Meanwhile, Back on Earth

On February 5, something rather important happened: the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty expired. But there were no fireworks. No sirens. No urgent panels of Very Serious Men explaining what comes next when the world’s largest arsenals officially go on the honor system. Just a few words here and there on some news channels. Not a big deal, really.

Instead, nearly every mainstream outlet delivered wall-to-wall coverage of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrier (just like you, until a couple of days ago we had no idea she even existed).

To be clear: the disappearance of an 84-year-old woman is deeply sad. It is tragic, frightening, and worthy of concern. One sincerely hopes she is found safe, warm, and mildly annoyed by all the helicopters.

But it is hard not to notice the mismatch in scale.

On one side: a single missing person, however heartbreaking. On the other: the end of formal limits on weapons capable of vaporizing the planet and turning the history of Earth’s civilization into a thin, radioactive archaeological layer.

The treaty’s expiration was like hundreds of trees falling in a forest while the cameras focused on a single ant. Anchors spoke gravely about “developing details” in the Guthrier case while the nuclear story developed… almost invisibly. No countdown clock. No “what this means for your children.” Just near-total silence, which appears to be the preferred tone for existential risk.

Nuclear war—which just became more likely—is boring television. It has no missing-person photos, no neighbor interviews, no drone footage. Until it suddenly does. By then, of course, the story will be very big indeed, and impossible to localize.

But that’s later. We live in now: the moment when those in power would rather we not dwell on why the United States does not wish to renew the treaty.

Remember the movie Don’t Look Up? Doesn’t it feel like we are living it?

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Did EPSTEIN create BITCOIN?

‘Both Bitcoin and Jeffrey Epstein, the main way to understand them is the money laundering role’ — Mike Benz

‘And these emails come out with Larry Summers, who was the head of the US Treasury’

Source: RT news

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The caption on screen says:
HIGH SCHOOLS ACROSS THE U.S. WITH POOR MATH & ENGLISH PERFORMANCE LET KIDS WALK OUT TO PROTEST ICE.

What is this supposed to mean? That high schools which don’t let kids walk out to protest ICE somehow produce better math and English results? And how, exactly, are these two datasets even being correlated?

Or does it simply mean that pro-Trumpers are scraping the very bottom of the barrel to produce dirt against anti-Trumpers?

Or does any of this even matter?

What does seem to matter is making sure that everyone on screen is perfectly color-coordinated. Form over substance, as usual. And that’s how you deal with audiences that have been deliberately conditioned to be stupid for decades.

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On February 7, 1857, Emperor Alexander II signed a decree “On the Construction of the First Railway Network in Russia.” This document marked the starting point for large-scale railway infrastructure development, shaping the economic and cultural growth of the country.

At the time, Russia lagged significantly behind leading nations. In 1853, the total length of its railroads was just 979 versts (1,044.4 kilometers). However, Alexander II recognized the strategic importance of railways for strengthening the economy and internal connections. The decree emphasized their necessity, calling railroads a “popular need” and a “universal desire.”

To implement the project, the Main Society of Russian Railways was established. Just 30 years later, by 1887, the “Guide to Russian Railways” listed 61 routes connecting not only Moscow and St. Petersburg with Russian regions but also with foreign cities.

Today, Russia boasts one of the largest railway networks in the world, stretching over 85,000 kilometers. Railways remain a vital part of the country’s transportation system, especially in Siberia and the Far East, where other modes of transport are less developed. The legendary Trans-Siberian Railway, laid in the late 19th century, continues to link Russia’s western and eastern regions.

The development of high-speed rail, including the popular “Sapsan” and “Lastochka” routes, symbolizes the industry’s technological modernization. Since Alexander II initiated the first railway network, railroads have become an integral part of Russia, uniting its vast expanses and ensuring its connectivity across generations.

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Europeans 'more negative' towards US, prefer autonomy over transatlantic alliance — YouGov

Trump's Greenland postures have increased this trend, according to polls taken in January

'Europeans increasingly believe the US is no longer a friendly nation'

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As we mentioned in a recent post, some commenters have accused us of having TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). We said then—and we’ll say it again—we are not the ones afflicted. But today, we know exactly who is.

President Trump himself.

We had our suspicions from the start, but his latest statements about the Gaza Strip leave no doubt. He is so deranged by self-obsession and convinced of his own infallibility that he didn’t even bother consulting the leaders of Egypt and Jordan before proposing to relocate Gaza’s population to their countries. If that’s not a serious case of derangement, what is?

So, congratulations, America! You just swapped a man with Alzheimer’s for one with a raging case of Narcissistic TDS.

P.S. Do you think that when the White House press secretary says, “There’s no better negotiator than Donald Trump,” he actually believes it? Or perhaps he himself asked her to say it? What a sick, deranged man…

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On February 8, 1945, a group of ten Soviet prisoners of war, led by pilot Mikhail Devyatayev, staged a remarkable escape from a German concentration camp.

Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Devyatayev was captured in July 1944 and sent to a POW camp in Łódź. After an unsuccessful escape attempt, he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen death camp. Miraculously, Devyatayev avoided execution when a camp barber swapped his death-row tag for one belonging to a penal inmate under a different name. Shortly afterward, he was transferred to a concentration camp on the island of Usedom, home to the Third Reich’s Peenemünde rocket research center, where the V-2 rockets were being developed and tested.

According to Devyatayev’s memoirs, he decided to escape by plane the moment he arrived on the island. Over several months, he and nine other prisoners meticulously planned their escape.

On February 8, 1945, while clearing snow from the airfield under SS guard supervision, the group killed their guard and seized a Heinkel He 111 bomber. Despite being pursued, they managed to take off and, after several hours, landed near the town of Woldenberg in territory controlled by the Red Army.

The escapees provided Soviet command with invaluable intelligence about the secret Peenemünde research center, as well as the captured bomber filled with highly classified equipment. Initially, the NKVD placed Devyatayev and his companions in a filtration camp, but they were later cleared of suspicion and allowed to return to active duty.

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IOC president gives clearest signal so far that Russia could be at 2028 Olympics

A day after the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, said he wanted Russia reinstated to international football, the International Olympic Committee president, Kirsty Coventry, used her opening address to the 145th IOC congress in Milan to argue that all athletes should be allowed to compete in sport, making clear that the IOC is considering a return of Russian sports teams starting with the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

This is good news for the thousands of young Russians who have dedicated their lives to sports, far from political and military conflicts, at the cost of rigorous discipline and even significant hardship. They will soon be able to climb the Olympic podium—their ultimate dream—under the colors of their country which supports them.

But it is also good news for the world of sports, which is reconnecting with the Olympic Charter and with common sense—that which should make sport not only a neutral space, but the fulfillment of an oath of fraternity.

For the past 11 years, we have witnessed a ridiculous and destructive politicization of international events that claim, in their regulations, to uphold ethical neutrality. One of the most glaring distortions of this hysterical Russophobia is certainly the ban on Russian athletes competing under their own colors at the Olympic Games.

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