We’ll see what comes of this. But in their infinite wisdom the previous administration was handing out massive multi-billion dollar grants to brand new climate change startups with only $100 revenue, some with friends of the party at the helm. Virtue-signalling into crime with the Green new scam.

You just made two provably false statements in one sentence.

Same old tired crap. ssu was discussing Mueller, and you bring up a distorted view of the predecessor investigation - omitting the fact that it was most certainly warranted (even Durham acknowledged that).

Mueller took over crossfire hurricane. He even hired people who worked on Crossfire hurricane, started crossfire hurricane, and many more from the FBI. They were let go once their anti-Trump bias was exposed, but it’s still poison from the same tree. Speaking of facts, Durham did not acknowledge it was most certainly warranted. He wrote an entire chapter on how flimsy it all was.

I do. But you never write things like this:

The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign. As described in Section IV.B, in the eighteen months leading up to the 2016 election, the FBI was required to deal with a number of proposed investigations that had the potential of affecting the election. In each of those instances, the FBI moved with considerable caution. In one such matter… FBI Headquarters and Department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Clinton and other officials or candidates who appeared to be the targets of foreign interference. In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its longtime and valuable CHSs went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated.

And we know why you won’t, ssu.

That’s right. As the Durham report found “the government possessed no verified intelligence reflecting that Trump or the Trump campaign was involved in a conspiracy or collaborative relationship with officials of the Russian government”, and “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation”, and that they “failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law”.

Worse are the details.

“The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information. Further, the FBI did so without (1) any significant review of its own intelligence databases, (2) collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence entities, (3) interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received or (4) using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence. Had it done so…the FBI would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject. In addition, FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials.”

“The FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”

https://www.justice.gov/archives/media/1381211/dl

Given this, why do you keep waving these investigations around?

You guys were duped by the Clinton campaign and will never come to terms with it. That’s fine by me; your errors have resulted in world we live in today, and you have to live in it. Enjoy!

That’s all you have is the fruit from that poisonous tree known as crossfire hurricane, and the years spent repeating it. Of course, as other probes have proven, that investigation was significantly flawed and full of errors.

But where does this idea come from that Trump wants to 'ally Russia'?

The Hilary Clinton campaign. People here don’t like to remember that during Trump’s first term they were duped by a campaign hoax in what might have been the greatest blunder in history, leading precisely to the anti-Russian rhetoric and even violence we see today. That’s a chapter we should never let them forget.

Try to say this, they are just one people, is quite an offense of another sovereign state. And he doesn't think this only as a shared heritage.

All of it is to argue that the “anti-Russian project”, as he calls it, is unwarranted. “Partnership” assumes 2 separate entities, not one. Drawing on their shared history he goes on to describe this partnership in detail, how good it used to be and how much the Russian federation supported it, and laments the loss of the “economic unity”. Sounds like ambitions of the EU, to me. Right or wrong none of it shows a hint of any imperial ambition, despite what the cold-war propagandists of the Atlantic Council says. Further, the unmitigated fears of EU annd NATO leaders, and especially Zelensky’s claims that he is the bulwark stopping Putin from invading the rest of Europe, and democracy itself, is complete nonsense.

But because of your bright leaders that all might change and once again the Europeans invite world war as they insert themselves in a conflict they have no business meddling in. Now we get to watch them virtue-signal right into destruction.

And now you do have the most dumbest trade war. So happy self-mutilation with raising prices that with 25% tariffs are a sure thing.

I'm just waiting when the idiot will start the trade war with the EU. Won't be long, I guess.

Trump is quite likely going to walk away from NATO, so I guess that's all that great winning. After all, when Elon agrees on something, it has to be a great idea.

Of course, Trump’s tariffs are essentially a tax on the American citizen. That’s why it’s all so funny when people like Trudeau turn all Trumpian in response and starts to tax his own citizens. I suspect the EU will follow suit.

The problem is the "Kremlin talking-points" schtick is never proven. That's particularly difficult to do in any case because such talking points have been roundly censored around the globe and most of us don't speak Russian. You won't quote whom or what I'm parroting, for example. You can't; that's because it isn't an observation of reality. Rather, it's a mental stop-gap that permits you to stop thinking once the cognitive dissonance sets in.

Anyways, like you said, we shouldn't sling mud. Cheers.

Kremlin lines. Kremlin talking-points. You can gauge the depths of the anti-Trump mind by how quickly it hits this basement floor.

I guess border and sovereignty don’t mean so much anymore. That was fast.

I figured as much.

Ukraine also has red lines known as borders; most sovereign nations do.

It had borders. Then two republics seceded from the land. One wonders why we never rattled our sabres and threw around our cash when Kiev invaded them, given our talk of borders and sovereignty and all.

I’m curious where Europeans get the idea that Russia will invade the rest of Europe. I can’t find anything that bolsters this claim. Unlike Ukraine, ethnic Russians aren’t being ethnically-cleansed anywhere else in Europe, so it doesn’t make any sense that Russia would attack.

Well, I live in a country that has "forced conscription", where in my constitution it is written that "All Finnish citizens have a duty to defend their country". We, just like Sweden, have the idea of "Total defense". That's what you need to deter a bully next to you that will interfere in your matters and will try to dominate you. Worked against Stalin, will work against Putin. The doesn't have to have such, because you have oceans on both sides and Canada and Mexico.

And Ukraine's constitution declares that no elections under wartime. So you just go with meaningless Kremlin lines there of Zelenskyi being a dictator. Russia doesn't have free elections even during peacetime.

Now it’s not so much that Ukrainians want to, it’s that they have to. Something-or-other oblige’s them, even with the 90,000 desertions, the people hiding or else be black-bagged by roving bands of conscription police. By “forced conscription” I mean they’re kidnapping people in the street and sending them to the front lines. Is that what Finland does? And sanctioning political opponents? Consolidating media? Banning critics? Banning languages? Banning religious organizations? Is that how the Fins deter bullies?

So you are totally clueless about this. Start with Putin's "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" speech. That's Putin's Mein Kampf where he spills out what is the right future for Ukraine. And then there's ample amount of Russian propaganda about this intended for the Russian people and how Russia will conquer back Novorossiya, New Russia, as it was called.

A picture of a woman holding the "Correct" map in 2015

A woman holding a map. Ok.

There is nothing in Putin’s essay about any imperial ambitions. The essay is nothing like Mein Kempf, at all. Why would you say that, knowing anyone can read it and see that your claims are untrue? Where do you get this from? Who or what is telling you what to think, here?

You understand the difference between a confederacy or an union. I've always said that the EU is a confederacy of independent states desperately trying to be an union. So in the end, it's Finnish law. Just as it is if the country is us or Hungary or Spain etc.

European law has primacy, I’m afraid.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/primacy-of-eu-law-precedence-supremacy.html

Wrong. Ukrainians themselves decide how long they will fight. If they want to continue the fight for their independence, we can give them the weapons.

Right, forced conscription. No elections. Opposition parties banned. Nationalized media. “Ukrainians themselves decide”.

Wrong, this is about those values and the independence of sovereign states and defense of the Russian reconquista Putin has started. And Putin would have started that with or without NATO. The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest tragedy in history, remember?

All of that is deep-state dinner-theater. Russians have been saying for decades that they would intervene should Nato integration sharpen ethnic divisions and create civil war in Ukraine, which it did. They have been saying for decades that Ukraine’s NATO membership is threat to national security and they would have to take appropriate measures. Not a single one of them mentioned a return of the Russian empire. Americans in particular have known about this for decades and the cables prove that they knew about it, but did it anyways.

“Nyet means Nyet. Russia’s NATO enlargement Red Lines”.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html

Lol. Going off the far end here? Nations can send in their applications if they want to join. And even in the negotiations, then can view it that it's not worth it. Just like, well, Norway did. Hilarious to see EU as a Great power, as everybody knows its a confederation of quite independent states.

Wrong again. For members like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Romania, it genuinely is about sovereignty. It starts from things that Russia demands to have a veto on what actions as sovereign states can European countries do. Like to join EU or to join NATO. That kind of sovereignty issues.

Independent and sovereign states, eh? Which law has supremacy, Finnish law or EU law?

When Trudeau celebrated a Ukrainian Nazi in the Canadian parliament a couple years back it served as an ointment against the pro-Ukrainian propaganda in Canada. What the hell are we supporting again? I doubt European leaders are as stupid, and will show a little more due diligence in who they glorify, but how do Europeans feel about glorifying a president who nationalizes his press, cancels elections, and bans and persecutes the opposition?

This sort of question was asked of the Commission a few years back, and the answer was unwavering in its support for Zelensky, ensuring us that “regular dialogues” about freedom and human rights were occurring between EU and Ukraine, and other bureaucratic gobbledegook. A couple years later the abuses have only continued.

I’m curious as to why The Commission and its biggest supporters wish to aid the little dictator, and with so much gusto?

Giving everything on a platter to Putin! Kiev will be a Russian city should any peace deal involving Trump go through! If only we give the Ukrainians more money and weapons everything will be alright!

In effect, though, what the EU and NATO are doing is sacrificing their own economies and Ukrainian soldier’s lives on the altar of what amounts to political theater. We know none of this is about democracy, freedom, human rights and other verbal claptrap or else it would have raised a huff when the US ousted the democratically-elected leader of Ukraine, causing a civil war. Or it might denounce Germany’s abysmal freedom of speech. We know it isn't some principled stand against Russian expansionism or meddling because the EU has been trying to annex Ukraine for years, for the sole purpose of exploiting it for grain and fuel. We know it isn’t about sovereignty because the EU is supranationalist. So all this preening comes at the expense of the reality. Hell, only one country involved in that war attacked EU jurisdiction when it sabotaged those pipelines, and oddly enough it’s the same country the snivelling bureaucrats there wish to fund.

You read Breibart news?

So much for "Man of Peace" getting the Nobel peace-prize. The fucking Putin-loving moron.

He’s still done more than any of the Euro bureaucrats, and he’s only been in office a month. Europe looks like it wants to fight to the very last Ukrainian because they don’t like Putin. I wonder who will start world war 3?

Huge.

Maybe that’s why Trump hasn’t threatened tariffs on Australia.

Thanks

Sounds like an interesting read. Do you know of a free copy of the essay, or did you buy it? I’ll read it then comment.

AltGov: Bureaucrats in revolt.

According to the guardian:

Calling itself #AltGov, the network has developed a visible, public-facing presence in recent weeks through Bluesky accounts, most of which bear the names or initials of federal agencies, aimed at getting information out to the public – and correcting disinformation – about the chaos being unleashed by the Trump administration.

With 40 accounts to date, their collective megaphone is getting louder, as most of the accounts have tens of thousands of followers, with “Alt CDC (they/them)” being the largest, at nearly 95,000 followers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/altgov-elon-musk-doge-federal-workers

A small band of bureaucrats have taken their anti-Trump efforts to social media, turning their conspiracy theories into outright government insubordination. At best this appears to be a non-story. The “AltGov” operates on an app called Bluesky, known for congealing woke and weird political and fetish communities into information silos, protected from any other information. The presence of preferred pronouns indicate their woke bonafides and the live-action-roleplaying indicative of this sort of ideology.

But knowing the weaknesses involved and the absence of any opposition in these silos, radicalization is almost inevitable. How far will they take it? Sabotage? Murder? Terrorism?

Do notice that nobody is cheering for the trade war and the tariffs. Not even @NOS4A2 (even if he lives in Canada).

I cheer retaliatory tariffs. It’s not fair that everyone gets to tariff the US but the US is not allowed to tariff them. The reason we do not talk about tariffs otherwise and you never made a peep during other trade wars is because only Trump can make everyone freak out about it.

A kindly gesture by the British king and PM, who appears to be acting above the typical fear and loathing as indicated by the media narratives, even while the cameras are running. Knowing the froth this might bring among the moral commissars and busybodies, the public display might prove politically inconvenient, or it could signal the waning relevance of that class of intelligentsia.

Should the public display only mask the private ones as it does in other countries, I guess we’ll soon find out.

AG Bondi claimed on Fox News that we might see some Jeffry Epstein info today. I suspect it’s a huge bust, and anything pertaining to who else might have been involved will or has gone missing, but who knows?

Your government at work.

Gabbard Says More Than 100 Intelligence Officers Fired for Chat Messages
The chats had been set up to discuss sensitive security matters. But a group of employees used them for discussions that contained sexual themes, intelligence officials said this week.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/gabbard-nsa-firing-explicit-chat.html

It turns out the intel community is just a bunch of redditors.

Things are moving swiftly in Europe. Perhaps peace is on the horizon.

US, Ukraine agree to terms of critical minerals deal

https://www.reuters.com/world/zelenskiy-plans-travel-us-meet-trump-minerals-deal-sources-say-2025-02-25/

It is interesting to wonder what would become of Europe without American hegemony to hide behind for the past half century. Would they be able to afford their welfare states had American soldiers never defended them while they slept and subsidized their lifestyles? Perhaps now we can find out.

At any rate, if Germany is any indication, it appears they squandered that opportunity and followed their natural inclination towards totalitarianism. Massive censorship regimes and online “safety” bills brought about by frigid commissars stand largely unopposed by the people they are meant to censor, and routinely do. And it appears no party of freedom rises to correct the trajectory, just right-and-left versions of the same regime.

Now that their benefactor pulls away and no longer supports their chosen trajectory, it’s no surprise they nip at the hand that has fed them for so long. What more can be said about the birthplace of fascism and communism, save for that the European Union is beginning to look like the Soviet one.

Expect some fire.

Sorry, I don’t follow Finnish politics. No matter who leads, I bet they’re beholden to Brussels.

No, I do feel bad for the EU members and all those countries who have essentially been doing the bidding of the US for decades. I don’t know why they never disengaged years ago, especially given the thankless anti-US sentiment which seems regnant there. How you can trust the leaders who have left you so unprepared to stand on your own feet while rattling their sabres and funding that war, I’m not sure, but I doubt any change is forthcoming.

But it was only a matter of time until that umbilical was cut. And now, given the totalitarian trends of those governments, it seems like the perfect time to wean yourself off the tit. Don’t you think?

Nor should the US trust trading with the EU. The U.S. has a 2.5% tariff on Europe’s vehicle imports, for example, while the EU charges U.S. imports at 10%. It’s bad when Trump does it but we’re silent when the EU does it, it seems. All they have to do is be fair and they have nothing to fear, but I don’t think fair trade is in their capacity.

Strikingly similar? It's not even close. I'm not sure if you're joking or trying to pull a fast one.

It’s text. It doesn’t sound like anything. Are the voices in your head throwing you off?

Last I heard your president was raving with celebrities and taking drug tests.

JD’s historic speech wasn’t for Europeans, it was for the stuffy bureaucrats in the room, many of whom were wearing military uniforms for some reason. In fact Vance defended the European citizens who were roundly silenced by the weak commissars of European governments for the smallest of speech and thought crimes. Does anyone in the EU do the same? The parasitic tentacles of the EU better find another host to suck the blood from because the Great Satan is no longer going to stand around and allow it, especially when the Old World descends back into the tyranny that ruined it in the first place.

I am Canadian.

No, I agree with all you wrote Javi.