Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to the defenders of Ukraine and all of modern civilization!
Today in the edition:
- What were the talks in Abu Dhabi about, and how are real peace negotiations conducted?
- The new strategic reality: will there be a strategic nuclear arms race and can Putin withstand it?
- Donald Trump: “Viktor Orban is a true friend, fighter, and winner, and he enjoys my full and unconditional support”
- Senator Murphy: “Never before in the history of the country has a US President so openly, so blatantly, so consistently used the vast power of the presidency for personal enrichment” – about how the 47th president and his friend Witkoff are receiving money from the United Arab Emirates.
▶ The 47th president once again stated after the talks of the Ukrainian, Russian, and American delegations in Abu Dhabi that reaching a peace agreement in Ukraine is closer than ever. However, he has said this before, many times. And he told President Macron last summer (unaware that a “hot” journalistic microphone would catch his words) that he believes Putin wants to make a peace agreement to end the war for him, for Trump.
The reality is that the war can only be stopped in two ways: by the capitulation of one of the sides or by the exhaustion of resources to continue the war for both sides.
The war can be stopped or at least paused if both sides agree to a ceasefire. Sometimes, a ceasefire is followed by peace negotiations, which may continue for a long time without active fighting, as both sides seek an agreement. This is how a peace treaty was concluded between Israel and Egypt in 1978. In 1973, Egypt attacked Israel. The war ended with a ceasefire agreement. Soon after this agreement, the sides entered peace negotiations with the mediation and participation of the USA. These negotiations continued for five years. In 1975, an interim agreement on troop separation was reached. And in 1978, Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty. This is how wars are realistically stopped and ended.
The way Russia conducts negotiations indicates that today Putin has no desire to stop. From the Russian side, negotiations today are a way to prevent the 47th president from resuming American aid to Ukraine and imposing new sanctions against Russia.
If Putin had any desire to at least pause to gather his own strength, he would have accepted Trump’s ceasefire proposal made a year ago under more than comfortable conditions for Putin, which included recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Negotiations simultaneous with barbaric missile-drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, energy and railway infrastructure, a demonstrative attack on a passenger train, along with continued fighting across the entire front line, are not negotiations for peace.
Of course, it’s good that they agreed on a prisoner exchange in Abu Dhabi, with 150 Ukrainian defenders and 7 ordinary people kidnapped by the empire of evil, Ukrainian citizens, returning home from Russian concentration camps and prison dungeons. But it is unlikely that such negotiations can agree on anything else until and unless Putin decides that he lacks the resources to continue the war.
▶ Resources are a separate conversation. Donald Trump declined Putin’s proposal to extend the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, known in Russian as ОСВ-3, or in English as New START. The treaty, signed in 2010 and then extended for another five years at the beginning of 2021, has expired.
As of February 5, 2026, the US and Russia are no longer bound by any limitations on the number of nuclear warheads and their carriers for the first time since 1972.
“The United States is the most powerful Country in the World… we should have our Nuclear Experts work on a new, improved, and modernized Treaty that can last long into the future.” – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/AnXj5tuIM1
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 5, 2026
This means that what was called the “nuclear arms race” during the Cold War may resume – the production of new nuclear warheads and their strategic carriers. The 47th president insists that China, which is increasing its nuclear power, must participate in any new treaty on limiting strategic nuclear weapons. China refuses to participate in such negotiations, explaining that its nuclear arsenal is significantly smaller than that of the US and Russia.
The production of nuclear warheads, strategic missiles, strategic bombers, and submarines capable of launching strategic missiles is very expensive. The U.S., in principle, if desired, can afford all this. Whether Russia can afford it is a good question. In the USSR, it was simpler because, with a planned-camp economy, extremely poor living conditions for the vast majority of people, and very low social standards, the state could afford to produce as much weaponry as the Soviet leaders wanted up to a certain point. But only up to a certain point. Because even in a planned-camp economy, resources were not infinite. Current Russia might not have the resources to participate in a potential nuclear arms race. It no longer even has the main testing site where Soviet nuclear weapons were tested (it remained in Kazakhstan). And the site in Novaya Zemlya is unlikely to be suitable for new tests. The planned-camp economy is also no more. There is a market economy, albeit with government intervention, but nevertheless a market economy with market prices. Russia is conducting a full-scale aggressive war, and this war consumes its resources.
Therefore, Putin and his “Politburo” will now face a big problem for themselves. It is clear that the U.S. will not be able to surpass Russia tomorrow or the day after in terms of the number of nuclear warheads and their strategic carriers. Production takes time. But that is the perspective opening up. Trump’s decision not to extend the treaty has created a situation of strategic uncertainty for Putin. He does not know what actions the U.S. will take. And if the U.S. engages in modernizing and expanding its nuclear arsenal, Putin will face a problem that he will likely be unable to solve simply because he will overextend himself. But this will not be today or tomorrow…
▶ On February 5 at 12:59 Eastern Time, the 47th president posted a tweet:
“Esteemed Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, is truly a strong and influential Leader who has proven his effectiveness and achieved phenomenal results. He tirelessly fights for his Great Country and his People and loves them just as I love the United States of America. Viktor works hard to Protect Hungary, Develop the Economy, Create Jobs, Promote Trade, Stop Illegal Immigration, and ensure LAW AND ORDER! Relations between Hungary and the United States reached new heights of cooperation and impressive achievements during my presidency, largely thanks to Prime Minister Orbán. I look forward to continuing close cooperation with him so that both our Countries can continue down this remarkable path to SUCCESS and cooperation. I proudly SUPPORTED Viktor in his 2022 Reelection and am honored to do so again. Viktor Orbán is a true friend, fighter, and WINNER, and he has my full and complete endorsement for reelection as Prime Minister of Hungary – HE WILL NEVER LET THE GREAT PEOPLE OF HUNGARY DOWN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP”
No comments. In my opinion, everything is clear and speaks for itself.
▶ Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal published an investigative report on how the 47th president is effectively selling items of national security importance to the United States—chips for building AI hardware systems—to the United Arab Emirates, receiving money into his family’s pocket and sharing it with the family pocket of his friend Witkoff.
And on Tuesday, February 3, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut delivered a speech at the Senate plenary session about the unprecedented corruption of the 47th president. Only about one aspect of this corruption.
Here is the translation of the entire speech by Senator Murphy:
“Madam President, over the past year, President Trump has undertaken a simply stunning number of actions aimed at enriching himself and his family, using public policy and the power of the White House, essentially trading American politics and U.S. national security secrets in exchange for investments in himself—profiting from his presidency. I stand here at this podium today because this weekend, thanks to good investigative journalism, we have uncovered possibly the most corrupt actions of this administration.
Amid the overwhelming number of daily corruption scandals, the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, an investment firm closely linked with the United Arab Emirates secretly struck a deal with the Trump family to acquire 49% of the shares in World Liberty Financial. This is the Trump family’s new venture in the cryptocurrency sector. They manage this business together with the Witkoff family. The Witkoff family is, of course, led by Steve Witkoff, who, not coincidentally, is the president’s chief advisor on the Middle East. The company that made this investment and obtained 49% of the shares belongs to a man named Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He is the UAE’s national security advisor and also holds important positions in several major companies investing from the United Arab Emirates.
One of the companies that Tahnoon is involved with is a firm called G42, which works in artificial intelligence. All this is important for understanding the scale of what we discovered over the weekend. On behalf of this company, G42, Tahnoon insisted that the United States sell it, G42, a UAE company, our most advanced artificial intelligence chips. We did not sell this equipment to the UAE. In the past, both Republican and Democratic administrations, both Republican and Democratic senators, and both Republican and Democratic House members have stated that we cannot sell this advanced artificial intelligence equipment to the UAE due to the well-known integration of the UAE’s national security services—including this individual—with China. Therefore, we have never sold these chips to the UAE because we were absolutely certain, and this was a bipartisan consensus, that these chips would immediately end up in China, and China cannot, I emphasize, cannot gain control over this advanced artificial intelligence equipment. For most national security experts, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, it was shocking when shortly after the president’s inauguration, he decided, against the advice of his national security advisors, to sell these chips to the UAE and, specifically, to this company belonging to Sheikh Tahnoon.
Let me emphasize the bipartisan nature of the opposition to this technology transfer decision to the UAE: in 2024, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Representative Michael McCaul, expressed concern and demanded an investigation into Microsoft’s $1.5 billion investment in the G42 company, and again, it was Republican McCaul who addressed the Biden administration, requesting an investigation—not of the technology transfer by the U.S. government, but of Microsoft’s investment in G42, citing the integration between the UAE and China.
As I noted earlier, it was reported that the decision to sell these chips worth $1 billion was made despite objections from high-ranking national security officials, including a senior director of technology at the National Security Council, who advocated for restricting access to these advanced chips. Yet Trump still makes this deal, leaving everyone baffled. This is truly bad for America’s national security. Everyone knows that if these chips end up in the hands of the UAE, they are likely to end up in the hands of the Chinese, but he gives the green light to sell these advanced chips worth $1 billion, and this weekend we learn the probable reason: secretly, just days before this administration’s decision, this UAE company, led by the person who benefits from the chip sale, secretly invested $500 million in Donald Trump’s company, World Liberty Financial.
So you have no illusions, it should be noted that there is no separation between Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, and World Liberty Financial. World Liberty Financial is linked to a company called DT Marks DeFi LLC, and according to available data, President Trump owns 70% of this company. The remaining 30% are allegedly split between Trump’s sons. By the way, the DT Marks company is not owned by the Trump Organization or any of its subsidiaries. This company is owned directly by Donald Trump. Steve Witkoff stated that he is selling his stake in this company, World Liberty Financial, but in a declaration he filed as recently as last September, just a few months ago, he still had a stake, a financial interest in this company.
So, Steve Witkoff, Middle East adviser, Donald Trump, President of the United States, having direct ownership stakes in World Liberty Financial, just days before the inauguration receive a $500 million payment, with the deal to pay World Liberty Financial this $500 million for 49% of the shares being made in secret. We do not know all the details of this transaction, but at least $187 million comes directly from this UAE company into the pockets of the Trump family. At least $31 million comes directly from this UAE company into Witkoff’s family pocket. And this is no coincidence.
It is no coincidence that a secret deal is made in which a foreign government secretly hands money directly to the President of the United States, and then very soon after that, we learn that the president dismisses years of national security policy. He ignores the advice of his advisors and plans to hand over national security secrets to the country that just gave him $187 million.
Of course, this is not the first instance where President Trump has conducted business with this person, since Sheikh Tahnoon also runs a company called MGX. Earlier this year, MGX invested $2 billion into the president’s business empire. This was done publicly, so we all saw it, but it doesn’t make the deal any less corrupt just because it wasn’t exposed by journalists. As part of this deal, this UAE company decided to fund investments in Binance using Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency. At the time, Trump’s cryptocurrency was a new product on the market. It did not have major sponsors. And who came to the rescue? Sheikh Tahnoon. Through another of his companies, he financed $2 billion investments in Binance using Trump’s cryptocurrency, which almost instantly made this cryptocurrency one of the most successful… one of the most actively traded in the industry.
In that case, the investments were made directly by the UAE into Donald Trump’s company. It was funding a project on the Binance platform using Trump’s cryptocurrency. But the fact that the corruption was somewhat veiled does not mean that there was no corruption in this case. This is a case of direct foreign government investments amounting to half a billion dollars directly into a company controlled and managed by the President of the United States. There has never been a case in US history where a foreign government made direct investments into a company owned by a US president. It’s no wonder they did it secretly. It’s no wonder they tried to pull it off so no one would know.
The UAE doesn’t hand out this money just like that. They demanded national security secrets in exchange. They demanded this advanced chip-making technology. And it’s not just a coincidence. You don’t have to be naive to understand this. There is a connection between the payments to Donald Trump, the investments in his business, and the transfer of national security secrets. I just don’t want this to become the norm. I don’t want us to silence the multi-million dollar corruption of the President of the United States, who profits from his position every day. I don’t understand why our Republican colleagues justify this. The White House has turned into a continuous corruption machine. Never before in the country’s history has a US president so openly, so brazenly, so consistently used the vast power of the presidency for personal gain. Never before in the country’s history has anything like this happened in secret. The President of the United States receives payments from foreign governments, pockets this money, and then provides these governments with national security services that the United States has never provided before.
During the Biden administration, there were endless hearings. From this platform, there were constant speeches about the “Biden crime family.” You guys were just obsessed with this, although no charges were brought against President Biden for giving anyone any government benefits in exchange for personal gain. The most Republicans could present back then was that the president’s son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to the board of an energy company in Ukraine while his father was involved in Ukrainian policy. Do you know how many boards the Trump children have been appointed to in the last 12 months? Do you know how many contracts—government contracts—were made with companies whose boards the Trump children miraculously joined when their father became president?
Yes, what Hunter Biden did was wrong. I said so back then. He shouldn’t have been on that board. But there wasn’t a single charge that President Biden did anything for that company, of which his son was a board member, or received a single dollar in exchange for his son’s position on that board. Investigations, speeches, hundreds of hours on Fox News—and not a single charge.
Trump enriches himself every day, using his official position. Every day foreign governments buy him something: luxury planes, invest in his company, make lucrative deals, grant licenses to build his hotels. All this in exchange for favorable treatment from the United States government. All of this happens openly, in full view.
In this case, they understood that it was so outrageous, so wrong, that they did it secretly. What we are talking about is simply astonishing—a secret payment of at least $187 million to the Trump family, a payment of at least $31 million to the family of Trump’s chief advisor on the Middle East, and then, shortly thereafter, the transfer of UAE national security secrets, which all American presidents had refused to share until these two secret payments. This is corruption. These are elements of bribery.
This is potentially criminal. The rule of law today may be on hold. Republicans may not want to do anything about this corruption simply because the president belongs to their party. For now, Trump and his friends may manage to evade punishment for these crimes and this corruption, but the rule of law will return, and when it does, all who profited from public service by exchanging government services for money and breaking the laws of this country will end up in prison.
There are 1079 days left until the end of the story titled “Fear: Trump in the White House” © (the title of Bob Woodward’s book published in 2018).
Thank you to everyone who read. Take care of yourself and your loved ones. Take care of each other, help one another. Health to all.
Ultimately, what happens in the world depends on us. On whether we fight against evil, do Good, stay merely observers, passively wait and believe that someone somewhere will decide for us, or fight against evil and do everything possible for Good to prevail.
We must not let evil win. The victory of evil would mean the end of the world we live in. We cannot allow this. Especially now.
Ukrainian friends, I hug and love you all. Please take care of each other, I kindly ask you.
Ukraine is and will always be.
And evil will be defeated and punished. And this is certain.
