Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Dec 15 – EU Sanctions Swiss Intelligence Expert Jacques Baud
Related:
– Jacques Baud is being Sanctioned—and Switzerland is Fast Asleep – Sonar21
– Former Swiss intelligence officer targeted by new EU sanctions against Russia – Swiss Info
– The Jacques Baud case: How EU sanctions undermine freedom of expression (machine translation) – Berliner Zeitung
- Dec 16 – Flim Flam Theater Of Peace Talks On Ukraine
Related:
– Vladimir Putin Leaves No Doubt About Russia’s Demands to End the War in Ukraine… Do Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff Understand? – Sonar21
– US intelligence indicates Putin’s war aims in Ukraine are unchanged – Reuters
“… six sources familiar with U.S. intelligence said …”
DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard – 21:02 utc · Dec 20, 2025
No, this is a lie and propaganda @Reuters is willingly pushing on behalf of warmongers who want to undermine President Trump’s tireless efforts to end this bloody war that has resulted in more than a million casualties on both sides.
Dangerously, you are promoting this false narrative to block President Trump’s peace effort, and fomenting hysteria and fear among the people to get them to support the escalation of war, which is what NATO and the EU really want in order to pull the United States military directly into war with Russia.
The truth is the US intelligence community has briefed policymakers, including the Democrat HPSCI member quoted by Reuters, that US Intelligence assesses that Russia seeks to avoid a larger war with NATO. It also assesses that, as the last few years have shown, Russia’s battlefield performance indicates it does not currently have the capability to conquer and occupy all of Ukraine, let alone Europe.
Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard – 22:16 utc · Dec 20, 2025
Deep State warmongers and their Propaganda Media are again trying to undermine President Trump’s efforts to bring peace to Ukraine—and indeed Europe—by falsely claiming that the ‘U.S. intelligence community’ agrees to and supports EU/NATO viewpoint that Russia’s aim is to invade/conquer Europe (in order to gin up support for their pro-war policies). The truth is that ‘US intelligence’ assesses that Russia does not even have the capability to conquer and occupy Ukraine, what to speak of ‘invading and occupying’ Europe.
- Dec 17 – English Outsider On Dirty British Intel And Other Stuff
Related:
– Ukraine ‘hits Russian tanker in Mediterranean Sea for first time’ – SkyNews
– U.K. Appoints New Ambassador to U.S. After Predecessor Is Fired Over Epstein Links (archived) – NY Times
- Dec 18 – Russia Is In A Security Dilemma – Europe Pretends To Be In One
Related:
– Europe risks a self-fulfilling prophecy over the threat from Russia (archived) – Financial Times
– Putin says Europe out of step with an increasingly Moscow-friendly U.S. (archived) – Washington Post
– America’s Khrushchev moment – Arnaud Bertrand
- Dec 20 – The EU’s ‘Russian Asset’ Scam Failed But Warmongers Still Grab Others’ Money
Related:
– Europe finds €90bn for Ukraine—but not from Russia (archived) – Economist
– Europe Funnels Billions to Ukraine but Wobbles Geopolitically (archived) – NY Times
– UK rules out using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine (archived) – Financial Times
– EU to pay €3B a year in interest for Ukraine loan – Politico
– Macron is right: Europe should talk to Putin – Spectator
– Why the Brussels money-grab will fail – A rebellion is underway in Europe – Thomas Fazi / Unherd
– Europe has just failed Ukraine again – Telegraph
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Other issues:
Gaza:
- Buildings collapse on Gaza families as rain floods tents – Electronic Intifada
- MSF urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death – Aljazeerah
- In 2025, The Israeli Army Was The ‘Worst Enemy Of Journalists’ – Scheerpost
- Palestinians tell BBC they were sexually abused in Israeli prisons – BBC
- Israel’s Deliberate Destruction of Palestinian Academia – Jacobin
Venezuela:
- Coast Guard boards oil tanker leaving Venezuela amid Trump’s blockade (archived) – Washington Post
Neither the ship nor its cargo were under U.S. sanctions. - Trump says Venezuela stole U.S. oil, land and assets. Here’s the history. (archived) – Washington Post
- Trump’s blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil raises new questions about legality – PBS
- Explainer: Venezuela’s billions in distressed debt: who is in line to collect – Reuters
Trump:
- The Year in Trump Cashing In (archived) – New Yorker
- Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) – Vanity Fair
- Susie Wiles Talks Epstein Files, Pete Hegseth’s War Tactics, Retribution, and More (Part 2 of 2) – Vanity Fair
Epstein:
- Was Jeffrey Epstein a “convicted pedophile”? – Michael Tracy
- The Jeffrey Epstein Saga is the Worst-Reported Story of All Time – Racket
- Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich (archived) – NY Times
- Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored (because it wasn’t child porn) (archived) – NY Times
- At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein – AP
China:
- Flying Taxis? China Has Them. And Drone Lunch Deliveries, Too. (archived) – NY Times
- Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips – Reuters
- China boosts AI chip output by upgrading older ASML machines (archived) – Financial Times
- Seeing China Clearly: How to Read a Rising Power (Speech to German Business leaders) – Arnaud Bertrand
AI:
- AI promised a revolution. Companies are still waiting. – Reuters
- We let AI run our office vending machine. It lost hundreds of dollars. – WSJ via MSN
- OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates (archived) – Financial Times
- Six (or seven) predictions for AI 2026 from a Generative AI realist – Gary Marcus
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …