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European leaders in the "Coalition of the Willing" have vowed to increase economic pressure on Russia. Meeting in London, they discussed coordinated strategies, urging more countries to implement sanctions against Russian oil companies in response to new US sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil. The EU also pledged financial support for Ukraine over the next two years.

 

Russia's continued air incursions and strikes on Ukraine have heightened the urgency for resolution. Despite global diplomatic efforts, Russian President Vladimir Putin has maintained strong demands on Kyiv, refusing immediate ceasefire talks. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer emphasised that Ukraine's security is linked to broader European stability, with the UK taking bold action by sanctioning all Russian oil majors.

 

In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked international allies for their support and stressed the importance of pressure on Russia through sanctions and military aid. Zelensky continues to seek US-made Tomahawk missiles to enhance Ukraine's defence capabilities. As Zelensky met with leaders, Russian strikes resulted in casualties in Kherson.

 

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated that with Russia facing military and financial challenges, now is the opportune moment for increased pressure. Rutte praised the sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump as a strategic move to weaken Russia’s largest oil companies, aligning with shared goals of peace for Ukraine.

 

Russia's perceived lack of commitment led to the cancellation of a planned summit between Trump and Putin, setting back diplomatic efforts. While diplomacy continues, with ongoing discussions involving Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev in the US, European leaders remain steadfast in their unified approach against Russia. Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof and Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen underlined the coalition's commitment to sustained pressure, dismissing any notion that Western resolve would weaken.

 

 

Key Takeaways

 

• European leaders plan to intensify sanctions on Russia's oil sector.
• Coordinated international effort supports Ukraine with financial aid.
• Diplomatic talks continue amid scepticism of Russian cooperation.

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  Adapted by ASEAN Now from CNN 2025-10-27

 

 

Seems like by now there shouldn't be anything Russian left to sanction.....?

5 hours ago, webfact said:

European leaders in the "Coalition of the Willing" have vowed to increase economic pressure on Russia.

 

Putin must be quaking in his boots. 😄

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

 

Putin must be quaking in his boots. 😄

Actually I think he most likely is but for different reasons given the inner turmoil thats slowly gaining momentum within Russia due to the war! Sadly Putin feels his people are simply disposable pawns he can use as he sees fit in an egotistical game! 

Long overdue and still not enough!

 

But by 2026 in Russia there will be turmoil and when that happens just watch the vultures like Xi swoop. He will be after lost territory and rights to other natural resources like water from the largest lake in the world and mineral rights!! Putin will become the puppet of China & Belarus to a lesser extent!

Report Europe's 'Coalition of the Willing' Hits Russia with Sanctions.

 

Why doesn't the world get Really Serious and come together with a team that can do the same to Vlad as what they done to O B Laden.

Probable not , as now many countries make Millions from this war.

"The Coalition of the Willing" :
The coalition of leading European politicians and bureaucrats who sabotaged with sanctions the well-being of their peoples, including generations as yet unborn, by an ill-conceived attempt to induct the Ukraine into an alliance innately inimical to the Russian Federation.  An attempt which has backfired in their faces.
Done to curry favour with the U.S. mentor of these politicians and bureaucrats.

 

The U,S. has now left them holding the can and distracting the Russians from getting too involved in the key theatre, the Middle East; while the U.S. pursues its ambitions there and elsewhere (such as in the Americas).

 

These deluded narcissists cannot admit their failure and correct course, but must double-down with wishful thinking and 'virtue-signalling', because admission of failure would amount to professional suicide.

 

However increasing public awareness of brutal realities and of the multiple shortcomings of the establishment, will hopefully before long ensure radical changes in government.  Too late.  But better late than never.

Not going to make a difference to the battlefield where Ukraine is in serious trouble.

Ukraine’s Collapse Is Just the Beginning — Europe Has No Way Out | John Mearsheimer

 

 

Europe’s Suicide Pact: Why Are They Doing This?

 

https://youtu.be/0KtjzxNB5OQ 

5 hours ago, ericbj said:

"The Coalition of the Willing" :
The coalition of leading European politicians and bureaucrats who sabotaged with sanctions the well-being of their peoples, including generations as yet unborn, by an ill-conceived attempt to induct the Ukraine into an alliance innately inimical to the Russian Federation.  An attempt which has backfired in their faces.
Done to curry favour with the U.S. mentor of these politicians and bureaucrats.

 

How did "..leading European politicians and bureaucrats ...attempt to induct the Ukraine into an alliance"? By simply being willing to consider Ukraine's desire to join the EU?

 

Who/What is the US mentor who Europeans are so desperate to curry favour with? The Obama administration? Biden's? Some mysterious US-led coalition of business and government?

 

5 hours ago, ericbj said:

The U,S. has now left them holding the can and distracting the Russians from getting too involved in the key theatre, the Middle East; while the U.S. pursues its ambitions there and elsewhere (such as in the Americas).

 

So the Ukraine war forms part of some master plan hatched by the US? When was this plan hatched? Under whch administration?

 

5 hours ago, ericbj said:

These deluded narcissists cannot admit their failure and correct course, but must double-down with wishful thinking and 'virtue-signalling', because admission of failure would amount to professional suicide.

 

And what would have been the correct course of action for Europe to have taken? Simply stay on the sidelines and watch Russia ride roughshod through Ukraine without a murmur?

 

And what next? Pretend that Russia's unprovoked aggression in Ukraine - and continual and continuous interference in other European states' affairs - doesn't exist and assume that it poses no threat to the stability of Western Europe?

 

That is what wishful thinking, 'virtue signaling' and failure really looks like.

 

5 hours ago, ericbj said:

However increasing public awareness of brutal realities and of the multiple shortcomings of the establishment, will hopefully before long ensure radical changes in government.  Too late.  But better late than never.

 

Perhaps so but radical changes to the European political landscape as portrayed by Putin's Russia certainly isn't the answer.

15 hours ago, RayC said:

 

How did "..leading European politicians and bureaucrats ...attempt to induct the Ukraine into an alliance"? By simply being willing to consider Ukraine's desire to join the EU?

 

Who/What is the US mentor who Europeans are so desperate to curry favour with? The Obama administration? Biden's? Some mysterious US-led coalition of business and government?

 

 

So the Ukraine war forms part of some master plan hatched by the US? When was this plan hatched? Under whch administration?

 

 

And what would have been the correct course of action for Europe to have taken? Simply stay on the sidelines and watch Russia ride roughshod through Ukraine without a murmur?

 

And what next? Pretend that Russia's unprovoked aggression in Ukraine - and continual and continuous interference in other European states' affairs - doesn't exist and assume that it poses no threat to the stability of Western Europe?

 

That is what wishful thinking, 'virtue signaling' and failure really looks like.

 

 

Perhaps so but radical changes to the European political landscape as portrayed by Putin's Russia certainly isn't the answer.

 

Master plan ?
"The American Century".

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Century 

 

Roots may go back a long way as suggested by that article.
However the phrase really seems to have come into vogue by those in power at the time of the figurehead president G.W.Bush and his coterie of Deep State actors, including such as Cheney.  A likely turning-point in the perceptions of this group came earlier, subsequent to the collapse of the Soviet Union which permitted their ambition of global control to run riot.  Their conception of "globalism" was, and is, a Uni-Polar World dominated by U.S. finance.

 

The problem with this concept is that it was built upon clay foundations.  Bretton Woods made the US dollar, backed by gold, the world's reserve and trading currency.  The need for other countries to use dollars when trading between themselves meant it was necessary for the U.S. to have a trade deficit.

 

The gold backing in theory restrained the U.S. from printing excessive amounts of paper dollars.  However this restraint ended when L.B.Johnson boosted both military spending to crush the Viet Cong and social spending in an attempt to limit the popular backlash.

 

Realising that the U.S. was printing into existence more currency than it could redeem in gold, countries such as France and Germany became reluctant to hold excessive amounts of dollars.  The result:  the U.S. was haemorrhaging its gold reserves.  Richard Nixon in 1971 halted this by stepping in to unilaterally revoke the Bretton Woods Agreement.  The dollar was no longer backed by gold.

 

Lack of a materially-valuable backing to the dollar combined with reckless "money-printing" resulted in run-away inflation in the United States.  The "Great Inflation" of the 1970s was eventually cured by the imposition of punitively high interest rates - reducing the over-inflated dollar supply - by the economist Paul Volker, chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.  The preservation of the dollar's reserve status through its need by other nations in international trade was reinforced by the informal petrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

 

However the strong dollar resulting from the currency's international dominance has enabled the U.S. to live beyond its means on borrowed money, importing massively because favourable exchange-rates make foreign-made goods cheap.  By the same token the dollar's strength has killed off much U.S. manufacturing.

 

Trump, although behaving like a bull in a china-shop, is one of the very few U.S. politicians who has both seen the danger and decided to fight against it.  But his Make-America-Great-Again movement seems more dedicated to preserving American hegemony than in creating a world that is better for all.

 

Western media generally gloss over the destruction, loss of life, misery and, impoverishment wrought by US/NATO "wars of liberation" in countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and I suppose one might include Palestine.  And of course NATO sought, and eventually obtained, a war in the Ukraine as an excuse for adding to economic sanctions intended to collapse the Russian government and fragment the Russian Federation into manageable chunks.

Plenty of evidence online for these statements for those interested in availing themselves of all points of view with a view to gaining some in-depth understanding.  Enough said.

Are we now of the verge of a War for the Liberation of Venezuela ?

 

 

warning: much bad language !

 

EU Parliament Member EXPOSES Craziness Of EU Elites | M. Schulenburg & J. Sachs
Neutrality Studies
https://youtu.be/FSKSUHbDnsU 

"28 Oct 2025
"This is a Webinar of the Multipolar Peace Network Initiative. Count Michael von der Schulenburg, who worked decades in conflict resolution for the United Nations and is now a European Parliament member for Germany's left-wing party BSW, discusses with Professor Jeffrey Sachs the reasons and extent of EU elite madness and institutional failures. Not only war propaganda is on an all-time high, also the political process is so captured by Russo-phobic pro-war narratives that the ideologists within the bureaucratic structures of the Brussel's behemoth don't even understand the extent and consequences of their irresponsible war policies. Coupled with the inability for long-term planning and disregard of national interest, the fate of the European continent is set for another dark chapter. The worst is yet to come."

 

Europe anyhow is leading itself to its doom. So they may as well make the process faster. And it's not just me saying, it a majority of European nationals who say so. 

Of course nothing will really be done for all the horrors regarding the Gaza and the Westbank execrations by the illegal settlers. 

How can anybody in their sense, take a side in war between 2 of the most corrupt countries on Earth ? 

On 10/27/2025 at 3:31 AM, webfact said:

European leaders in the "Coalition of the Willing"

 

We've been here before.

 

That ended well.

 

By well, I mean oils well that ends well, or something......Iraqi oil sales are deposited in a special account at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, for which Iraq must petition for access.

 

Pallets of cash are airlifted monthly to Baghdad when approved.

 

Ended very, very well.