Putin Dictates Terms, Zelenskyy Ceasefire Talks, Air Force One Controversy

The 2025 GRA con­ven­tion, led by Alex John­son, over­saw an open forum with ques­tions from mem­bers and Josh McK­oon faced des­per­a­tion. Zelen­skyy demands a cease­fire before Moscow talks, but Putin’s terms—no NATO, Crimea cession—stall progress. Trump’s doubts grow on a peace deal between the two coun­ties. Trump plans a 30–80% pre­scrip­tion drug price cut via exec­u­tive order. The U.S.’s $1.2T trade deficit fuels Trump’s tar­iff strat­e­gy, pres­sur­ing Chi­na on fen­tanyl raw mate­ri­als. Jerome Powell’s reces­sion warn­ings con­trast with Scott Bessent’s claims of China’s inevitable deal. Taiwan’s live mil­i­tary drills esca­late ten­sions. Lau­ra Loomer crit­i­cizes a $400M Air Force One “gift” from ques­tion­able donors, cit­ing secu­ri­ty risks.

• The GRA could have con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing it. 95% of the mem­bers are good peo­ple. Saturday’s con­ven­tion that they held, Alex John­son did a great job allow­ing the body of mem­ber­ship to dri­ve the day. He didn’t shut down dis­cus­sion or the micro­phones. Total des­per­a­tion has tak­en over Josh McK­oon. We need to get a word out to the del­e­gates in Dal­ton. Norine Can­tor is the front run­ner for 2nd Vice Chair. 
• Zelen­sky says Kyiv will talk to Moscow only after Putin accepts a cease­fire. Zelen­sky and Euro­pean lead­ers tell Trump they are ready for a 30-day cease­fire. Putin says he is not going to promise a cease­fire. Trump is start­ing to doubt that Ukraine will make a deal with Putin. Putin pro­pos­es direct talks with Zelen­sky on Thurs­day. The Krem­lin lays out terms Rus­sia would not accept in a cease­fire. Want to talk peace, no more weapons, no NATO, no Euro­pean peace­keep­ers, give up ter­ri­to­ry of Crimea. Rus­sia has deter­mined how this will end. 
• Every­time Trump does some­thing they want to claim he is fol­low­ing Joe Biden. Trump is going to sign an exec­u­tive order on pre­scrip­tion drug prices by 30–80% to match oth­er coun­tries. 
• The US has a $1.2T trade deficit. For­eign coun­tries send $1.2T worth of prod­ucts into the US more than we send to for­eign coun­tries. 
• We have known since day one that Trump nego­ti­at­ed with Chi­na that the raw mate­ri­als for fen­tanyl that is being shipped into the US and the tar­iffs will not be removed until that will stop. All along Jer­moe Pow­ell talks about the tar­iffs uncer­tain­ties, increased changes of reces­sion, job loss, car parts, not being able to increase man­u­fac­tur­ing that fast and doom and gloom every­day. The media is run­ning the nar­ra­tive. But every­one knows that Chi­na is hurt­ing and Chi­na has to make a deal. Scott Bessent has been telling you that Chi­na has to make a deal. The first thing Xi did was jump to Cam­bo­dia to shore up his allies. They are try­ing to work the loop­holes. Trump has realigned trade for the entire world. The whole time that Jerome Pow­ell is stand­ing there not want­i­ng to change the inter­est rates, he knows that Chi­na has to come to the table. 
• Tai­wan first live mil­i­tary response train­ing to an attack. 
• What say you, the gift of a $400M fly­ing palace 747 from jihadist in suits to use as new Air Force One. Lau­ra Loomer is lead­ing the crit­i­cism on Sun­day. There is a lot of places to put a bug.