On 25 December 2025 (Christmas Day) Trump's fired off 150 separate and incoherent entries on 'Truth Social', ranging from 'conspiracy' theories to 'election fraud' to the 'Epstein' files now hanging over his neck.
And today, 27 December 2025, there is international anticipation of the prospective meeting between Trump and Zelensky to discuss Zelensky's '20-Point Peace Plan' to end Putin's war with Ukraine.
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants to discuss territorial issues, the main stumbling block in talks to end the war, with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as a 20-point peace framework and a security guarantee deal near completion.
Announcing the meeting, Zelenskiy said "a lot can be decided before the New Year," as Washington drives efforts to end Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two." (Reuters: 26 December 2025) (my emphasis)
Yet Putin is adament that Ukraine must surrender to 'his' so-called '28-point 'Ukraine surrender' Peace Plan'.
"So this is an explicit threat by Putin that, "If the talks don't go well, if you don't succumb to my demands, then I have the ability of blacking out all te large cities of Ukraine ... " (Al Jazeera English: 28 december 2025: YouTube)
This threat of Putin has to be viewed against his latest threat of using 'nuclear bombs'.
As Alice Scarsi (left) reports,
"One of the most prominent Russian propagandists (Vladimir Solovyov : right) advocated for nuclear holocaust in order to see Russia thriving. Vladimir Solovyov, a TV host and close ally of Vladimir Putin, lashed out at Ukraine in its radio show 'Full Contact'. " (Daily Express: 26 December 2025) (my emphasis)
Furthermore, as Will Stewart, Zahra Khaliq and Dan Grennan report,
"Vladimir Putin dispatched nuclear bombers to intimidate northern Britain with a long-range Christmas flight over the Norwegian Sea.
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NATO had no choice but to hastily deploy warplanes to keep tabs on the imposing Russian "Bears". The Christmas show of strength came amid high tension over the war in Ukraine." (Daily Star: 25 December 2025) (my emphasis)
But as The Military Show reports,
"Here's what Putin doesn't want you to know, These increasingle desperate displays of nuclear saber-rattling and so-called "red-lines" that he dares nations to cross aren't signs of strength, Theyr'e symptons of a dying super power grasping at its last remaining card. " (The Military Show: 27 December 2025: YouTube) (my emphasis)
And it is against this backdrop that :-
- On 25 December 2025 (Christmas Day) Trump's fired off 150 separate and incoherent entries on 'Truth Social', ranging from 'conspiracy theories 'election fraud' to the 'Epstein' files now hanging over his neck,
- and today, 27 December 2025, there is international anticipation of the prospective meeting between Trump and Zelensky to discuss Zelensky's '20-Point Peace Plan' to end Putin's war with Ukraine.
There comes a time, however, when past threats come closer to reality that we expected.
Putin now dangerously balances over the edge of a "nuclear" Black Swan event.
UPDATE: 30 December 2025: GMT: 07:36
Let us remind ourselves that in my blog entry of Tuesday, 17 July 2018 I wrote that,
"In more ways than one, yesterday (16 July, 2018) Trump exposed himself internationally as a possible Manchurian Candidate during the Putin-Trump press conference, after their slightly more than two hour PRIVATE tête-à-tête in Helsinki, that is also euphemistically being called a 'Summit Meeting'.
Perhaps
the most stunning expose of Trump was in his response to a question
about Putin's meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election.
The US questioner asked,
"Just now President Putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. Every US intelligence agency has concluded that Russia did.
My first question for you, sir, is, "Who do you believe?"
My second question is, "Would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin ... would you denounce what happened in 2016, and would you warn him to never do it again?"
Trump
then went out of his way to agree with Putin, and in the process threw
the whole of his US intelligence agencies under the bus! (video below)
Fast forward to 2025 and, during Trump's 1 hour telephone tête-à-tête with Putin just prior to his meeting with Zelensky, Trump was asked, during a press conference about the alleged bombing of Putin's house by Zelensky.
As Ben Meiselas (left) reports about Trump believing what Putin told him.
"Look, Putin told me that Zelensky tried to go after him personally so I believe Putin." (cf: video excerpt below)
"Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin foreign policy aide, told reporters on Monday that during the call, Putin had pointed out the alleged attack on his residence happened "almost straight after what the US had considered to be a successful round of talks".
...
During a later press conference, Trump initially appeared to say he did not know about the alleged incident, but later told reporters that he was told about it by Putin and was "very angry" about it.
Asked if the US had seen any evidence supporting Russia's claim, he responded: "Well we'll find out. You're saying maybe the attack didn't take place - that's possible too, I guess. But President Putin told me this morning it did". (BBC News: 29 December 2025) (my emphasis)
Is it, therfore, any wonder that, as Amy Walker also reports,
"In a statement shared on Telegram on Monday, Lavrov (left) said all of the 91 drones he claimed were launched at Putin's residence were intercepted and destroyed by Russian air defence systems.
He added that there were no reports of casualties or damage as a result of the attack.
"Given the final degeneration of the criminal Kyiv regime, which has switched to a policy of state terrorism, Russia's negotiating position will be revised," he said." (ibid Amy Walker)
The re-emergence of that dyed-in-the-wool Soviet foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, points to a hardening of Putin's determination to ensure the total surrender of Ukraine to his 2014 demented idea of "Novorossiya".
