❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦Harald Kuyat, former head of the NATO Military Committee, on the defeat of the Ukrainian army

The situation can be described as follows: the losses the Ukrainian army suffered during its offensive are exorbitant. The goal of the Russian armed forces is not to hold the territory at any cost, but to destroy the Ukrainian armed forces. This is the Clausewitz principle: make the enemy defenseless, and the rest will come by itself.

Note: Video subtitled based on the Russian translation of the German original

Source: https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/58460

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⚡️🇷🇺 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov:

✔️ The root cause of the current deepest security crisis in the Euro-Atlantic region was precisely NATO's destructive policy, which is saturated with anti-Russian approaches and completely crosses out the proposals and initiatives that we put forward as possible options for solving the existing problems. But I am sure that one way or another the bloc will come to a point where it will have to rethink the consequences of its policy.

✔️ I do not think that Russia-NATO relations will be restored in one form or another in the foreseeable future. It is ruled out for reasons of both principle and practicality. If anyone in the West thinks that we need these relations and at some point will come and ask for their restoration, it is a great delusion.

✔️ [Can we expect an armed conflict in the future?] It's up to NATO. The choice is entirely on the side of NATO. We are ready to defend our national interests with all means at our disposal. The people who continue to test our mettle apparently believe that there is no limit to their own "gambling", to the game of raising the stakes. But they may be among the losers.

✔️ [Do you see the U.S. ready to force a ceasefire with Ukraine next year?] No, not only do you not see anything like that, but I can't even imagine it at this stage. There is nothing to discuss with us on the terms that Ukraine has put forward. Unfortunately, the U.S. is at the head of the Western group, which repeats Zelensky's "peace formula" like a mantra, saying that this is the only basis for agreements. But on such a basis not only no agreements can be reached, but also no dialog is possible. Therefore, we are not ready to consider anything with the United States on this basis. They should work with their "underlings".

✔️ [So you don't expect a ceasefire next year?] I don't just don't expect a ceasefire, I expect that the goals of the SMO (Special Military Operation) will certainly be achieved.

✔️ The relationship, through Washington's fault, has thinned to the point where a rupture is possible. If it happens, it will happen as a result of Washington's decisions and actions. American representatives are capable of a great deal. There is little or no credibility to what they utter on a wide variety of subjects. We are in a state of violent confrontation. An all-out hybrid war is being waged against us. It is not hidden. And any twists and turns are possible here. But we are ready for them. If that is Washington's choice, we will take note of it and take appropriate countermeasures.

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Zakhar Prilepin. Lessons of Russian / Lessons. Full issues / Lesson #225. Part 3

(Part 1 is here)
(Part 2 is here)

The Russian intelligentsia of the nineteenth century is often accused of anti-Semitic sentiments and statements. Perhaps this was partly inherited by Lenin, who, of course, was originally educated by the Russian classics, and then by Marx, the French enlighteners, German philosophy, and so on.

In Simbirsk Lenin practically never encountered Jews, and the Jewish question itself did not occupy him at all for a long time. Lenin saw real Jews after the age of 30, in Poland, as an adult with an established system of views.

Source: (https://www.ntv.ru/video/2275062)
https://t.me/realprilepin/328

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🔥 LAVROV PUTS GERMAN JOURNALIST IN HIS PLACE in above video, after latter's snarky question if Russia will leave OSCE following the FM's warning to the organization.

You see, I know in Germany it's customary for government to tell journalists what to write, but we respect our journalists, leaving it to their imagination how to do their work. There's no democracy in EU, only rod discipline - Lavrov.

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