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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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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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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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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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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:

👉 https://ronpaulinstitute.org/europe-just-made-russias-case-for-odessa/

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POLITICO calls Belgium “Russia’s most valuable asset.”

No, Belgium is Europe’s final warning before the plunge.

My latest just dropped via @RonPaulInstitut

The Eu wants a moral spectacle, a €140B looting of frozen Russian assets dressed up as “reparations.” Belgium asked the only question that still matters: Are we really going to blow up what remains of the postwar financial order, when we've already lost the war against Russia?

The EU doubling down on its Russophobic psychosis, didn’t just flirt with looting a nuclear superpower’s central bank. It's flirting with detonating the very foundation of the post-war financial order:

→ Sovereign immunity
→ Legal neutrality of reserve holdings
→ Investor trust in European banks

You don’t survive that. You collapse. Quietly at first, then all at once.

They call De Wever “rogue.” We him one of the last of a European political class still capable of sanity.

Belgium didn’t betray Europe. Europe betrayed itself. Europe, not Belgium has become Russia's greatest asset. Belgium is just refusing to go down with the ship.

And when this all comes crashing down, when capital flees, when the euro collapses, when the world stops trusting the Western custodians of its wealth, no one will ask why Belgium said no. They’ll ask why Europe said yes.

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