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The EU, UK, and Ukraine issue bold demands for both Russia 🇷🇺 and even the United States 🇺🇸 to capitulate — a move that raises eyebrows worldwide.
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00:00glorious blue sky it is a stunning uh beautiful day here in italy uh and there you see actually
00:07applause breaking out right now if you can hear them in the background here for ukraine's president
00:12zelensky and and james i'll let you pick up on that point pope francis um was quiet for a time
00:19but not fully when it came to russia and ukraine and in the end made it clear that he stood with
00:25the ukrainian people this is my video update on this saturday april the 26th coming to you from
00:40baphos cyprus let's talk about some news and we are going to start things off with the funeral
00:53of pope francis which is just wrapping up from what i understand at the time of recording this video
01:06and so many world leaders were at the funeral including u.s president trump including macron and
01:18olenski there was a lot of doubt if olenski was going to show up to the funeral yesterday he
01:29said that he might not make it to the funeral of the pope because he had important military meetings to
01:38take care of but he did end up traveling to italy and he went to the funeral and and he did not
01:52suit up he did not wear a suit everyone else wore a suit to pay their respects to pope francis but olenski
02:04decided to to wear an all all black outfit with what looked like a black uh dress shirt
02:17but no suit and uh no tie from the green goblin
02:24and uh and when the funeral wrapped up
02:27olenski he actually ended up getting a meeting about a 15 minute meeting with u.s president trump
02:39now before the funeral started olenski said that he wanted to have a mini summit he was actually
02:48pressuring maloney and italy to put together a mini summit with ukraine the united states uk germany
02:57france and italy a mini summit at the funeral at the funeral of the pope that is what olenski
03:05was asking for what's up buddy how you doing it's a hot day today huh yeah i know it's a hot one
03:15stick in the shade you'll be all right so uh
03:19uh he didn't get the summit because obviously that's rude and inappropriate but that's the green
03:29goblin for you but what he did get is that he got a 15 minute sit down with the u.s president and when
03:37i mean a 15 minute sit down i mean a 15 minute uh sit down they put two chairs opposite uh each other and
03:47they sat down and from what yermak said they had very constructive a very constructive conversation that
03:56is according to olenski's entertainment lawyer you can see the photos of uh of trump sitting across from
04:09uh elenski no table nothing just two chairs and uh and the two men talking but then there were photos
04:18that were published with macron also at this meeting and it does look like it was macron that managed to
04:27put together this sit down because if there is one weakness that trump has when it comes to world leaders
04:35it's macron man he has got a macron weakness u.s president trump can't explain it i don't know what
04:44it is but he's got a liking for macron and when macron asks for something trump delivers so i'm sure macron
04:53told uh told uh told trump come on man just sit down with olenski he wants to talk and so that's what
04:59uh what happened did i not say in limasol two three days ago when the word came out that that olenski and
05:08trump would both be going to the funeral that olenski is going to try and corner trump and talk to him
05:17that's what happened that is exactly what happened and so of course the the danger to all of this
05:28is uh is what i said many times about trump the last person to talk to trump is usually the
05:37is usually going to dictate the next statements maybe even the next policy that trump comes up with
05:43so in the next day or two expect trump to to say some very complimentary thing things about olenski
05:50and some very bad or nasty things about putin and russia it's just a guess but uh very possible
06:00of course there are other reports
06:01there are other reports which say that uh that trump sat down with olenski and he told olenski to accept his
06:16peace plan which olenski has rejected many many times he has rejected the peace plan that trump put together
06:26together ukraine the eu and uk they they put together their own peace plan i talked about
06:37this a couple of days ago as well in limasol and they put it on trump's desk reuters got a copy of this
06:42peace plan and they published it they also have a copy of the trump peace plan which is more of a framework
06:48for uh for negotiations and for an agreement with uh the conflict in ukraine but reuters also published
06:56that as well if you want a very good detailed breakdown of uh of both plans then i will put a
07:06link to alexander's video from yesterday he he goes into it in detail point by point and goes over the
07:14the two different proposals and so i will talk i will talk a bit about these uh these two different
07:24proposals the one is the framework from the us and the other is the uk eu ukraine uh plan which is more of
07:37uh of terms delivered to russia it's it's capitulation terms that uh that they're delivering to russia that's
07:45really the best way to describe the uh the ukraine u uk eu plan
07:56we're getting reports before i get into the plan we're getting reports from the washington post
08:00that uh macron and some other western leaders well kiev backers i won't say macron but i think that's
08:07that's who the washington post is talking about maybe maybe even stammer as well
08:13maybe even germany who knows but um kiev backers are pushing alensky to go up go ahead and recognize
08:24the u.s recognition de jure recognition of crimea you got that they're they're telling alensky
08:33to just go ahead and accept or allow the united states of america alensky allow the united states
08:40of america to to recognize crimea as part of russia they're they're framing that as some sort of a
08:50concession or something to russia and they're saying alensky might be willing to go ahead with this
08:56kiev backers pushing alensky toward land concessions european officials believe that ukraine may be
09:02willing to endure acknowledgement of moscow's control over crimea the report says yeah the washington post
09:09says as long as uh ukraine is not uh it's not forced or doesn't have to uh recognize uh crimea
09:17de jure de facto then maybe maybe alensky will allow the united states to recognize crimea
09:26misdirection man misdirection that's what this whole crimea thing is
09:31is a concession that russia never never never asked for and they're now packaging it as some
09:38sort of big concession being made to russia
09:41all right so let's uh let's go into the the two proposals and let's start with and these were
09:52published by reuters let's start with the ukrainian and european peace deal counter proposals to the
10:02u.s at talks in london that is how reuters frames the uh the surrender terms
10:09that that will be delivered to russia that's what this is all about surrender terms that would that
10:16will be delivered to russia and and what was going to happen in london at least we have some
10:21understanding as to what the europeans and ukraine what they were hoping was going to happen in london
10:27last week they were hoping that rubio and whitkoff would come to london and that they would present
10:32this document to the united states and that rubio and whitkoff and kellogg would would be cool with
10:38it and they would take it back to trump and they would say okay this is the uh the proposal that
10:43whitkoff is then going to take to to russia and this is what we're going to to tell russia to agree
10:48to so they were hoping in london that the u.s would attend in full force and that they would get
10:53the united states to to go along with this plan of course that did not happen rubio bailed out
10:59whitkoff bailed out rumor has it even kellogg bailed out but um anyway they decided to
11:04to to leak this to reuters or to give this to reuters and reuters has now published these surrender
11:10terms to russia russia here are your surrender terms here are your capitulation uh papers documents
11:20first time in history the the party that is winning the conflict is being presented with capitulation
11:28papers first first time in history but there you have it we do live in interesting times
11:36and we're going to walk around here we are going to walk around this area but let me uh let me get in
11:41the shade actually let me get in the shade here and and read you a bit about uh what reuters published
11:53so let's see here the uh ukraine and european peace deal
12:04so with the ceasefire it's broken up into different parts so there's one part which is the ceasefire which
12:11says that uh all parties have to agree to an unconditional ceasefire in the sky on land and at sea
12:18the unconditional ceasefire okay and uh and then it says that the ceasefire is going to be monitored
12:25by the united states and supported by third countries whatever that even means but the united states is going
12:31to monitor the uh the ceasefire and there's going to be talks that are going to begin once there's an
12:37unconditional ceasefire and those talks will be between the united states europe ukraine and on the
12:45opposite side of the table will be russia both sides immediately enter into negotiations on technical
12:50implementation with the participation of the u.s and european countries this is in parallel to
12:55preparation of the agenda and modalities for a full peace deal so basically it would be it would be the
13:02collective west with the united states entering into talks once you have an unconditional ceasefire with russia
13:08that sounds fair that sounds real fair they're dictating the terms they're going to sit down
13:16with russia and they want to dictate the terms right that's what this is saying then it's uh then
13:22it talks about security uh guarantees and it basically says that as long as there are nato
13:30member states that are still not sure about ukraine entering the alliance for example
13:36hungary let's just say hungary as one country that is not sure if ukraine can should enter nato that
13:43that ukraine will still receive security five guarantees so it's part of nato without actually
13:49having to be voted on by all the countries to to enter nato and it gets the security five guarantees it
13:56also gets the uh the protection of the united states the united states would be the main country providing
14:03security security for ukraine and it also says that there will be no restrictions on ukraine's military
14:12no restrictions at all as big military as they want as many weapons as they want
14:17they are allowed to build up their military what else does it say ukraine will be allowed to pursue
14:26accession to the european union the guarantor states will be an ad hoc group of european countries
14:32and willing non-european countries no restrictions on the presence of weapons and operations of friendly
14:37foreign forces on the territory of ukraine right so the other thing that ukraine gets is that they will
14:42have the the british and the uk and other foreign militaries allowed to to go to ukraine as much as
14:48they want whenever they want and set up their bases and all of those things on territory this is the
14:55interesting part of this uh this document on territory they don't get into any details they say they will
15:02discuss the territory later so you got that as ukraine builds up its military as the uk and france and all of these
15:08collective west countries move into ukraine as they get article 5 protection as they get all of these
15:13things going into ukraine then then at a later date they'll discuss territory
15:22yeah i don't think they're they're they're looking to discuss territory i think they're looking to
15:27to build up so they could uh go back to to war with russia that's what uh that's what they're thinking
15:34of doing but the one thing that ukraine does get is they get the zmpp so they would get they will get
15:40the zmpp that goes that goes fully into ukraine's hands so russia gives up the the zmpp on economics the
15:53the russian frozen assets are going to be used to reconstruct ukraine ukraine is going to enter into
15:59a minerals agreement with the united states as well and uh the u.s is going to be allowed at this the
16:08u.s will be allowed to ease ease up on sanctions that it first imposed in 2014 not the eu not the
16:17collective west not the uk not canada no not japan and none of these countries australia the u.s will be
16:26allowed to ease its sanctions on russia all the other sanctions will remain if the u.s wants to
16:35ease the the sanctions they will be allowed they have the permission of the other collective west
16:40countries is this a capitulation document for uh for russia but it also seems like it's a capitulation
16:46for the united states that's what it feels like anyway that's the that's the document that i'm sure
16:54the russians and i'm sure you watching this video as well is going to get a good laugh out of because
17:01it's a ridiculous uh piece of paper now let's go to the the document from the us which is very much
17:10a framework type of deal actually says it russia ukraine deal framework so this is something that's
17:16meant to to lead to more negotiations and more discussions and when it comes to ceasefire it just
17:23says there will be a permanent ceasefire and that both sides ukraine and russia will uh will engage
17:29in talks not ukraine the us the eu uk on one side and russia on the other nope the document says ceasefire
17:39and then ukraine and russia you have to talk so that's one big difference when it comes to security
17:45guarantees it just says that ukraine will receive robust security guarantee whatever that means
17:51a guarantor states will be an ad hoc grouping of european states plus willing non-european states
17:58so notice the united states is not is not there ukraine will not seek to join nato
18:05so no nato for ukraine i'm not sure how they how they're going to to enforce this but that will come
18:12up in the negotiations at least the document says that there will be no nato for ukraine i'm sure if you
18:17were going to negotiate on this framework russia would provide the uh the mechanisms to to enforce
18:24ukraine not ever uh being able to to enter nato but it does say that ukraine may pursue eu membership
18:34i don't i don't know the eu membership thing i'm not for it who am i though who am i i'm just a guy with
18:41a camera walking around talking about the news but um you know the eu is kind of like having one foot
18:47in nato when you're in the european union it's like you have one foot in uh in nato but who knows
18:52maybe for for russia maybe they see ukraine into nato as a as a way to speed up the uh ukraine into
18:59the eu sorry ukraine into the eu maybe they see it as a way for for it to speed up the the end of the
19:06european union right the demise of the eu if you if you get ukraine into the eu then the eu will
19:11collapse a lot quicker maybe that's how that's how they'll see it but to be fair russia uh never did
19:20say that they would block ukraine entering the eu they never did specifically state that as part of
19:26their terms anyway that's in there when it comes to territory it says that the u.s will recognize
19:31crimea de jure russia never asked for it but it's in there it says that the u.s will recognize lugansk
19:38zaporozhye and donetsk de facto and herson so it'll recognize all of those territories de facto but not
19:45the entirety just up to where the the uh the contact line is where the fighting uh will be frozen they
19:52will recognize those parts so that goes against the russian constitution russia will never accept this
19:57and uh and they will give up harkov russia whatever progress they made at harkov they will return that
20:05back to ukraine okay not sure if the russians would go for that and when it comes to the zaporozhye
20:14power plant it would go back to ukraine but the u.s would manage it and the u.s would make sure that
20:22the znpp provided energy to to both sides to the russian controlled side and to the ukraine console
20:30controlled side so it would be under under ukraine ownership but the u.s would be managing the plant and
20:38making sure that all uh all people in the region on both sides got uh got energy from the plant
20:45uh when it comes to economics what does this thing say this document say they talk about the minerals
20:55deal they talk about compensating the compensating ukraine but they don't get into any details they just
21:07say they just say uh ukraine to be fully reconstructed and compensated financially okay on sanctions
21:16it says that sanctions on russia resulting from this conflict since 2014 will be removed
21:21so i take that as meaning all sanctions u.s and european and collective west all the sanctions
21:27are removed that's that's a big win for russia they never asked for it but they would have all of the
21:33sanctions removed of course the european union they've already turned this down they said no way
21:37are we going to remove sanctions and uh and i think that's it u.s russian economic cooperation on
21:44energy and other industrial sectors okay so the last bullet point is that the u.s and russia are
21:48going to start doing business together that's that's the whitkoff uh contribution to to this uh document
21:55right that's the whitkoff contribution that we start doing business the u.s and russia look is the
22:02document that uh the u.s document the u.s plan is something that russia cannot accept it's something
22:07that the the europeans and ukraine will definitely not accept but um the russians are going to have
22:13a hard time accepting this plan but but i will say this if you gave this say six months maybe six six
22:21months to a year let's say of uh of negotiations then you could probably move this towards istanbul plus
22:29this plan i'm sure that russia could could move it over time to istanbul plus they could tell the
22:36trump administration look uh all of the all of the territories the four territories not from where
22:41the line is frozen all of the four territories of course in a year the russians are going to continue
22:45to advance anyway but you could you could definitely move the u.s side towards this istanbul plus with
22:51this as as uh let's say a starting point from trump's side of things which is why lavrov and and many
23:01russian officials have said when they looked at this document they said look we can we can work with
23:07this we're not going to accept this it's a crazy it's a bit of a crazy plan but over time we could
23:14probably bring the u.s towards june 2024 if you look at this plan so uh anyway those are the two plans
23:26uh ukraine the foreign ministry of ukraine actually came out with a statement and uh they they humiliated
23:33uh trump in the united states again they humiliated trump and they said that crimea and all occupied
23:40territories are ukraine their loss will never be recognized ukraine's arms armed forces and defense
23:46industry are not subject to any restrictions and ukraine will not accept any veto on its nato
23:51membership so they basically came out with a statement and they said we are getting into nato
23:56we don't care what you say trump we're going to build up our military we don't care what you say trump
24:01and we're never going to recognize crimea we don't care what you say trump and now it looks like
24:08according to the washington post that the europeans are trying to get ukraine to at least
24:12to at least be flexible on the crimea part how nice of them so anyway that's the news there
24:20olenski also said that he demands from the collective west from the united states is who
24:24he's talking about but he says europeans as well he demands uh security money weapons forever
24:32forever he said like uh like the us provides to israel that's what uh olenski is demanding from
24:38the united states discussions in london have focused on security guarantees from the united states we hope
24:43them to be at least as robust as those provided to israel additionally we anticipate support from
24:48our european partners and are actively developing the infrastructure necessary for these guarantees
24:54another demand from olenski once again he is uh he has taken a jab at trump's plan
25:02openly defying trump's plan so i think that's everything how am i doing on time
25:11was that long was that a bit too long let's take a walk let's take a walk
25:31so
25:47what else uh trump posted some stuff on truth social before he he went to rome and then when he landed in
25:55rome to be quite honest i don't think it's really that important that i read you what trump posted
26:03i'll read you what he posted when he landed in rome he said just landed in rome a good day
26:08in talks and meetings with russia and ukraine they are very close to a deal and the two sides should now
26:14meet at very high levels to finish it off most of the major points are agreed to stop the bloodshed now we will
26:20be wherever is necessary to help facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war right the us is the
26:28the mediator in all of this
26:33so trump gave his hundred days interview to time magazine and he talked about
26:46uh the russia negotiations in this hundred days interview he said that of course close to a deal
26:55and all of that stuff that we've been talking about on this channel we're close to a deal
27:00and uh and he talked about crimea and how the united states is going to recognize crimea
27:09and um and basically everything we've we've been talking about on this channel that's what he
27:14that's what he said about uh about russia and the negotiations there he uh he talked about the tariff war
27:23with china and he actually said that uh xi jinping called him and i believe this is being disputed by
27:33china anyway he said that xi jinping called him or he spoke into china he said he has 200 he has made
27:40200 tariff deals that he's going to wrap up in three to four weeks he said with regards to xi he's
27:47called and i don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf that's what trump said but china's foreign
27:52ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on trump's statement before trump's
27:57latest remarks were published it had urged washington to stop misleading the public on bilateral tariff
28:03negotiations a comment reiterated by beijing's embassy in washington so maybe maybe he did speak
28:08with xi jinping i don't know it said that before the time interview was published china was saying that
28:16there was no communication or at least china said stop misleading the public on communication
28:23that is possibly taking place between russia between china and uh in the united states but um i don't know
28:30maybe after the time interview was published maybe they did talk and he also talked about iran
28:39and he said that he's open to meeting iran's leaders and he does see a good possibility for a deal
28:45so trump said that as well by the way whitkoff he is now off to oman where he is going to
28:56to continue the negotiations on iran whitkoff heads to oman for iran nuclear deals after meeting with
29:03putin according to axios whitkoff very busy that whitkoff
29:14so we had news disturbing news
29:20not connected to to any of this geopolitics stuff
29:23on virginia juffray i think i'm pronouncing that correctly i'm sure everyone remembers remembers
29:32virginia juffray well the reports are this is coming from the media that
29:40uh she committed suicide the mother of three died aged 41 in australia her family said
29:49now the interesting part is that she posted in 2019 december 11th i am making it publicly known
29:58that in no way shape or form am i suicidal i have made this known to my therapist and gp if something
30:05happens to me in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them too many
30:12evil people want to see me quieted anyway rest in peace virginia juffray
30:26do i have any clown worlds do i have any clown worlds
30:38i don't have any clown worlds to be honest
30:45the sun was publishing is publishing
30:48some sort of war games that took place in in the uk and they say chilling war games show russian
31:01missiles overwhelming uk with britain's bases blown to bits and raf fighter jets blitzed
31:09so all of a sudden the russian military is
31:11is super strong and uh the british military would not be able to to hold up for very long
31:20against the russian military all of a sudden we have this narrative shift before it was shovels
31:26shovels and washing machine chips now the the russian military would demolish the british military so
31:34over there right there is saint paul's pillar right that is saint paul's pillar and i wonder if i can
31:50i can get down there i don't think no i can't get down there i mean i could go down there but i don't think
31:57i'm allowed to go down there a lot of people here so saint paul's pillar right there and uh paul he came to baphos
32:15and the the roman the roman governor of baphos actually uh whipped uh paul on that pillar
32:32and he ordered paul to stop
32:38stop preaching christianity that was the order that
32:43that that that the romans gave paul stopped preaching and baphos and so they they whipped him
32:50they beat him on that pillar tied him to that pillar and beat him and uh
32:58and paul didn't stop he didn't stop preaching and he actually converted the governor sergius paulus
33:11to christianity
33:15he made cyprus one of the world's
33:19very early adopters of christianity paul and he did that all when he was in baphos can you imagine that
33:2930 i read somewhere it was 39 uh
33:34lashes to paul on that pillar
33:37and they told him stop preaching and they told him stop preaching and he didn't stop he kept on preaching
33:46and eventually
33:49he got the the roman governor to become christian that's heroic that's faith that is faith right there
33:58not many people know about paul's uh pillar here in baphos it's
34:06it's just kind of there you know let me zoom in for everybody
34:12it's just kind of there
34:14not many people are aware of it pretty amazing that paul was here
34:26i want to go over there and read read what it says but there's so many people there
34:42anyway i will end the video and maybe i'll just sit down here and
34:46when uh when the tour group i believe it's a religious looks like it's a religious uh group
34:55an orthodox group right down maybe an orthodox school
35:00but i will go over there when uh when they finish up and i will read you what it says
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35:28let's go see what's over there
35:40let's start here this is very cool eric edge edge god king of denmark 1095 to 1103
35:51in baphos was buried eric edge god king of denmark
35:56who died suddenly on his way to the holy land
36:02pretty cool everyone watching in uh in denmark
36:10there you go king of denmark 1095 to 1103 on his way to to the holy land
36:20it's lunch time for the cats we will not disturb them and let's go over here
36:32here so you can see the site early christian basilica
36:38of chrysopolitica
36:454th century a.d
36:52all right i hope you enjoyed
37:11this tour and i will see everybody tomorrow take care
37:23you