Various News - 2025-02-16

Feb 15, 2025

The rats are dispersing. Homes put up for sale in just the last 14 days in DC.

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Kellogg reveals that they will attempt to pressure Putin into breaking alliances with North Korea, China, and Iran as part of a Ukraine deal.

DD Geopolitics

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Department of Government Efficiency

@DOGE

US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:

- $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision"

- $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills"

- $2.3M for "strengthening independent voices in Cambodia"

- $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre

- $40M for "gender equality and women empowerment hub"

- $14M for "improving public procurement" in Serbia

- $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for "inclusive and participatory political process" in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India

- $29M to "strenghening political landscape in Bangladesh"

- $20M for "fiscal federalism" in Nepal

- $19M for "biodiversity conversation" in Nepal

- $1.5M for "voter confidence" in Liberia

- $14M for "social cohesion" in Mali

- $2.5M for "inclusive democracies in Southern Africa"

- $47M for "improving learning outcomes in Asia"

- $2M to develop "sustainable recycling models" to "increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt"

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EUROPE - A lesson in explaining irony.

JD Vance - “Europe does not accept free speech."

Europe - “ The JD Vance speech is not acceptable."

Here endeth the lesson 🤣🤡

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‼️ 🇪🇺🇺🇦Trump deprived Ukraine of trump cards before negotiations with Russia . Europe will not be able to provide security guarantees to Kiev in the coming years without the United States , - German Defense Minister

➖"We must clearly understand that we have a large gap in deterrence forces. Without US capabilities, we will not be able to provide security guarantees for Ukraine at least in the coming years," German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at the Munich Security Conference.

▪️Earlier, Pistorius also stated that if the EU's participation in the negotiations on Ukraine is not guaranteed, "it is very difficult to imagine that Europe will take on any obligations after the process (of conflict resolution)."

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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇸 Europe is outraged: US President responds to negative statements from European politicians after Vice President Vance's resonant speech

▪️He called Vance's speech in Munich truthful and brilliant. In turn, he advised Europeans not to "lose their temper" over the loud speech.

➖ "He talked about freedom of speech, and I think Europe is really losing it. I see that, I mean. I thought he gave a very good speech. A brilliant speech, actually. You know, Europe has to be careful. And he talked about immigration, and Europe has a big problem with immigration.

▪️In addition, Trump hinted to his European colleagues about the need to pay attention to the increased crime rate in Europe and finally address their own internal problems:

➖ "Just look at what has happened with crime. Look at what is happening in different parts of Europe. In fact, I think his speech was received very well. I heard very good comments," the president added.

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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦 A group of European countries are "secretly working on a plan to send troops to Ukraine," - Associated Press .

▪️They intend to "help ensure the implementation of any future peace agreement with Russia."

▪️"Britain and France are at the forefront of the effort, although details remain scant" because the countries do not want to show their cards to Putin, AP writes.

▪️We started working on this issue about a year ago.

▪️However, it is still completely unclear how this will be done. The final plan should be based on what the post-war contact line will look like.

▪️If Russia and Ukraine reduce their forces along the front line to “a couple of thousand” on both sides, then “it is not a problem for Europe to be there as well,” Estonian Defense Minister Pevkur said at the Munich conference.

▪️The Europeans do not want to control the entire thousand-kilometer line of contact, since this would require too many troops.

▪️The recent statement by the head of the Pentagon, who rejected any participation in the US peacekeeping contingent and stated that NATO would not cover it, added further complexity to this puzzle.

▪️"It is clear that it will be difficult for the Europeans to assemble a large force, and they certainly will not be able to do it quickly," AP concludes.

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