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All is well that ends well.
America and Russia are friends again now! Donāt believe me? Well, how do you explain the fact that Moscow just sent over their top guy over to talk with Trump to figure out how theyāre going to explore the Arctic and mine rare earth minerals together in the Donbass then? The Kremlin says it is very optimistic about all the money that theyāre going to make working together with the White House going forward.
Here:
ā”Kirill Dmitriev reported that he held meetings with key members of the US administration in Washington
The head of the RDIF said that he discussed cooperation in the Arctic and rare earth elements with representatives of the Donald Trump administration.
According to him, disagreements remain between Russia and the US, but the parties are trying to overcome them.
Other statements:
ā½US companies are ready to occupy the niches left by European companies that left Russia.
ā½The Trump administration hears Russia's position.
ā½Russia and the US have taken three steps forward in the past two days.
ā½A lot of players are trying to disrupt the dialogue between Russia and the US.
Who is this Kirill Dmitriev?
Patriotic receded chin ā š«” Patriotic nearsightedness ā š«” Patriotic formless neck ā š«” Patriotic protruding bottom lip ā š«” = 140% Patriot CONFIRMED!
Well, heās what we in the infobiz like to call a āLittlehat Patriotā. Some have already compared him to the Kushners (the Littlehat Patriot family that runs the White House), calling him Putinās Jared Kushner:
I myself have verified and reverified Dmitrievās patriotic credentials. Hereās what I came up with by simply checking the WEForum.
Stanford University ā š«”
Harvard Business School ā š«”
Goldman Sachs ā š«”
WEF Young Global Leader for Globalism. ā š«”
These are all hardcore bastions of Littlehat Patriotism, as all my readers probably know by now!
Meanwhile, Dmitriev first made an appearance in international media promoting mandatory global vaccinations a few years ago. Here is what Slavsquat shared with me:
He was a pretty big player during COVID, basically the face of Sputnik V in the West. He would go on CNN and talk about how great Pfizer and Moderna were, but also Sputnik V was really good so why can't we all get along?
And Slavsquat explains just how patriotic Dmitriev is in this article here:
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And this news all comes hot on the heels of the war in Ukraine being concluded and peace declared between Russia and Ukraine, of course! See, the globalists didnāt want the fighting to stop, but itās totally over now. I mean, it would have to be over for Putin to be talking about giving American companies investment opportunities and mining rights on Russian territory, right?
Like, wouldnāt it be weird if there was still a war raging in Ukraine and Russia where one side was using American-made weapons to kill Russians and yet the Russian government were pretending that this wasnāt happening? Thereād be no way that the Kremlin would just say that they were eager to do business together like old times with a government that is actively arming their enemy in a hot conflict, right?
That would simply be too weird.
Yes, such a scenario would be too difficult for people to wrap their heads around. So, as a result, they would simply reject such a reality. Their internal reasoning monologue would sound something like this:
Why would Putin agree to do business with Trump if Trump was arming Kiev with American weapons and using them to kill Russians? That doesnāt make any sense. Youāre making that up. The war in the Donbass is over now. Trump and Putin are both patriots and youāre jealous of their close friendship because you worship Soros, Globalist!
It would be far easier to believe that the war was over and to simply stop paying attention to it or to people who continued to report on a war that couldnāt still be happening.
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Meanwhile, Russian Telegram doesnāt seem happy about this patriotic development.
Here is one take on these business agreements and pronouncements of eternal friendship:
We DO NOT understand! What does all this have to do with the ceasefire in Ukraine (https://t.me/regnum_na/71227)?
Where is Ukraine and where is the Arctic?
How can "cooperation on rare earth elements" help end the war?
It seems that it would be much more useful to discuss ending the direct participation of the United States in the war with Russia - at the hands of Ukrainians armed from the United States. Was this issue discussed by chance?
No.
No it was not.
But why would it be?
Why are you trying to ruin everyoneās mood?
You got a problem with friendship values, patriotism-hater?
The topics that Mr. Dmitriev discussed in the US administration are frankly frightening. Perhaps, of course, because over the past 35 years we have tons of bitter experience of betrayal, and endlessly getting burned on milk [idiomatic] as we blow on water. But still! How will the fact that "US companies are ready to occupy the niches left by European companies that left the Russian Federation" helpful in achieving peace agreements? No imagination is enough to see how this is the case!
It is perfectly clear that if Trump is given free rein, he will take everything from us into his hands: the Arctic, the subsoil, and the "niches" of European companies. And the war will still continue. Is this what we want?
Why these anti-peace CIA-saboteurs are allowed to continue freely sharing their opinions on Telegram is beyond me! If Trump and Putin say that America and Russia are at peace, then that means that America and Russia are at peace and that the war is over.
PERIOD.
Case closed.
End of discussion.
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In unrelated news, Putin announced another partial mobilization of men would be necessary to stabilize the situation on the peacefront. Here:
Russian leader Vladimir Putin is set to conscript 160,000 Russians for the upcoming summer in a twice-per-year conscription drive.
The fresh troops are set to replace at least part of the troops finishing their mandatory service in Russia, which is 12 months for men aged between 18 and 30 ā increased from 27 with a decree in July 2023.
The latest decree, issued on Monday, March 31, said 160,000 men aged 18 to 30 who are not reservists would be called up for service during this yearās spring mobilization drive between April 1 and July 15.
āTo carry out, from April 1 to July 15, 2025, the conscription of Russian citizens aged 18 to 30 years who are not in the reserve and are subject to⦠conscription for military service, in the amount of 160,000 people,ā the decree says, according to Interfax Russia.
Those who finished their mandatory service would also be released, the decree adds.
āTo implement, in accordance with the Federal Law of March 28, 1998, 53-FZ āOn Military Duty and Military Service,ā the dismissal from military service of soldiers, sailors, sergeants and petty officers whose term of military service by conscription has expired,ā it says.
Interfax reported that the autumn mobilization drive in 2024 filled the Russian ranks with 133,000 fresh recruits.
Those called into service would be prohibited from leaving the country and face a hefty fine of 30,000 rubles ($353) for evading the draft, according to a BBC report on the subject in August 2023.
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All sarcasm aside, when I broke up the Not-War into separate categories I wasnāt joking.
There is War #1, which is the one being fought in the trenches of Belgorod and Donbass. That war is still going to continue for some time. But when Trump and Putin talk about peace they mean in regards to War #2, which is the one being fought over energy resources and pipelines and refineries and rare earth minerals too, apparently. That war may indeed have been concluded with a recent ceasefire. Kiev will, of course, do everything it can to sabotage this, but that is besides the point. While War #1 rages, Putin and Trump will start openly cooperating in the #2 sphere. The Kremlin will send over cheap energy and rare earth minerals that NATO needs to make its weapons to use against Russian, Iranian and then Chinese soldiers.
Narrative-wise, this bizarre arrangement is already being portrayed as a mortal blow to Globalism, somehow.
Mostly this is being justified because the Trump-Putin rapprochement is being portrayed as a great victory in War #3 , also known as the āCulture Warā or the āWar Against Wokeā. I write about how that secret war is being fought in this essay here:
You should read it if you are new and still doubt some of the key theses that I present on this blog.
I donāt understand how someone could read the news coming out of Moscow and Washington over the last weeks and not realize that I was right about Putinās perfidy all along.






On the topic of the framing of this conflict, it's interesting how boomers, even well meaning boomers, basically are locked into their mindset as their brains calcified with age, unable to update their worldview to account for new information. For example Zman - who writes daily and who I think is well meaning and not controlled, and he sometimes has decent things to say about other topics - is locked into his Russia/Putin Good, West Bad mindset; he simply *cannot process* that both Ukraine, Russia, and the United States are all controlled by higher powers. See his (stupid) post from a couple days ago: https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=33852 . I have spelled out how it works to him step by step, I have linked to Slavsquat's post with Strelkov's list of excellent questions and linked to a couple of your relevant posts, and it is totally ignored. And he's one of the better ones out there! "As the great Max Planck, himself the originator of the quantum theory in physics, has said, science makes progress funeral by funeral: the old are never converted by the new doctrines, they simply are replaced by a new generation." This concept applies not just to science, I think, but also to political worldviews and metaphysics...
Kiril Dmitriev looks like Germans from Saxony or Brandenburg.
Trump wants cheap oil so he needs Russia and the Middle East to pump and sell. Saudi Arabia and OPEC which made a fuss with Biden have suddenly decided to produce a lot more oil, crashing the price !
Rare earths are not that rare but China produces 70% of them and refines 90% of them. Burma/Myanmar, an ally of China, produces another 10% with Chinese help. The Chinese sell the rare earths cheaply in order to make production outside of China unprofitable. Australia and the USA have developed mines and clean-ish refining facilities but most industrial companies want subsidies in order to purchase more expensive non-Chinese materials. Russia might be part of the push to diversify rare earths out of China : Australian or Canadian or Japanese mining and refining technology for guaranteed deliveries to the West.
Rare minerals go beyond rare earths. They include elements like gallium, germanium, indium, scandium which are mostly produced in Russia. Russia is also the main producer noble gases such as argon or krypton. China is the other big producer or refiner of these. The agreement between Russia and the USA should ensure the supply of these to the Western-aligned countries.
Thus Trump prepares for a confrontation with China.