206 corrected:
https://www.rt.com/russia/623873-yanukovich-ukraine-nato-membership/
Yanukovich – a blast from the past.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 2 2025 2:48 utc | 204

I don’t mind coming here being ridiculed, partially ignored or mockingly half replied to via 3rd person comments. I get that, the little club of war stories ex-whatevers don’t play well with others…the random reader, I’ll always be happy to contribute change for them.
DJT will never understand Europe, as a President, as a New Yorker or probably as an American. In NYC and US the car is still king, there’s few Piazza’s, fewer with pedestrianised green spaces, fewer still where a French group, Italian group and Spanish group can sit on adjoining tables half listening to each others conversations, throwing in whimsical rejoinders experiencing flavours of each others cultures, perspectives and points of views in doing so, while at the same time knowing the new concrete and glass structures mixed in the old quarter are there because when cultures collide, bombs drop and cityscapes change forever — so we learn to live in the dance in between, revel in each others fiesta majors and accept differences because consequences are real.
IDK if DJT gets that it doesn’t get fixed by AMEC construction after MIC, marines, & US bank war corp have their slice or if he doesn’t get it because he’s never been immersed in another’s culture, listened to the nuanced perspective of another’s language…or a thousand other reasons that make up his failures. He’ll also never understand why he doesn’t get invited to events in Tianjen and Beijing, maybe he will when America stops driving SUV battle tanks, creates some piazzas where people can drink coffee for €1.50 where people and cultures can mix and enjoy their differences instead of being divided by them.
What it’ll take for that to percolate to echelons where one more oil field keeps the mansion for another generation — IDK… maybe President Xi has some ideas there? The ones so far seem to be working

Posted by: Mercury | Sep 2 2025 2:56 utc | 206

https://ua.news-pravda.com/en/russia/2025/09/01/67684.html
News about Russian plans for Odessa.
Posted by: Michael J | Sep 2 2025 3:32 utc | 174
From the SCO thread.
Subtle hint from the Russian General Staff.

Posted by: Suresh | Sep 2 2025 6:12 utc | 208

Posted by: Mauro | Sep 1 2025 19:16 utc | 188
I live in Europe, and I can tell you that you are mistaken. It is true that Europeans are not particularly patriotic, but many have been persuaded that the destruction of Russia and the plundering of its resources will bring prosperity to the EU the likes of which have not been seen for decades.
[…]
I can assure you that if you strike up a relationship with a European, regardless of their social class or political background, in the vast majority of cases they will soon reiterate the point I have made. I have even heard supposedly caring mothers of families, almost foaming at the mouth, say that we must do this to secure a future for their children

Bullshit!
I’ve never heard anything about a desired destruction of Russia.
And no one has been foaming at the mouth, lol.
What you say is crazy really, you’re nuts!
Johan Kaspar: Good day sir, great to be here, I hope we have a productive meeting.
Random European: Excellent Herr S., great to have you here, so about the destruction of Russia to plunder it, today we have a brainstorming at the cafeteria, if you want to attend?
Johan: Sure, I just spoke with a caring mother coming to do my room at the hotel and she explained how Russia has to be partitioned while she foamed at the mouth.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Sep 2 2025 6:58 utc | 210

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Sep 2 2025 6:58 utc | 213
Plenty of them, though a minority.
Thing is, they regard fighting as beneath them: most of them could not stomach a comment calling them out for tiptoeing around Gaza, never mind warfare on the Ostfront.
Should the F-35s fail to crush the russians in a couple if weeks, as they imagine, it is going to get real funny real fast.

Posted by: Satepestage | Sep 2 2025 7:14 utc | 212

Who knows what the death of a child kidnapped and forced to die in a mincer at the front will do to the fathers and mothers.
This is an extraordinary clip of the murderer/assassin :
https://xcancel.com/RWApodcast/status/1962823281150488968
‘Russians With Attitude
@RWApodcast
1h
The man who was arrested for killing Ukrainian MP Parubiy says that:
– the target was chosen randomly, Parubiy was nearby; had he lived in Vinnitsa, he would’ve killed Poroshenko
– he wants to be sentenced as quickly as possible so he can get exchanged for Ukrainian POWs, go to Russia and search for his son’s body
– he had no contact with Russian special services, the assassination was his own initiative & personal revenge against the Ukrainian government
Sounds like his son was forcibly conscripted into the Ukrainian military and got killed in action…
Sep 2, 2025 · 10:21 AM UTC ‘
Where the story line of his escape on a scooter and cars etc intersects with that I don’t know. If he wanted to be arrested then why didn’t he just hang around at the crime site?
Did he turn himself in?
If his motives are true – there will be a lot disgruntled parents and they will know a lot of child snatchers who have been bundling their loved ones to certain death – ukropian ‘society’ is never going to recover from such internal strife.
Some might even find blame in the Europeans and Yankeedoodles who encouraged and paid and pushed for the ‘to the last Ukrainian’ meaning the last Russian speaking Ukrainian.
Any peace settlement would require a referendum in the rump Ukraine, as I have long believed, so the inhabitants can choose to stay independent or become Russia with all the economic and welfare security of the whole EurAsia SCO/BRI or they can attempt to go beg in the streets of Europe and America as limblesss veterans abandoned by their banderists and AngloEuropean paymasters.
The child snatchers will pay with their lives one way or another. They’ll need to be resettled in some fascist backwater of the Collective Waste.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 2 2025 12:06 utc | 214

Looks like the EU/USA/Britain/Ukraine will need to try and assassinate this man, they tried not that long ago but they failed, this attempt hasn’t shut up Fico.
“Ukraine is free to pursue EU membership, but it cannot be allowed to join NATO, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said during a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China on Tuesday.
Fico noted that while every country has the right to decide its future, there are a lot of issues regarding Kiev’s accession to the EU. He stressed that Slovakia believes Ukraine needs to fulfill all the demands that are necessary for it to become a member of the bloc and said he would discuss this issue during an upcoming meeting with Vladimir Zelensky.
“On the one hand, we support Ukraine in this regard, but on the other hand, I emphasize, I have said since the very beginning that Ukraine cannot become a member of NATO, this is my final decision,” Fico said.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 2 2025 13:19 utc | 216

🇩🇪 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius lashed out at the unhinged von der Leyen over her statement about being ready to send European troops to Ukraine. He reminded: “The European Union has no authority or competence regarding the deployment of troops.” And he asked the lady to refrain from commenting on such plans. This was reported by Tagesschau.
Looks like the German Russophobes can’t quite agree among themselves…
@ukraine_watch

Posted by: Jo | Sep 2 2025 13:46 utc | 218

Kassandra | Sep 1 2025 12:34 utc | 154
*** @ Apollyon (36): Ukraine cancels Hassidic pilgrimage
Unfortunately, this is quite bad. Just another step by the Netanyahu war-criminal regime to increase the pressure on the Hassidic Orthodox population in Israel who is refusing to serve in the IDF occupation force. ***
No, it is — given the ongoing war in Ukraine — just (whoever decided) being sensible.
Btw, most the Jews who go on pilgrimages to shrines in Ukraine (Khazaria) are among the most malevolently extreme Jews in existence, and certainly not anti-war.

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 2 2025 15:37 utc | 220

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 1 2025 21:00 utc | 193
*** The would-be looters have thrown lots of “game-changers” (an archaic term these days, or so it seems) at the target of their would-be looting, yet seem to be no nearer achieving access to the “loot”. If anything the “lootee” is wise to the plotting.
So, if you were a would-be looter, what is your next move? ***
Sack the tea-lady ?

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 2 2025 15:55 utc | 222

@YetAnotherAnon (16), @Canuk (165)
I agree. In particular the differenciation between Brits and the City hits the nail on the head.
Thomas Morus described the Celtic tragedy already some centuries ago: “The sheeps are eating the people”. Power and Capital has an old tradition to disdain the deplorables since the rule by the Normans, and instead of growing crops and vegetables, the peasants had to starve having been robbed their livelihood by rich patrons raising sheeps…

Posted by: Kassandra | Sep 2 2025 19:22 utc | 224

The Duran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9duEb-Zcsw
“Gerasimov, aggressive attrition.”
Surrounded…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 2 2025 23:56 utc | 226

Check out the map, This is technically all of Novorossia, says a commentor.
“The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Gerasimov, summarized the results of the spring-summer offensive of the Russian Federation.
But the map on the wall suggests Odessa being part of Russia”
https://nitter.poast.org/MyLordBebo/status/1962502966927114261#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 3 2025 14:16 utc | 228

So Beijing gave us its grand parade, a theatrical show of invincible weapons from a country that cannot even set foot on a small island visible from its own coast. All for the benefit of another mighty power that, after almost four years, still sits 90 kilometres from a capital belonging to an enemy ten times smaller and with one eighth of the population. And let us not forget the third proud titan, whose attempt to launch a warship of supposed quality ended with the vessel sinking right after touching the water.
Meanwhile the West cleans house. Venezuela is next, Maduro must already feel the rope on his neck, while in Cuba the message has surely landed. Syria? Broken and divided, the samee fate of Lybia, and Iraq, and Ethiopia, and Yugosalvia and so on. Not to mention Afghanistan, paraded as an US defeat, in truth a great success, as it is now a stinking corpse across the so-called ‘new silk road’ sowing isalmic unrest across Uighurs land. And Palestinians are on the way to become XXI Century Mohicans, Gaza, in Israeli (and US hands) will become eastern mediterranean Montecarlo, I expect Gaza F1 GP no later than 2030.
Take note. Boeing and Airbus in one year rolled out more than two thousand aircraft. The brilliant booming economies of Russia and China together produced ten. Yes, ten.
The Russians now face their comedy: they cannot fix refineries and pipelines destroyed by Ukrainians, because spare parts come from the decadent West and they lack engineers capable of anything.
And with twenty five percent inflation, queues for fuel and soon for bread, that may be the least of their problems. By now they should see the humiliating truth: their rulers dragged them into a war they cannot win, one that will crush their state and erase their people from history.

Posted by: Louis | Sep 3 2025 19:16 utc | 230

Stepping up a gear by the looks of things.
“Atleast one USAF B-2 Strategic Nuclear Bomber is operating at the very eastern end of the Norwegian Airspace.
Republicofscotland | Sep 3 2025 19:28 utc | 231

Likely at the end West is tired of this Ukrainian charade, Russian leaders maybe are about to face the same destiny of Iranian nuclear labs and Yemeni government. Game over?

Posted by: Louis | Sep 3 2025 19:33 utc | 232

“Take note. Boeing and Airbus in one year rolled out more than two thousand aircraft”
Louis (230).
Whose buying these Boeing aircraft, China cancelled big orders (50+ aircraft) – (April 2025) of Boeing aircraft, after Trumps tariffs war – and share prices in Boeing began to nosedive.
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“So Beijing gave us its grand parade, a theatrical show of invincible weapons from a country that cannot even set foot on a small island visible from its own coast.”
Yes it was a theatrical show, and a very impressive one at that, I presume you are talking about Taiwan, China doesn’t want to attack Taiwan, if it doesn’t have to – many nations recognise it as part of China, I think even the USA’s official stance is one of Taiwan being part of China, even though its arming it, one wonders what the USA’s response would be if China armed Cuba, with modern missiles – I think we already now that answer.
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“And with twenty five percent inflation, queues for fuel and soon for bread, that may be the least of their problems. By now they should see the humiliating truth: their rulers dragged them into a war they cannot win, one that will crush their state and erase their people from history.”
On the above Louis – remind me again of how many people are homeless and hungry in the USA, and what the national debt stands at, as the saying goes, people in glasshouses shouldn’t throw stones.
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“Meanwhile the West cleans house. Venezuela is next, Maduro must already feel the rope on his neck, while in Cuba the message has surely landed. Syria? Broken and divided, the samee fate of Lybia, and Iraq, and Ethiopia, and Yugosalvia and so on”
On the above Louis – you seem by your words – almost pleased that the West has murdered millions, pillaged and, in Syria and Libya’s cases kept in turmoil – along with regime changing those countries, Venezuela aside.
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“And Palestinians are on the way to become XXI Century Mohicans, Gaza, in Israeli (and US hands) will become eastern mediterranean Montecarlo, I expect Gaza F1 GP no later than 2030.”
You do realise that Israel has finally destroyed itself by committing genocide, never again will the world look at an Israeli or even Jewish people and have any sympathy for them – Israel hasn’t won its lost, you have to see the bigger picture – Netanyahu may well ethically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank – but the world will despise Israel and history will record them as just as bad if not worse than the WWII Nazi’s.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 3 2025 19:49 utc | 234

“Likely at the end West is tired of this Ukrainian charade, Russian leaders maybe are about to face the same destiny of Iranian nuclear labs and Yemeni government. Game over?”
Louis (232).
You do like to make fanciful comments – don’t you, the West won’t openly attack Russia, for Russia is a nuclear state, only through its badly weakened proxy Ukraine – will the West attack Russia, and even there, the West is fearful of arming Ukraine with weapons – that might see a retaliation by Moscow outside of Ukraine, you do realise that European/British citizens will pay for the weapons that are now to be sent to Ukraine, but they will mostly be bought from the USA’s MIC, if you are European or British, your quality of life (unless rich) will go down the way as you and your children and possibly grandchildren, will foot the bill to defend a Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine.
As Iranian nuclear labs, I think they are still on the go, Fordow was all but empty but Trump won’t admit that – in anycase I read that the Iranian government was pre-warned by the American’s of the strike – just as the Iranians pre-warned the Americans and UAE personnel of a strike at a UAE military base.
On Yemen didn’t they strike Israel with a few missiles yesterday or today, and haven’t they all but chased the Yanks out of the Red sea, the Yemenis sound like proud and resourceful people to me, especially with what they have in weapons, add to that they are trying to stop the genocide.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 3 2025 20:04 utc | 236

“Films will portray heroic Israelis, books and works of every kind will interpret their actions sympathetically, and your grandchildren may well see a holiday in the New Gaza, the Monte Carlo of the Eastern Mediterranean, as the most fashionable destination.”
Louis (237).
I’ll be surprised if Israel still exists (in Palestine) in twenty-years time, the Israeli’s could be dealt with – and I doubt much of the world would raise an eyebrow, let alone feel any sympathy for them after what they have done in Gaza – as for you, you say it gives you no pleasure or satisfaction, yet you openly – speak of heroic Israel books and war films, those words alone lead me believe – and no doubt other to, believe it, that you support the Zionist occupying force known as Israel – and by default the genocide.
People haven’t forgotten the Nazi’s of WWII and what they have done – nor will they forget what the Zionists, who are lets face it akin to Nazi’s – in their evil actions against Palestinian women and children, and I’m sure books and films will be made by those who saw the Israeli’s for what they really are.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 3 2025 20:28 utc | 238

@ Louis | Sep 3 2025 20:14 utc | 237
Don’t forget that debt has its own momentum and always has a say.
In 20 years time the US, indeed the whole West (let alone Ukraine), won’t exist as we currently know it (“It’s dead, Jim”).
That’s not rose-coloured idealogical glasses, that’s recognising the current economic and political trajectories of the West are completely unsustainable, unfundable and unrealistic.
You, and people like you who comfortably bask in the warm narratives paraded by the Western legacy media are completely blinded and blinkered, numbly oblivious to what is coming down the pipe.
I’m thinking about starting work on a prospectus for a sure-fire winner of a company, able to go to IPO with a valuation of US$500 billion; would you like to invest? Get in on the ground floor.
Working name for this launch is “Weimar Wheelbarrows Inc. ”, with a market ticker of “BROKE”….

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 3 2025 20:55 utc | 240