🇺🇸💬🇺🇦🤝🪖 — 📰 Reuters | NATO membership for Ukraine not off the table, US official says | February 13, 2025:

"MUNICH, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Thursday said the United States had not ruled out potential NATO membership for Ukraine or a negotiated return to its pre-2014 borders, contradicting comments made this week by the U.S. defense secretary ahead of possible peace talks to end the Ukraine war.

"Right now, that is still on the table," said John Coale, President Donald Trump's deputy Ukraine envoy, when asked whether the U.S. had ruled out possible NATO membership for Ukraine. Speaking in an interview with Reuters in Munich, he added that a possible return to Ukraine's pre-2014 lines was also still on the table.

On Wednesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a different message, telling Ukraine's military allies in Brussels that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic and that the U.S. does not see NATO membership for Kyiv as part of a solution to the nearly three-year-old Ukraine war. His comments sparked concern that the U.S. had made concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin even before the start of talks."

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🇺🇸❗️🇪🇺— 🇬🇧 Financial Times | Vance’s real warning to Europe | Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America | February 17, 2025:

"When JD Vance took the stage at the Munich Security Conference last week, he issued a stern warning. The US vice-president told the assembled politicians and diplomats that free speech and democracy are under attack from European elites: “The threat I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s . . . the threat from within.

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Trump clearly intends to cut a deal on Ukraine with Putin over the heads of Zelenskyy and the Europeans. That could have tragic consequences for Ukraine, which may soon be asked to accept loss of territory without security guarantees for the future. The alternative would be to try to fight on without American help.

The implications for the rest of Europe are also alarming. Putin wants Nato troops removed from the whole of the former Soviet empire. European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to withdraw US troops from the Baltics and perhaps further west, leaving the EU vulnerable to a Russian army that Nato governments warn is preparing for a larger conflict beyond Ukraine."

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📰🥴🗯🗣 — - #VÆ: Remember, most of all theses so-called "journals" are just liberal-green-globohomo mouthpieces crying out loud because of Trump's team cold water on their globalist agenda, like in this quoted piece, in which they're just guessing what negative outcomes could happen — and, without our watch, will be took as 100% true for sure with no reliable base on any actual fact.

👤🛬🇹🇷 — 🇺🇦 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky:

"Official visit with the First Lady to Turkey. Meetings with President Erdogan and First Lady Emine Erdogan.

Exchange issues: all efforts to bring our people home will continue. Food security issues. The First Lady's educational and cultural diplomacy.
Welcome to Turkey!"

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February so far in Europe:

🇳🇱 Moroccan stabs an 11-year-old girl to death in the Netherlands

🇧🇪 Three separate AK-47 shootings near the same subway station in Brussels

🇮🇪 Brazillian migrant stabs three strangers at their doors in Dublin

🇩🇪 Afghan asylum seeker drives a car through a crowd in Munich, killing a 2-year-old girl and her mother

🇫🇷 12 people injured by a grenade thrown into a bar in Grenoble

🇬🇷 2 stabbed by Palestinian asylum-seekers in Athens

🇮🇪 African stabs a man to death in the center of Dublin

🇦🇹 Syrian asylum seeker stabs a 14-year-old to death and injures five others in a terror attack in Austria

We can't go on living like this. Nothing but mass-remigration will save Europe.

🔗 Keith Woods

🇷🇺🇪🇺 Russia says no point in inviting Europeans to Ukraine talks

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he saw no reason for Europeans to take part in Ukraine truce talks, accusing them of wanting to “continue war” in Ukraine.

Lavrov’s comments came ahead of his visit to Saudi Arabia to meet US officials and as European leaders convene in Paris for an emergency summit on Ukraine, amid alarm at Washington’s diplomatic outreach to Moscow.

https://insiderpaper.com/russia-says-no-point-in-inviting-europeans-to-ukraine-talks/

🇺🇸🇷🇺The negotiations between Russian and U.S. delegations have begun in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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🇩🇪🇺🇦🇬🇧Germany to reject Starmer’s plan for troops in Ukraine as Europe splits over peace deal

Germany is likely to reject Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to deploy a European peacekeeping force to Ukraine, throwing the proposals into disarray.

As European leaders prepared to meet on Monday afternoon in Paris, a split emerged. The UK and France were set to propose sending soldiers to Kyiv, with Germany and Poland more likely to not participate. Other countries, including Italy and Norway, are so far undecided.

On Sunday, the Prime Minister announced that he was “ready and willing” to put British boots on the ground to enforce any peace deal.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/17/germany-reject-starmer-plan-troops-ukraine-russia-war-trump/

🧑‍💻New junior developers can't actually code.

Fantastic blog where the author argues that AI is preventing devs from understanding anything

Unlike the internet which only replaced fact lookups but adds explanations, AI replaces all reasoning.

https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning

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💰📈🔌🔋🇦🇷🇧🇷🇺🇾Tether plans to acquire a 51% stake in South American energy firm Adecoagro in a deal worth $1.24 billion.

Tether plans to acquire a majority stake in South American agribusiness firm Adecoagro, expanding its investments amid record profits and growing financial influence.

Tether, the issuer of the USDt stablecoin, is seeking to expand its investment portfolio by acquiring a majority stake in South American firm Adecoagro.

Adecoagro, an agro-industrial company operating in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, received an “unsolicited non-binding proposal” from Tether’s venture division, Tether Investments, to purchase a majority stake in the firm, according to an announcement on Feb. 18.

As part of the deal, Tether would acquire outstanding common Adecoagro shares at $12.41 each.

The stablecoin issuer is already a shareholder of Adecoagro, holding about 19.4% of its outstanding shares, the announcement noted.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-plans-majority-stake-acquisition-adecoagro

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🗣💬🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺📍🇸🇦 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"🇷🇺🇺🇸 Statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a press conference following talks in Riyadh

🔻 Key statements:

▪️There is reason to believe that the American side has begun to better listen to Russia’s position – the conversation was very useful.

▪️Representatives of the Russian Federation and the United States have been instructed to discuss what needs to be done to prepare for the meeting between Putin and Trump. Preparations are underway for a meeting between the deputy heads of the diplomatic departments of the Russian Federation and the United States.

▪️Russia and the United States agree that when their interests do not coincide, they should not provoke a conflict, but solve problems and create conditions for cooperation to resume in full and expand into different areas.

▪️It is necessary to remove the Biden administration's obstacles that make it difficult for diplomats to work, including constant expulsions and property seizures.

▪️A process for Ukrainian regulation will be formed in the near future. As soon as the Russian authorities find out who will represent Washington, they will immediately designate their participant in the process.

▪️The US stated that the message about the “three-step plan” for the so-called Ukraine is fake.

▪️Russia explained to the US that NATO's absorption of the so-called Ukraine would be a direct threat. The appearance of troops from the same NATO countries, but under the EU or other flags, is unacceptable.

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on an oil pumping station in Krasnodar Krai is an attack on Kazakhstan's energy infrastructure. It should strengthen everyone's opinion that Zelensky needs to be slapped on the wrist.

▪️The US proposed introducing a moratorium on attacks on energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine."

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