The Belarussian version of Venezuela’s Machado.
 
“Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was hailed by Western governments and media as the savior and rightful leader of Belarus. But leaked emails reveal her increasingly unpopular campaign for power in Minsk nearly collapsed under the weight of corruption scandals and infighting.
When Belarusian opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya declared herself “President” of an alternative government in 2020, she was enthusiastically embraced – and showered with funding – by the Western governments which yearned to depose the longtime leader of her country, Alexander Lukashenko, and remove Russia’s closest regional ally from the geopolitical chessboard. The New York Times set the tone by lionizing Tsikhanouskaya as a modern-day Joan of Arc.
However, a wave of public scandals have prompted Tsikhanouskaya’s foreign sponsors to gradually abandon her unpopular crusade to topple the government of Lukashenko. In August, it was revealed she had secretly taken thousands of euros from Minsk’s KGB in August 2020, a payoff for publicly pleading with protesters to stop their action in the streets, before she fled the country. Tsikhanouskaya had kept this agreement a closely guarded secret until it was exposed, and has attempted to evade it ever since.
Leaked documents and emails obtained by The Grayzone reveal that Tsikhanouskaya’s once-vaunted Belarusian “government in exile” nearly collapsed under the weight of corruption, fantastical ambition, gross incompetence, and infighting.”
 
Leaks expose collapse of EU/US-backed Belarusian ‘opposition’ – The Grayzone

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 14 2025 15:01 utc | 4

The big players are getting in on the Ukraine scam to make out of it.
 
DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics): “🇺🇸🚨🇺🇦 WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?!!? BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is now directly involved in Ukraine negotiations alongside Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Source: Bloomberg. We’ve gone from a moneyproxy war to a privatized reconstruction racket, and now to global asset managers and Trump’s inner-circle real-estate cronies literally inserting themselves into diplomatic negotiations over a live war zone. BlackRock has already positioned itself to manage Ukraine’s postwar “rebuilding” aka a $400+ billion fire-sale of national assets. Now Fink is reportedly sitting at the table with Twink Kushner and Real Estate Agent Witkoff, because to them Ukraine’s fate is a business venture, not a sovereign crisis. Are you getting it yet? Source: Bloomberg.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 14 2025 15:12 utc | 6

The vast majority, 83 percent, of respondents to a Mediana survey say next year’s parliamentary election in Hungary could face interference from foreign intelligence agencies.
https://rmx.news/article/poll-83-of-hungarians-fear-foreign-interference-in-2026-election/
 
How does a political organization identify that which is done in secret and prevent its influence? Keeping the ability to capture governments by clandestine means is what the EU/UK are fighting over in Ukraine, I have come to believe. 

Posted by: frithguild | Dec 14 2025 16:14 utc | 8

Very true – the Neo-Nazi regimes flag should not be flying over anywhere but Ukraine.
 
“PRAGUE SHOCK. The new Speaker of the Czech Parliament, Tomio Okamura, has ordered the Ukrainian flag to be removed from the Parliament building, stating that the decision fulfills a clear election promise. According to @tomio_cz , the Czech Parliament “is not a billboard for foreign wars” and must represent Czech state sovereignty — not external conflicts. He added that the flag will not be raised again while he holds the post. The move marks a sharp break with the previous government’s policy and has already triggered outrage from pro-Ukraine media and politicians — while supporters praise it as a return to neutrality and national dignity. This is not a symbolic detail. This is a signal — domestically and internationally”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 14 2025 17:00 utc | 10

Looks like they’ve got what they wanted.
 
Alternative News (@AlternatNews): “Donbass always wanted independence. Now they got it. Do you remember the March 1994 referendum in Donbass? Voters were asked about: 1. Giving Donbass federal state rights (with a Parliament like in Crimea) 2. Elevating Russian to a second official/state language. 3. Stronger ties with Russia Results showed overwhelming support (~90% for Russian as a second state language, ~80% for federalization in Donetsk). Turnout was high, tied to the elections. The central government in Kiev considered it non-binding and largely ignored the results.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 14 2025 17:06 utc | 12

The Carnegie think tank declared last month that “Armenia’s Election Is a Foreign Affair” in their piece urging de facto meddling in support of Pashinyan. The planned AI data center is expected to play a role in this as was explained. Keeping him in power isn’t just about solidifying the US’ new sphere of influence at Russia’s expense, which will be costly for Armenia since Russia is its top trade partner, but enabling the US to transform this facility into a regional AI-assisted spy hub as part of a new Eurasian power play.
 
https://substack.com/@korybko/note/c-187622011?r=2zfp1k
 
The Blob blobs on and on. 
 
 

Posted by: frithguild | Dec 14 2025 17:10 utc | 14

The european empire is de facto the 4th Reich, trying to fulfil Hitler’s project to unite the european countries against Russia (then CCCP) and to destroy it.
This project was first concepted by Nietzsche.

Posted by: Naive | Dec 14 2025 17:30 utc | 16

And they still do not take into account the COUP.
 
Any peace plan to end the war in Ukraine must take into account the COUP.
 
IN 2014 THE UNITED STATES CONDUCTED A COUP IN UKRAINE.
 
In 2014 the United States (aligned with a faction in the Ukrainian government) conducted a coup in Kiev (to replace the democratically elected Yanukovich government which was considered insufficiently pro-Europe).
 
Many in Eastern Ukraine rebelled against this coup-government.
 
A civil war began.
 
The coup-government claimed authority over all of Ukraine
 
and called itself “the Ukrainian government”.
 
The coup-government sent in the military to deal with the eastern rebels.
 
The media claimed, and still claims, that the U.S. backed coup-government had a “right” to all of Ukraine and they champion (vigorously support) a march to the Russian border.
 
WHAT IF THE RUSSIANS HAD CONDUCTED THE COUP IN 2014?
 
Imagine that in 2014 Russia (aligned with a faction in the Ukrainian government) conducted a coup in Kiev (to replace the Yanukovich government which many considered too pro-Europe).
 
Many in Western Ukraine rebelled against this coup-government.
 
A civil war began.
 
The coup-government claimed authority over all of Ukraine
 
and called itself “the Ukrainian government”.
 
The coup-government called in the Russian military to deal with the western rebels.
 
Of course, to be consistent, the media would have to claim that the Russian backed coup-government had a “right” to all of Ukraine and that they championed a march of the Russian military to the Polish border.
 
The important point is that statements such as “coup-Ukraine will not give up any of its land,” and “Zelenski Rejects Giving Land” make no sense.
 
This is because the coup-government, and its successors, never established authority over all of Ukraine.
 
WHAT IF THE CHINESE HAD CONDUCTED THE COUP IN 2014?
 
What if the Chinese (aligned with a leftist/communist faction in the Ukrainian government) had conducted a coup in Kiev. Would this give them authority over all of Ukraine?
 
What is the legal situation?
 
A few notes on the 2014 Coup in Ukraine.
 
About a month before the coup the US Under/Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, was taped telling US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, why she wanted Arseniy Yatsenyuk to be the prime minister of the upcoming coup-government, rather than the boxer Vitali Klitschko who was apparently the favorite for the position.
 
The Russians released the tape to the internet. Some thought this would stop the coup going ahead.
 
However, the coup went ahead, Nuland’s order was carried out, and Yatsenyuk got the job of prime minister.
 
Klitschko got the job of mayor of Kiev.
 
Everyone in sight (except possibly Tyahnybok) was a Jew but you are not allowed to call it a Jew coup.
 
You are allowed to call it a Nazi coup though.
 
All this led directly to the 2014 coup-Ukraine vs rebel-Ukraine civil war,
 
which led to the 2022 coup-Ukraine-NATO vs rebel-Ukraine-Russia war.

Posted by: John | Dec 14 2025 17:55 utc | 18

Drinky Cow (19).
 
On links – occasionally there are no links just statements on threads, with no follow up – make of them what you want – I can provide the statement, if you are so inclined you can chase it up via a web search, which I sometimes do myself.
 
Basically what I’m saying is look up things yourself that have no links provided
 
Slavic Networks (@SlavicNetworks): “🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🇨🇿🔥🇺🇦 CZECH PARLIAMENT REMOVES UKRAINIAN FLAG — “IT WILL NOT RETURN” PRAGUE SHOCK. The new Speaker of the Czech Parliament, Tomio Okamura, has ordered the Ukrainian flag to be removed from the Parliament building, stating that the decision fulfills a clear election promise. According to @tomio_cz , the Czech Parliament “is not a billboard for foreign wars” and must represent Czech state sovereignty — not external conflicts. He added that the flag will not be raised again while he holds the post. The move marks a sharp break with the previous government’s policy and has already triggered outrage from pro-Ukraine media and politicians — while supporters praise it as a return to neutrality and national dignity. This is not a symbolic detail. This is a signal — domestically and internationally. 👉 Question to readers: Should a national parliament display symbols of a foreign war? YES or NO? If you like what we are doing — like, share, subscribe, and invite your friends for more. Follow us also on Facebook: Slavic Networks. @Nirali_1989 @VladVVeles @SlavFreeSpirit” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 14 2025 18:22 utc | 20

In the 80s, while the UK suffered under Thatcher and the USSR under Gorbachev, we in the US had Reagan, a B-list movie actor turned frontman for the Empire Striking Back against FDR reforms.
Part of the plan was to privatize Social Security, the pension plan Americans depended on and loved.   Back then, it was called the Third Rail of politics, meaning it was so popular that it couldn’t be touched.
The first thing they did was to announce that there were too many Baby Boomers, and they had to prepay their retirement with a trust fund, which was established by doubling FICA withdrawals.   Then they started pushing 401Ks,  in which every worker was told that if they tithed money to the hedge funds for 40 years, they would retire as millionaires, not needing any stinkin’ public pension.
Blackrock was established in 1988 as part of the program.  There are Americans today who have been putting part of their wages into Blackrock, or Vanguard, for 40 years.
The US government set up a system punishing workers for taking their money out “early” by forcing them to pay a tax penalty on it.   
So every year Blackrock keeps the money of millions of workers and uses it as they want, for up to 40 years,  with severe penalty for any uppity worker who falls into hard times and needs that money immediately. 
But it’s “their money”, you see.  That is it is sold to them, even if they know they can’t touch it for decades.
And if Blackrock makes money from buying up houses and jacking up rents?   It’s all good, because when you are 65, you will be a millionaire off those rents.
Same with Ukraine.  Blackrock supporting land clearing of the peasants, in order to buy the land cheap?    Cha ching.   That money will surely trickle down some day.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Dec 14 2025 18:38 utc | 22

Putin FIRES Kinzhal at Odessa, EU’s Russian Asset Grab BACKFIRES | Mark Sleboda

Russia has intensified its strikes across Ukraine and the latest on Odesa Port has turned the lights out for ONE MILLION Ukrainians. Is this a brutal retaliation for the EU’s decision to permanently and illegally freeze Russia’s assets stolen at the beginning of the conflict? Geopolitical analyst Mark Sleboda breaks it all down.

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

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 14 2025 19:02 utc | 24

Alexander Mercouris: ‘Russia Rejects Plan’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos
 
“Confident Moscow trashes Zelensky proposals; Turkey tells Kiev stop tanker attacks; Mirnograd ending.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 14 2025 19:14 utc | 26

Newbie @ 2
 
FYI:
 
Inside Russian military barracks w/ João Quaresma

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Dec 14 2025 19:36 utc | 28

• 🇬🇧🏴‍☠️👉🇷🇺 Reports from the Russian radio station UVB-76, also known as the Doomsday Radio Station, have begun to raise concerns in the West, the British tabloid Express writes.
  

  “The Russian “Doomsday Radio Station” has sent up to 15 mysterious messages in the last week, raising fears of a possible third world war,” the publication states.

  The newspaper drew attention to the words “perechnytsa”, “pereanem”, “pabodoll”, “spinobaz”, “frigoria”, “opalny”, “snopevy”, and “muonosvod” ( “перечница”, “перенаем”, “пабодолл”, “спинобаз”, “фригория”, “опальный”, “сноповый” и “мюоносвод” – encrypted words that are incomprehensible to anyone, even Russians) that were heard on UVB-76.The tabloid suggests that the frequency of the radio station’s transmission of codes usually increases during global crises, which this week “raised fears of a larger-scale war”.

• It seems like the electricity in Odessa has no chance of repairs…insufficient spares.

Posted by: Jo | Dec 14 2025 20:03 utc | 30

Posted by: S Brennan | Dec 14 2025 20:04 utc | 39

IMO the big thing to watch is Lyman (and to some extent Seversk). 
 
Lyman falling will put RUAF very close to controlling the Kharkov-Slavyansk highway. That is the only real/viable route going into Slavyansk, with Pokrovsk and villages left of it falling.
 
Since Zeleblob indicated they are going to stay and defend Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, they will be cut off and be buried there at Russia’s convenience, as they can get no more reinforcement or supplies through Dnepropetrovsk/Pavlograd or from Kharkov.

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 14 2025 20:08 utc | 32

The situation with Kupyansk, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to hold at the expense of their most prepared and equipped units, may soon confront Syrytsky with a difficult choice.
 
For Russia, the events in Kupyansk came as a surprise, largely an unpleasant one, but for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this situation could have much more serious consequences. The resources of the two sides here are disproportionate, as it is much more difficult for Ukraine to simultaneously hold the city and continue the battles around it than for Russia.
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine will maintain their activity in Kupyansk and its vicinity for some time. They will reinforce their reserves and try to withstand the pressure. But Russia has more of these reserves. And this will eventually become a decisive factor.
 
To hold a long stretch of the front in Kupyansk, an area of about 75 square kilometers, Syrytsky had to withdraw about two brigades from the Sumy region, two more from Chernihiv, reserves from Poltava and Chernivtsi, as well as some from near Zaporizhia. It’s quite possible that Russia will have to respond with its own reinforcements, but the rationality of such efforts on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is still unclear.
 
The military logic is clear – if the territories behind Kupyansk are liberated by Russia quickly enough, the Russian army will have the opportunity to advance further towards Chuhuiv and Kharkiv, and the Ukrainian side cannot allow this to happen.

https://t.me/CyberspecNews/96677

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 14 2025 20:33 utc | 34

@ English Outsider | Dec 14 2025 18:22 utc | 23
I believe the video you linked to is AI generated.

Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 14 2025 20:38 utc | 36

A reminder Italy Belgium Bulgaria and Malta are warning re using Rus assets, Czech Rep says find other ways to support Ukraine, Slovakia Hungary too….these latter objecting to EU emergency majority powers to circumvent vetoes…I wonder if all the other countries are going to stick the EU UvdL line, or fall away…….could be interesting…
 
Merz says pax America era is over for Europe to

Posted by: Jo | Dec 14 2025 20:55 utc | 38

@ Jan Sobieski | Dec 14 2025 21:10 utc | 50

The video is obviously genuine.

I am sorry, but I disagree. Even if what is stated sounds agreeable, I don’t recognize his voice and the lips are not in sync + the movements are endlessly repeated.  I like the real Krainier, but this one is off. Others are questioning the origin on the videos on that site as well.
 
Mercouris have said that unauthorize AI videos of himself have appeared on YouTube as well.  Saying something is “obviously genuine” is an opinion but no argument.

Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 14 2025 21:48 utc | 40

Its okay to be anti-Russia, but not anti-Nato the latter can get you sent to prison for a very long time.
 
An Estonian court has handed lengthy prison sentences to the leaders of an anti-NATO party convicted of working on behalf of Russia to undermine national security.
On Thursday, the Harju District Court sentenced Aivo Peterson, co-founder of the small conservative Koos party, to 14 years in prison for treason. His associates, Dmitri Rootsi and Andrei Andronov, received sentences of 11 years and 11 years and six months, respectively. All three denied any wrongdoing and said they would appeal the verdict.
Prosecutors alleged that the defendants spread “narratives supporting Russia’s foreign and security policy” intended to undermine public trust in NATO and Estonia’s military aid to Ukraine.
“The defendants deliberately assisted Russia in activities directed against the Estonian state and society,” State Prosecutor Triinu Olev-Aas said.
Founded in 2022, Koos calls for Estonia to leave NATO, become a neutral state, remove foreign troops from its territory, and “refrain from participating directly or indirectly in military conflicts between other countries.”
 
In 2023, Peterson traveled to Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, which Estonia considers occupied Ukrainian territory. He said at the time he was gathering information about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
“There are two sides to every conflict, but the information we receive from Estonian media is one-sided. All of our journalists support Kiev, which often comes across as propaganda,” Peterson said.
The Koos party rejected the allegations against its members, arguing that the prosecutors failed to present “concrete proof that their actions had caused real damage to Estonia’s

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 14 2025 21:52 utc | 42

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 14 2025 21:55 utc | 55

Doesn’t matter. Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW are done and rolled over by CHINESE cars, which match or surpass quality and beat in price. Renault, Skoda, Fiat, are all done too.
 
The reason EU still has moderately low gas prices is because industrial users have simply vanished, the consumption is lower, which the lower supply level can support without raising price. But industries can’t be brought back, it would immediately raise the price to unbearable cost level again.
 
Chemical industry has also almost completely vanished from the EU.
 
Once they screw up with the seizing of Euroclear assets, the financial system will be gone too and there is nothing left to support the Euro from becoming worthless.

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 14 2025 22:02 utc | 44

This is all so Hollywood
 
Empire, with the US/Trump as its current face is trying to negotiate a MAD contextualized surrender in Ukraine.  While many continue to die in the Wag The Dog scenes we are watching, reality continues to be denied but the Coalition of the Willing European puppets to drag out the process hoping for a different result.
 
I was thinking that Ukraine had 3 options
Military collapse
Societal collapse
Negotiated Settlement
 
But now I think that there is the possibility of an external domino fall that totally changes the geopolitical structure of the situation.  A while back there was all this talk about sequencing the steps of empire….which step is next?…..or will they get stepped on in Ukraine because they have no choice?
 
While I despise the women and children genocide in Occupied Palestine, there are still more humans losing their lives in Ukraine for no more than Hollywood effect…….sad

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 14 2025 23:44 utc | 46

I didn’t see this posted already in this thread so I thought I’d post it. From Karl Sanchez
“Important Arms Race Technical Document:
https://open.substack.com/pub/karlof1/p/important-arms-race-technical-document?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Dec 15 2025 0:22 utc | 48

You know who I was just thinking of today? Anonymous. Whatever happened to the guy who would dutifully post DS updates and on one hand, inform us of how many square kilometers of territory Russia had taken each day, but then as time wore on he became very condescending about it? Basically “Russia really not bringing its best today, it has only taken x sq. km today, down from <x many weeks/months/years ago when they took 2-3x as much>, some of that already beaten back by Ukrainian counterattacks, at this rate it will take 784 years for Russia to take Kiev :/” basically only cared about how much territory was gained/lost, regardless of what was in said territory that was gained or lost. Haven’t really heard out him in about a year, have we? Wonder what he’s up to, especially with so many cities like Pokrovsk that fell.

Posted by: Stark | Dec 15 2025 0:59 utc | 50

YouTube is very quick to censor, shadowban or demoniterize content if the narrative doesn’t toe the line. 
 
The rise of AI content to bury interviews with bury the real people discussing issues should clue you in to what is going on.

Posted by: Suresh | Dec 15 2025 1:30 utc | 52

normal wisdom @ 8: ‘blackrock…’
 
Carney to name Mark Wiseman as Canada’s Ambassador to US, sources say
 
https://x.com/dave1agar/status/1999518592173093086
 
“One of the sources said the Prime Minister chose Mr Wiseman, a close friend, because of his extensive business connections in the United States.”
 
Carney to Appoint Former Black Rock Exec Mark Wiseman as Ambassador to Washington
 
https://www.westernstandard.news/carney-to-appoint-former-blackrock-exec-mark-wiseman-as-ambassador-to-washington/69776
 
“Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce former BlackRock executive and Century Initiative co-founder Mark Wiseman as the Canadian Ambassador to the United States.”
 
Mark Wiseman
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wiseman
 
“From 2016 to 2019, Wiseman was Senior Managing Director of BlackRock, Global Head of Active Equities, chairman of its alternatives business, and Chairman of BlackRock’s Global Investment Committee…He is Jewish.”
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 15 2025 1:55 utc | 54

Re: Mark Wiseman
Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 15 2025 1:55 utc | 69
 
———–
 
Under Carney, Canada is officially part of the globalist corporate kleptocracy now. I expect measures like the UK has enacted, like an inheritance tax on family owned farms to push them toward multinational corporations.
 
It’s all covered in my book, “From Feudalism to Franchising: A Modern History of Indentured Servitude”.
j/k – why write about something that is as obvious as the nose on your face.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Dec 15 2025 3:36 utc | 56

Steve from oz | Dec 15 2025 4:01 utc | 73
 
Absolutely disgusting but what you would expect.  The quicker it slides down the gurgler and disappears, the better for everyone.
 
Meanwhile they give cover for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Posted by: ZimZum | Dec 15 2025 5:41 utc | 58

People can think what they want but have no right to demand that others make them heard.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 15 2025 6:38 utc | 75

 
How much do you pay B each year for “the privilege” to be heard here no matter what you say or how much you troll the place with your personal intellectual dalliances with reality? I’m curious as maybe I could afford it too. 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 15 2025 8:09 utc | 60

Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 14 2025 21:48 utc | 52
“I am sorry, but I disagree.  […] I like the real Krainier, but this one is off. Others are questioning the origin on the videos on that site as well.”
My wording was overconfident, sorry. Having listened to the whole clip, I still have no doubt that the content is genuine – I don’t believe that AI can generate material of that originality. However, I can’t exclude that the setting is fake or that the content was stolen. 

Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Dec 15 2025 8:16 utc | 62

Why do all the European male “leaders” look like nerds? 
 
Merz, Rutte, Starmer, Stubb – it looks like a Coalition Of The Actuarial Accountants.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Dec 15 2025 10:15 utc | 64

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ukraine-loan-russia-war-volodymyr-zelesnkyy-finances/
 

In a sign the chances of a deal at Thursday’s summit are worsening rather than improving, Italy — the EU’s third-largest country — sided with Belgium’s demands to look for alternative options to finance Ukraine in a letter on Friday that was also signed by Malta and Bulgaria.
Czechia’s new Prime Minister Andrej Babiš also rejected the plan on Sunday.
“The more such cases we have the more likely it is that we will have to find other solutions,” an EU diplomat said.
The five countries — even if joined by pro-Kremlin Hungary and Slovakia — would not be able to build a blocking minority, but their public criticism erodes the Commission’s hopes of striking a political deal this week.

A meeting of EU ambassadors originally planned for Sunday evening was postponed until Monday.
While the last-minute diplomatic effort has left many concerned the money might not be approved before the end of the year, with Ukraine in desperate need of the cash, three diplomats insisted they were sticking to the plan and that no alternatives were yet being considered.
Belgium is engaging constructively with the draft measures, actively making suggestions and changes in the document to be considered when ambassadors meet on Monday, one of the diplomats and an EU official said.
The decision on the Russian assets is “a decision on the future of Europe and will determine whether the EU is still a relevant actor,” a German official said. “There is no option B.”
 

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Dec 15 2025 10:22 utc | 66

“They are seriously preparing for war with the Russian Federation. But no one will fight. / Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 15 2025 2:31 utc | 70″
 
Maybe the idea is a war without foot soldiers, only drones and playstation sticks. Starting 2030 so that the eurotards can figure out where to get a few million km of optical fiber and hectares of protecting nets. But I doubt… they are still figuring out if their mighty tanks should have autoloading of toilet paper or not.
 
With the eurotards, expect the worse form of arrogant idiocy, you are never disappointed.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Dec 15 2025 11:34 utc | 68

Posted by: English Outsider | Dec 15 2025 0:59 utc | 66
I hope you reported it as AI generated spam. I know it’s Karenish, but if YTs works are gummed up with complaints, they might do something to stop it, or at least mark it as AI (and thus untrustworthy).

Posted by: ChatNPC | Dec 15 2025 12:28 utc | 70

However, I can’t exclude that the setting is fake or that the content was stolen. 
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Dec 15 2025 8:16 utc | 77

You have landed on the problem right there.
At best the content is stolen, at worst it is fake and they are using the image of a known dissident to say anything or everything – even if it contradicts their known stances.
It is arguable that AI cannot do this, yet, but I am not so sure. Perhaps we are in the phase where we are being acclimatised to these videos (they sure do foll a lot of folks, even here) and only later will the message get manipulated.
For sure malign forces will be working towards that latter end.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Dec 15 2025 12:40 utc | 72

Posted by: Stonebird | Dec 15 2025 12:50 utc | 89

 
Sunflower oil can also be used to run diesel engines. So disrupting fuel shipments is crucial for Russia’s war effort.

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 15 2025 13:11 utc | 74

The US is not compromising on its peace agreement project during negotiations with Zelensky in Berlin.
This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with yesterday’s meeting.
“The American side, apparently, is not willing to compromise on the peace agreement project,” writes the publication, whose interlocutors called the negotiations “complicated”.
@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Dec 15 2025 14:31 utc | 76

Newbie@2……that’s awesome, back to the normal kill rate…..for a moment there is thought the Russians were getting bored killing Ukies……looking forward to seeing the second last Ukie killed by Russia…..that’ll leave Zielinski, do they kill him, last one and all the bull shit that goes with that, or, he gets The Hero Of Russia Award along side Priggy. The betting man in me says he gets the Medal.
 
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 15 2025 14:43 utc | 78

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Dec 15 2025 14:52 utc | 95
It still served well as a “rescue” operation to get a lot of Russian civilians, and more importantly, zealous recruits to swell the ranks of the Russian army, as well as agents, as well as implant agents into Ukraine.  This is, afterall a civil war.

Posted by: UWDude | Dec 15 2025 15:03 utc | 80

Well I suppose EU seizing Russian assets it blocks off USA managing them “owning” them for Ukraine reparations and rebuilding contacts(DT unhappy but Russia relieved it has got out of that one), but maybe easier for Russia to reclaim via EU and more leverage against EU banking systems ??¿

Posted by: Jo | Dec 15 2025 15:53 utc | 82

1. Hmmm…Germany trying to get ahead of the UK and Starmer, all those VW ex employees can go to Rheinmetall maybe.

BERLIN, December 15. /TASS/. The ruling coalition in Germany has agreed on a ten-point plan to expand military cooperation with Ukraine, according to excerpts from the document published by Bild.
The plan calls for regular consultations with military departments on arms-related issues, the establishment of a coordination office for Ukraine’s defense industry in Berlin to strengthen ties between companies in both countries, and an expansion of the presence of German businesses in Ukraine’s defense sector.
In addition, Berlin intends to increase staffing levels and expand the authority of the military attache at its diplomatic mission in Kiev, as well as ensure a continuous exchange of views on the need for various types of weapons.
The German government also plans to build a sort of alliance with its European partners to jointly purchase weapons for Ukraine.

Overall, these efforts are aimed at integrating Ukraine’s military industry into the European arms market.

Posted by: Jo | Dec 15 2025 16:42 utc | 84

Posted by: Jo | Dec 15 2025 16:42 utc | 95

Anatoli Sharii just had a video on this. He thinks all those EU ‘contracts with Ukraine’ are actually not for Ukraine, but they are the build-up EU was talking about. Anyway, most likely EU build-up will be very slow due to a various of reasons and may not recover from Ukraine losses for decades. Look at Volkswagen plant going effectively bust, how does anyone think they can build tanks if they can’t/afford build cars.

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 15 2025 16:51 utc | 86

The information about the destruction of a Project 636.3 submarine is not true. The boat did not sustain any damage.The strike hit nearby the docking wall.There are 300 technicians among the personnel. We cannot disclose any other information. The emergency situation is under the control of counterintelligence.We’ll send our greetings to the Khoklams soon. We also have questions about the base’s security.
 
Masnova – Telegram

Posted by: Fredrick | Dec 15 2025 17:18 utc | 88

🇭🇺👉🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 The EU wants to send a mission to Ukraine to train the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but Hungary will not allow this, said Szijjártó:

“This poses such a threat of conflict escalation that it’s simply unthinkable, and it would put Hungary and the Hungarian people at serious risk.”

🇷🇺👉🇺🇸 Lavrov discussed with representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce the prospects for restoring trade and investment ties between Russia and the USA, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

🇺🇸👉🇺🇦🏴‍☠️⚡️Ukraine’s power grid is on the verge of collapse, writes The Washington Post, citing sources.Damages threaten to completely disable the electricity transmission system from west to east, which will effectively split the country in two. According to the publication’s experts, Ukraine is in one of its worst situations.

💲🇺🇸👉🇷🇺 The direct impact of Western sanctions and Russia’s counter-sanctions on US businesses amounted to around $100 billion. This was stated by the head of AmCham in Russia, Robert Agee, on the RTVI TV channel.He noted that the total damage amounted to almost $300 billion, including the potential losses of specific businesses.

❗️🇺🇸👉🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ The US is insisting on the complete withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Donbass in negotiations with Ukraine, reports AFP, citing a source.The United States knows what they’re talking about. They understand that if the EU and Zelensky do not give Russia the Donbas peacefully, Russia will take Odessa, Mykolaiv, and possibly several other regions.

❗️🇷🇺💥🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ The Russian Armed Forces have inflicted a defeat on transport infrastructure facilities used to deliver Western weapons to Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Defense.

The Kiev regime has developed another scheme to steal Western taxpayers’ money.It involves supplying artillery ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces under the “Czech Ammunition Initiative” at vastly inflated prices through the Polish intermediary company PHU LECHMAR. The plan calls for the company to purchase ammunition from various countries for around $1,000 a piece, alter the markings, and sell it to Ukrainians as Polish products at a cost of $5,000 a piece.Who will pay for all this, you ask? The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, and other Western countries will pay for the supplies.PHU LECHMAR has previously been linked to Zelensky’s former presidential chief Yermak and Zelensky’s former manufacturer “Golden Toilet” Mindich.@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Dec 15 2025 17:36 utc | 90

CrossTalk Bullhorns: ‘Impossible Peace’
 
https://rumble.com/v731ity-crosstalk-bullhorns-impossible-peace.html
 
“Why is Trump powerless to compel Kiev and the Europeans if he claims they have no cards to play? Also, NATO throws down the gauntlet. Its secretary-general promises a WWII-style conflict on the European continent. With Mark Sleboda & George Szamuely.”
 
 
RT; Sara Flounders
 
https://rumble.com/v731m6g-zelensky-is-a-master-of-doublespeak-sara-flounders.html
 
“Zelensky is a master of doublespeak.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 15 2025 17:54 utc | 92

Unimperator 38, As you probably surmised, not my area of interest but, per your suggestion [thank you], I will pay more attention.

Posted by: S Brennan | Dec 15 2025 18:10 utc | 94

Anatolii Sharii: ‘How They Steal From the AFU’
 
https://x.com/anatoliisharii/status/1999873406183903368
 
“An inside account – my information with specifics…”
 
 
Anatolii Sharii (auto-dubbed)
 
https://www.youtube.com/@SuperSharij/videos
 
“Peace by Christmas? Ukraine in the EU in 2027?”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 15 2025 18:24 utc | 96

Russia strikes four Turkish owned ships.  
As Alexander Mercouris has said multiple times on his channel, the Russians could always close the Odessa Port.  It chose not to do so in order to appease Turkey and the global south.  Something has changed in the Russian calculations.  They now believe they are free to close Odessa.  Even more, they are deliberately attacking Turkish owned ships.  That sends a message to Turkey, “Stop playing your little power games in Syria and in Ukraine.  We are not afraid of you and are willing to go to war with you.”  The attacks send a message to NATO, “We are attacking Turkey, a member of your silly little alliance.  What are you going to do about it?”  It’s sending a message to the United States, “You think you are the only one in the world willing to interdict civilian shipping with military force?  We are attacking the ships of your NATO ally Turkey.  We are not afraid of you and are willing to go to war with you.”  It is sending a message to the European politicians from the Baltics, to France and the UK, “You want to attack ships trading with us?  We will attack your ships.  What are you going to do about that?  We are not afraid of you and are willing to go to war with you.”  Finally, it is sending a message to the London based maritime insurance industry, “You thought you and your political leadership could attack ships trading with us, as you put it, the “Russian shadow fleet”?  You thought the attacks would drive global ship owners back to London to insure their ships.  What are you to do now?  We are attacking ships insured in London and that will cause you financial loses.  Is that what you want?  Maybe you should rethink your attacks on global shipping.”
 
The geopolitical and military consequences are interesting, but the real target is the London based insurance industry.  London has watched ship owners move away from London insurance for decades.  They want to reverse that trend and they did it by physically attacking ships insured through companies in Hong Kong, Indonesia, St. Petersburg, etc.
 
I’m impressed by the Russian’s choice of targets.  They hit London, Turkey, NATO, the EU, and the United States all at once.
 
Finally, we have the news China is systematically destroying the international silver trade.  The international silver trade deals in tons, not ounces.  Because most buyers don’t want to ship tons of silver around the world, they buy and sell ownership documents.  This is called the silver paper trade.  You have a piece of paper that says you own one ton of silver.  I buy that piece of paper from you.  You send the paper to me.  The silver stays in some bank vault somewhere.  Recently, investors in China have begun demanding the delivery of the silver.  This is a problem because the dirty little secret of the international silver trade is there is more paper than actual silver.
 
By demanding the silver, the Chinese are threatening to collapse the international silver trade.  They are doing this for several reasons.    First, the Chinese and their BRICS allies are quietly building a commodity based monetary system.  This system will be tied to actual assets.  Therefore, the Chinese want the physical silver as part of the new BRICS currency system.  Second, it undermines the western financial system which is built on imaginary money – pieces of paper called U.S. dollars which have no real value.
 
The Chinese attacks on the international silver trade and the Russian attacks on the western ship insurance industry are part of a broad attack on the dollar, the pound sterling, and the euro.  By undermining the western financial systems, it weakens the west’s ability to finance wars against Russia and China.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Dec 15 2025 18:43 utc | 98

Alexander Mercouris: ‘Military Alliance’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos
 
“Zelensky wants US alliance; Says no Kiev Donbass retreat; Tense talks; EU backs Kiev.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 15 2025 19:39 utc | 100