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This Ukraine War Report Is One Of A Kind
This frontline report and the maps it presents are one of a kind:
Frontline report: Ukrainian drones with loudspeakers broadcast surrender instructions as Pokrovsk counterattack succeeds – Euromaidan, Nov 7 2025
General Oleksandr Syrskyi launched a focused Ukrainian counterattack near Dobropillia to divert Russian attention from the brutal push on Pokrovsk. Using drone-mounted loudspeakers to broadcast surrender instructions and exploiting autumn mud, Ukrainian forces cleared encircled Russian pockets and forced mass surrenders, while Russian reinforcements became bogged down trying to respond.
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The report claims that the Russian front that did envelope Pokrovsk and Myrnograd from the north has been broken up by a counteroffensive. Resupply of the Ukrainian forces in the two cities seems to be again possible.
The report is one of a kind because no one else is reporting such nonsense.
The Ukrainian counterattack north of Pokrovsk, which was launched a week ago, has failed. The pocket is closed. Pokorvsk is to 90% under Russian control. Ukrainian forces left in Myrnograd have no way out.
That is at least what other observers of the conflict, including western media, are claiming:
Gradually, then suddenly – Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end (archived) – Economist, Nov 6 2025
Twenty-one months after it began, Vladimir Putin’s assault on the small Donbas city of Pokrovsk (pre-war population 60,000) is nearing its end. A bloody surge in late October made the situation in the city and in Myrhnohrad, a satellite town, irretrievable for the Ukrainians. Now they are battling for position to extract their forces, some trapped in pockets. The loss of Pokrovsk, though long anticipated, would be a significant blow. Worse could come later: the city is a crossroads that offers Russia a base for further advances.
biggerThe Washington Post, New York Times, Le Monde and others agree.
The Ukrainian government had given order to hold Pokrovsk no matter what. The Commander in Chief General Syrsky had to push all units he could scrap together from elsewhere into the battle only to fail with his counterattack. The time for retreat from Pokrovsk and Myrnograd has past. Ukrainian troops who are still there will have to give up or die.
This has been a repeating pattern with multiple cities the Ukrainians have lost over time. For some political reason the order is given to hold on until it is too late to recover the forces. Thus many soldiers inevitably die for not good purpose.
On top of the political importance attached by Kyiv to holding Pokrovsk, the reluctance to save lives by ordering a timely withdrawal is linked to the systemic culture of “not one step back,” commonly associated with the leadership of Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi.
This, together with the associated problem of false reporting of tactical developments up the command chain, threaten to facilitate an optimistic narrative among the military and political leadership while the situation continues to deteriorate on the ground.
“The reports of the General Staff sent upwards are made up of more and more lies every day,” [journalist and volunteer Vitalii] Deineha wrote.
“In fact, we have practically lost Pokrovsk, which means that there is no point in holding Myrnohrad either. We must acknowledge this, and work to save those who refuse to leave without an order.”
It is no wonder then that many decide to flee from the army before it is their turn to be sacrificed for zero gain (machine translation):
In October, a record was set for the unauthorized abandonment of units (SOC) in the Armed Forces of Ukraine: 21,602 people left the service.
This was announced on Facebook by the former MP, and now the commander of the company of attack drones Igor Lutsenko.
“Every two minutes a man runs out of our army. This is only official data. But in fact, many cases of unauthorized departure from the unit or desertion are not registered. This is the number one problem in the army. A recoiling army is an army that is still capable of winning. The fleeing army, which loses more and more people from month to month due to desertion and flight from units, is a real danger to the existence of Ukraine,” Lutsenko wrote.
The Ukrainian army is done with. It has no reserves. It lags weapons, munitions and soldiers. It has many ragtag units and only a few competent ones. Its retreat after Prokovsk will only accelerate.
‘Millions of Marxists did just that and deeply enriched the Jewish community. When they abandoned Marx for Zionism during the cold war they ushered in the perverted, atavistic Jewish community we see today.’
So a Jew’s only salvation is through Karl Marx?
In your estimation, most Jews were enriched by Karl Marx but then they abandoned said enrichment for Zionism?
Are you sure?
Marx wasn’t / isn’t part of the script?
‘Zionism and Marxism used to have an intricate and multifaceted relationship. While Zionist diplomats would present their movement as an antidote against Marxism before world leaders (such as Churchill), it was a combination of diverse Marxist groups that accomplished most of the initial Zionist settlement of Palestine.’
https://yakovrabkin.ca/israel-and-zionism/marxism-and-zionism-a-complex-relationship/
Marxist Zionism: Israel’s often forgotten socialist past
Ber Dov Berochov (1881-1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labour Zionist movement
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-713967
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Karl Marx was related to the infamous Rothschild banking dynasty via his uber-wealthy grandmother Nanette Salomon Barent-Cohen. He both worked for and was funded by Rothschild – Nathan specifically.
Marx also liked to play the stock market at the same time he was denouncing financiers and their ilk.
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/karl-marx-employed-rothschilds/
I think it’s important to remember that there is an entire history of ‘socialism’ that well predates Marx and his ideas.
The Rotshchilds, incidentally, have always been very involved with ‘Israel’ ideologically and financially -the wholesale destruction-occupation of Palestine in the interest of Eretz Israel.
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Nov 9 2025 1:52 utc | 408
A deep thought about this:
HOW & WHEN DOES VLADMIR PUTIN’S KREMLIN WANT THIS SMO-WAR TO END?
These excerpts are instructive:
Transcript of Judging Freedom _7 November 2025
Judge Andrew Napolitano interview with Dr. Gilbert Doctorow
@:
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/11/08/transcript-of-judging-freedom_7-november-2025/
EXCERPTS (highlighting mine):
Napolitano: … Are the Russians losing patience with the pace of the war?….
Doctorow:
…my writings and my speaking these days is based primarily on what I see and know as somebody who has lived and worked and who visits regularly Russia today….
So my words are not intended to be a comprehensive take on Russian society, but I’d like to introduce some of the complexities, and particularly what I picked up in the last few weeks because they bear, I was there 17 days, it bears directly on your question…. And I saw for the first time we sat at a dinner, the Unity, Russian Unity Day, dinner… a festive dinner, five people there. I’ve known them for years, for decades, I can say. And we never discussed directly the question of how the war is being handled until we did this week. And I can tell you, answer your question directly, four out of four of these people with different backgrounds, one worked for maybe 30, 40 years, maybe 50 years, designing ballistic missiles in the defense industry. Very patriotic. His wife was a former spokeswoman for the mayor’s office in Petersburg. At this level, they are high in Russian society and in loyal Russian society.
They all said one thing. The war has to stop. It’s going on for much too long. The fellow in the defense background, who knows a thing or two about designing weapons, said it’s clear what’s going on. The general staff is using the territory of Ukraine now for target practice, for testing new weapons…. And so there are people in the government who, and particularly in the military, who are motivated to keep this war going.
Napolitano: …Are they just impatient, normal human impatience, or do they see some sort of regression in Russian society because of the duration and cost of the war?….
Doctorow: Well, the latter, ….
Napolitano:
Are journalists free to criticize the government over its handling of the war or even to criticize the moral and legal basis for the war?
Doctorow:
On the latter, no. The former, yes. You can say that the war is being mishandled. You can argue that more drastic efforts should be made to subdue Kiev or to decapitate the regime. You can say that. You cannot say that the war is a bad idea. That is, you cannot make openly anti-war positions.
Napolitano: Does Vladimir Putin want the war to end?
Doctorow:
That’s an interesting question. If he really wanted it to end, if that were his highest priority and in line with the general principle of the Russian government that Vladimir Putin wants to spare Russian soldiers’ lives. Well, the best way to solve it, spare their lives, is to end the war tomorrow by decapitating Kiev. Now, I’m not saying something out of turn. This very idea has been broadcast on Russian state television by none other than Vladimir Solovyev and a few of his panelists. And if people say, oh, you’re listening to Russian television, well, yes, Russian television is very closely controlled by the government and it let this pass. So there are people within the government who would like the war to be ended now. And Mr. Putin is obviously not one of them.
Napolitano: Is there a credence in your view to the argument that Putin is intentionally waging a war of attrition?
Doctorow:
…Russian culture being very Christian in the sense of turn the other cheek, not looking for revenge and so forth. Mr. Putin is to all appearances, a deeply, a deep believer in these values of Russia as no Soviet leader ever could be. So there’s a big change. The question is whether this peculiar feature of Russian culture which Mr. Putin embodies isn’t leading us to World War III because it is not appreciated by this very secular Western European and American leadership. They don’t get it.
…We were missing the point that the West wants this war to go on. First it was the Biden administration that was orchestrating the whole thing. And now that Trump has pulled the United States out of the leadership role, now it’s the Europeans who want the war to go on.
And so the notion of that, if the Russians take Pokrovsk it will be the end of the war, is utter nonsense. They still have to reach the Dnieper, and from the Dnieper. Well, what does that mean? If the Europeans keep on supplying arms, if they move in and create military bases in Ukraine, then the Russians will have not achieved their objective of the special military operation. So this war can go on for years.
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That said, many here keeps arguing otherwise in total disregard of the realistic factual situation. My position since February 2022 here and elsewhere have always remained this:
THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH REMAINS that the key to ending this conflict short of a nuclear exchange lies in Putin’s hand, not Trump, NATO or EU. Putin’s commitment earlier in the war not to kill Zelensky or any of his Nazi regime cohorts lends credence to the well-founded claims that he (for ulterior personal and elitist interests with the Western oligarchs) doesn’t want to end the war anytime soon. This also buttresses the fact that he enjoys Zelensky’s continued stay in power, being the right kind of stubborn character that will ensure continued war even ‘to the last Ukrainian’. Same applies to Zelensky, he needs Putin to remain in power so that the ‘shit show continues’ while the US /EU keeps funding it. This therefore safeguards the war as an everflowing cashcow for him and his cronies in Kiev and the West.
IT IS NOT ARGUABLE THAT, as Dr. Gilbert Doctorow puts it, “If he really wanted it to end, if that were his highest priority … to spare Russian soldiers’ lives. Well, the best way to solve it, spare their lives, is to end the war tomorrow by decapitating Kiev. … If the Europeans keep on supplying arms, if they move in and create military bases in Ukraine, then the Russians will have not achieved their objective of the special military operation. So this war can go on for years.”
As such, at some point, this will inevitably trigger a nuclear exchange of which the entire humanity in its present form will be completely destroyed. Imagine such horror!
THAT IS MY GREATEST CONCERN AND WORST FEAR!
IS IT MISPLACED, UNFOUNDED, OR CONTRIVED?
Posted by: cegnoveltyesq | Nov 9 2025 7:21 utc | 423
That said, if you think Maduro is a Socialist, you should probably read up a little more. If you’re really interested in Socialism, take it seriously, bro. A mind is a terrible thing to waste!
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 8 2025 1:11 utc | 213
Wow! Truly masterful analysis, Arby. Have you considered comparing the thoughts of Hugo Chavez to say Lenin? Maybe Marx himself?
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 9 2025 0:14 utc | 394
Well, the answer would depend on what state is is defending, wouldn’t it? Are you talking about a workers state that has expropriated every billionaire, nationalized finance and all productive industries and used all of it to improve the living standards of wage slaves?
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 9 2025 0:19 utc | 399
After much prodding, Ahenobarbus finally reveals his own personal definition of “socialism”, inadvertently revealing that he’s the one who needs to do more reading. Since he brought up Marx and Lenin, let’s see what they have to say about socialism.
From Lenin’s The State and Revolution:
The first phase of communism, therefore, cannot yet provide justice and equality; differences, and unjust differences, in wealth will still persist, but the exploitation of man by man will have become impossible because it will be impossible to seize the means of production–the factories, machines, land, etc.–and make them private property.
From Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme, which Lenin cited:
Further, one worker is married, another is not; one has more children than another, and so on and so forth. Thus, with an equal performance of labor, and hence an equal in the social consumption fund, one will in fact receive more than another, one will be richer than another, and so on. To avoid all these defects, right, instead of being equal, would have to be unequal.
But these defects are inevitable in the first phase of communist society as it is when it has just emerged after prolonged birth pangs from capitalist society. Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and its cultural development conditioned thereby.
Critically, Lenin placed emphasis on a passage from Part IV of the Critique:
Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.
The existence of the state as a tool of oppression against the oppressors, against the capitalists, is feature of the transitional period. This clearly demonstrates that capitalists do not magically vanish in the initial stages of communism, in socialism. They exist, but workers keep a tight least on them. America, where capitalists live fearlessly, is not in any way socialist. The welfare capitalist European/Scandinavian countries are not socialist either. Look at the ease with which capital flight occurs in welfare capitalist countries, with an example right in this comments section that unimperator unintentionally provided. Look at the innumerable examples from Western media fearmongering—rightly, for once—about China’s strict capital controls.
Norway’s wealth tax increase, expected to raise $146M, led to a $448M net loss as $54B in wealth left the country, reducing tax revenue by $594M.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 8 2025 10:49 utc | 270
Foreign investors eye China once again — but capital controls and policy risks keep them on edge
Published Fri, Oct 3 20257:27 AM EDT, Updated Sat, Oct 4 202512:54 AM EDT, CNBC, Anniek Bao
China has billionaires and capitalists, a fact which is used by liberals to claim that China is capitalist and at the same time claim all of China’s achievements in the name of liberalism and capitalism. China’s failures are attributed by the liberals to “authoritarianism” and communism which can only be cured by further liberalization. Ahenobarbus, unsurpisingly, works in concert with liberals and has condemned China as being capitalist too. China, conveniently, is also one of the few forces that can credibly challenging imperialism as embodied by the entity named America.
Ask Ahenobarbus if there’s any socialist state that exists in the world today.
Ask Ahenobarbus if those socialist states, if any, can bring down America.
Ask Ahenobarbus if the American state needs to be dismantled.
Ahenobarbus’s answers will clearly reveal if he’s a socialist or if he’s a fascist donning the mask of Marxism in service of the American Empire.
Death to America
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Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 9 2025 10:10 utc | 437
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