Yves Smith discussion of the Ukraine attack on Russian airfields

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/john-helmer-putin-hits-pause-button-on-oreshnik-level-retaliation-for-ukraine-strike-on-russian-nuclear-deterrence-assets.html

Larry Johnson on Trump -Putin conversation and others

it seems Trump can no longer pretend ignorance of actuall happenings in the Ukraine theatre https://sonar21.com/what-did-lavrov-and-putin-tell-rubio-and-trump/ From John Helmer https://johnhelmer.net/what-is-putin-to-do-now/ May be a fewweeks for Trump to keep his end of the bargain.

From the substack of Emmanuel Todd on the decline of America

https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/from-russia-with-love

Phil Giraldi wonders whether Bibi will listen to Trump

https://www.youtube.com/live/lx1XJGwrQ8k?si=1VU-LoFMiUpOGt-F

A review of Emmanuel Todd’s recent book

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/11/how-the-west-was-lost/ via https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/06/the-defeat-of-the-west-and-its-dislocation.html#comments

Alastair Crooke on the latest attacks on Russia

As expected the West resorting to terrorism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whSuPnGWOSg check also the reports by Larry Johnsom and Jeffrey Sachs at the same site.

New acronym for Trump

He seems to resent it and will probably do more silly stuff https://time.com/7289404/trump-taco-acronyms-meaning-dei-doge-maha-fafo-tds/