After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and threaten Iran.
This is the third Atlantic crossing for the Ford’s crew since it set sail from Norfolk, Virginia, in June 2025, and the second time its deployment has been extended, first to redeploy from the Middle East to the Caribbean, and now to redeploy back to the Middle East.
Putin’s peace negotiations with Washington are turning out to be as endless as Putin’s war in Donbas. Yet another day of negotiations has passed, and the result is no progress, but we are assured that the negotiations were conducted in a business-like way. Thus reassured, the never-ending peace process continues.
Sergey Ryabkov, who serves as both Deputy Foreign Minister and BRICS Sherpa, recently clarified that
“I would like to remind you that BRICS is not a military union and not a collective security organization with collective defense commitments. It has never been planned as such, and there are no plans to transform it for the purpose.”
It’s pretty clear that yet another American attack on Iran is a matter of when, not if.
It might occur over the weekend or perhaps after Ramadan, which ends in about a month from now.
If the United States acts more tactfully, it might want to avoid attacking during Islam’s holiest month. However, if the pressure from the potential revelation of even more disturbing Epstein files continues, Washington DC might entirely drop all religious and geopolitical considerations and attack in the next few days. Either way, it’s virtually inevitable, as war, death and destruction flow in the veins of America’s pedophile elites.
The Taliban is once again making headlines when they recently declared that they will back Iran if, or when the US and Israel launch an attack on the country.
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China has rolled out tariff free market exchange across 53 African nations. Just as taxing millionaires simply makes them move, Africa was roiling from Trump’s tariffs which hit South Africa to the tune of 30%. China steps in and America loses. Trump keeps handing China the gauntlet of trade and prosperity while sending American troops to war and farmers into bankruptcy.
On February 13, dozens of Palestinians were injured as Israeli settlers carried out attacks across the occupied West Bank, destroying olive trees and vandalizing property.
The Israeli military protected the settlers as they wounded about 54 Palestinians in attacks in several towns and villages.
Millions take to the streets across Iran to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and reject the ongoing threats of military intervention.
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First published by GRTV on February 17, 2026
“With the advent of the post-arms-control era, we are entering a new period of uncertainty and strategic instability.
The world’s two most potent thermonuclear powers, Russia and the United States, are no longer bound by any legal constraints with regard to their arsenals, which could potentially result in a new nuclear arms race.
President for the Re-Foundation of the Republic of Madagascar, Michael Randrianirina, hoping to move Russian-Madagascar partnership to a new level and to expand economic collaboration, has paid a working visit to the Kremlin. Russia and Madagascar have, together, cooperated for 55 years, and today the southern African nation stands prepared to build new partnerships with the Russian Federation.
There is an ongoing blackout and denial of the Maidan massacre trial verdict’s confirmation that many Maidan activists were killed and wounded and BBC and ARD TV journalists were shot at on February 20, 2014 by snipers in Hotel Ukraina and other Maidan controlled locations, that this hotel was controlled by Maidan activists, including a far-right-linked Maidan company of snipers, that there were no massacre orders by President Yanukovych and his police and security chiefs, that Russian agents were not involved in the massacre, and that EuroMaidan then was an armed rebellion, which involved the massacre of the Berkut and Internal Troops.
The most common perception of world peace is in terms of negotiations by world’s leaders and signing of treaties and peace agreements by them. Important as this is for world peace, experience has shown clearly that this by itself does not go far in creating a peaceful and safer world without continuing involvement of most people in peace efforts.
