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🇩🇪 German lawmakers just accused the opposition of espionage... for asking too many questions. That’s not satire.
AfD submitted routine parliamentary inquiries about Germany’s military reality… and Berlin lost its mind. If you expose NATO failures, you’re now a “Russian agent.”
What we are witnessing in Germany is not a security scandal, it’s a nervous breakdown. The German establishment, facing plummeting approval, a collapsing Ukraine project, and rising domestic rebellion, has chosen to aim its cannons not at foreign adversaries, but at its own parliamentary opposition. The accusations leveled against the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), that it is effectively a “Russian sleeper cell” — are not only absurd on their face, they represent a deliberate and dangerous escalation in the war on dissent. Asking tough questions about the operational readiness of the Bundeswehr is now treated as espionage.
AfD’s crime was submitting 47 formal questions to the federal government over the past year, probing drone defense capabilities, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and broader military preparedness. These are standard tools of oversight, the very mechanisms by which elected officials hold governments accountable. But in Germany’s NATO-occupied political theatre, transparency is now subversion. Parliamentary inquiry is being recast as a hostile act. The implication is chilling: only questions aligned with the official narrative are allowed. Everything else is treason.
Behind the dramatic accusations lies a far deeper truth. Germany’s political class is collapsing under the weight of its own lies. The Ukraine war, sold as a noble defense of Europe, is exposed as a bottomless pit of taxpayer money, grift, and geopolitical humiliation. The Bundeswehr is a paper tiger. German airports are disrupted by phantom drones while the government can’t even guarantee basic security. And the Atlanticist elites know it.
This pattern is no accident. It’s the exact playbook we’ve seen across the West. In France, Macron smeared Yellow Vests as Kremlin pawns. In the UK, critics of NATO like Jeremy Corbyn were smeared. Now Berlin joins the club, criminalizing opposition to its own failed policies by framing it as foreign infiltration.
This entire episode confirms what many already know: the liberal order in Europe is dead. In its place stands a hollowed-out security state, terrified of populist insurgency and allergic to accountability. AfD’s rising popularity, especially in eastern Germany, terrifies Berlin not because it represents extremism, but because it represents disobedience. It dares to question NATO. It dares to say the war in Ukraine is lost. It dares to ask whether Germany should serve German interests, not Brussels. In the eyes of the regime, that makes them traitors.
What’s even more revealing is the way the media and intelligence services are being weaponized to support this campaign. The domestic intelligence agency (BfV) and mainstream press now openly act as political enforcers. It’s not about Russia. It’s about control. It’s about silencing the only force left in German politics that threatens the post-sovereignty consensus. And this isn’t just a German story, it’s the future of the West unless something breaks the cycle.
What breaks the cycle is precisely what this multipolar moment offers. Across Europe — from Hungary to Slovakia, from the Netherlands to France, the Atlanticist elite are facing insurgencies from within. Populist movements that reject endless war, reject deindustrialization, and reject the subservience to hegemony are on the rise. AfD is just the first crack in the dam. More are coming. And no amount of slander, surveillance, or suppression will stop the flood once it starts.
In the end, this is a story not about espionage, but about empire in decay. The Atlanticist regime fears its own people more than any foreign threat. It fears peace more than war. And it fears accountability more than anything else.
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AfD submitted routine parliamentary inquiries about Germany’s military reality… and Berlin lost its mind. If you expose NATO failures, you’re now a “Russian agent.”
What we are witnessing in Germany is not a security scandal, it’s a nervous breakdown. The German establishment, facing plummeting approval, a collapsing Ukraine project, and rising domestic rebellion, has chosen to aim its cannons not at foreign adversaries, but at its own parliamentary opposition. The accusations leveled against the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), that it is effectively a “Russian sleeper cell” — are not only absurd on their face, they represent a deliberate and dangerous escalation in the war on dissent. Asking tough questions about the operational readiness of the Bundeswehr is now treated as espionage.
AfD’s crime was submitting 47 formal questions to the federal government over the past year, probing drone defense capabilities, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and broader military preparedness. These are standard tools of oversight, the very mechanisms by which elected officials hold governments accountable. But in Germany’s NATO-occupied political theatre, transparency is now subversion. Parliamentary inquiry is being recast as a hostile act. The implication is chilling: only questions aligned with the official narrative are allowed. Everything else is treason.
Behind the dramatic accusations lies a far deeper truth. Germany’s political class is collapsing under the weight of its own lies. The Ukraine war, sold as a noble defense of Europe, is exposed as a bottomless pit of taxpayer money, grift, and geopolitical humiliation. The Bundeswehr is a paper tiger. German airports are disrupted by phantom drones while the government can’t even guarantee basic security. And the Atlanticist elites know it.
This pattern is no accident. It’s the exact playbook we’ve seen across the West. In France, Macron smeared Yellow Vests as Kremlin pawns. In the UK, critics of NATO like Jeremy Corbyn were smeared. Now Berlin joins the club, criminalizing opposition to its own failed policies by framing it as foreign infiltration.
This entire episode confirms what many already know: the liberal order in Europe is dead. In its place stands a hollowed-out security state, terrified of populist insurgency and allergic to accountability. AfD’s rising popularity, especially in eastern Germany, terrifies Berlin not because it represents extremism, but because it represents disobedience. It dares to question NATO. It dares to say the war in Ukraine is lost. It dares to ask whether Germany should serve German interests, not Brussels. In the eyes of the regime, that makes them traitors.
What’s even more revealing is the way the media and intelligence services are being weaponized to support this campaign. The domestic intelligence agency (BfV) and mainstream press now openly act as political enforcers. It’s not about Russia. It’s about control. It’s about silencing the only force left in German politics that threatens the post-sovereignty consensus. And this isn’t just a German story, it’s the future of the West unless something breaks the cycle.
What breaks the cycle is precisely what this multipolar moment offers. Across Europe — from Hungary to Slovakia, from the Netherlands to France, the Atlanticist elite are facing insurgencies from within. Populist movements that reject endless war, reject deindustrialization, and reject the subservience to hegemony are on the rise. AfD is just the first crack in the dam. More are coming. And no amount of slander, surveillance, or suppression will stop the flood once it starts.
In the end, this is a story not about espionage, but about empire in decay. The Atlanticist regime fears its own people more than any foreign threat. It fears peace more than war. And it fears accountability more than anything else.
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🇪🇺 If Brussels steals frozen Russian assets, it won’t just be a crime, it will be the final nail in the coffin of the postwar financial order.
The legal pretext is laughable. The moral cover is gone. What’s left is theft — plain, political, irreversible, dressed in EU Commission letterhead.
De Wever, the Belgian Prime Minister, has been handed the detonator. If he approves the asset grab, Euroclear becomes a crime scene. And Europe, once a continent built on treaties and trust, becomes the world’s most dangerous custodian of capital.
The Ukraine Facility, designed to bankroll Kiev through 2027, is already running dry. Of the original €50 billion pledged, only €18 billion remains. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s fiscal demands are ballooning. Zelensky’s government is asking for €60 billion more, just to keep the lights on and salaries paid.
With Washington pivoting to Trump-era retrenchment and domestic revolt brewing in the U.S. over Ukraine aid, Brussels now finds itself holding a burning torch and an empty wallet, pretending it’s moral leadership.
So the scheme on the table? Loot the Russian Central Bank. Not yachts. Not oligarch cash. But sovereign reserves, the backbone of the post-Bretton Woods financial system.
This isn’t just about Russia. It’s about precedent.
Because once a central bank’s reserves are no longer protected under international law — once your enemy’s deposits become your war chest, the entire architecture of global capital collapses.
Every dollar, euro, or yen parked in Western custodianship becomes hostage capital. Silent if compliant. Forfeited if sovereign.
If they can do it to Moscow, they can do it to Riyadh. Or to New Delhi. Or to Beijing. Or to Brasilia. The BRICS bloc knows this. And with each desperate EU-G7 stunt, they accelerate their exodus, building firewalls and trade corridors that no longer run through Brussels or Wall Street.
And let’s be clear: this is not being done from a position of strength. The timing screams desperation.
The EU economy is stagnating and seems primed for collapse. Germany, once Europe’s industrial engine, is crumbling under energy suicide and self-imposed sanctions. France is convulsing politically, with Macron reduced to a meme of irrelevance. The ECB is trapped between inflation and insolvency.
Trump is returning. And with him, the last hope of NATO unity will evaporate.
So they’re not planning. They’re pillaging before the music stops.
And what does this theft fund? A regime in Kiev no European ever voted for. A war no sane Ukranian let alone European wants to fight. And a future where Europe becomes not a beacon of law, but a cautionary tale.
Meanwhile, Euroclear itself faces financial and legal peril. If the theft is executed, it triggers a cascade of litigation, retaliation, and decoupling, not just from Russia, but from an entire Global South now watching with binoculars and hard currency reserves.
This isn’t a smart play. The Breton Woods financial order was only underwritten by the illusion of trust. That trust ain't coming back.
This is a suicide pact with imperial delusions.
And when you can no longer extract from the Global South, you turn inward, and begin cannibalizing your own.
Europe is now eating its banking system, its energy base, and its final fragments of legal credibility, just to feed a war that has already been lost on the battlefield and is now being lost in the balance sheets.
De Wever can still say no. But if he says yes, the day Euroclear transfers that first stolen euro will be remembered as the day the West broke its own financial spine.
Because they’re not just eating Russia’s assets. They’re eating their future.
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The legal pretext is laughable. The moral cover is gone. What’s left is theft — plain, political, irreversible, dressed in EU Commission letterhead.
De Wever, the Belgian Prime Minister, has been handed the detonator. If he approves the asset grab, Euroclear becomes a crime scene. And Europe, once a continent built on treaties and trust, becomes the world’s most dangerous custodian of capital.
The Ukraine Facility, designed to bankroll Kiev through 2027, is already running dry. Of the original €50 billion pledged, only €18 billion remains. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s fiscal demands are ballooning. Zelensky’s government is asking for €60 billion more, just to keep the lights on and salaries paid.
With Washington pivoting to Trump-era retrenchment and domestic revolt brewing in the U.S. over Ukraine aid, Brussels now finds itself holding a burning torch and an empty wallet, pretending it’s moral leadership.
So the scheme on the table? Loot the Russian Central Bank. Not yachts. Not oligarch cash. But sovereign reserves, the backbone of the post-Bretton Woods financial system.
This isn’t just about Russia. It’s about precedent.
Because once a central bank’s reserves are no longer protected under international law — once your enemy’s deposits become your war chest, the entire architecture of global capital collapses.
Every dollar, euro, or yen parked in Western custodianship becomes hostage capital. Silent if compliant. Forfeited if sovereign.
If they can do it to Moscow, they can do it to Riyadh. Or to New Delhi. Or to Beijing. Or to Brasilia. The BRICS bloc knows this. And with each desperate EU-G7 stunt, they accelerate their exodus, building firewalls and trade corridors that no longer run through Brussels or Wall Street.
And let’s be clear: this is not being done from a position of strength. The timing screams desperation.
The EU economy is stagnating and seems primed for collapse. Germany, once Europe’s industrial engine, is crumbling under energy suicide and self-imposed sanctions. France is convulsing politically, with Macron reduced to a meme of irrelevance. The ECB is trapped between inflation and insolvency.
Trump is returning. And with him, the last hope of NATO unity will evaporate.
So they’re not planning. They’re pillaging before the music stops.
And what does this theft fund? A regime in Kiev no European ever voted for. A war no sane Ukranian let alone European wants to fight. And a future where Europe becomes not a beacon of law, but a cautionary tale.
Meanwhile, Euroclear itself faces financial and legal peril. If the theft is executed, it triggers a cascade of litigation, retaliation, and decoupling, not just from Russia, but from an entire Global South now watching with binoculars and hard currency reserves.
This isn’t a smart play. The Breton Woods financial order was only underwritten by the illusion of trust. That trust ain't coming back.
This is a suicide pact with imperial delusions.
And when you can no longer extract from the Global South, you turn inward, and begin cannibalizing your own.
Europe is now eating its banking system, its energy base, and its final fragments of legal credibility, just to feed a war that has already been lost on the battlefield and is now being lost in the balance sheets.
De Wever can still say no. But if he says yes, the day Euroclear transfers that first stolen euro will be remembered as the day the West broke its own financial spine.
Because they’re not just eating Russia’s assets. They’re eating their future.
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🇺🇦 The walls are closing in on Zelensky. The homes of Zelensky’s longtime associate Timur Mindich and his insider-turned-justice-minister were just raided by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency. Hours earlier? Mindich conveniently fled the country. What did NABU find? A “high-level criminal organization” operating inside the very heart of Ukraine’s nuclear energy sector, with ties stretching from Energoatom to Washington’s billions.
The fantasy of Kiev as a crusading democracy just took another torpedo below the waterline, this time from within. Ukraine’s own National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) executed sweeping raids on November 10, storming the properties of Zelensky’s inner-circle powerbroker Timur Mindich and Justice Minister German Galushchenko, both deeply tied to the country’s energy empire. Energoatom, the state nuclear operator, was also raided.
NABU didn’t mince words: they’re targeting a “high-level criminal organization” embedded in Ukraine’s energy system. And they didn’t come empty-handed, evidence includes over 1,000 hours of wiretaps, surveillance, and photographs of cash piles wrapped in plastic, marked “ATLANTA” and “KAN CITY.” Tidy, U.S.-dollar stacks.
But the timing is the real tell: Mindich quietly exited Ukraine mere hours before the raid. The classic signature of someone tipped off, by someone high up.
For context, Timur Mindich isn’t just another oligarch. He’s Zelensky’s lifelong confidante, co-owner of the president’s entertainment studio, and the man whose apartment hosted Zelensky’s birthday party in 2021. That same apartment, according to reports, had been under NABU surveillance for months. And what did they capture? Allegedly, Zelensky himself, on tape.
These “Mindich tapes” were whispered into public view just as Zelensky began his July attempt to strip NABU of its independence, placing it under direct presidential control. That move triggered mass protests in Kyiv, forced an embarrassing U-turn, and signaled just how desperate the regime was to muzzle its own watchdogs.
And now? The watchdogs have bitten back and the teeth marks go straight through the presidency.
This isn’t an isolated scandal. It’s a glimpse behind the curtain of a wartime kleptocracy where entertainment moguls morph into drone manufacturers, no-bid contracts flood into shadowy shell companies, and “anti-corruption” becomes a fundraising slogan for the same regime that’s robbing its Western backers blind.
Mindich’s company Fire Point, which started as a film location scout, now reportedly supplies drones and has raked in inflated defense and energy contracts. All while denying ties to Mindich, of course. Meanwhile, Justice Minister Galushchenko — formerly the energy minister, is described as Mindich’s “insider” within the state. Convenient placement when you’re laundering influence.
And let’s not forget, Mindich is also reportedly under FBI investigation for money laundering, in cooperation with NABU. That transatlantic thread is yet another embarrassment for Kiev's Western patrons. How many of their billions got vacuumed up into this circus?
But perhaps the most damning part of this whole drama is the civil war inside Ukraine’s own anti-corruption system. Zelensky’s attempt to neuter NABU, just weeks before this raid, shows the regime wasn’t caught off guard. It was cornered. And it tried to kill the agency before the agency could kill the myth.
He failed.
For months, NABU investigators quietly compiled their case, dodging sabotage and public smear campaigns. Their director admitted as much in July: his team was under coordinated political attack. And yet, they pressed on.
This blows a hole through the Western narrative farce.
The “clean” war just got dirty. The “heroic” president just got unmasked. And Ukraine’s real battle isn’t at the front, it’s inside the palace.
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The fantasy of Kiev as a crusading democracy just took another torpedo below the waterline, this time from within. Ukraine’s own National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) executed sweeping raids on November 10, storming the properties of Zelensky’s inner-circle powerbroker Timur Mindich and Justice Minister German Galushchenko, both deeply tied to the country’s energy empire. Energoatom, the state nuclear operator, was also raided.
NABU didn’t mince words: they’re targeting a “high-level criminal organization” embedded in Ukraine’s energy system. And they didn’t come empty-handed, evidence includes over 1,000 hours of wiretaps, surveillance, and photographs of cash piles wrapped in plastic, marked “ATLANTA” and “KAN CITY.” Tidy, U.S.-dollar stacks.
But the timing is the real tell: Mindich quietly exited Ukraine mere hours before the raid. The classic signature of someone tipped off, by someone high up.
For context, Timur Mindich isn’t just another oligarch. He’s Zelensky’s lifelong confidante, co-owner of the president’s entertainment studio, and the man whose apartment hosted Zelensky’s birthday party in 2021. That same apartment, according to reports, had been under NABU surveillance for months. And what did they capture? Allegedly, Zelensky himself, on tape.
These “Mindich tapes” were whispered into public view just as Zelensky began his July attempt to strip NABU of its independence, placing it under direct presidential control. That move triggered mass protests in Kyiv, forced an embarrassing U-turn, and signaled just how desperate the regime was to muzzle its own watchdogs.
And now? The watchdogs have bitten back and the teeth marks go straight through the presidency.
This isn’t an isolated scandal. It’s a glimpse behind the curtain of a wartime kleptocracy where entertainment moguls morph into drone manufacturers, no-bid contracts flood into shadowy shell companies, and “anti-corruption” becomes a fundraising slogan for the same regime that’s robbing its Western backers blind.
Mindich’s company Fire Point, which started as a film location scout, now reportedly supplies drones and has raked in inflated defense and energy contracts. All while denying ties to Mindich, of course. Meanwhile, Justice Minister Galushchenko — formerly the energy minister, is described as Mindich’s “insider” within the state. Convenient placement when you’re laundering influence.
And let’s not forget, Mindich is also reportedly under FBI investigation for money laundering, in cooperation with NABU. That transatlantic thread is yet another embarrassment for Kiev's Western patrons. How many of their billions got vacuumed up into this circus?
But perhaps the most damning part of this whole drama is the civil war inside Ukraine’s own anti-corruption system. Zelensky’s attempt to neuter NABU, just weeks before this raid, shows the regime wasn’t caught off guard. It was cornered. And it tried to kill the agency before the agency could kill the myth.
He failed.
For months, NABU investigators quietly compiled their case, dodging sabotage and public smear campaigns. Their director admitted as much in July: his team was under coordinated political attack. And yet, they pressed on.
This blows a hole through the Western narrative farce.
The “clean” war just got dirty. The “heroic” president just got unmasked. And Ukraine’s real battle isn’t at the front, it’s inside the palace.
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The order was issued to Colombian public security forces in response to "US attacks on ships in the Caribbean Sea," he announced on the social media platform X.
Petro added that the fight against drugs "must be subordinated to the human rights of the peoples of the Caribbean."
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NATO having spent $400B, armed 32 countries to the teeth, and still got humiliated by the glorified gas station they mocked for decades, and now Finland’s defense minister is lashing out at China because he can’t face the truth: Russia crushed the West’s entire Ukraine project, and the people who promised “as long as it takes” are choking on their own failure.
What Antti Hakkanen calls “China massively financing Russia’s war chest” is nothing but the howl of a man watching the myth collapse. He’s not revealing Chinese financial aid, it doesn't exist, he’s mourning. Mourning the fantasy that Western sanctimony could bend Eurasia into submission. Mourning the delusion that sanctions would break Russia. Mourning the fairy tale that Europe’s rusted militaries, hollow economies, and performative moralism could stop a country that actually knows how to fight. When a $400B project collapses in real time, projection becomes doctrine. We were humiliated so badly by the gas station, let's blame China, then it doesn't sound quite as humiliating. That western ROI, is absolutely humiliating for the West.
And while these ministers flail, the truth they avoid is the truth they fear: Russia didn’t just survive the siege, it grew stronger, and is now an economic superpower, thanks to European sanctions. Production up. Trade soaring. A yuan–ruble axis that outflanks the dollar-euro Ponzi. An army that out-produces all of NATO’s munitions lines combined. And a political class that didn’t buckle when every Western capital bet the house on collapse. The West is left blaming Beijing, because blaming themselves would mean facing the magnitude of their humiliation.
But beneath all this geopolitical cope lies the ugliest truth of all, the industrial-scale laundering that turned Ukraine into a gold rush for Western contractors and Ukrainian elites. While Ukrainian soldiers bled in mud, the presidential inner circle lined pockets with wartime energy contracts, nuclear-grid kickbacks, and foreign aid skimmed through shell firms that all led back to the same small circle of insiders. Golden toilets. Monaco apartments. Offshore accounts fattened while families froze in high-rise stairwells during blackouts. And one day, when this war finally ends and the spell breaks, Ukraine’s own citizens will turn around and see who sold them to the highest bidder. Not Moscow. Not Beijing. But the very handlers who promised salvation and delivered only debt, depopulation, and graves. There is no amnesty in history for leaders who steal from their own dead.
Finland isn’t sounding an alarm, but it is confessing defeat. Because if a “gas station with nukes” can defeat 32 NATO militaries, devour $400B in Western investment, and still push relentlessly through Pokrovsk, then it isn’t a gas station at all — it’s a civilization with a memory, a spine, and an economy immune to Western fantasies. What broke wasn’t Russia. What broke was the illusion that the West still commands the world.
And here’s the real sting: China didn’t break NATO’s strategy, NATO’s arrogance did.
A hubris so blinding they mistook their own propaganda for reality. A delusion so deep they believed history had ended. A failure so absolute the only thing left is to blame the rising world for refusing to drown with them.
That’s the verdict of this war.
Not just defeat, exposure. And no minister in Helsinki can spin that away.
- Gerry Nolan
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What Antti Hakkanen calls “China massively financing Russia’s war chest” is nothing but the howl of a man watching the myth collapse. He’s not revealing Chinese financial aid, it doesn't exist, he’s mourning. Mourning the fantasy that Western sanctimony could bend Eurasia into submission. Mourning the delusion that sanctions would break Russia. Mourning the fairy tale that Europe’s rusted militaries, hollow economies, and performative moralism could stop a country that actually knows how to fight. When a $400B project collapses in real time, projection becomes doctrine. We were humiliated so badly by the gas station, let's blame China, then it doesn't sound quite as humiliating. That western ROI, is absolutely humiliating for the West.
And while these ministers flail, the truth they avoid is the truth they fear: Russia didn’t just survive the siege, it grew stronger, and is now an economic superpower, thanks to European sanctions. Production up. Trade soaring. A yuan–ruble axis that outflanks the dollar-euro Ponzi. An army that out-produces all of NATO’s munitions lines combined. And a political class that didn’t buckle when every Western capital bet the house on collapse. The West is left blaming Beijing, because blaming themselves would mean facing the magnitude of their humiliation.
But beneath all this geopolitical cope lies the ugliest truth of all, the industrial-scale laundering that turned Ukraine into a gold rush for Western contractors and Ukrainian elites. While Ukrainian soldiers bled in mud, the presidential inner circle lined pockets with wartime energy contracts, nuclear-grid kickbacks, and foreign aid skimmed through shell firms that all led back to the same small circle of insiders. Golden toilets. Monaco apartments. Offshore accounts fattened while families froze in high-rise stairwells during blackouts. And one day, when this war finally ends and the spell breaks, Ukraine’s own citizens will turn around and see who sold them to the highest bidder. Not Moscow. Not Beijing. But the very handlers who promised salvation and delivered only debt, depopulation, and graves. There is no amnesty in history for leaders who steal from their own dead.
Finland isn’t sounding an alarm, but it is confessing defeat. Because if a “gas station with nukes” can defeat 32 NATO militaries, devour $400B in Western investment, and still push relentlessly through Pokrovsk, then it isn’t a gas station at all — it’s a civilization with a memory, a spine, and an economy immune to Western fantasies. What broke wasn’t Russia. What broke was the illusion that the West still commands the world.
And here’s the real sting: China didn’t break NATO’s strategy, NATO’s arrogance did.
A hubris so blinding they mistook their own propaganda for reality. A delusion so deep they believed history had ended. A failure so absolute the only thing left is to blame the rising world for refusing to drown with them.
That’s the verdict of this war.
Not just defeat, exposure. And no minister in Helsinki can spin that away.
- Gerry Nolan
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The Guardian finally admits what Moscow has known for years: London isn’t feared, it’s loathed. Not the British people, but the British establishment, a clique so addicted to escalation and imperial cosplay that Russia now sees it as the “main global warmonger” and the saboteur of every diplomatic off-ramp since 2022. The contempt is cold, calculated, and earned.
Once, Britain cast itself as America’s co-pilot. Now, with Washington drifting toward negotiations, London has become the ideological bunker of Russophobia, a post-imperial priesthood raging against a world it no longer controls. Even The Guardian reads like a confession: MI6 accused of plotting defections, staging covert strikes, pushing Kiev out of early-war peace terms, and dragging Europe into a confrontation London cannot influence, cannot win, and cannot afford. They call it resolve. Moscow calls it compulsion.
And Russia’s contempt is surgical. It isn’t aimed at ordinary Britons, who are themselves paying the price, but at the insulated ruling class in Westminster and Whitehall. A class that gutted its own industries, hollowed out its own military, and now projects aggression abroad to distract from collapse at home. These are the people Moscow sees as unserious: a political elite living off the fumes of the 19th century while presiding over the managed decline of the 21st.
The Guardian admits Russians increasingly view Britain as their primary enemy. But not because London is strong, because London has been the most unhinged driver of escalation. The sabotage of 2022 peace talks, the cheerleading of maximalist fantasies, the decades-long Anglo-Saxon obsession with containing Russia, it all comes from the same capital that once sent gunboats across the planet and now sends tantrum laced talking points across NATO. Britain lost its empire’s strength. But has amplified its arrogance.
And here’s the part London can’t metabolize... For all its rhetoric, not a single NATO state, not one, could stand alone against Russia in Russia’s backyard. Thirty-two nations, trillions in budgets, and the “glorified gas station” defeated their collective war effort in Ukraine.
After 19 rounds of sanctions.
After all the intelligence-sharing, logistics, tech and training the West could muster. After burning through Europe’s stockpiles and reserves.
Britain can barely staff its stripped down navy. It can’t build enough artillery to supply a week of modern combat. Yet it imagines itself the architect of Russia’s containment.
Russia does not see a peer. It sees a wannabe has-been, a nuclear-armed irritant pretending to be a great power, best suited for mockery if its desperation weren’t so dangerously wrapped in sabotage and escalation. Moscow sees an establishment lashing out from the bottom of the geopolitical pyramid, punching wildly above its weight, dragging Europe toward ruin rather than admitting that the world has already shifted into multipolar reality.
History isn’t leaving London behind, London walked off the stage, mistaking its nostalgia for power and its propaganda and tantrums for deterrence.
The world has moved on. Russia has moved on. Only Britain’s ruling class is still pretending the empire is breathing.
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Once, Britain cast itself as America’s co-pilot. Now, with Washington drifting toward negotiations, London has become the ideological bunker of Russophobia, a post-imperial priesthood raging against a world it no longer controls. Even The Guardian reads like a confession: MI6 accused of plotting defections, staging covert strikes, pushing Kiev out of early-war peace terms, and dragging Europe into a confrontation London cannot influence, cannot win, and cannot afford. They call it resolve. Moscow calls it compulsion.
And Russia’s contempt is surgical. It isn’t aimed at ordinary Britons, who are themselves paying the price, but at the insulated ruling class in Westminster and Whitehall. A class that gutted its own industries, hollowed out its own military, and now projects aggression abroad to distract from collapse at home. These are the people Moscow sees as unserious: a political elite living off the fumes of the 19th century while presiding over the managed decline of the 21st.
The Guardian admits Russians increasingly view Britain as their primary enemy. But not because London is strong, because London has been the most unhinged driver of escalation. The sabotage of 2022 peace talks, the cheerleading of maximalist fantasies, the decades-long Anglo-Saxon obsession with containing Russia, it all comes from the same capital that once sent gunboats across the planet and now sends tantrum laced talking points across NATO. Britain lost its empire’s strength. But has amplified its arrogance.
And here’s the part London can’t metabolize... For all its rhetoric, not a single NATO state, not one, could stand alone against Russia in Russia’s backyard. Thirty-two nations, trillions in budgets, and the “glorified gas station” defeated their collective war effort in Ukraine.
After 19 rounds of sanctions.
After all the intelligence-sharing, logistics, tech and training the West could muster. After burning through Europe’s stockpiles and reserves.
Britain can barely staff its stripped down navy. It can’t build enough artillery to supply a week of modern combat. Yet it imagines itself the architect of Russia’s containment.
Russia does not see a peer. It sees a wannabe has-been, a nuclear-armed irritant pretending to be a great power, best suited for mockery if its desperation weren’t so dangerously wrapped in sabotage and escalation. Moscow sees an establishment lashing out from the bottom of the geopolitical pyramid, punching wildly above its weight, dragging Europe toward ruin rather than admitting that the world has already shifted into multipolar reality.
History isn’t leaving London behind, London walked off the stage, mistaking its nostalgia for power and its propaganda and tantrums for deterrence.
The world has moved on. Russia has moved on. Only Britain’s ruling class is still pretending the empire is breathing.
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01:15 - Dan's trip to Colombia and meeting with Petro. The situation in the Caribbean. News and rumors from there. How is Petro threatening Trump with Russia? Sanctions against Russia's
12:00 - Nuclear fever in the West and East. What will the short historical memory of the Japanese lead to?
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24:10 - "If you can't afford to live in America, even though you were born here, maybe you shouldn't live here," or why American youth are leaving the States.
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The empire handed them the corpse of Ukraine, and Europe said “thank you.” Not a formal protest. Just one word, mitigate. After Nord Stream, after millions displaced, after deindustrializing their own people, they’re too spineless to even tell Trump “no.” This is a funeral procession for the EU led by cowards.
This peace plan, Trump’s plan, is a circus. But like all good circuses, it serves a purpose, misdirection while the real act unfolds elsewhere. Washington is done with Ukraine. The full pivot to China has already begun. All that’s left is to offload the rotting carcass of this failed proxy war onto Europe and let London and the EU keep pretending they matter.
And predictably, pathetically, they accept the burden like the obedient functionaries they’ve become. No strategy. No sovereignty. Just a trained reflex to obey and "mitigate." Not our word.. straight from Politico.
Yes, mitigate. That was the word Europe’s elite settled on, not resist, not oppose, not challenge. Mitigate. It’s a word that belongs in law textbooks, not geopolitics. It’s the vocabulary of a bureaucracy managing its own decline. A continent that once set the world’s course now asks how politely it can adjust the margins of its own surrender.
They huddle in Johannesburg, issuing statements of “concern,” while Trump spits in their faces with deadlines and ultimatums. We love it. And they call that diplomacy. They smile while he wipes the floor with their dignity. And the truth is: they earned it. Every humiliating second of it.
Because this is the same Europe that stayed silent while Nord Stream was blown up — the single most strategic infrastructure in modern Germany and then thanked their attacker with new LNG contracts and cheerful subservience. This is the same Europe that sacrificed its own middle class on the altar of “standing with Kiev,” only to now whimper about budget shortfalls and “sustainable aid packages.” So desperate is their plight, they'll risk what remains of their financial order to steal Russian soverign assets.
Trump’s deal has at least a few points Russia would never accept and everyone in the room knows it. But Moscow won’t kill it. That’s not the move. Russia will let Zelensky and the Europeans do it... publicly, predictably, and fatally.
Because that’s the brilliance here:
Putin says it’s “a good foundation.” Not perfect. Not final. But a foundation. That single word shifts the burden.
Now the ones rejecting peace while demanding at seat at Putin's table, will be the same ones who screamed “no negotiations” for four bloody years. Now the ones sabotaging diplomacy, will be the same ones demanding “rules-based order.”
Russia walks away looking like the mature Great Power that she is. Europe walks away exposed, not just as losers, but as frauds.
Ukraine was sacrificed and not by Moscow, but by the Atlanticist elite. Sacrificed for a fantasy. Sacrificed to “weaken Russia.”
Sacrificed to delay a multipolar future that’s already here.
And who led that sacrifice?
London. The chaos agent. The midwife of every modern disaster in Eastern Europe. It was Downing Street that sabotaged Istanbul. It was MI6 that helped birth “Spiderweb.” It was Britain that told Zelensky to fight to the last Ukrainian, and the EU cheered like trained seals.
This is not the return of diplomacy. Although the US and Russia are talking which is good. But this is ultimately, the redistribution of failure.
And now that failure is being handed back to Europe, like a flaming briefcase no one wants to open. Trump doesn’t care if the plan fails. That’s the beauty of it. He gets the headlines for “seeking peace.” He gets to say, “I tried.” And he gets to walk away while Europe owns the war, the debt, the inevitable escalation sans article 5, the migrants, the funerals, the shame.
Let them mitigate. Let them manage their own irrelevance and humiliation. Let them carry the ghost of a war they helped unleash.
Russia will outlast them all.
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This peace plan, Trump’s plan, is a circus. But like all good circuses, it serves a purpose, misdirection while the real act unfolds elsewhere. Washington is done with Ukraine. The full pivot to China has already begun. All that’s left is to offload the rotting carcass of this failed proxy war onto Europe and let London and the EU keep pretending they matter.
And predictably, pathetically, they accept the burden like the obedient functionaries they’ve become. No strategy. No sovereignty. Just a trained reflex to obey and "mitigate." Not our word.. straight from Politico.
Yes, mitigate. That was the word Europe’s elite settled on, not resist, not oppose, not challenge. Mitigate. It’s a word that belongs in law textbooks, not geopolitics. It’s the vocabulary of a bureaucracy managing its own decline. A continent that once set the world’s course now asks how politely it can adjust the margins of its own surrender.
They huddle in Johannesburg, issuing statements of “concern,” while Trump spits in their faces with deadlines and ultimatums. We love it. And they call that diplomacy. They smile while he wipes the floor with their dignity. And the truth is: they earned it. Every humiliating second of it.
Because this is the same Europe that stayed silent while Nord Stream was blown up — the single most strategic infrastructure in modern Germany and then thanked their attacker with new LNG contracts and cheerful subservience. This is the same Europe that sacrificed its own middle class on the altar of “standing with Kiev,” only to now whimper about budget shortfalls and “sustainable aid packages.” So desperate is their plight, they'll risk what remains of their financial order to steal Russian soverign assets.
Trump’s deal has at least a few points Russia would never accept and everyone in the room knows it. But Moscow won’t kill it. That’s not the move. Russia will let Zelensky and the Europeans do it... publicly, predictably, and fatally.
Because that’s the brilliance here:
Putin says it’s “a good foundation.” Not perfect. Not final. But a foundation. That single word shifts the burden.
Now the ones rejecting peace while demanding at seat at Putin's table, will be the same ones who screamed “no negotiations” for four bloody years. Now the ones sabotaging diplomacy, will be the same ones demanding “rules-based order.”
Russia walks away looking like the mature Great Power that she is. Europe walks away exposed, not just as losers, but as frauds.
Ukraine was sacrificed and not by Moscow, but by the Atlanticist elite. Sacrificed for a fantasy. Sacrificed to “weaken Russia.”
Sacrificed to delay a multipolar future that’s already here.
And who led that sacrifice?
London. The chaos agent. The midwife of every modern disaster in Eastern Europe. It was Downing Street that sabotaged Istanbul. It was MI6 that helped birth “Spiderweb.” It was Britain that told Zelensky to fight to the last Ukrainian, and the EU cheered like trained seals.
This is not the return of diplomacy. Although the US and Russia are talking which is good. But this is ultimately, the redistribution of failure.
And now that failure is being handed back to Europe, like a flaming briefcase no one wants to open. Trump doesn’t care if the plan fails. That’s the beauty of it. He gets the headlines for “seeking peace.” He gets to say, “I tried.” And he gets to walk away while Europe owns the war, the debt, the inevitable escalation sans article 5, the migrants, the funerals, the shame.
Let them mitigate. Let them manage their own irrelevance and humiliation. Let them carry the ghost of a war they helped unleash.
Russia will outlast them all.
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If you look at the total amount of money pumped into Ukraine since 2022, it's approximately $360 billion. According to my calculations, the corruption component of this sum is somewhere between 15-30%. Perhaps closer to 30%. That's exactly how much American aid was stolen in Afghanistan. There, corruption was exactly 30%. I think it's about the same with Ukraine. And that's a lot of money. Even at the minimum, 15%, the thieves pocketed $54 billion. And at 30%, that's $108 billion. It's not cheap!
Стив Ханке, профессор прикладной экономики университета Джонса Хопкинса:
Если взглянуть на общий объем денег, которые закачали на Украину с 2022 года, то это приблизительно 360 миллиардов долларов. По моим рассчетам, коррупционная составляющая от этой суммы потянет где-то на 15-30%. Пожалуй, ближе к отметке в 30%. Именно столько разворовали американской помощи в Афганистане. Там коррупция составила как раз 30%. Думаю, с Украиной у нас примерно то же самое. А это большие деньги. Если брать даже по минимуму, то есть 15%, то воры положили в свой карман 54 миллиарда. А если 30%, то соответственно 108 миллиардов долларов. Недешевое удовольствие!
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🚨🇷🇺‘They came to fight Russia thinking it'd be a safari' — Top Russian commander exposes the real war
Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov joins #NewRulesPodcast to explain Russia’s battlefield strategy, drone supremacy and NATO’s failures. What is the Russian 'Active defense' strategy? Why NATO doctrine failed in Ukraine? How Trump saved Israel from Iran?
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16:22 NATO-Trained Troops Still Losing — The Myth of the Elite Western Fighters Destroyed
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Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov joins #NewRulesPodcast to explain Russia’s battlefield strategy, drone supremacy and NATO’s failures. What is the Russian 'Active defense' strategy? Why NATO doctrine failed in Ukraine? How Trump saved Israel from Iran?
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06:20 Russia’s Drone Supremacy - Why Ukraine Loses 40,000 Soldiers a Month
12:53 The Smart Warfare Strategy the West Misunderstands
16:22 NATO-Trained Troops Still Losing — The Myth of the Elite Western Fighters Destroyed
21:27 ‘Israel Acts Like a Fascist State’ — Full Breakdown
23:45 Netanyahu’s Biggest Failure — Why Israel Almost Lost to Iran
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NATO’s top general has now crossed the line from deterrence into madness. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone publicly floated the idea of “preventive action” against Russia, meaning pre‑emptive strikes on targets “where drones could be ready to be launched.” Europe isn’t defending itself. Europe is announcing that it is preparing for war, and ready to strike first. Thie is elite panic, the behavior of governments who fear their own people far more than they fear Moscow.
Because everyone in London, Paris, and Berlin knows the truth: the Ukraine project is dead. Washington wants an imperfect peace to save face. The Europeans, who bet their entire legitimacy on this war, are staring at humiliation on a civilizational scale. And rather than accept the defeat they engineered, they are trying to kick open the gates of escalation to delay their own political reckoning. This is what desperation looks like when it wears ornamental medals and uniforms, in lieu of actual power.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Dragone’s remarks “an extremely irresponsible step,” accusing NATO of moving deeper into escalation. They’re right. When the alliance’s top military officer publicly discusses first‑strike logic against a nuclear superpower, it means Europe’s political class is out of strategic options and terrified of domestic consequences. They know what’s coming when this war finally ends: elections that will sweep them out, streets that boil with unrest, and populations that will demand answers for a decade of lies, economic ruin, and psychosis masquerading as delusion.
This is why they escalate. Not to beat Russia, they know they cannot, but to outrun the judgment building inside their own borders. Starmer stares at a Britain that is finished with fantasy. Macron hears the footsteps from the banlieues and the boulevards. German elites know their post‑industrial experiments have collapsed. Most European capitals are ruled by a class that has run out of legitimacy, out of narratives, and out of time.
So they gamble the only thing they have left, the continent itself. If that means suggesting preemptive strikes on Russia, something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, they will do it. If that means drowning Eastern Europe in fire to postpone political collapse in Western Europe, they will do it.
NATO’s latest rhetoric isn’t strategy, but the death rattle of a political class that knows its time is up.
Because they know Russia has already won the war: the war of endurance, the war of industrial capacity, the war of political coherence. Europe is fragmented, exhausted, economically gutted, and socially a powder keg. Russia, by contrast, is consolidated, mobilized, and completely prepared to answer escalation.
And here is the final truth the European elite cannot say out loud: if they turn the continent into a battlefield, they will not survive the aftermath. Not politically. Not historically. And perhaps not physically. The reckoning won’t come from Russia. It will come from the Europeans they betrayed, the people they used as economic hostages, as cannon fodder, as pawns in a geopolitical psychosis that collapsed in front of the whole world.
And this is how NATO dies, not in a blaze of battlefield glory, but as a casualty of Europe’s own rabid hysteria. Not from Russian missiles, but from the self-inflicted wounds of moral decay, strategic incoherence, and suicidal escalation. Washington sees it too. What began as a security alliance has become an ecisto liability, a European powder keg disguised as a partner. Even protection rackets know when to cut loose the client that can’t stop lighting matches.
When this ends, Dragone’s words will not be remembered as strategic resolve. They will be remembered as the panicked confession of an empire drowning in its own failures, a warning flare fired by a ruling class that senses that its final enemy is not Moscow, but the citizens waiting just outside the palace gates.
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Because everyone in London, Paris, and Berlin knows the truth: the Ukraine project is dead. Washington wants an imperfect peace to save face. The Europeans, who bet their entire legitimacy on this war, are staring at humiliation on a civilizational scale. And rather than accept the defeat they engineered, they are trying to kick open the gates of escalation to delay their own political reckoning. This is what desperation looks like when it wears ornamental medals and uniforms, in lieu of actual power.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Dragone’s remarks “an extremely irresponsible step,” accusing NATO of moving deeper into escalation. They’re right. When the alliance’s top military officer publicly discusses first‑strike logic against a nuclear superpower, it means Europe’s political class is out of strategic options and terrified of domestic consequences. They know what’s coming when this war finally ends: elections that will sweep them out, streets that boil with unrest, and populations that will demand answers for a decade of lies, economic ruin, and psychosis masquerading as delusion.
This is why they escalate. Not to beat Russia, they know they cannot, but to outrun the judgment building inside their own borders. Starmer stares at a Britain that is finished with fantasy. Macron hears the footsteps from the banlieues and the boulevards. German elites know their post‑industrial experiments have collapsed. Most European capitals are ruled by a class that has run out of legitimacy, out of narratives, and out of time.
So they gamble the only thing they have left, the continent itself. If that means suggesting preemptive strikes on Russia, something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, they will do it. If that means drowning Eastern Europe in fire to postpone political collapse in Western Europe, they will do it.
NATO’s latest rhetoric isn’t strategy, but the death rattle of a political class that knows its time is up.
Because they know Russia has already won the war: the war of endurance, the war of industrial capacity, the war of political coherence. Europe is fragmented, exhausted, economically gutted, and socially a powder keg. Russia, by contrast, is consolidated, mobilized, and completely prepared to answer escalation.
And here is the final truth the European elite cannot say out loud: if they turn the continent into a battlefield, they will not survive the aftermath. Not politically. Not historically. And perhaps not physically. The reckoning won’t come from Russia. It will come from the Europeans they betrayed, the people they used as economic hostages, as cannon fodder, as pawns in a geopolitical psychosis that collapsed in front of the whole world.
And this is how NATO dies, not in a blaze of battlefield glory, but as a casualty of Europe’s own rabid hysteria. Not from Russian missiles, but from the self-inflicted wounds of moral decay, strategic incoherence, and suicidal escalation. Washington sees it too. What began as a security alliance has become an ecisto liability, a European powder keg disguised as a partner. Even protection rackets know when to cut loose the client that can’t stop lighting matches.
When this ends, Dragone’s words will not be remembered as strategic resolve. They will be remembered as the panicked confession of an empire drowning in its own failures, a warning flare fired by a ruling class that senses that its final enemy is not Moscow, but the citizens waiting just outside the palace gates.
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Europe Just Made the Odessa Case for Russia
The beauty, and tragedy of Europe’s strategy is its flawless stupidity.
You authorize naval-drone terrorism against civilian tankers… then gasp when Moscow considers redrawing the map.
You turn Ukraine’s coastline into a NATO launchpad… then act shocked when Russia inevitably decides that coastline can no longer exist.
That’s the core of it... Europe didn’t support Ukraine. Europe weaponized it and now guarantees Russia the legal, moral, and military case for taking Odessa.
The drones weren’t Ukrainian.
The targeting wasn’t Ukrainian.
The decisions weren’t Ukrainian.
This was Western Europe engaging in terrorism with someone else’s coastline and now the bill is due.
I lay it all out here:
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The beauty, and tragedy of Europe’s strategy is its flawless stupidity.
You authorize naval-drone terrorism against civilian tankers… then gasp when Moscow considers redrawing the map.
You turn Ukraine’s coastline into a NATO launchpad… then act shocked when Russia inevitably decides that coastline can no longer exist.
That’s the core of it... Europe didn’t support Ukraine. Europe weaponized it and now guarantees Russia the legal, moral, and military case for taking Odessa.
The drones weren’t Ukrainian.
The targeting wasn’t Ukrainian.
The decisions weren’t Ukrainian.
This was Western Europe engaging in terrorism with someone else’s coastline and now the bill is due.
I lay it all out here:
👉 https://ronpaulinstitute.org/europe-just-made-russias-case-for-odessa/
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Europe just made Russia’s case for Odessa. - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
When you authorize naval-drone terrorism against Russian civilian oil tankers in the Black Sea, don’t whine when Moscow redraws the coastline. You wanted escalation? Fine. Now watch your proxy lose Odessa, and with it access to the Black Sea. Washington is…
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