Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Could Save Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars. So Why Are Elites So Against It? by Jason Jones & John Zmirak

By Jason Jones & John Zmirak, The Stream, March 20, 2025

Jason Jones is a senior contributor to The Stream. He is a film producer, activist, and human rights worker. He is also the author of three books, the latest of which is The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset. … John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

You don’t have to have a sneaking crush on thuggish Russian President Vladimir Putin or mistake him as a guardian of “Christian values” to realize that the war in Ukraine has many fathers beside him. Western elites and their handmaidens in the Deep State have been playing Chicken Kyiv with Russia since the early 1990s. Among their actions:

• Pointlessly expanding the obsolete suicide pact called NATO right up to Russia’s borders — a perfect parallel to the Soviets putting nuclear missiles in Castro’s Cuba in 1962, which almost led President John F. Kennedy to initiate World War III.

• Encouraging the most quixotic nationalists in Ukraine to hold onto territories that Russia would never renounce, especially Crimea.

• Honeycombing Ukraine with abortion providers, LGBTQ evangelists, and CIA spies, all funded via USAID programs in pastel, “humanitarian” wrapping. ….

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