#defeat — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.fogolf.com/1384702/bellefontaine-boys-golf-defeat-urbana-for-second-straight-day-laker-girls-again-defeat-falcons-peak-of-ohio/ Bellefontaine boys’ golf defeat Urbana for second straight day; Laker girls again defeat Falcons – Peak of Ohio #Bellefontaine #Boys #DAY #Defeat #falcons #girls #Golf #GolfNews #Laker #straight #Urbana

https://www.fogolf.com/1384702/bellefontaine-boys-golf-defeat-urbana-for-second-straight-day-laker-girls-again-defeat-falcons-peak-of-ohio/ Bellefontaine boys’ golf defeat Urbana for second straight day; Laker girls again defeat Falcons – Peak of Ohio #Bellefontaine #Boys #DAY #Defeat #falcons #girls #Golf #GolfNews #Laker #straight #Urbana

“The Iran war may go down as the US’ worst ever defeat”

by Robert Inlakesh in Al Mayadeen English

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“Never before has a war of this nature been fought by the United States, where it loses in every category, with the conflict being fought solely for the purpose of fulfilling the expansionist desires of a foreign rogue regime”

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-iran-war-may-go-down-as-the-us--worst-ever-defeat

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Defeat #RogueState

"Since February 2022, we've actually spent more money buying fossil fuels from Russia in the EU than we've given in aid to Ukraine."

Promises: https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-set-plans-halt-russian-040545805.html

#sanctions #LoomingDefeat #EU #Europe #defeat #EU27 #KajaKallas #Kallas #Ukraine #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #diplomacy #oilAndGas #energy #fossilFuels #UvDL

A quotation from Mark Twain

   “You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
   “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
   (After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905), “The War Prayer”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove

“Netanyahu’s 'total victory' to total flop”

by Robert Inlakesh in Al Mayadeen English

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“Promising annihilation, dominance, and total victory, the Israeli leadership has found itself in a predicament no closer to victory on any front. Tactical victories sold as strategic ones have been exposed; instead of meticulously planned operations, Tel Aviv engages in aggression without any discernible long-term strategy to achieve its stated aims”

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/netanyahu-s--total-victory--to-total-flop

#Press #SocialMedia #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #DismantleZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Netanyahu #Flop #AlAqsaFlood #Yemen #AnsarAllah #Syria #Turkey #Defeat

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What it feels like to be a smaller and weaker power confronted with larger.

Evarist Bartolo, Malta's former Minister of European and Foreign Affairs, urges a shift toward a model where states “listen before they speak,” and where foreign policy is shaped by mutual respect, not bloc loyalty: https://pascallottaz.substack.com/p/the-eus-pretence-of-equality

#diplomacy #change #changeManagement #narratives #loomingDefeat #EU #Europe #defeat #Bundestag #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EuropeanCommission #EU27 #KajaKallas #Kallas #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #StandForUkraine #policy #Germany #Merz #FriedrichMerz #CDU #Malta

Cognitive dissonance

Until February 2025, Europe had been a willing tool of US foreign policy. Realizing it just now, the rulers cannot change their belief in standing for good versus evil. So they choose to change their narrative from one of enlightenment to one of rearmament.

"In spite of all the grand-standing and posturing, Europe has been reduced to a geopolitical appendage of the United States, following Washington’s lead in prolonging the conflict while shouldering the costs. While the EU sees itself as a global moral authority, it has been sidelined in actual negotiations. Instead, peace talks are being brokered by the U.S. and China, with Europe playing no decisive role. Even within the European Parliament, there exists a near-religious belief in a narrative that contradicts basic military and economic realities."

(Read or watch) https://pascallottaz.substack.com/p/the-eus-decision-to-die-on-the-hill

#change #changeManagement #narratives #loomingDefeat #EU #Europe #defeat #EuropeanParliament #Europe #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EuropeanCommission #EU27 #KajaKallas #Kallas #Ukraine #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #StandForUkraine #growth #policy #greyTransition #RearmEurope #RearmEuropePlan #rearmament #debt #money #industry #weapons #armsIndustry #economy #Germany #Starmer #Macron #Merz #France #UK

Rearmament is an opportunity for capital to obtain reductions in welfare and public services, at the cost of lower profitability.

Chatham House: “Politicians will have to brace themselves to reclaim money through cuts to sickness benefits, pensions and healthcare.”

Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves, who has been steadily cutting spending on child credits, winter payments for the aged and disability benefits, announced that the remit of the Labour government’s new National Wealth Fund would be changed to let it invest in defence.

More military spending spurs growth but can damage the ‘health’ of the capitalist accumulation process: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/from-welfare-to-warfare-military-keynesianism/

#growth #policy #greyTransition #RearmEurope #RearmEuropePlan #rearmament #debt #money #industry #weapons #armsIndustry #Europe #EU #LoomingDefeat #defeat #EuropeanCommission #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #allies #defense #defence #deficit #stateViolence #UK #Britain #Starmer #welfare #publicServices #economics

Sanctions do not work (episode 6,874,464)

"Russian fertiliser baron Kantor delisted in EU sanctions deal"

(I am quoting in full because paywall.)

Fertiliser baron Moshe Kantor and three other Russians are to be taken off the EU’s blacklist in a last-minute deal with Hungary.

The other three are: Russian sports minister Mikhail Degtyaryov, an oligarch’s sister called Gulbahor Ismailova, and Russian businessman Vladimir Rashevsky Three recently deceased people (a Russian politician and two military officers - Nikolai Ryzhkov, Andrei Ermishko, and Aleksei Bolshakov) are also to be taken out, in a routine clean-up exercise.

The 11th-hour compromise means all 1,872 other individuals will remain under an asset-freeze and visa-ban until 15 September, when the next six-month rollover falls due.

The Kremlin-friendly Hungary, backed by Slovakia, had also pushed to delist Russian moguls Pyotr Aven, Musa Bazhaev, Mikhail Fridman, Dmitry Mazepin, and Alisher Usmanov (Ismailova’s brother), under a threat to veto the whole EU list if it did not get its way.

Luxembourg had, likewise, sought to get Fridman delisted, the FT reported, after he sued the Duchy for billions over his asset-freeze, because one of his holding companies is based there.

The EU has frozen some €24.9bn of private Russian assets under the blacklist.

Kantor was the biggest fish out of the four to be let off the hook.

The 71-year-old was previously the head of the European Jewish Congress, a Brussels-based lobby group, which had often pleaded for him to be let back into the EU.

He also has British and Israeli citizenship, reportedly lives in Tel Aviv, and is said by US magazine Forbes to be worth €8bn.

"He has close ties to [Russian] president Vladimir Putin. This connection with the Russian president has helped him to maintain his considerable wealth. He has openly declared his support to and friendship for president Putin on numerous occasions, and enjoys good relations with the Kremlin," his EU-sanctions notice had earlier said.

Hungarian pressure aside, Rashevsky’s delisting was agreed due to an EU consensus that the legal case against him was "weak", an EU diplomat said, given some 110 legal challenges by Russians against EU sanctions at the EU courts in Luxembourg. The 51-year-old used to be CEO of fertiliser firm Eurochem, which the EU had accused of supplying ammonia to Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine, but he left his post when he was first blacklisted in 2022.

"Legal solidity [of the sanctions regime] is of utmost importance. We cannot allow ourselves to be weak and lose cases," a second EU diplomat said.

The EU rollover comes amid US pressure on Russia to join a ceasefire pact agreed between Washington and Kyiv.

The EU has also frozen €210bn of Russian central bank assets, embargoed some €140bn a year worth of Russian trade, and blacklisted over 500 Russian companies and other entities in 16 rounds of sanctions since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Meanwhile, Ukraine and Hungary will also top the agenda when EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels on 17 March.

EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has proposed new military aid to Ukraine based on a percentage of member states’ gross national income, to make sure everyone paid their fair share.

The scheme is to be joined on a voluntary basis to bypass Hungary’s veto powers.

The Netherlands and Lithuania have advocated a benchmark of at least €40bn in total EU contributions, while earlier discussions had focused on figures from €30bn to €20bn.

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar6db36d4a

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"Italy and Spain support issuing common EU debt — which is effectively free money — for defense."

EU member states not wanting to have any outsider saying what you should do include Poland, Finland.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leaders-fear-european-commission-power-grab-defense-donald-trumps-exit/

#rearmament #debt #money #industry #weapons #armsIndustry #Europe #EU #LoomingDefeat #defeat #EuropeanCommission #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EU27 #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #allies #defense #defence #commonDebt