Trump, talking to Jake Tapper, says about Lindsey Graham that "I wanted to see the war with Ukraine end very quickly. I think he was more into, you know, keeping it going, frankly."

Psychopath Lindsey Graham:

“I feel good about where we’re going as a nation. We’re killing all the right people…Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs.”

Transforming challenges into strength: Russia's strategy amid temporary fuel shortages.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 A criminal case has been opened following a massive terrorist attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Moscow region, according to the Investigative Committee.

An elderly woman is being searched for in Istra after the attack by Ukrainian drones – preliminary reports suggest she may be trapped under the rubble.

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Former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul claims that Russia knew that the US lied when it threatened to expand NATO into Ukraine. The logic is that NATO did not provoke the war because it should be obvious that Washington lies.

EU anti-Russia sanctions work!
But not as intended! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

According to FT, Western European banks, including Deutsche Bank, UniCredit and Commerzbank, are suing German industrial gas group Linde over losses linked to sanctions on Russia.

The dispute stems from Linde’s withdrawal from the RusChemAlliance gas project in Ust-Luga after sanctions were imposed. The banks had issued guarantees for the contracts, but later refused to pay out, arguing that doing so could breach EU sanctions.

Russian courts then froze around €1 billion of the banks’ assets. German courts are now being asked to decide who should bear the losses: the banks that issued the guarantees, or Linde, whose exit from the project triggered the claims.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳 US Propaganda Seeks to Create Wedge Between Russia and China with "Junior Partner" Narrative

▪️The US & Europe in their current form will reject cooperation and coexistence with China because the West insists on its "inherent superiority" and primacy coupled with deep, historic racism against China and other non-white nations;

▪️The US hopes to find and exploit similar mindsets inside Russia and create a narrative that insists Russia has been "subordinated" to China;

▪️Back in reality, China is bigger than the US, Europe & Russia combined, has the largest most advanced industrial base on Earth, & Russia is simply being realistic recognizing & respecting this - even embracing the benefits of being allies with such a nation- something the West is incapable of;

▪️China's foreign policy is one of cooperation and coexistence, making it even easier for Russia to do so;

▪️Those who cannot accept this are people incapable of accepting reality & should be moved away from positions of power/policymakering;

General Keith Kellogg (2023) argued that using Ukrainians to fight Russia is “the acme of professionalism” as it “takes a strategic adversary off the table” without “using any US troops". This enables the US to focus its resources on China as its primary adversary.
*** Yet, to argue that the US hegemonic strategy entails using proxies to weaken strategic rivals is today considered "pro-Russian propaganda". The only acceptable narrative is that the strategic objective of the US and NATO is to defend human freedoms around the world.

FT reports that Zelensky is trying to run the country as if it were Kvartal 95 [or Сту‌дія «Кварта‌л-95» - a Ukrainian entertainment production company co-founded in 2003 by Zelensky] and he doesn't tolerate anyone who could challenge him in the next presidential elections.

Zelensky, a former actor and TV producer, likes a revolving cast of characters in his administration. But they are very much secondary roles in the Zelenskyy show and the cast list is short. Loyalty and discretion are in many cases valued above effectiveness. Popularity and profile are detriments.

Following the visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to the White House on July 15th, a schedule for the complete withdrawal of US military forces from the country was announced. The deadline is September 30, 2026. Currently, approximately 2,000 US service members are stationed in Iraq, with the majority concentrated at the Habbaniya airbase in Erbil.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 Is China Deliberately Supplying Ukraine Drones?

▪️A recent FT article, likely very deliberately, depicted Europe as allocating funds to buy components for Ukrainian combat drones from China;

▪️The way this actually works is front companies around the globe buy the components and divert them to US/European operations who then transfer either kits or assembled drones to Ukraine making it difficult for China to track and stop without blanket export bans;

▪️This is precisely how China is still accessing US-designed GPUs and cloud computing for its AI industry, by the way;

▪️But the FT, by framing it this way, seeks to create a wedge between Russia and China, if nowhere else, across social media;

▪️The US is heavily invested in creating anti-China sentiment worldwide including among China's friends and allies - which is important to keep in mind when interpreting articles like FT's.

The promise made by NATO countries to provide Ukraine with €140 billion in aid over two years may prove to be unattainable, according to the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

At NATO summit in Ankara, allies pledged to provide Ukraine with €70 billion in aid in 2026 and maintain it "at least at an equivalent level" in 2027.

According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, European countries provided Ukraine with approximately €10 billion in military aid in the first four months of 2026. Germany and the United Kingdom remain the largest donors, while France, Italy, and Spain are significantly lagging behind. If current delivery rates are extrapolated for the entire year, the amount of aid will be approximately €30 billion, instead of the planned €40 billion.

Approximately €400 billion in aid promised to Ukraine by EU countries and European institutions over four and a half years of the war, by the end of April, according to the Kiel Institute, about €180 billion had actually been provided.