Russia’s Economy Is Still ‘Bleeding Out’?

December 9, 2025

> Russia’s economy is bleeding out. And despite western worries about the Kremlin propaganda offensive in Africa and Asia, it is largely isolated internationally. <

Source: Vladimir Putin’s ship of fools is sinking fast. Will he take everyone down with him? – Simon Tisdall / Guardian, Sep 24, 2022

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> Putin’s economic ruination of Russia, though still a work in progress, is matched by plummeting geopolitical influence. <

Source: Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall – Simon Tisdall / Guardian, Dec 7, 2025

Meanwhile Russia’s GDP continues to rise.

h/t: Brian McDonald

Posted by b on December 9, 2025 at 09:07 UTC | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: damien | Dec 9 2025 17:36 utc | 107
Apologies. I can’t get the paragraph spacing right.

Posted by: damien | Dec 9 2025 17:38 utc | 101

I’ve met tons of fools from both West and East telling me all about the “wonders” of “socialism”, esp. under these lauded sh*tbrics.
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I reckon you are but another delusional “keyboard warrior” working tirelessly round-the-clock on behalf of the mindless ‘left’ – living in some enclave of the well-established Occident and enjoying all its comforts – who never once tasted intense misery or suffering in any of said sh*tbrics.

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 17:35 utc | 106

Not only have you not been here very long, you clearly have comprehension difficulties. At no point have I mentioned

“wonders” of “socialism”

obviously a figment of your over-active incel imagination, cluttered as it already is by visions of Russian wives eager to be at your beck and call.

The West has lost, the future is East and South, get over it.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 17:46 utc | 102

jeremy @109,

ad hominem insults from a delusional fool defending the ‘left’ is all I’m getting?

No-body has “won” or will “win”.

The easterners (esp. those from russia and chyna) still flood to the West like a deluge in search of safety and refuge for their money-laundering or whatever shady businesses they were engaging in back home – most recent example being a young spoilt brat from mainland chyna crashing her Rolls-Royce into another equally pricey automobile and nearly killing the driver.

Those from the south are still fleeing from their various dictatorships back home – e.g. Venezuelans and Mexicans to America – where they end up being at the mercy of vicious human-trafficking rings or worse.

You must seriously be living in your own bubble, unaware of what troubles these minions of the south and east cause for others world-wide.

(Pitiful, your arguments – is propaganda all that the ‘left’ is truly capable of?)

The globalists and their technocrat pals are making sure that the youth of the future shall suffer in a world-wide slave plantation under a biometric dictatorship 24/7 and all you can tell me is how the socialists will triumph?

Oh my, this is the kool-aid they forced-fed upon you in public school and university?

A pox on your lecturers and those that taught you naught but poison.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/world-news/russian-couple-remains-dubai-desert-crypto-millionaire-250815-20251109

https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/278738802/china-linked-cybercrime-rings-tighten-grip-on-africa-as-nigeria-becomes-global-fraud-hotspot

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-scammers-deported-southeast-asia-foreigner-butchering-5530201

Sans morals and bankrupt in both mind and spirit, these lowlife minions from the “global south” and the sh*tbrics east, I must say.

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 18:10 utc | 103

@ karlof1 | Dec 9 2025 16:56 utc | 95

How hard is for you to provide feedback to the government on the state of the national projects?

Not very hard at all, not that any feedback from me would be given due consideration, as I am not a Russian citizen: I have a full, limitless residence permit for a foreign citizen, which means I can travel and live anywhere in Mordor, set up a business, employ Russian citizens. Basically, I have all the rights of a Russian citizen. However, I do not have the right to vote in elections or become a member of a political party.
How to write a letter to the President of the Russian Federation and where to file a complaint?

According to Article 33 of the Russian Constitution, any citizen or group of citizens can appeal to the President of the Russian Federation. Such an appeal is purely subjective, but it must contain a description of a problem that affects the government’s management process. On the other hand, the aforementioned article does not limit the scope or subject matter of the appeal, so it is possible to write a letter to the President regarding any issue that is unsolvable at the regional level.
You can write a letter to the President in three forms:

Offer
Claim
Statement

A proposal is an opinion of one or more individuals that is advisory in nature and is submitted to the President in order to help improve the system of public activity.
Complaint is written in case of violation of the legal rights of one or more persons in order to restore their interests.
Statement is a document that lists violations or shortcomings in the work of officials at both the regional and national levels. In addition, the statement contains a request for assistance in solving the problem that has arisen.
There are several ways to submit one of the three forms of appeal to the President:
You can write a letter to the President in three forms:

Offer
Claim
Statement

On the official website of the President of Russia
When visiting the Moscow Reception Office of the President of the Russian Federation in person
By sending a regular letter to one of the Russian Post offices
Use the electronic reception desk
Contact the mobile reception center
Through the Presidential Administration
By contacting the Russian Government
By sending an sms message

_______________________
I fact, my wife has written two letters on my behalf to the President, to which she received polite replies.

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 9 2025 18:22 utc | 104

ad hominem insults from a delusional fool defending the ‘left’ is all I’m getting?

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 18:10 utc | 110

Then you’re reading it wrong.

As for posting MSM links reporting criminal actions, what does that prove, apart from criminality is worldwide?

If you want rational discussion, at least bring some rationality that isn’t steeped in outdated “left/right” bipolarism!

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 18:26 utc | 105

Sorry for accidently pasting the same text twice above.
More information below as regards how a Russian citizen can communicate with the President:
Send an appeal to the President of Russia in the form of an electronic document

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 9 2025 18:30 utc | 106

Addendum: it‘s a curiously satisfying feeling, being accused of being on the left, when the regular poster @Clouds Of Alabama has labelled me as a “hard-right, sound money, gold-bug idealogue”…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 18:31 utc | 107

(Can chyna – not having military expedition since the campaign of Viet Nam in ’79 have the slightest chance of beating that zio-machine?)
Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 17:01 utc | 97

The marines at Chosin made the fatal mistake of underestimating their opponents as well. A bunch of Chinese peasants schooling the elite forces of the ‘worlds greatest power’. Pride goeth before fall, and all that.

Meanwhile your unsupported and juvenile assertions about Russia and China, along with your hohol-like petulance in deliberately misspelling China as chyna (THAT will really show them) tells me you are a fantasist, and a butthurt and impotent one at that. Do you need a tissue? The worst thing about the internet is the proliferation of loud stupidity endlessly repeated by an increasingly vapid West.

Americas primary export these days appears to be AI powered bullshit. Too bad you cant build anything on shit, or the USA really would be the world’s greatest nation.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Dec 9 2025 18:31 utc | 108

I’ve met tons of fools from both West and East telling me all about the “wonders” of “socialism”, esp. under these lauded sh*tbrics.
But the mere fact that I meet youths from russia and chyna flooding for other more established countries (esp. capitalist nations […]

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 17:35 utc | 106

So you’re still calling Russia a socialist country?…

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 18:34 utc | 109

Moscow Exile | Dec 9 2025 18:22 utc | 111—

Thanks very much for your reply and explanation about your residency status. As you probably know, I closely monitor Russian government events and this was said at yesterday’s meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects:

National projects are key tools for achieving national goals. To fully launch them, a regulatory framework has been established, funding sources have been identified, and digital monitoring of results has been organized based on assessments by citizens, businesses, and professional communities, as well as sociological surveys conducted on a regular quarterly basis. [My Emphasis]

My query was related to what is stated above about assessments by citizens, which you are unable to participate in because you lack the basic qualification. So, what about the upcoming Direct Line on the 19th? Will you and your spouse participate?

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 9 2025 18:35 utc | 110

jeremy @ 112,

chyna cannot even sustain itself with population growth – many a lass at age thirty and above not able to marry, nor can their suffering lads afford so.

(Worse, the youths seem bent on fleeing abroad for a better life than back home – this I am witness to from my very neck-of-the-woods.)

Is russia doing any better?

I reiterate: demographics is destiny.

Not doing-too-well are the brics in this aspect – who shall do the soldiering or tend to the now rapidly-aging(?) – ‘cept for incompetent india, brazil and south africa (whose minions too are as unpopular as the other two aforementioned).

The others (e.g. Dr. Eleven @ 115 and even Malenkov @ 116) are in the belief that since Uncle Sham appears incompetent and morally-corrupt, that the zio industrial-military complex is truly at its tethers.

Last I recall, the American goliath seemed seriously injured and weakened at a major disaster named Pearl Harbor and it retaliated in a manner that cruelly devastated both axis powers.

(Not without reason is Uncle Sham known for being truly perfidious…)

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 18:50 utc | 111

Last I recall, the American goliath seemed seriously injured and weakened at a major disaster named Pearl Harbor and it retaliated in a manner that cruelly devastated both axis powers.

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 18:50 utc | 118

OK, now we’re getting somewhere, at least you’ve explained part of the ‘root cause’ of your misunderstanding. Let me introduce you to something that isn’t a Russian wife website.

So, with that in mind, what outcome do you see?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 18:58 utc | 112

After perusing the comments on The Guardian this far, I am surprised that no-one has suggested that Luke Harding, Simon Tisdall, that other odious G scribe Jonathan Friedland (or Freedland) and some of their other colleagues whose names I can’t be bothered to remember (Carole Cadwallader / Crapswallower and Natalie Nougatrede / Nougatbrain?) might be on a British spook agency payroll (MI5).

Certainly Natalie B’s arrival at the G was suspicious, coming soon after her sacking as chief editor of a French newspaper after trying to run it like La Reine du Soleil.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 9 2025 18:59 utc | 113

The others (e.g. Dr. Eleven @ 115 and even Malenkov @ 116) are in the belief that since Uncle Sham appears incompetent and morally-corrupt, that the zio industrial-military complex is truly at its tethers.
Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 18:50 utc | 118

Strange, where or how did I imply that?

But since you asked —

Well, let’s start with your not knowing what “at its tethers” means. It means being in “a state of being held back while possessing an intense desire or powerful urge to break free, move, or act.” Does that describe the American MIC? Not really, because it’s hardly being held back! Every year it gets even more money than the Pentagon requests!

No, the problem with the MIC — or, if you prefer, the MIC’s preferred business model — is the production of horrifically overpriced weaponry that is often of substandard quality.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 19:04 utc | 114

And just a bit more; I’ve got no particular bone to pick with China either way. I do like the way the Shanghai metal exchanges use physical settlement, rather than the paper contracts and “cash equivalent“ settlements that prevail on Western exchanges.

Who is going to win out there? Those holding the physical, or those holding a piece of paper that promises they hold the physical? Promissory notes, and we all know where they can end up, used by the West as a measure of Potemkin wealth, that doesn’t really exist.

And that is why the West has lost; it created and promoted a Potemkin wealth, built on credit for consumption, not true productive investment and development.

Losing isn’t just a military defeat in Ukraine, it’s an economic and financial defeat worldwide, as the smoke sputters and the mirrors shatter.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 19:15 utc | 115

is often of substandard quality.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 19:04 utc | 121

May I respectfully add: years late and billions over-budget?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 19:26 utc | 116

jeremy @ 119,

High as a kite you are.

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/chinas-10-trillion-yuan-debt-clean-falls-short

https://caliber.az/en/post/russia-s-national-debt-surges-by-37-6-billion-in-2025

I see – or rather I suspect – that the banking cabal (city-of-london, wall st. and basel, switzerland) are slowly moving their various pieces (sh*tbrics and globohomo, satanist west towards a never-ending decades war.

https://drmathewmaavak.substack.com/p/is-a-limited-world-war-3-possible

No nucular weapons needed: just famine (owing to weather weaponry courtesy of Uncle Sham, artificial ‘sun’ made by your beloved chi-coms, etc.), new ‘plagues’ and subsequent ‘vaccine’ injuries and deaths, market forces all awry and in disarray – this we are already witness to no thanks to the quagmire in both Palestine and the Ukraine and consistent casualties on these very said fronts, and with all-new regional powder kegs that come along the way (india vs. pakistan, pakistan vs. afghan taliban, cambodia vs. thailand, etc.)

Do you need that many serfs for a planetary plantation come 2030 or 2050?

I think not.

A totalitarian world govt requires that the unkempt minions lose faith in practically everything: political leaders, economy, medical ‘experts’, organized religion – see how atheism and godlessness now takes root in the young owing to institutions corrupt like shaolin temple to-day and many a church body, incl. the vatican, parents not able to adequately provide or protect their young from say ‘vaccine’ injury, etc.

When the masses lose all hope and moral compass, said cabal I reckon shall provide the ready ‘solution’ that is world govt – a totalitarian model envisioned by those (elitist/globalist) fabian ‘socialists’, the sheeple forever crushed under a boot, like the one that is architectural model for the bank of int’l settlements.

[manufactured] ‘problem’ – mass hysteria and panic – ready-made ‘solution’: the hegelian dialectic

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 19:30 utc | 117

When Scotland is declared a colony of England’s in the near future – things will change the UN’s resolution 37/43 says this on it. “2.Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoplesfor independence, territorial integrity, national unity andliberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreignoccupation by all available means, including armed struggle;” A_RES_37_43-EN.pdf Colonial news channels (which is all of them) must be closed down – the colonial admin at Holyrood and all the other London HQ branch office political parties must be removed from office – close to one million English settlers have illegally flooded over the border into Scotland – that will have to be addressed as well, the £200 billion + that England’s steals from Scotland every year will also need to be stopped – of course Scots will need to arm themselves to take back their nation – that will be a problem, that will also need to be addressed – on decolonisation and the removal of the colonial admin at Holyrood, that answers to London new elections will need to take place to elect politicians who don’t answer to the English colonisers. Looking at Perfidious Albion and previous countries decolonising such as Ireland, Perfidious Albion – often tries to hewn off a piece of land from former colonies, in Scotland it could Orkney or Shetland, that Perfidious Albion goes after – and its vital that Scotland acquires the armaments to retain territorial integrity from this.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 9 2025 19:30 utc | 118

@ YT | Dec 9 2025 19:30 utc | 124

Dear oh dear, what a “buggers muddle”!

An incoherent ramble that even @sean the leprechaun could stand back and admire…

What do you expect me to address in that syntactical soup? At least do me the minimal courtesy of responding directly to the point about levels of US debt, and why you think it can continue indefinitely?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 19:50 utc | 119

jeremy @ 126,

Why so keen on the fall of pax americana?

You are suggesting that with the collapse of the “evil empire”, the sh*tbrics shall triumph and usher in a “bright new world order”?

Nay, I doubt the US can continue with its current astronomical debt (maybe that’s why they “brought in” the donald and his team of incompetent clowns to further “expedite the process”…)

Power abhors a vacuum.

With Uncle Sham going into permanent decline and eventual collapse, the remaining monsters soon shall squabble over who shall take lead.

Not gonna be pretty, this much is assured…

Do recall that the two-faced snake from india has little and next-to-no-love for “winnie the pooh” what with the not-long-ago spate over the Himalayas, nor do I believe that the “bromance” between the mainlanders and the ivans is anything but expedient.

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 20:01 utc | 120

The RF economy is doing just fine thank you very much. RF has massive reserves of coal, natural gas, uranium, petroleum, iron ore, bauxite, rare earth minerals, and loads of willing customers.
In addition it is a huge producer of agricultural products from wheat, oaks and barley to various fertilizers. It has the largest gold reserves in the world, and the largest nuclear arsenal on earth.
Fear not for the RF, compare with the US with zero gold reserves and a $38.5 T national debt, constantly being increased by run away government spending. A country under presidential idiots like Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden off shored its basic heavy industry…. Not a pretty picture indeed.

Posted by: tobias cole | Dec 9 2025 20:15 utc | 121

Why so keen on the fall of pax americana?

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 20:01 utc | 127

Not keen on it, just see it as “baked in”, inevitable, because systems are dynamic, not static, change will always manifest itself, but becomes difficult to cope with for those who fooled themselves into believing pax Americana would be a permanent stasis.

Especially as there hasn’t been a great deal of pax.

With Uncle Sham going into permanent decline and eventual collapse, the remaining monsters soon shall squabble over who shall take lead.

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 20:01 utc | 127

Why would they squabble? They can look at the US example of trying to impose global hegemon at the expense of domestic issues and think “Nope, no way are we going there, we will deal with our neighbours with respect, rather than bully them with CBG in every ocean. Besides, we can make more money if we trade, rather than invade.”

Not gonna be pretty, this much is assured…

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 20:01 utc | 127

With that, I agree, but the primary cause of ugliness will be a floundering, flailing West lashing out at whoever is within range, and that range shrinks.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 20:15 utc | 122

It’s pretty clear what 404 and UK and EU’s plan is:
Refuse to surrender the Donbass ad infinitum.
Live on with it being Russian ad infinitum.
Continue to invest, spend, build-up, manufacture, fire, sabotage every possible thing against Russia locally and deeper-in to annoy them ad infinitum.

I’d say they are banking on, long term, RF people getting tired of such strikes, enough to …what …?

In the meantime, Ukraine goes further down the shithole of its own making. RF retaliation will just get worse and more debilitating. Until … what …?

1. Kremlin will never withdraw.
2. Kremlin will never not ~~retaliate~~ against terrorism.

The only cycle-breaker I see is the Ukrainian people electing a sensible RADA and Pres who’ll negotiate a surrender with Moscow.

Posted by: Indulis Kradzins | Dec 9 2025 20:37 utc | 123

moscow exile has been around for a long time.. that post was meant to evoke a sense of humour… oh well!

Posted by: james | Dec 9 2025 16:36 utc | 87

Thanks, James. I couldn’t tell!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 9 2025 16:41 utc | 90

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And in case anyone can’t tell, that response is a special brand of red-headed barbarian subtle, wry humor…

Posted by: General Factotum | Dec 9 2025 20:39 utc | 124

jeremy @ 129

Tsk-tsk, a most gullible outlook…

Ethnic and nationalist sentiment triumph over rational thought.

No way chyna can hold reign over a fearful viet nam, philippines, korea or japan – loyal lapdogs of Uncle Sham – nor convince ’em that a hopeful future is in store.

That “big, scary bear from the North” is even worse – what with former tyrannical rule under the cruel and ruthless bolsheviks – curiously a majority of that most wicked lot now dying of old age in zionist israel.

All those very unhappy memories left behind for the Poles and former members of the “iron curtain” have since been conveniently forgotten?

Seriously?

Why do these lackeys still insist on being in nato then?

Then there is two-faced india and chyna each wooing the taliban in their own struggle for regional hegemony and expanding spheres-of-influence.

The “one-belt/one-road” initiative too now seems hardly promising – since pakistan is facing internal dissent (civil war in balochistan) and also border conflict with the taliban – no longer safe passage for a supposed trade route/“silk road”.

chyna will treat its “partners” well, now that they have not ability to pay their insurmountable debts?

I surmise the locals across impoverished indonesia, ceylon, bangladesh and along with those incompetent african nations in the “global south” will actually wonder if monies will even reach them or simply go into the pockets of their innumerable corrupt administrators (heck, a scenario no different from the bleak and evil era of the soviet union).

Totalitarian police-states fail to win mass support, otherwise we wouldn’t be witness to these minions of the “global south” fleeing to the West ’til this day.

(Do you hear anyone – anyone at all – from the cesspool war-torn middle east seek refuge in chyna or russia – or even india or south africa where various packs of lowlifes seem absolutely keen on gang-rape of women and girls?)

Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 20:40 utc | 125

I think the piece was by Kit Klarenberg: New East Network

Posted by: damien | Dec 9 2025 17:36 utc | 107

You can’t go wrong with old Kit. A true champ!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 9 2025 20:47 utc | 126

@ Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 20:40 utc | 132
M’kay, I was beginning to suspect something earlier, but the abundant and random use of dashes as a substitute for proper punctuation tells me you are copy-pasting from LLM output, and not bringing your own human input.

That is cheating…

Enjoy your Russian wife search, I’m out.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 20:51 utc | 127

Posted by: damien | Dec 9 2025 17:36 utc | 107

Thank you for the comprehensive post.

Posted by: canuk | Dec 9 2025 20:55 utc | 128

[Columbo voice mode ON]

Before I go, just one more thing, sir, did you remember to clear your browsing history? That should stop those adverts you were complaining about earlier.

[Columbo voice mode OFF]

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 20:56 utc | 129

@ Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 20:51 utc | 134

”I’ll keep changing the subject until you acknowledge my brilliance” is a not uncommon tactic employed by people unwilling or unable to sustain an argument. 😉

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 20:57 utc | 130

@ Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 20:56 utc | 136

In all fairness, some sites are cruder than others when it comes to “targeted” ads. Back when I did Fakebook and Yahoo Finance, both sites hit me with a daily barrage of “Desperate MILFs in Your Area” and “Tanya, 42, Kharkiv” ads. For a while I was amused, especially because Fakebook at least should’ve been able to figure out from my friends, likes, posts, etc. that I was much more inclined toward DILFs.

BTW I no longer do either site, and to those who really do need FB to keep up with their favorite peeps and shops I enthusiastically recommend the FBPurity extension.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 21:04 utc | 131

@ malenkov | Dec 9 2025 20:57 utc | 137

The giveaway for me was the increasing use of dashes as punctuation, where they weren’t really needed. I just hope that I have contributed, in a small way, to LLM model collapse, as they decrease in usefulness.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 21:09 utc | 132

I just hope that I have contributed, in a small way, to LLM model collapse, as they decrease in usefulness.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 21:09 utc | 139

You done good, JR-L!

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 21:11 utc | 133

There is no peace plan.
This proxy war has turned into a serious struggle between America and the UK/EU militaries. It’s about money.
The US could stop it’s technical military support of Ukraine
But it can’t. That support isl the security guarantee that is given when you buy those expensive US weapons. If the US fails on that security guarantee there will be much fewer sales of weapons to the world and the American military contractors will have Trump impeached. Of that there is no doubt.
This is the power the UK/EU has over the US. Th
is a huge power struggle that has been exacerbated by Trump’s failure to make a deal with the EU.
An election in Ukraine is not possible, as Karlofi explained to us. Zelinsky knows this very well. A coup is possible, a dozen African countries can show us how. But somewhere along the line the power struggle between US and UK/EU over security of technical military support must be resolved.
The outcome of this struggle will determine who holds the power and we can then move on to end this war

Posted by: Bingo | Dec 9 2025 21:19 utc | 134

james, Ahenobarbus

re Moscow Exile this poster originally came from a town near where I live in Britain. I read the Kremlin Stooge/New Kremlin Stooge website run by Mark Chapmanfifteen years ago, where this exile used to post and maybe still does. There were some great conversations on that site, larded with personal detail and passion. Moscow Exile was a stalwart there, personified by intelligent common sense. I spent a year or so reading his comments as a lurker and so became familiar with his biography – origins, migration story, family etc.

If I remember rightly, at that time he was studying hard to take his grasp of Russian to a higher level. I came across a couple of his posts several years ago somewhere, practically discussing some erudite linguistic point vis a vis the Russian language and realised that he had reached the higher level he was aiming for when I had first become aware of him.

Posted by: will moon | Dec 9 2025 21:20 utc | 135

@ malenkov | Dec 9 2025 21:11 utc | 140

I’m sure there was something from one of the early Star Trek movies, said in a Scottish engineers accent:
“The more complicated they make the plumbing… ”

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 21:23 utc | 136

@ will moon | Dec 9 2025 21:20 utc | 142

Yes, if @Moscow Exile (if he’s lurking) ever decided to publish an autobiography I would gladly buy it.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 21:29 utc | 137

House @68 and Martina @93
In addition to the economic interests in Ukraine detailed by Martina, western agricultural interests desired to get their hands on the fertile Donbas plains, where much of the exportable supply of seed oil in the world is produced:
https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/report/corporate-takeover-ukrainian-agriculture

Posted by: mjh | Dec 9 2025 22:00 utc | 138

Article linked @ 145 was written in 2014….

Posted by: mjh | Dec 9 2025 22:01 utc | 139

I’m sure there was something from one of the early Star Trek movies, said in a Scottish engineers accent:“The more complicated they make the plumbing… ”

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 21:23 utc | 143

”Central Services!”…

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 22:13 utc | 140

@Moscow Exile posts frequently (and intelligently) at Martyanov’s site. Good to see him here.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 22:16 utc | 141

YT, if demographics were destiny, as you aver, the US and Russia are headed to the same destination. In recent years, the number of children borne by each woman was virtually identical in both countries: about 1.61, whereas 2.1 is the average number of children/woman that must occur to keep a population stable in number.
If not for immigration, the US population would have been declining for many decades—obvious implication if the plans of the current US administration were to be totally successful.
Fact is every country in the world that has successfully become a developed nation has seen its fertility index drop below the replacement figure of 2.1. Ultimately I see this decreased fecundity process as ultimately beneficial for the earth and for humanity—but it is a slowly developing phenomena that the world will eventually stabilize the human population…

Posted by: mjh | Dec 9 2025 22:22 utc | 142

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang

As a child he observed the damage and detritus in Liverpool from WW2, maybe in 1960-5 twenty years after the end of the war. I think he mentioned the Mersey having prominent wrecked ships in it, which he could see as he travelled into the city with his mum. Britain, unlike Germany recovered slowly from the War.
The last bombed out buildings of WW2 (known locally as “bomdies”) still extant in Liverpool were only cleared quite recently

Posted by: will moon | Dec 9 2025 22:25 utc | 143

Britain, unlike Germany recovered slowly from the War.
Posted by: will moon | Dec 9 2025 22:25 utc | 150

Interesting. Is that because of the Marshal Plan and US support/money?

If so , kind of tells you where US concerns really were.

Posted by: arby | Dec 9 2025 22:43 utc | 144

@ arby | Dec 9 2025 22:43 utc | 151

The UK’s war debt to the USA wasn’t paid in full until 2006.

Strictly speaking that was a post-WW II loan. The UK still owes the USA a large debt from WW I!

Now Germany, on the other hand…

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 22:52 utc | 145

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 10 2025 0:09 utc | 146

If so , kind of tells you where US concerns really were.
Posted by: arby | Dec 9 2025 22:43 utc | 151

They really were anti-communist concerns – in both East and West Germany . The Red Army’s victory gave Communism massive cachet amongst the Western European rank and file, particularly in France and Italy. So set up a polity staffed by many members of the former regime and run by the CIA and State lol

Rationing continued for eight or ten years in Britain after the end of WW2. These “rations” were wartime rates – tiny portions of sugar, fat, meat etc, small portions of everything else except personally homegrown fruit and veg

I read a memoir of a German captured early in the war who returned from imprisonment in Canada. This account suggested that the defeated men were very keen to do something, anything that would help their country and described intense, mass rubble clearance and other activities to repair damaged and destroyed civil infrastructure. The feeling seemed broader than politics or history – the defeated population were being driven by some deeper, more intimate force – maybe to help “rebind” the atomised survivors into a social aggregate. As victors and with less damage, maybe the Brits were subject to different forces?

Of course you must be right – West Germany was central to the Cold War, Britain less so. Also it was envisioned that a large US military garrison and even larger civilian contingent would be stationed there, so life improved more rapidly than it might of as a result of the massive investment. The country was able to generate a viable anticommunist postcard image quickly

Posted by: will moon | Dec 10 2025 0:17 utc | 147

Meanwhile Russia’s GDP continues to rise (through 2024 as the graph indicated.)

Oh if everything was that simplistic it would be grand. All of us would be right all the time.

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 10 2025 1:00 utc | 148

PS while Simon Tisdall has been a lying manipulative anti-human servant to the wealthy for decades.

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 10 2025 1:01 utc | 149

Posted by: lachaussette | Dec 9 2025 9:16 utc | 2

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Russia and China have formidable space programs. Russia has always been a global expert in rocket engine design.

Most people don’t know that China has operated its own space station for years.

China has plans to build a moon base on the dark side of the moon by 2030 for the purpose of monitoring radio signals from the galaxy.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 10 2025 1:54 utc | 150

If one talks to Western Chauvinists at MoA, all of these Russian designs and Chinese accomplishments were stolen from America when Obama was President… 😂😂😂

China wants to find Earth 2.0. Then they can finally get away from the Zionists. I won’t live that long, but it is a nice idea.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 10 2025 1:57 utc | 151

Will Moon @ 142:

Moscow Exile continues to post in the comments forums over at Mark Chapman’s The New Kremlin Stooge blog. He was recently discussing maritime vocabulary in the Russian language – much of it borrowed from English and Dutch.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 10 2025 3:33 utc | 152

It [the Guardian] was a liberal, daily broadsheet when first started to reading it in the ’70s. Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 9 2025 9:52 utc | 6I’d be curious to know what you thought of it, and why. I strongly disliked it in the 70’s, I thought it was illogical, and often unbelievable. But then I was young and impressionable, believed the regime propaganda, and had a very different political outlook than what I have today. I sometimes wonder what I would have thought of the Guardian in the 70’s if I had the same political outlook and experience that I have today, but of course such a hypothetical viewpoint is out of reach. Now I am inclined to see the faults of the Guardian as being in essence those of the 70’s, but massively massively increased; realistically I suspect that view is excessively biased by the views I held at the time.
Posted by: BM | Dec 9 2025 12:01 utc | 25

I started reading the Guardian in the ’70s because it was the least worse of an attrocious bunch. But I was never comfortable with it and its “quality” as a quality paper continued to deteriorate during my readership. When the Independent appeared, I began to read that, and it at first provided a refreshing change to the “Grauniad”, but that new broadsheet soon went the way of the rest of the British rags. The fact is that there is no “left-of-centre” news organ in the UK. Never has been, I suppose.

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 8:25 utc | 153

@ will moon | Dec 9 2025 21:20 utc | 142 Yes, if @Moscow Exile (if he’s lurking) ever decided to publish an autobiography I would gladly buy it.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 9 2025 21:29 utc | 144
__________________________
I’m always lurking! I am always with you!
“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
🙂
Natalya Vladimirovna Exile (Mrs. Exile) is always telling me to write an autobiography. She says it would sell here. She’s thinking about money of course, the philistine. And she a former member of the CPSU (for about 6 months), before Yeltsin banned it.

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 8:51 utc | 154

@Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 8:25 utc
offguardian 🙂

Posted by: steiniplatte | Dec 10 2025 8:56 utc | 155

He was recently discussing maritime vocabulary in the Russian language – much of it borrowed from English and Dutch.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 10 2025 3:33 utc | 159

Quite a bit of any tech vocabulary in the Russian language is imported.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great#Reforms

Google AI:

Russian tech vocabulary blends English loanwords

with native Russian terms and slang, covering hardware, software , internet usage , and common actions . Key terms include (laptop), (file), (app), (network), and (user).
(cyrillic samples snipped to make it post.)
You’ll find that this is also true for a range of other languages.
Industrial revolution was driven by AngloSaxons!

Posted by: MAKK | Dec 10 2025 9:19 utc | 156

JRL @ 134: I was beginning to think the troll was Matt who came to MoA years ago claiming to be a Venezuelan student living in Canada. He’d be old enough now to be cruising sites advertising Ukrainian brides or pole dancers.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Dec 10 2025 0:09 utc | 153
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“Matt” was the troll responsible for causing the original Mark Chapman’s “Kremlin Stooge” to be closed down and relaunched as “New Kremlin Stooge”. He began to swamp “Kremlin Stooge” with extremely long, mostly cut-and-paste, diatribes against Russia. He once set about me for writing the definite article before “Ukraine”, which is contrary to Banderite prescribed English grammar rules, and he always referred to Maria Zakharova as an “ugly old slag” etc.

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 9:29 utc | 157

Russian tech vocabulary blends English loanwords with native Russian terms and slang, covering hardware, software , internet usage , and common actions . Key terms include (laptop), (file), (app), (network), and (user). (cyrillic samples snipped to make it post.)You’ll find that this is also true for a range of other languages.Industrial revolution was driven by AngloSaxons!
Posted by: MAKK | Dec 10 2025 9:19 utc | 164
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Yes, but the maritime vocabulary borrowed from Dutch and English by the Russians entered the Russian language at the end of the 17th century, long before the massive borrowing of high tech, mostly IT terms of the present day, and before the Industrial Revolution had really taken off in Britain. Voronezh in southern Russia, where I studied at Voronezh State University and also lived before moving to Moscow, is known as the “Cradle of the Russian Fleet” because Peter the Great had the first Russian navy fleet built there on the banks of the Voronezh River, a tributary of the Don, for the Azov campaigns against the Ottomans. Azov on the shore of the Sea of Azov was at the time an Ottoman fortress that controlled navigation in the area, including navigation into the Don, which flows into the Sea of Azov. The Russians had attempted to take the fortress from its seaward side but had repeatedly failed to do so. So they decided to attack the fortress from its landward side, built a battle fleet at Voronezh and sailed with it down the Don to attack Azov. They were victorious. This fleet, constructed at a shipyard on the Voronezh River, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia, commissioned in 1700, marking Russia’s emergence as a naval power and establishing Voronezh as a centre for shipbuilding, even though itis faraway from any sea. They built a full-scale replica of Goto Predestinata in Voronezh in 2014. It is berthed on the Voronezh river.

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 9:59 utc | 158

It [the Guardian] was a liberal, daily broadsheet when first started to reading it in the ’70s. Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 9 2025 9:52 utc | 6I’d be curious to know what you thought of it, and why. I strongly disliked it in the 70’s, I thought it was illogical, and often unbelievable. But then I was young and impressionable, believed the regime propaganda, and had a very different political outlook than what I have today. I sometimes wonder what I would have thought of the Guardian in the 70’s if I had the same political outlook and experience that I have today, but of course such a hypothetical viewpoint is out of reach. Now I am inclined to see the faults of the Guardian as being in essence those of the 70’s, but massively massively increased; realistically I suspect that view is excessively biased by the views I held at the time.
Posted by: BM | Dec 9 2025 12:01 utc | 25

I remember the Graun in the 70s as the paper of the trendy corduroy-wearing, 2CV-driving poseur, who had a nice job in a state bureaucracy discreetly doing the state’s dirty work against the working class. The sort of person who wanted troops out of Ireland and a two-state solution to Palestine and felt justified and radical, even though the only solution to the Irish question is that Britain keeps out of it and the only solution to the Palestine question is for the zionist filth to go back to the Euro-American shiteholes they came from. Plus ca change.

Posted by: Squeeth | Dec 10 2025 10:21 utc | 159

This “journalist” is merely and establishment stooge

Posted by: Sambar | Dec 10 2025 10:36 utc | 160

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 9:59 utc | 166

That is why I posted the link to Peter the Great WP page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great#Amsterdam
Zsar Peter learned/informed himself about shipbuilding in the Netherlands
which lead to tasking Carsten Brandt to build up a Russian Navy:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Brandt
The comical opera “Zar und Zimmermann” touches on the historic background.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zar_und_Zimmermann

Posted by: MAKK | Dec 10 2025 10:42 utc | 161

Posted by: Noam A Larkey | Dec 10 2025 11:10 utc | 162

”Central Services!”…
Posted by: malenkov | Dec 9 2025 22:13 utc | 147
Have you got a 27B stroke 6?

Posted by: Squeeth | Dec 10 2025 11:36 utc | 163

mjh @ 149
“Ultimately I see this decreased fecundity process as ultimately beneficial for the earth and for humanity”

How so?

Curiosly, you shall a stance no different from those “socialists” from the club-of-rome – who have been engaged in ever constant fearmongering since the nineteen sixties ’bout “global cooling” and “over-population”.

Forgive my “racism”, but Russia and the United States suffering from low demographics simply means that technological progress soon shall plateau and ‘dip’.

Are you implying that advances in robotics or artificial intelligence shall “save the day”?

That too requires “brain work” from competent folks with certain IQ which can only be “garnered” from a large pool of competent folks.

(Our ‘friends’ from commie chyna on-the-other-hand seem adept only at pilfering trade secrets or industry equivalents via espionage – perhaps the very reason why they are so desperate to “re-claim” reluctant Taiwan, since that is where the semi-conductor giants have the chips…)

I meet a lot of chaps telling me how the “global south” is the “future” but please kindly advise how rapefugees from various cesspools in the mid-east – a flood of incompetents that soon shall outnumber those in the West can actually be of true ‘benefit’.

https://www.winterwatch.net/2024/11/the-true-dystopic-reality-check-threat-to-european-civilization-sub-saharan-africa-demographics/

https://invezz.com/news/2025/07/19/the-new-global-demographic-challenge-not-too-many-but-too-few/

Posted by: YT | Dec 10 2025 13:00 utc | 164

Fortunately for Putin, the Russian people are willing to put up with shortages and deprivations that would have us in the West howling in rage and protesting en masse on the streets. He is banking on their patience and resignation when it comes to economics to continue this war until he gets the concessions that he wants.
Posted by: Noam A Larkey | Dec 10 2025 11:10 utc | 170
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Could you enlighten me and any other interested parties here by stating what these shortages and deprivations here in Russia are exactly.

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 13:41 utc | 165

US Beta-Testing China Blockade With Attacks on Russian Energy Exports
https://journal-neo.su/2025/12/06/us-beta-testing-china-blockade-with-attacks-on-russian-energy-exports/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMdJwvFVJu4

“The expanding drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure represent a long-term US strategy aimed at weakening Russia and constraining China’s rise through an emerging, de facto energy blockade…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 10 2025 14:20 utc | 166

@ Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 13:41 utc | 173

AOC champagne, I imagine.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 10 2025 14:20 utc | 167

Simon Tisdall is a total buffoon

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Dec 10 2025 14:33 utc | 168

Motions have been started in both the US Congress and Senate for the USA to leave NATO.
https://youtu.be/aW5lXi7tlu4?si=2aM0z9VipgWSulwp

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Dec 10 2025 14:40 utc | 169

Even though it imports that the US created the EU for its own sake and to the detriment of the Europeans, what is going on now seems to me to indicate that somebody else wants the US dragged into the line of fire. Who usually is behind such initiatives is Great Britain. But perhaps their colleagues in Europe have decided to copy that. Thus the western sides have an internal conflict now. They are all loosing but Europe has lost more than the US and they are likely pissed off. Earlier it was about attempting to collapse Russian economy. That failing the EU is worse off than before it started. So since the US has caused huge damage to EU they want the US to taste the same bitter medicine. What exactly is the EU hoping for? I fear the worst: They really want the US to be severely injured. If that is the case they are intent on going all the way with escalation. The immediate impression is that the EU itself will be the only target. But not everybody among the Europeans are idiots so they probably have a plan of some kind.
How do they intend to maneuver US and Russia to fight?
Does anybody in the bar have a suggestion?

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Dec 10 2025 15:34 utc | 170

Why do I still witness the rise of websites advertising Russian wives and see many young wenches yonder longing…
Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 12:45 utc | 33
Because internet adbertising uses your history through cookies and trackers to tailor messages to you personally.
I personally have not seen an ad for mail order brides in about 9 years, when I quit online dating.
But dont give up hope, plenty of women looking for a loser troll like yourself. Especially of you like BBWs.

Posted by: UWDude | Dec 10 2025 15:44 utc | 171

Posted by: Noam A Larkey | Dec 10 2025 11:10 utc | 170

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Poor comparison, Westerners are very soft and childish when compared to Easterners.

People in the East are made of sterner stuff, in many ways due to the efforts of the West to dominate them.

One day the bullied kid hits his growth spurt and the milk money shakedown becomes a contest.

People follow Putin because he has mastered the practical art of leadership, not the Western performance of politics.

Putin could safely walk alone without security at night in any major Russian city.

Can the same be said of any Western pol in their country?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 10 2025 15:53 utc | 172

@ Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 13:41 utc | 173 AOC champagne, I imagine.
Posted by: malenkov | Dec 10 2025 14:20 utc | 175
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And real imported Camembert and Brie and French Cognac?
Nowt wrong wi’ Советское Шампанское [Soviet Champagne] and Коньяк Московский [Moscow Cognac] at New Year though.
🙂

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 17:04 utc | 173

@ Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 17:04 utc | 181

Exactly. I meant to imply that the “deprivations” were trivial.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 10 2025 17:35 utc | 174

Re the exchange between Noam A. Larkey, Muscovite Exile and malenkov on the nonexistence of any deprivations for the people at large in Russia?

The belief that the boycotts and the war and Putin’s singular genius have successfully restored a healthy capitalism in Russia and capitalism is showering unparalleled bounties upon the Russian people seems to be popular here. But such glorious success powerfully implies that the Russian people are getting their pensions reformed, as in expanded to meet their needs. Instead, Putin is more like Macron with the decrepit French society, carrying out so-called pension reforms that are not reforms at all in my view. They’re just cuts, designed to profit capital in general and make life easier for government officials. To be sure said officials can congratulate themselves for freeing the people from a bureaucracy that churlishly pays pensions long before there is an appreciable mortality rate, but rapes the PMC by raising retirement ages.

Most people are patriotic and willing to sacrifice for their country’s survival, I think. But after the war, the mass of people may be expecting justice for their service. Out Churchill, in Attlee?

Posted by: steven t johnson | Dec 10 2025 19:39 utc | 175

Posted by: steven t johnson | Dec 10 2025 19:39 utc | 179

There is no evidence that “a healthy capitalism” is what the leadership in Russia is trying to establish. On the contrary, there is every indication that what’s going on in Russia is what we can call a humane, slightly conservative social democracy. That means, a mixed economy, not pure capitalism.

Of course they have a patriotic or even nationalistic slant to it. Because Russia is Russia. But ist is still a clear social democracy. (Some call it democratic socialism. I think that’s only semantics.)

Posted by: Avtonom | Dec 10 2025 19:54 utc | 176

Of course I would also say that there is no such thing as a healthy capitalism, lol, probably proven beyond doubt in most western countries these days. But that’s a different discussion.

Posted by: Avtonom | Dec 10 2025 19:55 utc | 177

UW Dude @ 175,

Ah, such blatant insults as always! from the many servile fools on the ‘left’.

Yes, maybe “self-hating” chaps like yourself – who so filled with loathing for all that is Occident – have hardly noticed that your favourite strongman in Russia is losing in more-ways-than-one for the present quagmire with globohomo Ukraine.

Already reports are out there aplenty on lulling young gullible recruits with promises of citizenship in Russia, esp. those from even more impoverished cesspools across the “global south” (e.g. cuba, iraq, venezuela, etc.), only for the lot to be eventually employed as mere cannon-fodder.

https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2025-12-10-u1-e207888-s27061-nid316480-mercenarios-paga-rusia-abandona-cubanos-recluto
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2025/11/05/iraqs-social-media-mercenaries-dying-for-russia

And yes, who can forget also that fatso from a “socialist utopia” getting all chummy with Ivan by sending swarms of likewise “patriotic” fools to their collective deaths – just so to curry favour.

https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/russian-reliance-north-korea-signals-far-putins-power-fallen-since-ukraine-invasion/

(Hardly befitting the only genuine military strongarm of them sh*tbrics…)

Do the words “pyrrhic victory” mean nought to you or the rest of your equally delusional mates who here pen propaganda that serves little purpose apart from furthering and reinforcing the tomfoolery opinions of a much younger and juvenile audience?

But no worries, these oligarchs too have decided that in order to compensate for loss of young blood, they shall “import” whatever useful foreign “barbarians” (that soon shall sully these lovely broads in the Slavic territories and “produce” miscegenated mongrel mutts that can no longer be even considered “Russian”…) – all in accordance and lockstep with the globalist goals of those curs in wall. st. and the city-of-london.

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/work/as-western-doors-close-new-ones-open-for-indians/articleshow/125872564.cms

(Better me mates on both sides of the pond impregnate these poor Slavic girls that these subaltern asiatics, IMHO.)

Posted by: YT | Dec 11 2025 10:10 utc | 178

Posted by: MAKK | Dec 10 2025 9:19 utc | 160
Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 10 2025 9:59 utc | 162
I think what helps, when it comes to Russian words of foreign origin, is how those foreign loanwords are respelled in Cyrillic to match their phonetic values, even if it means accommodating vowel sounds absent from Russian (e.g. the German Ü sound [y] is transcribed as Ю [ju]), in contrast with the Latin alphabet wherein the pronunciation of a consonant can greatly vary between two languages.

Posted by: joey_n | Dec 11 2025 10:49 utc | 179

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang@111…….well, Jer, just goes to show how people’s reading comprehension has them getting things comfustubateable…….

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 11 2025 14:05 utc | 180

petergrfstrm@174……”suggestions,” dear lord, let’s not give them options and ideas……:)

……the little Englanders have given themselves a 100 year time line, pretty sure they’ll come up with some nasties all on their own……without MOA help.

No direct threats nor finger pointing from Russia as far as the Brexshiters go, guessing they are safe, the Country that shall not be named, hmm, wonder if their Apartheid Regime support has a bearing on that…….it most definitely affects Russia, stuck between a Rock and a Wall. Fools.

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 11 2025 14:16 utc | 181

will moon@147…….in the 60s growing up in Belfast we were always told not to play in the waste ground areas. Waste grounds were areas where houses once stood but were bombed by the Germans in WW2. They always worried about unexploded munitions. Did not stop us from playing there though. My dad remembers when they lived on Sifton St behind Harland and Wolfe a German bomber crash landed in the soccer pitch behind their house. The dust cloud was enormous. He always credited the deceased pilot for hitting the pitch and not the houses around it……who knows.

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 11 2025 14:36 utc | 182

Sean @ 186
This maybe out-of-context with most of the thread, but I once read (for the life of me I have lost the link!) about this gent growing up as a child during the War, and how this particular Luftwaffe model crashed into some neighbour’s home.

Upon rummaging through the wreckage, they found parts stating in bold “MADE IN ENGLAND”…

I recall also one Antony Sutton who wrote a series of books that told of the “hidden hand” that staged the bolshevik uprising in Russia along with major wall st. involvement that led to the rise of the nazi party.

An incident was told as well of American G.I.s where upon capturing many a viet cong base, were befuddled upon encounter with soviet trucks that resembled entirely their very own productions back home.

I’m sure it’s not “the joos!” (per se) but it makes you wonder if ’til this very day we too are being kept in the dark ’bout the most recent “episodes” (i.e. the Ukraine and Palestine).

Posted by: YT | Dec 11 2025 15:55 utc | 183

And glorious Russia, most powerful member of the [sh*t]brics TAKING FOREVER to crush those wicked globohomo Ukrainians? Good try…
Look chaps, I’m not on the side of Uncle Sham nor his multiculti toadies (i.e. nato), but does it not appear a most curious thing that this quagmire is taking such a lengthy time – considering how vastly superior the Ivans are in terms of military prowess?
Posted by: YT | Dec 9 2025 13:11 utc | 42
All The Nations/Countries Are Controlled By The ‘Zionist’.
“Repel a Planetary Invasion” – DARPA
President Ronald Reagan’s Vision for a (Unifying) ‘Alien Invasion’ – Project Blue Beam.!
“Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this Common Bond. I occasionally think how quickly (our differences worldwide would vanish) if we were facing an ‘Alien Threat’ from outside this world.”
The Israeli & U.S. Hollywierd ‘War’ Production Is Underway – To Bring In The Zionist Rabbi’s ‘Messiah’ – Return Of The Fallen Ones Posing As ‘Aliens’ From Outer Space – For The Returning ‘Savior’ – Project Blue Beam .!
Simulation of Diplomacy – Role Playing (Theatrics) Until Zionist’s Rabbi’s Bring In Their ‘Messiah’ – Project Blue Beam.!

Posted by: JohnF | Dec 14 2025 19:15 utc | 184

JohnF @ 184,

Hey, we’re on the same page!

I bet all those banksters (a.k.a. “chosenites”) are in fact trying to “conjure” – what with artificial intelligence and advanced holograms – some sort of “messiah” so as to “save us all” from “doomsday”.

See how they’re already paving the way for a “one-world govt” with (globalist) “one-world religion” – lotsa love for rapefugees and tree-huggers alike.

https://libertysentinel.substack.com/p/climate-cult-religions-unite-amid

(All according to plan?)

https://redefininggod.com/the-et-con/

Apologies for the tardy response, have to fulfill daily routines as corporate slave/sararīman.

Posted by: YT | Dec 17 2025 15:15 utc | 185

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