Israel launched intensive attacks on Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 400 Palestinians and injuring more than 560, the health ministry in the territory said later in the day. | The ministry said that more victims are still under the rubble. Entire families were massacred in the strikes, according to the government media office in Gaza. Defense for Children International-Palestine said that at least 174 children were among the dead. [...] Hamas remains the de facto ruling authority in Gaza despite Israel’s stated aim of destroying it during the offensive beginning in October 2023. Hamas officials have accused Israel of repeatedly violating the fragile ceasefire that came into effect on 19 January.

■ Entire families wiped out as Israel bombs Gaza’s residential areas (Al Jazeera)
Israel’s Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining western claims of moral leadership (David Hearst): Benjamin Netanyahu's horrific resumption of the war on Gaza shows that no US-backed ceasefire deal is worth the paper it is printed on.

✅ Genocidal Western ‘Democracy’ (Craig Murray): As 320 Palestinians were massacred on Monday night, most of them women and children, we live in a world where it is accepted as legal that U.S. President Donald Trump is genocidally Zionist because he received a $100 million donation from Miriam Adelson to be so. In addition to which Adelson is the second largest donor to AIPAC, which openly pays hundreds of other elected and potential U.S. politicians to be genocidally Zionist too. This is Western democracy.

Putin and Trump earlier held a conversation, in which they discussed the issue of a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine | Putin and Trump earlier held a conversation, in which they discussed the issue of a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, the conditions for preventing escalation, and a number of international issues. The Russian president supported the US leader’s proposal that Russia and Ukraine refrain from strikes on energy facilities. ● The sides also agreed to launch "technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace," the White House said in a statement. The Kremlin siad that "the key condition for preventing the escalation of the conflict and working on its redirection to a political and diplomatic settlement must be a complete halt to foreign military assistance and the provision of intelligence to Kiev.".

■ Putin-Trump phone call: Key takeaways (RT)
■ Trump says Putin was 'very solid', 'strong' in their recent phone call (TASS)
■ Previous US administration deceived and destroyed Ukraine — Russian diplomat (TASS):

 ■ The previous US administration betrayed, deceived and destroyed Ukraine, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with former US intelligence officer and ex-UN inspector Scott Ritter.
 ■ "I would like to say that they - the people of Ukraine and <…> the state of Ukraine - were betrayed by the people in Washington, and the way they were betrayed by Washington, by [Former US President Joe] Biden, by [former US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria] Nuland, by [former US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken and others is unprecedented. They were deceived, they were betrayed, they were destroyed," she said.
 ■ In her words, Ukraine was an "emerging democracy" plagued with "corruption, graft and nationalism." "And the way they [the previous US administration] played on those sentiments and deceived them [Ukrainians] is beyond cruel," the diplomat added.

✅ Trump Seeks Russian Support For War On Iran (Moon of Alabama)
✅ Here’s why Trump is talking peace with Putin (Ivan Timofeev)

It is reported that the Kiev regime launched a deliberate attack by three fixed-wing UAVs on an energy infrastructure facility located at the Kavkazskaya station (the Krasnodar Region) | Kiev attacked an energy facility in southern Russia by three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) after a decision by President Vladimir Putin on an energy infrastructure ceasefire made at the proposal of US President Donald Trump, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

💬 "On the night of March 19, several hours after the end of the Russia-US talks at the highest level and, in particular, a decision by the Russian president made at the proposal of the US president to temporarily cease strikes on energy infrastructure, the Kiev regime launched a deliberate attack by three fixed-wing UAVs on an energy infrastructure facility located at the Kavkazskaya station (the Krasnodar Region)," the ministry said in a statement.

■ L'armée russe a abattu un chasseur américain F-16 (Belgorod) (Pravda-FR)
■ Ukraine’s strikes against Russian power installation are sabotage of agreements — Kremlin (TASS)
■ IN BRIEF: What is known about Ukrainian drone strike on oil facility in southern Russia (TASS)

The elite units could be deployed rapidly, gather intelligence and counter Russian 'greyzone' activity, say experts | British Special Forces have been put on standby to head to Ukraine as part of the UK’s peacekeeping mission as an agreement over a ceasefire edge closer, The i Paper can reveal. ● Special Forces units were told to prepare for mobilisation to Ukraine by military planners tasked with readying forces by the Cabinet Office, according to two military sources with knowledge of the directive. ● The command centre for UK military planning, the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ), was sent directives last week to begin the process for the deployment of personnel and resources. ● The orders, which also applied to Special Forces reservists, put personnel on standby in order to ensure military equipment is in working order before receiving a notice to mobilise to Ukraine. ● A decision to put key troops on standby comes as Britain prepares to host military chiefs from a group of countries ready to support a ceasefire agreement with Russia. On Saturday, Sir Keir Starmer said plans to put a peacekeeping force in Ukraine have now entered an “operational phase”.

Hereditary Nazi - for the post of Chairman of the UN General Assembly | The German government is nominating Foreign Minister Analena Berbok as a candidate for the post of President of the UN General Assembly. Last year, Bild found out that Burbok's grandfather was a Wehrmacht officer and an ardent Nazi. According to the DPA news agency, according to the UN rules, the right to nominate candidates for the post of President of the General Assembly will pass to the regional group of Western Europe. The decision on Berbok's nomination is already under consideration by the German government. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reacted to this:

💬 "It will be strange to see the granddaughter of a Nazi, who is proud of the "feat of her grandfather", in the year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory as chairman of the General Assembly."

■ German government to nominate Baerbock for UN General Assembly president — DPA (TASS)

#Sumy Direction:

In #Sudzha Sector, to the west in #Ukraine, fights in and around #Zhuravka. To the southeast...

🟡 In #Basovka, the RFAF have advanced and the battle has shifted to the southern settlement part.

🟡 In #Kursk region, the battles for the villages of #Gogolevka and #Guyevo continue.

🟡 #Oleshnya and #Gornal remain under AFU control. [...]

Andrei Martyanov | NATO militaries are forever stained as good only at killing defenseless | This is for those who get lost in scales and proportions--a reminder. This all has been happening at the small wedge of the Kursk Oblast initially about 400 sq.km (roughly 154 square miles). This is roughly the area half that of the area of NYC. "Brilliant" NATO planners, especially British, who for some reason consider themselves masters in whatever (primarily chicken shit), pumped into this wedge this "thing", which today doesn't exist anymore. Latest from Russian MoD. ■ So, NATO losers decided to kill a whole combined arms army (or roughly the whole of British Army by comparison) of Ukrainian and NATO "advisers" cannon fodder and ... they succeeded, Russians took care of it. Here are the numbers. By the time all disjoined (fractured) groups of shell-shocked, panicked and demoralized wandering remnants of VSU will be completely mopped up, the personnel losses may reach 70, 000. But what's more--the thing which Western militaries simply block out, because it really hurts their feelings--these are kill ratios. While Russian forces did sustain losses, the kill ratio in Kursk is not even an average of 1 to 10-12, it is somewhere on the order of 1 to 15-20. It is a slaughter of the elite, most fanatical and the best trained troops NATO could provide (average VSU "elite" combatant is better than any combatant from the NATO armies, the US Army included). They are not there anymore.

BREAKING:

🇺🇲 PRESIDENT TRUMP AND PUTIN
ARE CURRENTLY HOLDING TALKS.

LETS HOPE AND PRAY SOMETHING
POSITIVE GETS ANNOUNCED. pic.twitter.com/i9BWEAy2n3

— Ash Crypto (@Ashcryptoreal) March 18, 2025

For a little over an hour, Presidents Trump and Putin have been speaking via telephone. During that conversation, a sudden, intense, burst of Military Aircraft activity began over Europe. I don't know if the two things are related, but they're happening: [military aircraft over Europe] That's more than two hundred (200) aircraft!

■ FACTBOX: Contacts between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump (TASS)
■ Trump-Putin phone call: What has changed since the last time they talked? (RT)
■ West uses sanctions against Russia as an instrument of ‘strategic pressure’ – Putin (RT)

Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says toll from Israel strikes rises to 413 | The health ministry in besieged Gaza said the death toll from Israel's most intense strikes on the Palestinian enclave since a January truce had risen to at least 413. "So far, 413 martyrs have arrived in hospitals in Gaza," a health ministry statement said, adding: "A number of victims are still under the rubble and work is underway to recover them." Iran condemns Israeli strikes on Gaza as 'continuation of genocide | 'Iran condemned Israel's wave of air strikes on Gaza, the deadliest since a truce took effect in January. In a statement, foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei called the strikes a "continuation of the genocide and ethnic cleansing" in the Palestinian territories, and accused the United States of "direct responsibility" in the attack.

"Certain discussions [between Moscow and Washington] have already taken place. [US special envoy Steve] Witkoff was in Moscow, there was a round of talks in Istanbul, and there was the first conversation between the presidents," Dmitry Peskov pointed out | Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump are expected to discuss the normalization of Russian-US relations and the situation in Ukraine during their telephone conversation this afternoon, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

■ EU leaders ‘trembling’ over Putin-Trump call – Bild (RT)
✅ Boots-on-Ground Theater Conceals Raging Impotence of Toothless Euro-Prats (Simplicius)

Today, President Trump directed the US military to engage in "decisive combat operations." For now, this appears to mean naval and air strike activity. No word of any "boots on the ground." | The White House announced this afternoon that President Trump has ordered decisive combat operations against Yemen. The U.S. Navy then confirmed it's 5th Fleet has entered a period of 'sustained combat operations' within the CENTCOM area of responsibility. The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet is responsible for naval forces in the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, and Arabian Sea, with its headquarters located at NSA Bahrain in Manama, Bahrain. It shares a commander and headquarters with U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) and is a component command of, and reports to, CENTCOM. Yemen has re-initiated a sort of naval blockade in the Red Sea, which also affects the Suez Canal, against the "state" of Israel because Israel is forbidding food, water, and electricity into the Gaza Strip for over two weeks. Over 1.5 Million people remain in Gaza despite much of it having been obliterated by Israeli bombing.

Hal Turner Remarks | Today's escalation by President Trump is extremely serious. How the world's most powerful military can attack a country which has no army, navy, or air force, is not a good "look" at all. In fact, it's more than just not a good "look." Maybe pressure should be brought to bear upon the country actually causing all this; you know, Israel?  ■ How Israel can apply "group punishment" to 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, over the actions of a few hundred members of HAMAS, seems un-American. Denying food and water to 1.5 Million over the actions of a few hundred seems unthinkable to civilized people. It is also illegal under the Geneva Conventions. ■ If it is OK for Israel to apply group punishment to all Palestinians in Gaza for the actions of a few, would it then also be okay for the world to apply group punishment to ALL Israeli-types for the ongoing Genocide in Gaza? That may have to be something the world considers doing over the next days.

■ 33 dead as Trump orders strikes on Huthis in Yemen (The Citizen)
✅ Trump Bombs Yemen (Short Take) (Moon of Alabama)
✅ Here's What's Really Behind Trump's Surprise Bombardment of Yemen (Ilya Tsukanov) | “Trump’s decision" to launch airstrikes on Yemen revolves around Washington's desire "to protect and help extend Israeli domination over the larger region,” Isa Blumi, an associate professor of Middle East studies at Stockholm University, told Sputnik. The strikes have less to do with the Houthis than they do with trying to ensure the survival of the State of Israel, and Israeli and US projects to expel the Palestinians from Gaza, turn the strip into a glitzy Las Vegas-style resort, and exploit its offshore gas resources, the academic said.

The Estonian hardliner has burned many key bridges across the bloc, an analysis by the major German newspaper claims

 ● EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is facing mounting resistance in key Western European capitals over her ambitious military aid plan for Ukraine, according to an analysis published on Monday in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper. France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal are now joining Hungary in opposing significant new contributions, according to the outlet.

 ● Kallas, who took office in December, has struggled to win over skeptical governments. Her proposal to raise EU military support for Ukraine to €40 billion this year – aimed at offsetting dwindling US aid – has met stiff resistance, the newspaper’s political correspondent Thomas Gutschker wrote. Many member states have refused to commit beyond the €15 billion already pledged, with Berlin’s planned €3 billion contribution still awaiting approval. So far, Denmark alone has given more than France, Italy, and Spain combined.

 ● According to the FAZ, Kallas’ efforts to push through the funding have been hampered by political missteps. The paper cited unnamed diplomats as arguing she failed to properly consult key EU nations before reviving the proposal, which was originally introduced by her predecessor, Josep Borrell. Her decision to remove high-ranking officials from Italy and Spain from the European External Action Service has also sparked backlash, with some EU governments reportedly “furious,” the FAZ reported.

President Donald Trump has made a stunning decision regarding the equally stunning "Pre-Emptive Pardons" issued in the final days of the Biden Regime; those Pardons are "void, vacant, and of no further force or effect." | The earliest identifiable public mention about Joe Biden signing documents with an autopen, comes from the Oversight Project, an initiative of the Heritage Foundation. ● On March 6, 2025, they posted on X, stating: "WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY." They went on to say "We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year." [...] The use of an Auto pen by a President to sign a document, order, Bill or anything else, has been treated by most people as allowable since a normal President, being aware of what he's doing, should be able to REMOTELY sign a document. But Joe Biden was **NOT** aware of what he was doing. Based upon his public actions and public appearances He was suffering from what appeared to be advanced Dementia or perhaps advanced Alzheimer's Disease. In some instances, he seemed to have trouble putting together a cohesive sentence when speaking. So the use of the auto pen by Biden Staff, would have bypassed the actual President while issuing signed documents IN HIS NAME. That would be forgery and would make the document invalid.

Trump officials are threatening more airstrikes as the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, are vowing a response | A major round of US airstrikes that hit Yemen on Saturday killed at least 53 people, including women and children, Yemen’s Health Ministry said on Sunday. ● According to Yemen’s SABA news agency, at least five children and two women were among the dead. ● Another 98 were wounded by the US bombing, and the Health Ministry said many of the casualties were civilians, while the US is claiming it killed “multiple” leaders of Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah. ● A total of 40 US airstrikes were reported to hit Yemen, primarily focusing on the northern Saada governorate. Strikes also hit the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the governorates of Taiz, Ibb, Dhamar, Al Bayda, Marib, and Hajjah. Targets that were reported hit included power stations, residential areas and homes, and Houthi military sites. The strikes marked the first time the US bombed Yemen under the new Trump administration.

Mohamed Salah | Survivors of the violence against the Alawite, Christian, and Druze communities shares their stories with RT | Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the dominant militant group in northwestern Syria, once presented itself as a local opposition force. Just over a month ago, the group was formally disbanded and became part of the Syrian Defense Ministry, yet its origins tell a far more sinister story. Born out of the ashes of Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, HTS carries the same ideological DNA as the world’s most notorious terrorist network. While it has sought to rebrand itself for international legitimacy, its methods remain unchanged: Massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the systematic extermination of those who do not conform to its radical ideology. ■ Nowhere has this been more evident than in Syria’s coastal cities, where HTS and its foreign recruits have unleashed an unspeakable wave of violence against Alawite, Christian, and Druze communities. Entire villages have been erased, their inhabitants slaughtered in the dead of night. Yet, as these horrors unfold, the world remains indifferent, and the silence of international powers only emboldens the perpetrators.

✅ Russia Should Consider Accepting Syria’s Alawites As Refugees (Andrew Korybko)

Up to 30,000 Western troops could reportedly be stationed in the country as part of a long-term peacekeeping occupying force | The UK plans to station thousands of troops in Ukraine “for years” as part of a Western peacekeeping force to oversee a future ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev, The Times reported on Sunday, citing sources. The proposal was reportedly outlined by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a virtual meeting of the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ on Saturday. ● Starmer first announced plans for the coalition alongside France earlier this month, aiming to rally nations willing to continue military support for Ukraine amid concerns over potential US aid cuts. At a press briefing following Saturday’s meeting, Starmer said dozens of partner nations back the idea of deploying a peacekeeping force, with UK Defense Secretary John Healey set to meet with military chiefs in London this week to discuss details, including troop numbers and deployment timelines. [...] Russia has categorically rejected any Western military presence in Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last month that the idea is “completely unacceptable to Russia” due to security risks. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the current deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, warned on Sunday that the deployment of NATO forces, even under a peacekeeping mandate, would trigger direct war between Moscow and the military bloc.

■ NATO ‘peacekeepers’ in Ukraine mean war – Medvedev (RT)
■ Макрон: Запад может направить военных на Украину без согласия РФ (TACC)
■ « Déployer quelques petits milliers d’hommes par nation, dans des points clés » (Le Parisien)

It is almost impossible to get out on the roads now, all cars are being destroyed. Everything vaguely resembles the events of the Great Patriotic War near Stalingrad. | About 30 NATO officers were trapped in the Kursk region, according to the coordinator of the pro-Russian resistance, citing sources in the underground. Now it becomes clear why Europe was so alarmed. ● During the fighting in the Kursk region, according to the pro-Russian Mykolaiv resistance, about 30 career officers from NATO countries were surrounded. This was announced by the coordinator of the resistance, Sergei Lebedev, referring to information from the underground. ● According to the underground, these officers were engaged in commanding Ukrainian troops on the spot, as well as processing NATO satellite intelligence data and correcting strikes deep into Russian territory.

About 30 officers from NATO countries, who have been providing coordinates for Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia, are surrounded in the Kursk Region, the coordinator of the pro-Russian underground network in Nikolayev Sergey Lebedev told Sputnik.

💬 '“According to the information of the underground network, there are about 30 NATO career officers, who were engaged in commanding troops on the ground as well as handling incoming intelligence data from NATO satellites and adjusting strikes deep into Russian territory, are surrounded in the Kursk Region” Lebedev said.'

Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said at a command meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this past Wednesday that Russian forces had liberated over 86% of the territory, or 1,100 square kilometers (425 square miles), previously occupied by Ukraine in Russia's Kursk Region. He said Ukrainian troops were encircled in the Kursk Region and were being gradually eliminated, while Russian forces advanced into Ukraine's Sumy Region across several segments of the border. ● On Friday, US President Donald Trump said that he "strongly requested" Russian President Vladimir Putin to spare the lives of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers currently surrounded in the Kursk Region. Putin said he would guarantee Ukrainian servicepeople life and decent treatment if they lay down their arms.

✅ Why America, the EU, and Ukraine, Should Lose to Russia in Ukraine’s War (Eric Zuesse)

Tarik Cyril Amar | Even the European Court of Human Rights has found Ukraine guilty over the Trade Union House deaths, but Kiev and its backers remain silent | A sure sign that a news item inconvenient for Zelensky-regime Ukraine and its (remaining) Western supporters is important is that the Western mainstream media will do their best to ignore it. That rule has now held true for more than a decade. At some point in the future, it may stop operating, namely, if the West fully abandons its proxy war regime in Kiev. ■ Then, and only then, will the Western media heed a new “party line” by dumping that regime as well. But we are not there yet. Indeed, if it is up to the NATO-EU Europeans it may still be a long time before we will see Western mainstream media treating Ukrainian regimes truthfully and critically.

✅ Ukraine's Whitewashed Odessa Massacre Report (Stephen Lendman)(09/11/14)
✅ US regime-change operation in Ukraine exposed in leaked diplomatic phone call (Patrick O’Connor)(02/07/14)

MEDVEDEV: 💬 "Now at a meeting of permanent members of the Russian Security Council, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief said: “If they lay down their arms, the Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region will be guaranteed life and decent treatment.” This is a very humane approach by our country, but its flip side for the Ukrainian Nazis means that if they refuse to lay down their arms, they will all be consistently and ruthlessly annihilated. The murderous regime of Kiev's scum still has a chance to save its people. The coming hours will show what they have chosen." [Translation: DeepL (free version)]

■ Ukrainian troops in Kursk Region will be destroyed, if refuse to surrender — Medvedev (TASS)
■ Time running out for Ukrainian troops in Kursk area to lay down arms — Kremlin (TASS)
■ Putin urges Kiev to order troops in Kursk Region to surrender (RT)
■ Trump warns Kiev not to ‘pick on somebody larger than you’ (RT)
■ Trump's Kursk Mercy Plea: Last-Ditch Attempt to Salvage NATO's Failed Strategy? (Sputnik)

UK updates Trump: Russia should accept the proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine without any conditions, says the British Foreign Secretary. Britain and its minister can shove their idea back up the sh*thole it came from, diplomatically speaking.

— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) March 14, 2025

■ L'Europe lance un nouvel ultimatum à Poutine: Rire est autorisé (Pravda-FR)

It would be “normal” for relations to be resumed once the Ukraine conflict is over, Mark Rutte has suggested | Europe and the United States should gradually normalize relations with Russia once the Ukraine conflict is over, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said. The statement comes a day after the head of the US-led military bloc met President Donald Trump at the White House and amid ongoing efforts by Washington to establish a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev. Trump has also expressed interest in restoring economic ties with Russia, an idea that was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Declassified FSB documents detail war crimes, mass executions, and Nazi collaboration | Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has released declassified documents detailing mass atrocities committed by Latvian members of Waffen-SS units during World War II. The Latvian Legion, a combat branch of the Nazi German Waffen-SS, was formed in 1943 primarily of ethnic Latvians on the orders of Adolf Hitler. ● The documents were published on Friday ahead of the EU country’s ‘Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires’, and as Russia prepares to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in May. ● According to the FSB, the records are based on intelligence gathered by the Soviet counterintelligence service (SMERSH) on SS units formed from Latvian volunteers. The material includes reports by Soviet partisans, intelligence officers, and prisoners of war, later compiled and shared with the Red Army command.

The Belarusian president has used harsh words to describe the Ukrainian leader’s actions | The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has said he once thought of Vladimir Zelensky like a son but that the Ukrainian leader has acted like a “bastard” in the course of the conflict. Lukashenko made the remarks on Friday in an interview with Russian journalist Olga Skabeeva, published on her Telegram channel. Skabeeva recalled Lukashenko’s previous comments on Zelensky’s future and noted that the Belarusian president had used different words to describe him. “Volodya [a diminutive for Vladimir – Ed.] was like a son to me, but he acted like a bastard,” Lukashenko said, without elaborating.

KABOOM!
Dr. Peter Kotlár, a Slovak physician, government commissioner, and MP drops bombshell investigation into DNA Contamination.

The vaccinated are now officially GMO!!

"I’m not afraid to say officially— a genetically modified organism. "

Robert Kennedy Jr, Pam Bondi and… pic.twitter.com/J7Za33N1Yf

— aussie17 (@_aussie17) March 13, 2025

John Leake | The less you know about something, the more you are at liberty to fantasize about it. | Ursula von der Leyen is the EU Commission President, Annalena Baerbock is the German Foreign Minister, Sanna Marin is the former Finnish Prime Minister, now a “strategic advisor” of the Tony Blair Institute. Kaja Kallas is the former Estonian Prime Minister and now Vice President of the European Commission. ■ The trouble with such “tough women,” it seems to me, is that may often be lulled into thinking that they have something to prove. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy remarked to a confidante that the trouble with General Curtis LeMay, who wanted to commence hostilities with the Russians, was that he allowed his decision-making to be governed by his fear of seeming weak. ■ I sometimes wonder if John Kennedy was the last man of any real sophistication to hold high office in the West. Since he was assassinated, we have, it seems to me, witnessed a steady decline of intellect in our leaders.

Andrew Korybko | A new European security architecture is forming as the Ukrainian Conflict approaches its inevitable end: Poland might participate in these exercises in order to send a strong anti-Russian signal, but the extent to which it might pivot towards France and away from the US will depend in large part on the outcome of its upcoming presidential election. | Everyone in Europe is wondering what form French President Macron’s potential plans to extend his country’s nuclear umbrella over the rest of the continent could take, especially considering the risks that they could entail after Moscow’s very negative reaction. Putin suggested that Macron was following in Napoleon’s footsteps, while Foreign Minister Lavrov was much more direct in describing Macron’s words as a threat and even outright comparing him to Hitler. Macron’s move could therefore escalate tensions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that captured foreign mercenaries in the country's Kursk region will not be treated as prisoners of war. Article 47 of the Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions denies mercenaries combatant or POW status.

✅ Camo-Putin Emerges to Punt Ball Back to Trump (Simplicius)

Невероятно. Не прошло и 11 лет, как ЕСПЧ признал вину Киева в убийстве в Одессе - в трагедии в Доме профсоюзов. Людей жгли, а пожарные 40 минут отказывались ехать. | TXTЕвропейский суд по правам человека (ЕСПЧ) признал Украину виновной в бездействии и неспособности предотвратить массовое убийство 2 мая 2014 года в Одессе, когда погибло 48 человек. В своём постановлении суд подчеркнул, что украинские власти могли предотвратить насилие и спасти жизни, но не сделали этого.

✅ Ukraine's Whitewashed Odessa Massacre Report (Stephen Lendman)(09/11/14)
✅ US regime-change operation in Ukraine exposed in leaked diplomatic phone call (Patrick O’Connor)(02/07/14)