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5 Ukrainian fables By Victor Davis Hanson Fable one: Trump is appeasing Russia? Who wiped out the Wagner group in Syria? Who sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany not to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II deal? Who withdrew from an unfair missile deal with the Russians? Who cajoled and berated NATO members to meet their military investment promises made following the 2014 invasion of Ukraine? In contrast, who originally conceived a Russian "reset" in 2009? Who publicly virtue-signaled pushing the red "reset" button in Geneva with the current Russian Minister Sergey Lavrov? Which ex-European leader got a million euros a year working for Russian energy companies? Of the last four presidents, under whose watch did Putin not invade another country? Which American president, in hot-mic style, offered to (and did) dismantle U.S.-Eastern Europe missile defense plans in exchange for temporary Putin quietude ("space") to aid his 2012 reelection? Fable two: A trade war? President Donald Trump is not wildly slapping tariffs on Europeans. He is simply saying that 1945 is now 80 years past and that the asymmetrical tariffs that Europe imposes on U.S. imports should be corrected. The massive trade surpluses Europe accumulates each year should give way to fairer, more balanced trade. If Europe does not want tariffs, then simply calibrate its own tariffs on what America places on European imported goods, and work down jointly to zero tariffs on both sides. Fable three: America is bullying Europe? The U.S. does not actively interfere in European elections and politics. In 2024, Europeans, especially the British Laborites, bragged about sending over campaign "volunteers" to work against Trump and, earlier, his conservative predecessors. British subject Christopher Steele sought to sabotage an entire American 2016 election with a falsified "dossier." The Ukrainian ambassador in 2016 wrote an op-ed all but endorsing Hillary Clinton and trashing her opponent. In September 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was flown in on a Biden-provided U.S. military jet to Scranton, Pennsylvania — at a pivotal time in the most pivotal swing state — to surround himself with Democrat politicos. His media-frenzied presence signaled a partisan campaign theme that a Kamala Harris win and the continuance of massive Democrat aid to Ukraine would ensure manufacturing jobs, such as the artillery shell factory he selected to visit. Fable four: Negotiating with Putin is selling out? In the long history of Western diplomacy with mass-murdering tyrants, Putin doesn't even rank among the worst. Just ask his former reset partners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. FDR fueled mass-murdering "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Red Army as a way to defeat Nazi Germany. Richard Nixon flattered and cajoled the greatest mass murderer in history, Mao Zedong, to triangulate China against the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan offered to share missile defense expertise with Soviet Russia. Europeans have hosted almost every Palestinian murderous terrorist leader, as a way either of deflecting terrorism from their own shores or emphasizing their general loathing of Israel. Fable five: Europe is going to save Ukraine? Europe rushed to congratulate and celebrate with Zelensky after his pre-planned White House blow-up. They are loudly announcing that a supposedly isolationist and appeasing U.S. — which has sent more aid to Ukraine than all nearby European nations combined — will now be supplanted by a "new" muscular and rearmed Europe. We sincerely hope so. But on every recent international moral question — ganging up on a lone Israel to appease terrorist forces in the Middle East, standing up to China's mercantilism, neo-imperialism, and domestic oppression of minorities, or Russia's prior 2008 and 2014 invasions — European outrage has been muted, real consequences nonexistent. {snip} Aside from all the present posturing and mock-heroics, the only way to save Ukraine is for the U.S. president, Donald Trump, to reflect joint Ukrainian, American, and European interests in stopping the war, forcing Putin as far back eastward as possible where he started in 2022, and creating a credible deterrent along with a DMZ/industrial corridor tripwire to stop another 2008, 2014, and 2022 invasion. Anything else is empty carnival barking. http://jewishworldreview.com/0325/hanson030725.php

Trump, like Reagan in ’81, is willing to take the hits in his first year or so to deliver lasting results later. .

RFK, JR. IS ALREADY HAVING AN IMPACT Snack Makers Are Removing Fake Colors From Processed Foods. https://archive.is/QIoOc .

India Issues an Emergency Warning as Deaths Surge Among the Covid-Vaxxed by Frank Bergmab An emergency warning has emerged from India after some of the country’s leading scientists identified an alarming surge in deaths among the Covid-vaccinated population. The discovery was revealed in a landmark study led by Dr. Abin Kulathunkal Rajan and Dr. Abu Bashar from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Gorakhpur. https://slaynews.com/news/india-issues-emergency-warning-death-surge-among-covid-vaxxed/ https://aiimsgorakhpur.edu.in/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25151355251321697

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The libs continue to make fools of themselves

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the NY Economy Club: “The first time I went to see President Trump he looked at me and said ‘how do we get this debt and deficit down without killing the economy?’ ... I’ve been thinking about this for 18 months and [the way to do it is] the transition from a public sector to private sector [driven economy] … 25 percent of GDP goes through [Washington DC] Area code 202.”

WORST. RACIST. EVER: .

Actual story. The Art of the Deal: After Dialogue With Mexico's Sheinbaum, President Trump Suspends Tariffs Until April Since taking office, President Donald Trump has been using tariffs as a negotiating tool to get countries like Mexico and Canada to work with the U.S. on illegal immigration and other concerns. Canada has been pretty obstinate in their objection to the tariffs -- including a suggestion to use nukes to defend against Trump -- and Trump's suggestion they become the 51st state. Mexico, on the other hand, has been working with Trump on the issues. Perhaps because Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said we'd address the cartel problem if Mexico didn't (and declaring the cartels terrorist organizations gives the U.S. wide latitude to do so). After some discussion with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, President Trump has paused some tariffs until the start of April. https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/03/06/trump-removes-tariffs-on-anything-under-usmca-agreement-with-mexico-until-april-2nd-n2409438

I look forward to the mea culpas when the market inevitably rises Oh who am I kidding, they’ll just scamper away and hide 😆

Another weak-ass response.

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Mayorkas: Who'll Pick the Cotton -- Er, Crops? Ed Morrissey In an ever-changing world, it's good to have some reliable consistency. When it comes to labor policy, Democrats have consistently made this same argument since ... 1861. {snip} The agricultural argument is absurd on its face in another way. If picking crops is "a job Americans won't do," then it's just as true of illegal immigrants. Estimates put their participation in the ag sector at around one percent. Mayorkas' successor Kristi Noem and new border chief Tom Homan aren't raiding farms to find criminal aliens. ICE is conducting raids in major cities, where mayors like Brandon Johnson have declared "sanctuary" from federal law enforcement. What crops does Chicago produce, anyway? But even if an influx of cheap labor were that important -- to either industry -- the answer isn't to stop enforcing border security. The proper response would be to set up a program for temporary labor to assist US firms as needed and as necessary. We used to have such programs in the past, but those relied on strong border security and strong disincentives for violating the terms of the programs by overstaying or attempting to receive unauthorized services. Did Mayorkas even once suggest such an effort to provide cheaper labor via secure and legal means? So Mayorkas' argument fails any rational basis of consideration. Now let's tackle its moral vacuity. Mayorkas wants to argue that the real value of illegal aliens is only in how they can make life cheaper for Americans. They are apparently only good for manual labor, as a sort of Untouchable caste in the American context, with apparent anxiety that their absence will force elites to perform Untouchable tasks. Or at least Mayorkas thinks that's how the rest of America thinks, which would be an entirely different kind of cynical elitism, but just as despicable. It also sounds aaaawfuuuuuullllly familiar as an argument from Democrats to exploit mass importation of labor to keep costs down for the nobility. Some things never change. https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/03/06/mayorkas-wholl-pick-the-cotton-er-crops-n3800480