Such a fight as if a reality TV show is going on here. Direct accusations are being made that Donald Trump is a Russian agent with the codename “Grass No.” Trump is being identified as a Russian asset from 40 years ago, talking about buying influence. Here, extortion is happening—demanding half the money for protection. Threaten and blackmail other countries, seize their resources, or directly talk about colonizing or invading them.
Hello friends, on February 28, 2025, a meeting was taking place at the White House between American President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The US Vice President JD Vance was also present, along with a large media presence. Everything was being broadcast live. In the background, plates were being set up for a meal at the White House, and then something unprecedented in modern diplomatic history happened. This meeting turned into a fight, as if a reality TV show was unfolding. This meeting will now be etched in the pages of history because it is about to change global geopolitics and the world order.
The world’s richest oligarch, Elon Musk, is saying that the US should withdraw from the United Nations and NATO. The US has already exited the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement and is moving closer to its long-time enemy, Russia. The situation in Trump’s America has deteriorated to such an extent that some are directly accusing Donald Trump of being a Putin puppet.
To understand this entire situation deeply, let’s first look at the background. On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, marking the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. Some people assume that both sides were fighting over something, but that’s not the case. This was a one-sided invasion. Ukraine went to war only to defend its country, while Russia went to war to seize land and resources.
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To hide this real reason, Russian propaganda was spread. The real reason here was simply colonialism.
In the beginning of the invasion, Russian forces advanced rapidly, capturing parts of northern and eastern Ukraine. In response, the US, European countries, and their allies raised their voices in favor of Ukraine, imposed global sanctions against Russia, and began providing weapons to Ukraine. With the help of these Western allies, by September 2022, Ukraine had largely succeeded in pushing Russia back. However, after that, the war reached a stalemate.
The map shows that the area controlled by Ukraine and Russia today is almost the same as it was in September 2022. For the past three years, the fighting has continued, with millions of people dying on both sides. Ukraine has not been able to regain control of its remaining territories, nor has Russia been able to capture more of Ukraine’s territory.
During these three years, the strategy of the US and European countries has been to not interfere directly in the war, not send their soldiers, but to provide weapons, money, and sanctions to help Ukraine defend itself. Ukraine and its Western allies have maintained that the war will not end until Ukraine regains all its territories that it held before the war.
However, in 2024, elections were held in the US, and Donald Trump came to power. During his election campaign, Trump had said that if he became president, he would stop the Russia-Ukraine war in one day. He said, “I will stop the war swiftly. You can get that. I will have that settlement done within 24 hours.” Now, he is determined to stop this war at any cost. This is what led to the meeting between Trump and Zelensky.
Ukraine says it has no desire to continue fighting, but it needs guarantees that if the war is stopped now, Russia will not attack again after a ceasefire. For this, the US needs to provide some guarantees and security. However, Donald Trump is ignoring this question. Instead, Trump is telling Ukraine that since the US is providing so much money and weapons, Ukraine should give 50% of its natural resources revenue to the US.
This is not a joke. Donald Trump has actually proposed this plan. He wants half of Ukraine’s oil, gas, contracts, sports infrastructure, and all other natural resources to go to the US. This deal is reminiscent of what the East India Company used to do in our country. The Telegraph newspaper has described this deal as the economic colonization of Ukraine. The Economist magazine even said that Trump is directly demanding protection money like a mafia.
Naturally, no sensible politician would allow half of their country’s resources to be sold off in this manner. So, Zelensky initially refused to sign the agreement. He said he would not sign anything that would burden future generations of Ukrainians for the next 10 generations. In response, Donald Trump became furious, publicly calling Zelensky a dictator. He said, “Dictator with elections, junkie butter, move fast or you won’t have a country left.” He even posted on social media, telling Zelensky to “move fast” or risk losing his country.
This led to Zelensky going to the White House to meet with Donald Trump to discuss the mineral deal further. This was the meeting on February 28. Everything was being broadcast live on camera. For the first half hour, the meeting went smoothly, but then the situation began to change. Zelensky said that Putin has broken ceasefires 25 times. How can we trust that if we stop the war now, Russia won’t attack again in a few years?
Trump had no answer to this. He simply said that Putin has not broken any agreements with him. Vice President JD Vance, sitting beside him, said that peace can only be achieved through diplomacy. In response, Zelensky listed all the incidents where Russia had broken agreements.
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Ukraine was once the world’s third-largest nuclear power, with a large stockpile of nuclear weapons. But in 1994, it became the only country to voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons. This was part of the Budapest Memorandum, signed by Russia, the US, and the UK, which promised to protect Ukraine if it were attacked. Obviously, today, this agreement is meaningless, as Russia has blatantly violated it in front of the American media.
When Zelensky was asked if he had ever thanked Trump, he said he had thanked him at least 10 times during the meeting. Trump then directly threatened Zelensky, saying, “If you start this war again, you will lose your country.” A reporter present at the meeting asked Trump what would happen if Russia broke the ceasefire. Trump responded with a counter-question, “What if a bomb falls on your head?”
Such frivolous arguments are usually seen in reality TV shows like Roadies or Big Boss, but here, they were being made by the President of the United States. When Zelensky finally started to respond, Trump asked the media to leave. Shortly after, Zelensky was asked to leave the White House. The mineral deal was not signed, and the food prepared by the chef remained untouched.
After the meeting, Trump posted on social media, saying that Zelensky is not ready for peace and that he had insulted the US in the Oval Office. He said Zelensky could return when he was ready for peace. Zelensky responded with a sarcastic tweet, repeatedly writing “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” Many European leaders posted in support of Zelensky, and he responded to each with a “Thank you.”
Trump’s aggression towards Zelensky had started a few weeks earlier. While Joe Biden was president, the US had provided unconditional support to Ukraine. But as soon as Trump became president, he organized a meeting in Saudi Arabia between US and Russian officials to discuss Ukraine, without involving Ukraine itself. This conference was reminiscent of the 1945 Yalta Conference, where the fate of smaller European countries was decided by the US, Soviet Union, and Britain without their involvement. The Biden administration’s approach had always been “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
Then, on February 24, 2025, during a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution against Russia, something shocking happened. While most countries either supported Ukraine or remained neutral, the US, for the first time, voted against Ukraine alongside Russia and North Korea. This was perhaps the first time in 100 years that the US and Russia were on the same side in a UN vote, while most of the world was on the other side.
The question arises: why is Trump doing this? There are two main reasons cited. The first is Trump’s dislike for Zelensky, and the second is Trump’s Russian connection. Yes, you heard it right—direct accusations are being made that Donald Trump is a Russian agent with the codename “Krasnodar.”
Let’s delve deeper into these two reasons. In 2019, the US Congress impeached Trump for involving foreign powers in US elections. Trump was accused of trying to win the election with the help of Ukraine. Trump had pressured Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden, who was on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. During the Obama administration, when Joe Biden was vice president, the Ukrainian prosecutor general was removed under pressure from Biden, and the investigation into Hunter Biden’s company was halted.
In 2019, Trump called Zelensky and asked why the investigation had been stopped and demanded that it be reopened. At the time, Trump had withheld millions of dollars in military aid to blackmail Zelensky. Although Ukraine eventually received the aid, Zelensky’s government had to plead multiple times. When this came to light, Trump was impeached. Trump blamed Zelensky for his impeachment.
That was the first reason, but the second reason is even more interesting. A former KGB major, Yuri Shvets, who was posted in Washington in the 1980s, has accused Trump of being identified as a Russian asset 40 years ago. In this article, you can see what was written: some people were recruited when they were just students and later reached important positions. Trump was one of them. Yuri revealed that Trump first came on the radar of Russian intelligence in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelníčková, a Czech model. From then on, Trump became a target of Czechoslovakian and KGB intelligence.
Three years later, Donald Trump opened the Grand Hyatt New York hotel and bought 200 television sets from Semen Kislin, who was working as a spotter agent for the KGB. It was Kislin who identified Trump as a potential asset. In 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St. Petersburg for the first time, and according to Yuri, this is where the KGB launched a charm offensive. Trump was given KGB talking points, flattered, and told that he should enter politics. The Russian agency said that he would one day become the US president.
Upon returning to the US, Trump immediately took out full-page advertisements in major American newspapers questioning US foreign policy. Soon after, he began exploring options for presidential nominations. In 2000 and 2012, Trump had tried twice before to run for president. When he finally won the 2016 election, there were allegations that Russia had interfered in the election to help Trump win. Several US government investigations have provided solid evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 US elections, which helped Trump win. Russian troll farms spent millions of dollars on Facebook ads to influence the election.
But the problem is that Trump is becoming a major threat not just to the US but to the rest of the world as well. The reason behind this is neo-colonialism. The exploitative mineral deal being offered to Ukraine is indicative of Trump’s approach to other countries as well. Donald Trump has directly talked about taking over other countries—sometimes talking about buying Greenland, other times about regaining control of the Panama Canal. Trump has repeatedly joked about colonizing Canada, saying it would become the 51st state of the US.
In addition, he talks about buying Gaza in the Israel-Palestine conflict. His solution to the war is to move 2 million Palestinians out of Gaza, settle them in another country, and build five-star hotels and luxury cars in Gaza. Such an approach may bring short-term victories against weaker countries, but the US is sowing the seeds of its own failure.
According to an article in Foreign Policy magazine titled “The Bad Economics of Bullying,” this bullying approach is harmful to the US itself because bullies push away those they bully.
Trump is behaving in the same way with all of America’s old allies. Sometimes he talks about imposing tariffs on European countries, other times on India, saying, “If you don’t make your products in America, you will pay a tariff, and in some cases, a large one.” Every small thing is being used to threaten and blackmail other countries. If a country doesn’t comply, tariffs are imposed. The long-term damage to the US is clear. When other countries see the US treating them this way, they will unite.
Already, after the Zelensky incident, the European Union, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, and many other countries are coming together. A new consensus is emerging in Europe that Europe can no longer depend on the US. There are calls to boycott American companies, and discussions are underway about creating a European-wide army. Some countries are also devising new strategies to tolerate Trump. One strategy is “strategic evasion,” which means pretending to comply with Trump’s demands while actually delaying them.
After World War II, the US emerged as a superpower, establishing various international institutions like the United Nations and the World Health Organization, and playing a leading role. Today, the relevance of the US is diminishing. Geopolitically, a vacuum is being created. Who will lead these international institutions? There is a need for some major countries to take on leadership roles. The world cannot function on bullying. There is a need to increase international cooperation. Countries like China and India have the best opportunity here.
India, in particular, has a unique opportunity. India can present itself as a reliable partner and an alternative to the US. Due to its tradition of strategic autonomy and non-alignment, India is in a position to take a front seat globally. Diverse economic partnerships can be built with Asian, African, and South American countries. This is not just an opportunity but also a responsibility for every good country and every good leader to protect all the smaller countries of the world. If this is not done, this neo-colonialism will destroy all the smaller countries and lead the world toward World War III.
I hope you found this blog informative.
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