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1. Seyed M. Marandi: Netanyahu in Washington – Pushing War with Iran Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran’s Nuclear Negotiation Team. Prof. Marandi discusses Netanyahu arriving in Washington to push for increasing the pressure on Gaza and Hezbollah, and to sell another war on Iran. https://youtu.be/UzPETR2uEGs?si=iW94Vol63allO_y2

Ο εκδότης του γνωστού αμυντικού περιοδικού Πτήση και της ιστοσελίδας flight.com.gr στην συζήτησή μας (23-12-2025) μεταφέρει εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρουσες πληροφορίες για την έναρξη της διαδικασίας από το Πολεμικό Ναυτικό για την απόκτηση των νέων υποβρυχίων, εξηγώντας ποιοι κλήθηκαν σε πρώτη φάση να καταθέσουν προκαταρκτικές προτάσεις, ποιοι ανταποκρίθηκαν και ποιοι… δεν φάνηκαν. https://youtu.be/VWeEnS6wnpU?si=ErCml54uIfZ0eGLm

A brilliant piece by Michael Reynolds. “It is useful to remember that Russia and Ukraine were part of the same state for longer than the territories making up the Louisiana Purchase have been part of the United States, for longer than Geneva has been part of Switzerland, Rome a part of Italy, or Lorraine and Nice a part of France. The fundamental message Putin sought to convey was that Moscow regarded Ukraine as an inalienable part of its sphere of interest and would fight for it rather than see Ukraine…

1.  John J. MearsheimerDecember, 17 2025 On 17 December 2025, I did a podcast with Ian Proud — the very smart and well-informed former British diplomat — on TV IMEDI, which is located in the country of Georgia. We talked about the geopolitics of Europe, especially as it relates to Georgia, which is the other country besides Ukraine that NATO said in April 2008 that it was going to bring into the alliance. Of course, that led to a war between Georgia and Russia five months later (August 2008), which…

Trump on Erdogan and Syria: Don’t forget, it was President Erdogan that helped very much. He never wanted the credit for it, but he really, really gets a lot of credit. President Erdogan should get a lot of good credit for what he did. He got rid of some very bad people, and they’ve been wanting to do that for a thousand years.  President Erdogan did it, and we give him a lot of credit. I think it’s going to work out well between Syria and Israel. 1.https://x.com/i/status/2005748385576542471

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Yoav Kisch informed US President @realDonaldTrump that they have decided to award him the Israel Prize for his unique contribution to the Jewish People 1. https://x.com/i/status/2005752557617176691

Core takeaway Since the end of the Cold War, Washington has persuaded itself that expanding US power in Eurasia is akin to an act of altruism.  It has clung to this belief even as it violated the democratic principles and values it was professing to promote by engineering Ukraine’s bid for NATO membership despite the Ukrainian public’s opposition; by pretending Georgia had not initiated war in 2008; and by abetting the mass upheaval that led to violence and culminated in the overthrow of Ukraine’s appallingly corrupt but democratically elected government in…