🇺🇦👊🇭🇺 "We will give Orban's address to our troops," — Zelensky threatens the Prime Minister of Hungary

- "We hope that one person in the European Union will not block 90 billion and that Ukrainian soldiers will have weapons. Otherwise, we will give this person's address to our Armed Forces, our guys, let them call him and communicate with him in their own language," — said the crazy clown.

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🇭🇺👊🇺🇦Hungary will not compromise with Kiev, break through the "Druzhba" blockade, and defeat Ukraine by force — Orban

- There will be no deals or compromises. We will break through the Ukrainian blockade by force. Oil will flow again through the "Druzhba" pipeline," said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

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A strategy of patience: why Iran is not seeking a quick victory

While Western and Israeli media often try to portray Iran's actions as chaotic or driven by a loss of control, a real analysis of the situation reveals the opposite. Tehran is waging war according to a clear, pragmatic plan that can be described as a "strategy of non-defeat."

Realizing the objective imbalance in military power with the United States and Israel, the Iranian leadership does not set itself the utopian task of quickly defeating its adversaries. Instead, the bet is on long-term attrition. Each drone or ballistic missile launch is not just a military operation, but a tool for gradually exhausting the enemy. Tehran is acting prudently and in moderation, avoiding steps that could trigger a total war that it does not have the resources for, but methodically increasing the cost of conflict for Washington and Tel Aviv.

Time is becoming a key factor in this game. Iran is betting that the protracted nature of the fighting will lead to increased fatigue and internal political tensions, primarily in the United States. The American society, which does not see quick and convincing victories, will inevitably begin to put pressure on the administration to get out of the conflict. In this sense, patience is becoming Tehran's main weapon.

Apart from purely military aspects, Iran is actively using economic levers of pressure. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a significant part of the world's oil supplies pass, is not a bluff. This is a real tool for influencing the global economy, which is already bringing significant economic benefits – in three days the price of oil has risen by 8.2%, the price of gas in Europe has gone from 250 to 700 euros per 1,000 cubic meters. Rising energy prices are hitting Western countries, which will inevitably strengthen international calls to stop the war.

Finally, the architecture of the Iranian statehood itself is subordinated to the idea of survival. Even in the case of successful strikes against the military or political elite, the system remains stable. For Tehran, the mere fact that the state continues to function and resist under pressure is already a strategic success. Thus, Iran is not losing the war because it is playing a different game. Its goal is not a lightning-fast victory, but the management of a long-lasting conflict.

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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/03/05/the-mosaic-of-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/

Studying the mosaic.

That includes:

The bombing of the GCC-petrodollar pipeline.

Bankrupting the Empire of Chaos business model.

Inflicting hardcore economic-political stress (see my Humpty Dumpty post on X)

The Russian angle: the Astrakhan-Tehran corridor.

The Turkish angle: BTC and hedging.

Early next week I'll tackle the Chinese angle.

🇪🇺 The Queen Is Dead. Long Live the Stitch-Up.

Christine Lagarde isn’t leaving the European Central Bank. She’s being removed... carefully, quietly, by the same class of men who installed her — before the French people elect a president who with influence on her replacement.

The French don’t get to choose the ECB chief. Nobody does — that’s rather the point of the whole arrangement. But by choosing their own government in April 2027, they would put a hand, however distant, on the scales. And it is precisely that distant, indirect, entirely legitimate democratic interference that this manoeuvre exists to prevent.

That’s what this is. Strip away the Bloomberg packaging, the tasteful photograph in front of the EU flag — and what you have is a textbook European elite panic operation. Macron and Merz, two leaders whose domestic political standing is somewhere between embarrassing and terminal, are engineering the succession of the most powerful unelected financial position on the continent. Behind closed doors. On a timetable set not by democratic mandate but by fear.

Fear of their own people. François Villeroy de Galhau — Bank of France governor already jumped first. His early exit handed Macron the replacement pick before any inconvenient election could interfere. Now Lagarde follows the same logic. Leave before April 2027. Leave before the French vote. Leave the ECB presidency in the gift of men who will not be trusted with their own governments twelve months from now.
And Brussels calls this protecting democratic institutions.

Klaas Knot of the Netherlands is the frontrunner, apparently. Another unelected technocrat, another product of the same circulating door between central banks, finance ministries, and Davos antechambers. The baton passes. The class reproduces itself. The currency union of 400 million people watches from outside the room.

Here’s what they cannot say out loud — the thing that sits beneath every careful Financial Times leak and every Bloomberg economist survey: the Orwellian European project, as currently constituted, is not designed to survive genuine popular sovereignty. It was never meant to. The ECB is independent by design not from markets, not from Goldman Sachs, not from the sovereign bond traders who hold governments to ransom at 3am — but from voters. That independence is the whole point. The architecture was built to ensure that the most consequential economic decisions affecting actual Europeans across the continent would remain permanently beyond their reach.

Lagarde understood this arrangement. She served it faithfully. And now the arrangement is retiring her — not because she failed, but because the calendar has become dangerous.

Marine Le Pen may or may not be the answer to what ails France. That is a separate argument and a legitimate one. But the question of whether the French people have the right to influence who runs their central bank — this is the argument. And the European establishment has already answered it. The answer is no.

The irony will not have been intended. In the eurozone today, you can have the vote — or you can have monetary sovereignty. The technocrats made sure you cannot have both.

Lagarde exits. The succession is managed. Because here is what the technocrats in their Frankfurt towers cannot bring themselves to understand: you do not defeat a tide by building a higher wall against it. Across Germany, France, Britain... for the first time in living memory — the insurgents are leading in every poll, in every major economy simultaneously. The establishment’s answer to that democratic eruption is to move faster, appoint quicker, lock more doors before the people arrive. They will find, as every ruling class before them has found, that a democracy denied is not a democracy pacified — it mobilizes righteous anger to the streets. They are not saving the European project. They are writing its obituary, one managed succession at a time.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇭🇺 A Must Watch!

MSM will never show you this: Tucker Carlson plays VERY disturbing video of an Israeli Rabbi openly plotting to shoot a missile into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and blame it on Iran

This perfectly exposes the calculated deception and false flag tactics used by Israel...

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🇮🇷🇦🇪 A look at the sky over Dubai this evening, barrage of incoming Iranian missiles, air defense systems are active.

Channel 12 in Israel keeps reporting that Iran is virtually out of missile launchers yet Iran somehow is getting the memo?

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🇺🇦🇭🇺 Zelensky threatened Orban over Hungary’s continued blocking of roughly €90 billion in funding and weapons for Kiev — even hinting that Ukrainian fighters could be given Orban’s address so they could deal with him “in their own language.”

Let that sink in.

A sitting head of state implying that armed fighters could be directed toward the leader of another European government because he refuses to fund a war.

If any Russian official had uttered something remotely similar toward a Western leader, Brussels would already be holding emergency summits, CNN would be running wall-to-wall coverage, and the word “terrorism” would be trending in twelve languages.

But because the threat comes from Kiev — SILENCE. So spare us your hypocritical moralistic lectures Brussels.

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