The Daily Australian Radio Show EP 43 - Zelensky folds, seeks peace

Wednesday, March 5th, 2025

Breaking News Headlines:

Aussie grocery giants would face being broken up or paying hefty fines under a major proposal by one Aussie minor party, which has revealed plans to make price gouging in the country “illegal”.

The Greens will on Wednesday unveil a major plan to introduce a Prices Commission (PsC) to monitor price gouging across Australian supermarkets and the broader economy.
Companies would face hefty fines or be broken up by the commission under the minor party’s proposal.

Surname data from Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria has revealed the changing trends among titles in the state.

The Epoch Times has broken down the data to show the shifts over the decades, reflective of Australia’s changing migration patterns.

The surname Singh took the top spot for registered surnames in Victoria in 2024.

It has been revealed that Australia is the largest buyer of Russian Oil, achieved through a World Trade Organisation policy and re-routed through India and Turkey.

The Libertarians, Gerard Rennick’s People First Party and the Heart Party led by Michael O’Neill have reportedly come to terms to form a joint ticket in the upcoming Federal election marking the first time minor parties have come together to officially work together. Early indications are the joint ticket will get behind Craig Kelly of the Libertarians at number 1 for the Senate in NSW whilst Rennick will be number 1 in Queensland. The Daily Australian will reach out to each party in the coming days as the dust settles for a complete interview. Notably One Nation and Trumpet of Patriots did not come to the table.

The Southern District of New York has delivered thousands of pages of documents in the Epstein files to the FBI and Director Kash Patel has a team working through to carefully redact victims names, but AG Pam Bondi that redactions will be labelled, so they won’t just be blacked out, but explained and will be done as quickly as possible to maintain the Trump Administration’s pledge of transparency.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrest of an illegal immigrant Abidiasta Ahemed Hassan as terrorist who tried to joined ISIS in Somalia in December.

FBI Director Kash Patel has announced the arrest of 39 MS-13 gang members including a senior member of the gang who oversaw operations in the US, Mexico and Europe.

California Governor has issued an executive order for government workers to return to the office 4 days a week by July this year. citing just 12% of office space is being used. DOGE calculated empty office space cost $15 billion a year in waste.

Former diplomat Andrei Telashchenko says he was in the room when Ciaramella met with Obama and Biden to discuss Ukraine.

SEN. SCHIFF "IN DEEP TROUBLE" OVER UKRAINE CONNECTIONS

Eric Ciaramella, the whistleblower tied to Trump’s 2019 impeachment, is back in the spotlight over Adam Schiff’s Ukraine connections.

Now, FBI Director Kash Patel—who exposed the Russia hoax—allegedly has "strong feelings" about Schiff’s role in all of this.

Canada's Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces a ban on all U.S.-based companies from bidding on government contracts and confirms the cancellation of the Starlink contract.

President Trump has announced any retaliatory tariff placed on the US by Canada will be met by a further retaliatory tariff of the same amount. The tariff war has begun.

The US Minerals deal has been exposed as a potential decoy to expose a prior deal Ukraine did with Europe, Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer believes the strong words toward Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday in the Oval Office were the result of President Donald Trump and his team finding out "they were being played."

He added that he believes Trump was trying to play a "straight line deal" to sign an agreement on mineral rights, "knowing full well that the British had already signed on this three days before his inauguration."

This means that if the Europeans want the United States to continue helping them support Ukraine, "they're going to have to take a step back and start being honest with the United States about what's going on here."

"The other day when Keir Starmer was in the office, he asked the prime minister, Gee, can you guys beat the Russians on your own? This is all about them finally stepping up and taking responsibility for their own backyard," Shaffer said. 

However, the minerals are said to be mainly held in Donetsk, an area under Russian control.

On February 21st, 2022 Russia recognised this region along with Luhansk as sovereign states. Three days later the war started with Russia’s pretext to protect these republics.

Once Russia captured Donetsk it claimed the annexation and called for referendums which were won convincingly in September of that year. However, the opponents commentators called the referendums fraudulent and this led to the aligned UN General Assembly to pass a resolution calling on countries not to recognise what it called illegal annexation.

Voting against was Belarus, North Korea, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria. 35 countries abstained including China, India, South Africa and Pakistan, whilst 143 voted for the resolution including Afghanistan, UK, US, Australia, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Israel, NATO Countries and the rest of the Middle East including BRICS nation, Saudi Arabia.

By comparison, only 68 voted for the rejection of the annexation of Crimea.

Meanwhile, astute commentators have said that Russia may be retreating on its mission to take all of Ukraine despite Putin saying he only wanted the East, which would act as a buffer to NATO, which is a legitimate argument, However the author notes that the Russians took a four pronged attack across Ukraine and have largely not advanced as they originally predicted noting some failures of tanks to advance into Kiev as one such example. The loss of a million Russian soldiers, another.

What does this mean? For Putin to get everything he wants, he needs a strong Trump who has announced no more funding for Ukraine. Whilst Russia appears to be underperforming and Trump appears to be weak, the onus is on Putin to seek a resolution and quickly, all of which means Trump holds all the cards and appears weak, the true Art of War.

Want more proof?

Just hours after Trumps’s announcement of no more financial support for Ukraine, according to the lead story on News dot com dot au Zelensky sent out a groveling social media post praising Donald Trump’s strength and expressing “regret” for the awful White House meeting.
“It’s time to make things right,” he said. Furthermore, he has since announced in a statement, has pledged to sign a minerals deal with the United States.

Mr Trump has flagged has said his first speech in his second term to Congress “will be big”.
Meanwhile, stock markets around the world are reeling as Mr Trump confirmed Canada and Mexico have “no room left” for talks to avoid 25 per cent tariffs on imports — with those duties set to begin within hours. He also doubled tariffs on China. Trump also warned China and Japan not to devalue their currencies to gain a trade advantage, which would be met with tariffs.