🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "What is at stake in Latin America and the Caribbean is stability and world peace, because the Caribbean is being violated with US military assets. Today they are deploying warships and specialists in death and assassination, nuclear submarines, and deadly threats with aircraft carriers that have a great destructive capacity," - Yvan Gil, Venezuela's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "We tell the empire not to dare. We are prepared and we are supported by legality, sovereignty and morality. Venezuela is prepared to defend its sovereignty," - Yvan Gil, Venezuela's Foreign Minister.

Part 1

Another homeless man (literally) from the 66th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, captured by guardsmen from the 144th Motorized Rifle Division in the Krasnolymanske direction.
00:17 — How I got to the front. It was July 26. I left the rehabilitation center to sober up in the morning. Well, to buy vodka, beer at a kiosk. Suddenly a van pulled up. The van came from the TCC. Five people shoved me into the van. And they took me to the TCC, to the Shevchenkivskyi TCC. They didn’t let me take my passport or my mobile phone. They didn’t give me that chance. On the 26th, I underwent the medical commission. I have a bunch of illnesses according to the medical commission. Well, health-wise, socially. I was fit everywhere. I passed the medical commission in 10 minutes.
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02:29 — When the massive attack from the sky began, it turned out that everyone got buried. Some ran away, some crawled out of holes, however they could, in whatever they could. Since I’m the oldest, I couldn’t keep up with the young ones running. They were like “come on, come on faster.” Well, in short, I got lost. I walked in the forest for three days, there’s a forest belt, well, we call it a belt. And I walked hungry for three days, caught mice at night, fried them on a lighter and ate them.
03:06 — I saw many corpses, especially ours, there was a Ukrainian military corpse there. Well, I understood that he didn’t die from shelling. I found a box next to him, I wanted to look for cigarettes. Well, I found an electronic cigarette there, so I smoked it. The corpse was not fresh, but still. I opened the box, there were two syringes inside. Well, I guess he died from an overdose.
03:33 — Well, I sat on a tree, waited until the mortar fire stopped. Then about ten, fifteen minutes passed. I see two of your soldiers coming in a vehicle. Well, I immediately said – I’m unarmed, here and there, I surrender. They fed me, I hadn’t eaten for three days. I drank tea, they fed me. Then they took me to their side, first stayed at one point, then another, then a third, and ended up here. They brought me here already.
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05:38 — No, I don’t support the state, I don’t support their politics at all. How can it be? Taking people, homeless people. You also had a prisoner Hedgehog here, you interviewed him. He’s homeless. And now I’ve become homeless. Because my house was bombed. Where to live?
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06:15 — There are people like that, walking around cities with these “cans.” According to the guys’ stories, with these “cans” — those are the ones to take, with such gold chains, but they have armor, you understand? They have armor from the TCC, well, armor, bought armor it turns out.
06:31 — How not to get caught if the men all lock themselves at home during the day, don’t go anywhere in their apartments? In the evening, only someone goes out to play dominoes or something else when there’s no TCC. They don’t let anyone pass, the TCC guys, at all.
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08:13 — Losses? Yes, many losses. Many killed, many wounded. Very many. On our side. I don’t know about your side, I won’t say. But many killed. Killed. Sometimes you crawl out of a hole to breathe fresh air — but it’s not fresh air, you know what it smells like. Because corpses lie everywhere. Everywhere. And it’s scary to walk. You can step on a tripwire or a mine, or a “petal,” or something else. It’s scary to crawl out of a hole…
Well, we turn out to be live meat, sent as meat. I already felt it when they equipped us, took us out on a motorbike, that we were loaded, that we were meat, and thrown off from the motorbike, that we were meat. I already suspected then that we were a “meat” brigade.

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 greatest irony in modern finance? The EU is so desperate to steal Russia’s sovereign assets that its own custodian — Euroclear, is now warning it may sue Brussels if they try it. When your vault threatens to drag you into court for breaking the law, you no longer have a financial order, you have a cartel panicking under its own lies.

Euroclear, the Belgian securities giant holding roughly €185–200 billion in Russian sovereign reserves, has quietly delivered the EU a message sharper than any Kremlin statement: If you force us to hand over frozen Russian central bank assets for your €140 billion Ukraine scheme, you’re exposing us to massive legal liability and we will take you to court.

This isn’t a sideshow. Euroclear is the core of the EU’s financial plumbing. It’s where states, banks, institutions, pension funds, and sovereign wealth vehicles settle their transactions. It’s the reason Brussels pretends to be a safe custodian of global capital.

And now? The custodian is telling the political class, “If you break international law to rob Moscow, you break us, and we will drag you into the dock with us.”

Euroclear’s fear is justified. Under the 1989 Belgium–Russia Bilateral Investment Treaty, unlawful expropriation of Russian sovereign property exposes Belgium (and by extension the EU) to massive damages. Add to that customary international law, the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, and the legal principle of sovereign asset inviolability, and the EU has nearly zero legal ground to seize anything.

That’s why Euroclear’s lawyers reportedly told Belgian officials they could face a legal hurricane:
•Russia sues Belgium for expropriation
•Euroclear sues the EU for forcing unlawful actions
•Third‑country depositors pull funds, fearing Brussels can no longer be trusted

This is why Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever is blocking the plan, he’s not protecting Russia, he’s protecting Belgium from the EU. He knows that if Brussels goes through with this heist, the first court case won’t be in Moscow. It will be in Brussels — Euroclear v. EC.

And that’s before Russia responds economically. Because once you cross this line, every non‑Western country from China, India, Gulf states, ASEAN, Africa, Latin America, will begin loudly unloading Euroclear exposure. Nobody will keep reserves in a jurisdiction willing to weaponize other people’s money.

That is how the post‑WWII financial order dies, not with tanks, but with a lawsuit and a stampede of capital fleeing the eurozone.

Which is why the EU is in total panic mode.
Ukraine’s “Ukraine Facility” is essentially empty, only €18 billion remains. Kiev needs €60 billion more just to survive 2026–27, those gold toilets don't pay for themselves. The U.S. is retrenching under Trump, IMF support depends on the EU loan, and national budgets are already imploding.

So Brussels is left with one play... Steal Russia’s sovereign reserves and pray the courts look the other way.

But Euroclear just declared:
“If you make us commit the theft, we won’t protect you when the lawyers come.”

This is the moment the entire Global Majority has been waiting for, that is the West proving, in broad daylight, that it cannot be trusted with sovereign deposits.
A multipolar financial system doesn’t need a manifesto. It only needs to point at Brussels and say: “This is why we no longer keep our money there.”

The EU thought it could rewrite international law by royal decree. Instead, it has cornered itself into a showdown with its own financial backbone. If the EU crosses this line, it won’t just lose a court case, it will lose the trust of the world, the credibility of the euro, and it's fiat Ponzi.

So now Euroclear must sue not to defend Russia, but to save Europe from a precedent that would torch five centuries of financial credibility. And when the lawsuits come, and the dust settles, the West won’t just be broke, it’ll be radioactive to capital.

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