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Feb 19 2026 
Board of Peace: Inaugural (update)
Update for today from DD Geopolitics:
The following countries will be sending representatives to the inaugural Board of Peace meeting tomorrow:
🇦🇱 Albania
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇦🇹 Austria
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
🇧🇭 Bahrain
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇰🇭 Cambodia
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇫🇮 Finland
🇩🇪 Germany
🇬🇷 Greece
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇮🇱 Israel
🇮🇹 Italy
🇯🇵 Japan
🇯🇴 Jordan
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
🇽🇰 Kosovo
🇰🇼 Kuwait
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇲🇳 Mongolia
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
🇴🇲 Oman
🇵🇰 Pakistan
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Feb 19 2026 
Pepe Escobar: 🔸 Golden Corridor 🔸 The Road That Dissolves into the Sea
FINALLY OUT!
DON’T MISS IT.
THIS IS THE FIRST DOC IN ENGLISH ON THE INSTC – EVER.
Shot in Iran last May, from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.
MAKE CONNECTIVITY CORRIDORS, NOT WARS
Watch it on PressTV
Pepe Escobar opens the journey at the edge of land and sea, framing Iran as an… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
George Galloway: Monologue Iran – Must watch!
We’re two to three days from the US onslaught on Iran. What will Russia and China do? This war is for Israel. Again. And civil conflict looms in US
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Feb 18 2026 
Iran x 2: Ritter and then Daniel Davis
War in Iran! A war does not start before the missiles fly. The ‘commentator Americans’ are already at war in their thinking and they still, even acknowledging the sheer brutality, they still say .. Uhm .. it is my country and we hope our boys do not get damaged too much. Well… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview: Al Arabiya television channel, Moscow, February 18, 2026
https://mid.ru/tv/?id=2081544&lang=en
Key Points:
Key statements from Lavrov in the Al Arabiya interview:
🔘Russia is not seeking and does not want war;
🔘The Kiev regime is currently the main obstacle to resolving the conflict;
🔘All the slogans of the Munich Conference boiled down to the idea that Russia is an enemy and must be defeated;
🔘Lavrov expressed hope that Europe’s current political… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
Sirius Report: U.S. Has Sinister Motives When It Comes To Russia
It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. has sinister motives when it comes to Russia, after Anchorage had made such positive progress which has evaporated away in recent months.
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Feb 18 2026 
Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural – it’s enforced
Clara Mattei is an economist who wants us to rethink the idea that capitalism is simply the natural order of things.
She is an author and professor of economics whose work explores how economic ideas become tools of power, shaping policy while masking the political decisions beneath. Her new book, Escape from Capitalism, argues that… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
A MAGA Manifesto in Munich: Why Marco Rubio’s Speech Exposes the Fragility of Transatlantic Trust
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan
At the Munich Security Conference this year, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered what many in Europe took as a defining foreign policy statement of the Trump era — one that was praised in Washington but has raised profound questions across the Atlantic about the future of… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
Israel’s Death Calls
Marwa Osman
Journalist Radwan Mortada wrote:
“When reality is harsher than fiction.
Yesterday, in the town of Tallouseh, the martyr Ahmad Termos (62) was on a family visit. He was sitting with his wife in her brother’s house. The sound of a drone overhead, then another. He had barely stepped inside to sit when his phone rang. Ahmad… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
Will Schryver: Iran
Will Schryver
@imetatroninkNow Or Never
The US has now positioned in the Middle East a formidable array of assets to prosecute an air campaign against Iran.
In addition to what has already been delivered, CSG-12 (USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78) is en route. But it is very unlikely it can arrive on station in the eastern Mediterranean and… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2026 
Col Douglas Macgregor: BOMBING IRAN Won’t Fix Anything
Daniel Davis / Deep Dive
U.S. military leaders are confident in their capabilities against Iran, but any war would likely involve American losses in the air, on the ground, and possibly at sea.
Senator Lindsey Graham is portrayed as accepting those risks, arguing military action is justified despite potential U.S. casualties. The speaker strongly disagrees, arguing there… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2026 
Middlegame and a Strategy for the Day after Tomorrow
Sergei A. Karaganov
National Research University–Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
Distinguished Professor, Academic Supervisor;
Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Honorary Chairman—
Fear is the only thing the EU understands
Sergey Karaganov argues the conflict with the West has entered its middle game – and that only firm deterrence, including the credible threat of… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2026 
Patrushev on the protection of navigation and maritime borders of the Russian Federation
Nikolai Patrushev said that pirate attacks on the Russian maritime trade indicate that Western opponents decided to paralyze the foreign trade of our country / Pavel Bednyakov / RIA Novosti
(The translation is not wonderful but absolutely understandable).
“If we do not give them a tough rebuff, then soon the British, the French and even the Balts… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2026 
Iran & US hold constructive talks and exchange ideas on nuclear issue – Araghchi
Sputnik
💬 “I can say that at this round, compared to the last one, we brought up absolutely serious issues for discussion, the atmosphere was more productive. Various ideas were put up for discussion, and we had serious discussions on these ideas, and finally we found a strategic route that we will follow, along which we… Continue reading
