Now that a month has passed, and we’ve experienced just how ‘fast and furious’ the Donald J. Trump administration is moving, it’s unsurprising that the eagerly awaited Peace Negotiations with Russia are also moving at warp speed.

It arises now that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his team are gearing up toward meeting with Trump to bring an end to the Ukraine war and usher in a period of peace and cooperation between the two Nuclear Powers.

Washington Examiner reported:

“On Saturday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov revealed new details about the highly-anticipated meeting between the two world leaders, stating that ‘a dialogue on strategic stability and arms control is possible when we see visible shifts for the better in American policy’, and adding that that talks could include broad discussion about global issues, including the Middle East.”

Read: Saudi Arabia Confirms It Will Host Trump-Putin Summit – Zelensky Complains He Was Not Invited

The planning for the meeting is still at an early stage, and to stage an event like that is necessarily preceded by what Ryabkov called ‘the most intensive preparatory work’.

“U.S. and Russian officials are set to hold preliminary talks within the next two weeks as a precursor to a meeting between Trump and Putin. Such a gathering would be the second preliminary meeting that has occurred, as senior diplomats from Washington and Moscow already held constructive discussions this week in Saudi Arabia.”

While this Washington Examiner report speaks of ‘next two weeks’, during the swearing of new commerce secretary Howard Lutnik, Trump himself spoke of a new round of US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia beginning this Tuesday.

Read: Zelensky Has NO Friends in Trump Team, They Want Him Gone – ‘Best Case is He Leaves to France Immediately’ – NYP

“Serious discussions about holding a person-to-person meeting between the two leaders have been building steam since Feb. 12, when Trump had a 90-minute conversation with Putin on the phone, launching serious negotiations between the U.S. and Russia to end the Ukraine war.“

Trump has also stated that holding the peace summit with Putin in Moscow is not on the table, but he also said that the two leaders will visit each other’s countries at some point.

“The primary aim of the Trump administration has been to bring a swift end to the war. And the president has often pointed the finger at Zelensky for taking actions the White House has said prolonged the war.”

Read more:

Secretary Rubio and Russia’s Lavrov Hold Negotiations for 4.5 Hours in Saudi Arabia – Historic Meeting Ushers in New Era of Collaboration, Economic and Diplomatic Engagement

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Slovakia PM Robert Fico goes NUCLEAR on Zelensky: «I’m not here to walk hand in

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A violent Tren de Aragua gang member who is suspected of murder has been released from prison in Chicago despite a 2022 deportation order.

Pedro Colmenares, 33, of Venezuela, entered the United States in 2022 and was ordered to be deported by an immigration judge just a few months later.

In 2024, two years after he was ordered to be deported, Colmenares was back in the hands of law enforcement on a weapons charge.

“DHS issued an ICE detainer on Colmenares, but because of its sanctuary policy, Cook County refused to comply with the detainer, and Colmenares was set free,” Fox News reports.

This week, Colmenares was apprehended again over suspected involvement in the murder of a 25-year-old man in September. The Chicago Police Department held him for three days before he was released.

Fox News reports:

Chicago police said probable cause existed to place the illegal migrant into custody for murder earlier this week, but ultimately the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office declined to press homicide charges, explaining they “carefully reviewed” the case and found insufficient evidence and “uncooperative witnesses.”

Colmenares is facing charges in a shocking kidnapping and sexual assault of his former girlfriend last October in Chicago. He is charged with domestic battery with bodily harm for allegedly pulling up in a car to the 27-year-old Hispanic woman and telling her to get in “or I’ll shoot you.”

Police say he then drove the woman against her will to a separate location on Chicago’s west side, where he allegedly “battered and sexually assaulted the victim” over several days.

Colmenares was ordered to appear before a judge in March but was not placed under electronic monitoring.

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Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

When dozens of national and state pro-life leaders gathered at Priests for Life headquarters in Titusville, Florida, earlier this month for a three-day strategy meeting my team and I organize each year (along with quarterly meetings in Washington), our discussions were substantive and wide-ranging. It was evident that while we are all seeking to abolish abortion without exceptions, different groups have differing strategies when it comes to how we get there.

On one topic, however, there was near universal agreement: Abortion profiteers, including the nation’s number one abortion cartel, Planned Parenthood, should not receive one more dollar in taxpayer funding.

We agreed to publish and send a joint letter to Congress, urging elected representatives to ensure that Americans are not forced, through their taxes, to aid and abet child killing.

“As pro-life leaders across the United States,” the letter began, “we write today to urge you to protect the taxpayer dollars of American citizens from funding abortion and abortion businesses such as Planned Parenthood.

American jurisprudence has consistently maintained that the legality of abortion does not create an obligation for the state to fund it.

Moreover, polling has consistently indicated that Americans do not want their tax dollars paying for abortion

Whether “pro-choice” or pro-life, Americans have been very clear that they don’t want to pay for someone else’s abortion. And while it’s true that federal tax dollars cannot be used to directly subsidize abortion, you can be sure the nearly $700 million Planned Parenthood received from the government from 2022-2023 helped kept the killing machines up and running.

As the letter noted, bills calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood have been introduced in Congress: S. 203 in the Senate, introduced by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, and H.R. 271 in the House, introduced by Minnesota Rep. Michelle Fischbach.

With pro-life majorities in both the House and Senate and a president ready with a pen to sign legislation protecting the hard-earned tax dollars of his constituents, now is the time For Congress to pass appropriate measures to accomplish that. The pro-life movement is ready to help, and you can expect to see the fruits from this recent leadership meeting in the form of increased and visible lobbying of our lawmakers to protect our taxpayer dollars from funding child-killing.

During our three days of meetings and fellowship, we also signed a joint letter thanking President Trump, along with members of his administration, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson, to thank them for concrete actions taken to protect the unborn.

The new administration has been at the helm for just over a month, but its pro-life accomplishments are numerous and far-reaching. They include undoing most of the damage Joe Biden did during his four years in office.

Among the accomplishments of President Trump:

• Removed a website promoting abortion that Biden initiated;
• issued executive orders confirming that life begins at conception and that there are only two sexes;
• pardoned 23 pro-life activists unjustly convicted for protesting at abortion businesses;
• signed an executive order reinstating the “Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance” (Mexico City Policy), which prohibits taxpayer funding of overseas abortion providers;
• issued an executive order enforcing the Hyde Amendment, which bars the use of federal funds for elective abortions domestically;
• delivered a video message during last month’s March for Life in D.C. and sent Vice President JD Vance to address the March crowd from the rally stage;
• announced plans to limit enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, arguing that it has been used to target pro-life activists unfairly;
• issued a statement endorsing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act;
• rejoined the “Geneva Consensus,” a coalition of nations who defend the right to life and assert that there is no international right to kill babies in abortions;
• appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services and tasked him with studying the harmful effects of the abortion pill mifepristone,
• and reversed a Biden-era policy that funded travel for military personnel seeking abortions, ending taxpayer-funded abortion-related travel.

That was a record-breaking month, and pro-life leaders like myself wanted to make sure we acknowledged the actions and properly thanked the man behind them. Some in the movement who in the past did not give President Trump the trust and support he deserves are admitting that they are pleasantly surprised now. Others still seem more intent on criticizing him on divisive points than keeping the discussion on the points where the President and the American people have a strong consensus – like ending late-term abortion and abortion funding.

But the many pro-life leaders gathered in Florida earlier this month pledged that we would continue to work together with President Trump and his Administration “to strengthen and advance any and all protections for these youngest and most vulnerable members of the human family.”

The letter closed with the assertion, “America will be great again to the extent that we protect our first and most basic right, the right to life.”

Prolife Leader Frank Pavone is the National Director of Priests for Life and President of Prolife Vote.

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The conservative Christian Democrat Union (SDU) political party won the national elections with 29.0 percent of the vote.

The Populist-Pro-Germany AfD roared into second place with 19.5 percent of the vote.

It is likely that the CDU will join with the failed Social Democrats (SPD) to form a government. The SPD is currently in power and is destroying the country.

It would make more sense for DCU to join with the AfD to rule Germany but that is not how it works in the globalist Western Europe.

Via Dr. Simone Goddek.

BREAKING: The first projections of the German elections are in!

It’s exactly as expected. The conservative CDU as the strongest party will most likely form a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) or the eco-fascists (Die Grünen)—because in Germany, elections don’t… pic.twitter.com/JYZaFtxoot

— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) February 23, 2025

Olaf Scholz admitted defeat in Germany where the elections were decided by 7:10 PM. The sore loser decried the AfD’s major gains in Sunday’s election.

Olaf Scholz admits defeat in the German elections and congratulates his rival Friedrich Merz on the CDU/CSU victory. pic.twitter.com/rC2SLBudhe

— Geopoliticalfocus (@Geopoliticaleco) February 23, 2025

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German Elections 2025 , congratulations and welcom to SPD for the new government coalition and hope they will deliver their best in future for all German communities. A step ahead for more developments in germany ! #germanelection2025 pic.twitter.com/lykQAiOiI9

— Muhammad Zubair Saeed (@zubairsaeed1995) February 23, 2025

The AfD had its strongest showing in decades.

AfD leader Alice Weidel told supporters she would reach out to the CDU to form a government.
The SUN reported.

GERMANY’S hard-right party has had its strongest showing since World War Two, exit polls suggest, taking 19.5 per cent of the vote.

Alternative for Germany (AfD) is fielding its first candidate to lead the country amid support from Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance.

Exit polls have placed AfD high in the tallies of the high-stakes election – but full results are expected on Monday morning.

Leader of AfD Alice Weidel, praised her party’s best-ever national election result following the exit polls – dubbing it as “historic”.

She told cheering supporters that the anti-immigration party was now “firmly anchored” in the political landscape and had “never been so strong on a national level”.

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