Kolomoisky: Assassins Arrested After Failed Attempt to Kill Mindlich in Israel
 
https://english.nv.ua/kolomoisky-says-mindlich-survived-nov-28-assassination-attempt-in-israel-5056744.html
 
“Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoisky said an attempt was made on the life of Tymur Mindlich in Israel on Nov 28, according to his remarks in court on Dec 10, reported by TSN…”
 
‘Ihor Kolomoisky said’…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 12 2025 4:23 utc | 104

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Dec 12 2025 3:46 utc | 103
 
Did that in ’91. And here we are. Do the math.

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 12 2025 4:29 utc | 106

Try this: if it doesn’t work google the title.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/kolomoisky-says-mindich-survived-nov-28-assassination-attempt-in-israel-50567477.html

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 12 2025 4:35 utc | 108

Does anyone have any thoughts on the part of the Odessa oblast west of the Dniester?  If Odessa is liberated, then it seems likely that this will be a Ukrainian holdout, supplied from Moldova and Romania. The Ukrainians and their sponsors may be particularly keen to maintain part of the Black Sea coast under their control, both for symbolic and military reasons. This could be tricky for the Russians, because of the proximity to NATO territlory and the possibility of a direct conflict with NATO forces. I am assuming that Ukraine and its sponsors are planning for a worst case scenario and are surreptitously building defences and preparing contingency plans. What about Russia? What might their planning be, assuming they regard Odessa as a reachable military objective?

Posted by: Technophobe | Dec 12 2025 4:57 utc | 110

Posted by: Nobody Special | Dec 12 2025 1:06 utc | 86
Thank you for your reply; you made good points on stealth technologies.
What worries me somehow is the different philosophical approaches to war promoted each Russia and the US. While Russia focuses on ground forces and artillery, where air warfare complements and enhances their destruction capabilities, the Americans will never consider that type of war as an option. They will only wage war under two circumstances:
1) Total air supremacy that ensures rapid victory with zero casualties, and 2) visible after-war profits for their businesses (no need to defend the homeland or other national existential priorities).
I wonder what happens when those two different types of waging war collides – Russia defending vs America attacking – if air defenses are not sufficient or fail, as demonstrated by the recent attack on Iran.

Posted by: Emi | Dec 12 2025 5:27 utc | 112

Posted by: Judge Barbier | Dec 12 2025 5:36 utc | 114
 
thanks for your opinion?

Posted by: UWDude | Dec 12 2025 5:41 utc | 114

Posted by: Emi | Dec 12 2025 5:27 utc | 113
 
everybody knows the attack on Fordow was theater, so everyone could claim vuctory and go home, and israel never had “free reign over Tehran’s skies” as hasbara was all over the internet claiming with a single, impossible to geolocate photo of a drone in a blue sky, and their dozens of launchers destroyed by showing three destroyed from diffrent angles.
 
Furthermore, Iran is weak compared to Russia, both militarily and domestically, so using Iran as a gauge.for Russian abilities to stop American air power is pointless.

Posted by: UWDude | Dec 12 2025 5:46 utc | 116

Ok. Trump has said that everybody in Ukraine loved his peace plan except Zelinsky.
What a cool guy.
It has been revealed that Trump’s plan is to set up shop in Ukraine and be the sole agent to sell Russia gas and oil to the EU.  That runs contrary to EU rejection of Russian oil and gas. But not to let that little detail get in the road.
Trump wants to break up the EU because they stand in the way of his plan.
 
And Trump says he needs 200 billion from the frozen assets to set up Ukraine to be the conduit between Russia and the EU.
 
Meanwhile the NATO rutter says today in a key note speech that we all must prepare for a war like our daddies and like our grand daddies experienced. Coming sooner than 2030.
 
As they say,  you can’t make this stuff up.
 

Posted by: Bingo | Dec 12 2025 5:57 utc | 118

Does anyone have any thoughts on the part of the Odessa oblast west of the Dniester?  If Odessa is liberated, then it seems likely that this will be a Ukrainian holdout, supplied from Moldova and Romania. The Ukrainians and their sponsors may be particularly keen to maintain part of the Black Sea coast under their control, both for symbolic and military reasons. This could be tricky for the Russians, because of the proximity to NATO territlory and the possibility of a direct conflict with NATO forces. I am assuming that Ukraine and its sponsors are planning for a worst case scenario and are surreptitously building defences and preparing contingency plans. What about Russia? What might their planning be, assuming they regard Odessa as a reachable military objective?
Posted by: Technophobe | Dec 12 2025 4:57 utc | 111
It’ll quite likely become Bessarabia again, as it was before the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as regards this area  were implemented in 1940, when the USSR put pressure on Romania into withdrawing from Bessarabia, thereby allowing Soviet armed forces to enter and the Soviet Union to annex the region. 

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 12 2025 6:13 utc | 120

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Dec 12 2025 6:13 utc | 121
 
They can build whatever they want, the day anything goes boom in Romania there will be anti-nafo demonstrations all over Europe. If you really live in Moscow you wouldn’t understand how the average European hates this shit. The moment EU stopped buy Russian energy the prices went up for everything. Standards of living are crap, most immigrants live in slams and get involved either with petty crime or dumpster diving. Jobs are hard to find and even harder to keep to the point that phd owners work in construction. Any war will break the camel’s back.
My bet is that Odessa will change hands without even a shot fired. 

Posted by: 667 | Dec 12 2025 8:37 utc | 122

confiscating the tanker Eventim ( ship, oil ) was deemed illegal by a German court:
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/urteil-oeltanker-eventin-vor-ruegen-darf-vorerst-nicht-eingezogen-werden,audio-355756.html

Posted by: MAKK | Dec 12 2025 8:54 utc | 124

The current negotiation is between Blackrock and the Kremlin, via Witcoff and Kushner.
Posted by: Asian Frog | Dec 12 2025 5:44 utc | 116
 
Wrong. Blackrock wants to get their properties and anything else they don’t already own for free as part of Trumpy’s “Ukr recostruction” plan. Once everything is sold/given, US bases will appear to protect the private properties using public money. Think Syria, but much worse. Nato bases may appear first to prepare for US bases, either way there will be no negotiations between US and Russia, Trumpy doesn’t negotiate with what he considers third world losers like Russia, Venezuela or Iran. In fact US shows that bombing someone who owns nukes means nothing and next will show that using nukes against a nuclear power also means nothing. If it’s Russia.
They have simulated a dirty bomb explosion for the first time, according to Russian MoD  ( en.topwar.ru/275010-kiev-prodolzhaet-primenjat-v-hode-svo-himicheskoe-oruzhie-obvinjaja-v-jetom-rossiju.html )
 

Posted by: rk | Dec 12 2025 10:44 utc | 126

ICJ now has a press release, which says they accepted the Russian presented evidence in November 2024 of Ukraine committing genocide. Ukraine has until November 2026 to respond.
 
https://icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/182/182-20251208-pre-01-00-en.pdf

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 12 2025 11:15 utc | 128

Do western air forces follow a staged theory of, air superiority, battlefield isolation and then close air support or do they try to do all at once and make sure that they never leave squaddies in the lurch?
I ask because I’m re-reading “The RAF Enters the Atomic Age; From the Rhine to VE-Day and into the Cold War” (2025) by Greg Baughen and the RAF is still trying to desert the army every chance it gets.

Posted by: Squeeth | Dec 12 2025 11:36 utc | 130

The United States will take part in Saturday’s meeting with representatives of Europe and Ukraine if there is a good chance for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, US President Donald Trump said.We’ll see whether or not we attend the meeting. We said we’ll attend the meeting if they think there’s a good chance. They want me to attend. They want us to attend. And we’ll be attending the meeting on Saturday in Europe if we think there’s a good chance. And we don’t want to waste a lot of time,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
sputniknews
 
meanwhile UK MoD pubicly stating UK must prepare for war at all levels and with all peoples, citing “hundreds”(allegedly) of attempts by Russia against UK to ….? Evidence please, idiot.
 
of course if Ukraine collapses, what does it profit for USA, all that inputted hundreds billions, lost potential trade due to broken economy huge debt no money for reconstruction, maybe investors will not takeup opportunties created by either the USA nor UK Agreements to exploit its resources?
yesterday
Russian President Vladimir Putin convened a meeting at the Kremlin to discuss developments in the special military operation zone, with a particular focus on the situation in the northern segment of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)
 
President Trump’s demands that Ukraine “be realistic” in talks and criticism over Zelensky’s cancellation of elections are designed “to publicly dismantle the previous administration’s legacy.
 
rt
 
Ukraine is smuggling radioactive materials into the country that can be used to assemble a dirty bomb for a false-flag attack, potentially causing widespread contamination across Europe, a senior Russian defense official claims.
Speaking at a briefing on Thursday, Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops, warned that Ukraine is engaging in what he described as “nuclear blackmail,” saying its actions pose serious security and environmental risks.
Rtishchev said shipments of spent radioactive fuel were transported through Poland and Romania without notifying the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
 

Posted by: Jo | Dec 12 2025 11:50 utc | 132

Posted by: Fredrick | Dec 12 2025 11:27 utc | 130
 
that still means the soldiers surroundedd can hold out in pokrovsk/mirnograd longer than anywhere else.  it still means, essentially, after mirnograd, there is little left to slow down Russian advances.
 
if there was, if more time could have been bought by evacuating and tegrouping 20 km north, zelensky would have done so a month ago when it was obvious a victory in pokrovsk was impossible.

Posted by: UWDude | Dec 12 2025 11:51 utc | 134

Scott Ritter raised the issue of Sec 53 UN Charter. It appears that no Security council vote is required for member states to take legal action against ww2 losers. Germany, Italy and Japan. If Russian assets are seized, would this leave them open to more than a court hearing? 

Posted by: Tommy | Dec 12 2025 11:56 utc | 136

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 12th December 2025: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update

Posted by: The Busker | Dec 12 2025 12:03 utc | 138

oops not sure about porn, but abortion is illegal in venezuela, and same sex marriage is not recognized wrong thread.

Posted by: UWDude | Dec 12 2025 12:08 utc | 140

Sorry. I was sure I edited properly…

Posted by: Sebgo | Dec 12 2025 12:24 utc | 142

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 11 2025 22:51 utc | 57
 
No, not at all. Well before 2022, France no longer controlled West Africa. And after that, no, Russia doesn’t control West Africa either.
 
There are 15 countries in West Africa, all of which have had China as their primary partner since well before 2022; France was at best third. Since 2022, Russia is at best fifth.
 
What is true is that the West African and French political classes have maintained clientelist relationships from the colonial era, of the type: “I help you keep power, you help me keep power.”
African money finances elections in France, and France supports regimes in Africa. There was also a habit of using French public funds to cover the embezzlement by African leaders, which they shared.
 
Regarding the military partnership with Russia, there are fewer than 200 Russian combatants in the two West African countries where they are present, Mali and Burkina Faso. And neither of them is the primary customer of Russian arms in the region.
 
Russia’s support for the three countries of the “Alliance of Sahelian States”, AES in french, including Niger, is therefore primarily political. One do not control 15 countries because it politically support 3 and is militarily present in 2.
 
And definitively, no, there are no Russian generals commanding local troops in West Africa.

Posted by: Sebgo | Dec 12 2025 12:33 utc | 144

Regarding the three clowns who have travelled to see the wizard – Fink, Witkoff and Baby Kruschner – I can’t figure out which character is Dorothy and wtf is ToTo. 

Hahaha, they are the Wizard Rats Strings finely breaking cover into the open.

They are attempting bargaining their dynastic failure and massive ‘investment’ having staked everything on their thousand year project success.

Control of everything and everyone by stealing, cheating or buying it with fiat money.
 
The suckers, mugs, aren’t letting them get away with their magik bean flimflam.
 
So the smartest CEOs have to go to the front. By pass the ineffectual politicians they have placed.
 
To beg, bargain, come back with some face saving deal or maybe they are price finding how much it will cost to let the natzios surrounded without any hope ! 
 
 
The Owners still think they will escape again and still profit. Even as the Rothschild Bank is already being taken ‘private’ again – that smacks of panic  

To try again!
Fool us again with another story.
 
 
Shall we let it happen again? so our grandkids can be scalped by them, again? Just line us and our ancestors?
 
 
The Finks, Dimons and Wizard string pullers are forced into the daylight, more so than for generations. 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 12 2025 12:49 utc | 146

I have seen a report here in the UK that four Russian soldiers have been jailed for murdering Texas Russel Bentley, i remember him from the early days fighting with the DPR militia, does anyone know what the hell went on with this guy that Russian soldiers thought he needed to be killed? maybe there is something i am missing.

Posted by: Englishman | Dec 12 2025 12:51 utc | 148

Posted by: Technophobe | Dec 12 2025 4:57 utc | 111
Those 3 raions west of the Dniester have interesting demographics. Minority Ukrainian in terms of language and identity, “Moldovans” (Romainians), Bulgarians and Russians in roughly equal measure massively outnumber Ukrainians. Question is do they prefer to live under the impoverished and corrupt Banderites or the more permissive and wealthier Russians.
The region has changed owners many times in history, perhaps they might be motivated to not resist a more benign set of overlords.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Dec 12 2025 13:12 utc | 150

@ MAKK | Dec 12 2025 12:37 utc | 146
 
Makes sense to me. Yermak was, after all, the power behind the golden toilet  throne.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 12 2025 13:35 utc | 152

I guess we must give it to Julian that he has great entertainment value. Almost bigly.
 

Posted by: Avtonom | Dec 12 2025 13:55 utc | 154

🇺🇦 Ukraine’s position on Donbass remains unchanged – we stand where we stand – Zelensky

“Will Ukraine go for a ‘free economic zone’ in the Donetsk region? This question will be answered by the people of Ukraine

The USA don’t want to see us in NATO – Zelensky

“The USA don’t want to see us in NATO. Today’s USA, and yesterday’s too. We weren’t invited to NATO before, we weren’t given specifics before, and this position hasn’t changed. This is a consistent position of the United States. Therefore, I don’t think they have any difficulties in negotiations with the Russians on the issue of NATO

The outgoing president also said that now is not the time to look for a new head of the Presidential Office.Lot of countries don’t want Ukraine in NATO, Politico reported 7 countries do no want Ukraine in NATO.@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Dec 12 2025 14:11 utc | 156

ICJ now has a press release, which says they accepted the Russian presented evidence in November 2024 of Ukraine committing genocide. Ukraine has until November 2026 to respond. https://icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/182/182-20251208-pre-01-00-en.pdf
Posted by: unimperator | Dec 12 2025 11:15 utc | 129
 
Monday the decision (and the minority opinions) were already posted in the ICJ site
 
Interesting that they took this long to do the press release

Posted by: Newbie | Dec 12 2025 14:35 utc | 158

Posted by: Jo | Dec 12 2025 14:11 utc | 159

.
 
Both Biden and Zelensky mentioned in January 2022 that Ukraine accession to NATO was forthcoming. That was likely the final triggering event for Russia to attack in February. It was the best of the bad options, they concluded. Z is a lying degenerate, of course. I hope we get video like Causcescu, eventually. 

Posted by: seer | Dec 12 2025 14:41 utc | 160

I follow John Mearsheimer’s analysis, his interviews, lectures, and speeches before academic gatherings. His main thesis is that the west took a wrong turn after the collapse of the Soviet Union and continued expanding NATO despite objections from every Russian leader. So what are we now to make of a YouTube channel which appears to present Mearsheimer’s thesis as a steady stream of videos describing Russian failures (not actually happening in reality) but reflecting the hysteria of NATO and western leaders? Two giveaways are the name of the channel – Prof Jhon [sic] Analysis and the date of establishment of the channel – Dec 4, 2025. The titles of the videos on the thumbnail page are textbook rebutalls of Mearsheimer’s actual thesis and appear as if written by delusional supporters of NATO expansion.
The most egregious?
Russia just lost 87% of its army in Ukraine. [false, the reverse is true]Russia’s military dream destroyed [again, bullshit]Russia’s military disaster [ditto]Putin’s fatal errorPutin’s nightmare exposedThe fall of Putin
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfJhonAnalysis
There are now several of these fake Mearsheimer channels, some of them supportive and more or less reliable as representative of his views, but this one is a blatant fraud. The videos themselves appear to take actual Mearsheimer videos and re-edit certain passages out of context, string the passages together in such a way as to completely reverse his actual positions. It’s very skillfully done, a newcomer would take the videos as authentic instead of AI assisted propaganda. The sudden recent appearance of these channels suggests the panic in NATO and the EU over a total collapse by the Ukrainian military since the maintenance of narrative is the primary tool for obtaining financial and political support for the war in the west.

Posted by: Deskscape | Dec 12 2025 14:55 utc | 162

Posted by: ChatNPC | Dec 12 2025 13:12 utc | 152
“.. The region (rem: the Civis West of Dnjepr) has changed owners many times in history, perhaps they might be motivated to not resist a more benign set of overlords. ..”
Those today’s “overloards” there are persons well-known identified by the RF-Intel operators in UKR, still today. Why don’t having exposed them until now publically ..?
 
 
 

Posted by: spare_truth_03 | Dec 12 2025 15:01 utc | 164

Tyler Durden has picked up this piece today:
 
The Trans-Siberian Railway Is Poised To Play A Pivotal Role In Joint Russian-US Projects by Andrew Korybko, Dec 10, 2025. 
 
This piece focuses on the eastern terminus at Vladivostok while noting opportunities to wedge Sino Russian relations. The focus on the west is largely absent, except for some focus upon the Turks. 
 
https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-trans-siberian-railway-is-poised?triedRedirect=true
 
With the Donbass now Russian, the logical Western terminus of this trade corridor from the point of view of the old Austro Hungarian empire is Odessa. It is no coincidence that Moldova and Romania have quisling governments.  

Posted by: frithguild | Dec 12 2025 15:24 utc | 166

The West’s economic systems are based on compounding debt which makes time an enemy LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 14:59 utc | 166

 
Your comments would be more accurate and hold more merit if you presented both sides.
 
In this case, a debt money system allows for unconstrained issuance which provides key advantages in financing military budgets.
 
Those expenditures in turn can then be used to conquer new territories, seize natural resources and exact levies and taxes.
 
The western system is an integrated whole. It’s an error to identify only one component (in this case time) to then buttress a claim of pending loss or catastrophe.
 
The real game is tech and the ability to deploy; everything results from that fact.
 
The west will succeed or die trying to both outwit the Russia – China – India triad and deploying suitably effective measures to defeat opposing military capabilities.

Posted by: Markw | Dec 12 2025 15:37 utc | 168

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 15:33 utc | 170
how many times has Putin described the West as “colleagues” and “partners”? they are all capitalists. make the deal sweet enough, Putin will sell his own kids. He already is. Look at all the expressions of eagerness to “get back to business” with the western partners who installed a Nazi regime on Russia’s front door.
 
I support Russia killing every NATO asset and every collaborator in Ukraine. but this faith in Russia  and China leading the world to a brighter future is the purest fantasy, every bit as much as the MAGA cult.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 12 2025 15:41 utc | 170

*** All claims about Russo-Sino wedges are Western fantasy. ***
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 15:33 utc | 170
 
*** The real game is tech and the ability to deploy; everything results from that fact. ***
Posted by: Markw | Dec 12 2025 15:37 utc | 171
 
Yes, western fantasy, but plenty of grist for the purple haired, air conditioned Blob dwellers to write dossiers, analysis reports and position papers about, while climbing up the Blob ladder.  In the meantime, the low level tech bros will establish better means to distribute narrative that makes the dossiers, analysis reports and position paper conclusions to appear as the reality. If you disagree with the reality, you will get guilting, shaming and rallying against you all delivered by tech. So yes, Mr. Markw, it is all about the ability to deploy tech. 
 
I look at it like this. For every transaction there are a series of profitable trades, which can be derivative in nature, all of which require some sort of insight. Tech provides informational insight, and it matters not whether it is true or false because the “insight” creates a derivative trade, profitable opportunity. Those who profit then have an incentive to propagate a falsity because they are simply “talking their book.”  The Blob has captured tech in this way, which makes falsity profitable.  

Posted by: frithguild | Dec 12 2025 16:28 utc | 172

Posted by: Fredrick | Dec 12 2025 11:27 utc | 130“.. The EU leaders extinguish Ukraine/Russian Slavs so that they can replace Rump Ukraine with African immigrants.  ..”Ok, may be so one of a beside effect issue of EU’s vdL/Borell Blackrock puppets being desperate desperate to move anyway further against the Russian bear, but nothing like that “occupation by African refugees” would ever work anymore further then, after scaling current still-ongoing Europe’s economic desaster, day-by-day anyway ..!If it’s occur those like “immigrations” you mentioned above, no-one of EU tax-payers or even all of the Western youth in EU won’t accept that. Don’t forget that next elections in EU, held by “Each country” seperately would point to a very different policy concerning UKR- or elsewhere announced “War against Russia”.I know You know that. Only to emphazize what you said that.But, where those “Africans are supported from, then ?
 

Posted by: spare_truth_03 | Dec 12 2025 16:40 utc | 174

Is this a fake attack in Odessa – the official narrative  is that Russia bombed a church – but watch the short clip and you’ll see something isn’t quite right about it.
 
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “This cant be real 🤣” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 12 2025 19:28 utc | 176

Ukrainian soldiers fighting in civilian clothes.
A video a week or so ago came out showing Russian soldiers shooting Ukrainian drone operators.  It sparked a brief debate on various sites about whether or not that was a war crime.
 
Background on the Concept of War Crimes
The concept of laws of war came out of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).  The war was so horrific that afterwards the Europeans looked around at the wreckage of central Europe, looked at each other, and said, “Let’s not do that again.” So they sat down and made a few simple rules for future wars:
 
1.  Don’t kill wounded soldiers.
2.  Don’t kill medical personnel.
3.  Don’t kill soldiers who are surrendering.
4.  Don’t kill civilians.
5.  All soldiers must wear something to identify themselves as soldier.  This is a loose concept.  The markings can be something as simple as a red armband.
6.  Anyone who violated these rules can be killed in sight.
7.  Any group involved in a war who consistently breaks these rules loses all protection.  This was the most important rule.  The laws of war are a gentleman’s agreement.  If one side breaks them, then all the rules are off for everyone.  It was an old version of mutually assured destruction.
Application to the War in Ukraine
If Ukrainian drone operators consistently kill prisoners, then all Ukrainian drone operators lose all protections and may be killed by anyone at anytime.
 
If Ukrainian soldiers do not wear distinctive marks or clothing to identify themselves as soldiers then anyone can kill them at anytime.
 
Conclusion
War is not a nice thing.  William Sherman frequently called it “cruelty” and “hell.”  The so called laws of war are agreements between nations to make war a little less horrific.  Once one side begins breaking the rules, the other side can’t call the police and have them arrested.  They can only adjust to the reality that their opponent has chosen a more brutal, cruel, and hellish war and react accordingly.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Dec 12 2025 19:32 utc | 178

Reuters: NATO’s Rutte warns allies they are Russia’s next target
BBC: We must prepare for war with Russia, says Nato chief in stark new warning
`The Squirrel’: US pushing Ukraine to withdraw from Donbas and create ‘free economic zone’, says Zelenskyy – as it happened
Sky News: UK ‘rapidly developing’ plans to prepare for war
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 12 2025 21:47 utc | 180

Alexander Mercouris: ‘Denial & Defeat’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos
 
“Kiev big defeats; Siversk falls Huliapole falling; Zelensky/West in denial; Moscow: Donbass is ours.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 12 2025 22:11 utc | 182

That last sentence was suppose to be indented also….sigh

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 13 2025 6:50 utc | 184

I also read recently – that a Russian drone struck a Turkish vessel carrying generators at a port in Odessa.
 
Victor vicktop55 commentary (@vick55top): “Odesa • Usatove • Ports Odesa ports were attacked overnight by over 50 Geranium drones and ballistic missiles. They’re hitting both berth walls and parked bulk carriers. This is the biggest attack on the ports in recent memory. We started yesterday, and we’ll consolidate the results today. The Ukrainian cargo fleet will become not just shadowy, but immediately invisible.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 13 2025 16:14 utc | 186

The US Terrorist State – could’ve prevented the war between Russia and Ukraine – if it had told the truth at the beginning – now its rep wants to tell the truth – to f*ckin late, I say.
 
Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand): “This is as close to a smoking gun as I’ve ever seen on Ukraine. Amanda Sloat was Senior Director for Europe at the National Security Council under Biden, meaning she was the one directly running Ukraine policy from the White House. And she now admits that, had Ukraine told Russia before the war or at the Istanbul talks “fine, we won’t go into NATO,” it “may well have [prevented/stopped the war]” but she (and by extension the White House) “was uncomfortable with the idea of… implicitly giving Russia some sort of sphere of influence or veto power on that.” Now, almost 3 years on, she says “it certainly would have prevented the destruction and the loss of life.” Think about how extraordinary this is. First of all, she’s being dishonest: by definition, neutrality for Ukraine wouldn’t have given Russia “some sort of sphere of influence” but would have made it… neutral, i.e. in-between spheres of influence. Ukraine in Russia’s sphere of influence would be Ukraine joining some sort of Warsaw Pact, which is in fact exactly the optionality she’s saying SHE wanted to preserve, only with NATO. She’s describing her own position and projecting it onto Russia. Also think about the cost equation. Hundreds of thousands dead, a country in ruins, and the justification is America being “uncomfortable” about not preserving optionality. Not even an actual gain – just the theoretical possibility of one day pulling Ukraine into NATO. The banality of evil.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 13 2025 16:23 utc | 188

Alexander Mercouris: ‘Illegal Freeze’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos
 
“EU giant illegal step; Russian assets indefinitely frozen; Moscow takes court action; Odessa blockade”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 13 2025 20:02 utc | 190

Alexander Mercouris: ‘Illegal Freeze’ https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos “EU giant illegal step; Russian assets indefinitely frozen; Moscow takes court action; Odessa blockade”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 13 2025 20:02 utc | 194
 
It’s very good. Humorous the way he dissects their coniving of a convoluted loophole to legalize theft.

Posted by: arby | Dec 13 2025 23:26 utc | 192

Zelensky is Buying Time – Andrey Telizhenko
 
https://rumble.com/v72yodi-zelensky-is-grabbing-to-his-power-seat-andrey-telizhenko.html
 
“Zelensky sees election as opportunity for temporary ceasefire.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 14 2025 2:39 utc | 194

Arestovych in 2019 spelling the whole program of what would likely happen before anything happened. 
 
At least from Ukraine’s point of view. This was the dilemma they (the insiders) knew they were facing long before Zelensky was elected. The US/Nato had them stuck between a rock and a hard place. Mere tools to take on Russia and hopefully win a war over years. Until then the west US position was always no you can’t join Nato before that, and no Nato membership if you (ie us backing you in) lose to Russia. It’s pretty sick shit. But all laid out “in code” via RAND and popping up in speeches now and then. 
 
So hard to stitch a true representation of what is really happening 2014-2022 from public accessible information and speeches. In genuine conspiracies no one not involved ever has access to all the information at the same time to make any sense out of it. It’s why they get away with it. Observers are always in catch up mode. This Arestovych interview is compelling. I’m stunned that more didn’t know about it, me included. Yet at the time, who would have believed him? Crazy state level “conspiracies” are too crazy to be true. 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 14 2025 4:34 utc | 196

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 14 2025 4:34 utc | 200
 
Interesting. The only solution then – and now – and in the future – is to cut Ukraine in two (or more).
 
Eastern part to join Russia, like they certainly have already, and it will most probably have to include Odessa and all the way west. 
 
The rest – well they can decide themselves what to do.
 
This is the only way to avoid an eternal civil war.

Posted by: Avtonom | Dec 14 2025 9:00 utc | 198

I have seen a report here in the UK that four Russian soldiers have been jailed for murdering Texas Russel Bentley, i remember him from the early days fighting with the DPR militia, does anyone know what the hell went on with this guy that Russian soldiers thought he needed to be killed? maybe there is something i am missing.
 
Posted by: Englishman | Dec 12 2025 12:51 utc | 148
There was a link to an article or comment that talked about what happened. He was taking pictures or doing something that made these Russians think he was an American spy. They grabbed him and took him somewhere like the trunk of a car to torture him and get him to talk. Then they killed him. Don’t know if they thought they were killing an American spy or covering their tracks for torturing someone who they realized was not an American spy.
 

Posted by: Oracle | Dec 16 2025 4:51 utc | 200