🇪🇺🏴‍☠️ The European Commission will present a defense investment roadmap in the coming weeks.
The European Commission will prepare a roadmap for investing additional funds in defense in the coming weeks, said EC President Ursula von der Leyen during a visit to Poland.
“It is precisely for this reason (the threat from Russia) that in the coming weeks we will prepare a roadmap on how to invest additional money in defense and European military capabilities. We will analyze the existing shortcomings of our armed forces and how we can eliminate them by 2030. This plan will have clear goals and intermediate stages, because only what is measured can be achieved. We will analyze and adopt it at the European Council meeting in early October.”
, she said.
❗️The draft budget provides for a 5-10 fold increase in EU military and military-infrastructure spending.

Posted by: Jo | Aug 31 2025 12:56 utc | 3

“NATO defense spending will reach a record $1.6 trillion in 2025, with the US contributing $980 billion and European allies together with Canada contributing $608 billion.”
Posted by: Jo | Aug 31 2025 12:49 utc |
You are confusing the entire US defense budget with its NATO contribution.
Now much of that $980 billion does go to NATO but not the total amount, of course.

Posted by: canuk | Aug 31 2025 13:20 utc | 5

Russia seems to upping its attacks, and they are larger in scale.
“Russian forces have carried out a long-range strike on Ukrainian port infrastructure used by Kiev’s military, according to a statеment released on Sunday by the Defense Ministry in Moscow.
The ministry said that Russian tactical aviation, drones, missiles, and artillery had struck coastal targets “used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a Norwegian-made NASAMS air defense system” that was protecting them. However, neither the exact whereabouts of the targets nor other details were provided.
The ministry added that the bases of Ukrainian troops and foreign fighters in more than 150 locations were also attacked.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 31 2025 13:23 utc | 7

After 7 October, Israel demonstrated how explicitly the calculus of war-faring mentality has shifted, opting not just for measured strategies & rational battlefield tactics against Hamas but an unvarnished zero-sum style of indiscriminate destruction that respected neither non-combatants nor civilians. It has featured genocide and decapitation strikes against the adversary’s leadership as first weapons of choice.
During this time, both Collective Biden and then DJT, once he reclaimed the White House, exhibited, if not pledged, “unwavering” support for Israel’s efforts: where Israel led, the U.S. would follow w/ unlimited advanced weaponry: there was no end in sight.
Russia’s manner of prosecuting its SMO in Ukraine appeared gentlemanly in comparison, though I don’t want to minimize the horrors of war wherever it occurs. There’s no way to downplay the human loss.
It’s just that Israel’s militaristic brio since 7 October, on display in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, possessed such an unbridled off-the-charts savagery that it was difficult to categorize it in the annals of recognizable 21st Century warfare.
Too Big To Fail, Israel has drawn minimal public censure. Germany may criticize tepidly but still send weaponry. Turkeye may rail against genocide but still ship energy products.
Such a climate gives tacit permission for the savagery: it’s obvious no one’s motivated to step in.
Endowed also w/ Too Big To Fail license, the U.S. can prosecute war as it wishes. It simply has rarely deployed that license in an unabashedly easy-to-notice public way.
The U.S. has often conducted its zero-sum-games far from the scrutinizing gaze, w/ enough plausible deniability to inveigle those who managed to catch a glimpse.
Chary of fighting Russia directly, however, the U.S. has trapped itself in a posture of not really being able to take the gloves off w/ Project Ukraine because the U.S. is fig-leafing its war-faring stance behind a proxy. No belligerent w/ a zero-sum appetite can sate its appetite like that.
Enabling Ukraine to launch missiles against civilian targets in Saint Petersburg and Moscow can’t change the LOC realities but it can torque Russian pain beyond what troops on a distant battlefield suffer—-and situate that pain locally, within the domestic population. Shock & awe tableau of neighborhoods in Russia’s most sophisticated cities in flames will prove priceless instances of photo opportunities & PR.
It’s hideous to realize that the U.S. will opt for such, baiting a nuclear superpower, but these are the straits in which we find matters.
Israel’s hell-for-leather genocide in Gaza has inured the world to a type of war that is light on tactics and heavy on crimes against humanity. Standing in solidarity w/ Israel, the U.S. has en-siphoned this mentality, imbibing it deeply.
“Men love the dark for their sins are evil.”
The U.S. functioned like those men forever, sinning in the shadows.
Now the light of day neither deters nor clarifies.
God may watch, but so what-?
The public shamelessness = breath-robbing.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 31 2025 13:25 utc | 9

ISS paper demands: “the EU must actively ‘unpower’ Russia”.
“A Plan to Russia’s “disempowerment”
A new strategy paper of the EU think tank EUISS calls for the EU to replace Russia in the core regions of its foreign policy. The document presents proposals for practical EU measures against Russia.”
https://archive.is/RIsCO
Already in 2009 they announced war against Russia:
„Hard power politics – Clausewitzian influence over alienated state regimes. Some alien-
ated regimes will still exist in 2020 – the key uncertainty here being the Kremlin. If so, we will need to retain a capability to meet their deliberate challenges to our vision of the world. This will require hard military power, but also an increased focus on asymmetrical forms of destruction, notably in the cybersphere. This is of major concern to the East-
ern members of the EU, and if the ESDP is unable to provide this then they will turn to NATO or directly to the US.“
web.archive.org/web/20120111092046/http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/What_ambitions_for_European_defence_in_2020.pdf

Posted by: p3t3r | Aug 31 2025 13:34 utc | 11

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 31 2025 13:24 utc | 8
You don’t understand the Russian military ethos-they are slow, methodical and, above all, patient. .
It took Russia 21 years in war with Sweden which ended in the Battle of Poltava in 1709.

Posted by: canuk | Aug 31 2025 13:43 utc | 13

since all of NATO is now admitting it is waring on Russia.
Would it not make sense these NATO nations can expect direct hits in their homelands from Russia.. ?
also yesterday Israel targetted and successfully killed 8 high level members of the Yemeni including I think the prime minister.. So hunting season is open for assassins seeking high level people in every nation in th world? Israel found these people to target them I am told by tracking the cell phones of the body guards.. I think they also did that in the war against Iran..

Posted by: snake | Aug 31 2025 13:58 utc | 15

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 29th August 2025: May be Useful to Some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-b6a

Posted by: The Busker | Aug 31 2025 14:04 utc | 17

You are confusing the entire US defense budget with its NATO contribution.
Posted by: canuk | Aug 31 2025 13:20 utc | 5
#######
“You’ll have to forgive people for not possessing the discernment that you do when it comes to the funding of Nazi pedophiles and war criminals.”
Posted by: LoveDumbass | Aug 31 2025 13:58 utc | 16
WTF are you talking about?
You never argue on the facts cause you aren’t capable of intellectual debate; instead, you stoop to irrelevant ad hominens.
Its quite difficult to take you seriously.
You are a complete joke.

Posted by: canuk | Aug 31 2025 14:19 utc | 19

DJT assured European pups in the Oval that “Putin is open to Western allies offering security guarantees to Ukraine,” even though Russia’s Foreign Ministry quickly corrected this misconception, in real-time in fact as DJT was making the claim on live TV. Preferring to hear what they wanted to hear, the Euro pups ran w/ the idea—and they’re still running, filling their days & agendas & their Zoom-tiled meet-ups w/ strategies for stationing peacekeepers in Ukraine.
Zakharova has since clarified that “providing security guarantees is not a condition but a result of a peaceful settlement based on eliminating the root causes of the conflict, which will in turn guarantee the security of our country, and this step must be accomplished with Russia’s participation.”
But neither the Euro pups nor DJT care to hear.
More to the point: the pups in particular have no incentive to absorb ideas that countervail their *peacekeeping* plans.
To date, the security options pushed by the U.S. are strictly Gen Kellogg-caliber: one-sided, built w/ the obvious expectation of *containing* Russia.
Nota Bene: *containing* Russia is one of the root causes of the conflict.
The U.S. and NATO neither want to acknowledge the root causes of the conflict nor eliminate them.
DJT dallies a bit w/ the idea of deploying private military contractors, like Erik Prince’s Blackwater security operation (not to be confused w/ the asset managing firm Blackrock) in order to protect U.S. business interests in Ukraine but without having to place actual American *infantry* boots on the ground.
See Blackwater’s guys are private employees… They’re not part of the U.S. military.
<< insert: wink, wink, nudge, nudge >>
Notice though how little DJT strays from somehow, by hook or crook, wedging Americans into Ukraine as a *protective* force, not only setting up tripwire targets for restarting the conflict @ some point, and pre-positioning them no less for restarting the planned-for conflict, but also intensifying & exacerbating the “root causes” on which Russia’s SMO has centered since Day One.
If DJT can end this war while still retaining rights to use Ukraine as a launchpad for missiles-to-Moscow, he’ll tout it as a win, hence the emphasis VVP places on demilitarizing Ukraine and positioning it as a neutral state going forward.
A battle of nakedly opposed geopolitical objectives.
VVP can prosecute this war directly and in a nationally unified fashion, boosted by a robust domestic arms industry.
DJT has to fig-leaf everything through a proxy while running a gauntlet of Euro pups.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 31 2025 14:54 utc | 21

RE: #21
P.S.
Russia will have to backstop its own security by winning militarily—-a Victor’s Peace, w/ the privilege of dictating terms.
DJT never had the option to walk away from the conflict in Ukraine, because hegemonic primacy is not entrusted to DJT, or to any individual American president. Hegemonic primacy, too thickly entwined w/ other nodes of dominion, can’t come rest w/ just one man.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 31 2025 14:59 utc | 23

“You’ll have to forgive people for not possessing the discernment that you do when it comes to the funding of Nazi pedophiles and war criminals.
canuk | Aug 31 2025 14:19 utc | 19
Please note that “ad hominen” is incorrect. The correct wording is “ad hominem”.
Also, would you please stop your relentless attacks on LoveDonbass. It is really, really tedious.
Posted by: Mexicana | Aug 31 2025 14:37 utc | 20
Please note that “ad hominen” is incorrect. The correct wording is “ad hominem”.
Also, would you please stop your relentless attacks on LoveDonbass. It is really, really tedious.”
Posted by: Mexicana | Aug 31 2025 14:37 utc | 20
So its alright when LD calls m ‘Nazi’, that’s fine; my God, you are the ‘tedious’ one.

Posted by: canuk | Aug 31 2025 15:03 utc | 25

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has threatened new strikes into Russia, days after claiming that Kiev possessed a brand-new long-range missile capable of reaching Moscow.
Zelensky wrote on Telegram that he had been briefed by Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Aleksandr Syrsky, on the current battlefield situation.
“We will continue our active actions exactly as needed to protect Ukraine. Forces and means are prepared. New deep strikes have also been planned,” he said on Sunday, without providing further details.
could be the soonto be mass?pfoducedflamingo based on the Milanion UK missile(UK tageting?? or like the German onesjust reassemnled in Zukraine)…but NABU are investigating inflated prices .

Posted by: Jo | Aug 31 2025 15:27 utc | 27

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Aug 31 2025 15:14 utc | 26
Lovedumbass certainly did call me a Nazi, just like he called Jane a ,’Nazi’ a few days ago.
That’s his ignorant Modus Operandi.
I humbly suggest that you should take a refresher ‘reading comprehension’ course.
Have a nice day.

Posted by: canuk | Aug 31 2025 15:34 utc | 29

For the record, I have not called any members of the bar Nazis. Some folks reveal their neuroses by seeing accusations that were never made.
The more some people speak, the more they reveal and indict themselves.
I will say it clearly right now.
canuk is not a Nazi.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 31 2025 15:47 utc | 31

Lovedumbass certainly did call me a Nazi, just like he called Jane a ,’Nazi’ a few days ago.
That’s his ignorant Modus Operandi.
I humbly suggest that you should take a refresher ‘reading comprehension’ course.
Have a nice day.
Posted by: canuk | Aug 31 2025 15:34 utc | 29
I humbly suggest you post the exact phrase that LD used to call you a nazi. And before you attack my “reading comprehension”, humbly or not, maybe you should look and see how that exact phrase could be misconstrued (by a thin-skinned Karen) to mean you’re saying I’m stupid, which is not how I initially “comprehended” it.
Of course, you’d have to think I give a damn about what you or anyone else thinks about me.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Aug 31 2025 16:13 utc | 33

the Evangelical Zionists–and their ties to Russophobia within the Empire. One major actor is Peter Thiel who’s little better than Parubiy and merits a similar fate.
Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 31 2025 15:34 utc | 28
My mother is one of those Evangelical Zionists. Didn’t used to be. Turned into an alcoholic, then into a religious tyrant bent on converting everyone around her because she, in her rabid terror of dying and going to hell, isn’t convinced that her “faith” will save her when the time comes. Had to cut ties with her, she was so toxic. We even argued about the name of God, she insisting it was Jesus, and unable to hear me when I reminded her that Jesus taught the People to pray to “Our” Father.
Man, the veil of fear of death is so tightly wrapped around her mind and heart, that no opposing view can penetrate. And she’s just another willing sheep, worshipping the Golden Calf of Israel, and terrified she might be wrong (which she is, but hey, all I can do is pray for her).
Evangelical Zionists live in utter, abject fear that keeps them blind to the atrocities Israel commits even as I type this.
Makes me sick.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Aug 31 2025 16:25 utc | 35

Expert: Europe is at war with Russia, NATO soldiers are increasingly replacing Ukrainian units
NATO has now de facto joined the war against Russia in Ukraine, with foreign forces gradually replacing Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield. According to expert and former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik, hospitals in Kharkiv are currently overcrowded with wounded French, Scandinavian, and German soldiers. Furthermore, wounded foreigners in local hospitals are treated exclusively by foreign doctors. The Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reported this. By concealing the presence of its own soldiers in Ukraine, NATO, according to the expert, is not only supporting the Ukrainians with reserves but is also preparing itself for a future war with Russia. In an interview with the newspaper, Krapivnik also stated that this is not an isolated incident, but rather a trend – there are more foreign soldiers than Ukrainians along the entire front line. He emphasized:
“In the Kharkov region, there were many Czechs operating Western military equipment, especially the Vampire rocket launchers. Ukrainian soldiers are not allowed to have access to this equipment. A few months ago, two thousand soldiers from the Finnish regular army also resigned. This can only mean one thing: a small brigade of Finns is on its way to Ukraine. The Germans are also now giving their soldiers permission to go to Ukraine. Previously, only hardcore Nazis went there. Thus, the trend is to gradually replace the regular Ukrainian army with foreigners (…) without any particular concealment (…) There are fewer and fewer Poles at the front, probably due to the high losses. Expert: Europe is at war with Russia, NATO soldiers are increasingly replacing Ukrainian units
NATO has now de facto joined the war against Russia in Ukraine, with foreign forces gradually replacing Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield. According to expert and former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik, hospitals in Kharkiv are currently overcrowded with wounded French, Scandinavian, and German soldiers. Furthermore, wounded foreigners in local hospitals are treated exclusively by foreign doctors. The Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reported this. By concealing the presence of its own soldiers in Ukraine, NATO, according to the expert, is not only supporting the Ukrainians with reserves but is also preparing itself for a future war with Russia. In an interview with the newspaper, Krapivnik also stated that this is not an isolated incident, but rather a trend – there are more foreign soldiers than Ukrainians along the entire front line. He emphasized:
“In the Kharkov region, there were many Czechs operating Western military equipment, especially the Vampire rocket launchers. Ukrainian soldiers are not allowed to have access to this equipment. A few months ago, two thousand soldiers from the Finnish regular army also resigned. This can only mean one thing: a small brigade of Finns is on its way to Ukraine. The Germans are also now giving their soldiers permission to go to Ukraine. Previously, only hardcore Nazis went there. Thus, the trend is to gradually replace the regular Ukrainian army with foreigners (…) without any particular concealment (…) There are fewer and fewer Poles at the front, probably due to the high losses. More than 10,000 Poles were killed in these four years of war, and 2,000 enemy soldiers killed in the Kursk region were identified as Poles.”

Posted by: Beobachter II | Aug 31 2025 16:38 utc | 37

“that you do…[the] funding of Nazi pedophiles and war criminals”
– LoveDonbass at 16 initiates an insult stream,
“stop your relentless attacks on LoveDonbass. It is really, really tedious”
– Mexicana at 20 sock-puppets any rebuff of LoveDonbass 16 insult stream
“think I give a damn about what you or anyone else thinks about me”
– Nooneuknow at 33 sock-puppets any rebuff of LoveDonbass 16 insult stream
Canuk, who the hell cares what an embittered failure like Dumbass and associated sock puppets pretends to think or feel?
The whole point of Dumbass’s comments is self-aggrandizement by using this forum to voice his embittered world view and only his world view. Only Dumbass approved commentary is allowed…otherwise censorship of everybody who diverges from his POV through an endless stream of insults, lies, red-herrings and agitprop from Dumbass & associated sock-puppets.

Posted by: S Brennan | Aug 31 2025 16:56 utc | 39

Ich lese nur mit 38,
Good point, I have suggested before that Iran could/should sign a real defensive pact with Russia and then expedite the whole matter’s implementation by using the deep basin of the south Caspian Sea as the base of an inland “thalassocracy” that is largely unassailable by either the US or it’s puppet-master, Israel.
The target data will always old. And only a direct targeting of Russia by Israel will interdict the supply line. And since Israel is killing Russians in ex-ukrainia, Iranian leaders should pull their head out of their collective ass, recognize that they are now, for better or worse, blood-brothers. Relegate the past to the history books and make a deal that benefits both parties…a north/south corridor.

Posted by: S Brennan | Aug 31 2025 17:10 utc | 41

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 31 2025 13:24 utc | 8
Methinks you’re smoking not whacking with your shillelagh.
What value is the land to Ukraine when they are killing their entire generation of young sperm donors.
At the risk of plagiarism, Ukraine is No Country for Old Men.
However, in the Donald’s last contemplations, whilst filling the toilet bowl with recycled McDonald’s gut defilings, we now have the trial balloon of a “Private Army” to protect the Trump/Kushner Holdings Corp. in partnership with (((Blackrock))) Licenses to Steal ag lands and precious stuff.
(((Brookfield))) ordered Carney to make more shite for Ukraine. Ah…the profits in blood money.

Posted by: kupkee | Aug 31 2025 17:21 utc | 43

Extracurricular bulljive related to Project Ukraine:
Politico did a hit piece on Witkoff, and JD took issue.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1961416107924787497
“I wonder if Felicia Schwartz ever asked herself why these anonymous sources came to her at this moment with this particular story. They have an agenda to blow up the president’s efforts to make peace, and they saw her as a useful vessel to launder garbage into the conversation, truth be damned.
“There are two possible explanations: Felicia is just not very smart, and allowed herself to be used by deep state con men. Or she’s in on it, and used her position to willingly participate in a literal foreign influence operation. Either way, it’s disgraceful.”
>> link to Scwartz’s Politico article @ the end of JD’s post on X

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 31 2025 17:31 utc | 45

@Canuk 12
Quote “Yes, I agree-NATO was designed , by the Empire, to disenfranchise the other vassal Sovereigns.
As for what US actually ”
Wrong.
Nato was created by England for English interests only and it serves English agenda only.
Nato”
There is a confusion among many that USA uses Nato exert her influence in Europe. In fact USA does not need nato . But that entity is needed by a third rate country which after second world war found herself without real power so nato was created by that country to keep Germans down and Russians out using American arms and money.. Since early 90s that same country manoeuvred to keep Nato alive and install her stooges in European commission like british spy barrasso and English pirate witch cathertine ashton and many more inside European beaurocracy to make Europe follow one and only one policy to be dictated by that same country.
Name of the evil country? Of course it is england the centre of money laundering and all spying in the world and most evil entity in the history of world.
For Russia the easiest way to tackle the problem is to support Scottish independence because that would good for scots and it would ruin england and her position in the world. Scots don’t like parasitical existence as English lead so once Russia discloses how england is sitting on black box and not saying anything(after all hue and cry within 24 hours of Malaysian plane crash) that will show to world and scots how low lifes these English are. Russia should disclose barrasso talk with Putin as well because that pest Barroso is an English spy who should be hanged for his war crimes just like war criminal blair must be publicly hanged AFTER BRUTAL BEATING after a fail trial for his war crimes.
Russia should hurry to annihilate the English empire of evil pirate pests

Posted by: Sam | Aug 31 2025 17:48 utc | 47

Cecil von Renthe-Fink is a mere footnote in the pages of history. A Prussian aristocrat who joined the Nazi Party in 1939, Renthe-Fink however has a claim to fame. In August 1943, he drafted a memorandum proposing a European economic union with a common central bank and currency. But there was a caveat – if the new union was to be a success, Britain must be kept out because according to the German diplomat it was “the continent’s ancient enemy”.
Today several nations, especially Russia, would agree with that assessment. With 66,000 of its nationals on the run from justice, and a large number of them having found asylum in Britain, Russia is the most affected by Britain’s policies.
The Argentina did a very stupid thing and Russia did more stupid thing in June 1982.
Argentina refused Russian help in sinking British pirate ships task force for Malvinas Island. The Malvinas island thing in which coward English used Uno to sanction Argentina and usa supplied arms to England while stopping any aid to Argentina by third party thru UN sanctions . The English cowards got a new lease of life for dreaming of new empire thus time they would call this not British empire but anglo-american empire or one world government controlled by English scumbags.
Second cold war was the direct consequence of loss of Malvinas.
It is no coincidence that virtually all Arab nations which the anglos controlled West considers allies embrace Islamic fundamentalism, a repressive belief system which is quite congruent with global monopoly capitalism and non religious sect of greed called protestanism.. Both are based on a return to rule by feudalistic monarchy and a diminished role for government and thus democracy.
Most US Arab enemies embrace secular socialism, which aims to stop the exploitation of oil resources by the Four Horsemen and their Rockefeller/Rothschild owners. Great Arab leaders including the Egyptian Nasser, the Algerian Boumedienne, the Libyan Qaddafi, the Syrian Assad and the Iraqi al-Bakr support(ed) a secular socialism
/2014.
I have been saying for long that rearmament programme of Russia till 2020 is too slow and that anglos will strike before that to dismantle Russia. not only that, russia herself has been too weakling and accommodating to west so much that it betrayed her potential allies in Iran, Syria and Libya to please her anglo enemies. Those allies would have occupied russia’s enemies while Rus rearms herself-but no, the idiot lavrov the foreign minster being a weakling and possible western stooge has been too considerate to the western enemies of Rus.
Even in Syria what has Russ done except disarming her ally Syria of her chemical weapons/ the usa still arms the terrorists while rus has not even given –s300 to Syria let alone s-400. This shows the attitude of Rus who does not like to be respected but simply loved by the anglos enemies who are out to destroy that country by any means for last 200 years.
World wars first and second was plotted and started by the English to destroy both Russ and Germany and this world war 3 has been running since Iraq war in 2003 –only the victims Russia, china and India does not know about it.
President putin is wrong when he says that russia should or will target the missile on europe if america goes with anti missile defence plan in Europe.
Russia must target england because this cold war -like the one before- is being started by england for the benefit of english race only-.it is race war between the english parasite race versus the rest of the world-the sooner the rest of the world realizes that better it is for the world.
look how Germany wes vilified soon after fall of soviet union-look how russia is being vilified immediately after Putin made russia strong.
in fact it was not America but england which asked for ABM againstt Russia. BBc spy journalists were harassing presidential candidate Gore not to go ahead with Florida recount on ground” ally like britian want to conclude AMB deployment in Yorkshire as soon as possible so there should be no delay in govt. formation.in other word accept fraudulent win of bush for sake of england ! “
-such is the evil propaganda of British spies inside america. .
poland is nothing but a proxy for the british bastards.
It is no use targeting Poland -target the main villain which is england and the english nation which must be stopped now.
Napoléon was the greatest general of the western world in last 2000 years. He was a great man too. only mistake he did was not to attack England and kill the english race-instead he attacked Russia and destroyed 95% of his grand army. Napoléon should have attacked and burn england so that the world wouldn’t have to bear the curse of having english race on the earth. we can still do it by making Europe again fight against the english parasite shopkeepers.
Considering the extent of the disaster(at battle of Auterlitzs and of Ulm before that in 1805 instigated by england with money stolen from India), The Austrian Emperor said
“THE ENGLISH ARE DEALERS OF HUMAN FLESH, THEY PAY OTHERS TO FIGHT AT THEIR PLACE”.
The Emperor forgot to mention that the payment is from the victim or some other pople’s wealth.
And English are too coward to fight on their own-they have never won a single war on their own since boar war in 1899 and that too with all resources of loot from empire.
The English are at this game even now-they now use American arms to further htier agenda-nato was created by them for them.
Isn’t it interesting to watch how the English pirate nation contrives to manipulate by greed, deception and duplicity, the vulnerable in the world.
Russia would be foolish to take lightly the danger of england-sooner that country is destroyed better it is for the humanity it is a pestilence of the clone subhumans which we call English nation.,better it is elimninated sooner rather than late..
Josef Stalin during Great Patriotic war said “the Americans and British will fight the Nazi’s to the last drop of Russian blood”

Posted by: Sam | Aug 31 2025 17:50 utc | 49

*** Politico did a hit piece on Witkoff, and JD took issue. ***
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 31 2025 17:31 utc | 45
Some have seen German fingerprints on these anonymous sources – Germans not being Nazis at this point, notwithstanding, as Mr. Karlof1 observes, while peering at Russian land with strikingly similar policy eyes (Generalplan Ost) – whole Parubiy Maidan royalty fiasco just being a coincidence of course.

Posted by: frithguild | Aug 31 2025 17:58 utc | 51

Russia should hurry to annihilate the English empire of evil pirate pests
Posted by: Sam | Aug 31 2025 17:48 utc | 47
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A lot of cope to get the Yankees off the hook.
America/the UK/Israel, they are all the same entity with different brand names.
The British created Israel, the US defends it at the UN, and sends it weapons and money.
If one is being intellectually honest, the British are the bad guys BECAUSE they are also the Americans.
America owns the genocide. America owns the global narco traffic.
America is a cancer. Britain is a cancer. Israel is a cancer.
Wonderfully, the ROW is in the process of dismantling all three of them.
It may take another 10 years, but the wheels are in motion and the brake lines are cut.
In case anyone is wondering, Japan, Germany, France, and Canada are next in line.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 31 2025 18:28 utc | 53

Alexander Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/live/6B93hP3Av4s
“Dirty war escalates, Maidan leader Parubiy killed; Gerasimov: Russia close to Donbass breakthrough.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 31 2025 18:31 utc | 55

Nooneuknow | Aug 31 2025 16:25 utc | 35–
Sorry to learn of your personal tragedy. Many millions are blind and thus as dangerous as those at Hitler’s rallies.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 31 2025 18:35 utc | 57

@ 56
could be a trick to grab em at the border.

Posted by: Hodes | Aug 31 2025 18:52 utc | 59

To #42, Zero Hedge always capitulates: Parubiy was partner w. US government: “This June 15, [2017] two of the most influential Republicans in Congress, [Republican] House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, held court with Parubiy in Washington….
During his meeting with Ryan, Parubiy signed a memorandum of understanding emphasizing commitment to the U.S. Congress-Rada Parliamentary Exchange.
“I was proud to join Speaker Parubiy to renew our interparliamentary ties with the Rada,” Ryan declared in a statement published by his office. “This mutually beneficial program fosters closer political, economic, and security relations between our legislatures.””…https://thegrayzone.com/2017/06/23/john-mccain-paul-ryan-meeting-ukrainian-nazi-andriy-parubiy/…”You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”.https://www.globalsecurity.org/index.html..

Posted by: susan mullen | Aug 31 2025 19:03 utc | 61

@Posted by: p3t3r | Aug 31 2025 13:34 utc | 11
I get a 404 error with your link, this one works:
https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/What_ambitions_for_European_defence_in_2020_0.pdf
Besides the war plans, people should definitely read this chapter (page 124):
Human Security and Responsibility to Protect
As always the EU literature is full of narcissistic delusions:

liberty,democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law.
These building blocks of the European Union, which probably do in fact encapsulate
its core values

And thinking about ukraine and Palestine the next part is nothing more than a written confession that they are the worst kind of hypocrites and liars:

The responsibility to protect populations against genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleans-
ing and crimes against humanity, which was endorsed by the UN membership in 2005
at the World Summit, is a more narrow and targeted concept than ‘human security’,
focusing on the prevention of mass atrocities. The concept relies on the primary respon-
sibility of states to protect their own populations, together with the responsibility of
the international community to help states build their own capacity to shoulder this
sovereign responsibility. It does however also entail a responsibility for the international
community to act if states are unwilling to protect or incapable of protecting their popu-
lations.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Aug 31 2025 19:18 utc | 63

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 31 2025 18:31 utc | 55
Mr Gilberts – may not work for others but I find the link below gets the latest Mercouris without all the ads:-
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
Found Mercouris a year of so back now and his panoramic surveys are always most valuable. Unlike “b” and Berletic, and the superb Dr Campbell, no links provided so one has to chase up all the references oneself. I do like to check out the links for myself.
Mercouris is also very good at covering the otherwise often ignored European dimension. For the Americans that’s pretty well a black hole but as it looks to me that dimension is far more significant than generally thought, particularly when it comes to the crucial period 2021 to early 2022.
That aside, there’s a certain macabre fascination in watching an entire continent committing felo de se. Particularly when one’s own country is resolutely going down with it!

Posted by: English Outsider | Aug 31 2025 19:23 utc | 65

I think this makes a very important point.
A point that is not generally understood.
WHAT IF THE RUSSIANS HAD CONDUCTED THE COUP IN 2014?
In 2014 the United States (aligned with a faction in the Ukrainian government) conducted a coup in Kiev (to replace the democratically elected Yanukovich government which was considered insufficiently pro-Europe).
Many in Eastern Ukraine rebelled against this coup-government.
A civil war began.
The coup-government claimed authority over all of Ukraine
and called itself “the Ukrainian government”.
The coup-government sent in the military to deal with the eastern rebels.
The media claimed, and still claims, that the U.S. backed coup-government had a “right” to all of Ukraine and they champion (vigorously support) a march to the Russian border.
WHAT IF THIS HAD HAPPENED IN 2014?
In 2014 Russia (aligned with a faction in the Ukrainian government) conducted a coup in Kiev (to replace the Yanukovich government which was considered too pro-Europe).
Many in Western Ukraine rebelled against this coup-government.
A civil war began.
The coup-government claimed authority over all of Ukraine
and called itself “the Ukrainian government”.
The coup-government called in the Russian military to deal with the western rebels.
Of course, to be consistent, the media would have to claim that the Russian backed coup-government had a “right” to all of Ukraine and that they championed a march of the Russian military to the Polish border.
The important point is that statements such as “Ukraine will not give up any of its land,” and “Zelenski Rejects Giving Land” make no sense.
This is because the coup-government, and its successors, never established authority over all of Ukraine.
ANOTHER SCENARIO
What if the Chinese (aligned with a leftist faction in the Ukrainian government) had conducted a coup in Kiev. Would this give them authority over all of Ukraine?

Posted by: John | Aug 31 2025 19:26 utc | 67

Patrick Lancaster is a dufus but he means well, early on Bentley and some other UK indie journalist in the Donbas made fun of him as an opportunist which I thought was unwarranted, it had the feel of picking on the slow kid, anyway Lancaster is still around, still holding the front asking the same lame repetitive questions, occasionally one of his clickbait headlines suckers me and I clicked on this one, and occasionally Lancaster stumbles on gold, like this interview:
I’m less worried about Russia’s victory, more about the totality of the conflict to come, whatever modern RF is today the grounding in historical materialism that is the Marxist-Leninist legacy of the USSR and of any Russian today, who isn’t a woke zombie, shows Russians as grounded in reality, unlike the denizens of ClownWorld, what the west, like Nazi Germany or the US Confederacy in the past, don’t understand is that you can’t win a war with citizens and fighters with heads full of shit, who don’t know up from down, right from left, forward from back. The Russian soldier interviewed here is grounded in reality, understands place and time, knows where he’s headed, like his grandfathers knows correctly what and who he’s fighting for.
Victory will be Russian. And, I have the feeling this applies to the Cinese people too. It’ll be ugly getting there, but we’ll all get there.
@ about 11 min:
Ukraine Frontline Combat World War 3 WWIII Has Begun

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 31 2025 19:29 utc | 69

“In all martial contests, the fast, reckless approach almost always fails against a patient and clear headed opponent. The desire to get it over with quickly typically masks a morbid and irrational fear of the enemy. For the thousandth time, shock and awe…blah blah..blah“Ahenobarbus 46
Is fast the same as reckless? I don’t think so. Does fast always fail in martial contests? I don’t think so. Hmmm, so we should build slower fighter jets…eh? Would a patient and clear headed Fokker biplane out-dogfight a fast/reckless SU-27? I don’t think so. Since when does victory go to those who always fail to seize opportunities not wanting to appear “reckless”? Not very often. Since when does slow and predictable always best, being swift and cunning?
As an engineer whose worked on some these war machines I don’t recall ever being told by management/CO’s “hey Brennan…you need to degrade the performance of this beast otherwise…we’ll appear reckless, confused and impatient”
Does a series of platitudes replace reasoned thinking? I don’t think so.

Posted by: S Brennan | Aug 31 2025 19:32 utc | 71

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 31 2025 17:31 utc | 45
RE: hit piece on Witkoff in Politico
<< Buried deep in Felicia Schwarz's yellow journalism is word of how disappointed the Euro pups were that Gen Kellogg had not been invited to attend the Alaska Summit, even after Gen Kellogg had completely cleared his calendar for the event-! There he sat, alone in the Beltway, drumming his fingers on the desk. Unnamed sources who spoke to Schwartz on the condition of anonymity expressed their disappointment @ this. Poor Gen Kellogg was in his cups for a while. Even having Fiona Hill on speed-dial was no consolation. Misericordia

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 31 2025 19:37 utc | 73

A line worth repeating:
“That aside, there’s a certain macabre fascination in watching an entire continent committing felo de se. Particularly when one’s own country is resolutely going down with it!” – English Outsider 65
And the US, by involving itself in eastern-European/western-Asiatic affairs, is following in the footsteps of Europe’s failed empires. A crime against oneself to be sure.

Posted by: S Brennan | Aug 31 2025 19:43 utc | 75

“Expert: Europe is at war with Russia, NATO soldiers are increasingly replacing Ukrainian units”
Excellent. Anyone who goes to Ukraine to fight against Russia is either a Nazi or an idiot (or both). In any case, it’s a good thing that such people are removed from the gene pool. And removed they will be.

Posted by: Apollyon | Aug 31 2025 19:48 utc | 77

when will they crash the western FINSYS? before or after russia wins?
and how will the US of A defeat china militarily? not with ballistic weapons for sure.
maybe a new wuhan mil lab virus where western and asian players do play with viruses.
sry for pointing out the weirdness 😛

Posted by: Hodes | Aug 31 2025 19:58 utc | 79

Posted by: vargas | Aug 31 2025 19:50 utc | 78
“The west is escalating again. I am afraid if Russia can handle that.”
Well, don’t be afraid, the ‘west’ is now merely what Mao called a ‘paper tiger’, de-industrialised, denuded of funds, deprived of energy and devoid of common sense. While Russia is the exact opposite. Still, I imagine that they are grateful for your concern.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Aug 31 2025 20:03 utc | 81

@Ed Bernays
If you copy the full web.archive.org link it should work.
Also interesting is the table on page 68 about how they divide the world with the TNC on top.
@Posted by: John | Aug 31 2025 19:26 utc | 67
Like in Syria under international law the so-called “government” in Kiev are terrorists that have forced the legitimate government to appeal for use of the armed forces of Russia against the NATO aggression:
“I appeal to the President of Russia Vladimir V. Putin to use the armed forces of the Russian Federation to re-establish the rule of law, peace, order, stability and to protect the people of Ukraine.”(reuters)
NATO training and arming of those terrorists/Einsatzgruppen to conquer those countries and wipe out the resistance is illegal.

Posted by: p3t3r | Aug 31 2025 20:30 utc | 83

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 31 2025 18:28 utc | 53
While the Canadian WEF politicians are snuggling close to Trump’s brown-betty, the rest of us are working on underground sniping. Just like Russia, as much independence away from the US economy as possible, and sufficient ability to take out the officer class if invaded.
Some idjit on Andre’s site was commenting about “Godless Commies”. I reminded him that Russia is largely a Christian nation, but if he was looking at Godless, look no further than the Israels and their Christian Zionists. Insects have higher morals.

Posted by: kupkee | Aug 31 2025 20:43 utc | 85

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 31 2025 20:53 utc | 87
We may not have to wait for a full 80 years. Economically sustainable oil is due to run out in around 50 years. Possibly give or take ten years either way. Then, given that the existing state of international co-operation prevails, we go back to hunting and gathering the vastly depleted stocks of nature.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Aug 31 2025 21:02 utc | 87

Posted by: S Brennan | Aug 31 2025 21:20 utc | 89
Good to see you’ve been boning up on your history, ‘S’. But stay cool. We might actually be on the same side (if you omit the US boosterism).

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Aug 31 2025 21:42 utc | 89

Posted by: p3t3r | Aug 31 2025 20:30 utc | 84
Right, I’ve called them delusional before and that table with following text more than proves that.
As if they were still colonial powers managing the world.
Boldly suggesting ‘direct military confrontation’ if they don’t get their way.
While we all know already that the TNC is on top and that they are fine cooperating with it as they shamelessly write, the most stunning revelation can be read between the lines.
What they describe as ‘the vertical power struggle’ implies that we, the little people are the enemy of their elite masters.
And this on a global scale.
Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!
Thanks for pointing me to this document.
Could’ve never imagined they would just publish the appalling things they think without inhibition.
Will pay more attention to those EU docs from now on.
I know our neutral, free and critical press won’t.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Aug 31 2025 21:49 utc | 91

After Ukraine the next target should be Azerbaijan. A Turkish and Israeli vassal unfortunately living between Iran and Russia. It poses multiple threats.
1. A springboard for Turk expansion into the central Asian region. This destabilizing effect on Russia must be busted early.
2. A wedge between Iran and Russia. If not for it, Russia can directly access Iranian Chabahar port and have a presence in the Gulf region.
3. Messes with Caspian Sea affairs.
4. Provides a road link between Asia and Europe for NATO military and commercial transport. Given other rivalries this is the only corridor NATO can use.
5. Part of Israel and Turkey led petroleum terror cartel.
Busting Azerbaijan is a necessity. The sooner the better.

Posted by: Jason | Aug 31 2025 22:14 utc | 93

@41
Absolutely. But Iran is dragging its feet and Azerbaijan is the spoiler which must be penetrated north to south along the Caspian Sea coastline.
Another issue is 16% of Iranians are Azeri people. These issues need some resolution.

Posted by: Jason | Aug 31 2025 22:32 utc | 95

Sorry to learn of your personal tragedy. Many millions are blind and thus as dangerous as those at Hitler’s rallies.
Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 31 2025 18:35 utc | 57
Thank you. I agree. Again, thank you.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Aug 31 2025 23:47 utc | 97

Ukraine will be a depopulated radioactive wasteland. It allows Ukraine to be occupied and repopulated by Russia. This in turn allows Russia to deploy intermediate range missiles targeting NATO.
Looks like the comedian in Kiev is holding NATO to ransom for his own survival.
Posted by: Jason | Aug 31 2025 22:40 utc | 97
Can you imagine if Putin issues a 48 hour warning, like he said he would do, prior to an Oreshnick strike on any of the major cities left in western Ukraine?
Pick three (with every intent to hit one) and watch the traffic jams ensue. I don’t know if the roads would be clear in time to get everyone out.
I can just see it though, the roads jammed so bad, the military cannot get out to lead the way to the nearest border.
It’s just funny to me, in a Benny Hill sort of way.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Sep 1 2025 0:05 utc | 99