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November 6, 2025
Ukraine Open Thread 2025-258
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I just can’t see US troops getting caught up in mountains and jungles etc as everyone predicts. When all they care about in Iran and Venezuela is the oil fields. They don’t need to go any further like they did in Syria. Take and hold the oil fields would probably be the mission if they attack?
Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 7 2025 13:32 utc | 101
reply to 99
Yes, absolutely. This topic makes me sad. I don’t like calling people stupid but I can’t ignore trends in Western society. It’s self inflicted.
Many years ago, I had to interrogate a nice young woman about a technical malfunction. She immediately grimaced as if I had stabbed her or broken her wrist. Down to this day, I never forgot that casual moment because it taught me that , for many people, thinking is painful, to be avoided. It was a revelation.
Now, people commonly depend on smart phones – often to prevent this pain. They become superficial because anything further might be agonizing. Meanwhile, Russia and China forge ahead – especially with ‘sweating the details’ that pleasure seeking western states increasingly cannot master. Yes, it’s often ‘engineers vs lawyers’ and we are seeing the results.
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 7 2025 13:34 utc | 102
continued with :
losing pokrowsk would be nothing more than minor moral downer:
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/ukraine-krieg-russland-pokrowsk-100.html
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 7 2025 13:20 utc | 100
Good good. So the report about Seljenski was just the censor sleeping. Everything back to normal, thank god.
Posted by: Ali | Nov 7 2025 13:47 utc | 103
@Altai | Nov 6 2025 17:30 utc | 12
If all this reminds you of the infamous phantom Soviet submarines constantly provocatively entering Swedish waters like they wanted it to join NATO which were almost certainly hoaxes and NATO frauds, I don’t know why.
The goal was to change Swedish foreign policy. It was a UK submarine doing the “haunting”. Ola Tunander has details of the psyop on his substack
https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-deception-committee-part-i
Posted by: cirsium | Nov 7 2025 13:52 utc | 104
I can’t believe the stupid kids are still pushing the “Russia fell into a trap” bullsh-t. NATO has lost credibility all over the world, as has the US and UK. In addition, the UK and EU economies are a wreck and “Ukraine” will never recover demographically or economically. NATO has been exposed as the paper tiger it has been for at least a decade and all NATO countries have lost HUGE amounts of equipment. It’s clear defeat. However, stupid kids being stupid kids won’t stop lying and desperately trying to turn the worst policy disaster since the US invasion of Vietnam into a “victory” of some kind.
Hahaha. The whole world is laughing, crying, and quietly rejoicing.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 7 2025 13:54 utc | 105
Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 7 2025 13:25 utc | 101
It’s not just the Oilfields – they are not all under the sea.
It’s is the enormous amounts of natural resources and lands.
The Gold and silver fields of the Grand Savvanah.
The great rivers and equatorial lands where much AGM be grown and future space ports built close to the equator.
it’s much much more than the largest untapped oil reserves.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 7 2025 13:57 utc | 106
@ Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 7 2025 13:34 utc | 103
I think it is more that we are entering a post truth regime.
Who can actually prove a truth – is there even such a thing as truth.
And truth to the extent that it exists, often gets in the way of getting things done.
People learn to parrot their mentors and to not be so rude as to expect truth – it might be career threatening or can land one in jail.
So beware of flying.
Posted by: jared | Nov 7 2025 14:00 utc | 107
acementhead@60……you, like the Russians, can’t find the elephant in the room. Off you go, US this US that, it’s a given all US politicians and their domestic and foreign policy is shit prepared by assholes…..but I have yet to hear one US politician of standing say that the US is at war with Russia…..the Brits and their bumbling diaspora have no issue taking credit, so boastful are they, Russia is afraid, like a pathetic little cat, to even mention England, they fly fancy fire crackers around to try and frighten the west, completely ignoring the Brexit countries and their hearty contribution to killing a few hundred……er, thousands of Russians……
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 7 2025 14:01 utc | 108
@Merv Ritchie | Nov 6 2025 17:27 utc | 10
Yes there is a law and it was legal Andre the UN deemed requirements of “R2P”. Responsibility to protect. I believe that was and is Russias legal foundation as they were required by law to prevent genocide.
R2P was endorsed by the UN General Assembly. It is a norm and had no enforcement mechanism. The legal mechanism for the SMO is that Russia formally recognised the sovereignty of the two Donbass republics and accepted their request for assistance against Ukraine.
Posted by: cirsium | Nov 7 2025 14:05 utc | 109
“What is the future for Europe?”
Set to around 47 minutes where Nima puts that question to Krainer.
In the preceding section of the video Krainer’s been looking at Trump’s record so far. If I’m reading him right he’s stating that Trump’s losing his MAGA support and that spells trouble for the midterms. Trump’s dance of the seven veils not going down well with those who voted for him to end the forever wars and take on the vested interests in Washington. Krainer then goes on to contrast that with the Brics/SCO countries getting on with putting money into infrastructure and not war.
A bald and partial summary, that, of a most interesting discussion with Nima but it’s the last few minutes that are linked to. Krainer at his finest as he discusses Europe’s future:-
https://youtu.be/arHovEIlO7E?t=2869
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The link gleaned from Dr Campbell’s invaluable weekly update –
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-8fa
Posted by: The Busker | Nov 7 2025 11:18 utc | 93
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Set to 43 minutes, Krainer and Nima.
Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 7 2025 14:06 utc | 110
The optics of massive Ukrainian surrenders will be catastrophic for NATO.
I pray for them to surrender, although I have doubts the Ukronazi leadership and NATO will allow that.
For the collective West, Ukrainian deaths will not be as damaging as living Ukrainian prisoners. Dead people don’t make noise; dead people are invisible.
For the Collective West, Ukrainians are Russians/Slavs, and they despise Russians/Slavs despite the Ukrainian flags they put on their profiles.
https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/1986650201088761923
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 7 2025 14:07 utc | 111
Please note that there are a number of YouTube channels using AI to impersonate Jeffrey Sachs and John Mearsheimer – including ‘Daily Fans Jeffrey Sachs’ and ‘Friends of Jeffrey Sachs’ and ‘Fans Mearsheimer realism’. There are many more. The visual images are good but the gestures, mannerisms and the voices betray the illusion. Sorry if already posted. Busker
Posted by: The Busker | Nov 7 2025 14:15 utc | 112
Currently, there is no movement in and out of Mirnograd, but there is no encirclement. And that’s according to the more sane pro-nazi OSINT. They should write a philosophy paper about overcoming basic pesky logic.
Posted by: boneless | Nov 7 2025 14:23 utc | 113
This courageous guy will soon find himself on the EU/US/English/Ukrainian/Israeli hit list.
The Other Side Media (@TheOtherSideRu): “🇨🇿🇺🇦 On his first day as Czech Parliament Speaker, Tomio Okamura orders the Ukrainian flag removed from the building The politician, who is of Japanese descent, is also demanding a review of residence permits for Ukrainian refugees” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:25 utc | 114
Posted by: boneless | Nov 7 2025 14:23 utc | 114
My guess is the focus is keep diluting AFU inside Myrnograd (keep bombing, droning positions). But the bigger priority is solidifying the Rodynske and front south of Shakhove to stall the AFU offensive attempt, which they scraped together by bringing forces from other fronts. If they neuter that offensive, that gamble will make the defeat even larger for AFU compared to what it would have been retreating 6 weeks ago from Myrnograd.
The British commanded AFU keeps making same mistakes of forced forward defense, which then enables RUAF to hit them more effectively and smoothing the road forward later on.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 7 2025 14:26 utc | 115
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:27 utc | 116
Posted by: BG13 | Nov 6 2025 21:51 utc | 39
Almost as silly as Erdogan changing Turkey to Turkiye in English as well? All because he was upset that the proper noun for the country-“ Turkey”- suggests the loud and ugly bird eaten during Thanksgiving. We may as well start calling both Italy Italia and Germany Deutschland in English as well if we follow this logic.
Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 7 2025 14:39 utc | 117
The US terrorist state – doing targeting runs for the Neo-Nazi in Ukraine – in a similar fashion as to Perfidious Albion does over Gaza for the Zio-Monsters.
Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 (@Alex_Oloyede2): “🇷🇺🇺🇸 I want the Americans to see this. The US AirForce conducting reconnaissance and providing strike data to the Ukrainians to kiII Russians. I want you to understand that when Russia starts doing this in the Gulf of Mexico to target US sailors, you don’t see it as unprovoked.” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:51 utc | 118
The Russians/Soviets, destroyed the Nazi’s once before – and they are doing it again.
Christopher Helali (@ChrisHelali): “🇷🇺 Where the Red Army Broke the Nazi War Machine I report from the Angel of Peace Monument near the site of the legendary Battle of Kursk — the largest tank battle in history. It was here that the Red Army broke the Nazi offensive and turned the tide of World War II, a reminder that history still lives on this land. 🔴 @DD_Geopolitics” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:54 utc | 119
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 7 2025 14:55 utc | 120
Looks like I’ll need to make up some new maps for the Russians, a bit exhausting, but they need all the help they can get. Sweden has allotted 400 drones to the fund the Ukie Coke Addiction Foundation…… apparently the goal, destroy Russia’s energy infrastructure. Is that not a declaration of war, no, apparently it’s not. The Russians are very philanthropic, they won’t mind donating a few more thousand dead Russians civvie and soldier alike to the Keep the Russian Economy Strong Fund…….all this money, how does one get in?
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 7 2025 15:15 utc | 121
The situation near Krasnoarmeysk is the beginning of the front’s collapse for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, stated MP Dmytruk. The situation near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) in the DPR has become catastrophic for the Ukrainian forces and could lead to the collapse of the entire defensive line. This was stated by Verkhovna Rada deputy Artem Dmytruk, who is currently abroad due to criminal prosecution. “Today we are witnessing the situation around Pokrovsk. It is a tragedy. A catastrophe. Another crime by Zelenskyy against the Ukrainian people and Ukraine itself. But I would not say this is the end yet. This is not the final catastrophe. This is the beginning of the fall of the front,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. Dmytruk also believes that the Kiev authorities will attempt to conceal information about the failures near Krasnoarmeysk, as has happened before. According to him, the topic may be quickly “scrubbed” from the information field. Source: Ostashko News
https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1986653520926535703
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 7 2025 15:37 utc | 122
Russia’s stability is crumbling as internal reports point to a nationwide collapse. In June 2025, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina admitted the economy was running out of resources, while Prime Minister Mishustin warned in August that most regional budgets for 2025 remain unfilled.
Civil unrest could spiral into a full-scale civil war. As the economy falters, protests rise, and separatist movements gain traction, experts inside and outside Russia agree that the nation faces a historic moment, not unlike the last days of Zarist rule.With 40% of Russian firms now experiencing payment delays, the question is no longer if collapse comes, but how fast it will spread.
And what will happen to the thousands of nuclear weapons? And who will ensure safety of nucelare reactors and nuclear powered icebreakers? If the West will not take swift actions, we could see terirists or internationall criminals armed with nuclear weapons, and see many Chernobils!
A September 2025 Carnegie Politika report revealed that Russia’s birth rate hit its lowest point since 1999, and migration outside Russia has sharply risen.And in another development, it appear that historic foreign minister Lavrov has fallen out of Kremlin graces, and could be ousted and replaced soon by someone more subservient to Putin’s will,
Posted by: Louis | Nov 7 2025 15:53 utc | 123
When you’ve lost the Economist, you know you’re really in trouble …
Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Nov 7 2025 15:56 utc | 124
Trump’s dance of the seven veils not going down well with those who voted for him to end the forever wars and take on the vested interests in Washington.
Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 7 2025 14:06 utc | 111
About 6 months into his term, Trump issued an edict, directed to his surprised and frustrated “base” that he himself is the embodiment of “MAGA” and that “MAGA” means whatever he says that it means (no exaggeration). At that point he became a “lame duck” president*. Now it is a matter of riding-out the rest of his term.
*Though this did not prevent him from supporting Israel in decimating the Palestinians living in Gaza.
Posted by: jared | Nov 7 2025 16:04 utc | 125
Posted by: Louis | Nov 7 2025 15:53 utc | 124 “Russia’s stability is crumbling as internal reports point to a nationwide collapse.”
While the cost to Russia is orders of magnitude larger than Putin let on at 3+ years ago, my opinion is that it is a long way until Russia collapses. Also unlikely.
The effects of the strikes the the Russian oil and gas industry is still somewhat opaque, well except to a number of regular posters here that last I saw pretty much said that it it adds up to nothing.
Posted by: ed4 | Nov 7 2025 16:21 utc | 126
This piece may be of interest to some here considering growing concerns about the go-slow attrition SMO which have afforded the US-NATO-EU warmongering alliance against Russia a golden opportunity to wake from their slumber into war-mode.
Here’s the headline:
NATO Now Outproduces the Russian Wartime Defense Industry in Missiles and Drones
https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2025/nato-now-outproduces-the-russian-wartime-defense-industry-in-missiles-and-drones
…Europe’s Act in Support of Ammunition Production is pushing shell capacity toward two million rounds per year by the end of 2025, while the United States has opened new automated “Universal Artillery Projectile Lines” in Mesquite, Texas, and added a 155 mm load-assemble-pack facility in Camden, Arkansas. Washington admits the 100,000-per-month target will slip into 2026, but the trajectory is unmistakable. The effect is to ease Ukrainian rationing, narrow Russia’s daily fires advantage, and restore deterrence by signaling that NATO magazines will refill faster than the Kremlin can deplete them….
…The industrial picture behind Rutte’s statement is hardening into permanent capacity. Rheinmetall has opened and planned new lines across Europe and aims for up to 1.5 million 155 mm shells annually by 2027, while Spain’s Rheinmetall Expal has reached a 450,000-round rate. Nammo is expanding energetics and shell output across Scandinavia and Denmark, and NATO’s National Armaments Directors are coordinating powder and charge production to remove chokepoints….
…NATO’s diversified, capital-intensive base is scaling under rule-of-law contracts, while Russia’s production depends on mobilized spending, legacy tooling, and sanction-routed imports.
Well, I had pointed out here a few days ago that it would have been the best strategy for the Kremlin to have finished off the Ukraine war theatre a few months in 2022 by kinetic regime change of the Zelensky regime and then mop-up the resultant insurgency a few weeks after that thereby occupying Ukraine temporarily under a new friendly government in Bankova. Short of nuclear escalation, this is strategically much more sustainable than to tie-up Russia on a slow-SMO aimed at attriting a 50+ enemy alliance in Ukraine. Some may consider leaders of NATO & EU as psychopaths/morons who, lacking the industrial capability to produce weapons now, are deluded as to what they are venturing into against Russia, but a deeper look into how they have begun implementing their re-armament plans indicates some seriousness which can only be waived away by wishful optimists.
So, the caveat remains: BETTER WRAP-UP AND SECURE THE UKRAINE THEATRE TODAY SO AS TO FORCE ANY UPCOMING WIDER CONFRONTATION WITH THE ENEMY ALLIANCE TO BECOME A DIRECT EXCHANGE FROM THEIR TERRITORIES SUCH THAT IT WOULD BE JUSTIFIABLE FOR RUSSIA TO ACTIVATE THE NUCLEAR OPTION IF OVERWHELMED CONVENTIONALLY BY THE US-NATO-EU MULTIPLE MEMBER ALLIANCE.
Negotiations in whatever format or forum with either the US, Ukraine or EU will not solve Russia’s security threats which necessitated these conflicts ab initio. The US always applies its geopolitical policy of Strategic Ambiguity to keep her adversaries guessing their true intentions in disputes of any kind. The fact that Donald Trump’s promise to “end the Ukraine conflict within 24-hrs of his swearing-in in January” was a mask for his attempts at tricking Putin to accept a mere ceasefire at current line of contact to negotiate later is nothing but a diplomatic way of asking Russia to postpone the doomsday of their “strategic defeat” by NATO. Trump cannot deviate for the historically entrenched US animosity against Russia.
DON’T GIVE YOUR ENEMY ALLIANCE TIME TO PREPARE AND FULLY DESCEND ON YOU BEFORE YOU ACT TO NEUTRALIZE THEIR PROXY AND THUS FRUSTRATE THEIR PLANS.
It’s still not too late now!
Posted by: cegnoveltyesq | Nov 7 2025 16:23 utc | 127
“The Soviet style central heating used in cities in Ukraine” – Norwegian 88
Are also used in the Midwest of the US. An ice storm that took down all the electric in the region of my, then, university posed no problem for the university itself which had it’s own steam pipes and electrical generating capacity. I didn’t live on campus at the time but wound up sheltering there for 2 weeks in the cafeteria using the exercise facility for hygiene. I don’t know all the mechanics of the under-ground steam system but I feel pretty sure the pipes wouldn’t break with a hard freeze?
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 7 2025 16:23 utc | 128
Almost as silly as Erdogan changing Turkey to Turkiye in English as well?
Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 7 2025 14:39 utc | 117
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…or insisting we all henceforth write “Kyiv” without bothering to insist we pronounce it correctly (hint: it’s not “Keeve”)…
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 7 2025 17:13 utc | 129
It’s still not too late now!
Posted by: cegnoveltyesq | Nov 7 2025 16:23 utc | 127
You are wrong, it is too late for Russia! West is doing a massive industrial reconversion, where automotive plants are producing military vehicles and everywhere factories are reconverted to produce eveything needed to sustain a war. And people supports it, as rearming means jobs and money flowing.
Posted by: Louis | Nov 7 2025 17:21 utc | 130
where automotive plants are producing military vehicles
Posted by: Louis | Nov 7 2025 17:21 utc | 130
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As if there isn’t a chip shortage already.
Posted by: too scents | Nov 7 2025 17:27 utc | 131
Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 7 2025 13:25 utc | 100
*** Just like in Syria, as soon as they turn the oil fields into a US army base who will take the oil fields back ? Nobody pushed the US out of Syria after they turned the oil fields into a military base. This is probably what would happen in Iran and Venezuela. They don’t need to take the whole country. ***
And just like in the countries already under Zionato control and ever increasing surveillance …. where they only need to have control of the finances, top politicians and mass-media to control everything (especially since these criminal traitors also own “the law” and the firepower to enforce it).
What the vast majority of populations actually want matters less and less. As lies by the perverts who rule get more and more blatant (resistance to such propaganda incompetence is, however, soon to be destroyed via primary school brainwashing).
Such is the cocktail of agenda-continuity shit nowadays served up as “democracy” and alleged ‘values’.
Posted by: Cynic | Nov 7 2025 17:39 utc | 132
Seems Rodynske is still contested, but AFU offensive here has definitely stalled. Their positions inside Rodynske and forward deployments west of Rodynske are bombed. It takes some time and they become defeated.
RUAF may have pulled back from Shakhove to hold the line north/NE of Rodynske.
It seems the best Ukrainian troops were pulled for this offensive from other places in the front. Every other front continue cracking., putting Pokrovsk further and further behind the front.
Update from the Pokrovsk direction:
While Myrnohrad is still yet to be physically cut off, movement in and out of the city is not currently happening due to Russian fire control and the activity of DRG units. Russian forces are making progress elsewhere, though.
The main news comes from northeastern Pokrovsk, where after some Ukrainian withdrawals took place, Russian forces were able to physically encircle some Ukrainian formations in the high-rise part of the Dinas District. They captured the small industrial zone on the edge of the city and secured the first street in the village of Rivne. Clearing operations continue in Dinas, with Russian forces capturing several more high-rise buildings.
In eastern Pokrovsk, the Russians captured the last residential areas there and advanced to the neighbouring warehouses and forested areas.
At the bottom of the Myrnohrad pocket, Russian forces finally established full control over Lysivka after around 13 months of battles for the village. They also captured new positions in the treelines and forests to the northwest and began pushing further east, bypassing Sukhyi Yar from the north. Fighting continues in the centre of Sukhyi Yar.
In northeastern Myrnohrad, Russian forces captured several more high-rise buildings and advanced further in the low-rise residential area. They are also attempting to reach the southwestern part of the high-rise district, bombing Ukrainian positions ahead of them with FAB glide-bombs.
In the Myrnohrad pocket bottleneck, Russian DRGs continue to operate in the grey zone. No consolidation has occurred here yet.
In Rodynske, extremely heavy fighting continues. Both sides are attempting to advance, with positions constantly changing hands. Massive amounts of fire power are being concentrated on this area as Ukraine tries to break through to the rear of the northern Russian pincer, while Russia tries to push the Ukrainians back out of Rodynske.
In northern Pokrovsk, Russian forces continue their clearing operations and are fighting for the remaining grey zone. Ukrainian assault groups are complicating their consolidation efforts and preventing them from securing the whole city.
In the Udachne area, the Russians recaptured positions along the road to the eastern part of the Pokrovsk Coal Mine.
@AMK_mapping
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 7 2025 17:43 utc | 133
“West is doing a massive industrial reconversion…”
Last time someone claimed that (Tom Pfotzer, I believe?) I asked for links to illustrate this change and all he provided were articles about vague plans to maybe repurpose some idled automotive plants for that, but nothing to indicate any of these plans had gotten beyond the initial PowerPoint presentation stage yet. Is there any indication this has gone beyond the empty yammering of useless middle managers? Any workers actually spinning wrenches and bending metal on any of these production facility conversions yet? Or is this “massive industrial reconversion” just massive blasts of hot air from bloviating gasbags?
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 17:44 utc | 134
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Posted by: Louis | Nov 7 2025 17:21 utc | 130
You are wrong, it is too late for Russia!
No, I insist, – It’s still not too late now! – because presently the alliance is not fully ready yet. All their preparations are underway, even at basic levels compared to the level of sophistication/advancement of the Russian MIC today in quality and quantity coupled with their battlefield experience. Russia’s current battlefield performance in Ukraine is a testimony that the level and quality of the alliance’s efforts is below par at this stage.
However, the grave concern is that the alliance have comparative advantage in numbers and in aggregate Budget (over 50+ alliance of NATO & EU, Coalition of the Willing) against Russia (assisted possibly by North Korea & Belarus). Very soon (likely before 2030) the alliance would completely outproduce Russia militarily such that the nuclear option will be foistered on Russia to the detriment of humanity. It’s an inevitable future outcome that wishful optimism or denial cannot change. Hence the necessity to swiftly wrap-up the Ukraine proxy theatre now and refocus on containing an imminent direct onslaught from the alliance if the dare to try it.
Posted by: cegnoveltyesq | Nov 7 2025 17:59 utc | 135
I do not really attempt to understand history, but the following is what I think I have managed to absorb regarding US history of the earlier part of the 20th century:
– In the 1920’s the the US had gone on extravagant spending spree and this was a lot of fun but then the fun met with reality in the late 20’s.
– This spending had been enabled by the recently minted central bank – a situation forced by near bankrupcy of the US, substantially brought on by WW1..
– The US economy struggled to recover, but eventually did substantially due to the stimulus justified by the participation the WW2.
– The President that engaged the US in participation in WW2, Woodrow Wilson, had been elected as a “peace President” who would keep the US out of WW2 – he was convinced to change his mind.
Posted by: jared | Nov 7 2025 18:01 utc | 136
Re:
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 7 2025 17:43 utc | 133
Update from the Pokrovsk direction:
Unimperator, my continued appreciation of your timely and invaluable battlefield frontline updates here and even in all other threads of MOA everyday. Frankly, I have not been able to get comparable timely updates on this conflict as yours elsewhere as I search the internet, part of the reason I’m always around here whether I post comments or not.
Thank you.
Posted by: cegnoveltyesq | Nov 7 2025 18:16 utc | 137
West is doing a massive industrial reconversion, where automotive plants are producing military vehicles and everywhere factories are reconverted to produce eveything needed to sustain a war.
Posted by: Louis | Nov 7 2025 17:21 utc | 130
Not yet they aren’t, the funding isn’t even in place. Remember the much-ballyhooed €800billion EU-wide war bond issuance? Been kicked into the long grass as “too difficult”, beset with legal complications.
All the Western European nations are financially struggling, and are in no place to expand military capacity; there’s also the small matter of affordable energy supplies, raw material and component availability, and skilled labour resources.
@ William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 17:44 utc | 134 has summarised the situation concisely:
just massive blasts of hot air from bloviating gasbags
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 7 2025 18:18 utc | 138
“industrial reconversion”…. Where do people get this sh-t? I’m American… Texan. We are essentially in a DEPRESSION, with about 25 percent functional unemployment, rising bankruptcies (personal and business), and massive private debt with rising inflation. Lord have mercy… industrial reconversion.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 7 2025 18:28 utc | 139
I think Louis is referring to a speech made by Mark Rutte-a few days ago- where Rutte said:
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After years of warning about Russia’s advantage, NATO is starting to look positive on ammo making.
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NATO chief Mark Rutte said the alliance is now making more ammo “than we have done in decades.”
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It’s a sign that NATO believes it can soon overcome Russia’s massive production advantage.
NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Thursday that the alliance is closing the gap with Russia’s advantage in ammunition manufacturing.
“We are already turning the tide on ammunition,” Rutte said at a defense industry forum in Bucharest, Romania.
Posted by: Fredrick | Nov 7 2025 18:43 utc | 140
@Fredrick | Nov 7 2025 18:43 utc | 140
Well, Rutte himself is not immune from emitting “massive blasts of hot air”…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 7 2025 19:00 utc | 141
Gosh, who is left to use that ammunition and where will they find anyone with the brains and experience to command? Tragicomic.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 7 2025 19:11 utc | 142
reply to 138
Manufacturing in the US and EU is in decline. As for Russia’s population, a quick Google search reveals that official stats may exclude areas that Russia liberated. Further, it isn’t known how many Ukrainian refugees have fled to Russia. The common number is 1.3 million but some authorities say that is far too low, it may be as much as 5 million.
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 7 2025 19:13 utc | 143
the grave concern is that the alliance have comparative advantage in numbers and in aggregate Budget (over 50+ alliance of NATO & EU, Coalition of the Willing) against Russia (assisted possibly by North Korea & Belarus). Very soon (likely before 2030) the alliance would completely outproduce Russia militarily
Posted by: cegnoveltyesq | Nov 7 2025 17:59 utc | 135 (my bolding)
Don’t forget the aggregate debt, and the aggregate interest payments for that 50+ alliance; here’s a hint…
The West is in no financial position to fund a production arms race with Russia (or China for that matter), in my personal opinion it is highly likely to fall further behind, as the investment incentives just aren’t there for long-term economic re-adjustments such as yourself and @ Louis propose.
Remember, the quarterly bonus reigns supreme, and unless that mindset is radically changed among the senior management and execs of Western business, there will be no massive industrial “reconversion”. Business looks at the short-term, because numbers.
Where is the funding, where are the incentives?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 7 2025 19:57 utc | 144
Tutti Frutti Rutte: “We are no longer just thinking about thinking about starting to make more munitions, now we are actually thinking about starting to make more munitions. This is a qualitative development towards making more munitions!”
Well, that’s something of a development, I suppose.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 19:57 utc | 145
Tutti Frutti Rutte ..
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 19:57 utc | 145
With reference to Little Richard’s profound lyrics, perhaps that should be – Tutti Frutti Oh Rutte
and of course there is the ominous opening line “Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom” to consider.
Posted by: tucenz | Nov 7 2025 20:16 utc | 146
Yea the US became basically continuously insolvent when they abandoned the gold standard (and banned gold currency from being used for debt payments ).
The US is now $38 T in debt, and the NYC Zionists himself Chuck ‘Cryin’ Chuck Shumer, wants even more debt.
The national debt is now slightly more than the GNP.
This is a formula for disaster, but the crazy neo cons still want more billions for Ukronazis. Notice how DJT has now memory holed the conflict in Eastern Ukraine? He is moving on and the neo cons are furious.
Posted by: tobias cole | Nov 7 2025 22:19 utc | 147
No comment -for 60 secs
What victory means for Putin in Russia-Ukraine war – YouTube
Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 7 2025 23:02 utc | 148
Let’s not dwell on corpses.
Meanwhile further south
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-november-7th
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 8 2025 1:55 utc | 149
Could anyone please suggest a reasonable mapping website for the Ukraine conflict?
Thanks in advance
JB
Posted by: Judge Barbier | Nov 8 2025 10:34 utc | 150
Federal insolvency crisis baked in the cake for 2027,
no moar Money
no moar wars
de-dollarization brings peace
Posted by: Exile | Nov 8 2025 13:37 utc | 151
Could anyone please suggest a reasonable mapping website for the Ukraine conflict?
Posted by: Judge Barbier | Nov 8 2025 10:34 utc | 150
—
https://divgen.ru/
In Russian. Just maps. Quick (if Russian) overview.
Posted by: too scents | Nov 8 2025 13:54 utc | 152
Could anyone please suggest a reasonable mapping website for the Ukraine conflict? Posted by: Judge Barbier | Nov 8 2025 10:34 utc | 150 — https://divgen.ru/ In Russian. Just maps. Quick (if Russian) overview.
Posted by: too scents | Nov 8 2025 13:54 utc | 152
Also
https://militarysummary.com/map
And
https://mskvremya.ru/article/2023/1473-kontr-nastup-interaktivnaya-karta-boevyh-deistviy-na-ukraine
(with bonus AFU casualties in another page https://mskvremya.ru/article/2023/1520-poteri-ukrainy-za-vremya-spetsoperatsii )
And
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1xPxgT8LtUjuspSOGHJc2VzA5O5jWMTE&ll=49.361052898910884%2C37.67163226441725&z=1
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 8 2025 14:50 utc | 153
Could anyone please suggest a reasonable mapping website for the Ukraine conflict?
Posted by: Judge Barbier | Nov 8 2025 10:34 utc | 150
Posted by: S | Nov 8 2025 17:15 utc | 154
Russian war correspondent Sergey Shilov on the West’s Goebbels-like propaganda against Russians (source):
Goebbels’ legacy lives on.
Western media have responded to the horrific video of civilians being killed by drones near Kupyansk as they approached Russian positions.
Here are examples of publications from the major German publication Focus and the American New York Post. I think there are more.
They don’t deny the war crime, but they blame everything… on us, Russians. Who do these “professional” journalists cite? Ukrainian psyops. An “excellent” source, indeed.
The video documenting the killings initially appeared on Russian channels on November 3rd. Ukrainian psyopers apparently downloaded it and published it later, on November 4th, with the emblem of the 77th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (7th Corps) on it. And in this form, Western media picked it up. Source: Spravdi Center channel on social media X.
https://x.com/StratcomCentre/status/1985656637911113980
This is the strategic communications unit of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. It supposedly fights fake news, but in reality, it creates and disseminates them. It orders the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to publish the necessary information and promote it in the media through foreign journalists.
Why was the 77th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces chosen? Because they are stationed in this sector of the front. In their publication, they accused the Russian Armed Forces “of a false flag operation.” Most likely, the elderly were killed by drone operators from this brigade as “collaborators.”
And one could ignore all this—we are being methodically dehumanized and demonized after 2022, no worse than Goebbels.But the information was sent by a Russian-speaking subscriber from abroad. He wrote that Germans call him “Russisch Schweine” [Russian Pig — S], referring to this video. He asked me to look into it.
I recently read a good idea: nothing and no one should be forgotten—both heroes and war criminals. Including those who deliberately dehumanize us.
Posted by: S | Nov 8 2025 17:22 utc | 155
The President that engaged the US in participation in WW2, Woodrow Wilson, had been elected as a “peace President” who would keep the US out of WW2 – he was convinced to change his mind.
Posted by: jared | Nov 7 2025 18:01 utc | 136
Woodrow Wilson was the one who entered WW1, not WW2. But indeed after being elected for keeping the US out of the mess in Europe. In order to change the public opinion on the matter, the young but popular journalist Walter Lippmann was hired. Lippmann orchestrated a synchronized campaign of all newspapers. Later, when Versailles had betrayed all idealist’s hope for a beneficial outcome, Lippmann wrote the seminal book ‘Public Opinion’ about this successful propaganda coup. Today this book is perceived as the foundational work of modern propaganda theory.
The crises of the US economy was overcome by the New Deal under Teddy Roosevelt, starting in 1933. By the time the US entered WW2 it’s economy had fully recovered. But WW1 had made some people very rich and these people wanted more. Also the US power elite would obviously gain even more control over Europe than they did with WW1. And while the same elite had supported the NSDAP as a bulwark against coommunism, it now was an easily exploitable image of a pure evil enemy. Even people like Woody Guthrie cheered on the war machine.
Posted by: Hamburger | Nov 8 2025 17:34 utc | 156
Another CIA base near Kiev hit overnight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsWa6Yj0xp4
Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Nov 8 2025 18:24 utc | 157
@ 130. ” West is doing a massive industrial reconversion, where automotive plants are producing military vehicles and everywhere factories are reconverted to produce eveything needed to sustain a war. And people supports it, as rearming means jobs and money flowing. ”
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Wow! You must have attended the same comedy/ propaganda school as Zolenski.
Modern automotive manufacturing is completely set up to manufacture light vehicles for the consumer. Most modern plants are only set up to build one specific make vehicle. Western and American auto manufacturing factories do not have the capacity, nor the equipment to build heavy military vehicles. To switch over to building military would require the entire factory to be completely re- tooled. A very expensive project that no auto maker would attempt without full government subsidy.
Re tooling is not happening. US car makers are just struggling making profits to survive the growing US depression building passenger vehicles. That fewer and fewer people can afford to buy.
As for Jobs??? The US economy shed over 150,000 jobs last month. A 175% decline from October 2024. Deindustrialization is sweeping Europe anong with high unemployment.
Where are all those jobs you say being created to build military equipment? There sure are not any rail cars full of tanks rolling off of assembly lines being seen in any western country.
The only country you see brand new new Tanks and IFVs. rolling down the line is in Russia.
Posted by: golddigger | Nov 8 2025 19:04 utc | 158
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 8 2025 19:36 utc | 159
Maybe this is related to the sudden disappearance of Lavrov…One foreign policy blunder too much, even for gullible VVP..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-establish-military-base-syrias-damascus
US To Establish Military Base In Syria’s Damascus
Posted by: Louis | Nov 8 2025 20:52 utc | 161
The only country you see brand new new Tanks and IFVs. rolling down the line is in Russia.
Posted by: golddigger | Nov 8 2025 19:04 utc | 157
… China … S Korea … N Korea
Posted by: Archetypex | Nov 8 2025 21:46 utc | 162
@ Louis | Nov 8 2025 20:52 utc | 160
Tsk, posting the same comment in three different threads shows a distinct lack of imagination, do try harder…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 8 2025 22:15 utc | 163
All because he was upset that the proper noun for the country-“ Turkey”- suggests the loud and ugly bird eaten during Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 7 2025 14:39 utc |
Many years ago I was one of a group of kibbutz volunteers listening to a potted history of Palestine courtesy of one of the kibbutzniks. Claudio was reeling off the list of conquerors of the Holy Land – Greeks, Romans etc. – before ending with the line “and then the Turkeys came”. For me it was an (all-too-rare) moment of uncontrollable hilarity which brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for the memory Claudio
Posted by: TheNorthernChef | Nov 8 2025 23:15 utc | 164
@ Hamburger | Nov 8 2025 17:34 utc | 155
You got the World Wars right but the Roosevelts wrong: It was Franklin Delano, not Theodore (who was already dead by then) who presided over the New Deal.
Nor had the US economy fully recovered by the time the US entered the Second World War. In fact, it was the lack of recovery that impelled FDR to seek a solution in a wartime economy. FDR had more or less killed what was left of the New Deal (after the Supreme Court had had its whacks at it) in 1937, when he implemented a program of financial austerity; unemployment rose as a result and did not decline until excess workforce was sent off to war.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 8 2025 23:23 utc | 165
TheNorthern Chef @ 164
The late Secwepemc traditional-sovereigntist warrior/elder Wolverine, who memorably disabled a Canadian APC chasing him, with a single shot during the 1995 siege of Sundance grounds at Gustafsen Lake, liked to joke: ‘Columbus got lost and thought he was in India so he called us ‘Indians’. Good thing he didn’t think he’d discovered Turkey or we’d all be called Turkeys.’
Thanks for the memory…
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 8 2025 23:51 utc | 166
The longer the war goes on the more pain for the West which is why they beg for a ceasefire in so many different ways. Russia will stay the course, and thr West will either lose, or escalate further…and still lose.
Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. But for the self styled masters of the universe such realism is anathema.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Nov 9 2025 1:41 utc | 167
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Nov 9 2025 1:41 utc | 167
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They know something we don’t/ If they lose, their children will still live as oligarchs. They have no “skin in the game”.
Every Western high-level political and military leader should have to pay reparations to Russia and Ukraine. This adventure should bankrupt them, but we don’t live in that world…
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 1:46 utc | 168
FDR had more or less killed what was left of the New Deal (after the Supreme Court had had its whacks at it) in 1937, when he implemented a program of financial austerity; unemployment rose as a result and did not decline until excess workforce was sent off to war.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 8 2025 23:23 utc | 165
My thinking is along these lines …
Got an unemployment problem, so what to do? I know! We kill off all the unemployed people, no more problem … oh wait, that’s unethical? Hmmm … let me think of something else.
I know, I know, we dig a big pit and we make all the unemployed people fight each other to the death until there’s just a handful left and we declare those remaining few to be “national heros”. See? We didn’t kill them, not our fault they killed each other and it solves the unemployment problem. Still unethical? Dang! You are so tough … nevermind I got more.
Ok, this is what we do … we get all our unemployed people, and we find some other country where they also have an unemployment problem and then we send our guys to fight their guys and when a handful of our guys come back we declare them national heros. That’s ethical? Bingo!!!
Posted by: Tel | Nov 9 2025 3:12 utc | 169
NATO To Deploy 800,000 Troops in Case of War With Russia – German General
https://www.rt.com/news/627508-nato-troops-moscow-war-german/
“Berlin is prepared for a war with Moscow and stands ready to facilitate the deployment of 800,000 NATO troops towards the Russian border, says the head of the nation’s joint operations command. Such a clash could happen ‘tomorrow’, Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank has warned…”
The General is not prepared nor is NATO and dreaming in technicolour.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 9 2025 4:32 utc | 170
Posted by: Louis | Nov 8 2025 20:52 utc | 160
Maybe this is related to <strong>the sudden disappearance of Lavrov</strong>…One foreign policy blunder too much, even for gullible VVP..https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-establish-military-base-syrias-damascusUS To Establish Military Base In Syria’s Damascus
Louis = a paid CIPSO idiot = lousy character pig
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/
Posted by: ghiwen | Nov 9 2025 7:20 utc | 171
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 8 2025 23:23 utc | 166
You got the World Wars right but the Roosevelts wrong:
Damn, yes, of course, thanks for the correction!
About the New Deal and FDR’s role in it, I have information conflicting with your description. I am certainly no expert on this matter, have not done any research but simply found my source plausible and trustworthy. History is notoriously ambiguous, subjective and relative. I can easily imagine your version being much closer to the actual course of events.
It would then fit much better into the pattern that Piketty states, where capitalist systems always spiral into a crisis that will lead to a collapse or a revolution or a war. This crisis dynamic is inherent in capitalism and happens with necessity. Personally, I believe this pattern is inherent in societies and does not require the ideology of capitalism, although capitalism certainly facilitates violence.
Posted by: Hamburger | Nov 9 2025 9:47 utc | 172
@ malenkoy, §166:
In fact FDR engineered the Pacific War to solve the unemployment problem.
He ordered Japan to withdraw from Vietnam (French Indochina as it then was) which Japan had occupied after the French surrender to the Germans. Then he ordered a blockade of Japan, specifically an oil embargo.
He knew the response: like England, Japan is an island dependent on imports and a blockade is an act of war. Neither England nor Japan could survive a blockade of much more than 3 months.
So no-one should have been surprised, least of all FDR (he wasn´t) when, 3 months to the day later, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.
Posted by: John Marks | Nov 9 2025 11:00 utc | 173
In fact FDR engineered the Pacific War to solve the unemployment problem.
Posted by: John Marks | Nov 9 2025 11:00 utc | 174
It might be advisable to be more prudent and less apodictic with statements about complex processes like this. It remains conjecture, we can’t know with any amount of certainty what motivated FDR. For example, at the time a war profiteer class was well established in the USA and they might have pushed the buttons as well.
Then the fact that Japan was an ruthless, imperialistic and quasi-fascist power, with a supremacist mindset, must have made any decision to oppose them much easier. To this day the Japanese are hated in China, Korea, Phillipines because of their former arrogance and violence.
Power itself, that is: success in the power game, is desirable. What is the greatest gift, that the gods give to men? Bringing down your fist on your enemy in victory! Says Euripides in the Bacchae, and who would disagree? Economic problems might have been a factor for the USA to enter WW2, but despite the reasonable arguments presented here, I can’t help myself but think that they were not a dominant factor.
Posted by: Hamburger | Nov 9 2025 11:49 utc | 174
Eightman@97
It is not a major war.
RF is spending 7% on the defense budget.
Bulk of that goes to the buildup of the military, only a fraction goes to the UA effort.
Poking the bear was not a good idea.
Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Nov 9 2025 12:07 utc | 175
golddigger@158……wars are long and dreary, retooling can happen faster than you think. The infrastructure is there. As for what happens during war that is a government private corp contract along the lines that everything built for war is delivered at cost, the companies partaking in these government programs have their profit built into back end government orders for after the war, and if that side looses…..hmm, profits will be the last thing people are concerned with…….
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 9 2025 13:50 utc | 176
Jolie like Sean Penn is a US deep state asset – as is George Clooney and his lawyer wife, used to give the Yanks the face of respectability – the Neo-Nazi’s are so desperate for bodies that – they tried to pressgang this guy into their Neo-Nazi fighting force.
“Hollywood star Angelina Jolie’s personal driver during her recent visit to Ukraine has revealed being subjected to Kiev’s relentless mobilization drive.
Dmitry Pishikov said, while driving Jolie around during the trip, he was detained at a military checkpoint and forcibly drafted into the Ukrainian army, despite having no intention of joining the forces, Russia Today reported on Sunday, citing the individual.
According to Pishikov, Ukrainian draft officers stopped Jolie’s convoy without reason, deceived him under the pretext of “clarifying details,” and took him to a local enlistment center.
There, the person added, he was effectively trapped and pressed into service.
Denouncing being misled and detained under false pretenses, Pishikov said the officials promised a brief procedure before “lying” about his release.
Jolie reportedly visited the center to inquire about the situation, but ultimately continued her trip, leaving the driver behind as Ukrainian officers processed his conscription.
As of Friday, Pishikov confirmed he had been transferred to a military training facility and would be compelled to “undergo training and serve in the army.”
The reported episode echoed various accounts of Ukraine’s forcible efforts at sustaining its undermanned military amid a 2022-present conflict with Russia.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 15:18 utc | 177
Another one added to the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi kill list – lately Woody Allen – and a group of kids some young as three-years old, were also added to the hit list.
“Russian figure skating star Petr Gumennik has been added to the ‘kill list’ run by Ukraine’s state-backed Mirotvorets website, which publishes the personal details of individuals it labels as ‘enemies’ of the state.
According to a November 9 entry, Gumennik is accused of “war propaganda” and “attacks on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” and deemed “complicit” in Russia’s alleged “crimes” against the country.
The entry featured Gumennik’s photos alongside other Russian public figures previously listed by Mirotvorets and included a mention of his father, Oleg Gumennik, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Under the current Kiev regime, the Ukrainian church affiliated with the ROC has faced raids, arrests, and bans over alleged ties to the Kremlin.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 16:01 utc | 178
Interesting stuff.
“Ukrainian anti-graft investigators have conducted multiple raids connected to Timur Mindich, a long-time associate of Vladimir Zelensky, according to opposition lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezhnyak and local news outlets.
The searches, carried out by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) on Monday, reportedly targeted properties owned by Mindich, as well as Justice Minister German Galushchenko – a former energy minister described by Ukrainian media as Mindich’s insider in the government – and also state-run nuclear operator Energoatom, Zhelezhnyak said on Monday.
NABU confirmed taking action against Energoatom, stating that it was investigating a “high-level criminal organization” operating within Ukraine’s energy sector. The agency said the case stems from over 1,000 hours of surveillance and 15 months of investigative work but declined to name any suspects.
The agency also released several images showing large quantities of cash, including a stack of 100-dollar bills packaged in plastic wrap, some of which had serial numbers and were marked “ATLANTA” and “KAN CITY.”
Mindich, a businessman and former entertainment industry figure, is known for his close personal and professional ties to Zelensky. The latter reportedly celebrated his birthday at Mindich’s apartment in 2021. Mindich’s address was reportedly under NABU surveillance for several months this year, with the Ukrainian leader allegedly having been recorded.
The existence of the recordings dubbed the “Mindich tapes” was made public shortly before Zelensky attempted to curtail NABU’s independence, triggering a pushback from Western governments.Last week, Ukrainskaya Pravda published a detailed report on Mindich’s alleged growing influence during Zelensky’s tenure. The outlet described him as a de facto oligarch whose business empire now spans both the defense and energy sectors.
The report also claimed that Mindich is under investigation for money-laundering by the US FBI, reportedly in cooperation with NABU.
Mindich’s alleged corporate interests include Fire Point, a company that transitioned from a film location scouting agency into one of Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturers, as well as the energy industry, including nuclear power generation.
Fire Point has previously been accused of securing inflated, no-bid government contracts, though it denies wrongdoing or having ties with Mindich.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 16:04 utc | 179
What is left of the once mighty Russian Army; under cover of fog, on motorbikes and in civilian vehicles with the doors removed (for easy exit in case a drone is spotted).
Russian troops trying to escape UKR/NATO forces, reportedly near Pokrovsk.
https://t.me/RVvoenkor/103550
Posted by: Louis | Nov 11 2025 7:41 utc | 180
Louis it’s a 180 – they’re coming in not going out…
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 7:57 utc | 181
As I expected, India is the first to bow to secondary sanctions (once a colony, forever a colony).
This marks, not only secondary sanctions wrecking Russia’s economy (already in very bad shape) but the beginning of the end for BRICS…
India Races To Replace Russian Oil With US, Iraqi, & UAE Crude
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/india-races-replace-russian-oil-us-iraqi-uae-crude#comment-stream
and another juicy news… Lukoil is going down the drain, again because of secondary sanctions
Lukoil Declares Force Majeure At Major Iraqi Oil Field Due To New US Sanctionshttps://www.zerohedge.com/energy/lukoil-declares-force-majeure-major-iraqi-oil-field-due-new-us-sanctions
I guess a big hit this year in Christmas carols in Moscow will be Doors’ ‘The End’
This is the endMy only friend, the endOf our elaborate plans, the endOf everything that stands, the endNo safety or surprise, the end
Posted by: Louis | Nov 11 2025 11:05 utc | 182
Louis it’s a 180 – they’re coming in not going out…
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 7:57 utc | 181
He’s just a troll, don’t bother to answer him. Like the ZH article, 5 million barrels for January of light crude, each month india buys 60 million from RF…
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 11 2025 12:28 utc | 183