Rapid Rapprochement with Russia
Wide-Ranging Conversation on Consortium News Live
Taking on the Germans
UNPRECEDENTED: That’s the word for today’s bitter exchange between VP Vance, after his stunning speech, and German President Steinmeier, who excoriated the new US govt for “showing no respect for established rules, partnership, and trust built over time”.
Can Tulsi Take Down the Undertakers
8 Billion Ways to Lose your Leverage
Doubtful that Trump actually has Netanyahu “totally under his thumb”. US leverage largely lost w/major gift of $8B for more bombs. Netanyahu probably can slither out from between the proverbial rock and hard place, helped by Trump’s phantasmagoria on Gaza.
Move Them or Kill Them
On “Judging Freedom”, Larry Johnson and I disagree on who is cleverer – Trump or Netanyahu. In my view, Trump has given Netanyahu carte blanche avec les bombs needed to render “moving Palestinians to nice places” academic. Real aim unveiled: Kill them all.