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Trump eyeing Crimea as 'international resort' - Hersh


RT
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:23 UTC
Yalta Crimea
© Travel Faery/Getty ImagesYalta, Crimea
The renowned American journalist has claimed that the US president wants to do business with Putin.

US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering lifting sanctions against Moscow in order to turn Russia's Crimean Peninsula into a major international resort, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has reported, citing a White House official.

Since his inauguration in January, Trump has pursued direct negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the conflict in Ukraine. His administration has indicated that it is open to recognizing Moscow's sovereignty over Crimea and some of the Donbass as part of a potential peace deal.

The Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol officially joined Russia in 2014 following public referendums; they were followed in 2022 by the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye. Kiev continues to claim the territories as its own and has vowed to take them back, but Moscow has insisted that their status is non-negotiable.

In a post on his Substack blog on Thursday, Hersh reported that Trump's broader aim is to improve US-Russia relations through economic cooperation. The president, he says, is seeking to lift sanctions imposed since 2014 and 2022 and "form a partnership with Putin aimed at turning Crimea into a major international resort." The official source cited in Hersh's report added that "they might do the same in Donbass."

Comment: Something ventured creates potential - welcomed for its momentary entertainment.

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Silence! We will build our EU Wehrmacht, like it or not

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:32 UTC
The European Union's push for militarization is facing widespread public backlash, as citizens across social media platforms reject its aggressive defense policies and question its leadership.
EU Army
© pl.usembassy.gov
War Bonds on LinkedIn

This morning, I was scanning the LinkedIn business network when I came across this post from the European Parliament (915,131 followers) selling the spanking new resolution to "act urgently" to protect the continent against the "most profound military threat to its territorial integrity since the end of the Cold War." A direct quote from the post aimed at business people, lenders, and investors reads:
"The resolution comes ahead of the publication of plans setting out the future of European defence next week that should include, according to MEPs, 'truly ground-breaking efforts' and actions 'close to those of wartime' from EU countries."
Unfortunately for Führer Ursula von der Leyen (See Sergey Lavrov interview), comments on the post rage at more expenditures on invisible threats and the need to address the EU's bigger problems. It seems that IT specialists from the Czech Republic, energy construction consultants in Spain, blockchain investors from Brussels, aerospace tech consultants in Italy, CEOs of capital research societies, and a laundry list of studious LI users chimed in, chastizing the inept at the EU Parliament. In short, the reception from business people to trillions more on war is just not there. Still, you can expect these imbecils in Brussels to start selling war bonds on LinkedIn soon.
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Gavel

Chief Justice John Roberts caught in invite-only club of judges and lawyers called America Inns of Court

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:31 UTC
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Members of the invite-only Inns of Court Club in Washington DC – James Boasbrg, Chief Justice John Roberts, Amit Mehta, Beryl Howell, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Investigative journalist Bad Kitty Unleashed reported on Thursday that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is involved in an invite-only club for elite judges in Washington, DC.

The elitist club America Inns of Court also includes the radical America-hating judges James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Amit Mehta — all hard-left judges and Trump-haters.

John Roberts has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court since September 2005.

Comment: Further developments:







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Wine n Glass

EU postpones imposing first round of retaliatory tariffs against US until mid-April

Pilar Arias and Bonny Chu
Fox News
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:12 UTC
liquor store ireland tariffs eu USA
© Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo / ReutersJameson and Powers whiskey on a shelf in a supermarket in Galway, Ireland, on Jan. 4, 2022.
The EU will push its retaliatory tariffs to take effect from April 1 to mid-April

American distillers are warning consumers of an economic domino effect as other countries begin to place retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. beverage industry.

The European Union (EU) has delayed imposing its first retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. until mid-April, after President Donald Trump threatened a 25% tariff increase on all steel and aluminum imports earlier this month, according to Reuters.

The countermeasures of around $28 billion on U.S. goods, including a 50% tariff on American whiskey, were originally set to phase in on April 1, with a second wave to hit on April 13.

However, the EU decided on Thursday to delay imposing all retaliatory tariffs until mid-April, Reuters reported.

Comment: Trump is running true to form as in his first administration. Down memory lane:

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USA

How a war with Iran (for Israel) could crash the US economy

Shivan Mahendrarajah
The Cradle
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:51 UTC
As Trump eyes war with Iran to bolster his legacy and appease his pro-Israel backers, Tehran's likely retaliation could crash global markets, spike oil prices, and bring economic pain directly to the American public - turning support for apocalyptic politics into a crisis at the checkout line.
War with Iran
© The Cradle
The "winds of war" are blowing toward Iran. This is the war for which Israeli donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, along with pro-Israel organizations such as AIPAC and the ADL, paid US President Donald Trump hundreds of millions of dollars over two election cycles.

But it's not only the Israeli lobby banging the war drums; American Evangelicals - especially groups like "Christians United for Israel" - also support war, believing it will "save Israel" from the "Iranian menace." Evangelical membership in the 119th Congress (2025-27) is high. War with Iran is not (yet) popular in the US, but - just as with Iraq - consent will be manufactured by Washington elites and the media.

Trump's outreach to Russian President Vladimir Putin to resolve the Ukraine war partly aims to shift the Pentagon's attention back to West Asia. He assumes that an early 2025 war with Iran will "save Israel" and secure his legacy, letting him focus on "America First" for the rest of his term.

But war with Iran could also backfire disastrously, sink his presidency, and derail the ambitions of 2028 Republican hopefuls like Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance. For starters, should the military campaign encounter any unforeseen backlash - which is highly likely, and the reason the Pentagon has assiduously avoided direct confrontation with Iran - the Democratic Party could retake both chambers of Congress after a US stock market crash and recession triggered by the war.
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Explosion

What ceasefire: European gas prices jump after Ukraine blows up key gas pumping station in Russia in 'act of terrorism'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:20 UTC
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© Screenshot/ASTRASudzha Explosion: Footage of an alleged fire at the Sudzha gas metering station in Russia's Kursk Oblast • March 20, 2025
So much for that ceasefire.

European natural gas prices jumped after an attack on a pumping station in Russia's Kursk region (formerly held by Ukraine mercenaries until their recent hasty retreat), which formed part of a link that sent fuel to the continent until recently, and which Moscow accused Ukraine of attacking in an "act of terrorism".

Russia on Friday accused Ukraine of deliberately blowing up the key gas pumping and measuring station in the Kursk region near the Ukrainian border which was under the control of Ukrainian Armed Forces since last August before the area was reclaimed by Russian forces this month, in what it called "an act of terrorism."

Comment: Shows how badly bad brat Zelensky wants to end the war. Destruction of this magnitude has a global ripple effect.

According to Dmitry Peskov:
Kiev's statements that Russia allegedly shelled the Sudzha gas metering station by itself are absolutely absurd and once again show how much one can trust the Kiev regime, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"You saw Sudzha today, we all did, all these gas pipes burning in this station. And at the same time we hear a statement from Kiev that the Russians allegedly shelled it themselves. Well, it's an absurd statement. But it shows once again how much we can believe and trust the Kiev regime."

Kiev expressed its desire for a ceasefire during negotiations with Washington. After talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a halt to attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Hours later, however, the Kiev regime attacked Russian energy facilities in the Krasnodar Region and, in the early hours of Friday morning, blew up the Sudzha gas metering station through which Russian gas was pumped to Europe.


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Big Bomb

The real reason Donald Trump is bombing Yemen

Mitchell Plitnick
Mondoweiss
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
Trump
© Gage SkidmoreUS President Donald Trump • 2017 CPAC • National Harbor, Maryland
The United State's recent bombing campaign on Yemen was meant to stop Ansar Allah's attacks on Red Sea shipping — and also send a message to Iran.

Just two days before Israel resumed the full scale of its genocide in the Gaza Strip, the United States began a bombing campaign in Yemen. The U.S. aggression is a significant part of the recipe for endless war and devastation of the Middle East that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump are cooking up.

While Israel and the U.S. clearly communicated about these operations, each country has presented its actions as independent of, but cooperative with, the other. Of course, this is partially an attempt to obscure the reality that Israel cannot pursue its relentless genocide in Gaza without the material support it gets from the United States.

But there's another piece for Trump. He prefers to present his and Netanyahu's approach as one of independent, if allied, countries acting in their own perceived interests. He likes to present an image of Israel charting its course and the U.S. pursuing its own interests, an image that crumbles the moment Trump wants Israel or anyone else to act according to his wishes.
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Cut

Pete Hegseth announces over $580M in cuts to DoD contracts, grants: 'We have a lot more coming'

Thomas Stevenson
The Post Millennial.
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
Hegeseth
© Allison Robbert/AFP/Getty ImagesDefense Secretary Pete Hegeseth
Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth has announced over $580 million in cuts to Department of Defense contracts as the Pentagon has been working with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut wasteful spending.

Hegseth said on Thursday, "We're back with another quick update on our efforts to cut wasteful spending and cut it quickly at the Department of Defense so we get the dollars to the things that the war fighters need. So today I'm signing a memo directing the termination of over $580 million in DoD contracts, in grants that do not match the priorities of this president or this department."
"In other words, they are not a good use of taxpayer dollars. Ultimately, that's who funds us. We owe you transparency and making sure we're using it well," Hegseth added. The Defense Secretary then went over several of the contracts cut in line-by-line fashion, explaining what was happening and why programs were getting cut.

Comment: If you can print it, you can spend it. Stop the Presses. To devalue is to devolve.

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Star of David

Google imports ex-Israeli spies who automated Gaza genocide


The Grayzone
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:33 UTC
Google
Google's Israeli IDF spy arm
On Mar. 18, Google bought Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion. The acquisition will mark the single largest transfer of former Israeli spies into an American company. This is because Wiz is run and staffed by dozens of ex Unit 8200 members, the specialist cyber-spying arm of the IDF.

Unit 8200 wrote the programming and designed the algorithms that automated the genocide of Gaza and was also responsible for the pager attack in Lebanon. Now the men and women who helped design the architecture of apartheid are being swallowed by the US tech-surveillance complex.

The identity of the Wiz founders, all former Unit 8200, is fairly well-documented (by Israeli media at least). One of the founders, Ami Luttwak, boasts on his LinkedIn profile that he led a "mission critical R&D team" for Unit 8200 which won them the "Israel Defence Award 2012." Less well-documented, however, is the fact that a huge chunk of the Wiz workforce, from office managers, to software engineers to product analysts, are also former Unit 8200. Following my investigation earlier this year into the former Unit 8200 members working in key AI positions for tech companies, I have identified nearly fifty Wiz employees as being ex Unit 8200 operatives.
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EU feeding Ukraine 'empty promises' - Orban


RT
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:24 UTC
EU meet
© Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu/Getty ImagesA meeting of EU officials in Brussels • March 20, 2025
The European Union does not have the means to realistically support Ukraine during its conflict with Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. He made his comments on Thursday, following a contentious meeting of EU leaders in Brussels.

Speaking to YouTube channel Patriota, Orban said:
"The EU doesn't have a single penny left. It has spent all of its money. [The EU] talks about wanting to continue arming Ukraine, maintaining the Ukrainian army, and funding the functioning of the Ukrainian state... but can't find any money in its pockets. I think it's empty promises."
Orban stressed that the conflict has taken a toll on the economies of EU members. He urged Brussels to support US President Donald Trump's efforts to mediate a peace between Russia and Ukraine. "We must not allow Hungarian families to continue to continue to pay for the economic consequences of the war."

On Thursday, Budapest refused to sign a joint EU communique calling for an increase in military aid to Kiev. "We will not allow a common European position to be formed that includes Hungary and is pro-war," Orban told reporters following the meeting of EU leaders.
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