https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/index.phpSun, 12 Apr 2026 04:21:21 +0000 Phorum 5.3-dev https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11961,11961#msg-11961 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11961,11961#msg-11961
- WarMonitor (Source, March 30, 2026)



Context 'Crimea is Ukraine. Donetsk is Ukraine. Kherson is Ukraine. Luhansk is Ukraine. Zaporizhzhia is Ukraine..'

(Ukraine must win)(Russia) - '..a system that can still project violence but can no longer conceal its decay.'

(Ukraine nuclear weapons or NATO) - Illusion of security: Why Budapest Memorandum failed to protect Ukraine from war

'[Putin] worries now that The West will support Ukraine to the point it can outlast what Russia can achieve.']]> archive ArchiveMon, 30 Mar 2026 19:29:39 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11960,11960#msg-11960 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11960,11960#msg-11960'..as Ukraine shapes the next phase of this war.'

'A secure government does not need to tighten security or disrupt daily life in its own capital city. A fearful government does that. That is exactly how Russia looks today as Ukraine shapes the next phase of this war.

The conflict is no longer something the Kremlin can portray as a distant sacrifice or a manageable burden. The pressure has now reached Moscow itself, and the Kremlin knows it. It is pressing on the political heart of the system, and the system is responding with the oldest instinct of insecure power: more control, more caution, and more visible fear.

..

In 2026, Putin appeared in public only 54 times. That is a 24% drop from the 71 appearances recorded during the same period a year earlier. More tellingly, he has begun to avoid even internal meetings, suggesting that the most serious threats may no longer be seen as external alone. The danger grows even sharper when political doubt collides with financial strain.

..

The regime is no longer just punishing failure. It is shrinking the circle, redistributing blame, and trying to manage a war that continues to burn money without producing a breakthrough. Ukraine’s strikes are working because they are exposing the weakness of a system that can still project violence but can no longer conceal its decay.The regime is no longer just punishing failure. It is shrinking the circle, redistributing blame, and trying to manage a war that continues to burn money without producing a breakthrough. Ukraine’s strikes are working because they are exposing the weakness of a system that can still project violence but can no longer conceal its decay.'

- Jason Jay Smart, Putin Faces New Kremlin Betrayal, March 30, 2026



Context

(Ukraine must win) - Ukraine to continue fighting with or without Trump, experts say]]> archive ArchiveMon, 30 Mar 2026 19:24:05 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11959,11959#msg-11959 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11959,11959#msg-11959
- German nuclear association calls for restart of reactors, March 27, 2026



Context

'..the remediation of legacy nuclear materials.' - The Safire Project - Aureon Energy - Aureon ETR 3.1

(LPPFusion) - '..The Fusion Future.']]> archive ArchiveSat, 28 Mar 2026 08:37:22 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11958,11958#msg-11958 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11958,11958#msg-11958
- Paul Warburg, minute 17:08 of Why Ukraine is Suddenly Pushing Russia Back, March 14, 2026



Context (Ukraine a world leader)(Ukraine must win)(Iran)(Russia)(China) - '..a global system of tyranny that has been weakened..'

(Europe must Rise)(Ukraine must win) - Defending Europe without the US

(Ukraine nuclear weapons or NATO) - Illusion of security: Why Budapest Memorandum failed to protect Ukraine from war

(US imploding diplomacy) - Trump is causing generational damage to American diplomacy]]> archive ArchiveMon, 16 Mar 2026 19:56:43 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11957,11957#msg-11957 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11957,11957#msg-11957
But there is an alternative to the present situation.'

- Ivana Karamitsos, Funding The Fusion Future, March 11, 2026



Context

(Haptopraxeology)(Bazaarmodel) - Why 2026 Might Be a Turning Point For Radically Decentralized Organizations]]> ProjectC Project CWed, 11 Mar 2026 20:30:16 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11956,11956#msg-11956 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11956,11956#msg-11956
- Matt Pottinger, Trump Could End the War Tomorrow. I Don’t Think He Will, March 9, 2026



Context

'The USA doesn't have to invade all of Iran to overthrow the Mullah Regime.']]> archive ArchiveWed, 11 Mar 2026 20:25:11 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11955,11955#msg-11955 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11955,11955#msg-11955
Not someday.

Increasingly… now.

Let’s see where 2026 takes us.'

- Joost Minnaar, Why 2026 Might Be a Turning Point For Radically Decentralized Organizations, January 1, 2026



Context

(Haptopraxeology - Electric Universe - Teal - Bazaarmodel) - Educating for Wisdom and Compassion: Creating Conditions for Timeless Learning

Phase II 2022 – 2032 - Eye opener To Heal in The Electric Universe (pdf)

Phase I 2012 – 2022 Profound Builders Era The Beginning of Abundance (pdf)


©2026 2Grid - To create the environment where we learn the Art of Being Human]]> ProjectC Project CSun, 08 Mar 2026 20:22:57 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11954,11954#msg-11954 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11954,11954#msg-11954
Or even just seizing all Iranian oil tankers just outside the mouth of the Gulf.

The Mullah's local currency is worth toilet paper and they are only meeting Regime Security Force payroll with foreign exchange from oil sales.

No matter what else happens.

When the US cuts off the oil sales forex. The Mullah Regime is going to suffer a regime ending financial heart attack.'

- Trent Telenko (Source, March 8, 2026)



Context

(Iran) - 'This is the year of blood, Seyed Ali (Khamenei) will be overthrown.']]> archive ArchiveSun, 08 Mar 2026 20:07:14 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11953,11953#msg-11953 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11953,11953#msg-11953
- Mish, '..EU Use Anti-Coercion Trade Bazooka Against Trump,' January 18, 2026



Context

(Europe must Rise) - Europe and 'Canada would militarily fight against the US should Trump invade Greenland.'

History is calling... Can't escape the parallels, they are self-imposed. When you think a viral image of a Trump official or social account using Nazi phrases and images is so bad, so obvious, it might be fake, it's real. It's also intentional, which is just as ominous.'

- Garry Kasparov (Source, January 12, 2026)

(Spanish, English, Chinese) - The Values: 'You only have to read one book, "The History of Spain" by Father Juan de Mariana.' - Thomas Jefferson]]> ProjectC Project CMon, 19 Jan 2026 11:46:24 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11952,11952#msg-11952 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11952,11952#msg-11952
- Mark Carney


I cheer Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s forceful stand against Trump.'

- Mish (Source, January 18, 2026)



Context White House Uses White Supremacist Nazi-Supportive Language to Threaten Greenland, January 14, 2026

(Europe must Rise)(Ukraine must win) - Defending Europe without the US

The United States is a joke of a country. How many ‘shared values’ does [Europe or] Australia actually have with it?

Military Experts Reject Trump’s Logic That US Must Own Greenland, January 15, 2026


Four Native Americans Kidnapped by Ice, Held in Former Concentration Camp, January 14, 2026

Please Note Trump Administration Openly Promotes Nazi-Like Slogans and Phrases, January 12, 2026

No, ICE Is Nothing Like the Gestapo, Except When It Is, January 9, 2026]]> ProjectC Project CMon, 19 Jan 2026 10:37:22 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11951,11951#msg-11951 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11951,11951#msg-11951
A massive crowd gathered to chant:

"This is the year of blood,
Seyed Ali (Khamenei) will be overthrown"'

- Nioh Berg (Source, January 12, 2026)



Context

Trump says he's weighing military options in Iran amid deadly protests]]> archive ArchiveMon, 12 Jan 2026 20:18:40 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11950,11950#msg-11950 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11950,11950#msg-11950
"The military is looking at it, and we're looking at some very strong options. We'll make a determination," Trump told reporters Jan. 11 aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

..

In a Jan. 2 social media post, Trump vowed the United States would intervene if Iran targets peaceful protests. "If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go," the president wrote on Truth Social.

Trump has also warned the United States will "knock the hell" out of Iran if it works to rebuild its weapons supply after Israeli and U.S. strikes on Tehran's nuclear and missile programs in June.

- Trump says he's weighing military options in Iran amid deadly protests, January 12, 2026



Context

(Iran) - 'People are fighting like hell'

(Ukraine a world leader)(Ukraine must win)(Iran)(Russia)(China) - '..a global system of tyranny that has been weakened..']]> archive ArchiveMon, 12 Jan 2026 20:13:27 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11949,11949#msg-11949 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11949,11949#msg-11949
- Gary Hamel (The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation)


'..to organize people like machines. That was one of the biggest mistakes in history.'

'It’s a disease to think in targets. You should think in purpose. What you want to achieve in a positive way. We should be more compassionate about people than this whole stupid idea of targets.

..

I see management as a disease. It started 100 years ago when we thought we needed to organize people like machines. That was one of the biggest mistakes in history.'

- Jos de Blok (Get Rid of Your Boss. Share a Story Instead, December 25, 2025)



Context (Project C - Phase II 2022 - 2032) - Eye Opener, To Heal in The Electric Universe (pdf)

Project C - Bazaarmodel : Management & Organization, Affective Human Action in The Third Millennium

To create the environment where we learn the Art of Being Human


'Current education is actually a form of child abuse.'

– Sjef Drummen, Catharsia (2019), p. 13 (https://www.onderwijskunstenaar.nl)



'I believe that the current doomed education system should be completely replaced by
an ethically sound model.'

– Sjef Drummen, Catharsia (2019)p. 19 (https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,10822)]]> ProjectC Project CSat, 10 Jan 2026 20:16:22 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11948,11948#msg-11948 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11948,11948#msg-11948'It is a global system of tyranny that has been weakened and that's probably going to be positive for the world going forward.'

'..Ukrainians can be encouraged because their successful defense against Russia is having global impacts. And that isn't just helping their country, it is helping so many different countries and is actually making Ukraine a world leader.

The reason I say that is because a lot of these things that are happening to Russia and their proxies would not have happened if Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine and hadn't done so poorly there and the Ukrainians hadn't done so well there.

..it's a net positive for the global order where all of these off-kilter states, all of these states that have been causing so many problems in the world for so long are being progressively weakened because of what Russia has done in Ukraine. And as a result, Russia is also weakened too.

It is not just one country going down. It is a global system of tyranny that has been weakened and that's probably going to be positive for the world going forward. Although, as always, it's never an unequivocal positive. It's never an unequivocal good. There's always bad things that come with the good, but the net result seems to be positive as Ukraine has resisted Russia.

In fact, increasingly what this is looking like is not just an isolated regional war in Eastern Europe, but rather a world war in many senses of the word. Whereas Russia's power declines, all the people who trusted them are declining alongside of them.

..

..And for that positive aspects of that, the world can look to Ukraine and can thank Ukraine for weakening Russia.

When we look back at this period in history .. I have a lot of confidence that when I'm older, this will be a period of history that is remarkable because .. a lot of parts of the world that we took for granted would never be free again, could actually move closer to freedom.

..support for Ukraine is actively weakening some very autocratic, some very evil regimes all across the world. It is splintering the system of autocracy. They can no longer look to each other for support.'

- Paul Warburg, January 10, 2026, starting at m. 9:29 https://youtu.be/lviDlq0MhFM?t=575



Context Prometheus .. the rebel against the tyrant .. the champion of man

To Nikolai Patrushev: '[Gaidar] warns Russia..'

(Russia) - 'The regime is now officially positioning itself as a dictatorship.' - Yulia Galyamina

(Iran) - '..protestors nationwide to take over police stations..', January, 2026


'Ayatollah Khamenei will ‘flee Iran for Moscow’ if protests overwhelm security forces..', January, 2026

For Freedom, Justice, and Love - '..Chinese people learned about freedom, rule of law, human rights, and civil society. In some places, they found ways to practice democracy and freedom..'

Dear Chairman Xi, It’s Time for You to Go - By Xu Zhiyong, '..What China needs above all other things is Freedom!'


(War)(The threat to world order is China) - '..rigorous analysis of Chinese political warfare and a warning of its effects on democracy.' - ..‘Insidious Power: How China Undermines Global Democracy’

‘..don’t attempt to go to war. You wont like the results.’

Bazaarmodel]]> ProjectC Project CSat, 10 Jan 2026 19:56:51 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11947,11947#msg-11947 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11947,11947#msg-11947
- Casualties are high on both sides
- People are fighting like hell
- Starlink is limited outside of big cities but there's fierce fighting all across Iran even in small towns and cities
- There is OPTIMISM.'

- Nioh Berg (Source, January 10, 2026)



Context

(Iran) - '..protestors nationwide to take over police stations..'

'Ayatollah Khamenei will ‘flee Iran for Moscow’ if protests overwhelm security forces..']]> archive ArchiveSat, 10 Jan 2026 15:25:43 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11946,11946#msg-11946 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11946,11946#msg-11946
Iran’s Azerbaijani Turks are not a small group - they are one of the largest ethnic communities in the country.

This marks a significant escalation, signalling potential ethnic and regional mobilisation alongside broader popular unrest in Iran.'

- InsideNK/GeoPolitics (Source, January 10, 2026)


'UPDATE | The IRGC has stated that those within the IRGC who aren't following orders will be penalised.

This is confirmation that members of the IRGC aren't following orders or showing up.'

- InsideNK/GeoPolitics (Source, January 10, 2026)


'We heard earlier today that protestors had attempted to seize a police station on the island of Kish. This statement by Iranian authorities could indicate that there are attempts by protestors nationwide to take over police stations. Likely to free prisoners... & open the armories'

- Woofers (Source, January 10, 2026)


'UPDATE | Protesters have blocked highways in Tehran, disrupting the movement of regime forces.'

- InsideNK/GeoPolitics (Source, January 9, 2026)


'The Islamic regime of Iran has lost control over most of the capital city tonight. Security forces cannot be found anywhere; they have retreated from most neighborhoods. People are protesting against the regime across Tehran.'

- Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch (Source, January 9, 2026)



Context

'Ayatollah Khamenei will ‘flee Iran for Moscow’ if protests overwhelm security forces..']]> archive ArchiveSat, 10 Jan 2026 14:47:26 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11945,11945#msg-11945 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11945,11945#msg-11945
..

The Ayatollah “admires Putin, while the Iranian culture is more similar to the Russian culture”, and he would therefore choose Russia if he were forced to flee the country, the source said.

His plan includes an “exit route out of Tehran should they feel the need to escape” and includes “gathering assets, properties abroad and cash to facilitate their safe passage”, according to the newspaper.'

- Ayatollah Khamenei will ‘flee Iran for Moscow’ if protests overwhelm security forces, says intelligence report, January 6, 2026



Context

'The people in Homs celebrate the fall of the Assad regime.' - Tendar, December 7, 2024]]> archive ArchiveWed, 07 Jan 2026 15:54:12 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11944,11944#msg-11944 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11944,11944#msg-11944'..There are in Ukraine a number of younger, battle-tested and flexible commanders who could step up and give the military new direction and help bolster morale. If the rumors prove to be true, that would also be a good thing.'

'Possible High Command Change

'This is the shortest and the most tenuous section—based entirely on rumor. It is being said in some quarters that with Yermak going, Zelensky might clean house and get new blood in Ukrainian high command. That would mean, ultimately, replacing C-in-C of the armed forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi. Like Yermak, Syrskyi is widely distrusted across much of Ukraine and there is a widespread belief that he is in post because of his loyalty to Zelensky and not because of his talents as a commander. There are in Ukraine a number of younger, battle-tested and flexible commanders who could step up and give the military new direction and help bolster morale. If the rumors prove to be true, that would also be a good thing.'

- Prof. Phillips P. O'Brien, Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine, November 30, 2025



Context

(Ukraine must win) - '..Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Now the United States is setting him up to try again.'

(Europe must Rise)(Ukraine must win) - Defending Europe without the US]]> archive ArchiveSun, 30 Nov 2025 21:28:16 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11943,11943#msg-11943 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11943,11943#msg-11943
- Trump administration dismantling public diplomacy institutions built up since WWII, April 3, 2025



Context (Europe must Rise)(Ukraine must win) - Defending Europe without the US

Trump is causing generational damage to American diplomacy, July 29, 2025

(US is becoming irrelevant)(US imploding diplomacy) - '..Chamberlain .. At least his heart seemed in the right place...' - Branson

The United States is a joke of a country. How many ‘shared values’ does [Europe or] Australia actually have with it?


(NATO) - 'The new European security order should be based on Ukraine’s security..']]> ProjectC Project CSat, 22 Nov 2025 21:56:28 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11942,11942#msg-11942 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11942,11942#msg-11942
..

President Zelensky and his European allies should reject this plan and develop a realistic, fair, and feasible proposal of their own, with conditions that are acceptable to Ukraine and respect international law. This is a bamboozle of epic proportions.

As if the terms of this plan weren’t already terrifying enough, the document also marks a remarkable retreat of US leadership, signalling to Putin’s Russia and other authoritarian regimes that violent aggression is perfectly acceptable and, I suspect, even respectable to the US government.

I never thought I’d live to see the US turn into a proponent of appeasement, riding roughshod over the concerns and interests of its closest allies, while trying to please a brutal dictator who appears to have been pulling the strings all along. In some ways, this feels worse than Neville Chamberlain’s failed efforts. At least his heart seemed in the right place...'

- Richard Branson, This is not a peace plan, November 21, 2025



Context

(Europe must Rise)(Ukraine must win) - Defending Europe without the US

(Ukraine must win) - '..Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Now the United States is setting him up to try again.'

(Ukraine nuclear weapons or NATO) - Illusion of security: Why Budapest Memorandum failed to protect Ukraine from war]]> ProjectC Project CSat, 22 Nov 2025 21:48:51 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11941,11941#msg-11941 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11941,11941#msg-11941
- Defending Europe without the US: first estimates of what is needed, February 21, 2025



Context

U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

(Prometheus) - Europe must Rise - '..the post 1945/1989 European world' has ended.

Zelenskyy calls for ‘armed forces of Europe’


The United States is a joke of a country. How many ‘shared values’ does [Europe or] Australia actually have with it?

(Ukraine must win) - '..Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Now the United States is setting him up to try again.'

Ben Wallace: Trump’s Ukraine peace talks have echoes of Nazi appeasement]]> ProjectC Project CSat, 22 Nov 2025 19:56:34 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11940,11940#msg-11940 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11940,11940#msg-11940Trump’s Ukraine peace talks have echoes of Nazi appeasement


'With Donald Trump’s America showing zero commitment to democracy, the rule of law, human rights or free trade, is it time to admit things have changed?'

- The United States is a joke of a country. How many ‘shared values’ does Australia actually have with it? July 23, 2025


'..Trump [wants] Europeans to take part in their own potential destruction, to tear down many of the principles, such as respect for the rule of law and internationally recognized borders, upon which post-1945 Europe was built.'

- (Ukraine must win) - '..Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Now the United States is setting him up to try again.'



Context (Europe must Rise) - '..the debasement of the USA is clear. The USA is basically telling Ukraine to give up..'

(Ukraine nuclear weapons or NATO) - Illusion of security: Why Budapest Memorandum failed to protect Ukraine from war

'Trump and Putin are of course expecting European states to be weak and fold.'

'..Sociopaths do not care about other people.'- 'Trump and Putin have played pro-Ukraine supporters for fools..']]> ProjectC Project CSat, 22 Nov 2025 19:47:15 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11939,11939#msg-11939 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11939,11939#msg-11939
The United States is a joke of a country. How many ‘shared values’ does Australia actually have with it? July 23, 2025


'..Trump will be asking Europeans to take part in their own potential destruction, to tear down many of the principles, such as respect for the rule of law and internationally recognized borders, upon which post-1945 Europe was built.'

'In exchange for giving up land and its ability to defend itself, Ukraine would be offered toothless security guarantees by the United States—much like the never-enforced guarantees that it received when it gave up nuclear weapons after gaining independence in the 1990s. The points in the deal appear to be so lopsided in Putin’s favor that they might as well have been dictated by Moscow.

..

..Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Now the United States is setting him up to try again.

..Trump will be asking Europeans to take part in their own potential destruction, to tear down many of the principles, such as respect for the rule of law and internationally recognized borders, upon which post-1945 Europe was built.

No matter what, though, Trump’s plan represents a clarifying moment. The deal almost certainly delivers what he has always wanted. He wants to work with Putin, even if that means devastating Ukraine, and now he no longer cares who knows it.'

- Professor Phillips Payson O’Brien, Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine, November 21, 2025



Context (Putin's War) - 'What are Ukraine's borders? .. they’re internationally recognized and defined in 1991.' - Navalny

'While Hugo Grotius is generally regarded as the principal forerunner of modern international law, historians of the discipline trace its primitive origins to the works of Francisco de Vitoria, a sixteenth-century Spanish theologian and jurist.'

- Cambridge, Francisco de Vitoria and the colonial origins of international law

(Ukraine nuclear weapons or NATO) - Illusion of security: Why Budapest Memorandum failed to protect Ukraine from war

Affective Human Action - Management & Organization in The Third Millennium]]> archive ArchiveSat, 22 Nov 2025 19:38:27 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11938,11938#msg-11938 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11938,11938#msg-11938'For Ukraine, the story of the Budapest Memorandum should be a good lesson. Given the talks about what a future peace with Russia might look like, we need to achieve not only specific guarantees from specific guarantors but also an effective mechanism for their implementation. Otherwise, this peace will suffer the fate of the Budapest Memorandum too.'

'According to the document, Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal, while the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom pledged to respect Ukraine’s independence and borders, to refrain from the use of force (or even threats of force), from economic pressure, and from anything that could violate its sovereignty.

..

It was logical that it was only a matter of time before the question of whether Ukraine should remain a non-nuclear weapon state if the other signatories had neglected the Budapest Memorandum.

A few days before the full-scale Russian invasion, at the Munich Security Conference, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reminded the West of the security guarantees received for giving up the nuclear arsenal.

“We do not have those weapons, and we do not have security either. We also do not have part of the territories of our state… The Budapest Memorandum does not work, and all package solutions have been called into question,” he said.

..

..Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and then it will be our defense, or we must have some kind of alliance,” Zelenskyy said.

..

For Ukraine, the story of the Budapest Memorandum should be a good lesson. Given the talks about what a future peace with Russia might look like, we need to achieve not only specific guarantees from specific guarantors but also an effective mechanism for their implementation. Otherwise, this peace will suffer the fate of the Budapest Memorandum too.'

'After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine gained one of the most powerful armies and the third nuclear arsenal in the world. And this was of great concern to the collective West, led by the United States. In the early 1990s, the opinions of Washington and Moscow rarely coincided, but both wanted Ukraine to become a non-nuclear state.

Therefore, the young state was constantly pressured to get rid of warheads. As the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk recalled, the United States threatened sanctions and total isolation.

“Both Clinton and Vice President Gore said that if Ukraine did otherwise, they would impose economic and other sanctions. How could Ukraine, having just been born, immediately become a threat to Europe and the world,” he said in an interview.

Therefore, on January 14, 1994, a joint statement was issued by Kravchuk, the leaders of the United States and Russia – Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin – on the removal of strategic nuclear weapons and Moscow’s agreement in principle to some compensation.

Less than a year later, on December 5, 1994, Ukraine’s next president, Leonid Kuchma, signed a memorandum of security assurances in Budapest, Hungary, in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Later, France and China joined the Budapest Memorandum.

According to the document, Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal, while the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom pledged to respect Ukraine’s independence and borders, to refrain from the use of force (or even threats of force), from economic pressure, and from anything that could violate its sovereignty.

The fact that the Budapest Memorandum does not contain any real security guarantees was mentioned by the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, back in 2009.

The then French President François Mitterrand said: “Son, don’t believe this document, you will be deceived,” Kuchma said at an international conference in Jerusalem.

Ukraine fulfilled its obligations and on June 2, 1996, officially lost its nuclear weapons status. According to various estimates, Ukraine gave up 1,500 to 2,100 strategic and 2,800 to 4,800 tactical warheads.

“In my opinion, this was one of the most remarkable stories of lies in the modern history of mankind. They signed a document with you that didn’t exist. That is an illusion-signing something that did not work. And everyone who signed it understood that” Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Presidential Office, told RBC-Ukraine.

Yurii Kostenko, Minister of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety in the 1990s, believes that the correct question to ask is not “Could Ukraine have kept nuclear weapons?” but “Why did it not get anything in return?”

“Only when the last echelon with nuclear warheads left Ukraine in June 1996, we become uninteresting for the West. And what is there to take from Ukraine? The economy operates in the Russian coordinate system, and all proposals from the United States were rejected,” he said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.

According to him, the United States offered another disarmament option: to process highly enriched uranium and plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants. The American side was ready to finance this project. If this had happened, he estimated that the fuel would have been enough to this day.

Why Budapest Memorandum does not work

In the 1990s, it seemed that no one would attack Ukraine. Even Vladimir Putin, immediately after coming to power, repeatedly emphasized that he respected the borders of the neighboring state. “We don’t want to take Crimea, it’s absolute stupidity. If we start taking something away from someone, we will have something taken away from us,” he said.

Later, he reiterated that Crimea is not a disputed territory, and Russia has long recognized Ukraine’s borders. “The question of any such goals for Russia, I think, smacks of provocation,” Putin added.

However, as soon as Ukraine tried to break out of the shadow of the so-called Big Brother, the rhetoric changed. The signatories of the Budapest Memorandum did not stand up for Ukraine either after the occupation of Crimea or after the outbreak of the war in Donbas.

Even during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, former US President Bill Clinton apologized for forcing Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons.

“I feel a personal stake because I got them (Ukraine) to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,” he admitted.

Western guarantors were unable or unwilling to fully protect Ukraine, allegedly because of differences in understanding the meaning and significance of the Budapest Memorandum. While the Ukrainian version of the Memorandum reads “Memorandum on Security Guaranties,” the English version reads “Memorandum on Security Assurances.” On the other hand, the signatures of the leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom appear under the Ukrainian and Russian copies, where the words “guarantees” and “guarantors” are written respectively.

The document was not subject to ratification in the parliaments but remained a full-fledged international treaty. But without any mechanism to guarantee security. In practice, the entire toolkit boiled down to consultations, in which Russia, for obvious reasons, did not intend to participate.

“It’s not a question of nuclear weapons or strategic bombers, it’s a question of who agreed on what, what were the tools for implementing the agreements. Not only are there no specific guarantees on what to do in a given situation, but one of the guarantors started the war,” Podolyak told RBC-Ukraine.

Western guarantors were unable or unwilling to fully protect Ukraine, allegedly because of differences in understanding the meaning and significance of the Budapest Memorandum. While the Ukrainian version of the Memorandum reads “Memorandum on Security Guaranties,” the English version reads “Memorandum on Security Assurances.” On the other hand, the signatures of the leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom appear under the Ukrainian and Russian copies, where the words “guarantees” and “guarantors” are written respectively.

The document was not subject to ratification in the parliaments but remained a full-fledged international treaty. But without any mechanism to guarantee security. In practice, the entire toolkit boiled down to consultations, in which Russia, for obvious reasons, did not intend to participate.

“It’s not a question of nuclear weapons or strategic bombers, it’s a question of who agreed on what, what were the tools for implementing the agreements. Not only are there no specific guarantees on what to do in a given situation, but one of the guarantors started the war,” Podolyak told RBC-Ukraine.

Can Ukraine regain nuclear status

It was logical that it was only a matter of time before the question of whether Ukraine should remain a non-nuclear weapon state if the other signatories had neglected the Budapest Memorandum.

A few days before the full-scale Russian invasion, at the Munich Security Conference, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reminded the West of the security guarantees received for giving up the nuclear arsenal.

“We do not have those weapons, and we do not have security either. We also do not have part of the territories of our state… The Budapest Memorandum does not work, and all package solutions have been called into question,” he said.

In the fall of 2024, at a press conference in Brussels, he gave details of a conversation with Donald Trump, who was then a candidate for the US presidency. In particular, he said that the agreements between Ukraine’s partners under the Budapest Memorandum and Russia were not working, but none of these nuclear powers had suffered.

“Who gave up nuclear weapons? All of them? No. One of them. Who? Ukraine. Who is at war today? Ukraine… And in a conversation with Donald Trump, I told him that we have a way out. Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and then it will be our defense, or we must have some kind of alliance,” Zelenskyy said.

Later, he and his team members explained that joining NATO was a priority. After all, it is not difficult to imagine the consequences of an independent start of nuclear weapons, as Western partners could refuse to support Ukraine.

Mykhailo Podolyak explains that there are no means and resources to obtain weapons that would be large-scale and effective.

“And to get a dirty plutonium bomb that will not even solve tactical problems, but will destroy the reputation of Ukraine, which has renounced the obligations it assumed under the Budapest Memorandum, would be strange. That is, we would not solve any military issues, and at the same time we would discredit ourselves,” added the advisor to the head of the Presidential Office.

When the United States pressured Kyiv to get rid of its nuclear arsenal, Russia was seen as a more reliable partner in Western opinion, perhaps because of its alleged democratic credentials. However, as history has shown, in reality, Moscow has not abandoned its imperial ambitions and bellicose rhetoric. And 30 years later, it threatened nuclear strikes against decision-making centers not only in Ukraine.

For Ukraine, the story of the Budapest Memorandum should be a good lesson. Given the talks about what a future peace with Russia might look like, we need to achieve not only specific guarantees from specific guarantors but also an effective mechanism for their implementation. Otherwise, this peace will suffer the fate of the Budapest Memorandum too.'

- Illusion of security: Why Budapest Memorandum failed to protect Ukraine from war, December 8, 2024



Context

(Putin's War) - 'What are Ukraine's borders? .. they’re internationally recognized and defined in 1991.' - Navalny

(Ukraine must win) - 'Russia's oil price has collapsed to $36 per barrel'

(Ukraine must win) - Ukraine to continue fighting with or without Trump, experts say]]> archive ArchiveThu, 20 Nov 2025 11:10:46 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11937,11937#msg-11937 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11937,11937#msg-11937'Ken pointed us to the opposite lesson: real resilience lives in the bazaar.'

'Ken is the founder of the N2N network, a global learning network of educators and facilitators.

It had no headquarters. No rigid hierarchy. Just a collection of people: loosely connection, yet powerfully aligned. It’s lived proof of a simple truth: when designed well, networks outperform cathedrals.

..

The cathedral and the bazaar

Ken’s stories often return to Eric Raymond’s metaphor (to explain the success of open-soure software projects like Linux): The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

The Cathedral representing the traditional, closed, top-down, hierarchical organization.

The Bazaar representing the decentralized, collaborative, self-managing organization.


Most organizations still love building cathedrals. They build rigid hierarchies, centralize decision-making, and believe control creates strength.

Ken pointed us to the opposite lesson: real resilience lives in the bazaar.

..

When Ken first told us these stories, I understood them only intellectually.

Only now, after visiting Morning Star (and many other workplace bazaars such as Haier, Buurtzorg, NER Group) and talking with people like Dee Hock and Doug Kirkpatrick myself, do I truly feel their truth.

The future of organizations won’t be built like cathedrals. It will be lived like bazaars.

Decentralized, emergent, and resilient.

That’s Ken’s wisdom, and it’s one of the most important lessons we carry with us.'

- Joost Minnaar, Decentralization At Scale: Why The Strongest Organizations Look Like Bazaars, August 28, 2025



Context (Global Healing)(Fusion Energy) - Helion Energy starts construction on nuclear fusion plant to power Microsoft data centers

Phase II 2022 – 2032 Eye opener To Heal in The Electric Universe (pdf)

Phase I 2012 – 2022 Profound Builders Era The Beginning of Abundance (pdf)

Project C - Bazaarmodel : Management & Organization, Affective Human Action in The Third Millennium

2Grid - To create the environment where we learn the Art of Being Human]]> ProjectC Project CWed, 19 Nov 2025 20:32:55 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11936,11936#msg-11936 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11936,11936#msg-11936
- Russian Oil Prices Sink as India and China Cut Purchases Ahead of U.S. Sanctions Deadline, November 17, 2025


'WOW! Russia's oil price has collapsed to $36 per barrel! Russia's entire oil export industry now only exists to lose money for the Kremlin.'

- Jake Broe (Source, November 19, 2025)



Context (Ukraine must win) - Ukraine to continue fighting with or without Trump, experts say

'What are Ukraine's borders? .. they’re internationally recognized and defined in 1991.' - Navalny

(First line of defense) - '..European troop deployments into Ukraine.'

(NATO) - 'The new European security order should be based on Ukraine’s security..'


'..enable European troop deployments into Ukraine.']]> archive ArchiveWed, 19 Nov 2025 20:14:46 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11935,11935#msg-11935 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?3,11935,11935#msg-11935
The site in Malaga, Washington, is in the center of the state along the Columbia River, where Helion hopes to take advantage of grid infrastructure in place for the nearby Rock Island Dam hydroelectric plant.

The startup still has to secure final permits from Washington's government but said the work puts it on track to sell power to Microsoft under a deal it struck in 2023.'

- Helion Energy starts construction on nuclear fusion plant to power Microsoft data centers, July 30, 2025



Context

(Global Healing 2020 - 2050)(Fusion Energy)(LPPFusion) - '..Preparations for pB11 tests .. pB11 fusion reaction..'

LPPFusion Report-November 4, 2025 (PDF, 185KB), (Source)

(Haptopraxeology - Electric Universe - Teal - Bazaarmodel) - Educating for Wisdom and Compassion: Creating Conditions for Timeless Learning]]> ProjectC Project CThu, 13 Nov 2025 14:12:16 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11934,11934#msg-11934 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11934,11934#msg-11934'Indian resentment will burn for a long time.'

'..For the first time in decades, the United States is the common foe of almost every political faction in India.

..

..Mr. Trump has jeopardized the bilateral relationship and dismantled, almost overnight, Mr. Modi’s meticulously crafted image as a globally venerated statesman — something his rivals in the Indian political opposition have been unable to do.

..

..in the long run, with the world’s fourth-largest economy, a vast domestic market and strong global trade and investment links, India is likely to withstand the blow anyway. Sooner or later there will be an effort to repair the relationship with the United States. But the trust that took 30 years to build will not easily be restored. Indian resentment will burn for a long time.'

- Kapil Komireddi, The U.S. Wooed India for 30 Years. Trump Blew That Up in a Few Months, August 31, 2025



Context

What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a federal appeals court has knocked them down? August 30, 2025

''American values matter only if Americans live up to them at home .. No nation, not even the sole superpower, can consistently get what it wants in a world where so many other governments can shrug off US pressure.'

- Source, 2015]]> archive ArchiveSun, 31 Aug 2025 11:08:11 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11933,11933#msg-11933 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11933,11933#msg-11933
- Prof. Phillips P. O’Brien, ..The War Will Continue For A While Yet, August 24 , 2025



Context

(Prometheus) - Europe must Rise - '..the post 1945/1989 European world' has ended.

(Spanish, English, Chinese) - The Values: 'You only have to read one book, "The History of Spain" by Father Juan de Mariana.' - Thomas Jefferson

(To Heal) - '..the most sacred things in the universe are humanity and freedom.']]> archive ArchiveMon, 25 Aug 2025 19:08:42 +0000 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11932,11932#msg-11932 https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,11932,11932#msg-11932
- GM breaks EV range world record with Chevy Silverado EV Work Truck, August 5, 2025



Context

Story (possibility) – A strange electric ‘car’

Estimate: October, 2025 – Safire Plasma (beyond fusion) Reactors commercially available – Abundance, 2021]]> archive ArchiveMon, 25 Aug 2025 17:30:12 +0000