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The whole mess is now 5 years old, almost to the day.
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Also in this NewsReal, Joe, Niall and Adam discuss the European leadership's new plan to invest 800 billion euros in 're-arming Europe' to 'strategically defeat Russia,' a laughable proposition that will nonetheless further greatly enrich Europe's political class. Finally, the 'Epstein Files release' stunt by the new Trump administration, while derisive, is nonetheless contributing to intensifying hysteria among Zionists and their allies. Which it shouldn't, if Israel's not involved... right?
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The extraordinary showdown in the Oval Office of the White House last Friday between President Trump, Vice-President Vance, and Ukrainian President Zelensky appears to have killed the agreement between the US government and Kiev for US corporate interests to 'buy into' Ukrainian natural resources and thus have a vested interest in defending Ukraine's interests in the upcoming peace talks with Russia.
This week on NewsReal, we analyze the row (caused by Zelensky, by the way, not Trump and Vance) and the farcical situation shaping up in Europe, where its leaders are 'quadrupling down' on continuing to supply the Ukrainian regime with more money and weapons with which to kill more Russians and Ukrainians
Peace is achievable, but the Eurocrats and the British globalists are NOT going to make it easy...
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SOTT Focus: America As Republic, Not As Empire - Europe's 'Sound And Fury' After Jaw-Dropping Pivots In US Policy
Defence Secretary Hegseth at the Munich Security Conference gave us four 'noes': No to Ukraine in NATO; No to a return to pre-2014 borders; No to 'Article 5' peacekeeper backstops, and 'No' to U.S. troops in Ukraine. And in a final flourish, he added that U.S. troops in Europe are not 'forever' - and even placed a question mark over the continuity of NATO.
Pretty plain speaking! The U.S. clearly is cutting away from Ukraine. And they intend to normalise relations with Russia.
Then, Vice-President Vance threw his fire cracker amongst the gathered Euro-élites. He said that the élites had retreated from "shared" democratic values; they were overly reliant on repressing and censoring their peoples (prone to locking them up); and, above all, he excoriated the European Cordon Sanitaire ('firewall') by which European parties outside the Centre-Left are deemed non-grata politically: It's a fake 'threat', he suggested. Of what are you really so frightened? Have you so little confidence in your 'democracy'?
© The GrayzoneThe US National Security Council is helping Ukrainian neonazis hatch terrorist "resistance" plans
Explosive leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how a shady transatlantic collective of academics and military-intelligence operatives conceived schemes which would lead to the US "helping Ukraine resist," to "prolong" the proxy war "by virtually any means short of American and NATO forces deploying to Ukraine or attacking Russia."
The operatives assembled their war plans immediately in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and delivered them directly to the highest-ranking relevant US National Security Council official in the Biden administration.
Proposed operations ranged from covert military options to jihadist-style psychological operations against Russian civilians, with the authors insisting, "we need to take a page from ISIS' playbook."
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Despite that profound point, on Feb. 14, Vance found that transformative moment.
Speaking to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, he shocked his audience by confronting them over their attacks on free speech in the West.
For the free speech community, it was truly Churchillian — no less than the famous Iron Curtain speech in which Churchill dared the West to confront the existential dangers of communism.
Roughly 80 years after Churchill's speech, Vance called our allies to account not for the growing threat from countries like Russia or China, but from themselves. To a clearly shocked audience, Vance declared that he was not worried about "external actors" but "the threat from within the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America."
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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - January 2025: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
The fires permanently impacted the region, leading to a wholesale rebuilding process.
It's important to mention that several property insurers in California cut coverage or stopped offering new homeowners policies in the past few years, and even right before the devastating fires, to limit losses amid the risk of paying enormous claims due to wildfires.
Social networks got flooded with different theories about the origins of the fire; from authorities' incompetence to Direct Energy Weapons (see Lahaina fires for reference), and arsonists. It may very well be all of them. Some even commented that this was a message from the Deep State to keep the California Elite in line...
SOTT Focus: NewsReal: USAID DOGE'd: Undertaking Open-Heart Surgery on the US Empire is Risky Business
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In the meantime, what will conducting such open-heart surgery on the organs of US empire mean for that empire? For the US homeland? For global economic supply chains? Can it be 'saved'? Will it crash and burn? And the US' relationship with that godforsaken country in the Middle East; is it as cosy and eternal as it seemed when wanted war criminal Netanyahu became Trump's first head-of-state to visit DC last week?
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Comment: One wonders how much money changed hands to develop schemes that led ultimately to nothing, except overflowing Ukrainian graveyards. And Russia continues to advance: