The Old Nazi’s ancestors, rob their citizens of more, much needed public funds – to keep aiding the Neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine. The good people of Germany need to rise up.
“Berlin will provide Kiev with another €5 billion ($5.6 billion) in military aid on top of the €28 billion it has given since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in early 2022, the German Defense Ministry has announced. Moscow has stated in response that further assistance to Ukraine could precipitate the “collapse” of Germany.
The funds promised by Berlin would principally be used to “finance the production of long-range weapon systems in Ukraine,” the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov, who arrived in Berlin together with Vladimir Zelensky, signed a defense cooperation deal between the two countries.
“A significant number” of long-range weapon systems can be manufactured inside Ukraine this year, the statement read without specifying the types of arms.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 16:31 utc | 4

Ze meltdown…
The US has no right to watch us being killed and do nothing – Zelensky.
The US is one of the few countries that can put Russia in its place. Yes, the Americans may not want to give us weapons.
But they have an obligation to stop Russia’s weapons. They have the right not to help us with electronic warfare or not to provide air defense systems.
They can say they have Patriot systems, but they do not give them to us.
However, they do not have the right not to respond, when missiles fly at us and kill us.

Posted by: Gipas | May 29 2025 16:49 utc | 6

Without fully conceding the cauldron, nevertheless DS had to concede a little over 28km2 (after yesterday’s 32km2) and that on a slow (sub 1.300) casualties day.
More than encircling prokovsk on the NE, RF seems to be building a wide wall…

Posted by: Newbie | May 29 2025 17:15 utc | 8

To all these people, who love the war… an excerpt from a book, visiting the Vietnam war Memorial in Washington…
“They are dead. They are eliminated. They no longer exist.” He reached forward and touched a name he could not read. “The person who was named this.” He touched another. “And the person who was named this.” And he touched a third. “And the person who had this name. They are no more. Surely facing that is the real lesson of this wall. One cannot come here to speak with the dead, for the dead are dead. One cannot come here to beg forgiveness from the dead, for the dead are dead. One cannot come here to be touched by the dead, for the dead are dead. These names, these characters carved in stone—that is all that is left of them. Surely that is the message of this wall, the lesson to be learned. As long as your people keep thinking that this life is a prologue, that more is to come after it, that those wronged here will be rewarded in some there yet to come, you will continue to undervalue life, and you will continue to send young people off to die.”
The belief that you’d be rewarded in the “afterlife” is the most foolish thought ever was in the planet Earth!

Posted by: ostrr | May 29 2025 17:39 utc | 10

Combat/drone footage on the obvious Telegram channels has become rare. Any known reasons why? Better control over soldiers smartphones? Rare combat itself?

Posted by: Tollkein | May 29 2025 17:44 utc | 12

The Germans who never met a genocide they didn’t like (Namibia, WWII, now Gaza) host Neo-Nazi’s in the Bundestag.
“Members of Germany’s pro-war Green Party hosted Hitler-admiring Ukrainian Azov militants in the Bundestag
Germany’s powerful Israel lobby, which demands prison for anyone protesting the Holocaust in Gaza, presumably said nothing.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MaxBlumenthal/status/1927387874002968672#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 18:21 utc | 14

The lewngths they’ll go to lol. Trying to get the negotaions meeting at the Vatican to try to win over the catholic world of south america (Brazil) and the Mediteranean.

Posted by: HERMIUS | May 29 2025 18:54 utc | 16

t.me/DDGeopolitics/149359
“The Red Cross reports that it has already received 400 000 requests from Ukrainian families who are looking for their missing relatives. This figure is as of April.”

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 29 2025 19:23 utc | 18

🇵🇱🇺🇦 Polish President Outraged: Ukraine Still Glorifies Those Behind the Volyn Massacre
“It’s absurd — I come to Ukraine and people hug me, thank me, all while wearing armbands in Bandera’s colors. I say we cannot accept this, and they throw up their hands and ask, ‘What do you mean?'” — said Polish President Andrzej Duda.
Duda emphasized that Poland will never accept Ukrainian laws that glorify the criminals responsible for the mass murder of Poles during the Volyn massacre.

“We will never accept that you consider them heroes. Yes, we know you see them as fighters for a free Ukraine. But for us, they are nothing more than war criminals, murderers, and genocidaires — and that’s what we will always call them. We will never come to terms with it.”

polands russophobia makes them side with nazis, and they still dont see the problem. talk is cheap duda.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 29 2025 20:21 utc | 20

https://www.rt.com/russia/618334-zakharova-ukraine-talks-delegation-makeup/
Russia is pushing for negotiations?
Very strange.

Posted by: vargas | May 29 2025 20:27 utc | 22

You might want to wait longer than a single minute next time vargas. Don’t exhaust yourself so.

Posted by: boneless | May 29 2025 21:24 utc | 24

Western warmongers and merchants of death are on a roll…aided and abetted by MICIMATT [the ‘C’ can stand for Canada’s Carney]
MICIMATT
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/MICIMATT
“MICIMATT is an extension of the concept of the Military-Industrial complex..”
Cabinet Ministers Watch Their Words As Pressure Builds on Defence File
https://nationalnewswatch.com/2025/05/29/carneys-cabinet-ministers-evade-journalists-questions-at-defence-industry-show
“…The prime minister has committed to shelling out billions of dollars to rapidly build out the armed forces and completely retool how Canada purchases military weaponry. Behind the scenes, he has worked to get Canada into a major European defence procurement pact.
NATO member nations are expected to increase their benchmark [defence spending] to five per cent at the summit later this month – at Trump’s behest.”
CFPI
https://s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAJnweN54jI
“Carney Backs Trump’s Golden Don.” Canadians had better wake up and smell the coffee. But they won’t. Never did and never will.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 29 2025 21:32 utc | 26

Russia simply can’t afford an endless war in which it receives so many casualties and creates so many broken men.
Posted by: fnord | May 29 2025 21:20 utc | 23
Well, Mr FNordstream, if Russia can’t afford such losses, then Ukriane, who are losing at least three times more men and have a population just a quarter the size of Russia, definately cannot afford another couple of months of this war,let alone endless.

Posted by: HERMIUS | May 29 2025 21:37 utc | 28

Posted by: Jason | May 29 2025 21:57 utc | 29
👍👍👍👍👍👍

Posted by: HERMIUS | May 29 2025 22:02 utc | 30

Posted by: Tollkein | May 29 2025 17:44 utc | 12
Because it’s probably an Opsec risk now. the Ukrainians became so desperate to create the narrative of victory, 2 years ago, that they published footage that more than likely killed hundreds of their own soldiers.

Posted by: Milites | May 29 2025 22:34 utc | 32

from
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/562591/new-zealander-killed-in-ukraine-died-trying-to-save-fellow-soldiers-rnz-understands
Shan-le Kearns, 26, is the fourth New Zealander known to have died in Ukraine.Shan-le Kearns, 26, is the fourth New Zealander known to have died in Ukraine.
A Christchurch man who died in Ukraine while helping the country’s war efforts had earlier said he was living the dream.
Twenty-six-year-old Shan-Le Kearns, from Christchurch, died in the past few weeks.
He had posted on social media a slogan that translated to ‘Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes’.
A source in Ukraine told RNZ he had been trying to rescue wounded comrades when his group was hit by drones and explosives.
Kearns died attempting to save fellow soldiers, and a Finnish soldier was killed alongside him, the source said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it had not yet received any confirmation from Ukraine authorities and was urgently seeking information.
However, it said the process may take some time given the situation on the ground in Ukraine.
It said no further information could be shared, citing privacy reasons.
Elis Kearns told 1News that her son was not on the front line but had been trained in combat so he could help rescue injured soldiers.
He had been in Ukraine for two years and was intending to stay for another to fulfil his three-year contract, she said.
Kearns is the fourth New Zealander known to have died in Ukraine. Dominic Abelen, 28, was killed on 23 August 2022; Andrew Bagshaw, 47, on 6 January 2023; and Kane Te Tai, 38, on 20 March 2023.
The Weatherman Foundation is an American NGO which has been in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion of the country.
Kyiv-based Lauren Guillaume who is from the foundation’s missing-in-action programme said the programme started out delivering humanitarian aid but had developed “to really cover the life of a soldier – all the way from treating the wounded in action both their physical wounds and mental PTSD wounds”.
The programme also supports the families of the missing in action and killed in action, she said.
“Unfortunately these days the difference often between a missing in action and killed in action soldier is whether or not their body can be recovered from the battlefield,” she said.
“What our team does is investigate to identify their body and we also pursue a court case to help the family try to receive a death certificate in the terrible circumstance if a body cannot be recovered.”
The only way a family such as Sharn-Le Kearns’ family can obtain a death certificate “is either through his physical repatriation or through a court case”, she said.
“So we are helping them in this process all the way from collecting DNA back in New Zealand, helping them to navigate the Ukrainian judicial system by helping them to collect witness testimonies and submit a case to the Ukrainian court, all the way to eventually helping them apply for the compensation that they’re owed.”
The foundation’s team also visits morgues all around Ukraine to look at unidentified remains on the chance that it could be him, she said.

Posted by: tucenz | May 29 2025 22:46 utc | 34

“Russia simply can’t afford an endless war in which it receives so many casualties and creates so many broken men.”
Posted by: fnord | May 29 2025 21:20 utc | 23
But Ukraine can with 1/7 of Russia’s population and losing their men 5-1 against the Russians?
Take this personally, you are a retard or a troll.

Posted by: canuck | May 29 2025 23:07 utc | 36

Posted by: fnord | May 29 2025 21:20 utc | 23
Fuck off nazi troll who wants to make believe he is concerned by the loss of Russian soldiers. The volunteers are signing contracts by thousands every week.
400’000 Ukrainian families are looking for news about father, brother or son who disappeared altogether.
+ 1 million at least of ukronazis and their involuntary victims killed.

Posted by: dies irae! | May 29 2025 23:34 utc | 38

Russia will have a great country going forward if they agree on The Document, according to DJT—whatever The Document might be.
The Document is the ultimate Memorandum for Peace in Ukraine. The bummer of course is that DJT has no leverage in this matter.
Stiil, DJT says he needs just two weeks.
He needs just two weeks to figure out if Russia tapping him along (TM).
C’mon, Russia, c’mon—leak the contents of your Memorandum to Reuters-! Let the Regime Media take some pot-shots.
Russia no doubt understands that dealing w/ Ukraine means dealing of course w/ the U.S. ultimately, because the U.S. is Ukraine’s paymaster—-but right now the theatrics require all parties to pretend that the neo-Nazi government in Ukraine is large and in-charge, which of course it is not.
In the midst of this craziness, Russia naturally retains sufficient good-fellow feeling and political etiquette. Even Aleksandr Dugin is praying for DJT and for MAGA. Recall: the Kremlin Major Players endured Russiagate from 2017 through 2020. This is not their first rodeo.
BTW: China has stopped the export of drone sales to the West but has continued supplying the same drones to Russia. Moreover, China has stopped exporting parts for prior drones to the West.
Battle-lines getting drawn. The situation is tightening.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 29 2025 23:42 utc | 40

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 29 2025 23:37 utc | 39
‘What’s obvious is that the AFU’s support from the West has handicapped them massively.’ How so? Without the support they’d have collapsed in weeks, who else would/could have supported them? If you’re trying to extrapolate some method of determining the effectiveness of comparative systems this isn’t the conflict to use, or if you do any analysis it has to be caveat heavy. If they were supported by Russian ISR capabilities and logistics the war would have been over in months.
Doctrinally, it’s a non-starter because the Ukrainians never followed Western doctrine, albeit at the tactical level, as they were never able to operate above brigade level, never practiced combined arms warfare and their TO&E was often a gypsy caravan of hand-me-downs or a Kobblekampfgruppe of limited capabilities.
Historians never stop writing about any wars, but this one is for the hardcore readers and/or the scenario designers for simulations. It probably will be seen for drones as WW2 was seen for the tank and aeroplane, where subsequent conflicts will never or rarely allow the quad-copter the freedom of action it had during the SMO, for the same reasons as any weapon system, its effectiveness.
If any shifting happens it will probably be that Russia pulls her chair closer to the table she was pushed away from, but I doubt any great tectonic shifts will occur, unless Ukraine’s neighbours want to bring their chairs in closer. China is facing economic uncertainty and increasing under-currents of political instability, whilst facing an America leadership whose less inclined to take the default paths of self-enrichment that have benifited the PRC so well in the past.
I don’t think there’s anything amazing about Russia’s progress or know how, just the inevitable process of years of bloody instruction slowly disseminating, by osmotic and authorised methods and Darwin’s laws enforced kinetically and consequentially.
Like most wars its supporters, on both sides, have generated a huge amount of hyperbolic commentary and analysis which artificially elevates events and capabilities beyond their dull reality. It also will have the tendency, like most conflicts, to create and populate an environment that encourages an ego-driven weaponisation of any analytical examination, especially as it entails a clash of ideologies. This in turn can warp the general perception held, in the future, of the conflict. So really, the SMO will follow a similar post-conflict route of established narrative, then revisionism and counter-revisionism that all conflicts and their component parts endure.

Posted by: Milites | May 30 2025 0:25 utc | 42

Can anyone here comment on this story, sent to me by a friend:
“Someone Leaked Russia’s Nuclear and Missile Defense Specs to NATO
Another day, another catastrophic mistake by the Kremlin.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-164736530

Posted by: Jane | May 30 2025 0:40 utc | 44

Interesting that temporary worker Musk says he’s ‘done his job’ now for DOGE and saved $175 billion for the average American, while Trump signals that the ‘Golden Dome’ (of populist sound bites) will cost $175 billion. 175-175 = 0 for the average American, $175 billion for the Military Industrial Congressional Complex.
Le plus ça change the plus c’est la même chose. The more things change the more they are the same thing.

Posted by: George | May 30 2025 1:01 utc | 46

Posted by: Milites | May 30 2025 0:25 utc | 42
I agree with what you say. What has been interesting is that if NATO or the US had actually backed Ukraine with a solid show of combined and powerful force they could have knocked Russia out a long time ago (from my point of view). Instead they have been supplying Ukraine in dribs and drabs and using that to generate publicity that ‘wonder weapons’ would be the new game changers, and often that somehow Ukraine was winning or going to win with its next surge of force.
This makes me think that the idea has only ever been to hopefully weaken Russia by death of a thousand cuts, but it didn’t work due to Putin et. al.’s extraordinary military-industrial preparedness and ability to respond economically in finding new markets, fostering organisations like BRICS, and making new allies that were similarly targeted by the US as well. From the beginning, it has been obvious that the US was never going to risk putting its own boots on the ground (apart from technical advisors) since there would have been far too many Americans killed and that is anathema in modern America. Ukrainians were happy to die until the last one anyway, we were told by people like Lindsay Graham – repeatably.

Posted by: George | May 30 2025 1:31 utc | 48

Posted by: Jane | May 30 2025 0:40 utc | 44
Just cut and paste it into search engine (I used Duck & Go) and you’ll find every main stream media on the planet is putting out the same meme, including some from Kiev and Ukraine. Without having a way to ascertain the truth here, I would say that the wave of the same meme being pushed out by the usual propaganda sources indicates that it is probably fictional nonsense or a massive exaggeration for the same reasons fake reports are usually disseminated.

Posted by: George | May 30 2025 1:39 utc | 50

Posted by: Jane | May 30 2025 0:40 utc | 44
Can anyone here comment on this story, sent to me by a friend:
“Someone Leaked Russia’s Nuclear and Missile Defense Specs to NATO
Another day, another catastrophic mistake by the Kremlin.”

To me, this looks like an inverse of Nazi Germany’s Wunderwaffen obsession. So instead of some miracle weapon saving Ukraine –and a bunch were announced over the years, as you’ll remember– we now have people miracle intelligence calming everyone pro-Ukraine that at least strategically the Russians lost it.

Posted by: George | May 30 2025 1:13 utc | 47
From what I have read last night Russia could very likely destroy Taurus manufacturing factories in Germany if they go ahead with Merz’s folly. Some also reported that many Germans on social media were even cheering for that to happen.

I wouldn’t bloat about it on any social media but as a German, I agree that an Oreshnik hitting Rheinmetall would be a good thing. I believe the Russians could get away with it for three reasons:
1. Germany cannot escalate in turn, unlike USA, UK, France.
2. It’d possible to explain this to enemies and friends all over with history.
3. The West would make noises but on the quiet cherish a hit on their competitor.
I am afraid it’s highly unlikely the Russians actually would go that far although there is the argument that domestic pressure might have them do *something* about a German rocket hitting Moscow (which is the scenario mentioned by RT head Simonjan). The “Oreshnik on Berlin” thrown about has 0% credibility IMO.

Posted by: George | May 30 2025 1:31 utc | 48
What has been interesting is that if NATO or the US had actually backed Ukraine with a solid show of combined and powerful force they could have knocked Russia out a long time ago

How do you knock out a country that has a nuclear doctrine?
I agree that the Western plan was never for Ukraine to win but rather for Russia to lose, e.g. by domestic unrest or a coup taking out the government. But that was the job of the “sanctions from hell”. You seem to speak of a military knockout — how should what have worked?

Posted by: Konami | May 30 2025 1:53 utc | 52

vargas@22….,Lavrov’s latest peace plan bid is trying to head the Ukies off at the pass….the ‘pass’ being the rather wide air corridor 404 opened up by using cheap drones to deplete Russian air defences on the Road to Moscow. A bit lame, but at this point who wants to see Moscow get SCALPed, or heaven forbid, a Taurus comes to visit…..Germany, France and the UK are not bound by any agreements and are free to have proxies attack Russia….all of the day and all of the night…..should they chose….I suspect they shall….oh, goody, the blood letting continues…..
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | May 30 2025 2:11 utc | 54

Konami | May 30 2025 1:53 utc | 52
Russia was expected to lose within weeks.
Remember the SanctionsFromHell™️.
USNATO never planned for this kinetic conflict.
And. For three years they’ve completely failed to understand the Russians and their sloSMO.
U$A…. No Shock and Awe? No big arrows carving half the country in two weeks?
That ain’t a real war… Russia is too pussy to fight a Real War™️.
And yet, here we are.
Ukraine collapsing. EU energy prices destroying industry, and the NATO weapons stash depleted.
And Russian economy not only surviving but thriving.
Western companies that left with such fanfare, now trying to slyly sneak back in to grab some of those profits….
The SanctionsFromHell™️ worked. Just not the way RAND and the stink tankers expected.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 30 2025 2:32 utc | 56

Posted by: Konami | May 30 2025 1:53 utc | 52
Thanks for your comments and your views.
“How do you knock out a country that has a nuclear doctrine?”
I meant simply on the battle front in Ukraine, and that may have acted as a solid deterrent to Russia in the first place, rather than taking the dribs and drabs approach. It could have impacted Russia in ways that would make it rethink just how far it could go and advanced any diplomatic process. Don’t forget it was also at the request of helping the Donbas people protect themselves from the Ukrainian shelling that had gone on for many years which augmented just before Russia started its ‘SMO’ that got Russia moving. It’s never really been a full out war in that sense, although getting closer to it now.
Nuclear? Well that’s the ultimate step and I don’t think any rational country wants to overstep the line there, we are all possibly done for if that starts. MAD would be hard to stop. A lot of comment makers cheer nuclear strikes on but most have no idea of the power of modern nuclear weapons nor the potential impact of a nuclear Winter. They think of Hiroshima or Nagasaki and that is kindergarten by comparison. The possibility of nuclear has not gone away however since it lingers around even now whether the dribs and drabs approach or any other way was taken.
I guess in the long run Russia was never going to let NATO move into Ukraine or move further to the east. It has always reminded me of the Cuban missile crisis. At that time (1962)the US had put Jupiter missiles (I think they were called) along the northern border of Turkey facing the USSR. Such events can only be solved by diplomacy and tense stand offs in the end.

Posted by: George | May 30 2025 2:46 utc | 58

Britain will increase cyberattacks against Russia and China
John Healey, the defence minister, admitted the UK was engaged in cyberwarfare as he announced a new cyber-command that will help co-ordinate attacks
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/britain-increase-cyberattacks-russia-china-zg5jrn3hv
[paywall, but headline is enough ]
Extra sauce: “The creation of a cyber command is part of the effort to eliminate duplication, set new standards, and empower offensive and defensive cyber attacks,” Healy said when asked if this meant an increase in cyber attacks on states such as Russia and China.
According to him, Moscow has allegedly significantly increased the number of such attacks, so London must respond to such actions.”

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 30 2025 3:13 utc | 60

what about this fellow? any merit in anything he says?
https://roguesystemsrecon.substack.com/p/the-modern-muscovite-army-an-adaptive?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=576476&post_id=164437754&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b7hw3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Posted by: pasta | May 30 2025 3:22 utc | 62

Posted by: Konami | May 30 2025 3:06 utc | 59
I’m aware of the Rand report, but it is not a bible of established fact concerning their predictions and advice either. It was a plan and they were wrong – they also deal in hypotheticals and counterfactuals as I have. None of what they suggested actually weakened Russia, yet we have only ever heard a barrage of reports from the US that Russia could not sustain its defence, nor its economy, nor its numbers in the military, nor Putin’s popularity etc., etc. US administrations have constantly underestimated Russia, and still do. They also don’t seem to see that when you target a number of states in similar ways, like Russia and China, and even Iran, that it is likely that they will become allies. I think they still deny the importance and growing power of BRICS even though BRICS is about trade rather than defence allegiances.

Posted by: George | May 30 2025 3:58 utc | 64

Posted by: pasta | May 30 2025 3:22 utc | 62
Garbage in, garbage out when your analysis relies on claims like the following.
“They’ve gone down this road because they’ve lost over 20,000 armored troop carriers.”
Sourced straight from the Ukrainian MoD’s kill sheet which is as of now up to 985,000 men, 10,900 tanks, 22,600 armoured fighting vehicles, 28,400 artillery pieces, 1400 MLRS and 50,000 assorted support vehicles. They’re fantasy figures. If Russian losses were even half of that, the Ukrainian Army would likely be halfway to Moscow not retreating on all fronts and demanding a ceasefire.

Posted by: OnceWere | May 30 2025 4:37 utc | 66

@ Jane | May 30 2025 0:40 utc | 44
If any of that was true, nobody would’ve been told.

Posted by: boneless | May 30 2025 5:39 utc | 68

Once again….
And a little longer…
There’s a rumor that the Taurus is just a placebo for deterrence and has NEVER served any other purpose, possibly also the reason why ONLY, ONLY South Korea has it in its arsenal. DETERRENCE against North Korea!
Taurus… a system over 50 years old! Which may have once had a “deterrent” effect in the 1980s with its alleged properties. Today, with almost 95% probability, the system would be classified completely differently thanks to new radar technology, new satellite detection, and not least the BEST air defense Russia currently has.
As I said, there’s a rumor that the Taurus might be able to fly and hit a target, but that’s it.
What confirms this assumption?
The Taurus has NEVER been tested over unknown territory; the Taurus has only flown in promotional videos to date. EVERY German Chancellor has sometimes even avoided mentioning the weapon system in any way. NATO, including the USA, does not own this system itself or has any kind of control over it (which actually does NOT exist for such “powerful” weapon systems).
Not even co-developer and sponsor Sweden actually has Taurus in its inventory, or, like the USA, influence over its OWN weapon in every long-range system!
Brought to the public via promotional videos during the Cold War, the system dates back to the depths of the Cold War, the time when DETERRENCE was the principle and considered the solution.
.
A Merz… until his election as Chancellor, who babbled about the Taurus in almost every one of his speeches!
But even BEFORE his election, he was a complete asshole when it came to state secrets!
Then, as Chancellor, he probably had his FIRST OPPORTUNITY to learn about the actual condition of a TAURUS.
But now, to save face, he couldn’t simply back down…other excuses were needed to save the TAURUS THREAT IMAGE and avoid appearing completely embarrassed in the world.
His predecessor, Chancellor Scholz, became downright aggressive when it came to Taurus…but never mentioned the topic in his speeches…back then, a mere MP had to believe what everyone believes today…
TAURUS MAY BE A FOREIGN WEAPON, but without wings, it seems.
And as for those generals whose conversation was intercepted…when Taurus was born, some of these generals weren’t even born yet…I’ve probably never seen a Taurus live, and if I did, NEVER seen it fly, because its last known flight dates back to the time of the ONLY known promotional video.
But as I said…new radar technology, new missile systems, new satellites, all of this together makes for DEFENSE.
.
By the way…South Korea has Taurus, South Korea supplies weapons to Ukraine, why not Taurus…the necessary geo-maps are supposedly easy to create these days…
Why does NO NATO state have Taurus, not even operational capabilities…as a French pilot revealed in a conversation, apart from the Eurofighter, no NATO jet is capable of picking one up…he said he doesn’t know of any aircraft type from the 80s or 90s, but the reception technology is standard…but then Ukraine’s F16s wouldn’t have to be converted…contradiction.
Was Taurus a NATO weapon or a deterrent placebo for states with immediate communist neighbors…Germany/South Korea?
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Posted by: Leipziger | May 30 2025 7:04 utc | 70

Not a news story until the files are shared as-is so we can all download and look at them. Right now there is nothing to back up the claim. I will not take them at their word; they are known liars and propagandists.
There is some stuff that seems odd and some other stuff that would be far more important than anything I saw mentioned which makes me suspect this is all made up by someone who doesn’t really know what they should have made up 🙂
A single server or system for so many different kinds of documents is also very suspicious.
I think some of the claimed documents/topics are very unlikely to ever have been digitized in any form both due to age and due to security.
But I could be wrong, as always, only my thoughts. Time might tell.
(And btw the Texeira stuff was nonsense for internal consumption afaik; never heard or seen anything of interest about/from it. He went to jail for sharing internal classified bullshit/propaganda that he bought into).
Willing to be corrected!

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 30 2025 7:50 utc | 72

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 30 2025 7:50 utc | 72
RE: Texeira was a patsy
<< The files "shared" on the Discord gamechat & then "leaked" via Donbass Devushka were a Bellingcat/CIA/MI6 extravaganza designed specifically for the WaPo, which ran *exclusives* for many months about the "leaked intel." What you're responding to, via Jane #44, has a similar 'feel.'

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 30 2025 8:23 utc | 74

Jane @ 44

Can anyone here comment on this story, sent to me by a friend: “Someone Leaked Russia’s Nuclear and Missile Defense Specs to NATO

Manufactured nonsense, fear mongering yellow journalism of the Evelyn Waugh “Scoop” sort. Imagine the Brits get Enigma and the next day they run it in the newspaper headlines!
Re Taurus: Can’t recall who but one but one of the usual YouTube pundits maybe Doctorow or Sleboda noted that Taurus have been out of production for a while, and there is only a mothballed factory to hit. That doesn’t man the Russians are lacking targets in Germany if it comes to that.
The opposite of Napoleon’s remark, “don’t interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake” is, “always interrupt your enemy when he is succeeding,” seeing that the Russians are steadily advancing my guess is they won’t disturb their success with the impulsive act of striking Germany, when it comes to redlines and escalation NATO always has the Russians over a barrel, that’s why the west repeatedly attacks Russia, the Russians as always just have to eat it and slog forward.
The Taurus redline is bait and the Russians enabled it, and as Berletic correctly noted the order emmanates from the Pentagon (and from Trump the Commander in Chief) but laundered through Germany, IMO to send NATO troops to reinforce faltering AFU front lines, call into play some sort of semi-art. 5, about the only hope NATO has left. The Russians as always through their history of war w/ the west are between the hammer and anvil, so it goes.
It’s why from the start I thought the Russians shouldn’t play the west’s propaganda game, they should shut up and go dark, even reigning in the pro RF TG channels, Medvedev, Peskov, Zakharova, should only speak internally to the Russian people, the west should be in the dark till the light of an Oreshnik conventional or nuke hits them. Putin made a mistake saying he would give timely warning if and when any NATO facilities are to be hit, that gives the west the escalatory option of also giving a gentlemanly warning and launching a retaliatory strike, the Russians if they strike at NATO should do it unannounced and suddenly, let the west calculate in the dark what comes next if they dare escalate. The west’s problem is lack of proper fear, playing by their rules doesn’t help instill fear, rather the exact opposite.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 30 2025 8:28 utc | 76

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 30 2025 8:26 utc | 75
I think Trump is just buying himself more time and just found another way to step up to a microphone and announce something to make it look like he is in control and the one calling the shots. He’s been doing that all along with most situations even with other countries unrelated to Ukraine.
Putin hasn’t budged from the same things he has wanted since the operation started, I think it is already written in stone. If he doesn’t get that then there was no point in the SMO in the first place.

Posted by: George | May 30 2025 8:42 utc | 78

Too bad we can’t worship ourselves.
Posted by: A rope leash | May 29 2025 20:24 utc | 21

Many people do.

Posted by: Avtonom | May 30 2025 8:46 utc | 80

“A massive tranche of over 2 million documents found in a public database sheds light on Russia’s expansion and modernization of its highly sensitive nuclear weapons complex, the Danish investigative outlet Danwatch and Germany’s Der Spiegel reported on 29 May.
“The files include detailed blueprints of the Strategic Missile Forces bases near the Orenburg region town of Yasny. The two bases are equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, one of Russia’s most advanced nuclear delivery systems.
““Until now, we have only been able to monitor these bases from above using satellite imagery,” Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, told Danwatch and Der Spiegel. “Now, with the help of these unique drawings, we can for the first time get inside the buildings and all the way underground. It’s completely unprecedented.”
My thoughts: A couple buzzwords which are a tell: “tranche,” “unprecedented.”
Neither WaPo nor nytimes are biting on this yet.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 30 2025 9:13 utc | 82

“Satellite images obtained by Greenpeace show new power lines being built across fields near Mariupol, as well as the distinctive triangular shape of transmission towers. The latest imagery, from May 11 to May 22, shows these lines expanding east of the village of Shevchenko, about seven miles from a substation linked to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.”
This is from the nytimes—but note that the nuclear-related focus for the nytimes is the ZNPP not purported leaks in a public database about Russia’s nuclear facilities in the Orenberg region.
What’s notable is the sudden uptick in nuclear-adjacent topics occurring right now.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 30 2025 9:22 utc | 84

A massive tranche of over 2 million documents found in a public database…
Yes, leaks occur, but so do counter-intelligence “leaks” to throw off the scent. How difficult is it to fake the relevant subset of docs? Seems like basic 101 to have multiple versions, and commonly actual industrial blueprints can go through numerous iterations, before finality.

Posted by: Call it what u will | May 30 2025 9:36 utc | 86

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 30th May 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-266

Posted by: The Busker | May 30 2025 10:21 utc | 88

Posted by: Simon | May 30 2025 9:24 utc | 86
‘British Empire’ my ass, the shithole has-been English nation weigh less than a bag of popcorn.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | May 30 2025 10:39 utc | 90

🇺🇦🇵🇱 Polish President Duda awarded Budanov the Golden Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit for Poland.
This is one of the highest state awards for citizens of foreign countries.
Budanov and other Ukrainian intelligence officers received orders “for services to Poland.”
The head of the GUR was presented by Polish President Duda with one of the highest state awards for foreigners – the Golden Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit for Poland.
The GUR statement said that it was awarded “for outstanding contribution to the development of international cooperation and interaction linking the Republic of Poland with other states and nations.”
Budanov’s deputy Vadim Skibitsky was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit for Poland.
And Ukrainian intelligence officers were awarded badges of distinction for their “contribution to the collective security of the continent.”

just a reminder, a few days ago polish president duda was angy because he witnessed how the “ukrainians” that he visits (lvov, ivano etc) are openly celebrating bandera and other nazi-adjecant individuals etc, and he could not undrstand why the “ukrainians” did not understand his outrage about it.
but here he is, awarding those same people the highest award.
poland was happy siding with adolf, until they got stabbed in the back. nothing learned from history. or maybe the poles are also just like the “ukrainians”, loving nazism, as long as its against those evil russkies.

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 30 2025 10:43 utc | 92

A massive tranche of over 2 million documents found in a public database…
Yes, leaks occur, but so do counter-intelligence “leaks” to throw off the scent. How difficult is it to fake the relevant subset of docs? Seems like basic 101 to have multiple versions, and commonly actual industrial blueprints can go through numerous iterations, before finality.
Posted by: Call it what u will | May 30 2025 9:36 utc | 87
Furthermore, if western intelligence had it, not letting RF know would be the better option.
Propaganda play…

Posted by: Newbie | May 30 2025 11:05 utc | 94

Ursula Von Der Leyen has received the Charlemagne prize. In her acceptance speech, she wishes Ukraine, Moldavia, the West Balkan – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia – Moldavia, and Georgia to join the EU.

I am deeply convinced that history is calling on us now. Just like back in 1989, when the winds of change swept through Europe (speech in German)

The prize is called after Charlemagne, a 9th century European king. None of the countries Ursula wishes to add were part of Charlemagne’s empire. The empire of Charlemagne was France, Germany, the low countries, Switzerland, parts of Austria and Italy. Charlemagne’s empire did not even include Bautzen.

Posted by: Passerby | May 30 2025 11:22 utc | 96

Posted by: Passerby | May 30 2025 11:22 utc | 97
Should be renamed “Charlemagne division prize” …
Ursula is practicing wishful thinking (as all the retards of her kind.). The thing is, all the countries in her list are, one way or another, a death-pill for the EU as an institution for various reasons.
So, if Ursula wanna take that pill, let her do. Treaties can be burned faster than ratified.
EU is like NATO ; as all individual member countries weakens under it’s rule, it’s only survivable option is endless extension and the more extended it is ; the more vulnerable it become. The well known “imperial paradox”.

Posted by: Savonarole | May 30 2025 12:18 utc | 98

Zelensky wants a meeting with Putin and Trump. Kellogg is talking about a meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelensky. Trump stated that he is ready for a trilateral meeting.
Why the need to put Zelensky at the table with Trump and Putin? This is a proxy war between the US and Russia, that can be solved only between US and Russia.
One possible reason, it gives Zelensky real legitimacy. Putin meeting with Zelensky in this format, with Trump present, means that Russia recognises Zelensky’s Presidency.
Zelensky wants to use the meeting as visual proof that he is the best option to lead Ukraine with or without elections. It solidifies his rule, and safeguards his future.
Political competitors and powerful forces in Ukraine will hesitate to push for a removal or coup after seeing Zelensky at the table with Trump and Putin.
As always, for Churchill No. 2, it’s a PR media performance. No peace is meant to come from this, I hope I am wrong.
Side note: Even after the dressing down he received at the White House, Zelensky and the MSM presented a picture where he stood up bravely to Trump, and defended Ukraine’s honour.

Posted by: Alex Christoforou | May 30 2025 12:26 utc | 100