>The temporary policy reversal, which has not been previously reported, gives the observatory authorization and funding for six additional weeks to complete the transfer of its repository to the European Union’s law enforcement agency, EUROPOL, to assist in the prosecution of crimes inside and outside Ukraine.
>The Trump administration’s actions had barred the observatory’s transmission of evidence to prosecutors pursuing criminal cases, including the ICC’s indictment of Putin for the “unlawful transfer” of children during the war. The repository tracked the identities and locations of several thousand Ukrainian children that went missing and are believed to be in Russia or Russian-occupied territory.
>But a diverse coalition of advocates including Democrats and Republicans in Congress and Christian evangelicals convinced the Trump administration to reverse course, temporarily sparing the observatory the same fate of thousands of other terminated programs. Researchers are now hoping European governments will step in to fund the initiative in Washington’s absence.
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The voluntary death of a superpower in action here folks:
Rome went away due to social decay
The Ottoman Empire went away because it was too large and diverse for a monotheistic government to handle
The British Empire slowly faded away by 1997 because they no longer had the same power as they did antebellum
Here we see the United States, dying away voluntarily to a country that had gone morally bankrupt eons ago with an economy that’s not even the size of two major US States just to………….ouun da libzzz??
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>The temporary policy reversal, which has not been previously reported, gives the observatory authorization and funding for six additional weeks to complete the transfer of its repository to the European Union’s law enforcement agency, EUROPOL, to assist in the prosecution of crimes inside and outside Ukraine.
>The Trump administration’s actions had barred the observatory’s transmission of evidence to prosecutors pursuing criminal cases, including the ICC’s indictment of Putin for the “unlawful transfer” of children during the war. The repository tracked the identities and locations of several thousand Ukrainian children that went missing and are believed to be in Russia or Russian-occupied territory.
>The initiative, funded by the State Department and spearheaded by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, was one of thousands terminated at the behest of President Donald Trump appointee [Peter Marocco](https://archive.is/o/91FTn/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/06/usaid-state-christian-charities/) and U.S. DOGE Service, the budget-slashing government arm run by tech billionaire Elon Musk.
>But a diverse coalition of advocates including Democrats and Republicans in Congress and Christian evangelicals convinced the Trump administration to reverse course, temporarily sparing the observatory the same fate of thousands of other terminated programs. Researchers are now hoping European governments will step in to fund the initiative in Washington’s absence.
The voluntary death of a superpower in action here folks:
Rome went away due to social decay
The Ottoman Empire went away because it was too large and diverse for a monotheistic government to handle
The British Empire slowly faded away by 1997 because they no longer had the same power as they did antebellum
Here we see the United States, dying away voluntarily to a country that had gone morally bankrupt eons ago with an economy that’s not even the size of two major US States just to………….ouun da libzzz??