Links 3/27/2026

Man’s First Best Friend Barn Raiser How American Camouflage Conquered the World Wired Chandra resolves why black holes hit the brakes on growth Phys.org Climate/Environment Arctic sea ice at lowest level ever this winter AFP How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming Carbon Brief SURGING ENERGY DEMAND HELPS FUEL TRUMP’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH COAL Atmos As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can’t Break Its Coal Addiction Yale Environment 360 Renowned NASA climate scientist resigns from federal government Balanced Weather Tumbleweeds can be so bad in the Great Plains that they bury homes and cause fire danger KCUR Pandemics How the Covid Disinformation Ecosystem was established Counter Disinformation Project The New Paradigm of Airborne Disease Stanford Social Innovation Review Water Iran was already running out of water. Then came the ‘war on infrastructure.’ Grist This is a graph of #snowpack above #LakePowell using 104 snow measuring stations. It was 9 inches of water on March 7, now 6 inches. Other dry years shown.There is no historical analog to this — Brad Udall #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification https://t.co/WV6Z0xUV0A pic.twitter.com/RWf8tUbSrk — John Orr (@CoyoteGulch) March 26, 2026 China? China Is Escalating Panama Port Dispute With Surge in Ship Detentions, U.S. Regulator Warns gCaptain Can Rising Oil Prices Benefit China’s Reflation? Inside China “It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race Rest of World Gig economy with Chinese characteristics: People pay her to take photos of the concert stage w their Wechat profile so they can post them on their Wechat moment to brag that they’ve been to the concert. pic.twitter.com/qnyDD1WsnE — Carl Zha (@CarlZha) March 24, 2026 India Syraqistan Trump delays strikes on Iran’s energy sites for 10 days amid ‘ongoing talks’ WION ‼️Market pressure on Trump to de-escalate the Iran War is at extreme levels: The Trump Pain Point Index, or “TACO Index,” just hit ~2 standard deviations above the mean for the first time ever. This index combines inverse S&P 500 returns, 10-year Treasury yields, 30-year… pic.twitter.com/wtkUPiCnky — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) March 25, 2026 NYT Admits Iran Rendered Virtually All US Gulf Bases Uninhabitable Simplicius Iran mobilises 1 million soldiers to fight off US ground invasion New Arab ‘IDF could collapse’: military chief issues stark warning to cabinet Ynet *** 💢 NEW: Iran strikes chemical complex in Negev linked to white phosphorus production An Iranian ballistic missile struck the state-owned ICL Rotem chemical complex in Israel’s Negev on March 25, causing a large blast and fire at the facility, according to reports and geolocated… https://t.co/fCsblf55M2 pic.twitter.com/xyvwWuLi1p — Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) March 25, 2026 Vance cites ‘return of Jesus Christ to Jerusalem’ event to voice support for US troops fighting Iran TRT World Why would the Iranians demand to negotiate with @JDVance? Because he thinks Iran will be using nuclear suicide vests. We are governed by the dumbest fucking people in America. pic.twitter.com/0XuBSXBR2V — Maine (@TheMaineWonk) March 26, 2026 Pentagon prepares for massive “final blow” of Iran war Axios During a live phone interview earlier with Fox News, President Trump was asked if he had been told by the CIA that Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader and the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was gay, to which Trump responded: “Well, they did say that, but I don’t know if it… pic.twitter.com/rKBHh9mZ6X — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 26, 2026 The Threat No One is Talking About in Iran Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. We featured another similar piece from STAT yesterday as this talking point seems to be popping up a lot. False Flag Watch She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China Los Angeles Times. Not just China. “…police had arrested a man named Ori Solomon, a 55-year-old Israeli citizen who authorities say managed the home and another that was also searched.” Old Blighty ⚡️🇬🇧BREAKING: Dr. Rahma Al-Adwan [@doctor_rahmeh] was arrested again today by London’s Met Police over social media posts for the fifth time. Seven officers handcuffed and detained her, transported her in a van, and took her to Charing Cross Police Station over posts… pic.twitter.com/yXUpQBLGY5 — Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) March 26, 2026 European Disunion Volkswagen in talks to make Iron Dome parts at struggling German auto plant: report Defense News Switzerland ordered some Tomahawks years ago. Now the US said they can’t deliver them. So Switzerland said then we won’t pay. The US have now seized the funds we paid for the F-35s (which we probably won’t get as well) instead.https://t.co/LYBFoZNVYw — Hyos Cyami (@hyos_cyami) March 26, 2026 🤔🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 WSJ: Separately, the Pentagon notified Congress on Monday that it intended to divert about $750 million in funding provided by NATO countries through the PURL program to restock the U.S. military’s own inventories, rather than to send additional assistance to Ukraine.… pic.twitter.com/7SYHsINAhB — MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) March 26, 2026 New Not-So-Cold War Pentagon considers diverting Ukraine military aid to the Middle East WaPo Russian and US lawmakers begin talks – senior MP RT *** The Ukrainian drones that struck a port in the Leningrad region were flying over the Baltic states. What does Iran do with countries participating in the war against it? Let’s see what Russia will be does. In fact, European countries have long since stopped trying to hide their… pic.twitter.com/nc3tgjhpHn — Victor vicktop55 commentary (@vick55top) March 26, 2026 Turkey-operated tanker carrying Russian oil struck by naval drone in Black Sea France24 As I was saying, Western media and NAFO turds were running another egg-crisis type of hysterical cope campaign about knocking out 40% of Russia’s oil export capacity. Not even a few days passed, and one of the attacked ports has resumed shipping. https://t.co/pxsCNaG5LL pic.twitter.com/Rcu3oPExmr — Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) March 26, 2026 South of the Border Hearing in President Maduro Case Ends Without Decision on Legal Fees TeleSur Trump 2.0 Senate unanimously moves to fund most of DHS, except ICE and border patrol, in rare overnight session CNN Trump to sign emergency order to pay TSA agents with no deal in Congress on shutdown States Newsroom Breaking: Donald Trump to Add His Signature to US Currency, a First For a Sitting President Vanity Fair Democrats Suck We’re seeing an unfortunate pattern where: 1) Trump uses underappreciated tools of FDR’s administrative state towards short-termist ends; 2) Liberals use process arguments to misrepresent their FDR legacy – willfully or inadvertently – for short-termist #Resistance wins. https://t.co/3kdmgYDhe5 — Todd N. Tucker (@toddntucker) March 26, 2026 Montana Senate candidate says he will introduce bill to draft Graham if elected The Hill Guillotine Watch “We Wanted Them to Feel It”: Ordinary Americans Take on Mark Zuckerberg and Big Tech in Jury Trials Matt Stoller Social media laws should focus on social media Digital Context Next Counting down the moments to when meta announces some “compromise” kids safety bill that’s absolute dog water https://t.co/4iarz15zVQ — Sacha Haworth (@sachalouise) March 26, 2026 AI The AI Supply Chain Runs Through a War Zone. Nobody in Silicon Valley Is Paying Attention. Veron Wickramasinghe. “South Korea does not just make chips. It builds the ships that carry the gas that the rest of the world needs to replace Qatar’s output.” Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry Futurism Imperial Collapse Watch Over 11,000 munitions in 16 Days of the Iran War: ‘Command of the Reload’ Governs Endurance Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies “Where are Iran’s allies and friends? Where Cuba’s?” Patrick Lawrence The Architecture of Managed Decline Frame the Globe News There seems to be real parallels between what’s happening in Trump-era America and how Russia’s 1990’s oligarchs made their first fortunes under Boris Yeltsin. Not in scale, exactly, but in the mechanism: politically connected insiders trading on foreknowledge of state… https://t.co/Kdl9dooeQz — Brian McDonald (@BrianMcDonaldIE) March 26, 2026 Economy War hits global economy with OECD seeing 4.2% U.S. inflation Financial Post Washington Stress-Tests $200 Oil as War Risk Mounts OilPrice The War Is Going Better Than You Think Bret Stephens, New York Times The Ozempicization of the Economy Kyla Scanlon Class Warfare Draftsmen strike at Bath Iron Works heads into third day Maine Morning Star Antidote du jour (via): See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here. “Pentagon prepares for massive “final blow” of Iran war” This nudged a memory that I could not pin down until I finally remembered. It was during the Battle of Britain and the Germans thought that they could break the Royal Air Force with a massive blow which they called Adlertag (“Eagle Day”) by carrying out a series of raids. It was a near run thing but Fighter Command held and something tells me that the Iranians will hold as well- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlertag Gooooooood Mooooooorning Fiatnam! We had expected pushback from the grunts in the platoon over new orders to wear ‘Jesus Mit Uns Wieder’ belt buckles, because it made it seem as if they had been called upon to support a Mexican-American’s lawn care business-not that there are any WASP’y Americans with that first name. I’ve long appreciated these updates from the steaming jungles, but this one really made me crack up laughing. Thanks for that. An aside: another email scam going around. Email sent supposedly from “familyofxyz.” Just got one, did not click the included link. / ;) Per Wiki: The “familyofxys” email scam likely involves phishing, where scammers impersonate a trusted source to trick you into revealing personal information or making payments. Always verify the sender’s email address and avoid clicking on suspicious links. Many thanks for the article “Man’s First Best Friend,” about wolves. Plus the amusing photographic antidote. The size of those paws. The famous big wolf nose. And those humane eyes. The article by Stephanie Woodward braids three intriguing variations on the wolf. The Japanese place wolves among the kami — although then, with typical Japanese thoroughness, they slaughtered them. In the U S of A, the wolf becomes a victim to puritanical and Calvinist dualism — wolves must be sinful, right? The evidence for cohabitation on the island off Sweden intrigues, although I am hesitant to think that it was intimate. I hesitate to think that the wolves there were forerunners of dogs. Something else was going on. I’m not sure what. Here in Italy, with its own distinct subspecies of wolf (naturalmente!), I have being doing some research on wolves for various reasons. The wolf seems to have been semi-sacred, as it was among many Native American peoples. The Roman festival of Lupercalia celebrated wolves and had many complicated meanings, some so ancient that they are now lost and irretrievable. Also, I discover that of the estimated 2,000 Italian wolves, 500 live here in the Undisclosed Region. It must be the grissini that attract them — or, more likely, the extensive uplands and mountains, as well as the (unfortunate) de-population of many of the valleys. Villages that had 1,500 people in 1950 sometimes report 300 or 400, or even less, now. The complicated relation of wolves throughout Italian history: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_italicus#Nella_cultura_latina_e_italiana I note that in much of central Italy — including among the Romans — the woodpecker was sacred. As was / is the hoopoe. A report on the many wolves of Piedmont: https://unionemonregalese.it/news/territorio/309846/in-piemonte-ci-sono-quasi-500-lupi-e-abitano-il-75-del-territorio-regionale.html Wolves sometimes get in trouble, even still, in Piedmont. They sometimes kill a goat or a sheep. There are rumors of wolves wandering into the hills across the Po (where the big bourgeoisie lives) here in Torino. Insomma, I recommend the article to you as an antidote on a day when it is all too evident that the most vile mammal is the human being. Years ago, in early spring in Yellowstone I saw from a distance a family of wolves with young pups outside their den. Heard them howling as well. Such a wonderful experience. This quote from the article stood out as a description of the US modus operandi, and not just regarding wolves: “Some folks need to maintain [wolves] as scapegoats and bludgeons, to keep people in line and angry,” says Ron Sutherland, chief scientist for Wildlands Network, a continent-wide conservation group, and an author of the Animal Conservation article mentioned above. Wolves must be disentangled from American politics, he says. Thanks for this. A much-needed respite from the regular programming! My partner is from Marche. Her father and his hiking companions have occasionally spotted wolves in the Sibilini. Sightings seem to be quite common these days, even down near the coast around Ancona. There was an amusing story from a few years back about a fellow (illegally) camping on a beach near Monte Conero. If I remember correctly, I believe he ended up getting busted after fleeing from a wolf that had taken an interest in his tent. re: The War Is Going Better Than You Think – Bret Stephens, New York Times Ah. Some gaslighting to start the day. / ;) “I love the smell of gaslighting in the morning … smells like, victory!” – ‘Montana Senate candidate says he will introduce bill to draft Graham if elected’ – The Hill I’m not a Montana resident, but with a platform like that he should run for President. I’d vote for him! Since Presidents can do whatever they want now, he wouldn’t have to wait for a draft. He could just order an extraordinary rendition operation to whisk Lindsey away and drop him on the front lines somewhere – Ukraine, Lebanon, maybe drop him from a plane onto Kharg Island with the expeditionary force. There are a number of neocon chicken hawks I’d love to see join him. Already a Colonel. I guess we could secede again and take Graham with us. Ms graham always reminds of a lot of the the film hot shots, tug benson shooting straight from the hip: Something I’m not seeing lately: any discussion about the proposed national strike. I thought a date had been set and wheels were in motion, but now I can’t remember the last time I saw it mentioned (and I skim through over 100 RSS feed headlines every day). Not asking our hosts to do research but am hoping to crowd source an answer. Anyone still seeing any talk about a national strike? FYI, for some reason search engines seem to find this query impossible to grok and just spit back labor history links. Just curious because right now would be one helluva an interesting time to let American workers exercise their right to free speech through a national protest. Absolutely nothing on Twitter. Nor in the many Substacks I subscribe to, or the fake left-ie Dem Trump-hating newsletters. IIRC, last year the AUW’s Shawn Fain was calling for a general strike in May 2028. Guessing maybe the Dems don’t want it messing up their presidential primaries that who knows? may not even happen. Yeah, just checked it out: https://may1.uaw.org/ “Vance cites ‘return of Jesus Christ to Jerusalem’ event to voice support for US troops fighting Iran” ‘In his usual style for his lengthy cabinet meetings, Trump lets officials around the table have their say’ But god help any Cabinet member saying anything that Trump does not like. He has not so much a Cabinet as his own private echo chamber. Having all the press there was to show Cabinet unity but of course it was all a dog and pony show. Can you imagine one of the say that hey, the economy is about to go in the crapper and for sure we will lose our majorities in the Senate and House come November? And do we even have a plan for getting out of Iran? And wouldn’t it be easier to bomb and invade Israel itself? It’s hard to ignore that the court vassals think they will survive if they can put the bill on the orange king. “What did you do during the planning of WW$, daddy?” “Son, I did my best, I shorted the best out of shit I could, but we’ve got each other and that raccoon looks like good eatin, if his family don’t go holding a grudge.” Should be a test of character TRT World gets my misleading headline award for today. I read the headline as Vance citing some wacky rapture scripture ito support/justify the war: “Jesus return to Jerusalem”. But no, he just mentioned Easter and the Christian Holy Week. Boo! Agreed. It was a reference to Palm Sunday upcoming this weekend. That’s the “return” that he’s clearly referring to. China and coal. Many of the new coal plants is to replace older more polluting ones, and unlike the US they are not on 24/7 but supporting the grid as needed. And many are there as just backup as well as Prioritizing renewables. And yes they are still burning a lot of coal. But the China carbon output has been very flat to going down even though the country is expanding its energy consumption, due to more renewables, nuclear, hydro. As to solar, to put things into perspective, in 24 alone china installed almost three times as much as the US has in total. In 25 they installed almost 8x as much as the US installed. And the IEA shows they are at about the 1100 GW (the US has about 112) installed with another 770GW in expansion either under construction or planning. Also have to figure that 50% of all cars are electric and the number is increasing and electric truck too. Which reduce pollution even burning coal to make the electricity. It’s hard to know how much or long the anti solar/wind US administration will set back renewables growth or how quickly it will rebound. Of course the war in Iran might be the most significant driver of renewables ever. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65064 +++ Speaking of Montana, as in Wildhack, the rather unique actress and sex symbol Valerie Perrine passed away on March 23rd of complications of Parkinsons. She won a Palme d’or in Cannes, a Bafta and was nominated for an Oscar for her role opposite Dustin Hoffman in “Lenny”, the Bob Fosse-directed biopic about Lenny Bruce in his decline. Highly recommend seeing the film version of the Vonnegut novel, “Slaughterhouse Five”. She glows in it. FWIW Vonnegut considered it one of his favorite movie adaptations of his works. Features a great still of VP from the film. Such a radiant smile. The Architecture of Managed Decline seems to be the most reasonable narrative analysis I’ve seen yet, with sound explanation of contingencies regarding the USreal alliance causing the strategic paralysis see with the current pauses and their underlying motivation despite the weakness they project. I wonder what the America first crowd would think. Re: FrameTheGlobeNews (FTGN) article “The Architecture of Managed Decline”. Very persuasive essay – worth summarising, I think. FTGN argues that Iran war part of a larger US strategy to preserve control of oil markets as it enters a multipolar world. Compelling details in support of energy-based strategy include estimated tripling of American LNG capacity 2024-29 and US bombing of emerging competitor land-based ME oil export route via Turkey (ie Development Road). According to this energy-based strategy, the under-reported US war aim of clearing Iran proxy mafias (eg Hezbollah, Houthis, Islamic Jihad) from ME actually the most important, because it paves the way for hypothetical liberal Iranian leadership faction to make a deal with US and open up its huge natural gas fields to investment. Presumably, the model here is Venezuela operation ie political decapitation plus energy-based deal-making. As FTGN indicates, though, fulfilment of US war aim of clearing ME of Iranian-backed proxies ultimately about clearing ME of IRGC-backed proxies. The IRGC is itself a political mafia which controls up to 40% of Iranian economy and must be nullified for US to have chance of solidifying its energy-based strategy. A big ask. Complicating this picture is fact that Israel seeks divergent Iran war outcome from US ie destruction of Iran rather than decapitation of its leadership. All perhaps a way of saying that the “final boss” US must overcome for completion of energy-based pacification of ME is not IRGC but war criminal Netanyahu and his cronies. The end game from the Meta et al lawsuit: no more anonymous internet. Under the banner of “protecting the children”, big tech will get serious about age verification (as lack thereof is finally hitting their bottom line). Age verification for children will twist into identity verification for all which will twist into more government control and monitoring. I don’t think that these tech companies legal problems will just go away with age verification. I foresee another potential legal problem for Sam Altman and co. down the road. They’re potentially misleading CEOs of myriad other industries with false promises of efficiency gains if they pony up and buy enterprise AI software that they can rely on to fire most of the staff. If those CEOs then rely on an intentional statement from Altman that is materially false and misleading, and, say, the company suffers damages due to operational failures from shoddy AI not living up to those promises, we have fraud in the inducement suiits coming. If I were an enterprise CEO, I would be working with legal to make sure that there are terms in the contracts to protect me if this scenario pans out. As in, specific performance levels for AI agents before Altman and his merry band of skunks see a dime. Unfortunately, most CEOs themselves are eternal optimists who stink at risk management. And they don’t think past the next quarter, so they may not care if they destroy their company 2-3 years down the road, as long as they can manipulate investors into buying into their tech-utopian narratives, get their stock compensation, and get out before it all goes sideways. Where is all the money from selling Treasuries going? It seems like a forced sale to get cash, if nothing else is seeing the cash show up. Maybe Hong Kong? See my comment here- https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/iran-war-trump-faffs-about-extending-deadline-for-strike-threat-by-10-days-as-us-military-and-energy-materials-shortfalls-and-shortages-expected-in-weeks-iran-allows-transit-of-trapped-friendly.html#comment-4397924 What is it doing in Hong Kong? All gov bonds are going down. Japan included. It looks like a big A$$ margin call from here. https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-bond-yield Random question – are PlutoniumKen and Colonel Smithers still posting? They added a lot to the comment threads. ‘Victor vicktop55 commentary @vick55top The Ukrainian drones that struck a port in the Leningrad region were flying over the Baltic states.’ Maybe Russia can lob a few missile interceptors into the Baltic States. And when they scream like stuck pigs about this, Russia could say that they were sorry and that they were going after Ukrainian drones that were headed to Russia via those states. Just wait till one crosses the Russian border and then lob a few into the country that it emerged from. These are just a couple of Zeitgeist examples I’ve noticed in the last 24 hours as we approach the tsunami/freight train/cliff edge. 1) The end of denial expression: Mario Nawhal, quite an interesting character in his own right, interviewed Luke Groman, some kind of analyst who received quite a glowing recommendation from Commander Jermy in a Daniel Davis interview. In this spot cut, Nawhal spins out his copium for a while until Gromen steps in with a heavy dose of reality. Nawhal’s expressions in reaction are entertaining n a schadenfreude sort of way. 2) “Is reality penetrating to the point that it increases the potential for a new consciousness?” Nate Hagens’s weekly “Frankly” starts out grim in its recognition of what lies ahead, but ends with a bit of optimism. What terrifies me is how many people, especially people of influence or with a money cushion, have no idea what’s coming or they’re so into denial that reality is having no effect on them. One thing Hagens passes along was the recommendation of a former teacher who lives in Beirut that everyone will need a meditation practice to stave off the impacts of the reality ahead. It’s necessary to have one’s eyes wide open, but it’s hard to bear. ‘Hyos Cyami @hyos_cyami 17h Replying to @PawlowskiMario Switzerland ordered some Tomahawks years ago. Now the US said they can’t deliver them. So Switzerland said then we won’t pay. The US have now seized the funds we paid for the F-35s (which we probably won’t get as well) instead.’ That’s what the Swiss government gets for trusting the US. They should have let that referendum on F-35s go ahead and gotten out of the deal that way. In a comment to this tweet it said that Pakistan paid for F-16 and got wheat and soybean oil instead. Ane here in Oz we are paying for nuke subs and it is doubtful that we will ever see them at all. At what point does a country say bugger it and buy weapons from Russia or South Korea or China or Turkiye instead? My German language prowess is not basically non existent but the article linked in the tweet is titled “USA umgehen Schweizer Zahlungsstopp für Flugabwehrsystem Patriot” (https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/zahlungsstopp-ist-wirkungslos-usa-umgehen-schweizer-zahlungsstopp-fuer-flugabwehrsystem-patriot) so I assume this is about Patriot missiles. I think the message on unreliability is about the same anyways though It was such a bleak snow year in the Colorado River tributaries, and that’s gonna leave a low mark on the reservoirs, not to mention fires everywhere. A 600k acre wildfire in March in Nebraska was not on my bingo card. Off to Vegas-adjacent soon, where we’ll put in about 1/2 a mile below Hoover Dam and 33 miles from the Vegas strip as the crow flies, to 3 canyons full of hot springs. We often see quite a bit of fowl play on the river, it grebes me. Up top, a tweet by Maine asked: Why would the Iranians demand to negotiate with @JDVance? (his answer makes no sense to me.) Reasons might be, speculating, of course Idk: JDV is a powerful official –elected/appointed– as VP, thus has a clear mandate, and supposedly State approval for his moves, whatever he does, thus accountable as well. NOT merely a family member sent along who know why for what to do, see Jared Kushner. Accountability an issue here. JDV is Catholic and the Pope is one the few public figures who has condemned the genocide in Gaza. (JDV converted to Catholicism in 2019 – date from wikipedia.) JDV has been quite absent so far and has distanced himself from TeamTrump so maybe some light might shine. JDV was in the past a Never-Trumper. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-vance-once-compared-trump-hitler-now-they-are-running-mates-2024-07-15/ Of course JDV has opportunistc tendencies, these can be exploited. Very good Construction Physics this week. The history of the amplifier. https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-age-of-the-amplifier Thank you, most informative! The amplifier simply put but so much more. Would that the MAGA folks were to think of such things, instead of supporting people who crush science and even critical thought. But then, the other wing of the uniparty is no great shakes. So… Bwahaha… Ken Klippenstein: FBI Director Kash Patel’s Emails Hacked by Iran An interview with Sergei Lavrov on French state television last evening, with Léa Salamé (of Lebanese extraction), erstwhile journalist and consort of Raphael Glucksmann, leader of the French Socialist Party and WEF Young Leader, has caused a polemic across the French mediasphere because of Lavrov’s frank exposition of the Russian position on matters of foreign policy. Lavrov states that Russia’s position is simply that International Law, and the United Nations, must prevail in any circumstance. He also dissects the reasons for the Israelo-American war on Iran. The French FM Barrot has condemned Lavrov’s interview a conduit for Russian “propaganda”. Lavrov went into detail about how the Russian Foreign Ministry attempted to investigate the deaths in Bucha for over 3 years and that the Ukrainians blocked any attempt to even share names of the dead. https://youtu.be/Q18dZu3Bxvk – the Lavrov interview in French https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260327-france-rebukes-lavrov-says-russia-does-not-defend-international-law Barrot response in English I think some ground is shifting on the blind support for Ukraine. Otherwise Glucksmann would never have allowed this to happen.