Paul T. Levin

Detta galenpannegäng med Jay Bhattacharya (som nu leder Trumps National Institute of Health) i spetsen & svenska Martin Kulldorf (som fick sparken från Harvard), är alltså de som förespråkade flockimmunitet under pandemin, hyllade Anders Tegnell & som han i sin tur citerade som stöd för sin linje.

Did you, like me, miss this tiny little story on Friday? The Trump administration got the US-sanctioned Russian energy giant Novatek to secretly set up a major natural gas drilling project in Alaska. When the management of the U.S. company realized it was a front for Russian investors, they quit.

The NYT must cover their a$$es against possible lawsuits, but seriously?: “There is no indication that Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner were aware of Polar LNG or its ties to Novatek, even as the broad outlines of the deal came up in their talks with Mr. Putin beginning last year.”

Did you, like me, miss this tiny little story on Friday? The Trump administration got the US-sanctioned Russian energy giant Novatek to secretly set up a major natural gas drilling project in Alaska. When the management of the U.S. company realized it was a front for Russian investors, they quit.

Of course: “Putin discussed the plan last month with President Trump’s peace envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner”. As is common in these cases, the United Arab Emirates laundered the Russian money by setting up a front company. (Jared’s shady UAE-ties were exposed in another story this week.)

Witkoff salutes Putin the “humanitarian.”

When the AfD's Alice Weidel confidently asserts that Ukraine CANNOT defeat Russia because it is smaller, it betrays a pro-Russian ideological assumption, not a realistic assessment of the war. The fact that the Ukrainian population is suffering doesn't mean that the war is going well for Russia.

Here is the clip by Alice Weidel that I was responding to.

When the AfD's Alice Weidel confidently asserts that Ukraine CANNOT defeat Russia because it is smaller, it betrays a pro-Russian ideological assumption, not a realistic assessment of the war. The fact that the Ukrainian population is suffering doesn't mean that the war is going well for Russia.

Russia attempted a major offensive to break Ukraine's defensive line in Donetsk this year. Ukraine defeated it. Europe's increased support enabled this success. Imagine what Ukraine could accomplish if the US returned to pre-Trump levels of support.

An interesting and well reasoned rejoinder to the kinds of arguments I and others have made about a Transatlantic rupture. I think that it vastly underestimates the global shift that Trump 2 has initiated, with US allies realizing that their deep interdependence with the US is an unacceptable risk.

I don’t think NATO members will leave, and military-to-military work in the alliance continues, but NATO is a political project. Ultimately, if the leader of the alliance doesn’t want to live up to the mutual defense obligation, it is a house of cards that stands only as long as it’s not tested.

An interesting and well reasoned rejoinder to the kinds of arguments I and others have made about a Transatlantic rupture. I think that it vastly underestimates the global shift that Trump 2 has initiated, with US allies realizing that their deep interdependence with the US is an unacceptable risk.

Many European policymakers & diplomats used to dismiss Macron’s talk about strategic autonomy as cover for French protectionism. Now everyone understands that it is a necessity. Given the level of interdependence, it will take time, but the direction of movement is clear.

The British press showing how it’s done.