WillyOAM ex Australian army. Has volunteered in Ukraine.
His yt from the start of the sloSMO was a conduit for all the Ukrainian bulshite.
But his Sunday upload will have him on the Mirotvorets Death to Traitors list.
Poor bastard is slowly realising what an absolute shitshow Ukraine is, and how western propaganda has prolonged the war.
He knows Ukraine can’t win from here.
He’s angry the owners and controllers of Ukraine are content to fight To The Last Ukrainian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHkOkAOyylA

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 25 2025 13:48 utc | 4

Putin’s Helicopter Caught in Ukrainian Drone Swarm – Commander
https://www.rt.com/russia/618120-putin-helicopter-drone-ukraine/
“The helicopter carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin was caught in the ‘epicenter’ of a massive Ukrainian drone attack while the president was visiting Kursk Region earlier this week, Yury Dashkin, a commander of an air defense division, has revealed…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 25 2025 14:28 utc | 6

Kiev is reporting that the U.S.-supplied Patriot Air Defense System is no longer sufficient in response to Iskandr and Kalibr missile strikes.
Russia carried out its largest aerial assault in the SMO overnight, a combo of geran-type drones, Iskandrs and Kalibrs.
This marked the second night in a row of major strikes.
Kiev is now auguring for an upgrade, but what would it be—the THAAD-?
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 25 2025 14:33 utc | 8

Cavoli, the commander of United States European Command, predicts that Russia has the capacity to prosecute the SMO @ the current rate for at least the next two years, if not longer.
U.S.intel reveals that VVP is determined to end the SMO w/ a thumpingly robust military victory, as the conflict is an existential one for Russia.
Money Gods @ JPMorgan Chase prophesize that the war in Ukraine will end in July 2025.
Plenty of tea leaves to read.
Talks may resume after Moscow finishes its Peace Memorandum, but it’s clear they won’t be held in the Vatican.
For the Coalition of the Sniffing, it might be a *no pope, no hope* scenario.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 25 2025 14:46 utc | 10

Posted by: snake | May 25 2025 14:31 utc | 7
RE: how to combat Russophobia-?
<< Keep in mind that the deeply Russophobic Collective West comprises 1 bn people on earth. The non-Russophobic RoW comprises @ least 7 bn. India, for instance, has never been Russophobic---neither has China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand. Most countries on the continent of Africa are decidedly Russo-philic. As citizens of the West, we have an outsized view of Russophobia because we are immersed in it.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 25 2025 14:54 utc | 12

Republicofscotland | May 25 2025 13:34 utc | 2
*** England’s PM (Starmer) has underwritten much of Ukraine’s debt, which British citizens and their children and grandchildren will pay for, for a long time to come.***
And it is reported that Blair’s spin-doctor Campbell now says he and Blair did not lie about Iraq having WMD, it merely turned out that what they screamed was not correct. Happy semantics!
Deliberate mass-murder of millions doesen’t matter a damn to the Western political lie machine. I’m fed up of Hitler, Stalin, the Mongols, the Confederates or whoever historical always being demonised — whether true or false, that just inadvertently serves to distract from how totally evil, corrupt and traitorous the present NATO+puppet leaderships truly are (Netanyahu and the Israelis surely are in a cesspit class of their very own).
Now that Russia has established that the breaking up of the USSR was illegal, hope that anti-democratic situation is reversed.
“Our” rulers in London must especially hate such revelations, since the 1707 takeover of Scotland by England was also illegal, corrupt and un-constitutional, hence their regime is (and always has been) illegitimate.
That said, the Scottish Establishment are utterly shit as well.
But Starmer making the British public liable for the prodigious and ever-increasing debts of a cokehead-fronted regime in Kiev that lines its own pockets plus those of its criminal corporate / political masters in the USA, Israel and City of London is a new low. All of course endorsed by the House of Traitors at Westminster, allegedly without them even knowing its full extent.
As for a UK general public so casually sold into perpetual debt-slavery, on top of already being subject to deliberate replacement (itself a form of genocide), just how complacently brain-dead and stupid can they get …

Posted by: Cynic | May 25 2025 15:13 utc | 14

@snake #7
Re: how can russia win peace?
Russia can get peace if its western enemies fight amongst themselves and need Russia to balance the power. Russia needs to be strong enough to be helpful but not dominant. Marches to Berlin or Paris will only breed further wars.
Russia has done this multiple times. As the continental/civiliazational power that they are they have the power base to legitimately threaten it’s neighbours. For peace it needs to know where to draw the line. The line looks like it’s buffer zone in ukraine and the cental Asian republics.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | May 25 2025 15:35 utc | 16

Russia has done this multiple times.
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | May 25 2025 15:35 utc | 16
Russia’s been doing this it’s entire life. This is the first time in history wherein it’s tormentors are actually in decline. If anything it’ll get easier going forward.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 25 2025 15:50 utc | 18

Sun of Alabama (11).
It wasn’t that long ago – that the British taxpayer finished paying-off the Yanks, for aid in WWII – 2006 I think – via the Lend-Lease Programme.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 25 2025 16:06 utc | 20

“You should learn it instead of writing mainstream fantasies”
Sun of Alabama (13).
Learn what? – and what are the fantasies you speak of?
I must confess I read Ian Lawson’s blog quite regularly – but I don’t recall reading your article.
New flash -Scotland hasn’t broken free from Westminster and its House Jocks yet – its not guff to expect Westminster to lay the costs at taxpayers feet – history has shown us that with the Covid vaccines (fastracked ) corporate buddies of the politicians making a fortune from the taxpayer then providing inferior PPE, not to mention the banks robbing the public purse in the 2008 bank crash.
These things have nothing to do with Scotland ditching this rancid union – Scottish taxpayers wouldn’t pay for Ukraine if Scotland were independent – but the SNP has to go they are utterly corrupt – infact there’s not one indy party at Holyrood.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 25 2025 16:25 utc | 22

snake | May 25 2025 14:31 utc | 7–
EuroNazis will try to sway their citizenry, but most of that citizenry is being mindful of how its interests are being trampled to form another European Wehrmacht. Another longstanding behavioral pattern amongst European states is reemerging and that’s the bickering they engage between themselves that generated so many of Europe’s wars prior to WW1. Another spanner is what’s happening politically in the former East Germany where AfD has become the dominant party. Europe isn’t a collective, while Russia and its former Soviet pals are becoming one hat’s far stronger than the first iteration.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 25 2025 16:30 utc | 24

I am still looking for answers to the question how is Russia to protect itself from continuous aggression.. A full and complete surrender agreement from Ukraine will not stop the Russia-phobic beliefs engineered over many years into many national populations? This belief means the defeat, rob and destroy Russia leaders of these nation states and their deep state backers are free to continue attacking Russia. posted by snake
The answer is to drop nuclear weapons on Kiev and Lviv. The shock should be enough to stop all provocations smack in their tracks. Simultaneously Oreshnik the NATO forward bases in Romania and Poland. That should do the trick. Trump will not risk NYC for Kiev. So defacto the alliance is broken. If the French or the British try something Orteshnik their weapons manufacturing sites. Watch how everything will go silent.

Posted by: Stierlitz | May 25 2025 16:31 utc | 26

The Buffer Zone as depicted by Medvedev in this GIF provided by Escobar. It’s what many expect.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 25 2025 16:38 utc | 28

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 25 2025 15:26 utc | 15
RE: theories about why the UK media does not report on Sir Keir’s controversy
<< Erm, @Melaleuca...let me direct you back to #5 Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 25 2025 14:19 utc | 5 It would take a lot for the pro-Ukraine Regime Media in the UK to inquire into a scandal that in any way, shape, form or fashion reflected negatively on Ukraine somehow---or the funding that props Ukraine up. Bad PR means the money stream might have to stop. Can't have that. Best to make this little matter go quietly away. Scuttlebutt has it that Sir Keir will no longer be @ 10 Downing St come August.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 25 2025 16:44 utc | 30

Posted by: snake #7
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | May 25 2025 15:35 utc | 16
RE: how can Russia win the peace-?
<< Recall how long the Brits and the French battled each other and scarcely knew peace in their respective lands. WWI changed that perhaps forever. They needed each other gravely in order to fight off an existential foe. Really altered the calculus of their r'ship. Conflicts may arise over fishing rights or over the flow of immigrants, but those are *normal* tensions between otherwise good neighbors. Nota Bene: the *phobia* aspect of Russophobia, as played out in the collective West, raises the degree of animosity toward Russia and Russians to the level of ethnic hate. On account of that, it is almost in a singular category.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 25 2025 16:52 utc | 32

“Russia’s been doing this it’s entire life. This is the first time in history wherein it’s tormentors are actually in decline. If anything it’ll get easier going forward.”
This is patently ridiculous. There’s been many swings in history where russias power rises in relation to western states. It’s fan boy takes like this that are the bane of my existence.
Easier? Sure until it isn’t and Moscow is burning. Also been repeated multiple times. My strategic vision is rooted in long term stability, pursuing short term advantages like their permanent is the problem.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | May 25 2025 16:59 utc | 34

When the dust finally settles the RUF [fatherland] shall be victorious.

Posted by: pepe | May 25 2025 17:08 utc | 36

“The answer is to drop nuclear weapons on Kiev and Lviv. The shock should be enough to stop all provocations smack in their tracks. Simultaneously Oreshnik the NATO forward bases in Romania and Poland. That should do the trick. Trump will not risk NYC for Kiev. So defacto the alliance is broken. If the French or the British try something Orteshnik their weapons manufacturing sites. Watch how everything will go silent.”
This is also ridiculous. Make the whole world fear you and give them concrete examples? Guarantees centuries of hostility. Is that peace?
Fan boy take oh my lord, please stop. Do you not understand how states balance power against each other? Balance of power is the term. Russias enemies need to fear their neighbour’s more than Russia. Russia destroying things and putting armies against their borders isn’t sustainable long term.
Putin talks about the development a lot and development isn’t permanent militarism that eventually shrinks and distorts development.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | May 25 2025 17:11 utc | 38

Overlooking the obvious is what all distraction is designed to do.
Zelensky says no to a three-day ceasefire over May 9. Continues attacking Russia physically. Threatens Russia through the media using antics a five-year-old would be ashamed of.
Then, suddenly, wants a 30-day ceasefire, out of the blue, before his threats have a chance to come to fruition. Istanbul, we’ll all go to Istanbul, but Zelensky will only meet face-to-face with Putin. Then ever gullible (as presented to us by the Captured media) President Trump announces he will go to Istanbul if Putin does.
Well, good thing for the world, Putin is not an idiot like the West’s so-called elites. And he does not go.
Trump then decides not to go.
Putin, by being smarter than the average ankle-biting chihauhau of the West (not a high bar to overcome), has thus saved the Donald’s life.
The proof is in the drone attack on Putin’s helicopter two days ago.
But man, what a PR victory that would’ve been for the Zionists, the coalition of the Sniffers, the CIA of the Nulands, Mossad, MI6-5-4-3…, et al., to snuff the two leaders of the world standing in the way of war, war, and moar war.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | May 25 2025 17:15 utc | 40

Why would three super-sexy Ukrainian male models, as gay as gay can be, as seen in photos and career hopes, all over the internet — light on fire properties that belong / belonged to Kweir S. ?
Surely that is a very dangerous move, a v. strong statement, over-the-top revengeful? *As coming from rent boys* If that is so…
For what? Not being paid, facing broken promises about advantages? That leads to nasty phone calls, spitting threats, demands that must be given into.. Prompt lavish payments, other favors, etc. from the other end, follow.
This story, what is being leaked to the MSM, makes no sense whatsoever. What am I missing?
msm story round up,
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/keir-starmer-arson-attack-russia-investigation-b2757455.html

Posted by: Noirette | May 25 2025 17:24 utc | 42

Posted by: Eighthman | May 25 2025 13:38 utc | 3
Some posters here have opined that the West’s only surviving now due to its nukes, so the lie is not exclusively told by one side. Guess it’s the ideologist’s equivalent of a reassuring warm mug of cocoa, before bedtime.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 25 2025 13:48 utc | 4
His position has been increasingly ‘modified’ as he gently moves his audience’s unrealistic expectation incrementally, in preparation for their encounter with the military/political reality. I listened infrequently but the failed Ukrainian offensive, followed by the Kursk debacle, seemed to affect the tenor and direction of his coverage.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 25 2025 14:33 utc | 8
Or the operators are not as well trained, or are they no longer using ‘advisors’, as footage shows them firing salvos of six missiles at a time, with two batteries firing on similar trajectories. Lots of dollars burnt, but for what end, as explosions on the ground are seen occurring seconds after launch.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 25 2025 15:26 utc | 15
Pure speculation. On occasion I’ve been in possession of information way above my pay grade, including a number ‘super-secret’ addresses. I didn’t reveal them, firstly because it would have been a gross betrayal, and secondly because I didn’t want to spend hours having a ‘chat’ with SB/MI, as they went on a leak hunt. Perhaps though somebody less honest and braver decided to turn that info into a nice payday. My guess would be that Starmer has been the recipient of the the ‘horse’s head in the bed’ move, orchestrated by the SBU, then again plenty of Labour MP’s, including those in his Cabinet hate, or are beginning to hate, him so who knows.
Anyway, doesn’t Lord Ali have the role of, ‘Provider of the PM’s Pleasure Hole’, his wife sure as hell doesn’t.
Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 25 2025 16:18 utc | 21
Which is why the cabal needed a senile figurehead and his robotic ‘friend’ to be able to push that financial ‘theory’ to its logical conclusion.

Posted by: Milites | May 25 2025 17:32 utc | 44

Putin’s Helicopter Caught in Ukrainian Drone Swarm – Commander
….
Posted by: Julian | May 25 2025 16:43 utc | 29
But a successful assassination attempt on Putin from Ukraine would likely lead Russia’s remaining political and military leadership to eliminate all threats posed by Ukraine within the next few hours. The idea that Ukraine will rise within its former borders and armed to the teeth by the West, if only Putin dies, seems rather naive to me. Perhaps that’s why they get along so well with EU representatives.

Posted by: Oliver Krug | May 25 2025 17:35 utc | 46

Anonymous? Where are you?
We’re back at over 20 km even on DS
AFU casualties are edging up to 1.400
Arms shipped to Odessa get iskandered.
Also relevant to ukraine (and extended theater)
“Historic Kill”: S-400 Shot Down Pakistan’s AWACS Aircraft 314 KM Away During Indo-Pak War
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/exclusive-s-400-secures-furthest-kill-during/
The S-400 surface-to-air missile shot down multiple Pakistani air-launched cruise missiles and drones, and proved its real worth during the India-Pakistan brief war.
…. the Indian S-400 has created a world record by securing the longest kill by an SAM by hitting an aerial target at 314 kilometers. With the launch, the SAM took out a force multiplier of the Pakistan Air Force’s Saab Erieye-2000 flying radar.
This is the second loss of the Saab Erieye-2000 flying radar, the source told EurAsian Times, on the condition of anonymity as he is not authorized to speak to the media.

Posted by: Newbie | May 25 2025 17:37 utc | 48

” MMT is very specific that deficit spending MUST be on real physical infrastructure – a long term investment that will pay dividends long after any short term deficits have been paid off.
Posted by: john brewster | May 25 2025 16:29 utc | 23 ”
The main, by design, problem with current monetary systems is that as soon as money is printed a certain group immediately attaches interest to it. Evey other issue is miniscule compared to that. Governments need to go back to issuing debt free money.

Posted by: The painter | May 25 2025 17:42 utc | 50

Reports in various Ukrainian outlets of a heavy overnight bombardment by Russian missiles and drones.
– at least 3 districts in the capital city
– multiple strikes in Zhytomyr region, no specific locations reported
– strikes on at least 6 towns in the Kiev region
– strikes in the cities of Nikolaev and Khmelnitsky
– industrial buildings destroyed and damaged in Ternopil and Sumy
– multiple “arrivals” in the Kherson region, up to 30 localities reportedly affected
– reports of FAB-500 and FAB-1500 used in Kupyansk
These were all compiled from about a dozen different reports, I can provide links if anyone desperately wants them.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 25 2025 17:45 utc | 52

I’ve been following Kelton, Keen and other MMT priests for years and the arguments are all still BS. It’s a monstrous lie hidden beneath a thousand fiat truths, which is why it never has and never will go mainstream. Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 25 2025 17:22 utc | 41

You notice how they conspicuously avoid debating Austrians? And again, MMT is being actively discredited as all these fiat-fueled governments destroy themselves in real-time. Got gold?

—-
First, you do not respond to the fact that your strawman was not MMT.
Second, your rebuttal to decades of scholarship is “all still BS”. How authoritative.
Third, there are even more decades of scholarship debunking the Austrians. Philip Mirowski has done much of it, as he labels it “the Neoliberal Thought Collective”. Try reading 8 points of the neoliberal program 8 points of the neoliberal program

Posted by: john brewster | May 25 2025 17:48 utc | 54

I was just thinking to myself how the “nuke ’em” crowd has been pretty quiet lately. Neofeudalfuture must want us all dead, talking about “Nuke Kiev/Lvov” and Nuke/Oreshnik the capitals or manufacturing hubs of any country that dares utter a peep afterwards. As if said countries don’t have nukes of their own.
It’s always been my understanding that such things would lead to the destruction of entire nations and/or The End Of The World As We Know It. There’s a reason only two such devices have ever been used in the eighty years since their creation. The type of scenario NFF and God knows who else advocates is exactly the reason why the Cold War never went hot and why terms like Mutually Assured Destruction exist. Now granted, the US is trying to wargame how to “win” a nuclear war, which is basically how many of the rabble are Acceptable Losses while the elite hide in their bunkers and underground complexes until it all blows over – which, isn’t even itself new, fiction is quite full of characters who would happily sacrifice their own countries/nations/powers if it meant they got to be ruler over whatever was left – but still. M.A.D. exists. If it was simple as drop one nuke on then Lord knows how many more countries would have such scarring. Hell even in the Korean War, MacArthur wanted to nuke the North Koreans and if I remember, that’s one of the reasons he got fired.
So no, Russia can’t “just” drop nukes or Oreshniks on Kiev, Lvov, or any other city. People act like these are video game nukes where you drop one and it’s either instant win, or the enemy’s just severely damaged. Also, Russia, already demonized by the West, would be promptly classified as the only country to nuke another country (see how fast we’d forget about Japan/order Japan to forget about themselves) and made to be a pariah.
So I cannot, for the life of me, understand why people like NeoFeudalFuture and others keep acting like “just” “one” nuke/Oreshnik/etc. would fix everything.
It wouldn’t.
So why keep grumbling about how you don’t understand why Putin doesn’t just get it over with.

Posted by: Stark | May 25 2025 18:00 utc | 56

@55 stark
I was quoting someone else. I guess should’ve stuck to my header format for clarity.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | May 25 2025 18:04 utc | 58

And furthermore, I read this in the last open thread last week, one of you made a very good point: the US can cause all the death and destruction it does because it does so from the other side of the world, with two big oceans to protect it. Sooner or later, this war is going to end, and Russia is going to need its neighbors to get along with them. “They nuked us!” would be the rallying cry of every Ukrainian, however many are left, forever. You see how they openly hate Russians now, how do you think they’d feel then? And then what choice would Russia have? Exterminate them all and be no better than Israel in Gaza, or try to make peace – and again, we’ve all seen how impossible peace is now, imagine how much more impossible it’d be with everything going on AND the fact that Russia nuked Ukraine – and I guess just live with the endless terrorist attacks. And again, people are already calling for said terrorist attacks just because “the only good Russian is a dead Russian”-type sentiment.
And people wonder why Russia hasn’t let nukes fly.
Like I get it, Sid Meier’s: Civilization VII came out a few months ago and if you’d had it your way things would be different, you’d have this shit wrapped up in 20 turns or less, but please. This isn’t a video game. There is no “just” detonate a nuclear device.

Posted by: Stark | May 25 2025 18:08 utc | 60

It wasn’t that long ago – that the British taxpayer finished paying-off the Yanks, for aid in WWII – 2006 I think – via the Lend-Lease Programme.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 25 2025 16:06 utc | 20
They paid a little bit for support in the Second World War, but there is still a little something from the First World War – but:
What’s a little debt beteen friends ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4757181.stm

Posted by: Oliver Krug | May 25 2025 18:12 utc | 62

That’s what happens when you like to declare wars that you can only win with the help of your big brother. By the way, good luck with your involvement in Ukraine without the help of the USA, dear English and French!

Posted by: Oliver Krug | May 25 2025 18:40 utc | 64

Ivory tower intellectuals with no connection to the real world, same place MMT emanated.

Wow, you tout the Austrians who are the original ivory tower intellectuals. Sneering for thee, but not for me.
Once again, all you have is sneering.

You fail to address the fact that MMT hasn’t ever worked in the real world,

First, no government has ever tried it. You can’t say it didn’t work if it was never tried.

a semblance of credibility but the underlying foundation is still rotten to the core

More sneering without any proof. You continue to try to equate MMT with the massive, bipartisan tax cuts and deficit spending, such as Bernanke’s “helicopter money”. Try as you might, you can’t blame MMT for the current mess.
Why don’t you just admit you are a “there is no such thing as society” Thatcherite.

Posted by: john brewster | May 25 2025 18:53 utc | 66

Patience is wearing thin …
Denys Prokopenko Azov commander
Swarm drone attack on Putin’s helicopter in Kursk … retribution was immediate … more to come … Volodymyr is moaning again

Posted by: Oui | May 25 2025 18:59 utc | 68

Posted by: john brewster | May 25 2025 18:53 utc | 65
Posted by: john brewster | May 25 2025 18:53 utc | 66
“Jesus wept.”; the shortest verse in the Bible, and also my reaction to your cluttering up a thread on Ukraine by posting the same damn off-topic thing twice.
Folks, please can we keep things somewhat topic-related?
Thank you.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 25 2025 19:02 utc | 70

Folks, please can we keep things somewhat topic-related?
Thank you.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 25 2025 19:02 utc | 69
I was just thinking that myself.
Some NAFO was stating that the factory in Kiev that got hammered didn’t make anything. Want to bet it was a major source of those drone swarms?

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 25 2025 19:06 utc | 72

The way that I understand MMT is that there is no deficit spending at all, because there is no debt involved.
The government issues money without debt, instead of the way all governments issue money now, by borrowing it from bankers, with interest due.
The government issues the money to pay for labor and services necessary to keep a population employed and prosperous.
Obviously, the money issued only works in the issuing country, meaning that buying other country’s resources is unfeasible unless there is an equal trade balance.
As far as I can see, only Russia and China would be capable of maintaining such a balance.
MMT requires autarky. Americans prefer imperialism based on holding the world’s reserve currency, debt, and running a trade imbalance.
This is why they react so strongly to any suggestion that we not keep indebting ourselves to the bankers.

Posted by: wagelaborer | May 25 2025 19:21 utc | 74

So, has anyone figured out yet what Ukraine can do to win this conflict and depose Putin from power?
I noticed that my pal, Anonymous, has been scarce recently.
I miss the reports of how Russia isn’t winning fast enough.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 25 2025 19:22 utc | 76

The assassination of PORTNOV in Madrid is revealing according to the daily Ytube podcast in Italian by Nicolai Lilin. PORTNOV was a brilliant lawyer and rewrote the Ukrainian penal code in 2012 to the benefit of the then established oligarchs like Kolomoiski. These were however sidelined by the Soros linked pro globalist oligarchs, which lead to Euro Maidan in 2014. Temporarily Portnov took the side of the old East Ukrainian oligarchs (Yanukovich) in 2014 and consequently had to emigrate.
Kolomoisky then financed Zelenski as an alternative to the globalist Poroshenko but Z in the end turned against the “old” oligarchs and favoured the new globalist ilk. PORTNOV still wanted to influence the elections in 2025 (2026?) and the succession of Z. The last months he bought anti Z ads in Ukrainian papers and went to Ukraine a week ago. Then he was killed upon his return in Madrid by professionals. Obviously Z’s mark according to Lilin.

Posted by: Teraspol | May 25 2025 19:34 utc | 78

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 25 2025 17:36 utc | 46
Another story says that the arsonists are gays. The rest you can imagine. And that those facts are linked to the Portnov assassination. He had interesting things to reveal.
Is it just a story? Or?

Posted by: Naive | May 25 2025 19:38 utc | 80

You are a total hypocrite. It was YOU who started the off-topic.
Posted by: john brewster | May 25 2025 19:21 utc | 74
LOL, I was responding to SoA’s “We’ve taught people how money works in Scotland.” You’re the one that got his panties in a bunch.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 25 2025 19:54 utc | 82

And as for

So, has anyone figured out yet what Ukraine can do to win this conflict and depose Putin from power?

They tried that last summer, launching a 3-day operation to invade Kursk and march on Moscow to topple the evil Putler regime.
It all fell flat though, when they ran out of microchips robbed from domestic appliances…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 25 2025 19:54 utc | 84

Actually, I suppose ”MMT” could apply to this thread:
Many Missiles Thundering…
Does that work???

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 25 2025 20:01 utc | 86

@Melaleuca | Sun, 25 May 2025 15:26:00 GMT | 15

What’s going on exactly? Anyone have some theories?

Does Sir Keir have enemies? Yes, among them Russia. Did Russia send three gay arsonists for Starmer, or did they come by themselves?
The media silence is a sign that it’s something serious.
It could also be blackmail by a third party, like some disgruntled oligarch.

Posted by: persiflo | May 25 2025 20:14 utc | 88

It could also be blackmail by a third party, like some disgruntled oligarch.
Posted by: persiflo | May 25 2025 20:14 utc | 87
It would certainly be 5D chess if the FSB managed to motivate NAFO’s to kill Starmer.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 25 2025 20:16 utc | 90

The absence of new Oreshnik sitings has to be scaring the bejeezus out of NATO.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 25 2025 19:57 utc | 84
Agreed, and Russia not using it willy-nilly on inappropriate targets is adding to its mystique/scariness/threat potential.
it freaks the psychopathic elite out, having seen it once but not being able to gather much in the way of useful data, because everything was obliterated. The pictures of rusty old water tanks and central heating pumps that the Ukrainians paraded as remnants of the device probably didn’t help to calm nerves.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 25 2025 20:24 utc | 92

The comedian is too funny. After attacking Russia he is getting back what he deserves. He cries to Trump as if Russia attacked Ukraine yesterday out of the blue. He should count his blessings that Russia didn’t use nukes on him. Not a bad idea to do a repeat of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Ukraine to speed up the end of the war. Kiev, Lviv, Odessa, Karkiv and Nikolaiv are prime targets. Bust them open for peace.

Posted by: Jason | May 25 2025 20:26 utc | 94

“The Biden administration was merely the pendulum swinging to the insane far left”
—
LOL
Joe Caligula Biden “far left” and
Donald Nero Trump “America First”
Haha
The political show business for the entertainment and confusion of the plebs is simply perfect and Bill Maher is its prophet.

Posted by: Simon | May 25 2025 20:37 utc | 96

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Pepsi-Cola “Far Left”
Coca-Cola “Far Right”
The American political system is simply perfect.
I believe the political show industry would be able to create two brand images for two identical bottles of water
and the common people would never think of ordering wine or beer
Although the side effect is a society fractured into two opposing cultural identities.

Posted by: Simon | May 25 2025 20:48 utc | 98

Nooneuknow | May 25 2025 17:15 utc | 40
That is not true. First, Trump is a liar, what he says is not connected to what he does. It’s for his fans who are still getting tricked and others are paid to parrot. Putin will not meet Trump just to waste time, only after the reasons for a meeting will be clear, all prepared in advance. Putin did not meet Brazilian president when he landed without a planned meeting a few days ago sent by Nato to force a ceasefire, they only had a little phone call.
Usually presidents are busy, it’s a job. president Camacho and others can’t understand that notion because they’re not doing anything all day, they’re puppets, scammers or too old to know where they are

Posted by: rk | May 25 2025 20:48 utc | 100