I hope I’m wrong but the meeting between Zelensky and “maybe” Putin sounds like a Mafia-style hit right out of The Irishman – set up by middle man Trump.
“…for the Russians a conciliatory attitude is a sign of weakness. The Russians look on any agreement between them and another country as not having any special or lasting significance.” – Moscow Diary by Velijko Micunic, 1984; 464 pages.
Zelensky is the biggest obstacle to both Putin and Trump getting what they want. Zelensky is immensely popular within Ukraine.
Zelensky is Putin’s number 1 High Value Target.
“It was a disintegration of historical Russia under the name of the Soviet Union. We turned into a completely different country. What had been built up over 1,000 years was largely lost. Twenty five million “Russians” in newly independent countries suddenly found themselves cut off from Russia – a major humanitarian tragedy.” – Putin of the fall of the Iron Curtain that enslaved millions of Eastern Europeans under communism for over fifty years. (Reuters by Andrew Osborn and Andrey Ostroukh, December 15, 2021)
Russian leaders have historically assassinated foreign leaders who have been stumbling blocks to achieving geo-political goals. Putin is a historian.
“Lenin and Stalin had called themselves internationalists and had indiscriminately murdered foreigners as well as Soviet citizens. . . . Khrushchev’s close association with Stalin’s killings made him aware of what political crime could accomplish and gave him a taste for the simple criminal solution. . . . The habit of resorting to political assassinations remained with Khrushchev for the rest of his career.” (Pacepa, Disinformation, p. 225)
“One of Khrushchev’s first foreign policy decisions after settling down on the Kremlin throne had been his 1953 order to have Georgy Okolovich, a Ukrainian emigre who was the leader of the National Labor Alliance, one of the most aggressively anticommunist Russian emigre organizations in Western Europe, secretly assassinated. – Pacepa, p. 233.
“Blaming the CIA for the KGB’s assassinations and kidnappings abroad was a disinformation tactic that had been introduced by Khrushchev after the Twentieth Congress. After each operation, the KGB was surreptitiously to spread “evidence” in the West accusing the CIA of having done the deed. Our biggest ally in this was Oliver Stone.
In October 1963, Khrushchev had been revealed as a political murderer at a spectacular public trial held by the West German Supreme Court. The defendant was Bogdan Stashinsky, an officer of the KGB’s Thirteenth Department (assassinations) who had defected to West Germany in 1961. He confessed to having assassinated two leading Ukrainian emigres in 1957 and 1959 at Khrushchev’s order, for which afterward he was decorated by Khrushchev personally. What had started out as Stashinsky’s trial soon transformed into one against Khrushchev.
“Murder is now carried out on express government orders. Political murder has now become institutionalized within the Soviet Union.” – West German Supreme Court Judge.
“Any revelation of a Soviet hand in an assassination of the widely popular American president [Kennedy – Operation Dragon] would be fatal to Khrushchev.”- Pacepa, p. 231, 234-235, 236.
[NOTE: Pacepa, the highest ranking communist officer to defect to the West was in Krushchev’s office when Oswald’s case handler was given his final instructions regarding Oswald’s mission to assassinate Kennedy. To learn the real truth about the Kennedy assassination, read Pacepa’s book.]
Putin, being a communist and a historian obsessed with restoring the “glory” of the former Soviet Union, it doesn’t take a CIA analyst to come to the conclusion that Putin would have no qualms about setting up Zelensky for assassination.
Implying Putin will attend the meeting in Turkey – but not showing up – will give Putin plausible deniability for the murder of Zelensky in a country known for eliminating political opposition. Turkey can easily bear the political fallout from NATO by threatening to shift alliance to Russia – or just protesting they had nothing to do with it.
There’s a scene in the Godfather in which he tells his son the opposing Mafia leader will arrange a meeting through a trusted source within his own organization. That’s Trump (wittingly or unwittingly).
See: Memo to Trump: Putin Phone Call Transcript? dated April 2, 2025 this site. It would be revealing to read the “great” phone transcript to discover if and how involved Trump and Putin are “great friends” and “business partners.”
President Zelensky, don’t go to Turkey! Diplomatically it is too early in too tenuous a negotiation to go personally simply because a president of the United States who is willing to throw you and your countrymen to the communists in exchange for a gold Tower with his name emblazoned on every side “suggests” it.
President Zelensky, ask yourself “Are you willing to risk your life for a man who has publicly humiliated you and demanded reparations for an invasion he blamed you for? A man with no moral compass and no loyalty but gold? (see: Trump’s “Gold Card” is a Felony! dated April 6, 2025 this site; and “Donald Trump defends ‘free of charge’ $400 million ‘flying palace’ from Qatar amid backlash” May 12, 2025, LBC News.
Are you willing to place yourself in a subjugated political posture “waiting” on a man who daily tries to kill you – Putin— and does kill thousands of your people?
Putin knows how popular you are with your people. He believes the quickest way to end the war is to take you out of the picture in one strategic psychological stroke.
Meeting personally with Putin will be worse than the ambush Trump subjected you to in the White House. Neither Putin nor Trump considers you an equal or deserving of diplomatic respect.
Both Putin and Trump are megalomaniacs who absolutely hate being denied.
Stay alert. Stay alive!
