Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again.

And welcome to The Roads with Bow.

Today is February 18th, 2024, and this is episode 26 of The Roads Not Taken,

a weekly series where we go through the previous

week's events and talk about news that was unreported, underreported, didn't

get the coverage it deserved, lacked context, or I just found it interesting.

And then at the end, we go through some questions from y'all.

If you want to send in a question, you can send it to a question for Bo at Gmail.

Okay, starting off with foreign policy.

NATO allies are expressing concern that Trump might be elected again and undermine global security for cheap talking points.

The leader of Estonia made some comments that

definitely made some comments that definitely got a little bit of coverage and I would expect to

see more along those lines. Basically saying that a United States under Trump would make them worry.

And in short, the United States would lose its position as a global leader because of the

erratic behavior of Trump.

Okay. of Trump. Okay, the representative in the House who issued the alert about the space-based threat from Russia is under pressure to resign. The way it was handled, the way the information came out, the

almost panic it caused, it gave a lot of people pause.

In an attempt to appease Republicans in the House,

a new aid package has been put together. The humanitarian aid for Gaza has been removed.

The package that came out of the Senate that has Biden support has more than $9 billion in aid

for Gaza and the West Bank.

The package that is being put forth to try to get Republicans to act does not have that.

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