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.

🔗 Clash Report

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇬🇧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

🔗 Deedy

💰📈🔌🔋🇦🇷🇧🇷🇺🇾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

@FelipeChannel

🗣💬🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺📍🇸🇦 — ⭐️ 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."

🔗 Source

🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺📍🇸🇦🕊🇺🇦 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"❗️Russia-US talks conclude in Saudi Arabia

Negotiations involving Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have concluded in Riyadh. The meeting lasted almost five hours, and, as the TASS agency writes, it is difficult to talk about any rapprochement of positions. Nevertheless, key issues of bilateral relations were discussed.

The Moscow Times also confirms that the first round of talks has been completed. However, details have not yet been disclosed, and it remains unclear whether the parties have reached any agreement.

As Vladimir Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov stated, the negotiations went "not badly" and the delegations had "a serious discussion on all issues."

“Russia and the United States have agreed to advance bilateral relations, and both Moscow and Washington are interested in this”

— he said.

Ushakov added that "separate teams" of negotiators from the US and Russia will begin contacts on Ukraine "in due course." The US State Department, in turn, noted that one meeting is not enough to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.

Meanwhile, the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin remains in question. According to TASS, the exact date has not yet been determined, and the meeting is unlikely to take place next week."

🔗 Source:

🗣💬🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺 — ✔️ TASS:

"🗣 The main points from Sergey Lavrov’s statements following the talks in Riyadh:

▪️ The conversation with the US representatives was very useful, the parties began to listen and hear each other;

▪️ Russia and the United States agreed to ensure the earliest possible appointment of ambassadors in Washington and Moscow;

▪️ The US will announce who will represent them on the issue of settlement in Ukraine, and the Russian Federation will immediately do the same;

▪️ The Russian Federation and the United States are interested in resuming consultations on geopolitical issues and removing barriers to economic cooperation. The parties will try to create conditions for resuming cooperation in full;

▪️ Mutual understanding between the Russian Federation and the United States on a number of issues does not mean a rapprochement of positions;

▪️ The Russian Federation and the United States have practically agreed to resolve “once and for all” issues with the functioning of the diplomatic missions of the two countries;

▪️ The US has said that the report about a three-point plan for Ukraine is fake;

▪️ Russia explained to the US that NATO's absorption of Ukraine would be a direct threat to Moscow;

▪️ The United States proposed introducing a moratorium on attacks on energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine;

▪️ The presence of NATO troops on Ukrainian territory is unacceptable for the Russian Federation;

▪️ Zelensky's stunt with the attack on the pumping station in Kuban suggests that it's time for him to get a slap on the wrist;

▪️ Russia has sensed the US's complete determination to "move forward", and Moscow is in the same mood."

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