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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Badlands News Brief Epstein Barr, Resonant Summits, & A White House Whirlwind Ashe in America Aug 19 READ IN APP  The news cycle is impossible to fully track these days. That’s where we come in. The Badlands News Brief is a uniquely curated selection of the stories dominating the info war — with context and commentary from Badlands hosts. Now, onto the very busy news weekend … The Alaska Summit Resonates Farther Than You Might Think For three years, Brussels and its media outlets have been repeating the same refrain: Vladimir Putin is isolated, marginalized, and weakened by sanctions. A propaganda narrative that poorly hides the failure of Brussel’s diplomacy reduced to blindly following Washington. Yet, the image that will remain in history is not that of a solitary Putin, but of a Russian president welcomed with full military honors in the United States, in Alaska, by Donald Trump on August 15th.A summit that, beyond its symbolism, marks a stinging humiliation for the EU and announces a shift in the global balance of power.Russia isolated?Since February 2022, Brussels has multiplied “punitive” sanctions against Moscow. Seventeen successive packages, often absurd, even targeting African activists such as Nathalie Yamb and myself, accused of denouncing Western interference and defending Russian-African cooperation.Meanwhile, Russia has consolidated its partnerships with the BRICS, expanded its trade with Asia, strengthened its presence in the Middle East, and built durable alliances in Africa. — RT Our Take: “For Africans, this event is more than a simple diplomatic episode: it embodies both a moral victory and a political lesson. It shows that only genuine independence, backed by economic, political, and military strength, can command respect in international affairs. This is why the summit resonates so strongly across Africa. It confirms that Western domination is not inevitable and that a multipolar world is possible. Seeing Russia stand firm inspires hope that, one day, a united and sovereign Africa will also be able to command respect and defend its interests with dignity.” The world is watching. Here is what they saw: The Sovereign Alliance is real. Trump-a-Mania is real. (As real as a wrestling soap opera can be.) Trump and Vlad’s public friendship has only just begun. I expect the PDA to become more intense and regular. [Clip Link] — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry Pure, Premium Chicken You Can Trust The grocery store sells chicken that is injected, industrialized, and raised to meet quotas instead of quality. 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Not, apparently, if Ukraine and its partners could prevent it.The presence of Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other leaders alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington is about more than making sure he does not get ambushed in the Oval Office again, in the way he did on 28 February.They are determined to impress upon Donald Trump two things: firstly, that there can be no peace deal for Ukraine without Ukraine's direct involvement and secondly, that it must be backed by "cast-iron" security guarantees. — BBC Our Take: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." There is SO MUCH that came out of the (first) Trump-Putin Summit, but chief among them was Putin's de facto acknowledgement of long-running theories that part of Trump's Devolution Operation was forwarded in coordination with the Sovereign Alliance. Putin confirming Trump's long-running argument that the Ukrainian 'invasion' would not have happened had Trump been President at the time isn't a contradiction of the Sovereign Alliance theory, but one of its key gravitational proofs. Why? Well, if you invert the central premise, you understand that the Special Military Operation in Ukraine (officially dubbed a DeNazification effort by Putin himself,) HAD to happen. Under this framing, Trump stepping away wasn't only about accelerating the American Awakening throughout the Biden era while allowing the Swamp creatures to fully reveal themselves, but also to allow for the global battlespace to shift in favor of kinetic operations other players NEEDED to forward. Had Trump been occupying the Oval Office (publicly) circa 2022, optics would not have allowed him to suffer Putin's advance without kinetic escalation. This was a bipartisan sentiment at the time, with VERY few voices favoring Russia's approach from the outset. The fact that Trump and Putin are now meeting publicly suggests that we're nearing the final Arc of the Peacemakers, which isn't so much about the actuals that have been or are in the process of being wrapped up, but the narrative, as the Collective Western Mind is being primed for a catharsis and unification storyline that could span decades, as East and West come together under the narrative deprogramming I've dubbed the 'Axis and Allies inversion.' All of this public deal-making and respect is an optics show, and it is being and will continue to be contrasted with the Globalist Hegemon's increasingly-desperate bids to stop the end goal of the Sovereign Alliance from coming to fruition. What is that end goal? Peace. That's what Donald Trump has been saying for years. It's what Vladimir Putin has been mirroring, but only after the Globalist Trash has been fully excised from the game board using whatever means necessary. From Prussian Proxy States and Nazi Regimes that never left, but simply rebranded under the guise of sovereign governments to the Globalist Collectorate now revealed to an increasing plurality as nothing but Warmongers and Vampires leeching off the blood of nations, the Arc of the Peacemakers its nearing its zenith, and a generation of catharsis, truth and reconciliation waits on the other side. [Read More] — Burning Bright