Anthony Kim’s message after his improbable victory was both raw and inspirational

Feb. 15, 2026.1/2(I bet Trump watched this today? Remember he told US Golf to accept Liv golf and they rejected it)

Anthony Kim's comeback victory at LIV Golf Adelaide on Sunday reverberated around the sporting world.

Kim, now 40, stunned golf fans when he overcame a five-shot final-round deficit to major champions and final group playing partners Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm to win the league's flagship event in Australia by three shots.

The popular, outspoken three-time PGA Tour winner then delivered a must-watch news conference following his first worldwide win in 5,795 days. Kim’s vulnerability and honesty about his comeback from drug, alcohol and mental health struggles, as well as 12 years away from golf, only bolstered what is the golf story of the year so far.

The former Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup star walked away from pro golf in 2012 due to injuries. In that time, he almost totally disappeared from public life. But by 2021, he had turned his life around, became a husband and father, and began practicing his golf game in private. In 2024, he was invited to play LIV Golf as a wildcard player. The Los Angeles native was relegated from LIV last year only to earn one of three cards through its qualifying school last month.

Kim was asked in Adelaide on Sunday what he would eventually tell his daughter, Bella, about the tumultuous period of his life and career between 2012 and 2024.

“I'm going to try to leave a lot of details out," Kim said. "But I will tell her that before she came into this world that I didn't feel any purpose in my life. Whether you have a lot of money, whether you have a lot of success in your life, you still can feel lonely and feel like the world is against you, and that's in your own mind because I had a lot of people rooting for me. Obviously, you saw out there how many people were rooting for me.

"But I just want her to know that no matter how bad your day is, if you keep fighting, you never lose. Hopefully she takes that with her for the rest of her life.

"When Bella was born, [wife] Emily and my life changed. But to be able to share this moment, even though Bella won't understand it, one day she will, and for her to be able to run on the green and see her dad isn't a loser was one of the most special moments of my life."

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Marc Leishman, a member of Cam Smith’s Ripper GC side who won the team component at LIV Adelaide, came onto the PGA Tour in 2009 at the peak of Kim’s powers. Now both playing on LIV, Leishman described Kim’s comeback as “a fairytale.”

“I've actually spoken to him a fair bit over the last couple of years about a few of his experiences, and I mean, it's an unbelievable story, the place he got to and how close he was to not being here,” Leishman said. “I'm not talking about in Adelaide, I'm talking about not being on this planet.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/family-over-everything-anthony-kim-inspiring-comments-after-his-amazing-comeback-win-2026

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“He had some times where just after his daughter was born, he got to some low places. I won't elaborate more than that … I hope that people realize how it's a fairytale, it really is. Not just golf but life. You see his wife and his daughter run out on the green, and that's as good as it gets. I couldn't be happier for AK.”

Kim ignited the Australian crowds when, after four front-nine birdies at The Grange, he went on a tear of four consecutive from the 12th hole, draining crucial putt after putt to steal the lead from Rahm.Another birdie at 17 allowed him to shoot a bogey-free 63 to win his first tournament since the 2010 Shell Houston Open on the PGA Tour. Kim said he could feel himself vanquishing his struggles with each of his fist-pumping nine birdies.

"Yeah. I'm too old to be reacting like that because I think I pulled something in my hip," Kim joked. "But I will say that that was all the lows that I went through in my life that I got to dig out of. Every putt that went in, I felt the struggle, and I was overcoming it. It was therapeutic out there to fight through it and come out on top."

Kim hoped his climb back to the winner’s circle resonated with those inside and outside of sport.

“One thousand percent—I want to inspire people,” he said.

“I told my wife this: The only way I get to reach the amount of people I want to reach is by winning. I can talk about my struggles all I want, but if I don't have the platform, then I won't reach as many people.”

Kim certainly reached them on Sunday.And his lesson was simple.

"Don't f-ing quit. That's it. Don't f-ing quit.”

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/family-over-everything-anthony-kim-inspiring-comments-after-his-amazing-comeback-win-2026

CNN 2/15/2026

‘I thought they were just going to execute me’: American held in Venezuela during Maduro’s last days tells all 1/3

Sean Lyngaas, Jennifer Hansler

Sat February 14, 2026

James Luckey-Lange has been spending a lot of time looking at thenames he carved on a bar of soap he smuggled out of a Venezuelan prison in his underwear.

The 28-year-old New York native spent just over a month detained by Venezuelan officials, whom he says beat him, deprived him of food for multiple days at a counterintelligence facility and only released him on January 13 following the US capture of the country’s then president, Nicolás Maduro.

At one point, he said, “I thought they were just going to execute me. That was the scariest time. Besides that, I was just really frustrated, really aggravated [and] angry.”

Now back at his aunt’s home in New Jersey, Luckey-Langeis looking up the names of his former prison mates on his soap and searching for their familieson Facebook to let them know they might be alive.

He was initially held in solitary confinement for long stretches at the counterintelligence facility. But even when he wasn’t in solitary, he didn’t get a good look at many of his prison mates. “I’ve never seen a lot of these people’s faces. It’s hard to find their families if you don’t know what they look like,” Luckey-Lange told CNN.

“I hope they don’t think I’m up there getting tortured right now,” he said of those he was held with.“I hope they know I got out.”

Dozens of Americans have been arrested and detained in Venezuela over the last several years— part of a long campaign by the former Venezuelan leader to use Americans as political pawns.But Luckey-Lange’s detention and release came at an unprecedented moment in US-Venezuela relations. President Donald Trump sent special operations forces to snatch Maduro in early January. His administration is now exerting huge amounts of influence on the interim Venezuelan government led by former Maduro acolytes.

Like many Americans detained in Venezuela, Luckey-Lange was accused of espionage and subjected to the harsh conditions of Venezuela’s notorious prisons.The experiences take a physical toll on the inmates that can last for months, if not years, and a mental toll that may never go away.

But Luckey-Lange has no regrets about traveling to Venezuela. “I got to learn something” and see “what’s really going on” there, he said wryly on a recent Zoom call from a coffee shop in New Jersey.

‘I’m not the type of guy that really wants to be confined’

The US government urges Americans not to travel to Venezuela in part because of “a very high risk of wrongful detention.”

The warning didn’t resonate with a wanderlust like Luckey-Lange.

“I’m not the type of guy that really wants to be confined,” he said, reflecting on his time in prison during a series of conversations with CNN.

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/02/14/politics/american-detained-venezuela-maduro

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Luckey-Lange is the son of the late Diane Luckey, a singerknown as Q Lazzarus whosesingle was featured in the film “The Silence of the Lambs.” Following her death in 2022, Luckey-Lange traveled throughout Latin America, learning Spanish and blogging about his adventures. Venezuela was meant to be his last stop on that trip.

Luckey-Lange wanted to visit Mount Roraima, a plateau in the east of Venezuela with views of Guyana and Brazil. The authorities detained him, he said, in December after he crossed the border from Brazil to ask about a visa.

He was flown several hundred miles from a military base in eastern Venezuela to the capital of Caracas, where he saidhe was held at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence, known as the DGCIM.

Veneuelan prisons generally don’t meet “the minimum rules for the treatment of international inmates,” much less “the national standards of hygiene, sanitation, care, nutrition, etcetera, that should be met in our prisons,” Gonzalo Himiob, vice president of the Venezuelan human rights organization Foro Penal, told CNN. Foro Penal confirmed that Luckey-Lange was held at a DGCIM facility.

Luckey-Lange said his fellow prisoners were from all over Latin America and the Caribbean, among other places.

“They starved me and didn’t give me any water” for days, Luckey-Lange recalled. “I was chained up in solitary with the camera in my room. Every time I would break out of the restraints from the waist, because it was tied by rope and I would untie it, they’d come in, beat me, throw me back in.”

From the start, Venezuelan authoritiesaccused him of being a spy, Luckey-Lange said. His hiking boots were military-style, they claimed. They drew maps in his notebook of roads and military bases in an effort, he said, to frame him as some sort of James Bond.

“No matter what I’d say, they say they didn’t believe me because they really wanted to catch a spy,” he recalled. “They all wanted to go home and tell their wives, tell their higher-ups, that they had caught a spy.”

Some four days later after arriving at DGCIM headquarters, Luckey-Langewas transferred to El Rodeo, a prison complexwhere Maduro imprisoned scores of political prisoners.He languished there for weeks and was only allowed outside once, he said.

“I was making a joke in there, all we have is books and soap,” he told CNN. “All the dominoes, all the chess pieces, everything is made out of soap.”

Thinking there was a good chancehe would get out of prison before the others, “I started carving the nameson soap so I can talk to their families, talk to somebody about getting them out,” Luckey-Lange said.

About 10 days before his release, US special forces captured Maduro and his wife. Luckey-Lange and his fellow inmates at El Rodeohad no idea what happened until days later. They got fragments of rumors through a game of prison telephone.Cries from people outside on the street suggested something big was afoot. Venezuelan officials later told Luckey-Lange that Maduro would return to power, he said, even though the deposed leader was already in custody in New York.

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/02/14/politics/american-detained-venezuela-maduro

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After Maduro’s ouster, the interim Venezuelan government pledged to release political prisoners, including Venezuelans and foreign nationals, without specifying how many or who would be released.The Trump administration had publicly pressed for the release of all political prisoners.

‘You’re famous’

Luckey-Lange didn’t know he was being freed until he was out.

He had heard his name whispered the night before, he recalled. But when the prison director came to his cell, Luckey-Lange thought he might be taken to the “fourth floor,” where he said people were tortured.

In the second week of January,Venezuelan officials drove him from El Rodeo to a private airplane hangaron the outskirts of Caracas. US State Department and Drug EnforcementAdministration officials were waiting to help him out of the country, he said.

“You’re famous,” one of the State Department officials told him, dispelling the impression he had that the outside world didn’t knowhe had been thrown in a Venezuelan prison. His story was already being told without him.

Luckey-Lange eventually ended up in Texas, where he and other Americans held in Venezuelatook part in the US government readjustment programknown as PISA, or Post Isolation Support Activities. It’s typically offered to Americans who have been designated as wrongfully detained to help them acclimate after being imprisoned abroad.

A US official confirmed Luckey-Lange participated in a variation of the program.

Luckey-Lange’shealth had deteriorated in Venezuela, he said. He had a parasite and his teeth were in bad shape.

Still, outward signs that Luckey-Lange had been through such a harrowing experience were minimal.

Sometimes, in moments alone, it hit him.

“I had a breakdown in the shower the second night [after being released]. That was it,” he said.

Luckey-Lange said he wants to travel again. Maybe go from Morrocco all the way down to South Africa.

But not before he reaches as many family members of his former prison mates as he can.

“I had promised all those guysthat I was going to help them get out, but I didn’t know it was going to be so difficult.”

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/02/14/politics/american-detained-venezuela-maduro

How a convoy attack exposed Russia’s expanding role in Libya. 1/2

BY LIBYAN EXPRESS FEB 15, 2026 - 05:0

France’s state broadcaster Radio France Internationale has reported that two incidents this week have once again drawn attention to the presence of Russian-linked forces in southern Libya, following a helicopter crash that left five people dead.

According to the broadcaster, the aircraft went down overnight between Monday 9 February and Tuesday 10 February in the country’s south, bringing renewed focus to the sensitive issue of foreign fighters operating in the region.

Attack on fuel convoy

RFI began its report by referring to claims made by a group calling itself the “Revolutionaries of Southern Libya”, which alleged responsibility for an attack on a convoy affiliated with the General Command of the Libyan National Army, led by Khalifa Haftar.

The convoy was reportedly transporting fuel towards Sudan on 9 February when it was targeted. Days earlier, on 31 January, the same group is said to have briefly seized control of a key border crossing between Libya and Chad.

According to RFI, attackers set fire to three fuel tankers bound for Sudan, despite the presence of security provided by the Subul Al-Salam Brigade, which is tasked with securing the area. The broadcaster described the assault as the second attack within 12 days against forces affiliated with the General Command in the Libyan desert.

The group’s leader, identified as Mohammed Wardogou, reportedly threatened to escalate operations along the border, citing what he described as chronic fuel shortages in southern Libya.

RFI further characterised the attack as the first of its kind allegedly aimed at disrupting fuel smuggling between Libya and Sudan, which it said benefits Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces amid their ongoing conflict with the Sudanese army. It also cited claims by Salafi cleric Abdul Rahman Hashem, who accused the Sudanese army of being behind the operation.

Helicopter crash near Ma’tan al-Sarra

RFI said the developments have once again highlighted Russia’s footprint in southern Libya, particularly following the helicopter crash near the Ma’tan al-Sarra military base.

The helicopter, reportedly piloted by two Russian nationals, had been dispatched to evacuate a member of the Subul Al-Salam Brigade who was injured in a traffic accident while allegedly fleeing the convoy attack. The aircraft crashed close to the base, killing five people on board.

Ma’tan al-Sarra lies approximately 300 kilometres south-west of Kufra and is one of five southern bases affiliated with Haftar’s General Command since last year. RFI reported thatRussian paramilitary personnel are stationed there under what is known as the Africa Corps, described as the successor to the Wagner Group.

HTTPS://WWW.LIBYANEXPRESS.COM/HOW-A-CONVOY-ATTACK-EXPOSED-RUSSIAS-EXPANDING-ROLE-IN-LIBYA

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The Africa Corps is widely regarded as having replaced the Wagner Group, the Russian private military company that previously operated across Libya and other parts of Africa. United Nations experts, RFI noted, have linked such forces to cross-border smuggling activities, including the transfer of weapons, ammunition and fuel to Sudanese militias.

No official explanation has been provided for the cause of the crash. RFI pointed out that medical helicopters are widely used in Libya’s vast desert regions, but often face maintenance challenges in a country marked by difficult terrain, limited infrastructure and years of instability.

The twin incidents are expected to intensify scrutiny of foreign involvement in southern Libya, a strategically significant region increasingly entangled in broader regional conflicts.

HTTPS://WWW.LIBYANEXPRESS.COM/HOW-A-CONVOY-ATTACK-EXPOSED-RUSSIAS-EXPANDING-ROLE-IN-LIBYA/

Clinton Is Not Navarro: A Constitutional Distinction That Matters. 1/2

Peter NavarroFebruary 14, 2026

Criminalizing unresolved executive-privilege disputes doesn’t vindicate the law—it chills presidential candor and hands Congress a dangerous new lever over the presidency.

A lazy, surface-level media habitually conflates the statutory duty of a private citizen to comply with a congressional subpoenawith the constitutional duty of a senior White House adviser to resist one that implicates executive privilege.

The latest example comes from National Review’s Rich Lowry, wholumps me together with Bill Clinton in a single moral bucket.

That analogygets the stakes exactly backward.

Lowry’s free trade antipathy to the Trump tariff agenda I have championed in the White House is no secret. Fair enough.Policy disputes are part of democratic life.

What is harder to acceptis Lowry’stariff animus spilling into applause for my imprisonment—and then repackaged as precedent for future subpoena fights involving former presidents.

In urging Clinton to “simply comply” with a congressional subpoena in the Epstein inquiry, Lowry argued that any former restraint against using criminal contempt in politically charged investigationshas already been abandoned because Steve Bannon and I went to prison.

The symmetry is rhetorically convenient. It is also legally wrong.

Clinton was subpoenaed as a private citizen regarding private conduct. However controversial the subject matter,a deposition about Jeffrey Epstein does not implicate confidential presidential deliberations or core Article II communications.

If Clinton has Fifth Amendment concerns, he may assert them question by question.But there is no meaningful executive-privilege issue at stake.

In my case, the January 6 Committee subpoena demanded testimony and documents concerning my work as a senior White House adviser, including communications and deliberations involving the president.That is precisely where Congress’s investigative power collides with the constitutional need for presidential independence and confidentiality.

For decades, the Supreme Court has recognized that executive privilege is rooted in the separation of powers. In United States v. Nixon, the Court acknowledged “thevalid need for protection of communications between high government officials and those who advise and assist themin the performance of their manifold duties” andemphasized the president’s need for “complete candor and objectivity from advisers.” The privilege exists to protect the “confidentiality of high-level communications” essential to effective presidential decision-making.

That protection is not ornamental. It is structural.

https://archive.is/beYOu

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For roughly five decades, Justice Department guidance has recognized the testimonial immunity of senior presidential advisers and cautioned against criminal contempt prosecutions in unresolved executive-privilege disputes. The purpose is not to elevate advisers above the law. It is to prevent Congress from converting the president’s immediate staff into compulsory witnesses against the presidency itself.

Lowry sidesteps that constitutional collision by reducing it to what might be called a “magic words” problem—the notion that executive privilege must be invoked with perfect procedural formality at precisely the right moment, or else the constitutional issue evaporates. But the dispute over how privilege is invoked—especially when a former president asserts it and an incumbent administration refuses to honor it—is itself a separation-of-powers controversy. Turning that unresolved conflict into a criminal prosecution transforms constitutional safeguards into procedural tripwires.

Conservatives should be waryof that approach.Once executive confidentiality depends on technical invocation ritualsrather than constitutional substance, Congress and the Justice Department arehanded a roadmap for piercing high-level deliberationswhenever political incentives align.

Today, a Republican adviser; tomorrow, a Democratic one.

My case remains on appeal, even though I have already served my sentence. I have no personal incentive to pursue it.I continue the appeal to resolve constitutional questions of first impressionthat extend far beyond my own circumstances.

Do senior White House advisers possess absolute testimonial immunity when executive privilege is implicated, as the Justice Department hasmaintained for more than half a century?Is executive privilege presumptive in such disputes, or must it be invoked with particular formalities to carry constitutional force?

If invocation is required, what constitutes a legally sufficient assertion—especially when a former president invokes privilege and an incumbent administration declines to defend it? And before a senior adviser is exposed to criminal liability, do Congress and the executive branch have a constitutional obligation to seek accommodation rather than resort to prosecution?

These are structural separation-of-powers questions.They deserve judicial resolution—not incarceration as a substitute for adjudication.

If I lose my appeal, the consequence will not be personal.It will be precedential.

Future senior advisers in both Republican and Democratic administrations will face the same dilemma:honor executive privilege and risk prison, or testify and weaken the constitutional independence of the presidency.

Either outcomewill chill candid advice to the presidentand erode the deliberative confidentiality the Supreme Court has long recognized as essential to effective executive decision-making.

If criminal contempt becomes the enforcement mechanism for interbranch privilege disputes,Congress will have discovered a powerful new lever over the presidency. The immediate target may be a Republican adviser.The long-term casualty will be presidential candor itself. And once advisers must calculate the risk of imprisonment before speaking freely,the constitutional damage will not be easily undone.

https://archive.is/beYOu

Navarro is a brilliant man!

Peter Navarro is Senior Counselor to the President for Trade and Manufacturing. He served four months in a federal prison while appealing his conviction. Follow his case at www.peternavarro.com

Secretary of State Rubio Holds Interesting Press Conference with Slovak Prime Minister Fico

February 15, 2026 | Sundance |

Secretary of State Marco Rubio took a different path on his European visit than Brussels wanted to see. After his time at the Munich Security Conference, Rubio headed to Slovakia and Hungary for conversations with the two nations who are not at all in alignment with Brussels leadership on the issue of Ukraine.

There were some technical challenges with the official state dept video, so I am making adjustments. The video below is prompted to Rubio’s introductory remarks. There is a voice-over for Fico but it is a little difficult so I suggest using the CC subtitles until we get the transcription finished.

Rubio speaks very bluntly on the topics that are of key concern to Prime Minister Robert Fico, including the topic of energy which is a major problem for both Slovakia and Hungary right now.Toward the end of the presser, the very last response by Fico [44:30 of video] is very interesting.

Prime Minister Fico directly claims that Ukraine is purposefully withholding oil and gas from pipelines that travel from Russia through Ukraine, into Slovakia. Fico notes he is not going to blame either Ukraine or Russia for previously detonations at the oil refinery and transport hub,but he is very sure Ukraine is purposefully withholding energy products from Hungary as blackmail until Hungary changes their positionon Ukraine achieving status in the European Union.

You can tell from the way Fico presents the subject and from the prior points of Rubio this hot button issue is why Fico flew to Mar-a-Lago a few weeks ago for a talk with President Trump. WATCH:

Sec. Of State Marco Rubio Holds Press Conference With Slovak PM Robert Fico

https://youtu.be/HwbvdntnETs

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/15/secretary-of-state-rubio-holds-interesting-press-conference-with-slovak-prime-minister-fico/

Ukraine is the New Mafia in Europe, it really is!

Marco Rubio Expands on Purposeful Speech to Munich Security Conference

February 15, 2026 | Sundance

Marco Rubio appears for an interview with John Micklethwait of Bloomberg News. The interview was pre-scheduled as a follow up to the rather historic speech in Munich at the security conference. Within the interview {video and transcript below}

Rubio expands on the baseline of the speech, the ‘why‘ is the U.S-EU alliance important.

Beginning with the end in mind, Rubio reminds the interviewerthat an alliance must first accept the purpose of the assembly.

There are common values andcommon social components to the relationship that sit at the core of the decision to be allies.

We have a shared civilization based on shared values, and within that central component theTrump administration is staring at the Europeans and saying they have lost focus on these values. Europe is diminishing itself; it is fracturing its culture and has lost its sovereign identity. The United States wants to stay partnered with Europe,but we are not going to be a partner anchored to a collective mindset that has lost its identity.

This culturally Marxist status, a gathering of nations infected with political correctness, pontificating wokeness and apologetic self-flagellation, is the core problem the Europeans are not willing to face.

President Trump and Marco Rubio are essentially telling the EU to shake it off, quit being woke, get proud of your heritage, institute political systems that give benefit to the population and regain pride in themselves and their identity.

The process begins with national security, but that is not just about military spending. Their energy industry needs to support economic independence; they cannot outsource component manufacturing; they need to reestablish economic baselines that are not dependent on Russia, China, India or any other risk vector that could be used to manipulate.

Marco Rubio Warns European Leaders About Dangers of Western Decline

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https://youtu.be/aezzS7cJP-o

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/15/marco-rubio-expands-on-purposeful-speech-to-munich-security-conference/

(I have a suspicion that Marco is the first in the running for being the next President!)

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Rubio is very clear with his answers, it seems he never engages in diversions and he gives intelligently answered questions in the best way is needed. It nice to see a leader of SOS that is not hiding and weaving like Pompeo is and was.

Where to hell is Pompeo this days, is his taking down other countries for money. He’s probably hiding in Ukraine to keep the war with Russia going.

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If Israel would stop calling everyone an antisemite, they could stop complaining. But that’s not something Israel will do. They only blast that everyone is one, because they want to use it for power and condemnation. It’s sick!

I’m glad I read the entire Bible, seeing what Moses went through for 40 years, ofthe Jews constant complaining seemingly was prophecy today. God was ready to get rid of them a few times because how they treated Moses and disrespected God.

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It’s pretty interesting that the Epstein thinks they can get away with what they did. The US Government released all of the documents, letting those who joined Epstein and did what all of them that did, are in our sights, and the round up will be done quietly until it gets too loud.

The crimes cover multiple avenues not only satanic sacrifice, the NWO leaders have revealed all crimes they did and are still doing.

I’d imagine Q and numerous teams are on gigantic missions as we search.

15 Feb, 2026 15:50

Kiev on the brink of catastrophe – mayor

Ukraine’s future is uncertain amid massive blackouts, with Vladimir Zelensky’s actions complicating the situation, Vitaly Klitschko has said

Kiev is teetering on the brink of catastrophe amid large-scale power outages, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko has told the Financial Times.He also accused Vladimir Zelensky of hampering the city’s efforts to mitigate the dire situation.

In recent weeks, the Russian military has intensified drone and missile strikes targeting Ukraine’s power grid, which Moscow says are aimed at undercutting weapons production. Russia has stated that the strikes are retaliation for Kiev’s attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure.

The situation in Kiev and several other Ukrainian cities has been further compounded by severe cold weather.

In an interview with the FT published on Sunday, Klitschko said,“the question of the future of our country – whether we will survive as an independent country or not is still open.”

The Kiev mayor alsocriticized Zelensky, with whom he has been at odds for years. Klitschko accused the Ukrainian leader, who retains presidential powers under martial law despite his term expiring in 2024,of infringing on municipal authority by appointing military-civilian administrations.

Last month, Zelensky claimed that Kiev was falling behind other Ukrainian cities in responding to power outages.

Klitschko dismissed the criticism as unfounded and said the Ukrainian leader turned down his requests for a meeting to discuss the crisis. The mayor also maintained that electricity generation falls within the central government’s purview.

Ukraine’s energy sector was thrust into the international spotlight in November 2025, when a massive corruption scheme was uncoveredby the Western-backed National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).

A group allegedly led by a close associate and business partner of Zelensky, Timur Mindich, and comprised of several other high-profile figuresis believed to have siphoned $100 million from Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear energy operator.

The corruption scandal led to the resignations of Justice Minister German Galushchenko, Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk, and Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak.

On Sunday, Ukrainian media reported that Galushchenko was detained while attempting to flee to Poland.

(Why Poland? Especially since Poland hates the Ukraine leaders, but still funds them against Russia. There will be many more in Zelensky’s regime that will be running and ditching him.

https://www.rt.com/russia/632564-mayor-klitschko-kiev-brink-catastrophe/

15 Feb, 2026 13:33

Putin envoy comments on Rubio’s ‘we care deeply about EU’ claim

The US secretary of state made the remark at the Munich Security Conference while trying tobridge the rift caused by the diverging policies of Washington and Brussels

The US may be unable to prevent EU bureaucrats from destroying Western civilization, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev has suggested.

The remark came in response to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he sought to ease tensions between Washington and Brussels after a year of strained transatlantic relations. Rubio insisted that despite differences, the US and Europe “belong together,” and if Washington’s policies that angered Brussels – from tariffs and NATO spending demands to the Greenland bid – may seem “a little direct and urgent,” it is because “we care deeply” about the future of the EU and the West in general.

In a post on X on Saturday,Dmitriev said the bloc’s sprawling bureaucracy and poor policy choices would impede US plans to “renew and restore” Western civilization.

“The US cares deeply and tries to prevent EU bureaucrats from destroying Western civilization,” Dmitriev wrote. “But EU bureaucrats are highly focused and skilled at destroying it through false narratives, migration, warmongering, and economic decline. It’s unclear who wins.”

Dmitriev’s tone appeared mocking toward both the US and EU.To illustrate his point, he linked a short clip of the arm-wrestling scene from Over the Top (1987) starring Sylvester Stallone.

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategyslammed the EU for poor policy choices, warning of a risk of “civilizational erasure.” Rubio echoed parts of the criticism but reframed it as shared failures by both European and American authorities since World War II. He invoked the common “adversaries and rivals”narrative, stressing that the US and EU must stand united against unnamed powers that allegedly built welfare states and hard power while the West faltered.

While Rubio did not identify these alleged adversaries, Trump has defended his push for Greenland as a way to counter Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic.EU and NATO officials have also portrayed Russia as a threat, claiming it could strike Europe after the Ukraine conflict, and have launched military initiatives framed as deterrence against Moscow.

Russia has dismissed claims it threatens Europe as “nonsense” and baseless fearmongering used to justify inflated military budgets. Both Russia and China, the latter of which has no strategic role in the region, have also rejected claims they threaten Greenland.

https://www.rt.com/news/632551-putin-envoy-rubio-us-eu/

15 Feb, 2026 15:46

Many Canadians want to join ‘woke, decadent’ EU – Kallas

The bloc is not facing “civilizational erasure,” contrary to “what some may say,” the EU’s top diplomat claims

The “woke, decadent” EU is not facing a declineregardless of what critics say, andsome people, including nearly half of Canadians, “still want” to join it, the bloc’s foreign policychief Kaja Kallas has claimed.

Kallas made the remarks at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, asshe urged the bloc to “reclaim agency” and seek a “stronger role in the world.” She dismissed concerns that the EU may be facing an “erasure” altogether, hitting out at unnamed critics.

“Contrary to what some may say, woke, decadent Europe is not facing civilizational erasure. In fact, people still want to join our club. And not just fellow Europeans. When I was in Canada last year,I was told that over 40 percent of Canadians have an interestin joining the EU!” Kallas insisted. (That’s obviously a freakin lie.)

While the bloc’stop diplomat did not elaborate, she apparentlyreferred to a pollconducted by Abacus Datalast March, which indicated that some 44% of Canadians were in favor of joining the EU. The survey, whichsampled opinions of some 1,500 Canadian adults, also indicated the majority of respondents viewed the EU as the country’s most important partner in the next three to five years.

The idea of building closer ties with the EU has been favored by the Canadian authorities as well, with Prime Minister MarkCarney proclaiming the country’s people have a “natural affinity” with Europe.

“As the most European of the non-European countries, Canada looks first to the European Union to build a better world,”Carney said last June. (The lies they tell are outrageous)

The friendly rhetoric towards the EU has been coming from the Canadian leadership amid the attacks from US President Donald Trump, who repeatedly signaled his intent to annex the country. Trump has accused Ottawa of being subsidized by Washington for decades, insisting that it should become the “cherished” 51st state of the US.Canadian leaders have firmly rejected the annexation idea, while opinion polls indicated that it was also extremely unpopular among the public. A YouGov poll held last spring suggested that up to 77% of Canadians firmly rejected the potential incorporation of their country into the US.

(Canada should ask themselves if NATO troops in Europe will come and fight for Canadians. The EU countries could barely send 7-10 military to protect Greenland from the evil Trump,. How will they send them more troops to Canada== on their time of need. The EUs pride, blocks any realistic resolve.)

https://www.rt.com/news/632579-canada-join-eu-kallas/

The EU is the worst plan Canada to join, Canada will be smacked hard on US Tariffs if they join the EU, not to mention they are 1,000s of miles away from the EU.Only retards could believe it can be done. Being WOKE is a serious disease!)

15 Feb, 2026 07:36

Russia open to discussing Ukraine’s ‘external governance’ – senior diplomat

The plan could allow the country to elect a government that would be able to sign a legitimate peace treaty, Mikhail Galuzin has said

Russia is ready to discuss establishing “temporary external governance” in Ukraine under UN auspices to facilitate long-overdue democratic elections, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin has said.

In an interview with TASS released on Sunday, Galuzin noted that the idea was first floated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2025, describing it as one possible way to further the peace process.

This step, he said, “would make it possible to hold democratic elections in Ukraine, bring topower a capable government with which a full-fledged peace treatycould be signed,along with legitimate documents on future interstate cooperation.”

“In general, Russia is prepared to discuss with the US, European nations, and other countries the possibility of introducing temporary external governance in Kiev,” he added.

Galuzin acknowledged thatwhile the UN “does not formally have a standardized mechanism” for these types of cases, there are historical precedents.

Moscow proposed the idea of external governance after the expiration of Vladimir Zelensky’s presidential term in 2024. At the time, the Ukrainian leader refused to hold new elections, citing martial law, which prompted Russia to declare him “illegitimate.”Moscow has since said Zelensky’s legal status is a major obstacle to concluding a binding peace deal.

Following US pressure, Zelensky signaled that he is open to having an election, but demanded security guarantees from the West and Russia.

In March 2025, the US dismissed the external management proposal, saying governance in Ukraine is “determined by its Constitution and the people of the country.”Prior to this, however, US President Donald Trump branded Zelensky “a dictator without elections.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/632550-russia-ukraine-external-management/

)I have a feeling if Zelensky doesn’t get out of the way of blocking opposition to Peace between the countries, he may disappear, to one of his numerous homes and castles he owns, or worse!)

15 Feb, 2026 08:35

SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docks at ISS(VIDEO)

Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev flew with Crew-12 alongside NASA and European Space Agency astronauts

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), delivering a multinational mission that includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

Crew-12 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday.The reusable Dragon capsule Freedom dockedwith the station’s Harmony module about 34 hours later, completing its journey to the orbital outpost. Other crew members include NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, who serve as commander and pilot, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot.

“With that gentle contact, we have bridged the legacy of humankind’s continuous presence in space. It has been more than25 years at this very site,” Meir radioed after docking. “The International Space Station is more than a structure, it is a promise kept.Decadesin the making, built by nations, sustained by trust and partnerships, and powered by science, innovation and curiosity.”

“As we look back at Earth through these windows, we are reminded that cooperation is not just possible, it is essential. Up here there are no borders and hope is universal,” she added.

The astronauts are expected to remain aboard the ISS for abouteight months, conducting scientific research, maintenance, and technology demonstrations in low Earth orbit. Their arrival restores the stationto a full seven-person complementafter an earlier expedition returned ahead of schedule due to a medical issue.

Russia and the US continue to cooperate on ISS missions under a cross-flight agreementsigned in 2022. The arrangement allows Roscosmos cosmonauts to fly aboard Crew Dragon spacecraft while NASA astronauts travel on Russia’s Soyuz capsules.

Following the launch, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said preparations are underway for talks with Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Bakanov, adding that the meeting will take place “at the earliest opportunity.”

“There is a lot that we need to accomplish together in the years ahead,” he said, adding that there is “certainly a lot of opportunity for good conversation.”

Isaacman also said he plans to attend the Soyuz MS-29 launch scheduled for summer 2026.

(So it seems only astronauts in space can accept peace.)

https://www.rt.com/news/632548-spacex-dragon-spacecraft-docks-at/

14 Feb, 2026 18:27

Top Trump envoys to join Ukraine peace talks in Geneva – Reuters

The US president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, will once again join Washington’s delegation

Washington’s delegation at the trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine talks inGeneva next weekwill include American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing a source briefed on the matter.

On Friday, Kremlin spokesman DmitryPeskov confirmedthat the trilateral negotiations to settle the Ukraine conflict will take place on February 17 and 18== in Geneva. No Western European nations will be represented, he added.

Russia’s delegation will be headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who has already participated in several rounds of Russian-Ukrainian talks.

In a statement on Friday, Ukraine’s national security chiefRustem Umerov announced that he would again be leading Kiev’s delegation. The other members will include Vladimir Zelensky’s new chief of staff and former military intelligencechief Kirill Budanov, general staff chief Andrey Gnatov, and several other senior officials.

According to Reuters,Witkoff and Kushnerwill attend the three-way talks as part of the US delegation in the afternoon, after participating in negotiations with an Iranian delegation that morning. Neither was present at the last round, which took place in the UAE last week.Moscow described it as “constructive but difficult,” while Witkoff noted that thediplomatic effort was gleaning “tangible results.”

According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the trilateral talks have trimmed down the range of issues between the sides.

“The bad news is they've been narrowed to the hardest questions to answer,” he said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

One of thebiggest remaining pointsof contention between Russia and Ukraineis territories. Moscow has insisted that a stable peace can only be achieved if Kiev withdraws soldiers from any territories it still controls in Donbass – which voted to join Russia in 2022 – among other key demands.

Moscow hadagreed to several compromises and settledon a realistic peace roadmap after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summit with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska last year, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Putin-Trump Alaska Summit

On August 15, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss ways to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict.The two leaders spoke for three hours, afterwards praising the talks as productive and promising of a breakthrough. During the summit, Putin insisted on the necessity of a lasting peace settlement, as opposed to a ceasefire Kiev and its EU backers have been calling for. Trump emerged from the talks sharing this sentiment. He also said Ukraine may have to give up territories in order for this settlement to take place – something Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky categorically rejects.

However, this peace drive has been systematically undermined by Kiev and its Western European backers since then, he stated on Wednesday.

https://www.rt.com/news/632516-trump-envoys-russia-us-ukraine-talks/