia and Moscow, ques­tions arise: Did Belarus join the talks? Putin insists Zelen­sky, labeled a cor­rupt dic­ta­tor enforc­ing mar­tial law and steal­ing funds, must go. Mean­while, the U.S., UK, and Europe eye Ukraine’s min­er­als as spoils of war, but Putin claims vic­to­ry and rejects Trump’s uncon­di­tion­al cease­fire plan.

Zelensky’s roadshow—rebuffing Scott Bessent’s plan, meet­ing Mar­co Rubio and JD Vance in Ger­many, and secur­ing a $2B UK pledge plus a 100-year partnership—infuriates Putin, who could soon speak from Kyiv. Trump warns Amer­i­cans of Biden’s $350B give­away and a doomed Ukraine, while Italy boy­cotts a UK-France meet­ing and Chi­na, Rus­sia, and Iran tight­en ties. This episode unrav­els a web of cor­rup­tion, pow­er plays, and min­er­al grabs.

• Cease­fire, proxy war, Rus­sia, Ukraine. There is no need for Rus­sia to come to a peace agree­ment with Ukraine. Ukraine is defense­less against Rus­sia, unless we pour equip­ment into Ukraine. We could load Ukraine up with this equip­ment, then you have the sec­ond issue. Who will oper­ate this equip­ment because Ukraine is out of peo­ple. Remem­ber the dra­ma, the only thing you get from our media. Zelen­sky comes over here and Trump throws him out. We know how angry Zelen­sky gets when we talk about the laun­dro­mat and cor­rup­tion and sell­ing the equip­ment on the black­mar­ket. Zelen­sky runs straight to the UK and waves at Trump. Starmer goes to tell Zelen­sky they will do all they can to sup­port Ukraine. Macron is going to put troops in Ukraine. Zelen­sky runs to Sau­di Ara­bia to take a 30 day deal. We have a del­e­ga­tion going to Rus­sia and Putin has to have a deal with the west: UK, France and Ger­many. Putin is not just gonna give a cease­fire. 
• Lukashenko (Belarus) went to Moscow for an offi­cial vis­it 2 days ago. At the same time our del­e­ga­tion is with Zelen­sky in Sau­di Ara­bia. Then our del­e­ga­tion, Witkoff, goes to Moscow. 
• Remem­ber that Ukraine is cor­rupt, the par­lia­ment is cor­rupt and will con­tin­ue to be cor­rupt as long as Zelen­sky is in pow­er. 
• When Putin address­es in a press con­fer­ence the Belarus pres­i­dent is with him as he dis­cuss­es the cease­fire. The same time that our del­e­ga­tion is in Moscow. Did the Belarus pres­i­dent par­tic­i­pate in the talks with the Russ­ian US del­e­ga­tion? Every time we talk about a cease­fire we talk about the area that has been under Russ­ian con­trol Rus­sia is sur­round­ing the water access from Ukraine. Putin wants the con­flict to end But he wants a long term peace and talks about the root caus­es of the con­flict. NATO expan­sion onto the Rus­sia bor­der. Putin won­dered if they need­ed 30 days to move troops into place. You have the UK and France stand­ing up say­ing they are ready. Why is the UK so inter­est­ed in Ukraine? 
• Putin wants some guar­an­tees. The pres­i­dent of Belarus says that Ukraine will even­tu­al­ly go back to Rus­sia. The Belaru­sian pres­i­dent speaks to Russ­ian sen­a­tors today. 
• Now we keep hear­ing about the min­er­als deal. Every­one is talk­ing about split­ting up Ukraine and the spoils of war as though they have won. The US, UK, the spoils of war, the Ukraine min­er­als and our com­pa­nies going over there devel­op­ing. Putin is say­ing hold on a minute, He won. Putin won­ders how every­one thinks they can come over to grab the min­er­als. Putin sug­gests Rus­sia won’t accept Trump’s plan for uncon­di­tion­al cease­fire. Part of Putin’s demand is that Zelen­sky has to go. Zelen­sky is a dic­ta­tor, mar­tial law, killing chris­tians, steal­ing your mon­ey. Zelen­sky is done, he lost and the US and UK are get­ting the min­er­als? Putin says no. 
• Scott Bessent goes over to Ukraine with a plan. Zelen­sky says no. It got very heat­ed, Scott says. Mar­co and JD met with Zelen­sky in Ger­many. Then Starmer and Macrone come to the US to meet Trump. Europe got guar­an­tees from Zelen­sky. Biden gave our mon­ey away, $350B. Zelen­sky gets thrown out of the White House and flies to the UK and gets the red car­pet, waves “screw you” to Trump and the UK pledges $2B to help Ukraine. Zelen­sky is on a road­show sell­ing the min­er­als. Then Ukraine is ready to rat­i­fy the free trade agree­ment with Turkey, a secu­ri­ty part­ner. The UK wants Ukraine’s min­er­als too. Zelen­sky has lost the war, a cou­ple of days Putin could give a press con­fer­ence from Kyiv. How many times can Zelen­sky sell one rock? Then the UK and Ukraine sign a land­mark 100 year part­ner­ship to deep­en secu­ri­ty ties and strength­en part­ner­ship for future gen­er­a­tions, just four days before Trump takes office. You think that Putin is ok with Zelen­sky mak­ing a 100 year deal with the UK. Trump is telling the Amer­i­can peo­ple that we are screwed. Biden was asleep, Biden made a deal, we got screwed. Trump is say­ing that Ukraine will be no more. 
• Italy to boy­cott UK France led meet­ing on Ukraine. 
• Chi­na, Rus­sia, Iran agree to boost coor­di­na­tion with inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions.