Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:

• Nov 3 – Trump’s Nuclear Weapon Tests Won’t Include Nuke Explosions
  Related:
  – Nuclear testing: It’s the pits – Asia Times
  – Trump Has an Out on Nuclear Testing. He Should Take It. – Carnegie Endowment
  – The new nuclear arms race (archived) – Financial Times

• Nov 3 – Belorussian ‘Regime Changer’ Roman Protasevich Was An Intelligence Asset
  Related:
  – Key Kremlin ally reveals KGB spy helped Russia hijack Ryanair flight in 2021 – Express
  – Ryanair ‘hijacking’ twist: Putin’s friend says detainee was undercover spy – Dagens
  – Leaks expose collapse of EU/US-backed Belarusian ‘opposition’ – Grayzone
  – U.S. lifts all sanctions from Belarusian airline Belavia – MSN

• Nov 4 – Dick ‘Darth Vader’ Cheney Is Dead
  Related:
  – Remembering Dick Cheney, ‘Polarizing’ War Criminal – FAIR
  – The Tragedy of Dick Cheney (archived) – Ron Suskind / NY Times

• Nov 5 – Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayor’s Election
  Related:
  – The Zohran Mamdani Psyop: How The Establishment Manufactures Its Own Brand of “Radicals”. – Fiorella Isabel
  – Buckle Up, America. The Zohran Era is Here – Matt Taibbi
  – Zohran Mamdani drops the mask (unhinged editorial) (archived) – Washington Post
  The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.

• Nov 7 – This Ukraine War Report Is One Of A Kind
  Related:
  – Zelenskyy reports 314 Russian soldiers in Pokrovsk, Ukrainian forces say Russians waiting for reinforcements – Pravda.ua
  – John Mearsheimer: Fall of Pokrovsk – The Turning Point of the End of the Ukraine War is Near (video)
  – Why Ukraine’s troops are facing an amputation crisis – Telegraph
  – “Energy generation now at zero”: Russia delivers heaviest strike on Ukrainian thermal power plants – Ukrainska Pravda
  – EU and Belgium reportedly fail to agree on use of frozen Russian assets – Yahoo

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Other issues:
Cont. reading: The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-260

Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:

• Oct 27 – Sitting In A Damaged Glasshouse Throwing More Stones
  Related:
  – Ukraine curbs power supplies after attack on energy facilities, Kyiv says – Reuters
  – G7 ministers to discuss support for Ukraine amid energy crisis – UkrInform
  – Entire Donetsk Oblast left without power – Ukrainske Pravda

• Oct 28 – How Can Japan Handle Its $550 Billion Trump Problem?
  Related:
  – Trump aims to open Japan to U.S. autos with tariffs. It’s a tough sell – Detroit News
  – Japan’s Central Bank Holds Fire as Tariffs, Politics Cloud Policy Target – WSJ via </>MSN
  – Japan’s Takaichi and China’s Xi agree to pursue stable ties – Reuters

• Oct 29 – English Outsider On Solving Ukraine
  Related:
  – A Few Thoughts About the Russian End Game in Ukraine and the Risk of Losing the Peace – Naked Capitalism
  – Living Dangerously – Russo-Ukrainian War: Autumn 2025 – Big Serge <- Recommended
  – I hate to say it, but Kyiv won’t last till spring (archived) – The Times
  – The dark side of Zelenskyy’s rule – Politico
  – Almost 100,000 young men flee Ukraine in two months – Telegraph
  – Did Ukraine Just Quietly Attack Two European Countries? – American Conservative
  – What will it cost to make Vladimir Putin stop? (archived) – Economist

> We calculate that Ukraine will need approximately $389bn in cash and arms over the four years from 2026 to 2029 (for consistency we are using dollars and constant prices throughout), mainly from Europe. That is almost double the roughly $206bn that Europe has supplied since just before the war started in February 2022. <

• Oct 30 – A Nuclear Delivery Vehicle Is Not A Nuclear War Head
  Related:
  – Opinion: Why Trump’s talk about nuclear testing is dangerous – Salt Lake Tribune
  – The experts respond to Trump’s proposal to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” – The Bulletin
  – Trump push to restart nuclear tests could take years, cost millions, experts say (archived) – Washington Post

• Oct 31 – U.S. Ready To Bomb Venezuela Under Absurdly False Pretext
  Related:
  – Pentagon Tells Congress It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing in Latin American Boat Strikes – Scheerpost
  – Trump administration tells Congress war law doesn’t apply to cartel strikes (archived) – Washington Post
  – Russia Ready to Assist Venezuela in Response to Intervention Threats Orinoco Tribune
  – How Miami hawks hijacked Trump’s foreign policy They’ve long dreamed of toppling Maduro – Unherd
  – The Regime Change Temptation in Venezuela – To Overthrow Maduro Would Not End Well – Foreign Affairs
  – ‘This is no drill’ – State One Alert Level – Trinidad Express

• Nov 1 – Ukraine – Hail Mary Operation To Unblock Pokrovsk Has Failed
  Related:
  – Who will save Ukrainian troops in Pokrovsk? (archived) – Spectator
  – Pokrovsk, Syrsky, and black hawks down – Events in Ukraine
  – No encirclement of Pokrovsk: Armed Forces, Security Service and Defence Intelligence of Ukraine operating in city, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief says – Ukrainske Pravda
  – Ukrainian troops have improved tactical position in several areas of Pokrovsk, Air Assault Forces say – video – Ukrainske Pravda

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Other issues:
Cont. reading: The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-254

Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:

• Oct 20 – Emmanuel Todd – The Institutionalized Europe Is Far-Right
  Related:
  – “Europe’s latest intelligence fakes.” – The Floutist
  – EU Declares War On Its Own Members – Simplicius
  – The Final Split: How Europe Broke Apart Over Gaza – Fair Observer
  – “It’s not about security, it’s about control” – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats – Tech Radar

• Oct 21 – EU-NATO Retreats From ‘Ukraine Is Winning’ To Begging For A Ceasefire
  Related:
  – Western Analysts Continue to Push Delusions About Russia – Sonar21
  – New sanctions and weapons will not stop Russia. It’s time for Ukraine’s allies to change their flawed strategy – Guardian
  – NATO secretary general says Putin is “running out of money, troops and ideas” – Ukrainske Pravda, Oct 26 2025
  — How Russia, And Putin, Are Weaponizing, Losing And Running Out Of … Everything – MoA, Jun 3 2022
  — Russia Is Running Out Of [Whatever The Media Claim] – MoA, Jun 26 2022
  — Russia, Having ‘Run Out Of Missiles’, Launches Barrage On Ukraine – MoA, Oct 10 2022

• Oct 23 – Trump Fails To End His Proxy War With Russia
  Related:
  – Successful long-range test of Burevestnik – Russian Forces
  – Rubio’s Skepticism of Russian Spin Spurred US Shift on Putin – Bloomberg via MSN
  – Hungary’s Foreign Minister: Trump Is Ukraine’s Only Hope for Peace – American Conservative
  – Trump may not follow through on Russian oil or Tomahawk – Indian Punchline
  – Will America’s new sanctions on Russian oil force a peace deal? (archived) – Economist
  – Japan Pushes Back on U.S. Pressure to Halt Russian Energy Imports – Oil Price

• Oct 24 – EU Commission Plan Of ‘Russian Assets’ Loan To Ukraine Ends In Defeat
  Related:
  – German business association criticizes EU plans for Russian assets – DPA
  – The Canadian behind the West’s massive sanctions on Russia says it’s time for Round 2 (Mar 2024) – Politico
  – European leaders are unable to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia yet unwilling to face the political consequences of peace in Ukraine – The Peace Monger
  – Von der Leyen and Costa fail to cash in on Trump smacking Putin – Politico
  EU chiefs lost some credibility when they failed to get a deal to fund Ukraine using Russian assets. 

• Oct 25 – Trump Targets Venezuela
  Related:
  – Inside Marco Rubio’s Push for Regime Change in Venezuela – Drop Site
  – Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats (archived) – Washington Post
  – On Ukraine and Venezuela, Trump needs to dump the sycophants – Responsible Statecraft
  – Norwegian Peace Council Will Not Celebrate María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize – Orinoco Tribune
  – U.S. Sanctions Colombia’s Leader, One of President Trump’s Harshest Critics (archived) – NY Times

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Other issues:
Cont. reading: The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-248