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November 30, 2025
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Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 28th November, 2025: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update
Posted by: The Busker | Nov 30 2025 14:33 utc | 1
Hungary’s Orban Seeks More ‘Cheap’ Russian Oil & Gas In Warm Meeting With Putin by Tyler Durden.
Narrative construction casts Hungary as a weak and isolated state, purchased by the opportunity for cheap energy, while Kiev corruption narrative remains a glittering subtext:
The Hungarian leader has of late severely criticized the Zelensky government for the ongoing energy corruption scandal, which has resulted in the dismissal of top ministers, and even close aides of President Zelensky. Orbán has questioned why European populations should put their grandchildren in debt while going to “absurd” lengths to support and fund an obviously corrupt regime.
Naturally, this rare commentary from an EU and NATO member is music to Moscow’s ears, and in return there will likely be perpetual “cheap energy” for Budapest.
Trans steppe trade corridor has not been negated here.
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 30 2025 14:33 utc | 2
So… without his handler Yermak, how long will Zelensky last? There is nobody with legitimacy to replace him (not that he has any).
Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 30 2025 14:38 utc | 3
Zaluzhny, in his op-ed for The Telegraph on 30 November writes that “War does not always end with the victory of one side and the defeat of the other. We Ukrainians strive for complete victory, but we cannot reject the option of a long-term end to the war.”
Nota Bene: I will italicize Zaluzhny, with the thought that a communications expert propagandizing for the UK and the EU warmongers has penned this op-ed in Zaluzhny‘s name but he himself, rumored never to have recovered fully from a traumatic brain injury, did not.
So the content of the op-ed is what the UK and EU warmongers wish to set before The Telegraph’s readership on the heels of Volodymyr’s regime in Kiev having unraveled. Now back to the op-ed.
Zaluzhny hat tips toward Ukraine’s need to tackle its most persistent problems, including the widespread corruption which has become the backbone of successive governments since independence in 1991: “It is even possible to speak about the beginning of the formation of a safe, protected state through innovation and technology; of strengthening the foundations of justice through the fight against corruption and the creation of an honest court system; and of economic development, including on the basis of international economic recovery programmes.”
We know that the constant interference of the U.S. via its NGOs and other services, run out of the U.S. embassy, has calcified the corruption in place, but of course fig-leaf Zaluzhny can’t mention that, which is tacit acknowledgment that the boondoggle of U.S,-stirred corruption will of course continue.
Zaluzhny is adamant, however: Ukraine can’t have good things without security guarantees. “ Such security guarantees could include: Ukraine’s accession to NATO, the deployment of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory or the deployment of a large allied military contingent capable of confronting Russia.”
If security guarantees of this strength are not possible, then Zaluzhny believes that “the main political goal should be to deprive Russia of the opportunity to carry out aggression against Ukraine in the foreseeable future.”
My thoughts: this is a fairly anodyne op-ed, without edges or ooorah rallying cries, temperate even until we get to the reference to “nuclear weapons” deployed on the territory of Ukraine.
The last time Zaluzhny surfaced was May of 2025 in a series of PowerPoint slides—still photos w/ his quotes attached—in which he told his mates in Kiev that “Hope is not a strategy.” That got a lot of airplay @ the time, driving the news cycle. This op-ed, however, is devoid of such quotables.
Either the communication strategist who propagandizes on behalf of fig-leaf Zaluzhny is off or just not feeling it or really there’s nothing further to say.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 30 2025 14:44 utc | 4
Rot never sleeps:
NATO’s Potential “Anschluss” With Austria Would Be For Purely Narrative Reasons by Tyler Durden
Pull quote:
Nevertheless, it’s important for Austrians to realize that they’d be shattering their country’s neutral reputation and putting a target on their backs in the event of war, but none of that matters for NATO. Its potential “Anschluss” with Austria would be for purely narrative reasons in order to spin it as “another (faux) victory over Putin” to go along with Finland and Sweden’s membership in NATO. The scenario of Serbia sanctioning Russia and Bosnia fast-tracking its NATO membership would complement this notion.
With the trans steppe trade corridor to Hungary accomplished, the next beneficiaries would be adjacent countries, basically one time constituent countries of the Austro Hungarian empire. So wedging them apart is the next project.
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 30 2025 14:45 utc | 5
Not only does Z lack legitimacy, but the Constitutional Court is also effectively defunct, as it must be reappointed every five years.
Unadulterated elections are therefore essential in order to restore legitimacy.
Previous draft agreements can therefore only be considered non-binding declarations of intent.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 14:49 utc | 6
… until we get to the reference to “nuclear weapons” deployed on the territory of Ukraine.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 30 2025 14:44 utc | 4
To my knowledge, there are no longer any old nuclear weapons in Ukraine; they were returned to Russia at the time.
Ukraine wants to obtain some (from whoever), but so far no one has supplied any. This would also violate the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The main fear (probably also that of the US) is the manufacture of a “dirty bomb,” as Ukraine has enough material for this.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 14:59 utc | 7
Col Doug Macgregor: Russia Marching West, Talks Have Changed NOTHING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTRTdJgZaZ4
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2025 15:01 utc | 8
Trump won’t be happy with Modi over this.
“India will open negotiations with Russia on acquiring Su-57 fighter jets and the S-500 air-defense system during President Putin’s visit, despite U.S. pressure to reduce defense cooperation with Moscow, Bloomberg reports”
Meanwhile some folk are in a good mood – their dancing is a bit dodgy if you ask me.
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian soldiers dancing to Benny Benassi’s “Satisfaction” on the frontlines in Ukraine.” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 15:08 utc | 9
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 14:59 utc | 7
RE: The main fear (probably also that of the US) is the manufacture of a “dirty bomb,” as Ukraine has enough material for this.
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The op-ed, supposedly penned by Zaluzhny, is so tepid and lackluster and nondescript in every way until we hit the phrase “deployment of nuclear weapons” that one could say this is just a bid to keep the name Zaluzhny in the spotlight.
But if the only item which stands out in an otherwise vanilla and uninspiring and vapid op-ed is the reference to hoped-for nuclear weapons then it’s reasonable to conclude that that specifically—that zinger about nuclear weapons—is essentially the raison d’etre for fig-leaf Zaluzhny’s op-ed at all.
Read this way, the purported words of Ukraine’s former commader-in-chief drop like a veiled threat into the moment.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 30 2025 15:08 utc | 10
Of course Europe – for all its anti-Russian propaganda, still receives the benefits from Russian oil, even it comes via third parties.
“Venezuelan oil exports to the U.S. rise 162% in September Venezuelan crude oil exports to the United States saw a significant increase in September, reaching 102,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to the latest data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). This figure represents a 162% jump compared to August and marks the second consecutive month of notable increases in shipments to the U.S. market, reports Banca y Negocios.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 15:16 utc | 11
steel_porcupine | Nov 30 2025 15:08 utc | 10
Z meets Monday Macron
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 15:17 utc | 12
“So… without his handler Yermak, how long will Zelensky last? There is nobody with legitimacy to replace him (not that he has any).”
Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 30 2025 14:38 utc | 3
Agreed
When the strings from the Puppeteer to the Puppet are cut the Puppet is no longer functional.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 30 2025 15:17 utc | 13
When the strings from the Puppeteer to the Puppet are cut the Puppet is no longer functional.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 30 2025 15:17 utc | 13
The strings haven’t been cut. Think of Joe Biden.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 15:22 utc | 14
Good, its not before time, the colonial admin “Running” Scotland can’t even house Scots – there’s a housing emergency across Scotland going on, with tens of thousands of Scots homeless – yet Ukrainians and the English, the latter flooding across Scotland’s border in their droves – can often find a home before a Scot can – of course its all the fault of the Westminster subservient colonial admin in Scotland, which doesn’t give a toss about Scots.
“Ukrainian immigrants risk losing their housing in Scotland as the government considers scrapping monthly “thank‑you” payments to hosts, the Daily Mail has reported. One Scottish host said they received a council letter asking for views on the payments ending.
More than 4.3 million Ukrainians have received temporary protection in the EU since 2022, including around 28,000 in Scotland. Across Europe, support for hosting Ukrainians has waned. In October, the European Commission told Kiev that the temporary protection scheme would not extend beyond March 2027, and several EU states have already cut assistance.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 15:35 utc | 15
Has Maduro caved to Trump’s pressure – one wonders what terms Trump has set Maduro in the secret call.
“US President Donald Trump had a phone conversation with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro late last week amid growing tensions, where they discussed a possible meeting, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing multiple people familiar with the matter.
Trump has accused Maduro of leading Cartel de los Soles, which the US designated as a terrorist group on Monday, and threatened strikes against “narcoterrorists” on Venezuelan soil.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry rejected the allegations as a “ridiculous lie,” while Maduro warned the US against launching “a crazy war.”
According to the New York Times, although there are no plans for for the presidents to meet at the moment, the secret call may have been part of Trump’s tactic to combine threats and negotiations. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, known for his hardline stance towards Venezuela and Cuba, reportedly participated in the conversation.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 15:42 utc | 16
Boy. It’s something that this department that was set up to find corruption in the Ukraine many years ago never found a peep or a whisper of the villainy that was going on. Now, out of the blue, they find billions that has gone missing out of nowhere. Now we don’t see it…Now we do.
Posted by: octavian61 | Nov 30 2025 15:46 utc | 17
In the plague-rotted great hall of Hochstetten Castle, 1349, beneath a rose-silk pavilion stolen from a dead Venetian, the company SlipperyBedErection did enact a mystery more profane than any Mass. Five figures in shredded chasubles and Korean motley, masked in lace and reliquary shards, moved with the precision of angels and the stench of open graves, while their Arch-Cantor, near naked save a pink clout and crown of rusted thorns, bore a chalice brimming with beet-dark filth. To the drone of hurdy-gurdy and heathen hautboys they chanted “Peccatum mundi… choke on my democracy,” until Amy of the Sniffers, wild as any antipodean maenad in the flayed skin of a convict banner, stormed forth to roar verses so scurrilous that three friars fell instantly into heresy.
Then, from the blackened rafters upon silken cords, descended Valentina Sierra and Brittany Bardot, naked but for golden spurs and pearls placed to mock both modesty and the Pope, dancing a carole of the Seven Lusts with the grim discipline of Landsknechts. At the final heartbeat of the drum the Arch-Cantor cast himself on all fours upon the high table; the nymphs seized his hips, Amy raised the chalice and proclaimed “Behold the People’s Enema!” A crimson torrent, thick with nuts and asparagus, hosed the foremost ranks like dragon’s blood, while the reek alone slew the rats in the roof.
Yet the climax surpassed all: with practiced tug the dancers everted the Cantor’s rosebud till it bloomed, damask and throbbing, beneath the torches. Amy plunged her face in the chalice, rose anointed, and bellowing “NO GODS, NO MASTERS, NO SPHINCTER CONTROL!” into the quivering bloom itself, led the company in one last sarabande through the puddle of anarchy. When the silk fell and the serfs rushed in with bills, the players had vanished into the plague-fog, leaving only a dagger-pinned parchment: “Thank thee gentle Rhine ♡ Abolish everything, including continence ♡ Yr humble & obedient, SlipperyBedErection & Co.” Within the fortnight their ballad was sung from Cologne to the sea, and the harvest of that night’s sot-weed still blights the world.
Posted by: Manson Tatties | Nov 30 2025 15:52 utc | 18
elections are therefore essential in order to restore legitimacy.Previous draft agreements can therefore only be considered non-binding declarations of intent. Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 14:49 utc | 6
If you consider the population remaining in Ukr today and their real number (not the 18-20m they claim to be), the piano player will win or he’ll simply be replaced with another actor without any need to fake elections. Let’s say someone else, less retarded, wins. So what? They can’t control their territory, anyone will enter, shoot and leave without problems. The actor also signed a law a few months ago that lets him move the military in other countries and Turkey was mentioned. The factories also are moving in exile. UK and Greece will host Ukr naval drones factories. Today Norway announced drone factories for Ukr.
Putin seems to be trying to get Trumpy to stop the endless supplies of weapons and the unlimited money in order to make it harder for Ukr to want to kamikaze themselves. He basically wants Minsk 3 because a lower intensity war will be acceptable for him like the 8 years. At least until Trumpy changes his mind or the next president does. Elections in Ukr won’t change much now, Putin’s mistake was to recognize the 2014 coup so today he can’t cry it’s not legitimate. Instead of trying to reset to 2014, he should reset to 90s and dissolve Ukr since they broke the deal they signed when Ukr was allowed to separate.
Posted by: rk | Nov 30 2025 15:56 utc | 19
UKRAINE’S CRUMBLING FACADE /Lt Col Daniel Davis
Danny argues that Western leaders—especially in Ukraine and Europe—are acting delusional about the state of the war. Zelensky is portrayed as making bold, unrealistic demands (like war-crimes justice and full Russian reparations) despite Ukraine’s severe disadvantages in manpower, ammunition, industry, and overall military capacity. The comparison is made to a defeated nation talking like a victor.
Meanwhile, Russia is portrayed as dominant on the battlefield and confident in achieving its goals either through negotiations or force. Putin signals openness to Trump’s 28-point peace framework but insists Ukraine must withdraw from Russian-claimed territories or Russia will take them militarily.
The speaker claims that Western political and military leaders mistakenly believe Russia is “on the ropes,” due either to ignorance or intentional deception to prolong the war for their own interests. He argues that history shows Russia has repeatedly been willing to negotiate, but every missed diplomatic opportunity has left Ukraine in a worse position than before (citing 2014, the Minsk agreements, 2021 security talks, and early-2022 Istanbul negotiations).
The conclusion: Ukraine’s and the West’s refusal to face military reality makes a negotiated peace nearly impossible, and the balance of power is increasingly one-sided in Russia’s favor. Finally, a new corruption scandal in Kyiv is highlighted—allegations that up to $48 billion in U.S. aid was diverted into Baltic banks by top Ukrainian officials—suggesting this scandal could further destabilize Ukraine and potentially speed the end of the war.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2025 15:57 utc | 20
“When the strings from the Puppeteer to the Puppet are cut the Puppet is no longer functional.”
Posted by: canuk | Nov 30 2025 15:17 utc | 13
“The strings haven’t been cut. Think of Joe Biden.”
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 15:22 utc | 14
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I think you are behind in events; almost every one (92%) of Biden’s executive orders is being dissolved because of the auto pen signings (1)
1. “Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally.” (2)
2. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-cancelling-biden-executive-orders-signed-autopen-rcna246373
Posted by: canuk | Nov 30 2025 16:06 utc | 21
I think you are behind in events;
1. “Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated
Posted by: canuk | Nov 30 2025 16:06 utc | 21
You didn’t understand what I wrote:1) Z isn’t gone yet, Biden has been gone for a year. So the question is how long after Z leaves will the strings still exist.2) The Biden example was only meant to show that puppeteers can still pull the strings even when the puppet is dead, even if it’s not visible to the public and the media.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:15 utc | 22
“Tyler Durden reports that Rubio & Witkoff Met with
Ukraineex-ukrainia’s negotiators in Miami this weekend in a push to broker an end to the war Russia began with its 2022 invasion, while setting the stage for talks between Washington and Moscow planned later this week”
With Rubio there I don’t hold out any hope of a plan that Russia could/would accept. That said, shouldn’t the English* be at the table…after all, they’re blowing-up Russian ships? Why do the English* start wars and then hide behind others?
*Again, I am talking about the upper-most-class-twits and their retinue of hangers-on.
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 30 2025 16:19 utc | 23
Time’s running short , go on record folks dont be scared. Will China , Russia, or both help Venezuela defend itself militarily and in a public manner against the US ?
Spare us the word salads, its a yes or no answer.
Posted by: The Painter | Nov 30 2025 16:19 utc | 24
canuk | Nov 30 2025 16:06 utc | 21
Peskov: West controls Ukrainian authorities
According to Peskov, the West exerts direct influence on key Ukrainian institutions. “They have their own relationships with Westerners who, one way or another, control the NABU and another structure [the SAP].” Zelensky has been forced to reverse decisions “under pressure from the West” on several occasions.
https://de.rt.com/international/131481-liveticker-ukraine-krieg/
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:20 utc | 25
Posted by: rk | Nov 30 2025 15:56 utc | 19
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That may be coming (a reset). The opening move is not the last move in a match. Putin wants to, and has been trying to, play the long game.
Russia needs NATO out of Finland or this has all been for naught. Finland in NATO doesn’t have the Banderites but compromises Russia’s Arctic ambitions which are essential to the multi-polar project.
This conflict between East and West isn’t going to be resolved in a year.
It is existential.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 16:21 utc | 26
Time’s running short , go on record folks dont be scared. Will China , Russia, or both help Venezuela defend itself militarily and in a public manner against the US ?
Posted by: The Painter | Nov 30 2025 16:19 utc | 24
They are already doing that. “Support” does not mean bombing the US, but China has already delivered supplies and Russia immediately sent air defense and special forces.What more do you expect?
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:24 utc | 27
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 30 2025 16:19 utc | 23
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The Americans keep doing what the Europeans have done.
Negotiating Russia’s fate without Russia in the room.
It’s all performance.
Russia is clearly in the driver’s seat. This conflict (this phase) winds down when Russia says, and only when Russia is satisfied.
Ukraine has NATO behind it. Russia has China, and the rest of the Axis (which is not BRICS, but rather much of the SCO).
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 16:27 utc | 28
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:20 utc | 25
Time will tell; I thunk the Green T-Shirt Puppet is gone by the end of this year.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 30 2025 16:37 utc | 29
I’m curious as to how many North Korean troops are in Russia. I saw pictures on one of the telegram channels that showed some being used as sappers in the Kursk area. I hope that there’s a large contingent of them that could be used at the LOC and free up Russian troops for offensive purposes, not that they need much help but the sooner this is over, the better.
Posted by: ctiger | Nov 30 2025 16:40 utc | 30
Time will tell; I thunk the Green T-Shirt Puppet is gone by the end of this year.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 30 2025 16:37 utc | 29
Perhaps. The play isn’t over yet. We can’t predict at this point whether a new actor will appear or whether the current one will remain. Only fortune tellers who puff themselves up as gurus can do that.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:44 utc | 31
Republicofscotland 15,
Your post is an example of why I use the term English in place of Britain. Britain is a Roman name for the Island when Gaelic and Celts predominated on the isle. English refers to the Anglo/Saxon/Jutes who, through much cruelty, came to rule the isle with an iron fist. As you post points out, that pounding iron-fist is still there.
If the Scotts had left, when they had the choice, a lot of England’s “Empire of Illusion” would have come to a grinding halt…kinda like Toto pulling back the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 30 2025 16:44 utc | 32
I’m curious as to how many North Korean troops are in Russia.
Posted by: ctiger | Nov 30 2025 16:40 utc | 30
Officially around 10,000, used for mine clearance in liberated areas. Probably none at the front.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:46 utc | 33
Ex-Ukrainian Army chief wants nuke
Deploying foreign weapons of mass destruction and joining NATO could serve as “security guarantees” for Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny believes
https://www.rt.com/russia/628698-zaluzhny-ukraine-nato-nuclear/
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:58 utc | 34
S Brennan (32).
Thank you for that – in 2014 Scots DID votes yes to leave the illegal union, however 72.1% of folk from England voted against it and that swung the vote for no – the big mistake was giving non Scots the vote, as I later learned that many nations don’t give outsiders a vote on constitutional matters, but the then FM Alex Salmond did.
Independence referendum figures revealed: Majority of Scots born here voted YES while voters from elsewhere in UK said NO – Daily Record
Scotland is a colony of England’s – several Scots groups have provided starling evidence to the UN to show this, and we are awaiting conformation of Scotland being added to the UN’s c-24 category.
Here the renowned Professor Black explains Scotland’s precarious position.
Geneva Prof Robert Black KC
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 16:58 utc | 35
This conflict between East and West isn’t going to be resolved in a year. It is existential.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 16:21 utc | 26
but a 10 year truce is in order…
things will then pan out, 2040’s, 2070’s, 2100’s, but not right away
my 2 cents
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 30 2025 16:58 utc | 36
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 16:58 utc | 35
the PICT’s (unlike Irish celts) are a bit late for the party.
they are probably on a down cycle as they should have obtained their independence by now
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 30 2025 17:02 utc | 37
but a 10 year truce is in order…
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 30 2025 16:58 utc | 36
It’s not a topic of discussion; Putin wants a final solution and a peace treaty, not a ceasefire that would merely provide an opportunity to continue arming and then resume hostilities.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 17:04 utc | 38
It’s pretty clear that the reason “the west” suddenly wants the modern day Galician SS to pause the war is so that the English can retain Black-Sea-Coast, Odessa, Danube access. This to enable a continuous campaign of state-sponsored-terrorism against Russia. This technique, state-sponsored-terrorism, is how the English established dominion over so many other peoples, decent people are uncomfortable murdering unarmed civilians…not so the upper-most-crust of England and it’s admiring wannabees, this is England’s strength…such as it is.
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 30 2025 17:04 utc | 39
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 15:42 utc | 16
Same here in Ireland, the place is a disaster for housing, health and life if you’re a native and not a millionaire. The ukies are losing more and more benefits here too, but I suspect it’s going to be another thing getting rid of them. Lots of English moving here as well, these refugees I have some sympathy for.
Posted by: Ogre | Nov 30 2025 17:08 utc | 40
It’s not a topic of discussion; Putin wants a final solution and a peace treaty, not a ceasefire that would merely provide an opportunity to continue arming and then resume hostilities.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 17:04 utc | 38
a final solution for the larger root causes
às for Ukraine proper it can wait
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 30 2025 17:15 utc | 41
Newbie (37).
Not necessarily – it took the Irish 800 years to rid themselves of Colonialism, and even then the English manage to hew of Northern Ireland, incidentally the Picts/Druids are the original Scots – the Scots tribe came from Ireland to Scotland later, landing in Bute and Argyll, where they set up their capital Dal Riata – incidentally its said, and can all but be proven to a certain extent, that a Scots king was infact King Arthur, Dal Riata kings were crowned by placing their foot in a indentation of a rock – and holding a sword aloft and declaring that this was their kingdom – the real version of drawing the mythical sword from a stone – remarkably the stone where the kings placed their feet in is still there today – apparently all of “Arthur’s” battles were fought in what is now Scotland, and Merlin lived in a forest in Glasgow which is now in a place called Partick – and “Arthur’s” Round Table was found near Stirling a few years back.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 17:16 utc | 42
Ogre (40).
Hello Sam.
I deeply admire the Irish for taking their freedom and country back, but what the hell’s going on in Ireland now – will Cathy Connolly be good for the Irish – maybe not as good as James Connolly, was but still…. I like the wee man Michael Higgins, as for the Ukrainians I’m all for housing oor ain folk first.
The SNP colonial Admin sold Scotland out – we gave them six mandates to dissolve the union and they ignored them.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 17:24 utc | 43
Manson Tatties | Nov 30 2025 15:52 utc | 18 ……
Davos would seem to be longer running than is usually reported.
Posted by: Cynic | Nov 30 2025 17:25 utc | 44
S Brennan | Nov 30 2025 16:19 utc | 23
*** Why do the English* start wars and then hide behind others?*Again, I am talking about the upper-most-class-twits and their retinue of hangers-on. ***
Well, that’s how they made themelves to be rich and powerful in the first place. Get everyone else rounded up and set to bashing each others heads in, then ponce in (heavily armed) to loot the remains.
Rather like the cultist Jews, though considerably less cunning. The latter used long running control of debt-enslavement mechanisms. Which is why the so-called “upper class” has effectively now become merely the second class. Unless they are “Oligarchs” in which the evils of the top two strata combine.
With, of course, all normal natives stuffed into subserviently disposable classes below that.
Model widely copied abroad. It’s why everything, almost everywhere, is made ever more toxic.
Posted by: Cynic | Nov 30 2025 17:53 utc | 45
@ smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:15 utc | 22
Like you I’m not ready to assume that Yermak’s resignation means much of anything. He can lose his title while remaining elensky’s de facto puppeteer. Time will tell, I guess.
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 30 2025 18:07 utc | 46
Can Putin close European airspace?
Trump closed the airspace over Venezuela with a Truth Social post. Similarly, a Russian Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) could prevent all commercial flights in Eastern and Central Europe.
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Nov 30 2025 18:25 utc | 47
Can Putin close European airspace?
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Nov 30 2025 18:25 utc | 47
No, you haven’t understood what this means
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 18:27 utc | 48
*** According to Peskov, the West exerts direct influence on key Ukrainian institutions. ***
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 16:20 utc | 25
A view from inside the blob – Unable to keep 1.5 million of its population above the dirt, the remaining Ukranians win the prize for the most stupid people in the face of the earth.
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 30 2025 18:31 utc | 49
Eloquent 15min speech by Alaudinov:
General Alaudinov Exposes How Nationalism Destroyed Ukraine in Two Decades
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 30 2025 18:39 utc | 50
Hey B,
Didn’t know where else to ask this but any thoughts on recent China-Japan kerfuffle and Trump’s calls with both leaders & the WSJ article where Trump told Japan to lower volume on Taiwan (only for japan to vigorously deny it even though PM kinda backtracked following that call)?
Seems like something that can use your insights to cut thru MSM and Twitter keyboard warrior propaganda
Posted by: HandsomeMan | Nov 30 2025 18:41 utc | 51
HandsomeMan | Nov 30 2025 18:41 utc | 51
you re trolling
Japan is OT in this thread
Topic is here Ukains
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 18:47 utc | 52
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 17:16 utc | 42
forget the lordship, they lost independence 16th century
400 years is a standard recovery time from lineage collapse
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 30 2025 18:52 utc | 53
Posted by: S Brennan | Nov 30 2025 16:44 utc | 32
Don’t forget the Normans – an injection of unscrupulous and brutal Frenchified Vikings into the English pudding.
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Nov 30 2025 18:59 utc | 54
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 17:16 utc | 42
Yeah. I put my foot in that rock every few years as it’s just a few miles up the road, but possibly because I don’t have a sword no-one recognises my elevation – probably just as well.
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Nov 30 2025 19:04 utc | 55
LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 16:27 utc | 28
“The Americans keep doing what the Europeans have done. Negotiating Russia’s fate without Russia in the room.Russia is clearly in the driver’s seat.”
I picture three small children in the back seat arguing over whether they should go to the zoo, the movies or the circus, while their mother calmly drives them to the dentist.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Nov 30 2025 19:05 utc | 56
Europeans Slam Brakes on Flamingo Missile Buy for Ukraine Over Corruption Scandal
The roughly $525,000 gathered in a Czech crowdfunding campaign remains in the initiative’s account and has not been transferred to Fire Point, the company that produces the pink-colored Flamingo missiles, writes Czech news portal iDNES.
The Czech initiative Weapons to Ukraine reconsidered its move after the cruise missile’s manufacturer has been linked to Zelensky’s longtime friend, businessman Timur Mindich
According to Dalibor Dedek, the founder of the initiative, there were serious concerns that the money “might not go toward the product it was intended for.”
Mindich claimed a 50% stake in Fire Point—a company that morphed from a modest film studio into a magnet for major military contracts, according to Ukrainian media reports citing its co-owner, Denys Shtilerman. Shtilerman described himself as the chief designer of the Flamingo missiles, which he promoted together with Zelensky
First reports about the Flamingo missile appeared this August, with Ukraine bragging that the pink cruise missile could strike targets up to 3,000 kilometers away.
However, Martin Ondracek, one of the Czech initiative’s representatives who visited Ukraine, admitted that it is still not 100% certain that the missile can actually fly and accurately hit a target.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 19:19 utc | 57
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Nov 30 2025 19:05 utc | 56
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That’s good.
The mother is an unavoidable reality.
Reality always gets the final word.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 19:20 utc | 58
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/11/30/kazakhstan-ukraine-tension-ukraine-drone-attack-on-cpc-terminal-has-created-spark-newsx-world-30-november/
“The attack on Russia’s Novorossiisk oil terminal which has shut down 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports was by one or more Ukrainian naval drones. It is reasonable to believe that the British have enabled this attack which punishes not Russia but the American companies that own the wells and partly own the pipeline transporting the oil to the now damaged port terminal on the Black Sea…”
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Nov 30 2025 19:25 utc | 60
Jams O’Donnell (55).
Get yourself a sword then. lol.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 19:28 utc | 61
“Scotland is a colony of England’s – several Scots groups have provided starling evidence to the UN to show this, and we are awaiting conformation of Scotland being added to the UN’s c-24 category.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 30 2025 16:58 utc | 35
The world, especially the Western world have had 500 years of gradual state centralization , with ebbs and flows the Imperials kept on top culminating with the UN, WHO Wokies, 35 genders, WEF et al and total centralization-the COVID propaganda and the realization that the The Elite-stole so much didn’t pay their tax have put all the Sovereignty in monstrous debt.
Now is the crash that will further thwart ‘globalism’-the Blackrocks of the world are in deep shit-AI will be an industry and there will be winners but, mostly there will be losers-in the 1920’s the big tech buy was the Radio-its was an early dot com but there were much more losers than winners.
Sovereigns in the next 20 years will be breaking up into smaller units as the respective Sovereigns are broke -debt will have to be forgiven or hyper inflation as they can’t be paid.. Then here will be austerity -not consolidation, the trend broken-the stock meltdown has already started but its going to get real ugly.
UK, France, Canada are fighting back from the de-globalization by writing censorship laws-the US does have a wide margin for free speech
Anyways, Buy gold
Posted by: canuk | Nov 30 2025 19:33 utc | 62
The tanker Mersin is in distress at anchor 24 kilometers from the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the news portal Seneweb reported.
According to the publication, there is reason to believe the vessel has sustained a hole and water is entering the engine room. The crew has been evacuated from the tanker, and there are no injuries.
The Mersin, a 59,000-ton vessel built in 2009 and owned by the Turkish company Beşiktaş Shipping, was sailing under the Panamanian flag. The tanker departed the Russian port of Taman for Dakar with a cargo of oil or petroleum products.
Are they simply sinking tankers carrying Russian oil? Perhaps it’s time for Russia to involve the navy in resolving this issue?
I figure attacking shadow fleet tankers around the world was coming soon, seems it’s here, and seems a message is being given to Turkiye first and foremost, and it’s the USA giving this message it’s not some rogue anti-Trump MI6 or UKR SBU anti-peace plan operation. A while back when the tanker carrying RF oil was boarded off of France one of the trolls here actually had a good post explaining the whys and what-nots of foreign flags and limiting liabilities etc, and suggested that hundred year usage might be coming to an end as countries like Russia and China could start sailing tankers under their own flag, daring the USA or anyone else to interfere.
I have wondered this for a long while now, why Russia, and China with its Iranian oil, don’t directly lease tankers and sail them under their own flags, have the state insure them, better yet in Russia’s case have the RF navy lease them, with a squad of marines and an Onyx missile launcher on board. Or, maybe no marines on board instead a couple hundred Gerans and Lancets in pop-top containers (à la Operation Spider Web) that could be piloted from an HQ in Russia.
The USA is updating 18th century hired buccaneer tactics for it’s hybrid war maybe it’s time Russia and China raise the stakes. I could become a real shit show on the world’s oceans, it would be taking the success the Houthis had against Operation Prosperity Garden out across all the world’s shipping lanes. Insurance costs would soar, for the west, but not for state insured tankers.
Beats me, just throwing it out there.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 30 2025 19:36 utc | 63
but a 10 year truce is in order…
things will then pan out, 2040’s, 2070’s, 2100’s, but not right away
my 2 cents
Posted by: Newbie | Nov 30 2025 16:58 utc | 36
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I reflexively question every premise.
Why do they require a truce?
Who needs it more?
Who is willing to go along with it, and for what relatively short-term purpose?
People keep talking about peace, but I don’t understand why. Like, if they stop fighting at the line of contact last year, pre-Kursk, what has changed meaningfully in the world?
Some things have to be seen to completion. It wasn’t enough to run the Nazis out of Eastern Europe. Not to seize Berlin would have left the job unfinished.
People dying is bad. I hate it, but it happens. As long as people rule by force, there will be resistance, and that will escalate until someone dies.
Is NATO going to demilitarize and criminalize its expansionist actions?
And if so, who will supervise it and enforce consequences for not following through?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 19:38 utc | 64
Then we get to the philosophical question of whether anything really ends.
People clamoring for peace, IMO, are seeking a respite from how ugly things are in the world.
They want a timeout.
But it won’t have truly ended.
Everyone (except the MoA MAGAs) wants to save the Palestinians.
But as long as Israel continues to exist, the Egyptians, the Lebanese, the Syrians, and the Iranians are all still under the crosshairs.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 19:47 utc | 65
From a day or two ago about the Great Escapees now heading to WasNeverReal, Argentina or trying to escape arrest and hang on to their new estates in rump Ukraine.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezuhla says Yermak’s talk about “going to the front” looks like an attempt to dodge criminal liability.
She compared his sudden call for “voluntary mobilization” to former tax chief Nasirov, who enlisted while facing trial in order to freeze his case.
Ukrainian law allows suspects and defendants to join the army, which automatically suspends investigations for the duration of their service.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
ps BARFLIES it’s so early in this thread can we take the English nation stuff to the open thread please?
I’ll go post something on that there to help.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 30 2025 19:57 utc | 66
CAPITULATION
The Forced Peace: Is the U.S. Pushing Zelensky Into a Deal He Cannot Survive? | Analysis Jeffrey Sachs |
It is odd that Mercouris keeps over looking the point that Putin has said several times and most recently quite bluntly that Zelensky is not qualified to be signing international agreements with other countries as a representative of Ukraine.
Posted by: jared | Nov 30 2025 20:17 utc | 68
It is said that Zaluzhny never recovered from the traumatic brain injury following an artillery strike on his Donbass command post in late April 2023. His time in London as Ukraine’s UK ambassador since February 2024 has kept him sheltered from the public. A media that knows the truth about his incapacitated state has uttered not a peep.
A ventriloquists dummy is often an incorrigible scamp, like the Fool in a Shakespeare play, who can deliver uncomfortable truths while yucking it up, rolling his eyes, getting all the laughs and rocking a combo of obstinacy and trustworthiness, while the stuffy straight man, the ventriloquist maintains his besuited dignity.
Think Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen. Or, if you like, Lambchop and Shari Lewis.
Zaluzhny is the ventriloquist’s dummy. and because he was the military’s commander-in-chief, plus a highly trusted public figure in the eyes of the Ukrainian populace in his own right, when the ventriloquist puts words into his mouth, people have faith in what he says.
When he explains that, “Hope is not a strategy,” everybody nods their heads, calls for Syrski to change the battlefield strategy and you eventually find the truism—Hope is not a strategy—printed on bumper stickers, t-shirts & coffee cups.
When he opines in an op-ed he allegedly penned that one aspect of security guarantees Ukraine might need is the deployment of nuclear weapons on Ukraine’s sovereign soil, everybody nods along, having been acculturated to trust in the proclamations their military hero makes.
Let’s think about that, yeah. A nuclear Ukraine, sure enough.
Meanwhile, the ventriloquist is snickering up his sleeve. A former military strategist who never recovered from his injuries can be made to say anything. S uch a dummy is better than a non compos mentis president. The ventriloquist, working hand-in-glove, can make his dummy prosecute the Atlanticist agenda, with style, good looks and a serious-minded level of eloquence—-to a Churchillian degree even.
The Atlanticists can dress Zaluzhny up in fine Italian suits for a GQ-style photospread, turning him into an international heart-throb—and the ventriloquist can make Zaluzhny make sure that everyone begins to ponder a nuclear-armed Ukraine.
We don’t know really what Zaluzhny thinks about these matters. We don’t know really what he would say if his injury were not an impediment. The Atlanticists want his image, his allure. They of course don’t want him to weigh in.
To ask him, for real, would be to expose the ruse.
Such is the lot of ventriloquist’s dummies.
No one ever asked, back in the day, “WWLD-?”
What would Lambchop do-?
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 30 2025 20:34 utc | 70
@42 ScotsNazi
you’re full of shite Loon.
The Sword in The Stone is a “legend” based on the blacksmith (Merlin) pulling a copper or bronze sword out of a sand/clay mould
You’ll be regaling the bar next on how kilts were invented by the blue faced picts, not (actually) the Victorians
Idiot
Posted by: AleaJactaEst | Nov 30 2025 20:38 utc | 71
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 30 2025 19:57 utc | 66
Seconded.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 30 2025 20:38 utc | 72
I feel good that the word “collapse” has finally been used truthfully in broad reporting.
I hate, hate, hate misuse of words such as “love” or “victory”.
After seemingly endless You Tube clickbait, we finally meet up with a reasonable view of what collapse should look like. Brigades running away. Tens of thousands running across Ukraine borders. Here we are. Collapse is real and fits what the dictionary says. Next up, RF troops moving as fast as the fear of mined roads will permit. Finally !!!
Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 30 2025 20:49 utc | 73
Was he English, Scottish, Welsh?
Saxon or Angle?
Did he exist at all?
The TRUTH about King Arthur.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 30 2025 20:51 utc | 74
What if Yermak gets captured byRussian forces, or surrenders. That would be an interesting scenario. Just saying…….
Posted by: Bingo | Nov 30 2025 20:56 utc | 75
From November 12th but relevant.
KYIV IN TOTAL CHAOS: Young Men Abandon The War Torn Ukraine As Russia Advances | Times Now World
Ukraine is bleeding its youth while Europe pours billions into hollow promises. As Russian forces crush Ukrainian defenses relentlessly, young men are abandoning the battlefield, fleeing to EU countries in record numbers.
Kyiv struggles to hold the frontlines as its army collapses under pressure, exposing the harsh reality: Ukraine cannot win this war alone. In September alone, over 79,000 Ukrainians sought temporary protection in the EU, with Poland, Germany, and Czechia absorbing the largest numbers.
Kyiv’s leadership even allowed men aged 18 to 22 to leave freely, revealing the army’s dire manpower shortages. Millions are now under EU protection, leaving Ukraine’s future dependent on foreign aid, empty assurances, and a generation that may never return
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzuQPjnMXqo
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2025 21:00 utc | 76
Disappointed to see that Lara Marlowe has fully embraced Ukrainian & NATO propaganda.
Calling for Trump and Witkoff to be tried for treason for giving Putin what he wants. She has been pumping out this kind of drivel for ages now
Robert Fisk must be turning in his grave. No wonder he left her.
Posted by: Facekicker | Nov 30 2025 21:01 utc | 77
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 14:59 utc | 7
To my knowledge, there are no longer any old nuclear weapons in Ukraine; they were returned to Russia at the time.Ukraine wants to obtain some (from whoever), but so far no one has supplied any. This would also violate the Non-Proliferation Treaty.The main fear (probably also that of the US) is the manufacture of a “dirty bomb,” as Ukraine has enough material for this.
I basicaly agree with this post except that I wonder why the Yurwzmesh facility in Dnipro was destroyed by an (experimental ??) Orishnick in Nov 2024? I suspect the RF was extremely concerned about the activities in that facility. Had some (hypothetical) friend of Ukraine supplied a few nukes which were being fitted to missiles of some type there?? Admittedly I’m speculating a bit, but clearly the RF was worried.
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Nov 30 2025 21:09 utc | 78
I saw an interesting post on Slavyangrad saying that the Ukrainians had attempted a layered set of defense structures analogous to the Surovikan line, but that such defenses are no longer of great affect because offensives are by uav’s and infantry. The tanks and such are left in the shed.
The nature of war – it is become more difficult, I think. One is hunted.
Posted by: jared | Nov 30 2025 21:16 utc | 79
Balts hate Slavs and Jews. Many of them are Baltic Germans (like Alfred Rosenberg). This hatred escalated off the charts after October 1917. Take a close look at Baltic participation in everything post-Barbarossa. Kallas and her ilk bring this kind of old central European ethnic hatred to the table. It parades as liberalism but it’s counter-revolutionary revanchism 101.
Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 28 2025 21:46 utc | 194
Buddy w/poly-sci degree thinks this statement tags you as a Bolshevik.
I reckon he’s still fighting the cold war.
For his edification, are you?
Posted by: drinky crow | Nov 30 2025 21:25 utc | 80
I basicaly agree with this post except that I wonder why the Yurwzmesh facility in Dnipro was destroyed by an (experimental ??) Orishnick in Nov 2024?
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Nov 30 2025 21:09 utc | 78
Relatively easy to answer:1) It was not an experimental rocket, but a prototype (the prototype?) that is now being mass-produced.2) They wanted a correspondingly massive and deep-reaching structure, and this was just that, and what’s more, it was self-built. Such a target was therefore correspondingly impressive. It was therefore very easy to determine what the result was and compare it with old documents.
Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 21:30 utc | 81
What if Yermak gets captured byRussian forces, or surrenders. That would be an interesting scenario. Just saying……. Posted by: Bingo | Nov 30 2025 20:56 utc | 75
Will never happen, unfortunately. Don’t believe the ukronazi propaganda. Last bit: he is supposed to be a drone operator, that is far from the front. LOL!
Now the Russians a targeting the drone ukronazi teams…
@ Bingo | Nov 30 2025 20:56 utc | 75
It might be more straightforward if he just openly defected and sought political asylum in Russia.
A quid pro quo, “I’ll spill the beans on everything I know, if you give me immunity from war crimes prosecution.”, but who knows what goes on the minds of such psychos.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 30 2025 21:41 utc | 83
@ Bingo #75
I read a ZH article that says basically he’s at the front, but “no unit commanders will take him” and he otherwise has no official duties. So he’s at the front, but not at the front, sort of like – going with this being a bar – he’s at the bar, but he’s not drinking. Goes with what everyone else has said, the only reason he’s at the front is to keep the wolves at bay, either to paint some patriotic, martyr-like picture, or to go where NABU and other anti-corruption forces can’t touch him.
Posted by: Stark | Nov 30 2025 21:50 utc | 84
“First reports about the Flamingo missile appeared this August, with Ukraine bragging that the pink cruise missile could strike targets up to 3,000 kilometers away. /Posted by: smartfox | Nov 30 2025 19:19 utc | 57″
This is ukie propaganda to show the EU that Ukraine is so ready to join the peace & prosperity bloc that it accession should be fast-tracked with rainbows and rose petals. See by yourself : an homosexual penis-playing dwarf president, supported by gentle courageous nazzis, and now… a pink massive penis-shaped mighty missile that will make those ladies (von der hyena, kallas) sing and wet the floor!
Posted by: Asian Frog | Nov 30 2025 21:54 utc | 85
Posted by: Stark | Nov 30 2025 21:50 utc | 84
Ukrainian law suspends any criminal investigations in case of voluntary mobilization.
It would be useful in case there’s still some assets being moved out of Ukrainian jurisdiction to some other place, i.e. Dubai or Singapore.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2025 21:54 utc | 86
So there was me, just the other day, saying Russia doesn’t have any control over what happens to their ships, not even in their territorial waters and someone actually said I was spouting bs. Now in the past few days we have several of Russia’s shadow tanker fleet getting Moskovaed……..anchors away……..
Cheers M
……..well what they said was along the lines of two Russian ships and a sub visited Venezuela and had scared the beegessus out of the Yanks, they are so frightened by Russia’s Caribbean fleet of three, Big Don sent a navel flotilla in response…..reflect on that for a minute…..
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 30 2025 21:54 utc | 87
Posted by: Bingo | Nov 30 2025 20:56 utc | 75
The only front Yermak is going to is the front of the queue for a Learjet to Tel Aviv.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 30 2025 21:56 utc | 88
Alexander Mercouris (warning: AI):
EU Ukraine Plan Collapses: The €140 Billion Geopolitical Meltdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alOl953bn-M
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2025 22:17 utc | 89
someone actually said I was spouting bs
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 30 2025 21:54 utc | 87
Well, you do seem to have a long and undistinguished track record for that…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 30 2025 22:20 utc | 90
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 30 2025 14:44
Russia should urge the UK to have ‘Zaluzhny’ attend an upcoming ‘peace conference’ to contribute his brilliant negotiating acumen on behalf of Ukraine. But first, have him post a video stating his position. Talk about a ‘puppet’ (with missing strings)!
Posted by: norecovery | Nov 30 2025 22:35 utc | 91
unimperator | Nov 30 2025 22:17 utc | 89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alOl953bn-M
Its a fake AI video and not a very good one. You need to up your game of spotting them. They are everywhere on YT now.
Posted by: JustAMaverick | Nov 30 2025 22:38 utc | 92
Posted by: JustAMaverick | Nov 30 2025 22:38 utc | 92
The video is informative, nevertheless. I would watch Mercouris’ videos but they are 1h30min long. I used to watch when they were around 45min long. It would be good if he divided videos into some smaller parts based on topic.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2025 22:42 utc | 93
Lavrov has problems walking, as seen in this vid, and the joke between him and the reporter is flat at best. None of Russia’s top representatives (including the President) should be older than 60 at the end of the term they’re sworn in. Starts looking like the geriatric ward, Brezhnev-era politburo or the U.S. Senate and WH. Why don’t powerful old folks know when to retire?
Posted by: Nervous German | Nov 30 2025 22:43 utc | 94
Posted by: Nervous German | Nov 30 2025 22:43 utc | 94
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Old people rule the world. They always have. The youth are easily distracted and misled.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 22:45 utc | 95
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 30 2025 21:54 utc | 87
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It is safe to ignore anyone who writes “shadow fleet” unironically.
The “Shadow Fleet” are ships not insured through London because London won’t insure Russian ships.
Westerners think that everything is up to them and only permissible with their sanction.
Thankfully, that is ending. Humanity has no interest in waiting for permission from degenerate Anglos.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 22:50 utc | 96
Time’s running short , go on record folks dont be scared. Will China , Russia, or both help Venezuela defend itself militarily and in a public manner against the US ? Spare us the word salads, its a yes or no answer.
Posted by: The Painter | Nov 30 2025 16:19 utc | 24
Yes, cuz they already have.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 30 2025 22:56 utc | 97
Jeremy Rhymings-Lang@90……..good one Jer, rare find these days, a Brit with a sense of humour…..I appreciate it, so many dour faces around here, many burdened by the weight of the Empire…..your Empire. Try not to take yourself too seriously Jer……..you, like me, are an inconsequential speck of shit in a vast timeless universe…..
Cheers M
……there, I gave you lots of material to work with…….give you something to pass the time……
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 30 2025 22:57 utc | 98
@ LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 22:50 utc | 96
What sean the sheep asleep doesn’t realise, along with many others of his ilk, is that the so-called “shadow fleet” is yet another example of de-dollarisation and de-Westernisation.
Lloyds of London thought they had monopolised all shipping insurance transactions and this was then weaponised against Russia (and to a lesser extent China), only for them to discover that these nations are big enough and powerful enough to cut Lloyds entirely out of the loop, so now the propaganda Wurlitzer is fired up, and of course “If it isn’t insured by Lloyds of London it must be an illegal, sanctions-busting shadow fleet”.
A monopoly is only as powerful as the weapons available to enforce it, a shortcoming that is only just dawning on the West.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 30 2025 23:05 utc | 99
LoveDonbass@96…… degenerate Anglos…..by far the most intelligent thing you have posted to date……there may be hope for you yet…….
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 30 2025 23:06 utc | 100