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 figure above was posted by someone in an American thread on Twitter. One of the largely repeated promises during Trump's presidential campaign was that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war "in 24 hours" . He never said how he would do that, but since he said it would be "for humanitarian reasons" , many of us were led to believe he was being truthful. He has now been in power for a month and the only thing he has effectively done so far is to announce the end of the U.S. military aid to Ukraine, a torn-apart country that is now being  served on a silver plate to Russia . I have just seen Trump say that "Ukraine should have given up land three years ago" in order to put an end to war, and he also called President Zelensky a dictator. Volodymyr Zelensky was voted by the Ukrainian people in general elections, that is why he is president.  Those words might be an indication that Trump may be in the early stages of dementia. In 2022,  Ukraine was i...

  The conflict that officially started on February 24, 2022, is now rapidly approaching the one-year mark. Since the very beginning, Vladimir Putin lied to the world . He first said that his only intentions were to protect Russian-speaking populations in the eastern Ukrainian provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk. This proved not true as Russian forces have been consistently bombing civilian populations in central, northern, and even western Ukraine, also using their highly deadly hypersonic missiles . At the beginning of his genocidal mission, when Putin and his warmongers thought that invading and annexing Ukraine would be a walk in the park , the Russian president said he wanted to “denazify” Ukraine. A very unfortunate expression by the former KGB agent: from day 1 the whole world realized that Putin had become the 21st century Adolf Hitler . Sadly, years before the world had let Putin walk free and unsanctioned with his unlawful annexation of the Crimea Peninsula in 2014 . Fortu...

  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...