LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump learned something again about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he’s out-for-himself, not really interested in peace only collecting more cash-and-arms from anyone willing to pay.  After spending about $300 billion on the failed Ukraine War, Trump had enough of Zelensky’s gaslighting, refusing to face reality and step up to a realistic peace plan.  Zelensky played the EU off Trump for nearly a year, claiming Trump does the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin.  EU...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--French President Emmanuel Macron got cold feet about his plan to confiscated billions in Russian assets to guarantee loans to Ukraine.  Once thought ingenious, the use of Russian assets looks more dicey than ever raising serious questions whether or not the European Union can underwrite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s cash-strapped government and Ukraine War.  Macron agreed in principle to the idea of seizing frozen Russia assets until Beligum Prime Minister Bart De Wever warned of dire...

LOS ANGEES (oc).--Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded with the U.S. and European Union for more air defenses after another massive Russian strike on Ukrainian targets in Sloviansk and Chermihiv, reporting damage in several regions.  Asking for more missile defense systems sounds like Zelensky has no plans to accept President Donald Trump’s peace plans that would end the nearly four-year-old war.  Every time Russian President Vladimir Putin launches new strikes Zelensky calls them terrorist attacks, asking...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--European Union officials continue to oppose President Donald Trump’s peace plan to end the Ukraine War, agreeing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, refusing to cede Eastern Donbas to the Russian Federation. Zelensky wants Russian President Vladimir Putin, after nearly four years of war, to give back some 25% of Ukrainian sovereign territory seized since the war started Feb. 24, 2022. Putin has been crystal clear with Zelensky and the EU that if they want peace they need to cede Donetsk and...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensk and the European Union have once against sabotaged Trump’s peace plan to end the Ukraine War.  EU officials expressed skepticism about Trump’s plan, claiming it favors Moscow, when, in fact, it favors only peace.  Trump has worked feverishly for months on a plan with Russian President Vladimir Putin that would finally end the nearly four-year-old war that killed tens-of-thousands of Ukrainian and Russian troop, with thousands more civilians killed .  Ukraine has been...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro blasted former Vice President and 2024 Democrat nominee Kamala Harris for twisting the reasons she picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate over Shapiro.  Shapiro called Kamala’s book “107 Days” “between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts “ from Harris’s book.  Harris said when she interviewed Shapiro, he dominated the conversation, demanding that as Vice President he would be involved in all presidential decision making.  Quoted from “107 Days,”...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Putting his cards on the table, Russian PresidentVladimir Putin told U.S. and Ukrainian officials what would have to happen if they wanted peace.  Putin offered Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky the same deal as in March 2022, only weeks after the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion:  Accept the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russia sovereignty over Crimea.  Zelensky rejected Putin’s offer as has fought a bloody, costly war, losing some 25% of Ukraine’s best sovereign territory on the Black...

LOS ANAGELES (oc).--Kremlin officials said yesterday after meeting with President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff that Russian President Vladimir Putin had not rejected the peace plan that could bring an end to the Ukraine War.  Trump has been working for months on a plan to end the nearly four-year conflict that’s decimated Ukraine, killing thousands, exiling millions and lost some 25% of Ukraine’s best sovereign territory.  Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to reject Trump’s...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--As United Healthcare CEO Brian Thomson comes up to the Dec. 4 one-year anniversary of his cold blooded killing by 27-year-old Luigi Mangione.  When Luigi shot Thomson in the back in Midtown Manhattan, he only had what looked like glee, believing he was doing the world a service by taking out a symbol of today’s health care nightmare.  Now that he’s under suicide watch in a Manhattan jail, his attorneys are pulling out all the stops, trying to get evidence tossed out before an eventual trial.  Mangione’s...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the European Union of sabotaging President Donald Trump’s peace plan to end the Ukraine War.  “They don’t have a peace agenda, they’re on the side of war,” Putin said, speaking to an investment group before meeting with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and other U.S. officials.  Trump has been working feverishly on a peace deal for months, actually taking his frustrations out on Putin, when, in fact, Ukraine’s 47-year-old President and the EU have been the obstacles to...