It’s now clear that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan to carve up the globe into spheres of influence, with cabals of oligarchs and investment funds and their corrupt Israeli friend Benjamin Netanyahu also reaping the benefit. The big losers (alongside permanently oppressed Palestinians) are Europeans whose heritage and sovereignty mean nothing to the panjandrums of Washington and Moscow.
Trump behaves on the world stage like the rapacious New York property tycoon he was brought up to be; while Putin acts exactly as one would expect from a KGB-trained gangster. Those foolish enough to trust Putin – from Syria’s Assad to Venezuela’s Maduro to Iran’s mullahs – have repeatedly been betrayed whenever it suited Putin to cut a deal with Trump and Netanyahu.
The most blatantly exploitative behaviour in recent weeks has been exhibited by Trump’s lifelong friend and adviser Ronald Lauder, who since 2007 has been President of the World Jewish Congress. His decades of support for Trump included last year donating $5 million to a Trumpist “political action committee” called MAGA Inc., that is also funded by Elon Musk. Lauder is also a close personal and political friend of Benjamin Netanyahu, and was entrusted by the Israeli Prime Minister with taking charge of a “back channel diplomacy” with Syria in the late 1990s.
In 1987 he created the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, which has the stated aim of rebuilding “the future of Jewish life in Europe through supporting excellent Jewish schools”. The foundation’s website describes Lauder as maintaining “a deep commitment to his Judaic heritage within a mosaic of charitable and professional endeavors that reach around the world.”
Lauder is also one of the most influential Jews in the modern art world. He was for a time chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, and in 2001 he co-founded and financed the Neue Galerie New York, which like MoMA is also located in Manhattan and has one of the world’s major collections of early 20th century German and Austrian art (often by Jews).
In 2019 for unknown reasons Lauder purchased the entire collection of the International Museum of World War II, including many important wartime documents. He closed down the museum, but contrary to previous pledges has not reopened it at a new Washington location, and the fate of its documents and other items remains unknown.
It was Lauder (heir to the famous cosmetics empire founded by his parents Joseph and Estée Lauder) who first suggested to Donald Trump that he should annex Greenland. The idea was first put into Trump’s greedy and addled mind as early as 2017 at the start of his first presidency. It has since recurred in tandem with Ronald Lauder’s own business interests in Greenland, which include a hydroelectric plant designed to power an aluminium smelter.
The Zionist leader’s thirst for profit isn’t limited to prising Greenland away from its traditional alignment with Denmark. Lauder has also had longstanding and highly questionable investments in Ukraine.
As well as pushing Trump to grab Danish territory, he has encouraged his White House puppet to betray Ukraine and try to force that proud nation’s brave defenders – after almost four years of resistance – to cooperate with “peace” proposals favouring a Trump-Putin axis.
The shameless blackmail envisaged by Lauder and Trump involves Ukraine on the one hand ceding territory to Russia, and on the other (as the only alternative to complete surrender to Moscow) handing investment opportunities to a consortium that includes Lauder and his cronies.
Responding to pressure from Trump a few days ago, Ukraine awarded a “production sharing agreement” in a state-owned lithium mine to Dobra Lithium Holdings, whose major investors include Lauder.
Lithium is a vitally important element in the production of modern batteries, including for the new generation of electric vehicles.
Should Ukraine be awarding vast profits from its natural resources to a man like Ronald Lauder, who has a long and dishonourable record of association with Vladimir Putin’s gang of oligarchs? And most importantly, should European leaders continue to tolerate Washington’s continued economic imperialism that runs in tandem with Moscow’s military threats?
In 2016 Lauder told an interviewer that “President Putin is a true patriot for his country, a true leader.”
Lauder’s actions show this was more than mere rhetorical flattery.
At the turn of the millennium one of Lauder’s companies came under investigation by US federal prosecutors over allegations that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to obtain a broadcasting license for a television station in Ukraine.
Lauder’s partners in this venture were among the most notorious members of Jewish criminal gangs that in those days influenced Ukrainian business and funded pro-Russia politicians.
One of these was Vadim Rabinovich, who as a young man during the 1980s was jailed for fraud against state enterprises in the late Soviet Union. By the time he left prison, the USSR was being converted into a paradise for KGB-linked gangsters. This was an ideal environment for Rabinovich, who quickly became one of newly independent Ukraine’s leading crooks, as well as spending eight years in Ukraine’s parliament representing pro-Russian parties.
In 2022 soon after Russia’s invasion, Rabinovich was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship and denounced as a traitor. He fled to Israel, where his ‘philanthropy’ has included a large donation to restore the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem. Since arriving in Israel, this notorious gangster has created a ‘European Jewish Parliament’ to lobby for pro-Trump and pro-Putin positions. Typically he used this ‘European Jewish Parliament’ last year to promote the idea of giving Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.
The other main partner of Trump’s friend Ronald Lauder in his Ukrainian broadcasting station during the 1990s was Boris Fuksman, a notorious smuggler of Russian art and antiques including icons. Fuksman had emigrated to Germany in 1974 and established various businesses including an art gallery in Düsseldorf.
These German businesses were created in partnership with another Soviet Jew, Leonid Bluvshtein – a diamond fraudster and arms dealer who changed his name to Leonid Minin. Both of them are understood to have cooperated with the KGB in smuggling Russian art treasures to the West to obtain hard currency for Soviet intelligence operations (with Fuksman and Minin naturally taking a cut for themselves).
Fuksman’s young mistress Irina Berezhnaya was a crooked lawyer associated with pro-Russian political parties. She died in a mysterious car crash in Croatia in 2017, aged 36. Berezhnaya’s mother Elena Petrovna is yet another associate of pro-Russian criminal gangs and is subjected to UK sanctions for her ties to Russia, as is her Russian Jewish billionaire husband Gennadiy Timchenko, a close personal friend and business associate of Vladimir Putin.
Fuksman died last October aged 78, but many of his crooked pro-Kremlin associates are still alive either in Israel, or in Putin’s Russia, or trying to reinvent themselves as ‘patriots’ and pretending to support both sides in Ukraine while only knowing one true loyalty: their own self-interest.
Allowing a man like Ronald Lauder, whose previous business interests involved such alliances, to benefit from a Trump-imposed ‘peace’ settlement would be an insult to the patriots whose blood defended Ukraine against the Kremlin’s Eurasian hordes.
Many European and American so-called ‘nationalists’ are so brainwashed by Kremlin propaganda or so corrupted by Kremlin gold that they cannot perceive the vile betrayal being perpetrated around the world by the Trump-Putin-Netanyahu axis.
But the story of Ronald Lauder is the most blatant example of why it is time to rebuild a Europe for Europeans, and to expel those rootless, disloyal exploiters and charlatans who befoul our continent with their presence.
