As the dust begins to settle on the fallout of the Putin-Trump 'love fest' in Alaska, the UK and the EU countries have been re-affirming their support for Ukraine and, in particular, re-affirming their intention of UK and EU boots on the ground in Ukraine should a 'ceasefire' in Putin's war with Ukraine ever be declared.
However, from Putin's mouthpiece, Sergei Lavrov (left), his dyed-in-the-wool Soviet foreign minister, comes the message that,
"Any serious discussion of security [for Ukraine] without the Russian federation is utopian, it's a road to nowhere" (cf: video below: Sky News: 28 August 2025) (my emphasis)
Zelensky responded to Lavrov's remark by explaining that (cf: video above),
"They [Putin and his Kremlin cohorts] are for Ukraine's security, for our sovereignty, for our territorial integrity.
Because the aggressor is Russia.
When Russia raises the issues of security guarantees, I honestly don't know who they think threatens them. They attack us. They are on our soil.
I don't quite understand what guarantees the aggressor needs." (ibid Sky News) (my emphasis)
To deflect the eyes of the world from Trump caving in to Putin's demands and threats regarding the use of ANY UK or EU peacekeepers setting foot on Ukraine's soil, Putin simply brandishes in Trump's face his voluminous dossier on the 'kompromat' material he has amassed against Trump since his pre-2016 visits to Moscow.
And we now have Trump "threatening" the UK and EU with,
"U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to "impose substantial additional Tariffs" and stop selling tech and chips to countries with digital rules he deems discriminatory to American companies.
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The European Commission is in charge of implementing the regulation on very large platforms, with national regulators taking responsibility for their respective countries.
Concessions from the EU on the DSA, which the White House was reportedly pushing for, did not materialize in the EU-U.S. trade deal." ( Eliza Gkritsi and Jacob Wendler (right): Politico: 26 August 225) (my emphasis)
Shielding behind the rather flimsy excuse about America-style "freedom of speech", this "threat" of yet more 'tariffs' by Trump against the UK and the EU, who are simply protecting their citizens from the "flood of disinformation, misinformation", and the collecting of consumer data" carried out by Putin's internet 'troll' factories, and the likes of Google, Apple, Meta, and X, to name but a few, also signifies the panic of Putin as Ukraine's "Flamingo missile" begins to roll off the assembly lines in Ukraine.
Trump, withholding US missiles from Ukraine which can attack Russian military infrastructure deep within Putin's Russia, no longer serves as a gift to Putin from Trump.
"As Russia continues to unleash a major wave of airstrikes across Ukraine, Kyiv revealed a domestically made long-range cruise missile that could prove a game-changer in the war.
The FP-5 “Flamingo” missile is capable of travelling 3,000km and delivering a payload of 1,150kg, according to its maker, the Ukrainian defence start-up Fire Point.
The firm said it is producing roughly one Flamingo per day, and hoped to build capacity to make seven per day by October [2025]. That would equate to more than 200 missiles each month, or some 2,500 a year.
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Speaking at a press conference the following day, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine could hit targets deep inside Russia without the need for coordination with Washington.
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[Gustav] Gressel (right) — the military expert — said that although the Taurus is more difficult to detect on radar and more manoeuvrable than the Flamingo, the latter “has a far greater range and warhead, so it has a far greater effect on the target”. (Euro News: 26 August 2025) (my emphasis) 
"Baby-faced Russian children as young as 8 have been taught how to throw hand grenades and carry rifles at a bizarre summer camp designed to train up the next generation of Vladimir Putin’s military.
The twisted exercises, supervised by soldiers who have fought in Russia’s war in Ukraine, saw young children given real rifles or convincing replicas at a camp in the Rostov region, close to the Ukrainian border.
“We threw hand grenades and fired dummy shots,” 8-year-old participant Ivan Glushchenko said excitedly, when asked what his favorite part had been during the camp, which is open to both boys and girls." (The New York Post on MSN: 28 August 2025) (my emphasis)
"Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) was established as an organization in Nazi Germany that physically trained youth and indoctrinated them with Nazi ideology to the point of fanaticism. " (Wikipedia)
In his panic, Putin is treading along the same path as Hitler.
EMERGENCY! UPDATE: 30 August 2025: GMT 09:06
As the UK, EU, the US, and the world, politically quibble over 'ceasefires' in Putin's war with Ukraine, Daniel McLaughlin reports that,
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas seems to be the only EU politician taking heed of Zelensky when he says,
He adds that Ukraine is now "counting on real action. It is clear that Moscow has used the time allocated for the preparation of the meeting at the leadership level to prepare new massive strikes." (BBC News: 30 August 2025) (my emphasis)
The many 'armchair' generals and internet political pundits opining about what weaponry or economic strategy is needed by Ukraine to defeat Putin simply will not stop Putin from manically killing Ukraine's civilians day after day with his frantic missile and drone onslaught against them.
Like the appeasement of Hitler when he invaded, and subsequently annexed, a large swathe of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and then set off WW2; the world is blindly treading the same path as in 1938 by allowing Putin to lead the world by the nose into WW3.
Already a doppelganger of the WW2 Japan-Italy-German axis is being set in motion with the triumvirate of Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un, who will be joining hands at the big military parade next Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Beijing.
"Kim Jong Un will join Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at a major military parade in Beijing next week, North Korean and Chinese state media have announced" (Sky News: 28 August 2025) (my emphasis)
How, now, is the rest of the world going to react????
UPDATE: 31 August 2025: GMT: 08:35
"Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are among the twenty world leaders attending a regional security summit in China.
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This year's gathering is the largest since the organisation was founded.
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The meeting comes days before the massive military parade that will mark 80 years since the end of World War II. (BBC News: 31 August 2025) (my emphasis)
The stage is being set for a confrontation between the UK, EU, Australia, Canada, and those nations friendly towards the west, and the dictators of Russia, China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Belarus, and Iran.
Expect Putin to be given at this 'regional security summit' the 'quiet political nod' by his 'bosom buddies', Russia, China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Belarus, and Iran, for his continuous and 'manic' bombing of Ukraine's civilians.
