Georgia’s Risky SB144, Ukraine’s Debt Defiance, and Global Power Plays

Georgia’s SB144, shield­ing pes­ti­cide man­u­fac­tur­ers like Bay­er from law­suits, has passed, rais­ing alarms about health risks from chem­i­cals like Roundup, despite can­cer links. Crit­ics, includ­ing @WhatmattersinGeorgia on X, warn it pri­or­i­tizes cor­po­ra­tions over Geor­gians’ safe­ty, reliev­ing farm­ers of lia­bil­i­ty despite warn­ing labels. Glob­al­ly, Ukraine’s Finance Min­is­ter pro­pos­es dodg­ing the country’s near-100% GDP debt by shift­ing bur­dens to Euro­pean tax­pay­ers, sig­nal­ing finan­cial defi­ance. In Moscow, Xi Jin­ping strength­ens China’s “no-lim­its” part­ner­ship with Putin, who seeks to medi­ate U.S.-China rela­tions. At the Munich Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence, JD Vance claims Rus­sia, vic­to­ri­ous in Ukraine, demands exces­sive terms, while Putin insists on remov­ing Zelenskyy’s “Nazi” regime, a per­spec­tive under­re­port­ed. U.S. Spe­cial Envoy Steve Witkoff works to nor­mal­ize Rus­sia ties. Trump plans a Sau­di Ara­bia vis­it, while the UK announces a major trade deal, and Audi com­mits to U.S. vehi­cle pro­duc­tion. Domes­ti­cal­ly, Ed Martin’s U.S. Attor­ney nom­i­na­tion for D.C. faces Sen. Tillis’ oppo­si­tion, despite sup­port from states like Indi­ana. Georgia’s AG Chris Carr, absent from Martin’s endorse­ment, is crit­i­cized for lack­ing MAGA align­ment, with his guber­na­to­r­i­al run ques­tioned for weak fed­er­al coop­er­a­tion.

• SB144 was passed in Geor­gia that will put Geor­gians health and lives at risk. The box has a warn­ing and the farmer sprays it and they are relieved of any lit­i­ga­tion in Geor­gia. Fol­low What­mat­tersin­Ge­or­gia on X. 
• Ukrain­ian Finance minister’s plan to solve Ukraine’s debt — Just don’t pay it. With the country’s debt approach­ing 100% of GDP, Ukraine boast­ed about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of shift­ing the bur­den of debt pay­ments to Euro­pean tax­pay­ers. 
• China’s Xi goes to Moscow to beef up the ‘No-Lim­its’ Putin part­ner­ship.
• JD Vance is over at the Munich secu­ri­ty con­fer­ence on Rus­si­a’s war on Ukraine say­ing that Rus­sia is ask­ing for a cer­tain set of require­ments and JD Vance says he is ask­ing for too much. Rus­sia won the war. Rus­sia could if they choose to just wipe out the rest of Ukraine. Putin and Lavrov are won­der­ing why they have to do any­thing because they won the war. When JD Vance says cer­tain require­ments. Every­time Whitkoff goes over there he is work­ing to nor­mal­ize rela­tions with Rus­sia. Xi and Putin are meet­ing to get on the same page with Rus­sia play­ing medi­ary between the US and Chi­na. Rus­sia wants Zelen­sky gone, that they call the admin­is­tra­tion in Ukraine, Nazi and crim­i­nal. No one is report­ing how Putin views Zelen­sky. Putin is nego­ti­at­ing the sur­ren­der and he wants to get rid of the Nazi regime. 
• Trump is going over to Sau­di Ara­bia next week. 
• There is a big announce­ment about trade in the UK. Audi is mak­ing a com­mit­ment to pro­duce more vehi­cles in the US. 
• Madeleine Dean and Kash Patel exchange. 
• Ed Mar­tin is going through the approval process to be US Attor­ney in the Dis­trict of Colum­bia. His approval is imper­a­tive in terms of doing all that has to be done to save lives and to make Amer­i­ca healthy again. Sen Tillis is oppos­ing and push­ing back on this nom­i­na­tion. In GA we have an AG that is run­ning for gov­er­nor and is pre­tend­ing to be real­ly tough on crime but he con­tin­ues to for­get how he would react to work­ing with the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. 
• The AG of Indi­ana along with oth­er states to sup­port the nom­i­na­tion of Ed Mar­tin for US Attor­ney. The AG for Geor­gia is miss­ing. Georgia’s attor­ney gen­er­al has failed. How many times will we accept the fail­ure of Chris Carr? Not giv­ing you the impres­sion they are MAGA or Amer­i­ca First any­time in the near future.