Tuesday, 18 February 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
As you see, they’re all seated and at the ready. What’s available is the following Kremlin readout of the business that was conducted, which is what was anticipated—building bridges initially. I expect this phase to last only a few more days.
Tuesdday, 18 February 2025 — TASS
🇷🇺 Key takeaways from Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov’s statements on the results on the Russia-US talks in Riyadh:
▪️The talks between Russia and the US went well
▪️The delegations held ‘very serious discussions on all issues’
▪️Russia and the US agreed to take into account each other’s interests
▪️A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump is unlikely to take place next week; it is not yet possible to set the exact date
▪️Russia and the US are hardly getting closer to each other at the moment, but this is under discussion
▪️Separate teams of Russian, US negotiators on Ukraine will enter into contact
▪️It is still unclear who will be among Russia’s negotiators on Ukraine, the Russian president will decide on this
Tuesday, 18 February 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
To preserve the international system based on US hegemony, the US has to prevent the rise of other centres of power. The China-Russia partnership has become the key challenge to US hegemony. The strategy by the Biden administration was to use Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia to knock it out from the ranks of great powers, so the US could focus on China. As NATO lost the proxy war, the US began shifting toward a new strategy of winning Russia over to its side of the ledger and creating some divisions between Russia and China.
Tuesday, 18 February 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Donald Trump’s threats of invading Gaza have forced Arab and Muslim leaders to react, exposing their vulnerability and the wider US-Israeli agenda for reshaping the region.
For 15 months, the majority of the Arab and Muslim World’s leaders sat back as the first live-streamed genocide took place inside the land of Palestine. Praying for a return to the status quo that once supported their rules, they have now been faced with an ultimatum. Now, it’s time to pick a side.
Monday, 17 February 2025 — Russia Observer
Patrick Armstrong
Well, “Fuck the EU” she said, and here we are.
Vance’s speech was a bombshell. Left them weeping, it did. Gotta say though, if Zelensky is where you find your “values and principals” these days, I think you should look somewhere else. We can only hope that Vance’s lecture has killed this sanctimonious and hypocritical values talk. Or reduced it a bit, anyway.
Tuesday, 18 February 2025 — MintPress News
There are many controversial characters inside Washington, but few have had a career quite as destructive as US government official, Victoria Nuland. From her earliest days helping to rip apart the Soviet Union and paving the way for gangster capitalism in Russia, to helping to oversee the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, to engineering a coup in Ukraine, Nuland has been at the forefront of aggressive US foreign policy for over three decades.
MintPress highlights some of her darkest moments.
Monday, 17 February 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Today in Moscow, FM Lavrov held talks with Serbian FM Marija Djuric followed by a joint press conference that lasted 45 minutes and consisted of lengthy remarks by Lavrov about the status of Russian-Serbian relations. However, when it came to the Q&A, the interest wasn’t about the state of relations but about Lavrov’s upcoming mission to Saudi Arabia and his appraisal of the Munich Security Conference, and that interest is clearly shared by many. What follows are selections related to those two items:
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Monday, 17 February 2025 — Global Delinquents
‘Operation Gladio’ is the collective name for a notorious Cold War-era program whereby Anglo-American intelligence services and NATO, in conjunction with mafia elements and fascist paramilitaries, constructed a pan-European nexus of clandestine “stay behind” armed resistance units. Their ostensible purpose was to remain ever-poised to respond to potential future Soviet invasion. In reality, these guerrilla factions carried out false flag attacks, assassinations, robberies, mass casualty bombings, and other incendiary acts to discredit the Western left, while fomenting a “strategy of tension”. Their objective was simple:
Monday, 17 February 2025 — Geopolitical Economy Report
Why has the price of gold been increasing so fast, breaking records? Economist Michael Hudson explains the politics of the precious metal, and the dynamics of the US dollar system. He is interviewed by Ben Norton.
Saturday, 15 February 2025 — The Grayzone
Sunday, 16 February 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
The awaited phone conversation initiated by Rubio with Lavrov has occurred. Here’s the MFA’s readout:
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Saturday, 15 February 2024 — Ukraine Watch
🔘 Putin and Trump may meet in Saudi Arabia at the end of February, Bloomberg reports, citing sources
The publication states that senior officials from the US and Russia will meet next week in Saudi Arabia to lay the groundwork for a potential summit between the leaders at the end of the month to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Saturday, 15 February 2025 – Al Mayadeen English
The suspension of USAID funding to Ukraine by the new U.S. administration has exposed the extent of Western financial influence on Ukrainian media, government, and nationalist movements.
Friday, 14 February 2025 — Michel Chossudovsky
[This article titled The “Demonization” of Muslims and the Battle for Oil by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky was originally published by Global Research. Click here to read the article on GR.]
Throughout history, “wars of religion” have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. “Wars of religion” were invariably fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and natural resources.
Friday, 14 February 2025 — GM Watch
Editor’s note: We apologise for the auto-correct-generated typo in yesterday’s Daily Digest item, the title of which should have read “GM trees promoted as potential future solution to citrus greening disease – but is the (non-GM) solution already out there?” Auto-correct, in its wisdom, changed the title to “circus greening disease”, and your editor didn’t notice. This joins an entertaining list of auto-correct-generated bloopers in the GMOs and pesticides arena, including substituting “transgender” for “transgene” and “shipmate pathway” for “shikimate pathway”. Just in case you were put off by the item’s title because you are not interested in diseases affecting circuses, we’re reposting the news item in question at the foot of this Daily Digest.
Wednesday, 12 February 2925 —
A major Canadian company’s US subsidiary received $9 million USD from the US Department of Defense (DOD)’s for a ‘social deception’ contract, a review of grants reveals.
The specific funding agency? The secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Friday, 14 February 2025 — Foxglove
Are Big Tech’s plans to build hundreds of massive new data centres around the UK going to cause water shortages for the rest of us?
Foxglove has conducted new research which reveals the staggering amount of water used by data centres to keep their computers cool. We’ve found a worrying lack of plans to ensure building more data centres doesn’t lead to water shortages for UK homes and businesses.
Thursday, 13 February 2025 — GM Watch
The New Dark Age 