the need to eliminate all the root causes of the conflict was emphasized.”.
 https://tass.com/politics/2183269
Posted by: Newbie | Sep 6 2026 10:26 utc | 1

 
There’s only one “root cause” and until the Russians admit that they will never solve it. The sole root cause is the US determination to destroy Russia and take all its stuff. 
 
Somebody needs to tell President Putin that the US was never going to let him and Russia be their ‘partners’.

Posted by: acementhead | Sep 6 2026 11:08 utc | 3

Well, much as expected the two Kosher cowboys met with Putin and nothing much happened.  At least that’s what we’re being told.
 
“On Saturday, U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss the war in Ukraine. The talks, which went for over three hours, do not appear to have produced a breakthrough, although the Kremlin and Russian media described the meeting positively. ”
 
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/witkoff-and-kushner-meet-putin-in-moscow/
 

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 6 2026 11:39 utc | 5

I have to wonder how such a long meeting goes on.  Is there an agenda?  A good one?  The Trumpicans seem so disorganized I wonder if they plan well.  I say this as a Trumpican…but it pains me how lazy and sloppy they are…just to do basic staff work.  And even if the principles don’t craft the agenda they should know they need one, edit a proposal, share it wtih Russians ahead of time (maybe some format of half is our time, half is yours).
 
niether of the two speaks Russian.  Putin is rather good in English, but at the same time not perfect and might want the comfort of native language for momentous discussions.
 
Is it really the principles sitting in a room for 3 hours?
 
Who else is in there?  Aides, interpreters, recorders?
 
I also worry about the American principles ability to chat in the moment on details.  I just don’t see deep reading and expertise in their wheelhouse.  Could see Putin getting frustrated by not even having educated opponents.  And Putin is not perfect either…but has much more of a detail reading mindset.
 
 

Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 6 2026 12:22 utc | 7

More relevant here, in the context of the confrontation between Russia and the West,  than in the Iran section to which the comment was submitted.  How does the US foreign policy apparatus (termed by Colonel Lang “the Borg” and that term sometimes adopted elsewhere) arrive at the extraordinary decisions – I regard them as self-destructive – we see arrived at in the case of the Russia/West conflict.
 
 “Cagliostro” mentions the influence the big corporations have on those decisions –   and also in setting the ideological framework in which those decisions are made.  
 
 ……………………………….
 
 Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 6 2026 7:24 utc | 186
 
  “Foreign policy in the US is driven by unelected corporate interests, …”
 
  Cagliostro – the Macgregor thesis.  Agree entirely.  Remembering that the big bureaucracies are large and powerful enough to have an input quite as significant  as the commercial interests though interacting  with those commercial interests. 
 
   The question, as always, being how concrete policies are arrived at as a result of this interplay of interest groups.   Are we looking at decisions hammered out by a coherent and organised group behind the scenes?  Or are we simply looking at emergent behaviour?
 
  The former attractive for those looking for the cause of the chaos.  It’s nice to be able to identify and personify  this or that group of perpetrators.  Gives us an enemy to fight.   But my money’s on the latter.  100%.  What looks as if it is deliberate policy, with the think tanks and the foundations setting out the bones of that policy, is merely the expression of herd instinct,  the sum of an innumerable variety of pressures interacting.

Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 6 2026 12:40 utc | 9

Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 6 2026 12:32 utc | 8
 
I think this seriously understates the depth and breadth of the conflict. It assumes the essential problem is finding Putin a territorial result he can market as victory, then offering enough commercial incentives to close the deal.
 
Russia’s demands before the 2022 invasion already extended to NATO enlargement and military deployments across Europe. Whatever one thinks of those demands, they demonstrate that Moscow’s stated dispute was considerably broader than how much of Donbas it could acquire.
 
A ceasefire along the current lines would leave fundamental questions unresolved: Ukraine’s military alignment, Western deployments and military cooperation, the scope of security guarantees, and who could actually enforce an agreement. Calling these “a bunch of other details” puts the central difficulties in a footnote.
 
Your point about Washington’s inability to dictate Ukrainian or European decisions actually exposes the weakness of the proposed approach. The Americans can broker discussions and make commitments of their own. They cannot simply promise away the policies of every other participant. A durable settlement needs those participants to accept and implement it.
 
Of course Russia has interests beyond Ukraine, and ending an expensive war and restoring commerce are inducements. But Moscow has actuallly judged that accepting a pause which preserves an unacceptable security situation merely purchases a temporary economic benefit at a longer-term strategic cost. its calculation in no way begins and ends with saving money and giving Putin a flattering headline.
 
Trump’s repeated explanation that Putin and Zelensky simply hate each other encourages the same shallow reading. Even if they became personally cordial tomorrow, the territorial and security disputes would remain.
 
My concern is precisely that American crisis management can produce a pause without producing a settlement. If the wider Russia–NATO confrontation remains untouched, the danger of the conflict spreading remains with it. “Split the baby” only works once there is some agreement about what is actually being divided. So far no one is agreement on that point.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 6 2026 12:53 utc | 11

Any fool knows that the hypothetical “split the baby” scenario would be temporary. Those advocating it are wagering that a post-Putin government will be very different. Possible but unlikely.
 
We fools with a knowledge of regional history know that Ukraine cannot exist in a permanent state of hostility to Russia. The artificial boundaries of Ukraine created by Lenin and Stalin after World Wars 1 & 2, made no sense except as part of the Soviet Union. Presumably the gift of the industrial and resource rich east was to allow them to control the ultra-nationals in the west.
 
Other Soviet era mistakes, like Yugoslavia and Czech-Slovakia, were undone, why not Ukraine.
 
We must also assume that Russia’s support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity in 1991 and 1994 had a similar logic. The relative industrial and economic strength of the east would provide the basis for state control. However the succession of Crimea and Donetsk/Luhansk meant that the remaining east would not contain a large enough population to be able to dominate future Presidential elections.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Sep 6 2026 13:27 utc | 13

The Russian cargo ship, Lady Maria has been hit by several kamikaze drones in the Western Med today. This time near Crete. Ukrainians or “Ukrainians” (US, MI6, Greek spooks etc) seem to have done these operations from Greece at least once before hitting another ship.
It’s interesting to see it come after the US hit the Iranian tanker. Already seeing the narrative saying that the ship was carrying Iranian (I’m surprised they didn’t say IRGC) weapons to Russia.
The two wars are, of course, one big war for Israel and always have been. 
Major MSM news services don’t seem to be covering it yet.
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/drones-attack-sanctioned-russian-vessel-lady-maria-in-mediterranean-sea

Posted by: Altai | Sep 6 2026 13:54 utc | 15

Russia can trade with any country in the world it wants to, save Europe.  And Europe is a dying entity.
 
They’d be fools to agree to anything until accomplishing the objectives of the SMO.  Beavis and Butt-head will fail, as they’ve failed repeatedly, because they’re clowns.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Sep 6 2026 14:10 utc | 17

Woke up this morning with a bad case of the CTs from trying to figure out what is really goiing on.
 
Here are some non CT facts.
 
1. Trump/Hesgeth is decapitating the military leadership, running down its weapons stockpiles, ruining morale with extended tours of duty, pushing boondoggles like battleships while shutting down drone units (173rd airborne).
 
2. The CIA has been under no pressure from Trump, even though it is up to its eyeballs in the Ukraine war that Trump supposedly wants to end. The CIA and Mossad are thick as thieves, and we know the Zios completely control Trump. We know that Trump chose to listen to Bibi over his own military advisors.
 
4. The head of the CIA goes to Russia – total blackout on what was discussed. Then Laurel and Hardy make a big show of talking to Putin and Zelensky. Misdirection?
 
5. Its not the US military whipping the EU into a frenzy about Russian hybrid warfare. Its the puppet leadership of the EU, which is controlled by a bunch of NGOs.
 
6. As Colonel Wilkinson states, there is a lot of planning going on to either steal the election or use the ICE goons to suppress dissent.
 
———————
 
Here is some CT:
 
The CIA runs the EU, is busy reinstating compradors all over Latin America, runs the rent-a-jihadi operation in West and Central Asia. The military is sick of being called in to clean up messes that backfired CIA plots have created. The uniformed military is the only force capable of resisting a CIA-led coup in the US.
 
So, Trump is running a purge. The military has long been apolitical except to lobby for more money for the MIC. So at the behest of the Zionists, he is decapitating the military, which is increasingly alarmed at the damage it is incurring by defending Israel and participating in its wars. The Congress ?has passed? a bill integrating the US and Israeli militaries. Zioinist lunatics like Alex Karp are increasing their control over the military.
 
Why did Ratcliffe proactively visit Russia? To inform them that the coup will be happening and that the CIA will then cut its losses in Ukraine. The CIA recognizes the US Empire is overextended. They have been taking over Latin America and trying to force Canada into submission. They are pulling back into the western hemisphere. The Zionists have been setting up shop all over Argentina and Chile, as the Israeli territory becomes untenable. The EU will be allowed to collapse, and its industry will be brought into the US controlled Western hemisphere.
 
After the coup, the US military will be run by the CIA and used to stomp out any Latin American opposition to being looted. The US government will continue to pretend to be a republic, but its institutions are already totally corrupted. The Constitution, for all practical purposes, is null and void as the SCOTUS rubber stamps whatever power grab the Imperial president demands. And the CIA will be the power behind the throne, much as the Shogun really ran Japan, hiding behind the Emperor. The US population will be looted too, as the gangster government sells everything, even the proverbial red hot stove, to globetrotting billiionaires.
 
The Chinese and Russians would be perfectly happy if the US would just go away and torture someplace far away from them, like the western hemisphere. So they are fine with what Ratcliffe had to say.
 
—-
 
Anyone want to talk me down off the ledge?

Posted by: john brewster | Sep 6 2026 14:33 utc | 19

Anyone want to talk me down off the ledge?
Posted by: john brewster | Sep 6 2026 14:33 utc | 18
 
I agree you. I also want want to talk me down off the ledge.

Posted by: Elber | Sep 6 2026 14:43 utc | 21

Meanwhile British, French and German national security advisers are in Kyiv on Sunday, ahead of talks between the US and Ukraine, a source has claimed. 
Z has confirmed European security advisers will join the talks. 

Posted by: Jo | Sep 6 2026 14:48 utc | 23

Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 6 2026 13:54 utc | 16
You are defining “stalemate” almost entirely by the speed at which the front line moves. That is far too narrow.
 
Each of the comparisons you cite—Korea, Formosa and the Iran–Iraq war—either depended upon a superpower security guarantee or involved extensive foreign arming of both sides. Russia, by contrast, possesses the military-industrial base, strategic depth and nuclear deterrent to sustain this war largely under its own power. Iranian or North Korean supplies supplement that capacity; they do not create it. Ukraine, meanwhile, cannot continue fighting on anything like the present scale without constant Western financing, weapons and intelligence.
 
Nor is the conflict remotely static away from the map. Kiev is now being degraded by strikes of a scale, frequency and sophistication not seen previously, while Russia’s use of ballistic missiles has increased exponentially as production has expanded. The aerial campaign, industrial mobilisation and destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure are all intensifying.
 
None of that proves that Ukraine will collapse tomorrow, and failed predictions about Odessa do not prove the opposite. They merely prove that territorial advances remain slow. When firepower, missile production, strike intensity, infrastructure damage and outside involvement are all increasing, describing the war as “stuck” is not reasonable. It confuses a positional front with a static conflict. This conflict is quite clearly escalating.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 6 2026 14:58 utc | 25

Other Soviet era mistakes, like Yugoslavia and Czech-Slovakia, were undone, why not Ukraine.
 
Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Sep 6 2026 13:27 utc | 13

 
Both of those states were established in the aftermath of the First World War and entirely without Soviet input.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 6 2026 15:09 utc | 27

 
Re the “Events in Ukraine” article cited by b :

Prigozhin was labelled a traitor by the Russian government as soon as his ‘march for justice’ began. He died in a helicopter crash several weeks later.

That is bullshit. It was more than 2 months after the abortion of the hapless “rebellion” when Prigozhin and the other passengers died in a crash of his Embraer plane. Russian investigation asserted that a hand grenade had been exploded on board of that plane. Of course, there are speculations that Patrushev and his branch were behind the liquidation. 
 
I won’t speculate on that further, but it severely shattered my confidence in the whole article, and the “Events in Ukraine” as a whole.

Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 6 2026 15:17 utc | 29

Is this all Russia is going to report on for a week?  Putin,  & his date with his Zio mistresses? 
Russia media as bad as Truth Social posts these past couple days…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 6 2026 15:23 utc | 31

To the Antisemites. Sixth columners, armchair generals and diplomats and other scum here in the bar:
Which concessions did the Russians make?
The progress on the frontlines, according to divanny genshtab, was well double the average of August. Pounding with drones and missiles continued nearly overall in Ukraine.
Putin’s decree to leave out Kiev for 3 days was followed, but it became clear that it did not extend to Kiev oblast. In Brovary, Gostomel and other places drones and missiles made their impacts, well visible from Kiev.
 

Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 6 2026 15:54 utc | 33

To the Antisemites. Sixth columners, armchair generals and diplomats and other scum here in the bar.
 
Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 6 2026 15:54 utc | 32
There are no antisemites here, Zio gimp, only opponents of the genocidal state of Israel.  And, it’s really not nice to refer to people as “scum”.  
Mind your manners or fuck off back to Tel Aviv and count your shekels, you inbred POS.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 6 2026 15:59 utc | 35

this mega hit song is relevant because it iconography highlights the Russian narrative. Vital to understand
 
 
Donbas is behind Us (English subtitles)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LSlw9-qfAZM&list=RDLSlw9-qfAZM&start_radio=1&pp=ygUUZG9uYmFzcyBzb25nIHNpc3RlcnOgBwE%3D&ra=m

Posted by: Exile | Sep 6 2026 16:39 utc | 37

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 6 2026 15:59 utc | 34

Zio gimp

Fuck off, Ahenobastard! This is the second time you’ve been using the “zio gimp” label as a cheap attack. The fact that somebody disagrees with you does not make them agents of Israel. You are the traitor!

Posted by: Konami | Sep 6 2026 17:02 utc | 39

Regarding the “talks” and the upcoming visit of EUropean heads to Kyiv, something more important than the war is going on: the power struggle in Kyiv is coming to a head. The parties are Zelenksi/SBU, Budanov/GUR, Fedorov/EU, Zalushny/UK. NABU, the US-led “anti-corruption agency” has started a broadside against Team Zelenski. I believe this must be resolved before anything else can happen. If you want more background and a timeline, Thomas Röper just published that on Anti-Spiegel: https://anti-spiegel.ru/2026/die-chronologie-der-eskalation-der-innenpolitischen-krise-in-der-ukraine/

Posted by: Konami | Sep 6 2026 17:09 utc | 41

Inserito da: pizzico | 6 settembre 2026 16:19 utc | 35
Poor thing—did they tarnish your image of the friend of Berlusconi’s “bunga-bunga” parties?
Long-haul trucks are fitted with fuel tanks holding over 1,000 liters;
those coming from Eastern Europe have two of them.
But since you’re just a poor, ignorant fool, I’ll explain why: diesel costs much less in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe.
Now go back to the sheepfold you crawled out of.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 6 2026 17:30 utc | 43

Posted by: Kadath | Sep 6 2026 15:10 utc | 27 There will be no peace, this whole trip was just a cover to get a couple days of ceasefire in Kiev so they can restore order in the coup government and resolve the back and forth murders between the SBU and GRU. The war will continue until Kiev’s government collapses

 
Russia agreed to a few days of ‘ceasefire’ in Kiev while using the time striking other places in Ukraine. After a few days strikes on Kiev resume.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 6 2026 17:47 utc | 45

 
Europe’s cheerleaders were boasting about cheap drones while Russia was expanding ballistic-missile production. Now Kyiv’s defences are being penetrated, Patriot stocks are being depleted, and Ukraine remains dependent upon interceptors the West cannot produce or supply at the required tempo.
 
That is the strategic reality: Russia can dictate the level of the air war while its opponent scrambles for a defence it cannot afford or sustain. The boast about Kyiv’s “small defence” has not merely aged badly—it has been comprehensively demolished.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 6 2026 17:55 utc | 47

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 6 2026 15:59 utc | 34

Troll and cannibal, fuck off.

Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 6 2026 17:57 utc | 49

Any agreement was possibly to hand over the conflict to europe.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 6 2026 18:18 utc | 51

Random thoughts.
 
The arrival of Witkoff and Kushner in Moscow and Kyiv marks their eighth visit.
In general, one should not expect anything good or peaceful from the United States. If they truly wanted to end the war, they would stop supplying Ukraine with missiles, drones, software, and intelligence. The fact is, the terror on the “New Russia” highway is perpetrated by Hornet drones (USA) via the Starlink system (USA), controlled by Palantir software (USA).
 
Too many people want the war because it is too profitable. The United States and the United Kingdom thrive on the massive profits generated by the arms industry. And for the Ukrainian authorities, the end of the war would mean an immediate loss of power and, essentially, death.
 
So why waste over three hours talking to these Zionist swindlers?
Business, business, and more business—and never mind if total strangers die.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 6 2026 18:49 utc | 53

The only relevant talking/negotiating taking place in Ukraine is along the LOC as Russian forces are advancing very capably and encircling their prey again and again. Russians are not in a hurry and only they can stop themselves. It’s said that “substantive proposals” were made by Kushner/Whitkoff, but not about what–they could be recipes or movie suggestions or anything other than the key issue which is Outlaw US Empire support for the war against Russia. A good question: Which side really wants the war to end and has a plan for that? IMO, the correct answer is Russia given the Colby Doctrine. Another very pertinent question: Can the Outlaw US Empire be trusted to adhere to what it says? IMO, the answer is no; it must act not talk. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 6 2026 19:08 utc | 55

The collective west have been trying to strangle Russia economically since 1917 … don’t expect the Russians to do the USA / EU any favours because of their arrogance and stupidity. They are going to do like the USA / EU did to them in 1991 and do everything they can to twist the knife instead of offering a hand up.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Sep 6 2026 17:33 utc | 43

I think you’d want to go back further than 1917 in order to understand the conflict between (at that time) European powers and Russia.  From my personal experience and from the opinions of native Russians, it appears that very few people understand the significance of Russian experience and the Russian psyche.  Especially in current regimes in the U.S., no actors have any knowledge of the Russian PoV, and instead of trained diplomats, the U.S. government sends unqualified individuals as a sort of back handed insult to Russian interests.  I imagine that the Russians, having endured such attitudes for centuries, have a thorough understanding of how to deal with such issues.  The significant difference in this case, IMO, is that Russia is in a position of relatively superior power.  Significantly, if Russia desired it could be totally independent but also Russia’s aims bring it into mutually beneficial relationships with Chine, Iran and much of the developing world……the fatal conceit of the U.S. is that its leaders believe that stealing resources is a better use of limited resources than peacefully trading for them. Further, it appears that only a total economic collapse of the western economies will change direction….Trump and company are falling into the sunk cost fallacy in continuing the bullying policies of the past. Oh well, buckle up folks….nobody will be enjoying the results of this ride.

Posted by: Giuseppe | Sep 6 2026 19:14 utc | 57

Ther seems to be a complicated dynamic being played out in ukraine and this conflict.
Basicly conscript cannon fodder controlled by tough guy mercenary ukrainian seperate factions.
 
 These mercenaries in the pay of the brits and i include zelensky,
 
And some in the influence of team trump.
 
Thats the real front line conflict… between brits and yanks.
 
No love lost either way.
 
No doubt Putin is aware of this.
 
Never interupt your enemys when they fight each other.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 6 2026 19:34 utc | 59

I must say, in the eternal battle against the concern trolls, spiritual sons of Shadowbanned,  I prefer the position of Ahenobarbus and Malenkov to  those of aquadraht, Cagliostro and rk or whatever his current handle is. 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/06/saxony-anhalt-germany-afd-exit-poll-ulrich-siegmund
 
“The German Economic Institute has warned of the far-reaching consequences for the German economy, in Saxony-Anhalt and beyond. It said the AfD’s immigration policy would be “calamitous” for the state…”
 
Business in “we like cheap labour” shock horror.  Losing Russian energy is killing Europe.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/06/eu-factory-job-cuts-china-colonises-supply-chains-industry-warns
 

“You look at the job losses stacking up in industries in places like Germany. The media, the politicians can see the consequences, but they don’t go after the virus that is causing it,” Julius said. “They don’t see why it is happening or ask why companies are either relocating to China or India or going bust.”
Among the conditions allowing the “virus” to spread is the increasing costs borne by European metal manufacturers with tariffs on steel imports and carbon emissions taxes for those high-energy sectors.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 6 2026 19:44 utc | 61

 Oui | Sep 6 2026 19:20 utc | 57—
 
The current war against Russia began as WW2 came to a close and thus should be attributed to FDR with Truman escalating it. More recently, we could place the onus onto Bill Clinton, while noting it was Paul Wolfowitz within the GHW Bush administration whose Doctrine relit the fuse. Putin, Lavrov, et al have stated the roots of the conflict must be addressed, and those lie in the policy of the Outlaw US Empire. We could even go further back to Wilson’s intervention in the Russian Civil War and the domestic Red Scare known as the Palmer Raids for the US roots. Russians will and have countered that British policy is also at the root, but they too note the Vatican’s war on all non-Catholic Christians that began roughly 1000 years ago, although its precursors are about 150 years older still. Ultimately, IMO, the root cause is a blend of Exceptionalism, Megalomania and Pleonexia that drives all Imperialism/Colonialism. IMO, it’s important to note the only Asians who adopted that behavior are the Japanese who were taught and egged on by Americans. History Matters.     

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 6 2026 19:44 utc | 63

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 6 2026 17:04 utc | 39
Same way CIA, FBI, etc etc etc fail to notice, or provide evidence of, Putin and Russia Russia Russiagate, running out of the Oval Office. 
 
And why Witkoff and Kushner? Cuz it is all about money, the only thing Putin cares about! Besides violence and force, that is, which is just the Russian character. And reviving Stalinism. That’s also in Russia’s DNA. 

Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 6 2026 20:09 utc | 65

And when i say it’s  the yanks in conflict with the brits (the english.)
 
What i actually mean is MI6 / MI5 in conflict with CIA / FBI.
 
Both have total controll on thier respective leaders.
 
And Mossad has total control of both groups of agencys.
 
Its israels devide rule and control.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 6 2026 20:22 utc | 67

💢NYT – Ukrainian corruption and fraud devour millions of Western aid Corrupt Ukrainian businessmen and politicians preying on the defense procurement sector continue to be a drain on the financial aid provided to Ukraine by the US and Europe, the New York Times laments.🔹  A weapons plant boss named Leonid Shyman was awarded a $280 million arms deal by the Ukrainian government while being on bail on corruption charges🔹 Audits discovered multiple instances of Ukrainian companies getting contracts without first proving their ability to deliver the required weapons🔹  Around $126 million was lost due to bypassing lower bids when awarding weapon contracts without providing any legal justifications🔹  In 2024 alone, Ukraine lost some $1.2 billion to “fraud, waste and mismanagement”Earlier this year, Ukraine’s anti-corruption watchdog NABU uncovered military-related embezzlement schemes from 2022–2025. Since January 2026, prosecutors have opened 29 defense procurement corruption cases involving 54 suspects, with at least $77 million embezzled or lost.Russia has maintained that Western arms shipments to Ukraine hinder conflict resolution and directly involve NATO countries in the fighting. Russia has also warned that deliveries containing weapons for Ukraine would be considered legitimate targets.
💢 Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Vladimir Zelensky spoke after US-Ukrainian talks in Kiev, one day after Witkoff and Kushner met Vladimir Putin in Moscow:• Witkoff said President Trump sent him and Kushner to restart negotiations, adding that the US delegation felt good about the results of both the Moscow and Kiev discussions.• Kushner said Trump’s objective is not simply to stop the fighting, but to construct a “peace package” capable of producing a durable settlement, with the US also working closely with European partners.• In Moscow, Kushner said they reviewed ideas that had failed previously and discussed with Putin what Russia, Ukraine and the wider world could gain from a settlement. He described the meeting as constructive and substantive.• The US side wants to return to the trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine format used roughly six months ago. Kushner said Washington has discussed this with both sides and hopes for progress “very soon,” including on broader issues and possible de-escalatory steps.• Kushner said “a lot of new ideas” are being put forward. He stressed that there is now a dialogue and a potential pathway forward, although no agreement is guaranteed and progress could come quickly or slowly.• He added that Washington has been doing extensive work “behind the scenes” and is working closely with the E3 partners to create conditions for progress.• Asked whether Washington would increase pressure on Russia if diplomacy fails, Kushner did not commit to specific measures, saying Trump has “a lot of different ways to play it”, while his and Witkoff’s role is to pursue a negotiated peace.• Witkoff said he has now made around eight visits to Moscow and has always been treated respectfully by Putin and his team. He argued that relationships with both sides are essential if the conflict is to be resolved and said the US goal is to narrow the outstanding differences.• Zelensky backed efforts to organize trilateral talks, potentially with European partners also involved, saying Ukraine would see what format Russia is prepared to accept.• Zelensky confirmed that “several genuinely new ideas” were discussed in Kiev. He said Ukraine needs time to analyze them before disclosing details publicly and expects Ukraine, the US and Europe to discuss the proposals further in the coming weeks.• Zelensky described accelerated diplomacy as “Plan A” for reducing escalation. He also argued that Ukraine’s stronger battlefield position gives Kiev greater confidence in future negotiations and said that without military strength, Ukraine would face only ultimatums.• Zelensky said the Donbass question is not simply territorial, but central to what he described as a war of survival and attrition. He called the region a major Russian objective and a strategic Ukrainian stronghold.• On air defense, Zelensky said the US is expected to increase production of Patriot interceptor missiles next year, while Germany has also increased production. He said Ukraine is additionally working toward its own anti-ballistic capability.• Zelensky said 67 Ukrainian companies are working on systems to intercept jet-powered drones, with three to five already demonstrating results and efforts underway to develop mass-production capacity.• He also warned that winter and financing remain serious challenges, citing shortages affecting the military, humanitarian needs and domestic defense production.• On proposed US sanctions against Russia associated with Senator Lindsey Graham, Zelensky said the issue was not raised during the talks. He said he still expects the package to come to a vote and does not believe the renewed negotiating effort is connected to its timing.• In his closing remarks, Witkoff said the US delegation had made “a lot of progress in Moscow” and heard new ideas there. He said Washington is hopeful that a trilateral meeting will be announced “in short order,” while stressing that both Russia and Ukraine will have to make compromises.Subscribe @NewResistance
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Posted by: Jo | Sep 6 2026 20:33 utc | 69

This afternoon’s Military Summary provides a synopsis of the meeting between Russia and the Kosher Cowboys.  The veracity of this report is not verifiable but in short he contends that:
 
–  Putin essentially told them that Ukraine was losing and that the Russians will achieve their goals by February 2027
–  Putin is willing to cease the SMO if the Ukrainians agree to borders that cede control of ethnic Russian areas to Russia (he provides maps showing the ‘border’ lines).
–  In addition to the above the Ukrainians must agree to ‘denazification’ of the country through ‘diplomatic means.’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZzVWEx7Aow

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 6 2026 20:38 utc | 71

Real negotiations to end the war may only begin in 2027, according to former head of British MI6 intelligence John Sawyers.He believes the most realistic scenario is not a peace treaty, but a return to the level of hostilities after 2014—that is, simply a reduction in the intensity of the war.@ukr_leaks_eng
 
🇺🇦🏴‍☠️👉🇷🇺 Kiеv is not ready to give up the Donbas region in exchange for peace with Russia, Zelenskyy stated.He also noted that Ukraine expects to receive missiles for the Patriot air defense system, the production of which the United States plans to increase next year.📍He told the whole world that he was supposedly ready for peace, but in reality, he lied once again.🇺🇸 Witcoff and Kushner will be leaving with not the most pleasant impressions…
 
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko has been missing since Friday.This development comes amid an anti-corruption investigation into the protection of fraudulent call centers in his office.Meanwhile, some journalists are reporting that the Prosecutor General is in a private clinic in Kiev.
The Compliant Derevyanko
Vitaliy Derevyanko, nicknamed “derevyanchik,” [in Rus. – “made of wood”] “tree,” or “carpenter,” is known from Ukrainian media publications as an alleged member of an organized crime group involved in racketeering, debt collection, and business protection. The leader of the organized crime group he belongs to is Aleksandr Poklad. A document I recently published states that “derevyanchik” was a trusted confidant of the current acting head of the SBU during the period when their group was just beginning its criminal career.

Over time, Poklad and Derevyanko maintained a close relationship, although their paths diverged. Poklad rose to the top position in the Security Service of Ukraine, while the fate of Derevyanko remained unknown to the general public. However, published documents from the National Police of Ukraine indicate that Vitaliy Derevyanko remained involved in the criminal world and, as of 2020, held the position of “polozhenets” (see below) in the criminal hierarchy.
A “polozhenets” [underboss, deputy] is a thieves’ slang term for a person appointed by a “thief in law” [crime boss] and authorized to make decisions in their absence and on their behalf.

However, he held this high-ranking criminal position not in his hometown, but in Kiev, where Aleksandr Poklad worked. I’m certain that his “employment” in the Ukrainian capital is no coincidence and is the result of ongoing informal cooperation between them.
I wonder if the “wooden man” will become a thief in law after Poklad’s promotion to acting head of the SBU?
More detailed information about Ukraine’s criminal underworld can be found in a document leaked online as part of a large-scale leak of Ukrainian National Police documents.
@ukr_leaks_eng
 
🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Zelensky did not know that the Minister of Defense was stealing. He did not know that the Minister of Justice was stealing. He did not know that the Minister of Energy was stealing. He did not know that his closest friend and sexual partner had created and headed an organized crime group.He did not know that his friend was a member of this organized crime group along with his friend Mindich and Co. He did not know that the new top officials in the President’s Office were already stealing. He did not know that his appointed Prosecutor General and his colleagues were stealing. Z and V 

Posted by: Jo | Sep 6 2026 20:45 utc | 73

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 6 2026 20:44 utc | 74
 
I’m curious what policies the AfD has that are ‘fascist.’

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 6 2026 20:51 utc | 75

the fascist box
 
Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 6 2026 21:00 utc | 80
 
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AfD might be racist but they aren’t fascist.  And if they are racist it is because they believe wrongly that race is the cause of their impoverishment. 
 
Recognize Identity Politics for what it is and don’t be afraid.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 6 2026 21:05 utc | 77

Like ‘ pandoras box ‘ If you open the fascist box you realese…Pestulence, famine and war. And you cant put it back in the box and close the lid. Dont go there.
Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 6 2026 21:00 utc | 80
 
Are you describing Israel or the AfD?
I take that silly response to mean that you cannot cite a single AfD platform that makes them ‘fascist?’ 

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 6 2026 21:16 utc | 79

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 6 2026 20:44 utc | 74

And we can add just this very day Germany has swung dangerously to the far right / fascism.

As a German, I disagree. That’s the mainstream media & policy line. It has been broadcasted non-stop from all sources, including public TV/radio. They try to tell us AfD 2026 = NSDAP 1933. In fact, they’ve stooped so low: a nice older lady, concentration camp survivor, got to say into a camera she’s worried it’ll happen again. Here’s why I think this propaganda is extremely dangerous:
 
1. When Hitler came to power in 1933, his Mein Kampf was already 10 years old. In the book, he spells out a number of things very clearly: “the Jew question has to be solved”, Germany needs space and that’ll be found in the East (“Drang nach Ost”) because Slavs are inferior to Aryans anyway, and so on. After reading these books, you might not guess the future existence of death camps but you could know about inevitable war against Soviet Union and systematic killing of Slavs through starvation and work. (For Hitler, “bolshevism” and “jew” were often synonymous, both Jews and Slavs are inferior. He doesn’t write “Untermensch” there but instead we get “Volksverderber” und “Reichsfeinde”.)
 
2. AfD is a typical right populist party. There is zero reason to assume that we’ll have concentration camps in Saxony-Anhalt now. This party is similar FPÖ in Austria, Fratelli d’Italia, Rassemblement National in France, PVV in Netherlands, FrP in Norway and so on. If they manage to get to power, life will be much harder for certain immigrants (think blacks and muslims), for jobless people and so on.
 
3. Constantly equating AfD and NSDAP has one consequence for certain: it downplays what happened 1933-1945. I cannot say if that belittlement is always intentional (I’m sure if sometimes is) but it is dangerous in any case.
 
4. I agree that there is a new kind of fascism in the works: corporate government (this goes back to Mussolini’s definition of fascism). More and more supervision, intimidation and other totalitarian measures. A militarised police (this is about riot control!) and more powers to police, secret service, authorities — towards police state. These decisions have not been made by right wing/populist governments! They have been made by “liberal/democratic/center” parties!
 
5. Six years after coming to power, Hitler started the European branch of WW2. Six years after that, many people were dead, including 27 millions from the Soviet Union. The entities closest to getting us to WW3 are EU (Brussels) and the EUropean elites but not the right populist parties.
 
I am not an AfD voter. The AfD party programme is hilariously neoliberal (and sadly, most workers today vote AfD) and they have a strong pro-Thiel/Musk/Milei faction. On the other hand, AfD is currently the only party (together with BSW but that’s much, much smaller) for (a) trade with Russia and (b) against further support for Ukraine. Important AfD people said: “Das ist nicht unser Krieg!” (“This is not our war!”) So it turns out that the “AfD fascists” are currently the most important pro-peace party in Germany. It’s okay to believe that they lie through their teeth but CDU/SPD/Grüne got Germany to where it is now: belligerent, russophobe, in economic decline, lots of discontent.
 
Bottom line: the country didn’t “dangerously swing far right / fascist” in today’s election. It did so in the last 20 (at least!) years.

Posted by: Konami | Sep 6 2026 21:24 utc | 81

Ooh thats all right then.
 
Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 6 2026 21:22 utc | 88
 
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One might think that your constant category errors are purposely made to mislead.
 
There is no such thing as a Fascist that doesn’t wield corporal power.  Fascism implies the power to imprison the opposition.  
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 6 2026 21:29 utc | 83

Posted by: too scents | Sep 6 2026 21:29 utc | 91

One might think that your constant category errors are purposely made to mislead.

Yes. We should give anyone the benefit of the doubt but if the same errors are repeated and used as arguments then we need to conclude it’s intentional.

There is no such thing as a Fascist that doesn’t wield corporal power.  Fascism implies the power to imprison the opposition.

I agree but 50 or so years of postmaterialism have hollowed out basically every political term. Germany has an “Antifa” that’s in part totalitarian and happy to use SA methods (stalking, doxing, violence, smear campaigns). Many self-proclaimed anti-fascists do the government’s evil work but genuinely think they’re preventing the Fourth Reich. Words like “nazi”, “fascist” but also “communist”, “socialist”, “conservative”, “liberal” cannot be used without further explanation.
 
So while I agree with you that any form of fascism has to include (a) corporatism (Mussolini used “statism”), the union of political and economic power and (b) totalitarian methods — this is probably no longer concensus. It’s also why I think that EUrope is on the path to fascism for a while now. Beware the EU police super state!

Posted by: Konami | Sep 6 2026 21:38 utc | 85

How’s Andy Bum’em going Mark2?
Thanks karlof1 for those links  from them I went to the following which is worth posting here –

Comment by Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov following Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
 
September 6, 2026
00:25

Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov: I would like to brief you on today’s meeting.
Colleagues, as you know, at the instruction of the President of the United States, his representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow on September 5 to continue the dialogue on resolving the crisis in Ukraine and to discuss other pressing issues. This was their eighth visit to our country.
President Vladimir Putin received the US representatives. At the very beginning of their conversation, he publicly praised this channel of mediation and the role played by the American negotiators. He also conveyed his best wishes to President Donald Trump and thanked him for his efforts to advance a settlement in Ukraine, as well as for his sincere desire to help achieve a swift and mutually acceptable outcome.
What else can be added to what the President himself has already said? The conversation lasted more than three hours – three hours and ten minutes, to be precise. It was substantive, constructive, exceptionally frank, and conducted in an atmosphere of trust. The discussion, which covered extremely serious matters, continued both during the working portion of the meeting as well as in an informal setting over dinner.
As regards the substance of the discussions, the Russian side provided clear and comprehensive assessments of the situation developing in the course of the special military operation. In particular, the Russian side highlighted the significant advances made by the Russian armed forces in the combat zone, expressed confidence that the set objectives would be achieved, and, obviously, stressed the need to address all the root causes of the conflict.
Our President reaffirmed his commitment to continuing joint work with the American side to seek political and diplomatic solutions. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, for their part, undertook to draw on the observations and assessments conveyed to them personally by the Russian President regarding possible avenues toward a lasting and peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine during their meetings in Kiev tomorrow.
Incidentally, our American colleagues had made considerable preparations for this trip. In addition to reiterating their traditional interest in bringing the hostilities to an early end, they put forward a number of considerations concerning possible ways of reaching a settlement.
It is also worth noting that the Americans took particular note of a point emphasised by our President: namely, that the Kiev regime has already ceased to conceal its true nature, having begun the reburial of some of the most prominent Nazi criminals.
The talks were not confined to an exchange of views on resolving the Ukrainian crisis. Economic issues were also discussed, including the prospects for major Russia-US projects that could be mutually beneficial to both sides.
Overall, it can be said that the talks were timely and highly beneficial to both sides. It was confirmed that the Presidents of our countries will further maintain personal contact, and that the work conducted through Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will also continue.
Thank you for your attention, colleagues.

See also
Meeting with US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
September 5, 2026

Posted by: tucenz | Sep 6 2026 21:50 utc | 87

US isn’t in any position to force their will in EU.
 
Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 6 2026 21:55 utc | 97
 
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The USA’s 15% tariff against the EU, without any EU counter tariff, says otherwise.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 6 2026 21:58 utc | 89

‘The powers that be’ deliberatly created
 
Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 6 2026 21:59 utc | 99
 
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It is more an unforeseen accident caused by the collapse of Empire that powerful fuckwits use every method at their disposal to take advantage of, trying to make the best of a shit situation.
 
The blame lays with the fuckwits and not with the immigrants.
 
Don’t be a fuckwit.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 6 2026 22:06 utc | 91

There’s really no real or cost-effective barrier for a plant or refinery that would stop a missile. But that’s ok, because Ukraine doesn’t have many missiles or capacity to launch them.
 
99% of hits are drones which can be mostly stopped with flexible but small gap metal nets. They are like rolls, you put some fixed poles around the plant, roll the metal net around the poles, gradually going up the pole, nail them into the poles. Then you have some sort of net going on top of the plant to prevent dive attacks.
 
Obviously every target can’t be protected, but industrial targets and refineries can.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 6 2026 22:28 utc | 93

Mark2’s behavior is common in Germany. I believe there are structural reasons for this:

1. The AfD *is* a right wing party. Back in the day, it’d have been a “conservative” party and their program is indeed much about conserving a Germany that no longer exists. All mainstream media will always write “the right extreme party AfD” (exactly like they always put “unprovoked war of aggression”) but it is not clear how extreme AfD truly is. Current AfD positions were perfectly acceptable in pre-Merkel CDU and CSU. This includes the anti-immigration stance: some will remember Jürgen Rüttger’s 2000 slogan “Kinder statt Inder”. (“kids instead of Indians”).
2. No matter how right extreme you think the AfD is, there are definitely more extreme parties in Germany: Die Heimat (formerly NPD) and III. Weg.
3. So many people believe that AfD is right extreme and will set up a fascist dictatorship once they can. Once you’re there, fighting AfD becomes the most important goal whatsoever. In other words, extremely neoliberal governments managed to turn “Nie wieder!” into fighting a political opponent that is frigtheningly close to themselves.

Here are some things that AfD voted for/against in Bundestag or that important AfD people have said:

• voted against higher minimum wage and against higher student support (BAföG)
• voted against the 500 billion Sondervermögen
• voted against higher military expenditure although the party is *for* them (they just don’t want loans for that)
• voted against the 90 billion € Ukraine loan
• voted against the government’s subscription (re-introduction) law (AfD wants mandatory subscription but does not want missions out of Germany, or at least the Chrupalla faction does)
• Alice Weidel: “Hitler was a communist.” (I kid you not. In the 1/2025 talk with Elon Musk.)
• Toni Chrupalla (2023): “Neither Ukraine nor Russia will win this war. The only one winner will be the USA!”
• Toni Chrupalla (1/2026): “We pay further billions for a Ukraine plaged by corruption, in a war that is not our war.”

This party is, as I said before, extremely neoliberal. Same level as FDP or CDU. They want only “good immigrants” and if you’re a jobless, disabled or poor German, your life will get harder after AfD comes to power — but exactly the same is true with all the other parties!
 
There is a noticeable divide between the Western (Weidel) and Eastern (Chrupalla) party wings. Both parts want back cheap Russian energy — you could argue that AfD is currently the strongest proponent of German industrial capital. The Western wing has a transatlantic component (think Meloni post election). As far as I know, the party never came up with a pension programme because the two wings couldn’t agree between neo-liberal (pay it yourself; lower general pensions) and social (higher pensions, probably only for Germans).

Posted by: Konami | Sep 6 2026 22:38 utc | 95

Global bond sell off is taking bond markets by storm. If this continues there will be another GFC 2008. A global financial crisis. Pro-US military allies are the sufferers. Global South is protected or insulated against western greed to a great extent when it comes to bonds.
 
If another GFC correction does not happen it is worse news for the West. Then high interest rates eat into stocks, businesses and governments. Foolishness of central banks is mind boggling. The real root cause is NATO wars in the middle east, Ukraine, the Far East, Israel, etc. but their solution is to raise interest rates. It worsens the problem, slows down the economy and increases government debt even further. Rottenchilds economic model is failing, they know it but are unable to stand up to inertia. High fun!

Posted by: Jason | Sep 6 2026 22:47 utc | 97

Germany for Germans is now bad?
 
Only a woke neo liberal knucklehead would believe that.
 
The election results in Germany tell a far different story than the Merkel chronicle that is for sure !

Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 6 2026 22:56 utc | 99