LOS ANGELES (OC).--Boiling it down to semantics, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he didn’t like parts of President Donald Trump’s peace plan to end the Ukraine War but admitted that he would agree to a demilitarized zone in DonetsK, Luhansk, Zaporizhiza and Kherson, meaning that he would pull back the Ukrainian military but not leave the region.  Zelensky refuses to cede land to Moscow but is willing to pull back his troops and stop the fighting for a peace deal.  Zelensky wants to believe he still has...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke bluntly about peace in Ukraine at his year-end press conference Dec. 19, telling reporters that peace-or-war is now in the hands to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.  Putin made him a deal he couldn’t refuse to  exchange land-for-peace in an area of Ukraine that Ukraine hasn’t controlled the land since before the Feb. 22, 2014 Maiden Revolution.  So, to end the war, Zelensky only has to agree to the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, provinces controlled by...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Fresh off his big payday with the European Union, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in Mar-a-Lago peace talks that the U.S. must apply more pressure to Russia to end the war.  Now that he walked away with over 100 billion euros, Zelensky has bought himself time on compromising with the Russian Federation for peace.  EU officials opted to guarantee nearly 100 billion euro loan, something that will never be paid back.  Currency markets are already punishing the euro, dropping its value since...

LOS ANGELES. (OC).--Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky was all smiles with the European Union guaranteeing a 90 billion euro loan to Kiev to pay for his bankrupt government and war with the Kremlin. Instead of pressing Zelensky to follow Trump’s peace plan and end the nearly four-year-conflict, the EU prolongs Ukraine’s agony by handing Zelensky more cash.  Over two years, he took about $350 billion from the U.S. in a failed effort to vanquish the Russian Federation, in nearly four years of war with all the...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares for more war in 2026, Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the European Union and United States for more cash-and-arms.  Zelensky says he’s getting “signals” from the Kremlin that they plan on more war in 2026, something that should come as no surprise to anyone.  When Zelensky talks about “signals,” there’s no facts behind it, only the most spurious intelligence, the kind the U.S. has grown used to over the years.  Ukrainian...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Reporting about former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s testimony today in the House Judiciary Committee, tha Associated Press [AP] abandoned all journalistic ethics of political neutrality to stronglyy back Smith’s testimony that there was evidence against President Donald Trump beyond a reasonable doubt.  How the AP can represent itself as a nonpartisan news outlet is anyone’s guess.  Smith testified before the committee that his investigation was based only on the facts, nothing else, when concluding that...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Scratching their heads over Trump harsh policy in Venezuela, Democrats and the fake news accused Trump of warmongering, especially striking Venezuelan drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean and East Atlantic.  Reputed to have the largest oil supply on the planet, the Nicolas Maduro Venezuelan government is under heavy U.S. sanctions, forced to sell its petroleum largely to China through a fleet of stealth tankers, greatly hampering the Venezuelan economy.  Venezuela’s oil is a state owned company...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Closing in on a peace deal hasn’t been fun-and-games for the Trump White House with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff walking on a razor’s edge with Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky and the European Union trying to save face at every turn.  Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner have all but stood on their heads to accomdate Zelensky, knowing exactly what would fly with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Zelensky should be jumping for joy about ending the nearly...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump’s chief peace envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner made progress in Berlin with German, French and U.K. officials working on a Ukraine peace deal that works with Moscow.  Working with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his negotiating team lead by Rustem Umerov, Witkoff and Kushner managed to make progress on the security issue that seems to elude successful talks, with Zelensky wishing he could join NATO.  But Zelensky has been told repeatedly that he doesn’t...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Arrested at 3:45 AM today at a Hampton Inn in Coventry, RI with two firearms, 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson was named as person of interest, the conservative designation before named as a suspect in the shooting deaths of two Brown University students in an engineering classroom during final exams week. Unconfirmed rumors have Erickson as a student at Brown a few years, possibly adding to the motive in the killing.  At least 11 people were injured in Erickson’s rampage, some still in critical condition...