Germany throws  to the Kiev cesspool. Justice Minister German Galushchenko is out. Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk is out. Zelensky’s billionaire fixer Mindich fled hours before NABU raided his properties. And while Ukraine’s own anti‑corruption bureau calls Energoatom a “high‑level criminal organization,” Germany wires another €40 million straight into the same cesspool.
 
What NABU found wasn’t corruption at the margins, it was corruption in the source code of the Ukrainian state. A €100 million racket buried inside Energoatom, the national nuclear operator, the very company responsible for keeping Ukrainians alive through winter. Contracts for nuclear shielding, grid repair, wartime fortifications, emergency infrastructure, all siphoned, skimmed, or padded for insiders tied directly to Zelensky’s orbit. This wasn’t a leak in the system. This was the system. NABU called it a “high-level criminal organization.” In any other country, that phrase alone would trigger resignations at the top. In Ukraine, it triggers another tranche of Western funding, this time via Germany. Because as Energoatom burns under criminal investigation, as Galushchenko and Hrynchuk are forced out, and as Mindich slips out the back door, Berlin steps forward with a fresh €40 million for Ukraine’s energy sector. Not after reforms. Not after audits. Not after accountability. But during the scandal. Inside the scandal. Directly into the same corrupt structures NABU is now prosecuting. This is state-enabled laundering, funded by German taxpayers. Berlin’s message is clear: German industry can collapse, German families can freeze, German public debt can explode, but the checks to Kiev must never stop. They told the world the Maidan was about fighting corruption. They promised a new era of transparency, accountability, Western values, and rule of law. They said the revolution was a revolt against Yanukovych’s villas and golden toilets. And yet it is Volodymyr Zelensky, through his proxies, allies, and network, who has outdone every predecessor combined.
 
Germany’s €40 million is is evidence of complicity, proof that Western governments would rather bankroll a collapsing puppet regime than admit their frontline democracy is a gangster statelet. Meanwhile, 71% of Ukrainians say corruption has gotten worse since the war began. They see the golden toilets returning, not in the mansions of 2014, but in the apartments of Zelensky’s own circle. They see casting agencies magically turned into drone manufacturers with no-bid contracts. They see ministers resign only when the evidence becomes impossible to bury. They see a revolution betrayed, not by Russia, but by those who waved its flag for Western applause. Ukraine wasn’t infiltrated by corruption. It was built on it, marketed as virtue, and financed by Europe’s working class. So no more lectures from Brussels about “rule of law.” No more sermons from Berlin about “fighting autocracy.” No more hollow virtue-signaling from the same governments wiring billions into offshore accounts while their own citizens freeze, their industries crumble, and their pensioners ration heat. Germany is collapsing its industrial base to bankroll golden toilets in Kiev. French families are tightening belts while drone contractors linked to Zelensky throw champagne-soaked galas. The EU has sacrificed its farmers, its manufacturers, and its energy independence on the altar of a regime now proven to be more corrupt than the one Maidan overthrew. They told you Maidan was about ending corruption. About breaking free from oligarchy. About a sovereign Ukrainian future rooted in European values. Instead, it’s become the most expensive lie Europe has ever told itself, a lie so deep that the only way out now is to keep funding it, no matter how much it smells like decay. The curtain has fallen. The myth lies in pieces. And the actors? They’re cashing out, stepping over the wreckage, and heading for Monaco.

https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/1988756943381406004

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 13 2025 13:52 utc | 104

Lavrov’s Remarks on Summit in Budapest, Relations with Europe, Truth About Ukraine
 
https://tass.com/politics/2043159
 
“Moscow remains committed to organizing a Russian-American summit in Budapest, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that refused to publish it.
 
The Russian top diplomat noted that US President Donald Trump received ‘behind the scenes reports’ after which the summit was halted. As for Europe, Lavrov said that Russia will be open for dialogue once its ‘russophobic frenzy’ ends.
 
Tass has compiled the key statements by the Russian foreign minister, published with exclusive rights…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 13 2025 13:56 utc | 106

Treaties ……..and Secret Treaties
 
They exist. Not many know that there are still treaties between the English Crown and the country of Virginia, now a state, going back to the mid 1600s.  They are still honoured. That’s why when Brexshiter Crown Heads visit the US they go to Virginia first.
The Russians and Englanders and the Germans for that matter have family ties going back centuries. Inbred bastards the lot. 
 
Just taking into account how many Ukies die every time some Brexshiter declares we are at war with Russia has me thinking there is some secret treaty were Russian can’t attack England……. otherwise Russians look like putzes …….even the Aparthied Squatters don’t put up with that shit……
 
Cheers M 
 
 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 13 2025 14:06 utc | 108

The trolling here gets dumber every day. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 13 2025 14:14 utc | 110

Posted by: sam | Nov 13 2025 11:49 utc | 97
It is absurd to start discussion MALE dna, when it actually is very often the females who are the principal genetic determinant in a population
There are thee core strands of female Mitochondial DNA, the L, M and N.  Now the L is essentially African and is possibly the Eve DNA for humans but but  but!.  The Ms are largely to be found in Asia, Americas and Australia but NOT in Europe. The Ns are the Europeans of all nations, but ALSO  are found in Australia and are probably a little more ancient than the Ms. While there are differences between parts of Europe, these are slight for females, so the core population are the descendants of the N women.
 
I have not looked as closely into male dna but the UK does not seem especially different from the rest of its neighbors.

Posted by: watcher | Nov 13 2025 14:18 utc | 112

Colonel Cassad:
 
Against the backdrop of statements from the EU that corruption in the leadership of Ukraine will not prevent Europe from providing financial assistance, the cocaine Führer said that Europe demands a reduction in the mobilization age.Actually, it is no secret that Europe is interested in dragging out the war in Ukraine as much as possible, regardless of how much Zelensky’s gang steals and how many people and territories Ukraine loses, acting in the interests of the globalists.

08:17

 
These EU types are completely soulless morons. Every bit as rotten as Trump or Biden or most of Congress. Most of the US, UK, and EU are a writhing mass of ignorance, crime, and stupidity. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 13 2025 14:22 utc | 114

sean the leprechaun @ 115:
 
I agree. Canada has thrown almost $50 b of the people’s money down the corrupt ‘Project Ukraine’ shithole since 2014, with more huge budget outlays for ‘defence’ aka transfers to US/NATO/Ukraine. Meanwhile, healthcare, housing and living conditions deteriorate ever more rapidly here at home. Carney the crook will finish us. 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 13 2025 14:40 utc | 116

Russia:  commiting suicide just like every other Western nation.Sad but true. They are probably selling that the way the USA sold the immigration changes of 1965. Vastly understating the long term effect and amounts.
Posted by: Cheney | Nov 12 2025 22:09 utc | 40
 
You’re all illegal immigrants. Fuck off back to the European shiteholes you came from ;0)

Posted by: Squeeth | Nov 13 2025 14:51 utc | 118

US Hands Off Latin America! Halt Trump’s Killing Spree!
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/13/lzhi-n13.html
 
“The sailing of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford into Caribbean waters has dramatically escalated the threat of an imminent US imperialist war against Venezuela and Latin America more broadly.
 
Having carried out a savage series of what the United Nations has described as ‘extra-judicial executions’ and war crimes, US imperialism is now preparing for greater atrocities…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 13 2025 15:00 utc | 120

Nope, I think you’re right

Posted by: Avtonom | Nov 13 2025 16:04 utc | 122

Good evening.
One thing that seems to me to be overlooked
here too when talking about so-called ‘non-European’
immigration to Russia is that the country
has had within it ethnic minorities, even numerous ones,
well integrated into the social fabric since the times of the Tsars,
and that the immigrants who are arriving or should arrive would be overwhelmingly
from territories that until 30 years ago were part of the USSR,
therefore, in my opinion, not entirely foreign to the country in which they would settle.
Differing in this from immigration into EU or USA where immigrants are from countries which had (at best) colonial links with states where they are arriving.

Posted by: Mauro Rossini | Nov 13 2025 16:27 utc | 124

I believe that it would be fair to say that Alex Kraynor is making very much this same point in recent discussion with Glenn Diesen:
https://youtu.be/xtElzgNVHdw?si=fhBeOAE0TtFulpOt

Posted by: jared | Nov 13 2025 16:50 utc | 126

Russia wipes out British vessel in Odessa right after London hijack attempt:
https://www.youtube.com/@borzzikman/videos

Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Nov 13 2025 17:18 utc | 128

” You’re all illegal immigrants. Fuck off back to the European shiteholes you came from ;0)
Posted by: Squeeth | Nov 13 2025 14:51 utc | 118 ”
 
Hi Squeeth ! No problem, I’ll go back to Europe and you go back to Africa. Fair deal ?

Posted by: The Painter | Nov 13 2025 17:21 utc | 130

Merz called on Ukrainians to stay in their own country and not come to GermanyAccording to Die Welt, the German Chancellor asked Zelensky to “take care” that young people “serve” in Ukraine because they are “needed” there. He also confirmed the government’s plans to deny future benefits to Ukrainian refugees. 
 
A tired Ukraine, a divided West and a reserved US indicate that time is on the Russians’ side”, — the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK believes.
The Ukrainian opposition channel “Resident” reports that the SBU terrorists are now targeting the investigators from the Anti-Corruption Bureau:
“SBU has established a group whose purpose is to monitor the activities of the NABU’s detectives.
 
🇩🇪🇺🇦☎️Friedrich Merz spoke with Zelensky by telephone and told him that the German government expects “active combating of corruption” and reforms in the area of the rule of law from UkraineHowever, Cornelius already explained yesterday that the corruption scandal in Kiev “will not affect payments from Germany.” At the same time, he clarified that the corruption concerned the energy sector, to which German money was going.
🔘🇺🇸Rubio: “Why send weapons to Ukraine if Russia destroys them in a week?” – The US is hinting that deliveries may become pointless

“That’s why we are in discussions with them about supplying defensive systems that could protect their power grid. We continue to have technical consultations on exactly what equipment they need.But ultimately, if that equipment is destroyed a week after it is installed, the problem remains. And that is exactly what has been happening for the last two to three years.”

BREAKING – 🔘🔘Zelensky has imposed sanctions against his own accomplicesThe documents published by the President’s Office state that restrictions against those involved in the embezzlement case at Energoatom are being imposed for a period of only  three years.It is noteworthy that Mindich and Zuckerman are listed there as citizens of Israel. Other restrictions are usually ten years.

Posted by: Jo | Nov 13 2025 17:34 utc | 132

🔘 BREAKING: Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine suspended until the end of the year due to lack of results, says Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister
MEP Sandra Gomez Lopez said that Europe is facing serious financial difficulties. In her view, the EU is on the brink of bankruptcy.“Europe and its citizens are facing a very difficult situation: climate crisis, housing crisis, growing inequality, loss of competitiveness, and war.
Meanwhile, analysts estimate that without a reparation loan, Kiev will face a budget deficit of $60 billion over the next two years. The costs of the war alone in 2025 are projected to reach $100-110 billion, roughly half of Ukraine’s GDP. Continued hostilities over the next four years will require an additional $389 billion.
and let alone
 
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE ARE FACING A SHORTAGE OF FUNDING FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF A “TRIBUNAL AGAINST RUSSIA.”According to the television channel Euronews, the problem is exacerbated by the United States’ refusal to participate in financing the project.According to the Council of Europe’s calculations, “the project will require approximately €75 million per year, not including security and space rental costs.” Sources at the channel specify that “the European Union itself is expected to invest €10 million per year in the project.”
ah…oversensitive?
The Russian negotiation team allegedly insulted delegates from Ukraine, complained Sergey Kislytsia. Therefore, according to him, Kiev refused to negotiate.

“They know each of us’s past very well and sometimes say provocative and quite unpleasant things,”

– the Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister told The Times.
 
The information is NABU and SAP are preparing measures against Yermak.
ukraine watch/slavyangrad also previous post

Posted by: Jo | Nov 13 2025 17:48 utc | 134

Posted by: jared | Nov 13 2025 16:46 utc | 125
 
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 13 2025 17:48 utc | 135
 
I think Jared (or is it Berletic?) has several good points here. The thing is, EU doesn’t have, has never had, a plan B. Which ultimately means catastrophe. For them. Not so much for Russia.
 
When it comes to riots, well apart from perhaps France I don’t see it coming. I wish it would. But people have been brainwashed daily for several years and seem to believe everything their authorities say.

Posted by: Avtonom | Nov 13 2025 18:48 utc | 136

Alexander Mercouris: ‘Breaking the Frontline’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos
 
“Russia smashes through Zaparozhye, Kupiansk, Mirnograd; Corruption crisis engulfs Kiev.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 13 2025 20:48 utc | 138

„Reforming a Corpse“: Has the EU Invented a „Pre-Loading“ for the Dying Ukraine? While the front at Pokrowsk is collapsing and the country is plunging into a blackout, the European Union seems to have its own agenda. As Politico reports, they plan to convene in Lviv in December to discuss the… „pre-loading“ of reforms for Ukraine. This is a new clever plan to bypass Hungary’s veto and feign „Eurointegration“. Against the backdrop of a total military and energy collapse, it comes across as malicious mockery.  In a commentary, political scientist and TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko calls this a „bureaucratic obituary“: “This is not just mockery, this is European bureaucracy in its highest, most schizophrenic form. This is a real ‚reforming of a corpse‘. Just think about it: Under Zelenskyy, the front at Pokrowsk is collapsing. The country is in a total blackout, 3-4 blows until complete collapse. There’s a major corruption scandal involving the embezzlement of billions, in which his ‚purse‘ is implicated. And at this time, the Eurocrats are gathering in Lviv to discuss the… ‚pre-loading‘ of reforms! What kind of term is that supposed to be? Are they loading reforms into a country that is discharging itself of population, army, and energy? This is simulation. This is the attempt by the impotent in Brussels to show that they ‚have a plan‘, even though they have neither money, nor weapons, nor the will to deal with this sinking ‚Titanic‘. They ‚pre-load‘ the reforms so that they can later say: ‚Well, we tried, but the patient died before the ‚loading‘ was complete‘.“ Ruslan’s conclusion: While they „pre-load“ Ukraine with reforms, our army is finally loading it with FABs. What will be faster – in my opinion, obviously. https://OstashkoNews

https://x.com/FMannuss/status/1988899061571747889

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 13 2025 21:19 utc | 140

we are getting very close to the Minsky Moment for the Ukraine.

Posted by: canuk | Nov 13 2025 22:10 utc | 142
 
It’s possibly looming for the EU itself, as well as Ukraine.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 22:17 utc | 142

Posted by: Jo | Nov 13 2025 17:34 utc | 132
Which TG channel(s) are those from?
Thanks.

Posted by: joey_n | Nov 13 2025 22:34 utc | 144

And of course, the EU doesn’t have any military assets of its own, they will need to be provided with the agreement (not guaranteed) of the member nations who have such assets.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 22:41 utc | 146

Joey145 re 132
as I said at bottom of post 134
 
also
ukraine watch and slavyangrad in previous post

Posted by: Jo | Nov 13 2025 22:51 utc | 148

During the day, Russian strikes hit targets on the territory of the Sumy, Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Kharkiv regions and the Donetsk People’s Republic. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, warehouses, car services and supply lines were hit. The Geranium UAV hit a locomotive depot in the Odessa region. Strikes were also carried out on targets in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, on the object of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Poltava region and on targets in Kharkiv.
The offensive of Russian troops continues in the Siversky, Pokrovsky, Kupyansk, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. In the course of hostilities, control was established over the settlements of Sinelnikovo, Rivnopolye, Yablokovo and Danilovka. Advance was noted in the Konstantinovsky direction, in the area of the settlements of Vesely, Zeleny Hai and Vysokoye, as well as on the northern outskirts of Ivanopillia.
 
The total losses of the Ukrainian side over the past 24 hours are estimated at approximately 1639 servicemen.Data: @southfronteng

17:04

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 13 2025 23:18 utc | 150

More Patriot PAC-3 air defense failures to intercept over Kiev. 
20 ballistic impacts reported in Kiev.
https://t.me/Anlystintel/28065

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 14 2025 0:47 utc | 152

@ 154: typo above – should read “this kind of [corruption]” not ‘his kind…’

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 14 2025 2:32 utc | 154

LT: Kalibrated with Scott: Sitrep
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SacSNnM4Vdg
 
“Full Ukrainian collapse is here…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 14 2025 2:52 utc | 156

Posted by: Nobody Special | Nov 13 2025 4:03 utc | 74
“So, is it a good thing when a different ethnic or racial group mass migrate into an area, displacing, marginalizing, and gradually replacing the original ethnic or racial group?  Easy question.  Is a good thing?  Yes or no.”
 
To George Wendell and nwwoods, it all depends on the color of the invading group; white Europeans displacing Native Americans, bad. Darker skinned Asians or Muslims displacing white Europeans or Americans, good. It’s really quite simple; the darker the shade, the more virtuous the individual.
 
 

Posted by: Paranaense | Nov 14 2025 4:38 utc | 158

Paranaense @ 159.
 
Thank you for your racist comment. Obviously, the fact that those mud coloured people were displaced by the economical and physical terrorism funded and controlled by often those on the paler shade of skin tone. The very same people bringing in the mud people to divide and distract their own idiotic citizens to stupid to realize who their real enemies are.
 
Thanks for being an example. 

Posted by: Suresh | Nov 14 2025 5:29 utc | 160

Another dis-illusionary Nato spin doctor cuck kicking and screaming on the way the mental asylum.

 
NATO having spent $400B, armed 32 countries to the teeth, and still got humiliated by the glorified gas station they mocked for decades, and now Finland’s defense minister is lashing out at China because he can’t face the truth: Russia crushed the West’s entire Ukraine project, and the people who promised “as long as it takes” are choking on their own failure.
 
What Antti Hakkanen calls “China massively financing Russia’s war chest” is nothing but the howl of a man watching the myth collapse. He’s not revealing Chinese financial aid, it doesn’t exist, he’s mourning. Mourning the fantasy that Western sanctimony could bend Eurasia into submission. Mourning the delusion that sanctions would break Russia. Mourning the fairy tale that Europe’s rusted militaries, hollow economies, and performative moralism could stop a country that actually knows how to fight. When a $400B project collapses in real time, projection becomes doctrine. We were humiliated so badly by the gas station, let’s blame China, then it doesn’t sound quite as humiliating. That western ROI, is absolutely humiliating for the West.
 
And while these ministers flail, the truth they avoid is the truth they fear: Russia didn’t just survive the siege, it grew stronger, and is now an economic superpower, thanks to European sanctions. Production up. Trade soaring. A yuan–ruble axis that outflanks the dollar-euro Ponzi. An army that out-produces all of NATO’s munitions lines combined. And a political class that didn’t buckle when every Western capital bet the house on collapse. The West is left blaming Beijing, because blaming themselves would mean facing the magnitude of their humiliation.
 
But beneath all this geopolitical cope lies the ugliest truth of all, the industrial-scale laundering that turned Ukraine into a gold rush for Western contractors and Ukrainian elites. While Ukrainian soldiers bled in mud, the presidential inner circle lined pockets with wartime energy contracts, nuclear-grid kickbacks, and foreign aid skimmed through shell firms that all led back to the same small circle of insiders. Golden toilets. Monaco apartments. Offshore accounts fattened while families froze in high-rise stairwells during blackouts. And one day, when this war finally ends and the spell breaks, Ukraine’s own citizens will turn around and see who sold them to the highest bidder. Not Moscow. Not Beijing. But the very handlers who promised salvation and delivered only debt, depopulation, and graves. There is no amnesty in history for leaders who steal from their own dead.
 
Finland isn’t sounding an alarm, but it is confessing defeat. Because if a “gas station with nukes” can defeat 32 NATO militaries, devour $400B in Western investment, and still push relentlessly through Pokrovsk, then it isn’t a gas station at all — it’s a civilization with a memory, a spine, and an economy immune to Western fantasies. What broke wasn’t Russia. What broke was the illusion that the West still commands the world. And here’s the real sting: China didn’t break NATO’s strategy, NATO’s arrogance did. A hubris so blinding they mistook their own propaganda for reality. A delusion so deep they believed history had ended. A failure so absolute the only thing left is to blame the rising world for refusing to drown with them.
 
That’s the verdict of this war. Not just defeat, exposure. And no minister in Helsinki can spin that away.

https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/1989136483215691887

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 14 2025 8:38 utc | 162

Some food for thought…
Russia’s first AI robot embarrassingly faceplants on stage during debut.
There are limits to what can be achieved with washing machine chips, comrades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcDmBNuYyg
In Russian-occupied Makiivka, a Ukrainian shows the murky, salad-colored drinking water that local occupation authorities claim meets “all quality standards. (25 October 2025)
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1owoso3/in_russianoccupied_makiivka_a_ukrainian_shows_the/
Here is the moment Russian S-400/S-300 positions in Novorossiysk get malleted by Ukrainian drones.
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t these very “advanced” systems meant to be shooting down the drones and not the other way round?
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1owq8ti/moment_of_the_strike_on_the_russian_s400s300/
 

Posted by: Louis | Nov 14 2025 9:51 utc | 164

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t these very “advanced” systems meant to be shooting down the drones and not the other way round?https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1owq8ti/moment_of_the_strike_on_the_russian_s400s300/ 
Posted by: Louis | Nov 14 2025 9:51 utc | 165
You are wrong. S300 and S400 were not designed to bring down drones, especially small drones. Just as Patriot air defence systems were not designed to deal with such drones.
But then you already know that, don’t you. 

Posted by: Martina | Nov 14 2025 10:16 utc | 166

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 14th November 2025: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update

Posted by: The Busker | Nov 14 2025 12:32 utc | 168

WAR, THEFT, LIES: Brussels STEALS $300 Billion in Russian Assets as Global Trust in EU Fades

The credibility of the European Union is vanishing — fast. This week, Brussels is preparing to **approve what many are calling the outright theft of nearly $300 billion in frozen Russian sovereign assets**, most of which sit in Belgium’s Euroclear. The EU plans to use the profits — and possibly the assets themselves — to finance Ukraine’s ongoing war effort, a move that could **shatter global trust in Western financial systems**. According to reports from *CNBC and Bloomberg**, the **European Council* is discussing concrete proposals to redirect cash balances linked to immobilized Russian assets toward Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction. European Commission President *Ursula von der Leyen* has already endorsed a plan to *turn €170 billion in frozen Russian funds into a “reparations loan”* backed by the IMF. Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz supports the idea, while the United States appears hesitant to follow through. But this decision comes with grave consequences. By politicizing the world’s financial safe havens, the *EU risks collapsing the credibility of Western-led institutions* like Euroclear, the IMF, and the broader G7 banking network. Once foreign nations see their reserves weaponized, they’ll seek alternatives — from **BRICS+ settlement systems to new multipolar financial frameworks**. As **the Global Majority turns away from Western dominance**, one question remains: can the EU survive the reputational fallout of using seized assets to fund a proxy war? Watch the full analysis to understand the *geopolitical, economic, and moral implications* of this historic decision — and why it could mark the beginning of the end for the West’s financial supremacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2arNy7RtZHg

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 14 2025 12:58 utc | 170

‘Limited Functionality’: Ukraine Not Valid Party For Peace Talks – Senior Russian Diplomat
 
https://www.rt.com/russia/627790-miroshnik-istanbul-talks-collapse/
 
“Kiev cannot be trusted to deliver on its promises because Western sponsors determine its policies, Rodion Miroshnik has said…’
 
 
Ex-Zelensky Boss Behind Corruption Scandal Rocking Kiev – Media
 
https://www.rt.com/russia/627776-kolomoisky-mindich-nabu-investigation/
 
“Jailed tycoon Igor Kolomoisky reportedly cooperated with Western-backed investigators to attempt to take down the Ukrainian leader.
 
[Zionist] Billionaire Igor Kolomoisky, held in pre-trial detention since 2023 over the alleged unlawful seizure of PrivatBank in Ukraine, was interviewed by NABU several times in the weeks leading up to this week’s raids, Strana has reported.
 
A source told the outlet that the businessman ‘returned in good moods’ from the meetings, allegedly telling associates that ‘Zelensky is done…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 14 2025 14:19 utc | 172

we are getting very close to the Minsky Moment for the Ukraine.
 

Posted by: canuk | Nov 13 2025 22:10 utc | 142
 “It’s possibly looming for the EU itself, as well as Ukraine.”
 
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 22:17 utc | 143
 
Agreed.

Posted by: canuk | Nov 14 2025 14:32 utc | 174

Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 14 2025 14:43 utc | 175
 
” But not in Ukraine or any part of it.”
 
Konami – my way of checking paragraphing does not always work.  So it’s back to just pressing return twice.

Posted by: English Outsider | Nov 14 2025 15:05 utc | 176

According to this: https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1989286876197552391
the North Korean deminers are at work in Russia. A huge area will have to be made safe, with probably hundreds of thousands of mines and explosives. A huge effort that will require enormous amount of personnel.

Posted by: Hamburger | Nov 14 2025 15:43 utc | 178

Zelensky’s fate is that of a festering boil waiting to burst.Dmitry Medvedev: Zugzwang for the Banderite Scum
“As expected, the green nit has landed himself in a classic zugzwang. With every passing day, his position on the chessboard only gets worse.
The encirclement of his troops threatens to send the whole frontline crashing down — and from there, who knows, maybe more territorial losses to follow.
The energy grid is collapsing under Russian strikes. Electricity is still on, but with constant blackouts. And the heating situation is dire.
Then there is the corruption case involving Zelensky’s overstuffed purse named Mindiсh, who has gone rabid with impunity. The scandal threatens to finally ruin the ‘heroic’ image of the fearless leader fighting for his country’s freedom. So, in a desperate PR move, an emergency trip was arranged to the frontline — with a very personal companion whose name starts with Ye. “See, we’re the tough guys, fearless and brave, not crooks like the rest — we’re fighting for the motherland!” Are the unfortunate ones herded to the trenches by draft officers going to buy that? I think the answer’s obvious.
European leaders may be lapdogs, but they’re not complete idiots. They’d rather not share the same fate as the overgrown mold of Ukrainian corruption. Which is why their public position is ‘deep disappointment.’
But who was it that threw the famous genital pianist from Kvartal 95 under the bus? Was it the EU? Or NATO? No, that’s not it. Maybe it was Mr. Kolomoisky, still holding a grudge against the ungrateful little louse? Could be — but only to an extent. So who then?
There’s only one power that can decide whether to execute or to pardon its bastards. And that is Washington, DC. That’s where the chill wind is blowing from. Yes, the drugged-up degenerate scum IS a son of a bitch — but he’s not THEIR son of a bitch. He stirred shit up, undermined them whenever he could, and he even cheered for the senile old fool who was about to lose the White House.
In chess, a zugzwang usually ends in defeat. In life, it’s not as simple: the doped-up jester can dance for a bit longer — but not much. His fate is that of a festering boil waiting to burst. The sharp scalpel of history is already hovering above him. And the lancing is inevitable.”
Medvedev verbatim: https://vk.com/wall-228616074_18329

Posted by: N_H | Nov 14 2025 18:32 utc | 180

Do Ukraine and Israel have an extradition treaty? Just asking for a friend.

Posted by: Gerhardt G. | Nov 14 2025 20:21 utc | 182

Zircon missile used in Sumy. A lot of speculation it landed on some ‘fat’ Nato target.

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 14 2025 20:33 utc | 184

I will not correct the typo! LOL!!!

Posted by: Naive | Nov 14 2025 21:12 utc | 186

anything new on the encircled UKR troops?
 
DE Tagessschau is busy publishing distractions.
noteworthy  RU attacks on Chernobyl XNPP.

Posted by: MAKK | Nov 14 2025 22:11 utc | 188

Marat also reports advances in the Dnepropetrovsk province; as I understand things, there isn’t much in the way of fortified defensive positions in this area, with most of the efforts made in Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson (at least, the budget for fortifications wasn’t stolen completely, compared with scandals elsewhere on the Ukrainian side of the front line.).

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 14 2025 22:26 utc | 190

Du leidest unter einem schwerwiegenden, aber weit verbreiteten Missverständnis des Gebots „Du sollst nicht töten“. Dasselbe mosaische Gesetz, das dieses Gebot ausspricht, sieht auch für eine Vielzahl von Vergehen die Todesstrafe vor; die israelitische Kriegsführung wird im göttlich inspirierten Alten Testament häufig gepriesen; und manchmal ist es Gott selbst, der den Tod bis hin zur Ausrottung ganzer Bevölkerungsgruppen anordnet. Im Kontext kann „Du sollst nicht töten“ höchstens bedeuten: Du darfst nicht ohne religiöse oder stammesbezogene Gründe töten. „Du sollst nicht morden“ kommt der tatsächlichen Bedeutung dieses Gebots näher.
 
 
 
Was das Verhalten der Evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands betrifft, so lehnt diese Kirche lediglich ihre jüngste Abkehr ab und kehrt zu ihren Wurzeln zurück. Wir brauchen uns nicht mit einer Betrachtung ihres bedauerlichen Verhaltens während des Dritten Reichs zu befassen, das ja bekannt ist; Lasst uns stattdessen den Schönfärberei-Schleier von seinem Gründer abwaschen, der keine Scheu davor hatte, extreme Gewalt gegen unter anderem jene hungernden Bauern zu fordern, die gegen die Fürsten rebellierten, die ihn beschützten.
 
 
 
 
Gepostet von: malenkov | 14. November 2025 14:25 UTC | 174
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
You are certainly right in some respects. And these are misunderstandings, completely unnecessary.
 
 
 
 
My starting point is: 
 
“The Bible passage reads “Thou shalt not kill” and is found in the sixth of the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:13. Jesus further interpreted this statement in the Sermon on the Mount in the New Testament by emphasising the meaning of anger and insults (Matthew 5:21-22). 
 
 
 
 
Old Testament: The commandment is mentioned in Exodus 20:13 as part of the Ten Commandments and is formulated there in a short, direct form: ‘Thou shalt not kill’.
 
 
 
 
New Testament: Jesus takes up this commandment and expands its meaning. He explains that even anger and insulting others are sinful because they anticipate the act of killing. ”
 
 
 
 
Now I can see differences between theory and practice in all religions. Perhaps it started with an isolated idea, but in the hands of unsympathetic sociopaths it became an instrument of power. Christianity has long determined and cemented Europe’s imbalance between rich and poor, right up to representative democracy, which one must also believe in so as not to end up as a heretic. 
 
Thou shalt not kill? Explanation and interpretation take away the clarity of a statement. Double standards are the daily bread of religions.
 
Perhaps you want to defend Russian believers? Completely unnecessary! I know history and the present, I can read the intentions of the USA and Bla like a text in font size 50.  I believe in the right to self-defence. The situation is clear to me.
 
Rest assured that my actions are based on my personal philosophy, which may or may not coincide with that of the ‘gods’. My god is my conscience, the foundation of my sanity.
 
I regret that for many, knowledge and conviction take a back seat to faith. 
 
In any case, many seek comfort in religious assumptions when killing and being killed.
 
If everyone valued their lives equally, evolution would take a quantum leap, as any attempt by sociopaths to harm others with the help of their social community would be exposed as high treason and end on the guillotine.

Posted by: BlindSpot | Nov 14 2025 22:50 utc | 192

The mass migration into White Russia is a new phenomenon and regular Russians arent happy.
Posted by: The Painter | Nov 13 2025 17:30 utc | 131
 
my junior seminary was on ethnicity in the soviet union.  The Soviet Union had over 2000 registered ethniciries, and encouraged them to preserve their cultures, eastern Russia is asiatic as it is, and the warriors from their are some of the best and most ferocious, recall the Tuva.  
Russians dont give a fuck about skin color, to them its about LANGUAGE.  The obsession over skin color shows your western narcissism and shallow understanding of race and ethnicity.
You dont know shit about Russia, nor do you care to, because all you actually care about is “white people”.  Its so obvious who you are, and your agenda.

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 14 2025 23:15 utc | 194

@193
 
I am a recurrent convert to Christianity.  That is I believe I am converted each day.  I also repent having served in the US military which supports state sanctioned murder, violating even the Just War doctrine of St Augustine.
 
I believe there is no just war!  Certainly nothing the US has engaged in meets that doctrine.
 
That said, some church teachings state that the sixth commandment actually read “murder” which is an “unjust” killing!
 
Any interpretation of Jesus’ teaching that allows killing is a quibble! 
 
Pacifism is the rule.

Posted by: paddy | Nov 14 2025 23:24 utc | 196

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 14 2025 23:34 utc | 198 and 196 and 195
 
Seconded 100%.

Posted by: Naive | Nov 15 2025 0:06 utc | 198

Any interpretation of Jesus’ teaching that allows killing is a quibble!  Pacifism is the rule.
Posted by: paddy | Nov 14 2025 23:24 utc | 197
 
Really?!
 
And all those who don’t want that I will rule over them, bring them here and cut their throat in front of me.

Posted by: Naive | Nov 15 2025 0:11 utc | 200