Russia and China preach restraint and international cooperation.
The US, EU, NATO continually openly talk of war and weapons and publicly discredit the countries urging peace.
Yup, we are the baddies.

Posted by: Occam | Oct 1 2026 17:18 utc | 4

Kind of reminds of Barbara Tuchman’s ‘Guns of August’ and how Europe (and eventually the US too) stumbled into a European War, that spread world wide.
 
Careless statements by EU and NATO leaders do not assist in the matter.
 
As I have stated before, the rapid decline of Ukronazi forces will trigger panicky reactions from the EU/NATO/WEF group (especially with hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to the Kieve regime from London and NYC bankers hanging in the balance).  An attack on Kaliningrad to open a ‘new’ front and take pressure off the exhausted Ukronazis is not out of the question
 
Does this sound familiar?  France and the UK were in the hole for billions in loans to Manhattan bankers prior to the US entry into WWI, and the Brits manipulated the US media via bribery into becoming the Brits propaganda arm (see Professor Peterson’s outstanding book of research ‘Propaganda for War’, written in 1935 which exposes Brit’s nefarious efforts).  France and the UK were shot in 1917, almost totally out of eligible manpower and contemplating drafting 16 year olds, short of munitions, spent out in many ways.  Again a summer repeat!

Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 1 2026 19:08 utc | 6

“Russia declared this week that it is ready to use nuclear weapons if NATO moves to blockade Kaliningrad”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 17:25 utc | 5
Question to anyone: how is Kaliningrand different to the recently acquired territories to Russia: Crimea,Donetsk,Luhansk? Why does Russia threatens the blockade of Kalinigrand with nuclear response but accepts ukraine’s attacks to the new territorries AND INSIDE RUSSIA ALSO with such complaicency?
 
I don’t want to see anyone using nuclear weapons, that’s why I am for a firm (non nuckear) response from the idiots in the kremlin to put an end to the NATO provocations.Unless of course they are driving NATO to such behaviour as to nuke it. If this was the case then why dint they nuke it when they attacked civilians or the strategic assets inside Russia with NATI weapons and ISR.
 
TLDR,i insist: the idiots in the kremlin, Capitalism lust drives them mad.

Posted by: andy74 | Oct 1 2026 19:12 utc | 8

Posted by: andy74 | Oct 1 2026 19:12 utc | 8
 
Stanislav Krapivnik claims Russia is building 20 Oreshniks per month and building a large stockpile of them. And that it wouldn’t need to go nuclear. It could theoretically use Oreshniks to hit Nato’s critical bases across EU.
 
However, nuclear weapons are useful as they guarantee critical bunkers get destroyed. Russia has a large list of Nato assets across EU, most likely there are a lot of deep bunker targets too.
 
They are drawing a line between attacks coming through Ukraine and attacks coming from states other than Ukraine. Potentially Baltics, Poland and Finland. The clearest threat is to Kaliningrad. This threat has been repeatedly vocally voiced by Nato leaders, and their intention to attack it.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2026 19:29 utc | 10

Question to anyone: how is Kaliningrand different to the recently acquired territories to Russia: Crimea,Donetsk,Luhansk? 
Posted by: andy74 | Oct 1 2026 19:12 utc | 8
 
It’s partly symbolic and partly strategic.
 
Kaliningrad was the Prussian bastion of Konigsburg prior to the end of WW2. It was a site of significant cultural and religious importance to Prussians and sight of the last stand of the German army group north. The Russians paid a very high price taking the fortress city in April 1945 and because of it’s signifigance to the Prussians and it’s strategic location on the Baltic the Russians kept it as a prize.  
 
During WW2 the Germans blockaded St. Petersburg by stringing submarine nets across the Gulf of Finland. Holding Kaliningrad helps insure St. Petersburg and the Baltic fleet can’t be blockaded in a future war.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Oct 1 2026 19:38 utc | 12

Kremlin: Dmitriev Briefs Putin on Talks With US Reps
 
https://www.azerinews.az/region/264832.html
 
“Kremlin Press Secretary Peskov confirmed on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin receives regular updates on Special Envoy for Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation Kirill Dmitriev’s negotiations with diplomatic representatives from the United States.
 
Commenting on Dmitriev’s most recent meetings with US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff in New York, Peskov described it as a very positive process’. He added that ‘working-level contacts with American representatives are continuing…”
 
Kirill Dmitriev
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Dmitriev
 
 
Beware the oligarchs. All of them. Everywhere.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 20:06 utc | 14

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2026 19:29 utc | 10

The clearest threat is to Kaliningrad. This threat has been repeatedly vocally voiced by Nato leaders, and their intention to attack it.

I agree that at least some important EU/NATO elites are willing to open another front, when/as Ukraine goes out, and I agree that Kaliningrad currently seems the best bet. But their “attack” is probably executed as a blockade. That way they can fake indignation after Russia’s reaction. This will affect EUropeans and the effect on the homefront is perhaps even more important to Brussels/NATO than the battle itself.
 
There have been recent-ish noises by Finnish and Lithuanian politicians, trying to calm the excitement somewhat. To no visible effect but I started wondering: these are potential frontline countries. Is someone trying to get their country out of the first line? For example, the Bulgarian PM repeatedly makes statements in this direction. Somebody’s got to be sacrificed, in troops and in territory.

Posted by: Konami | Oct 1 2026 20:38 utc | 16

Hehehe. Suck it up buttercup, you chose the exotic commitment to a black hole, there’s no exit now.
 
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2026 20:51 utc | 17
 
 
 
My thought exactly.  Brussels is IRRITATED???  How could they not have expected this expense a year ago?

Posted by: Woke American | Oct 1 2026 21:16 utc | 18

Ahenobarbus | Oct 1 2026 17:04 utc | 3
While the economy, power generation, industrial capacity and export capacity of Ukraine may be toast, they have a lot of drones, supplied by Europe, and are still fighting on the ground. It could be that by the end of winter their powers of resistance are gone, but I’ve been reading predictions of forthcoming collapse for three years now…

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Oct 1 2026 21:26 utc | 20

unimperator: Moscov has good reason not to want the Baltics wholesale. Just like they only want the properly Russian parts from Ukraine, with ballots to boot. The proportion of Russians in the Baltic states differs, and is <10% in Lithuania. Getting them out of NATO would be a massive achievement on its own.

Posted by: Konami | Oct 1 2026 21:45 utc | 22

CORRECTION: 
 
Cut off from its Western neighbors and part of its own territory, Germany and its Eastern neighbors would overnight see their place in Europe and in the World in very different terms, while their arms makers and general industry would suffer a collective setback of at least 1-2 years.

Posted by: Pacific Observer | Oct 1 2026 22:44 utc | 24

Posted by: andy74 | Oct 1 2026 19:12 utc | 8
 
Question to anyone: how is Kaliningrand different to the recently acquired territories to Russia: Crimea,Donetsk,Luhansk? Why does Russia threatens the blockade of Kalinigrand with nuclear response but accepts ukraine’s attacks to the new territorries AND INSIDE RUSSIA ALSO with such complaicency?
 My first guess is that Kaliningrand is not connected to Russia by land and so any defensive measures that Russia would implement would have to be by air or sea. The unknown question is would Russia be willing to give up their Baltic Sea base if NATO was serious about harming Russia?

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 2 2026 0:40 utc | 26

Unimperator@1929:  Strike the NATO bases?  Henry David Thoreau commented that one should not merely clip off the branches of a problem.  It is much better to grub it out from the roots.  So why go after the order-takers in the EU/NATO gangster paradigm.  Wouldn’t it be better to zap the EU administrative headquarters in Brussels.  Those administrative bureaucraps are not exactly the roots…however as we do not quite know the identities behind that institution…the HQ in the rule from the top down hit by a non-nuclear Oreshnik might just impact the entire rotten system.
 
Ditto with the mangy old Lion of imperialist colonialism.  Go for City of London with the same weaponry.  Britain is under the thumb of the ownership located in the Square mile.
 
However, I am not certain that the blood-money racket, the shareholders of the WarDefense Industry…not just in the command infrastructure of EU/NATO, but certainly in the U$$A, the designated military thugs for highest finance…and perhaps in Russia and China as well.  After all, in this materialistic and reductionist clown show…business is business and the combination of profits and control over the serfs is the bottom line for the coupon-clipper demographic.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Oct 2 2026 1:05 utc | 28

Psychohistorian@020:  Mearsheimer has always struck me as a semi-classical liberal…not a balls to the walls type, in part motivated by a deep desire to not be deplatformed.  Calling for an armistice is simply silly.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Oct 2 2026 1:12 utc | 30

(guy onstage) Lukuyanov’s comments afterwards, in an interview over at Smoothie’s blog…
 
” …and that’s what new.”
 
Translation can be rather flat. It can be hard to get the complete sense of an idea being presented.
Speaking Russians helps with nuance that does not come through in the drone quality sound of interpreters. 
 
Consider Putin’s identifying a significant change in European “unthoughtful commentary” combined with “emerging realities”. I suspect that he’s trying not to burn down Europe. If they are stupid about it, he probably will. But he also talks about not burning anything down, if there’s a way not to.
 
Interesting for him to admit to earlier misjudgements but also give an absolutely clear explanation of his thought process and approach. He then carries that forward to current realities and is clear what has changed. 
 
Watching EU news later this evening, it’s all “See, scary, scary Russia is threatening nukes!” over Kalinigrad, but no mention of the ship- boarding, sabotage, weopon supply etc.  As if they’re completely uninvolved and only helping an ally.
 
Cheers.

Posted by: Ledovik1 | Oct 2 2026 1:54 utc | 32

I agree that at least some important EU/NATO elites are willing to open another front, when/as Ukraine goes out, and I agree that Kaliningrad currently seems the best bet. But their “attack” is probably executed as a blockade. That way they can fake indignation after Russia’s reaction. 
Posted by: Konami | Oct 1 2026 20:38 utc | 16

 
Did you not just witness what Russia did to Odessa and all the other Ukrainian Black Sea ports when Ukraine tried to effectively blockade Russia’s Black Sea ports earlier this year?
They turned Ukraine into a landlocked rump of a state and then went on to cutting off road access to Romania. 
Kaliningrad’s a strategic site for Russians. It’s there to keep St. Petersburg from getting blockaded. A million people died from starvation, exposure and disease during the WW2 siege of St. Petersburg and a blockade of the Gulf of Finland was part of that siege.
If NATO seriously tries to blockade Kaliningrad I’m pretty sure Russia will go kinetic.
Russia has the most experienced army in the world right now. They have an army of 1.5 million that’s been fighting for 4.5 years … every unit is going to have battle hardened officers, NCO’s and specialists … they are going to be either shocked nor in awe of NATO.
I know Russia takes flak for letting the west escalate however Russians knows how to fight and win wars … don’t mistake Russia’s reluctance to respond to provocation as fear or cowardice … it’s the strategy of choosing the time and the place to do battle. Russia started the Ukraine war with the Wagner PMC as the only real formations with real war experience. Today their army is 50% larger than it was in 2022 and everyone is experienced. In 2022 I really didn’t think Russia was a superior military to NATO but in 2026 I think NATO would come away from a fight with Russia bloodied with their tails between their legs.
 

Posted by: HB_Norica | Oct 2 2026 3:04 utc | 34

Russia has the most experienced army in the world right now. They have an army of 1.5 million that’s been fighting for 4.5 years …  
Posted by: HB_Norica | Oct 2 2026 3:04 utc | 34
 
Yet they can’t kick out the Ukrainian forces from the Donbas after all this time, so they can’t be that good.

Posted by: MiniMO | Oct 2 2026 4:40 utc | 36

@37
‘Nato kicked out of Nato’…
meant
‘Nato kicked out of Baltics’.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 2 2026 5:34 utc | 38

The question I have that remains unanswered is this:
Putin keeps calling for the lifting of sanctions, but which sanctions is he talking about—
sanctions imposed by hostile states?
Is it a matter of vital necessity for him that these sanctions be removed?
Can he not survive economically without trade with the US and the EU?
In my humble opinion, his stubborn insistence on supplying these administrations with oil, gas, steel, and whatever else they need is baffling; why endure sanctions when he is the one who ought to be sanctioning enemy states?
Another anomaly is his constant kowtowing to that gang of Zionist swindlers linked to Trump through his Anglo-Russian Zionist crony—even though it is obvious to everyone that Trump is completely unreliable and any agreement reached today will be forgotten and reneged upon tomorrow.
Questions—endless questions that receive no clarifying answers.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 2 2026 7:03 utc | 40

Unimp.  at 10 and Jon 41… yup. The Baltics usual phobias and hysteria could be used to be played for a good “sacrifice”  upon by those of devious thought.
They are sometimes exuberant in their rants and might be giving away too much,or exposing weakness. 
Might be signs of a further hardening of determination if is possible.
Nb, Prince Harry went to some Gala ball for Ukraine charities last night…and the UK military guy recently  was killed at a new weapons testing session and it exploded.

Posted by: Jo | Oct 2 2026 7:48 utc | 42

NewFly@304:  Symbologically, the Kaliningrad enclave is Mama Bear’s cub.  Would they?  Looks to me like a warning shot in front of the bow of the idiots.
 
 Lesson:  Don’t mess with Mama Bear.
 
 Even the Goldilox foxes in City of London and Wall $treet are far more astute than their hired, bought and paid for prostiticians throughout the Collective Wa$te. The Zillionaires perch atop the dung-heap.  They have a good thing going as they dominate and control Western finance and hold ownership over the WarDefense industries.  Though some of their stooges are kinda naive and inane, the Moneymongers own the best minds that dirty huge money can buy.  They can handle their own rogue elephants and donkeys…a covey of asses.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Oct 2 2026 8:11 utc | 44

Unimperator@544:  NATO kicked outta NATO does have a certain sense.  They are a collective of braying asses kicking each other in their collective kiesters.  They shot their wad when the Berlin Wall fell.  No “raison d’ etre” ever since.  It’s one crazy-assed clown show.
 
Oswald Spengler forecast “The Decline of the West” even long before I was born.  However, stoopid people never heed the warnings of their own prophets.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Oct 2 2026 8:20 utc | 46

It seems the DCs in 404 are now on the target list … IBXs next ?

Posted by: Savonarole | Oct 2 2026 8:29 utc | 48

Pubblicato da: Aristodemos | 2 ottobre 2026 8:24Exactly—the Euro-Atlanticists are pissing into the wind, and I don’t understand why Putin provides them with windbreaks.
If, after the initial sanctions in ’22, Putin had imposed an embargo on all supplies and blocked transit through his territories, Europe and NATO wouldn’t have survived; they would have ceased to exist—and no Europe, no NATO, no weapons, no war. UTC | 47

Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 2 2026 8:36 utc | 50

2 ottobre 2026 8:38 UTC | 51
Iran

Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 2 2026 8:45 utc | 52

Can you give a couple of examples of armies that would be more efficient at the task than the Russians?
 
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Oct 2 2026 8:38 utc | 51
 

The Americans in Afghanistan were astoundingly efficient at ripping the taxpayers … that was the question wasn’t it?!?

Posted by: Tel | Oct 2 2026 9:07 utc | 54

Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/ME): Weekly Update, 2nd October 2026: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/ME): Weekly Update

Posted by: The Busker | Oct 2 2026 9:29 utc | 56

Stating that NATO was preparing an ‘air and naval blockade’ of Kaliningrad, the Russian embassy in Ireland stated, (…)

 
Yup, after the Teutonics, Napoleon and his Grande Armée, Hitler and his Boss uniforms, here we are again with some euromorons going against Russia. What could go wrong, really…
 
A certain victory, hey! And limited damages in Riga and the other one, what’s the name again, Vilnius!
 
And, as both sides will be winning, neither side will be tempted to use WMDs! Can’t fix stupid, can we.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Oct 2 2026 9:38 utc | 58

Russia has the most experienced army in the world right now. They have an army of 1.5 million that’s been fighting for 4.5 years …  Posted by: HB_Norica | Oct 2 2026 3:04 utc | 34 Yet they can’t kick out the Ukrainian forces from the Donbas after all this time, so they can’t be that good.
Posted by: MiniMO | Oct 2 2026 4:40 utc | 36
 
 
 
It is hard to believe that people who deny reality like you still exist, right here.
 
How many times do people like you need to be told why this SMO hasn’t been a destructive campaign so far—the kind of destructive campaigns the US has waged (and hasn’t actually won since 1945)?Let me spell it out slowly: a war—regardless of the provocation that triggers it, and whether it involves the US or not—would play out completely differently from the conflict in Ukraine, which really should have remained a regional affair.
 
A NATO war without direct US involvement—involving “only” Western Europe—would be over in hours, or perhaps days, because every Western nation is immediately dependent on logistics and reserves that they simply *do not have*—neither in terms of materiel nor trained personnel, let alone troops experienced with drones.
 
If the US gets involved, you can expect it to last a matter of hours; that should be obvious to everyone.Whether a Trump would risk Boston, Miami, or New York for the sake of the Baltics, Warsaw, or Berlin remains to be seen; if he doesn’t see a business opportunity in it, he likely wouldn’t. Plus, the US public—faced with the sight of the first mushroom cloud over the Pacific and relying on outdated nuclear technology—would certainly make their voices heard.
 
I live in Western Europe; I hear opinions on the war with Russia and conscription, and I listen to veterans from the Bundeswehr and even the Foreign Legion… they all agree on one thing: given the current state of NATO armies, there is no chance against this battle-hardened army.
 
And I do NOT derive these opinions and facts from a milk-glass crystal ball like the one…
 
 

Posted by: genesiss | Oct 2 2026 9:49 utc | 60

I also agree with your call to take out the City Of London square mile (…)
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 2 2026 1:50 utc | 31

 
Before going after the heart of London, Russia could have a safe look at Jersey island, British but just off the French coast. There is parked a “huge” amount of offshore money from rich dudes from all levels from many countries.
 
Bringing trouble there would be good, and it would bring trouble within NATO : why is this French-speaking island British on the first place?
 
If Russia wants NATO off her back, she has to lighten up the old continental rivalries. Why is Alsace-Lorraine French? It could be returned to Germany to pay off Target2 debts…
 
Once frontiers within NATO countries are opened for discussion, Russia will have a century of peace.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Oct 2 2026 9:53 utc | 62

Posted by: genesiss | Oct 2 2026 9:49 utc | 60
 
When talking about war with west, you need to also think what context it is.
 
The most likely direction here is utilization of Baltics and Poland to blockade Kaliningrad.
 
That would mean plainly seizing Russian ships in the Baltic (this has already occurred in a limited sense on tankers – not directly related to Kaliningrad-mainland Russia traffic).
 
Rail traffic through Lithuania has been halted before – now open again, but bureaucratical obstacles are thrown to disrupt it as much as possible.  Kaliningrad relies on naval and aerial imports from mainland.
 
Truck traffic between mainland and Kaliningrad – halted/not open.
 
My guess is non of these are enough to ‘block’ Kaliningrad from operating normally. Hence the next step is physical blockade – seizing ships heading to Kaliningrad. Blocking all – even partial rail traffic to Kaliningrad. Preventing aerial traffic would require directly shooting down Russian planes.
 
What is still possible/more likely than direct military invasion of Kaliningrad: Ukrainian and British agents launching drones into Kaliningrad from Baltic/Lithuania/Poland, in order to produce the trigger for war. Given that Ukraine definitely has a drone military base in Lithuania, it’s completely possible this happens.
 
Most likely there is an internal conflict in EU/Nato about attacking Kaliningrad directly, and heavy opposition. But on the top level you see in the media you see Nato leaders directly talking about attacking Kaliningrad.
 
Russia’s obvious next choice is to start its own blockade of Baltic states and Polish ports. Seizing ships, accidents/explosions on ships headed to these ports, etc.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 2 2026 10:00 utc | 64

A Polish level of stupidity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bpZwe4zDN4

25 Sept 2026 
Poland’s Foreign Minister delivers a blunt message to Russia and directly responds to Sergey Lavrov’s claims about Ukraine. He challenges Moscow’s narrative on the 2014 events in Kyiv, the Russian language in Ukraine and Russia’s accusations against the Ukrainian government. The Polish FM also points to Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure, alleged incidents involving European airspace and wider security concerns. He then compares the economic strength of Ukraine, Poland, Europe and NATO with Russia before delivering his final message to Lavrov: “Tell your boss enough is enough.”

Posted by: tucenz | Oct 2 2026 10:38 utc | 66

@ HB_Norica | Oct 2 2026 11:05 utc | 67
 
Please copy this comment of yours and paste it as a response the next time one of the trolls — and quite possibly the same troll — posts the same stupid comment as the one you responded to.

Posted by: malenkov | Oct 2 2026 11:21 utc | 68

Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 2 2026 7:03 utc | 40 …Putin keeps calling for the lifting of sanctions, but which sanctions is he talking about— sanctions imposed by hostile states?  Is it a matter of vital necessity for him that these sanctions be removed?Can he not survive economically without trade with the US and the EU?In my humble opinion, his stubborn insistence on supplying these administrations with oil, gas, steel, and whatever else they need is baffling; why endure sanctions when he is the one who ought to be sanctioning enemy states?Another anomaly is his constant kowtowing to that gang of Zionist swindlers linked to Trump through his Anglo-Russian Zionist crony—even though it is obvious to everyone that Trump is completely unreliable and any agreement reached today will be forgotten and reneged upon tomorrow.Questions—endless questions that receive no clarifying answers.
 
 
Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 2 2026 7:03 utc | 40

Posted by: snake | Oct 2 2026 11:50 utc | 70

Cagliostro@40
 
That would not collapse the EU, but it would have it to switch to the directly US or US controlled sources, which is one of the milestones in the larger scheme of things.
Integrated and prosperous Eurasia is the greatest threat to the US hegemony.

Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Oct 2 2026 12:08 utc | 72

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 2 2026 10:00 utc | 64

Russia’s obvious next choice is to start its own blockade of Baltic states and Polish ports. Seizing ships, accidents/explosions on ships headed to these ports, etc.

Yes! The angry soul in me is looking for Russia’s blockade of the Danish Straits. It’d affect all Baltic Sea states, in particular Sweden and Finland. It also probably won’t happen but a man can dream…

Posted by: Konami | Oct 2 2026 12:29 utc | 74

Just In…(& vid)
 
https://x.com/kadmitriev/status/2105766113070203051
 
“President Putin appreciates President Trump’s peacemaking on Ukraine and First Lady Melania Trump’s humanitarian efforts.”
 
Beware the oligarchs. All of them. Everywhere.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 2 2026 12:30 utc | 76

Pubblicato da: Paco | 2 ottobre 2026 11:33 UTC | 69
 
I must regretfully note that you haven’t understood a thing and don’t understand a thing;
unfortunately for you, your limited IQ prevents you from grasping things, even though you can read and write;
therefore, I won’t waste time replying to someone who has a pumpkin for a head—useful only for keeping your ears apart and holding up your hat.
Adios, hermano.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 2 2026 12:36 utc | 78

This comes from Dr Campbell’s weekly summary,  work that I’d guess most of the people here don’t bother to read just as, I note, most of ’em don’t bother to read the articles “b’s” putting out.  Reading’s not really a thing here, nor thinking far as I can see.   
 
OK, there are a good few serious commenters here and and most valuable they are.  I learn a lot from them.  Why I come to the comment section.  But for the majority, the site seems to have become their padded cell of choice.  Were the Russians to nuke London you’d hear  hearty cheers from most  and cries of “Go on, do Berlin next Mr Putin please.”
 
Anyway, Dr Campbell quotes an inmate of a somewhat larger padded cell, the one the European politicians and military have taken up residence in.  Some Austrian politician.  “We are smart. Let us stop belittling ourselves… We are not dwarfs. There is a dwarf who behaves like a giant – this is Russia.” 
 
I suppose there’s just a bit of truth there.  There are only a hundred and fifty million Russians.  Tiny population in global terms.  And the country’s only just come back from the dead.  It still has a way to go before it’s fully recovered from the its near terminal condition of the ’90’s.   And this convalescent “dwarf” is confronted by a billion.  Should be no contest, as the Austrian would have us believe.
 
Except that the billion are living in dreamland.  Trump, as Biden before him, Rutte, Merz, all talk as if they had overwhelming military and economic power at their disposal if they cared to use it
 
But Trump doesn’t have an army.   Not in terms of this contest.  He’s got some legacy antique weaponry, a General Staff that doesn’t know how to use even  that effectively, and nukes neither he nor Biden before him could use against Russia because the Russians have nukes as well.  He has, it’s true, a vast economy.  Which he and his predecessors have been busy wrecking long as I can remember and none can say how long before it crumbles. 
 
And the Europeans are worse off.  All they have is dirty war and talk.  In both of which they are giants indeed except that neither answers here.  What  we’re doing right now is watching our Western politicians rattling around in their padded cell while the Russians calmly dismantle our current proxies without breaking sweat.  That’s all.

Posted by: English Outsider | Oct 2 2026 12:44 utc | 80

When it comes to bridges, it’s a game of degredation. Even missiles not needed, but pummeling them with enough drones will eventually get them to the point where they can’t be repaired. That’s why it’s a long game for bridges. They get hit, repaired, hit again, repaired again, hit again – it get’s continuously more difficult to repair them into a usable point.  Same applies bridges in Kiev, and bridges W/NW of Odessa coming through the swamps and wetlands from Romania.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 2 2026 9:41 utc | 59

Has Russia’s improvement in drones and the supporting technology brought this conflict to a turning point?  Bridges are very hard to bring down, but damaging the road bed will stop traffic until it is repaired.  Now Russia has the capability to send in another batch of drones after the bridge is repaired and make it impassable again.  It can do this repeatedly, at low expense.  Same for rail lines and power transmission lines.  No need to completely destroy a power station.  It’s the worst kind of attrition, when people will question the point of repairing something when it will just get destroyed again.  I’m expecting a mass migration of people from Kiev into Europe before winter.

Posted by: Mike R | Oct 2 2026 13:07 utc | 82

Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 2 2026 9:51 utc | 61
Xi and Putin are in power because of their partnership with the West.
 
Not because of their opposition.
 
The delusional think these capitalist pigs have some kind of future planned that is not exactly a blueprint of Trump’s and Musk’s, but which is a more benign and efficient AI-driven tyranny, within a competing capitalist clown show called BRICS. 
 
And thanks to the genius of Russia’s oligarchy seeking partnership with the mafia West, Nazis are bombing Moscow.
 
Who would trust these zionist assholes with Russia’s future? People who believe the crap that comes out of the blowholes of politicians who talk more better than Barak Obama.
 
But we are not in the future. Please come up with a better war strategy that does not get Russia and the world involved in a nuclear war. FFS,  at least the Russians have enough lust for life to not drive the planet directly to self destruction. 
 
It is forbidden in the West to acknowledge the unspeakable brutality the West has committed against Russia since 1914. Russia isn’t going to save the world but Russia isn’t in the driver’s seat of global conflict.

Posted by: Duck n cover | Oct 2 2026 13:18 utc | 84

Watch as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte were loudly booed in Münster at the NATO Peace Prize ceremony.
 
video ==> https://t.me/presstv/209195
 

Posted by: too scents | Oct 2 2026 13:48 utc | 86

Posted by: HB_Norica | Oct 2 2026 11:05 utc | 67
 
I wouldn’t mind it if this was reposted once a week or two.  Just as a reminder of what battle is like in Ukraine.  I would read it every time.
 
Thank you for this post.

Posted by: Woke American | Oct 2 2026 14:51 utc | 88

Integrated and prosperous Eurasia is going to happen even without West Europe as part of it.
 
 
Posted by: Sekava Seppo | Oct 2 2026 14:17 utc | 87
 
 
 
I think the order of events is:  Asia becomes prosperous and free of US financial meddling while Europe suffers economically.  Only then does Europe completely break from the US and look east.
 
According to House of El in multiple videos, Europe is already making moves to become a little bit independent of the US.  Some of these moves require multi-year investments and activities.
 
If Europe gets involved in a missile and drone stand off with Russia, then Europe will need lots and lots of outside money for rebuilding.  If too many European nuclear power plants get quickly shut down due to external forces, then big chunks of Europe could become unlivable for quite a few centuries.  All bets are off for Europe if they really do go down the road of kinetic war against Russia.  And since over 100k US / NATO / Ukrainian drones have already been sent into Russia, including massive attacks on Moscow – it’s safe to say that Russia will be sending one heck of a lot of firepower into Western Europe should kinetic war happen.

Posted by: Woke American | Oct 2 2026 15:08 utc | 90

Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 2 2026 12:36 utc | 78
 
Caglioscrotte, now you get into the insulting ring, anything but brother of a bass turd like you, stronzo mal parido por perra sifílitica, and do not say goodbye, everyone of your appearances here will be confronted since you are a slimy piece of a turdy troll. See you around.

Posted by: Paco | Oct 2 2026 15:33 utc | 92

@ Sebgo | Oct 2 2026 15:49 utc | 93
 
The President of Austria is a typical European, born of Estonian and aristocratic Russian parents (themselves originally Dutch) in Nazi Vienna and an Estonian citizen until adolescence.

Posted by: malenkov | Oct 2 2026 16:07 utc | 94

 
Finally the Russians have began hitting the bridges that cross the Dnieper river in Kiev, along with data centers, and utility infrastructure. Looks like they are at last, fed up with the UkraNazis and NATO spooks. I hope this hellish Slavic genocidal war ends soon with complete Russian victory.

Posted by: Kalashnikov | Oct 2 2026 16:13 utc | 96

Beware the oligarchs. All of them. Everywhere.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2026 20:06 utc | 14
 
 
duuurr… oligarchs control everything.  every country is an oligarchy because john Helmer gilberts docotorw says so.   Russia is an oligarchy because John Helmer Gilberts Doctorow called it one.  
 
Tell me, If Russia is an oligarchy, does that mean they told Putin to invade Ukraine?
 
In which case… GOOD FOR THEM.
 
Are the “oligarchs” the ones ramping up weapons production in Russia, keeping it above that of NATO combined?
 
GOOD FOR THEM.
 
Or were the oligarchs powerless to stop Russia from invading Ukraine and only got their power back the next day.
 
Your little attempt to end all your posts with that tag line is a leading statement which immediately supposes that Russia is an oligarchy.
 
I DONT FUCKING THINK SO.
 
Putin (eat the name demon), whipped them into shape as soon as the likes of Helmer and all his econo-rapists were driven from Russia in the early 2000s, those who thought they knew better and that their money would rule Russia get the Khordovsky treatment, or better the Maganov and Staravoyt treatment….
 
 
…but maybe those were your GOOD oligarchs, right?
 
What about Nemtsov?  HE was fighting for the good guys I suppose.  Just a pious saint,tryign to get rid of the “oligarchy” and replace it with a pure democracy for the people?  
 
Yeah….
 
that’s it!
 
And lets not forget Prigozhin, the hero non-oligarch, who thought he can march to moscow and end the “oligarchy”, yes, pure hearted  Prigozhin, all he wanted was less oligarchy and better for the Russian people, and dastardly Putin cut him down.
 
So it’s pretty clear, there are rich people in Russia who think they control Russia, and its pretty clear, SOMEBODY says, “No you dont.  You dont even control your breathing anymore”.
 
 

Posted by: UWDude | Oct 2 2026 16:54 utc | 98

South Korean president, Jae Myung Lee, accused Ukraine of “praying for the outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula”
 
The background is that Ukraine apparently violated a confidentiality agreement on the repatriation of two North Korean soldiers it had captured, who were handed over to South Korea.
 
According to Lee, it was Ukraine that asked for the transfer to stay secret, and Seoul agreed – then Kiev went ahead and revealed the transfer unilaterally. When South Korea called them out on this, Ukraine straight up denied the agreement existed, essentially saying that Lee was a liar. And, when asked to apologize, Ukraine bizarrely warned about an imminent DPRK-ROK clash resulting in this public callout by the ROK president.
 
Jae Myung Lee threatened Kiev with “additional measures” if the Ukrainian side doesn’t retract its statements and issues a public apology
 
 
https://x.com/Jaemyung_Lee/status/2105834441973375354?s=20

Posted by: UWDude | Oct 2 2026 17:02 utc | 100