Are the people really leaving Kyiev?
There are no visible huge groups ot columns of  refugees in EU on the roads?

Posted by: Simon | Jan 25 2026 14:18 utc | 4

Posted by: Simon | Jan 25 2026 14:18 utc | 4
Railroads west of Kiev don’t work, there might not be locomotives dedicated for civ transport. Are there busses? Probably not. Private cars would be the only way to leave. Considering how the Kiev regime functions, they might prevent anyone from leaving to retain fodder.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 25 2026 14:31 utc | 6

Simon & Night Tripper, @ 4 & 5
 
I’ve wondered about that too. But if Western media does not feature it, same story as does a tree that falls in the woods make a sound if no one hears it. And TV production, which has been a huge part of this entire conflict (Zelensky’s ministers are his former TV production team) may be in trouble from lack of power, lack of communications, lack of personnel. The same people who would make the video and edit it for Western consumption are the ones getting rich and getting out of town while the getting is good.
 
Simplicius is way understating the potential hazard of attacking NPPs. The spent fuel pools will require power input for years. Very significant power. And how the hell are they staffing? Can only hope Russia knows a lot of detail about these power plants and is making good choices. And has some ability to step in if it all goes south. Even if they airlifted engineers and rescue workers to Rivne I would expect the Nazis to attack them before accepting help.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 25 2026 14:39 utc | 8

 oldhippie | Jan 25 2026 14:39 utc | 8
“Even if they airlifted engineers and rescue workers to Rivne I would expect the Nazis to attack them before accepting help.”
 
Agreed – then it’s “Russia deliberate nuclear strike”.
“Can only hope Russia knows a lot of detail about these power plants and is making good choices. “
Absolutely. We don’t want Fukushima-plus.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 25 2026 14:47 utc | 10

Progress on the front seems to be restricted by heavy snow and heavy frosts, advances are in hundreds of metres not in km. 
Sobering advert for the 106th Airborne Division:
 
https://t.me/llordofwar/557175
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I do remember ambitious medics in the 1970s UK all headed for Belfast, where the ongoing troubles made it the UK’s premier trauma centre.  

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 25 2026 14:54 utc | 12

Posted by: Night Tripper | Jan 25 2026 14:52 utc | 11
 
By the way, if RUAF achieves separating AFU NPPs from the power grid, it will also have indirect (or direct) effect on the EU. One of the original EU plans was to use Ukrainian NPPs to electrify the EU grid. Now that plan has blown up as well, we see high electricity prices in EU market despite industrial demand already lowering over the years. So EU is struggling to sustain even very basic retail electricity demand, or sufficient gas level. 
 
If EU can’t help itself, how does anyone expect it can help Ukraine with any energy related matters?

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 25 2026 15:04 utc | 14

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 25 2026 14:54 utc | 12

 
Another way to look at it is they take their people seriously and want to give them their best.

Posted by: Avtonom | Jan 25 2026 15:06 utc | 16

Posted by: Avtonom | Jan 25 2026 13:12 utc | 1
Yes, good line of reasoning by Simplicus, and pretty thorough as well. Though it does leave room for speculation. Imo, Russia has been treading lighter than it actually preferred to because of the weight the concerns of India and China have with them. But now that the precedent of continually degrading Ukrainian energy infrastructure has been firmly established I see it as likely that Russia will proceed a bit faster in taking that to its logical conclusion unless Ukraine, with the permission of the EU, capitulates to Russia’s list of demands.

Posted by: Babel-17 | Jan 25 2026 15:20 utc | 18

Russia won’t strike NPP’s but recently they’ve stepped up attacks on transformer stations. If they collappse the transmission system it’ll force the Ukrainians to shut down reactors.
 
I don’t think the risk for the Russians is creating a nuclear catastrophy … it’s creating a humanitarian catastrophy. The objective of the Russian military operation is to “liberate” Russian speakers and get a new security architecture in Europe. You don’t achieve that by cutting off the power and depriving Russian speaking Ukrainians of light, heat, water and refrigeration. This is “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” thinking and it won’t help the Russians achiever their objectives.
 
Threatening to cut off lights, heat, water and refrigeration unless the regime quits fighting however puts the onus on the regime avoid humanitarian catastrophe. If the Russians wanted to conquer Ukraine they could have targetted electrical nodes, water and heat from day one of the operation they didn’t do it because their beef is with the regime not the Ukrainian people.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 25 2026 15:36 utc | 20

People only migrate when there is absolutely no alternative.
 
Kiev is a long distance from the EU border.
 
If there were significant migrants, the Poles would be howling.
 
I don’t think it matters if 3 people migrated or 30,000. Clearly the infrastructure damage has compromised Kiev and Russia can do it again anywhere they want.
 
People who obsess over numbers don’t understand psychological effects or asymmetry. Look at the ICE murders in Minnesota. That’s not 30 minutes on the front line in Donbass but the effect has been massive.
 
It’s not how many migrate but who migrates.
 
The point is not to occupy Kiev, NAFO bros are obsessed with this dumb idea.
 
Russia does not want to conquer Ukraine, like they don’t want to conquer Greenland. They already have more territory than they can populate and administer.
 
Russia wants to impose its political will on Ukraine.
 
To do that, NATO must be broken and Ukraine pacified.
 
Some of Ukraine may get broken during the process.
 
Putin was ready to avoid all of this after 3 days but the Ukrainians went full retard. Never go full retard.
 
Millions of dead and lost kms of territory later…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 25 2026 15:47 utc | 22

NORDSTREAM 2 
 
After much conjecture by many people about its many possible saboteurs, I have come to the conclusion that it was in fact a Ukrainian operation but was completely cleared by Biden such that when he said “we will stop it”  he knew that it was going to be stopped, but it was not by the direct hand of the American navy as Hersch’s false narrative indicated. It seems now to be a hybrid operation between US thinking and planning and partial involvement with the strange European teams which have been partly arrested. Of course the Americans have gained muchly by its destruction. The thing I just can’t understand is how Germany accepted the whole thing, just can’t understand it.
 
It begs the question of just how authentic Hersch’s information was and whether he was at least partially fed as a media patsy for the purposes of deflecting attention away from the real Ukrainian and European perpetrators. This thesis all seems 100% typically Joe Biden, the evil evil manipulator of everything to do with the Ukraine war since 2022. He was a total cunt. I hope he dies a painful death. 
 
Of course I hope that eventually Germany and Russia may, may just restore their energy supply lines however I don’t think it really matters much to Russia now in that they have pivoted east and have solidified a whole new energy export future. So in a way Germany doesn’t really matter to them.

Posted by: Indulis Kradzins | Jan 25 2026 15:56 utc | 24

Posted by: Indulis Kradzins | Jan 25 2026 15:56 utc | 24
 
An afterthought. It has been crystal clear for years that Germany, since Merkel, utterly utterly utterly hates and fears Russia and wishes every calamity upon it. Nordstrom’s demise may just have been seen as a weapon of a war where Germany considered the endpoint to be a lesser pain than their own losses. But it’s now crystal clear that Germany in fact lost out far far more than Russia has from the sabotage. I think that might explain it, in that Germany thought they could weather onwards without Nordstrom 2.

Posted by: Indulis Kradzins | Jan 25 2026 16:02 utc | 26

If Putin is begging for a peace treaty, why cant he get one?
If Putin is begging for a peace treaty, why doesn’t he just give up Donbass and Crimea and get his peace treaty?
 
Its been four years, and still nobody knows what Putin is doing!  Clearly he has no plan!
 
Sun Tzu Says:
Chapter XI, 36
 
“He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.”
 
People love the “keep your plans dark fall like a thunderbolt” quote, but XI 36 is never quoted, because frankly, most do not understand why Sun Tzu says a skillful general MUST be able to mystify HIS officers and men. (not the enemy’s).
In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a little parable, where Cao Cao, (one of the three Kings, leaves three little notes), and a new scholar in his ranks, figures out his riddles.  For the first two, Cao Cao does nothing, but the third, he has the man executed for figuring out his riddles.
 
He can not trust a man that can see through his plans.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: UWDude | Jan 25 2026 16:15 utc | 28

President Trump has not issued specific public statements directly addressing Kyiv’s energy shortages in January 2026. 

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 25 2026 16:19 utc | 30

European leaders’ posture on Ukraine’s deepening energy crisis and the faltering peace process has hardened into a familiar EU muddle: loud moralism paired with strategic paralysis. Brussels and major capitals thunder against Russia’s winter bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid, ship generators and emergency aid for optics, and ritualistically reaffirm loyalty to Zelenskyy — yet studiously avoid any public friction with Washington as U.S.-led talks grind on without results. The result is a politics of gesture rather than leverage. EU heavyweights like Macron and von der Leyen issue grand statements about European resolve while privately cautioning Kyiv on “realism,” all the while refusing to negotiate directly with Moscow (politically radioactive since Minsk) or to challenge American framing, even when it veers into blaming Ukraine itself. This produces a characteristically European contradiction: maximalist rhetoric about values and sovereignty combined with a deep reluctance to assume strategic responsibility. The Union talks like a geopolitical actor but behaves like a risk-averse committee, leaving Ukraine dependent on U.S. decisions and publicly prodding Europe for backbone it still seems unwilling to grow.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 25 2026 16:33 utc | 32

@31
 
Trump could end Kiev’s masochism with one call to Hegseth, that is shut off all Intel to sheepdipped US controllers in Kiev.
 
That should have been done as promised on 21/1/2025

Posted by: paddy | Jan 25 2026 16:48 utc | 34

EU muddle: loud moralism paired with strategic paralysis
 
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 25 2026 16:33 utc | 32
 
Loud moralism fools the proles. Strategic paralysis occurs because they are selfish, ignorant, and short-sighted.
 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 25 2026 17:09 utc | 36

he ‘Ukrainian people’ have constantly thrown their lot in with regime and are continuing to do so. In the centre and the west and Kiev particularly. Which is where the aggression clearly stems from.
Posted by: Night Tripper | Jan 25 2026 15:45 utc | 21
 
You can claim the Russians are misguided however you can’t deny their strategy. It’s also obvious in they way when they talk to the media or make speeches their demands are maximalist however when negotiating behind closed doors they make concessions. It’s negotiation 101 … you can always settle for less than your demands but you can never ask for more without offering something more in return. 
 
The main objective for the Russians in Ukraine is security on their western border not aquiring real estate … you don’t get security by starving and freezing the the grannies and children of your adversaries … at least not in a form that won’t bankrupt you defending against all the revenge you’re going to get.
 
The Russians have gone broke once attempting to govern people who don’t want to be governed by them … I don’t see them stepping on that rake again. 

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 25 2026 17:25 utc | 38

Posted by: UWDude | Jan 25 2026 16:15 utc | 28
thank you, exactly.  Anyone here or out there, with their “analysis” channels, claiming to “know” what the “plans” are, is/are deluded and/or conceited.
Maybe , as I hypothesized repeatedly, this SMO is simply a diversion distraction (who cares how many die) for the complete implementation of full digital monitoring and control.  Drone prototypes examined and tested for well roadside surveillance is now all but completed.
 
The worldwide coup is all but completed. The media takeover 10 to 15 years ago was a clear first objective.
 
 

Posted by: Merv Ritchie | Jan 25 2026 18:02 utc | 40

The general perspective that strategic bombing of the power grid will force Ukraine’s surrender I think is wrong, because strategic bombing simply does not work the way it’s alleged to. The best verdict on this is the famous (or should be) Strategic Bombing Survey studying the effects of strategic bombing in WWII. The fact that the north of Korea wasn’t defeated should confirm this as well. Given the physical problem that aircraft simply are not going to be able to deliver as much weight of explosives to target as a ground force that isn’t fighting gravity, the ability of the economy and population to recuperate is generally underestimated and the impact on the morale of the population is generally overestimated, as if the people were responsible for the war in the first place.
 
In addition to this, although it appears to be true that US satellite and signals intelligence throughout the world is indeed very important, coming up on four years of war, the Ukrainians do have their own local intelligence capabilities, not least those famous drones. At this point, it seems to me likely that this intelligence capacity can easily support tactical air war. The conclusion is that tactical air war is the one that matters and the US cannot simply pull the plug and end the war in a day. If I was forced to bet, I would bet that it’s the close working relationships between Ukrainian fascists in their military and sympathizers in the US officer corps doing a lot to support the Ukrainians and the US support for their part in the war on Russia. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 25 2026 18:05 utc | 42

For all opinion holders in the EU
 
“Law on the adjustment of criminal offenses and sanctions for violations of restrictive measures of the European Union” 
 
https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2026/kw03-de-eu-massnahmen-1134338
  
From https://dert.tech/meinung/268363-buerokratische-todesstrafe-wer-eu-sanktionierten/
 
“What sounds like a normal, democratic legal framework, euphemistically referred to by the Bundestag as ‘harmonization’ (with EU law), can also affect any private individual who helps someone affected. This is stated in the draft law: According to it, contracts of any kind with sanctioned persons, as well as fees, donations, monetary gifts, essential goods, or services to affected persons such as Droĝru are punishable by law. Anyone who violates this law can expect to spend up to five years in prison, or up to ten years in “particularly serious cases.”
 
Murderers and rapists do not lose their assets, have legal representation, and traditionally receive a lot of encouragement from women with optimism.
But it is better not to have an opinion in the EU anymore.
 
 

Posted by: BlindSpot | Jan 25 2026 18:11 utc | 44

but how is that achieved when the actual Banderism/Nazism emanates  from further west ?
Posted by: Night Tripper | Jan 25 2026 18:02 utc | 41
 
 
There has ALWAYS been Ukrainian nationalism … if a war was the cure it would have disappeared centuries ago.
 
It’s a bad neighborhood. If it ain’t the Ukrainians it’s the Poles or the Lithuanians or tartars … . The real disgrace is the west risking another vast European war by lighting a match under Ukraine. I doubt very much it’s going to end with a clean settlement to the Ukraine war. 
 
From the Russian perspective at least the Ukrainians speak the same language … if Ukraine is turned into a failed state then there is a good chance the Russians will end up sharing a border with the Poles and relations between the poles and Russians is much worse than between Ukraine and Russians. What the Russians want is a weak, docile Ukraine between them and the more belligerant Europeans to the west … which is another reason to avoid an outright defeat of Ukraine.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 25 2026 18:45 utc | 46

Trump could end Kiev’s masochism with one call to Hegseth, that is shut off all Intel to sheepdipped US controllers in Kiev.
 
That should have been done as promised on 21/1/2025
 
Posted by: paddy | Jan 25 2026 16:48 utc | 34
 
#####
 
I wrote last year that it was not possible, despite the campaign rhetoric.
 
Trump is a Walmart Greeter for America, not the CEO. The elites, the Oligarchs, BlackRock, etc. would never allow Trump to end the conflict
 
In his heart of hearts, he could love Orthodox Jesus and cry for the babies in basements of the Donbass, but he cannot effect such a policy change.
 
The Senate would remove him. The FBI would frame him. The CIA would kill him.
 
Too many rice bowls are dependent on continued destruction and human suffering.
 
I believe any illusions Russia once had about negotiating with the West have been weakened beyond repair.
It’s not for lack of the Russians trying to avoid conflict with the Minsk deals, negotiating in Istanbul, and not killing Zelensky years ago.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 25 2026 19:11 utc | 48

when negotiating behind closed doors they make concessions.
 
Posted by: HB_Norica | Jan 25 2026 17:25 utc | 38
 
—
 
Its all for show.  The negotiators have neither the authority to concede nor to agree.
 

Posted by: too scents | Jan 25 2026 19:20 utc | 50

According to a NATO sailor,  saboteurs were dropped, by helicopter, on a ship in the Baltic during the annual Baltops exercises in 2022.  From the ship they took a submersible and were gone  all day, coming back in the evening to be picked up by helicopter.  The sailors were not told anything about who they were or what they were doing.  He only figured it out a couple of months later when the pipelines were blown up.
It is absurd to think that amateurs could plant the explosives unseen.  It is almost as absurd to think that Ukraine or Poland could do it.   A Polish official even tweeted “thank you, USA” until the uproar forced him to delete it.
 
Quit falling for propaganda.  The US did it, end of story.   They are the only ones with motives, means and opportunity, not to mention the oblique confessions before and after the dirty deed was done.
And no way that Germany would have sucked it up unless it was the USA.   No way they believe that Zaluzhny did it, but no hard feelings.   

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 25 2026 19:49 utc | 52

HBN @ 46
 
There has not always been Ukrainian nationalism. First breath of a notion that Ukraine might be a nation was in 1880s. Mainly funded by Habsburgs as a tool against Russia.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 25 2026 20:07 utc | 54

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 25 2026 19:49 utc | 52

 
I think you are dead right.

Posted by: Avtonom | Jan 25 2026 20:21 utc | 56

Ukraine has intensified mobilization efforts. Also evident on videos released with kidnapper TCC being more aggressive than before.

To me, Ukraine’s current huge mobilisation indicates that Kiev will start offensive actions probably sooner rather than later. I have heard many first hand accounts from various cities of serious mobilisation efforts. I may be wrong but the current scale is unprecedented.

 
 

https://x.com/NovichokRossiya/status/2015508106013208715

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 25 2026 20:32 utc | 58

Scott Ritter: Trump HUMILIATED, Putin’s Oreshnik Missile Destroys CIA Coup

Scott Ritter unleashes on Trump for his role in attempting the coup of Vladimir Putin and explains why the Oreshnik strike on Lviv Ukraine has changed everything when no one noticed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWaXb2OJj9M

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 25 2026 20:35 utc | 60

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 25 2026 20:34 utc | 59
 
We benefitted for a while… specifically from about 1946 to 2000, or so. I lived it. That only happened, though, because capitalism gone wild laid a giant turd and crapped out in 1929 and the early ’30s and the fuckers had to make concessions. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 25 2026 20:45 utc | 62

Ritter has and interesting take he articulated in a discussion with Danny Haiphong. 
 
The chips recovered from the drones that attacked the Valdai residence establish conclusively that the strike was solely a CIA operation. This is what precipitated the use of Oreshnik.
 
Technically, the Valdai strike would have been known and ordered by him before he met with Zelensky at Mar-A-Lago. By Trump’s demeanor, I dont think he did. So one possibility was a CIA attempt to false flag Russia into a major escalation while the CIA had the goods to pin it all on Trump. This makes sense to me – narrative messaging during this period of time was unfocused and discontinuous during this period of time. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 25 2026 21:15 utc | 64

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 25 2026 21:33 utc | 65
 
Sure. I have little doubt. That’s always true under a capitalist system. 
 
Rush-A Farewell To Kings (Lyrics)

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 25 2026 21:49 utc | 66

@16 Yet another Anon.
Yes Germany has done absolutely enormous damage to itself. The Greens (who IMHO are mostly responsible) are in many ways victorious. Deluded, irresponsible and dangerous, but victorious…..

Posted by: Judge Barbier | Jan 25 2026 21:56 utc | 68

So: Two characters; which one is really a cold blooded psychopath?
 
Posted by: Laurence | Jan 25 2026 21:36 utc | 66

 
Why should we have to choose only one of them?

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 25 2026 22:17 utc | 70

Our dear Johnny on the Spot, Marat thinks Azerbaijan is just begging to be bombed. Apparently his wife is an exact copy of Zelensky and an Isreali asset.
 
There appears to be prove that drone attacks are either coming directly or controlled from Isrealis bases in Azerbaijan. 
 
Meanwhile,  Armenia is doing a rehash of the recent Romanian “election” where the strongest opposition candidate is persecuted in court. 

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 25 2026 22:22 utc | 72

@ fruitloop 64.
 
Sure, the CIA/Deep State is working to sabotage TACO. 
 
Cool story bro. Some of us think the Epstein treasure trove made him approved the attempted hit. But you do you.

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 25 2026 22:27 utc | 74

Posted by: Judge Barbier | Jan 25 2026 21:56 utc | 69

They are not Greens and have not been for many years. They are imposters pretending they are Greens and there to destroy what Greens ever stood for. The real Greens were slaughtered in a made to look double suicide. That was the end.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Jan 25 2026 22:46 utc | 76

Meh, and a thousand timed meh. Trump is president of the USA, and therefore he is responsible even if he knew nothing about it. With power comes responsibility, after all.
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 25 2026 22:19 utc | 72
 
True. A system that is effective as it is in destroying other countries to achieve the goals of some elements within it will also at times destroy parts of itself. These days some call it lawmakers but it can be JFK  type stuff as well. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 25 2026 22:57 utc | 78

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 25 2026 22:22 utc | 73
 
Azerbaijan (or Aberbaijan, per Trump) has been long been speculated as being a source of attacks on Iran. Being used as a place to launch drones or insert Mossad terrorists to Iran.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 25 2026 23:02 utc | 80

The excuses and rationalizations for Trump are truly ridiculous now.
 
It’s Iran. It’s Putin. It’s Zelensky. It’s the CIA.
 
It is anyone but Trump who is supposedly in charge and all-powerful.
 
If something looks good. Trump did it.
 
If it is a failure, Trump is the victim.
 
We’re overdue for some posts about the 3LA and Deep State.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 25 2026 23:13 utc | 82

‼️🇺🇦🇷🇸Ukraine demands the inclusion in the EU as a condition for signing a peace agreement from January 1, 2027, — Vučić▪️Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia are categorically against this, — added the President of Serbia.@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Jan 25 2026 23:23 utc | 84

I wonder, if Europe were going to participate in negotiations, who would they send? Would they have any legitemacy?
Well, it seems it’s a moot point, but what if it mattered?

Posted by: jared | Jan 25 2026 23:36 utc | 86

Has Trumps traveling circus run out of steam?
He has until November to do as much damage as possible.

Posted by: jared | Jan 25 2026 23:40 utc | 88

The excuses and rationalizations for Trump are truly ridiculous now. *** 
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 25 2026 23:13 utc | 84
 
I post a postulation that can easily be interpreted to support the narrative that “Trup is too inept and stupid the know how to manage his security services (CIA)” or too afraid to confront them. But all the people in the bar leap to the conclusion I am “for” Trump, excusing Trump or whatever. How about pillorying me for something I have actually written rather than all this strawman stuff? 
 
If someone has a better explanation than mine 64 for the narrative discontinuities from Zelensky’s fun in the sun until after Oreshnik in Liviv, I’m all ears.   

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 25 2026 23:52 utc | 90

The greatest progress was recorded in the military subgroup. The disengagement of forces, monitoring of the ceasefire, and the creation of a control center were discussed. As a result, the parties agreed on a monitoring format with the participation of mainly Ukraine, the USA, and Russia. Within a week, the delegations will exchange definitions of key terms and agreed to continue negotiations in the same format approximately in a week.Doubt it@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Jan 26 2026 0:10 utc | 92

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 25 2026 23:52 utc | 95
 
#####
 
I was speaking in general. Usually, I would cite your post if I were referring to you. There are at least a half dozen who shamelessly Trumpsplain.
 
Speaking for myself, my mind is too busy to spend much time on Trump (or any man). I’m more interested in the big political and economic movements. American politics is very boring to me.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2026 0:14 utc | 94

*** I was speaking in general. Usually, I would cite your post if I were referring to you. There are at least a half dozen who shamelessly Trumpsplain. ***
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2026 0:14 utc | 99
 
I appreciate that. If I come accross as a Trumpsplainer I need to revamp my image. 
 
The Ritter discussion with Danny Haiphong also covered how the CIA Valdai attack – literally a design by the nameless and faceless inviting literally more of a toehold for hell on earth – has been viewed in the RF as a betrayal and correctly so. So my intention is to call attention to this, so maybe there will be more attent drawing contentiousness between that faction and DJT and less of an opportunity for either to cause more harm. I hate them all really. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 26 2026 0:38 utc | 96

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 25 2026 23:13 utc | 84
 
I appears that many in his administration have gone rather suspiciously quiet lately. Do you have any thoughts on that?

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Jan 26 2026 1:00 utc | 98

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 26 2026 0:38 utc | 101
 
####
 
It’s a tricky situation. Trump would not be President without the blessing of the Praetorians (CIA/FBI), and he cannot do even minor reforms if he wanted to.
 
I see no evidence that he has any interest in draining the swamp or helping Americans be safe or healthy.
 
Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing he is doing that is different from what Biden, or Kamala if she was elected, would be doing.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2026 1:02 utc | 100