HAVING BEEN A FOLLOWER OF PETER SELLERS SINCE THE 1960s AND USING THE GOON SHOW REPEATS ON BBC (ONE?) TO SHARPEN MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ITS HUMOUR — I HAVE RECENTLY DISCOVERED A LITTLE GEM FROM THE MASTER OF BUMBLING ALONG. 

 

IN THE PICTURE ABOVE, THE RUSSIANS AND THE EUROPEANS ARE PLAYING THE GAME OF DIPLOMACY — WHICH IS A VERSION OF MONOPOLY, IN WHICH THE PLAYERS CAN BUY AND SELL OR DESTROY COUNTRIES…

 

IT’S FROM A LITTLE MOVIE “The Mouse That Roared” (1959) THAT SEEMS TO HAVE PROPPED UP ON YOUTUBE, AS RUSSOPHOBIA AND THE UKRAINE CONFLICT HAVE MERRY-GO-ROUNDED IN FULL SWING…

THE MOVIE IS FULL OF MEMORABLE LINES:

— AMERICA WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN PEACE…

Europe and the United States should gradually normalize relations with Russia once the Ukraine conflict is over, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said.

The statement comes a day after the head of the US-led military bloc met President Donald Trump at the White House and amid ongoing efforts by Washington to establish a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev.

 

NATO countries should restore ties with Russia – bloc chief     It would be “normal” for relations to be resumed once the Ukraine conflict is over, Mark Rutte has suggested

 

Trump has also expressed interest in restoring economic ties with Russia, an idea that was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

We have reached a point where, with regard to Russia, the US is more reasonable and less bellicose than its currently semi-rebellious European vassals.

Washington is trying to end the senseless proxy war against Russia via Ukraine and also to facilitate a broader détente with Moscow. The NATO-EU European elites are desperate to keep the war going and to build their own countries’ whole futures on confronting Russia – forever.

 

Meet the warmongers: This is where EU’s military frenzy is coming from
The bloc has allowed its most war-crazed members to dictate its Russia policies – and now they want to attack Moscow first

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqM9s7y6Ey

The End Of Ukraine's KURSK Adventure Causes Hysteria In The West

 

MEANWHILE:

The EU is in tatters as the bloc’s leadership feigns solidarity with the tide rising against globalism. With a trade war looming between the EU and its biggest customer, the United States, heads in Brussels can be heard clanking together to stabilize a horrendous situation. A U.S. Russia reset and Donald Trump’s refocus on America’s problems first spell big trouble for a European confederation already on the ropes.  

The EU’s Precarious Position: Awaiting the Trump Pendulum Effect

The Two Sessions, part of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, held last week at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, were a pretty serious deal.

Not only because the sessions set the framework for Beijing to confront serious economic challenges ahead.

But also because of the stellar performance by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who forcefully imprinted in the collective psyche of the Global Majority how China should be regarded as a premier source of stability in this extremely turbulent geopolitical juncture, standing firm “in the right side of History”.

 

Pepe Escobar: Made in China 2025 – Revisited

 

So let’s start with the key Wang Yi takeaways – which translate as de facto setting the tone for Beijing’s diplomacy throughout 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmKZaRUzUTA

 

Zelensky’s last stand? Trump’s push for a Ukraine settlement
The US president wants to extract value from Kiev, and has no love for the current leader
By Andrey Kortunov, Ph.D. in History, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

As high-stakes diplomacy unfolds between the United States and Ukraine, one thing is clear: President Donald Trump has little personal sympathy for his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky. Their last meeting at the White House in February only reinforced this reality, with Trump once again treating Zelensky with thinly veiled disdain.

Female pigs may be the "factories" of feral populations, but a new study suggests male pigs are the disease "super spreaders".

The research, published in the peer-reviewed journal eLife in February, analysed the movement of 146 feral pigs at nine locations in Queensland and New South Wales to create models of how disease spreads through feral populations. 

The Prince of Wales will make his first visit to Estonia at the end of next week to meet British troops providing a deterrent to Russian aggression in the region.

Prince William will travel in his role as colonel-in-chief of the Mercian Regiment to learn more about how British troops are bolstering Nato's eastern flank, Kensington Palace said.

He will also carry out engagements in Estonia's capital city Tallinn to see how the country, a Nato member, has responded to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and how it is innovating in renewable energy and technology.

Ukrainian forces encircled in Kursk Region – Russia’s top general
Eighty-six percent of Kursk Region’s territory previously held by Ukraine has been liberated, Valery Gerasimov has claimed

Ukrainian forces in Kursk Region, western Russia, have been encircled and isolated, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said on Tuesday. He added that 86% of the territory has been liberated, and that the systematic destruction of enemy forces is underway.

Gerasimov reported on the situation in Kursk Region during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at one of the command posts in the area.

Over the past five days, Russia’s ‘North’ military grouping took control of 24 settlements and 259 square kilometers of territory, Gerasimov said. In certain areas, Russian forces have advanced and crossed into Ukraine’s Sumy Region.

France hosts European defense ministers to discuss Ukraine's security guarantees

Today in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron is hosting European defense ministers to discuss strengthening defense capabilities and security guarantees for Ukraine. This meeting follows recent talks about a ceasefire proposed by the United States and Ukraine in Jeddah. The participants, including representatives from the European Union and NATO, will focus on defining credible security guarantees to ensure a lasting peace in Ukraine. Here is FRANCE 24's James André's explanation.

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250312-france-hosts-european-defense-ministers-to-discuss-ukraine-s-security-guarantees

 

In 1951 Australia turned to its newfound “great and powerful friend” America, consummating the move by signing the ANZUS treaty. ANZUS remains seriously misunderstood by most Australians, especially among the ageing ranks of conservative aficionados in Australia where it has the status of a holy cow. This is despite the fact that the treaty is only an agreement to “consult” if ever Australia’s security is threatened. It is no guarantee that the US will come to Australia’s defence, whatever threat may arise.

 

Is Peter Dutton the tip of a Trumpist foreign policy for Australia?     By Allan Patience

 

Europe’s panicked response to the shift in Washington’s priorities raises a number of intriguing questions, not least why its leadership was so ill-prepared for the second coming of Donald Trump.

 

How the West was lost    By Mahir Ali

 

One of the most circulated images from his first term showed a peeved but defiant US president, arms crossed, seemingly being berated by European leaders led by Angela Merkel at a G7 summit in Canada. The body language was not dissimilar to that of Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his discomfiture in the Oval Office at the end of February.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has given a lengthy interview with three US bloggers who traveled to Moscow. The discussion touched on Russian relations with the administration of US President Donald Trump, the settlement of the Ukraine conflict, and other issues.

For more than 90 minutes, Lavrov answered questions from Mario Nawfal, the host of one of the most popular interview shows on X, as well as former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) group, Larry Johnson, and former judge Andrew Napolitano, who previously worked for Fox News and wrote for the Washington Post and other outlets.

During the interview, Lavrov suggested that “a return to normalcy” has been emerging in the US since the start of Trump’s second term at the White House.

COVID pandemic likely unleashed by lab mishap: Germany's BND
Timothy Jones with Reuters and AFP
Germany's spy agency thinks an accident in a Chinese lab likely led to the COVID-19 pandemic, media say. Evidence it collected allegedly indicates negligence at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, concluded that the outbreak of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic in 2020 could well have been triggered by an accident at a Chinese laboratory that does virus research, German media reported on Wednesday.

I'm on the Ukrainian 'Enemies List' due to my work at 

@infowars and with @RealAlexJones on the Ukraine proxy war…

The group who compiled this list is tied to the U.S. State Dept, USAID, CIA and George Soros….. JAMIE WHITE.

 

PLEASE TAKE A DEEP BREATH… “THEY” MURDERED JAMIE WHITE….

 

BY THE TIME JOURNALISTS WRITE AND PUBLISH A STORY ABOUT UKRAINE, THE DYNAMICS HAVE ALREADY CHANGED… FOR EXAMPLE:

 

Salman Rafi Sheikh, March 11, 2025