blog de Mario Daniel

  As I sit to write these lines, the news is that Ukraine troops are being encircled and losing the Kursk oblast they invaded months ago in order to have a chip in a possible and hypothetical future peace negotiations with Russia. In the last few days I had the chance to watch Prof. Jeffrey Sachs ' 1 hour 33' speech before the EU Parliament ( here ), and I have also been following Prof. John Mearsheimer's opinions on such delicate topics as Ukraine, Russia, USA, Europe, China. It is amazing to see such prestigious scholars, who have been in the international relations arena for so many years, converge to the same point: they almost exactly reproduce Trump's words, blame Ukraine for the war, and accuse president Zelensky of "dragging his country into it" . They  also accuse Europe, especially Britain and France , of "rejecting peace" and fueling Ukraine to continue at war. Incredibly, none of these two prestigious professors say a word about Rus...

  Shameful behavior that of President Donald Trump and VP J.D. Vance on Feb. 28, 2025 when they received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House. Never before a foreign chief of state visiting the seat of the U.S. government had been so mistreated, shut up, humiliated, and sent out like that. Zelensky was ambushed by Trump and Vance: he was invited to the White House to sign an understanding involving Ukraine minerals in exchange for continued military assistance and guaranties against further Russian aggression. Instead, Zelensky found himself in a booby trap ; he was violently reprimanded by the two who tried to make him give up on his country saying Ukraine has already lost the war against the Russian invasion and there was nothing else he could do about it. In an unheard-of move, both Trump and Vance repeatedly called upon him, did not let Zelensky talk, accused him of not being grateful, and of offending the US. In the end, the Ukrainian president was expe...

  The invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia is today 7 months old.  These are a few of the opinions I have been posting on social networks even before the Russian invasion began. This saga begins in 2014 when suddenly, and without prior notice, Putin sent his troops to invade and annex the Crimea peninsula that so far Russia had been leasing from Ukraine. At the time, the NATO countries and the USA refused to see the danger. Some even said,  “Well, after all, the Crimea peninsula had always been Russia’s” . Then in February 2022 Putin started to pile up tanks and troops along the Russian-Ukrainian and Belarus-Ukrainian borders. One had to be too dumb not to see it coming. Putin tried to fool the world with allegedly joint military exercises  with the Belarus’ puppet regime. It was clear then that Russia’s real intentions were to get ready for the invasion with the excuse to defend the Eastern Ukraine Russian-speaking separatist provinces. At first the West washed...