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November 9, 2025
Ukraine Open Thread 2025-261
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Posted by: Louis | Nov 9 2025 21:36 utc | 96
Ukrainian Troops Encircled near Pokrovsk: Testimonies from Prisoners South Front
The situation on the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) direction is characterized by a significant operational pressure from Russian troops. Despite statements from the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrsky, about the existence of various action plans, including contingency options, and assurances that the situation is under control, incoming reports indicate a tightening encirclement. Estimates suggest that several dozen Ukrainian Armed Forces battalions, totaling up to two thousand personnel, have been trapped in the Pokrovsk area. All routes for safe withdrawal have reportedly been blocked and attempts to organize supplies or redeploy reinforcements have been unsuccessful.
God only knows how many are dead.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 9 2025 22:05 utc | 101
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 9 2025 20:44 utc | 79
When in a previous post I had wrote something like, “the SMO won’t be a strategic victory if Russia doesn’t conquer Odessa”
You corrected me ,”When Russia liberates Odessa”
It is not one of those, “a ‘distinction without a difference”, there was a significant difference – -you were correct.
Grasshopper
Posted by: canuk | Nov 9 2025 22:22 utc | 103
89: Butter(Ghee) Powered Generators are the Solution!!
Posted by: Nobody | Nov 9 2025 22:32 utc | 104
“Russian strike shuts down Ukraine; Zelensky/Army chiefs publicly row: Pokrovsk.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 9 2025 19:08 utc | 58
That seems a big deal – military over-ruling Zelensky, to his face and publicly. Must have had support of CIA. Zelensky is on the ledge.
Posted by: jared | Nov 9 2025 22:36 utc | 105
Attempts by Ukrainian soldiers to break out of the encirclement in Dimitrov on foot are recorded.
They change into civilian clothes and try to leave the city by road. Not everyone succeeds.
The Russian Army is on the move, and it looks like they develop actions in several directions, even being able to go behind some ukie defensive lines.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 9 2025 22:46 utc | 106
And soon Seversk will be inside a cauldron.
Please, psychopathic liars, go on with your lies. Reality shows who you are.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 9 2025 22:49 utc | 107
Message to Louis Ducon:
You friend Benjamin Diche, callsign Benson, a pro-nazi French mercenary was killed.
Why don’t you follow his path? Because you are a coward? Because you know all your words are lies?
Rien dans le pantalon, c’est sûr.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 9 2025 22:54 utc | 108
Sorry for trolling a troll. Could not resist.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 9 2025 22:55 utc | 109
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We shouldn’t detain him from his search for the missing Sergei Lavrov. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 9 2025 23:00 utc | 110
Fool Me Twice@67……..how many proxy armies and in how many countries, does Portugal control? You do see a difference? How many international sabotage teams and agent Provocateurs does Portugal have on the payroll? You do see the difference? How many …….okay I’ll stop, apples and oranges. Portugal has no hereditary claim to Russia…….England does, it’s a Royal Family thing, inbreeding is ugly. There is a huge difference when it comes to settling Royal family squabbles all the while armed with nuclear weapons……and really, broke, poor, in the shit house, it does not matter, that is the difference. Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 9 2025 20:11 utc | 70
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You skipped the part where I said England is 100 years behind Portugal. The British and former Russian Royal Families were linked briefly by German blood. That connection ended in 1918.
If not for the “favorite drunk uncle” status of the UK to the USA they would have already achieved the status of Portugal or Spain. The Royal Family is now an aging tourist attraction that brings in foreign and domestic money. The last 5 Prime Ministers have been a joke.
Recall that retired PM BoJo was initially behind a peaceful settlement in Ukraine. Then he was given a tap-on-the-shoulder by his handlers and sent to Kyiv to scuttle the potential deal. Did that tap originate in London or Washington? He has stayed on script ever since.
I doubt the UK has any remaining nuclear weapons that would actually work. Why would they, nothing else in the military does. These things have components that need to be replaced every few years in order to be operational.
I know there is a faction here and elsewhere that thinks London City still rules global finance. Not anymore, it just one more in a long line of money laundering hubs.
Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Nov 9 2025 23:20 utc | 111
Posted by: Naive | Nov 9 2025 22:55 utc | 109
No problem. How did you identify this person?
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 9 2025 23:22 utc | 112
@ Naive | Nov 9 2025 22:55 utc | 109
@ malenkov | Nov 9 2025 23:00 utc | 110
Round of drinks on my tab to both of you. I know we shouldn’t do it, but sometimes out-trolling trolls brings a guilty feeling of satisfaction, especially if there’s a handy quote to demolish their house of cards.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 9 2025 23:26 utc | 113
Posted by: bisfab | Nov 9 2025 21:21 utc | 92
“Putin is walking very fine line between Chabad handlers and the General Staff. He HAS to follow his script that’s been given for now until Wasrael and Europe are completely wasted economically and financially.”
That’s confusing maybe you can clarify – are you saying VVP for the last 30 years has been a ‘chabaddy’?
Whose script? What does it say? is khordoevski of Yukon actually in charge? Was his ousting and criminal charges just a ruse?
Or who else’s ? The central bankers of the Collective Waste? The ones who are raging that their takeover of ukropian resources isn’t going to happen?
or that RF fails to fail, again?
They are the ones trying to arrange another great defeat of charging eurokids into Russian canons!
And supposedly steal RF central bank money which they control anyway?
See ?? All so confusing.
Is there some connection between WasNeverReal and Europe but NOT the rest of the 5Eyes ?
Anyway …
Here is shelenskis latest daily fireside mugging to camera with his daily FCO/PR script in the daily narrative soap opera.
Hey – the XX rated sanctions package that He is working on – and it will hit anyone deemed by him to be proRussian!
https://t.me/myLordBebo/89206
‘ 🇺🇦🇷🇺🚨‼️ BREAKING! Russia is down. The war is lost.
Zelensky: “We are already preparing the 20th sanctions package with our EU partners.“
Everyone knows, 20 is the limit. The 20th will finally kill Russia and Ukraine I’ll win … right?
🔗 @MyLordBebo ‘
Looks like he is letting his beard grow.
Perhaps he’ll out himself as full chabad finally!
And then go meet his pet Pooootin in Moscow and throw hoops with him.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 9 2025 23:29 utc | 114
@ Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 9 2025 23:26 utc | 113
A round from you is an honor, sir!
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 9 2025 23:30 utc | 115
Vancouver Island was a great place until too many decided to retire there. Fortunately there will be plenty of space in Crimea and Odessa soon, for all of you.
Manitoba. A great place to be from. Better farming in Ukraine. And flying blood suckers can be equally found in similar quantities.
My buddy Mr. Kozek tells me his family was from Ukraine. I said, “you do understand that your last name means Cossack? No?” He gave me this blank stare, as if I was from outer space.
May this war end. Lots of repairing to do, which will take generations.
Posted by: kupkee | Nov 9 2025 23:52 utc | 116
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 9 2025 23:26 utc | 113
Thanks for the laugh!
Prosit!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prosit
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 9 2025 23:30 utc | 115
Seconded wholeheartedly!
Posted by: Naive | Nov 10 2025 0:10 utc | 117
No problem. How did you identify this person?
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 9 2025 23:22 utc | 112
Sorry for the misunderstanding: ducon = du con = from the cunt.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 10 2025 0:12 utc | 118
Posted by: Naive | Nov 10 2025 0:12 utc | 118
Oh…. hahaha. Ok.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 10 2025 0:26 utc | 119
@ Naive | Nov 10 2025 0:12 utc | 118
Well, when you think about it, we’re all “du con”…so how about “connard”?
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 10 2025 0:55 utc | 120
Well, when you think about it, we’re all “du con”…so how about “connard”?
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 10 2025 0:55 utc | 120
It is a synonym.
Posted by: Naive | Nov 10 2025 1:01 utc | 121
Here’s how we know Schumer’s Shutdown has to end this week:
Weapons exports to NATO members have suffered, what with the political gridlock.
In other words, the MIC weapons can’t get to NATO members fast enough to transfer them to Ukraine.
AXIOS is reporting that the US government shutdown has delayed more than $5 billion in arms exports to European NATO members and subsequent transfers to Ukraine. More than $5 billion in arms exports – including AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, HIMARS, and other weapons for European NATO members – have been affected.
When you factor in the lag in SNAP coupons for the 1 in 8 Americans who need them for their daily bread, you can really see Schumer’s Shutdown as a guns ‘n butter issue.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 10 2025 2:13 utc | 122
RE: Posted by: bisfab | Nov 9 2025 21:21 utc | 92
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Chabad has been in China for over 20 years.
Putin, Trump, Netanyahu…..all Chabadniks.
Psalm chapter 2 tells us that all the kings of the earth and rulers are in it together. All.
Chabad is behind the Noahide laws: Penalty for worshiping Jesus Christ is decapitation (Rev 20:4).
For those not aware of the Noahide laws, an excellent primer:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/XVizyRdIkLQS/
Posted by: FollowsTheWay | Nov 10 2025 2:15 utc | 123
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I keep seeing this pop up on You Tube. It just amazes me as to appealing to save pets in Ukraine……rather than humans or men or the whole idiot nation. Priorities, you know
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 10 2025 2:43 utc | 124
@ sean the leprechaun | Nov 9 2025 20:03 utc | 68
sounds like you had a nice time when visiting here! i have noticed less tolerance for cold as i’ve gotten older too and yes – plenty of food here on the island in the summer.. not so much in winter! mushrooms – it is chanterelle season here at the moment.. hopefully you can come back for the fishing next summer.. you can keep some of those fish in the campbell river -pinks and other kinds of salmon too… cheers..
Posted by: james | Nov 10 2025 3:09 utc | 125
I believe that many, if not all most, of commenters on this and many other sites are Jews/Masons whose job is to confuse and wear down and exhaust the rest of us just the way Albert Pike and Rothschilds wanted so that we would then worship their master Lucifer. I believe this includes the vast majority of national rulers including Putin. Guess what none of you wilL be able to do it. The Eternal Father has other plans.
Posted by: Boxwoodtree | Nov 10 2025 3:12 utc | 126
Vancouver Island was a great place until too many decided to retire there. Posted by: kupkee | Nov 9 2025 23:52 utc | 116
Still is. Pick yer spot.
Mt. Cain! Yee-ha………!!
Posted by: drinky crow | Nov 10 2025 3:26 utc | 127
Posted by: Jason | Nov 9 2025 21:01 utc | 85
“When Europeans know that military help is not forthcoming they have only two options, perish or surrender to Russia.”
From everything one reads, Russia doesn’t really want Europe; way more trouble than they are worth. Trying to fix Europe would be like herding cats.
https://youtu.be/m_MaJDK3VNE?si=sJ_-Yyh6yeKbiRhl
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 10 2025 4:31 utc | 128
Ukraine update + Understanding the US proxy war in Ukraine: First Principles vs. Fantasy
Brian Berletic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lCEdPZOH3k
Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Nov 10 2025 4:50 utc | 129
Electric War…
https://x.com/SprinterPress/status/1987648222605791378
“Power goes out again during Zelensky’s Guardian interview…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 10 2025 5:36 utc | 130
The ‘best anti-aircraft defense in the world’ has once again done its job: Belgorod and Taganrog were ‘switched off’ by precise UKR/NATO strikes.
Since this ‘city shutdown test’ was so successful, it’s likely that Russians will spend a beautiful, cold, and oh-so-romantically dark Christmas in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-hits-back-two-russian-cities-without-power-heating-after-missile-drone-attacks
Posted by: Louis | Nov 10 2025 7:05 utc | 131
FABs being dropped into AFU accumulations in Myrnograd, on buildings they are hiding.
Footage showing a Russian FAB-3000 glide-bomb strike on a concentration of Ukrainian infantry in the besieged city of Myrnohrad. Russia launches hundreds of glide-bombs per day. Many killed from the strikes will only ever be counted as MIA.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 7:09 utc | 132
Everything is hard for Zelensky because of the war – he is just there to help (but could leave at moments notice).
“It’s hard for me in Ukraine right now because of the war. But I want to be here, I want to help it as much as I can” — Zelensky -> Zelensky distances himself from the situation, he sounds like a volunteers who can leave at any moment … but like the guy in charge … especially the guy who caused most of it.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1987770358439485512
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 7:20 utc | 133
Norway’s pension fund promises to guarantee EU 140 billion reparation loan to Ukraine.
I guess the scheme for stealing Russian assets wasn’t so bullet proof after all, if it needs tax payer guarantees.
Self-hating Norwegian politicians are calling on Oslo to use its sovereign wealth fund to guarantee the EU’s €140 billion reparations loan for Ukraine, amid a political deadlock caused by Belgium’s legal objections to using frozen Russian assets as collateral.
Supporters argue that Norway’s windfall from replacing Russia as Europe’s main gas supplier gives it both the financial means and a moral duty to help. Opposition leader Guri Melby said Norway “has the means to guarantee a loan that would help Ukraine defend itself,” while Greens chief Arild Hermstad called it “a moral obligation.”
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has ordered a review of potential involvement, with his finance ministry maintaining close contact with Brussels. Norway has already pledged €27 billion in aid to Ukraine through 2030, but the debate reflects growing European pressure on the continent’s energy-rich state to take a larger role in financing Ukraine’s recovery and resistance.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 7:30 utc | 134
Merz: “We will have the largest army in Europe”…..
Absolutely nothing to worry about.
1871 -> 14 colonial wars-> WW1 -> Finnish CW -> Ukraine War of Independence, 10 (uprisings, freikorps, putsches, revolutions) -> 2 proxy (Spain&Sudetenland -> Czechoslovakia -> WW2 -> Berlin (53&61) -> 30 (!!) Years of no wars. -> Desert Storm -> Serbia -> Afghanistan -> “War on ISIL” 2025.
Von Paulus, leader of the 6th army while encircled in Stalingrad, reflecting in December 1942: “This war is just a continuation of the previous war. And if we lose this one to, we will definitely win the next one. Then we’ll have so much experience that we will be invincible”.
Posted by: NorwegianPawn | Nov 10 2025 7:37 utc | 135
Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 10 2025 4:31 utc | 129
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It seems that many do not understand that neither Russia nor China have Imperial aims.
I think, because they both know that being on top is a precarious position. The only place to go is down. Heavy is the crown and all that…
Also, ruling people in an increasingly technological age is backassward.
The Russians and Chinese take governance as a sacred duty, not an opportunity to line one’s pockets as it is in the West.
Not everyone is governable or morally/spiritually/ethically compatible with those two civilizations.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2025 7:44 utc | 136
Posted by: NorwegianPawn | Nov 10 2025 7:37 utc | 136
Today’s Germany is just a wannabe Nazi Germany with very different starting point. Germany has never been in such a bad condition as today with the exception of immediate WW2 aftermath.
They are able to persecute their own citizens for wrong think but they won’t be able to wage wars until several decades, in current trajectory probably never, as the effeminate cucks will run it much deeper into the ground.
The European MIC isn’t there for efficiency, they are simply making profits and bankrupting and collapsing EU states and their budgets.
Energy and industrial policies are catastrophic.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 8:00 utc | 137
back on the secret biological labs operating along the Ukraine side of the Russian border.. and relationships involving the “GET RUSSIA CROWDS”
Is there a link to findings Russia filed with the UN and or other agencies concerning the activities in these secret biolabs as they entered Ukraine at the start of the SMO?
https://vtforeignpolicy.com/2025/11/exclusive-explosive-study-the-recipe-to-build-a-covid-in-biolab-published-by-faucis-collaborator-on-2017-where-was-trump/
Big personality names and privately owned Too Big To Fail corporations and non profits are associated with bioengineering viri into weapons of mass destruction. Virus releases can change the narrative and support implementation of legal and regulatory control over populations.
I am seeing signs that suggest, the attacking forces in future wars will no longer be restricted to government uniformed soldiers.Private corporations are large enough, powerful enough and able to do their own research and to develop these bio weapons.. all without anyone knowing anything. The cost of doing bio research is relatively inexpensive, the technology to do the research is easy to learn and discoveries are easy to implement.
What a deal: engineer the virus, then engineer a vaccine, release the virus, factory produce and package the vaccine and sell the vaccine to the world.. This eliminates the cost and risk of discovery that the vaccine has hidden health problems big enough to deny it agency approval as is generally involved with doing clinical trials and getting agency approval. Agency approval comes as a function of the urgency dictated by immediate need : makes agency approvals for the use of the vaccine nearly automatic..
Posted by: snake | Nov 10 2025 8:47 utc | 138
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 7:30 utc | 135
Norway’s pension fund promises to guarantee EU 140 billion reparation loan to Ukraine.
Kind correction. It isn’t the Norwegian pension fund that is now candidate to be on the line of fire as collateral for a loan from international investors to the dying Ukrainian State. It is the Sovereign Wealth Fund. Many nations with surpluses from trading in natural resources (e.g. KSA, Russia, Norway) create these funds to invest in their nations and around the world.
I think this is going to be big news in the near future. International investors will naturally be reluctant to loan to Ukraine with frozen Russian assets parked in Euroclear as collateral because the legal owner of the collateral will not sign the loan contract. While in the case of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the legal owner will happily sign the loan contract, thus exposing its funds as collateral. In addition, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund is several times higher than the frozen Russian assets.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/07/pressure-grows-on-norway-to-use-oil-fund-to-unlock-eu-loan-for-ukraine/
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 10 2025 8:51 utc | 139
As usual I don’t remember where I read this and apologies for that, but I did read somewhere that Russia vrry clearly stated that at the moment Ukr stops attacking Russian energy, Russia will stop attacking Ukr energy. So very simple.
Posted by: Avtonom | Nov 10 2025 8:53 utc | 140
SOLDIERS OF THE GROUP OF FORCES “EAST” LIBERATED TWO SETTLEMENTSUnits of the group of forces “East”, advancing on a wide front, hoisted the flags of the Russian Federation in two settlements at once:– Soldiers of the 394th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment – in the village of Sladkoye (Zaporozhye region);– Soldiers of the 114th Motorized Rifle Regiment – in the village of Novoye (Zaporizhzhia region);As a result of the wedge in the depth of the enemy’s defenses in several areas, the Far Eastern Warriors took control of a total of more than 25 square kilometers of territory. In the battles for two settlements, the enemy lost over two companies of manpower, as well as armored and automotive equipment.In 4 days, the Far Eastern Warriors have already liberated 5 settlements.
Colonelcassad – Telegram
@voin_dv
02:20
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 10 2025 8:55 utc | 141
Everything is hard for Zelensky because of the war – he is just there to help (but could leave at moments notice).
“It’s hard for me in Ukraine right now because of the war. But I want to be here, I want to help it as much as I can” — Zelensky -> Zelensky distances himself from the situation, he sounds like a volunteers who can leave at any moment … but like the guy in charge … especially the guy who caused most of it.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 7:20 utc | 134
where is here
weird quote i thought little z spent most of his time across the border with his mi6 sas chums holed up in poland?
he only goes to ukrainia for the odd film foto shoot most of the time it is simply blue screen green screen or real locations standing in for ukraine.
also much much time spent international jet set for foto psy ops and plenty of shopping.
did he and his backers not buy a french bank last year?
Posted by: normal wisdom | Nov 10 2025 8:59 utc | 142
The ‘best anti-aircraft defense in the world’ has once again done its job: Belgorod and Taganrog were ‘switched off’ by precise UKR/NATO strikes.
Posted by: Louis | Nov 10 2025 7:05 utc | 132
Now we know where the Tomahawk Missiles ended up going to … but what the USA must be considering is that bit by bit the Russians will figure out how to catch one of those Tomahawks. The more often the Americans use them, the more likely that becomes.
Posted by: Tel | Nov 10 2025 9:02 utc | 143
International investors will naturally be reluctant to loan […] because the legal owner of the collateral will not sign the loan contract.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 10 2025 8:51 utc | 140
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You can’t really be serious about counterparty quality. The foundation of our financial crisis is fraudulent convenience.
Collateral has been subordinated into dust and nobody cares. Prices for Fictitious Capital have never been higher!
Nothing is going to stop this madhouse until physical delivery of real capital takes a hit. A threat the Chinese have very effectively made.
Posted by: too scents | Nov 10 2025 9:09 utc | 144
AXIOS is reporting that the US government shutdown has delayed more than $5 billion in arms exports to European NATO members and subsequent transfers to Ukraine.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 10 2025 2:13 utc | 261
AXIOS reports a lot of stuff, most of it ain’t worth a sausage … government shutdowns are for the small and insignificant people … like the people who want to walk in a national park and discover that despite it actually costing more to close the park (and guard all the entrances and exits) than having the park open (on days when it’s open you barely see anyone even show up) despite it making no sense at all, we are led to believe that this “shutdown” means that they do in fact stop spending your money.
Posted by: Tel | Nov 10 2025 9:10 utc | 145
“It seems that many do not understand that neither Russia nor China have Imperial aims.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 10 2025 7:44 utc | 137”
One core reason for that (no imperial aim) was brilliantly explained by Emmanuel Todd : both China and Russia have (authoritarian) EQUALITARIAN family structures, that have translated into their government form (communism).
My guess is that this equalitarian core spirit also translates into their relation towards other countries. All their (Chinese/Russian) public joint speech mention that they are committed to having equalitarian relations between nations (e.g. Brics).
This equalitarian spirit is completely alien to the Anglo world.
Posted by: Asian Frog | Nov 10 2025 9:38 utc | 146
sean the leprechaun@55
UA is stronger than the European part of NATO
Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Nov 10 2025 9:54 utc | 147
Looks like AFU offensive around Shakhove-Dobropilya completely stalled. RUAF is now even attacking Shakhove from the east, which could force AFU to abandon their attempts to attack Rodynske from the north.
Meanwhile bombing and surrendering in Myrnograd pocket continue.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 10:16 utc | 148
Now we know where the Tomahawk Missiles ended up going to
Posted by: Tel | Nov 10 2025 9:02 utc | 144
No need for Tomahawks, both cities were reportedly FLAMINGOed
Posted by: Louis | Nov 10 2025 10:25 utc | 149
sean the leprechaun@71
The independence revolution moved the power center of the empire to the US.
The UK royal family is a member of the ‘Owners of the West’ club but not a leader as it is intellectually not up to the task.
Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Nov 10 2025 10:35 utc | 150
Posted by: too scents | Nov 10 2025 9:09 utc | 145
Collateral has been subordinated into dust and nobody cares.
Sure, that’s why it’s no problem for euro leaders to get investors to package a 100+ billions loan to Ukraine, that’s why there is no discussion about using Russian frozen assets as collateral, …., wait!
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 10 2025 11:14 utc | 151
Clash of Hemispheres
Sundered are the peacemakers: Trump and Putin speak across a neurological fault line, where the left and right hemispheres wage their dissonant struggle over time, history and truth.
https://www.beyondwasteland.net/p/clash-of-hemispheres
Belgium has really good jokes : “We won’t let you (404) get Russian money frozen in our coffers … but we named a comedian as Defense minister and he just proposed to raze Moscow, you Happy ? (We’re talking about a country that realized their country wasn’t big enough to fly with F35 … after buying F35… and antagonizing the French… I’m just waiting for the Swiss version of the joke now :p)
Gehlenskiy’s asking Norway for money now, he’s like : “C’mon you don’t need that sovereign fund of your , just give us a tiny $140B “loan” , plizzz “. The worst part : he might get some… also trowing money a RUAF FPV might work 🙂
Posted by: Savonarole | Nov 10 2025 11:41 utc | 153
Mercouris says Pokrovsk is being held onto by Zelensky for political reasons. I can understand that line of thinking to an extent.
What I cannot understand is why Russia just not taking the matter out of his hands now.
Posted by: Night Tripper | Nov 10 2025 12:05 utc | 154
Posted by: Night Tripper | Nov 10 2025 12:05 utc | 155
The key issue regarding Pokrovsk/Myrnograd is the fact that there are thousands of AFU troops trapped within the ruins of Myrnograd. There is no ‘mass assault’, rather they try to handle it by persuading surrender (partially succeeding) and on the other hand by bombing. The largest FAB-3000s are used in Myrnograd, which will make short work of potential strongholds.
The other issue is keeping AFU at bay around Rodynske, Dobropilla and Shakhove to keep them from opening the cauldron. This seems to so far be working.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 12:19 utc | 155
The latest estimates claim 700-2,000 Ukraine troops left in the Pokrovsk/Myrnograd cauldron.
Posted by: Fredrick | Nov 10 2025 12:32 utc | 156
Posted by: snake | Nov 9 2025 21:46 utc | 99
Excellent post.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 10 2025 12:47 utc | 157
“The other issue is keeping AFU at bay around Rodynske, Dobropilla and Shakhove to keep them from opening the cauldron. This seems to so far be working.”
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 12:19 utc | 156
It looks like the RUAF is finally closing off Shakhove
The whole Pokrovsk theater has been a fantastic flytrap for predictable Ukrainian counter-attacks,
they’ve lost up to 50,000 soldiers there alone since the summer.
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Nov 10 2025 12:51 utc | 158
“International investors will naturally be reluctant to loan […] because the legal owner of the collateral will not sign the loan contract.”
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 10 2025 8:51 utc | 140 — “You can’t really be serious about counterparty quality. The foundation of our financial crisis is fraudulent convenience.”
Posted by: too scents | Nov 10 2025 9:09 utc | 145
Kaspar is 100% correct-with all due respect, too scents, that’s how the banking system works.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 10 2025 12:52 utc | 159
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 7:30 utc | 135
“Norway’s pension fund promises to guarantee EU 140 billion reparation loan to Ukraine. I guess the scheme for stealing Russian assets wasn’t so bullet proof after all, if it needs tax payer guarantees.”
A fool and his/her money are soon parted.
Wealth of empire flows down the Udraine.
Does it spiral clockwise or anticlockwise – how does the Coriolis force work in the northern hemisphere?
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Nov 10 2025 12:58 utc | 160
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Nov 10 2025 12:58 utc | 161
A fool and his/her money are soon parted.
Norwegian citizens will be offered the following as rationale:
Listen you fucking subjects of the Crown, uncountable minions toiling in your cubicles, government offices, shops, offshore platforms, banks, fishing boats and fish processing factories, all of you my fucking subjects: we’ve made a lot of money out of the Russia-Ukraine war because we are now the main supplier of natural gas to Europe, displacing Russia, so we have a moral duty to use part of our newly gained wealth to support the Ukrainian State.
You follow motherfuckers?
How about we expose part of our saved wealth from trade in gas and oil to guarantee a cool 100+ billions to the Ukrainian State? That way international investors will package the loan and pass the cash to the very trustworthy Ukrainians.
The Ukrainian State may cease to exist in a couple of years, or it may transform into a dependency of Russia thus reneging of all previous debts, and then we gonna have to make international investors whole, but that would be only a part of all the newly gained wealth thanks to the demise of the Ukrainian nation at the hand of the Russians.
Sounds fair, right motherfuckers? You Norwegians got to be thankful that we made up this bullshit for you. We could just go ahead and expose our wealth for the sake of the Ukrainians without ever telling you, fucking subjects of the Crown.
Or something like that.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 10 2025 13:26 utc | 161
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 7:30 utc | 135“Norway’s pension fund promises to guarantee EU 140 billion reparation loan to Ukraine. I guess the scheme for stealing Russian assets wasn’t so bullet proof after all, if it needs tax payer guarantees.”
That’s 21,000 ~ Euros per every Norwegian man, woman, and child.
Posted by: Fredrick | Nov 10 2025 13:30 utc | 162
Zelensky’s “wallet” Mindich, fled Ukraine just hours before a raid by NABU and SAP.
New details now reveal that Mindich was at the center of a massive corruption network inside Energoatom. Contractors were forced to pay 10–15% kickbacks on every deal, under threat of payment blocks or losing their supplier status — and those who refused were told their employees would be drafted into the army.
Mindich worked closely with former Deputy Head of the State Property Fund Igor Mironyuk, Energoatom Security Director Dmitry Basov, and ex-Energy Minister Galushchenko, using their positions to seize control over staffing, procurement, and financial flows. In effect, Zelensky’s inner circle ran the state company — with annual revenues exceeding 200 billion hryvnia — as their personal cash machine.
Meanwhile, searches are underway at the homes of the Justice Minister, former Energy Minister Glushchenko, and within Energoatom. So far, investigators are finding stacks of cash.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 13:50 utc | 163
james@126…….it was a delightful trip …… especially finding something I didn’t know existed……..Fireweed Honey. The Fireweed is the first plant to appear after a forest fire has occured…….and the honey from those plants is almost as clear as water…….was tempted to drink it like water……..pure food from the highest source……and oh so good……. unfortunately I now judge all honey against its standards…….
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 10 2025 13:55 utc | 164
In April 2023, Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau (NABU) put several suspects in the Odessa Port Plant case on a wanted list. One of them, Oleksandr Gorbunenko, fled to the U.S. just days before the operation began, where he received refugee protection. After NABU’s appeal in April 2025, U.S. authorities detained him while trying to fly to Dubai. The FBI later released him under protection, suggesting he agreed to cooperate — and during questioning, Mindich’s name reportedly came up.
A Ukrainian law enforcement source said Gorbunenko likely laundered money through the same schemes as others involved in the plant’s corruption network. The FBI may now be investigating not only Mindich but other high-level figures tied to these schemes.
Question for the Bar? Why does the FBI investigate Mindich for an Ukrainian crime?
Posted by: Fredrick | Nov 10 2025 14:07 utc | 165
Posted by: Fredrick | Nov 10 2025 14:07 utc | 165
U.S. Funds , lots of dollars and extraterritorial authority under FISA act.
Guess where did the guys flee ? Yeah , you got it , the country that shouldn’t be a country to begin with…
Posted by: Savonarole | Nov 10 2025 14:14 utc | 166
Sounds to me like Russia is still negotiating…with itself. The other thing that bugged me in that report, if true, is that Russia still cares what the media mockingbirds of the western world reports vis-à-vis Russia’s conduct in this war. I mean WTF. I’m not a big fan of whataboutism but, it’s hard to not bring up Gaza in that context.
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 9 2025 17:23 utc | 39
Even if you conquer a country there can be an even heavier price in lives and treasure trying to pacify what you’ve seized. Russia has centuries of experience of conquest and assimilation … for them WW2 didn’t end on VE day … the fighting went on for a decade in the Soviet Union proper and until 1990 in the Warsaw pact countries.
This affects not only their relationship with the conquered but also for their own citizens who who were dissatisfied seeing the countries wealth going to fund wars instead of consumer goods and housing say nothing of having to support was veterans recovering from wounds and PTSD.
The Russians have also paid attention to the American experience in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and don’t want to step on the same rake.
The main objective of the Ukraine SMO is security for Russians both in Ukraine and from NATO in general and it’s far cheaper and easier to accomplish those objectives with diplomacy rather than warfare.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Nov 10 2025 14:17 utc | 167
@165
The money laundry ran through the USA, the currency was mostly US dollar and funds pillaged were likely fron US aid sources.
Posted by: paddy | Nov 10 2025 14:41 utc | 168
At the start of this interview Sleboda puts forward the explanation for Lavrov’s absence at the recent Security Council meeting. Fits with Mercouris’ view on the same lines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp2MJKORrts
Along the way Sleboda sets out Russian suspicions about the West’s “dirty war”. Given the frequent attacks on the ZNPP and given attacks on other NPP’s, three others so far by my reckoning, probably justified.
Good thing if this conflict got wrapped up pretty soon. Not only the waste of life. If there’s anything in those Russian suspicions, and I believe there is, sooner the better.
Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 10 2025 14:52 utc | 169
Re: Posted by: HB_Norica | Nov 10 2025 14:17 utc | 167
The Russians have also paid attention to the American experience in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and don’t want to step on the same rake.The main objective of the Ukraine SMO is security for Russians both in Ukraine and from NATO in general and it’s far cheaper and easier to accomplish those objectives with diplomacy rather than warfare.
Not sure what you’re talking about.
The best way to pacify a population and bring them to your point of view is to defeat them.
The Russians should copy the US attacks on Japan as a way to win the population over.
The Americans inflicted a clear defeat on Japan and by doing so won a loyal vassal for decades.
Just copy the US strategy in Japan – that is the best way to win the favour of the people in the target country.
Posted by: Julian | Nov 10 2025 14:53 utc | 170
Re: Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 10 2025 14:52 utc | 169
Good thing if this conflict got wrapped up pretty soon. Not only the waste of life. If there’s anything in those Russian suspicions, and I believe there is, sooner the better.
A fundamental misunderstanding of this conflict.
This conflict will continue for some time yet – at least 18 months – 2 years.
The Russians are nowhere near inflicting defeat on Ukraine – we may only just be half way through the kinetic phase – if that.
It is certainly not in the Russian strategy to “wrap up this conflict” anytime soon.
How else can you explain the Slow SMO “attrition” strategy – many years to run yet.
Posted by: Julian | Nov 10 2025 14:56 utc | 171
Wow….
Colonelcassad
The Verkhovna Rada reported that the light in Ukraine will be constantly turned off at least until the end of the heating season. This is with the current level of damage to the power grid, when winter has not even begun yet.
It will be interesting to listen to the forecasts in a month, after the continuation of the campaign of missile and drone strikes. The growth in the production of Geraniums now makes it possible to put pressure on the energy system on a daily basis, complementing targeted missile strikes.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 10 2025 15:02 utc | 172
@170 Julian
I was thinking of the Chechnyan model. And right now people from Chechnya seem to be some of the most pro-Russia people on earth. It will be brutal for a while (like the next couple of years) for the people of Ukraine. The more resources the west devotes to Ukraine, the more pain the remaining Ukrainians will experience.
I am hoping that no one uses nuclear bombs like we did to Japan.
Posted by: Woke American | Nov 10 2025 15:12 utc | 173
According to news platform Strana, Selensky’s moneybag Minditsch was spied upon by the National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine (NABU). NABU claims to have recorded over 1000 hours of phone calls hinting at massive corruption. Minditsch supposedly has left Ukraine before he could get caught. Releasing this would cause a political scandal in Ukraine.
Posted by: V for Vendetta | Nov 10 2025 15:35 utc | 174
Posted by: Julian | Nov 10 2025 14:56 utc | 171
At one point you mention Russia may not want to wrap up the SMO as it is in its interest not to. You may be right, but I also believe Russia can’t wrap it up even if it wanted to . At the least , it may be afraid to bring in all the auxiliaries of the Hegemon ; which may be too much for it at present.
Posted by: Julian | Nov 10 2025 14:56 utc | 171
No, because only the US had a working deliverable Atom bomb with Japan , and noone else could compete. As far as we know the Russia has no wunderwaffe (sic) of the same order of magnitude that they can use, that will force the US and its vassals to stay put. Yes, I know re the new weapons talked about but they still don’t scare anyone enough as it appears there will be Day Two to consider. In Japan ,the US knew there was no Day Two to consider.
Also no , as bombing Japanese is different to bombing your own people. The Russians, too all intents correctly see this as a civil war and unlike the US ,France,UK dont want to have another civil war. Now why the decision-makers in Russia care so much about their own , when the US,UK and French didn’t, is a question I would love answered one day.
Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 10 2025 15:39 utc | 175
Earlier in this thread, a commenter conjectured that the Waffen SS of Galicia are starting to send hard core SS members to die as cannon fodder and that this will weaken their grip on power.
The negative reply to this conjecture is contained within the proposal itself. Why would a group who always put themselves before all others suddenly decide to strip itself of it’s foot soldiers who help it retain power? No, emphatically NO, when the Waffen SS of Galicia are truly forced into combat they will do what all ardent Nazis do in such circumstances, retreat or surrender. As long as the war continues you can rest assured that the Waffen SS of Galicia are safely in the rear.
Based on this video, the Waffen SS of Galicia are still sending the usual suspects…definitely not a Waffen SS dude.
https://sonar21.com/lavrov-reaffirms-russias-demands-to-end-the-war-as-ukraine-crumbles-under-withering-attacks/
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 10 2025 15:45 utc | 176
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 10 2025 15:45 utc | 176
Cowards
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 10 2025 15:52 utc | 177
Russian Army Captures Hnativka After Neutralizing 200 Ukrainian Troops In Pokrovsk (Videos)South Front
On November 10, the Russian military captured a small settlement adjacent to the key city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk after inflicting heavy losses on Ukrainian troops trapped there.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 10 2025 15:53 utc | 178
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 10 2025 15:45 utc | 176
Earlier, during Ukraine’s Kursk offensive and later in Kupyansk, it was revealed that the Azov units have also resorted to filling their ranks with street abductees as their ranks also dwindled. It’s possible they are not the ‘worst’ but somewhat better quality people but regardless. As such you may be correct that they are not the actual hardcore nazis who are fighting now, but they most likely went through compact nazi-affiliated indoctrination and training.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 15:54 utc | 179
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 9 2025 20:03 utc | 69
“Side note: I really am old”
At last – some good news from you. Hopefully we won’t have to put up with your slavering for much longer
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Nov 10 2025 15:55 utc | 180
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 16:08 utc | 181
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 16:09 utc | 182
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 16:09 utc | 183
Germany, being completely subserviant to it’s US masters, continues in it’s efforts to normalize the Ukraine-blew-up-Nordstrom narrative:
https://x.com/TheOtherSideRu/status/1987878073409196076
Naming Zaluzhny is awkward though. What if Britain/US decide that Zaluzhny will be the new president of Ukraine?
Posted by: Hamburger | Nov 10 2025 16:21 utc | 184
Posted by: Woke American | Nov 10 2025 15:12 utc | 174
Vicky and neocons were aware of the risks … it’s maybe even the reason why they pushed for this conflict scenario amongst others. The US problem (and now DJT’s problem despite his claims) is that the Russian known from the start where it came from … remember who published the “fuck the EU” call ? The SVR.
They knew all along , and yet they pretend to “talk” as if nothing ever happened ; it’s not that reassuring knowing Putin and the Russian in general … but not as frightening than a coke-head with some nuclear reactors.
Posted by: Savonarole | Nov 10 2025 16:35 utc | 185
After reading Jams O’Donnell 181 call for the death of a fellow commenter because he doesn’t agree with the latter on all matters great and small; I think it’s fair to assume that J-O has the morals of Nile crocodile hunting a child sent to fetch water.
To be clear, I’m not calling for J-O’s censure or, for that matter, his death* but, I would ask other commenters to consider that 181 is a man without a conscious, not a person who opinion deserves serious consideration.
*Although, given J-O’s miserable state, such an outcome may well be God showing Jams O’Donnell a mercy that J-O himself does not possess.
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 10 2025 16:40 utc | 186
Posted by: Julian | Nov 10 2025 14:56 utc | 171
Yes. One sees predictions, from the Russian side as well, that this war could last a few years yet. That, however, assumes no political or social collapse in Ukraine.
Only the Russians can evaluate the likelihood of that. Their Intel permeates Ukraine. There are plenty of Ukrainians in remnant Ukraine on their side. Ukrainian officials will be hedging their bets as the likelihood of Russian military victory becomes certainty. Even in the far West there is increasing resentment of forced recruitment. And the war’s different now for very many.
War or no war, you could have a good time in remnant Ukraine until recently. I saw plenty of videos of parties and the night clubs always did a good trade. A whole tranche of officials and military personnel did well out of the aid. Many Ukrainians didn’t of course and life was quite miserable for some but for those running the local administrations and the Kiev administration, for an important sector of society that is and for those connected with that circle, life was good.
Now they’re getting numerous indications that the war’s not going well. Bezuglaya, Klitschko, Arestovych over in the States but on the Ukrainian internet, others, are openly stating it’s a disaster. The Russian attacks on military and military/industrial facilities and on the transport system – what Helmer calls the Electric War – plus drones and missiles all over the place are taking this war from something happening well away from normal life to something seriously impacting normal life.
When it got that heavy for the English and the Germans in WWII, early for us and later for the Germans, you saw the “Spirit of the Blitz” come into play. The more those away from the Front got hammered the more most of them buckled down to keeping things going. Anyone’s guess whether that’ll be so in remnant Ukraine but given that most of them voted against this war in the first place, maybe not.
Add to that the fact that most of them now know, at least since Vilnius, that they’ve been taken for a ride by the West. Also by their own rulers. Zelensky’s openly stated objective in hanging on to lost positions, no matter how hopeless the military situation in this or that operation, was to ensure that Western aid kept flowing. Sleboda touches on that in the interview. Zelensky and his Western managers need to stay with the happy talk to keep the Europeans in particular sending the aid over. That’s why there were usually these damn silly “offensives” and “counter-attacks” before key meetings in Wiesbaden or Ramstein or key decisions in the States.
So yes, by the logic of the Russian strategic approach from ’22 on this war could plod on for years. But the fact that collapse isn’t predictable, even the fact that it does still seem unlikely, doesn’t mean it’s impossible. The Russians aren’t like us. They don’t just have “The Plan” and no alternative. They plan for a variety of possible contingencies and will have collapse, however improbable, as a contingency to be dealt with if it occurs.
Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 10 2025 16:45 utc | 187
Republicofscotland 182,I read about this earlier this week, an ironic tale, an actress, a tool of intel, schleps off on a PR mission for Langley and winds up getting an in-country-intel asset sent to the “Russian Front”. I suspect more than meets the eye, perhaps MI-6/Mossad is protecting their turf? From MI-6/Mossad’s POV, all US intel should be filtered through them, it resents Langley having assets in what is really an English operation. Uncle-Sam is just there to pay the bills while being kept under the delusion that it’s their show.
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 10 2025 17:29 utc | 188
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 10 2025 17:29 utc | 189
I agree with you
Posted by: canuk | Nov 10 2025 17:31 utc | 189
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 10 2025 16:08 utc | 182
I am sure you are aware of the movie, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”, Chuck Barris from the Gong Show in East Germany in the 80’s.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 10 2025 17:37 utc | 190
“Why would a group who always put themselves before all others suddenly decide to strip itself of it’s foot soldiers who help it retain power? No, emphatically NO, when the Waffen SS of Galicia are truly forced into combat they will do what all ardent Nazis do in such circumstances, retreat or surrender. As long as the war continues you can rest assured that the Waffen SS of Galicia are safely in the rear…”
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 10 2025 15:45 utc | 177
Well done-you changed my mind on Galicia recruitment-thanks.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 10 2025 17:39 utc | 191
The way I read the Maidanpress it looks like they’re only dreaming of that Norwegian fund’s abundance of money. It doesn’t look like anyone in Norway has actually promised them anything. (They would be mad to do so. But then, western politicians are typically mad nowadays so nothing is granted.)
I think there is a Ukr-nazi “philosophy” of pretending something to be true so long and so hard that finally it actually becomes true.
Posted by: Avtonom | Nov 10 2025 17:48 utc | 192
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 10 2025 16:40 utc | 187
Well, you obviously take offense easily. Take it again, from me, personally, to you. Regards to your Neanderthal relatives.
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Nov 10 2025 17:51 utc | 193
Elsewhere, and much more interestingly:
“The conflict in Ukraine gives the whole tableau its rhythm. It diverts attention and resources from Europe while driving Russia to assert its global presence through other theaters. A handshake in Caracas, an energy pact in Algiers, a satellite-tracking agreement in Managua—all become brushstrokes in a single effort to prove that Moscow can operate on multiple fronts at once. Whether or not the material scale matches the message almost doesn’t matter; deterrence has always lived half in the imagination anyhow.For Venezuela, the calculus is equally old: to invite an external patron into the hemisphere as a counterbalance against U.S. leverage. The Cuban playbook still lies open, its margins annotated in newer ink.”
https://journal-neo.su/2025/11/10/missile-detente-set-on-its-ear/
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Nov 10 2025 17:56 utc | 194
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 10 2025 7:30 utc | 135“Norway’s pension fund promises to guarantee EU 140 billion reparation loan to Ukraine. I guess the scheme for stealing Russian assets wasn’t so bullet proof after all, if it needs tax payer guarantees.” That’s 21,000 ~ Euros per every Norwegian man, woman, and child.
Posted by: Fredrick | Nov 10 2025 13:30 utc | 163
As far as I can tell Norway has not guaranteed anything for that loan.
Posted by: arby | Nov 10 2025 17:59 utc | 195
@186 Savonarole
The case could be made that Russia knew all along, as you pointed out, and that the go slow strategy was put into place because in the last 3 years, Russia and China have made dramatic improvements, while the US and especially Europe have deteriorated.
Russia and China, along with US missteps especially with regards to Palestine and Iran, have changed the way the entire world thinks of US and Russia / China. The new narrative for nations is not far from “can we get enough Russian/Chinese help to protect us from the Americans”. The US is actively using its intelligence services to influence (corrupt?) and overthrow nations throughout the world. The more the US succeeds in this, the more resolute everyone else is getting in fighting back.
When will Russia/China step up military activity in a more assertive way? When they have taken the go-slow approach as far as they can take it. It’s not so hard to imagine 100k Chinese drones being sent to the Russian / NATO borders (thinking of Ukraine as a defacto member of NATO) to make their presence felt. On the other hand, Russian drones and missiles are doing quite a fine job as it is.
Posted by: Woke American | Nov 10 2025 18:00 utc | 196
@ Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 10 2025 14:52 utc | 170
I dont find Mercouris’ theory to be credible.
If they were going to ensure against a decapitation strike, Lavrov would not be the person (seems obvious).
My theory would be more that due to the subject to be discussed, there would be great need to limit access to the discussion – I think Lavrov my agree that it would be better if he did not know the details of the discussion and any decisions.
I may be wrong, but I think it is odd that Mercouris did not note this possibility (which seems to me fairly obvious).
Posted by: jared | Nov 10 2025 18:01 utc | 197
So yes, by the logic of the Russian strategic approach from ’22 on this war could plod on for years. But the fact that collapse isn’t predictable, even the fact that it does still seem unlikely, doesn’t mean it’s impossible. The Russians aren’t like us. They don’t just have “The Plan” and no alternative. They plan for a variety of possible contingencies and will have collapse, however improbable, as a contingency to be dealt with if it occurs.
Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 10 2025 16:45 utc | 188
Well, there is one collapse condition that is predictable (if there is enough information about recruitment and losses) , namely not enough men to man the line of contact.
From Zelensky’s 880.000 january 2025 and latest Putin’s comments about september I would say january 2026 will have total AFU near 600.000. And january 2027 near 300.000 (clearly insufficient even for even holding the dnieper river.
(my models were more bloody and I’d expect things to come to a conclusion still in 2025, but apparently the 5x kill ratio is not what it was supposed to be, more like 2-3 to 1 )
Meanwhile RF will have 800.000 free bayonets january 2026 and 1.000.000 by january 2027 (january 2022 it was roughly 100.000 free bayonets, a full magnitude evolution in 5 years and an issue in itself but that is for another day)
So europe must pony up or pay up. I see no sanctions or attacks that can stop RF from attaining the SMO’s goals.
So either europe gets clearly, and strongly , in the bodybag business, or it takes the deal as is (and prays the deal is not altered further)
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 10 2025 18:31 utc | 198
From New Resistance some kind of assessment what is the mojo Serbia and Ukraine???
💢 Speaker of the Serbian Parliament Ana Brnabić has travelled to Kiev to meet Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada.Brnabić has stated that Serbia and Ukraine are friendly nations, and that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is maintaining regular contact with President Zelensky.Brnabić has also emphasised both the Serbian and Ukrainian governments’ “mutual respect for territorial integrity” and international law, while also further claiming that both national governments share the goal of eventual membership of the EU.Brnabić has also spoken of “Serbia’s readiness to share technical expertise with Ukraine on its EU path.Public opinion in Serbia is overwhelmingly and consistently in favour of ties to Russia and anti-EU in sentiment.[ ❗️Remember, Serbia cannot choose its geography, it can only choose how to survive the moment until Russia finishes the job, secures the Danube mouth on the Black Sea, and kayfabe the rest . Yes, Hungary is great and Orban is great, he has been defiant against NATO and the EU while being within it. But Vucic and Serbia have done the same while never joining either, always consider that in your metric. – XF]Subscribe @NewResistance
Posted by: Jo | Nov 10 2025 18:46 utc | 199
Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny wrote an article for the New York Post. He calls not to pressure Ukraine and to prepare for very long negotiations with Russia:‘Calls for Ukraine and Russia to focus not on stopping hostilities, but immediately on reaching a peace agreement are premature. A full-fledged peace agreement may require months, if not years, of complex negotiations. It is hard to say whether those who try to push us towards certain decisions understand this’.The UK and EU have put together an interesting rouse, on the surface a ceasefire sound good but the intent is to never sign a peace deal and for Russia to lose is entire leverage. The general public just hear’s the word ceasefire and thinks of it as positive, but they don’t understand the real scheme behind it.@Slavyangrad
Posted by: Jo | Nov 10 2025 18:56 utc | 200