Trump vs Deep State

https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/17/patrick-lawrence-trump-vs-the-deep-state/ "Let me put it this way: In the case of Trump vs. the deep state, there is promise in the undertaking, but I have my doubts. He does not seem to me to have the gravitas, the depth of intelligence and all-around seriousness, to get this very necessary task done well and effectively. Engaging the deep state is not the same as sitting opposite a rival property developer at a mahogany table in Manhattan. Trump does not seem sufficiently equipped to wage war against operatives whose perverse savvy in the methods of subterfuge is well-tested and well-proven."

Fog harvesting in the news again

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgw3l7p79po

Working groups

from Riyadh meeting https://sonar21.com/ukraines-zelensky-forgets-the-first-rule-of-crisis-management-if-youre-in-a-hole-stop-digging/

Brian Berletic skectical about Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AwbTvJbz0

Ray McGovern with Garland Nixon discusses the history of relations with Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihjILCDQeM4

MoA on Trump’s punishment of Europe

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/where-trumps-punishment-of-europe-should-lead-to.html#more

Simplicius on what might happen in Europe

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-games-begin-us-and-russian-top/comments

Spring in the air in US-Russia ties, from Indian Punchline

https://www.indianpunchline.com/spring-is-in-the-air-in-us-russia-ties-as-trumps-revolution-gains-momentum/

Wheeler’s quest

https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler-saw-the-tear-in-reality-20240925/

Scott Ritter is very enthusiastic about Trump and a deal with Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6NafJT_-ac

Aftermath of Vance speech by Alexander Mercouris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prY5UdJNPq8

The Duran discussion with Michael Hudson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmh93MKvmM similar ideas from https://sociology.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/fourcade/AJSII.pdfby Marion Foucade

John Helmer about the negotiating teams of Russia and USA

https://johnhelmer.net/the-contradictions-and-certainties-in-the-trump-putin-negotiations-are-simple-enough-for-a-4-year-old-child-to-understand-and-say-aloud/#more-91091 Will they negotiate about rare minerals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdsyNvFq_8&t=150s

Alastair Crooke and Professor Marandi, from February 7

https://x.com/AlastairCrooke/status/1887575200402731174 A discussion https://karlof1.substack.com/p/chat-between-crooke-and-lukyanov

Scott Ritter tries to decipher Trumo’s Gaza gambit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxHr5YVgOTI from 55 minutes onwards

Alex Krainer with Dimanof ‘Dialogue Works’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwFwdZeQ5B0

Simplicius, the thinker on Trump-Putin conversation(s)

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/double-decker-special-hysteria-ignites Larry Johnson is more optimistic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAaxn40zgTQ

The story of ‘Babul mora’

https://maddy06.blogspot.com/2010/12/story-of-babul-mora.html https://atulsongaday.me/2019/05/27/baabul-mora-naihar-chhuto-hi-jaaye/ https://www.parrikar.org/hindustani/bhairavi/

The Distortion Is Inherent in the Signal

cosma Shalizi's take off on a post of Thomas Farrell http://bactra.org/weblog/inherent-distortion.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIVhQNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHS6i37135pX1X5Ep5RC0rlle5a_qUPs7B7Xnq95I4zZhDZRQBCXvRjfxFA_aem_BNRcMIxt11y4_L1GlIb6Eg Conclusion: Social media is a machine for "creat[ing] publics with malformed collective understandings".

Radical Lunacy says Chas Freeman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwi2Ma-7Hyg

Indian Punchline on Trump’s Gaza plan

https://www.indianpunchline.com/netanyahu-entraps-trump-in-a-quagmire/

Trump plan forbearance and Netanyahu seems happy

https://www.rt.com/news/612188-trumps-gaza-plan-history-netanyahu/

Rubio suggests that US May be moving to a shores of influence model

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/rubio-its-not-normal-for-the-world-to-have-a-unipolar-power.html#more

John Helmer with Nima of ‘Dialogue Works’

https://johnhelmer.net/the-revolutionary-moment-for-russia-podcast-with-nima-alkhorshid/#more-91002

Exodus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjNTxhSxC2I

Larry Johnson with Alistair Crooke

https://sonar21.com/is-trump-positioning-for-a-no-deal-with-russia-or-not/

Patrick Lancaster reports from Kursk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HN6T32c7mQ

John Helmer on Putin Oligarchs vs Trump oligarchs

https://johnhelmer.net/the-oligarchs-picnic-whats-on-the-menu-when-trumps-oligarchs-negotiate-with-putins-oligarchs/#more-90972 "Between 1911 and 1915, during World War I, Robert Michels, an Italian sociologist, explained how commonplace this was. He not only described the inevitability that oligarchs would come to dominate the governments and opposition organisations on both sides of that war; this he called the “iron law of oligarchy”. He also reported that the war itself would accelerate the process by which this oligarch domination on both sides would dictate the outcome to suit the common interests of them both." see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

What ceasefire?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nvRRX9AsY A DIFFERENT VIEW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1os_PXbCs

Presidents and emperors from Matt Hoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ZyYvRGUuU

Donald Trump wants us to listen to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqEsfQFaU5I

Mark Sleboda on Ukraine war

not over yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIRj9AiN45U

Trump’s strategy

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/to-avoid-fighting-large-conflicts-trump-is-creating-smaller-ones.html#more

A bleak prognosis from Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GCPC6433K0 it seems to be all about what Trump is going to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ndAUs8_IcU