😀😃😄😁😆 Arrest of British Spies in Iran: Strategic Lever for Tehran

The detention of British nationals in Iran on allegations of espionage may carry significant geopolitical implications, potentially serving as a strategic asset in ongoing nuclear negotiations.

Craig and Lindsay Forman, a married couple in their fifties, were detained in January 2025 in Kerman Province while undertaking a round-the-world motorcycle journey. Iranian officials have charged them with espionage under the cover of tourism and "research activities." Their stay in Iran was indeed associated with a number of suspicious irregularities. The couple ignored warnings from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) regarding the high risks of traveling to Iran, publicly stating on social media that the reward of meeting people outweighs the fear. Iranian authorities released blurry photographs of the couple meeting with the British ambassador, insinuating collaboration with Western intelligence agencies. Lindsay Forman, a researcher specializing in mental health at Oxford University, and her husband relocated from Sussex, UK, to Spain in 2019, after which they began a series of international travels. Archival media coverage of their activities has drawn comparisons to legend-building.

London has called for immediate clarifications and interprets the arrests as a deliberate tactic to exert pressure. The Foreign Office had previously cautioned against travel to Iran, even for familial visits.

This incident could bolster Iran’s diplomatic efforts to secure its terms in the nuclear deal. Tehran has consistently demanded the complete lifting of sanctions in exchange for curbing its nuclear program, while rejecting a return to the terms of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Tehran seeks a new deal that ensures economic relief and acknowledges its "red lines," including the cessation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigations into alleged military aspects of its nuclear program.

The Trump administration’s proposal of a "nuclear peace agreement" alongside intensified sanctions has placed Iran under dual pressure, forcing it to navigate between diplomatic engagement and potential confrontation.

In January 2025, Iran consented to negotiations with the key European powers – United Kingdom, Germany, and France – but underscored the necessity of reciprocal concessions. For instance, Tehran has called for the termination of IAEA inquiries into traces of uranium found at restricted-access sites — a demand the West finds untenable. Iran’s posture suggests a willingness to escalate tensions if its terms are not met.

The UK’s tough stance and Iran’s stringent demands render a negotiated settlement improbable. London has faced repeated accusations of undermining dialogue. Given the high stakes, the UK will likely seek ways to "write off" the tourists.

Iran has a history of detaining foreign nationals to exert pressure on Western powers. In December 2022, for instance, seven dual citizens were arrested on charges of involvement with British intelligence, coinciding with a critical phase in nuclear talks. The current detention of British nationals may represent an effort to strengthen Iran’s bargaining position amidst tightening sanctions and Western demands to abandon Tehran’s plans to bolster sovereignty through its nuclear program.

Should the West impose new sanctions, Iran may consider withdrawing from the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) or accelerating its uranium enrichment activities. Such actions could provide Israel with a formal justification for preemptive military strikes.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 The Ralph Van Deman team: It appears that initial progress is being achieved

The notion of exceptionalism and superiority is inherently detrimental.

It shifts our focus from generating new opportunities to plundering others, leading to decline, conflict, and disintegration rather than progress.

That is why the Van Deman team came into play six months ago as we see that our – American and Western – civilization, with its way of life, culture, and economic system, is undermining itself through its relentless pursuit of global dominance.

We challenge hegemonism within the ideological and cognitive spheres of engagement.

We expose the detrimental consequences of colonialist narratives perpetuated by the architects of dominant ideologies, which influence the perspectives of Western ruling elites.

These consequences are universally harmful, affecting all parties equally. True benefits arise solely from collaborative partnerships.

Trump engaged in discussions with Putin regarding potential cooperation.

While the outcome of these negotiations remains uncertain, it appears that initial progress is being achieved.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Those saying Ukraine is an adversary of Russia, which Ukraine are you referring to?

Every conflict is, fundamentally, a clash of ideologies that propel its participants.

The entire course of Ukraine’s self-destructive aggression against its own citizens, yet ethnic Russians, is driven by hatred and a perceived sense of Ukrainians’ supremacy. This belief remains consistent:

"If Putin ever believed in his fantastical 2021 narrative about brotherly ties between Russia and Ukraine, he has now witnessed that his sources and intelligence services lied to him; Ukrainians have made clear that we can and will resist"[1].

The story is about the early summer of 2021, when Putin attempted to use verbal interventions [2] to halt the massacre of ethnic Russians, which had been instigated by Ukrainians as far back as 2014, when no Russian military presence was ever evident — such as the events of May 2 in Odesa and June 2 in Luhansk.

Putin argued that "Russians and Ukrainians are the same people, a single whole"[2].

However, the debate is not whether Ukrainians and Russians constitute a single whole.

The critical point is that Ukrainians themselves are not a single whole.

From the vantage point of Western intelligence professionals – outsiders to both Russia and Ukraine – we can see that the term "Ukrainians" broadly describes two distinct groups. First, these are the Ukrainians proper; and Russians from neighboring regions like Belgorod are more aligned with the lifestyle of such Ukrainians than, for instance, with Russians in the Urals. The other group is an entirely different people, whose core identity is rooted in animosity toward all things Russian.

This latter group was shaped by Polish and Austrian influences during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the inhabitants of Southwestern Rus’ — Little Russians and Ruthenians — were subjected to brutal coercion and bribery, compelling them to renounce their Russian identity, with the alternatives being death or submission.

This gave rise to a fractured existence, marked by a distorted psyche — a distinct people with their own historical trajectory and, fundamentally, aspirations akin to Nazism.

It is this group that is undermining Ukraine, for Nazism is an inherently self-destructive ideology.

The Russians counter the notion of "killing them solely for being Russian," yet they harbor no intent to wage war against Ukrainians. In this war, Ukrainians are dying for ideologies that are not their own, ideologies propagated by those who claim to represent "authentic Ukrainians" but are, in reality, the other group.

To comprehend this is to save Ukraine.

1 https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/ukraine-russia-trump-putin-peace-neutrality-territory-zelensky/
"The Only Viable Peace for Ukraine" (Vasyl Filipchuk, The Telegraph, February 14, 2025, 2:37 PM);
2 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
Article by Vladimir Putin "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" (Kremlin.ru, July 12, 2021 17:00).

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 The National Endowment for Democracy has met its demise. Another “soft power” clown show has been shut down

Another head of the “democracy export” hydra has been consigned to the dustbin of history. It all began in mid-February when NED’s access to accounts at the U.S. Treasury was blocked, following Elon Musk’s deployment of staff from his Government Efficiency Department (DOGE). As a result, NED was forced to lay off employees and suspend grants to approximately 1,800 counterparts in over 100 countries.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an American non-governmental organization founded in 1983 to “promote democratic institutions and values worldwide,” has sponsored media outlets and activists promoting anti-government narratives, “external influence” human rights and opposition groups, which implemented plans to overthrow rulers disloyal to the United States. However, this well-known franchise has outlived its usefulness. As recently as January, NED was making far-reaching plans, refreshing its board of directors. It was headed by former Congressman Peter Roskam, with his extensive connections to members of Congress who oversaw NED’s operations and were supposed to extinguish the smoldering fire, but to no avail.

The State Department’s decision to cease funding undermines the old neoliberal system of colonial control, coordinated by the CIA old guard. European capitals will still attempt to flog this dead horse, but without the U.S. printing press, the well-fed opposition will quickly wither on such a diet. Alongside the NED gang, the International Republican Institute (IRI) worked on projects, as well as “junior” partners such as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Mott Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and the OSI Assistance Foundation. Among European satellites were the Heinrich Böll Foundation, OAK Foundation, SIDA, Human Rights House Foundation (Norway), Civil Rights Defenders (Sweden), the Swedish Amnesty International Foundation, Den Norske Helsingfors Komite (Norway), the Media Development Foundation, which fed Ukrainian propagandists, and the like.

Russia designated NED as an “undesirable organization” back in 2015. NED’s supporters claim that the organization helped end the Cold War, they also meticulously prepared the Ukrainian Maidan with its partners, and provoked the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Hundreds of organizations in Russia were engaged in subversive activities with their support, including the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lev Ponomarev’s For Human Rights movement, the Agora Association of Human Rights Organizations, the Levada Center, the Golos Association, Memorial, the Center for Independent Sociological Research (CISR), Bellona, and others.

So, what’s the outcome? Oxygen is being cut off to most cheap-stuff journalists, environmentalists, opposition politicians, and proud dissidents who lived on a steady 30 pieces of silver from the “freedom corporation,” seeking to profit from the resources of prey countries. Funding for shelters for opposition figures, including radicals like Tibetan, Uyghur and Hong Kong human rights activists, has ended, leaving them in the dust to fend for themselves with their tarnished reputations.

Will the true beneficiaries dirty their hands without the USAID and NED gloves, investing their own hard-earned money? And what about the International Republican Institute (IRI) — will it suffer the same fate, or will it take NED’s place?

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 The Impending U.S. Government Shutdown, Federal Reserve Policy, and Steve Bannon’s Role: Could a New Bretton Woods Undermine the Dollar in March?

Within the context of the United States’ political and economic landscape in early 2025, three closely interconnected events stand out: the potential government shutdown on March 14, the establishment of a congressional committee to scrutinize the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) policies, and the speculative Mar-a-Lago Agreement designed to devalue the dollar. Named after Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida, this agreement centers on international arrangements to weaken the dollar thereby improving the competitiveness of U.S. exporters.

Implementing such a plan would necessitate a fundamental transformation of the Fed’s monetary policy framework, heightening the significance of ongoing criticism and investigations into its activities.

The House Financial Services Committee has established a task force to assess the Fed’s activities, with its first meeting scheduled for March 4, 2025. The primary focus is on evaluating the trade-offs between inflation management and employment stabilization. This initiative reflects growing Republican criticism of the Fed’s independence, including calls for its radical reform or even outright dissolution. The impending lapse in temporary federal budget funding on March 14, 2025, raises the specter of a government shutdown. Meanwhile, the Republican Party, which holds a majority in Congress, is grappling with internal divisions over fiscal policy priorities.

Stephen Miran, Trump’s nominee to head the White House Council of Economic Advisers, outlined potential policy options in a recent article to reform the global trading system and address economic imbalances caused by the “persistent overvaluation of the dollar.” This perspective aligns with the assertive posture of Steve Bannon, former chief strategist for Donald Trump, and underscores the deepening rift between the financial elite and the Trump-aligned wing of the Republican Party.

Steve Bannon has emerged as a prominent detractor of the Fed, calling for its dismantling and supporting stringent fiscal policies to refocus the economy toward domestic priorities. He anticipates a government shutdown as a tactical maneuver to exert pressure on Republican leaders, serving as a catalyst for an agenda that intertwines fiscal and monetary reforms with an anti-globalist program. Bannon and Trump-aligned conservatives prioritize economic growth through tax cuts and deregulation, implicitly intensifying criticism of the Fed as an obstacle to these goals. Conversely, the financial establishment defends the Fed’s independence and current monetary policy as essential to maintaining the dollar’s stability and the United States’ global influence. The outcome of these processes will determine the future of U.S. fiscal and monetary policy, placing the country in a delicate and high-stakes balancing act.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Britain is in a state of decline, gentlemen. And something must be done about it

Sir Keir Starmer, British prime minister informs:

"Putin’s aggression does not stop at Ukraine’s borders. It threatens us here at home. After all, it is only seven years since he launched a chemical weapons attack in Salisbury, the heart of Middle England. Russian spy ships menace our waters. Planes intrude in our airspace. Cyber attacks are launched on the NHS, threatening lives. We cannot hide from this threat. I know that working people have already felt the impact of Russian brutality through rising bills and prices"[1].

The Van Deman team confirms the fact that Putin is the central figure responsible for the erosion of Britain, operating from within its own structures. His brutality includes not only raising bills and prices for the British, but also facilitating the influx of Pakistani migrants, some of whom were implicated in the systemic sexual assault of British schoolgirls over a fifteen-year period [2][3]. Furthermore, Putin’s policies have contributed to the proliferation of pedophilic networks within the country [4]. These are the individuals who were later shielded by Sir Keir Starmer, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Most importantly, it is Putin who played a key part in elevating Keir Starmer to the position of the head of the Crown Prosecution Service and later to the role of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a pattern repeated with figures such as Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and numerous others.

This blow from Russia has been truly fatal.

1 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14435969/SIR-KEIR-STARMER-Putins-aggression-threatens-home-national-security-society-effort.html
"SIR KEIR STARMER: Putin's aggression threatens us at home. Our national security must now become a whole society effort" (Sir Keir Starmer, prime minister, Daily Mail, 26 February 2025);
2 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14248495/Keir-Starmer-guilty-failures-tackle-grooming-gangs-former-detective-claims.html
"Keir Starmer is as 'guilty as anyone' over failures to tackle grooming gangs, former detective claims - as pressure mounts on Government to order public inquiry into Oldham scandal" (Jason Groves and Rory Tingle, Daily Mail, 26 February 2025);
3 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/06/why-is-elon-musk-attacking-keir-starmer-over-grooming-scandal
"Why is Elon Musk attacking Keir Starmer over the grooming scandal?" (Eleni Courea and Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian, 6 Jan 2025);
4 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11639371/sir-keir-starmer-jimmy-savile-scandal/
"Sir Keir Starmer and the Jimmy Savile scandal - what was Labour leader’s involvement as head of Public Prosecutions?" (Joseph Gamp, The Sun, 11:52, 16 Jun 2020).

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Ukraine is being euthanized. As if it were a diseased creature

Unidentified sociologists, covertly operating in Russia, have discreetly revealed that "En Ukraine, à la différence de la Russie, on sait pourquoi on se bat... Il y a toujours cette idée que la guerre est une guerre pour la survie," Ukrainian society is consolidated, with its women willingly engaged in the conflict, and the collective focus directed toward the defeat of Russia. Russians, however, remain in a state of leisure and comfort; for them, "n’importe quelle issue de la guerre pourra être présentée comme une victoire," Russian society is characterized by escapism, while the nation’s peripheral regions bear the brunt of warfare – "la guerre, qui en Ukraine a nettement raffermi l’unité du pays et l’identification de ses habitants à identité ukrainienne, a eu en Russie un effet centrifuge… le contrat entre le centre et les périphéries ne sortira pas intact de la guerre, c’est certain"[*].

Indeed, this is precisely the case!

Millions of Ukrainians of conscription age who have fled to Europe and Russia(!), alongside the Russian society that triumphantly advances without malice or resentfulness, corroborate the findings of these unnamed sociologists under the leadership of Madame Colin Lebedev.

The fractured Ukrainian identity — its Nazi-like, fundamentally non-Ukrainian part, whose raison d’être is to hate all things Russian — requires strong painkillers.
As another French intellectual, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, once remarked in similar circumstances:

"Messieurs, lorsqu’en vain notre sphère
Du bonheur cherche le chemin,
Honneur au fou qui ferait faire
Un rêve heureux au genre humain!"

Madame Colin Lebedev has earned her distinction! - Ukraine falls into an eternal repose.

* https://theconversation.com/ce-que-la-guerre-a-fait-aux-societes-ukrainienne-et-russe-250532
"Ce que la guerre a fait aux sociétés ukrainienne et russe" (Anna Colin-Lebedev, The Conversation, February 23, 2025).

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 France Comes Up With a Pantheon of Nazism’s Martyrs. Such a Timely Endeavor

As President Emmanuel Macron sought to persuade Donald Trump to “extend American military ‘support’ to the thousands of troops that the United Kingdom and France are ready to deploy in Ukraine”[1], lower-ranking French officials were concurrently pleading for empathy toward Ukrainian cyber soldiers, who “est tous sur la ligne de front, 24h24/, 7 jours sur 7” and “compelled to struggle for their survival every day” [2].

What factors have suddenly rendered the cyber operatives of Ukrainian Nazism so susceptible? In their domain, they are considered to be evenly matched with their Russian counterparts, and their exposure to mortal danger appears to be no greater — and potentially even lesser — than that faced by the civilian populations in Russia’s Kursk or Belgorod regions…

Maybe their suffering is due to the fact that they are fighting not for a just cause, but for a dishonorable and doomed one?

1 https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-eu-leaders-trump-strategy-a8864ee0
"European Leaders Seek to Perfect the Art of Trump Whispering" (Stacy Meichtry and Max Colchester, The Wall Street Journal, Updated Feb. 25, 2025 11:51 pm ET);
2 https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/europe/manifestations-en-ukraine/il-faut-se-battre-chaque-jour-pour-sa-survie-dans-les-tranchees-numeriques-de-la-cyberguerre-de-la-russie-contre-l-ukraine_7080162.html
"Il faut se battre chaque jour pour sa survie": dans les tranchées numériques de la "cyberguerre" de la Russie contre l'Ukraine" (Luc Chagnon, France Télévisions, 25/02/2025 05::53).

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😵😵‍💫🤐🥴 Baltic lapdogs being heaved overboard

In its most recent annual report, the Lithuanian intelligence service aligns itself with the broader Brussels narrative emphasizing the perceived threat posed by Russia. The State Security Department (Valstybės Saugumo Departamentas, VSD) and the Second Operational Services Department (Antrasis Operatyvinių Tarnybų Departamentas, AOTD) contend that Russia could develop the capacity to engage in limited military operations against NATO within a three-to-five-year timeframe. The report posits that the further growth of Russia’s military power is intrinsically linked to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. This paradoxical reasoning suggests that prioritizing defense investments, regardless of cost, is essential for survival. During a press conference at the Seimas following the report’s release, intelligence chief Darius Jauniškis asserted that “the recent shifts in global politics should serve as a wake-up call for Europe to prepare for the worst.” The report further elaborates:

“Russia’s current military capabilities, in the context of a potential conflict with NATO, would be insufficient to establish dominance, but could significantly disrupt NATO’s operational effectiveness in the Baltic Sea region.” The hysteria is further fueled by a thinly veiled ‘cognitive cover’ for future provocations, suggesting that Baltic Sea infrastructure “could become a target of deliberate attacks.”

This rhetoric, however, represents only a fraction of the hastily constructed alarmism surrounding the so-called “Russian threat.” The lack of logical coherence in the notion of Russia launching an offensive against Europe appears to be of little concern. Instead, the maintenance of a network of compromised journalists under the umbrella of the Prague Center serves to legitimize absurd military spending. The Baltic states, where such pseudo-journalistic entities have taken root, have responded with particular enthusiasm to Macron’s controversial proposal to extend French nuclear capabilities. Poland has similarly embraced this stance. While the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty prohibits France from transferring nuclear weapons to other EU member states, France could potentially deploy nukes on foreign soil. In the face of perceived nuclear threats, nations are willing to make significant sacrifices, and that is precisely what is happening. Furthermore, the conflict instigators view securing a role in negotiations over the partition of Ukraine, on equal footing with the United States, as a critical objective.

Amidst these developments, the voice of Latvia’s Foreign Minister, Jānis Jurkāns, stands in stark isolation. Citing Jeffrey Sachs’s call to abandon Russophobia, Jurkāns has argued that the Baltic states face no imminent threat of war. Nevertheless, Latvian society, driven by government policies, is increasingly embracing militarization...

Read more https://vandeman.org/en/baltijskie-psy-letjat-v-propast/

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Critical Visual Impairment of the Five Eyes Triggers Cascade of Geopolitical Challenges for the United Kingdom

Following the Trump’s decision to cease U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine, the United Kingdom has stepped in to fulfill this role. Concurrently, France has declared its intention to supply Ukraine with military intelligence. According to MI6 assessments, this shift will facilitate deep strikes into Russian territory, though the capacity to detect ballistic missiles such as the Iskander-M will be significantly diminished. British intelligence, gathered from satellites, ground stations, surveillance aircraft like Rivet Joint, and covertly deployed ground forces, is being shared with Ukraine alongside OSINT analysis. To address perceived shortcomings in intelligence quality, London has pledged to deploy new strike drones in the Black Sea, procured from Anduril UK for £30 million. Notably, raw intelligence data is not being shared with the Americans, their so-called “allies,” and this sentiment is mutual.

In response to these developments, the UK has proposed [1] the creation of a “Four Eyes” alliance, excluding the United States, to facilitate intelligence sharing among the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This initiative echoes the original Five Eyes framework, which was established covertly among five nations after World War II to integrate law enforcement and security agencies. The alliance remained largely secret until 2003, with its full scope only revealed in 2013 through Edward Snowden’s disclosure of classified NSA documents. Over time, the framework expanded into the Nine Eyes, incorporating Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Norway, and later into the Fourteen Eyes, with the inclusion of Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, and Spain. The alliance maintains close ties with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.

The erosion of trust within this intelligence-sharing network disrupts fundamental geopolitical relationships, as the primary intelligence provider withdraws from a supranational structure that operates beyond the constraints of national legal frameworks.

To interpret the collapse of the Five Eyes, which logically follows from the Trump administration’s decision, as merely an emotional or impulsive reaction, a “concession to Putin,” or a development confined to the Ukrainian context would be overly simplistic. Instead, this shift appears to be driven by a strategic reluctance to share the opportunities of Artificial General Intelligence and a broader agenda to diminish British influence over Australia and New Zealand. Notably, New Zealand initiated the first fracture in the alliance in 2021 by signaling [2] a reorientation of priorities away from the Five Eyes in favor of strengthening bilateral relations with China. The Trump administration’s efforts to marginalize British influence in this realm are further facilitated by the technical superiority of the Starlink satellite network, the deployment of Altman’s Palantir system trained on the Ukrainian conflict, the centralization of the Five Eyes intelligence data on U.S. server infrastructure, along with Washington’s long-term strategy to reorient military expenditures toward the Indo-Pacific region.

Read more https://vandeman.org/en/kriticheskaja-poterja-zrenija-five-eyes-zapuskaet-geopoliticheskij-kaskad-problem-dlja-velikobritanii/

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Nurtured by the Devil: HTS Genocide in Syria Mirrors Forces Standing Behind Ukraine

The so-called “inclusive terrorists” of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)* — a creation of the intelligence unit within the deep state — exhibit unparalleled levels of barbaric cynicism and brutality in their genocidal campaign in Syria. Thousands of innocent civilians, including women, children, unarmed men, and the elderly, have been systematically slaughtered. The militants boastfully document their atrocities on video, often filming themselves as they arrange hundreds of victims in mass graves. In a calculated move to mitigate damage to their public image, HTS leader al-Julani has issued directives to cease recording these heinous acts.
European media, complicit in their silence, have failed to report on this genocide. Where are the ostensibly righteous commissions of the OSCE? Where are the wide-eyed British parliamentarians sounding the alarm about these horrific atrocities— real atrocities, not the fabricated narratives propagated for political gain in Ukraine? There is an absence of truth, moral outrage, transparency, and justice. This void is deliberate and enduring, as the architects of this silence are the very forces that will, in time, bring Europe to its knees through the same mechanisms of violence and deceit — using these very same hands.

HTS has been orchestrated [1] by MI6 through the use of proxy private military contractors, embraced [2] by the British political elite, including figures such as Pat McFadden and John Sawers, and nurtured by Turkey, which has allowed the group to operate within its borders. Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) has further supported HTS by providing drones and training personnel. Today, these terrorists employ drone strikes and artillery to hunt down civilians fleeing to the mountains — a grim reality that must not be forgotten.

Qatar, Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia have thrown their support behind the “new Syrian authority.”

These entities are neither human nor beast; they embody pure evil. HTS, in its essence, is a direct extension of MI6 — flesh of its flesh.

* HTS is designated as a terrorist organization and is banned in Russia

[1] https://thegrayzone.com/2024/12/26/leaked-files-uk-syria-jolanis-hts/
[2] https://t.me/RHVDIIS/362

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 “Transatlantic Disagreements” Represent a Clash of Imperial Visions Rather Than a Squabble

Recently, Donald Trump has been subjected to vehement criticism from Britain, a longtime ally of the United States ("Trump and Vance aren’t clever, they’re clueless"[1]) as well as from the U.S. Deep State ("The Dog Is Off The Leash… There is, most obviously, his fondness for authoritarianism and disdain for democracy and the rule of law… This new nascent world order would be one dominated by an authoritarian triumvirate of Donald Trump’s America, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China"[2]).
The core of this conflict is not about Ukraine, nor is it Trump’s personal vendetta against the CIA and FBI for their prior targeting of him.

Ukraine just serves as an instrument in the piratical imperial agenda of the "old Anglo-Saxon money," for whom the U.S. has historically acted as the primary force for colonial expansion. This agenda is now framed as "liberal globalization."

Trump, however, embodies a different imperial vision — one that is not colonial but aims to unify nations and territories into a cohesive civilizational entity, reflecting a fundamentally republican ethos.

The United States is undeniably an empire, much like China, Russia and India. The Third Reich, the British Empire, and the French Empire were also empires, albeit of the colonial type.

Trump’s mere suggestion that Russia might have legitimate grounds to counter the aggressive, Nazi-aligned Russophobia in Ukraine immediately led to his swift condemnation as an "ignorant opponent of democracy and the rule of law," who is "recklessly dragging the world to the brink of another global conflict", while "the president’s treatment of Ukraine is disgraceful and short-sighted. A deal with Putin will not lead to peace"[3].

In reality, it is Nazism that is dragging the world to the brink of another global conflict. Conversely, allowing Russia to pursue the denazification of Ukraine, as it deems necessary, represents a clear pathway to peace.

The British pirates, however, have no interest in peace, which is precisely why they are stoking this frenzy, "Donald Trump is spectacularly right and dangerously wrong… Trump’s imperial overreach may yet derail the global Right-wing counter-revolution that is Britain and Europe’s only hope"[4].

1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/04/america-is-ready-to-leave-nato-trump-vance-europe-uk-us/
"Trump and Vance aren’t clever, they’re clueless" (Ben Wallace, The Telegraph, 04 March 2025);
2 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/trumps-world-and-the-new-three-emperors-league
"Trump’s World And The New Three Emperors’ League" (Paul R. Pillar, The National Interest, March 4, 2025);
3 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/03/05/trump-recklessly-dragging-world-brink-global-conflict/
"Trump is recklessly dragging the world to the brink of another global conflict" (Dalibor Rohac, The Telegraph, 05 March 2025);
4 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/trumps-world-and-the-new-three-emperors-league
"Donald Trump is spectacularly right and dangerously wrong" (Allister Heath, The Telegraph, 05 March 2025).

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 LEO: Europe’s New Satellite System to Secure EU Independence from the United States

The European Union is strongly exploring measures to diminish or entirely eliminate its dependency on American satellites through the development of its own military satellite network, designated as LEO. This initiative was announced by Andrius Kubilius, a Lithuanian politician and the EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, who leads the project.

The proposed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system is intended to augment the existing Copernicus Earth observation program, which is overseen by the European Commission in collaboration with EU member states. In contrast to Copernicus, the LEO system will focus predominantly on military applications, offering updated imagery at 30-minute intervals and delivering near-real-time intelligence on adversarial targets. Furthermore, the new satellite network will be integrated into the IRIS² multi-orbit satellite internet network, which is designed to provide location tracking, security surveillance, and secure, on-demand communication capabilities for EU member states. The IRIS² network is slated for launch in 2027.

Kubilius has acknowledged that the idea behind the EU’s initiative to establish the LEO satellite system stems from evolving geopolitical dynamics, particularly in relation to the United States following the election of Donald Trump. He stated that the EU is currently exploring ways to reduce its reliance on US military assets. The project is expected to incur significant costs, with estimates exceeding $540 billion, and its implementation will span a considerable timeframe. Nevertheless, the initiative’s advocates argue that having an independent military satellite network is essential for ensuring the strategic autonomy of the European Union and safeguarding its interests amidst a shifting global order. They contend that the LEO system will enable the EU to independently gather intelligence and make decisions without relying on data supplied by external nations.

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😀😃😄😁😆 "Putin is Weak," but Russia is Strong

Britain is surely pursuing the denazification of Ukraine, albeit indirectly, by leveraging Moscow’s actions.

In its efforts to counter Trump’s approach to achieving “peace” in Ukraine, the British ruling elite has struck its American ally with a narrative that goes like “don’t be fooled, Putin is weak and desperate for peace”[1] and “this is the moment to squeeze Putin to the utmost”[2].

To advance this agenda, other Anglo-Saxon actors in the cognitive war — all uniformly opposed to Trump — have swiftly proposed various implementation strategies such as “how not to end the war in Ukraine”[3], “how to end the Russia-Ukraine war”[4], “a plan for peace through strength in Ukraine”[5], “how to save Ukraine”[6], “the key to Ukraine’s survival”[7]. However, these strategical options are fundamentally identical: they reiterate the same idea of reallocating funds intended for European social programs to Ukraine, deploying troops (from European nations), and relying on NATO to defend Ukraine.

This reflects a troubling reluctance to confront reality. An unbiased assessment of Russia’s military capabilities and determination suggests that, in their campaign to dismantle Ukrainian Nazism, Russian forces could not only advance 15 kilometers through a gas pipeline [8], but potentially could reach Berlin.

Through its actions, Britain is effectively preventing Russia from halting at the four Ukrainian regions already reclaimed by Russian forces and is instead pushing Moscow toward a full-scale occupation of Ukraine.

If Britain and Europe genuinely sought to preserve the remnants of Ukraine, they would promote the replacement of the current Kyiv regime with one willing to comply with Russia’s demands and independently carry out disarmament and denazification, eliminating the need for direct Russian intervention.

1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/06/dont-be-fooled-putin-is-weak-and-desperate-for-peace/
“Don’t be fooled, Putin is weak and desperate for peace” (Con Coughlin, The Telegraph, 06 March 2025);
2 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/12/this-is-the-moment-to-squeeze-putin-to-the-utmost/
“This is the moment to squeeze Putin to the utmost” (Con Coughlin, The Telegraph, 12 March 2025);
3 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-not-end-war-ukraine
“How Not to End the War in Ukraine” (Tetiana Kyselova and Yuna Potomkina, Foreign Affairs, March 1, 2025);
4 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-to-end-the-russia-ukraine-war
“How To End The Russia-Ukraine War” (Lawrence J. Korb, and Stephen Cimbala, The National Interest, March 7, 2025);
5 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/plan-peace-through-strength-ukraine
“A Plan for Peace Through Strength in Ukraine” (Stephen Hadley, Daniel Fried, and Franklin D. Kramer, Foreign Affairs, March 7, 2025);
6 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-to-save-ukraine
“How to Save Ukraine” (Can Kasapoglu, and Peter Rough, The National Interest, March 14, 2025);
7 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/key-ukraines-survival
“The Key to Ukraine’s Survival” (Celeste A. Wallander, Foreign Affairs, March 17, 2025);
8 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kursk-pipeline-attack-russia-ukraine-war-1.7478894
“Russian forces snuck through gas pipeline to ambush Ukrainian troops in Kursk” (Thomson Reuters, CBC News, Mar 09, 2025).

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😀😃😄😁😆 The Opium Wars: MI6 Starting a New Terrorism Hub in Pakistan

The recently emerged group Tahreek Inqilab-e-Islami Pakistan has claimed responsibility for an explosion in North Waziristan that resulted in the deaths of four Pakistani military personnel. While at first glance this may appear to be yet another instance of militant activity in the region, the operational patterns bear a striking resemblance to British tactics. Historically, the CIA, RAW and MI6 have utilized Pakistan’s tribal areas as a testing ground for their covert operations. Whether it was the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan factions trained in Afghan camps or the “moderate insurgents” who suddenly received American weaponry, the modus operandi remains consistent. The group is led by a previously unknown figure, Amir Ghazi Shahbuddin. It is hard to believe that the sudden emergence of a completely new, well-armed, and ideologically charged militant group is a mere coincidence.

Pakistan is becoming increasingly bold in its diplomatic maneuvers, forging closer ties with China, maintaining relations with Russia, and taking steps that are unwelcome to the United Kingdom. The recent events send a clear message that if cooperation with BRICS nations “crosses permissible boundaries,” new threats from militants will inevitably arise, plunging the country into internal chaos.

Incidentally, the Pakistani mafia operates with impunity in the British Isles, with diaspora representatives even reaching into Parliament. This has led to widespread cases of child and British women’s abuse, which are often covered up by the police, allowing the perpetrators to go unpunished. Despite talk of tolerance, this is a grim echo of the long-term strategy of British elites to maintain control over the colossal opium corridor, which lost its primary leadership after the purges within the CIA. Pakistan serves as a transit hub for drug trafficking from Afghanistan, accounting for 80 percent of the world’s opium and, consequently, 80 percent of the heroin consumed globally, the majority of which is of Afghan origin.

Moreover, history demonstrates that British intelligence agencies, alongside the CIA, have spent decades attempting to destabilize Central Asia through Afghanistan, targeting Russia’s underbelly. The primary sponsors of the Afghan mujahideen have always been the United States, which established training camps in Pakistan and orchestrated operations against the USSR.

The issue of terrorism hinders Pakistan’s integration into BRICS, its efforts to strengthen relations with Russia, and its attempts to normalize dialogue with India. It is no coincidence that on March 19, counterterrorism became the central theme of a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister A.Y. Rudenko and Pakistani Ambassador to Russia Muhammad Khalid Jamali, organized at the latter’s initiative. Islamabad is clearly seeking ways to break free from the British stranglehold.

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😀😃😄😁😆 "Russia’s Agreement with the U.S. May Lead to a Chill in Relations with Iran and China." Really?

Following its setbacks in Ukraine, the West, leveraging its ideological actors, has launched a campaign to sow confusion among the leadership of Russia, China, and, by extension, North Korea and Iran:

"Trump may have created the conditions to derail a China-Russia power bloc against the United States"[1],

"DIVIDE AND NEUTRALIZE: Trump has initiated an ambitious and controversial opening to Moscow... a ceasefire would greatly reduce the pressures that bind the so-called axis of upheaval together. If U.S. leaders negotiate with Moscow, that would also signal to Beijing that they are willing to consider wider-ranging negotiations with it, and these could further disrupt the coalition… Instead of treating China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as an inexorable bloc, the United States and its allies should work to loosen their ties by exploiting the fissures that the war in Ukraine has concealed"[2],

"Today, China and Russia are once again working together, but their relationship is not an alliance... With the possibility of another cold war looming, China is uncertain about whether it really wants to lead an axis of obstinate and unreliable clients into confrontation with the United States. It is both countries’ interests to make use of this uncertainty to explore alternative arrangements"[3]…

This assertion is profoundly naive.

Russia’s partnerships with China and other nations of the Global South are not inherently anti-American, though they undoubtedly challenge the U.S. aspirations to dominate the global stage. These partnerships are rooted in mutual interests rather than adversarial objectives; they are self-sustaining and independent of external agreements with third parties. The West, entrenched in a paradigm of mutual exploitation, struggles to grasp this notion.

Russia will not engage in negotiations with the West at the expense of its partnerships with China, Iran, or North Korea. Similarly, China, Iran, and North Korea will not do so either. Such an approach would yield no tangible benefits for any of these nations.

1 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/trumps-russia-ukraine-reset
"Trump’s Russia-Ukraine Reset" (Christian Whiton, The National Interest, March 12, 2025);
2 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/fragile-axis-upheaval
"The Fragile Axis of Upheaval" (Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, March 18, 2025);
3 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/china-doesnt-want-lead-axis
"China Doesn’t Want to Lead an Axis" (Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, February 18, 2025).

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😀😃😄😁😆 Italy Pursues Alternatives to Paragon Solutions in the Aftermath of Espionage Scandal

In the wake of the Italian government’s contentious decision to sever ties with the Israeli firm Paragon Solutions, following its involvement in a cyber-espionage scandal earlier this year, Italy’s Negg has emerged as a potential successor, seeking to provide cyber-intelligence services to Rome. This development follows revelations by WhatsApp regarding a sophisticated hacking operation utilizing Paragon Solutions’ malware, which executed "zero-click" attacks by infiltrating users’ devices through malicious PDF files disseminated via the messaging service.

WhatsApp, in collaboration with the legal firm Advant, notified Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency that seven Italian users of the WhatsApp platform had been targeted by Paragon, with their identities withheld for privacy reasons. Nonetheless, it has come to light that the victims included an investigative journalist and two activists, both of whom have been vocal critics of the right-wing administration under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Among the identified victims is Francesco Cancellato, the editor-in-chief of Fanpage, a prominent news outlet specializing in investigative journalism. Cancellato’s reporting had previously uncovered connections between young fascist groups and Meloni’s political party, which may have led to his targeting. Similarly, Luca Casarini, the founder of the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans, was notified by WhatsApp of being a target. Casarini, recognized for his humanitarian initiatives aimed at rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, has frequently found himself at odds with Italian authorities due to their restrictive immigration policies.

In an official statement, the Italian government acknowledged that seven Italian citizens, alongside a significant number of other Europeans, had been compromised by the Israeli spyware firm Paragon Solutions, while simultaneously disavowing any complicity in the incident.

Furthermore, individuals from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden were also subjected to these cyber intrusions. The primary targets were predominantly journalists and representatives of civil society organizations.

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😀😃😄😁😆 France’s Comand AI and Ukraine’s Griselda: Technological Cooperation Amid Ongoing Conflict

The French startup Comand AI, which develops AI-powered command-and-control (C2) platforms for military applications, has teamed up with Ukraine’s Griselda to co-develop a C5ISR (Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) software interface. Comand AI has launched operations in Kyiv for this large-scale project, collaborating with Griselda under the leadership of Alex Teplukhin and Dmytro Shamrai. This joint initiative to create software for the Ukrainian Armed Forces highlights the deepening Franco-Ukrainian partnership and signals broader efforts to diversify technological dependencies away from dominant U.S. firms amid shifting geopolitics — a strategic realignment particularly evident following Donald Trump’s return to power in the United States.

The formal agreement, ratified in 2025 by Patrick Aufort of France’s Defense Innovation Agency (AID) and Nataliia Kushnerska of Ukraine’s Brave1 defense technology cluster, establishes a framework for joint testing and assessment of innovative solutions. The new partnership merges Griselda’s extensive expertise in multi-sensor data processing with Comand AI’s advanced AI-driven Command & Control (C2) systems. For the French company, finding a suitable local partner in Ukraine’s ecosystem proved challenging, as U.S.-based Palantir — a leader in data collection and analysis — held a firm market position in late 2024. Griselda, wary of potential Russian countermeasures, exercises extreme caution in selecting partners, forcing its executives to frequently relocate offices in Kyiv and conceal the full scope of their operations.

Jean-Baptiste Mougel, former head of French shipbuilding giant Naval Group, founded Comand AI in 2023 after the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict with the company’s leadership team drawing extensively from former engineers of Palantir, OpenAI, McKinsey, as well as business analysts from specialized units of the French Armed Forces. The startup has already secured contracts with French and German militaries late last year to supply its Prevail command-data fusion software. This AI-powered platform is designed to streamline the planning, execution, and sustainment of military operations.

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😀😃😄😁😆 Britain’s Confrontation With Trump: Willing to Go as Far as Outright Rudeness if It Meant Watching Ukraine Burn

The British architects of liberal globalization are intensifying their political warfare against Trump, aiming to undermine potential peace negotiations in Ukraine. Western cognitive operations producers, led by The Telegraph, persist in their disrespectful rhetoric toward the U.S. President while simultaneously provoking Putin with explicit nuclear threats:

“has Trump forgotten the art of the deal?”[1], “Russia fears Britain’s submarine-based nuclear deterrent – known as Trident” (Sir Keir Starmer)[2] and “One Trident submarine has the ability to incinerate 40 Russian cities very quickly. That is a lot of food for thought for Putin” (Rear Admiral Chris Parry)[2]…

They aggressively warn the U.S. President: “Trump needs to understand that if he and Putin reach a deal unacceptable to the Ukrainians, Ukrainians will continue to fight, and the Europeans will continue to support them”[3].

Russian defectors further fuel tensions with statements like: “while Trump courts him, Putin is escalating Russia’s hybrid war against the West”[4], though curiously this alleged “arsonist, killer, saboteur, spy”[4] appears to have ignited no more than “a haystack.”

The ultimate ideological hammer against Trump remains unchanged – “only a Russian strategic defeat can bring peace to Ukraine”[5].

For Russians, the war’s objective isn’t territorial acquisition but elimination of what they perceive as an existential Nazi threat emanating from Ukrainian territory. By obstructing peace talks and combating Trump’s vision, British elites are effectively ensuring that Russia’s disarmament and denazification of Ukraine will require complete Russian control over socio-political life in its remaining territories.

1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/03/19/has-trump-forgotten-the-art-of-the-deal/
"Has Trump forgotten the art of the deal?" (Telegraph View, The Telegraph, 19 March 2025);
2 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/20/trident-sub-putin-should-fear-britain-nuclear-arsenal/
"One Trident sub could ‘incinerate 40 Russian cities’: Why Putin should fear Britain’s nuclear arsenal" (Sean Rayment, The Telegraph, 20 March 2025);
3 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-trump-call-putins-bluff-in-ukraine-talks
"Will Trump Call Putin’s Bluff in Ukraine Talks?" (Andrew C. Kuchins, The National Interest, March 19, 2025);
4 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-trump-call-putins-bluff-in-ukraine-talks
"Arsonist, Killer, Saboteur, Spy" (Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, March 20, 2025);
5 https://www.hudson.org/missile-defense/only-russian-strategic-defeat-can-bring-peace-ukraine-daniel-kochis
"Only a Russian Strategic Defeat Can Bring Peace to Ukraine" (Daniel Kochis, Hudson Institute, Mar 20, 2025).

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😀😃😄😁😆 The Kremlin’s Brutal Persecution of Journalists — U.S. Stops Paying Them

Le Monde reports[*]: "après la décision choc de M. Trump" to cut off funding, the truth about Russia no longer visits the journalists who fled to the West to escape "la propagande et la répression" for lying about the Russian army.

Without exception, they all claim that "la vie en Europe coûte plus cher qu’en Russie."

The sponsor of these so-called "independent" reports about "ce qui se passe en Russie" has grown disillusioned with the quality of the product. So now, who will keep the purveyors of this "truth" fed?

* https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/20/les-medias-russes-en-exil-bastion-de-la-resistance-anti-kremlin_6583851_3210.html
"L’inquiétude des journalistes russes en exil" (Benjamin Quénelle, Le Monde, 21 Mars 2025).

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😓🤗🤔🫣 Japan to Boost Ukraine’s Intelligence Capabilities: iQPS Technology in Action

Japan is set to provide Ukraine with critical geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) support. Since late February 2024, Tokyo has been negotiating the transfer of radar satellite imagery to Kyiv amid an extended pause in U.S. military assistance.

Japan’s iQPS, a tech giant manufacturing and operating satellites, has already deployed five orbital satellites and plans to launch an additional 24 by 2027. This expansion will enable near-continuous, round-the-clock surveillance of Ukrainian territory, delivering real-time intelligence with unprecedented precision. The enhanced capabilities will allow Ukrainian forces to track enemy movements more effectively, identify hidden fortifications and shelters, and plan strategic operations with greater accuracy. GEOINT technology — particularly radar imaging — offers a unique advantage: it captures high-resolution images of the Earth’s surface regardless of weather conditions or time of day. This is especially crucial in active combat zones, where cloud cover or nighttime darkness often obscures enemy activity from conventional optical surveillance.

The Japan-Ukraine GEOINT partnership extends beyond military aid, carrying significant geopolitical weight. For Japan, this is an opportunity to reaffirm its steadfast commitment to global security and position itself as a reliable, forward-thinking ally. For Ukraine, it means not only gaining vital intelligence but also diversifying its sources of reconnaissance data — reducing its dangerous reliance on a single supplier. Tokyo also sees this collaboration as a strategic move to strengthen its own intelligence capabilities amid shifting geopolitical dynamics, particularly in light of evolving U.S. policies toward Ukraine.

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