Transactional president to the fore, Colonel Macgregor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svq55tP3MCM see also the post and comments https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/trump-will-end-his-option-of-walking-away-from-project-ukraine-with-his-minerals-deal.html

MoA on Trump’s plan for Ukraine

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/does-trump-really-have-a-plan-for-ukraine.html#more see also https://sonar21.com/trump-and-europe-fail-to-realize-that-russia-has-a-vote/ A discussion of MoA post https://karlof1.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-conflicts-legal-issues

Trump confusion; different views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwsWAsArSqU&t=1248s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2zRRr0CkmU&t=2525s

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