Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Dec 1 – Soldiers Have ‘Duty To Refuse’ Hegseth’s Order To Commit War Crimes
- Dec 4 – The Knives Are Out For Hegseth
Related:
– Drug-Boat Attack Survivors Waved as U.S. Aircraft Flew By, Video Shows (archived) – WSJ
– ‘Signalgate’ report contradicts Hegseth’s claim of ‘total exoneration’ (archived) – Washington Post
– GOP senators, lacking confidence in Hegseth, say his future is Trump’s call – The Hill
– Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule – Atlantic
- Dec 2 – NATO Thinks Of ‘Pre-emptive Strikes’ Against Russia To ‘Defend’ Against Something That Did Not Happen
Related:
– Unprecedented NATO threats against Russia. Are they possible without US agreement? – Defend Democracy
– US Beta-Testing China Blockade with Attacks on Russian Energy Exports – Brian Berletic
– The Militarisation of Scandinavia & the Great Northern War 2.0 – Glenn Diesen
- Dec 5 – New U.S. National Security Strategy – Fortify America, Compete China, Strangle Europe, Forget The Rest
Related:
– Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy (archived) – NY Times
– Trump Has Long Disdained Europe’s Elites. Now, It’s Official. (archived) – NY Times
– Europe faces most difficult moment in bid to avoid split with US – Bloomberg / MSN
– Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say – Reuters / MSN
- Dec 6 – Ukraine – Roadblocks To A Peace Agreement
Related:
– Zelensky out by Christmas? – Events in Ukraine
– “War is coming”: Orbán announces fateful days for Europe – b92
– Battlefield Picture Worsening for Ukraine as Trump Pushes Peace Plan (archived) – NY Times
– Deadly, elite, and scaling — inside Russia’s Rubikon front-line drone system – Kyiv Independent
– France Working Towards Direct Military Intervention in Ukrainian Hostilities – Russian Intel Warns – Military Watch
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Other issues:
West Asia:
- Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It’s Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners – Caitlin Johnstone
- PODCAST: Uncovering the inner workings of an AI genocide – 972mag
- The End of the Israel Exception – A New Paradigm for American Policy (archived) – Foreign Affairs
SouthAm:
- The Lies Being Used to Justify the US’ War Against Venezuela (and Latin America in General) Are Unravelling Before Our Eyes – Naked Capitalism
- Trump Holds Talks With Top Advisers on Venezuela Amid Push Toward Regime Change War – Antiwar
- The Fentanyl Killing America is from Top Ally India — Not Venezuela – Uncaptured Media
Europe:
- Europe exhausts legal tricks on frozen Russian assets (archived) – Financial Times
- Europe’s humiliation over Ukraine Kaja Kallas is embarrassing to watch – Unherd
- The EU’s top diplomat is a gift to the Kremlin (archived) – Telegraph
Kaja Kallas’s hardline position isn’t helping Ukraine - EXCLUSIVE: Police raid EU External Action Service, College of Europe in sweeping fraud probe – Euractiv
- Thrown under the omnibus: How the EU’s digital deregulation fuels US coercion – ECFR
Affair Epstein:
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …