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Witkoff meets Putin — a high-level encounter with major implications. Meanwhile, Starmer’s coalition grows as 6 countries join his cause, and Blinken returns to the diplomatic front lines.
But it doesn’t stop there. Ursula von der Leyen has a stark warning for Trump, and the balance of power continues to shift.
🌍 What does it all mean for the UK’s geopolitical future, the US's influence, and the global order?
This analysis covers the key players and crucial moves shaping the current landscape.
Christoforou’s take cuts through the headlines — don’t miss this one!
Witkoff meets Putin — a high-level encounter with major implications. Meanwhile, Starmer’s coalition grows as 6 countries join his cause, and Blinken returns to the diplomatic front lines.
But it doesn’t stop there. Ursula von der Leyen has a stark warning for Trump, and the balance of power continues to shift.
🌍 What does it all mean for the UK’s geopolitical future, the US's influence, and the global order?
This analysis covers the key players and crucial moves shaping the current landscape.
Christoforou’s take cuts through the headlines — don’t miss this one!
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00:00No, no, no, no.
00:021, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8.
00:04How much is the President Putin?
00:06I will be able to make a deal relatively soon with Russia and Ukraine to stop the fighting.
00:13It's so senseless, it's such a horrible thing.
00:16It would have never happened if I were President.
00:18But it did happen, and we were given that card.
00:21And I think we're going to get it, I think we're going to get it stopped.
00:24We're going to get going. We're going to get it. We have to move it faster.
00:27This is my video update on this Friday midday, April the 11th.
00:37Coming to you from Nicosia, Cyprus.
00:41Let's talk about some news.
00:45And the big story for today is that Witkoff is on his way to Russia.
00:55I believe he is about to land in St. Petersburg.
01:03I don't think he's going to Moscow. I think he's going to St. Petersburg.
01:07And he is going to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
01:11This has been confirmed by the Kremlin.
01:15Peskov has confirmed Witkoff's trip and the meeting with the Russian President.
01:23This is going to be the third meeting between Putin and Witkoff.
01:31And I have to tell you, this is a very good sign.
01:36This is a very encouraging sign to see Witkoff meeting with Putin.
01:41Not Rubio or Waltz or Kellogg or any of these guys meeting with the Russian President.
01:50It is Witkoff. Actually, I don't think Rubio or Waltz.
01:56Well, Kellogg hasn't had any contact with the Russians.
01:58But Rubio and Waltz, I think the highest level official that they've met with is Lavrov in Riyadh.
02:08But Witkoff has met with the Russian President two times and we will have a third time.
02:15This is a very good sign.
02:19And perhaps Witkoff is going to accept Istanbul Plus June 2024 terms.
02:34Maybe that's what we're going to see happening.
02:38He could be going to meet with Putin to talk about phase three of the ceasefire, which is a non-starter.
02:46But it's possible, but I doubt it.
02:49Witkoff was never hot on the ceasefire plan.
02:53That's Kellogg and Waltz.
02:56What Witkoff has always talked about was Istanbul.
03:03He has always been talking about the Istanbul 2022 agreement, which Boris Johnson sabotaged.
03:14And he told Tucker Carlson.
03:17He pretty much told Tucker Carlson that the Istanbul Plus could be a possible deal.
03:24He didn't phrase it like that, but that was his message to Tucker Carlson when he sat down with Tucker for an interview about a month ago.
03:36So he could be going there to talk about June 2024 terms and winding down the conflict in Ukraine or or at least ensuring that the U.S. is out of project Ukraine.
03:50That could be option number one or option number two, which I find unlikely is that he could be going there to talk about phase three ceasefire.
03:57And if Russia doesn't agree to an unconditional ceasefire, then you're going to see secondary sanctions on on Russian oil, which is something that Lindsey Graham and other members in Congress have already prepared.
04:11If Russia doesn't agree to an unconditional ceasefire that Lindsey Graham is saying that the United States will place 500 percent sanctions on Russian secondary oil.
04:25Why 500 percent?
04:26Why not make it?
04:27Why not make it 10 million percent?
04:30Well, I, I think I think what coffee is going to talk about Istanbul.
04:35Plus.
04:36That would be my guess.
04:38And about about business doing business which cough also met a couple of days ago.
04:44The media of the investment fund's chief who was in Washington and
04:57in the white house so maybe they're also going to talk about doing business normalizing relations
05:04and doing business anyway it is an encouraging sign to see whitkoff traveling to russia possibly
05:14already in russia axios reported trump envoy whitkoff travels to russia to meet with putin
05:23while ukraine agreed to trump's proposal for an unconditional ceasefire and subsequently
05:29agreed to plans for a smaller scale maritime ceasefire russia made a series of new demands
05:37including the lifting of some u.s sanctions we are making progress we hope that we are getting
05:43relatively close to getting a deal between russia and ukraine to stop the fighting trump said on
05:48thursday during a cabinet meeting axios is lying here fake news from axios where they say that
05:55that russia is to blame for the fact that the uh the two ceasefire phases did not
06:06pan out the way they were supposed to it was ukraine that broke the ceasefire
06:14the energy ceasefire they've been breaking it every single day not russia's fault the ukraine's fault
06:20and as far as the maritime ceasefire goes russia was basically saying look if you want us to
06:27take part in the maritime ceasefire the uh the sanctions on the russian agricultural bank
06:35it needs to be lifted and the eu needs to do this and the eu said no we're not going to lift those
06:41sanctions so axios is trying to make it seem as if russia's to blame for the fact that the two
06:47ceasefires did not uh work out or are not working out fake news from axios but trump did say yesterday
06:57in the cabinet meeting that uh we are getting closer to some sort of of a deal and now you have whitkoff in
07:07russia so uh so blinken he gave an interview blinkity blinken he is back blinken is back baby rocking in the
07:17free world blinken and uh and you know he's he's preparing the the ground for uh for blaming trump
07:27for uh russian victory in project ukraine that was basically the uh the point of blinken's
07:35interview he talked about how
07:41how the biden administration they would have problems with with their ukrainian friends those
07:49are the words that he used with our ukrainian friends every now and again but we always remained united
07:55blinken made it a point to say that that the us and its allies and ukraine they always remained united
08:02and they they never forgot according to blinken that russia was and is the aggressor and ukraine
08:12is the the victim in all of this that was pretty much what blinken said in this interview he was actually
08:18asked about the rare earth minerals deal as well and uh blinken admitted that uh
08:26that the biden white house also had a rare earth minerals deal he said it was part of the
08:33the olenski victory plan which is actually true olenski is the first person that brought up
08:41minerals ukraine resources for security and it was in that victory plan and he also told it to lindsey
08:49graham as well take our resources and in exchange give me money and weapons so blinken also talked about
08:59this as well did we have frustrations occasionally with um our ukrainian friends including president
09:08zelensky sure did we show that in public when it happened no because it's so important that there be
09:13a clear united front and you can't lose sight of the fundamental which is there's an aggressor right and
09:19that's russia there's a victim and that's ukraine and it's unfortunate that the focus got taken off of
09:25that fair to ask for or try to take rare earth uh you know minerals or other kinds of remuneration
09:33for our help yes and in fact part of the the victory package that president zelensky put on the table
09:39in the last six months of our administration included um us working with them but the main point of the
09:45blinking interview was to to pave the way for putting the blame on trump
09:56if uh project ukraine falls apart
10:00so trump has to get a deal he needs to get a deal going or it needs to walk away
10:05or both get some sort of a deal with russia and walk away trump needs to to do something like that
10:12quickly very quickly and it can happen it can happen today it's not a hard thing to achieve
10:20for the us to get out of project ukraine it's actually quite quite easy when you think about
10:26it they've got the terms putin has laid out the terms everyone knows what those terms are
10:34but if trump doesn't get out of project ukraine in the next couple of months
10:38you can see that blinken and and all of these guys are are ready to blame everything on trump
10:46on his administration so he needs to get out of this because look the biden uh drawdown package
10:54it is going to end in a couple of months so the weapons are going to stop flowing to ukraine the money
11:03and the weapons and uh the russians are possibly going to be on the offensive as well in in a couple of
11:13weeks a couple of weeks to a couple of months there is a possible big russian offensive possibly on
11:23in two directions from the south and from sumi from the north this is possible
11:31so you could have an offensive you could have the the drawdown package ending which would mean that
11:39ukraine either stops getting weapons and money from the u.s
11:45or that trump is going to have to go to congress and ask for another 50 or 60 billion dollar package
11:51which is never going to fly that's not going to happen another 50 or 60 billion package approved to go
11:58to ukraine that's going to look terrible so we are coming to some sort of an end game
12:08that's uh that's an update there
12:10on everything that is happening with trump white house and ukraine we also have the good news
12:23more good news that
12:24the u.s ambassador to kiev is preparing to resign bridget brink that's her name
12:41bridget brink who was appointed by biden in 2022
12:47to be the ambassador to ukraine she is resigning this is also good news very good news
12:58she does not agree with trump's direction
13:01she definitely knows something that uh we probably don't know which is causing her to to resign
13:11she's a war hawk she was uh a big time supporter of of the biden blinken sullivan escalation in ukraine
13:26and for her to resign means that she is not on board with trump's plan for project ukraine
13:36so she's jumping ship
13:44she was coordinating as ambassador to ukraine she was without a doubt coordinating all kinds of uh
13:55of money flows of weapons flows of information flows back and forth from ukraine and the united states
14:04i mean that was that was what she was there to do i imagine she also did a lot of alensky babysitting
14:12as ambassador to ukraine
14:18lots of billions and billions of of dollars
14:23from the biden administration flowing in and out of ukraine lots of money flowing in and out of ukraine
14:31lots of media propaganda
14:36coming out of ukraine
14:40lots of weapons lots of everything and she was right there smack in the middle of it all
14:45the u.s ambassador to kiev
14:47so today we are getting some strong indications that that something could be on the way for project
14:59ukraine some sort of resolution or some sort of of end game being planned for project ukraine
15:08then again this could all change tomorrow you never know tomorrow you could get a statement
15:17from the trump administration saying that
15:21he's upset with putin again who knows this could all change tomorrow today the indications are positive
15:27tomorrow we could have a different story
15:35so let's uh
15:37let's stay with ukraine and let's talk about
15:41the uk
15:43according to the telegraph
15:45the telegraph british troops could be stationed in ukraine for five years if
15:57there is a trump ceasefire an unconditional ceasefire which is never going to be approved by russia but
16:06you can if you're the telegraph you can dream if you're the uk you can dream that this is what's
16:11going to happen an unconditional
16:14ceasefire and if that does happen then according to the telegraph
16:19british troops could be deployed in ukraine for five years you have the afp they are reporting that
16:30six of the 30 countries in the coalition of the willing have signed up to
16:42send troops to uh ukraine if there is an unconditional ceasefire
16:52six countries
16:53from a total of 30 of the coalition of the willing what are the six countries uk france
17:08the three baltic states latvia lithuania estonia and and the sixth country which uh
17:18uh which no one knows which has not been named i'm thinking denmark denmark is the
17:27is the sixth country country number six
17:35this is a new development in nicosia
17:40used to be the hilton hotel now it's a new development called the landmark and it'll be a hotel
17:47and departments stuff like that but yeah six countries of 30 according to the afp
17:58the uh british defense minister what did he say about all of this stuff our planning is real and
18:05substantial our plans are well developed uk defense minister john healy told the meeting our our
18:12reassurance force that's right it's a reassurance force for ukraine would be a committed and credible
18:19security arrangement to ensure that any negotiated peace does bring what trump has pledged a lasting
18:26peace for ukraine that's right it's not a peacekeeping force anymore the six countries that would be
18:33participating in some sort of troop deployment in ukraine
18:37has nothing to do with peacekeeping it's all about reassurance reassurance we're here to reassure
18:45you reassure us of what i don't know we're just here to reassure you swedish defense minister pal
18:52johnson highlighted a number of questions that we need to get clarified before it can make any promises
18:59it's helpful if there's a clarity of what that mission would entail and what we do if we are
19:05peacekeeping deterrence or reassurance he said yeah so that's sweden basically saying you know we're
19:14we're not going to send troops to ukraine until we understand what exactly they are going to be doing there
19:24are they peacekeeping are they a deterrence force or are they a reassurance force they're a reassurance force
19:37mr defense minister of sweden if you send troops to ukraine they're going to go there to reassure
19:47reassure reassure reassure alensky that's what they're going to do
19:56so the european union
19:59they are warning the trump administration that's right ursula is on the attack ursula is on the offensive
20:10she gave an interview to the financial times and basically what ursula said is that if if there is no
20:19tariff trade deal between the united states in 90 days and the tariffs snap back on the reciprocal
20:28tariffs not the 10 blanket tariffs if trump decides to put back into place the reciprocal tariffs against
20:34the eu 20 percent total uh reciprocal tariffs then ursula warned the trump administration that the eu is
20:42going to hit the u.s really hard and they're going to hit the u.s really hard on services especially digital
20:51services so basically ursula after the uh the 90-day pause announcements and all of the chaos that
21:01followed after the 90-day pause announcement basically ursula and the european union they are sensing uh
21:08weakness and they are now issuing threats and warnings to the united states completely expected and
21:19predictable that's the way uh that's the way these globalists operate when they sense any sort of
21:27of of uncertainty then they really go to to hit you hard and that is what ursula is basically messaging to
21:39the trump administration eu to trump on tariffs will retaliate when we're ready not when you tweet
21:49brussels suspended its countermeasures against the u.s president's steel and aluminum tariffs before
21:57they even took effect now the two sides have 90 days to do a deal and from the financial times the eu
22:04could tax big tech if trump trade talks fail says ursula von der leyen we are developing
22:12retaliatory measures von der leyen said adding that these could include the first use of the eu's
22:19anti-coercion mechanism to hit services rather than goods there's a wide range of countermeasures in case
22:25the negotiations are not satisfactory an example is you could put a levy on the advertising revenues
22:31of digital services she added outlining a measure that would apply across the block's entire single
22:37market on top of digital sales taxes set individually by member states so what ursula is saying is that the eu
22:46you could will will tax big tech ad sales on top of everything else that they could be taxing
23:03they're going to go after services especially digital services and big tech especially hard if
23:10after 90 days there's no so there's no kind of of deal or resolution to the tariff and trade talks which
23:23haven't started yet we haven't had any trade talks take place at all not between the u.s and anybody
23:33with the exception i believe of vietnam vietnam kind of had some tariff trade talks which the u.s uh
23:41completely um turned down whatever offer vietnam put to the u.s the u.s turned down these offers this
23:49was about five five days ago when the tariffs were first announced the liberation day tariffs
23:56vietnam was vietnam was i believe the only country that has put an offer to the united states
24:04outside of vietnam we've had no deals at all uh signed and i don't even think we've had any
24:13meetings which have taken place
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24:58all right
25:00all right so uh shifty shift
25:04he is also sensing some uh some chaos and and uncertainty
25:10after the tariff pause and he is calling for an investigation
25:17for market manipulation that is what the shifty shift
25:21said yesterday which is
25:27very interesting coming from the democrats
25:31nancy pelosi the greatest stock trader in all of history
25:35and now they're saying that there's market manipulation happening on the trump side of
25:40things and shift is calling for an investigation of course nothing's going to happen
25:44now nothing is going to happen but if if there is some sort of of a disaster during the midterms
25:53and uh and the democrats take control of congress then basically shift is uh
26:00is signaling one of the tracks that the democrats may
26:05may go down one of the paths they may go down in order to go after trump
26:09the market manipulation from all the the ups and downs of the stock markets
26:18all the volatility
26:21and uh trump's message before he announced the tariff pause where he talked about
26:26about it being a good time to buy so that's what shift is is focusing on shifty shift
26:34so uh let's do a clown world and wrap this video up and uh today's clown world not much of a clown world
26:52i guess it's a clown world china raises tariffs on u.s goods from 84 to 125 percent given that there
27:01is no possibility of market acceptance for u.s goods exported to china under the current tariff levels
27:08china will ignore any subsequent tariff increases by the u.s on chinese goods exported to the u.s
27:14basically what china is saying here now that they've raised the tariffs from 84 to 125
27:23is that uh that these numbers now are irrelevant going forward whatever number you
27:29you you tack on to to the tariffs it's uh it's meaningless because with these with these numbers
27:38there's no possibility of any type of trade to take place so you can you can retaliate with 150
27:47percent tariffs if you're the united states and then china can retaliate with 200 percent tariffs it's all
27:52it's all meaningless now with these types of numbers there's going to be no trade between the uh united
28:00states and china so that's kind of the clown world i will end the video there the duran.locals.com
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