Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Feb 17 – U.S. Questions For European Governments – Another Wake-up Call
- Feb 18 – Where Trump’s Punishment Of Europe Should Lead To
- Feb 20 – A Left Behind Europe (And Ukraine) Will Fall Into Chaos
Related:
– It’s Time for Europe to Do the Unthinkable – Kishore Mahbubani / Foreign Policy
– The EU’s Propaganda Machine: How the EU funds NGOs to promote itself – Brussels MCC
– Will Merz sell Germany to BlackRock? The frontrunner is celebrated in C-suites – Unherd
– Of trains and tanks. Or does the German political class actually know how bad things are? – Adam Tooze
– China and Europe should jointly write a new narrative for a multipolar world: Global Times editorial – Global Times
- Feb 19 – Zionist Shots Zionists – Both Blame Arabs
Related:
– Jerusalem: Jewish man attacks Israeli woman with axe, mistaking her for a Christian – MEE
– Shin Bet Arrests Two Israelis Suspected of Involvement in Tel Aviv Suburbs Bus Bombs (archived) – Haaretz
– How Gaza Shattered the West’s Mythology – From The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra – Foreign Policy
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel – 15:53 UTC · Feb 21, 2025
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- Feb 21 – By Drones, Mines And Missiles – The British Naval War Against Russia In Ukraine
- Feb 22 – Zelenski Has Yet To Eat The Shit Sandwich
Related:
– Zelensky and Russiagate – spookwar – Events in Ukraine– UK sees privatisation ‘opportunities’ in Ukraine war – Declassified UK
– Ukraine Opposes Size of Minerals Fund to Pay Back US War Aid – Bloomberg
– Fresh draft minerals agreement: US to be granted 100% of financial interest – Ukrainska Pravda– The first step towards peace in Ukraine – Gordon Hahn
– The First Draft of the Ukraine War’s History – American Conservative
Book review: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, by Scott Horton
– White House press secretary suggests Russia-Ukraine conflict could end ‘this week’ – The Hill
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Other issues:
Spot on:
- Liberals Hate Socialists Because Socialists Are The Real Thing – Caitlin Johnstone
Doge:
- Trump moves with light speed and brute force in shaking the core of what America has been – AP
- Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More – New Republic
- Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In – ProPublica
- New Doge/Musk Email Goes Seriously Sideways – Talking Points Memo
- Many Americans don’t trust the media to cover Trump: Survey – The Hill
Romania/Eastern Europe:
- $920 Million U.S.-Romania Foreign Military Financing Direct Loan Strengthens NATO – U.S. Embassy in Romania
- NGOs Backing Judicial Coup in Romania Funded by USAID, State Department – Lee Fang
- 10 Facts about Călin Georgescu that not everyone may know: … – Daily Romania
- Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine – Politico
- A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy – NY Times
- Poland Will Be Left in the Lurch If U.S. Reboots Relations With Belarus – 21st Century Wire
- INTERVIEW: Certain EU countries nourishing ideas of annexing Ukrainian lands — Medvedchuk – TASS
Aukus: “If someone made the effort to visit you it is only polite to visit them too.”
- China’s expulsion of Australian military aircraft intruding into Xisha Qundao territorial airspace legitimate: FM – Global Times, Feb 15 2025
- Commercial flights diverted as Chinese warships undertake apparent live-fire drill between Australia and New Zealand – Guardian, Feb 21 2025
Miscellaneous:
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 2024 ANNUAL REPORT (pdf)
- Potomac River Midair Collision: An Accident Waiting to Happen – Sonar21
- Why is YouTube boosting anti-US, pro-Chinese communist propaganda? – The Hill
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …