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title: Pentagon names biggest threat in ‘secret memo’ – WaPo
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<p><strong>Preparing for a conflict over Taiwan should be prioritized over any other potential threats, a document signed by Peter Hegseth reportedly says</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A newly issued internal Pentagon document setting priorities for the US armed forces reportedly calls for focusing on preparing for a potential conflict with China and leaving all other potential <em>“threats,”</em> such as Russia and Iran to America’s allies, the Washington Post has claimed.</p>
<p>The nine-page paper, dubbed the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance, effectively narrowed down the US defense strategy in the Indo-Pacific region to a single scenario that would require the American military to prevent Beijing from establishing full control over Taiwan through military means, according to WaPo.</p>
<p><em>“China is the Department’s sole pacing threat, and denial of a Chinese fait accompli seizure of Taiwan — while simultaneously defending the U.S. homeland is the Department’s sole pacing scenario,”</em> the <em>“secret”</em> document obtained by the media outlet said. According to WaPo, Beijing was named as the only potential enemy in a <em>“major power war”</em> that Washington needs to plan contingencies for.</p>

            
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<p>US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has previously described China as the main defense priority for the US. Beijing also expressed its concerns about a shift in Washington’s approach to Taiwan after the US State Department dropped from its fact sheet a statement on not supporting the island’s independence. China considers the self-governing island an inalienable part of its territory and most of the world adheres to Beijing’s stance.</p>

            
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<p>Apart from a potential conflict with China, the paper also tells the military to focus on the threats from the <em>“near abroad”</em> and be <em>“ready to defend American interests wherever they might be threatened in our hemisphere, from Greenland, to the Panama Canal, to Cape Horn.”</em> The US Army should also shift its counterterrorism activities to fighting groups capable of striking the US directly and deprioritize those that are only active in far away regions, the WaPo reported.</p>
<p>Other potential <em>“threats”</em> supposedly posed by nations such as Russia, Iran, and North Korea should henceforth be dealt with by US allies, the document reportedly states. In particular, it says that Washington is unlikely to provide any substantial assistance to its allies in Europe in case of a confrontation with Russia.</p>
<p>The document calls for European NATO members to significantly increase their share of the collective defense burden that would supposedly <em>“ensure NATO can reliably deter or defeat Russian aggression even if deterrence fails and the United States is already engaged in, or must withhold forces to deter, a primary conflict in another region.”</em></p>
<p>Moscow has repeatedly stated that it has no intention to attack the US-led bloc but warned that NATO’s active involvement in the ongoing Ukraine conflict poses a risk of a direct confrontation with Russia.</p>

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title: Barcelona sweep past Girona to restore LaLiga lead over Real Madrid
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<p>Barcelona thumped visitors Girona 4-1 in the Catalan football derby after Robert Lewandowski netted twice in the second half to move Hansi Flick’s side three points clear of Real Madrid, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/3/29/real-madrid-move-level-with-barcelona-as-mbappe-wards-off-leganes-scare">who beat Leganes 3-2 on Saturday</a>, at the top of LaLiga.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/liveblog/2025/3/30/live-barcelona-vs-girona-laliga">Sunday’s victory</a> moved Barcelona to 66 points from 29 games as 36-year-old Lewandowski – who scored twice after the score was tied at 1-1 – extended his tally at the top of LaLiga’s scoring chart to 25 goals, three clear of Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe.</p>

<p>“I know a lot of people talk about my age, but I work as hard as I did when I was 21 and I want to play for more seasons,” Lewandowski said with a smile.</p>
<p>“At the moment I’m feeling great physically, and if you look at the numbers, they’re the same as they’ve always been.”</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3612592" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3612592" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-30T154711Z_1845690422_UP1EL3U17ULJE_RTRMADP_3_SOCCER-SPAIN-BAR-GIR-REPORT-1743349958.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C472" alt="Soccer Football - LaLiga - FC Barcelona v Girona - Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, Barcelona, Spain - March 30, 2025 FC Barcelona's Robert Lewandowski scores their second goal REUTERS/Albert Gea" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3612592"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3612592" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski scores his team’s second goal [Albert Gea/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p>Barcelona predictably dominated the opening stages as Fermin Lopez and Lewandowski tested Paulo Gazzaniga in Girona’s goal with two early shots.</p>
<p>Moments later, Lopez went down on the edge of the box and the referee awarded a free kick. But when VAR asked him to review his decision for a potential penalty, he gave Girona a free kick instead, much to the shock of the Barcelona players.</p>
<p>Jules Kounde had a goal disallowed when he strayed offside as Girona had no answer to Barca’s forays into the box. But Gazzaniga stood strong to deny the home side time and again, making four crucial saves in the first half alone.</p>
<p>The Argentine keeper could only stand and watch, however, when Yamal’s free kick was deflected off Girona defender Ladislav Krejci for an own goal two minutes before the break.</p>
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<p>Girona struck back after the restart against the run of play when they won the ball back in midfield and Dutch forward Arnaut Danjuma curled his shot past Wojciech Szczesny in goal.</p>
<p>Barcelona did not panic and they restored their lead just after the hour-mark when Lopez headed a ball across the box and Lewandowski converted with an acrobatic finish at the far post.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3612644" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3612644" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-30T160307Z_229732961_UP1EL3U18L6KR_RTRMADP_3_SOCCER-SPAIN-BAR-GIR-REPORT-1743350690.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C455" alt="Soccer Football - LaLiga - FC Barcelona v Girona - Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, Barcelona, Spain - March 30, 2025 FC Barcelona's Robert Lewandowski scores their third goal REUTERS/Albert Gea" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3612644"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3612644" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Robert Lewandowski scores Barcelona’s third goal of the football match [Albert Gea/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><p>Lewandowski then made it 3-1 in the 77th minute from a counterattack when Frenkie de Jong found him in the box and the Polish striker curled a low shot past Gazzaniga.</p>
<p>Substitute Ferran Torres made it 4-1 when he expertly controlled a pass from the wing with a sublime first touch before finding the bottom corner. Then Yamal nearly made it five, only to see his curling shot cannon off the crossbar.</p>
<p>“It’s very clear to see that when they had the ball this afternoon, it wasn’t easy for us. We knew we were up against a great team,” Danjuma said of Barcelona.</p>
<p>“After I scored, I thought we could take something from the game, we could pressure them a little bit more. But then they got their second, they got their third… and then it became very difficult.”</p>
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title: Trump ‘angry’ with Putin and threatens tariffs on Russian oil over Ukraine
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<p>United States President Donald Trump has said he is “p***** off” at his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and has threatened to impose secondary sanctions on Russian oil if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire to end its war in Ukraine.</p>
<p>“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russian’s fault – which it might not be – but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump told in an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-angry-putin-zelenskyy-iran-sanctions-rcna198729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with NBC</a> on Sunday.</p>

<p>Trump said 25 percent tariffs could happen at any moment, adding that he plans to speak with Putin this week.</p>
<p>According to the report, Trump was “angry and p***** off” when the Russian president started questioning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s legitimacy and discussed the prospect of a new leadership in Ukraine.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Putin suggested that a temporary administration under the supervision of the United Nations should be introduced in Ukraine – a proposal swiftly rejected by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.</p>
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<p>Russian officials have repeatedly discredited Zelenskyy’s legitimacy as president, noting that no elections had been held since his term expired.</p>

<p>A vote has not been scheduled in Ukraine because the country’s constitution mandates that elections cannot be held under martial law, which has been in place since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbouring country three years ago.</p>
<p>There was no immediate reaction from Moscow to Trump’s comments. Russia has called numerous Western sanctions and restrictions “illegal” and designed for the West to take economic advantage in its rivalry with Russia.</p>
<p>Trump’s latest remarks followed a day of meetings and golf with Finnish President Alexander Stubb over the weekend.</p>
<p>Stubb’s office said he told Trump that a deadline needs to be set for establishing a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire to make it happen, and suggested April 20, since Trump would have been in office then for three months.</p>
<p>US officials have been separately pushing Kyiv to accept a critical minerals agreement, a summary of which suggested that the US was demanding all of Ukraine’s natural resources income for years. Zelenskyy has said <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/ukraines-zelenskyy-cautious-on-new-us-minerals-deal-proposal">Kyiv’s lawyers needed to review the draft</a> before he could say more about the offer.</p>
<p>Trump last week imposed what he called a 25 percent secondary tariff on US imports from any country buying oil or gas from Venezuela.</p>
<p>His remarks on Sunday suggest he could take similar action against US imports from countries that buy oil from Russia, a move that could hit China and India particularly hard.</p>
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<p>Trump said Putin knows he is angry with him, but added that he had “a very good relationship with him” and “the anger dissipates quickly … if he does the right thing”.</p>

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title: ‘The US won’t get that’: Greenland rejects Trump’s claim over the territory
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Greenlandic PM responds to Trump’s claims over Greenland, asserting that the territory will decide its own future.</em></p>
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<p data-start="74" data-end="294">Greenland’s newly elected Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said he will not hand over the territory to the United States in response to IS President Donald Trump’s recent comments about annexing the vast Arctic region.</p>
<p data-start="296" data-end="513">“President Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: The United States won’t get that. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future,” Nielsen stated in a Facebook post on Sunday.</p>

<p data-start="515" data-end="697">Trump had told NBC News on Saturday that he had “absolutely” discussed the possibility of <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/trump-says-greenland-takeover-needed-for-world-peace">annexing Greenland</a>. “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100 percent,” he said, doubling down on his claim.</p>
<p data-start="699" data-end="1018">The tension between the two nations escalated after US Vice President JD Vance visited a military base in Greenland and accused Denmark of failing to adequately protect the strategically located island.</p>
<p data-start="699" data-end="1018">Vance claimed the US could offer better security for the region, which holds significant geopolitical value.</p>
<p data-start="1020" data-end="1419">In response, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/29/not-how-you-talk-to-allies-danish-fm-tells-the-us-over-greenland">expressed frustration</a> with the US administration’s “tone” during their criticism.</p>
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<p data-start="1020" data-end="1419">“We do not appreciate the tone in which it is being delivered. This is not how you speak to your close allies,” Rasmussen stated in a video on social media, reaffirming Denmark’s commitment to Arctic security and its willingness to cooperate with the US.</p>
<p data-start="1421" data-end="1682">Despite this diplomatic row, Trump remained defiant, telling NBC News, “I never take military force off the table” regarding Greenland.</p>
<p data-start="1421" data-end="1682">Rasmussen, however, insisted that Denmark and the US are still close allies, despite the ongoing tensions over the issue.</p>
<p data-start="1684" data-end="1856">Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, remains a key point of contention as Trump pushes for greater US influence in the region for national security reasons.</p>

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title: Wisconsin AG Sues Musk Over $1 Million Giveaways, Loses, Then Appeals To State Supremes
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<p>Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has <strong>appealed directly to the state Supreme Court,</strong> after an appeals court slapped down a Friday attempt to sue Elon Musk and his PAC to block a $1 million giveaway to Wisconsin voters.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Dem AG Josh Kaul is now asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to step in just hours ahead of Elon Musk’s event in Green Bay, asking the court to block Musk from giving any payments to Wisconsin voters as Musk campaigns for conservative court candidate Brad Schimel <a href="https://t.co/ajYO4Kg1Vs">pic.twitter.com/ajYO4Kg1Vs</a></p>
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattsmith_news/status/1906320196014321667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>In his original lawsuit, <strong>Kaul said he was trying to stop an “egregious” and illegal scheme to sway voters days before a pivotal state Supreme Court election.</strong></p>
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<p><em>As the <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/musk-sued-by-wisconsin-ag-over-1-million-giveaways-5833233?utm_source=Morningbrief&amp;src_src=Morningbrief&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2025-03-29&amp;src_cmp=mb-2025-03-29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=pUiRrS3C58Xaa1K1PnFROUMq5Tlx5ylzAXc%2Fs8q0mDnxokDtsHaNrFQhMmUjC40%3D">Epoch Times</a> notes further,</em> Kaul’s original <a href="https://www.wisdoj.gov/PressReleases/kaul-v-musk-summons-complaint.pdf">complaint</a>, filed in Dane County Circuit Court on March 28, targets <strong>Musk’s announcement that two Wisconsin voters would be picked to receive $1 million each at a Sunday event</strong>—on the condition that they vote in the April 1 election. The high-stakes election will determine whether the high court remains a 4–3 liberal majority or flips to a conservative majority.</p>
<p>In a since-deleted post on social media on March 27, Musk wrote: “<strong>I will also personally hand over two checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote. This is super important</strong>.”</p>
<p>Musk later clarified his plans in a new <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1905673297439666486">post</a> on X on March 28.</p>
<p>“On Sunday night, I will give a talk in Wisconsin,” Musk wrote. “To clarify a previous post, entrance is limited to those who have signed the petition in opposition to activist judges. I will also hand over checks for a million dollars to 2 people to be spokesmen for the petition.”</p>
<p>According to Kaul’s lawsuit, <strong>Musk’s March 27 post violated a Wisconsin Statute that prohibits offering financial incentives to cast a vote</strong>. The Wisconsin attorney general is seeking emergency relief to block the payouts, arguing that Musk’s plan violates state election laws.</p>
<p>“<strong>Musk’s announcement of his intention to pay $1 million to two Wisconsin electors who attend his event on Sunday night, specifically conditioned on their having voted in the upcoming April 3, 2025, Wisconsin Supreme Court election, is a blatant attempt to violate Wis. Stat. § 12.11,</strong>” the complaint states. “This must not happen.”</p>

<p>The lawsuit notes that Musk’s since-deleted post had garnered over 19 million views before it was taken down and was widely reported by the news media. While the complaint acknowledges that Musk removed the first post, it notes that, as of Friday afternoon, neither Musk nor America PAC had issued a statement rescinding the initial payout offer.</p>
<p>“Upon information and belief, despite taking down the X.com post, <strong>neither Musk nor America PAC have announced that</strong> <strong>the plan to make two $1 million payments to Wisconsin electors who have voted in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election has been cancelled</strong>,” Kaul wrote. He called on the court to issue a temporary restraining order that would bar Musk from any further promotion of the million-dollar gifts and prevent him from making the payments.</p>
<p>Musk’s attorney was not immediately reachable for comment. While Musk has not publicly commented on the lawsuit directly, he <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1905703764788646163">shared</a> a post on X describing the lawsuit as “lawfare” and a “desperate attempt” by Democrats who are “terrified Elon is going to activate Wisconsinites to vote.”</p>
<p>The legal battle unfolds against the backdrop of a high-stakes race that could reshape Wisconsin’s political and judicial landscape. Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel, a Republican, is facing off against Democratic Dane County Judge Susan Crawford for a 10-year term that will decide the ideological tilt of the court.</p>
<p><strong>Musk’s America PAC <a href="https://x.com/america/status/1902888358432370773">launched</a> a petition campaign earlier this month offering $100 to registered voters who signed a pledge opposing “activist judges.”</strong> The PAC also promised an additional $100 for each referral made by the signer.</p>
<p>“Judges should interpret laws as written, not rewrite them to fit their personal or political agendas,” the petition reads. “By signing below, I’m rejecting the actions of activist judges who impose their own views and demanding a judiciary that respects its role—interpreting, not legislating.”</p>
<p>Though recipients of the money are not required to vote in a particular way, Kaul referred to the petition in his complaint, arguing that the entire effort undermines election integrity and violates Wisconsin law.</p>

<p>This is not the first time Musk’s PAC has offered money to eligible voters before an election. During last year’s presidential election, America PAC ran a similar campaign offering $1 million per day to randomly selected petition signers in swing states, along with $100 bonuses in Pennsylvania.</p>
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Canadian Banks Linked To Chinese Fentanyl Laundering Risk US Treasury Sanctions After Cartel Terror Designation

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<p>In an explosive interview with <em><a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/canadian-banks-tied-to-chinese-fentanyl?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1444443&amp;post_id=160060398&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=dgwme&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">The Bureau's Sam Cooper</a></em>, <strong>David Asher</strong> - a former senior U.S. State Department official with close ties to the Trump administration's financial and national security apparatus—issued a <strong>stark warning</strong>: <strong>Canadian banks</strong> could soon face a "<strong>new universe</strong>" of regulatory scrutiny from the <strong>U.S. Treasury</strong>. This follows the formal designation of Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa group, as <strong>Foreign Terrorist Organizations</strong> (FTOs). According to Asher, the command-and-control structure for laundering proceeds from synthetic narcotics—produced using <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/watch-live-house-subcommittee-reveals-chinese-govt-involvement-americas-fentanyl-crisis">Chinese precursor chemicals</a>—is <strong><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/busted-fentanyl-super-lab-canada-makes-breaking-bad-look-minor-league-former-trump-official">largely orchestrated by Chinese triads operating out of Canada</a></strong>.</p><p>Asher warned that these <strong>transnational crime gang nexus</strong> seriously <strong>threatens both U.S. national security and the stability of the North American financial system</strong>. </p><p>Here's the <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/canadian-banks-tied-to-chinese-fentanyl?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1444443&amp;post_id=160060398&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=dgwme&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">interview between Cooper and Asher</a>, which offers a possible road map for the <strong>looming legal consequences for Canadian banks</strong> as the <strong>Trump administration ramps up <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/making-sense-hemispheric-defense-trump-era">hemispheric defense</a></strong> and moves to <strong>dismantle</strong>, once and for all, the command-and-control structures of Mexican cartels and Chinese triads operating through Canadian financial institutions. </p><div data-sanitized-id="">
<p><em>In an explosive, sweeping interview, former senior State Department investigator David Asher—closely connected to the Trump administration's financial and national security apparatus—warned that Canadian banks could soon face a "new universe" of regulatory scrutiny, including from the U.S. Treasury, due to the recent designation of Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.</em></p>
<p><em>Asher, who contends that the "command" for Western Hemisphere money laundering of synthetic narcotics—including fentanyl, methamphetamine, and ecstasy sourced from Chinese precursors—is "largely run by Chinese triads in Canada," also argues that this interconnected transnational network presents profound risks to Canadian financial institutions.</em></p>
<p><em>Speaking bluntly about the <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/from-guangdong-peasant-to-funder">nexus </a>between Chinese Triads and Mexican cartels operating in Canada, Asher said: "Of course, they're in bed with each other. This is why Tse Chi Lop lived in Toronto… These cartels are now designated as terrorist organizations. That changes everything—how we prosecute them, and what tools we can use."</em></p>
<p><em>Asher, along with Canadian law enforcement experts such as former RCMP intelligence analyst <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/justin-trudeau-targeted-in-united">Scott McGregor, </a>believes a rarely discussed Canadian legal barrier—Stinchcombe—must be overcome. They argue Canada could unlock powerful new authorities if it begins treating cartel-connected Chinese money laundering networks as accessories to terrorism.</em></p>
<p><em>The rule, derived from the 1991 Supreme Court case R. v. Stinchcombe, requires Canadian law enforcement to disclose nearly all investigative material to the defense. While intended to ensure a fair trial, critics say it severely hampers complex RCMP investigations, especially those relying on wiretaps or sensitive intelligence, and risks blowing the cover of international partners and covert operations.</em></p>
<p><em>Asher didn't mince words: "Every case I worked in Canada… the Stinchcombe thing ended up [inhibiting investigations]—we were targeting phone numbers tied to Canadian money launderers who were Chinese. And they got told after 90 days that we were going after them. Then they just changed numbers and changed their OPSEC. It's a farce."</em></p>
<p><em>He sees the recent terrorism designation of Mexican cartels as a legal pivot point: "That whole Stinchcombe thing should be thrown out the door because we can now use counter-terrorism authorities."</em></p>
<p><em>Asher believes that if Canadian law enforcement engages more directly with U.S. authorities, the financiers and money launderers tied to Chinese triads in Canada can be directly linked to fentanyl-trafficking Mexican cartels. If Canadian banks are shown to be facilitating these funds, even passively, they may be subject to U.S. regulations—including terrorism finance sanctions.</em></p>
<p><em>The implications for Canadian institutions are profound. "If any of these financial institutions are picking up a dollar for the cartels at this stage and we can prove it, then they're engaged in terrorism financing."</em></p>
<p><em>Asher also pointed to marijuana trafficking from Canada into the United States—not as a separate criminal enterprise, but as part of the same transnational fentanyl networks. He said Chinese Triads, with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, sit atop this narcotics pyramid and are exploiting Canada's legal marijuana system.</em></p>
<p><em>"The illegal pot—marijuana from Canada that comes into the New York State tri-state area and into the Pacific Northwest states of the United States <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/exclusive-how-the-rcmp-cbsa-and-trudeau">is huge.</a> And now we're seeing the integration of fentanyl into marijuana in some cases."</em></p>
<p><em>The flow of narcotics south and criminal proceeds north continues largely unabated, Asher warned, with superlabs in British Columbia and other areas of Canada producing meth, ecstasy, and fentanyl.</em></p>
<p><em>On Canada's enforcement efforts and the outcomes of official inquiries into Chinese criminal and influence networks, Asher was scathing: "What have you done to follow up on [the Cullen Commission]? Nothing. And then you had this Hogue inquiry about Chinese influence in politics. What have you done about that? It looks to me like practically nothing."</em></p>
<p><em>He called on Canada to show resolve on investigations that impact the United States: "Frankly, one of the first things you still need to do is: why is TD Bank Canada not being charged? And do we have charges against some of the executives, whether they've been publicly named or not?"</em></p>
<p><em>His core message is that Canada must shake off legal and <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/exclusive-how-the-rcmp-cbsa-and-trudeau">political inertia: </a>"Why wouldn't Canada want to protect itself? You're losing thousands of people every year, sometimes tens of thousands, due to overdoses and poisonings and basically murder in the form of these narcotics networks."</em></p>
<p><em>The consequences of inaction, Asher warned, could be dire—not only for Canadian sovereignty and public health, but for its banking sector's international standing. "Canadian money laundering command and control remains a huge issue for drug trafficking across the United States… That's just the bottom line."</em></p>
<p><em>The following transcript has been edited for clarity and brevity. Some passages have been removed to streamline the discussion while preserving its core insights.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper:</em></strong> <em>What is the key change that designating the Sinaloa cartel and these other Mexican cartels as terrorist networks—because Canada followed President Trump on that. So now this anti-terrorism law should be applicable in Canada. One, does that change the calculus of the U.S. working with the Canadian government in going after cartels in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal? And two, in your view, are these cartels operative with Chinese command-and-control financiers that underwrite their operations across North America?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher: </em></strong><em>First of all, of course, they're in bed with each other. I mean, this is the reason why Tse Chi Lop lived in Canada and in Toronto. I mean, the Sinaloa cartel has significant operations with partners and proxies in Canada, both for distribution and, increasingly, we believe with production—the rise of these super labs.</em></p>
<p><em>And so, the way I define it: we can do law enforcement top down. We use their intelligence, use their sources. We know who the leadership are, we know where the money is. Rather than build a case from the bottom up and start with dime bags on the streets of Chicago or Vancouver, we say we know these cartels are designated, and now these cartels are terrorist organizations. That changes everything in terms of how we could prosecute them and what type of tools we can use. Because that whole Stinchcombe thing should be thrown out the door because we can now use counter-terrorism authorities. Because Canada does have a reasonably strong counter-terrorism law.</em></p>
<p><em>So if we treat these cartels as terrorists—which they are—and you've designated them, we can use our signals intelligence and all sorts of other tools to much more robustly target them without them knowing it. Because every case I worked in Canada, the Stinchcombe thing ended up—we were targeting phone numbers tied to Canadian money launderers who were Chinese, and also actually some Italian mob guys too, and Iranian mob guys. And they got told after 90 days that we were going after them. And then they just changed numbers and they changed their OPSEC. It's a farce, you know that. But I mean, just like with the terrorism designations, I think we're in a new universe here.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>So now that the Latin cartels have been designated as terrorists, your Anti-Terrorism Act of 2017 will—it has these four key provisions: prevent terrorists from getting into Canada and protect Canadians from terrorist acts; activate tools to identify, prosecute, and convict terrorists; keep the border secure and contribute to economic security; and work with the international community to bring terrorists to justice and address root causes of violence.</em></strong></p>
<p><em>All these aspects are fundamentally game changers. I mean, if you apply that, I think that you treat these cartels as terrorists, you start to prosecute them. We could do it jointly. And their partners too—I mean, they're accessories to terrorism. So if the Chinese are laundering the money, and if TD Bank, let's say, is accepting the money? Then TD Bank is involved in terrorism finance. Suddenly, then, the whole tapestry of authorities has changed, and we should not have to follow the Stinchcombe thing anymore. It should be that we have a direct way to secretly target the communications and follow the money through the cartels, now that they're basically the same as Hezbollah and the Quds Force and Al-Qaeda.</em></p>
<p><em>And then there's Chinese partners. Frankly, if they're working with them in a partnership, you should be able to approach them as accessories to terrorism from a legal standpoint. That would change your prosecution. It would change your intelligence collection capability, and it would actually conform with the facts, frankly.</em></p>
<p><em>And I think also anybody who's getting the Chinese guys you've profiled, like Paul King Jin and all these Chinese United Front actors in Vancouver—I mean, they are now effectively accessories to a terrorist organization's finances.</em></p>
<p><em>So I have to assume <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-met-with-paul-king-jin-in-his-first-term-as-prime-minister/">that your politicians </a>are not going to meet with accessories to terrorist organizations anymore. I hope what this is doing in the U.S. is that all U.S. banks now are under warning that the Anti-Terrorism Act will be applied to them if they take one dollar of Sinaloa money.</em></p>
<p><em>I think that people are starting to realize that. And I think there's much—I think it's hardly that TD was the only Canadian bank that was involved in laundering money.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper:</em></strong> <em>Can you expand on that?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher:</em></strong> <em>You've got other banks, like BMO. I'm not saying it's laundering money, but I'm not saying it isn't. I don't know, but they have huge operations in Mexico, so obviously they should be looked at. But if any of these financial institutions are picking up a dollar for the cartels at this stage and we can prove it, then they're engaged in terrorism financing. I mean, the U.S. government will go after banks anywhere in the world that are engaged in terrorism financing, Canadian or otherwise.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>And I don't think the U.S. government is satisfied at all with the Canadian response at this stage. But there is great hope because if you start to crack down using your Anti-Terrorism Act, I think that we have an opportunity to change the framework for collective action and have a much better relationship.</em></strong></p>
<p><em>But it's going to mean taking on the Chinese because the money laundering for terrorist dollars is material support for terrorism, and it's going to require going after the distribution of not just fentanyl, but let's not forget there's massive amounts of methamphetamine produced in Canada. And by the way, no one's talking about all the meth from Canada that's entering the United States. President Trump isn't just concerned about fentanyl. I mean, for years we've had methamphetamine coming out of Canada into the United States.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper: </em></strong><em>Well, I recently did a story on a <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/bc-fentanyl-ring-negotiated-with">major Sinaloa Cartel cell</a> set up on the British Columbia border near the Peace Arch crossing. They were dealing with [Sinaloa Cartel boss] El Mayo directly, which says a lot, right?</em></p>
<p><em>And they were raided–mind you no one is even incarcerated—but they face civil forfeiture. And they found Mexican passports, fentanyl, MDMA, methamphetamine, ketamine, fake Xanax, incredible weapons caches. And you <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/indian-national-convicted-in-washington">also</a> just had another major smuggling operation of MDMA from B.C. just <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwa/pr/indian-national-found-guilty-possession-intent-distribute-more-170-pounds-mdma-eastern">prosecuted</a> in Washington state. So the U.S. government is concerned with all these precursors from China and that includes ecstasy as well, right?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher:</em></strong> <em>Yes. And of course, the illegal pot—marijuana from Canada that comes into the New York State tri-state area and into the Pacific Northwest states of the United States is huge. And now we're seeing the integration of fentanyl into marijuana in some cases.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>I think that the Canadian defense that statistics show Canada is innocent in fentanyl trafficking across North America is just bullshit. I mean, something like probably 80% of the money laundering networks in the U.S. that are Chinese are in direct contact with numbers in Canada every day. And we don't know who those subscribers are. We're not allowed to spy on Canada.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper:</em></strong> <em>Alright. Can I ask you this? I heard from a senior U.S. narcotics expert with deep knowledge that the pot being run down from Ontario into New York and the tri-state area was coming in <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/from-guangdong-peasant-to-funder">tons </a>— and that they believed this was command-and-control Chinese organized crime in Toronto. They said the funds <a href="https://www.thebureau.news/p/exclusive-how-the-rcmp-cbsa-and-trudeau">connected to all</a> of that was collected in the U.S. and ultimately coming back up to Toronto banks.</em></p>
<p><em>Like you said, the money comes back to be laundered where command is. So that's the legal—or really, illegal—pot trade from Canada, mixed with the fentanyl trafficking networks directed from Canada. The drugs go south, the cash is collected, and it's laundered back up through Canadian banks.</em></p>
<p><em>That's your TD Bank case, right?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher:</em></strong> <em>It's all part of the same drug trafficking organizations.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>But look, we don't have super labs in the United States, and this idea that, well, we have super labs in Canada, but they're not targeting the United States—how the hell do you know that? I mean, you just stumbled upon this super lab out in British Columbia. How many others? We've heard from dozens of sources that there are a number of labs like that in Canada. I mean, there's no way they're not going to be involved in exporting to the United States.</em></strong></p>
<p><em>But even if they aren't, it's a huge threat to Canada. And we have to assume that it's an incoming threat to the United States. But putting aside fentanyl super labs, you've got super methamphetamine labs too, and you've got the marijuana business, ecstasy business—it's all drug business. They're all interlinked. And let's not forget that Tse Chi Lop served, I don't know about nine years in prison in the United States. We arrested him well before he was identified publicly, and when he was based in Canada.</em></p>
<p><em>You showed in your book <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Wilful-Blindness-Interference-Criminal-Infiltrated-dp-0888903510/dp/0888903510/ref=dp_ob_title_bk">Wilful Blindness</a> that Paul King Jin, all these guys come down to Las Vegas to launder money. Remember, you can take these chips from these casinos and you can exchange them internationally. They're like bearer bonds practically. You can take them and settle them elsewhere. The chips are fungible. So the idea that these major Chinese networks in Canada are not cross-border into the U.S. is also bullshit.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper:</em></strong> <em>Absolutely, yes.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher:</em></strong> <em>That's not some secret. Everybody knows that who works organized crime cases. So what's going on in British Columbia, which your Cullen Commission <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Wilful-Blindness-Interference-Criminal-Infiltrated-dp-0888903510/dp/0888903510/ref=dp_ob_title_bk">reporting detailed</a> in mind-altering detail. What has Canada done to follow up on that? Nothing. And then you had this Hogue inquiry about Chinese influence in politics. What has Canada done about that? It looks to me like practically nothing. I think there's a lot we can do though. And there are people in the Canadian government that want to work this positively, and I think there should be more receptivity to it in the United States.</em></p>
<p><em>But I think we'd like to see the Canadians put some meat on the plate. Can they help us target the Sinaloa cartel's operations in partnership with Chinese triads, not just in Canada, but in the U.S. too, and maybe even in Mexico?</em></p>
<p><em>I mean, have they come forward with a plan of attack together? I don't think so. And if they did, it would be helpful. But frankly, one of the first things you still need to do is: why is TD Bank Canada not being charged?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>And do we have charges against some of the executives, whether they've been publicly named or not? It's in the document that the Department of Justice released that there were a number of people they've identified for criminal prosecution. I mean, in the U.S. we're fining TD $3.1 billion. What's Canada done? Like a $9 million fine against TD Corporate in Toronto. Seriously? The people in Toronto were running the money laundering network in the United States of America.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper: </em></strong><em>What more can you say about that piece?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher:</em></strong> <em>There are other people you should talk to about that. But we know there was command and control for the money laundering in Toronto. That's why the CEO of TD Canada resigned. He took the blame, but he hasn't been charged. I expect that that case has not ended yet. I think there's a high probability that it will be continuing. I don't know this for certain—I'm not involved—but from what I can see, the facts are pretty clear in the document that was put out by the Department of Justice. I don't think that there's grounds for this investigation into TD's money laundering activity at the headquarters level to stop.</em></p>
<p><em>But why isn't the Canadian government looking into them? This is the largest money laundering bank in the history of the United States of America. It's Canadian. Have you ever thought that you guys might be able to charge them for money laundering too? What about anything they're doing today?</em></p>
<p><em>At this point, I know they've hired people as consultants to try to supposedly clean up the bank, but you know what? They've got a long way to go. They have to close accounts. They've got to screen every relationship they've got. And even then, if the Department of the Treasury is satisfied, the Department of Justice might have a different view of it.</em></p>
<p><em>But I think that we know this: at the end of the day, the Canadian money laundering command and control remains a huge issue for drug trafficking of all sorts across the United States of America. And so I think that's just the bottom line.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper:</em></strong> <em>Okay. Let's talk more about Stinchcombe and Canada's courts and cross-border crime, because this is a major cause of friction fundamentally for Canada and the U.S. as allies I believe.</em></p>
<p><em>Can you explain more about the extreme impediments that Canadian police work under, so that U.S. international enforcement is totally frustrated, loss of confidence, can't work with Canada. Could you briefly describe to the readers what Stinchcombe means in terms of your and the U.S. government's frustration in not being able to go up on [establish wiretaps] on Iranian, Chinese, and Mexican operatives in Canada?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher:</em></strong> <em>Well, we could go up on them, but then they had to be told we were going up on them. I mean, there's this disclosure rule. I'm not an expert on Canadian law, but I can tell you that we had multiple cases—including [Asher names an alleged Iran-regime connected criminal in Toronto that allegedly laundered several billion dollars in major Canadian banks] against the Iran network.</em></p>
<p><em>We actually did have a case into Tse Chi Lop as well that was significant with the Australians, but it was DEA-led. And we've had so many others, including against the Hells Angels of Canada, who were a big problem. I mean, those guys, they've been trafficking into the United States. And as far as I can understand it, every time we want to target someone, they end up getting told that they're being targeted. I mean, you can't build an undercover criminal investigation if the cover gets blown after 90 days because of some Canadian law or rule.</em></p>
<p><em>And the fact is, but now with this terrorism designation, at least when it comes to the cartels and their facilitating parties—and that could be the Hells Angels, that could be the Wolf Pack, that could be the Chinese triads—it doesn't really matter. They're facilitating terrorism.</em></p>
<p><em>And Canada would need to start to make cases on your own to identify, prosecute, and disable and dismantle these networks. Your government knows where these networks exist. It just acts like it's powerless to do anything. It's just not true. I've always felt that there was a compromise—because we were dealing with, in some of these Iran cases, we were dealing with terrorism. We had direct Hezbollah and Iranian IRGC connections in Canada. So it baffled us why the criminals were being told that they were being targeted or how they found out.</em></p>
<p><em>Whether it was through Stinchcombe or leaks or whatever. But all I can say is: when's the last time we did a major case together between U.S. and Canada to take down a network? Seriously? Can you name one?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper:</em></strong> <em>I can't. No.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher: </em></strong><em>Exactly. So there's none, basically, that's of any note. And it's not just to blame Canada. I'm saying let's just turn this into an opportunity for justice, because at the end of the day, your people are getting murdered by these cartels. And the cartels are making money because they can launder through these Chinese networks. And if they can't make money, they'll go out of business. So our job is not to protect Canada, but we're certainly happy to help.</em></p>
<p><em>But I think that this needs to be—and it's unfortunate that things have started off in an adversarial way between Washington and Ottawa. But I think that there's just a lot of frustration. And I know it exists at the Treasury Department, not just the Department of Justice.</em></p>
<p><em>You've got a ways to go, and I think that your new Prime Minister will hopefully be able to navigate this, and we'll see a new way of working these things together.</em></p>
<p><em>And I think, again, this terrorism designation is huge, but someone has to start by saying, okay, now we've got a terrorism designation. What do we do with it? And right now, I don't think you should wait for the U.S. to come and complain or appeal to you to do it. You should do this yourselves. Why wouldn't Canada want to protect itself? You're losing thousands of people every year, sometimes tens of thousands, due to overdoses and poisonings and basically murder in the form of these narcotics networks. And then, basically, you've created a countrywide environment that's permissive to criminal organizations, and people are suffering. The fact is, this enormous amount of real estate that's been bought across Canada, especially in British Columbia and the Toronto area, has been bought with money that's been laundered. It makes Miami in the 1980s look minor league.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper:</em></strong> <em>Yeah. The estimates I'm getting now are over a trillion dollars in Toronto and Vancouver, connected to mortgage fraud and underground banking since 2010.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher: </em></strong><em>Yeah, it's massive. And it has to be fixed. I mean, seriously, this is an opportunity.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Sam Cooper:</em></strong> <em>It's an opportunity to improve both our nations.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>David Asher:</em></strong> <em>Correct. And I think if Canada came forward and said, we just identified the following networks and individuals who are laundering money for Chinese money laundering organizations, and we're going to take them down, the U.S. would probably be impressed. Right now, you're showing videos of dogs on the border and helicopters—that doesn't do anything. Make some arrests, take down some criminals.</em></p>
</div><p><strong>Eliminating Mexican cartels and Chinese triads from financial institutions</strong> across the Americas is part of the Trump administration's broader strategy to strengthen national and <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/making-sense-hemispheric-defense-trump-era">hemispheric defense</a>. This explains the push for deeper economic integration between the United States and Canada, along with the establishment of a hardened defense perimeter stretching from the Arctic to the Panama Canal.</p><p><strong>Let's visualize that...</strong></p><p><strong>TD and other banks face continued scrutiny</strong> under U.S. anti-terrorism laws following the recent disclosure of <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/busted-fentanyl-super-lab-canada-makes-breaking-bad-look-minor-league-former-trump-official">Chinese-linked superlabs</a> in Canada, as the drug overdose death crisis claims 100,000 Americans per year. This heightened scrutiny may help explain why <strong>TD Bank's equity on the Canadian stock exchange has yet to recover above its October 2024</strong> highs, when the U.S. Department of Justice announced AML penalties against the bank.</p><p>What's clear is that U.S. officials are growing increasingly confident in their assessments of drug money laundering by international gangs through Canadian banks—and have already begun issuing AML violations, as seen in TD's case. We suspect the spotlight could soon shift to Mexican banks as well. And in the U.S., the DoJ should take a deeper dive into banks.</p><p><em><strong>Grow your own food with <a href="https://store.zerohedge.com/wise-food-storage-heirloom-seed-vault-39-varieties-4-500-seeds/?utm_source=zerohedge.com&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=store_promo">HEIRLOOM SEEDS</a></strong> (39 varieties - 4,500 seeds) from <a href="https://store.zerohedge.com/?utm_source=zerohedge.com&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=store_promo">ZH Store!</a>  Free shipping in the USA.</em></p>

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title: What’s happening to US-European relations?
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-1743361250.jpg?resize=1920%2C1061&amp;quality=80" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>There are divisions over NATO, the future of Greenland, trade and the Russia-Ukraine war.</p><div aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true" readability="49">
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Relations between the United States and Europe are under severe strain just two months into US President Donald Trump’s second term.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">There are major divisions over NATO, the Russia-Ukraine war, Greenland and trade – with European leaders scrambling to react.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">What is driving these differences, and what comes next?</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><strong>Presenter:</strong> Adrian Finighan</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Niall Stanage – White House columnist at The Hill newspaper</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Theresa Fallon – Director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Steven Erlanger – Chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe for The New York Times</p>
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title: Israeli air attacks kill dozens in Gaza as Palestinians mark Eid al-Fitr
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeats a demand for Hamas to disarm and for its leaders to leave Gaza.</em></p>
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<p>Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/live-israeli-forces-kill-24-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-negotiations-continue">has continued on the first day of the Muslim Eid holidays,</a> killing dozens of people as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows no sign of letting up pressure on Hamas amid a new round of ceasefire talks.</p>
<p>Several air raids in the early hours of Sunday struck tents and homes as Palestinians celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. At least 35 people were killed in the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis, medical sources told Al Jazeera.</p>

<p>Sunday’s killings come as the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/30/palestine-red-crescent-says-missing-gaza-crew-either-dead-or-detained">recovered the bodies</a> of 15 medical workers in Rafah who came under heavy Israeli fire last week. Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad obtained exclusive satellite images showing that at least five rescue vehicles were destroyed by the Israeli military in that deadly attack.</p>
<p>“[This] is a tragedy not only for us … but also for humanitarian work and humanity,” PRCS said in a statement, adding that the Israeli military targeting the health workers “can only be considered a war crime”.</p>
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<p>Amid the violence, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip continues to deteriorate as Israel <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/a-timeline-of-israels-weaponisation-of-aid-to-gaza">has halted the delivery of aid into Gaza</a> since early March.</p>
<p>“Palestinians are supposed to break their fast with a very nice meal [for Eid], but today they are unable to secure one meal – it’s devastating, the situation in Gaza,” said Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah.</p>
<p>Food in the Strip is scarce and highly expensive, with parents saying that feeding their families is a “mission impossible”, Khoudary said.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, prospects for a breakthrough in ceasefire talks seem remote.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Netanyahu repeated a demand for Hamas to disarm and for its leaders to leave Gaza, while promising to step up pressure on the group to release the 59 remaining captives it is holding, 35 of whom are believed dead.</p>
<p>These are part of a new set of demands put forward by Israel, with the backing of US President Donald Trump, set to revise the terms of a three-phase ceasefire agreement signed in January.</p>
<p>According to the original deal, following the release of a first batch of captives each week, the two parties agreed to enter a second phase of negotiations to discuss a permanent end to the war, the release of remaining captives and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.</p>
<p>But Israel insists Hamas should release all captives without Israel committing to end the war. With Hamas refusing the new demands, Israel resumed bombing the Strip and relocated troops inside the enclave.</p>
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<p>On Sunday, Netanyahu also said Israel would work to implement Trump’s “voluntary emigration plan” for Gaza and said his cabinet had agreed to keep pressuring Hamas, which says it has agreed to a new ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar.</p>
<p>Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said that Netanyahu’s comments were a recipe for “endless escalation” in the region.</p>
<p>Netanyahu rejected assertions that Israel was not negotiating, saying “We are conducting it under fire, and therefore it is also effective”.</p>
<p>“We see that there are suddenly cracks,” he said in a video statement issued on Sunday.</p>
<p>Khalil al-Hayya, the Hamas leader in Gaza, said the group had agreed to a proposal that security sources said included the release of five Israeli captives each week. But he said laying down its arms as Israel has demanded was a “red line” the group would not cross.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Donald Trump hints at exploring paths to a third term as United States president despite constitutional limits.</em></p>
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<p>US President Donald Trump has said he is “not joking” about seeking a third term in office, which is barred by the United States Constitution.</p>
<p>Speaking in a phone interview with NBC News on Sunday, Trump directly addressed speculation over a potential third term, saying, “No, I’m not joking. I’m not joking,” but added, “It is far too early to think about it.”</p>

<p>“There are methods which you could do it, as you know,” he said, without elaborating on potential legal or political avenues.</p>
<p>The US Constitution’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two four-year terms, whether consecutive or not.</p>
<p>The 22nd Amendment says that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice”.</p>
<p data-start="230" data-end="481">Trump was asked in the NBC interview about a scenario where his running mate, Vice President JD Vance, could assume office before stepping aside to allow him to take over. Trump acknowledged the possibility, stating, “That’s one” approach.</p>
<p data-start="483" data-end="585">“But there are others, too,” he added, without elaborating further.</p>
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<p>Overturning the 22nd Amendment would require a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress and ratification by three-quarters of the 50 US states.</p>
<p>Trump, who began his second, non-consecutive term in January, has repeatedly alluded to extending his time in office.</p>
<p>Some of his allies have also floated the idea of keeping him in power beyond 2028, while Trump himself has occasionally teased about the possibility, often in ways that taunt his political opponents.</p>
<p>If he were to pursue another term in the 2028 election, Trump, who was the oldest president to be inaugurated in the US in January 2025, would then be 82 years old.</p>
<p>The precedent of a two-term limit dates back to 1796, when George Washington voluntarily stepped down after two terms.</p>
<p>This tradition remained largely unchallenged for more than 140 years until Franklin D Roosevelt won a third term in 1940 amid the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt died months into his fourth term in 1945, prompting Congress to formalise term limits with the 22nd Amendment in 1951.</p>
<p>Longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon suggested in a March 19 interview with NewsNation that Trump may seek re-election in 2028.</p>
<p>“We’re working on it,” Bannon said, adding that his team was exploring ways to reinterpret the definition of term limits to facilitate a third term.</p>

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Republicans are pulling out all the stops ahead of the special election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District as worries of a narrower-than-expected margin grow in the district President Trump won by more than 30 points in November.  Trump called into two tele-town halls for state Sen. Randy Fine (R) in an effort to drive out…

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title: NYT report confirms Pentagon’s ‘open secret’ role in Ukrainian ops – expert
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<p><strong>It has long been evident that the US military served as the “the eyes, ears, and brain” behind any significant actions by Kiev, Sergey Poletaev told RT</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The recent New York Times investigation into America’s <em>“hidden role”</em> in the Ukraine conflict has confirmed that the Pentagon played a key role in most of Kiev’s significant military operations against Russia, information analyst Sergey Poletaev has told RT.</p>
<p>In a lengthy report published on Saturday, the US paper claimed that the administration of former US President Joe Biden provided Ukraine with support that went far beyond arms shipments. The cooperation involved intelligence sharing, strategic planning and daily coordination at a US military facility in Wiesbaden, Germany, where American and Ukrainian officers set targeting priorities, which they euphemistically called <em>“points of interest”</em> so as to avoid sounding overly provocative.</p>
<p>According to Poletaev, the report did not offer any groundbreaking revelations.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“It has long been clear that the Americans sought to fight Russia with the hands of Ukraine and that the main contribution they make is intelligence and supply of some kind of strike systems, for which they, in turn, provide intelligence,”</em> he told RT on Sunday. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“It was no secret that the eyes and ears and brain behind any serious Ukrainian actions were the Pentagon. Here you go, all this has just been confirmed,”</em> the analyst said.</p>

            
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<p>The investigation, however, <em>“is useful”</em> since it <em>“shows the train of thought of the American side.”</em> At some point, Poletaev said, the US realized they couldn’t fully control Ukraine’s actions. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“They understood that the puppet they had on their hand was not entirely controllable. The puppet behaved as it saw fit,”</em> he explained. The analyst emphasized that this dynamic is crucial for understanding the conflict’s progression and is indicative of situations <em>“when the tail begins to wag the dog.”</em> </p>
<p>Poletaev described the Ukraine conflict as a classic proxy war, reminiscent of those during the Cold War era. In that respect, he noted that it’s interesting that the NYT described it as <em>“a rematch”</em> for US-Russia proxy wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Syria.</p>
<p>According to the analyst, the findings are unlikely to have any impact on the talks between Moscow and Washington on settling the conflict.</p>

             
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<p>The NYT investigation was based on over 300 interviews with current and former policymakers, Pentagon officials, intelligence officers, and military personnel in Ukraine, the US, Britain, and other European countries. It details the cooperation between Washington and Kiev from the early days of the conflict through late 2024.</p>

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<p><strong>After the previous phone conversation between the two leaders, Russia and Ukraine went on to separately agree to a partial ceasefire</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US President Donald Trump has said he may have another phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming days, NBC News reported on Sunday.</p>
<p>Trump and Putin last spoke over the telephone on March 18 and agreed to work toward a peaceful end to the Ukraine conflict. Following the call, Russia and Ukraine carried out a prisoner swap and agreed to a partial ceasefire, although Moscow claims that Kiev has repeatedly broken it since.</p>
<p>In an interview with NBC news on Sunday, Trump said the two presidents plan to speak again this week.</p>
<p>The US president also stated he will sanction Russia if he considers that it is to blame in the event a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict fails.</p>
<p><em>“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault – which it might not be – but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,”</em> he was quoted as saying.</p>

            
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<p>He added that he was <em>“very angry”</em> and <em>“pissed off”</em> about Putin’s statements about the legitimacy of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.</p>
<p>In a speech on Thursday, Putin said that because Zelensky has not held elections, both he and the officials he has appointed have no legitimacy. The Ukrainian leader’s presidential term expired last May.</p>
<p>Neo-Nazi units such as the notorious Azov are now effectively beginning to run Ukraine, empowered by continued Western military support, he emphasized.</p>
<p>The repeated Ukrainian ceasefire violations show that officials in Kiev no longer have control over the country’s military, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.</p>

            
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<p>Putin and Trump had their first call on February 12 in what was the first time that the leaders of Russia and the US had spoken in years. This was followed by two rounds of high-level talks between Russian and American delegations in Saudi Arabia. Additional discussions have also been held in Istanbul, focusing on diplomatic funding and a proposal from Moscow to reinstate direct flights between the two countries.</p>
<p>Peskov said on Thursday that the next conversation between Trump and Putin had not yet been planned.</p>

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Former United Kingdom Ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch urged British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to take a robust stance against President Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs, saying the U.K. should avoid giving Trump “wins.” Darroch — who famously called Trump “inept” and “dysfunctional” as ambassador during Trump’s first term — warned that conceding…

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title: Ex-Danish leader: ‘Nothing is stopping the Americans’ from having more bases in Greenland
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Former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said there is nothing that’s stopping the Americans from setting up more bases in Greenland amid the territory’s fight to not be acquired by the U.S. Thorning-Schmidt joined CNN on Sunday, where she was asked about what the Trump administration wants from Greenland, the land owned by Denmark. “There…

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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le premier ministre du Québec, François Legault, est en mission économique en Allemagne pour tenter de positionner la province comme un partenaire de choix sur les marchés européens, notamment dans le domaine de de la défense.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Il s'est rendu avec une délégation de représentants d’entreprises québécoises à la Foire commerciale de Hanovre, le plus grand rendez-vous commercial en technologie industrielle au monde.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le but de cette visite : aider les entreprises québécoises à établir des liens avec des partenaires européens afin de réduire leur dépendance au marché américain, dont l’accès s’est restreint en raison <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2150839/trump-hausse-tarifs-douaniers-automobile" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">des tarifs douaniers instaurés par l’administration Trump</a>.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">L’Europe et le Canada se disent : "On ne peut plus compter sur les États-Unis s’il y a une attaque dans l’Arctique ou en Europe." Il va falloir travailler ensemble et les Européens voient le Canada comme un bon partenaire</span></q>, a-t-il expliqué en conférence de presse dimanche à Hanovre.</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2145967/sommet-union-europeenne-ukraine-defense" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">Les investissements massifs à venir de la part de l’Europe pour accroître ses capacités en matière de défense</a> constituent une occasion en or pour les entreprises québécoises, selon lui.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Je pense qu’on est bien placés pour aller chercher une partie de ces offres-là</span></q>, a-t-il indiqué en insistant pour dire qu’il faut augmenter les exportations québécoises vers les pays européens.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-leQnM kcgHGh !font-display text-6 leading-5 xsToSm:text-5 font-bold text-gray700 light:text-gray700 dark:text-gray200 font-medium">Avec l’Europe, il faut en faire plus.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">M. Legault a d’ailleurs eu l’occasion de s'entretenir avec le chancelier allemand Olaf Scholz.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">L’Allemagne est le premier partenaire économique du Québec en Europe. La province a exporté pour 1,6 milliard de biens en Allemagne en 2024.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">On a discuté de partenariats avec les entreprises allemandes afin de mettre à profit nos minéraux critiques qui sont essentiels au secteur de la défense</span></q>, a-t-il écrit sur les réseaux sociaux, sans toutefois annoncer jusqu'ici de nouveau partenariat.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Les partis d’opposition à Québec ont exigé que cette mission en Allemagne permette de faire des gains concrets et <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2151672/voyage-legault-allemagne-opposition" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">qu’elle ne soit pas seulement un exercice de communication</a> de la part du premier ministre.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le premier ministre croit que les entreprises québécoises pourront tirer parti de ces possibilités, notamment dans les secteurs de l’aéronautique, de la construction navale, des minéraux critiques et de l’intelligence artificielle, des secteurs importants pour l’industrie de la défense et dans lesquels le Québec excelle, selon lui.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Montréal, quand on parle d’aéronautique, c’est le troisième endroit au monde</span></q>, a-t-il indiqué en citant des entreprises comme CAE, Bombardier et Airbus.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">En ce qui concerne les minéraux critiques, François Legault croit que le Québec sera en mesure de répondre dans un avenir proche à la demande mondiale de métaux comme le zinc, les terres rares, le lithium ou le nickel.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Actuellement, ces métaux viennent beaucoup de la Chine. Ce qu’on veut, c’est que des compagnies, entre autres allemandes, viennent être partenaires avec nous pour aller chercher le minerai, le transformer et l’envoyer un peu partout dans le monde</span></q>, a-t-il affirmé.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">L’Europe est d’ailleurs un terreau fertile pour l’économie du Canada et du Québec, selon deux professeurs consultés par La Presse canadienne.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">François Legault a répété à plusieurs reprises au cours des derniers mois qu’il fallait renégocier l’Accord Canada–États-Unis–Mexique (ACEUM) en raison du contexte d’incertitude actuel.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Cependant, Thierry Warin, professeur à HEC Montréal et directeur du département des affaires internationales, rappelle que le Canada a également un accord avec l’Union européenne, appelé l’Accord économique et commercial global (AECG).</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Cette <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">autoroute</span></q> commerciale est toutefois sous-utilisée, selon le professeur. <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Comme les économies n’ont pas été optimisées dans l'utilisation de cet accord, ça nous laisse une possibilité</span></q>, explique-t-il.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Selon lui, la mission économique du premier ministre Legault permettra de donner plus de visibilité à cet accord.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">De son côté, Florian Mayneris, professeur à l'École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), va dans le même sens que son collègue de <span aria-hidden="false" data-sanitized-class="sc-dxlmjS fpItdT"><span tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="sc-fedTIj ghPrmF"><abbr title="Hautes études commerciales" data-sanitized-class="border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 border-b-2 border-dotted no-underline">HEC</abbr></span></span> Montréal. Selon lui, la mission du premier ministre est avant tout un <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">geste politique</span></q>.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Il veut montrer par l'exemple que la transformation de l'économie québécoise, qu'il appelle de ses vœux depuis quelques semaines, il met l'épaule à la roue pour la faire</span></q>, soutient-il.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le professeur Mayneris rappelle toutefois que c’est surtout aux entreprises d’investir les nouveaux marchés en Europe et de <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">nouer des partenariats</span></q>.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Je pense que les alliés européens, avec le contexte géopolitique, vont être très sensibles à l'idée d'aider les amis canadiens et à dire : "OK, c'est quand même malhonnête, ce qui est en train de se passer pour le Canada"</span></q>, ajoute-t-il.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Pour Florian Mayneris, la situation actuelle montre que le Québec a trop tardé à se diversifier. <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Maintenant, est-ce que ça veut dire qu'il ne faut pas le faire? Non, au contraire</span></q>, affirme-t-il, ajoutant une mise en garde.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Si jamais les choses se calmaient avec les États-Unis dans les mois qui viennent, le risque, c'est qu'on revienne à nos vieilles habitudes, et il faut absolument éviter ça</span></q>, soutient le professeur Mayneris.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Cette mission économique est la première en Allemagne pour François Legault. Le premier ministre s’est toutefois déplacé à quelques reprises en France et n'exclut pas d’y retourner.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><em>Avec les informations de La Presse canadienne</em></p>
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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2151966/francois-legault-allemagne-economie
title: « Avec l’Europe, il faut en faire plus », lance François Legault en Allemagne
content: <p>Le premier ministre du Québec est en mission économique en Allemagne jusqu'au 2 avril.</p>
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<p><strong>Washington’s actions in the past have undermined trust between the two nations, President Masoud Pezeshkian has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Tehran has ruled out direct talks with Washington in response to President Donald Trump’s recent letter suggesting negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program. US actions have undermined trust between the two nations and it needs to be restored first, President Masoud Pezeshkian has said.</p>
<p><em>“The issue of direct negotiations between the two sides has been rejected. But it has been mentioned that the path of indirect negotiations is open,”</em> the Iranian president told a cabinet meeting on Sunday.</p>
<p>The US president revealed in early March that he had sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, suggesting that talks be reopened. The US unilaterally withdrew from the previous international agreement on the Iranian nuclear program during Trump’s first term in office in 2018.</p>

            
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<p>Washington subsequently re-imposed sanctions against Tehran, prompting the Islamic Republic to gradually scale down its commitments under the 2015 deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.</p>
<p><em>“Iran has never avoided negotiations, [but the US] incompliance has created problems in this path, which should be compensated for, and trust should be rebuilt. It is behavior of the Americans that determines the course of negotiations,”</em> Pezeshkian stated. According to the president, the response was handed over to the US through Oman and had already been received by Washington.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Trump threatened Iran with <em>“bombing”</em> if a deal is not reached. <em>“It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,”</em> he told NBC, adding that Washington could also impose <em>“secondary tariffs”</em> on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail.</p>

            
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<p>Multiple American news media outlets, including CNN and Axios, have previously reported that Trump set a two-month deadline for Iran to strike a new deal.</p>
<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio also warned last week that the US administration was ready to take military action against Iran if diplomatic efforts to renew dialogue do not succeed. The statement prompted the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, to say that Tehran is not afraid of any threats and is capable of retaliating against any enemy.</p>

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5222668
title: New Mexico GOP says its office was damaged in ‘deliberate act of arson’
author: ;Lauren Irwin
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The Republican Party of New Mexico said its office in Albuquerque was damaged in a “deliberate act of arson.” The organization said in a statement that someone had spray-painted the words “ICE=KKK” on the outside of its headquarters, calling it a “horrific attack” that was “fueled by hatred and intolerance” that was directed toward the…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5222689
title: White House to remove magnolia tree dating to Andrew Jackson
author: ;Sarah Fortinsky
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The White House will remove from its property a magnolia tree planted nearly 200 years ago with seeds said to have been brought from former President Jackson’s home in Tennessee. President Trump announced Sunday that, after consulting with the Executive Residence Staff and the National Park Service, the administration has decided to replace the tree, saying it…

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title: Trump calls ‘never ending’ Signal leak story ‘old and boring,’ blasts media
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President Trump slammed the media for its “never-ending” coverage of the Signal group chat leak, calling it “old and boring.” In a post Sunday on Truth Social, Trump praised Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, after he pushed back on NBC host Kristen Welker over the matter. “A GREAT…

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author: ;Prof Michel Chossudovsky
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Première guerre de l’OTAN contre la Yougoslavie. Non à la guerre, non à l’OTAN. Professeur Michel Chossudovsky

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<p>L’Allemagne, la Grande-Bretagne et la France veulent poursuivre la guerre en Ukraine parce qu’elles …</p>

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<p><strong>Special forces have “neutralized” the shooter who barricaded himself atop a residential high-rise in Murmansk</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="161" data-end="449"><strong data-start="161" data-end="233"></strong> A gunman opened fire from the rooftop of a multistory building in central Murmansk late Sunday, prompting a rapid response from Russian law enforcement and National Guard units. The attacker, who appeared to be acting alone, barricaded himself with barbed wire and began shooting indiscriminately at nearby buildings and police vehicles.</p>
<p data-start="161" data-end="449">Gunfire was first heard around 22:00 local time, according to residents of the northern Russian city. Eyewitnesses said the shooter fired at residential windows and law enforcement patrols before authorities cordoned off the area.</p>
<p data-start="161" data-end="449">Special Forces and National Guard units quickly arrived on the scene, while Murmansk Region Governor Andrey Chibis urged residents to turn off their apartment lights and stay away from windows for safety.</p>
<p data-start="1252" data-end="1536">Multiple videos shared by police and circulating on social media captured the incident as it unfolded, with sporadic gunfire echoing through the streets.</p>

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<p data-start="1538" data-end="1818">One clip appears to show the suspect on the rooftop, armed with what seems to be two rifles.</p>

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<p data-start="1538" data-end="1818">The gunman was eventually <em>“neutralized”</em> after security forces stormed the rooftop, according to a statement from the regional National Guard. Footage released by the agency shows officers in full protective gear cutting through barbed wire as they approach the suspect’s position.</p>

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<p data-start="1820" data-end="1991">No injuries were reported among civilians or law enforcement personnel, according to TASS. The gunman, reportedly shot and wounded by a police sniper, was the only casualty.</p>

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<p data-start="1993" data-end="2207">The shooter’s motive remains unclear. Investigators say the incident began when the suspect opened fire on a police patrol car. According to the Telegram channel Mash, the man made no demands prior to the attack.</p>
<p data-start="2209" data-end="2440">The suspect has been identified as a 44-year-old local resident who allegedly acted alone. The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case and is treating the incident as attempted murder of law enforcement officers.</p>

             
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<p data-start="2442" data-end="2752">The shooting occurred just days after Murmansk hosted the International Arctic Forum, which was attended by President Vladimir Putin. In a keynote address, Putin underscored the strategic importance of the Arctic region and outlined major infrastructure and development plans for Russia’s northern territories.</p>

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title: Paul Blustein, &quot;King Dollar - The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency&quot;'
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday stressed the importance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, saying it could determine “the future of America and Western Civilization.” Musk reposted a report from a right-wing social media account suggesting if Democrats win the Supreme Court seat, they would “redraw up districts and add seats for Democrats.” “1000%,”…

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title: Les conservateurs minimisent les tensions dans leurs rangs
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le Parti conservateur, à l'image de son chef Pierre Poilievre, n’a pas voulu épiloguer dimanche sur la mutinerie qui se dessine dans ses rangs après une première semaine de campagne électorale.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">À micros fermés, <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2151775/donald-trump-division-campagne-conservatrice" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">des sources dans les rangs conservateurs se plaignent ces jours-ci d’une déconnexion entre le quartier général de l'équipe de campagne conservatrice et les troupes sur le terrain</a>.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">On reproche au chef et à son cercle rapproché de s’entêter dans un plan de campagne et d'utiliser des slogans qui ne résonnent plus avec l’électorat dans le contexte actuel, en plus de manquer de fermeté à l’endroit des menaces de Donald Trump.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le lieutenant politique du PCC au Québec, Pierre Paul-Hus, a balayé ces critiques du revers de la main lors d’un point de presse à Montréal dimanche. <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Je ne le sens pas</span></q>, a-t-il dit, questionné sur le climat tendu au sein des troupes conservatrices. <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">S’il y a des tensions, ce sont de petites tensions normales, comme tous les partis en ont. Tout le monde a un stress de campagne. C'est normal, il n'y a rien de particulier chez nous.</span></q></p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-leQnM kcgHGh !font-display text-6 leading-5 xsToSm:text-5 font-bold text-gray700 light:text-gray700 dark:text-gray200 font-medium">Moi, je suis avec l’équipe, les 78 candidats au Québec. On fait notre campagne. On ne vit pas ça, pas du tout.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">On doit faire du terrain, on doit faire du porte-à-porte pour passer le message. On a un travail à faire, mais il n'y a pas de tensions. C'est un travail politique normal</span></q>, a ajouté M. Paul-Hus.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">﻿On est plus dépendants que jamais des Américains</span></q>, a-t-il dit, affirmant vouloir se <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">tenir debout face à Donald Trump et aux États-Unis dans une position de force</span></q>.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Son annonce du jour, celle sur l’abolition de la taxe sur les gains en capital s’ils sont réinvestis au Canada, participe selon lui au projet de construction d’une <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">forteresse économique</span></q> pour défendre le pays face au président américain.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-class="sc-dYoqmx fTztrE !font-display text-5 leading-5 font-bold"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Au lieu de se battre pour les Canadiens, ils se battent entre eux</span></q>, dit Singh</h2>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le chef du Nouveau Parti démocratique (NPD), Jagmeet Singh, n’a pas manqué l’occasion de souligner ces dissensions alléguées au sein de l'équipe de campagne conservatrice. <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Au lieu de se battre pour les Canadiens, ils se battent contre eux-mêmes</span></q>, a-t-il dit lors d’un point de presse en Colombie-Britannique.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">M. Singh en a profité pour se présenter lui aussi comme le défenseur des <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">valeurs canadiennes</span></q> contre Donald Trump.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">On ne veut pas défendre seulement notre pays mais aussi nos valeurs, comme les soins de santé publics et universels</span></q>, a-t-il dit, ajoutant que le Canada <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">ne veut pas faire partie des États-Unis, on ne veut pas devenir le 51<sup>e</sup> État</span></q>.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">À Port Moody, en Colombie-Britannique, où les sondages le disent en difficulté, Jagmeet Singh a proposé la création de prêts hypothécaires, à faible taux d’intérêt garantis par l’État, pour aider les personnes qui souhaitent accéder à la propriété.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Il s'agit d'une <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">idée nouvelle mais audacieuse</span></q>, a dit le chef néo-démocrate, basée sur le fait que <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">le gouvernement libéral et les conservateurs ont donné des prêts aux grandes entreprises depuis longtemps, mais ils n'ont jamais aidé les gens à acheter leur première maison</span></q>.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Il a ainsi répété sa demande de mettre fin aux <q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">deux classes d’aînés</span></q> créées avec l'augmentation des prestations aux personnes de 75 ans et plus.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le Bloc suggère de hausser la pension de la Sécurité de la vieillesse de 10 ﻿% pour les aînés âgés de ﻿65 à 74﻿ ans. Le parti en avait fait une des conditions à son ultimatum de l'automne dernier pour qu’il vote aux côtés du gouvernement Trudeau afin d'éviter sa chute.</p>
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<footer data-sanitized-class="sc-kTbCBX cBvLiC"><span data-sanitized-class="sr-only">Une citation de</span> <span>Yves-François Blanchet, chef du Bloc québécois</span></footer></blockquote>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">M. Blanchet s’est prêté <a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/videos/1-10339300/yves-francois-blanchet-repond-aux-questions-electeurs" data-sanitized-class="border-b border-solid transition-colors text-blue600 hover:text-blue600 light:text-blue600 light:hover:text-blue600 dark:text-blue400 dark:hover:text-blue400 border-gray300 light:border-gray300 dark:border-gray700 hover:border-blue600 light:hover:border-blue600 dark:hover:border-blue400 hover:bg-gray999/10 light:hover:bg-gray999/10 dark:hover:bg-gray0/10">au jeu d’une séance impromptue de questions avec les aînés</a> venus l’entendre.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">S’il y en a qui ont des questions à poser, pas besoin de me ménager, je suis capable d'en prendre</span></q>, a lancé Yves-François Blanchet aux résidents dans le salon du foyer pour personnes âgées Les Jardins du Parc Linéaire.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">La question de l’urne, c’est﻿ : qui est le plus apte à affronter Trump?</span></q> a lancé l’un d’entre eux.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk"><q><span lang="fr" title="Français" xml:lang="fr">Quand les Québécois sont inquiets, ça leur prend un Torontois, préférablement un Anglais, puis, si on est capables, quelqu'un des banques. Les Québécois sont capables d'assumer tout leur poids politique avec autant de sens des responsabilités que n'importe qui d'autre</span></q>, lui a répondu M. Blanchet.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">À noter que Mark Carney habite à Ottawa. Il est né à Fort Smith, dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, et il a grandi dans la région d'Edmonton, en Alberta.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-iNIeMn cOQdtk">Le chef bloquiste a ensuite répondu à d’autres questions, mais en retrait de l’assemblée, une personne à la fois.</p>
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            <p data-start="214" data-end="366"><strong data-start="214" data-end="257"></strong> President Donald Trump has said he is <em>“not joking”</em> about potentially seeking a third term in office, telling NBC News in a Sunday interview that there are <em>“methods”</em> to pursue another run, despite the US Constitution’s two-term limit on the presidency.</p>
<p data-start="634" data-end="932">Trump made the remarks during a phone call from Mar-a-Lago, in what are his most direct comments yet on the possibility of extending his presidency beyond 2029. <em>“A lot of people want me to do it,”</em> he stated.</p>
<p data-start="1028" data-end="1248">The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1951 following President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unprecedented four elections, states: <em>“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1250" data-end="1437">Pressed to clarify whether he had been presented with any specific plans to bypass the limit, Trump replied: <em>“There are – not plans – but there are methods which you could do it, as you know.”</em></p>
<p data-start="1439" data-end="1602"><em>“I’m not joking,”</em> Trump added, though he noted that <em>“it is far too early to think about it.”</em></p>
<p data-start="1439" data-end="1602">Asked about a hypothetical scenario in which Vice President J.D. Vance could run for president and then hand over the office to him, Trump confirmed, <em>“That’s one.”</em></p>
<p data-start="1604" data-end="1670"><em>“But there are others too,”</em> he hinted, without elaborating further.</p>

            
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<p data-start="1672" data-end="1968">While Trump’s allies have often dismissed his previous third-term remarks as jokes or trolling, Sunday’s comments suggest a more serious consideration. His political adviser Steve Bannon recently told NewsNation that Trump could <em>“run and win again in 2028,”</em> hinting at possible legal maneuvers.</p>
<p data-start="1970" data-end="2336">Earlier this year, Republican Congressman Andy Ogles introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow a president to serve three non-consecutive terms, though it has so far gained little traction. Amendments to the Constitution require approval by a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate, followed by ratification from three-quarters of US states.</p>

             
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<p data-start="2338" data-end="2532">Trump won the 2024 election by a wide margin against Democratic candidate and then–Vice President Kamala Harris, becoming the second president in US history to serve two non-consecutive terms.</p>

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guid: yt:video:MeMyrG6u8-4
title: Paul Craig Roberts: Who's Pulling Strings in Trump Administration? Is Peace Even on Their Agenda?
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guid: 67e960938d1545000199e785
title: Musk&amp;#039;s Plans for Mars Have Caused Consternation in NASA
author: ;Bill Jones
link: https://eir.news/2025/03/news/musks-plans-for-mars-has-caused-consternation-in-nasa/
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—A lengthy Wall Street Journal article on March 29th entitled “Elon’s Mission To Take Over NASA—and Mars,” documents the attempt by the SpaceX billionaire to reorient NASA from its present Artemis mission to the Moon and toward a manned mission to Mars. President Trump’s recent appointment of Jared Isaacman, a payments entrepreneur who flew to orbit on SpaceX, came shortly after a call from Musk to Isaacman asking him if he would be interested in the job, which he apparently answered in the affirmative.</p>
<p>Musk has made no secret of the fact that he thinks going back to the Moon, and the entire Artemis mission, is a waste of money and that NASA should be devoting its interest to an eventual manned mission to Mars. He has also been talking this up with the President, portraying it as a singular achievement of his presidency, also with some success. Musk has also indicated that work should be discontinued on Boeing’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which was designed to fly astronauts to the Moon.</p>
<p>In spite of brief flurry of activity a few years ago around the notion of going to Mars rather than back to the Moon, the space community has by and large accepted the reasoning laid out so clearly years ago by Lyndon LaRouche and Krafft Ehricke that you can only realistically consider a manned mission to Mars after planting a presence on the Moon, and then use the Moon as an industrial base for further missions. Without that, a mission to Mars with humans becomes at best a mere “showboating” or even possibly a suicidal undertaking. A more serious problem is the overall condition of our industrial base for space exploration. In terms of skilled workforce, capital investment, and underlying space infrastructure we are in much worse shape today than we were in 1969 when we first went to the Moon. And the deleterious effects of the DOGE cuts of the NASA workforce have yet to be felt.</p>
<p>While there has been no public outcry from within the Agency with regard to Musk’s alleged plans, there is no doubt a good deal of consternation over the issue. The potential conflict over the matter may not come to the fore until there are confirmation hearings on the new Administrator. There are already concerns among even some Republican senators like Ted Cruz, who is worried about the implications for employment at Johnson Space Center in Houston with any radical change of plans in the present program. Cancellation of SLS will also mean that the money that was spent on this important vehicle has been poured down the drain. The Journal article also indicates that there are other candidates in the mix with Musk’s vision, who could be put forward if Isaacman does not get confirmed.</p>


guid: 67e97ca78d1545000199e834
author: ;Dennis Small
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title:
Trump on SignalGate: &amp;#039;I Don’t Fire People Because of Fake News and Because of Witch Hunts&amp;#039;

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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/03/Screen-Shot-2025-03-30-at-7.15.05-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—In remarks to NBC on March 29, President Donald Trump said he had no intention of firing NSA Mike Waltz or anybody else over the SignalGate scandal. “I do not fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” he stated, adding: “I have no idea what Signal is. I do not care what Signal is. All I can tell you is it is just a witch hunt, and it is the only thing the press wants to talk about because you have nothing else to talk about; because it has been the greatest 100-day presidency in the history of our country.”</p>
<p>Trump was responding, in part, to a widely-circulated report in [Politico of March 28](<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/waltz-trump-vance-wiles-private-meeting-002589040">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/waltz-trump-vance-wiles-private-meeting-002589040</a> that stated that on the evening of Wed. March 26, “following a brutal day of headlines surrounding the now-infamous Signal chat—Vice President JD Vance, chief of staff Susie Wiles and top personnel official Sergio Gor gently offered President Donald Trump some advice in a private meeting.” The advice was it might be time to ask Mike Waltz to resign.</p>
<p>According to the Politico account, which has not been confirmed, “The president agreed that Waltz had messed up, according to the people, but Trump ultimately decided not to fire him for one reason—for now: Like hell he’d give the liberal media and pearl-clutching Democrats a win. ‘They don’t want to give the press a scalp,’ said one of the people, a White House ally close with the team.”</p>
<p>That won’t last, however, according to Politico. “One of them offered this prediction: ‘They’ll stick by him for now, but he’ll be gone in a couple of weeks’.”</p>
<p>The article then gave away the purpose of the SignalGate operation, noting the significant parallel to the operation run by the British against the first Trump presidency: “Trump, interestingly, has been in this boat before. During his first few months of his first term, the president faced similar outside pressure to fire his then-national security adviser Michael Flynn, after news surfaced that he had lied to then-Vice President Mike Pence and other Trump officials about his conversations with Russian officials during the transition.</p>
<p>“Trump gave into the pressure and ousted a man he otherwise viewed as a loyal foot-soldier—only to regret it later. The president and some of his advisors felt that by giving in, they bowed to a Russia narrative that would plague the rest of his presidency.”</p>

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guid: 67e980218d1545000199e840
title: HSS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. Fires 10,000 Health Workers
author: ;Richard Freeman
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced 10,000 firings at the Department of HSS, particularly targeting development of vaccines for infectious diseases, and fundamental scientific research. The cuts include 2,400 people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 1,200 people at the National Institutes of Health, which is a primary funder of disease research across the United States. If continued, as currently planned, cuts such as these will dismantle the world-class medical and health system that the United States has built over the past 250 years.</p>
<p>The 10,000 in HSS job cuts announced March 27 will come on top of 10,000 recent “voluntary departures”—in which HSS staff were told either to accept a buyout or else face the prospect of being fired—bringing the total HSS labor force slashing to 20,000, which is approximately one-quarter of the agency’s 82,000 workforce. Kennedy announced March 27, “This overhaul will be a win-win for taxpayers and for those that HHS serves.”</p>
<p>The cuts include:</p>
<p><em>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The cut of 2,400 workers will gouge the CDC, whose function is to provide information, recommendations, and resources for prevention and control of the pathogens that causes the diseases of measles, mumps, and rubella (whooping cough), which is known as MMR; avian, swine and pandemic flu; West Nile virus; HIV/AIDS; viral hepatitis; COVID-19; pneumonia; tuberculosis; and so forth. Kennedy says that his goal is to “Make America Healthy Again.” How cutting the research and prevention of the diseases cited above would make America “healthy again,” is inconceivable.</em></p>
<p><em>National Institutes of Health</em>. The NIH has a $48 billion annual budget, 94% of which funds biomedical research at universities, hospitals, research institutions, and pharmaceutical companies. This is the leading federal source for fundamental medical research in the nation. Nate Brought, the recently departed director of NIH’s Executive Directorate asserted, “The only way to cut that high of a percentage of our staff... is to drastically scale back what NIH does across the board,” reported Reuters.</p>
<p>* <em>The Food and Drug Administration</em>. Its staff was cut by 3,500 workers. The FDA is responsible for protecting public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human vaccines and drugs, biological products, medical devices, and the nation’s food supply.</p>

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guid: 67e980858d1545000199e84a
title: Russian Foreign Ministry Announces Many World Leaders to Attend May 9th Celebration
author: ;Dennis Small
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—The leaders of China, Vietnam and many Asian countries will participate in a parade “dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Moscow on May 9, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko <a href="https://tass.com/politics/1936093">told TASS.”</a> Other world leaders, including Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have also confirmed their attendance.</p>
<p>“I plan to come to Russia on May 9 to take part in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II,” the Brazilian leader said at a press conference following his state visit to Vietnam. He added that he plans to discuss the potential peaceful settlement in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during his visit to Russia in May.</p>
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guid: 67e982b28d1545000199e856
title: Sour Grapes From Kiev
author: ;Dennis Small
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—Konstantin Eliseev, Kiev’s former permanent representative to the EU, told an interviewer from NV that, in the recent negotiations between the U.S. and Russia, “we [Ukrainians] along with the Americans lost these negotiations completely. I would say 5–0, one ball after another into our net. We lost. Let’s be honest.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614947-ukraine-us-lost-talks-russia/">RT reported</a> that Eliseev listed off his complaints about the outcome: “The issue of ports was not protected from attacks in any way… There are already hints about removing some Russian banks from [restrictions in] the SWIFT system, and that is very bad… Unfortunately—and with the silent backing of the Americans—the Russians have managed to push our European partners away from the negotiating table,” Eliseev said.</p>
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guid: 67e986778d1545000199e864
title: Good News From Syria: U.S. Stops Funding &amp;#039;White Helmets&amp;#039;
author: ;Dennis Small
link: https://eir.news/2025/03/news/good-news-from-syria-u-s-stops-funding-white-helmets/
hash: �� �-]o�.���
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Russian outlet [RT picked up a story](<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614902-white-helmets-usaid/">https://www.rt.com/news/614902-white-helmets-usaid/</a> from CNN earlier in the week, that “President Donald Trump has cut off most of the funding Washington had been providing to the controversial ‘White Helmets’ volunteer organization in Syria.”</p>
<p>This should be cause for celebration by all those who favor peace in Southwest Asia and elsewhere. “The White Helmets, co-founded [in 2014] by the late British mercenary and presumed former intelligence officer James Le Mesurier, rose to international notoriety amid the years-long conflict in Syria,” RT explains. They became notorious for intentionally staging and filming videos purporting to show Syrian and Russian “atrocities,” but which were actually totally fake. “On several occasions, members of the group were filmed participating in apparent executions by jihadists… [as well as] multiple false flag ‘chemical incidents’,</p>
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guid: 67e98bc78d1545000199e88c
title: Hungary&amp;#039;s Szijjarto: a 72-Hour Survival Kit? Has Europe Gone Mad?
author: ;Dennis Small
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Foreign Minister of Hungary Peter Szijjarto had some choice words for the Brussels bureaucrats who recently advised the 450 million inhabitants of the European that they should prepare essential supplies to last at least 72 hours, for the eventuality of war. As <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614929-brussels-preparing-war-szijjarto/">reported by RT</a>, “EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib warned on Wednesday that the Ukraine conflict threatens the bloc’s overall security. Szijjarto said he initially thought the warning was some kind of joke or ‘rolling,’after Lahbib posted a bizarre video showing Europeans what to pack in a 72-hour survival kit.</p>
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guid: 67e98dc48d1545000199e89e
author: ;Dennis Small
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title:
Trump Now States He Is &amp;#039;Pissed Off&amp;#039; at Putin for Questioning Zelensky&amp;#039;s Credibility

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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/03/Screen-Shot-2025-03-30-at-7.09.01-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—In remarks to NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, March 30, President Trump pulled out his deal-maker’s toolkit to try to growl at Russian President Vladimir Putin over the latter’s questioning Zelensky’s credibility as a valid interlocutor in the peace process. The London Guardian, among others, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/donald-trump-angry-vladimir-putin-ukraine-nbc">made hay with this,</a> characterizing it as “a sharp change of tone towards Moscow.”</p>
<p>More to the point, Trump appears to be frustrated at the fact that hard reality doesn’t bend to his pronouncements and desires, and that things are stickier and will take longer than he would like. Putin has made it clear all along that Russia will not accept a ceasefire, total or partial, unless it is moving in the direction of solving the fundamental issues that created the crisis. And questioning Zelensky’s credibility is like stating that the sky is blue—which Trump knows as well as anybody.</p>
<p>Trump told NBC: “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault, which it might not be, but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia… [That] would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States. There will be a 25% tariff on all … on all oil, a 25 to 50-point tariff on all oil.”</p>
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guid: 67e992188d1545000199e8b4
title: Trump, Beware! Britain IsTrying to Suck You into an Unwinnable War with Iran
author: ;Dennis Small
link: https://eir.news/2025/03/news/trump-beware-britain-is-sucking-you-into-an-unwinnable-war-with-iran/
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/03/11918116503_c8d5cd92e4_c.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—The recent report of the deployment of seven US stealth B2 bombers to the UK-US military base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, along with parallel movements of American aircraft carriers into the Middle East theater and stepped-up verbal threats against Iran from President Donald Trump, have sharply raised the temperature around a possible US-Iranian confrontation. Such a conflict is London’s devout desire, as part of their effort to politically decapitate the Trump presidency by miring it in an unwinnable and very costly war—a war of exactly the sort he promised the constituency that elected him he would never let happen.</p>
<p>On Friday March 28, Trump commented that he had sent a letter to Iran telling them: “You have to make a decision, one way or the other, and we either have to talk, and talk it out, or very bad things are going to happen to Iran.” The next day, Trump escalated in a phone interview with NBC: “If they [Iran] don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,” he threatened bluntly, adding that he would also impose “secondary tariffs.”</p>
<p>Iran didn’t take long to respond. An unnamed senior Iranian military official was cited by the London <em>Telegraph</em> threatening that, if Iran is attacked, they will retaliate by striking Diego Garcia. “There will be no distinction in targeting British or American forces, if Iran is attacked from any base in the region or within the range of Iranian missiles.” And Alireza Tangsiri, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, told al-Mayadeen TV on March 29, <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614944-iran-response-trump-threat/">according to RT</a> that Iran rejected Trump’s threats that it had to enter new talks with the U.S. to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and take down its missile capabilities.</p>
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guid: 67e994d28d1545000199e8cc
title: Dr. Peter Marks, a Top Vaccine Official at FDA, Forced to Resign
author: ;Richard Freeman
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned March 28, after he was confronted with a resign or be fired ultimatum. Marks is one of the key officials who helped push through Operation Warp Speed, the program that helped develop the vaccine to fight COVID-19, produced by Pfizer and Biontech, during the first Trump administration.</p>
<p>Since 2016, Marks headed the Department of Health and Human Services’s Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of vaccines as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Marks has been a “marked-man” in the eyes of Dept. of HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr, going back to the days of the COVID-19 vaccine.</p>
<p>Marks wrote a letter upon his forced resignation March 28, addressed to Acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner, stating, “As you are aware, I was willing to work to address the Secretary’s concerns regarding vaccine safety and transparency by hearing from the public and implementing a variety of public meetings and engagements with the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.”</p>
<p>He continued, “However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wished subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” He added, “Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at FDA is irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation’s health, safety. and security.”</p>
<p>Marks played a role in establishing Operation Warp Speed, a partnership between the federal government and private companies Pfizer and Biontech, to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. That vaccine saved several million lives, both in the U.S. and abroad. In November 2022, Kennedy’s anti-vaccine Children’s Defense Fund co-published a book, “Causes Unknown,” for which Kennedy wrote the foreword and promoted the book, tweeting that it details data showing “COVID shots are a crime against humanity.”</p>

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guid: 67e995f98d1545000199e8da
title: Iran Threatens to Strike Diego Garcia If It Is Attacked
author: ;Carl Osgood
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Gen. Nakatani in Tokyo March 30, stated that Japan is an “indispensable partner” in deterring supposed Chinese assertiveness, and announced the upgrading of the U.S. military command in Japan to a new “war-fighting headquarters,” <em>AP</em> reported March 30.</p>
<p>“Japan is our indispensable partner in deterring Communist Chinese military aggression,” Hegseth said. “The US is moving fast, as you know, to reestablish deterrence in this region and around the world.” He added, “America is committed to sustaining robust, ready and credible deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, including across the Taiwan Strait,” reported <em>Japan Today.</em></p>
<p>The Hegseth-Nakatani talks pivoted around two new military initiatives, both of which are intended to be deployed against and would increase tensions with China. First, Hegseth confirmed, Kyodo News reported, that the U.S. Defense Department has started “phase one” of upgrading U.S. Forces Japan to a joint force headquarters (an initiative actually begun under Biden), adding that the move will improve the ability to coordinate operations with a newly launched counterpart body in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. USFJ will be reorganized to a “warfighting headquarters” with increased staff and authorities needed to accomplish new missions, he said.</p>
<p>The USFJ upgrade is being implemented in parallel with the standing up of a new Joint Operations Command in Japan’s Self Defense Forces, which began a week ago according to Kyodo. The new SDF command is intended to help better integrate its own ground, maritime and air services, while ensuring smoother coordination with the U.S.</p>
<p>Second, <em>AP</em> reports, as reported by the March 30 <em>ABC News</em> “The two sides agreed to accelerate plans to jointly develop and produce missiles such as Advanced Medium-Range Air to Air Missiles, or MRAAM, and consider producing SM-6 surface-to-air missiles, to help ease a shortage of munitions, Nakatani said. The ministers also agreed to speed up the process involving the maintenance of U.S. warships and warplanes in Japan to strengthen and complement Japanese and U.S. defense industries.”</p>
<p>Hegseth arrived on March 29 for a ceremony at Iwo Jima, Japan, now known as Iwo To, where U.S. and Japanese armed forces fought each other during World War II. There, Hegseth hailed the “shared warrior ethos” between the U.S. and Japan.</p>

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Key Takeaways From NYT&amp;#039;s Secret History Detailing US &amp;#039;Shocking&amp;#039; Involvement In Ukraine War

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<p>It is <em>years too late </em>and alternative and independent media had already done so much work on exposing the reality, including <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/provoked-long-train-abuses-culminated-ukraine-war">600+ page books</a> which have been published, but the <em>New York Times</em> on Sunday is out with a lengthy report on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html">The Partnership: The Secret History of America’s Role in the Ukraine War</a>.</p>
<p>Up until very recently, mainstream media gatekeepers wouldn't so much as admit that a <em>proxy </em><em>war </em>has been unfolding from the very start of the conflict in Ukraine. This even after the so-called paper of record had earlier in Feb. 2024 acknowledged that the CIA had built 12 <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt">"secret spy bases" in Ukraine</a> to wage a shadow war against Russia going back to 2014. </p>
<p>Again, it comes much too belatedly, but now with Ukrainian forces clearly losing the fight, the <em>Times </em>admits that the prior Biden administration was <strong>far more involved in being embedded on a military and intelligence level with Ukraine</strong> than was previously made public by official sources.</p>
<p>The report is a deep dive into the "extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology" that became Zelensky's <strong>"secret weapon" in countering Russia</strong>. It begins by describing that within two months of Putin sending his army across the border, Ukrainian generals in civilians clothes were being secretly whisked away for high-level war planning sessions at US bases in Germany.</p>

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<p>"The passengers were top Ukrainian generals," <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html">NY Times describes</a> of men taken by a convoy of unmarked cars from the Ukrainian capital to Western Europe. "Their destination was Clay Kaserne, the headquarters of U.S. Army Europe and Africa in Wiesbaden, Germany. Their mission was to help forge what would become one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war in Ukraine."</p>
<p>The report makes clear that US commanders were much more inter-woven into Ukrainian operations than known, to the point of 'shocking' some NATO allies. In essence <strong>many counter-Russia operations happening on Ukraine's battlefields were simply run from the base in Germany</strong>. </p>
<p>"But a New York Times investigation reveals that America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood," the report continues. "At critical moments, <strong>the partnership was the backbone of Ukrainian military operations</strong> that, by U.S. counts, have killed or wounded more than 700,000 Russian soldiers. (Ukraine has put its casualty toll at 435,000.) Side by side in Wiesbaden’s mission command center, American and Ukrainian officers planned Kyiv’s counteroffensives. <strong>A vast American intelligence-collection effort both guided big-picture battle strategy and funneled precise targeting information down to Ukrainian soldiers in the field</strong>."</p>
<p>Notably, this is essentially US officials and the NY Times also admitting that <strong><em>the Kremlin has all along been right </em></strong>when it insisted this was never really simply about Moscow vs. Kiev - but that NATO countries have militarized Ukraine and weaponized it against Russia. President Putin and Kremlin officials have been fiercely complaining about US intervention all along, but this was dismissed in the West as merely 'propaganda'.</p>
<p><em>Below are some key excerpts from the very <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html">lengthy NY Times report</a>, with subheadings and emphasis by ZeroHedge...</em></p>

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<p><strong><u>Americans overseeing "kill chain"</u></strong></p>
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<p><em>One European intelligence chief recalled being <strong>taken aback to learn how deeply enmeshed his N.A.T.O. counterparts had become</strong> in Ukrainian operations. “They are part of the <strong>kill chain</strong> now,” he said.</em></p>
<p><em>The partnership’s guiding idea was that this close cooperation might allow the Ukrainians to accomplish the unlikeliest of feats — to deliver the invading Russians a crushing blow. </em></p>
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<p><strong><u>Biggest battlefield feats were actually the CIA/Pentagon</u></strong></p>
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<p><em>An early proof of concept was a campaign against one of Russia’s most-feared battle groups, the 58th Combined Arms Army. In mid-2022, using American intelligence and targeting information, the Ukrainians unleashed a rocket barrage at the headquarters of the 58th in the Kherson region, <strong>killing generals and staff officers inside</strong>. Again and again, the group set up at another location; <strong>each time, the Americans found it and the Ukrainians destroyed it</strong>.</em></p>
<p><em>Farther south, the partners set their sights on the Crimean port of Sevastopol, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet loaded missiles destined for Ukrainian targets onto warships and submarines. At the height of Ukraine’s 2022 counteroffensive, <strong>a predawn swarm of maritime drones, with support from the Central Intelligence Agency, attacked the port</strong>, damaging several warships and <strong>prompting the Russians to begin pulling them back</strong>.</em></p>
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<p><strong><u>Overreach</u></strong></p>
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<p><em>The Ukrainians sometimes saw the Americans as overbearing and controlling — the prototypical patronizing Americans. The Americans sometimes couldn’t understand why the Ukrainians didn’t simply accept good advice.</em></p>
<p><em>Where the Americans focused on measured, achievable objectives, they saw the Ukrainians as <strong>constantly grasping for the big win, the bright, shining prize</strong>. </em></p>
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<p><u><strong>Failed 2023 counteroffensive actually hatched at American HQ</strong></u></p>
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<p><em>Yet at arguably the pivotal moment of the war — in mid-2023, as the Ukrainians mounted a counteroffensive to build victorious momentum after the first year’s successes — <strong>the strategy devised in Wiesbaden</strong> fell victim to the fractious internal politics of Ukraine: The president, Volodymyr Zelensky, versus his military chief (and potential electoral rival), and the military chief versus his headstrong subordinate commander. When Mr. Zelensky sided with the subordinate, the Ukrainians poured vast complements of men and resources into a finally futile campaign to recapture the devastated city of Bakhmut. Within months, the <strong>entire counteroffensive ended in stillborn failure</strong>.</em></p>
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<p><strong><u>Biden banned clandestine operations in public, while crossing red lines in secret</u></strong></p>
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<p><em>Time and again, the Biden administration <strong>authorized clandestine operations it had previously prohibited</strong>. American military advisers were dispatched to Kyiv and later allowed to travel closer to the fighting. Military and <strong>C.I.A. officers in Wiesbaden helped plan and support a campaign of Ukrainian strikes in Russian-annexed Crimea</strong>. Finally, the military and then the C.I.A. received the green light to enable pinpoint strikes deep inside Russia itself.</em></p>
<p><em>In some ways, Ukraine was, on a wider canvas, a rematch in a long history of U.S.-Russia proxy wars — <strong>Vietnam in the 1960s, Afghanistan in the 1980s, Syria three decades later</strong>.</em></p>
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<p><strong><u>Task Force Dragon</u></strong></p>
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<p><em>The defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, and General Milley had put the 18th Airborne in charge of delivering weapons and advising the Ukrainians on how to use them. When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed on to the M777s, the Tony Bass Auditorium became a full-fledged headquarters.</em></p>
<p><em>A Polish general became General Donahue’s deputy. A British general would manage the logistics hub on the former basketball court. A Canadian would oversee training.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>The auditorium basement became what is known as a fusion center, producing intelligence about Russian battlefield positions, movements and intentions</strong>. There, according to intelligence officials, officers from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency were joined by coalition intelligence officers.</em></p>
<p><em>The 18th Airborne is known as Dragon Corps; the new operation would be Task Force Dragon. All that was needed to bring the pieces together was the reluctant Ukrainian top command.</em></p>
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<p><u><strong>Debate over plausible deniability</strong></u></p>

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<p><em>Soon the Ukrainians, nearly 20 in all — intelligence officers, operational planners, communications and fire-control specialists — began arriving in Wiesbaden. Every morning, officers recalled, the Ukrainians and Americans gathered to survey Russian weapons systems and ground forces and <strong>determine the ripest, highest-value targets</strong>. The priority lists were then handed over to the intelligence fusion center, where officers analyzed streams of data to pinpoint the targets’ locations.</em></p>
<p><em>Inside the U.S. European Command, this process gave rise to a fine but fraught linguistic debate: Given the delicacy of the mission, <strong>was it unduly provocative to call targets “targets”?</strong></em></p>
<p><em>Some officers thought “targets” was appropriate. Others called them “intel tippers,” because the Russians were often moving and the information would need verification on the ground.</em></p>
<p><em>The debate was settled by Maj. Gen. Timothy D. Brown, European Command’s intelligence chief: The locations of Russian forces would be “points of interest.” Intelligence on airborne threats would be “tracks of interest.”</em></p>
<p><em><strong>“If you ever get asked the question, ‘Did you pass a target to the Ukrainians?’ you can legitimately not be lying when you say, ‘No, I did not,’”</strong> one U.S. official explained.</em></p>
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<p><u><strong>CIA and assassinations of Russian top officers</strong></u></p>
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<p><em>The White House also prohibited sharing intelligence on the locations of “strategic” Russian leaders, like the armed forces chief, Gen. Valery Gerasimov. “Imagine how that would be for us if we knew that the Russians helped some other country assassinate our chairman,” another senior U.S. official said. <strong>“Like, we’d go to war.”</strong> Similarly, Task Force Dragon couldn’t share intelligence that identified the locations of individual Russians.</em></p>
<p><em>The way the system worked, Task Force Dragon would tell the Ukrainians where Russians were positioned. But to protect intelligence sources and methods from Russian spies, it would not say how it knew what it knew. </em></p>
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<p><u><strong>US operations room directly oversaw HIMARS strikes</strong></u></p>
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<p><em>Wiesbaden would oversee each HIMARS strike... HIMARS strikes that <strong>resulted in 100 or more Russian dead or wounded came almost weekly</strong>. Russian forces were left dazed and confused. Their morale plummeted, and with it their will to fight. And as the HIMARS arsenal grew from eight to 38 and the Ukrainian strikers became more proficient, an American official said, the toll rose as much as fivefold.</em></p>
<p><em>“We became a small part, maybe not the best part, but a small part, of your system,” General Zabrodskyi explained, adding: “Most states did this over a period of 10 years, 20 years, 30 years. But we were forced to do it in a matter of weeks.”</em></p>
<p><em>Together the partners were <strong>honing a killing machine</strong>.</em></p>
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<p>Below: <em>Editor-in-chief of Russia's RT reacts to these latest detailed revelations...</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">New NYT "secret history" of American involvement in Ukraine makes the skin crawl. <a href="https://t.co/SaPulmruO0">pic.twitter.com/SaPulmruO0</a></p>
— Margarita Simonyan (@M_Simonyan) <a href="https://twitter.com/M_Simonyan/status/1906321417894822008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><u><strong>Tensions as Ukrainians push to blow past Putin's red lines</strong></u></p>
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<p><em>The previous year, the Russians had unwisely placed command posts, ammunition depots and logistics centers within 50 miles of the front lines. But new intelligence showed that the Russians had now moved critical installations beyond HIMARS’ reach. So Generals Cavoli and Aguto recommended the next quantum leap, giving the Ukrainians Army Tactical Missile Systems — missiles, known as ATACMS, that can travel up to 190 miles — to make it harder for Russian forces in Crimea to help defend Melitopol.</em></p>
<p><em>ATACMS were a particularly sore subject for the Biden administration. Russia’s military chief, General Gerasimov, had indirectly referred to them the previous May when he warned General Milley that anything that flew 190 miles would be breaching a red line. There was also a question of supply: <strong>The Pentagon was already warning that it would not have enough ATACMS if America had to fight its own war</strong>.</em></p>
<p><em>The message was blunt: <strong>Stop asking for ATACMS</strong>.</em></p>
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<p><u><strong>Biden admin kept giving in to Zelensky</strong></u></p>
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<p><em>Until now, the Ukrainians, with help from the C.I.A. and the U.S. and British navies, had used maritime drones, together with long-range British Storm Shadow and French SCALP missiles, to strike the Black Sea Fleet. Wiesbaden’s contribution was intelligence.</em></p>
<p><em>But to prosecute the wider Crimea campaign, the Ukrainians would need far more missiles. They would need <strong>hundreds of ATACMS</strong>.</em></p>
<p><em>At the Pentagon, the old cautions hadn’t melted away. But after General Aguto briefed Mr. Austin on all that Lunar Hail could achieve, an aide recalled, he said: “OK, there’s a really compelling strategic objective here. It isn’t just about striking things.”</em></p>
<p><em>Mr. Zelensky would get his long-pined-for ATACMS. Even so, one U.S. official said, “We knew that, in his heart of hearts, he still wanted to do something else, something more.”</em></p>
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<p><u><strong>Allies clashed over Kursk incursion</strong></u> </p>
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<p><em>On Aug. 10, the C.I.A. station chief left, too, for a job at headquarters. In the churn of command, General Syrsky made his move — sending troops across the southwest Russian border, into the region of Kursk.</em></p>
<p><em>For the Americans, the incursion’s unfolding was a significant breach of trust. It wasn’t just that the Ukrainians had again kept them in the dark; they had secretly crossed a mutually agreed-upon line, taking coalition-supplied equipment into Russian territory encompassed by the ops box, in violation of rules laid down when it was created.</em></p>
<p><em>The box had been established to prevent a humanitarian disaster in Kharkiv, not so the Ukrainians could take advantage of it to seize Russian soil. <strong>“It wasn’t almost blackmail, it was blackmail,”</strong> a senior Pentagon official said.</em></p>
<p><em>The Americans could have pulled the plug on the ops box. Yet they knew that to do so, an administration official explained, “could lead to a catastrophe”: Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk would perish unprotected by HIMARS rockets and U.S. intelligence.</em></p>
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<p><u><strong>US Intel behind attacks on huge Kerch Strait Bridge</strong></u></p>
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<p><em>Of roughly 100 targets across Crimea, the most coveted was the Kerch Strait Bridge, linking the peninsula to the Russian mainland. Mr. Putin saw the bridge as powerful physical proof of Crimea’s connection to the motherland. Toppling the Russian president’s symbol had, in turn, become the Ukrainian president’s obsession.</em></p>
<p><em>It had also been an American red line. In 2022, the Biden administration prohibited helping the Ukrainians target it; even the approaches on the Crimean side were to be treated as sovereign Russian territory. (Ukrainian intelligence services tried attacking it themselves, causing some damage.)</em></p>
<p><em>But after the partners agreed on Lunar Hail, the <strong>White House authorized the military and C.I.A. to secretly work with the Ukrainians and the British on a blueprint of attack to bring the bridge down</strong>: ATACMS would weaken vulnerable points on the deck, while maritime drones would blow up next to its stanchions.</em></p>
<p><em>But while the drones were being readied, the Russians hardened their defenses around the stanchions.</em></p>
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<p><u><strong>Lloyd Austin seen as 'godfather' of the secret ops</strong></u></p>
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<p><em>In early January, Generals Donahue and Cavoli visited Kyiv to meet with General Syrsky and ensure that he agreed on plans to replenish Ukrainian brigades and shore up their lines, the Pentagon official said. From there, they traveled to Ramstein Air Base, where they met Mr. Austin for what would be the final gathering of coalition defense chiefs before everything changed.</em></p>
<p><em>With the doors closed to the press and public, Mr. Austin’s counterparts hailed him as the <strong>“godfather” and “architect”</strong> of the partnership that, for all its broken trust and betrayals, had sustained the Ukrainians’ defiance and hope, begun in earnest on that spring day in 2022 when Generals Donahue and Zabrodskyi first met in Wiesbaden.</em></p>
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<p>Read the full <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html"><em>Secret History of America’s Role in the Ukraine War</em> here</a>.</p>
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<p><em>By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities</em></p>
<h3>The Global Economy As An After School Special</h3>
<p>This follows directly from <a href="https://academysecurities.com/macro-strategy-insights/some-quick-thoughts-ahead-of-the-weekend/?asmac=53d720aa-93a4-4511-90fb-26dc3c124b05">Friday’s Warning</a>, for lack of a better word, which leaned heavily on last weekend’s <a href="https://academysecurities.com/macro-strategy-insights/worry-more-about-certainty-than-uncertainty/?asmac=46093506-1fb5-4886-9fe3-a5776da2f5ba">Be Afraid of Certainty, Not Uncertainty</a>. Since anything can happen between the time this is distributed and “Liberation” Day, it seemed like a good time to take a view from 20,000 feet. Which leads me to discussing <strong>After School Specials</strong>.</p>
<p>For those who don’t know, the After School Special was a type of TV show. Longer (1 hour) with a bigger budget than a typical show aimed at children. But there was always a message or a moral to the show.</p>

<p>The typical show ran something along the lines of:</p>
<ul><li>A bad person, or group (bully, extortion, protection, etc.) does something to a good person, or group (generally weaker, awkward, or “loners”).</li>
<li>Over time the “good” person or group trains, gets organized, or does something to fight back against the bad group or person.</li>
<li>After an attempt or two, the good people win.</li>
<li>More often than not, the “bad” people realize that they have been bad, and come to an agreement with the “good” people or even team up and let bygones be bygones. As “phony” as the rest of the plot, this ending always seemed the phoniest of all.</li>
</ul><p>Right now, the trade war looks a lot like this, with a few plot “twists.”</p>
<ul><li><strong>The U.S. administration believes it has been taken advantage of for years</strong> hence it is the good team in this global economic “movie.” The administration is just starting to fight back as the underdog to get even with the bullies/extortionists/protection racketeers.</li>
<li><strong>The rest of the world sees the U.S. as being the bully</strong>, the one upsetting the order, and flaunting traditional rules of engagement. Hence much of the rest of the world views themselves as the good people in the global economic “movie.”</li>
</ul><p>Basically, the global economy (and some of this may apply to the ongoing wars and attempts at peace) is living in an After School Special – <strong>though everyone seems to believe they are on the “good” side.</strong></p>
<h3>The Problem with “An Eye for an Eye”</h3>

<p>In theory an “eye for an eye” makes some sense. You poke out my eye, I poke out your eye. We are all even. We move on. Maybe this is where the concept of “reciprocity” fits in?</p>
<p>The problem is, in the real world, even at the After School Special level of preachiness, you can see how things can get out of control. No one can figure out who took the first eye, so it just keeps going on and on. Sound familiar to the tariff “negotiations” or rationalizations?</p>
<ul><li>Why did you slap me?</li>
<li>Because you made fun of my girlfriend.</li>
<li>Oh, but I said that because you mushed my brother’s ice cream into his face.</li>
<li>And I’m sure there was a reason to mush the brother’s face in ice cream.</li>
<li>And on and on and on.</li>
</ul><p>Okay, this sounds juvenile (and it is) but isn’t what we are witnessing on the global economic landscape (and possibly the geopolitical landscape) playing out at least something like this? My guess is that a lot of people are nodding their heads, comfortable in the knowledge that the other side is the “bad” team and they, the “good” team, are merely responding.</p>
<p>While After School Specials typically lasted only an hour, many longer and even bigger budget films were made in the likeness of the After School Special. It just takes longer for the results to play out.</p>
<p><em><strong>The Karate Kid</strong></em> might be my favorite example.</p>
<p>While it might be a stretch to list Animal House in this genre, I’m going to. First, how can you go wrong with referencing Animal House? Second, it does fit the concept at least a little. Third, and most importantly, how else could I manage to wedge in this quote:</p>

<ul><li><strong>Bluto</strong>: Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!</li>
<li><strong>Otter [to Boon</strong>]: The Germans?</li>
<li><strong>Boon</strong>: Forget it, he’s rolling.</li>
</ul><p>For some reason, this scene has been playing out a lot in my mind (almost every time I scroll through Twitter, I find myself wondering about when life imitates art). I won’t say any more as it will just get me in trouble, but the “forget it, he’s rolling” resonates as much as the line about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor.</p>
<h3>Time for Serious Business</h3>
<p>Sadly, the above is what passes as serious business for me. </p>
<p><strong>Maybe we will get a reprieve on Liberation Day?</strong> Maybe the art of the deal will succeed, and I will be pleasantly surprised this week, and in the weeks ahead as well.</p>
<p>But I’m stuck with my existing mindset:</p>
<ul><li>The administration has underestimated the intangibles that the U.S. received from the rest of the world – capital flows and aspirational purchases.</li>
<li>It will take years to build out the capacity to manufacture what the U.S. lost during decades of being de-manufactured. There will be some jobs created to get that build-out going, but with so much uncertainty, that build-out is likely going to take longer to start (and be smaller at the start) than what the U.S. needs.</li>
<li>The global disruption to supply chains AND leaving much of the world re-thinking how they want to do business with each other is very negative for the global economy.</li>
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<p>Finally, and most importantly, from my view, is that <strong>even if there is a deal, the actions and words of the past 2 months have set in motion changes that will reverberate for years to come!</strong></p>
<p>This fits into the <a href="https://academysecurities.com/macro-strategy-insights/the-american-brand/?asmac=18e0c066-16dc-4787-bc88-aa8d8530190a">American Brand</a> and <a href="https://academysecurities.com/macro-strategy-insights/when-blue-jeans-were-a-symbol-of-freedom/?asmac=41142166-0367-487b-ad64-c2b0e3610a60">When Jeans Symbolized Freedom</a> risk we’ve been worrying about.</p>
<p><strong>The HOW is affecting the WHAT and will continue to affect the WHAT going forward</strong>. This is the biggest change from Trump 1.0 (along with the tactics various countries have adopted this time around, versus Trump 1.0).</p>
<p>As recently as February, we were far more optimistic, and possibly naïve regarding tariffs and policy – <a href="https://academysecurities.com/macro-strategy-insights/the-new-trump-tariffs/?asmac=d4d98c66-8920-4abd-9370-7f54ab607907">The New Trump Tariffs</a>.</p>
<p>We will continue to adapt to policies and our best estimate of their likely results.</p>
<h3>Bears Caught Long and the Destruction of Buy the Dippers</h3>
<p>On Friday in London, I was able to discuss some reasons why I think equities have another 10% or more downside in the near-term. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-03-28/bloomberg-the-opening-trade-03-28-2025-video">Bloomberg TV</a> (Academy starts at the 1:14:30 mark).</p>
<p><strong>Bears positioned long risk.</strong> The sentiment might be incredibly bearish, but we continue to see dip buyers. Not just in “safe” assets or some of the most popular names, but also in the 3x leveraged Nasdaq 100 and 2x leveraged single stocks! I cannot think of a worse way to be positioned than to be long risk, for some bounce, while really quite pessimistic (sadly this was me as we headed into the weekend, as it seemed prudent to take off negative bets into Friday’s selling, especially after what happened last Monday).</p>
<p>Plus, it is quarter end, and month end, so we might see some rebalancing and even the infamous tape-painting.</p>
<p>But <strong>I think until “buy the dip” has been torched (and it is getting there) we will see new lows in risk assets</strong>. With major U.S. indices sitting at or near 5-month lows, anyone who didn’t take profits is treading water, at best.</p>
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<p>We haven’t seen a true capitulation in a long time <em>(see comments on fund flows earlier in this section and last weekend).</em> Even last August, when VIX spiked over allegations of the yen carry trade unwind, there was no capitulation (buying the dip was the mantra) and even the “gap higher in VIX” was largely a bogus calculation since it didn’t show up in futures trading levels.</p>
<p>We’ve been arguing that you should, for now, begin trading this market like it was the GFC or European Debt Crisis, by selling rips and being net bearish. We think that continues to be the modus operandi until there are real signs of capitulation in equities. <strong>Friday had the first hints of capitulation, but that is just likely to bring out the bears (especially bears caught long risk) leading to further downside in the coming days</strong> (unless we are pleasantly surprised about deals around Liberation Day).</p>
<h3>Crypto</h3>
<p>Crypto drifts in and out of the T-Report, and has wormed its way into today’s report. Lately it has behaved more or less like a “risky” asset. It has its own ebbs and flows but seems increasingly tied to stocks. As we have highlighted in the past – <strong>crypto has infiltrated the stock market. MSTR</strong> is clearly tied to crypto and is in the <strong>Nasdaq 100. MSTX</strong> and <strong>MSTU</strong> (2x leveraged MSTR stocks), and some other strategies linked to MSTR, are in people’s equity accounts. The <strong>Bitcoin ETFs</strong> also reside in people’s equity accounts, which I think links them more than in the past to equities.</p>
<p>While the linkage might be small, I think it has the potential to be like the butterfly flapping its wings in Tokyo triggering rain in NYC. Small flows can impact the broader market and act as a catalyst to larger unwinds. With yet another company (or 2 if you look across the globe) joining the list of companies issuing bonds or equity to buy crypto for their Treasury portfolio, you’d think we’d be higher. Crypto was supported while those entities were engaged in buying crypto, but has sold off since. With Don Jr. touting crypto on social media and a barrage of “governments need to buy crypto” headlines (strategic reserves at the Federal and State level as far as you can see them), you’d think we’d be higher. <strong>Yet we aren’t.</strong></p>
<p>Maybe some of the recent actions seem too “circular” to be believable. If you espouse the benefits of crypto, then buy more crypto. Rinse and repeat. Maybe that is wearing thin? Crypto is far from the highs.</p>
<p>Maybe as we face challenges with DOGE, Tariffs, and Peace/War, the ability to convince D.C. that we need to buy crypto is fading? At least until we see major wins across the board? There are wins, no doubt about it, but so far there is a decent amount of controversy, and let’s face it, stocks are down over 10% from their highs.</p>
<p><strong>I’m the most bearish I’ve been on crypto in a long time and think it has the potential to have a GFC type of moment</strong> where the interlinked products, leveraged in many cases, create a vicious cycle, where each loss triggers concerns about another product, accelerating losses, rather than bringing in buyers.</p>
<h3>Bottom Line</h3>
<p><strong>More risk-off. All risky assets will be repriced lower.</strong> The U.S. will lead the way lower. Sure, the old adage applies that if <strong>the U.S. sneezes, the world gets a cold,</strong> but I think the starting points on valuations, capital flows, and the perception of who is “good” versus who is “bad” will hit U.S. assets harder. If we use GDP as a metric for how people perceive the good vs bad then the U.S. has $30 trillion or so on its side, but it is far from clear how the other $80 trillion or so lines up.</p>
<p>Credit will not be spared. The longer the current methodology (and lack of any great deal) plays out, the more people will start discussing whether the recession will be a big “R” or little “r” recession, rather than doubting if we get one. I’m heading rapidly to the big R camp and might start breaking ground on the “D” word.</p>
<p>Rates could go lower in a global risk-off trade, as central banks will have to cut and there will be a flight to safety (in each region) but the inefficiencies of trying to redevelop global trade in months, instead of years, will keep rates (especially at the longer end) more elevated than they should be.</p>
<p>Last week, we <strong>highlighted the Nikkei</strong> and wondered what people were thinking in Japan as the late eighties ended. I presume they saw the world as their oyster, only to have it yanked away.</p>
<p>After spending the week in Ireland and London, I’ve been thinking about the saying “<strong>The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire.</strong>” The Empire under Queen Victoria was so vast that it is difficult to fathom.</p>
<p>Things change. <strong>And no, I’m not that dire and pessimistic, but I’ve also learned not to take things for granted.</strong></p>
<p>Maybe by the time you read this, some grand bargains will have been struck, making the negative outlook irrelevant or completely wrong. But I’m no longer convinced that any bargains are at the end of this risk-off movement. It could just be the start of the second phase (and we may not even get those bargains).</p>
<p><strong>In any case, this report went from the warm and fuzzy nature of an After School Special, to a dark place, rather quickly.</strong> If I’m wrong and markets rip higher (which would be really great) then I will be stuck rivaling Mr. Blutarsky’s GPA of “zero POINT zero.”</p>
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—In a televised speech March 29, Khalil al-Hayya, the leader of Hamas, announced that Hamas has accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal that was conveyed to Hamas by Egypt and Qatar, which have been acting as mediators.</p>
<p>“Two days ago, we received a proposal from the mediators in Egypt and Qatar. We dealt with it positively and accepted it,” al-Hayya said, reported <em>Reuters</em> on March 29. Reuters further reported that on March 27, “security sources” had reported that “Egypt had received positive indications from Israel over a new ceasefire proposal that would include a transitional phase.” Reuters reports that the source stated that the proposal suggests that Hamas would release five of the Israeli hostages it is holding each week, in exchange for a ceasefire.</p>
<p>The March 30 <em>Newsweek</em> reports that “After the first week [of the new proposal], Israel would implement a second phase of the ceasefire, according to the report. The proposal also reportedly included a timeline for all of the hostages to be released and for Israel to fully withdraw its military from Gaza.”</p>
<p>“We hope that the (Israeli) occupation will not undermine [it],” said al-Hayya, who has led the Hamas negotiating team in indirect talks aimed at securing a ceasefire.</p>
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<p>With all of the leftwing vitriol against billionaire Elon Musk over his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, violence targeting his supporters was bound to happen. In a disturbing incident, <strong>70-year-old Christopher Talbot of Meridian was arrested after allegedly striking a counter-demonstrator at a Tesla Takedown protest near a Tesla dealership</strong>. According to the Meridian Police Department (MPD), Talbot is said to have hit a 49-year-old man after making an “obscene gesture” toward the victim around 1:00 pm on Sunday.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">KBTV: 70-year-old man charged with aggravated assault after allegedly striking a counter-protester with his vehicle outside Tesla dealership in Idaho <a href="https://t.co/7Ek8iNIuja">pic.twitter.com/7Ek8iNIuja</a></p>
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) <a href="https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1906373266148569301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><strong>The victim, who was reportedly driving a vehicle with a flag in support of President Donald Trump,</strong> had parked when Talbot allegedly assaulted him. <a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/idaho-man-arrested-after-hitting-protester-with-car-at-tesla-dealership-politics/277-502b5456-d4f7-446c-a311-a60ceece2d85">KTVB</a> reports that the victim received medical treatment at a nearby hospital and was later released with non-life-threatening injuries. Law enforcement subsequently tracked down Talbot at his home in Meridian, where they took him into custody peacefully. <strong>He was then transported to Ada County Jail, where he was charged with a single count of aggravated battery.</strong></p>
<p>The Tesla Takedown protest, consisting of a meager 30 demonstrators, was overshadowed by a counter-protest organized by the Idaho Liberty Dogs, which drew nearly 200 participants, according to KTVB. In a hyperbolic social media post, organizers of the anti-Tesla protest declared, "Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built from Tesla to do it. We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup," highlighting the intensity of their opposition to Musk's initiatives.</p>

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<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have launched a task force to investigate attacks on Tesla property. In a recent post on X Musk called the attack “domestic terrorism,” which was subsequently echoed by President Trump.</p>
<p>"We have taken additional steps to crack down and coordinate our response. This is domestic terrorism. Those responsible will be pursued, caught, and brought to justice,” Musk <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/fbi-says-it-is-probing-increase-violent-activity-toward-tesla-2025-03-24/">wrote</a>.</p>
<p>The Justice Department revealed last week that three people are now confronting "severe accusations" after reportedly employing Molotov cocktails to ignite Tesla vehicles and their associated charging stations.</p>

<p>The charges from the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-announces-severe-charges-against-violent-tesla-arsonists">DOJ</a> are as follows:</p>
<ul><li>One defendant, also armed with a suppressed AR-15 rifle, was arrested after throwing approximately eight Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership located in Salem, Oregon.</li>
<li>Another was arrested in Loveland, Colorado after attempting to light Teslas on fire with Molotov cocktails. The defendant was later found in possession of materials used to produce additional incendiary weapons.</li>
<li>In Charleston, South Carolina, a third defendant wrote profane messages against President Trump around Tesla charging stations before lighting the charging stations on fire with Molotov cocktails.</li>
<li>Each defendant faces serious charges carrying a minimum penalty of five years and up to 20 years in prison.</li>
</ul><p>“The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-announces-severe-charges-against-violent-tesla-arsonists">statement</a>. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.”</p>
<p><strong>Meanwhile -</strong> a 61-year-old woman driving a Tesla in Flagstaff, Arizona <strong>was <a href="https://www.azfamily.com/2025/03/29/flagstaff-women-say-they-were-targeted-assaulted-driving-tesla-car/">boxed in</a> by another driver and beaten while still inside her car - only to bite the assailant.</strong></p>
<p>"I’m just appalled," she told <em>AZ Family,</em> adding "I didn’t buy my car for a political statement. I bought my car because its really fun to drive. My politics have nothing to do with that. I’m ashamed of our society and what they are doing."</p>
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<p><em>It shows a green car pulling up next to her Tesla and then swerving in front of it to box it in.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>The driver then walks over to the 61-year-old woman in the Tesla and, reportedly, starts hitting her while she’s behind the wheel.</strong></em></p>
<p><em>“I started to say, you cut me off what’s your problem, but I didn’t know how much he heard me,” said Susan. “He got out and started to punch me with a closed fist.”</em></p>
<p><em>At one point, t<strong>he victim said she bit the man’s hand</strong>. Moments later, the passenger of the green car appears to walk over and pull the attacker away. Finally, they get back in their car and drive off.</em></p>
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— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) <a href="https://twitter.com/matt_vanswol/status/1906320775193190589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/university-of-michigan-guts-dei-programs-5833032?utm_source=Morningbrief&amp;src_src=Morningbrief&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2025-03-29&amp;src_cmp=mb-2025-03-29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=l4EXGvp%2BVUi%2Fjh8Vns93HUoTvuR0bR8bHXCnp5EO54dqE4K4VF%2BR%2FIV9EzECQhM%3D">Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times</a> (emphasis ours),</em></p>
<p><strong>The University of Michigan said it will eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts</strong> following the Trump administration’s warning that colleges with discriminative policies could lose federal funding.</p>
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<p>The changes, <a href="https://president.umich.edu/news-communications/messages-to-the-community/evolving-our-approach-to-dei-and-moving-forward-together/">announced</a> on Thursday, include <strong>shutting down two diversity offices and ending its “DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan.”</strong> This follows earlier steps to phase out DEI-related requirements, such as removing mandatory DEI statements in admissions, hiring, promotions, awards, and performance reviews.</p>

<p>The university said individuals who previously worked on DEI initiatives across various schools, colleges, and departments will now “refocus their full effort on their core responsibilities.”</p>
<p>“<strong>These decisions have not been made lightly,</strong>” University of Michigan President Santa Ono and three top administrators said in a joint statement. “We recognize the changes are significant and will be challenging for many of us, especially those whose lives and careers have been enriched by and dedicated to programs that are now pivoting.</p>
<p>“We are deeply grateful for the meaningful contributions of leaders, faculty, and staff who have advanced our ongoing efforts to create an ever-more inclusive and respectful community.”</p>
<h2>Federal Pressure Intensifies</h2>
<p>The changes come as the Trump administration ramped up the enforcement of federal anti-discrimination laws, including Title VI and Title IX, which prohibit discrimination based on race and sex, respectively, in education settings.</p>
<p><strong>The University of Michigan specifically pointed to a <a href="https://www.ed.gov/media/document/dear-colleague-letter-sffa-v-harvard-109506.pdf">“Dear Colleague” letter</a> from the U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights division.</strong> The Feb. 14 letter warned that the 2023 Supreme Court decision that declared the use of racial preferences in college admissions unconstitutional would now extend to all university policies and programs beyond admissions.</p>

<p>“At its core, the test is simple: <strong>If an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person’s race, the educational institution violates the law</strong>,” the letter stated.</p>
<p>Moving forward, the university said it plans to increase investments in student-facing programs, including financial aid, mental health support, academic advising and counseling, and a scholarship for students from foster care.</p>
<h2>Massive DEI Spending Under Scrutiny</h2>
<p>The university has been known for a sprawling and costly DEI bureaucracy. According to an <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WbFztg7z0oQKdNlL73L6q9FeMaCSucq0/edit?tab=t.0">analysis</a> by UMich economics professor Mark Perry, as of January 2024, the university spent $30.7 million each year on salaries for 241 employees who work in DEI offices or have the keywords diversity, equity, or inclusion in their job titles. This figure does not account for additional staff and resources spent to support those DEI employees.</p>
<p><strong>A New York Times investigation published in October 2024 further <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/magazine/university-of-michigan-dei.html">estimated</a> that UMich spent $250 million on DEI since 2016.</strong> The Times noted that despite this enormous investment, race- and gender-based grievances on campus actually increased, with students filing more complaints than ever before.</p>
<p>Following the Times report, UMich published a lengthy <a href="https://odei.umich.edu/2024/10/18/a-battle-for-truth-setting-the-record-straight-on-dei-at-u-m/">response</a> in which Chief Diversity Officer Tabbye Chavous accused the article of being “filled with misinformation, disinformation, and, sadly, sexism.”</p>
<p>Some officials agreed that the university’s massive DEI spending failed to directly benefit students. Jordan Acker, one of the six Democrats on UMich’s eight-member board of regents, said on Thursday that the resources have not been effectively used to achieve its goals.</p>

<p>“Over the past several years, the university has spent 250 million on diversity efforts, but yet the population of minority students at UM has grown little, and much of the resources we’ve devoted to these efforts have gone into administrative overhead, not outreach to students,” he <a href="https://x.com/JordanAckerMI/status/1905384340307001548">said</a> in a statement on social media platform X.</p>
<p>“At Michigan, the focus of our diversity efforts needs to be meaningful change, not bureaucracy.”</p>
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<p>March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—The latest European envoy to travel to Washington to try to derail President Trump’s ongoing dialogue with Russian President Putin was Finnish President Alexander Stubbs. The two heads of state played a round of golf—Stubbs is a top flight player—along with U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham.</p>
<p>The Guardian [interviewed Stubbs[(<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/trump-putin-ukraine-ceasefire-interview-alexander-stubb-finland">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/trump-putin-ukraine-ceasefire-interview-alexander-stubb-finland</a>) in London, where he flew directly to compare notes with Prime Minister Starmer and others on how to drive a wedge between Trump and Putin.</p>
<p>“I think we’re probably moving into the direction where the Americans are seeing Russia for what it’s worth. In other words, the overall ceasefire has been agreed by the United States, by Ukraine and by Europe, but not by Russia,” Stubbs stated. “The half-ceasefire has been broken by Russia, and I think America, and my sense is also the president of the United States, is running out of patience with Russia. I think that’s good news for engagement and negotiation. So, this is what I sensed over the weekend as well.”</p>
<p>He explained the way he tried to “handle” Trump: “My message in the conversations I have with the [US] president is that we need a ceasefire, and we need a deadline for the ceasefire, and then we need to pay a price for breaking a ceasefire. So number one, we need a ceasefire date, and I would prefer that to be Easter, say, 20 April, when President Trump has been in office for three months. If by then it’s not accepted or is broken by Russia, there needs to be consequences. And those consequences should be sanctions, maximum sanctions, and we continue the pressure up until the 20th and then we’ll see what happens.”</p>
<p>He added: “I think it would be quite a useful combination at this moment to get a deadline from the president of the United States with a sanctions package coming from the Senate.” Lindsey Graham already has a bill in the US Senate proposing what he has described as “bone-breaking” US sanctions on Russia if it did not accept an unconditional ceasefire.</p>

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guid: 1016241 at https://www.zerohedge.com
title: Russia Seeks To Balance Ties With US, China: Official
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<p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/russia-seeks-to-balance-ties-with-us-china-official-5833239?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge"><em>Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times,</em></a></p>
<p><strong>The Kremlin is seeking to balance its relationship with the United States alongside its military and economic partnership with communist China, according to a senior Russian official.</strong></p>
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<p>Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk made the remarks during an address on March 27 at the Boao Forum in China’s Hainan Province.</p>

<p><em><strong>“As to the relationship between Russia, China, and the United States, we should not develop a relationship with one other country at the expense of another and vice versa,”</strong></em> Overchuk said, according to a translation of the comments first reported by Bloomberg.</p>
<p>Overchuk added that Moscow was eager to continue working with Beijing to implement and expand a strategic agreement signed by the two powers back in 2023.</p>
<p>That <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/putin-xi-pledge-deeper-cooperation-amid-concerns-over-growing-alliance-5138337">agreement</a> laid out a comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Russia, bringing the two nations into a de facto alliance. As part of that agreement, Moscow and Beijing have deepened their economic, diplomatic, and military ties, including by increasing their joint military exercises worldwide.</p>
<p><strong>That agreement was also at least partially aimed at undermining U.S. hegemony in international affairs. Just one day before its signing, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged that China and Russia would create a “<a href="https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1637798310344900608">multipolar world order</a>” to replace the “rules” of the current U.S.-led international order.</strong></p>
<p>Chinese state-run media said that Overchuk also expressed hope that the strategic partnership would reach new heights in the coming years as the two powers continued to entwine their futures.</p>
<p>Similarly, Overchuk said that Russia had, in large part, been able to resist the power of Western sanctions over its war on Ukraine because of the support of China, which has greatly expanded purchases of Russian energy and other goods to fill the void.</p>

<p>Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, a high-ranking official on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee, said he had met with Overchuk twice already this year and that the two would continue developing relations between their governments.</p>
<p>Overchuk agreed with that sentiment, saying he would continue to seek ways of expanding cooperation with China.</p>
<p><strong>“There’s a desire on both sides to explore opportunities for expanding those ties because both nations are experiencing outside pressures,”</strong> Overchuk said. “And naturally we look for ways of how to cooperate and work together to improve the living standard of people in our countries.”</p>
<p>The comments come as Moscow seeks to reopen economic and diplomatic ties with the new administration in Washington and to discourage American and allied arms shipments to Ukraine.</p>
<p><strong>President Donald Trump has thus far encouraged the rapprochement with Russia, saying that the United States would work towards fully reintegrating Russia into the global economic and diplomatic space.</strong></p>
<p>Moscow’s recalcitrant approach to Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine has dampened those efforts, however, with Trump on one occasion <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-threatens-sanctions-tariffs-on-russia-5821805">threatening</a> sanctions and tariffs on Russia if the Eurasian power did not comply more fully with cease-fire efforts.</p>
<p>“Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large-scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now before it is too late. Thank you!!!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114121576367163341">wrote</a> on Truth Social on March 7, partially in capital letters.</p>

<p>The Trump administration may nevertheless be open to the idea of a more integrated Russia and China as Washington seeks to bring both powers to the table on other issues, including military spending and nuclear proliferation.</p>
<p><em><strong>“At some point, when things settle down, I’m going to meet with China, and I’m going to meet with Russia, in particular those two, and I’m going to say ’there’s no reason for us to be spending almost a trillion dollars on the military,'”</strong></em> Trump <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-says-he-will-pursue-military-spending-cuts-denuclearization-with-russia-china-5809779">said</a> last month.</p>
<p>How Washington will manage the increasing cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is an open question. The two powers have increasingly become antagonistic towards the United States in recent years, working directly with communist authorities in North Korea and the Islamist regime in Iran to <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/live-now-commission-hearing-on-an-axis-of-autocracy-chinas-relations-with-russia-iran-and-north-korea-5812992">undermine</a> U.S. interests abroad.</p>
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) knocked Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) bill to abolish the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), suggesting only terrorists would support it. Lee reposted a Fox News article about his legislation and asked, in a post on the social platform X, “Who supports my bill to abolish TSA?” “Bin Laden,” Moskowitz responded, referring to…

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guid: 1015126 at https://www.zerohedge.com
title: These Are The U.S. Cities Where People Are Most Delinquent On Debt
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<p>A new WalletHub study ranks the 100 largest U.S. cities by debt delinquency, using two key metrics: the percentage of delinquent credit tradelines and the percentage of total loan balances delinquent as of Q4 2024. Cities were scored and ranked based on both the number of delinquent accounts and the dollar value of unpaid debt. The findings spotlight regions where consumers are struggling most to keep up with payments, often reflecting deeper economic stressors in those communities.</p>
<p>Laredo, Texas tops the list as the most debt-delinquent city in America, <a href="https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-where-people-are-most-delinquent-on-debt/134712">according to WalletHub</a>.</p>
<p>In Q4 2024, 16.01% of all tradelines in Laredo were delinquent—the highest in the country. Even more striking, residents were delinquent on 22.36% of their total loan balances, also the highest nationally. This combination places Laredo at the top of the list with a perfect delinquency score of 100.</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-where-people-are-most-delinquent-on-debt/134712">WalletHub study</a> noted that San Bernardino, California ranks second, with 15.98% of its tradelines delinquent and 18.18% of total loan balances unpaid. While its tradeline delinquency rate is nearly identical to Laredo’s, the total debt amount past due is slightly lower, putting it behind Laredo overall. Still, these numbers make San Bernardino one of the most financially distressed cities in the country.</p>
<p>Detroit, Michigan follows closely in third place. About 15.45% of loans and credit lines in Detroit were delinquent, and 18.92% of the city's total debt was unpaid—the second-highest in terms of overall loan balance delinquency. Despite not being the worst on any single metric, Detroit's consistently high scores across both measures placed it third overall.</p>
<p>Newark, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania round out the top five. Newark had the second-highest tradeline delinquency rate at 16.00% but slightly lower total loan delinquency at 17.40%. Philadelphia, meanwhile, had a similar tradeline delinquency rate (15.57%) but lower unpaid balances (13.95%), ranking it fifth.</p>
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<p>Overall, the most delinquent cities are often older, economically challenged urban centers—many of them in the Rust Belt or South—where residents face a mix of high costs and limited income growth. This study provides a snapshot of where debt stress is most acute, offering insight for policymakers and financial institutions focused on economic stability.</p>
<p>Analyst Chip Lupo commented: “Being delinquent on debt can significantly damage a person’s credit score and make it more difficult to get a credit card, rent apartments, or buy cars and homes in the future. People who miss a loan payment should try to get current as quickly as possible. The good news is that for many types of debt, borrowers have at least 30 days before delinquency gets reported to the credit bureaus."</p>

<p>"That allows people a little leeway to get the funds together and avoid credit score damage, though the issuer will still likely charge a late fee.”</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip...Chip. </p>
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title: When the Outlaw US Empire&amp;#039;s War on Ukraine Negotiations Fail
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<p><span>The initial ceasefire agreement regarding attacks on energy infrastructure was never honored by the Ukrainians and is effectively dead. The resumption of the Black Sea Grain Deal needed to have several Russian considerations satisfied which relied on European acceptance of the deal, and that was torpedoed almost immediately. The nature of the negotiations have the Russians talking to the Americans who then order the Ukrainians to obey—there’s no direct contact as Zelensky’s edict continues to be obeyed by the Ukrainians. The failure of the Black Sea agreement was easy enough to predict despite the Ukrainians being in favor, but the EU’s wannabe Hitlers said Nein! The initial ceasefire deal had possibilities, but its failure has produced a hidden reality that’s always been present but mostly veiled. That reality is what Putin announced to the world during</span> <a href="https://karlof1.substack.com/p/putin-the-submariner-in-murmansk" rel>his chat</a> <span>with the sub crew in Murmansk. What follows is the chat’s important segments:</span></p>
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<p><strong>Igor Domnin:</strong> <span>Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,</span></p>
<p><span>Foreman of the second article Domnin. Today, the world's attention is focused on the negotiations between Russia and the United States.</span> <em><strong>Suddenly, we started to have a dialogue and get closer to our main rival</strong></em><span>. If possible, I would like to know firsthand the progress of the negotiations and, possibly, their results….</span></p>
<p>We are in favor of resolving all these issues by peaceful means, and I have just said that we have taken one, two, and three steps from the very beginning.</p>
<p><span>Therefore, we are in favor of resolving these issues by peaceful means,</span> <em><strong>but while eliminating the root causes that led to the current situation.</strong></em> <span>We need, of course, to ensure Russia's long-term historical security….</span></p>
<p><em><strong>I hope that we will not make any mistakes based on excessive trust in our so-called partners.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>But in general, there is a problem that they seem to talk about, but only in passing, and I myself also talk about it. What is it?</span> <em><strong>It is that the so–called Nazis, as they are called in Ukraine itself, nationalists—people of neo-Nazi views—have a very large influence in the country, in Ukraine, from the very beginning after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Curiously, very few people remember this either now.</strong></em></p>
<p>Back in 2017, in the same United States Congress, an amendment was made to a law that prohibited funding, supporting and having any relations with such a unit as Azov, and directly an American lawmaker called this paramilitary organization terrorist and anti-Semitic.</p>
<p><span>Moreover, although the Senate did not support it at that time, but a year later, in my opinion, two years later, the initiators of this law, and among them was the oldest member of the US Congress, still supported this law, and it was passed by Congress.</span> <em><strong>The US Congress called this organization terrorist, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>But nothing has changed since then. They were just like that, and they still are. What is there, in fact, something has changed? No. What happened? And in 2022, the State Department, with reference to the fact that this formation, "Azov", entered the armed forces of Ukraine, decided that-–apparently, the law there was built accordingly–-it is possible to assist them. Because it was integrated into the armed forces of Ukraine, nothing, in fact, has changed. Their views, their actions are still the same as they were in the beginning.</strong></em></p>
<p>And now even more than that, now they are planning to strengthen these units, including Azov and create divisions from them, too. This means that such people acquire more weapons, more supporters, and put others under the gun, forcing their views on them.</p>
<p><em><strong>What does this lead to? This leads to the fact that the civil authorities, they are now actually in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine are not legal. Elections were not held for the president there, and the constitution is designed so that everyone is appointed by the president, including regional authorities, governors are appointed, and so on. If he is illegitimate, then so is everyone else.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>So, in the conditions of this de facto illegitimacy, neo-Nazi formations receive additional weapons and recruit new people to their ranks. What does this lead to, or can it lead to? That the actual power is in their hands. And this means, in turn, that it is not clear with whom to sign what documents, and it is not clear what power they have, because tomorrow other leaders will come, who will go through the elections and say: "Who signed there--we don't know, goodbye."</strong></em></p>
<p><span>It's not even that, but the fact is that</span> <em><strong>these neo-Nazi formations-–such as "Azov", and there are others there--they are actually beginning to lead the country. And the question arises: what about how to negotiate with them?</strong></em></p>
<p><span>However, in such cases, international practice follows a well-known path within the framework of United Nations peacekeeping activities,</span> <em><strong>what is called external management, temporary administration</strong></em><span>, has already been established several times. This was the case in East Timor, in my opinion, in 1999, this was the case in some parts of the former Yugoslavia, this was the case in New Guinea.</span> <em><strong>In general, this practice exists.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>And in principle, of course, it would be possible to discuss the possibility of introducing a temporary administration in Ukraine under the auspices of the United Nations, even with European countries, of course, with our partners and friends. And for what purpose? In order to hold democratic elections, in order to bring to power a government that is capable and enjoys the confidence of the people, and then start negotiations with them on a peace treaty, sign legitimate documents that will be recognized worldwide and will be reliable and stable.</strong></em></p>
<p>This is just one of the options, I'm not saying that others don't exist. No, they exist. Now there is simply no way to put everything on the shelves, and it may even be impossible to put everything on the shelves, because the situation is changing quickly, but this is one of the options. There is such a practice in the work of the United Nations, and I have already mentioned some examples.</p>
<p><span>But in general, we welcome the resolution of any conflict, including this one, by peaceful means.</span> <em><strong>Not at our expense.</strong></em> <span>[All Emphasis My Original}</span></p>
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<p>Ukraine attacks Russian energy structures on a daily basis while Zelensky doesn’t really favor any ceasefire, so it’s abundantly clear the Americans cannot force the Ukrainians to obey any negotiated agreement. We see the EU Nazi-wannabes talking up lots of war talk, but there’s no collective agreement on what to do. So, they just bluster, hiss, and throw pejoratives while saying the sanctions will remain until Russia is defeated, which puts a spanner into Trump’s gears. Meanwhile, Russia goes about its SMO.</p>
<p>The big point Putin made above is the Nazis that lurk behind Zelensky more openly now and are probably more in control of the executive than Zelensky, possibly even the armed forces. Again, here’s the crux of the matter:</p>
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<p><span>[T]he fact is that</span> <em><strong>these neo-Nazi formations-–such as "Azov", and there are others there--they are actually beginning to lead the country. And the question arises: what about how to negotiate with them?</strong></em> <span>[My Original Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p>The facts on the ground in Kursk confirm the Nazis have taken control. The atrocities and the killing of their own people in the act of withdrawal on an increasing basis, many of the incidents caught on camera by Russian drones are Nazi signatures. The immediate attempt to further invade Russia after their ouster from Kursk is another calling card—the Nazi credo is to fight until victory or death and to kill as many Russians as possible in the process. IMO, it’s that factor more than others that has led Putin and the Russian leadership to essentially concede the failure of negotiations with the Outlaw US Empire having lost control of its Nazi proxy. And since the Nazis via their mouthpiece Zelensky have forbidden negotiations, Putin is quite correct to ask “how do we negotiate with them?”</p>
<p>On the matter of legitimacy, it makes no difference who says Zelensky’s regime is legitimate. particularly extremely compromised UNSG Guterres. What matters is how Russia sees it, and it will only sign an agreement with a government it deems legitimate. The idea of Ukraine becoming a UN protectorate will be the proposal Russia will make when it becomes clear the negotiations have failed. Of course, Russia already knows the Nazis will never accept such a proposal, and so the SMO will continue until its tasks are 100% complete, just as Lavrov ‘s been saying recently.</p>
<p>Trump issuing more threats against Russia when Russia isn’t at fault for the failures in agreements only shows the utter lack of will on his part. As Putin et al have said many times, Trump could put an end to the conflict by ceasing all aid to the Nazis as what little the EU can provide is too little—the only real thing the EU has of military value are its troops, and they’ll get destroyed just as rapidly as the Ukies. Indeed, Trump’s unwillingness to pull the plug reflects his genuineness, or lack thereof, at the negotiating table. The EU’s steadfast in one area of solidarity—Anti-Trump—shows just how weak Trump is—he has zero cards to play as Russia is able to grow at 4%+ annually without any Collective West input, while the reverse isn’t at all true. Today Trump met with the very anti-Russian Finnish President Alexander Stubb who is a sanctions hawk and apparently made no progress with him. Since many of the “nuances” that need to be solved for any progress to be made with negotiations and to satisfy Russian demands, sanctions relief will become one of the major issues, and with the EU blocking complete removal as they have stated, there’s no real point in continuing negotiations: Trump can’t get the Ukrainian Nazis to obey him, nor can he get the EU Nazis to obey him; thus, Trump has no cards, and might as well fold. Although there is one act Trump can perform, and that’s to pull the plug, but that won’t improve the Outlaw US Empire’s negotiating position.</p>
<p><span>Five months ago, I wrote about</span> <a href="https://karlof1.substack.com/p/nato-faces-capitulation-in-europe" rel>NATO’s Capitulation</a> <span>and that’s sure what it looks like now, certainly from the Empire’s POV its unconditional as Trump has no leverage to ask for terms. The rest of NATO is vowing to fight on to the last Ukrainian, but the reality is they too have no leverage. Putin has already told his people to expect—anticipate—sanctions being infinite timewise, so even offering to cease their illegalities won’t get any of them anywhere. Putin would say: Oh, so you’re going to obey the law now—good. I know Russia would like to liberate the bigger cities mostly intact, but the way the Nazis are behaving, I don’t see that happening. Perhaps it would be best to go straight for Kiev where the Nazis are nested and wrest the cites via negotiations. I do think Russia must anticipate a combined French/English effort to occupy Odessa using Romania as their logistical hub. The way to not think of how Russia might respond is for Russia to make the first move. My opinion on a UN Protectorate managed by the UNSC is that it won’t work because 3 UNSC members will make sure it doesn’t.</span></p>
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<p><strong>The US president has warned Kiev against “backing out” of the rare earth deal with Washington</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="245" data-end="402"><strong data-start="245" data-end="297"></strong> US President Donald Trump has warned Vladimir Zelensky to think twice before rejecting the latest version of Washington’s proposed minerals deal – already far harsher than an earlier draft derailed by the Ukrainian leader’s outburst at the White House.</p>
<p data-start="656" data-end="1018">Trump has repeatedly demanded that Kiev reimburse what he claims are hundreds of billions of dollars in US aid through Ukraine’s mineral wealth, originally focusing on <em>“rare earths.”</em> An earlier iteration of the deal was set to be signed in early March, but was abruptly shelved after Zelensky engaged in a public shouting match with Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office.</p>
<p data-start="1020" data-end="1198">After Trump temporarily froze all military aid and intelligence sharing with Kiev, Zelensky has signaled willingness to return to negotiations, while still insisting that Kiev does not <em>“owe”</em> Washington anything.</p>
<p data-start="1020" data-end="1198">On Friday, Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine had received a new draft proposal, but claimed <em>“there are a lot of things that had not been discussed before. And there are also some things that the parties had previously rejected</em><em>.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1514" data-end="1700"><em>“He’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal, and if he does that, he’s got some problems – big, big problems,”</em> Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, as cited by Reuters.</p>
<p data-start="1702" data-end="1965">Trump also reiterated that Ukraine should abandon its aspirations to join NATO – a stance he previously acknowledged as a factor in the conflict with Russia. Moscow has long opposed the US-led bloc’s eastward expansion, calling it a threat to its national security.</p>
<p data-start="1967" data-end="2104"><em>“He wants to be a member of NATO, but he’s never going to be a member of NATO,”</em> Trump said, adding that even Zelensky <em>“understands that.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="2106" data-end="2478">According to Reuters, the latest version of the minerals deal is significantly harsher than earlier iterations. Under the proposed terms, the US would recoup all aid provided to Ukraine since the 2022 escalation of its conflict with Russia, and would impose a 4% annual interest rate on the total before Kiev could access any of the profits from the joint extraction fund.</p>
<p data-start="2480" data-end="2710">The US has allocated more than $123 billion in military and financial assistance to Ukraine since 2022, according to data from Germany’s Kiel Institute. Trump, however, claims the true cost to Washington has exceeded $300 billion.</p>

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<p><em><a href="https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/03/27/b-21_bomber_on_a_budget_1100253.html">Authored by Rebecca Grant via RealClearDefense</a>,</em></p>
<p><strong>Even in the era of DOGE, President Donald J. Trump is doubling down on American investment in sixth-generation aircraft</strong>.  The Air Force F-47 fighter and a new Navy carrier plane will restock American airpower.  While air dominance is priceless, the fact remains that experience with the B-21 Raider bomber has quietly given Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg, and the new leadership team the confidence to invest in advanced aircraft programs.  Saving money and executing on a predictable schedule is now a must for the survival of Pentagon programs. </p>
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<p><strong>The B-21 is a “bomber on a budget.” </strong> One of the most overlooked insights from the recent Air Force budgets is that <strong>the B-21 program is proving a new business case by keeping costs under control.</strong>  During the 2025 budget cycle, smooth progress on the production line enabled the Air Force to negotiate <em>lower</em> rates for the B-21 bombers now in production.  <strong>The Air Force trimmed about $1 billion off the B-21 program’s cost for Fiscal Year 2025 alone and bagged additional savings for future years. </strong></p>

<p>Coming in under budget is a first for a stealth aircraft – and quite a victory for the bomber leg of the nuclear deterrence Triad.  Contrast that with the snarls affecting nuclear shipbuilding and the <em>Columbia-</em>class submarine program.  It is also a great vote of confidence for future sixth-generation programs for both the Air Force and the Navy. </p>
<p><strong>The B-21 was planned from the outset to “bend the cost curve” for advanced aircraft procurement.</strong>  A cost cap of $550 million per bomber (averaged over 100 aircraft, and in 2010 dollars) was set as a performance parameter for the competition.  <strong>Northrop Grumman was widely believed to have won the B-21 program due to the combination of its experience in stealth bombers and its low bid price</strong>.  However, <strong>executing the B-21 plan has been a testament, first and foremost, to the Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO)</strong>, the team that ran the B-21 from source selection onward but likes to stay out of the limelight. </p>
<p>The Air Force is also capitalizing on progress with digital design, open software approaches, sophisticated aerospace composites, and a host of other advances in the American aerospace industry.  The net effect is smoother progress through design and early production.  For example, in 2021, a “major redesign” of the B-21 engine inlets was completed while the first two B-21s were being assembled, without incurring cost or schedule overruns.  “There’s nothing going on in that program that is leading to either a cost or schedule breach,” Air Force Lieutenant General Duke Richardson <a href="https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/b-21-completes-redesign-no-cost-schedule-impact-usaf">said</a> at the time. </p>
<p><strong>New approaches to software are also paying off</strong>.  One example is the shorter time anticipated for weapons integration.  “<strong>It would take me years to integrate a new standoff missile on the B-2</strong>,” Air Force Global Strike Command chief General Timothy M. Ray <a href="https://www.airandspaceforces.com/new-threats-demand-nuclear-modernization/">said</a> in March 2021. “It will take me months with the B-21.”</p>
<p>By 2022, the Air Force announced that the engineering and manufacturing development contract was producing a quality build B-21, with significant design maturity.  “The B-21 test aircraft are the most production-representative aircraft, both structurally and in its mission systems, at this point in a program, that I’ve observed in my career,” <a href="https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2991747/air-force-awards-b-21-raider-advance-procurement-to-support-acquisition-of-long/">concluded</a> Randy Walden, who was then the Director of the RCO.</p>
<p>This was a critical time period.  <strong>The B-21 achieved its roll-out at Palmdale, California, in December 2022 and its first flight in November 2023.</strong></p>

<p>Of course, inflation in the wake of the COVID pandemic hit the B-21 along with other defense programs, leading to increased costs for wages and supplies for both prime contractors and their hundreds of suppliers.  The B-21 program quickly digested those costs.  In January 2024, Northrop Grumman reported that it had taken a one-time after-tax charge of $1.2 billion due to macroeconomic factors that increased the costs of manufacturing the B-21.  The cost was swallowed as the first low-rate production lot began.</p>
<p>As a result, <strong>by spring 2024, the Air Force was <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/04/09/us-air-force-reports-lower-b-21-costs-after-negotiations-with-northrop/#:~:text=When%20the%20first%20B-21%20was%20unveiled%20to,average%20procurement%20unit%20cost%20of%20%24692%20million.&amp;text=The%20company%20reported%20a%20nearly%20%241.6%20billion,citing%20rising%20production%20costs%20and%20macroeconomic%20disruptions.">reporting success</a> in lowering costs for the next four lots of B-21s</strong>.  Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall informed the Senate that B-21 unit costs had decreased during contract negotiations with Northrop Grumman.  The Air Force saved money on the B-21 without reducing the planned quantity.</p>
<p>In turn, the Air Force was able to reduce its own procurement line for the B-21 down from $6.3 billion to $5.3 billion for the enacted Fiscal Year 2025 budget.  The Air Force was also confident enough to harvest the B-21 cost savings across the out-years.  An <em>Aviation Week</em> report <a href="https://aviationweek.com/defense/budget-policy-operations/usaf-favorable-b-21-pricing-results-lower-budget-request">noted nearly 28% savings</a> across the five-year defense plan. </p>
<p>The situation was very different for the B-2 Spirit back in the 1980s.  The Air Force requested significant design changes, including the requirement for low-altitude flight capabilities.  The Northrop engineers responded with “a miracle a day” to build the bomber.  Meanwhile, President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, received personal briefings every three months on the progress of the B-2 and often had to allocate additional funds to keep the program going.</p>
<p><strong>Forty years later, stealth bomber manufacturing is leading the way for efficient production of sixth-generation aircraft</strong>.  With the B-21, the Air Force has a robust program that is delivering on schedule and is ready for a production increase if the Trump administration decides to increase quantity.  As other sixth-generation programs follow the discipline of the B-21 Raider, America won’t lose a step in dominating the skies. </p>
<p><em><strong>Dr. Rebecca Grant</strong> is a national security analyst and vice president, defense programs for the Lexington Institute, a nonprofit public-policy research organization in Arlington, Virginia. She has held positions at the Pentagon, in the private sector and has led an aerospace and defense consultancy. Follow her on Twitter at @rebeccagrantdc and the Lexington Institute @LexNextDC.  </em></p>
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