Putin Hits Back At Trump’s New Criticisms Of Russia With A Classic Playground Insult

Posted on 03/10/2025 by Boris Clair

Vladimir Putin seems to have resorted to childish tactics to hit back at Donald Trump after the US president turned on Russia last week.

Until recently, Trump tried repeatedly to force Moscow to end its war in Ukraine through flattery, even offering up a peace deal on Putin’s terms – and suggesting Ukraine should give up its sovereign land.

But, after months of failed attempts at negotiations, Trump blasted Russia and unexpectedly claimed Ukraine could win the conflict instead.

The US president even called Russia a “paper tiger” – a seemingly powerful entity who is actually ineffective – last week.

Now Putin has responded by simply turning the insult back on Nato, and insisting the defence alliance is the real “paper tiger.”

Speaking on Thursday, he said: “A paper tiger. What follows then? Go and deal with this paper tiger.

“Well, if we are fighting with the entire Nato bloc, we are moving, advancing, and we feel confident, and we are a ‘paper tiger’, then what is Nato itself?”

According to Reuters news agency, he insisted his forces were advancing along the entire warfront in Ukraine – and alleged that almost all of the US-led Nato alliance was now fighting against Moscow.

He also issued a stern warning to the US over the possibility that Trump might give Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, something the White House is yet to confirm.

Putin claimed: “It is impossible to use Tomahawks without the direct participation of American military personnel.

“This will mean a completely new, qualitatively new stage of escalation, including in relations between Russia and the United States.”

But Putin had a flippant response to European claims he had launched drone incursions over Poland and fighter jets over Estonia.

He said: “I won’t do it anymore – to France, Denmark, Copenhagen, Lisbon – wherever they could reach.”

He claimed the most recent accusations that Russian drones had flown over Denmark were parts of Nato efforts to “inflame tensions to boost defence spending”.

Europe is taking these provocations much more seriously, though.

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said “this is war” on Thursday, and called on Nato to abandon “illusions” and confront a “new type of war”.

The EU has also launched a drone wall initiative to boost its eastern flanks amid fears Putin is testing the bloc’s defences.

But Putin still insisted alleged plans of Russia trying to attack a Nato member were “impossible to believe” on Thursday.

“I just want to say: cool down, sleep calmly, and take care of your own problems. Just take a look at what’s happening on the streets of European cities,” he claimed.

But – in typical Kremlin fashion – he added: “If anyone still has a desire to compete with us in the military sphere, as we say, feel free, let them try. Russia’s countermeasures will not be long in coming.

Putin often falsely portrays his Ukraine invasion as something he was forced into by Nato’s expansion eastwards, rather than the land grab the West believes it to be.

Reform UK Chief Left Squirming Over Former Party Leader Who Made Pro-Russia Statements For Cash

Posted on 29/09/2025 by Boris Clair

A senior Reform UK official was left squirming over a former leader of the party who has admitted making pro-Russia statements for cash.

Nathan Gill, who led Reform in Wales, last week pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight counts of bribery between 2018 and 2019.

His activities were said to include making pro-Russian statements about events in Ukraine in the European Parliament and in opinion pieces to news outlets.

Gill was first elected as a UKIP member of the European Parliament in 2014 and became an MEP for the Brexit Party after the UK formally left the EU in 2020.

He led Reform UK’s 2021 Welsh Parliament election campaign but is no longer a member of the party.

On BBC Breakfast on Monday, Reform policy chief Zia Yusuf said what he had done was “appalling and totally unacceptable and treacherous”.

However, he then went on to accuse Labour of “smears and name calling” to deflect from the government’s record.

Asked by presenter Jon Kay if anyone else in Reform shared Gill’s views, Yusuf said: “The first time I heard his name or seen his name was in news reports.”

As he insisted “most people in the senior leadership team” of Reform had never heard of him, Kay pointed out that they had just shown a number of images of him with party leader Nigel Farage.

“We’ve just shown our viewers pictures of Nigel Farage with his arm around him holding a Union Flag – they obviously knew one another pretty well,” he said.

Yusuf said: “Whatever that footage is, Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis ultimately. He can’t be held accountable for the actions of everyone he comes into contact with.

“Given he has pleaded guilty, I have no concerns in telling you that is atrocious behaviour and we condemn it.

“Reform is a very nascent political party and in the end what we’ve got to stick to is the issues that matter to British people, and smearing Reform, calling Reform voters names, calling us racist, these issues no longer matter.”

Watch the exchange below:

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‘What are voters to make of the fact your former leader in Wales pleaded guilty to accepting bribes for making statements in the European Parliament in favour of Russia?’

Zia Yusuf from Reform UK was questioned on #BBCBreakfast after Nathan Gill admitted the offences while he… pic.twitter.com/ZdSc5ztUtc

— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) September 29, 2025

Former British Army Chief Reveals Why The Ukraine War Has Been A ‘Disaster’ For Russia

Posted on 05/09/2025 by Boris Clair

The former head of the British Army has insisted the war in Ukraine has been a “disaster for Russia”.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, who was chief of the defence staff until this week, said Vladimir Putin’s progress since the 2022 invasion had been slower than a snail’s.

His comments came a day after Keir Starmer warned Donald Trump that the Russian president “could not be trusted” as attempts to end the conflict drag on.

Speaking on Radio 4′s Today programme this morning, Sir Tony listed the reasons why Putin’s decision to invade his neighbour had backfired.

He said: “This war has been a disaster for Russia. Putin wanted less Nato, he’s got more Nato. We’ve grown from 30 nations to 32 nations.

“Putin originally thought that he would subjugate Ukraine in days, if not weeks. That’s clearly not the case.

“It’s a facile description but it’s a really important one. If a snail had left Rostov-on-Don in Russia on February 24, 2022, by now it would have crossed all the way through Ukraine and now would be halfway through Poland. That’s how difficult Russia is finding it.”

He said that at its current rate of progress, it would take the Russian army 4.4 years to capture the four Ukrainian oblasts it wants to occupy, at the cost of a further two million casualties.

Sir Tony also stressed the importance of the “coalition of the willing” group of countries, including the UK, which has pledged to defend Ukraine after any peace deal is agreed.

He said: “It’s much more about European security, the reassurance to America that Europe is taking more responsibility for its security.

“Let’s use that to garner a better responsibility for our own security.”

JD Vance Bungles Basic History While Talking About Russia And Ukraine

Posted on 25/08/2025 by Boris Clair

Vice President JD Vance fumbled some very basic facts on world history while talking foreign policy on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.”

During the interview, the Yale Law School graduate defended President Donald Trump’s decision to entertain Russia’s terms for a peace deal with Ukraine by claiming all wars end in compromise.

Asked by host Kristen Welker if forcing Ukraine to cede its Donbas region would signal Russia, or other world powers, could skirt the consequences of illegal land grabs, he said, “If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.”

But Vance’s examples were flat wrong.

World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, two years after Italy’s fascist regime folded.

By then, Germany’s industrial centres had been decimated and Adolf Hitler had killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin. Japan yielded after the Allies deployed a pair of nuclear bombs, killing hundreds of thousands.

World War I technically concluded with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, but at that point Germany was already defeated, having lost the Western Front and its kaiser, and had virtually no leverage at the negotiating table.

The agreement left Germany owing the Allies billions, limited its military to a mere 100,000 men, and forced it to cede 10% of its European territory as well as all its colonies.

Elsewhere during the conversation, Vance tried to claim that Russia had made “significant concessions,” like generously agreeing not to install “a puppet regime in Kyiv” and (maybe) promising not to invade again in the future.

Trump Makes Awkward U-Turn After Failed Ceasefire Talks With Zelenskyy And Putin

Posted on 21/08/2025 by Boris Clair

After his highly criticised Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without reaching a ceasefire agreement in the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump now says he thinks it would be “better” if Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met without him.

Speaking on Wednesday on “The Mark Levin Show,” Trump made the statement despite claiming to conservative podcaster Mark Levin that he had “very successful” exchanges with both leaders.

“I had a very successful meeting with President Putin. I had a very successful meeting with President Zelenskyy. And now I thought it would be better if they met without me, just to see. I want to see what goes on. You know, they had a hard relationship, very bad, very bad relationship,” Trump said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday.

He continued, “And now we’ll see how they do and, if necessary, and it probably would be, but if necessary, I’ll go and I’ll probably be able to get it close.”

Trump went on to say that “they’re in the process of setting it up and we’re gonna see what happens,” adding, “But you gotta stop the killing, Mark, it’s too much killing.”

The president then said, “Nobody from America is being killed” in the war.

“United States soldiers aren’t involved,” he told Levin. “We have no boots on the ground, but when you lose 6,000, 5,000, 7,000 young people, and then you also lose some people from the towns and cities as missiles get lobbed into them, can you imagine living like that?”

Trump, who had a follow-up meeting with Zelenskyy and top European leaders in the Oval Office on Monday after Friday’s summit with Putin, made the comments after he announced plans to coordinate a summit between Putin and Zelenskyy in a bid to end the more-than-three-year war in Ukraine.

In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said he would also plan a trilateral meeting, in which he would take part, as a follow-up to a potential Putin and Zelenskyy meeting.

“At the conclusion of the meetings, I called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy,” Trump wrote. “After that meeting takes place, we will have a Trilat, which would be the two Presidents, plus myself.”

Listen to Trump’s appearance on “The Mark Levin Show” on YouTube.

Trump Has Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Over Critics Of His Failed Putin Summit

Posted on 19/08/2025 by Boris Clair

President Donald Trump lashed out at the criticism he’s faced for his Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, which failed to result in a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.

“The Fake News has been saying for 3 days that I suffered a ‘major defeat’ by allowing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to have a major Summit in the United States,” Trump wrote on Sunday evening in a Truth Social post that did not mention the outcome of the summit. “Actually, he would have loved doing the meeting anywhere else but the US, and the Fake News knows this. It was a major point of contention!”

Trump argued that his critics wouldn’t have been pleased even “if we had the Summit elsewhere” because “the Democrat run and controlled media would have said what a terrible thing THAT was.”

Claiming “these people are sick,” Trump transitioned into boasting about improving the crime in Washington, DC, and his efforts to “secure [the] Southern Border.”

“They even want CRIME IN D.C., and other BLUE Cities throughout our Country, but don’t worry, I won’t let that happen. Just like our now secure Southern Border (ZERO illegals in last 3 months!), our cities will be Secure and Safe, and D.C. will lead the way!”

The president followed up his lengthy comments by attacking Senator Chris Murphy (Democrat, Connecticut), who had slammed the Trump-Putin summit as an “embarrassment to the United States” Sunday while appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press.

“The very unattractive (both inside and out!) Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said ‘Putin got everything that he wanted.’ Actually, ‘nobody got anything,’ too soon, but getting close,” Trump wrote in a separate Truth Social post Sunday. “Murphy is a lightweight who thinks it made the Russian President look good in coming to America. Actually, it was very hard for President Putin to do so.”

Wrapping up his post, Trump also called out his former national security adviser John Bolton, who told CNN that Putin had “won the summit” over a “tired” Trump.

“This war can be ended, NOW, but stupid people like Chris Murphy, John Bolton, and others, make it much harder to do so,” Trump added.

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Aug. 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska.

Just minutes later, Trump directed his attention to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, arguing that Zelenskyy could “end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to.” He then bashed former President Barack Obama.

“President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump wrote. “Remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!”

Trump’s slew of pointed posts aimed at his opponents didn’t stop there.

Just hours before he was scheduled to host Zelenskyy at the White House, Trump railed against “badly failing Radical Left Democrats.”

“I am totally convinced that if Russia raised their hands and said, ‘We give up, we concede, we surrender, we will GIVE Ukraine and the great United States of America, the most revered, respected, and powerful of all countries, EVER, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, the Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners would say that this was a bad and humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst days in the history of our Country,’” Trump wrote in a Monday Truth Social post.

He added: “But that’s why they are the FAKE NEWS, and the badly failing Radical Left Democrats. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”

Minutes later, Trump claimed in a post that the “Russia/Ukraine MESS” is “Sleepy Joe Biden’s war, not mine,” adding, “ I’m only here to stop it, not to prosecute it any further. It would have NEVER happened if I was President.”

Elsewhere in the post, Trump claimed that The Wall Street Journal and “many other” news outlets “don’t have a clue” about the number of conflicts he’s resolved since his second term began.

“I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster, and yet I have to read & listen to the Wall Street Journal, and many other who truly don’t have a clue, tell me everything that I am doing wrong…”

Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Monday marks the Ukrainian leader’s first White House visit since the two had a highly contentious meeting in February.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy praised Trump’s strength in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday morning ahead of their meeting.

“We discussed the battlefield situation and our strong diplomatic capabilities – Ukraine’s and all of Europe’s together with America,” he wrote. “Russia can only be forced into peace through strength, and President Trump has that strength. We have to do everything right to make peace happen. Thank you!”

‘You Like This Idea’: Trump Jokes About Cancelling 2028 Elections To Fight War

Posted on 19/08/2025 by Boris Clair

As President Donald Trump sat down Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss bringing an end to Russia’s three-year war, he was confronted with the fact that Ukraine has not been able to hold elections amid the brutal fighting.

Zelenskyy had fielded a question from a reporter on whether he would be open to elections upon reaching a peace agreement.

“Yes, of course,” the Ukrainian leader said, noting that the government would need to ensure the polls would be safe and secure.

Trump then jumped in: “So, you’re saying, during the war you can’t have elections. So let me just say, 3 and a half years from now, so, you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections.”

“Oh, that’s good. I wonder what the fake news would say,” Trump added.

The comment, making light of the American tradition of a peaceful transfer of power, elicited some chuckles from those gathered in the packed Oval Office.

“You like this idea,” Zelenskyy responded with a laugh.

The Ukrainian president has remained in power despite his term having expired last year because the country declared martial law upon Russia’s 2022 invasion. While public support for Zelenskyy has dropped over the years of the conflict, however, there is little doubt in Ukraine that he remains the legitimate president during wartime.

Trump’s remark was likely to raise some eyebrows because his disdain for US election law — and apparent desire for an unconstitutional third term — is already so well-documented.

Trump insisted back in March that he was “not joking” about the possibility of serving as president a third time, claiming that “a lot of people” wanted him to do so. Emil Bove, whom Trump chose to sit on a federal appellate court, refused to rule out the possibility of a third Trump term during congressional questioning.

Representative Andy Ogles (Republican, Tennessee), a die-hard Trump ally, floated the idea just over the weekend.

Trump also still falsely insists he was the true winner of the 2020 presidential election, refusing to consider the total lack of evidence, although he seems to have come to terms with it after his 2024 victory meant he will be president during such high-profile events as the 2026 Olympics and the nation’s 250th anniversary.

Earlier Monday, he took aim at the validity of mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines, potentially opening the door to voter suppression tactics that could disproportionately affect his political opponents.

Trump Piles Pressure On Zelenskyy To End The War Putin Started In Bizarre Truth Social Rant

Posted on 18/08/2025 by Boris Clair

Donald Trump has piled pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy to end the war in Ukraine – even though it was started by Russia’s invasion of his country more than three years ago.

In a bizarre rant on his Truth Social platform, the US president said the Ukrainian leader “can end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to”.

Trump said Ukraine must give up any hope of regaining Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, and said Kyiv should also give up on its ambition of joining Nato.

His tirade came as he prepares to meet Zelenskyy in the White House later today.

The last time the pair met in the Oval Office six months ago, the Ukrainian president was ambushed by both Trump and his deputy, JD Vance.

Trump’s comments will be warmly welcomed by Vladimir Putin, who held talks with his American counterpart in Alaska on Friday.

Russia is vehemently opposed to Ukraine’s aim of becoming a Nato member.

Putin told Trump that he wants Ukraine to give up the Donbas region of Ukraine as the price of any peace deal.

According to the Reuters news agency, that would see Kyiv fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Trump said after the summit that he and Putin “has largely agreed” on land transfers and security guarantees for Ukraine.

In another win for the Russian president, Trump also U-turned on his previous calls for a ceasefire in the war before a full-blown peace deal.

But speaking in Brussels on Sunday, Zelenskyy said that was unacceptable.

He said: “We have to stop the killing. Putin has many demands, but we do not know all of them, and if there are really as many as we hear, then it will take time to go through them all.

“It’s impossible to do this under the pressure of weapons, so it’s necessary to ceasefire and work quickly on a final deal. Putin does not want to stop the killing, but he must do it.”

On Russian demands for Ukrainian territory, Zelenskyy said: “The constitution of Ukraine makes it impossible to give up territory or trade land. ”

UK Reveals Deadly Reason Why Putin Wants Ukraine To Hand Over Unoccupied Land To End War

Posted on 17/08/2025 by Boris Clair

The Ministry of Defence has revealed why Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to hand over large swathes of its unoccupied land to end the war.

In its latest intelligence update on the conflict, the MoD said Russia would be forced to fight for more than four years and suffer nearly two million casualties if it had to fight for it.

The analysis came as Putin set out his peace plans at a summit with Donald Trump in Alaska.

According to the Reuters news agency, the proposed deal would see Ukraine fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

But the MoD said: “Based on the rate of Russia’s incremental battlefield advances so far in 2025, it would take Russian forces approximately 4.4 more years to gain 100% of the four Ukrainian oblasts’ territory.

“Based on Russia’s average daily casualty rate in 2025 so far, as reported by Ukrainian general staff, 4.4 more years of war would lead to approximately 1,930,000 further Russian casualties (killed and wounded).

“This is in addition to the approximately 1,060,000 casualties Russia has already likely sustained since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including around 250,000 killed or missing (presumed dead).”

After his talks with Putin, Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News: “I think we’re pretty close to a deal. Ukraine has to agree to it. Maybe they’ll say ‘no’.”

But speaking following talks with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels today, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “The constitution of Ukraine makes it impossible to give up territory or trade land. ”

He said any such moves would need to be discussed at a three-way summit involving him, Putin and Trump.

Von der Leyen, also insisted that “international borders cannot be changed by force”.

Trump Writes Post About Moscow That’s Absurd Even For Him

Posted on 17/08/2025 by Boris Clair

President Donald Trump on Sunday really reached to criticise outlets for their coverage of his peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“If I got Russia to give up Moscow as part of the Deal, the Fake News, and their PARTNER, the Radical Left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal,” he wrote on Truth Social. “That’s why they are the FAKE NEWS!”

Trump also said on Truth Social Sunday that an announcement on “BIG PROGRESS” in the negotiations was forthcoming, but some observers were still cracking wise over his sarcastic Moscow gripe.

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