Don’t know if the Don was lip-servicing or trolling the EU with his latest truth social rant, maybe both.

Posted by: Savonarole | Sep 24 2025 8:35 utc | 4

This is Trump’s Truth Social post of Sept 23rd. What he does here, is basically adopting the European point of view, stating that Ukraine has chances to win back all the lost territories, if only supported sufficiently by Europe. This is based on a very optimistic assessment of Ukraine’s situation on the battlefield. It makes me wonder who has Trump’s ear on military issues. Here is the post:

After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form. With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option. Why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like “a paper tiger.” When the people living in Moscow, and all of the Great Cities, Towns, and Districts all throughout Russia, find out what is really going on with this War, the fact that it’s almost impossible for them to get Gasoline through the long lines that are being formed, and all of the other things that are taking place in their War Economy, where most of their money is being spent on fighting Ukraine, which has Great Spirit, and only getting better, Ukraine would be able to take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that! Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act. In any event, I wish both Countries well. We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all!

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Posted by: grunzt | Sep 24 2025 9:44 utc | 6

Posted by: grunzt | Sep 24 2025 9:44 utc | 6

The last three sentences imply a meaning of ‘…and now, good luck everyone, we’re signing out’.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2025 9:48 utc | 8

Trump: “Ukraine can win back all of its territory, but only if god intervenes.”
TDS victims: “OMG! Trump wants god to help the Ukraine! What a bad Orange Man!”

Trump is telling the truth. With sufficient help from Europe, Russia can be defeated. He’s just not saying the whole truth, which is that Europe will be utterly destroyed in the process. He’s also not saying the other par of the truth which is that there is no way Europe will sacrifice enough to be able to provide sufficient help to he Ukraine to defeat Russia.

Since it is beyond TDS people’s ability to do on their own, given their mental disorder, I’ll provide the translation from Trump-speak to primary school baby–talk: “It is Europe’s fault that the Ukraine is losing.”

See? That is the logical corollary to “The Ukraine can win if Europe blah blah blah…”

This is just more of Trump trying to extricate the US from the war.

Truly amazing how much TDS degrades people’s cognitive abilities.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 10:52 utc | 10

I did force myself to watch the whole speech/rant on bbc website yesterday – few drop outs as some translator cut in a few times!
Which meant some passages missed. You’d have thunk UN and bbc would have been able to avoid that kind of crap after decades…or they were intentional?

The escalator/ building interior story was strange as was the glitch with the teleprompter – he handled it well enough in a trumpeting – ‘me mr me ‘ manner.

I have seen a video of that – they were led to the escalator and it stopped almost immediately – the handbag leading kept her cool and started climbing as did Donald and the entourage behind them.
Meanwhile the adjacent escalator seemed to carry on working!

I don’t know what that’s about and who runs the building and teleprompter. He’s right someone is in a lot of trouble!

Well his speech wasn’t quite as great as JFK, but which potus has ever equalled that? The slimy Obama?
It wasn’t worse than many others.

But as Bush Jnr said to snr at DJTs first inaugural –
‘That was some weird shit, pa!’

Amongst all the meaningless bravado and ranting – I quite enjoyed his direct threat to the ziofascist entity at the end when he referenced the Christians being persecuted everywhere.

They certainly aren’t in the RF
Or Brazil
Or most of Africa or Asia Pacific

They may be being killed like Kirk was in the USA!
But not by any Muslim , it was his gang and the ziofascist overlords who did that infammy for sure.

The real ancient Christian’s are being massacred in Syria for sure!
With CIA head chopper ‘jolani’ coming to sit with his cia boss Afghan Opium grower patarse …

And they sure are being killed and their ancient churches destroyed in ukropia and the illegal entity as it is ethnically cleansed by mass murder and destruction of every building regardles of how ancient!

And they are spat upon daily in their Jerusalem and every part of the illegal alien squatters with their supremacist ziofascist sick Talmudic ‘religion’. Kids are raised to do that. Like Hitler youth and now bandera babies.

Plenty of video evidence shows it. Including a Chinese /Asian Christian woman just a day ago!

So is it Holly Crusader Drumpff on his White Power charger horse with lancet coming to defend Christianity from the … err Jewish supremacist dragon? Or is it little hat wearing circumcised drumpffy dumpty ?

Killing every real ancient religion – Jews and Christian’s and Muslim ; Hindu and Buddhist , others, for the only real living gods of the Earth? the khazar dynasties reclaiming their self righteousness superiority of the world and all its resources and Humans?

That seems to be what he seemed to imply – protecting Christianity! Well it starts at home and home from home is the ziofascist entity fully supported by the USians/European Ziolords slaves – that’s arsulla ,manny, mertzy and starmzy rentboy addicts and co.

Donny Donny Donny where’s your trousers fella?
We can see it all dangling about!
At least stick a skirt on like your mama would want.

That cognitive dissonance at the end is either just that, mental psychosis – or he inadvertently projected his hatred for the Ziofacsists who are killing Christianity in the collective waste!

Which means he has a secret desire to kill that monsterous cancer in the Levant.

Which is the conclusion it seems that jfk came to!
As Kirk seemed to have the n recent months.
Jfk in his second term would have neutered it and reversed it’s imperative

He might have even offered them most of Florida if they wanted a safe place ; they’d have been at home with their fake Cuban ziofacsist gangsters tools.

A match made in heaven and the problem contained in their colony of USA. How much suffering would have been saved? How many wars ?

Having huffed and puffed the big bad wolf Drumpff must now show the little piggies – shelenski (in some suit and strange new facial expression) & shapeshifter ‘Alien’ invaders of the Levant Nuttyyahoos – the plank!

Or be doomed to go down in history as the emperor who allowed the death of Christianity in the USA (not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to their millions of crazed eschatological gun rotting Bible belters waiting for Armageddon).

The end of the infantile superpower nation not even two and half centuries young.

Which dragons is he gonna slay? Eh Drumpffty?

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 24 2025 11:26 utc | 12

It’s simply unbelievable how weak Russia is acting in its faggot war against Ukraine..

even Trump is already making fun of the paper tiger Russia, the weak loser Putin no longer acts as a warlord at all and the Russian army hasn’t even used one more hazelnut (because they don’t exist), but continues to chase young Russian fighters to their deaths, while in Russia, infrastructure is being destroyed without end because the Russian air and missile defenses are weak as hell..

Posted by: joe911 | Sep 24 2025 11:53 utc | 14

NAFO911, when is your party in Crimea? You have that rescheduled yet? And how about all that energy you were going to sell to Europe from the ZNPP? Rolling in the $billions yet?

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 12:08 utc | 16

Posted by: Mario | Sep 24 2025 10:58 utc | 11

What the hell is she doing flying over Kaliningrad? Our trouble is just next door with Morocco being armed by the genociders, drone factories and all sorts of their specialties, death and spying machines.

New location looks weird but it seems to work fine, so I guess pretty soon the stools will be aligned and the bar properly lit. Cheers.

Posted by: Paco | Sep 24 2025 12:12 utc | 18

“That is not how it translates to the TDS folks. It translates to them as “Everything is Trump’s fault! EVERYTHING!! I just shit my panties and it is Trump’s fault!””

Fixed that for you.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 12:36 utc | 20

@ Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 11:45 utc | 13

Can you ever post without trying the left/right narrative enforcement? You know it doesn’t play around this bar so why try?

At least do me a personal favour if you want to engage with me – leave it at the door please.

Anyway he did seem pretty proud about the ‘Abraham Accords’. Something that his son in law has been prepping his future presidency with. It’s a dead cert that a dead Drumpff would lead to that turds elevation.

NB Looks like the site has settled down already well done to b and any helpers that have made the transition painless. I have a post I didn’t get around to yesterday on victory/defeat.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 24 2025 13:20 utc | 22

IPosted by: Mario | Sep 24 2025 10:58 utc | 11

I do recall US/EU left the “Open Skies Treaty” of their own accord.

Last I recall, Kaliningrad is Russian territory.
You get what you pay for, so to speak…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 24 2025 13:24 utc | 24

People, stop making the biggest mistake, after getting into a land war in Asia.

Reacting to the latest verbal diarrhea coming out of Trump’s pie-hole.

Watch what Trump does; ignore what he says

Did Trump announce more US-funded aid for Ukraine? No

Did he sign new sanctions? No.

Did he call for a ceasefire? No.

Words are meaningless, especially those coming from a deranged Alzheimers patient.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Sep 24 2025 13:54 utc | 26

“…the overwhelming majority of US voters have TDS…”

Yeah, that’s why Trump won despite your team doing all they could to fraud the election, right?

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 12:32 utc | 19

That is a fictional story. Looking at the facts makes that clear.

The 2020 election conclusively proved that Trump-haters voters are the overwhelming majority of US voters.
If the 10 million TDS voters in blue states had also voted in 2024, like they did in 2020, Trump would have still won the Electoral College in 2024. The 10 million extra voters that voted for Biden but didn’t vote for Harris were all in states where those votes had zero impact on the outcome of the election. If fraudsters did meddle` in the 2020 election as you claim they were pretty stupid to do it only in the states where everyone knows it would not count.

The only thing that adequately explains the 2020 outcome is TDS. Millions of voters who normally don’t bother to vote showed up in blue states even though they knew their vote made no difference, but they wanted to express their TDS outrage at the sitting president.
But those extra 10 million votes had no effect on the outcome.

Trump lost the election in 2020 because he lost the support many die-hard Republican voters in the few states that decided the election. Trump only lost the election by 100k votes in the several swing states that decided both the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections. The down ballot results clearly indicate that there were plenty of Republican voters that could have marked their ballot for Trump but chose to either leave the top of ballot blank or voted for Biden as more of an old school Republican than Trump was.

Harris got more votes than Biden did in the states that decided the election. The 10 million votes that Biden got over Harris in other states where those extra votes did not change the outcome is not evidence of fraud. In 2016 Trump won all the swing states. In 2020 he lost all the same swing states. In 2024 Trump again won all the swing states. The Democratic voting in those 3 elections, in those states, was pretty constant – only increasing slightly with each election. The fact that Republicans made significant gains in down-ballot races for state and local govt in 2020 while Republican votes for president dropped off in 2020 compared to 2016 and 2024 is pretty clear evidence that it was Republicans in those few states that rejected Trump. After 4 years of Biden those Republicans came back to Trum and instead of losing by 100K Trump won those states by 400K in 2024.

Posted by: jinn | Sep 24 2025 14:03 utc | 28

Is this the Ukraine thread, or the New York Liberal wank group?
There are comments that state Russia is having economic problems, including fuel shortages; but Russian news sources don’t indicate any concerns.

Can someone recommend a reliable source?

Posted by: Polli | Sep 24 2025 14:24 utc | 30

Zoological references have flavored the week—for instance, DJT’s use of the phrase “paper tiger.”

Here’s Peskov after DJT’s speech at the UN, warming to the trend:

“Trump has never hidden his intention to secure U.S. economic interests. The simplest way is to force the world to pay more for American oil and LNG. Trump is a businessman who wants Europeans to buy small crayfish for five rubles instead of large ones for three.”

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Sep 24 2025 14:32 utc | 32

Trump sent Kellogg over to the EU a few days ago as a “dream date” for Brussels, who is looking for her white knight – all the military might of the US to fight the big mean VVP. Kellogg said nothing more than “fight harder” a few days ago. Now Trump has said the white knight will not arrive to sweep Brussels off its feet. Trump has taken all of the Brussels propaganda, adopted it and then said “fight harder” – his let the little boys fight in the schoolyard some more policy. So this diminishes the allure of Brussels by calling out their propaganda/deception. Trump just called a hag a hag. All of this on balance inures to the benefit of the RF, which has this whole dream date scenario on a slow boil.

Posted by: frithguild | Sep 24 2025 14:40 utc | 34

Trump forgets Russia not only took on the Neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine, but the Wests terrorist and mercenaries and much of Nato’s military equipment, and some of its military personnel as well, and its still winning, though NK did lend a hand in the Kursk region, when a mixture of Ukrainian and Nato troops invaded the region.

“Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is misinterpreting recent comments by US President Donald Trump, opposition lawmaker Aleksey Goncharenko said on Wednesday, arguing that Trump is signaling disengagement rather than support for Ukrainian victory over Russia.

Trump called Russia a “paper tiger” on Tuesday, claiming that a “real” military power would have defeated Ukraine in a week. He added that Kiev could still achieve its territorial goals – Zelensky’s stated objective – with “time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO.”

Zelensky told Fox News that he sees “positive signals” in the remarks, saying they show that “Trump and America will be with us to the end of the war.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 24 2025 14:55 utc | 36

Trubind1 @21: “I’d forgotten that Victoria Nuland & Jeffry Pyratt were Europeans.”

If you take anything from the tragic predicament of the TDS people it should be that narrative is king.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 14:56 utc | 38

Did Charles cut Trump a deal on Canada…or just remind him who’s the Big dog?*

*Big dog signature: ‘FBI'(dressed)SWAT team that took out Haiti President in covid were never radar tracked or pursued by any LEA and swiftly whitewashed from media

Posted by: Mercury | Sep 24 2025 14:59 utc | 40

Quite a lengthy article here (needs a translation add-on) discussing the possible implications arising from the seemingly out-of-control activities of the Ukrainian press-gangs: https://regionews.ua/ukr/articles/1758706069-peredchuttya-gromadyanskoyi-viyni-u-shcho-mozhe-rozvinutisya-bitva-pri-kaluskomu-ttsk

Some snips:

A premonition of civil war? What can the battle of Kalushsky [TCC] develop into?

It is time for the authorities to change their approach to mobilization, otherwise Ukraine, which is at war with the invaders, will slide into a civil confrontation

On September 22, in the city of Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region, an extraordinary event occurred, to put it mildly – – an attack on the territorial recruitment center. Unknown persons gathered near the premises that were used for the needs of the [TCC], then there was a clash, in fact an attack on the building of a military structure. The result was the escape of three conscripts who were in this location.

Kalush is far from the first

Conflicts around the process of general mobilization, announced on February 24, 2022, after the introduction of martial law, are by no means strange. In the same Carpathian region, in Vorokhta, earlier there was a skirmish between military personnel who were engaged in mobilization, and local residents.

There have been more serious cases. In the Poltava region, in the city of Pyryatin in early 2025, a shooting occurred, as a result of which a 39-year-old employee of the territorial recruitment center, Alexander Sikalchuk, was killed. According to investigators, he was shot by a man who, speaking not quite literary language, wanted to discourage a relative of his cohabitant from mobilization. Here the case has already gone to court.

~~~

The bottom line is that the Ukrainian society, for one reason or another, has matured or degraded, who considers it more correct to openly confront the authorities. And he has his own excuses for this confrontation – which will definitely be supported by a part of the community. Not all of them, but it certainly won’t be a marginal idea of a few hundred radicals. The incidents mentioned above, which are just the tip of the iceberg, only confirm this assumption.

~~~

And even war will no longer be an excuse – it is not for nothing that we remembered the “protest on cardboard boxes”, it demonstrated that in a situation where the government goes too far, society can spit on war, because it sees a much more serious danger in the usurpation of power.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 15:04 utc | 42

Stay the course Russia, and remain on MAXIMUM alert. The United States is literally coming apart at the seams. From where I sit I see Americans in a jar being shaken and agitated, anxious to chew each other to bits. And yesterday while the US president was lecturing the world against doing business with Russia, Chinese freighters steamed into Crimea delivering a diplomatic pie to the face.

At the top of the list of US problems will soon be herds of wild Americans foaming at the mouth running each other over.

Posted by: chunga | Sep 24 2025 15:07 utc | 44

RE: “Trump and America will be with us to the end of the war.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 24 2025 14:55 utc | 36

He has a rather high bar for “Trump & America”, which has a possibility of collapsing before the “war ends”.
I see no indication that Russia will be ending war for years to come, and why should they? With no EU/US Strategic Security Treaty in tow, another proxy front will open, so might as well stay right there close to home… for years…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 24 2025 15:17 utc | 46

makes me wonder who has Trump’s ear on military issues. Here is the post:
Posted by: grunzt | Sep 24 2025 9:44 utc | 6

Not important, he just hit the CPC offices and killed some people. Why would anyone want to end the war when they can hit anything and blame imaginary Ukr for it? No one, even China likes it because it brings them cheap/free resources they never had before. It’s a situation created and maintained by the smo ( tass.com/politics/2020845 , rt.com/russia/625185-ukraine-deadly-strike-novorossiysk/ )

Posted by: rk | Sep 24 2025 15:24 utc | 48

Anyhoo – if barflies in this newly refurbed watering hole are interested about the REAL situation of a Ukropian VICTORY.

I suggest catching up with the modern Mackinders, the Mad professors of history of the Waste and their ukropian banderist academic versions.

Especially the maddest of them all the Strangelove of Nazio Historians Snyder and his minime Ferguson.

Here they gathered at the behest of some ukropian billionaire with Snyder in an banderist khokol festive shirt! Honestly they want so much to be sophisticated western Anglo Europeans but can’t give up their ethnic throwback culture – Snyder should have been forced to sprout his single strand of comical hair too by his paymaster.

‘ The Burning Archive
@ArchiveBurning
Sep 22
Check my reading between the lines of the panel discussion on “Ukraine Victory” featuring Niall Ferguson and Timothy Snyder.
In 1984 style Victory here means Saigon-like defeat in “Europe’s War.” @TarikCyrilAmar
youtu.be/RIc3uzcsJWg?si=9FLZ…

“Ukraine is LOSING,” Top Historians Admit
Top historians Timothy Snyder and Niall Ferguson debated “What Will Historians Consider a Ukrainian Victory?” at a star panel. The conversation quickly revea…
youtube.com
Sep 22, 2025 · 7:34 AM UTC ‘

As Jeff Rich, writer & historian who parses that whole gathering council of doom, disguised as how Ukropians and the khazarian overlords of the West still can claim Victory. Supposedly by the the destruction of the RF and control of Crimea, Black and Azov Seas yadayada …whilst they actually have only defeat.

The truth of their options are laid out by Ferguson now a voice of the US Ziostate Academia. As they walk away from their Kaganite/Nuddleman dynastic folly having killed or mislaid 2 million to the last ukranians under their banderist racism, xenophobia and dumb supremacism driven by the Natzios of the US and Europe.

Yup that’s what the USian ziolords are doing. Washing their hands and walking away leaving the EU holding the steaming stinking turd they laid – they said Fuck the EU and it sure as hell is fucked after that shit eating show finishes.

No matter how much they cry, clutching pearls , like some maiden screaming rape! Demanding that the swarthy rapist comes and ravages them! And cries why doesn’t the RF hurry up and come and ‘take me take me big boy’.
Crying ‘Am I not so pretty and vulnerable and sexy – what is wrong with you? Curse you poooooootinnn (sob sob sob, you brute! Take me take me … boo hoo hoo …) ‘

The idiot fantasist, who surely deserves a Nuremberg of his and his followers, Snyder invokes ‘hordes of asiatic Russians invading Europe’! The fucking dickhead!

Why would the 170 million in the largest country wish to invade the spent ‘Europe’ with its 400 million? What the fuck does Europe have they don’t have plenty more of?

Yeah Ferguson ends up saying it directly – ukropian dream is fucked it has just to decide what defeat will look like.

Like South Korea? Like south Vietnam or like Finland at the end of ww2?

I personally think none of these apply l, no matter how much Fergy tries to sell it, bargain or plead for it.

They’ll create their own brand new modern kind of Defeat from the Jaws of delusional Victory they still dream of.

A bit like ozymandaius or lost Atlantis – or Stonehenge or Sphinx at best – the vast new cemeteries as the only enduring monument of their folly.

Some handfulls of banderist enclaves in Canada and rest of 5 eyes. Escaped to the West they so dreamed about. Maybe to emerge as a long defeated disease again some day.
Their rump lands returned to peace and prosperity with the Eastern Europeans and RF as great neighbours in a EurAsia economic and security union stretching from the Atlantic to the Sea of Japan. The Artic Sea to the Pacific Ocean.

That’s what the real Victory/Defeat looks like to me.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 24 2025 15:28 utc | 50

About Russian planes flying to and from Kalingrad, and being charged with being a “threat”.

The “problem” stems from Estonia, unilaterally moving the zone they claim as “airspace” right up to the Finnish one. Thus leaving NO way for the Russsians to fly in “International” airspace as there was no longer any. The Russians were less than amused.
They may have “moved” it back or the Russians are just ignoring it.

However, at the same time, another of the Chihuahuas has given itself the “right” to seize (Russia) ships to verify their papers and take the captains to court to charge them with “dragging anchors deliberately to cut undersea cables”. This was a couple of weeks ago. Which seems to have stopped since the Russians visibly accompanied one of their ships with a destroyer (or frigate) and the armed “boat” out of Tallin was scared off. The Russians were not amused by that either.

The drones over airports? Obviously NATO drones creating a blurry flurry of PR slurry. I doubt that the Russians are amused.

Estonia has UK troops with probably two or three of their twenty useable tanks as moral support. They are my guess for the coordination of all those PR stunts, to try to build a “case” for limiting Russian passages in the Baltic. Estonians also want to increase the height of the fence between them and Russia. So that drones or Babuschkas with tins of pickled cornichons can’t fly over them? Worthy of a “Catastrophic Kallas” award. The Russian might even be amused by that

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 24 2025 15:36 utc | 52

DunGroanin @22: “Can you ever post without trying the left/right narrative enforcement?”

TDS victims absolutely are not leftists, even though some try to pretend to be. Indeed, I am well to the left of every single one of them who posts here.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a left/right issue. It is a Mass Psychogenic Illness (MPI) propagated by mass media. Anyone who consumes mass media is susceptible to it.

Now, there is a divergence in American society between self-identified Democrats and Republicans with regards to who tends towards being more credulous of mass media (I’ll leave that to you to look up who trusts big corporate mass media more). With that said, referring to Democrats as “the left” is at best a historical anachronism. Any real leftists worthy of the label would be too skeptical of corporate media to be infected with TDS.

My posts actually run orthogonal to the dominant left/right narratives you are typically surrounded with. Hopefully my posts cause some readers to question those narratives, though it is understood that questioning dominant narratives triggers cognitive dissonance, which people naturally find uncomfortable and try to avoid.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 15:48 utc | 54

Posted by: Nobody Special | Sep 24 2025 15:30 utc | 51

If it was part of the “American Stasi” the secret service would not take it down. Imo more likely this is just the local operations that provides Indian scam centres with the ability to spam mass text messages.

Posted by: Jules | Sep 24 2025 16:07 utc | 56

Canada Keeps Bankrolling Ukraine’s War Crimes

https://www.rt.com/news/625053-canada-kiev-war-crimes/

The new prime minister, just like the old one, is handing Kiev the cash much needed at home

Further, he pledged to potentially send Canadian or allied soldiers, stating, ‘I would not exclude the presence of troops…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 24 2025 16:10 utc | 58

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 24 2025 15:36 utc | 52

Yes, if you look at the Baltic territorial/EEZ map, you can see the Estonian claimed territory spikes north massively (probably +10km) at the point of that island. The Estonian claimed territory spiking north at that point is a strange anomaly compared to other Estonian sea/air territory, which is much closer to their shore. That point indeed is a narrow one for international airspace.

As to where this map of territories was created and who ratified is I have no idea.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2025 16:32 utc | 60

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 15:04 utc | 42

I’m not so surprised about recent “incidents” involving the “recruitment” services. Remember what was the local’s reactions on telegram last spring when geranium(2) “bloomed” in the TCK center in Karkov and Zaporizhia.
TCK are the next ones to be conscripted. That make me wonder, will they conscript themself or some “brigade” leftovers (lookin’ at you 93rd …) will do it ?

Posted by: Savonarole | Sep 24 2025 16:40 utc | 62

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 24 2025 15:07 utc | 43
“Are US $$ still flowing to Ukraine: Yes”

That’s news to me. I thought I read that Biden sent all of the allocated weaponry to Poland before Trump was inaugurated so Ukraine wouldn’t run out when Trump became president. I hadn’t heard of new US funding being sent. It’s all European bought weapons, right? Or do you have a news source that we’re not privy to?

Posted by: Paranaense | Sep 24 2025 16:45 utc | 64

*** You can win if you just fight harder! ***

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 16:41 utc | 63

They lived for a while in a Very nice style,
But it’s always the same in the end.
They got a divorce as a matter of course,
And they parted the closest of friends.
Then the king and the queen went back to the green,
But you can never go back there again.

Posted by: frithguild | Sep 24 2025 17:03 utc | 66

Jules // 56

The guy who runs the “American Stasi” site came up with that name because he saw parallels between ground surveillance in the United States and the well documented ground surveillance of the East German Stasi. He assumed the surveillance system in the United States was part of the federal government’s domestic spy system.

However, he has now come to believe the American Stasi, while embedded in the federal government, serves either a foreign government, or more likely, a transnational group which he calls “cabal” but others call “clown world” or “the blob”. He wrote, this covert communications system in New York City was most likely created by “Cabal, or Israel acting on its behalf.”

You wrote, “If it was part of the “American Stasi” the secret service would not take it down.” Obviously. However, I wrote, “The author’s conclusion is this is a strike by a faction of the U.S. government, whose frontman (not leader) is Donald Trump. This faction is attempting to fight a powerful group which controls much of U.S. culture, industry, and government.”

Your conclusion was “this is just the local operations that provides Indian scam centres with the ability to spam mass text messages.”

The original news story had these quotes:

1. “The operation had the capability of sending up to 30 million text messages a minute.” And you think Indian scam centres spam everyone in the United States every fifteen minutes, all day long, every day. Holy crap, you are stupid.

2. It was “a well-funded, highly organized enterprise, one that cost millions of dollars in hardware and SIM cards alone.” Yep, definitely an Indian call centre scam because they spend millions of dollars setting up secret communications networks. Holy crap, you are stupid.

3. “Agents believe nation-state actors — perpetrators from particular countries — used the system to send encrypted messages to organized crime groups, cartels and terrorist organizations.” And from that statement, you concluded the covert network was Indian scam centres. Holy crap, you are stupid.

4. “The network was uncovered as part of a broader Secret Service investigation into telecommunications threats targeting senior government officials.” So the covert network was “targeting senior government officials.” And you concluded from that piece of information the covert network was Indian scam centres. Holy crap, you are stupid.

The author of the post analyzing the significance of the Secret Service exposure of this covert communications network concluded, “But even to me, and I am certain to them [American Stasi field units] – this feels different. It is an American Stasi operation being busted by law enforcement. It marks an end to the phenomenon of being above the law . . . And just as one does not strike the King unless they will kill him, one does not bust a part of the American Stasi, unless there is a well war-gamed plan to continue that type of action until the American Stasi has been completely destroyed.”

Again, my feel is there is a faction of the U.S. government which is striking back against the foreign, transnational group which infiltrated and took over the national government decades ago.

And that means Indian call centres to you. Holy crap, you are stupid.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Sep 24 2025 17:46 utc | 68

Jules // 56

I just found more information about the covert communications system discovered in New York City.

The article states, “The operation, believed to be run by foreign “nation-state threat actors” and criminals, was uncovered during an investigation into a surge of swatting calls targeting high-ranking government officials, including members of Congress and the Trump administration.

“Targets of the swatting calls reportedly include Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), and Nikki Haley. The Secret Service’s Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit, in collaboration with various law enforcement agencies, traced the swatting signals to several locations in the New York tri-state area. Upon further investigation, they found a sophisticated network of SIM servers capable of generating enormous amounts of phone traffic while rapidly switching out SIM cards to evade detection.”

And from that, you concluded it was an Indian call centre scam. Holy crap, you are stupid.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Sep 24 2025 17:59 utc | 70

We’re being set up for an Autumn of fun around the Donets. New Russian breakthroughs geolocated around Siversk. They are pushing Zvanivka, which guards the southern approach to Siversk, and they’ve taken positions in the mining facility on the northern outskirts of the city.

After clearing the Serebrianka forest on the north bank of the Donets, Yampil is being pushed at the same time they are advancing out of Tors’ke and pushing the northern shoulder of the salient around Novoslivka. Yampil guards the connectivity between Lyman and Siversk.

The AFU already denuded this axis of forces to reinforce Kupyansk, and now the front is shaped to allow the Russians to advance on both Lyman and Siversk from three different directions.

There are no less than five cities being pressured simultaneously (Kupyansk, Lyman, Siversk, Kostyantanivka, and Pokrovsk) and the Ukrainians have to decide what to try to save. Looks like the Donets sector drew the short straw, even though Lyman is arguably the most important if they want to defend the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk sister cities.

https://x.com/witte_sergei/status/1970910725884551242

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2025 18:01 utc | 72

Talks talking place in New York between US (Rubio) and Russia (Lavrov) delegations. No Ukraine or EU around, the grown-ups are talking.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin/180817

I believe that Trump’s “Ukraine can win it all back” comments are a joke.

There are reports that Trump government members complain about the “‘Estlandisation’ of EU foreign policy”, a stab at Kallas. (Only source I have is FT, so paywalled.) At a high level meeting in Pentagon, the US side complained to the Baltic poodles that they’re “too ideological in their opposition to Russia”.

Posted by: Konami | Sep 24 2025 18:22 utc | 74

Congrats on the successful transfer to a new host!

As to current events, the rhetoric is so psycho-clown on coke, I have no words.

Posted by: Drifter | Sep 24 2025 18:32 utc | 76

There is a CSS rule in style.css file at line 293: line-height: 150%

Maybe our host could comment that line out.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 18:37 utc | 78

As I have been a bit absnt, will only say

PREVIOUS WEEK 10.560 AFU destrtoyed (as well as 2 ADs)

almost 1.510 daily, above 1.600 was seen (unseen since kursk)

And as I mentioned, controlling the main roads , winter can be fun for RF.

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 24 2025 19:13 utc | 80

@75 seems ZDF is reporting old news
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/30/7528606/

They were talking about three encircled groups.

Posted by: Ali | Sep 24 2025 19:17 utc | 82

sory link missing for my 83

https://x.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1970925067082031376/photo/1

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 24 2025 19:24 utc | 84

A lot of commentary going into details about the events of 2014, including background about the emergence of some of the personalities of that time, such as Strelkov, ‘Motorola’ and ‘Givi’.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 18:56 utc | 79

Givi was assassinated through a bomb planted in his office. Motorola was assassinated in the lift of his flat he lived in with his wife Elena.

Incidentally, Elena made a video shortly before she married Motorola. She was in the centre of Slavyansk. Its an interesting video. The video was made before the MH17 crash, and what’s interesting is what she says (1m 22s) about how passenger planes were flying over Slavyansk with jet fighters hiding behind them. Here’s the link:

https://youtu.be/gENJhZwfEfc?si=OQk-t8Vzml6o4PjO

Posted by: HERMIUS | Sep 24 2025 19:40 utc | 86

Regarding the verbal escalation by US Presidene, maybe he situation as seen by United States intelligence and surveillance systems, which, it should be remembered, are years ahead of the rest of the world, shows that Russia is progressively weakening both because of economic sanctions and because of the apparently relentless campaign of attacks on energy infrastructure, so much so that it is estimated that forty percent of Russia’s fuel production capacity has been eliminated. This helps explain the difficult situation faced by ordinary citizens, but also and above all the fact that Russian offensives are stalled, with significant instances of territory being retaken by Ukraine. It therefore seems that the United States now believe Russia cannot fight for much longer and that the ultimate aim of dissolving a long standing enemy is very near, with the additional effects of curbing the influence of China and India and undermining the BRICS. From this comes Trump’s turnaround, which, far from being a sign of folly, might be seen as an act of boldness and a clear understanding of the moment to be seized to secure a very long lasting Western dominance.

Moreover, the pattern of Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory shows a deliberate strategic plan: on one side to cripple the opponent’s energy infrastructure, making life hard for civilians and increasing their dissatisfaction with the government, and on the other to hinder military operations, rather like what happened to the Wehrmacht, which was finally defeated by the lack of fuel. There are also selective attacks against the population, as seen in Moscow, intended to raise doubts about the usefulness of continuing the war for two reasons. The first is to demonstrate that the Putin government fails in the primary duty of any government, which is to protect its people. The second, in which the sanctions also play a part, is to show that the chance to live peacefully with all the benefits of global civilisation may be lost, perhaps for good.

Posted by: Louis | Sep 24 2025 19:45 utc | 88

@ HERMIUS | Sep 24 2025 19:40 utc | 86

Yes, I remember the news of the assassinations, I was lurking at the Saker Vineyard in those days.

Thanks for digging out that video clip; I don’t think us plebs here in the peanut gallery will ever find out the real MH17 story, far too much fog of propaganda surrounding it.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 19:53 utc | 90

@ guest from franconia | Sep 24 2025 19:41 utc | 87
@ Louis | Sep 24 2025 19:45 utc | 88

Links, gentlemen, please, you know preferably from Ukrainian sources, like this example:

The enemy hit “Iskander” on the training unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: there are losses

Today, on September 24, Russian troops launched a combined strike on the territory of one of the training units of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Among the weapons used are two Iskander ballistic missiles

This is reported by the Ground Forces of Ukraine, reports RegioNews .

It is noted that despite the security measures taken, it was not possible to avoid losses among the personnel.

Emergency services are working on the site, and the wounded are being treated promptly.
https://t.me/landforcesofukraine/26190

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/ukraine/1758718476-vorog-vdariv-iskanderami-po-navchalnomu-pidrozdilu-zsu-e-vtrati (via translation ad-on.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 20:00 utc | 92

Louis 88

I watch the YouTube mappers religiously every day, and outside of one local counteroffensive north of Pokrovsk, Ukraine is not taking back any territory. So, unless these guys are lying, the following statement is dubious:

>with significant instances of territory being retaken by Ukraine

Meanwhile, Russia is gaining territory in Kupiansk, Konstantinova, Zaporozhe, and several other sectors of the Donbas. Lugansk was recently 100% liberated.

So there is not really any support for that talking point.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Sep 24 2025 20:08 utc | 94

87, 88 & 93 are anti-Russian pro nazis trolls.

They lie like Trump.

Posted by: Naive | Sep 24 2025 20:18 utc | 96

“facilitating transparent privatisations akin to those seen in the Yeltsin era”

Transparent?. That little turd in the middle of a burguer just makes me think about vomiting.

Posted by: Paco | Sep 24 2025 20:30 utc | 98

Skiffer @91:

Very well stated, and it aligns with deeds to this point.

I was a little surprised that Sabastian Sas got so upset over Trump’s words. He’s usually more level headed. He seemed to skip right over the part about “support of Europe” and jump right to taking offense at the “paper tiger” part. He then overextended his analysis to suggest this post by Trump represented a commitment by Trump to back the Ukraine with more than just words, but I don’t see that anywhere in his post. It looked much more like Trump was saying “You guys go ahead and fight. You don’t need my help.”

The “support of Europe” part is really key to Trump’s whole post. It is open-ended. How much support does Trump recommend? However much it takes, and if the Ukraine doesn’t win, well that just means Europe didn’t provide enough, not that the US would commit some big arrow troop deployments.

Green tshirt: “I thought you said you would support me! You said we could win!”
Trump: “I said if Europe gave you enough support you could win. They haven’t given you enough support. Sucks to be you.”

How people see more than that in Trump’s post is beyond me.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 20:42 utc | 100