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September 27, 2026
Ukraine Open Thread 2026-212

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This mornings apparent attempt to bomb a US military base in the UK may be an example of Putin ‘s Pandoras Box.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 12:44 utc | 1

may be an example of Putin ‘s Pandoras Box.
 
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 12:44 utc | 1
 
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Or it could be Novichok redux.  
 
The reporting is completely opaque.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2026 12:53 utc | 2

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2026 12:53 utc | 2
 
Or, it could be Iranian/Palestinian sympathizers for that matter.   Like the U.S., the UK is accumulating enemies.

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 27 2026 12:59 utc | 3

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2026 12:53 utc | 2
 
Aah, novichok – the world’s worst, least lethal chemical weapon.
Salisbury became the petri dish for the first lockdown as well as a massive psyop.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 27 2026 13:00 utc | 4

Back to Ukraine…

 

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky “has already lost” the conflict with Russia, but persists in his “suicidal” policies, as Kiev has no idea how to cover its budget deficit without another massive cash infusion from the West, Zelensky’s former spokeswoman, Yulia Mendel, has said.
 
In a post on X on Saturday, Mendel said Ukraine needs $52.6 billion in international financing for next year’s budget, of which only around $20 billion has so far been confirmed or is expected under current programs.
 
Ukraine also faces a separate problem – an unexpected $27 billion defense shortfall for 2026 that Kiev disclosed in late August, after Zelensky embarked on a 40-day PR campaign to pressure Russia.

 

Mendel served as Zelensky’s press secretary from 2019 to 2021, but has since become an outspoken critic, accusing her former boss of turning Ukraine into a “milder version” of Nazi Germany. This month, the Ukrainian leader placed sanctions on Mendel, including an asset freeze.

 
https://www.rt.com/russia/646318-zelensky-lost-war-ukraine-suicidal/

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 27 2026 13:02 utc | 5

Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/Me): Weekly Update, 25th September, 2026: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/ME)

Posted by: The Busker | Sep 27 2026 13:38 utc | 6

The United Nations General Assembly – New York – The Speakers

Posted by: The Busker | Sep 27 2026 13:40 utc | 7

Yup I’m sitting on my hands . Hilarious if true. His inglisk teachers aren’t doing very well with the cock fiend. 

 
 

@SprinterPress
5h

UN GAFE During his speech, Zelenskyy carelessly asked the audience, “If we don’t stop Putin’s misdeeds, if Ukraine disappears, please raise your hand if you are against that.” The room remained silent.

Sep 27, 2026 · 8:37 AM UTC

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 27 2026 13:49 utc | 8

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 BREAKING!! Ukrainian channel Kyiv INFO reports that Kiev’s Pivdennyi (Southern) Bridge has been hit and is collapsing.

 

Smoke can be seen rising from the area around the bridge near Slavutych metro station following the strike.

 

The Pivdennyi Bridge is one of Kiev’s major crossings over the Dnepr, carrying both road traffic and the green metro line between the left and right banks.

 

If the reported structural collapse is confirmed, this would represent a major disruption to Kiev’s cross-river transportation network.
 

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/194108

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 27 2026 14:19 utc | 9

The opacity around the apparent sabotage of the us airbase in the uk is probably down to the UK deep state deciding whether or not they want to escalate or not with Russia. 
With that in mind we may never truly know if Russia was behind it or not. 
certainly an attempt to say it wasn’t the Russians needs to be taken with a pinch of salt – and vice versa 

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 14:28 utc | 10

Night Tripper @1244:  Are the Collective Wa$te and the R.U. playing games at a heightened level?  Consider the centralized autocracy in Brussels.  They are NOT at all representative of the peoples of the various hidebound nations whose regimes are not themselves independent, but take orders…or is it ordures…from the Zillionaire financier cabal, headquartered in City of London…and their continental bankster affiliates.
 
The U$$A, the new Evil Empire, is not at all representative of the American people.  Congressman Thomas Massie,soon to be a deplatformed Representative, is the last honest one standing.  The Curious Crew can rightly be described as anti-democratic and anti-Republic wholly owned subsidiary of the filthiest rich and sons of riches. They are 99.5  %bought and paid for by the self-elected elite.
 
So, similar to the nations allegedly making up the EU, the U$$A iare under near total control by highest finance, centered on three poles; the “clearing house” for all major banks, located in Basel, Switzerland; the Rottenfeller dominated “Federal” Reserve Bank in NYC and its massively dominated subsidiary known as Wall $treet…and the Big ONE, the center of world finance, insurance, media and metals systems, all crowded into the “Square Mile” , wholly independent from the British Government, rather owning that entire establishment through City of London.
 
Blood Money:  Shortly following “The War to End all Wars” and after the terrorist regime under blackmailed president Thomas Woodrow Wilson was finally replaced by the “back to normal” administrations of Harding and Coolidge…international popular opinion was to SHUT DOWN the entire War Defense Industry on an international basis.
 
 But the schemers always have some trick bags in their arsenal.  Banksters, mostly American and British, “subliminally” financed Stalin’s industrial base, while at the same time, secretly financing Hitler.  The aim was simple:  War between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany would be to the interest of the bankster regimes…long term.  Their diktat is that no independent sovereignty should be allowed to exist within their total world control dream….or is that more plangently described as “Nightmare”?
 
So the controlled E.U. nations, headlined by Germany and France; along with the bedraggled old British Lion, are doing their damnable best to maintain the farce in Ukraine by providing long-range arms to use against Russia…while the U$$A is providing the intel and satellite snoopery to the totally corrupt regime in Kiev.
 
Something or someone has gotta give…or is it merely a game being played by all the majors, inclusive  of the R.U.?
 
 The War-defense industries, now including India, and Japan, are being beefed up right across the board.  Why?  In some large part it just happens to be that that bloody game is the most PROFITABLE “industry” for the financier elite.  Consider this:  Years ago, my researches led to the fact that the largest and most profitable War Defense racket (as per Smidley Butler) originally in his “War is a Racket” ca. 1937 book…is currently Lockheed-Martin…with their greasy hands controlling subsidiary entities in the majority of key Congressional Districts.  Who are their primary $hareholders?  London Bankers, of course.
 
Were the Russians serious about lopping off the head of the racket, the obvious target for non-nuclear advanced missiles would be City of London.  MI-6, in addition to certain entities in the U$$A will not “like” me for this intrusion into their little monopoly rackets. However as the MoA is a highly limited and closely “observed” outlet for “non-compliant individuals”…my statement is but a pinprick to their hegemonist policies.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Sep 27 2026 15:55 utc | 11

With that in mind we may never truly know if Russia was behind it or not. 
certainly an attempt to say it wasn’t the Russians needs to be taken with a pinch of salt – and vice versa 
 
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 14:28 utc | 10
Who in their right mind, knowing the Epsteinian elite and knowing the sagatious Putin, would ever believe Russia was behind some stunt like this?  
It is, if anything, a false flag to further some Zio Imperialist agenda. 
If you don’t know them by now….

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 27 2026 16:24 utc | 12

Posted by: Aristodemos | Sep 27 2026 15:55 utc | 11
 
too many drones and missiles now being produced – and launched – causing increased death and destruction in Russia and Ukraine to consider it all to be only part of some elaborate ‘ruse’ to line the pockets of some globalist gang.
 
I believe at some levels the globalist neo Liberal oligarchy are trying to make money but at another the amount of presently localized death and destruction suggests it’s taken on a life of its own. 
 
perhaps we will now see what happens when they lose control of the monster they have created?
 
Unfortunately millions may die as a result.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 16:30 utc | 13

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 27 2026 16:24 utc | 12
 
false flag or not if the Euros want war then as Lavrov says, they will get it 

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 16:32 utc | 14

false flag or not if the Euros want war then as Lavrov says, they will get it 
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 16:32 utc | 14
 
 
 
And it will NOT be a war like the one in Ukraine….
 
It will be a very short war that Western Europe is about to experience.

Posted by: genesiss | Sep 27 2026 16:47 utc | 15

Salisbury became the petri dish for the first lockdown as well as a massive psyop.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 27 2026 13:00 utc | 4
 
Maybe in the UK, but the US had the entire city of Boston locked down in 2013, after the Marathon bombing, which included forcing everyone to stay in their homes until the police came to search them, trains and buses stopped,  all businesses closed….it was quite draconian.
 
And then when the siege was lifted, thousands of Bostonians appeared on the streets to cheer on the authorities, all waving identical little American flags.
Hmmm.  I no more believe that the people of Boston all decided to invest in tiny American flags before the lockdown than I believe the people of Georgia did.
That was a major psy op.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Sep 27 2026 16:57 utc | 16

Night Tripper@1555:Yes, the margins are very thin, as part of the scheming is to “mow the grass” on a more profound level, as per your apprehensions of possible mega-deaths.
 
As for the Oligarchs wanting to make more money.  They know they do not need more, as they control most of the world’s money and resources.  What they crave is part of an age-old development in which certain bloodlines will maintain their current level of power over others.  The three little words they most fear:  “out of control”.  There is a spreading awakening at many different and diverse levels.
 
 The process is both spiritual and cosmic.  The ancient Vedic sky-watchers described millennia ago as the cosmic time cycles and a “twirling” of the ages.  Time itself is accelerating at a quantum level.  Many are dimly aware of the phenomenon…currently that occurs primarily on intuitive connexions which many do not yet comprehend.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Sep 27 2026 16:59 utc | 17

The EU knows, what they’re fighting for. Putins first crime on the german people was the call of russian hookers back into useful professions. Since 2005 blonde hookers where baltics and ulkruinians. Meanwhile all hookers and tabledancers in the whole EU are ulkruinian. No chance for bulgarian and romanian gypsies anymore.
Now the EU is convincing its inhabitants to fight for an empty whorehouse. 
That happens, if the whole leading class is structered by eunuchs.

Posted by: OberstHecht | Sep 27 2026 17:33 utc | 18

Posted by: wagelaborer | Sep 27 2026 16:57 utc | 16
 
Yes. And in February 2022, somehow suddenly hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian flags appeared all over the West…

Posted by: Cherrycoke | Sep 27 2026 17:36 utc | 19

Meanwhile scare monger…Putin has
resurrected a sinister Cold War nuclear system designed to ensure Russia can unleash a retaliatory strike even if a devastating attack wipes out its leadership.
Hidden beneath a remote mountain in the Ural wilderness in central Russia, a vast underground command centre has been massively expanded in what appears to be a revival of the Soviet Union’s notorious ‘Dead Hand’ nuclear strategy.
The bunker, known as Facility 1335, lies near the tiny village of Kytlym, where soldiers now guard a heavily fortified military complex – hundreds of miles from any city and surrounded by impassable terrain.
The site is part of Russia’s ‘Perimeter’ system – known in the West as Dead Hand – which was designed to preserve the country’s ability to retaliate against an enemy even after a catastrophic attack had severed communications with its leadership.
After such an attack, Facility 1335 would transmit radio signals to mobile missile launchers and any other surviving launch silos to retaliate in full force. 
Satellite images, construction documents and photographs posted online by Russian soldiers reveal the extraordinary scale of the project.
And experts say the renewed investment suggests the Kremlin is once again placing enormous importance on ensuring its nuclear command infrastructure can survive a major attack. Facility 1335 itself is designed to withstand American bunker-busting bombs.
Several of our usual quality investigators on various channels are positing re NATO EU UK v Russia, how can they trigger off ….whatever…and remilitiarising, conscription etc by various and nefarious means …what is the level of shakiness at the moment.

Posted by: Jo | Sep 27 2026 18:10 utc | 21

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 27 2026 16:24 utc | 12
 
false flag or not if the Euros want war then as Lavrov says, they will get it 
 
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 16:32 utc | 14
Right, but you’re supporting the Zio Imperialist friendly line (not a false flag) as possible with so much evidence to the contrary.  Cui bono, eh?  
Think more carefully or be a useful idiot of Zio Imperialism.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 27 2026 18:11 utc | 22

Aristodemos | Sep 27 2026 16:59 utc | 17
*** Time itself is accelerating at a quantum level.  Many are dimly aware of the phenomenon…currently that occurs primarily on intuitive connexions which many do not yet comprehend.***
 
In recent years have noticed a lot of ordinary people — unprompted — mention time having seemed to speed up.
Years ago, as far as I can recall, nobody said that.

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 27 2026 18:17 utc | 23

Years ago, as far as I can recall, nobody said that.
Posted by: Cynic | Sep 27 2026 18:17 utc | 23
 
Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you thinkEnjoy yourself while you’re still in the pinkThe years go by as quickly as a winkEnjoy yourself, enjoy yourselfIt’s later than you think
 
Doris Day tune. 1958

Posted by: arby | Sep 27 2026 18:38 utc | 24

@23 Time speeding up? 
Time does not move so it can not accelerate. A celebration, after all is distance over time squared, what could be the dimension of an accelerating time.
 
What you noticing is the slowing down of your brain function as you age.

Posted by: Paul Cockshott | Sep 27 2026 18:44 utc | 25

@23 Time speeding up? 
Time does not move so it can not accelerate. A celebration, after all is distance over time squared, what could be the dimension of an accelerating time.
 
What you noticing is the slowing down of your brain function as you age.

Posted by: Paul Cockshott | Sep 27 2026 18:54 utc | 26

Paul Cockshott | Sep 27 2026 18:44 utc | 25
*** What you noticing is the slowing down of your brain function as you age.***
 
Where me thinking it is concerned, that’s certainly a reasonable explanation — but the various people who have mentioned noticing it [time seeming to speed up] span a wide range of ages, from teen to pensioner.
 

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 27 2026 19:12 utc | 27

Yes. And in February 2022, somehow suddenly hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian flags appeared all over the West…
 
Posted by: Cherrycoke | Sep 27 2026 17:36 utc | 19
 
And on every website with a forum or community.  Many I know who have rules against “politics” in their forums, were bannering the Ukrainian flag and linking to donation sites, as if it were a natural catastrophe.
 
They don’t dare do this with Palestine, of course.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 27 2026 19:21 utc | 28

I think there is a simple rule covering Novichok, the Leipzig Drone or now the UK /US base. If the Russians do it it makes boom. Everything else is a psyop nonsense. 

Posted by: El Lissitzky | Sep 27 2026 19:23 utc | 29

Time does not move so it can not accelerate. A celebration, after all is distance over time squared, what could be the dimension of an accelerating time. What you noticing is the slowing down of your brain function as you age.
Posted by: Paul Cockshott | Sep 27 2026 18:54 utc | 26
 
Doubtful, brains dont really “slow” as they age, since the synapses are short cuts being made for faster and more organized data recollection.  Only during dimentia which starts about 50, 
 
Reference of time, makes time seem faster.   A two year old thinks next Chistmas is an eternity away, but a forty year old is always surprised how fast they come.
 
Also, amount of time spent online, makes time fly.  

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 27 2026 19:25 utc | 30

brains dont really “slow” as they age
 
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They kinda do.  As information density increases the hashes reference the information become more difficult and time consuming.
 
It works the same for any machine.
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2026 19:33 utc | 31

Years ago, as far as I can recall, nobody said that.
Posted by: Cynic | Sep 27 2026 18:17 utc | 23
 
Could be because once upon a time, things took forever to happen.
 
Travelling got faster. Long distance communication happens in an instance. Food is immediately available, at all hours.
 
Explains why many are unable to wrap their minds around the concept of Patience.
 
The Art of Strategic Patience: Sun Tzu’s Principles in the Fall of Guan Yu – Ancient War History
 

Posted by: Suresh | Sep 27 2026 19:49 utc | 32

It works the same for any machine.  
Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2026 19:33 utc | 31
 
You assume CPU.
 
There is no CPU.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 27 2026 20:01 utc | 33

Wow, that’s a quickly derailed thread…which means nothing must be going on, so…
 
Back to sportsball everybody! Nothing to see here!!
 
Shame 🙁

Posted by: Kuromi | Sep 27 2026 20:11 utc | 34

You assume CPU.
 
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 27 2026 20:01 utc | 33
 
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Where did I say CPU?
 
I was referencing the increasing complexity of hashing large datasets.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2026 20:25 utc | 35

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2026 20:25 utc | 35
 
no more derail after this for me,  but who is looking up and writing the tables?
 
CPU.
 
 
Brains are not based on CPU architecture.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 27 2026 20:31 utc | 36

Yes. And in February 2022, somehow suddenly hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian flags appeared all over the West…
Posted by: Cherrycoke | Sep 27 2026 17:36 utc | 19
Many still hang around my part of Earth, although rather bleached and tired for the wear.  Blood and soil, etc.

Posted by: lex talionis | Sep 27 2026 20:37 utc | 37

Wow, that’s a quickly derailed thread…which means nothing must be going on, so…

Posted by: Kuromi | Sep 27 2026 20:11 utc | 34
 
Yes, sometime there is a concerted effort, still, never mind, at least we haven’t yet reached  the stage of Ukrainian dispute resolution mechanisms:

In Lviv region, a serviceman on leave detonated a grenade: four injured

In Sheptytskyi, Lviv region, police detained a 36-year-old man who detonated a grenade during a conflict with passersby. Four people were injured in the explosion
 

This was reported by the regional police, RegioNews reports .
 
The incident occurred on September 26 on Taras Shevchenko Avenue. An investigative and operational team, explosives technicians, and officers from other police services arrived at the scene.
 
Three women aged 17, 18 and 56, as well as a 26-year-old man, were injured by shrapnel. All of them are local residents. The injured were hospitalized, and doctors provided them with the necessary assistance. There is no threat to their lives.
 
Law enforcement officers determined that the grenade was detonated during the conflict by a 36-year-old resident of Sheptytskyi district, a military serviceman who was on leave. Police located him and detained him.
 
Following the incident, investigators opened criminal proceedings under Part 4 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – hooliganism. The sanction of the article provides for three to seven years of imprisonment.

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/lvovshchina/1790503892-na-lvivshchini-viyskovosluzhbovets-u-vidpusttsi-pidirvav-granatu-chetvero-postrazhdalih (via translation add-on.)
 
Not the first time a grenade has been used in civil dispute situations in Ukraine; and this was by a serviceman on leave, reportedly.
 
Another symptom of social disintegration.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 27 2026 20:39 utc | 38

Boom Boom💥 💥 
 
 
Kiev Aviv!

 
 

@SprinterPress
57m

**🔥 Kyiv reportedly faces near-continuous Geran drone attacks** “Geran-4/5” kamikaze drones reportedly targeted sites across **Kyiv almost continuously today**, according to emerging reports. The repeated attacks suggest a sustained wave rather than a brief strike, although the **full extent of the damage, targets and any casualties remains unclear**. Further details are expected as authorities assess the aftermath. **When the drones keep coming, the night—or day—never really gets quiet.**

 

 

 

Sep 27, 2026 · 7:55 PM UTC

 
No more Nice Goy ‘VVP’  
 
 
Should please some here?
 
 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 27 2026 20:57 utc | 39

The bs ‘attack’ on the us base in the U.K. is an obvious media spin doctor ploy. 
 
The news cycle needed resetting after Xi and UN failure to control the Narrative. The fairytale supposed attack by ‘long watched gang’ announced FIRST by US media and Drumpff talking about it is the clue. 
 
Obviously they didn’t have a gunfight and kill some of them is another clue. We are in Britain after all and ha ha having live bullets outside of a US base would be too much for our public to accept. 
 
Save real bombs and dead ‘terrorists’ for a real emergency eh? 
 
Job done obviously. Narratives shifted. Including on Alt media sites. And with the usual flying blue monkey troll socks. Ahem. 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 27 2026 21:11 utc | 40

Posted by: arby | Sep 27 2026 18:38 utc | 24
 
Covered by the late, great Todd Snider.

Posted by: Cherrycoke | Sep 27 2026 21:12 utc | 41

Many still hang around my part of Earth, although rather bleached and tired for the wear.

Posted by: lex talionis | Sep 27 2026 20:37 utc | 37
 
Heaven forbid that someone suggest this sums up the very nation of Ukraine…
 
Perhaps time for a quick anecdotal survey among barflies: when was the last time you saw a crisp, fresh, pristine Ukrainian flag in your area ?
 
For myself, around here in my little corner of the West Country, getting on for 4 years ago now. In the nearest big city, in areas with more diverse population demographics, the Palestinian flags far, far outnumber the Ukrainian flags.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 27 2026 21:27 utc | 42

Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić, resigned.
 
He is expected to run for prime-minister in the October snap elections he called earlier this year.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 27 2026 21:38 utc | 43

Maybe in the UK, but the US had the entire city of Boston locked down in 2013, after the Marathon bombing, which included forcing everyone to stay in their homes until the police came to search them, trains and buses stopped,  all businesses closed….it was quite.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Sep 27 2026 16:57 utc |
To claim that “the entire city of Boston was locked down” is not accurate.
It was limited to certain districts and not even mandatory, but a strongly worded advisory/request, and not a legally enforced lockdown. Public transit was suspended, many schools and businesses closed, and Watertown saw the heaviest police restrictions, roadblocks, and door-to-door searches. But police weren’t arresting people just for being outside. Lockdown Schmockdown
 

Posted by: nwwoods | Sep 27 2026 21:59 utc | 44

To claim that “the entire city of Boston was locked down” is not accurate.It was limited to certain districts and not even mandatory, but a strongly worded advisory/request, and not a legally enforced lockdown. Public transit was suspended, many schools and businesses closed, and Watertown saw the heaviest police restrictions, roadblocks, and door-to-door searches. But police weren’t arresting people just for being outside. Lockdown Schmockdown
 

I remember footage of an armored car going down a street, with police marching in front of it, with a bullhorn telling people to get back inside if they were on the porch gawking.  Perhaps that was different, but I seem to remember that being post… stay strong boston thing 

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 27 2026 22:15 utc | 45

Wonder why Lavrov agreed to meet with these German loser currywurst’s like Wadephul. 
 
Clearly the German government is afraid of its own power so they need some energy deal (even if on paper, something they can present to exist even when it does not) to the public.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 27 2026 22:28 utc | 46

#14 Night Tripper…I do not think it was Rusia…probably proxy(as warning) ….we would see- fire in the sky…..as of result “professional job” done…

Posted by: sejmon | Sep 27 2026 22:46 utc | 47

Time is the enemy.
Kiev mobile data centers have been burning the whole day today so has a “attack drones” warehouse in Odessa.

Posted by: pepe | Sep 27 2026 22:51 utc | 48

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 27 2026 22:28 utc | 46

Wonder why Lavrov agreed to meet with these German loser currywurst’s like Wadephul. 

He’s a professional. His job is to talk to other politicians, particularly to foreign ministers of other countries. So he did his job. Afterwards he minced no words about the futility of that meeting.

Clearly the German government is afraid of its own power so they need some energy deal (even if on paper, something they can present to exist even when it does not) to the public.

Maria Sakhavora said that the purpose of the meeting was to polish Merz’ image. As she’s Lavrov’s official speaker, we can assume that’s also his opinion.
 
There is no substance here, it’s all for show. EU / Germany has nothing to offer, and would (have to) prevent peace even if it was an option. Lavrov certainly knew this and did his jon anyway. It’s a bit like Xi going to Trump. Mostly pointless and still better than not doing it. Russia’s winning in Ukraine and everybody who wants to can know it.

Posted by: Konami | Sep 27 2026 23:37 utc | 49

A rare blogpost from The Islander, referenced in the NC article from the OT thread:
 
“GERANIUM APOCALYPSE” — COURTESY OF THE CIA
 
They want to drag us to war. Free the Fairford Five!

Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 27 2026 23:39 utc | 50

false flag or not if the Euros want war then as Lavrov says, they will get it 
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 16:32 utc | 14

 
The Europeans don’t want war, and by “Europeans” I include the Russians, as Russia is 40% of Europe up to the Urals.
 
The problem is the top 1% who want war as they benefit from it. Wipe out the top 1% and Earth is Eden.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Sep 28 2026 0:27 utc | 51

Wonder why Lavrov agreed to meet with these German loser currywurst’s like Wadephul.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 27 2026 22:28 utc | 46

 
Russians have big stick and soft voice. Eurotards have small stick and chihuahua voice.
 
Russians know that Germans decide nothing, as Germany is a US dominion with rotten banks like Deutsche Bank staying afloat (with German payment systems and economy) as long as the US agrees so.
 
So, Russians talk to Germans because they are polite.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Sep 28 2026 1:14 utc | 52

Jeremy R.L.@2127:  Ukraine a nation?  Not quite hardly.  It is a state.  No doubt about that.  A nation generally has a long history as a singular people.  Ukraine is a Frankenstein Monster, created by the Bolsheviks, when the yfinally defeated the Whites in ca. 1921.  That political move was the very beginning of Ukraine as a state.
 
As Stalin gradually removed most of the Bolsheviks, who were primarily of the Khazarian/Talmudist background and steeped in Lenin’s embodiment of Marxist theory.  When Stalin took over, that son of Caucasian Georgia gradually transmuted into a Russian nationalist.  He made a mistake in 1945 when he incorporated polyglot nationals in Galicia and Volhynia into Ukraine SSR.  Nine years later, with Stalin permanently horizontal, Nikita Khrushchev welded Crimea into that metastasizing monster. At the postwar settlements by Stalin, retroprojecting a bit, portions of what is now Slovakia (primarily Ruthenia); a large Hungarian population also got swallowed up by the Moster and so did a chunk of Romania.  None of these disparate people chose to become citizens of the political construct.
 
Once again, a nation is a generally homogeneous people.  The U$$A currently is drifting in different directions as the homogenization process has split into a multicultural mosaic in which tradition matters little and cohesive holds are losing their grip as a significant proportion of the population no longer trusts their alienated government.  Some contend that this land will break up due to political and cultural differences…However, Ukraine, as re-created by the Maidan coup has just about shot it’s wads literally millions of its people have left the country…along with combat deaths mounting by thousands of dead soldiers on a week by week basis.
 
The state of Israel, a westernizing intrusion into the world of Islam, is also losing cohesion internally while attempting to steal more lands from the native population, the majority of whom are the actual descendants of the ancient Hebrews.  Many commentators are speculating the demise of that exclusivist attempt at nation building.
 
We do,in fact, live in interesting times. 

Posted by: Aristodemos | Sep 28 2026 3:09 utc | 53

“GERANIUM APOCALYPSE” — COURTESY OF THE CIA
 
Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 27 2026 23:39 utc | 50
 
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I read “Germanium Apocalypse” and thought “Yeah, the USA can’t make more radars”.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 28 2026 3:53 utc | 54

Posted by: Asian Frog | Sep 28 2026 0:27 utc | 51 …Wipe out the top 1% and Earth is Eden….
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I am not sure its multipolarity, but the resistance is growing to the the gravey train the Top 1% enjoy..
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<=I think the nation state war thing (one nation against another nation) is just one sement of the Top 1% against another segment of the Top 1%; meaning as long as the top 1% is allowed to exist: war, famine, cooruption, sanction, and unjust treatment will continue.
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during this tug of war between 1%ers there is likely a window of opportunity for the bottom up to take charge?
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   Maybe a  global bottom up  inititive to dethrown the Top 1%ers could be successful?  The entire nation state system is nothing more than a work prison in service to the Top 1%ers. Many people have figured that out.  
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Posted by: snake | Sep 28 2026 3:57 utc | 55

@ snake | Sep 28 2026 3:57 utc | 55 about the path forward against the 1%…thx
 
A bit off topic but I want to remind folks that the revolution is currently being fought and won by China/Russia/Iran axis and it is up to us underlings to prepare and grasp the opportunity when that defeat occurs to make a more equitable world in our region/nation.
 
 

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 28 2026 4:18 utc | 56

I like you Aristodemos, what you say, but you’re dead wrong to suggest Israel is an intrusion into ISlam.
In fact, Islam is the intrusion. Judaism is far older than dull Islam, and far more deeply rooted, in the middle east (from Yemen to Surya) than it appears you know. 

Posted by: jimmy | Sep 28 2026 6:39 utc | 57

UK
The Chancellor is set for a £60billion Budget shock as rising borrowing costs push up the cost of servicing the ballooning national debt.
As John Healey prepares to outline his tax and spending plans, economists warned debt interest payments will be £8billion to £15billion a year higher than previously expected.
Yup,keep throwing so far about 40 billion at Ukraine…….plus3.5 b every year…that we know about…
 

Posted by: Jo | Sep 28 2026 9:12 utc | 58

Russian Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik on the Ukrainian starving of “Ukrainian” (according to Ukraine) population of Aleshki (source in Russian):

Sybiha used the UN General Assembly podium to spread cynical lies about the situation in Aleshki
 
The statement made by Kiev’s Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, at the UN General Assembly regarding the situation in Aleshki is an example of extreme cynicism and a willingness to stoop to any level—even employing the most horrific lies—to serve his own ends. For over a year, Ukrainian militants have sought to impose an artificial blockade on the civilian population of Aleshki, a town in the Kherson Oblast. The town is separated from Ukrainian positions by the Dnieper River, a distance of roughly three kilometers. For more than two years, Ukrainian militants have subjected the town to continuous aerial bombardment, artillery shelling, and the remote laying of landmines.
 
On May 1, 2025, they launched a veritable “fascist raid” on the Aleshki town market. Over the course of four hours, more than 30 Ukrainian drones attacked the civilians present at the market. Any attempt by a civilian to leave cover resulted in a strike by a Ukrainian drone. Seven people were killed on the spot, and more than 20 were wounded. It was essentially a point-blank execution of defenseless civilians.
 
When the EU generously allocated funds to Kiev for the purchase of strike drones, the Ukrainians focused on establishing a remote drone blockade of the two main roads connecting Aleshki to the rest of the region. Reconnaissance drones hover constantly, ready to immediately strike any civilian vehicle moving into or out of the town. Ukrainian militants have attacked some fifteen ambulances alone on these routes. The town faces daily attacks on its hospital, the remote mining of all approaches, strikes on homes and public transport, and the methodical destruction of the town’s power and water supplies. This is the reality that “Sybiha’s friends” have created for the civilians of Aleshki.
 
For months, Ukrainian militants have sought to block the delivery of food, medicines, and essential supplies to the city. About 20 days ago, they bombed yet another humanitarian convoy organized by volunteers who were attempting to bring in food and evacuate the wounded and those wishing to leave—but the Nazis prevented them from doing so. And yet, Sybiha takes the podium at the UN General Assembly and declares that “Moscow is the sole cause of this catastrophe [in Aleshki]”! This is a monstrous lie for which Sybiha has not yet been held accountable—but for which he absolutely must be.

Posted by: S | Sep 28 2026 9:30 utc | 59

ChatNPC | Sep 27 2026 23:39 utc | 50
 
Scary … the UA option used for purpose … uniform blue print Made in London – USA
 
Container launched drones behind enemy lines

Posted by: Oui | Sep 28 2026 9:36 utc | 60

Anti-Spiegel Podcast
How Wadephul Embarrassed Himself Before Lavrov Just as Baerbock Did
 
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Wadephul met with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov; following the meeting, the Russian Foreign Ministry was left wondering what message Wadephul had actually intended to convey. The same had occurred during the meeting between Lavrov and Baerbock four years earlier.
During the UN General Assembly, German Foreign Minister Wadephul requested a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, and the request was granted. However—much like after Lavrov’s meeting with his predecessor Baerbock—the Russian side failed to grasp the purpose of the encounter, as Wadephul had nothing new to say and even had to read his remarks from a prepared text.
 
It was reported worldwide—which was likely the very purpose of this piece of theater, intended to generate images.But Germany’s Foreign Minister was also humiliated on the global stage, appearing very amateurish.
 
 
https://anti-spiegel.ru/2026/wie-wadephul-sich-vor-lawrow-genauso-blamiert-hat-wie-baerbock/

Posted by: genesiss | Sep 28 2026 9:45 utc | 61

I’ll try again in case filter didn’t like the whole thing. 
 
Demilitarisation appears to be culminating.
 
Decommunisation is accelerating.
 
Denazification will follow.
 
 

A massive flash mob is taking place on Western social media. Russophobic globalists won’t like it

 
 
RUSSIA Is Not My Enemy (RUINME?)
Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 28 2026 7:08 utc | 58

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 28 2026 11:05 utc | 62

And this from same post. 
 
MaccyD as secondary target on a daily drone run!
 
I guess that’s it then. All the so far insulated locals have to choose between to the last or head west to MaccyD land.
 
Choices choices ..
 
 

🇷🇺🛸💥🇺🇦 Zelensky’s tech adviser explains how Russia filmed the Kiev “Incom” strike
 
Sergey “Flash” Beskrestnov, adviser to Zelensky on technology, says no satellites, FPV drones carried on long-range drones, or agents on the ground were used to capture the footage of the strike on the Incom business centre in Kiev.
 
“The enemy hit the Incom office with a Geran-5, while at the same time a jet-powered Geran flew into Kiev and circled the impact site at an altitude of almost 3 kilometres,” he wrote.
 
According to Beskrestnov, the jet drone served as a MESH radio relay for the Geran-5 while simultaneously filming the attack and transmitting the video in real time.
 
The same drone then flew outside Kiev and struck a McDonald’s warehouse.
 
“This is a complex Russian UAV operation that requires precise calculations and coordination between operators. I’m even sure they were sitting next to each other,” he said.
 
🔴 @DDGeopolitics

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 28 2026 11:07 utc | 63

Ukraine is a perfect example of western liberation: prostitution. 
 
In an environment of slavery, where the slaves dont eat if they dont slave, what % of sex for money is not human trafficking? 0%. Remember that next time a Paul Krugman says, in a free market, such transactions are voluntary. 
 
How much did sex trafficking explode across post USSR states? And rising, as Ukraine proves. 
 
People who promote war are all human traffickers. 
 
People who promote war are all human traffickers. 
 
Every single one, no matter whose fucking team you are cheering for.
 
People who promote war are all human traffickers. 
 

Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 28 2026 11:34 utc | 64

I can not belive Wadephule read s statement to Lavrov. Prewritten drivel that probably was not his own even (otherwise he would not need the paper). The BRD really has the goverment it deserves. 

Posted by: El Lissitzky | Sep 28 2026 12:21 utc | 65

UWDude 43 – So who will replace Vucic’ as Serbian President?
 
Vucic’ seems to be wilting under EU and NATO pressure!

Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 28 2026 12:22 utc | 66

Karlof1 links elsewhere to some important recent speeches. 
 
“23.09.2026 21:38 Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov at the meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine, New York, September 23, 2026”
 
 
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2146984/ 
 
“One of the objectives of the special military operation—in addition to unconditionally ensuring Russia’s security interests—is to fully respect the rights of Russians and Russian-speaking people not only in Crimea, Donbas, and Novorossiya, but also in Ukraine, where, with Western approval, laws remain in force that completely ban the Russian language in all spheres—education, media, culture, and everyday life—as well as ban the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. These laws began to be passed long before the special military operation , in 2017. Europe and NATO remained silent.
 
At the same time, the encouragement of Nazi ideology and practice was enshrined in law. The apotheosis of the Nazification of Ukraine was the genuflection of V. Zelensky and other figures of his regime before the remains of Hitler’s collaborators, transported with royal honors from Europe for reburial in Kyiv. Moreover, they plan to create a “pantheon of Ukrainian heroes” from these satanic graves on the grounds of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, sacred to all Orthodox Christians. It is sad that our former allies in the fight against Hitler’s Nazism turn a blind eye to such antics.”
 
Lavrov is not given to shooting his mouth off impromptu.  This little section here needs a lot of thinking about:-
 
“not only in Crimea, Donbas, and Novorossiya, but also in Ukraine,“
 
There was a discussion on “b’s” site recently about, as james said, the future of Ukraine after the war. Those few words of Lavrov bolded above give the clearest indication I’ve yet seen of what the Russians intend on that.
 
So too at the end – “it is clear to everyone that the Kyiv regime cannot be considered a government representing the interests of the residents of Crimea, Donbas, and Novorossiya, whom it has declared “terrorists, non-humans, and creatures.”  “Novorossiya” again.
 
On a minor point, I’m not sure about this – ” Then-British Prime Minister Benjamin (sic) Johnson forbade the Ukrainians from concluding a legally binding agreement based on the text proposed by Kyiv and already initialed, and ordered them to continue fighting. Europe essentially agreed with London’s position.”
 
1.  I recollect Mercouris showing that the Western decision to refuse Istanbul was arrived at several days before Boris Johnson’s visit to Kiev and 2, Lavrov fails to mention the internal pressure on Zelensky – Azov etc –  that also led to the agreement being scrapped.  My own view on that, for what it’s worth, is that Istanbul failed long before, at Zolote. Brownie points to the Russians for trying but Istanbul was never really on in the first place.
 
Also in the speech confirmation that the Putin keynote June 2024 speech meant exactly what it said.  But there’s an unremarked kick in that June 2024 Putin speech, bolded here:-
 
“I repeat our firm stance: Ukraine should adopt a neutral, non-aligned status, be nuclear-free, and undergo demilitarisation and denazification. These parameters were broadly agreed upon during the Istanbul negotiations in 2022, including specific details on demilitarisation such as the agreed numbers of tanks and other military equipment. We reached consensus on all points.
 
“Certainly, the rights, freedoms, and interests of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine must be fully protected. The new territorial realities, including the status of Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions as parts of the Russian Federation, should be acknowledged. These foundational principles need to be formalised through fundamental international agreements in the future. Naturally, this entails the removal of all Western sanctions against Russia as well.”
 
If the Russians hold to that, and the West doesn’t budge then, as was apparent long before that 2024 Putin speech, the only way this war ends is not only with the unconditional surrender of Ukraine – that was written in stone in February 2022 anyway – but with something pretty close to the unconditional surrender of the West.  “All Western sanctions?”  That means the return of the frozen funds too.
 
 There must be someone in State who can read.  Who actually studies the speeches coming out of Moscow.  Trump and his team probably regards all those terms mentioned above as merely an opening bid, as in some real estate flutter.  An opening bid to be whittled down in the subsequent wheeling and dealing.   But those conditions look more like fixed terms to me.  Not as if the Russians haven’t been setting them out for years.
 
Karlof1 also links to this:-
 
“26.09.2026 22:58
 
“Remarks and answers to media questions by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov following the high-level week of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, New York, September 26, 2026”
 
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2150058/
 
My comments are always too long.  So I’ll just say there’s nothing there to modify or withdraw any of the UNSC speech.  If anything a harder line.
 
This will make Chas Freeman nod in agreement.  Freeman, the master diplomat,  has long been pointing out that Washington no longer does real diplomacy and no longer has the expertise for it available if it wanted to.  Looks as if Lavrov’s noticed that too – “We have regular dialogue with the administration of US President Donald Trump in various formats, and this alone is considered normal. Because if our relations boil down to issuing propaganda statements every morning condemning Russia and demanding that it be inflicted with a “strategic defeat,” then that’s not diplomacy.” 
 
And then there’s Bucha.   Karlof1 links to it.  “17.09.2026 15:15  Report: “Goebbels’ Heirs: Falsification of Events in Bucha and the Bloody Staging of the Kyiv Regime”
 
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/doklady/2142212/
 
I haven’t yet had time to open and read the PDF.  Not looking forward to it. 
 
Bucha aside, and looking at those Russian terms for the final settlement of the conflict, I don’t believe the European politicians can agree to any of those terms without unacceptable loss of face.  Nor the American.   So Cold War II coming up. 
 
How a semi-derelict Europe’s going to cope with the new Cold War, suppose I and my family and my neighbours, many of whom aren’t coping too well as it is, will find out.  Sorry it’s such a long comment. 

Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 28 2026 12:25 utc | 67

#duck n cover / Nr 64
The liberation of eastern europe was a striking success! The freedom to sell your body to whoever you want (wants you) and with that the freedom to leave you home. 
 
 

Posted by: El Lissitzky | Sep 28 2026 12:26 utc | 68

First link above failed.  Lavrov at UNSC.  Trying again.
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2146984/

Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 28 2026 13:09 utc | 69

First link above failed.  Lavrov at UNSC.  Trying again.https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2146984/
Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 28 2026 13:09 utc | 69
 
For those who don’t know a translator is available for the website.  The first icon to the right in the url window can be selected to activate the translator.

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 28 2026 13:24 utc | 70

Someone needs to tell Kaja Kallas that the autopilot in your cockpit will no longer work if your rudder and ailerons are shot up. 
 

🚨🇪🇺 KALLAS got MAD on the topic of WAR!
 
She demands Europe rearm to complete 2030 goal. She pushes for more weapons while the EU faces an energy crisis, deindustrialisation, and migration chaos.

 

https://x.com/GlobalDiss/status/2104558196685951314s

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 28 2026 13:34 utc | 71

Ukrainian Military has cleared Nove, Ridkodub, Katerynivka, Karpivka, Novomykhailivka from Russians, captured over 250 POWs, – Biletskyi
A year and a half of hard-fought advances near Lyman, reversed in a few days.

Posted by: catdog | Sep 28 2026 14:12 utc | 72

This mornings apparent attempt to bomb a US military base in the UK may be an example of Putin ‘s Pandoras Box.
 
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 27 2026 12:44 utc | 1

More like a interrupted false flag intended to manufacture consent.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 28 2026 14:13 utc | 73

Posted by: catdog | Sep 28 2026 14:12 utc | 72
 
These announcements, especially coming from Biletsky, the western poster boy, always have dual meanings. The part that’s not said out aloud is always the more important one.
 
Translated: the Ukrainian offensive is now stalled and exhausted and Russian armed forces are preparing to counter-attack the now-weakened and extended AFU.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 28 2026 14:16 utc | 74

Jimmy@639:  Perhaps you are not aware of the fact, but the world population of Jewery is comprised of the Ashkenazi strain of that demographic.  The Ashkenazim descend primarily from the Khazarian nation which was converted to Talmudic Judaism by its ruling Kagan in ca 740 A.D.  There is only a tiny element within these peoples of specifically Hebrew descended families and individuals…that minuscule segment is primarily of the Cohenim class…primarily rabbinical according to the Babylonian Talmud.
 
Close to two decades ago, a DNA team from Johns Hopkins University did a large study of the genomes of the Palestinian people.  They determined that around 85% of those natives of the land are descended from the ancient Hebrews.  During the era of the Byzantine Empire, a majority of those people converted to Orthodox Christianity.  When the explosion of “converters” swarmed out of southwestern Arabia in the 7th and 8th century, a trend began for various reasons for the Palestinians to re-convert to Islam.
 
Thus, the vast majority of today’s Judaic population have no direct ties to currently Occupied Palestine.  The Khazarians have long been noted to be “name changers” and usurpers.  They have no business claiming “Chosen People” status, as their ancestry does not primarily flow from the so-called “Holy Land”.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Sep 28 2026 14:17 utc | 75

Sorry it’s such a long comment. 
Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 28 2026 12:25 utc | 67
It is always interesting and thought provoking to read your comments, no matter how long they are! Many thanks for them!

Posted by: Northern Eve | Sep 28 2026 14:18 utc | 76

During September 12–21, 2026, Ukrainian pollster KMIS asked Ukrainians what worried them the most (source):

What worries you the most at the moment? Choose no more than 3 answers.
 
Corruption in government: 50
 
Massive missile and drone strikes: 40
 
Unprofessionalism and incompetence of the authorities: 30
 
Low wages, pensions, social benefits, etc.: 28
 
Activities of the TCR [territorial centers for recruitment — S]: 24
 
Rising prices, inflation: 23
 
The situation at the front: 21
 
War fatigue among the population, lack of unity: 10
 
Ukrainians leaving the country: 7
 
Erosion of democracy, rise of authoritarianism: 7
 
Energy sector issues: 6
 
Unemployment, lack of jobs: 6
 
Other: 1
 
Hard to say: 1

Posted by: S | Sep 28 2026 14:21 utc | 77

Lizitssitzy@1221:  Sorry, but I cannot resist posting the obvious.  Your commentary regarding his putting a “human face” on some EU drivel has tempted me to shout out:  “What a Fool” for Wadephul.  The EU and the current Berlin regime is fast becoming little more than a geopolitical comedy show…a farce.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Sep 28 2026 14:25 utc | 78

@ unimperator | Sep 28 2026 13:34 utc | 71 with the link not working…..I wonder why that might be?
 
I want to see Kallas mad so I can watch her dance like a trained monkey for its organ grinder.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 28 2026 14:34 utc | 79

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 28 2026 14:34 utc | 79
 
The link seems to have an extra ‘s’ letter, remove it and it works.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 28 2026 14:36 utc | 80

@ unimperator | Sep 28 2026 14:36 utc | 80 with the correction the Kallas link…thx
 
Couldn’t hear her but the smiles she made while evidently harping for war killing others was enough to turn my stomach…give her a gun and send her to the front lines in Ukraine.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 28 2026 14:51 utc | 81

From Military Summary, it looks like US/NATO is fighting for Blackrock land in the Donetsk region just like they previously fought in the Kursk region I think it was 2 years ago.
 
Like the Kursk campaign, the US/NATO is sending its best troops and forces to the main line of attack, while Russia continues to gain land on other fronts.  Depending on when land officially switches from one side to the other, there will be some days when Russia gets more land than it loses, some days when US/NATO gets more land.
 
In previous days, Military Channel showed videos of a vehicle driving along east-west Ukrainian highways showing lots and lots of destroyed transport vehicles.  The implication is that lots and lots and lots of soldiers and equipment are being transferred to the Lyman Offensive, and that there are lots of casualties.
 
Given how long the Lyman Offensive has gone on, if past performance is any guide Russia has their main defense line built up and ready to go.  US/NATO will make straightforward gains – until they get to that main line.  At least that is what happened in the Kursk campaign.  I would be willing to bet that this offensive will still in play for multiple months.  There is no reason for Russia to end a campaign where US/NATO sends lots and lots of soldiers and equipment to be destroyed.  Just like in Kursk.
 
Maybe the Lyman Offensive will turn out better for the US and NATO then the Kursk campaign turned out.  This is Blackrock territory.  No doubt there will be constant efforts by the US to freeze the war and keep the land they gain for themselves. 

Posted by: Woke American | Sep 28 2026 15:14 utc | 82

Posted by: Woke American | Sep 28 2026 15:14 utc | 82
 
The Lyman offensive is mostly conducted by Azov third corps. Zelensky needs to decimate numbers of those nazis again to keep the threat to him in check. Remember that Azov is the unit that is most notorious for refusing combat order historically.
 
The reason for offensive was to relieve the northern pincer of Slavyansk and reduce threat to that Slavyansk-Izyum-Kharkov road. Even if RUAF just contains this attack in a defensible terrain/area, it will ultimately turn this PR gain into a real defeat for AFU, which once again squandered elite troops for some of this territory. 
 
The dam is meanwhile leaking in the E Kharkov and Kupyansk areas, and in Dobropilla and Orekhov. The Russians can always attack where the AFU reserves ain’t.
 
My understanding is RUAF halted the attack directly south on Druzhivka while they deal with this Lyman offensive. It seems to be getting near exhaustion. Next come drones, rocket artillery and FABs.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 28 2026 15:28 utc | 83

NEVERMIND….from TPO
 
 British counterterrorism police said five people arrested on suspicion of involvement in a plot at RAF Ford air base will be released today on police bail.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 28 2026 16:11 utc | 84

“The Ashkenazim descend primarily from the Khazarian nation which was converted to Talmudic Judaism by its ruling Kagan in ca 740 A.D.”
@Aristodemos | Sep 28 2026 14:17 utc | 75
DNA research does not confirm that common opinion.
According to DNA they commonly originate from the Levant on the paternal side and from Italy on the maternal side.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Sep 28 2026 17:50 utc | 85

English Outsider | Sep 28 2026 12:25 utc | 67—
 
Thanks for repeating those important points. IMO, Outlaw policy toward Russia must be looked at from a very long/deep perspective to understand why it persists. In his SCF essay today, Crooke asks a similar question about the EuroNazis who appear to be taking a page from The Mouse that Roared in their insane confrontation of Russia. Crooke’s argument is very sound and rests on Russia’s intervention in Syria. The policy that no peace is to be made with Russia continues. Crooke concludes:
 

It was the West’s mistaken analysis that has trapped the West into an escalatory staircase of actions that risk inadvertently taking Europe to a war with Russia – a war that no European wants. [My Emphasis]

 
But is the bolded part correct? Aren’t Merz, Kallas, et al Europeans? And there clearly are factions they head, meaning even more Europeans. Or, are we to say because they constitute what I term EuroNazis, they are no longer Europeans and NeoNazis without nations. Afterall, one of Lavrov’s main ongoing points that wasn’t repeated is the fact of EU/NATO becoming Nazi–that the Plan Ost “values” being pushed by the Ukrainian Nazis are also European values. And look at the other State Terrorist in West Asia also emulating those same Hitlerian goals. And what of Trump and his terrorism following a very similar path, although he probably has no clue of its origin. 
 
Imperialism remains the key driver along with the establishment of Colonies. EU/NATO are blind to the reality they’re now colonies of the Outlaws, although European publics seem to understand that terrible fact.   
 
 

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 28 2026 18:27 utc | 86

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 28 2026 15:28 utc | 83
 
Lyman has always been difficult, because Slavyansk is right there to back it up.
 
Forces West have the hardest battle right now, and it shows.
 
In the meantime, South and north are sneaking up from the backside.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 28 2026 18:31 utc | 87

Russia is closing the airspace over the Kapustin Yar testing ground from September 28 to October 3.

Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Sep 28 2026 18:32 utc | 88

petergrfstrm@1750:  “According to DNA” you say.  Who conducted that DNA study and for whom?  Statistics do not lie…however liars often cook statistics.  Do check out numerous sources on this issue.  
 
Also, if you haven’t already, Arthur Koestler in his “The Thirteenth Tribe” first aired this questionable background noise.  Koestler, btw, was a highly noted Hungarian author who also had been a Communist and then authored a book on his outlooked on the failed system. BTW, again, Koestler was of Jewish ancestry…perhaps from the same school of thought as Baruch Mate.’..honest and open-minded as well as conscientious men raised in the Jewish tradition.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Sep 28 2026 18:33 utc | 89

Years ago, my researches led to the fact that the largest and most profitable War Defense racket (as per Smidley Butler) originally in his “War is a Racket” ca. 1937 book…is currently Lockheed-Martin…with their greasy hands controlling subsidiary entities in the majority of key Congressional Districts.  Who are their primary $hareholders?  London Bankers, of course.
 
Posted by: Aristodemos | Sep 27 2026 15:55 utc | 11

 
It amuses me to see the Capitalist conspiracies of the past century continuously recycled. The downside is a lot of people follow that misdirection. Who benefits from that misdirection?
 

Lockheed Martin is a publicly traded company with no single controlling shareholder or government owner; ownership is distributed among institutional investors, retail investors, and insiders.
Institutional investors hold the vast majority of shares, with State Street Corp being the largest single holder at approximately 14.1% to 15%. Other top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group (approx. 9%), BlackRock (approx. 7%), Charles Schwab Investment Management, and Morgan Stanley. These institutions primarily hold shares through mutual funds and ETFs rather than active management control.
Insiders and retail investors hold the remaining shares. Key individual insiders include CEO James D. Taiclet, who holds the largest individual stake with over 68,000 shares, along with other executives like Jesus Malave and Stephanie C. Hill. Retail investors and public companies hold approximately 24% of the stock.

 
It is true that Lockheed Martin does ensure their continuous funding stream by building their facilities and those of their subcontractors in influential Congressional Districts. They are hardly alone in that.
It is the $40 Trillion debt Ponzi that converts worthless paper into assets that is the real crime, creating debt slavery for generations or until the Ponzi crashes.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Sep 28 2026 18:48 utc | 90

❗ Oreshnik strikes on the Ukraine within the next 48 hours.

https://t.me/EurasianChoice/67421
 
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 28 2026 19:08 utc | 91

From the Ukraine we can draw lessons: if you have a dispute with a neighhor, and an Englishman gives you advice, don’t listen. And if an Englishman pledges you eternal support, make up with your neighbor that very day, no matter how humiliating: What the Anglosaxon has in store for you is worse.

Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 28 2026 19:16 utc | 92

🆘✈️🔘THE NOTAM AVIATION NOTICE SYSTEM WARNS:
🇷🇺Russia is closing the airspace over the “Kapustin Yar” test range from September 28 to October 3
🔥An “Oreshnik” launch is being conducted at the test range.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/68209
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 28 2026 19:20 utc | 93

Aristodemos | Sep 28 2026 3:09 utc | 53
*** The state of Israel, a westernizing intrusion into the world of Islam ..***
 
There were also quite a lot of Christian Palestinians before the Israelis got going.
(pus those in Syria, and the non-zionist varieties in Lebanon)

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 28 2026 19:32 utc | 94

Posted by: El Lissitzky | Sep 28 2026 12:26 utc | 68
 
And another band of prostitutes lies about it all: “civil society”. The prostitute has a very intimate and skilled relationship with cosmetics. “Love covers sins.” The NGO covers the syphilis and herpes with the cosmetics of its own pseudo-purity and beneficence. The same economic order that produces the Epsteins and ICE and such produces the Catholic Charities and Armies of Salvation, who all proclaim with one voice: 
 
“Putin is kidnapping children! So give generously. The children are the future.” (Cf Big Pharma and Big Narcan, or Big Recovery, in the US. Doctors handing out oxycontin like candy. Who funds Gambling Anonymous? For problem gambling that is. Sorry, OT, prostitution plus no contraceptives, no abortion? Pope Leo.)

Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 28 2026 21:36 utc | 95

From TPO
 
Russian forces launched four Iskander-M ballistic missiles and two P-800 Oniks-M supersonic cruise missiles at Kyiv; Patriot air defense systems intercepted at least two missiles.
 
 
Ted Postal says that the interception rate of Patriots is 5% so I call BS on the above claim of 33% interception and wonder what all was hit.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 28 2026 22:58 utc | 96

The Wounded Weenie Guy and the Lyndon Larouchoid argue over Ashkenazi DNA.
 
It doesn’t matter.
 
All that matters is that the vast majority (if not all) of the Ashkenazim in the Levant are squatting on stolen land. Their DNA is entirely irrelevant.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 29 2026 0:10 utc | 97

 “ex-CIA head Mike Pompeo was given a directorship at KyivStar for unknown reasons, presumably as it gives the CIA a direct control pipeline into Ukraine’s internet and mobile data, allowing the control, blackmail, and surveillance of anyone in the country.”
 
Mr “We lie, we cheat, we steal.”
 
You can’t make this stuff up.
 
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-strike-campaign-again-shifts?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F354de3a8-a621-41e4-92d0-bba37ad1aabd_956x456.jpeg&open=false

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Sep 29 2026 0:15 utc | 98

Most of simplicius latest is paId
 
bur on the open part one thing is implied, if not stated
 
daytime strikes will hit people working on premisses
 
it is a change

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 29 2026 0:20 utc | 99

“European leaders and top diplomats rallied behind Ukraine after Russia’s latest attacks on Kyiv struck the National Academy of Sciences, a medical facility and other civilian sites, with officials accusing Moscow of targeting civilians, science and critical infrastructure.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the attack demonstrated that Ukraine’s scientific community had itself become a target.”
 
But not a peep out of them or ‘fond of lying’ when it came to the massive devastation of all schools, all universities, centres of scientific research and anthropological and cultural Palestinian museums in the GAZA.
 
Nothing to see there.
 
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/85607

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Sep 29 2026 0:35 utc | 100