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October 26, 2025
Ukraine Open Thread 2025-249
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Fyi S Brennan. A brave Ukrainian who didn’t want to be mobilized detonated a grenade taking out himself and 3 others just a couple of days ago.
NATO countries are already talking about rounding up able-bodied Ukrainian men and deporting them back to fight.
Internal hatred towards the regime and its henchmen is boiling to the surface. Ukraine’s end will not come from Russians occupying Kiev but from within.
Posted by: Suresh | Oct 27 2025 1:24 utc | 101
It sucks for Ukrainians, but this is what Banderite thinking will get you.
Zionism and racism lead to destruction and despair. Worshipping the EU leads to annihilation.
This fight was created by the NATO colonial powers, and the Ukrainian elite wanted to participate.
I am a big believer in people pursuing their ambitions.
If you want to be a Nazi and attack Russia, have at it. Good luck…
The first of what will be many Western defeats, as their military industry is inefficient and now constrained by the Chinese resource embargo.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 27 2025 1:30 utc | 102
“…and because “SB” has been getting weaksauce pushback on his B.S. he really thinks he is selling some great chocolate, for weeks now.” Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:15 utc | 88
He’d been whining about this “they dindo nofing” bs in every thread for weeks now so people just got tired and stopped reacting. Russians have been hearing this “А нас за що?” from Ukies for years now, for every POW claims to be a press-ganged cook.
Posted by: Rutte | Oct 27 2025 1:35 utc | 103
One interesting possibility opened up by the new Russia nuclear powered missile is a loitering weapon that circles the arctic. Combined with a “dead man’s switch “ linked to Putin or Xi’s ability to fog a mirror.
If the DC or UK morons make a move to do “regime change” and the missile loses contact with the pulse of dear leaders, they immediately change course and head for 10 Downing St and DC with a nuclear payload.
… and just like that, all the rumors about Putin having cancer or Xi being sick took on a whole different tone.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Oct 27 2025 1:38 utc | 104
R2R: John Helmer: ‘The Budapest Debacle’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPicYSvWEpY “The ‘4th Reich’ has lost, but it can’t afford to…” Recommended.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 26 2025 16:22 utc | 33
Thank you, John!! I recommend as well!!
Posted by: juliania | Oct 27 2025 1:43 utc | 105
“SB” continuously claims “only Russians” are dying at the front” – WhatEverDude 87Hmm…WhatEverDude, please “cite” source for your straw-man argument; show me the post where the quote “only Russians are dying” is applicable? Yes, we all wait in vain because you, me, [and anybody who’s honestly paying attention] knows you’re lying….
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 1:56 utc | 106
“Ukraine’s end will not come from Russians occupying Kiev but from within” – Suresh 105
Well Suresh, I sure hope you are right and that I am wrong but, to remind you, that was the start of this war in 2014 and…the internal revolt failed. Okay “maybe this time it will be different” yada..yada…
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 2:03 utc | 107
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 1:56 utc | 113
I’ve seen you write it plenty of times. the “tragedy” that the “Galicians” are pressing Russians to the front while the nazis hang back, that the russians are not using a strategy of targeting the Nazis behind the russians, and that we all here with our “pom-poms” as you say, are “cheering” on the death of “ethnic russians” forced to the front by “Nazis”.
Dont play stupid with me, bitch.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 2:27 utc | 108
He’d been whining about this “they dindo nofing” bs in every thread for weeks now so people just got tired and stopped reacting. Russians have been hearing this “А нас за що?” from Ukies for years now, for every POW claims to be a press-ganged cook.
Posted by: Rutte | Oct 27 2025 1:35 utc | 109
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Tells us everything we need to know about SB and his “pals” at MoA.
Again, why listen to an American (or a Brit) give any commentary on Russian military action?
It’s not like America has ever won a peer conflict. They prefer to bomb civilians in Vietnam, Libya, Japan, Palestine, or Iraq.
The world’s biggest pussies who attack those who cannot strike back.
And we have Yanks here with military opinions and analysis.
LOL
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 27 2025 2:47 utc | 109
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 0:01 utc | 85
I’ll make it nice and simple for you.
12 into an IFV, even a BTR does not go.
Russians invaded with BTG’s based on the standard Motorised Company of 3 platoons of three BMP/BTR’s+Co command vehicle, with 8 dismounts (7 infantry+vehicle commander/section leader) in each.When the BTG’s were initially deployed they were sometimes 20-30% undermanned, some only having the crew and no dismounts.
The BTG concept was unsatisfactory largely because of a lack of infantry and a formation footprint that taxed the battalions rather rudimentary C&C.
Even when the BTG’s were returned to their patent brigade/divisions and even when the manning problems had been addressed they still retained the same company structure of 3×3+1
Other specialised formations have different manning levels (support, recce, engineers etc) but the standard motorised infantry company can normally only carry 80 dismounts at max strength.
No need to ‘look it up’.
Posted by: Milites | Oct 27 2025 2:58 utc | 110
* “Dont play stupid with me, bitch” – WhatEverDude 116
WhatEverDude, it’s good to see you came back cranky from your middle-management-high-hydrocarbon-burning-REI-weekend. Now, what to do? Well, show up late for work on Monday with your usual excuses…and by God, give your H1-B underlings hell, after all, as indentured servants they can’t talk back and you, as a middle-management-suck-up-from-UW, you’re “entitled”…as anyone who’s lived in Seattle environs well knows.
So, thanks for the anonymous threat, even though I know I could easily drop you at 300m [with iron sights] and surely….at my front door. So, my response to your wacko shit? Well, I love you bro…and uh…peace out. And uh..think of a comeback that doesn’t make you look too stupid* because, it’s you, you’re the entitled-trash-talking-shit taking this country down, it’s not Trump, it’s not Biden, it’s not the DNC, it’s not the RNC, it’s morons like you. Once again, love you bro…and uh…peace out…now fuck-off.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 3:17 utc | 111
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 26 2025 16:33 utc | 36
“Build an alternative power in your neighborhood that can seize control when needed. The collective strategy always beats anarchic individualism. ”
Just like they did in Atlas Shrugged?
Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 27 2025 3:31 utc | 112
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 3:17 utc | 122
he mad he forgot about his “pom poms” posts.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 3:34 utc | 113
s… brennan… not sure why you like talking shit, but you definitely like talking shit…
Posted by: james | Oct 27 2025 3:47 utc | 114
DunGroanin | Oct 26 2025 14:55 utc | 19
A *new* military group will soon appear, and the task of this group will be to bring back home a very well-known city……
Odessa. That would require a *new* military group……
Particularly as it’s a step beyond the Righteous Return of the Russian Oblasts.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 27 2025 3:49 utc | 115
😀 Thanks for the shared tips, everyone! I was going to suggest growing potatoes in a sack by a lit area, but your ideas are better. We really should be civically involved as safely we can. And if not possible get to diffused subsistence living if we are responsible for safety of ourselves and others.
🙂 The important thing is to blow on the embers of hope. May its flame grow and give us warmth to push back against this gathering folly. Well-meaning people cannot afford to remain doing nothing, so let us build the courage that doing good is possible. It’s all impossible if good people despair and do nothing.
Posted by: titmouse | Oct 27 2025 4:07 utc | 116
@ ThouShalt | 106
Just a Would it be better and more effective to eliminate anonymity on the internet? Back in the olden days, nobody could speak up at townhall meetings under an umbrella of anonynity.
Here is the problem. In the olden days, what happened in public was understood on the basis of consent. If one was in public one would accept that risk of being observed and as well had opportunity to observe and know the observer.
Now, with a world filled with surveillance (traffic cams, cellphones held high with multi-camera multi-spectral and structured light field capability, microphones, vibration sensors, relative spatial location capability, geotagging, wi-fi and satellite connectivity,…) we have no capability to know or identify the watcher or assess how that information is used, compiled, shared, aggregated, associated, monetized, made-derivative, profiled, exploited,…
We are no longer in a world where the public is a space of knowing consent. Knowing consent is the foundation of determinations regarding topics such as what is rape and what is not.
The ability to have some anonymity in an adversarial space where knowing consent is not possible is meaningful and perhaps can be considered in terms of gradations of risk.
Posted by: nom3000 | Oct 27 2025 4:21 utc | 117
Thank you, S Brennan!
There’s now incontrovertible proof that you’re just another liberal. And the best thing is, you furnished the proof yourself!
That’s not to say that Russians, at another level, don’t understand, they’re taught much in their schools, the Crimean War, the infamous Treaty of Paris, how the Westernmost states of Europe mobbed-up with the Ottomans…an Asiatic steppe people only too happy to re-enslave eastern Europe at…England & France’s behest.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 22:06 utc | 69
Reflexive casting of your preferred enemies as being Asiatic is certainly in-character for you, the barfly who constantly peddles the idea that China has been taking advantage of Russia not just throughout the entire slo-mo SMO but also throughout the entire history of Russia-China relations. But your invocation of Asiatic steppe people says a lot more about you than it does about the Ottomans. You see, my dear S Brennan, this was not the first time such a rhetorical device has been used. Back in 2018, the bastion of truth and freedom and democracy (sarcasm), the Wall Street Journal wrote an article that sounds exactly like how you portray your enemies:
Russia’s Turn to Its Asian Past
As nostalgia surges for the eastern conquest of Genghis Khan, Putin maps out his own empire
By Yaroslav Trofimov, July 6, 2018
Do you know why some communists say that “capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”? Do you know why they let capitalists and capitalist-wannabes (labor aristocrats in actuality) run their mouths?
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
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Marg bar Âmrikâ
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Oct 27 2025 4:49 utc | 118
Impossible to disagree with this. On what basis, do we unite? Race, gender, sexuality are all extremely divisive and thus encouraged by the ruling class. What unites millions who suffer under the rule of the Imperialist genocidal Oligarchy is that we all must work for a small wage or die on the street. We are all wage slaves. Only on that basis, will the movement you speak of be reborn in the western world. We must reassimilate the lost history of our class struggle in the 20th century and teach it to our children.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 26 2025 23:49 utc | 82
Indeed the proletariat should unite, but there is distinction between the mass global proletariat and the minority parasitic labor aristocrats/the house slaves defending Fortress America.
You should know this distinction very well because I saw you lecturing someone about using Lenin’s definition of imperialism instead of some wishy-washy liberal definition of imperialism. Just because I lack the time to make a well-thought-out comment or choose not to comment doesn’t mean that I don’t notice things around MoA. The rift between the proletariat who suffer from colonialism and the imperial proletariat who enjoys colonialism’s rapacious benefits is so great that Lenin wrote Imperialism and the Split in Socialism:
Is there any connection between imperialism and the monstrous and disgusting victory opportunism (in the form of social-chauvinism) has gained over the labour movement in Europe?
This is the fundamental question of modern socialism. And having in our Party literature fully established, first, the imperialist character of our era and of the present [1], and, second, the inseparable historical connection between social-chauvinism and opportunism, as well as the intrinsic similarity of their political ideology, we can and must proceed to analyse this fundamental question.
The prospect of partitioning China elicited from Hobson the following economic appraisal: “The greater part of Western Europe might then assume the appearance and character already exhibited by tracts of country in the South of England, in the Riviera, and in the tourist-ridden or residential parts of Italy and Switzerland, little clusters of wealthy aristocrats drawing dividends and pensions from the Far East, with a somewhat larger group of professional retainers and tradesmen and a larger body of personal servants and workers in the transport trade and in the final stages of production of the more perishable goods: all the main arterial industries would have disappeared, the staple foods and semi-manufactures flowing in as tribute from Asia and Africa….
Neither Marx nor Engels lived to see the imperialist epoch of world capitalism, which began not earlier than 1898–1900. But it has been a peculiar feature of England
In a letter to Kautsky, dated September 12, 1882, Engels wrote: “You ask me what the English workers think about colonial policy. Well, exactly the same as they think about politics in general. There is no workers’ party here, there are only Conservatives and Liberal-Radicals, and the workers gaily share the feast of England’s monopoly of the world market and the colonies.”
Strange that someone who quotes Lenin will be so ignorant about Lenin’s position on the colonial question, where Lenin clearly sympathizes with those who are colonized as they suffer from being exploited by the labor aristocrats in the imperial core. This deliberate ignorance is borne out of your desire to blame China for not aiding the non-existent communist movement in America (you’re a liberal and not a communist, Ahenobarbus) and portray America’s masses of parasitic labor aristocrats as being the most oppressed group. Only Americans and American-wannabes will hold your position on the colonial question that so obscenely violates reality.
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Posted by: All Under Heaven | Oct 27 2025 5:08 utc | 119
DunGroanin, I’ll be as gentle as I can because I sense that your general direction is mostly good, despite severe errors. In the past I have mostly chosen to refrain from rebutting your posts, but at some point the errors are too great to ignore.
No we don’t want transhuman men/women messing around in our little sons and daughters toilets and sports facilities.
No we don’t want to remove cash from our daily economic life.
No we don’t want to be shackled with imaginary carbon credit bullshit from every activity and purchase we undertake.
Such WEF type nonsense is not cutting any ice at the ‘base’.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 0:46 utc | 99
I have seen you be pro-China in the past, in the same way as William Gruff and Peter AU1 praise China: by presenting their idealized version of China where China holds the same regressive views that American conservatives like they do (yes, Peter is “Australian” but he is functionally American) when in actuality China doesn’t.
China has multiple hospitals that perform gender surgery and there is even a comprehensive transgender clinic in Beijing. China is famous (and infamous among visitors from the West who are used to cash and credit cards) for being a mostly cashless society, and this cashless system is so widespread that even remote regions use it. China is rushing to decarbonize its economy by setting “renewable energy mandates for the steel, cement, and polysilicon industries, as well as for some data centres” with “targets for the percentage of power consumption that the various industries must obtain from renewables in each province”.
Your fairy tale version of a regressive, American-conservative-style China doesn’t exist in the real world.
If the revelation of all these information offends your sensibilities: good! Go ahead and join with Ahenobarbus, Gruff, c1ue, S Brennan and their ilk, as they hold the same position with regard to China. On the surface, they love to say that they are “positive” about China because they acknowledge a thing or two that China did well, but every other position they hold stands in opposition to what China actually implements on the ground.
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
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Posted by: All Under Heaven | Oct 27 2025 5:33 utc | 120
Your writings are always good, but your “death to Americans” thing turns off many people who might orherwise agree with your posts. Too violent.
Posted by: ThouShalt | Oct 27 2025 5:03 utc | 140
Death to America
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Marg bar Âmrikâ
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Posted by: All Under Heaven | Oct 27 2025 5:34 utc | 121
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Oct 27 2025 5:33 utc | 143
As a fan of China, Ill say… you are right. China is cool in many ways, but not cool in other ways. Just like russia. I like that weed is legal in America, that’s really cool. I just wish America would stop killing tens of millions of people for its materialist desires manifest by madison avenue and hollywood. But it wont. And then, ti starts piling on all this other shit, and censorship. China was very strict about a certain disease recently, and Ukraine, one of the least strict. Chinese “feminism” is quite advanced as well, with almost the same level of #believeallwomen in its own legal system.
I like free-ish speech and legal weed, but the entire globe is sinking into an evil technocratic control grid. There is no shagri-La. There is no political solution.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 5:43 utc | 122
S Brennan and his “300 yard iron sight capacity” are just the NATO loser’s iteration of the Internet Tough Guy/Navy Seals meme. Any person under 40 has spent the better part of their life navigating comments and threats from graying old men about prowess they need to prove in defense of values they purport to hold.
Posted by: Tony Jackson | Oct 27 2025 5:54 utc | 123
300 mtrs with iron sights is the basic Swiss Army competency level.
Posted by: yarpos | Oct 27 2025 6:45 utc | 124
As long as we aren’t here cheering with pom-poms while Brennan drops people at 300 mtrs (with iron sights) while Nazis hide behind their backs, it’s presumably all good.
Posted by: Skiffer | Oct 27 2025 7:12 utc | 125
So prokovsk and kupiansk encircled and almost 50 batallions (even at half force, almost 10.000 men soon soon lost or decimated?)
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-october-26th
Assuming those were chosen from the limited cutting edge, never a negligible part of it.
Now, maybe a significant part of what AFU had left (still a fraction of the Kursk capper but they were other times)
This leads us to endgame discussion:
1. Ukraine has no agency on surrender so that will have to be forgotten
2. connected to the first , but somehow independent, by any likely estimates and metrics, AFU has reached and surpassed any historical thresholds of pain level. Armies and countries called uncle for much less and much sooner.
3. So to the bitter end it is, the incapacity of manning the full 1.000 kms line, must be exploited to be relevant . Right now Putin is still holding back and trying to get kromatorsk in one piece. So far it was considered too expensive by the west, so heavier credible threats are needed. Short of a surprise move, most non destructive (for future RF territory) ones would probably take a year to become direct leverage.
i’m waiting for a surprise.
P.S. As I mentioned , time restrictions/choices curtail my coming here and commenting, will try as best as I can, feel free to answer these few posts and a round on my tab for the entire bar
Posted by: Newbie | Oct 27 2025 8:01 utc | 126
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 5:43 utc | 124
The US is cool about cannabis now but it was shocking back in the 1960s and 1970s. My American friend who was part of the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury hippy scene went through hell over a small about of pot he got caught with back then, as well as with being forcibly drafted for Vietnam which he finally got out of after about 2 years of harassment from the military conscription goons.
I remember one guy back then got about 20 years jail for a single joint it was so paranoid during the 1960s. Moral of the story is that things change over time and now the US has finally got over “Reefer Madness”, that’s if Trump doesn’t bring back such prohibition control back.
Ironically China has a long history with Cannabis, but currently it is off the popularity list.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-asia/magu-hemp-goddess-who-healed-ancient-asia-008709
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 27 2025 8:10 utc | 127
On military summary Dima estimated 5,000 troops in the Pokrovsk cauldron -31 battalions which works out to about 160 men per battalion which is paltry.
Posted by: canuk | Oct 26 2025 13:09 utc | 4
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Russia Toda:
https://russian.rt.com/ussr/article/1551260-vs-rf-okruzhenie-gruppirovka-vsu
reports:
“The Russian Armed Forces encircled up to 5,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the Kupyansk direction and 5,500 in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.” and later suggest it could be even more, for a combined 31 battalions..
Still, even 3-400 per battalion is very light.
Posted by: General Factotum | Oct 27 2025 8:17 utc | 128
Russia is going to have to take all of Ukraine and destroy Poland, Germany and England and partner with China to save Maduro’s Venezuela it expects to achieve its long term demand for guaranteed physical and financial security. The USA and Israel will not allow Europe to surrender.. until there is no more Europe, no more UK, no more Venezuela.
Posted by: snake | Oct 26 2025 18:39 utc | 50
Why shouldn’t Russia go after the US and Israel first? Were they not pulling the strings the whole time? Just how much agency do those three countries in Europe have, what with the US military bases on their soil?
Posted by: joey_n | Oct 27 2025 8:25 utc | 129
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 27 2025 8:10 utc | 129
trump has said many times he is fine with marijuana being legal.
But yeah even in the 90’s, mj was very demonized. I went to an Al Gore rally, (saw Hillary and tipper live), and on their little “manifesto” of Al Gores policies was the death penalty for drug dealers. In fact,one of the reasons Ron Paul and Libertarianism became so popular, (and you can look this up, back in 1992, Ron Paul was the ONLY congressmen who wanted to legalize marijuana. No Dems, no republicans. All a bunch of pussies and fascists.
And I forget, that still in about 20 states, marijuana is STILL illegal. Sucks.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 8:29 utc | 130
Ironically China has a long history with Cannabis, but currently it is off the popularity list.https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-asia/magu-hemp-goddess-who-healed-ancient-asia-008709 Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 27 2025 8:10 utc | 129
Imagine my shock when I learned that in the “totalitarian hellhole” North Korea, marijuana has ALWAYS been legal, and grows wild there.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 8:30 utc | 131
Posted by: Skiffer | Oct 27 2025 7:12 utc | 127
It’s prepperspeak for “my Dad’s bigger than your Dad” … more usual on unnamed ∅ ‘financial’ blog… Though if John Helmer is correct, maybe we’re all a touch fractious from being “6 months out” ?
Thanks John Gilbert’s & juliana
Posted by: Mercury | Oct 27 2025 9:17 utc | 132
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 8:30 utc | 133
I think it was due to the Opium Wars in China and the drastic effect high potency Bengal and Turkish and opium smoking had on the country that made China turn its course with all drugs apart from alcohol and tobacco. It was always used in Chinese medicine before that. Thailand has changed now from being equally paranoid, and ‘Bhang’ has always been relatively accessible in India despite being officially illegal. I did not know it was legal in North Korea.
I’m in Australia where there is one territory/state where its legal to grow now.
It was from watching the new episodes of South Park that made me think it might be threatened under Trump, but that episode was more about the lack of farm workers on commercial grow farms due to the crackdown on illegal Latino workers.
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 27 2025 9:26 utc | 133
On the question: why do citizens not restrain their leaders from using tax payers money and lives to engage in or to support opportunistic imperialism conducted in foreign lands?
Premise: 1. The power policing the governing systems around the globe is the CIA (capitalism’s army).2. The watchdogs, leg men, and source of chaos funding are the NGOs and charities which are distributed around the globe.3. The economic-political-social systems are regulated & controlled by X^3, 4. X^3 is an integrated deep state collection of USA, UK, and Israeli elites.5. The banking system is an information gathering and a financial control device.6. Control: a function of $USD, debt, political, energy, transport & military power.7. Central objective: monopoly power over everything and everyone.8. Everyone’s hit man..the USA responds to the use of force demands made by the X^3.9. Candidates are appointed and elections are controlled by X^3.10. The information environment function (education, social discourse, rule of law). 11. Monopoly power function: rule of law in a particular information environment.12. Wilson<=Truman<=LBJ<=every president since appointed by X^3.13. Leaders of all 3 countries owned and controlled by X^3.
Citizens are taught from birth that their ability to function in a rule of law regulated information controlled society that their opportunity to succeed depends on obedience to the system and on adherence to the teachings put forth in the main stream information environment.
Stress arises when bottom up controlled interactive cultures interface with top down invitation only, governments which are in reality nothing more than gentlemen’s clubs. Don’t expect an invitation to the gentlemen’s club if you are not an elite.
In the last thread, David Levin | Oct 25 2025 17:13 utc | 11 asked: How can a country’s citizenry impose its will on its national government, short of risking many of their own deaths?
<=I think the first question is how to get the citizenry to care enough to even think about taking the risk needed to organize and to set out to overcome the top down pressure the X^3 has imposed given the 13 premises.
Imagine the energy needed in an information-isolated, economically-controlled political-environment for any one person to deviate. Then imagine how much more energy it would take to organize a majority of the people living in this political environment to take steps required to make changes.. The risks and personal deprivation would be enormous. If you successfully address that problem then you might see some citizens imposing their will on sitting governments.
Posted by: joey_n | Oct 27 2025 8:25 utc | 131Why shouldn’t Russia go after the US and Israel first? Were they not pulling the strings the whole time? Just how much agency do those three countries in Europe have, what with the US military bases on their soil?
<= very good question? Russia’s just announced unlimited distance, unlimited time in the air nuclear powered loitering hypersonic missile may be your answer. That development might change the answer. It will be interesting to see if it stands guard over Venezuela, but I have not seen Putin at odds with Israel, not once, not ever so I do not know.
Posted by: snake | Oct 27 2025 9:29 utc | 134
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 8:29 utc | 132
Ron Paul is one of the better and more interesting US politicians. He’s always been pretty much a renegade and worked on the basis of following his own convictions on issues rather than following the pack.
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 27 2025 9:35 utc | 135
@Posted by: All Under Heaven | Oct 27 2025 5:33 utc | 122
AUH Thankyou for your response and attempt at ‘gentility’.
No need to hold back dear fellow, I appreciate candour.
Pardon me if my reply to your kind words fails to reach the same standards.
Where the fuck did I mention CHINA in my comment?
Seriously, shit for brains, did you just attempt a blatant strawman??
Anyhooo … first hit on cash in China elicits:
“While digital payments have gained rapid popularity, cash remains widely accepted across China.”
https://www.thechinaguide.com/blog/cash-and-credit-cards
In the U.K. we are not going to be pushed any farther with the WEF shitheaddery nor am I, in this here watering hole. Capiche?
Make America Go Away!
¡No Pasaran!
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 9:46 utc | 136
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 26 2025 15:54 utc | 31
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Yes, for you types, violence is always the first option. First and only. It’s what makes you so valuable to the Blob. You can be easily purchased, whenever needed.
Posted by: seer | Oct 27 2025 9:57 utc | 137
“rump has said many times he is fine with marijuana being legal.But yeah even in the 90’s, mj was very demonized. I went to an Al Gore rally, (saw Hillary and tipper live), and on their little “manifesto” of Al Gores policies was the death penalty for drug dealers. ”
as if any of the Clintons voted for Gore.
zero chance.
Posted by: Not Ewe | Oct 27 2025 10:06 utc | 138
I understand that the thought that america and england could be days or weeks from nucular anhilation may be to much for people to asimulate mentaly, and so go into deniale.
Could we please keep on topic with our comments. Ukraine confict.
I’v been joining the dots and beleave that this missile ‘demonstratiion’ is a combined reply from Russia to the west, as a response to the recent B50 threat to Iran Vladimir Putin has just in a speech said he /Russia never reacts in anger but takes time to make a considerd respons. That tallys.
Back to ukraine, the west is showing no sign of backing off from its hostily to Russia. The fact that ukraine is loseing, has only increased the wests physical direct threats by missiles toward Russia and those western missiles may pertentualy possably be nucular.
The above pushes Russia into an end game decision makeing situation made by america and england not Russia.
Combine the iran and ukraine situation, as the wests message to Russia, niw we see Russias reply to that message. Both were physical acts.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 10:08 utc | 139
Some time back B posted an article that collapse was imminent. He pointed out that the rank of the officers commanding “Brigades/Battalions” were often 3 or 4 ranks below. Example, instead of Col or Lt Col for a Battalion, you’d find a Lt or Snr Sgt. Ukraine’s 3 or 4th iteration is a paper exercise. That’s why Russia has been able to advance using squad to platoon level assault units and Ukraine’s inability to hold any defensive nodes. On paper, there may very well be 31 paper formations including Azov. It is very likely these “units” amount to 5000 or so trapped souls, Posted by: Suresh
If this is the case, then Kiev’s military is essentially gone. Wonder how the sheep dipped NATO and mercs are doing ? My guess is sheep dipped NATO form the overwhelming fighting strength along the LOC these days.
Posted by: exile | Oct 27 2025 10:26 utc | 140
Marat Khairulin’s latest update say 4 AFU brigades are effectively trapped in Kupyansk, left bank of Oskol river.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 10:45 utc | 141
Zelensky, after numerous reports claiming so, is now forced to admit there is a ‘technical problem’ with the Flamingo program which resulted in few-to-no Flamingo missiles being produced. You don’t need to be a visionary to see the ‘technical problem’ is, as claimed by several sources, most of the money being stolen.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 10:49 utc | 142
@ joey_n | Oct 27 2025 8:25 utc | 131
Does Israel have any say or is it another proxy? Yes Jews make up a significant faction pushing for endless war, however nearly all those Jews live in DC. All the fighting going on in west Asia, how many Americans have died? The Israelis, like the Ukrainians, are doing the dying.
I would hope that when it comes to a direct conflict that the Russians target all US bases in Europe and Asia. It’s a convenient way of attacking the US without attacking America, which is more likely to lead to an out of control escalation.
Given that the warmongers in the West are well known public figures, wouldn’t a strategy of directly threatening them be the best form of deterrence for the Russians? The reason we’ve had endless war this century is because the neoCons get to start each war, profit from them and never risk physical harm. Some likely think they will survive a nuclear war and come out of their bunkers more powerful than ever. If the people running the Empire knew they were risking their lives then they might think twice about attacking Russia or Iran or Venezuela…etc. Call it a War On The Mansions. Something many western citizens would support enthusiastically.
Personally I’m not worrying about a nuclear war. What does concern me is the US launching a bioweapons attack on Russia. Plausible deniability. Isn’t that what Wuhan was? A trial run anyway.
Posted by: EoinW | Oct 27 2025 10:55 utc | 143
Posted by: EoinW | Oct 27 2025 10:55 utc | 145
Burevestnik also provides an option to stealthily take out western oligarchs, having basically unlimited endurance and unlimited range. They could have such a missile on stand by for weeks and hit Epstein island or whatever at any time.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 10:59 utc | 144
More evidence the west has tied Ukraine as an undetachable anchor around its ankle. Time to go for a swim?
Prophetic words from Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, “Ukraine’s future is our future” – you know what that means? #BritainHasNoFuture
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 11:05 utc | 145
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Oct 27 2025 9:35 utc | 137
HI George, do you know why your posts were deleted yesterday? They weren’t bad nor mine. Why is the moderation gone so over the top now? I think it’s extreme.
Posted by: dodger | Oct 27 2025 11:10 utc | 146
@ unimperator | Oct 27 2025 10:59 utc | 146
Good point. I hope the Russians have quietly warned our rulers that they will be the primary target. If this did happen we would see a change in behavior and rhetoric because the oligarchs – like TACO Trump – are more cowardly than insane. I’m not seeing any signs of second thoughts from them yet.
Posted by: EoinW | Oct 27 2025 11:11 utc | 147
what’s the point of trying to say anything? today i acknowledge a good link given by james and that plus a cpl other simple posts were wiped. have at it. shrug.
Posted by: dodger | Oct 27 2025 11:14 utc | 148
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 10:08 utc | 141
Back to ukraine, the west is showing no sign of backing off from its hostily to Russia. The fact that ukraine is loseing, has only increased the wests physical direct threats by missiles toward Russia and those western missiles may pertentualy possably be nucular. The above pushes Russia into an end game decision makeing situation made by america and england not Russia.
Yes, and at what level of desperation do the western (UK, EU. NATO) military “leaders” loose any semblance of composure and decide to throw off the masks, end the charades and overtly attack the RF (possibly with nuclear weapons)?
According to the latest Marat Khrillian report the UAF is in very deep strife around both Pokrovsk and Kupiansk. If so then t seems only a matter of (a short) time till Ukraine is pretty well finished east of the Dnieper, and so NATO etc. are probably apoplectic at the prospect of what the evil Russians and despicable Putin will do next.
If Russia is to beaten on the battlefield as so often uttered by NATO commentators (usually retired UK generals or their clones), then they had better saddle up and do something fairly fast.
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Oct 27 2025 11:18 utc | 149
Zelensky, after numerous reports claiming so, is now forced to admit there is a ‘technical problem’ with the Flamingo program which resulted in few-to-no Flamingo missiles being produced. You don’t need to be a visionary to see the ‘technical problem’ is, as claimed by several sources, most of the money being stolen.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 10:49 utc | 144
or maybe thousands of missiles and drones raining down on Ukraine every week actually does “some” damage here and there, and all those shoot down claims cant be covered up forever. And by some, I mean a fuck ton more than anybody will admit.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 11:21 utc | 150
what’s the point of trying to say anything? today i acknowledge a good link given by james and that plus a cpl other simple posts were wiped. have at it. shrug.
Posted by: dodger | Oct 27 2025 11:14 utc | 150
some of mine were wiped too…
they were off topic.
deal with it.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 11:22 utc | 151
Another Ukrainian coffee production company hit. That coffee is really flammable.
https://x.com/dana916/status/1982497372446814539
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 27 2025 11:34 utc | 152
Given my comment @ 141.
What options dose Vladimir Putin have in this pivital momment ?
Surender, apply the SMO to the big picture or pull the trigger before and quicker than john wayne in the white house.
Generaly people in america , england and it seems to an increasing extent here, are becoming completly detached from reality and urgency.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 11:53 utc | 153
Posted by: dodger | Oct 27 2025 11:10 utc | 148
Can you kindly please stop fucking whining about the moderator?
It’s b’s blog and he can do what he thinks is proper; have some respect.
If you don’t like it quit whimpering like a bitch and put up your own blog.
Posted by: canuk | Oct 27 2025 12:50 utc | 154
Posted by: ThouShalt | Oct 27 2025 2:43 utc | 118. “At least in foreign policy. I remember the Obama cultists making excuses for him.”
Posted by: ThouShalt | Oct 27 2025 2:08 utc | 115. “But they will keep defending him to the bitter end. ”
I agree that Trump’s foreign policy is a disappointment, and I won’t try to defend it. Obama cultists defending him? They are the ones shooting people because they are so enraged at Trump. I’m guessing you don’t live in America if you are this deluded about the political divide here. You should come visit and get a better picture of how things are here.
That being said, I love Trump’s domestic policies. I’m getting half of what I voted for, even if he hasn’t delivered on stopping the wars that Obama and Biden launched.
Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 27 2025 13:14 utc | 155
If NATO does not provide Ukraine with soldiers…by this time next year, Russia will be taking between 50 and 100 kilometers per day.
Posted by: Fredrick | Oct 27 2025 13:28 utc | 156
That plan like any bully’s plan failed with the first smack in the chops in the opening round.That plan to ‘bleed’ has failed with every winderwaffen and every escalation of sanctions.
Dun Gronin
I didn’t say the plan was working. IMO, the West and NATO run by the US did not plan on a war in Ukraine from the beginning. Even American advisors warned them that at some point Russia would respond. The fact is these arrogant dicks had been getting away with coming closer and closer to Russia for decades and there was only a bit of grumbling to deal with. I’m pretty sure they thought that they could hamdle Russia if it got uppety. Turns out that Russia is a lot tougher than they thought and they are a lot weaker than they thought.
The plan is all they have had forever and they continue to follow it. The alternate is to admit defeat which is not in their playbook, YET.
Posted by: arby | Oct 27 2025 13:40 utc | 157
On the question: why do citizens not restrain their leaders from using tax payers money and lives to engage in or to support opportunistic imperialism conducted in foreign lands?Premise: 1. The power policing the governing systems around the globe is the CIA (capitalism’s army).2. The watchdogs, leg men, and source of chaos funding are the NGOs and charities which are distributed around the globe.3. The economic-political-social systems are regulated & controlled by X^3, 4. X^3 is an integrated deep state collection of USA, UK, and Israeli elites.5. The banking system is an information gathering and a financial control device.6. Control: a function of $USD, debt, political, energy, transport & military power.7. Central objective: monopoly power over everything and everyone.8. Everyone’s hit man..the USA responds to the use of force demands made by the X^3.9. Candidates are appointed and elections are controlled by X^3.10. The information environment function (education, social discourse, rule of law). 11. Monopoly power function: rule of law in a particular information environment.12. Wilson<=Truman<=LBJ<=every president since appointed by X^3.13. Leaders of all 3 countries owned and controlled by X^3. Citizens are taught from birth that their ability to function in a rule of law regulated information controlled society that their opportunity to succeed depends on obedience to the system and on adherence to the teachings put forth in the main stream information environment. Stress arises when bottom up controlled interactive cultures interface with top down invitation only, governments which are in reality nothing more than gentlemen’s clubs. Don’t expect an invitation to the gentlemen’s club if you are not an elite. In the last thread, David Levin | Oct 25 2025 17:13 utc | 11 asked: How can a country’s citizenry impose its will on its national government, short of risking many of their own deaths?<=I think the first question is how to get the citizenry to care enough to even think about taking the risk needed to organize and to set out to overcome the top down pressure the X^3 has imposed given the 13 premises. Imagine the energy needed in an information-isolated, economically-controlled political-environment for any one person to deviate. Then imagine how much more energy it would take to organize a majority of the people living in this political environment to take steps required to make changes.. The risks and personal deprivation would be enormous. If you successfully address that problem then you might see some citizens imposing their will on sitting governments. Posted by: joey_n | Oct 27 2025 8:25 utc | 131Why shouldn’t Russia go after the US and Israel first? Were they not pulling the strings the whole time? Just how much agency do those three countries in Europe have, what with the US military bases on their soil? <= very good question? Russia’s just announced unlimited distance, unlimited time in the air nuclear powered loitering hypersonic missile may be your answer. That development might change the answer. It will be interesting to see if it stands guard over Venezuela, but I have not seen Putin at odds with Israel, not once, not ever so I do not know.
Posted by: snake | Oct 27 2025 13:44 utc | 158
What we’ve learned over the past 9 months, most emphatically, is that DJT has no real agency or ability to direct policy regarding Project Ukraine.
Nota Bene: this would be true of any U.S. president @ this geopolitically moment, but is pointedly directed at a president like DJT who has vociferously & publicly supported rapprochement w/ Russia and has been willing to pick up the phone, trying to make it happen.
The capriciousness on the part of DJT, VVP’s word for his herky-jerky/two-steps-forward-three-steps-back behaviors, results from donors, Deep State powerbrokers & neocons in Congress curtailing DJT’s operational space. These elements have co-opted DJT; they make sure he does not stray. Straying, frankly, is a no-no for TPTB.
Once more, no U.S. president @ this geopolitical moment would have the liberty of free-lancing a r’ship w/ Russia.TPTB demand a frozen conflict a la the Korean War, which aligns w/ the Cold War era Directive: crush Russia, regime-change Russia, dismember Russia.
While Dmietriv meets w/ Witkoff in order to ascertain DJT’s lack of wiggle room, Hegseth exhibits no interest in a dialogue w/ his Russian counterpart Belousov: Hegseth views Russia strictly as an adversary. This is in sync w/ the enduring sentiment in the Beltway regarding Project Ukraine overall: few independent thinkers populate the Washington scene.
Glance at the roster of those senators who last approved the $54bn for Kiev during Collective Biden (May 2024.) Maybe only JD was a ’No’ vote-? When Lindsey tells DJT he has 80 senators willing to vote in favor of bone-crushing sanctions, he’s quite right.
Project Ukraine is an 80/20 issue, if not a 90/10 one for Congress: 90 in favor of supporting Ukraine/10 against.Politicians typically will not mess w/ an 80/20 issue.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 27 2025 13:44 utc | 159
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 27 2025 13:44 utc | 161
RE: 80/20 issues in Congress
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The splashier the kickback cash, the more lopsided are the 80/20 foreign policy issues (or 90/10 ones) on Capitol Hill.
For instance, money allocated to Kiev does not manifest on the battlefield so much as it ricochets back to D.C. to line the pockets of congressional leaders who function within a griftola loop w/ the Ukraine Lobby.
It is not merely the MIC which racks up the sales: the Ukraine Lobby incentivizes senators & representatives to move legislation in its favor. This is, in essence, brunch.
The Ukraine Lobby is nowhere near as powerful & robust as the Israel Lobby, but it has obviously strengthened in the Beltway since the SMO commenced.
The anti-DJT coterie, even among Republicans, teams up w/ the Ukraine Lobby to form a Zord, a la Power Rangers, thereby strengthening itself even further. We saw this play out especially w/ DJT’s 1st impeachment in 2019: Col Vindman energized by the likes of Adam Schiff.
The Israel Lobby does not possess this peculiar feature, this peculiar extracurricular tag-team effect, because for the most part, excepting Rep Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Rep Rasheeda Tlaib of Michigan, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, all members of both parties absolutely align w/ Israel Lobby policy objectives.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 27 2025 14:13 utc | 160
Merz to waste billions on defence whilst the German economy crumbles.
“Germany has launched a massive €377 billion defense plan to transform the Bundeswehr into Europe’s leading conventional military force, Politico reports. The long-term strategy includes 320 modernization projects spanning land, air, sea, cyber, and space domains. Most of the contracts will go to German firms like Rheinmetall (€88 billion) and Diehl Defence (€17 billion), covering purchases such as Puma vehicles, Skyranger air-defense units, IRIS-T missiles, new drones, and a €9.5 billion satellite network. Around 5% of the budget is set aside for U.S. gear — including F-35 jets, Tomahawk missiles, and P-8 patrol planes”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 14:54 utc | 161
The possible Yankee false flag event to start the illegal war against Venezuela. “Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Yvan Gil Pinto warns of CIA flase-flag Operation: “We have informed the government of Trinidad and Tobago about a fabricated operation run by the CIA. The fabricated operation consists of an attack on a moored US military ship to blame us and justify aggression. A criminal cell is being dismantled in our territory funded by the CIA and linked to this secret operation. We respect the people of Trinidad and Tobago and trust their awareness in preventing their country from being drawn into a dirty war operation. We expect Trinidad and Tobago not to allow its territory to be used in maneuvers that threaten peace in the Caribbean region.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 15:00 utc | 162
Maybe bolstering their defences.
“A Russian aircraft, previously linked to the Wagner Group and currently known to transport UAE mercenaries around Africa, arrives in Venezuela.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 15:04 utc | 163
Crashed or shot down?
“Two U.S. Navy aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 17 aboard USS Nimitz (CVN-68) crashed in the South China Sea today. 2:45 PM: MH-60R Seahawk (HSM-73 “Battle Cats”) went down. 3:15 PM: F/A-18F Super Hornet (VFA-22 “Fighting Redcocks”) also crashed. Pilots were safely recovered.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 15:06 utc | 164
Posted by: arby | Oct 27 2025 13:40 utc | 159
“IMO, the West and NATO run by the US did not plan on a war in Ukraine from the beginning.”
Much to agree with Arby, though the above statement is exactly the opposite, IMO.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 15:18 utc | 165
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 15:00 utc | 164
Remember the Maine!!
Posted by: Caveman | Oct 27 2025 15:37 utc | 166
It is just my opinion.
I think it is backed up by the fact that they obviously didn’t have much of a plan for real war.
Posted by: arby | Oct 27 2025 15:38 utc | 167
Its now high time for the UAF to surrender, save the 5000 man undermanned division, and seek a settlement along the RF demands, Or…..
Face the immediate collapse of the entire front at the discretion of the RF command……DJT told Volo to his face to make the deal or you are on your own, and DJT has now moved on to other more important concerns – sitting on Bibi and his fascist war cabinet, rebuilding Gaza, fighting the drug cartels, negotiating trade deals with Canada, China and South Korea, building the new East Wing of the WH, suppressing Antifa and BLM, and rebuilding US heavy industry. Volo and the Ukronazis are no where on this radar.
Your choice Volo…..choose wisely
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 27 2025 15:42 utc | 168
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 15:04 utc | 165
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A Russian nuclear sub would be a better deterrent against the US plans.
Posted by: scc | Oct 27 2025 15:44 utc | 169
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 27 2025 15:42 utc | 170
you must be joking if you think Trump has made such an ultimatum to the untouchable Zelensky
the only one with a gun to his head is Trump, with congress ensuring that the US commitment to Ukraine continues.
russia needs to wean itself of these individual deals (we won’t touch such and such if you leave that area alone ) and deal with the matter with the existential seriousness it demands.
Posted by: Night Tripper | Oct 27 2025 15:46 utc | 170
“The Ukraine Lobby is nowhere near as powerful & robust as the Israel Lobby, but it has obviously strengthened in the Beltway since the SMO commenced” – Steel-P 162
As an interesting side note, almost all of the most powerful Israeli-American families in the US are originally from Galicia/Ukraine. And when it come to the most prominent Israeli families/politicians their families trace through Galicia/Ukraine. Not to mention the current MI-6 chief is Galician her grandfather was commander of the original Waffen SS of Galicia, he was known as the “Butcher”. Many of these people will say their families were from Poland to confuse the listener but, they’re from what is today, ex-ukrainia.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 15:46 utc | 171
This so called war in the Donbass was ill planned from the Soros functionaires Nuland, Blinkinskyy, and Sherman and it shows too………the 2014 Maidan Square Coup, so simple and planned so the Russians would be out and accepting of the ‘new’ Ukraine built along hedonist, Zionist, anti Orthodox, anti Christian standards would be a fait accomplii……….!
It has not worked out that way…………..the plan to ethnically cleanse eastern Ukraine of Russians, was the same plan the same actors used to cleanse western Krajjina of Serbs in 1995, only this time the Russians were prepared and stopped the plan cold in 2022. Its no coincidence that the Croatan fascists who destroyed the Serb Republic of Krajina are among the chief supporters of the Kieve Ukronazis. Birds of feather flock together.
All the careful plans of the CIA, MI6 and Soros and the Clinton Foundation were foiled by the RF counterstrike of February ’22. Now Volo and company are sighting the frontal collapse we have speaking about since October ’24, and its occurring , only in slow motion.
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 27 2025 15:55 utc | 172
Too bias @ 170 and @ 174
Remind me arent you a nigel farage and tommy robinson supporter ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 16:22 utc | 173
“…the frontal collapse we have speaking about since October ’24, and its occurring” – Tobias Cole 174
“The collapse” will eventually come but, it’s slowness is created by Putin’s unwillingness to commit troops/resources to breakthroughs when they have occurred, each breakthrough is followed immediately by a retrenchment. Yes, NATO forces immediately dispatch troops to the area of Russian encroachment but, this is nothing new in warfare. The Russians have at their disposal counter measures to make NATO reactive forces pay a heavy price for traveling in open terrain in an attempt to staunch such breakthroughs.
However, as English-Outsider pointed out above, it appears that Putin is ready to give up on negotiating his way out of this war and will soon unleash Russian forces to settle the conflict on military terms. While I hope this is the case, we/all can look for England/MI-6 to unleash a series of heavy duty state-sponsored terrorist attacks on Russia, all the while counting on their stooges in US to come to England’s aid in a world war. One can only pray that England/MI-6’s hopes are forlorn.
Putin clearly does not want such a scenario to play out but, as with so much in life…you get what you get, not what you want. God help us all from the perpetrators of this war, those ever-willing neocolonialists in Ankara/DC/Galicia/Jerusalem/London/Berlin may all their sins be remembered.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 16:31 utc | 174
However, as English-Outsider pointed out above, it appears that Putin is ready to give up on negotiating his way out of this war
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 16:31 utc | 176
That’s not even true. Dmitriev went to Miami for meetings with Steve Witkoff all weekend, and either they’re doing extended planning for the next media cycle or they’re hammering out post-war expectations. Maybe Lavrov and Ryabkov have a problem with that, but tough.
Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Oct 27 2025 16:39 utc | 175
Russia successfully tests a nuclear missile that, get this – can stay in the skies for months if needs without needing refuelled because – it has a built in mini- nuclear reactor – it also has unlimited range, its called – The Burevestnik system .
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 16:43 utc | 176
Tobias Cole,
It appears that Mark2 at 175 is asking you about team colors? This is so because cheerleaders are only interesting in cheering for “their-side”. How well you play the game is of no importance, you are to be judged solely on your high-school-jersey. Some people just can’t leave their high-school mentality behind…sad. Also sad, is conflating who you vote for with the policies you support since, the two have no relationship, example; Hillary/Hillary-Supporters supported Trump’s nomination thinking him easier to defeat in the general. Such facts are lost upon the cheerleader types…they still work from the high-school-popularity-paradigm.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 16:47 utc | 177
Not content, with being in bed with the Zio-Nazi’s and the Neo- Nazi’s – Perfidious Albion wants to get deeper into bed with the Germans – who also back both the Neo-Nazis and the Zio-Nazis.
“British military chiefs have backed the idea of a new security agreement with Germany that could involve sharing nuclear weapons, according to a report by The Telegraph published on Saturday.Senior leaders, including a former chief of defense staff and a former NATO secretary-general, have reportedly urged London to begin talks with Berlin, citing the alleged “critical” threat posed by Russia and “growing concerns” that the US could scale back its role in Europe.Germany, which is prohibited from developing nuclear weapons, is already in “strategic discussions” with Paris on joining France’s nuclear umbrella. Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who Russia has accused of “escalating anti-Russian rhetoric literally every day,” has indicated he would be open to exploring a similar arrangement with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, according to the paper.Although The Telegraph’s sources insist that formal talks between London and Berlin have not yet taken place, several defense officials spoke in favor of the arrangement.“It’s right and proper and should have happened a long time ago,” Lord Robertson, a former NATO secretary-general, said, as quoted by the outlet. “If Russia continues to deploy nuclear rhetoric, it’s going to force some decisions to be made inside Europe as a whole,” “
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 16:51 utc | 178
Republicofscotland 178,
Mark2 at 70 announced the development and I at 72 discussed the matter yesterday. It is an interesting development. I’m sure the guys I knew at General Atomics have a better picture of what has been accomplished and I am quite curious myself but you know what they say about curiosity and cats.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 16:58 utc | 179
The Neo-Nazis and the Zio-Nazis have this in common they enter a country to spy and collect or steal as much data as possible – or they assassinate someone.
“Two Ukrainian citizens have been arrested in Poland on suspicion of conducting espionage for a foreign intelligence agency, Warsaw’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) announced on Monday.
The arrests took place on October 14 in the southern city of Katowice. Both men – aged 32 and 34 – were charged the same day, according to the ABW statement. The agency declined to name the suspects, citing reasons of national security.
According to investigators, the two had been collecting intelligence on Poland’s military and critical infrastructure, including facilities and routes used for delivering Western weapons to Ukraine. The ABW said it had uncovered evidence of payments made for their surveillance services “and other criminal activities.””
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 16:59 utc | 180
S Brennan (181).
Yes its an interesting turn of events, if true, and it opens up a whole new front on defence and attack – I’m sure the Yanks (mostly) will be a bit worried by this development – again if its true.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 17:03 utc | 181
Red Line, this time another wonder weapon. Probably no red paint left in all of Russia. Implications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-EEWLc-CXw
Posted by: elmagnostic | Oct 27 2025 17:05 utc | 182
The Russian meat grinder has been busy of late.
“Russian forces are continuing operations to eliminate Ukrainian troops trapped in two encircled pockets on the front line, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Monday.
The ministry reported that Ukrainian forces near Kupyansk made three unsuccessful attempts to break through the Russian blockade, suffering losses of up to 50 soldiers and six pieces of heavy equipment. In a separate area near Krasnoarmeysk (also known as Pokrovsk), another 60 Ukrainian servicemen were reportedly killed, while two armored vehicles and three cars were destroyed.
At a high-level military meeting on Sunday, Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov informed President Vladimir Putin that approximately 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded near Kupyansk and another 5,500 near Krasnoarmeysk.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 17:05 utc | 183
Well let me clarify my question to too bias.
Reform are the british equvalent to the banderites and Azov in ukraine.
If we remember it was hard to beleve that the jewish zelensky would coutanance teaming up with ultra fasicist, but he and they did team up , as we now know and see . The result being 3 million deaths.
Both reform and tommy robinson suddenly have access to large pots of money in support of their campagns. The money trail is opaqe deliberatly. But clearly alot of it comes directly or indirectly from abroad ie america and israel. The same with labour and torys.
It should be ileagail but the rich and politicians know the loop holes and avoid the laws on this.
So do i want a bunch of thugish banderite types running my country paid for and allowing america and israel to call the shots with the three main political partys here ?
See Gaza. See ukraine.
Whats wrong with you people.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 17:06 utc | 184
Clear them all out – European leaders and Perfidious Albion’s leaders appear to love them – so they can flee to those nations – and those nations will regret it in the long run.
“Moscow recognizes Ukraine’s independence but not the “Nazi” regime in Kiev bent on the “extermination of everything Russian,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
In an interview with Hungarian YouTube channel Ultrahang aired on Sunday, the top diplomat said today’s Ukraine differs greatly from the one whose sovereignty Moscow supported after the fall of the USSR.
“We recognize the independence of Ukraine, no doubt about this, [but] we recognized Ukraine on the basis of its own Declaration of Independence and Constitution… which defined Ukraine as a non-nuclear, neutral, non-bloc country guaranteeing the rights of all national minorities,” Lavrov said.
He stated that following the 2014 Maidan coup, Ukraine turned into “a bluntly Nazi regime” that “shows open contempt for anything Russian,” including its history, media, culture, religion, education, and language.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 27 2025 17:09 utc | 185
Typo… tobias not too bias.
He wont answer, becouse he hasent got one.
Tobas cole is too bias and his fake support for Russia here is clearly hypocritcal and subversive.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 17:15 utc | 186
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 17:06 utc | 186
The problem is not with those people being paid , it’s in the people paying them.
Just imagine you live in an idealized Switzerland were every law goes by with a votations system… those people will pay for instrumentation campaigns via bots/media/churches/tracts whatever … and the same rotten decisions will be taken in the end.
See , the politicians are not the problem, what is is unsanctioned corruption for the corrupted AND for the corrupter.
I remember a few decades ago , a party member has been caught for corruption in NK , they also found who paid the guy … and shot them both … with an 37mm AA Gun .. and they send the families to “reeducation by labor” camp. Kim Jung Ill was not very kind on corruption. BTW , Chairman Xi has spend his childhood on such a camp , Chairman Mao was also a tough guy :).
Posted by: Savonarole | Oct 27 2025 17:24 utc | 187
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 15:46 utc | 173
RE: the most prominent Israeli families/politicians their families trace through Galicia/Ukraine–and in some cases Poland
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Pale of the Settlement, baby-! Pale of the Settlement-!
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 27 2025 17:25 utc | 188
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Posted by: arby | Oct 27 2025 15:38 utc | 169
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 16:31 utc | 176
and for anyone else interested in what the long planned PLAN of finally dismembering Russia this Century was – based on the decade long escalation of Russophobia and becoming a ukropian khokol slava heiling sickly blue yellow flag waving nation (along with the ziofascist apartheid entity forced loving enforced criminalising for supporting Palestine).
I’ll lay it out. Let’s see how long it takes, be seated for a delayed sermon (for yesterday) on the hubristic failure of the PR war as the hegemon suffers defeat by a thousand cuts.
Finding the Russian Red Lines where they would be PROVOKED into action over their borders (extending them) HAS been the whole plan constructed and carried out over most of this century.
The wikileaks diplomat cables were ALL about identifying them across all spheres. Assange paid the price for these revelations!
Ukraine WAS the red line they identified; the RF lawn they picked on to park their ‘tanks on
They built a new Hitler, a cuddly small green goblin version that could be adopted by all our gullible Russophobic European public. A good actor. A natural born liar. With a cultivated celebrity persona.
They built a proxy Nazi army for him to front there, by brainwashing new banderists and their pseudo religious paganism.
Made them into absolute haters – throat cutting and worse russophobic ‘ork’ killers – armed them to the gunnels and built massive fortresses, trenches and underground bunkers to wait for the RF big arrow ‘meat’ – ready to chomp them up! Yum yum yum.
They tested it out and called in the fake ceasefire agreements – Minsk 2, whilst they built all the huffalump traps and went for it! Provocked ‘full scale’ invasion.
RF VVP/Xi Judo meant that trap was turned! It wasn’t full scale, it was a slo-mo SMO!
So the ziofascist old bastard planners cry and cry, they demand, they complain, to everyone. They beg. Threaten. Sanction. In every narrative and daily or script. Including here!
Saying:
‘ Wtf?? Hey that’s not fair come here! Bring your big arrow wimps.
Pleeeeeeese come ON!!!
Wtf do we have to do for you to follow our great plan?”
Anyway, this proxy Nazi army is well on the way to demilitarisation , by forcing it into counter attacks and hundreds of cauldrons of every size.
That’s what happened to the genius cunning plan that got smacked day one and excited the ‘planners’ who said ‘three days’ come on!
handing out cases of guns to civilians in Kiev.. get the grannies chicking jars of pickles downing jets, missiles and drones! All the ludicrous ghost of Kiev or narratives, so many!
Pretending to be weak to encourage the Big Arrow!
2 million ukropian and natzios casualties later, we are here.
Denazification comes next.
No natziotroops on the ground guaranteed now.
Just some euro cucks being encouraged to send some official boots there expecting the RF to treat them like the Big White Imperialists of old.
Unelected Nazi EU grandkid leaders across ALL Europe, with their ziofascist master plans are whimpering and screeching:
“Our plan, our plan, no surrender, loads of sanctions, money grab, NO SURRENDER, boo hoo, curseyoupooooooooitin, wah wah 😩 “
Meanwhile the main culprit imperial hegemon ziofascist Pontus Pilate US, siddles off, pretending to ‘wash their hands’. Leaving us european peoples with a deindustrialised, tripled energy costs and trillions spent on The PLAN. whilst demanding more be spent!
I hope I made that clear enough.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 17:30 utc | 189
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 17:06 utc | 186
Both little Tommy and Reform are in hock to the Zionists, just like the Uniparty.
Tommy was over there a while back and Farage sent Tice to go and kick the wall in Jerusalem.
Just look at the Maccabbi Tel Aviv debacle, which found parties of all stripes standing up to defend and support racist, Zionist football hooligans.
Not under any illusions, n time for Tommy but Reform might turn out briefly useful as a stick with which to beat the Uniparty, a job only 50% complete.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 27 2025 17:34 utc | 190
Republicofscotland 183,
While the weapon is clearly directed towards the USA’s proposed Missile Defense System, making it obsolete before it’s even built [again, depending on the cost] it has another, far more practical purpose, the projection of power across the globe. No need for fleet of air-refuleing-tankers or for a carrier-strike-force to strike in the western hemisphere or Africa…that’s power projection without a vulnerable external infrastructure…it’s a one and done weapon but as Gordon Sumner, [Sting] once suggested;
Once that you’ve decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art
Now if you have a taste for this experience
And you’re flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
And you’ll find your conscience bothers you much less
Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history’s great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 17:36 utc | 191
Savonarole @ 189
Thanks for the input, but…
That over looks the banderite conection and the jewish lobby groups ‘owening’ our polatitions.
What about democracy. Look at america. Do we really want that fake democracy where the rich choose who we get to vote for and they are all millionares ?
Do we want britain to look like ukraine looks right now.
Lets all wake up.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 17:38 utc | 192
Materialist dialectics sees truth confirmed in practice.When Putin and Gerasimov talk about 10,500 Ukrainian soldiers being surrounded, that is the theory.The next few days will show whether their words are true…or ???
Posted by: Oberbayer | Oct 27 2025 17:45 utc | 193
ChatNPC @ 192thanks for that… i think. Ha ha ha.
Your last para i strongly disagree with, becouse, remeber zelensky got voted in, on a mandate of makeing peace with russia, before ‘outside influencers’ convinced him overwise.
Whats going on on this blog its like people have had a memory wipe like in that film men in black. Jeez.
Respect.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 17:47 utc | 194
Alastair Crooke:
– Pokrovsk (and Mhyrnagrod) encircled by russian troops. 5,000 ukrainian troops encircled.
– Kupiansk (Kharkov oblast) in grave danger. 5,000 ukrainian troops encircled.
– Russians are angry at the US. Russian escalation coming.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4tJep6NiPg (length: 32 minutes, skip the 1st 2 minutes)
Posted by: WMG | Oct 27 2025 17:58 utc | 195
‘Gordon Sumner, [Sting] once suggested…
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name’
Stewart Copeland’s father Miles, co-founder of the CIA:
‘Unlike The New York Times, Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, my complaint has been that the CIA isn’t overthrowing enough anti-American governments or assassinating enough anti-American leaders, but I guess I’m getting old.’
Too bad he didn’t live to see Trump.
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https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tRH8Bi6PN2w
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GXOtnBX7qfA
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https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=J0UMENa_IAg
https://archive.ph/4XnSB#selection-2211.0-2215.1
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https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=YfF8KgikeCo
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 27 2025 18:02 utc | 196
Gordon Sumner, [Sting] once suggested…
_______Oh, and btw: fuck Ukronazi Sting and his obnoxious nasal whine.
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 27 2025 18:16 utc | 197
Malenkiv @ 199
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Ooohh, that typo hurt! Please don’t make a hohol out of me! 😁
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 27 2025 18:19 utc | 199