There has been a recent upsurge in parading Ukrainian victories, the dismal state and future of all Russians and a few calls for Endlösung and extermination of Russian people.
It all looks very orchestrated but may be an emergent “as if” phenomenon. All the same this kind of rage is not seen before, not even in 2022.

Posted by: Catilina | Aug 3 2025 13:09 utc | 3

Is this real or fake?
https://www.thekhybermail.com/ukraine-war-british-officers-captured-in-russian-special-forces-raid/

Posted by: steve | Aug 3 2025 13:19 utc | 5

Oh where would the great wave of migrants into Japan come from i wonder.
There are few potential migrants because, unlike Europe and the US, Japan was not allowed to subvert, colonize and impoverish it’s what might have become hinterlands. Instead they have been allowed and much encouraged to develop.
That is the difference not “woke” or “unwoke” or whatever other goofy made up western obsession intellectually simple worrywarts are obsessed with.

Posted by: Guest77 | Aug 3 2025 13:25 utc | 7

I did not say Japan deserved anything…
Posted by: John Marks | Aug 3 2025 13:22 utc | 6

You most sure did not.
Russia does not need Japan for any infrastructure development, especially after it proved itself unreliable and prone to renege on any existent contract.
You better try to push for Russia to return to Finland the Karelian Isthmus if Finland promices “something-something”, this joke will have better chance to vecome a reality than South Kuriles given to Japan

Posted by: Rutte | Aug 3 2025 13:37 utc | 9

Posted by: steve | Aug 3 2025 13:19 utc | 5
Otoh, it was picked up by Hal Turner, who has zero credibility.
Otoh,the following (Serbian?) site lists a few sources. No idea how reliable they are.
https://www.b92.net/english/world/151411/a-shocking-claim-from-moscow-the-russian-army-captured-a-group-of-nato-officers/vest
This information was reported by several Russian media, including Info24, Bloknot and Glavni.tv.

Posted by: Mary | Aug 3 2025 13:58 utc | 11

@ Rutte, §10:
Even in war, Japan adhered to their non-aggression pact with the Soviets. So they´re not unreliable.
Even in war, Russia has honoured its contracts with the EU. So they´re not unreliable.
So these would be two reliable partners – certainly more so than the current America or Europe.
The infrastructural development needs of Siberia are HUGE and the Russians have the intelligence to see that a nearby technically advanced economy is beneficial to them both as a market and a source of investment.
Yes, the Russians could probably do it themselves, but there is a reason they imported so much from Germany before Germany committed industrial suicide. Japan hasn´t done that and they´re very concerned about American plans to use them as a proxy: hence the success of the populist Sanseitō at the latest election. Russian effort will also be fully occupied restoring the wrecked Ukraine after they win.
But aside from the logistics of infrastructure development, I´m sure Russia would prefer a friendly partner as a neighbour than a belligerent American vassal. They thought they had that in Germany until the red/green loons took over. Maybe things can go in the reverse direction in the case of Japan.

Posted by: John Marks | Aug 3 2025 14:05 utc | 13

@ Passerby, §13:
My point 2) in §1 explicitly states “if the Japanese first kick the Americans out of the Ryukyus”
If the Japanese won´t or can´t do that then, of course, no deal.
Is Japan still so beholden to the US such that they must allow the Americans to build a base anywhere in Japan if the Americans want to?

Posted by: John Marks | Aug 3 2025 14:18 utc | 15

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 1st August 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-be0

Posted by: The Busker | Aug 3 2025 14:36 utc | 17

These captures signals a change by Russia. They are striking command and planning behind the LOC with Spetsnaz rather than just blowing it up. They are collecting data and prisoners of value.
For what?
Remains to be seen.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 14:53 utc | 19

It’s getting contagious:

In Nikolayevshchina unknown with bats and metal pipes attacked military [TCCS]
In [TCC] told details of incident in the Nikolaev area. It is noted that the military [TCC] was attacked
This is reported by the Nikolaev regional [TCC-SC], reports RegioNews .
The incident occurred on August 3 in the village of Bugskoye, Mykolaiv region. Representatives of the [TCC] and the police together held warning events. At about 14: 00, unknown people with bats and metal pipes attacked the military. They beat up one of the soldiers and also damaged a car.
According to representatives of the [TCC], in order to protect himself, this serviceman fired a shot from a traumatic pistol. There are victims among the military [TCCs], as well as among civilians. Law enforcement officers are investigating all the circumstances.

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/nikolaevshchina/1754231392-na-mikolayivshchini-nevidomi-z-bitami-ta-metalevimi-trubami-napali-na-viyskovih-ttsk (via translation add-on.)
The “last Ukrainian” seems remarkably difficult to catch.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 3 2025 14:58 utc | 21

Russia is getting closer and closer to making this a proper war which would take the shackles off of the MOD generals and create a nationwide call up.
Keeping it an SMO has been a kindness.
I imagine that Putin is under extraordinary pressure to escalate the situation.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 15:08 utc | 23

Dima is on vacation. Without him we can never understand what is happening in Ukraine. At least I cannot understand.
I am afraid that SBU could kidnap Dima.

Posted by: vargas | Aug 3 2025 15:14 utc | 25

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Aug 3 2025 15:05 utc | 23
LoveDonbass is better left ignored; he/she, it is a complete narcistic moron.

Posted by: bronte sister | Aug 3 2025 15:30 utc | 27

Posted by: Zestyclose | Aug 3 2025 13:28 utc | 8
Yeah, USA did great in the Iraq invasion!
FFS!!!
USA lost 5,000 men over a trillion dollars,20 years and got nothing in return yet dolts like you call it, ‘success’.

Posted by: bronte sister | Aug 3 2025 15:42 utc | 29

’KGB Have You By The Balls!’ Trump vs Putin | War In Ukraine – No Peace In Sight |
Piers Morgan w Jeffrey Sachs, Wesley Clark, author Scott Horton, Politics Dean at Moscow University Henry Sardaryan and British veteran war reporter John Sweeney.

Posted by: Oui | Aug 3 2025 15:57 utc | 31

There are few potential migrants because, unlike Europe and the US, Japan was not allowed to subvert, colonize and impoverish it’s what might have become hinterlands. Instead they have been allowed and much encouraged to develop.
There are few potential migrants because, unlike Europe and the US, Japan was not allowed to subvert, colonize and impoverish it’s what might have become hinterlands. Instead they have been allowed and much encouraged to develop.
Posted by: Guest77 | Aug 3 2025 13:25 utc | 7
Hahaha, say that in China or Korea. You’ll be fishing your teeth out of the gutter.

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Aug 3 2025 16:08 utc | 33

Posted by: chunga | Aug 3 2025 16:11 utc | 35
Overshadowing everything concerning US backed and led former state of Ukraine is the submarine talk by the loudmouthed new yorker on social media.
<=d/n forget the report that the USA placed nuclear weapons in Britain goes along with the deployment of two nuclear subs to places near to Russia. I believe the Brits will use the nuclear weapons on Russia given an opportunity. The Brits control Israel and Israel controls the USA. Is this nuclear build up Trumps 10 day threat? If I were Putin I would think it was.. so .. as Putin said, long time ago many times, if a fight is inevitable, then it is important to strike first..

Posted by: snake | Aug 3 2025 16:29 utc | 35

Posted by: snake | Aug 3 2025 16:29 utc | 36
“The Brits control Israel and Israel controls the USA.”
Yeah. Just explain how that works, with examples.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Aug 3 2025 17:04 utc | 37

Looks like the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi’s, were trying to blow up Europe’s largest nuclear power plant ZNPP yet again – of course the Zionist controlled head of the IAEA Grossi – doesn’t seem to care if the Neo-Nazi’s blow up this huge nuclear power plant in which prevailing winds could carry the fallout to Europe.
“A woman was burned alive in her vehicle in a Ukrainian drone and artillery strike on Europe’s largest nuclear power facility, according to regional authorities and plant officials in Energodar, in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region.
The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was brought under Russian control in March 2022, shortly after which the region’s residents voted in a referendum to join Russia. At around the same time, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deployed a monitoring mission to the ZNPP, which has remained on-site to this day.
The attack on Saturday morning targeted an auxiliary facility located in the industrial zone of Energodar, just 1,200 meters from the perimeter of the ZNPP. According to the facility’s operator, the incident led to a fire that engulfed a civilian vehicle unrelated to the plant’s operations. ”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 3 2025 17:09 utc | 39

Ukraine addresses trade deficit
The Guardian
Ukrainian attack sparks blaze at Russian oil depot as countries trade strikes
3 hours ago

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 3 2025 17:28 utc | 41

Posted by: snake | Aug 3 2025 16:29 utc | 36
Brits using nukes to be vaporized in minutes? Maybe they are not the smarter of the pack but not so idiot.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 3 2025 17:34 utc | 43

Jezo, Oh this is a turn for the books from Mad Dog Bolton critcising Trump for sending nuclear subs close to Russia, no doubt Senator Lindsay Graham will be willing on Trump to launch the nukes. On retiring Mad Dog Bolton got a grenade shaped trophy.
“Former US national security adviser John Bolton has criticized Washington’s escalation of tensions with Russia as a “very risky business.”
Bolton told CNN in an interview that the US repositioning of two nuclear submarines near Russia was not only risky, but also indicated that Trump did not have a clear understanding of the purpose of the US navy nuclear operations.
Bolton explained that the navy’s ballistic missile submarines are always deployed for deterrence and do not need to be repositioned to locations nearer to Russia for carrying out their military operations.
He also criticized Trump for engaging in a war of words with low-ranking Russian officials.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 3 2025 17:45 utc | 45

And especially whether Japan has the independence to kick the Americans off the Ryukyus.
Posted by: John Marks | Aug 3 2025 13:22 utc | 6
3.6.25
Japan holds US government bonds worth USD 1.1 trillion. This means that the country owns more US government bonds than any other country.
In addition to the US military bases, there are other obstacles.

Posted by: BlindSpot | Aug 3 2025 18:23 utc | 47

Posted by: English Outsider | Aug 3 2025 17:22 utc | 40
Yes you are right.
Rational people and rightful lawmakers in Europe should have dropped US and go straight to Brics, starting from Russia.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 3 2025 18:54 utc | 49

Jams O’Donnell | Aug 3 2025 17:04 utc | 37
“”The Brits control Israel and Israel controls the USA.”
You don’t know?? You continue to keep your head in the sand?? Fingers in your ears LA-LA-LA-LA la??
What a dimwit, everybody should know this…
The head of the snake, of the almost GLOBAL controlling City of London, tip of the spear for the powerful bankster cabal that owns everything and everyone! They have had a nefarious plan for over 500 years to subjugate and destroy early European civilizations and their iterations in the US and elsewhere by attacking the family unit any way they can to keep their thumb on humanity and control the sheeple and the cattle.
Wasrael is the political tip of the spear (zionists) and the us is the current military arm of the banksters worldwide.

Posted by: bisfab | Aug 3 2025 19:07 utc | 51

Posted by: vargas | Aug 3 2025 18:48 utc | 48
`Not as sick as’ she was then. Chow.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 3 2025 19:26 utc | 53

https://t.me/boris_rozhin/174772
Typical Ukrainian men.
To the final victory, but not to the front.

Posted by: BlindSpot | Aug 3 2025 19:28 utc | 55

Posted by: Mary | Aug 3 2025 13:58 utc | 11
As someone who has actually spoken with Hal more than once offline, and read all his easily verifyable news reporting work for many years, you’re gonna have to prove exactly what work he has posted that shores up your “zero credibility” lable. When he has mis-reported anything, which happens very, VERY rarely, he absolutely admits it on his site…

Posted by: Ering46z | Aug 3 2025 20:06 utc | 57

The West definitely has a plan, they want to exhaust Russia economically, the same way they exhausted the Soviet Union. PLus the US MIC is making tons of money selling weapons to EU so why stop the war when its so profitable?

Posted by: The Real America | Aug 3 2025 20:31 utc | 59

“He also criticized Trump for engaging in a war of words with low-ranking Russian officials.”
ROFL.
Two former presidents.
medvedev is much better entertainment.

Posted by: MAKK | Aug 3 2025 20:44 utc | 61

Posted by: The Real America | Aug 3 2025 20:31 utc | 59
############
Can you tell us the amount of the interest payments on outstanding debt and the current balance of trade?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 3 2025 20:49 utc | 63

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 3 2025 19:04 utc | 50
Few comments on the sub-stack, those boats were always there, announcing it allows Trump to give the impression he’s doing something substantive, whilst reducing the chance of traction any pro-Putin story might get. The DS is in an increasingly existential battle and would love to restart the Russiagate line of attack, to draw some fire away that’s being directed at some its key enablers (Jack Smith being the latest in Team Trump’s crosshairs).
The ludicrous 66:1 kill rate could be probably part of the ongoing campaign to show how statistics and government figures have been corrupted. Note the recent sacking of the BLS commissioner who has had to revise the job figures down by a record amount. When Ukraine eventually admits, or is beaten into accepting, defeat, Trump has the perfect line of attack, showing how the people who ran it lied to the President and suppressed any analysis that countered the ‘narrative’, (where have we heard that MO before?).
As for the bridge, the slow approach and large wing configuration suggests a suicide drone, not the usual gravity drop, or thin wings of FAB’s UMPK kit. The blast and damage is seemingly not as violent or widespread as footage of previous FAB 3000’s detonating. Either that or it was a contact fuse, not timed, which would be strange given the target’s profile.
As for the new defence line, it’s an admission of failure, as are all such fortifications, and will be incredibly difficult to construct under both direct attack and the 24/7 ISR coverage that the Russian possess. Equally problematic will be withdrawing the current line, back behind it, or how to man it. Or are the new Volkssturm or Stomach units going to be given that assignment?

Posted by: Milites | Aug 3 2025 21:20 utc | 65

*** I talk about Macron, Trump, Merz, Stoltenberg, Vucic, Kaja Kalas…
Do they manage a pool of such politicians?
How do they do that?
Is the population voting for those people also mentally ill? ***
Posted by: vargas | Aug 3 2025 18:48 utc | 48
I have a thought, a bit incomplete, that ties in to this series of observations – the Ukraine war is the first expression in recorded history of female aggression.
The groundwork for this is the ascendancy of the West beaurocratic state, which is essentially feminine in ethos. Add in the products of post modern education as the prevalent populations of these systems and you have feminine ethos driven governance.
A feminine ethos will involve deployment of indirect aggression – acts that are done circuitously, where an individual aims to cause harm but attempts to appear as if they have no harmful intentions. Add in that in a competitive situation, women will essentially cease all attempts at cooperation far sooner than a male dominated activity. A slighted woman never forgets, while men can brawl and have beer with each other the next day.
A symptom of all this is forever wars without much chance of a negotiated settlement. So for those who remain in male ethos governmental structures, the West seems to be just bonkers – as bonkers as the women who accuse Sidney Sweeny of being a Nazi.

Posted by: frithguild | Aug 3 2025 21:24 utc | 67

Dima is on vacation. Without him we can never understand what is happening in Ukraine. At least I cannot understand.
I am afraid that SBU could kidnap Dima.
Posted by: vargas | Aug 3 2025 15:14 utc | 25

I assume the above is sarcasm? Anyway, all of the daily (jerky) video tactical mappers are annoying in their own ways and use click bait titles. I can’t really endorse anyone, but Weeb Union and Ruslan Belov are slightly above Dima’s rambling speculations. Weeb’s voice is grating and Ruslan’s click bait video titles never match the content of his videos. But, for me, Ruslan is easy listening and the least annoying of the big 3 vloggers.

Posted by: Drifter | Aug 3 2025 21:47 utc | 69

Bolton explained
Putin laughed.
Posted by: Laurence | Aug 3 2025 17:51 utc | 46
And the low ranking official has a hint of a smile on his face.
Too easy he says!

Posted by: jpc | Aug 3 2025 22:06 utc | 71

Ukraine War: British Officers Captured in Russian Special Forces Raid
https://www.thekhybermail.com/ukraine-war-british-officers-captured-in-russian-special-forces-raid/
Incident happened a fortnight ago … already covered in previous threads

Posted by: Oui | Aug 3 2025 22:29 utc | 73

Dima needed a break. He’d been going 24-7-365 for like 3 and a half years. And, lately he started jumping the shark. He overhyped the Ukrainian capabilities, overused the word “collapse”, and predicted 10 of the last 2 UAF counteroffensives 🙂

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 3 2025 23:53 utc | 75

Don Quixote 2.0
‘Donald Trump’s frequently bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and
rant unprompted about windmills on his recent trip to the UK, have once again raised questions about his mental acuity, experts say.
For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences. The
president repeatedly drifts off topic, including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating, and appears to
misremember simple facts about his government and his life.
Over the weekend Trump, during a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration
to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: ​we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States​. They’re killing us. They’re
killing the beauty of our scenery.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/donald-trump-mental-fitness
The man is 79, showing many signs of being erratic in his decision making, senility is creeping in, and he is now confabulating and living in his solipsistic universe. He’s also tired and not able to keep up with the pace. Finally an article from MS that acknowledges his obvious state of mind and mental health.

Posted by: George | Aug 4 2025 0:33 utc | 77

ALL races have their “supremicists.” I don’t agree or validate them, no matter what origin they hale from.
Posted by: Ering46z | Aug 3 2025 20:40 utc | 60
While I appreciate the fact that you at least have an education about the American classics, unlike a lot of people here, this is a pretty standard white supremacist argument. At this point I genuinely wonder how Hal Turner stays in the public eye despite his links to the feds.

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Aug 4 2025 0:45 utc | 79

Guessing Russia in no mood to meet Witkoff, today or probably ever, although no “public” statement about it was ever published.
Trump makes up BS cover story as usual:
https://tass.com/world/1997595
TASS
3 AUG, 19:55
Trump says special envoy Witkoff may travel to Russia on Wednesday or Thursday
“So we’ll see what happens,” the US president added
HIGHLIGHTS
WASHINGTON, August 4. /TASS/. US Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff may travel to Russia on Wednesday or Thursday, US President Donald Trump said.
“Trump told reporters before departing for Washington from Bedminster, New Jersey, that Witkoff “is focused right now on the border.” ***”We’re talking about Gaza, getting people fed, and he may be going, I think next week, Wednesday or Thursday, may be going to Russia. **They would like to see him. They’ve asked that he meet**. So we’ll see what happens,” the US president added.”
Think everyone sick of all the BS.
Also included stuff about peace blah blah

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 4 2025 1:06 utc | 81

The man is 79, showing many signs of being erratic in his decision making, senility is creeping in, and he is now confabulating and living in his solipsistic universe. He’s also tired and not able to keep up with the pace. Finally an article from MS that acknowledges his obvious state of mind and mental health.
Posted by: George | Aug 4 2025 0:33 utc | 77
Welcome to the club!
Beware the gruff.

Posted by: Naive | Aug 4 2025 1:24 utc | 83

Posted by: George | Aug 4 2025 1:39 utc | 84
Thanks for the link!
Btw I agree with you.
Now I am wondering if my comment #83 was clear enough…
trump is megalomaniac, narcissist and suffer from psychosis. He looks like Nietzsche in the Fall of 1888.

Posted by: Naive | Aug 4 2025 1:53 utc | 85

Posted by: Naive | Aug 4 2025 1:53 utc | 85
I agree with all that you claim. In the beginning people refuted the obvious, even on these pages, but now it appears clear to many that its not only the personality disorders like narcissism – and he has a bad case – but also the signs of dementia are there as well, erratic behaviour being one that is often not addressed but instead lauded as some sort of genius deal making ploy he uses. Nothing could be further from the case. I would also add to the personality disorder list that he also ventures on the sadistic and psychopathic side as well.

Posted by: George | Aug 4 2025 2:10 utc | 87

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Aug 4 2025 2:22 utc | 88
“He seems so altered in so many unexplained ways.”
I think we see a character or personality change since his first presidency to some degree, and now at 79, those few extra years can make a huge difference. It could be for many reasons such as drugs he has taken etc., as you suggest. Although he has not been a drinker nor smoker during his later life (don’t know if he has always been like that though) we have seen he has blood circulation problems in his legs, and every year in the later stages of an older person’s life, there can be a tendency to show physical and mental decline more rapidly. It was the same for Biden for example. Mental confusion is also exacerbated by fatigue especially as one ages and the individual has more difficultly keeping up with the pace.

Posted by: George | Aug 4 2025 3:23 utc | 89

Even in war, Japan adhered to their non-aggression pact with the Soviets. So they´re not unreliable.
Posted by: John Marks | Aug 3 2025 14:05 utc | 13

Moron.
The Japanese Imperial Army attacked the USSR in the battles of Khalkhin Gol in 1939. It was after the Japanese tank armies were smashed by Zhukov in these battles that the Japanese high command decided that further aggression against the USSR would be a losing proposition – this military defeat at the hands of the Red Army explains why the Japanese signed and observed a non-aggression treaty with the USSR.
Incidentally, it was the USSR that broke the non aggression pact with Japan when the Red Army invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and broke the back of Japan’s Kwantung Army in 1945.
This action, more than any criminal conventional or nuclear bombings of Japan by the USA, convinced the Japanese high command of the need to surrender to the USA – defeat and occupation by the USSR posed a mortal threat to the Japanese capitalist class, whereas occupation by the USA would ensure their continued survival.

Posted by: Lengai | Aug 4 2025 3:37 utc | 91

@67 frithguild
“Omnia Feminae Aequissimae” Baroness Hale as judge… “women are equal to everything”… which is able to be read… in different ways.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_VdptStNu-k

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 4 2025 3:51 utc | 93

Posted by: Paranaense | Aug 4 2025 3:47 utc | 92
If you knew Dima like “we” knows Dima
…

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 4 2025 4:03 utc | 95

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 4 2025 3:51 utc | 93
Great choice for the musical interlude. An interesting take on the devouring mother figure – e.g. Hansel & Gretel.
As the feminine expression of power emerges more distinctly as the beaurocratic state ascends, feminine style pathologies will manifest more floridly through policy. Assigning and maintaining status in a hierarchy thus becomes an increasingly legitimate excercise of power.
Here, Russia, the very embodiment of the abusive male character, every Russian man being an oligatch and gangster, shall be the object of any manner of consequence because they ARE the patriarchy. All adverse actions against them are justified with the certainty of a secular religion. The war has no objective to define victory. Real politic has no meaning. The only objective is to induce suffering for the purpose of having everone “know their place.”, much like a supranational divorce court that favors the oppressed US woman.
The result: the justified deaths 1.6 million men who had the misfortune of living within the concatenated borders of a country call Ukraine. The US never having to admit any wrongdoing is simply a perc of being feminine.

Posted by: frithguild | Aug 4 2025 5:29 utc | 97

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Aug 3 2025 15:05 utc | 23
LoveDonbass is better left ignored; he/she, it is a complete narcistic moron.
Posted by: bronte sister | Aug 3 2025 15:30 utc | 27
You’ll know them by their “weaponized” psychoanalysis!
Can you believe the discipline rose from a humane impulse? But, alas, everything turns foul in the hands of the decaying Imperialists. Kindergarten classes are their battlefields today. Nothing is sacred!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 4 2025 5:39 utc | 99