DIPLOMATIC RAPPROCHMENT IN RIYADH, GRIEF COUNSELLING IN PARIS

Obviously we have to stay on the issue of Planet Trump for some time as developments are following each other so rapidly that it is hard to catch up. One wonders with increasing unease about the psychological welfare as the awareness is starting to sink in, in many previously imperial capitols that their role in history is coming to an end. As American vassals they are able to keep the pretense up a little longer they are important, great powers. But with Trump retreating to the American hemisphere and pivoting to Asia, the new realities are starting to sink in. Brussels Signal has two articles making clear how hard the acceptance of reality is going to be. German Defense Minister Pistorius reflexes of condemning US VP J.D. Vance's speech, while his left-wing SDP party has descended to third place behind AfD: "his authority is non-existent" (link). The Belgian former NATO chief Willy Claes is accusing the US of ‘high treason’, expressing outrage about what he called the end of US solidarity with Europe (link). More signs of psychological instability are undoubtedly around. 

Feb. 18, 2025 RSBN: Secretary of State Marco Rubio Takes Questions About Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia.

After the successful initial meeting of the Russian and US delegations in Riyah, Rubio, Waltz and Witkoff gave the following press briefing, the first contact in three years! 

Earlier today The Duran discussed details of the meeting of outrage of European politicians in Paris, called together by President Macron. 

Feb. 18, 2025 The Duran: War party meets in Paris.

The Paris confab gets under way, no doubt wrapping up later tonight with emo driven statements expressing European solidarity in the certainty that their union of BFFs is unbreakable. 

And that brings me to one of the main problems with postmodern politics: these people clubbing together for literally hundreds of meetings each year, in which they all reach consensus on ranges of topics on which dissent has become increasingly verboten. 

Alex later in de day reported on the progress made in Paris and Riyadh. 

Feb. 18, 2025 Alex Christoforou: Lavrov-Rubio positive talks. Elensky's nightmare in Riyadh. Annalena, EU $700B Ukraine slush fund.

Former military men now turned political commentators, Col. Douglas McGregor and Lt. Col. Daniel Davis discussed the developments from their perspectives.

Feb. 18, 2025 Daniel Davis: Col Doug Macgregor: Zelensky Obstructing Peace. 

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