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Det er godt mulig han kommer til å ignorere VM fullstendig, men det er i mine øyne like mulig at han bruker den massive internasjonale oppmerksomheten fotball-VM genererer til egen vinning, eller til politiske stunt. Og da kan det potensielt, i ytterste konsekvens ødelegge hele greia. Jeg tror også det er mer sannsynlig at amerikanere protesterer under mesterskapet enn at turister gjør det.

Jeg og kompisgjengen har i mange år nå planlagt å reise på VM i 2026 og se minst én kamp i hvert land, men vi har nå valgt å droppe hele greia. Risikoen for at Trump, kulturkrigen hans og politisk innblanding skal ødelegge mesterskapet er rett og slett bare altfor stor til at vi kan ta sjansen på å investere så mye tid og penger på å reise. Er veldig spent på hvordan Trump kommer til å bruke (misbruke) VM og hvordan det vil gå utover Mexico og Canada.

Mens vi snakker om NATO og FN, uttrykte Elon Musk i natt et ønske om at USA forlater begge deler. Om dette er synet til resten av Trump-administrasjonen vites ikke.

Er enig med trådstarter. X er blitt en radikaliseringsmaskin, og nå som det er vanskelig å skille mellom denne plattformen og Trump-administrasjonen, bør ikke det offentlige Norge bruke denne plattformen. Benytt heller mer politisk uavhengige plattformer.

Den normalt svært Trump-positive avisa Daily Mail har i dag som forsidesak at flere sentrale politikere og prominente figurer oppfordrer den britiske regjeringen til å kansellere Trumps planlagte statsbesøk til Storbritannia. Samtidig hylles Zelensky som en helt, etter han møtte både kongen og Starmer i går.

Som postet i andre tråder, melder Reuters at Israel ønsker fortsatt russisk militær tilstedeværelse i Syria. Exclusive: Israel lobbies US to keep Russian bases in a 'weak' Syria, sources say https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-lobbies-us-keep-russian-bases-weak-syria-sources-say-2025-02-28/ Nå melder israelske medier også at Israel ønsker å styrke båndene til Russland, og har sendt folk til Moskva. Israel strengthens ties with Russia in bid to curb Turkish influence in Syria https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyzr6ybj1g Ynet has learned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched his military secretary, Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, to Moscow in recent days for a series of security and diplomatic meetings aimed at strengthening cooperation while safeguarding Israel’s strategic interests.

Dette, nyheten i går om at Israel ønsker fortsatt russisk militær tilstedeværelse i Syria, og dagens nyhet om at Israel vi styrke samarbeidet med Russland kan ikke forsvares moralsk uansett hvor man måtte stå i denne konflikten. – Trump-administrasjonen har annonsert militær bistand på 4 milliarder dollar til Israel. De unngår å måtte ta dette via kongressen ved å aktivere nødhjemler i loven, slik at det kan betales ut raskt. Rubio announces $4 billion in military aid to Israel https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-rubio-announces-4-billion-in-military-aid-to-israel US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Saturday that he has signed a declaration using emergency powers to expedite the delivery of $4 billion in military aid to Israel, hailing the ties between the Jewish state and the US under President Donald Trump.

Israel blokkerer all humanitær hjelp inn til Gaza (!), sier Netanyahu. Dette skjer i samarbeid med Trump-administrasjonen. Israel halts humanitarian aid to Gaza shortly after ceasefire expires https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-844288 Israel has halted the humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) announced on Sunday, shortly after the hostage-ceasefire deal expired. An Israeli official noted that the move came in full coordination with the Trump administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_(crime)

Reuters melder at Israel ønsker at Russland beholder sine baser i Syria, og forhandler med Trump-administrasjonen om dette. De ønsker en fortsatt russisk militær tilstedeværelse i landet, og at Syria holdes svakt og desentralisert. Biden-administrasjonen ville tilby syrerne sanksjonsløft i bytte mot å kaste ut russerne fra landet, men trolig er den nye Trump-administrasjonen mer positive til russisk tilstedeværelse. Russerne har i årevis stått bak en rekke grusomheter mot Syrias befolkning, både i samarbeid med Assad-regimet og på egenhånd. Exclusive: Israel lobbies US to keep Russian bases in a 'weak' Syria, sources say https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-lobbies-us-keep-russian-bases-weak-syria-sources-say-2025-02-28/ Israel communicated its views to top U.S. officials during meetings in Washington in February and subsequent meetings in Israel with U.S. Congressional representatives, three U.S. sources and another person familiar with the contacts said. The main points were also circulated to some senior U.S. officials in an Israeli "white paper", two of the sources said. (...) Two sources said that in the final weeks of U.S. President Joe Biden's term, his administration considered offering sanctions relief to Syria's new leaders in exchange for closing Russia's two military bases. Two former U.S. officials under the Biden administration did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The sources said Biden's team failed to secure a deal before Trump took office on January 20 and that they expected the new U.S. president, who has drawn closer to Russian President Vladimir Putin, to be more open to Russia staying. Israel's lobbying to keep Syria weak points to a starkly different approach to other U.S.-allied states in the region, notably Saudi Arabia, which said last month it was talking to Washington and Brussels to help lift Western sanctions.

Espen Barth Eide: Røper hektisk aktivitet i natt https://www.tv2.no/direkte/jpybz/siste-nytt/67c2e64882a9471c7e09ef2d/espen-barth-eide-roper-hektisk-aktivitet-i-natt Utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide (Ap) sier det nå pågår intens diplomatisk aktivitet blant europeiske ledere etter at USAs president Donald Trump skjelte ut Voldomyr Zelenskyj i går kveld. – Jeg har vært i nær kontakt med mine europeiske kollegaer, også min ukrainske kollega de siste timene og i natt. Vi er alle enige om at vi må gjøre mer for å styrke Ukrainas og vårt eget forsvar, sier han til TV 2. Barth Eide poengterer at det er et stort diplomatisk fokus og enighet om at dette er en skjebnetid for hele Europa. – Det har vi snakket mye om og det har vi også formidlet til den ukrainske ledelsen.

Noen reaksjoner jeg har merket meg de siste dagene. Anthony Scaramucci, Trumps kommunikasjonssjef en kort periode i 2017: "Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth: December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia. February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness. July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden. February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically. U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war. ~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff. The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP. America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates." https://x.com/Scaramucci/status/1895548236124872935 – Garry Kasparov: "Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America. All Ukraine advocates have tried to give the new Trump admin time in good faith despite the clear pro-Kremlin track record of Trump, Musk, and others. But today's performance demolished that hope. It could have been choreographed by Putin himself, and perhaps it was. This was an ambush, but Trump isn't reliable so Vance got the task of provoking Zelensky. Zelensky could ignore personal attacks, but won't allow the suffering of Ukrainians to be diminished by the likes of Vance, who had no reason to be there other than to perform sabotage. Zelensky's manner, clothes, language, etc. are just chaff to ignore. Trump is an old reality show host who is mostly concerned about keeping his personal ratings high, and his comment about this making "great TV'" confirm it. Vance was the antagonist, by design. No US Russia or Ukraine policy was ever going to be made or changed today. That is the only conclusion if a buffoon like Vance is permitted to yap and derail a meeting between the US president and a world leader. The UN vote with Russia was the real signal; this was noise. It was useful at least in beating that truth into the heads of deluded European leaders who were still hoping Trump hadn't joined forces with Putin's Russia. The excuses are over. NATO is over. Europe's race to unite & arm itself and Ukraine is truly begun." https://x.com/Kasparov63/status/1895699560363933842 – Don McGowan etter Starmers besøk: "I don't have much to add to the discourse surrounding Starmer's Visit to Washington yesterday. We're so unused to serious, credible politicians in the UK that his performance looks as though he was wearing a cape and his pants on top of his suit. In reality … he did his job. He did it well, and took the heat out of any potential gotcha moments; when JD Vance tried to corner him on free speech, he countered and, ultimately, made him look a bit silly. I haven't seen any retraction tweets from Trump this morning, so that's the litmus test. Starmer has passed his vetting. The letter from the King was a shrewd move. Whilst, to some it seemed sycophantic and, well cringe, in actual fact, it was pure theatre. Designed to pander to the president's need for powerful attention: home run. When you are a serious political player, you surround yourself with seriously smart people, and you listen to them. Badenoch needs to take a leaf from that pamphlet before her next podcast appearance. The planning was obvious. Every question or statement answered with a quiet sense of understated authority. Starmer took his time and never appeared rattled. You can love him or loathe him, but you must start to respect him now as a proper Prime Minister - of the type we've lacked for some time. Today, there will be the usual suspects talking down his body language or using shortened clips to make him seem weak - you know who they are. The GB News cabal, Talk TV syndicate, the Mike Grahams of this parish. But even they know, really, that their words are hollow this morning. It feels slightly discombobulating to realise that, at last, the grown-ups seem to be back in charge." https://x.com/donmcgowan/status/1895363504078463204

Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-china-attempt-recruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by CNN. The intelligence indicates that foreign adversaries are eager to exploit the Trump administration’s efforts to conduct mass layoffs across the federal workforce – a plan laid out by the Office of Personnel Management earlier this week. Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired employees with security clearances and probationary employees at risk of being terminated, who may have valuable information about US critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy, two of the sources said. At least two countries have already set up recruitment websites and begun aggressively targeting federal employees on LinkedIn, two of the sources said. A document produced by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said the intelligence community assessed with “high confidence” that foreign adversaries were trying to recruit federal employees and “capitalize” on the Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs, according to a partly redacted copy reviewed by CNN.

Sviket begynte i Trumps første presidentperiode da han holdt tilbake militærhjelp i et forsøk på utpressing av Zelensky. Som jeg skrev her for noen uker siden; Trump kommer ikke til å få til noen fredsavtale, og derfor kommer han til å gjøre alt for å kaste Zelensky under bussen og beskylde ham og Europa for å sabotere dette. Det er her vi er nå. Så kommer han til å bruke dette for å svekke USAs globale posisjon og trekke amerikanske styrker ut av Europa slik at han kan normalisere forholdet til Russland. Trump og MAGA har et mye sterkere felles verdigrunnlag med Russland enn med Europa. Jeg har sagt det lenge, dette er bare begynnelsen og det kommer til å bli mye verre. Jeg håper alle ser dette nå.

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning https://therecord.media/hegseth-orders-cyber-command-stand-down-russia-planning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, according to three people familiar with the matter. Hegseth gave the instruction to Cyber Command chief Gen. Timothy Haugh, who then informed the organization's outgoing director of operations, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Ryan Heritage, of the new guidance, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. The order does not apply to the National Security Agency, which Haugh also leads, or its signals intelligence work targeting Russia, the sources said. While the full scope of Hegseth’s directive to the command remains unclear, it is more evidence of the White House’s efforts to normalize ties with Moscow after the U.S. and international allies worked to isolate the Kremlin over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. President Donald Trump has made a series of false statements and demands that align him with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including blaming Ukraine for the war and calling the country’s leader a dictator.

Zelensky samlet både landet og kontinentet på en helt unik måte da Putin gikk til fullskala angrepskrig i 2022. Under hans ledelse har Ukraina ikke bare hindret og stått imot, men også slått tilbake det som var en overlegen, skruppelløs militær makt. Det han navigerer Ukraina gjennom nå er som å sloss i en bakgate mot en gjeng kjeltringer, mens en av de sterkeste lagkameratene plutselig bytter side. Få, om noen, i hans posisjon ville hatt samme stamina. Zelensky er en av vår tids aller største statsledere.

Flere reaksjoner fra ytre høyre/pro-russere i Norge. Her ved Helge Lurås, som videreformidler fra hatkontoen End Wokeness.

Flere titalls statsledere har uttrykt stor støtte til Zelensky. Foreløpig har ingen stater, med unntak av Russland, gjort det samme ovenfor Trump.

Norske pro-russere feirer kvelden med å la masken falle. Nå forsøker de ikke lengre å legge skjul på hvor de står. Her illustrert ved Espen Teigen, Listhaugs tidligere rådgiver som nå jobber i document.no.

Ingenting skjer. Dette er klassisk Lukashenko, der han for syns skyld skal fremstå uavhengig fra Kreml og Putin ved å mene noe annet og gå litt imot ham. Det er alt.

Helt enig, og det er det jo også. Det kommer selvfølgelig an på konteksten ytringen fremsettes i, og å skrive noe slikt kan vanskelig forsvares som noe annet enn en oppfordring - og å oppfordre til drap/henrettelse er og bør selvfølgelig være straffbart, enten det er mot politikere eller andre. For å svare på tråden er ikke trakassering av politikere noe mer greit enn trakassering av personer i andre yrkesgrupper. Jeg kjenner et par ikke så veldig profilerte politikere og det er helt vanvittig hva selv de mottar i alle mulige slags innbokser nesten daglig.

I Norge har vi hatt innvandring fra blant annet en del arabiske land. Dermed har mange nordmenn - og trøndere - arabisk bakgrunn.

Visste ikke at NRK stod for innholdet i åpningsseremonien til ski-VM? Trodde det var arrangørkomiteen til Trondheim 2025 sammen med FIS. Ser ikke problemet med å inkludere hverken samer eller litt multikultur i showet? Hva er det som er negativt med det? Begge deler er jo en del av både Trøndelags historie og dagens samfunn. Veldig mange trøndere har for eksempel arabisk bakgrunn. I tillegg er det en god del arabiske land representert i VM i år.

Jaha, hva er så deres agenda?