<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">FYI, there will be a protest (re Federal job cuts) in Parkersburg (bicentennial park) on Friday 2/28. Please attend if you can and share this info. Thanks! <br><br><div dir="ltr">Lori Flis<div>“Wisdom begins in wonder.” Socrates<br><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 21, 2025, at 10:43 AM, Ted Goertzel via Fuusm-l <fuusm-l@fuusm.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a525c400-7fff-89b4-97b6-4e462f39d024"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> The Today’s Issues group will meet this Sunday, February 23, 2025, at 9:30 to discuss Trump’s meeting with Putin and the future of the war in Ukraine. The group meets on occasional Sunday mornings in person in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the Church or you can join us on Zoom. </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"> Click Here to Enter the Zoom Room</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4">Here is some suggested reading, but you may have found others. </font></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/politics/trump-russia-putin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE4.eCPh.WmxyE9a4cSGM&smid=url-share" style="text-indent:18pt;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> From the NY Times Feb 19 This attempts to be neutral, but ends up being pretty negative.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">It was hard to find a supportive essay, but I did find this one in the New York Post.</span></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/opinion/trump-is-making-europe-squirm-to-force-true-peace-in-ukraine/?utm_source=chatgpt.comb" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Trump is making Europe squirm — to force a lasting peace in Ukraine</span></a></h1><font size="4"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4">Here is a sampling of critical commentary:</font></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">George Will, Washington Post</span></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://wapo.st/3ETqtMI" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">A spurious U.S. ‘realism’ about Ukraine flirts with catastrophe</span></a></h1><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18WPqkFrZfodvN0_FotZZPAY7lkC2fQHbOHF5GUsIm0k/edit?tab=t.0" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">The American Betrayal of Ukraine Begins</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> A strongly negative article from the National Review</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Dave Cress suggests that this article may help to explain Trump’s motives:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/trump-russia-ukraine-putin-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU4.gBTC.1nyTvIjiYObM&smid=em-share" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Kremlin Message to Trump: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia</span></a></p><br><h1 dir="ltr" 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