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The legal status of abortion across the states is shaped not only by the Dobbs decision but also by a range of additional factors. These include recent state constitutional rulings interpreting abortion as a protected right; the passage of laws aimed at safeguarding unborn life; ongoing litigation challenging or defending those laws; and the implementation of so-called “shield laws.” These are laws designed to protect abortion providers who reside in abortion-friendly states who prescribe abortions pills in states where abortion is almost entirely proscribed.

In the three years since Dobbs, these developments have significantly sculpted the abortion landscape. As a result, the 2025 state legislative sessions have seen a significant amount of activity on both sides of the issue. States either reinforced life-saving protections for unborn life or expanded lethal access to abortion on demand through new statutes and constitutional amendments.

Constitutional Amendments

The Missouri legislature is placing a pro-life amendment on the 2026 ballot which would repeal Amendment 3 that narrowly passed last year. Additionally, the amendment includes various pro-life protections but also exceptions for medical emergency, sexual assault, and a fatal fetal condition.

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In 2026, Nevada is facing a second vote on the pro-abortion ballot measure Question 6, the “Right to Abortion Initiative” which was previously approved by voters in 2024.  Nevada requires the amendment to pass in two consecutive general elections.

In great news, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma have passed new laws amending their existing ballot measure procedures to strengthen the integrity of the constitutional amendment process. These reforms aim to prevent bad actors from using deceptive or fraudulent tactics to place measures on the ballot.

We’ll first look at 2025 pro-abortion trends and activities before finishing with pro-life trends and initiatives.

Six states introduced bills that amended their abortionist-evasion laws (shield laws) to assure that the name of the abortionist not be on the label. The label would instead list the name of the facility that employs them. The law was introduced in six states and enacted in Colorado, Maine, and New York.  In Nevada, the proposal was sent to the Governor at the end of May for his signature. The pro-abortion lobby is pushing these measures claiming to enhance privacy protections for abortionists and shield them from litigation in states that protect the unborn.

Pro-abortionists naturally proposed direct taxpayer funding of abortion services and attempted to codify abortion on demand through statutory changes or constitutional amendments.

Colorado enacted a law implementing the abortion Amendment 79, the “Right to Abortion and Health Insurance Coverage Initiative” that passed last year. It requires taxpayer funding of abortion coverage in insurance policies for state employees and people on Medicaid. In January, Massachusetts awarded $1.8 million for financial assistance to women seeking abortion. Instead of investing in life-affirming programs so that families can choose life, the state is forcing taxpayers to pay for the willful destruction of human lives. Connecticut also passed legislation that allocated $800,000 taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood.

In Vermont, the governor recently signed a sweeping law that greatly expands legal protections for abortion providers of online abortions drugs whether they live in the state or anywhere in the U.S.

The newly-enacted law permits healthcare providers to prescribe abortion-inducing drugs through an online questionnaire without any contact, or even an online “chat,” with a health care provider.

Leaders of Vermont Right to Life, as well as the Vermont Medical Practice board, objected to the provision and noted that the language significantly lowers the standard of medical oversight. All objections were dismissed, ridiculed and ignored. The bill was passed, despite testimony pointing out that anyone could be filling out the questionnaire, including abusive partners, men, minors, and those much further along in pregnancy or not pregnant at all.

During legislative testimony, a New York abortionist, Dr. Linda Prine, made a startling—though not surprising—admission: she prescribes abortion pills via tele-health 50 to 60 times a day. She also admitted that while she prescribes up to 13 weeks, there are “semi underground” providers who will prescribe the abortion drugs later in pregnancy.

The law also weaponizes consumer protection laws to target pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), individuals and others. It empowers the pro-abortion attorney general to determine what speech is “misleading” or even has the “tendency to mislead.” This is an alarming overreach.

Ironically, just mere days after the Governor signed the bill into law, a study was released indicating that the abortion pills were 22 times more dangerous than originally believed. The new Secretary of Health and Human Services called for an investigation into the serious side-effects of the drugs.

It will come as no surprise that Planned Parenthood of Vermont testified in favor of passage. In Vermont, anything the abortion giant requests is immediately acted upon by the pro-abortion super-majority in the House and Senate. Protecting the health and safety of the girls and women who use the abortion drug cocktail believing it is just like swallowing a Tylenol? That isn’t even on the table.

In Maryland, our affiliate was successful in defeating “The Emergency Pregnancy-Related Medical Conditions Act,” a bill that sought to impose the Biden Administration’s gross misinterpretation of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. EMTALA was a Reagan-era law that requires emergency rooms to provide or help facilitate life-saving care to those unable to pay, including pregnant women and their unborn children. Biden-Harris turned that law on its head by requiring hospital emergency rooms to become abortion facilities.

A similar bill codifying the Biden Administration’s interpretation of EMTALA is currently moving in Connecticut. It includes even more protections for abortion providers and a “safe harbor fund” which will fund travel and lodging expenses for nonresidents seeking abortions in Connecticut.

Unfortunately, the Maryland legislature established “The Public Health Abortion Grant Program.” This publicly-funded abortion grant program takes $25 million in insurance premiums, mandated by the Affordable Care Act and intended to cover the cost of abortions for enrolled individuals, to create a new state abortion grant program.  The program will subsidize the abortion industry in the form of grants that target low income mothers who are not enrolled or insured. This increases the risk of interstate abortion traffic.

Assisted Suicide:

Legislation either authorizing doctor-prescribed death or expanding on an already existing law was introduced in about 23 states. The great news is that in Maryland, doctor-prescribed suicide was defeated for the 8th year in a row. Unfortunately, in Delaware, their Governor recently signed a law legalizing doctor-prescribed death—becoming the 11th state to do so. Now doctor-prescribed death is legal in 11 states and the District of Columbia.

In Illinois, the Senate was dangerously close to advancing a bill legalizing assisted suicide. In a last-ditch effort, proponents of legalization attached this deadly amendment to a food safety bill. Luckily, the legislature adjourned before this bill could pass. In Oregon, there is a dangerous expansion of doctor-prescribed death. The new bill had a second hearing June 2. This is a death-on-demand approach which cuts the waiting period in half, requires hospitals and hospices to disclose if their facility participates in this deadly practice, and expands provisions to allow non-physicians to prescribe death.

2025 Pro-life trends and activity:

Pro-lifers were active. They passed life-affirming laws to help pregnant women in need with assistance, provided protection for Pregnancy Resource Centers or tax credits for Pregnancy Resource Centers. They passed legislation to teach prenatal/human development in schools.

Our opponents falsely asserted that pregnant women were not able to receive emergency care due to state laws protecting unborn children. In response, many states have amended their current laws protecting unborn children to clarify what a medical emergency entails. These provide clearer guidelines for medical professionals and reinforce the state’s existing abortion laws

This session, six states filed such clarification bills.  It’s been enacted in Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In Kentucky, the law explicitly protected medical treatments for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care, mandated the expansion of perinatal palliative care services, and established freestanding birthing centers in the state. Texas’s SB 31 reaffirms that doctors are allowed to intervene if a pregnant woman faces a life-threatening physical condition under Texas’ Pro-Life laws. The bill has been sent to the Texas Governor awaiting his signature.

The Texas Governor also has another bill recently sent to him which would include perinatal palliative care when families are given a life-threatening or life-limiting diagnosis of their unborn child. This law would provide resources for families in this challenging situation.

The Tennessee law provides a clear definition of a medical emergency and explicitly excludes mental health conditions as a valid justification for an abortion. The Medical Education Act, recently enacted in North Dakota, requires abortion providers to review state-approved materials clarifying the legal definition of a medical emergency.

Bills to teach about the baby’s development in schools were introduced in thirteen states.  It was enacted in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho & Kansas. In the latter case, the legislature overrode their pro-abortion governor’s veto. While it passed both houses of the legislature in Arizona, unfortunately it was vetoed.  In Iowa, it has passed both houses and is on its way to the Governor. These laws are instrumental in building a future generation of prolife advocates because it teaches them the truth about the unborn child’s humanity.

The Kansas Legislature also overrode the governor’s veto on a law that would direct courts to consider child support payments to women from the moment of conception and extend tax exemptions to parents of preborn children. The law includes a line item in the state budget that includes $3 million in funding for pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes across Kansas, a $1 million increase from previous years.

Surprisingly, their Governor signed a law that had wide bipartisan support that ensures women and families facing a prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of a chromosomal condition (such as Down syndrome) will receive accurate, up-to-date, and supportive information and resources. She also signed a law which strengthens protections for individuals with disabilities by ensuring they are not denied life-sustaining care, including food, water, and medical treatment.

This year ten states introduced bills that would provide a positive impact so mothers may choose life when faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Some of these bills also provide tax credits to organizations that offer prenatal care and support to families in need or protect pregnancy care centers (PRCs).

In Montana, a groundbreaking step was taken to safeguard the vital work of pregnancy resource centers with the enactment of the Pregnancy Center Autonomy and Rights of Expression Act. This first-of-its-kind law ensures that pregnancy centers are not compelled to provide or refer for abortions. Governor Gianforte signed the landmark legislation into law on May 1st, marking a powerful stand for the rights and integrity of life-affirming organizations.

In Oregon, the House and Senate both unanimously approved a bill to establish August 25 as “Oregon Adoption Day.”  For Rep. Lucetta Elmer, the carrier and presenting sponsor of the bipartisan bill, the establishment of “Oregon Adoption Day” shines “a light on the beauty of adoption” and sends “a message to every adopted child in Oregon: You are seen. You are loved. And you matter.”

The Texas Legislature passed two bills that are currently on the Governor’s desk. One bill protects the funding that pregnancy centers receive and the other establishes educational materials about adoption for students so they’re aware of the life-affirming alternative to abortion.  The Arizona legislature passed a law that would promote alternatives to abortion on a state-run website but unfortunately their Governor vetoed the measure.

Other prolife laws that have been enacted this session include conscience protection laws enacted in Idaho and Tennessee. In South Dakota, a law providing for the installation of newborn safety baby boxes was approved by their Governor.

As you can see there is no silver bullet bill that is the answer to building a pro-life America. Many pro-life laws can be used as vehicles to educate on the humanity of the unborn child. National Right to Life continues to promote effective protection of the unborn and supports laws that promote unborn life.

While there are a lot of moving parts, we will continue to play the long game so that in the end we can support mothers and their babies – loving them both.

LifeNews Note: Ingrid Duran is the state legislative director for National Right to Life.

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Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s push to legalize abortion on demand through 14 weeks of pregnancy, announced in his final annual address to the nation, is a reckless attempt to salvage a faltering and disastrous administration with a polarizing issue. Having failed to deliver on tax reform and with two failed and rejected attempts at constitutional overhaul on the issue of abortion behind him, Boric’s new abortion push is a last-ditch bid to build his “progressive legacy,” whatever that means. But what he proposes is not progress; it is a step backward for women, children, and public health.

Chile has long been cited as an international example for maternal health. After protective abortion laws were reinforced in 1989, maternal mortality continued to decline dramatically. According to a comprehensive 2012 study published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, Chile experienced a sustained drop in maternal mortality even as abortion was restricted, ultimately reaching one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world.

The study, authored by Dr. Elard Koch and a team of epidemiologists, analyzed 50 years of maternal health data. It concluded that the key factors in lowering maternal mortality were advances in education for women, access to prenatal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care, and clean water, not legal abortion. Their research debunked the myth that legalized abortion is necessary to safeguard maternal health.

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President Boric’s bill is not driven by public demand or public health need. Polling shows that 55% of Chileans want to keep the current legislation, which permits abortion only in limited cases, including a risk to the mother’s life. Only 25% support Boric’s extreme expansion. Yet his administration presses forward, cheered on by global abortion lobbies and fringe activist organizations, rather than the Chilean public.

What happens in Chile matters far beyond its borders. Regional pro-abortion zealots are increasingly organizing transnationally, attempting to force ideological shifts across the Global South. Chile’s current law stands as a powerful rebuttal to this narrative and as a reminder that safeguarding life does not mean endangering women.

President Boric has framed this bill as a question of democratic debate. But democracy is not defined by the ability to end innocent lives. It is measured by how a nation protects its most vulnerable. In Chile, this includes the unborn child.

This is not about left or right, Catholic or secular. It is about truth and dignity. A Chile that continues to honor both mother and child offers hope—not only for its citizens, but for a world increasingly tempted to solve complex human problems with lethal simplicity.

Let Chile remain a light in the hemisphere. Let it continue to lead by example, rather than following a destructive trend. In the end, true progress does not come from eliminating life’s most vulnerable—it comes from protecting them.

LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the director of Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz is making a bold move to honor preborn babies — by officially designating June as “Life Month.”

Cruz introduced a new resolution to honor the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s monumental decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 — a ruling that sent shockwaves across the country and empowered states to protect preborn children once again. Texas led the charge, becoming the first state to ban abortion.

Now, Cruz wants to ensure we never forget this turning point.

“Every human life is worthy of protection, and it is especially incumbent upon Americans and lawmakers to protect the most vulnerable among us,” Cruz said in a statement.

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Momentum for this idea is growing. In the House of Representatives, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) introduced a similar resolution and delivered a powerful call for the nation to face the reality of abortion.

“For decades abortion advocates have gone to extraordinary lengths to ignore, trivialize, and cover up the battered baby victim, fostering a culture of denial, disrespect, and bias against the unborn,” Smith said.

“This resolution designating June as Life Month highlights our moral imperative to protect innocent children’s lives from extermination. It calls our nation to reject willful blindness to the realities of abortion—brutally dismembering helpless babies with sharp knife-like curettes or poisoning babies with pills that literally starve them to death and often result in their bodies being flushed down a toilet. This resolution affirms that the cruel injustice of abortion need not be forever: instead, we must defend the unborn and show love and compassion to both mother and child through meaningful assistance and support.”

And the need for this couldn’t be clearer. In 2023 alone, Planned Parenthood committed over 402,000 abortions — its highest number ever. That’s more than 1,100 babies lost every single day. One in five people who walk into a Planned Parenthood choose abortion.

If passed, this resolution would give Americans a powerful opportunity every June to celebrate the value of every life — and remind the nation that the fight to protect the most vulnerable is far from over.

Cruz remains committed to seeing this through:
“Designating June as Life Month is a recommitment to the American principle that every life has dignity,” he emphasized once again. “I call on my colleagues in the Senate to swiftly pass this resolution.”

LifeNews Note: Ashlynn Lemos is the communications intern for Texas Right to Life.

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No parent ever wants to hear these words at an ultrasound: “Your baby may not survive.”

When doctors deliver a life-limiting diagnosis for a preborn child, families are often devastated—and pressured into abortion, with little guidance on choosing Life.

Now, Texas is changing that.

In a major step toward building a more compassionate, Pro-Life culture, state lawmakers passed the Perinatal Palliative Care Act during the 2025 legislative session. Senate Bill 1233 by Senator Kelly Hancock (R–North Richland Hills) and Representative Valoree Swanson (R–Spring) ensures that families receive real information and resources—not silence or pressure.

Prenatal tests indicate possible health issues in 2–3% of pregnancies, but up to 85% of those results are false. Most parents aren’t told that—and tragically, up to 90% of these babies are aborted. Only 19% of women are informed about specialized care options. Every baby deserves dignity, no matter the diagnosis.

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Perinatal palliative care offers compassionate support to families after a baby is diagnosed in the womb with a serious or life-threatening condition. Care begins at diagnosis and continues until the baby’s first birthday, even if the little one does not make it that long. It includes medical, emotional, spiritual, and practical support from a team of specialists, religious counselors, and community support providers. SB 1233 clarifies that this never includes acts done to cause or hasten the baby’s death.

The law does this by connecting families to nonprofits like Abel Speaks, which walks alongside them through these heartbreaking circumstances.

God created us for community—especially in our hardest moments. The Perinatal Palliative Care Act ensures every family facing a difficult diagnosis receives the guidance and resources they need to love and care for their child, no matter how short that little Life may be.

Too often, families are told abortion is the only “reasonable” response. This law changes that. Texas now affirms: every life has value, no matter how brief or fragile.

One young mother’s story illustrates why this matters.

At her 21-week ultrasound, Ava Trammell was told her baby girl was “incompatible with Life.” Doctors gave her no real options—just a suggestion to fly to Colorado for an abortion or continue the pregnancy without support.

Watch Ava’s Story here.

But, Ava chose Life.

“I know she’s not going to survive,” Ava said, “but I only have so much time with her. Why would I cut it any shorter? She’s safe in my womb… she only knows love and doesn’t know pain. Why would I give her such a painful death when she’s perfectly fine with me?”

Because of SB 1233, future mothers like Ava won’t have to face that decision alone.

This law embodies what it means to be truly Pro-Life: walking with families in both joy and sorrow. By equipping parents with life-affirming options and emotional care, Texas is saying clearly: we value every life, and we will walk with every family.

We are deeply grateful to Senator Hancock and Representative Swanson and their teams for standing up for the most vulnerable and helping families meet unimaginable challenges with dignity, compassion, and hope.

LifeNews Note: Ashlynn Lemos is the communications intern for Texas Right to Life.

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Mutzig, France – First stop on my annual visit to France’s mighty Maginot Line forts is this lovely Alsatian town. Mutzig was built by the Germans 1893-1916 to defend against enemy approaches to the important city of Strasbourg. It was – and remains – the largest modern fortress in Europe.

The vast fortress, which covers over 800 acres, was never attacked during World War I by the Germans or French. But as Europe’s first important fortress made of concrete and fully electrified, it was eagerly studied by French engineers and served as a template for the Maginot Line forts two decades later.

Both world wars showed the vulnerability of fixed fortifications. An enemy will always find a way round them or discover a fatal weakness. In regard to the 200-mile-long Maginot Line, the forts did not fail. They held out to the bitter end. The reason for France’s stunning defeat in 1940 was the failure of its field army and its blockheaded generals. Interestingly, a French parliamentary deputy with the effervescent name of Perrier precisely predicted where the Germans would break through the Ardennes Forest in 1940.

Though vulnerable, the fixed defenses of the Maginot Line were hugely popular in France and wildly overestimated because they involved huge construction projects for many of the villages and factories along France’s eastern border with Germany. Just as New Deal make-work projects boosted the United States during the Great Depression.

We see a similar mania in the response to President Donald Trump’s plan to create a national ‘golden dome’ defensive shield to protect the nation from assorted nuclear threats. In many ways, it’s a re-run of President Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars missile shield which never got off the ground but was extremely popular among the public.

Frederick the Great of Prussia noted, ‘he who defends everything, defends nothing.’ As true today as it was in the 18th century.

A national missile defense system to cover the entire nation would be impossibly expensive for a nation already deeply mired in debt. The always powerful military-industrial complex will see Trump’s golden dome fantasy as a second Christmas though the basic technology has yet to be proven.

One wonders if the proponents of this defensive system have noticed that Russia has developed ballistic missiles that can alter course, change altitudes and switch targets? Or that China has ICBM’s aboard freighters in the Pacific. What about evolving electronic countermeasures that can fry enemy communications and guidance systems?

It would be far more prudent for the US to pursue disarmament talks and effective inspection regimes with its rivals than pie in the sky defensive systems that will certainly enrich military companies but fail to protect North America. What’s more, having even a partial anti-missile system will likely make the US more aggressive and prone to wars.

Better to spend the trillions on curing cancer or blindness than on space wizardry. Alas, we have a view of what awaits us. This week, Trump banned people from 12 mostly Muslims nations and imposed restrictions on 7 nations. Good work Mr. President. You and your New York City construction buddies have now made enemies of a quarter of the world’s population.

Reprinted with permission from EricMargolis.com.

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Three days after FDA Commissioner Marty Makary promised to “closely monitor the post-marketing safety data on mifepristone for the medical termination of early pregnancy” and a week after National Right to Life wrote Commissioner Makary urging him to reexamine “studies not sponsored by the abortion industry,” four Democrat-led states asked the FDA to remove what pitifully weak “limitations” still exist.

The attorneys general of California, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey filed a petition Thursday saying the “limitations” are “medically unnecessary.”

The FDA “must follow the science and lift these unnecessary barriers that put patients at risk and push providers out of care,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday, citing the abortion medication’s alleged “25-year safety record.”

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Their strategy was outlined in the always compliant and agreeable New York Times.

“The F.D.A. is required to respond to the petition within 180 days by granting or denying the request, or saying it needs more time,” according to the New York Times’s Pam Belluck. Belluck, who “covers reproductive health,” added, “it would prevent the F.D.A. from changing mifepristone regulations while the petition is pending.”

New Jersey Right to Life Executive Director Marie Tasy blasted state Attorney General Matthew Platkin.

Attorney General Platkin once again prioritizes the interests of the abortion lobby over the safety and well-being of women. The FDA’s decision to review the safety of the abortion pill comes in response to studies revealing severe adverse effects experienced by many women—including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, and other serious medical complications within 45 days of taking the drug. Women deserve leaders who advocate for their health and safety, not activist attorneys general who use their office to advance the agenda of the abortion industry.

NRLC writes the FDA

In its letter to Commissioner Makary, NRLC wrote that the FDA had “deregulated” mifepristone “in 2016, 2021, and 2023 so it can now be prescribed online without an in-person physical examination, shipped by mail to women’s homes or made available for pickup at local pharmacies, creating significant concerns over its safety and oversight.”

The letter cited the new study by the Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC) which concluded that “10.93 percent of women experienced complications,” 22 times the less-than-one-percent touted by sponsors of the abortion pill.

The letter ended

It isn’t merely that people need assurances that the FDA is ensuring that unsafe, ineffective drugs are kept off the market, but that women are entitled to know the truth about drugs the abortion industry is aggressively, and we believe dishonestly, promoting.

Both mothers and their children need to be protected from false advertising about what these drugs are and what they do. States which wish to protect those women and their unborn children from these dangerous drugs should be able to do so without having to fight the FDA’s official but erroneous assertions of the drug’s safety and efficacy.

Even with its limited reporting and a less than cooperative abortion industry, the FDA itself already knows of at least three dozen deaths and thousands of serious adverse events experienced by American women this past 25 years. Please put an end to this moral and medical travesty before more women and their innocent unborn children die or are injured.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.

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The Ever-widening War

Paul Craig Roberts

Scott Ritter says the attack on Russia’s strategic bombers was a British operation that the CIA knew about.  https://www.youtube.com/live/5p_faUdJT3w 

According to the White House, Trump was not informed.  As Russian war doctrine calls for a strategic response to such an attack, both British and US intelligence risked launching a nuclear attack on the country or countries that Russia decided was responsible.

In other words, security agencies, not the president or Congress can launch a nuclear war.  A stop must be put to the unaccountability of “security agencies” as clearly they have an independence of action that makes us very insecure.

Putin avoided his responsibility as defined by Russian war doctrine by classifying the attacks as terrorism and not acts of war. Putin substituted pretense for reality and has accepted an attack on Russia’s triad of nuclear forces as a non-event in order to keep alive the Kremlin’s unrealistic hopes of a peace deal that could turn into a broader agreement.

The ever-widening war continues to widen. The consequence of Putin’s good will is likely to be more provocative attacks. Sooner or later Russia will have to respond or surrender.

Can Reality Any Longer Be Acknowledged?

Paul Craig Roberts

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/06/05/can-reality-any-longer-be-acknowledged/ 

The attack on Russian strategic forces by Ukraine, with or without President Trump’s knowledge and with or without help from Washington and the British, could have been the most dangerous event in East-West relations during my lifetime.  The reason is that recently revised Russian war doctrine states that an attack, even by a non-nuclear country, on the Russian strategic triad requires a strategic response.  Strategic usually means nuclear or at least a disabling response.  

Putin dodged the responsibility (more later), but no one knew for certain that he would.  In other words, whoever is responsible for the attack on Russia’s strategic bombers subjected Ukraine, Europe, the US to the possibility of nuclear attack, depending on whom the Russians decided was responsible.  This person or persons is a madman, a maniac who must be identified and removed from his position.  Try to imagine how it is possible for, say Zelensky, to launch an attack that could result in nuclear war between the US and Russia.  How can control over whether or not the US faces nuclear war be in the hands of Zelensky?  If Zelensky is responsible, the US and NATO have a massive failure in command and control.  If Trump or someone in the Trump administration gave the green light, they should be removed for committing the most potentially dangerous act during my lifetime.

The extraordinarily reckless and extremely dangerous attack on Russia’s nuclear triad is being treated by all concerned as a nothing event, a mere terrorist act, not an act of war.  The fact that there is no acknowledgement in Washington, Europe, Moscow, or the media of the seriousness of an attack on Russian strategic forces, and thereby no measures put in place to prevent such dangerous acts, means either full scale, not proxy, war between Russia and the West or Russia’s surrender. Perhaps Putin would like to surrender in order to avoid nuclear war, but he won’t be permitted to surrender.

Putin took the lead in burying the seriousness of the attack on Russia’s nuclear triad.  By designating the attack a “terrorist act” he evades the responsibility that Russian strategic doctrine imposes on him for a strategic response.  

Nothing of consequence has happened, says the President of Russia. Amen say Washington and Europe. Therefore, whoever is responsible for the attack knows that the next attack can go further. It too will be unacknowledged as an act of war.

How many times can Putin pretend that attacks on Russia’s sovereignty, which is what attacks on Russia’s nuclear triad are, are mere terrorist events before he discredits himself with the Russian people?  

The purpose of the recent revision of Russian strategic doctrine was to discourage or prevent attacks by Western proxies such as Ukraine on Russian strategic forces. It failed because Putin has taught the West not to take him seriously.  He is ever ready to turn the other cheek.  Now Putin has shown that he will not acknowledge attacks on Russian strategic forces as anything other than a terrorist event, not an act of war.  So Putin has negated Russian strategic doctrine.  It means nothing.  Now that the West knows this, Russia can expect escalating provocations.  All of Putin’s good intentions have ended in disaster, and a major war will be the consequence.

It could be that Russia is doomed.  Decades of successful Western propaganda have turned most of the Russian professional and intellectual class into Atlanticist Integrationists. They think that Russia belongs as part of the West and are willing to make concessions of sovereignty to be part of the West.  Clearly this point of view is strong in the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The zionist American neoconservatives are very much aware of this Russian weakness, and they are adept at taking advantage of it. They don’t have to do much, because Putin does their work for them. 

Putin has declared Ukraine to be conducting terrorism, not war, against Russia.  Putin’s declaration also absolves Washington and Europe for any responsibility.

Here are English language Russian headlines of Putin’s hiding from reality that apparently he is unable to face up to.  Or perhaps he is not yet ready, being at work constructing a powerful military that US/NATO cannot resist. 

“‘Illegitimate Kiev regime’ turning into terrorist organization” – Putin

“The latest terrorist acts carried out by Ukraine in Russia are the outcome of decisions made by the Ukrainian political leadership.”  Putin added that “the decisions to carry out such crimes were, of course, made in Ukraine” by the political leadership in Ukraine. In other words, Washington and Europe have no responsibility for the act of war, which is not an act of war, but merely terrorism.  https://www.rt.com/russia/618651-kiev-regime-rejecting-peace/    

In other words, the Kremlin has said that Washington and Europe have nothing to do with the attack on Russia’s strategic triad, and that Ukraine is merely creating terrorist incidents, not making war against Russia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/31/russia-ukraine-rubio-trump/? utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_opinions 

I find it hard to believe that Putin is this stupid.  My bet is that he is not yet ready.  He keeps the minor Ukraine conflict going while he builds up to remove NATO from Russian borders.

Trump can remove the coming conflict by giving Putin the mutual security agreement Russia has been requesting for years.  This would be the costless solution, but Trump is not really in power, and the power and profit of the US military/security complex needs the Russian Enemy.

So, how will a devastating war be avoided?  Information such as I have just presented is banned by the official narratives.  The American foreign policy community avoids it like the plague.  

In Latvia if you watch Russian TV they put you in prison

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Jordan Peterson’s recent appearance on Jubilee’s viral YouTube debate wasn’t just another skirmish in the culture war between belief and unbelief. It revealed something deeper and more unsettling: the ongoing drama of a man caught between archetype and Incarnation, between myth and metaphysical truth. The event was less about the 20 atheists who challenged him and more about the unresolved…

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Sitting on Leonard Leo’s always immaculate desk—because he does not allow a piece of paper to linger more than once before handling—sits a bent, titanium rod. It reminds him of what a bad day is really like. The rod had been inserted into his daughter Margaret’s back, along her spine, to keep her spine from bending even more than what spina bifida had already caused. Her spine bent the rod…

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Marshall quickly deleted pre-conclave episode critical of Leo XIV…

Taylor Marshall’s About-Face on Robert Prevost:
From Worst-Choice Candidate to Hope for the Church?

Imagine you’re a ‘trusted Catholic influencer’ with a huge following and you publish a video about who in your opinion would be among the worst possible candidates for Pope.

For Dr. Taylor Marshall that distinction belonged to ‘Cardinal’ Pietro Parolin, but since his chances had tanked in the days just before the 2025 conclave due to alleged involvement in a financial scandal, among other things, Marshall wasn’t terribly worried about him anymore. The next in line for worst candidate in his estimation was — wait for it — ‘Cardinal’ Robert Francis Prevost.… READ MORE