You know it is funny that even the most brainwashed start to ask what is going on…I wonder how much longer will the Jewish-Neoliberal Trojan horse will fool the Russians…
 

Posted by: Brigitte Mohnhaupt | Oct 12 2025 13:11 utc | 4

Explosives factory in Tennessee.. exploded. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/10/us/hickman-county-explosion-tennessee
Instant karma!

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 12 2025 13:53 utc | 6

“You know it is funny that even the most brainwashed start to ask what is going on…I wonder how much longer will the Jewish-Neoliberal Trojan horse will fool the Russians…”
You never fooled everyone, and now the poor souls that were mind fcked will get on board with what needs to be done.
You Lost. 
Thomas
 

Posted by: Thomas | Oct 12 2025 14:52 utc | 8

Been brooding.  As ever  (he’s not still on about that!) about the start of the SMO.  But I don’t see why not.  We know how the SMO’s going to end.  We still don’t know exactly how or why it started.
 
Been brooding here:-
 
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/war-fever-in-europe#comment-6780675976
 
………………………..
 
“Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko have now, somewhat late in the day, admitted to the Minsk 2 deception. “
 
Professor Sakwa – should have said one cannot be sure about that. What deception? What was the “Minsk 2 deception?”
 
Concrete was being poured and buildings fortified along the LoC from not long after 2014. Intricate defence lines were being built buttressing that LoC. The Ukrainian forces were being trained in batches by NATO. NATO arms were being fed in. The Ukrainian forces, initially consisting of street fighters and a poorly equipped and unready regular component, were being transformed into by far the largest army in Europe.
 
Russian Intelligence would have been following all that closely, both by direct observation and from their contacts within the Ukrainian army itself. So too the BND, which was very much on the ground at that time. Neither the Russians nor the Germans can claim otherwise. Where was the “deception”?
 
As we saw from the recent Merkel comments on Polish involvement before 2022, Mrs Merkel does have a tendency to re-write history, or at least to re-interpret it. So in this case. Her comments on the “Minsk 2 deception” were made at a time when German war fever was at its height. Any German who’d had previous contact with the Russians was regarded as suspect. Particularly Mrs Merkel, who had been the driving force behind Minsk 2 in the first place.
 
So her claim to have attempted to deliberately deceive the Russians could of course be true. But it could equally well be an attempt to escape censure.
 
So too with Putin. He can’t really claim to have been deceived. He’d have known from early on that an implementation of Minsk 2 was unlikely, given all the NATO preparations for war that were being made.
 
Putin’s “plan”, or the Russian plan, was simple enough. It was two pronged. Attempt to resolve the conflict by negotiation if possible. Prepare for the “Sanctions from Hell” if not.
 
Putin’s feeling a bit of a fool now. He pushed the attempt to resolve by negotiation just as far as he could. He continued with the attempt even after February 24th. All the Russians who thought Putin was on a loser attempting negotiations are now saying “Told you so.” And some silly woman in Germany who’d have done far better to keep her mouth closed, publicly announcing to Putin, “Fooled you!”
 
Me, I don’t think Putin was a fool. Far from it. The longer he put off the fight the better Russia was prepared for it. But no politician likes being called a fool, justified or not. Just as well he has ice water running though his veins. Plenty of Russians around who’d like to play with the Oreshniks given what the Europeans are up to at the moment.
 
Those chats with Putin. Merkel’s Russian is apparently not that serviceable but Putin’s German, though unidiomatic and accented according to native speakers, is fine. They could talk without translators or other officials present and did. We’ll never know what was said unter vier Augen during their long talks together but I doubt either of them deceived the other. Merkel knew what was going forward and she knew that Putin knew.
 
“Was für einen Saustall hat the Merkel uns hinterlassen” said a friend of mine not long after ’22. That was referring to the state of German infrastructure after Merkel’s departure and one or two other domestic issues, but it applies to Merkel’s tenure of office generally. Merkel was too tricky a politician for one to be able to read much into any of her statements so I don’t know that much can be read into her claim to have “deceived” Putin. Except that it obviously wasn’t true.
 
………………………..
 
For all that I believe Putin himself did feel let down by the Europeans. Badly. The Russians do as a whole. Merkel and then Scholz, and Macron, were still regarded as big players before February 2022. They could have made a difference. They didn’t. They are now regarded as scarcely players at all. The loss of standing and influence is dramatic:-
 
“In the main room [in Riyadh on February 18] Lavrov and Ushakov brought no papers and asked Americans [Rubio and Waltz] to dust off the December 2021 treaty draft.
“The Russian positions shocked the Americans. They were told the Ukraine will be demilitarized and its forces will be turned into paramilitary and police. The Americans were also surprised how little Russians cared about Zelensky or his British and Europeans backers.”
https://johnhelmer.net/the-three-steps-which-way-is-forward-which-way-is-backward-in-russias-war-fighting-peace-negotiating-strategy/
That’s an unnamed official and we don’t know how well-informed that official is, or indeed whether he’s just shooting Helmer a line. But that final sentence is entirely consistent with how the Europeans are now treated by the Russians.
 
The Europeans took a gamble in 2022. An all-out gamble with no Plan B for failure. Provoke the Russians to take military action. Use that military action to justify to the European electorates a sanctions war that was explicitly designed to destroy the RF.
 
Didn’t work; and we have no European politicians around big enough to pick up the pieces. Bye, Old Europe, indeed.
 
………………………….
 
Any corrections from “b’s” commenters gratefully received.  Nice to get the brooding dead right, if one can.

Posted by: English Outsider | Oct 12 2025 15:53 utc | 10

“The Europeans took…an all-out gamble with no Plan B for failure. Provoke the Russians to military action. Use that [for] a sanctions war…to destroy the RF.  Didn’t work; and we have no European politicians around big enough to pick up the pieces”
– English Outsider 10

 
Depressing but..not entirely…we have the keys to the lock  Unfortunately, parenting and the education system is so broken that the perpetual-children of the uppermost-crust can not grasp the concept of a key and a lock, much less reach up and open the door. 
 
See if you can spot Mark [NATO’s winning but, the LOC is moving in the wrong direction] Rutte in the following video:
 
Upper Class Twit Of The Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trFPzce-0kI

Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 12 2025 16:29 utc | 12

“Europeans are getting richer but their income and what’s left of their capital are going in the wrong direction.”
A tragedy in Ukraine and a farce in the EUSSR…

Posted by: Asian Frog | Oct 12 2025 16:50 utc | 14

The Europeans took…– English Outsider 10
 
Keep trying to do what Marty from Amerika does, but it won’t work with anyone outside US simply because they can read and write.
Europeans have not created the problem, Ukr war is Vicky’s project, as she said it herself many years ago. And it was very cheap too. EU are simple puppets. The source is and always has been US, which is exactly why Putin went to US to surrender and not to Europe or why he shoots down his own drones on Trumpy’s command but ignores the Macaron. He’s so disconnected these days he keeps saying Trumpy is peace but Eu is not, which is an absolutely hilarious thing to say while Trumpy promises to Tomahawk him and starts training to nuke Russia next week.  Trumpy must have skid marks from laughing so much ( en.topwar.ru/272150-prezident-putin-nazval-otvet-rossii-na-vozmozhnoe-pojavlenie-tomahawk-u-ukrainy.html )

Posted by: rk | Oct 12 2025 17:03 utc | 16

I’ve come to the conclusion that Kiev’s main objectives for destroying the Kahovka hydro dam were 1) to interfere with normal operation of the Zaporhizhia NPP by disrupting the cooling water supply and 2) to make the use of the re-opened north Crimean irrigation canal impossible and also to de-water a second irrigation canal that provided water to farmland in the Russian portion of Kherson and Zaporhizhia oblasts. I came across this video (turn english subtitles on):
https://yandex.com/video/preview/634679394289537284
produced by Kiev that paints as dismal a picture as possible on the water situation in Crimea and the Kherson region. They claim that portions of the Crimean canal lining have been scavenged and that even if pumps from the Dnipr are used they cannot be secured from attack and that the canal isn’t in condition to successfully transport water as without repairing the lining most of the pumped water would be lost to leakage. They claim that regional drought has impacted both Crimea and Kherson and that groundwater pumping from the Crimean aquifer is both depleting the resource and leading to lower quality water. Both those issues affect all areas that rely on groundwater pumping and likely have some truth to them, however a second Russian produced video shows long sections of the Crimean canal perfectly intact -although essentially dry. (this video has no subtitle options):
https://yandex.com/video/preview/10021683557713836844
No doubt the lining could use some maintenance, but it looks perfectly capable of carrying water. Likely the security of any installed pumps to provide water is a bigger immediate issue.
As for the NPP, as can be seen from the attacks on the power supplied to the cooling systems (generators are now being used to power pumps to provide cooling water), the security situation makes re-starting operations  impossible until the conflict ends. Ideally the Kahovka hydro dam needs to be repaired to restore the reservoir.
For these reasons I believe that Russia will try to capture both Kherson city (on the right bank) and Zaporhizhia city before the end of the conflict in order to secure control of both sides of the lower Dnipr. Leaving Ukraine in control of the right bank would necessitate having a viable management agreement with a friendly government in order to safely and effectively restore the NPP function and resolve the Crimean water issue.
Controlling all of the Donbass will help alleviate the water problems in Donetsk city and those regions, but is not sufficient to secure the rest of the new territories.

Posted by: the pessimist | Oct 12 2025 17:20 utc | 18

At 16 ,as usually you are drunk, again. There is no other explanation….

Posted by: voicu | Oct 12 2025 17:31 utc | 20

@English Outsider | Oct 12 2025 15:53 utc | 10
The ‘what if’ question regarding Russia’s response to the 2014 coup can’t really be answered, but IMO Russia’s ability to withstand the international backlash from a more forceful intervention was questionable. By waiting and letting the Minsk process play out their eventual claim of justifiable intervention was greatly strengthened – not in the West of course, but globally. Also the preparations for being disconnected from SWIFT payed off. I don’t believe they were ready for this in 2014. I think Putin’s expressed regrets have to to with the loss of life on both sides from the 2022 military intervention – in 2015 they probably could have marched in and reversed the coup with relatively little bloodshed, but what this would have led to would likely have been extremely problematic. Waiting was tragic, but likely the wiser choice I believe.

Posted by: the pessimist | Oct 12 2025 17:50 utc | 22

Latest report says Gulyapole is now being cut-off. Gulyapole is a significant block removed from moving further toward Zaporozhye, and isolating it against the river. Also toward Pavlograd.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 12 2025 18:13 utc | 24

 
Anyone who has ever listened to Merkel knows that she plans neither ‘bad’ nor ‘good’ things. She is a functionary and thinks about how she can implement things that others bring to her attention.
She does not cause any problems, from the perspective of the US ambassador.
Politicians in Germany implement wishes, but not the will of the majority.
Banks, insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, the arms industry… buy the laws that democracy does not sell.
Politicians sell their opinions and keep their faces turned in the direction that also proved fatal for Kirk.
Those responsible for the situation in Ukraine are likely to be the same as those responsible for the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Falklands War, the Yugoslavian War, etc.

Posted by: BlindSpot | Oct 12 2025 18:22 utc | 26

And it all needs to be paid for, somehow:

There is no money for Ukraine”: the IMF and the World Bank got into a big mess

Ukraine is experiencing an acute shortage of funds necessary for the functioning of the economy. Moreover, the European Union no longer has these resources.
 
This was stated on the air of his video blog by Kiev political analyst Ruslan Bortnik, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
 

“The Ukrainian economy grew by less than one percent in the first half of the year. This is due to the fact that the initial forecasts of both the World Bank and the IMF were based on the model of the end of the war. With what joy?  I still can’t get anything out of them. It is simply profitable for them to build such optimistic models from the point of view of finances, from the point of view, probably, of management,” the political scientist noted.
 

A particular problem, according to him, is with financing.
 

“Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederikson said this very frankly and without being noticed by Ukraine. She said that there are no other ideas in Europe other than using Russian assets to finance Ukraine, ” the political scientist stressed.
 
“If this is so, then the situation is really not very good, because we understand that even if Ukraine receives reparations under the loan of a Russian loan [meaning frozen assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation], this money will still last up to a maximum of two years. This is despite the current trend, and the trend remains negative and getting worse, ” Bortnik said.

https://politnavigator.news/deneg-dlya-ukrainy-net-mvf-i-mirovojj-bank-s-razmakhu-seli-v-luzhu.html (via translation add-on.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 12 2025 18:49 utc | 28

From the  MoA Week in Review , we have an article on China’s recent counter move in its trade war with the U.S.  KT Chong wrote a comment to that article.  He began by quoting from the it: “As an extra fillip, China has also announced that all American ships must pay port fees. (This is symbolic, few ships are flagged American.)”  Chong then continued with an excellent analysis of China’s motives for mandating American ships pay port fees, “This is not symbolic. This is long-term strategic thinking.  The US wants to rebuilding [sic] its shipbuilding industry. By imposing port fees on US ships, China basically prematurely terminates any attempt of the US to rebuild its shipbuilding industry. Trump’s “Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance” Executive Order, SHIPS act, and MARAD initiative are basically DOA.  That is brutal.”
 
Over the last month or two, we have been reading hysterical pronouncements about the destruction of Russia’s merchant marine fleet, sometimes called the “Shadow Fleet.”  Concern trolls and bragging westerners all assume neither Russia, nor China could ever defeat the all powerful EU, NATO, and U.S. on the ocean.  The recent move by China to charge port fees for U.S. ships is a lesson in non-military maritime power.  As China’s export economy grows, ship owners who want a slice of the pie carrying Chinese goods around the globe will refuse to flag their ships in the U.S.  Just wait until Russia joins the game.  I would not be surprised if within a year or two, both Russia and China will begin charging exorbitant port fees on European, Australian, and U.S. ships.
This will cause an even greater decline in the once pre-eminent western navies.  However, that decline will take a few years to become apparent.  Yet again, one more reason for Russia to go slowly in Ukraine.  It ensures the destruction of the European/American maritime industry.  The point is anyone who focuses exclusively on metrics such as ground gained or numbers killed miss the much larger picture of the Ukraine war as a Russian project to economically as well as militarily destroy “International Satanism” – Russia’s words..

Posted by: Nobody Special | Oct 12 2025 18:54 utc | 30

Situational overview from Marat Khairullin: https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/an-overview-of-the-military-situation
 
~~~
 
O/T: has anyone heard an update from Dr. Rob Campbell aka “The Busker”? Hope he’s doing OK.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 12 2025 19:05 utc | 32

@Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 12 2025 18:36 utc | 27
I dont think he means any particular installation.
What is the expression – Mission Creep?
Testing how much they may displace Russias red lines without Russia doing something drastic.
 

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Oct 12 2025 19:32 utc | 34

I dont think he means any particular installation.What is the expression – Mission Creep?Testing how much they may displace Russias red lines without Russia doing something drastic.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Oct 12 2025 19:32 utc | 34
 
Yeah, I dunno, I think too many folks can fall into a trap of over-estimating current capabilities. I think that Russia is well aware that 2025 NATO is not the 1983 ‘Able Archer’ NATO. 
 
A shadow of what something used to be doesn’t need a drastic response, just let them expose their own shortcomings to themselves, the ‘Give ’em Enough Rope’ approach…
 
~~~
 
@ ChatNPC | Oct 12 2025 19:37 utc | 35
 
Thanks for that, reason I asked is because I thought I had bookmarked Dr. Rob’s substack channel, but couldn’t find it, now rectified. Some heart-warming comments there, good to see. 

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 12 2025 19:59 utc | 36

— GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –@GeromanAT·5hAbout paid thugs and scum:
‼️🇬🇧🇺🇦 Boris Johnson lobbied for the continuation of the Ukrainian conflict for bribes — The Guardian
▪️Documents have appeared online about the former British Prime Minister receiving a bribe to continue the Ukrainian conflict.▪️The sponsor turned out to be Christopher Harborne, a shareholder of a British arms manufacturer supplying drones to Ukraine.▪️He gave Johnson a bribe of 1 million pounds sterling to persuade Zelensky to continue the war.▪️Harborne transferred the payment to a private company created by Johnson after he left the post of Prime Minister.▪️Notably, Harborne himself accompanied Johnson during his visit to Kyiv, after which Zelensky refused to sign a peace agreement with Russia.
…………….
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/10/the-1m-man-why-did-boris-johnson-take-his-donor-to-ukraine

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 12 2025 20:08 utc | 38

For background, the historic Los Angeles Times interview of GHW Bush by Robert Scheer, published on January 24, 1980.  For a moment, the veil was pulled back and much of the public was horrified to learn how the elite actually think.  From that moment, Bush had no chance at winning enough GOP primaries to be the nominee.  The public was not reassured that the elite in their bunkers and a “percentage of citizens” could survive.  Even if the percentage of survivors was “more than” 5%.

… Scheer: Don?t we reach a point with these strategic weapons where we can wipe each other out so many times and no one wants to use them or is willing to use them, that it really doesn’t matter whether we?re ten percent or two percent lower or higher?
Bush: Yes, if you believe there is no such thing as a winner in a nuclear exchange, that argument makes little sense. I don?t believe that.
Scheer: How do you win a nuclear exchange?
Bush: You have a survivability of command in control, survivability of industrial potential, protection of a percentage of your citizens, and you have a capability that inflicts more damage on the opposition than it can inflict upon you. That’s the way you can have a winner, and that Soviets’ planning is based on the ugly concept of a winner in a nuclear exchange.
Scheer: Do you mean like five percent would survive? Two percent?

Bush: More than that, if everybody fired everything they had, you’d have more than that survive.

Posted by: Drifter | Oct 12 2025 20:30 utc | 40

Chinese military transports shuttling back and forth to Moscow.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 12 2025 20:33 utc | 41
 
Aha! Finally, Ukraine’s national gold reserves being brought into safe custody…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 12 2025 20:50 utc | 42

The encircled AFU troops in Kupyansk are reportedly getting smoked. RUAF now controls 75% of the city.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 12 2025 21:02 utc | 44

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 12 2025 19:05 utc | 32
I got a quick update on Busker in my email feed. He is still not well and has spent some time in hospital.

Posted by: watcher | Oct 12 2025 21:09 utc | 46

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 12 2025 18:36 utc | 27
B-b-b-but, I thought those Aegis ashore batteries were only there to defend against an attack on Europe by Iran and/or North Korea…? </sarc>

Posted by: robjira | Oct 12 2025 22:35 utc | 48

English Outsider | Oct 12 2025 21:12 utc | 47
 
Regardless how much he could be bought for 🙂 the fact that he has now been thrown to the dogs by the big boys of London is quite interesting. They must be panicking.
 
Since the Snowden Greenwald stuff and getting their hard drives drilled, the Guardian only prints the official narrative.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 12 2025 22:44 utc | 50

Translated from Chinese media.

Good news.

No one survived explosion at a US explosive plant

China News Service

October 12, 2025, 12:29 PM
Beijing

12 people

On October 11 local time, police in Humphreys County, Tennessee, said “no survivors have been found” in an explosion at a local military explosive plant that killed 16 people, AP reported.Photo credit: AP video report screenshotThe cause of the explosion was reportedly unclear. The investigation is ongoing.The explosion was previously reported at around 7: 45 local time on the 10th at the plant located on the border between Humphreys County and Hickman County in Tennessee, about 100 kilometers from the state capital, Nashville. The plant is part of a company called American Precision Energy Systems. The company manufactures a variety of high explosives and specialty products for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U. S. industrial market.Local media television footage showed thick plumes of smoke at the scene of the explosion and debris of cars strewn around it. People living a few kilometres from the site of the blast said they could feel tremors when the explosion occurred.”No one survived” explosion at an explosives factory in Tennessee killed 16 people》

Posted by: Surferket | Oct 12 2025 22:52 utc | 52

Nowhere else to report this today but it is very important since it also involves US and Russia.
 
As I have said before we are getting close to the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)  2.o (2025)
 
Borzzikman reports:
 
“In this regard, over the past 5 days, Russia’s Advanced Tu-160 Strategic Bombers, armed with nuclear missiles, have conducted several patrols along the east coast of the United States, making it clear to the Trump administration that, if necessary, the oceans will not save Washington from a retaliatory strike”
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGikHLIdHpw
 
The Russian Ambassador to the UN  Vassily Nebenzia’s comments:
 
At the session on Friday, Nebenzia said Russia “strongly condemned” the US campaign, calling it “a flagrant violation of international law and human rights.”
“We are witnessing a brazen campaign of political, military, and psychological pressure on the government of an independent state with the sole purpose of changing a regime unfavorable to the US,” he stated, noting that the coup plot is being carried out “using the classic tools of color revolutions and hybrid wars” by “artificially fueling an atmosphere of confrontation.”
 
Washington’s justification for its military action “sounds like a perfect plot for a Hollywood blockbuster” in which “Americans once again save the world,” but in reality it is pure fiction, according to Nebenzia. He noted that the UN Office on Drugs and Crime “doesn’t even consider Venezuela a drug trafficking hub,” as 87% of cocaine entering the US comes via the Pacific Ocean, to which Venezuela has no access.
“Washington must immediately stop escalating under false pretexts and avoid the irreparable mistake of military action against Venezuela,” he urged.
 
 
https://www.rt.com/news/626225-russia-us-venezuela-coup/
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 12 2025 23:57 utc | 54

Posted by: English Outsider | Oct 12 2025 23:50 utc | 53
 
Apologies.  I typed the name wrong.  Commodore Jermy.
 
Some of his work here:-
 
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nato-war-with-russia/
 
“NATO cannot do strategy”.  Pity they didn’t work that out before they put the Ukrainians through  the Summer Offensive.   Or maybe the Milley/Cavoli/Radakin trio did study strategy but stopped at the Boer war. 

Posted by: English Outsider | Oct 13 2025 0:32 utc | 56

 English Outsider | Oct 13 2025 0:32 utc | 56
 
The Ukrainians are Russians. Eastern Slav, orthodox and therefore quite expendable.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 13 2025 0:47 utc | 58

Apparently a regime change of the type that mimics the Bolshevik revolution is in progress in Madagascar.. 
in typical fashion a weak corrupt leader sells or in debts the public assets so eventually the public services are privatized to foreign controlled investor owned interest,, then the media unleashes havoc on the current regime ,, this is followed up with youth marches and protest to create more chaos.. and suddenly the privately owned utility functions (electric, gas, water, garbage)  quit working or become unreliable this makes it easy to blame the incumbent.. and with military assist presto a new president takes over.. 
What’s important in Madagascar is rare earths and semi precious stones 

Posted by: snake | Oct 13 2025 1:40 utc | 60

Posted by: Milites | Oct 12 2025 18:20 utc | 25
 
Possible. NATO having come this far and thrown everything at Russia can they simply walk away without a last try ie a massive Missile attack on Moscow.
 
 

Posted by: Michael J | Oct 13 2025 1:59 utc | 62

Posted by: English Outsider | Oct 12 2025 23:50 utc | 53
‘We need to come home’. Don’t seem to remember Trump ever saying that on his campaign rallies, unless that’s the usual transliteration that seemingly afflicts certain commentators. 
Posted by: Michael J | Oct 13 2025 1:59 utc | 62
Even if that were possible it wouldn’t stop the trajectory of the conflict, only alter it to Russia’s favour as Putin would align himself with the more hawkish members of his General staff, and climb several rungs of the escalation ladder. There is nothing Ukraine, or its proxy backers, can do to prevent the hard landing from this singularly stupid endeavour, the product of a returning flood of chickens coming home. 

Posted by: Milites | Oct 13 2025 2:57 utc | 64

Merkel was to some extent a tool of German industry capital. She expended much of her political capital on the Northstream pipelines, against the expressed wish of empire central at Washington. This stopped with her successors Scholz and Merz who no longer even try to support German industry capital. The country is broken IMO.
 
Posted by: Konami | Oct 13 2025 2:31 utc | 63
 
—
 
She was exceptionally stupid and short-sighted for a physicist with a PhD. On the other hand, people with degrees and doctorates started two world wars. Well, now three.
Higher education can sometimes do strange things to your head. Just like an overly bulging scrotum (figuratively speaking).

Posted by: Nobody | Oct 13 2025 3:25 utc | 66

Was watching a Chinese academic re whether the US dog wags the Israel tail or vice versa. He commented there is plenty of evidence to support either view, but gathered he went more with the US Zionists calling the shots. Perhaps the US establishment tolerates or encourages AIPAC as it simply feeds people from both political parties into its Middle East war support. His fear was more about religious fanatics pushing for the end of times scenario.
This one can be argued back and forth till the cows come in, in the end though the outcome is still the same.
Boris Johnson taking bribes, hardly surprising, of course there will be no repercussions for SOP.

Posted by: Organic | Oct 13 2025 3:53 utc | 68

O/T: has anyone heard an update from Dr. Rob Campbell aka “The Busker”? Hope he’s doing OK.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 12 2025 19:05 utc | 32
I’m still not 100% but I’ve started working – that’s why I’m reading the MoA:  Busker’s Blues – by Dr. Rob Campbell – The Busker

Posted by: The Busker | Oct 13 2025 7:43 utc | 70

Trumps talk of Tomahawks is likely nothing more than a bone to placate the neo-cons.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 13 2025 0:43 utc | 57

 
The danger is that the more empty boasting, the bigger the chance that it will one day become reality. I’m really not convinced yet that Tomahawks are out of the question.
 
And I do think when those Tomahawks start to fire the whole world will realize that it’s the US against Russia for real.

Posted by: Avtonom | Oct 13 2025 8:42 utc | 72

It is possible in a Ukrainian family of four children to have Javelin and Javelina as the older siblings of newborns Tomahawk and Flamingo.
 
Predicted popularity of baby names for Ukraine, circa 2025/2026.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 13 2025 9:18 utc | 74

Haven’t watched Military Summary today, but the headline states Tomahawks are exchanged for ‘full mobilization in Ukraine’.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 13 2025 9:32 utc | 76

Posted by: Stark | Oct 13 2025 9:46 utc | 77
 
Given the systematic destruction of power plants, oil storage and refineries, and railway infrastructure, I wonder how they can get any significant forces to the front line as well. 
 
More theatrical tactics again I suppose to keep people fooled that both Zelensky and Trump are doing something, and the former has to push through martial law again next month since he is not going to allow elections to take place.
 
We’ve heard all this sort of bloviating before with the repeatedly failed meat grinding counter-offensives and ‘game-changer’ weapons. 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 13 2025 10:02 utc | 78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBrwF9cn6A0
So, they mobilize more meat in exchange for Tomahawks.  Anybody got any thoughts on this and 90 days more of Dictator Zelenski?  I say the Rada suppresses no votes and keeps the war going no matter what, with Azov guns to their heads.

Posted by: Eighthman | Oct 13 2025 10:23 utc | 80

I’m still not 100% but I’ve started working – that’s why I’m reading the MoA:  Busker’s Blues – by Dr. Rob Campbell – The Busker
Posted by: The Busker | Oct 13 2025 7:43 utc | 70
Very glad to see you back Busker.  As others here have written, your reports are very valuable-and well constructed,
Take it easy, and dom’t try doing too much till your fully recovered.
  Also, I hope your dog that suffers from separation anxiety is OK-dogs are great sentient animals and well worthy of care and respect.
All  the best.
 
 

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Oct 13 2025 10:51 utc | 82

Well what do you know!
Typing  in text/notes and then copy pasting automates the correct formatting!
That’ll save a lot of random hard returns.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 13 2025 11:15 utc | 84

Funny how unrepentant world leaders die here there and everywhere, planes, helicopters, cars, buses…….shit even Uber crashes……and Zielinski, he got his finger up Putin’s s bum, has the strut of the stage….Europe has never seen an unelected politician with such great power, can drag super powers around by the nose ….I think I might be understanding the soft spot the Russians have for the Green Tee…..
Cheers M 
 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 13 2025 12:15 utc | 86

snake | Oct 13 2025 1:40 utc | 60
*** What’s important in Madagascar is rare earths and semi precious stones ***
 
What amounts to the Zionist Empire is now megalomanically determined to acquire for itself and its Oligarchy everything its agencies  were ever offered, by anyone and anywhere; even if an offer was declined at the time.
Not only determined, but self-appointingly entitled.
 

Posted by: Cynic | Oct 13 2025 12:30 utc | 88

If Nato starts article 5 proceedings, it would need to be public. I doubt Russia would be waiting around to see the end of that proceeding before nuking Europe to oblivion.
So far, Nato has not started those proceedings. 
Lavrov is probably talking in the sense that EuroNato provides arms and its own troops as ‘mercenaries’ to Ukraine. But so far no one has acknowledged being at war with each other. This is beneficial to Russia as Ukraine/Nato are disadvantaged in the current front in Ukraine.
But it’s very likely ‘war/article 5’ means nuclear, as there won’t be another ‘soft Ukraine’ with Poland, Baltlets or Finland.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 13 2025 12:50 utc | 90

The depopulation of the Russian population in 404 is accelerating… Who will inhabit this beautiful empty space, full of raw materials, in the future? Questions upon questions… It would be a fantastic question to pose to the Jewish-neoliberal Trojan horse on one of these idiotic “forums”… For example, the forum of the United Russian Proctologists.

Posted by: Brigitte Mohnhaupt | Oct 13 2025 13:04 utc | 92

Posted by: Savonarole | Oct 13 2025 13:21 utc | 93

 
Every day it’s increasingly likely, if Novorrossia is implemented in a way it borders Romania and Hungary, Nato and EU will be ripped apart. Considering Brussel’s decision to nationalize the Chinese semiconductor factory (which may not even operate without Chinese inputs), Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia could either break the EU inside or leave or both.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 13 2025 13:27 utc | 94

““We must not allow Putin to break our resistance before winter.” – shelenskiyv
 
Wait!  did he just say they are fucked but wants to hang on till AFTER winter or IN winter ????
 
I guess they really want those the long lines of evacuees demanding entry into cosy warm western Eurasia! Poor critters got no gas  or electricity … err just like many of us with triple costs buddy. 
 
London now is FULL of those Russian speaking khokols – can’t walk down the pavements or wander into supermarkets without  hearing their lovely singsong chat. Often on a phone back home! Kiddies being taken to and from school … they seem v happy. Not at all upset with all the multiethnicity. 
 
Meanwhile we are squirrel spotted to look at ‘small boats’… its like we are being told to ignore the massive influx of non-EU peoples having told many others to fuck off with the BrexShit bs.
——-
 
‘ NATO Parliamentary Assembly: “NATO & Ukraine are winning!”
 
At the plenary session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Slovenia NATO Secretary General/Head of US MIC sales department Mark Rutte again called for raising NATO core defence spending to 3.5 % of GDP, as part of the broader commitment to reach 5 % by 2035.
 
Zelensky addressed the Assembly via video link asking for more air-defence, missiles, and support to withstand Russian aerial attacks.
 
Key Quotes – Mark Rutte:
 
“We live in a dangerous world, and the threat is not something distant.”
 
“We are doing this primarily to defend NATO territory. 3,5 % so that we can keep the Atlantic, the Arctic and Europe, and also the United States, safe.”
 
“NATO must not underestimate the Russian threat, but neither should weoverestimate its military power. Nevertheless, Russia remains very dangerous.”
 
“In this debate (shooting down Russian airplanes) the military must take the lead. They (NATO officers) have authority to take the extreme measure if an aircraft poses a threat. If it does not, they will not shoot it down. (…) I fully agree with this approach, because we are much stronger than the Russians.”
Volodymyr Zelensky:
 
“To cover up its failures on land, Russia has begun a new wave of aerial terror against Ukraine — against our cities and civilian infrastructure. Their main target is our energy system. Every day and every night, Russian missiles and drones hit power plants and distribution networks.”
 
“We must not allow Putin to break our resistance before winter. I call on you to advocate in your parliaments and governments for stronger support with air-defence systems and missiles.”
 
He also called on the participants of the parliamentary assembly and their countries to stop buying Russian oil, specifically pointing to Hungary.
 
“For Putin, every billion matters. You cannot be part of the free world and at the same time finance those who want to destroy it.”
He further advocated tightening sanctions against Russia, as they limit the Russian war machine. Pressure, he said, must also be applied to those who continue to supply Moscow with components for drones and missiles, stressing that besides China and Taiwan, Russia also receives such components from European and other countries.
 
🐻As Sigmund Freud would say:
“The schizophrenic withdraws his interest from the people and things of the external world, without replacing them by others in phantasy. He thus turns away from reality altogether.” … “The megalomania of the patient is the expression of the re-investment of his withdrawn libido in the ego.”
🔴 @DDGeopolitics ’

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 13 2025 13:32 utc | 96

Posted by: Savonarole | Oct 13 2025 13:21 utc | 93
 
I guess the Columbians are there ’cause they used to work for death squad militias back in Macondo but then Colombia elected a former guerrilla as president so they’ve been out of work lately, need to find new places to use their (lack of) talents to feed their kids with various women. One wonders though, why won’t they just work for the cartels?

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Oct 13 2025 13:41 utc | 98

Posted by: English Outsider | Oct 13 2025 13:43 utc | 99
Really great comment. Indeed, I know people in the States who are celebrating pregnant Ukrainian women being sent to the front, or ‘going’ to the front (willingly in their minds) because they ‘really want to be free from Russia.’ It’s utterly insane, but logical thinking for people who have swallowed the propaganda hook, line and sinker.

Posted by: Caveman | Oct 13 2025 14:08 utc | 100