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September 13, 2026
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Ukraine launches more than 10 attacks on the training center of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/627461-ucrania-lanzar-ataques-central-nuclear-zaporozhie
Posted by: Elber | Sep 13 2026 12:28 utc | 1
Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/ME): Weekly Update, 11th September, 2026: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/ME): Weekly Update
Posted by: The Busker | Sep 13 2026 13:05 utc | 2
1000 Geran drones hit targets in western Ukraine last night. Apparently this was the first test of the Rassvet-3 satellite guided strikes. If it was successful, western Ukraine won’t be spared the fate of eastern Ukraine.
https://x.com/YuriPodolyaka/status/2099080815372116373
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 13:51 utc | 3
RUAF drone struck AFU train in Lutsk railway station. It seems to be exactly the same train EU/Nato ‘leaders’ use to travel to Kiev.
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2099082469735555520
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 14:04 utc | 4
Now there’s claims that Boris Johnson was on the train that was hit by drone.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 14:09 utc | 5
This could be a game changer. Targeting gas stations right on the 404-Polish border. Start backfilling destroyed gas stations right from the border all the way back to Kiev, Uman and Dnipro.
After targeting railway infrastructure and petrol stations in western Ukraine, the next target of Russia’s massive Geran-2 drone attack has been border crossings with Poland.
One of the targets was a petrol station at the Yagodin border crossing in Volyn Oblast, connecting the Ukrainian city of Kovel with the Polish city of Chełm.
Additionally, a Geran-4 jet-drone struck a railway station in an unknown section of the international border.
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2099035958859714780
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 14:11 utc | 6
Posted by: The Busker | Sep 13 2026 13:05 utc | 2
Impressive photographs*, infographics**, and texts***:
* Wafa Youssef Aqila;
**The Economic War;
*** Merz was shocked but this result was no big surprise since 90% of Germans are dissatisfied with his government. Merz has taken a leaf out of George W Bush’s playbook by claiming that Russia hates us for our freedom and democracy. This is embarrassing since Europe’s ‘democracy’ is in tatters and he must know it. Our ‘freedoms’ are a joke, especially here in bonnie Scotland where speech is about as free as a bird in a cage.
Posted by: Elber | Sep 13 2026 14:11 utc | 7
Submitted to a dead thread. I seem to be a day behind the fair quite a lot on ‘b’s” site. But I resubmit here – Daniel Davis is always worth listening to and here he delivers a passionate rejection of current US foreign policy.
I’m having trouble getting the paragraphing right. Hope it works second time round.
………………………
“This ain’t 1990 any more.”
Maybe this link should be submitted to “b’s” current Iran/Yemen section but for me, it reads straight over to the Ukrainian war. Because that was my reaction back in 2022 when it became clear that we in the West were acting as if it were still 1990. Even the ’50’s, so little have we learned since.
The link is to great American – and a military realist – dissecting American foreign policy and American military strategy. An eloquent warning that I suspect will not be heeded:-
“Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran War Latest”
https://youtu.be/frnlI7C0KbQ?t=1323
Video clips within the link including some brief and sobering remarks from Commodore Jermy on modern constraints on American power projection. Set to around 22 mins just before a clip containing remarks from Colonel Wilkerson but for those who have more time to spare, do listen to it from the start. The underlying theme, as I read it, similar to a take from Mercouris some time ago. We in the West are “talking a world that doesn’t exist”. Our politicians and militaries work to a status quo that no longer obtains. Dangerous. Not only is US military power inadequate for modern warfare, in that sending out expeditionary forces cannot be done as it used to be, we have lost any moral justification. Losing the “moral edge”, as is forcefully stated. That of course goes double for the European politicians in their “garden” though, my view, the Euros, now flailing around like rats in a trap as they seek to retain their hold on power, scarcely bother to pretend on questions of morality in any case. I’ve been so disappointed with such as Wagenknecht or Weidel or even such as Krone-Schmalz recently, basing their protests, as they do, more on the inconvenient results of Western foreign policy for us in Europe rather than on its murderous results for others. But Lt.Col. Davis doesn’t bother here with the European bit players. He goes straight for the plain fact that US foreign policy is not just wrong. It’s sabotaging the US itself. “Like sawing off your leg.” One wonders how long it’ll be before the American people realise that’s just what their politicians and power brokers have done to them. And a brief reference to Ukraine. All that’s needed really. “Get out of the Russia/Ukraine war as best we can.” Too late for the sole achievement of Western foreign policy in Ukraine, the million and more dead and countless others maimed but the faster that getting out can be done, the fewer joining them.
Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 13 2026 15:04 utc | 8
Sorry. Will try again.
Submitted to a dead thread. I seem to be a day behind the fair quite a lot on ‘b’s” site. But I resubmit here – Daniel Davis is always worth listening to and here he delivers a passionate rejection of current US foreign policy.
I’m having trouble getting the paragraphing right. Hope it works second time round.
………………………
“This ain’t 1990 any more.”
Maybe this link should be submitted to “b’s” current Iran/Yemen section but for me, it reads straight over to the Ukrainian war. Because that was my reaction back in 2022 when it became clear that we in the West were acting as if it were still 1990. Even the ’50’s, so little have we learned since.
The link is to great American – and a military realist – dissecting American foreign policy and American military strategy. An eloquent warning that I suspect will not be heeded:-
“Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran War Latest”
https://youtu.be/frnlI7C0KbQ?t=1323
Video clips within the link including some brief and sobering remarks from Commodore Jermy on modern constraints on American power projection.
Set to around 22 mins just before a clip containing remarks from Colonel Wilkerson but for those who have more time to spare, do listen to it from the start.
The underlying theme, as I read it, similar to a take from Mercouris some time ago. We in the West are “talking a world that doesn’t exist”. Our politicians and militaries work to a status quo that no longer obtains. Dangerous.
Not only is US military power inadequate for modern warfare, in that sending out expeditionary forces cannot be done as it used to be, we have lost any moral justification. Losing the “moral edge”, as is forcefully stated.
That of course goes double for the European politicians in their “garden” though, my view, the Euros, now flailing around like rats in a trap as they seek to retain their hold on power, scarcely bother to pretend on questions of morality in any case. I’ve been so disappointed with such as Wagenknecht or Weidel or even such as Krone-Schmalz recently, basing their protests, as they do, more on the inconvenient results of Western foreign policy for us in Europe rather than on its murderous results for others.
But Lt.Col. Davis doesn’t bother here with the European bit players. He goes straight for the plain fact that US foreign policy is not just wrong. It’s sabotaging the US itself. “Like sawing off your leg.” One wonders how long it’ll be before the American people realise that’s just what their politicians and power brokers have done to them. And a brief reference to Ukraine. All that’s needed really. “Get out of the Russia/Ukraine war as best we can.”
Too late for the sole achievement of Western foreign policy in Ukraine, the million and more dead and countless others maimed but the faster that getting out can be done, the fewer joining them.
Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 13 2026 15:09 utc | 9
Just to add to Elber’s #1 post
“Kiev strikes emergency fuel convoy to Europe’s biggest nuclear plant”
“Two guards were killed in attacks on diesel tankers supplying the Zaporozhye facility, according to the Russian nuclear corporation”
No doubt the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will give out a weasel statement of non-blame despite warning that diesel reserves have hit critical levels due to been cut off from the main grid for 3 weeks.
It’s hard to know which is worse: a rogue gang of Kiev regime drone operators hoping to trigger Chernobyl 2.0 or a NATO approved strike designed to do the same.
https://www.rt.com/russia/645619-zaporozhye-emergency-fuel-convoy/
Posted by: FakeBelieve | Sep 13 2026 15:51 utc | 10
Bojo
was aboard a private train that was given an evacuation warning after a nearby locomotive was hit by a Russian drone attack.
The former British prime minister was travelling back towards Poland after attending a major security conference in Kyiv when the train stopped at around 5am amid a drone alert.
Mr Johnson is understood to have escaped unharmed, with an all-clear given shortly afterwards when no further drones were detected.
Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, who was also on board, said passengers on the train received an evacuation warning.
But it is not clear if anyone had to leave the train before it then escaped across the border to Nato territory in Poland.
He revealed that it was the train immediately behind them that was hit by the Russian drone.
‘This wasn’t our train [that was hit], but the one just minutes after us by the [Polish] border crossing,’ said Mr Bildt.
‘It was evacuated as the [Russian] drone approached and no one was hurt.’
The incident came after another train travelling on the Kyiv-Warsaw route was struck by a Russian drone near the Polish border.
UK Daily Mail
Says “other dignitaries ” but only mentions B,J and Swedish guy. Who else? All travelling together is a bit of a target.
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 15:55 utc | 11
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 15:55 utc | 11
One of these days…
The pitcher went to the well once to often.
Posted by: Paco | Sep 13 2026 16:24 utc | 12
Says “other dignitaries ” but only mentions B,J and Swedish guy. Who else? All travelling together is a bit of a target.
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 15:55 utc | 11
Some German clown was on board too, advisor to the chancellor Merz.
Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 13 2026 16:33 utc | 13
According to Sasha Kots:
A private chartered train was also scheduled to pass by at that time. Around five in the morning, it stopped, and the conductors went to wake Günter Sautter, advisor to Friedrich Merz on foreign policy and security, members of the Bundestag, diplomats, and Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
They were returning from a conference called “Peace through Strength – Now.” It was held in the underground halls of the Kyiv Intercontinental, where the reception areas also serve as shelters.
Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 13 2026 16:40 utc | 14
Ahah…one of the other Dignitaries is Jonathan Powell he of deeply entrenched mystery mover re Syria over decades against Assad and rehabilitating the al nusrah terrorist to President…and actually of much more power and connections than the buffoon…
“Europe must prepare for a hard winter if it is going to keep up the economic pressure on Russia over its illegal invasion of Ukraine, the UK national security adviser has warned.
In a bleak forecast, Jonathan Powell said the continent’s people must continue to ‘swallow’ the impact of sanctions on Moscow, adding that now was not the time for its leaders to take their ‘foot off the gas’.
His rare public comments – made to an audience of Ukrainian leaders and international backers in Kyiv – came as Russia steps up attacks on Ukraine infrastructure and frontline cities.
Meanwhile as Europe prepares for its fifth winter since setting out to reduce its
dependence on Russian oil and gas, experts have warned that Britain could face a winter of discontent as fears grow of a ‘triple whammy’ of rises to energy bills, interest rates and taxes….
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 16:44 utc | 15
Glad to see Russia is finally increasing “the price.”
Russia surely cannot be accused of over-reacting or being hot-headed.
Posted by: spudski | Sep 13 2026 16:49 utc | 16
Spetsnaz 007
US President, Trump warns Zelensky against targeting oil refineries in Russia.
“Zelensky can hit other targets, but not diesel fuel. He’s causing a shortage, this isn’t done by the Middle East, this is done by what’s happening between Russia and Ukraine.”
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 13 2026 17:07 utc | 17
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 15:55 utc | 11
Gee, it’s getting continuously more dangerous to travel to Kyyiiv to collect kickbacks from freshly minted stacks of ECB/FED cash.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 17:09 utc | 18
🇺🇦🏴☠️ According to Ukrainian military sources, 🇷🇺 Russia is preparing for new strikes on border crossing points on the western border of Ukraine.Zelensky stated that over 2100 “Geran” drones have been launched at Ukraine this week, with the majority being Jet drones.
Z and v
🇺🇸🏴☠️🇺🇦 Zelensky needs to do only one thing: he needs to stop striking at oil facilities in 🇷🇺 Russia,” Trump accused Zelensky of causing rising diesel fuel prices.He’s creating a diesel fuel shortage.
And this isn’t happening because of the Middle East. It’s happening because of what’s going on between Russia and Ukraine.
Z and v
File and forget Hormuz?
Quid pro quo
🇺🇦🏴☠️🇬🇷 Ukraine is demanding that Greece hand over Patriot missiles without any conditions, according to MP Gorbеnko.Specifically, in a video published by the publication “Strana,” he stated that Greece has demanded that Ukraine refrain from attacking Greek tankers entering Russian ports.
Z and v
Another attendee
🇺🇸🏴☠️🇺🇦 Former U.S. Secretary of the Army Driscoll has arrived in Kiеv, according to CBS News. He spoke at a conference organized by the so-called Yalta European Strategy.
Meanwhile
🇺🇦🏴☠️👉🇷🇺 Ukraine will definitely return all its 1991 borders, – the head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk.
🇩🇪🇺🇦The co-chair of the “Alternative for Germany” party, Alice Weidel, has called for the expulsion of Ukrainians from the country and for Kiev to be demanded to repay the money previously provided as support.
According to her, it is “unfathomable” that the German authorities continue to fund over a million Ukrainians through the budget, who are receiving basic social assistance.
@Slavyangrad
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 17:15 utc | 19
Ukraine targets more Russian oil facilities
The two Russian civilians died after a drone slammed into a tree near their parked car in the city of Nizhnekamsk, according to the office of regional head Rustam Minnikhanov.
Nizhnekamsk houses a key cluster of oil refineries and petrochemical, rubber and polymer plants, including some of Russia’s largest facilities of their kind. Mayor Radmir Belyaev said that a fire had broken out at an unspecified “enterprise.”
Ukraine also claimed on Sunday to have hit a major oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, in Russia’s Krasnodar region, across from Crimea. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) agency said its drones struck a key oil processing unit and the refinery’s tank farm overnight.
Krasnodar authorities said the strike on “an enterprise” in Slavyansk-on-Kuban injured three people, damaged an oil pipeline and started a blaze. They did not directly respond to the Ukrainian claims.
Russian forces shot down 389 Ukrainian drones during the night, Russia’s defense ministry said Sunday.
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 13 2026 17:20 utc | 20
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 13 2026 17:20 utc | 20
Refineries can be protected by putting very tall poles around them that you can wrap thin and flexible metal wire net around. That protects them from a drone slamming from the side.
The bigger issue is how you protect above them. That would need some sort of structure of poles above the refinery which also support a metal net that prevent drones from diving on them.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 17:26 utc | 21
Three hundred people: current and former prime ministers, national security advisers from Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, American senators, David Petraeus, Radek Sikorski. Everyone except the Ukrainians left Kyiv the same way—by overnight train to the border. There was no other option: the skies were closed.
Lord of war
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 17:34 utc | 22
Have I posted before re David Miller substack exposure published at The Column re the secret HMG Russia Group, staffed by all UK Intel agencies under FCDO?
Responsible for covert activities etc..
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 17:37 utc | 23
Refineries can be protected by putting very tall poles around them that you can wrap thin and flexible metal wire net around. That protects them from a drone slamming from the side. The bigger issue is how you protect above them. That would need some sort of structure of poles above the refinery which also support a metal net that prevent drones from diving on them.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 17:26 utc | 21
Or poles/towers with anti-drone guns on them. They poles/towers would need special cameras and perhaps sound equipment too to spot the drones.
Posted by: MiniMo | Sep 13 2026 18:25 utc | 24
Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 13 2026 16:40 utc | 14
Thanks for the additional information re: BoJo!
Posted by: Helen Weals | Sep 13 2026 18:35 utc | 25
Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 13 2026 16:40 utc | 14
Thanks for the additional information re: BoJo!
Posted by: Helen Weals | Sep 13 2026 18:35 utc | 26
The bigger issue is how you protect above them.
Posted by: MiniMo | Sep 13 2026 18:25 utc | 24
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When I lived in Oregon our chicken yard was fenced from above with chicken wire supported on a lattice framework to keep the birds of prey from taking the chickens. The same structure scales up to spiral weave fencing or concrete rebar mesh supported by scaffolding.
Posted by: too scents | Sep 13 2026 18:36 utc | 27
Update by The Guardian
Train carrying Boris Johnson and ex-CIA chief may have been targeted in Russian strike, officials say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/13/russian-drone-hits-kyiv-warsaw-passenger-train-polish-border
Posted by: Helen Weals | Sep 13 2026 18:41 utc | 28
Guardian
“A train carrying Boris Johnson and the former CIA chief David Petraeus may have been the target of a Russian drone strike that hit a train engine near the Poland-Ukraine border, according to Ukrainian Railways.”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 13 2026 18:46 utc | 29
Jo | Sep 13 2026 17:34 utc | 22
*** Three hundred people: current and former prime ministers, national security advisers from Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, American senators, David Petraeus, Radek Sikorski. Everyone except the Ukrainians left Kyiv the same way—by overnight train to the border. There was no other option: the skies were closed.Lord of war ***
Nothing a few thermobaric warheads couldn’t improve.
Senior Western figures at Ukraine station before Russia train strike, rail operator says
Former UK PM Boris Johnson and ex-CIA director David Petraeus were at Yagodyn station just before Russia attacked a Kyiv to Warsaw train
Per South China Morning Post.
Intetesting publication source.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 13 2026 18:58 utc | 31
Jo 22 – Why are these NATO and EU glamour trains even allowed to operate between the Polish border and Kieve?
Allowing a fascists like Boris and the Ukronazi Advisor Patreas to visit Kieve as they wish is beyond the pale! Make them walk!
Every single rail locomotive and locomotive repair yard needs to be toasted (rail lines are relatively easy to repair – see the German rail system in WWII).
Now that all the Black Sea ports are closed and or mined, its time to take down the NATO/EU rail system in the Nazi state. too.
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 13 2026 19:04 utc | 32
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 13 2026 19:04 utc | 32
Mainstream news organizations are not picking up the glamor train story at all. It was a surprise to western intelligence. They are scrambling for a counter narrative.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 13 2026 19:13 utc | 33
*** Railway officials instructed the “grimly focused” passengers to hide in bushes by a lake, said the economist, calling the Ukrainian response “timely and disciplined”. They “gave us good warning of the evacuation and had a plan, which everyone followed”. ***
Guardian
Hide in the bushes is a good plan?!!!!
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 13 2026 19:20 utc | 34
Mainstream news organizations are not picking up the glamor train story at all. It was a surprise to western intelligence. They are scrambling for a counter narrative.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 13 2026 19:13 utc | 33
That’s because Russia wasn’t ever hitting trains running between Lwow and Kiev, until now. Thanks to the new Rassvets-3 satellite system.
That would be an actual gamechanger, now they can hit moving targets all the way to the Polish border. Locomotives obviously but hitting trucks on highways is the more interesting optionality.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 19:32 utc | 35
Hide in the bushes is a good plan?!!!!
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 13 2026 19:20 utc | 34
Perhaps it is the latest NATO military doctrine, given that they’ve run out of any other ideas…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 13 2026 19:42 utc | 36
Another source:
Russian drones struck a gas station and a locomotive of a Kyiv–Warsaw train near Ukraine’s border with Poland, Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) reported. The train was about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Polish border.
Ukrzaliznytsia later confirmed a diplomatic train was present at the site shortly before the Russian drone arrived.
“Shortly before the locomotive was hit on the border between Ukraine and Poland at the Yagodin station, a diplomatic train was present, carrying, among others, security advisors from several EU member states, as well as former European leaders, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson,” Ukrzaliznytsia wrote.
“Another train, which was at the Yagodin station at the time of the attack, carried former CIA Director David Petraeus.”
*** Locomotives obviously but hitting trucks on highways is the more interesting optionality.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 19:32 utc | 35
The lady quoted in the Guardian story identified the sound of a Shahed. Russia needs to rename its drones to the “Wildberry” weapons system.
The RF counter narrative is we “struck railway infrastructure used to transport military cargo”. How much more effective it would be if the RF narrative were “Wildberries strikes targeted trains carrying military military equipment.” The listener is reminded every time who struck Amazon (Which every girl loves) first.
Good narrative is funny and needs to be repeated often. It allows the proponent of a counter narritive (who hides in the bushes) to be laughed at. It needs to be about diminishing status.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 13 2026 20:06 utc | 38
Now there’s claims that Boris Johnson was on the train that was hit by drone.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 13 2026 14:09 utc | 5
Bozo the clown had been to a Azov reunion.
Posted by: Englishman | Sep 13 2026 20:44 utc | 39
https://x.com/MoloWarMonitor/status/2099128045374226564
MoloMonitor 🇮🇹 @MoloWarMonitor
It has just been confirmed that European officials were on board the train when a Russian Shahed drone struck near the Polish-Ukrainian border.
According to various sources, those present included a close advisor to Chancellor Merz, national security advisors from European countries, members of the German Bundestag, diplomats, academics, and former British PM Boris Johnson, they were all leaving Ukraine and heading towards Poland.
Russia’s objective was likely not to hit the train itself, but to send a message to Europe, a message that appears to have been received, given that Polish PM Tusk has called an emergency meeting for 5:00 PM with Poland’s defense, interior, and intelligence chiefs.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 13 2026 20:51 utc | 40
But were they able to take the white powder or did they guards pinch it. Like witkoffs cufflinks
Posted by: Watcher | Sep 13 2026 21:12 utc | 41
Very interesting talk between Col. Daniel Davis and Michael von der Schulenburg, MEP and diplomat of many years experience here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZxrpvjQ6k
Von der Schulenburg is another person I have heard lately expressing the opinion that Ukraine is a failed state. All in all, a forceful and forthright presentation.
Time is much better spent watching this than the latest fantastical wibble from Helmer.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 13 2026 21:42 utc | 42
I would guess that Russia just missed that train on purpose.
Posted by: arby | Sep 13 2026 22:02 utc | 43
Alexander Mercouris said that the drone waited until those dignitaries got off the train before they hit it. Same effect. Visitors are now going to be reluctant to go there.
Posted by: arby | Sep 13 2026 22:10 utc | 44
WTF is BoJo doing in Ukraine anyway? Here’s the British tabloid press on the case.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16998431/
Look at that dipshit cosplaying in a tank. Wish the drone strike had been a few minutes earlier.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 13 2026 22:14 utc | 45
WTF is BoJo doing in Ukraine anyway?
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 13 2026 22:14 utc | 45
Collecting his “earnings”?
Quite why he has such a personally vested interest there has never entered the public domain, but such busyness on his part is curious, to say the least, as he has never been someone noted for altruistic activities.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 13 2026 22:25 utc | 46
Trump To Zelensky: ‘Don’t Hit Diesel Fuel Because That’s Hurting’ (& vid)
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/20991621942194206232683
“President Donald Trump called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries after diesel prices in the US surpassed $6 per gallon.
Trump spoke Sunday at the Irish Open in Doonbeg, hours after Ukrainian drones struck two Russian refineries with a combined processing capacity of roughly 400,000 barrels per day…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 13 2026 22:34 utc | 47
47 corrected:
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2099162194206232683
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 13 2026 22:40 utc | 48
*** According to various sources, those present included a close advisor to Chancellor Merz, national security advisors from European countries, members of the German Bundestag, diplomats, academics, and former British PM Boris Johnson, they were all leaving Ukraine and heading towards Poland.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 13 2026 20:51 utc | 40
Other sources confirm all were seen a short distance from the train hiding in the bushes …
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 13 2026 23:28 utc | 49
Russia’s objective was likely not to hit the train itself, but to send a message to Europe, a message that appears to have been received, given that Polish PM Tusk has called an emergency meeting for 5:00 PM with Poland’s defense, interior, and intelligence chiefs.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 13 2026 20:51 utc | 40
Subtle messages like that are good for people who understand subtleties. Russia should have blown up the train with the eurotards inside (and their cocaine stash) so that they could get the message.
Getting some messages through could prevent sleepwalking into WW3.
Sadly, many reasonable people don’t understand that some thick people only understand things after you hit the “enter” key hard on their face.
Posted by: Asian Frog | Sep 14 2026 0:07 utc | 50
frithguild | Sep 13 2026 23:28 utc | 49
*** Other sources confirm all were seen a short distance from the train hiding in the bushes … ***
Well, that’s all these coke-heads would claim they were up to.
Pity.
Hitting Bozo in a tank was a God given opportunity wasted.
Hitting the train beforehand would have been a very strong message.
Hitting the train with the eurotards in it would have ended the war, dead in the tracks, so to speak.
Sigh!
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 14 2026 1:14 utc | 52
*** Sigh!
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 14 2026 1:14 utc | 52
- They need to be laughed at, an indignity not suffered by martyrs (even if they are the heads of a cult).
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 14 2026 2:48 utc | 53
Remember a few months back Russia issued a verbal warning to Western (diplomats ?) in Ukraine – something to the effect it was not safe for them This train attack was a follow up to that warning Next time Russia may hit the train carrying them
Posted by: Ahmed | Sep 14 2026 5:34 utc | 54
European politicians are so loved that i am sure everyone is in shock Bojo escaped lol
RuSArmy is very careful not to kill known quantities just in case someone competent may appear.
Posted by: 667 | Sep 14 2026 6:54 utc | 55
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 14 2026 1:14 utc | 52
It’s long past due date to whack those eurotards. Look, not one tax peasant in EU cares. If Polish PM, Finn prez, German chancellor get wasted in Kiev, no one would care.
Leaving them alive creates at least as big if not bigger media spectacle out of the event. Killing them has no more other negative effects for Russia. What is Nato going to do? Try to assassinate more officers inside Russia? Do more terror attacks? Oh wait… nevermind.
It’s only after the event they start creating a media spectacle out of it, out of themselves, they have to make themselves important and this event important through the media. Hence Tusk’s ’emergency meetings’ etc. To make it look important, and trying to get more escalation. Next time just waste them, because no one cares in EU. Nato will just replace the real clowns with green screen holograms.
In fact if they were killed the media would most likely just shut up and burry the event, like they did for Lindsey Graham, because Nato is an empty suite with no power to do anything it isn’t already doing.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 14 2026 7:17 utc | 56
The question remains the same:
Why wait more than four years into the war?
Why not strike the station instead of giving the rats time to hide in the bushes, waiting for a new train?
Why hit a locomotive two kilometers away—rather than ten—when there are others at the station ready to replace it?
Questions, always questions—and always without an answer.
Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 14 2026 7:31 utc | 57
Dialogue Works
Stanislav Krapivnik: Poland’s Sikorski to NATO:Drill Kaliningrad to Pull Putin’s Troops From Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl3hArSDCfM
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 14 2026 7:45 utc | 58
@58
Around 15 minutes there’s a picture summarizing Ukraine very well. Two chabads with black hats are standing right next to and watching as a Ukrainian man gets mobilized laying on the ground.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 14 2026 7:59 utc | 59
If you speak German or are willing to translate, here’s another link to Thomas Röper’s Anti-Spiegel. He explains very well that the current power struggle in Ukraine is really the struggle for control over Ukraine, and how it works. It’s the same mechanism EU tries in Moldovia and Armenia and that has (so far) failed in Georgia.
https://anti-spiegel.ru/2026/der-katschka-kos-plan-oder-wie-die-eu-die-totale-kontrolle-ueber-die-ukraine-uebernehmen-will/
Posted by: Konami | Sep 14 2026 9:20 utc | 60
Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 14 2026 7:31 utc | 57
Questions, always questions—and always without an answer.
Lotsa questions that would make a lot of sense if good old Cagliostupido wouldn’t pose them as *rhethorical* questions. With a bit of thought and some pertinent facts one could even –gaps!– come up with answers. Perhaps next time, stupid count!
Posted by: Konami | Sep 14 2026 9:23 utc | 61
Hitting the train with the eurotards in it would have ended the war, dead in the tracks, so to speak. Sigh!
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 14 2026 1:14 utc | 52
When has cabinet level politicians ever stopped a war let alone retired politicians and technocrats?
If anything it becomes a rallying point for the war and makes it politically more difficult to walk away from a war.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Sep 14 2026 9:56 utc | 62
Posted by: HB_Norica | Sep 14 2026 9:56 utc | 62
Theoretically it could become a rallying point, but practically Ukraine war and the constant bombarding of propaganda for years in MSM have left the ‘official narrative’ of the war in a hyper-inflation zone. Literally no one cares any more. If (BlackRock installed) heads of state get killed in a train, people in the west would just shrug their shoulders and continue on.
So that wouldn’t be used as excuse/reason to rally anything/anyone in the west, but they could attempt do some other false flag, similar on WTC scale as a rallying point and blame Russia. However, whether or not the puppet heads of state get killed is irrelevant, if they want to do it they will do it regardless.
Otherwise you’re right, these puppets are merely extremely irritating in their narcissism and brain dead obedience in repeating the same official lies, but they don’t have impact on anything that’s happening. The only possibility is if a bunch of them get whacked, the rest of them would shut up. But maybe the likelihood of that happening is low.
On the other hand oligarchs and puppets simply ignore reality until it’s their OWN health, life, or wealth on the line. That is just human nature. The real target would be city of London oligarchs and banks.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 14 2026 10:10 utc | 63
michaelj72 @40: “Russia’s objective was likely not to hit the train itself, but to send a message to Europe…”
This. A strike close enough to loosen their bowels but not close enough to actually be a danger to them. Maybe trying some more evocative messaging as a last ditch effort to avoid having to strike directly at NATO itself? I’ve become a bit of a pessimist in my dotage though and doubt it will work.
Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 14 2026 10:16 utc | 64
Cagliostro@57
They did not have the means to do that earlier (bare a full scale mobilization and a truly full scale invasion).
Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Sep 14 2026 10:20 utc | 65
@63
Also to add, MSM no longer has any power/influence on western population behavior. If you shut off the tv, radio and internet of official MSM/state sources, you notice your quality of life improves dramatically. More and more people are doing it. Shut the state/MSM and its attempt to influence your thinking out of your life and head.
Beyond that it’s only when they go to Ukraine style bussification starts making your quality of life worse. Because that is no more propaganda, but physical violence against your life. That might be coming in EU/UK, maybe USA as a response to MSM losing control over the population, distrust being ultra-high. That needs some very drastic action like WTC, perhaps a nuclear attack somewhere in the west. Something shocking enough enabling them to implement martial laws.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 14 2026 10:20 utc | 66
😮 Ooooh, a glamor train!
😀 What makes it so glamorous? Is it because it’s covered in all the dust: gold dust, nose dust, saw dust, pixie dust and plain old dust?
🙂 Did I miss a dust?
Posted by: titmouse | Sep 14 2026 11:41 utc | 67
😮 Ooooh, a glamor train!
😀 What makes it so glamorous? Is it because it’s covered in all the dust: gold dust, nose dust, saw dust, pixie dust and plain old dust?
🙂 Did I miss a dust?
Posted by: titmouse | Sep 14 2026 11:42 utc | 68
🙁 I pecked enter too hard in my excitement for the glamor train. Sorry for the double post.
Posted by: titmouse | Sep 14 2026 11:46 utc | 69
Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 14 2026 7:31 utc | 57
….
You are not Russian, that’s the answer to your question.
Hitting the train would kill lots of innocent people. Hitting the locomotive stops the rail traffic!
NATO/American aircraft were taking of from Aviano base, Italy, when they were flying to bomb Belgrade back in 1999! Did you protest?
Why would you, it’s good to kill Christians, especially Slavic people. How many fucking players from Africa is in your national football team? That is your fucking problem. Not Russia!
Posted by: Preki | Sep 14 2026 12:28 utc | 70
@ frithguild, §38:
Yes, our greatest power against propaganda is humour and ridicule.
The globalists are terrified of it.
Posted by: John Marks | Sep 14 2026 12:35 utc | 71
Preki | Sep 14 2026 12:28 utc | 70
NATO aircraft and drones have been flying from Italy to both Iran and the Black Sea very recently.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 14 2026 12:46 utc | 72
Yes, our greatest power against propaganda is humour and ridicule. ***
Posted by: John Marks | Sep 14 2026 12:35 utc | 71
There is only 1 question I want to hear a Journalist ask Bojo, Patraeus or anyone else who was on the Glamor Train – “When the drone hit, were you hiding in the bushes?”
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 14 2026 12:50 utc | 73
🇩🇪🇺🇦The co-chair of the “Alternative for Germany” party, Alice Weidel, has called for the expulsion of Ukrainians from the country and for Kiev to be demanded to repay the money previously provided as support.According to her, it is “unfathomable” that the German authorities continue to fund over a million Ukrainians through the budget, who are receiving basic social assistance.@Slavyangrad
Posted by: Jo | Sep 13 2026 17:15 utc | 19
The Slavyangrad community seems to take that so well (#177155), as with the readership of RIA Novosti (https://ria.ru/20260913/adg-2117421709.html). Meanwhile readers on English RT and at least one Twitter thread (https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/2099182424827519273) are not convinced and believe Weidel is sending the Ukrainian refugees (fake or real) to the meat grinder.
What does one camp know that the other doesn’t? Anyone? Whatever it takes for me to get sone sleep tonight…?
Thanks…
Posted by: joey_n | Sep 14 2026 12:56 utc | 74
Every single rail locomotive and locomotive repair yard needs to be toasted (rail lines are relatively easy to repair – see the German rail system in WWII).
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 13 2026 19:04 utc | 32
Russia already has a well documented policy of hitting locomotives, for no reason beyond that they are moving. They are doing very targetted railway disruption, but make no mistake, they will bring all Ukrainian rail to a stop. They have been working on this for a few months … don’t quote me on exact dates.
For the most part they don’t blast the passengers, nor do I believe that Russia has specific info about which international bigwigs are on which train. This about jamming all shipments. Big trucks get hit, gas stations, some bridges and near the front line pretty much any vehicle of any size gets hit.
Posted by: Tel | Sep 14 2026 13:12 utc | 75
michaelj72 @40: “Russia’s objective was likely not to hit the train itself, but to send a message to Europe…”
This. A strike close enough to loosen their bowels but not close enough to actually be a danger to them. Maybe trying some more evocative messaging as a last ditch effort to avoid having to strike directly at NATO itself? I’ve become a bit of a pessimist in my dotage though and doubt it will work.
Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 14 2026 10:16 utc | 64
Current trajectories are that Russia and Iran and North Korea and China are either maintaining or increasing their power from day to day. The US and Europe and Israel their vassals are losing power and strength daily. For Russia and Iran, North Korea and China are acting as backups for anything that Russia and Iran find themselves short on.
Internationally, nations are inching away from the US – and towards the Chinese and Russian monetary do-not-use-US-dollars economic systems. The Russian recent Shock and Awe air attacks on Ukraine, even deep into Western Ukraine, have served as Russia’s message to its people, and to the world.
The problem with taking out German leaders? The people replacing them are not going to be improvements. The current European leaders have a proven record of being corrupt and incompetent. And REALLY out of touch. The perfect kind of opponent.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 14 2026 13:26 utc | 76
Unimperator..since couple months ago trials of such were completed and manufacturing of such netting, have seen it installed via various photos.So must be a work in progress. Big work.
Posted by: Jo | Sep 14 2026 15:47 utc | 78
Ireland has over 800k socalled Ukronazi war refugees, most sponging off the neo liberal Irish government dole and complaining about the free food and housing or robbing and assaulting tourists in the Temple Bar sector of Dublin………
Like the AfD, the draft age males need to sent packing asap, back to Kieve to fight for their fellow neo nazi travelers.
What do you think the possibility of the Martin-Harris actually accomplishing that task is anyway?
Since Martin is the Temporary Chairman of the EU….not likely.
Remember the current government squashed any populist election revolt by disqualifying all populist/conservative candidates in the race for the Presidency…………typical EU shananagans!
My cousins in Louth want them out tomorrow!
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 14 2026 16:08 utc | 79
Summary of Military Summary Channel
Putin successfully diplomatically and firmly rejected US demands that Russia freeze the lines of contact and allow “Ukraine” to control important Blackrock holdings in the Donetsk oblast (Donbas? I’ll have to double check Ukrainian, oops I’ll have to double check WEST RUSSIAN geography).
The recent money that Europe or US spent to send over 100k US and European drones into Eastern Ukraine <I mean West Russia>, Crimea, and other parts of Russia, has been spent. The recent counter offensives have been repelled, and the money spent to buy this counter offensive now shows up as US or European debt.
Back to our regularly scheduled programming of steady Russian advances on multiple fronts as each front is mostly independent of the other fronts.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 14 2026 16:21 utc | 80
*** My cousins in Louth want them out tomorrow!
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 14 2026 16:08 utc | 79
They will be there forever- especially the synthetic ones that will vote in the upcoming diaspora victim overseas votes that will count in Kiev.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 14 2026 16:35 utc | 81
*** the money spent to buy this counter offensive now shows up as US or European debt. ***
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 14 2026 16:21 utc | 80
Russian weapons systems feature a design philosophy of simple, inexpensive, easy to repair and easy to operate. If a soldier falls a 14 year old girl should be able to step in. Think the AK-47 design philosophy across multiple systems. For US/NATO weapons systems procurement not based upon what a Marine grunt wants, but upon cost multipliers like politics. eg Patriots cost $3.9 million to $4 million per missile with export and variant prices up to $7 million. I remember a Russian missile strike in Kiev that cause the launch of 28 Patriots probably with a bunch of something cheap and obsolete. $1B spent vs the cost to take out the trash. Now spread that design philosophy across all US/NATO systems.
So Russia is positioned well to engage in a financial war of attrition.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 14 2026 16:58 utc | 82
The Russian recent Shock and Awe air attacks on Ukraine, even deep into Western Ukraine, have served as Russia’s message to its people, and to the world.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 14 2026 13:26 utc | 76
Russians don’t do “shock and awe”. It’s an American concept that the enemy should be so shocked and in awe of the USA’s awesomeness that they give up in futility.
What the Russians are doing with their strikes is systematically working to meet their military objective of demilitarization.
The Ukrainians use factories to make weapons, warehoused to store weapons and trains and trucks to move weapons. These are what’s currently being targeted. Locomotives, shipping warehouses, ports, border crossings, truck parking lots, gas stations and electrical generation and transmission infrastructure.
What’s missing from a US “shock and awe” campaign is attacks on water pumping and sewage treatment plants and civilian government offices which are targets only meant to demoralize and cause hardship on the civilian population. The idea is to make it seem futile to fight the US military and that the longer they wait to capitulate the more civilians die so they may as well give up.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Sep 14 2026 17:21 utc | 83
tobias cole | Sep 14 2026 16:08 utc | 79
Tobias Cole, you may find this Guardian piece entertaining. Or not.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/05/sinn-fein-traitors-how-far-right-rhetoric-derailed-party-path-to-power-in-ireland
For Siobhán Fenton, the dream of Sinn Féin winning power and leading a progressive leftwing government evaporated the day she was canvassing in Dublin and felt a cold, sharp sting on her neck.
She was in the passageway of a block of flats in the inner city, knocking on doors, and looked around for the source. Fenton, a media adviser to the party leader, Mary Lou McDonald, felt another sting on her shoulder, then another on her forearm.
They were coins, thrown from a balcony above, where a man’s voice was shouting. “Sinn Féin traitors!” he roared. “Mary Lou Mohammad! Ireland is full!”
It was May 2024, and instead of steaming towards victory in local and European elections – widely deemed a foregone conclusion, to be followed by a historic triumph in a general election – the party was experiencing a backlash fuelled by anti-immigrant sentiment in what was usually a bastion of working-class support.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 14 2026 17:36 utc | 85
Former Chief of the Polish General Staff Mieczysław Cieniuch has warned that Russia could begin striking Ukraine’s western border to cut off Western arms shipments.
“The supply corridor from Poland and Romania is now in the sights of the Russian army. This should complicate the delivery of weapons from allies. Winter is approaching, so cutting off supply routes will matter a great deal. We must prepare for escalation,” he said on TVP Info.
Russia has already started striking areas near Ukraine’s western border crossings, and reports suggest the strikes will only intensify.
@DDGeopolitics
“Russia has already started striking areas near Ukraine’s western border crossings”
I remember thinking from the start that Russia should go after the bridges and roads at Ukraine’s borders with Poland. Russia could have save the lives of 100,000 of its soldiers if it had concentrated on that.
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 14 2026 17:41 utc | 86
Ireland has over 800k socalled Ukronazi war refugees,
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 14 2026 16:08 utc | 79
121k
rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0708/1582411-international-protection-applications/
With the protected status expiring all over Eu, they will have a big problem very soon. Go die for Slava Cocaini or what? Ursula wants them fighting in Ukr, not peacefully living in Eu or Ukr or anywhere else. Should be fun to watch, like the game Lemmings
Posted by: rk | Sep 14 2026 17:48 utc | 87
MiniMo 86 – agreed, those rail and highway bridges should have been dropped a long time ago.
I believe they were not dropped because their was so fanciful opinion that a diplomatic settlement was going to be reached……LOL
Well, that is not the case anymore, NATO is waging all out war against Russia and NATO ‘advisors’ are being wiped out at a steady rate, (UK just acknowledged another KIA from a ‘road accident’).
Knocking out railroad locomotives is good first step, but the destruction of the rail and super highway bridges should be priority number one (and issue a general warning for all railroad workers to stay home and out of danger for the duration, no crews no rail movement), especially near the Polish border! No more glamour trains to Kieve!
This is all out war, now act upon that premise……..
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 14 2026 17:53 utc | 88
Russians don’t do “shock and awe”. It’s an American concept that the enemy should be so shocked and in awe of the USA’s awesomeness that they give up in futility.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Sep 14 2026 17:21 utc | 83
Indeed “shock and awe” is all the US military forces know how to do, and when it inevitably fails they are stymied, ending up faced with a righteously cheesed-off target civilian population organising themselves into militias and guerilla groupings.
I’m struggling to think of any instance of “shock and awe” inflicted by the US that has actually worked out.
It doesn’t work, and that is why the Russians aren’t doing it in Ukraine, “shock and awe” doesn’t leave any room for military escalation or parallel diplomatic moves towards any negotiated de-escalation.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 14 2026 17:55 utc | 89
A second British soldier has been killed on operations in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) confirmed this afternoon.
Officials said the as yet unnamed individual died following a ‘road traffic incident’. They declined to specify the location of the crash.
No details of the unit to which the deceased belonged have emerged so far. Previously the MOD has acknowledged the presence of a small number of selected UK personnel in Ukraine.
Their roles include providing security for British diplomats working there supporting the country’s armed forces.
In December last year a paratrooper, Lance Corporal George Hooley, was killed in Ukraine in mysterious circumstances.
Officials merely confirmed that LCpl Hooley, 28, was ‘testing a new defensive capability away from the front lines’.
This afternoon the MOD said: ‘It is with deep regret that we must announce that a member of the UK Armed Forces died in a road traffic incident in Ukraine on Saturday 12th September.
‘The family have been informed and have requested a period of grace before further details are released. Our thoughts and our sympathies are with the individual’s loved ones at this difficult time.’
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 14 2026 17:56 utc | 90
YetAnotherAnon 85 – Yup, my cousins who generally vote SF are disgusted at their failure to oppose EU mass immigration mandates that the Martin-Harris government have slavishly implemented, along with making sure that populist candidates do not appear on any ballot line. Its really now a neo liberal police state, where your social media posts are more likely land you gaol than holding up the gas station or committing rape (a favorite Ukronazi pasttime).
Enock Burke, for a prime example, has been imprisoned for months by the fascist High Court for objecting to the teaching of trans gender ideology in a Christian school, no less.
All part of Martin-Harris Orwellian clown show………….highest utility rates in the EU, ten dollar plus per gallon diesel fuel, ten dollar per gallon gasoline, mass illegal immigration, high green carbon taxes, attacks on agriculture, no defense forces to speak of, DEI run amok, and generally incompetent leadership – yup the mark of the M-H administration.
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 14 2026 18:06 utc | 91
I don’t know why people are so obsessed with blowing up bridges, is it because it makes for spectacular Telegram videos?
I’ll make an uneducated guess that the next escalatory rung in the ladder of Russia’s current campaign against the Ukrainian rail network will be targetting the signalling/dispatch control centres.
For all those griping about “I’d have done that years ago”, please consider that Russia is also running a cost-effective campaign; it is not committing all its production facilities to the SMO, because that will be more economically damaging than any of the myriad of Western snactions.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 14 2026 18:08 utc | 92
Rats, “snactions” should of course be sanctions, but then again “snactions” probably sums them up; silly, no-meaning, actions…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 14 2026 18:10 utc | 93
⚡️Trump just announced an energy truce between Moscow and Kyiv.
He said Ukraine agreed not to strike Russian energy facilities, and Russia made a similar commitment.
Follow MAX
@voenkorKotenok
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 14 2026 18:11 utc | 94
89 – Caracus, Grenada, Panama…………Haiti……..all minor acts on the world stage………
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 14 2026 18:12 utc | 95
Officials said the as yet unnamed individual died following a ‘road traffic incident’.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 14 2026 17:56 utc | 90
Wonder if the Geranium had fully-comprehensive insurance???
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 14 2026 18:15 utc | 96
Caracus, Grenada, Panama…………Haiti
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 14 2026 18:12 utc | 95
I dunno…
What were the military goals and the political objectives and did “shock and awe” achieve them? Was “mission accomplished” reached? Or are there still ongoing loose ends…?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 14 2026 18:29 utc | 97
He said Ukraine agreed not to strike Russian energy facilities, and Russia made a similar commitment.
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 14 2026 18:11 utc | 94
If Trump said it, then it must be true.
Here is what Zelensky said:
“If partners are prepared to secure a genuine commitment from Russia not to strike our power grid, other energy facilities, critical infrastructure, or food supply routes, then we are, of course, prepared to ensure a corresponding absence of strikes on our part. We await concrete proposals from our partners.”
In other words, another theatre play by the political entertainment industry. Are you not entertained? Trump blaming Zelensky for the diesel prices all the while orchestrating the attacks on oil infrastructure in Iran and Russia is just too funny. Almost as funny as Putin dragging around Witkoff & Kushner for show around the Kremlin while giving them nothing, but the village idiots not just from Italy still eat it up.
Posted by: pinche | Sep 14 2026 18:34 utc | 98
Posted by: HB_Norica | Sep 14 2026 17:21 utc | 83
When I first read it I agreed 100%.
After second thought, if anything this understates the difference between US targeting and Russian targeting. US officials have openly and proudly talked about the drone attacks on Russia as a way to bring the war to the Russian people.
This is the exact definition of terrorism. Blowing up stuff to demoralize civilian populations is the exact core of what terrorism is. US Shock and Awe IS terrorism. The US and European drone campaign Russia IS terrorism. Not terribly effective, and the US does target military targets as well.
Russia and Iran are not doing anything even close to that. I’ll refrain from calling Russia air attacks on targets in Ukraine as Shock and Awe in the future. I’ll call US drone attacks on Russia as Shock and Awe.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 14 2026 18:40 utc | 99
Russian weapons systems feature a design philosophy of simple, inexpensive, easy to repair and easy to operate. If a soldier falls a 14 year old girl should be able to step in. Think the AK-47 design philosophy across multiple systems. For US/NATO weapons systems procurement not based upon what a Marine grunt wants, but upon cost multipliers like politics. eg Patriots cost $3.9 million to $4 million per missile with export and variant prices up to $7 million. I remember a Russian missile strike in Kiev that cause the launch of 28 Patriots probably with a bunch of something cheap and obsolete. $1B spent vs the cost to take out the trash. Now spread that design philosophy across all US/NATO systems.
So Russia is positioned well to engage in a financial war of attrition.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 14 2026 16:58 utc | 82
North Korean and Chinese support on these issues certainly helps. India with its purchases of Russian oil, and selling refined oil back to Russia to help Russia in emergency situations, is also helping out. These economic realities have been crucial for the survival and success of both Russia and Iran.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 14 2026 18:47 utc | 100