It is impossible to negotiate with Kiev after the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on Putin’s residence, Scott Ritter said

It is impossible to negotiate with Kiev after the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on Putin’s residence, former American intelligence officer Scott Ritter said on the social network X.

“The current Ukrainian government cannot be considered as a negotiating partner, but rather as a terrorist structure that must be completely destroyed,” he stressed.

 
According to him, the attack meets two criteria of the “Fundamentals of the state Policy of the Russian Federation on nuclear deterrence.” The actions of the Kiev regime may lead to a “large-scale nuclear response.”
 

“I don’t think the world understands how close it was to nuclear Armageddon. Russia has no choice but to restore its methods of deterrence by physically destroying Ukraine in its current form,” the former intelligence officer wrote.

Posted by: smartfox | Jan 1 2026 21:59 utc | 103

Posted by: MiniMO | Jan 1 2026 21:26 utc | 87
Military attache at the US embassy in Moscow – prolly had one there since WWII. Though since Obama booted out the  Russians, they should not, and may not soon, be there.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 1 2026 22:04 utc | 105

Well, we all know it was Britain who did the attack, but Russia should just play along and blame Kiev and declare no peace. They would even have a casus belli to legitimately obliterate Zelensky and Rada now and the west can do nothing since UKRAINE tried to attack and kill Putin.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 1 2026 22:06 utc | 107

Maybe I’m mistaken but I had the impression LNG tankers have extensive and powerful fire suppression systems? Which means that yes they don’t burn very well, until the point those are depleted or out of working order.
 
I wonder what a kilo or two of dumped thermite would do (it supplies its own oxygen). As it “sinks” maybe it could burn its way through a tank and the hull from top to bottom and out again and maybe (if particularly oxygen rich) also set any high pressure escaping gas on fire?
 
Things don’t have to explode (or kill) to be successful.
 

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 1 2026 22:07 utc | 109

A riposte to taking out Nordstream.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 1 2026 22:10 utc | 110
 
Nonsense. Russia still needs the passage for its oil tankers. Otherwise, there will be a naval war and the passage will be closed.

Posted by: smartfox | Jan 1 2026 22:13 utc | 111

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 1 2026 16:26 utc | 10
“I think what I most object to in you sean is your glee in celebrating terrorist attacks.”
 
He’s Irish; he doesn’t care who lives or dies, he just enjoys watching a good fight.

Posted by: Paranaense | Jan 1 2026 22:29 utc | 113

Putin is desperate to reach an agreament with Trump,no matter the noise. So even the US is at factual war,even if the US (probably behind Trump) tried to kill him there, even with all…he wants to sign the crappy deal.He now plays angry (in his 1995 style), but it won’t stop him.

Posted by: Sembei Norimaki | Jan 1 2026 22:38 utc | 115

frithguild @ 86
 
I wonder what would have happened if in February 2022 Putin had launched a small 5kt bunker busting nuke on NATO HQ in Brussels. But that is nonsense, the SMO would have been avoided but Putin, his govt. and the RF MoD would have been ruined, Russia would be isolated globally and start to disintegrate from within from a stunned, disillusioned, and indignant population.
 
When it come to nukes it’s all about getting there, the west has profiled Putin and concluded he’s too sane and rational and moral to use nukes, that’s why they feel free to escalate, and I think they profiled the Russian nation, looked over its history and concluded it’s too sane, moral, and rational to use nukes. If the west can get Putin and Russia to the knife edge, Russia will back down rather than destroy itself and the world. 
 
Is it a correct assessment? I have no idea, for myself I sure as hell wouldn’t test it. As they say, you have to live it to know it, the seasoned WW2 generation of western leaders also didn’t want to test it, hence The Cold War. Just like the post cold war generation of Russian leaders was stupid enough to betray the sacrifices of their fathers and grandfathers and ignore their wisdom and dismantled the Soviet Union, the post cold war generation of westerner leaders was stupid enough to forget the lessons of their WW2 generation, and here we are in the west back to Nazi dreams and ambitions.
 
Putin needs to get from here to there with nukes, the more the war goes on, the more the west reveals itself, the more atrocities it commits, the more death and destruction is unleashed the more righteous angers will grow in Russia. The more stern and hardened the population becomes the more leverage the Putin govt.. or whoever will be in charge, gains for the use of nukes, and hopefully a stark fear of nuclear war will again be instilled in arrogant and delusional western leaders. 
 
The consensus needs to be firmly built up abroad and at home in Russia but mostly at home, the vast majority of Russians must come to believe that there is no other way to confront the west, that the west fully deserves what they get, and a good part of the rest of the world must also see it this way. Every day this war goes on that consensus builds and Russia’s nuclear deterrent and Putin’s hand strengthens.
 
The problem of course is what happens if the west doesn’t get the picture? Can Nazis ever get the picture? Is that terminal incapacity in itself leverage for the west? “We are too inherently stupid and arrogant to stop the spiral to armageddon, so don’t fuck with us?” Is stupidity or insanity a bluff?
 
And some people here wonder why Putin and China are doing the slo-mo? Who the hell rushes into armageddon?

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 1 2026 22:45 utc | 117

For months and months the west has spined their “peace plans”. They all had at least a few versions. 
They had the 22 pointer, the 28 pointer, the 20. Pointer. All they wanted was a ceasefire. Then get a Minsk 3 agreement. The silly Russians agreed and signed  before so rinse and repeat.
But it hasn’t worked. Russia learned the hard way that the west can’t be trusted.
So what happens next? More of the same? Steady as she goes and no margin for error? 
Russia’s next move could be the domino tap. Just enough force to knock Ukraine over, which knocks the EU over, which knocks UK over, then America too. It is possible, some might say probable 
.
 
 

Posted by: Bingo | Jan 1 2026 23:27 utc | 119

Stark | Jan 1 2026 23:25 utc | 120
 
I watched a short piece of a Todd interview the other day. He believes Germany is the one state in Europe that has the industrial capacity to be a threat to Russia. Russia lost close to 30 million people last time they were attacked by Germany. The march of the immortals. That is not forgotten. If Germany continues on the path of Merz – Hitler 2.0 – it will be destroyed before it can launch an attack on Russia.
 
So relevant yet dismissed as too simple.
“Naturally the common people don’t want war . . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or parliament or a communist dictatorship. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 1 2026 23:38 utc | 121

Odessa under heavy attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QneupHuILfw

Posted by: ld | Jan 1 2026 23:40 utc | 123

Military Situation In Ukraine On January 1, 2026 (Maps Update)
 

• Russian strikes destroyed targets in the Odesa, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv regions;
• The Russian offensive continues in the Sumy, Kupyansk, Liman, Pokrovsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia directions;
• Russian forces advanced in the Sumy direction;
• Russian forces advanced in the Konstantinovka direction;
• Russian forces advanced in the Dobropolye direction;
• Russian forces advanced in the Guliaipole direction;
• Ukrainian losses amounted to approximately 1,335 troops over the past 24 hours.

Posted by: smartfox | Jan 1 2026 23:53 utc | 125

Why are any of you pretending that if the Ukraine assassinated Putin, and Putin’s successor then gave up the war, that any of you would object? The sense of this site has been 100% fatalist Just-So pathetic after-the-fact justification of events after they occur, every step of the way.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Jan 2 2026 0:03 utc | 127

***Just like the post cold war generation of Russian leaders was stupid enough to betray the sacrifices of their fathers and grandfathers and ignore their wisdom and dismantled the Soviet Union, the post cold war generation of westerner leaders was stupid enough to forget the lessons of their WW2 generation, and here we are in the west back to Nazi dreams and ambitions.***
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 1 2026 22:45 utc | 118
 
Thank you for your thoughtful response. I reposted part of what you have written because this sentiment is so important. 
 
People in the west and especially the US  seem to talk past Russia because they have no frame of reference to understand anything other than their own experience. You have focused on the nuke language used by Lane – she is a bit of a provacteur and giggled as she said what I quoted. Maybe a little dark Russian humor there as well. But I was focusing more upon how the 27 million lost in the Great Patriotic War is impressed upon her and Russian culture, and more specifically how the factors in to public sentiment of Russians today.
 
I have some sensitivity to WWII – my father was a 17 year old boy trained in clearing urban structures and later tasked in the force that occupied Japan. Without the bomb I would not exist. So I am old. WWII US losses were relatively small, as is the generational trauma. It’s cultural impact amoung the young is out of the picture. 
 
The war that has the most cultural impact in the US is the Civil War, or as I quickly learned as a young man, as I came from the North to live in the South, the War Between the States. Being the object of fists reinforced that lesson. But sentiments such as those exist only in pockets. War can effect culture like that. 
 
Americans I think cannot conceive of the cultural impact of losses like in the Great Patriotic War. So our miseducated “elites” cannot fathom how Lane finds musing about using nukes worth a chuckle or why you can say dismantling the Soviet Union lacked wisdom and disrespected the losses of your fathers and grandfathers. The US assessment of what Russians might think or do lacks any humanity whatsoever. Embarrassingly stupid is too kind a way to describe it. 
 
Yet here we are. 91 drones and one more in Kherson – with 24 dead, some burned alive, more than 50 injured – at a cafe and a hotel on New Years. Somewhere in an air conditioned office in Washington DC they are saying to each other “Good job!” Then blackout silence, just like what any good criminal would do. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 2 2026 0:11 utc | 129

ply to 107 and others
Is it possible that the purpose of the drone attack on Putin was intended to get Russia to kill Zelensky?  Zelensky has gone far beyond his ‘sell by’ date.  CIA/MI6 types may be able to use Zaluzhny to accept Ukraine leadership once Zelensky is dead and end this mess.  
They probably are loathe to get rid of Zelensky themselves. This isn’t the 1960’s, it would really look bad to have him assassinated. Therefore maybe they put this attack together to get Putin to respond and then be able to blame him for Zelenski’s death (boo hoo, too bad, so said).  As long as Zelensky draws breath, he will never leave power and he will never agree to an end to the war. Sputnik news commented on this. End the war and ‘he’s toast’.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 2 2026 0:26 utc | 131

Is it possible that the purpose of the drone attack on Putin was intended to get Russia to kill Zelensky? 
Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 2 2026 0:26 utc | 133
 
No, assassinating another head of state makes no sense, because another puppet would simply take their place. Furthermore, it would violate an unspoken international convention and would greatly weaken the position of everyone else vis-à-vis Russia.
Only terrorists would do something like that, possibly a secret service, or someone who is very stupid.In other words: a typical computer gamer idea without any thought behind it.

Posted by: smartfox | Jan 2 2026 0:58 utc | 133

*** Is it possible that the purpose of the drone attack on Putin was intended to get Russia to kill Zelensky?  ***
Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 2 2026 0:26 utc | 133
 
Of course it was – or to make some other reactive mistake that could ramp up western guilting and shaming narratives. 
 
What went wrong was Trump mentioned something about the 91 drones to the Press and how Putin told him about it during their pre- Zelensky phone conference. Now Zelensky looks like a psychokiller. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 2 2026 1:07 utc | 135

reply to 135
But Russia would then have an excuse or carte blanche to kill Zelensky because he crossed that unspoken line.   I can see some truth to the rest being puppets…….except maybe Zaluzhny. He might have the credibility to do a Korean style armistice.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 2 2026 1:44 utc | 137

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 1 2026 21:49 utc | 98
 
Well, having all that LNG escape into the atmosphere or end up at the bottom of the Atlantic has the same practical and economic effect as blowing it up, although lacking the Hollywood style pyrotechnics.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jan 2 2026 2:01 utc | 139

Doctor Eleven@134………you doth project too much…..and make shit up. I’ll give you a fools pardon……
 
Cheers M
 
…..step outside, such childish stuff, pistols at dawn? Yer on!

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 2 2026 2:45 utc | 141

Posted by: Organic | Jan 2 2026 2:55 utc | 144
It always seemed to me as only an excuse for Slavic people to kill one another.
I will never understand why the Putin Lavrov combo stopped Givi and Motorola from doing what they could have back in … dang.  2015.
Epic fail.  Maybe that was the plan.

Posted by: lex talionis | Jan 2 2026 3:03 utc | 143

@Norwegian | Jan 1 2026 17:46 utc | 37🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🇺🇦⚡️🇷🇺 The flight controller is H743-WING V3.; https://t.me/ZandVchannel/173841Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 1 2026 20:09 utc | 75———————————————–Russia seems to have encountered the drone type before since they had a designation for its type. But were the controllers used before is my question.Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 1 2026 20:39 utc | 80
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What size warheads did those drones have and were they powerful enough to penetrate a hardened command structure, a possibility I doubt?    
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 1 2026 22:05 utc | 106
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Wikipedia says 20 – 60 kg = smartfox | Jan 1 2026 22:07 utc | 108
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Odessa under heavy attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QneupHuILfw
Posted by: ld | Jan 1 2026 23:40 utc | 125
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That YouTube video shows a lot more activity across to Southern front line, but the Russians are not short term planners.
Trump appears to have received some egg on his face with the Mil Attaché handoff  and he does not like being made a fool of.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jan 2 2026 3:24 utc | 145

Posted by: Ogre | Jan 1 2026 16:35 utc | 13

The brits blew up a bar in Switzerland at the same time as the Russian cafe so that we wouldn’t be too outraged. Hard to believe the basement of a pub could be so dangerous. The brits love bombing pubs, cafes, think of Birmingham, Guildford back in the 70s, killed their own people and for what? Sick bastards is all they are. 

 
 
Aha, Fake News.
 
 You clearly haven’t seen the video of how this started – nothing to do with Brits if you know anything about bar fires.
 
 Lol it up before spouting off.

Posted by: Julian | Jan 2 2026 4:03 utc | 147

Posted by: Organic | Jan 2 2026 2:55 utc | 144
 
In what possible universe was Ukraine a friendly nation to Russia post 2014. What you said made sense in 2014 but was bat shit bonkers after the maidan. 
 
it was the HOPE that after elections Ukraine would once again be friendly that prompted Putin and co not to strongly support the separatists in 2014. This was a judgement mistake, born of thinking as you do.

Posted by: watcher | Jan 2 2026 5:14 utc | 149

@karlof1 @58
I had heard that someone in the Duma had proposed a decleration of war against Ukraine. My thoughts:
1. Russia is very legalistic
2. The currant fight is not war, but a SMO
3. If Russia declares war,  that brings into clarity the definition and status of neutrality
4. If Russia declares war,  the collective west is faced with the choice of abandoning Ukraine or formally becoming a party to the war and facing the attendant consequences
5. Google the following boolean search:  law of war and laws of neutrality and responsibility of neutrality
6 . In my view,  Russia should declare war On Ukraine, wait for the fallout,  and then pound the shit out of Ukraine, the UK and Poland, following the next ukrop terror attack
7. Tell Trump he’s next unless the US packs up and goes home (fantasy i know… but a guy can hope) 

Posted by: Scuppers | Jan 2 2026 5:27 utc | 151

In retrospect Russia should have gone into Ukraine following Maiden, a policy of zero tolerance. @organic 44
Yeah,  hindsight is pretty great… leaders are faced with the choices before them without the benefit of a crystal ball.  Russia IS taking losses,  but they ARE destroying the collective west. 
 

Posted by: Scuppers | Jan 2 2026 5:49 utc | 153

Posted by: Oui | Jan 2 2026 5:02 utc | 150
 
######
 
Why does that matter to the bar?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 2 2026 7:12 utc | 155

Reaction to LoveDonbass #157
 
See above comments …
 

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jan 2 2026 3:24 utc | 147
 
Here is the video of the material being handed over:
 
Materials with data on the downed UAV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been handed over to a representative of the military attaché’s office at the US Embassy, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
 
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/168700
 
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 1 2026 17:46 utc | 37
 
 
The flight controller is H743-WING V3.
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/173841
One of the most powerful controllers on the UAV market. Ultra-fast, maximally adapted for heavy UAVs. Expensive and reliable. As specially selected for attacks of this kind.
Hence the conclusion — the drones flying to Putin’s residence on Valdai were selected and assembled specifically for this operation. This is not a self-made product, it is a factory product made in a factory in the center of Europe and reliable as a Swiss watch.
 
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 1 2026 20:09 utc | 75
 

Affordable Made in China by the hundred thousands …

Posted by: Oui | Jan 2 2026 7:35 utc | 157

My guess is that they are dead.
Posted by: Naive | Jan 1 2026 21:55 utc | 101

 
You’re probably right. IIRC, the Brits painted the Skripals as “enemies of Russia” while they were no such thing. They wanted to go back to Russia and were hindered. They knew a lot more than UK could allow them to bring to Russia. Hence, the whole operation. (If my memory doesn’t fail me.)

Posted by: Avtonom | Jan 2 2026 8:33 utc | 159

Stanislav Krapivnic says some of the drones flying to hit Russia have been flying through Baltic’s airspace. Not long ago a large Ukrainian fixed-wing type drone crashed in Estonia.
The Kremlin’s policy decision has been to hush up the incidents. They should have even publicized evidence and these stories in the media, to not allow Nato media to gain monopoly by using them to instill fear of an ‘unprovoked Russian attack’. Russia should definitely publicize all attacks (even if not serious, or strategic in nature) coming from Nato countries territories and hold them accountable.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 2 2026 8:42 utc | 161

Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Jan 2 2026 7:22 utc | 158
UK is just an(other) US proxy. It is a small and weak country and has no agency to pursue it’s interests outside of its borders …
 

Exactly.
 
Sometimes it seems that even dissidents in England sherish the idea of their elites being very important at the global level.
 
I guess it is a common flaw of recent have-beens. Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, and Portuguese on the other hand, having been important too long ago, don’t have any illusions wrt their importance at the global level.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jan 2 2026 9:11 utc | 163

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 1 2026 16:44 utc | 16
“My aunt and uncle where in a bar on New Years Eve when some Orange Men under FRU direction blew the fucking bar up, with them in it.”
 
And yet here you are, giving aid and comfort on behalf of the Brits who were best pals and backers of the ‘Orange Men’. Something very fishy and fraudulent about that, el sicko. 

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 2 2026 9:24 utc | 165

Posted by: Perimetr | Jan 2 2026 9:14 utc | 165
 
For goodness sake, stop treating it like a game of cowboys. Duel at the OK corral!!
 
Escalation might go nuclear. Would anyone but a madman risk this on provocation alone?

Posted by: watcher | Jan 2 2026 9:36 utc | 167

Posted by: Organic | Jan 2 2026 2:55 utc | 144
[…]
 
Your concern trolling is of better quality, better than what the other insincere commenters (aka trolls) produce here. They should learn from you. And yet, your arguments are idiotic. You cann’t help that because you have to lie and misrepresent, which inevitably look stupid.
 

those that call the shots in Europe and the US still sit back in their luxury clubs sipping cognac as their MIC stocks increase in value. 

 
Those that call the shots in Russia still sit back in their luxury clubs sipping vodka as their MIC stocks increase in value.
 

In fact they are even pretending the US isn’t directly behind every outrage by probably planning and providing intel and satellite navigation.

 
We all know that, and the Russians in charge of these affairs know it with much more detail.
 

The Russian economy is holding up pretty well, but Russia too has a demographic problem and it is slowly killing off its own population, of course far less than Ukraine, still they are all Slavs.

 
Lol! The Slavs killing slavs trope. So stale and boring. You don’t kill a small tumor by thinking it is part of your body.
 

The western regime change is the real problem, one that has not been addressed, even Iran is currently being attacked there again. 

 
You threw Iran into the mix, for good measure. Iran has internal problems of economic mismanagement, nothing to do with “attacks”. Being ruled by fanatic zealots is a very serious handicap. In fact, it’s amazing that America has not yet defeated Iran considering the irrational nature of their government.
You seem to seek aggrandizement of Western power, when in fact Western power is dwindling due to another kind of economic mismanagement which we have been enduring since the 80s.
 

Russia is winning the war but is being bled, [blah, blah, blah]

 
Russia will win in Ukraine like it won in Chechnya and will develop to become like America but in the Eurasian landmass, and connected to the Asian great power. That’s inevitable. Get over it.
 
We here in the West, if we get smart political elites sometimes in the near future, should embrace Russia’s capitalist development and become partners and enrich ourselves by contributing to that development.
 

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jan 2 2026 9:39 utc | 169

The Baltlet states are restricting Russian population rights. This time, Latvia has banned the use of Russian in its schools.
 
Maybe Russia should offer those people (carefully vetted, of course) opportunities to move to Russia?

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 2 2026 10:00 utc | 171

Simplicius has produced a smart (some might say ‘nuanced’) article on the need and utility for Russia to keep talking to the USA in spite of everything.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/did-cias-secret-aiding-of-ukraines
A few comments follow:
 

Most intelligent people had already long-assumed this [Western intel agencies behind attacks on Russian economic assets] was the case, though many of us had bet on MI6 being the leading agency behind such strikes.

 
This makes me think that S. is English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish, ’cause he thought that MI6 was behind those attacks. In fact MI6 is an office of the CIA, with no agency on its own. Nothing of importance in the West happens that is not planned or endorsed by America. America rules the West. This must be understood.
 
In fact, only one thing happened in the West in recent times that was not approved by America.
 

The problem [my emphasis] is, these attacks have done little more than make the situation worse for Ukraine, not Russia. They have resulted in Russia’s own escalation, for instance the current hellacious licking that Odessa is getting, both to its port infrastructure as well as energy grid.

 
Here S. in wrong in calling that a problem. The role of the Ukraines is to be destroyed while helping to weaken Russia, a thing that was inadvertently confessed by the fat DEI hire for Defense of the previous admin. So if the Ukraines suffer the most because of attacking Russian economic assets, that is not a bug but a feature.
 

He [Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin] confirms the lopsided body exchanges everyone has been reporting on for months, stating that Russia has so far handed over to Ukraine over 12,000 AFU bodies, while Ukraine has returned only ~200—a ratio of 60:1.

 
This imbalance is even worse because it doesn’t take into account all ukrop corpses buried under the ruins of appartment blocks. I’ve seen many videos of Russians finding ukrop skeletons still with the uniform on, all muscle and organs gone to animals, so these have been laying there dead for weeks or months. In one recent video, I saw chicken nibbling at the face of one ukrop corpse.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jan 2 2026 10:39 utc | 173

Danny Haiphong
Scott Ritter: Russia’s Retaliation Triggers Europe’s APOCALYPSE, NATO Can’t Survive This!

Russia’s devastating retaliation has triggered Europe in a major way, and NATO’s threats won’t save it says Scott Ritter, the prolific former UN Weapons inspector and marine corps intelligence officer. Ray McGovern also joined for a critical update on the bleak future of the West amid Ukraine’s collapse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc5_niBZEco

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 2 2026 10:55 utc | 175

These Russian pathetic attempts to prove Ukrainian attacks on Putin’s residence are more a sign of weakness. The west would never trust and accept Russian evidence. The west does not care what Russians think. Brian Berletic was always right. 
 

Posted by: Simon | Jan 2 2026 11:22 utc | 177

Posted by: Simon | Jan 2 2026 11:22 utc | 178
If only we could get back to those simpler times when a somehow intact passport plucked from the still smouldering ruins of the Twin Towers could be used as the pretext for invading…checks notes…Afghanistan, oh and Iraq.
Real, proper warrior proof. Huah!

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 2 2026 13:23 utc | 179

Rreferring to my own post @ 85

Who sets fireworks off indoors? Oh, wait: The Station nightclub fire

 
Here’s an image of dancers setting the celling on fire:

 
A tragedy in Crans-Montana, here’s the promotional video of the bar with the candles that allegedly caused the tragedy. The alleged photo of the moment the fire started is also circulating.

https://t.me/WarRealTime/73235

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 2 2026 13:56 utc | 181

Every year, I like to buy a Putin calendar and hang it at work, just to annoy people and amuse myself. Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 2 2026 12:55 utc | 180
That is very funny, well done. Probably better to stop before social credit score appears ( x.com/apocalypseos/status/2006921893379817502 )
 
The west would never trust and accept Russian evidence. The west does not care what Russians think.  
Posted by: Simon | Jan 2 2026 11:22 utc | 178
 
Madam Grossi still does not want to say who is shelling Znpp after so many years.
In fact the entire situation is hilarious. The proof Russia offers is useful for the non-West and (very) few already have responded. All signs point to Trumpy as the author and that explains why he keeps saying Russia is lying, that there was no attack, so it’s natural to give him the proof that he did it. His boy Budanov was promoted to president’s office, he was rewarded, might even be president next. 
In the case of the drone attack on the restaurant, the manufacturer of drones seems to be a factory in Germany and the AI-replaceable Zakharova asked UN to condemn the attack. So that was the end of that story.

Posted by: rk | Jan 2 2026 14:13 utc | 183

LightYearsFromHome@83…….pyros, burning the place to the ground…..there’s a song about that……music, drugs, alcohol and pyros……a recipie for disaster…..bad mix.
 
Cheers M 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 2 2026 14:16 utc | 185

Jams O’Donnell@167……Orange men Jams, here’s what I know, me being a half bred MickProd, they’d shoot me just a fast as fast as they’d shoot you Jams,  assuming yer a Mick. I got the genes Jams and I’m one proud Fienian Bastard. 
 
It would do the Russian population well to ask their government for better protection from terror events, something we Northern Irish Catolic citizens were not able to do as it was government sponsored terror directed against the local native population that we were dealing with. How bad was it? There was no IRA, the SAS, through proxies, had to train them first…..now aint the pathetic?
 
Cheers M 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 2 2026 14:26 utc | 187

Posted by: The Busker | Jan 2 2026 13:30 utc | 182
[…]
 
Thanks. I think I was one of the 1st here to praise your reporting. Here are a few comments:
 

Basically, they [West+ukrops] have lost but can’t admit to it. Recent attacks on Russian civilians and an attempt to assassinate Putin (see below) are designed to disrupt the peace process and divert attention from battlefield failures.

 
Disagree.
It’s more simple than you think.
Our goal is to weaken Russia using the Ukraines. Losing the war and a destroyed Ukraines is no problem for us as long as Russia ends up weakened. 
In other words, we the West would happily admit defeat in the Ukraines as long as Russia ends up weakened.
The problem Dr. Campbell, is that the Russians have smarter political leaders than us and better fundamentals so at the end of the day we are strengthening Russia without any of the benefits of cooperating with their strengthening.
The current main effort to achieve the weakening of Russia is to attack vital economic and political assets.
The role of the Jewish and Fascist leadership of the Ukraines is to resist as much as they can thus giving us time to make and implement plans to weaken Russia. They still have a lot of men to use for their purposes.
This explains not only why we carry on while Russia evidently is succeeding in annexing the Ukraines, but also why Russia goes slowly and carefully. The Russians know what I know and thus avoid risks that may result in them winning the war but ending up weakened.
 

It is possible that the attack [on Russian president residence in Novgorod] was meant to derail the peace process or discredit Zelensky.

 
No.
The purpose was as it looks, to try one idea to weaken Russia by killing its president (and many other key people).
I guess the Russians passed false info about Putin’s location on the night of 28th-29th.
Putin is so cool-headed that after this he simply delivered info to the USA to prove the goal of the attack and to embarrass American leadership, as in “we know what you do even before you think about it”. Check the video of GUR boss Igor Kostyukov passing the flight controller to our military attaché in Moscow. Simplicius posted the video. This is the moment when the Russians say: “your silly tricks may work with Iran but …”.
The peace process is not really credible, though both Americans and Russians spend some time and effort in it because it doesn’t hurt anyone to keep talking. In the American camp it creates the image of a president that is different from the previous one and in the Russian camp it creates opportunities to exploit divisions in our camp.
 

On the 2nd January the War Chronicle reported that:

 
Instead of translating воен хроника into War Chronicle, consider using Military Chronicle.
 

According to Latvian politician, Sergei Mironov, drones will be launched into Russian neighbourhoods in Latvia to monitor activities around New Year. Anyone caught celebrating with fireworks or parties will be fined 350 Euros. Even George Orwell would have been shocked by this.

 
As a matter of fact, the Russians also forbade fireworks in some areas due to the risk of terrorist attacks disguised as fireworks.

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Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 2 2026 14:11 utc | 184
 
Yeah. You certainly got the Brit education all right. The gullible will always swallow the old routine, then sick it up at every opportunity. You and your stuck-on ‘Oirishness’.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 2 2026 15:02 utc | 191

But the CIA is not the US. The CIA wants the war to continue.Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 2 2026 15:54 utc | 10
 
That’s not entirely clear. The CIA’s primary interest is to damage Russia economically, e.g., by attacking pipelines. That corresponds with Trump. He wants money. Attacks on nuclear facilities are not helpful in this regard; on the contrary, they could quickly put the US in the line of fire.
Trump also has Iran and China on his list.
This does not mean that MI6 will now remain passive, but the direct CIS actions have a different focus, which is no better for Russia.

Posted by: smartfox | Jan 2 2026 16:15 utc | 193

Posted by: Brigitte Mohnhaupt | Jan 2 2026 16:24 utc | 196

 
Looks like this allegedly female troll has a hang-up on a particular ethnic group. That’s about as low as it gets.

Posted by: Avtonom | Jan 2 2026 16:43 utc | 195

The sooner Russia crushes this lot the better Putin needs to clean them out.
 
“Ukrainian far-right activists have marked the 117th birthday of WWII-era nationalist leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera in the city of Lviv in Western Ukraine.
In footage published by Ukrainian media on Thursday, a line of people holding red flares is seen, meant to honor one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during WWII. The group allied with the invading Nazi Germans in 1941 and carried out massacres of Poles, Jews, Russians, and Ukrainians they accused of collaborating with the Soviets.
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko declared Bandera and the UPA national heroes shortly before leaving office in 2010. While the decision was rescinded under his successor, Viktor Yanukovych, it was later reaffirmed by the leadership installed following the Western-backed 2014 Euromaidan coup.
 
Ukrainian nationalist groups, especially in the West of the country, regularly commemorate dates connected to other infamous Nazi collaborators, such as Roman Shukhevich, another prominent figure in the UPA.
The Ukrainian authorities’ tacit support for the rehabilitation of such controversial figures has recently strained relations with Poland, one of Kiev’s key backers in the conflict with Moscow.
 
Officials in Warsaw, including President Karol Nawrocki, have repeatedly called out Ukrainian authorities for glossing over the atrocities committed by the UPA during WWII.
Between 1943 and 1945, Ukrainian nationalists slaughtered up to 100,000 ethnic Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, regions which were later incorporated into Ukraine.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 2 2026 16:47 utc | 197

And there you have it – 90 billion Euro’s of EU taxpayers cash gone just like that – handed over to the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine – what the f*ck is wrong with Europeans,  don’t they notice daylight robbery in front of their eyes – when its happening. 
 
“In Brussels, the de facto capital of the EU, these were the scenes on Friday morning at one of the city’s busiest metro stations. Entire families spent Thursday night sleeping here in freezing conditions.
Meanwhile, just a few kilometers away, EU leaders were finalizing a 90 billion euro financial package aimed at supporting Ukraine’s war effort and keeping the country financially afloat over the next two years.
Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic refused to sign up to the plan, but it will proceed regardless.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 2 2026 17:11 utc | 199