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Keir Starmer is ditching Zelensky to avoid Trump tariffs and land a trade deal

Ian Proud
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
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© strategic-culture.suUK PM Keir Starmer • US President Donald Trump
Starmer has decided quietly to ditch Zelensky and to line up behind Trump's plans for a peace deal.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to Washington majored on an historic invitation for President Trump to make a second state visit to Britain. Despite considerable pre-visit hype among the UK mainstream media, Ukraine was barely mentioned. The cold truth is, Starmer is ditching Zelensky to avoid tariffs.

The subtle art of diplomacy is often hard to fathom for the outsider. When Keir Starmer called on Donald Trump in the Oval Office on 27 February, there was an air of conviviality that belied what some considered to have been, hitherto, a difficult relationship. The set piece moment was the Prime Minster handing the President a letter from His Majesty, King Charles II.

Comment: Given the 'failing Starmer effect', if he is the bridge, it is surely over an ocean of vastly troubled water.

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Bizarro Earth

The EU's leaders are now a global threat

Timofey Bordachev
RT
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:35 UTC
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© Justin Tallis/Getty ImagesUK PM Keir Starmer hosts European leaders for future talks on peace in Ukraine
The bloc's out of control - elites can't solve problems, so they keep creating new ones!

Western European politicians have long approached governance with a strategy of avoidance - always seeking the easiest way out while postponing real decisions. While this used to be a problem only for the region itself, today, its indecision is threatening global stability.

Europe's current political landscape must be understood in the context of the dramatic shifts taking place in the United States. The continent's political elites are not striving for strategic autonomy, nor are they preparing for a direct confrontation with its biggest state, Russia. Their primary concern is holding on to power. In pursuit of this goal, history has shown that elites will go to great lengths.

Recently, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed out that, for the past 500 years, Europe has been the epicenter of global conflicts or their instigator. Today, its independent military potential is depleted - both economically and socially. To rebuild, Europe would need years of aggressive militarization, which would impoverish its citizens. Western European leaders seem determined to ensure the latter, but they are not yet ready for the former.

Comment: Above are the thirteen (correctable/replaceable) reasons why their plans won't work.

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A blueprint for the future: A four-pronged approach to global growth

Dmitry Plotnikov
RT
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:01 UTC
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© Press Service of the National Center 'Russia'Discussion in Progress
In an era of uncertainty, economic turbulence, and rapid technological shifts, the search for sustainable global growth has never been more urgent.

The Open Dialogue "Future of the World: New Platform for Global Growth", hosted the National Centre RUSSIA on April 28 to 30 in Moscow, presents a holistic vision that recognizes the interconnected nature of modern challenges.

By structuring discussions around four core pillars - Investments in People, Technology, Environment, and Connectivity - the initiative offers a comprehensive roadmap for sustainable and inclusive development. This approach ensures that economic progress is balanced, forward-thinking, and people-centered.

More importantly, the initiative stands out for its open call for participation, inviting anyone to submit ideas and insights. This crowdsourced approach breaks down institutional barriers, allowing fresh, outside-the-box solutions to emerge. Instead of relying solely on policymakers and economists, this initiative taps into the collective intelligence of global citizens, ensuring diverse perspectives and real-world applicability.

Comment: The future is open, should we have one.

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Nuke

Trump names 'greatest threat' to humanity


RT
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:08 UTC
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© Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress • US Capitol • March 4, 2025
Nuclear weapons pose a much more significant danger than climate change, according to the US president.

US President Donald Trump has declared nuclear weapons as the foremost threat to humanity. He criticized those focusing on global warming while overlooking the immediate dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

The statement comes days after the US president called for nuclear disarmament among world powers.

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Trump stated that "climate lunatics" predict minor sea-level rises over centuries but ignore a threat of a nuclear war that could happen "tomorrow."
"They talk about global warming, and they say the ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch in the next 300 years. And nobody ever talks about nuclear weapons.

"I watched [former US president Joe] Biden for years say the existential threat... is from the climate. And I said, 'no'. The greatest is sitting in shelves in various countries called 'nuclear weapons' that are big monsters that can blow your heads off for miles and miles and miles."

Comment: Enough rhetorical posturing. Let reality discussions begin.

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Take 2

Best of the Web: Trump's Democratic 'Allies'

Victor Davis Hanson
The Blade of Perseus
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:22 UTC
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Former Clinton strategist James Carville has reinvented himself at age 80 as a sage Democrat podcaster. His predictions — remember, a victorious Kamala Harris? — are usually wrong. He enjoys engaging in public duels with celebrities to gain online clicks and media appearances.

Yet sometimes he appears judicious in his effort to return his party to the Clinton glory days of 1992-2000, before the takeover of the party by the lunatic left. That said, he too has become part of the new left nihilism he supposedly despises.

Most recently, Dr. Carville diagnosed Donald Trump as suffering from tertiary syphilis. Carville's "proof" was his identification of a bruise on Trump's much-used shaking hand, along with his supposed brain dementia. As confirmation, Carville described Trump as a "fat f — ing slob" with a "beached whale body." So, a once top Democratic strategist has gone from his 1992 iconic campaign reminder, "It's the economy, stupid," to smearing Trump as a fat slob with syphilis. Carville's descent sums up his entire party.
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Bizarro Earth

Pepe Escobar: Europe suffering from acute dementia - declares war on Russia all over again

Pepe Escobar
ZeroHedge
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:31 UTC
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Let's start with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's Road to Damascus moment:

"Frankly, it's a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine and Russia, and it needs to come to an end".

Now that's a howler. Jeffrey Sachs to the rescue. Of course, the correct formulation would be "proxy war launched by the United States". But still: Hallelujah! Such illumination - by proxy - from Heavens Above could never had hit the previous American Secretary of Genocide.

Now cut to panic. Total European panic.

Le Petit Roi, as popular in France as nighttime mosquitoes in a five-star beach resort, has declared that peace in Europe is only possible with a "tamed" Russia - and that Russia is a direct threat to France and Europe.
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Chess

House GOP unveils 'clean' text to fund government while Democrats threaten shutdown

Adam Pack
The Daily Caller
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:29 UTC
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© Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesSpeaker of the House, Mike Johnson
House Republican leadership unveiled bill text Saturday to fund the government through September and avert a partial government shutdown set to occur after midnight on March 14.

The 99-page stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), will fund government operations for the remainder of the fiscal year. The government funding plan has widespread backing in the House Republican conference and is the product of close coordination with the Trump administration to ensure the government is spending less money, according to House GOP leadership staff.

House Democrats are expected to oppose the stopgap funding bill and have criticized GOP lawmakers' refusal to insert language in the text hamstringing President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) authority to cut wasteful spending.
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Red Pill

Trump: Russia 'easier to deal with' than Ukraine in push for peace


Yahoo! News
Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:13 UTC
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(L-R) Donald Trump, Vladimir Zelensky, Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he found it easier to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin than with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

And said he believed the Russian leader - who launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine more than three years ago - when Putin said he sought peace.

"You know, I believe, I believe him. I think we're doing very well with Russia. but right now, they're bombing the hell out of Ukraine and Ukraine. I'm... I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine. And and they don't have the cards."

Comment: The Russians are ready to mop up in Kursk, after bleeding the Ukraine military for six-plus months. Zelensky's stupid PR stunt, staged for the benefit of his western masters, has ended the only way it could: in tragedy and massive losses.
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© SouthFront Press
  • Russian forces eliminated up to 350 servicemen, one tank, two infantry vehicles, five armoured personnel carriers, 19 armoured fighting vehicles, 29 motor vehicles, six artillery guns in the area;
  • Russian forces took control of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Kositsa, Pravda, Martynivka, Malaya Loknya and Mikhailovka;
  • Russian forces took control of Loknya;
  • Russian forces took control of Makhnovka
  • Russian forces advanced north of Sudzha and took control of the industrial zone in the east of Sudzha and Kubatkin;
  • Clashes continued near Basovka village;
  • Clashes continued near Kurilovka.


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Fire

The glow of the gaslight

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
The DOnald
© imgflip.comUS President Donald Trump • Left's political portrayal
CBS 60-Minutes' Gaslighter-in-Chief Scott Pelley was at it again Sunday night trying to put over the story that Donald Trump had unfairly cashiered a broad swathe of federal agency Inspectors General — whose job it is to investigate crime, mischief, and administrative malfeasance. In the spotlight sat one Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel to the independent Office of Special Counsel, who just resigned after a court battle over his firing weeks ago.

Do you have any idea what a laugh riot that is? Dellinger's job was to protect whistleblowers and enforce the Hatch Act (against public employees engaging in partisan political activities). Would you say he did a great job protecting FBI whistleblowers who testified before Congress last year — say, FBI agents Marcus Allen, Garret O'Boyle, and Steve Friend? They were suspended without pay, not allowed to seek other employment, lost homes, were financially wrecked, and hung out to dry by then-FBI boss Christopher Wray. Was Hampton Dellinger heard to make a peep about that? (Nope.) So much for protecting whistleblowers.

Comment: "'Power' is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." - George Orwell

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Footprints

Trump considers pulling troops out of Germany

Connor Stringer
The Telegraph
Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:00 UTC
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© Getty Images North AmericaUS President Donald Trump weighing up withdrawing 35K active personnel out of Germany • Oval Office
Donald Trump is considering pulling US troops from Germany and redeploying them to Eastern Europe. Mr Trump is weighing up withdrawing some 35,000 active personnel out of Germany in a move that would further sour US-Europe relations.

The US president, who has repeatedly warned that Europe must commit more to its defensive capabilities, is becoming increasingly frustrated that the continent is "pushing for war", sources close to the administration said.

Around 160,000 active-duty personnel are stationed outside of the United States, a vast quantity of whom are in Germany.

Brian Hughes, a US national security spokesman, said: "While no specific announcement is imminent, the US military is always considering the redeployment of troops around the world to best address current threats to our interests."

Comment: 'No war' is far better than paying for your own and someone else's.

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