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Feb 17 2025 
US Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth’s, Shocking Message to NATO Allies Reveals Major U.S. Policy Shift
By Peter Koenig
US Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, told NATO Allies on 13 February 2025, in Brussels, The War [Ukraine] Must Stop; No more bloodshed, No NATO for Ukraine; No back to pre-2014 border; and “We [the US] will not get involved in a war against Russia via Ukraine, no Matter what”. The latter are also… Continue reading -
Feb 15 2025 
Possible negotiations on Ukraine: US / Russia
Pepe Escobar posted the article below on his telegram channel. He says: “This is very serious. The people I talked to – details later – trust Ushakov and Naryshkin, two heavyweights who can eat the Americans for breakfast.”
Before we get to the article, let’s listen to a clip from Kellog:
Trump envoy will try to ‘FORCE’… Continue reading -
Feb 14 2025 
A quick resonse on ‘BRICS is dead’, Reciprocal Tariffs, ‘Putin should join the G7’, Nuclear weapons reduction
Mr Trump drops the bombshell that BRICS is dead, moments before a bilateral summit with Mr Modi.
The new daily Trump episode where he owns the screens of the world and reporters have an easy task as they write down what Trump says, file it, and go home. It is not so simple but there is… Continue reading
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Feb 13 2025 
Maria Zakharova: On Europe’s demands to not play a secondary role in any Ukraine Peace Negotiations
The head of the Italian Foreign Ministry, reacting to a telephone conversation between Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, expressed the opinion that Europe should not play a “secondary role” in the negotiations on Ukraine.
(Here is the opinion expressed: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/138716)
There is no emoji to convey the whole range of emotions, so… Continue reading
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Feb 07 2025 
My journey through music
My journey through music
I like to share my experiences with others, so also my musical experience with you. Please feel free to comment with your experiences and share what may connect nicely with what I write and share in terms of music.
Part 1: Personal life phases
Part 2: Unexpected Wonders
Part 3: Enthusiasm is Contagious
Music is wonderful… Continue reading
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Feb 07 2025 
Dmitry Polyanski : Gaza, Middle East & Ukraine
Dmitry Polyanskiy is the First Deputy Permanent Representative to the Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
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Feb 05 2025 
President Trump’s Obsession with Tariffs Economic Ruse, or Political Blackmail?
By Peter Koenig
It would be fair to call President Trump as obsessed with tariffs. Import tariffs on every country that does not conform to his foreign policy ideas, is the “rules-bases order” converted into the Trump-based order.
Punishment by imposing tariffs is an ill-advised obsession of Donald Trump’s. He played this card already… Continue reading
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Jan 24 2025 
From Jeff J Brown – a new library and comments on terrorist designations
Jeff says: One hour after posting this, my website was attacked and shut down for 12 hours. Coincidence? You decide. What are they trying to hide from you? It’s an insult to all free-thinking adults!
Another website that posted this new library was shut down as well. As far as I can see both… Continue reading
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Jan 22 2025 
Global Exports Brink of Collapse, Ultimatum to China’s Economy
Sean Foo on tariffs
The video title is perhaps a bit overstated but nevertheless, this is the situation. We are staring into a trade war. My expectation is that selling into the US is going to reduce as I cannot see the BRICS countries continue with trade.
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Jan 22 2025
Differences of opinion are the brake on the multipolar world
The unipolar world has a great advantage over the multipolar world because in a unipolar world all noses are in the same direction and in a multipolar world there is always difference of opinion. This is the big picture, because of course reality is much more complex. My concern is to understand why it is… Continue reading
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Jan 20 2025
The soulless civilization
It is up to the reader to determine whether the title of this essay is a contradiction or not. Can a civilization exist without a soul? It is not difficult to determine what a civilization is, but what a soul can have to do with it is all the more difficult. The funny thing is… Continue reading
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Jan 15 2025 
Trump, Iran and the Obama strategic blueprint
In acts of wanton destruction, Netanyahu destroyed the prevailing status quo, which he saw as an American straitjacket
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing – so the mechanics of the Middle East lie similarly exposed… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2025 
Chinese, Trolling and TikTok
A moment to smell the social media roses.
This will not change the world. So, TikTok will probably be banned in the US (I don’t keep up with this and do not know the details). The Chinese starts trolling as another app, similar to TikTok is being furiously downloaded in the US.… Continue reading
