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How Russia is Responding to New Ukrainian 'Drone Threat' to Cut Crimean Corridor
The following is [part of ] a hefty ~4,400 word premium article on the current “drone scare” being manufactured by Ukraine to push the narrative that Crimea is being cut off. In it we explore what Ukraine has been achieving, with a detailed deep dive into how Russia has begun to counteract it, and why the hype will soon die out.
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The purpose is always to create a diversionary groundswell of “crisis dooming” which deflects from Ukraine’s own ongoing battlefield losses, which now mainly center on the collapsing Konstantinovka front, where Russian forces are set to capture their next large ‘Donbass fortress-town’.
That’s not to say Ukraine’s recent campaign has not had any effect at all, but simply rather that the effects are vastly exaggerated by the Western propaganda organs.
But first, to contextualize how it all developed, let us briefly delve into the reasons behind the changes which allowed Ukraine to leverage these long-range strikes in the way it’s currently doing.
The first and most important change which gave Ukraine a newfound advantage was the removal of Biden-era restrictions on the US providing targeting and authorizations for long-range strikes deep into Russia. The second, was the likewise apparent lifting of restrictions on Ukrainian Starlinks operating on Russian territory. Recall that in the beginning of the war, Elon Musk had famously said that Starlink would not be allowed to be used in an “offensive” manner. This was later swept under the rug when Ukraine desperately needed some new advantage to save its collapsing war effort—and so, Starlink was allowed to operate offensively, but was still restricted to Ukrainian territory only.
Now many reports claim that Starlink is used on Ukrainian FP-1/2 and other drones even outside Ukrainian territory.
Much of the current campaign against Crimea is also powered via Starlink. One of the newly emerging top drones for hitting Russian logistics along the ‘Crimean corridor’ is the US-made “Hornet”, which is variously seen with a Starlink panel on its back.
Here is a video of a Russian specialist disassembling the Hornet and commenting on the quality American construction of the drone, as compared to the usual ‘ad hoc’ drone designs slapped together in frontline workshops by volunteer engineering groups and such:
The Hornet drone in question is manufactured in California by a company backed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and there is an increasing number of “partnerships” between Ukraine and Western nations for drone and missile production constantly being announced.
The latest video out of Ukraine of a series of strikes utilizing this very Hornet drone along Russia’s southern corridor (beware of nasty music background):
You can see the drones clearly have terminal AI guidance which allows them to hit targets even if jammed. How do we know they use Starlink? You’ll see soon in the next part.
That said, these Hornet drones are not infallible as this next Russian video shows:
Russia destroys some Ukrainian Drones before they reach target https://t.co/skizHEn30Q via @YouTube
— Patrice Greanville (@AddisondePitt) June 28, 2026
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Trump Moves Closer to Final 'Blowout' Hail-Mary Against Iran, as Outlets Report Total US Regional Wipeout
It seems each passing day begins with some new revelations of the true scale of Iran’s damage against US in the brief conflict. This is natural, of course, given that the immediate M.O. is to always downplay any losses for the “invincible” US military machine. It’s scary to think what we’ll learn as time passes, particularly on the touchy subject of US humanlosses.
The latest report was brought by CNN, which shared a segment about how 16 US bases were emptied and heavily damaged by attacks which were “much more sophisticated” than previously thought or anticipated:
“The majority of US military installations in the region have been damaged, and some of them are completely unusable now.”
The report above insinuates that the mythic shield of invincibility of the US has been shattered, particularly in the eyes of US’s key regional allies, which—like Saudi Arabia in this case—no longer view the security pacts with the US as “impregnable”. In short, Gulf allies have been made front row witnesses to the US’s unclothing as a paper tiger, and they are no longer satisfied with relying purely on the US’s protection: they will now view “hedging” their security as the natural safe option, perhaps by reestablishing dialogue and better relations with Iran after the war is truly done.
This was immediately corroborated by NYT in their latest:
With uncharacteristic insightfulness the article argues that the amalgamation of US “tactical” victories in Iran did not lead to any strategic victory, and has somehow contradictorily left Iran in the stronger negotiating position.
The reason, they aptly explain, is that the US has been exposed as woefully unprepared for modern warfare.
America has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on ships and planes that are good at defeating competitors’ ships and planes but ineffective against cheaper, mass-produced weapons. The American economy does not have the industrial capacity to produce enough of the weapons and equipment it does need. And the country has struggled to fix these problems because of a sclerotic government and a consolidated defense industry that resists change.
NYT’s amateurishly rudimentary solution, however, is wrong. It is the middling dilettante analyst’s self-important position that the US merely needs to transition toward producing cheaper, mass-produceable drones and other armaments, just like Iran does, in order to win conflicts of the future. This is not even close to reality, and exposes the parochial conceptions of mediocre rubes who simply do not understand the true mechanics of warfare.
Even if the US had millions of tiny, cheap drones, what, pray tell, would they do with them against Iran? What targets would those drones possibly hit that could change the calculus against a country that has gone underground and siloed and decentralized away everything of worth? Russia is now decades ahead of the US or any other Western country in actualizing these very prescriptions and where has it gotten Russia?
All Ukraine had to do was decentralize its armed forces and critical industries into a vapor-like “mosaic”, and hundreds of nightly drones every single day for several years straight have still not achieved strategic victory for Russia. Iran has even less targets to be hit than Ukraine, considering the vast amount of resources the country has poured into fabricating entire underground cities for its military-industrial apparatus. What could a bunch of cheap FPVs and OWA-UAVs possibly do against an enemy with fierce resistance, and a territorially huge and dispersed country that limits warhead size for drones having to travel long distances?
The fact is, the “gear” and “wonder-weapon” fetishism of the technologists and technocrats who run the MIC is out of control. They believe you can “buy” your way into victory against anyone, and there is no more asinine an assertion.
I will say something extremely controversial: Modern warfare at its heart is not technological; it is ideological.
Victory is won by the nation with the greatest moral-spiritual alignment and unity, not the nation with the most gizmos, gadgets, and fancy “cheap” toys. In fact, if you did a study you’d likely find there is an inverse correlation between higher technological fetishization of the military-industrial apparatus and an attendant lower moral-spiritual fiber of its people. This process is not an “accident”, but a natural self-evolving feedback loop between a people and their culture’s slow detachment from unifying cultural principles toward the void-filling materialism that naturally sprouts like weeds in a patch of dead lawn.
The West is in serious cultural decline, and must increasingly rely on gimmicky ‘techne’ to prop up the diminishing and depleted ‘passionarity’ (to borrow Gumilev’s term, from his concept of ethnogenesis) which can no longer move the world by its own sheer cultural inertia and vitality, and must now resort to heavy-handed force using a crude and limited set of technical instruments.
Just listen to excerpts of Trump’s speech from tonight, wherein he bragged that after finishing off Iran, he will send USS Scaredy Abe to Cuba to take over the country “almost immediately”. But the shocking part comes at around 1:15, wherein he smugly gloats that the US is in fact a pirate nation—something to be proud of, apparently, in Trump’s novel world view:
It exposes the absolute barrenness, the total bankruptcy of American moral-spiritual fiber at this late hour of the nation’s terminal decline.
But while Trump was bragging about his pirate navy’s formidable prowess, another US Arleigh Burke destroyer “mysteriously” went up in flames:
Washington — A fire broke out Tuesday on the USS Higgins, a guided-missile destroyer and a mainstay of the Navy’s forward presence in Asia, according to U.S. officials.
The fire knocked out electricity and propulsion on the destroyer, one of the officials told CBS News, speaking under condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
Of course, this was to be expected:
Details regarding what sections of the ship were damaged and how long it will take to repair were also not available.
Just another in a long line of naval “accidents” and mystery fires.
Trump has now directly confirmed the reports that he is considering a final “blowout strike” option against Iran:
First, let us again point out just how cravenly hypocritical it is for Trump and his admin to repeatedly criticize Iran for being a “disjointed leadership” whose members are not negotiating the way he wants. He’s the one that turned them into a “disjointed leadership” by taking out the previous set even when it was fully understood by his own intel agencies that hardliners would inevitably replace them.
As he points out above, he’s considering what is assumed to be a final “last hurrah” blowout attack on Iran’s civilian infrastructure presumably to call it a day. Days of reports about his agencies “studying” how Iran would “react” to a declaration of victory by the US tells us that Trump wants to bare the US military machine’s pitted, yellowed fangs one last time before quickly exiting stage left.
Yesterday’s report:
BREAKING: Israel is preparing to announce the failure of Iran negotiations, with the US giving Israel immediate authorization to strike Iran's energy facilities after the announcement, per Channel 12.
Let’s cap off this brief update with another congressional circus worthy of a comedy skit.
This time, Senator Blumenthal sticks shifty Pete with a question which highlights the parodic absurdity of this administration’s messaging via an increasingly decrepit commander-in-chief. Blumenthal invokes Trump’s Iran-Ukraine flub-up from yesterday, but appears to not intuit that it was infact a flub, pressing Kegsbreath on it with stone-faced sobriety. When Pete hilariously continues the answer along the Iranian line, the two appear to exist in parallel dimensions with a surreal farcicality:
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As standard to the neocon Uniparty, this comes only a week or two after DNI Tulsi Gabbard somewhat surreally boasted that this administration heralds the end of “regime change” operations:
How absurd can the mounting hypocrisies of the terminally-mad empire get before they runneth over?
Bloomberg reports that ‘Russian tankers’ have been forced to ‘idle’ near Venezuelan waters by American warships.
The Russian vessel, the Seahorse, was en route to Venezuela to deliver a fuel cargo on Nov. 13 when a US destroyer, the USS Stockdale, positioned itself in its path. The Russian vessel changed course, heading toward Cuba, and the warship sailed near Venezuelan territorial waters toward Puerto Rico. The Seahorse has since tried to approach Venezuela twice, but turned back both times, and remains idling in the Caribbean.
Other OSINT operators have taken it further, and believe a full naval blockade of Venezuela’s economic corridor is in effect:
No one is reporting this, but the AIS data overwhelmingly shows tankers of Chinese or Russian origin are stopped or are not transiting in and out of Venezuelan waters over the past 24 hours.
This naturally comes only days after Venezuela’s national assembly approved a 15-year extension of Russia’s PDVSA and Roszarubezhneft to operate two oil fields in the country’s south:
Upon further digging, though, one finds that the US’s actions may not be quite as severe as the above blockade rumors suggest, but the overtures are clearly being put in place for major intensification:
They are still doing business as usual, the Seahorse was not intercepted it was warned from land and stopped but it’s back on course.
This account tracks the movements in the area, and reports that the Russian ships ended up successfully offloading their oil and sailed back to Russia.
As stated, the early stages of economic pressure terror on Venezuela have begun, particularly with the news that a major oil plant in the country has suddenly gone up in flames two days ago, just as US warships had begun to hector incoming Russian and Chinese oil tankers—presented below in juxtaposition with the obviously ‘coincidental’ Trump announcement just a couple weeks prior:
Despite the obvious links to the CIA, a US congressman absurdly essayed to pin the plant explosion on Maduro himself, as part of the manifest information campaign meant to destabilize Venezuela by sabotaging the president’s public mandate:
The overall plan is clear. Trump intends to use ‘strategic ambiguity’ to put massive psychological pressure on Maduro’s administration, by weakening public support via a regime of uncertainty about the country’s economic future, general prosperity, and stability.
The reason is, as ‘rumored’ reports last week had indicated, Trump is uncertain about the success of any major military action against Venezuela; in short, Trump is afraid to walk into a giant blunder and face humiliation at the hands of one of South America’s largest military forces.
That means Trump may be leaning towards simply using the large American buildup in conjunction with various instruments of economic terror as a lever to bring down Maduro; these, of course, would also be used in conjunction with CIA and potential special forces covert ops to ‘trigger’ certain events in the country at convenient moments, particularly when the economic terror campaign has reached a certain needed culminating point.
Case in point:
Multiple airlines have cancelled their flights to Venezuela after the FAA warned of a “potentially hazardous situation” when flying over the country, according to Reuters.
Per DW, six airlines have cancelled their flights.
Cancelled flights, rerouted maritime and economic supply lines, mass-psychological and political pressure, etc. In essence, a slow strangulation campaign in conjunction with the sabotage of key energy infrastructure nodes throughout the country. That’s not to mention strikes on what are alleged to be narco-boats, which even US JAG lawyers contend to be illegal:
This entire campaign is strongly coordinated around the ‘thematic’ messaging of Maduro’s clearly specious ties to what appears to be an entirely fictitious “drug cartel”. Several journalists have now expressed that the ‘Cartel de los Soles’, comically claimed by Rubio to be led by Maduro himself, in fact does not even exist:
Enlargement of the above from CNN and The Guardian:
So, we have a fictitious cartel with Maduro as the ‘grand mafioso leader’, and for this the country must endure economic sabotage—a fairly trite script, used in various iterations in the past by the ‘Rules Based Order’; see: Libya.
Now, as of this very writing Reuters reports that the US stands poised to heavily escalate its terror campaign against Venezuela into a ‘new phase’ “in the coming days”:
WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The United States is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, four U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Trump administration escalates pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
The “options” being weighed by the US, according to ‘anonymous officials’ who’ve spoken to Reuters, naturally include the direct overthrow of Nicolas Maduro:
Two U.S. officials told Reuters the options under consideration included attempting to overthrow Maduro.
At the same time, WaPo reports that Trump intends to drop propaganda leaflets over Caracas itself:
The Trump administration has proposed a psychological operation to demoralize the Venezuelan leader and encourage him to flee the country,according to people familiar with planning.
The leaflets are intended to rouse disorder amongst the populace in the hopes they do Trump’s dirty work for him in ousting Maduro, before the US is forced to lay a ‘heavier hand’.
According to WaPo:
The leaflets were expected to contain information on a $50 million reward for assistance leading to Maduro’s arrest and conviction, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive planning for a potential operation. In August, U.S. officials increased the reward from $25 million, citing his 2020 indictment for corruption, narcoterrorism and drug trafficking.
Maduro’s 63rd birthday is this Sunday the 23rd, so this plan—if decided upon—could be launched literally within hours.
But as always with Trump, there appears to possibly be some hidden motives beneath the Monroe-doctrine machismo and faux-Americana bravado. It seems ever-wily Trump could be angling to make some ultimate deal with Maduro, as several reports have indicated that the naval buildup is merely meant to bring leverage for just that:
Maduro privately offered the U.S. access to a large share of Venezuela’s massive oil reserves—about 300 billion barrels—to avoid a military confrontation.
Trump initially rejected the deal, but a senior official now says those talks may still be alive, and the deployment of the aircraft carrier is partly meant to pressure Maduro for more leverage in the negotiations.
Source: NYT
#BREAKING Trump said that he will soon speak with Nicolás Maduro, and that he has “something very specific to say.”
In the meantime, Maduro aptly summarizes to his people precisely the plan outlined earlier in this piece:
'Settlement' Carnival Reaches Fever Pitch as Antsy Euros Jockey for Relevancy
Russia—yesterday through Lavrov and Peskov—continues to maintain that no real plan has been presented to the Russian side yet, and that all military objectives of the SMO must be achieved. So what is the point, exactly, of this loony back-and-forth, which is crescendoing to hysterical levels?
Each side has its own axe to grind: for the Europeans it’s not only to save Ukraine and the cabal’s war against Russia, but to save their own hides, political careers, etc. The entire EU is now riding on Ukraine as the sole predominant issue—if a catastrophic failure here takes place, a firestorm could sweep away virtually every hated sock-puppet like Macron, Merz, Starmer, et al.
In short, it’s a mad dash to salvage the disintegrating nearly 100-year-old Ukrainian-Western project. For Ukrainian political elites, the purpose now is to stuff their pockets before the collapse while ensuring protection for themselves in the ensuing storm.
Here’s WSJ explaining how Ukraine changed the so-called “28-point plan” to give its elites total amnesty for their wanton corruption after the war’s end:
Now, Bloomberg has leaked what is claimed to be a transcript of Steve Witkoff’s conversation with top Putin advisor Ushakov. It is a desperate last minute hail mary with zero attribution—not even the usual lazy ‘anonymous sources’ sop. The motivation is clear: to quickly throw a spanner in the works and throw off the Trump team’s plans to turn Ukraine into a sacrificial lamb for the purpose of rapprochement with Russia. If the leak is real, the far bigger scandal is that it happened at all, as pointed out by Greenwald:
Key cog Kirill, for his part, was adamant it’s a total fake:
In the meantime, Putin has continued to transmit the same stalwart messaging.
Putin says the US hasn’t shown Moscow the full text of the new plan because Washington ‘can’t secure Ukraine’s approval’
Kiev and the EU STILL cling to fantasies of a ‘strategic defeat for Russia’
Warns these delusions will lead to consequences they don’t even grasp
Putin’s much more direct statement was that Russia is already achieving all of its military goals, implying peace talks are not a necessity, though Russia remains open to them under the strict condition that detailed discussions on all major demands be carried out:
“Russian goals are already BEING ACHIEVED on the battlefield but we are ready for peace talks.
Resolving the conflict peacefully requires detailed discussions.”
The message, as always, is clear: Russia has all the cards and will not be strong-armed or brow-beaten into cessations of the hostilities merely “for the sake of”. Everyone already knows precisely what this would bring, as Macron spelled out just earlier today—listen at the 0:35 second mark:
“We must put French and British troops in Kiev and Odessa…”
In short, the Euro-cabal is desperate to force Russia into an unfavorable ceasefire to immediately inject NATO troops and “freeze” the conflict for however long it takes to re-arm and re-generate the AFU for round two of this existential clash of civilizations.
The corporate press is not optimistic:
As a last note, this post by Trump is a true masterclass in the hysterical post-imperialism political-degeneracy waning phase of the US Empire:
“THE USA CONTINUES TO SELL MASSIVE $AMOUNTS (sic) OF WEAPONS TO NATO, FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UKRAINE….GOD BLESS ALL THE [millions of] LIVES THAT HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE HUMAN CATASTROPHE!”
Yes, god bless the millions lost, but god bless the MIC even more.
The collapse of the Ukrainian front continues to accelerate.
In the Gulyaipole direction, Russian troops have steamrolled up to the Haichur river—after having cleared everything on the Yanchur earlier—capturing multiple settlements there:
Most notably, not only has Gulyaipole come under partial encirclement, but Russian troops have even broke through and already begun fighting inside the town itself, marking the possibility that Gulyaipole may become one of the fastest fallen major strongholds of the entire war:
From a top Ukrainian outlet—complaints that lack of communications devices has imperiled the front:
Maksim Zhorin, deputy commander of the Azov Corps, complains bitterly about the state of the frontlines:
Meanwhile, Pokrovsk has been completely captured, and Mirnograd—according to our best cartographers—has had its cauldron fully closed, as opposed to ‘gray zones’ or mere drone ‘fire-control’ over the last supply routes, etc. The map is self-explanatory:
Footage even emerged of what was claimed to be prisoners being marched from the Mirnograd area, as viewed by passing Russian army motorcyclists:
A gallery from RIA Novosti of what the Russian supply routes into the agglomeration look like:
From a Ukrainian analyst:
Now is one of the hardest moments of our history. Now the pressure on Ukraine is one of the hardest. Now Ukraine may find itself facing a very difficult choice – either loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner. Either the difficult 28 points, or an extremely hard winter, the hardest, and further risks. Life without freedom, without dignity, without justice, and for us to believe in the one who has already attacked twice. They will expect a response from us.
And another, describing the intensification of Russian operations:
At the same time, there is systematic destruction of our ammunition depots, supply points, and accumulation sites—to isolate the maneuver and make every move costly. This is not chaotic work but a clear scheme: first jam, break logistics, then press with infantry. There is nothing top secret here, we understand it, the enemy understands it, and it is all visible in the footage.
☠️Overall, combat operations across the entire sector continue without pause. It’s not getting better; on the contrary, the pressure, density of strikes, and pace of enemy attempts to slip into our seams increase daily!
By the way, yesterday Zelensky made an urgent address which was the first time ever that the Ukrainian leader has come close to admitting the war is nearly lost—it’s a fitting must-listen to close out the show:
“They are waiting for a response from us, but I gave it on May 20, 2019, when I promised to defend the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.”
“We did not betray Ukraine on February 24, and we will not betray it now.”
“I am addressing everyone — people and politicians — to gather and stop this mess.”
“We are of steel, but even the strongest metal can at some point break.”
Lastly, we leave off on this colorfully apt reduction of the “settlement” process and its many absurd ‘guarantees’, from Russian war correspondent Vlad Zizdok:
“The fox promises not to be cunning. The neighbor promises not to make noise. The dog swears not to steal food in the owner’s presence. The elephant promises to behave carefully in the china shop. The thief promises not to take the wallet. The wolf swears not to wear sheep’s skin. The official promises to act. The cat vows not to eat fish. The river plans not to overflow. The persimmon definitely does not astringe. And I promise never to drink again.
The agreement is legally binding.
Violations - sanctions.”
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All the while, new undemocratic measures are “slipped in” while the populace is distracted by the hysteria; case in point being the sudden push for national digital ID cards in the UK and other countries. Or the new Chat Control mass surveillance proposed by the EU to acquire the ability to scan all private correspondence for ‘problematic’ material.
Further case in point, just two weeks ago in a speech to the EU Parliament, Ursula von der Leyen claimed the world was “on the brink” of another “major global health crisis”:
In between her frenzy for war and health hysteria, it appears the rot queen’s sole job as head of the morbidly decaying EU is to stoke fear, panic, and push one crisis after next onto gullible citizens to wrest from them the last vestiges of any resistance.
The complete degradation of the “democratic process” is a growing trend there as well. As the flailing behemoth of the EU slips into the abyss, the urgency with which its corrupt puppet-leaders cling to remnants of their power goes through the roof—by any and all means. Now, virtually every election which threatens their grasp is done away with under peak-phony pretexts.
In Germany, for instance, the latest grotesque miscarriage of ‘democracy’ was seen in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate where the AfD mayoral candidate for the town of Ludwigshafen, Joachim Paul, was banned from running for mayor based on the German domestic intelligence agency’s (BfV) report which included outrageous claims that Paul was some kind of threat to the constitution based on ‘unpatriotic’ activities which included his praise for Lord of the Rings. Apparently, his belief that Tolkien’s LOTR trilogy reflected ‘conservative values’ was some kind of ‘dangerous’ nationalist dog whistle; there is no longer any limit to the preposterous lows they will stoop to in railroading and sandbagging legitimate candidates who pose a threat to the Ruse Based Order.
The shocking conclusion to this saga saw nearly 75% of the voters crammed into a ‘gray’ category of non-participation, when the election was finally held days ago:
Previous elections here had turnouts north of 60%, which demonstrates the utter disillusionment of voters after ‘inconvenient’ candidates are simply wiped from the ballot for any arbitrary absurdity.
Now, all eyes are on Moldova as a critical parliamentary election is set to take place just tomorrow which promises to seal Moldova’s future—and likely Transnistria’s along with it.
Already on the eve of it, Moldova has exercised its “European values” of the ‘Ruse Based Order’ by banning two opposition parties deemed “pro-Kremlin” just hours before the election is set to kick off.
As usual, MSM gave full pass to this ‘democratic’ prophylactic, further eroding any moral ‘superiority’ the West may have at one time pretended to enjoy.
As we have seen in Romania and now countless other countries, merely the specter of the so-called Kremlin “hand” must be invoked for all democratic due-process to be completely dissolved with nary a single objection from the Ruse-makers.
The upcoming Czech election is likewise faced with the same chicanery:
Read that again:
“Right-wing populist Babis is tipped to win October’s election, but the president is weighing barring him over his business interests and ambivalence toward NATO.”
Democracy is blue-in-the-face and cold-to-the-touch in the moribund EuroCircus. Elections at this point are merely procedural pageantries for crowning of the pre-selected ‘winner’. As stated earlier, the closer things get to the edge for this rotting organ, the more “mask-off” its corrupt politburo must go to preserve power.
From the first Politico piece above, it’s the same tired tale:
There’s a great deal at stake in the upcoming Czech election — for Russia. So perhaps it’s no wonder that Czechia has been flooded by pro-Russian disinformation of late.
The second piece lays it out more clearly:
The debate over Babiš’ suitability for office starkly reveals the impending strategic headache that he is likely to pose to the EU and NATO if he wins and teams up with fellow Central European populists — Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Robert Fico in Slovakia — to oppose Western support for Ukraine.
Anyone who opposes the totalitarian EU regime’s “party line” is merely removed from participating in “democracy”.
The stakes in the Moldovan case are truly higher than ever. There are rumors that various NATO troops, particularly those from France, have arrived to Odessa for various provocations:
Foreign Intelligence Service: NATO troops in Odessa to occupy Moldova and to intimidate Transnistria: “According to reports, the first group of career military personnel from France and Great Britain has already arrived in Odessa. The intelligence agency emphasizes that such a scenario has been repeatedly worked out during NATO exercises in Romania and can be implemented after the parliamentary elections in Moldova on September 28.
It is noted that after that, at the request of Moldovan President Maia Sandu, the armed forces of European states will have to force the Moldovans to come to terms with the dictatorship under the guise of European democracy. The SVR believes that such plans of totalitarian-liberal European regimes are dictated by their desire to demonstrate their “courage and determination.”
“Frightened by a direct clash with big Russia, the Europeans intend to take revenge on small Moldova. Self-assertion at the expense of the weak has always been an integral part of European colonialism.”
-EurAsia Daily
This by the way comes from the official site of the Russian SVR intelligence agency:
Which states:
The Press Bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reports that, according to information received by the SVR, the Brussels Euro-bureaucrats are determined to keep Moldova in line with their Russophobic policies. This is planned to be done at any cost, including the deployment of troops and the actual occupation of the country. At this stage, NATO forces are being concentrated in Romania near the Moldovan borders. A NATO “landing” is being prepared in the Odessa region of Ukraine to intimidate Transnistria. According to available data, the first group of military personnel from France and the United Kingdom has already arrived in Odessa.
Once again the latest actions come by way of an internally coordinated campaign, as evidenced by Zelensky’s UN speech, as well as his subsequent statements—all seen below—where he outright threatens Transnistria:
And let’s not even get to the election interference the West continuously carries out against Lukashenko in Belarus.
As a corollary to all of the above, amidst all the phony ‘drone’ false flags now sweeping through Europe—clearly a staged MI6 campaign—Ukraine has absurdly accused Hungary of sending drones into its country, which the Hungarian FM promptly rejected:
If that wasn’t absurd enough, Hungary was even accused of using its drones to guide Russian cruise missiles to destroy the American factory in Ukraine last month:
The ludicrous propaganda knows no bounds. Why would Russia even need surveillance drones to “guide” its accurate cruise missiles to a huge factory building easily visible by satellites? A palm to the face is in order.
Speaking of the drones, here’s a perfect illustration of what the false flags achieve—thesis, antithesis, synthesis. First, we have the phony MI6 drone threat shutting down European airports, blamed on Russia with zero evidence. Then, conveniently, NATO uses the hoax to raise tensions and introduce more militarization into the region:
Meanwhile, a P-8A Poseidon of the US Navy has been circling over the Baltic Sea near the Kaliningrad region for several hours.
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Lavrov and Zakharova both agreed on the nature of these provocations:
Now all eyes turn to the Moldovan parliamentary elections tomorrow, which are set to be riddled with controversy. For instance, Moldova is already playing the same illegal game as last time during the presidential elections, depriving citizens residing in Russia from casting their absentee ballots—as is their legal right—by sending out only 10,000 ballots for hundreds of thousands of eligible citizens, at least according to Russian officials:
The Kremlin stated that a significant proportion of the republic’s citizens who advocate establishing relations with Russia are actually deprived of the opportunity to be heard inside the country. Hundreds of thousands of Moldovans live in Russia, but only 10,000 ballots were sent to the country. Moreover, even according to the Moldovan Central Election Commission, 13 thousand citizens living in Russia are registered to participate in the elections.
If the following report from Legitimny channel is any indication, the pivotal election will certainly be ‘interesting’, as all the chips are on the line, for not only the futures of Moldova, Transnistria, and Ukraine—but that of the EU itself:
Our source reports that tomorrow in the Moldovan elections there will be many artificial provocations that Sandu’s team is preparing as an alternative to canceling the elections if they lose. They will also try to prevent Pridnestrovians from voting. To do this, bridges are blocked and polling stations are moved far away, plus there will be a lot of police who will be tasked with detaining people. Provocations are also expected in Gagauzia.
Sandu is tasked with winning at any cost in order to continue the militarization of the country, preparing it for war with the PMR/Russia.There is also information that if Sandu sees that she is losing the elections, then Ukraine will launch a case of provocation and even invasion to annul the elections. Therefore, all military units of the PMR are secretly put into a state of emergency.
The only thing that can stop «Sanda and Co.» from their idea is the information received from Western intelligence that Putin and Lukashenko discussed this scenario and the Republic of Belarus will support Russia if globalists want to drag Moldova into the war. It’s not for nothing that Oreshnik and nuclear weapons have already been delivered to Belarus.
In fact, this is the last time Moldovans choose their future. If Sandu wins, the country will speed up preparations for war, and the fiction about European life will never come true, but on the contrary, all Moldovans will lose their business, homes, relatives, and no one will compensate them for this. Let them ask the Ukrainians, to whom Zelensky promised to compensate everything and over the years he gave out only 60 apartments and hundreds of thousands.
✔️the most important thing that an ordinary citizen can do in this situation is not to be fooled by provocations, be sure to go to the polls, cast your vote for the future of peaceful Moldova, otherwise others will do it instead of you (draw your signature under the required column).
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Crisis Escalation Becomes Euro-Cabal's Final Meal Ticket
Friedrich Merz, Julia Klöckner; CDU ZUKUNFTSKONGRESS am 27.04.2023 in Berlin (Tempodrom), Deutschland (by Dr. Frank Gaeth) Merz has quickly become one of the most rabid Russophobes in a continent awash in demented and mendacious figures. | Wikimedia Commons
It has become clear that the EU-NATO establishment has chosen the path of acute escalation as their current strategy against Russia. The question is why? There are several reasons, the most overriding being that the political structures of Europe are crumbling before our very eyes and endless war-mania is the only way for the cabal to sweep its various polycrises under the rug, stupify its masses, and retain power.
But besides that, it could also have something to do with the long-rumored Russian military buildups which analysts fear were the precursor to a large-scale new series of fall offensives after the relative lull of the past month or so. Perhaps they feel the Ukrainian army’s back is on the verge of being broken by one more such offensive, and have decided that only an allied intervention—or the threat of one—could bring Russia to the proverbial table.
The saber-rattling is now incessant, in accordance with the well-oiled machine we described last time, where the provocation puck is passed to MSM shills who rabidly mine for usable soundbites to inflame tensions as much as possible.
Here Christiane Amanpour giddily begs for WWIII:
Even the sunken rot queen herself seems unsettled by having to answer such a provocative question. Not all warmongers are built alike, it seems.
A series of new “threatening incidents” has spread through Europe like wildfire, this time in Denmark and Latvia, with NATO jets being scrambled for effect:
Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has stated that Denmark is considering invoking NATO Article 4 following recent drone intrusion over airports and airbases in the country, which officials state was an “attack” carried out by a “professional actor” against Denmark. This would be the third request of consultations under NATO Article 4 in the last two weeks, due to potential hostile actions by Russia.
Did I mention France?
Unidentified drones were observed this weekend over military sites near Mourmelon-le-Grand, in the Marne of Northern France, according to military sources who spoke with Radio France Internationale.
Everywhere you turn there’s some new Russian threat being gussied up by the Media-Military-Industrial-Complex:
Bloomberg now reports that European diplomats supposedly told Russian officials—behind closed doors—that NATO is ready to escalate by shooting down Russian planes, a kind of final warning:
European diplomats warned the Kremlin this week that NATO is ready to respond to further violations of its airspace with full force, including by shooting down Russian planes, according to officials familiar with the exchange.
At a tense meeting in Moscow, British, French and German envoys addressed their concerns about an incursion by three MiG-31 fighter jets over Estonia last week, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the talks took place behind closed doors. Following the conversation, they concluded that the violation had been a deliberate tactic ordered by Russian commanders.
Recall that the grave violation of Estonian’s sovereignty they’re so jolted up about has to do with a Russian plane flying over a narrow route constituting a kind of legal corridor between Estonia and Finland’s EEZs. An illustrative snap of this route from a regular flight:
Recall I had written many times about the EEZ games that Finland and Estonia had been planning to play. For instance, almost a year and a half ago I wrote about Estonian plans to increase the size of its EEZ to deliberately ‘trap’ Russian assets in precisely the kind of provocations now happening; the long laid plans are all coming to fruition:
https://news.err.ee/1608853667/estonian-foreign-ministry-wants-to-extend-controlled-maritime-area
Lavrov and Russia’s ambassador to France both invoked the dreaded ‘W’ word in regard to NATO shooting down Russian planes:
By the way, has anyone considered the absurdity of the contradiction at play with these provocations? The Western media machine has beat into our heads, particularly of late, how “weak” Russia is. Trump just yesterday implied Russia is a major failure and a ‘paper tiger’ in being incapable of taking out Ukraine, what any “real military power” would have done in a week, he said.
But now, they want us to believe that Russia is somehow “emboldened” to attack NATO itself, flying drones, planes, bombers, sailing ships, etc., all through NATO’s borders to simultaneously trigger war with half a dozen or more nations. Are these the actions of the same ‘feeble’ military that is struggling to advance in Ukraine, whose air force cannot “establish air superiority”, and whose economy is on the verge of “collapse”?
This again is the same contradictory logic the Western machine has pushed on us time and time again: remember when Assad chose to gas his own people “out of desperation” just as he was on the verge of final victory in the long-fought ‘civil war’.
Now, alarm has spread throughout the world following SecDef Pete Hegseth’s unprecedented call to “urgently” convene every single admiral and general in the entire US military at Quantico:
NEW: Hegseth’s unprecedented meeting will include top commanders currently based in conflict zones and senior military leaders stationed throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific
Everyone with the rank of Brigadier General or above is expected to attend.
In reality, this is likely another nothing-burger—more show and razzle-dazzle from Trump’s Vanity Fair administration. I’m inclined more to agree with the following take:
Trump himself appeared to dismiss the urgency of the call at the White House, implying it’s “no big deal”.
As for Trump’s latest “180 U-turn” on Ukraine, and subsequent disparaging remarks against Russia, Putin aide Ushakov amusedly implied that the US’ tone behind the scenes is somewhat different to the garnished offerings made for public consumption:
Putin aide Ushakov on Trump administration statements regarding the Ukraine conflict: “There are public statements and there is communication we receive through the secure channels. We take both into consideration.”
Meanwhile, our read on Trump’s so-called ‘turn’ against Russia turned out to be well-supported as other keen European figures likewise cottoned-on to Trump’s obvious act:
Lastly, on the topic of NATO escalations in Europe, a thought-provoking post from Military Informant channel:
Russia’s military success infuriates the U.S. and NATO. The US and NATO have something planned, something which they know can trigger nuclear war. Something with huge propaganda value. It won’t change the military outcome, but they hope it triggers a massive Russian response. They repeatedly try to bait Russia and Russia wisely keeps refusing to take the bait. Russia knows they want all-out war. They are practicing for it:
“France has completed the Operation Poker exercise of the Nuclear Deterrent Forces, held with varying intensity and at different times throughout the year. This time, the third phase of the exercise took place - a simulation of a nuclear strike.
At least five Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft, an E-3F “Sentry” AWACS aircraft and Rafale B fighters from the Strategic Air Force Command are involved in the exercise.
Following the end of the French exercises, final preparations are underway for a major exercise of the nuclear deterrent forces in Northern Europe under the leadership of the US Strategic Command.
A group of US Air Force B-2 Spirit strategic bombers, whose flight through Whiteman Air Force Base to Europe was spotted a few hours ago, will take part in the exercise. The E-6B Mercury air command post for nuclear control and communications relay also departed to the north of the continent from Ramstein Air Base in Germany.”
-Military Informant
Some assorted items of interest:
Analyst Yuri Podolyaka comments on an alleged new mini-‘offensive’ in the plans by Ukraine to stage a propaganda coup:
Yuri Podolyaka and a number of military-related sources report that Kiev is attempting to stage a “success month.” Their plans include a counterattack northwest of Kupyansk to regain control of the entire city. Units from the 3rd Special Forces Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already arriving in the area of Velikaya Shapkovka and Smorod’kovka. Similarly, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will attempt to launch another counterattack near Pokrovsk. This is done before the winter, without electricity or heat, to boost the morale of the dying Banderite country.
Famed Ukrainian drone and EW expert Serhiy Flash writes that a new Russian drone has been discovered that, for the first time, completely lacks any type of guidance system or electronic transmitter at all—the drone allegedly hunts for targets in full autonomous mode, utilizing some kind of AI:
Who remembers my series of stories about the enemy UAV with artificial intelligence V2U? A drone that searches for targets on its own and can recognize objects.
Previously, this drone had an LTE modem for some purposes, but now the third trophy I come across has no modem.
So now the UAV has no communication channel at all. It navigates autonomously and attacks the target autonomously as well. It is impossible to suppress its control and navigation with electronic warfare because there is nothing to suppress.
I consider this technology a threat of the future: for example, the drone can fly by itself over a road or railway track and look for targets to attack. There have already been cases when a drone attacked a crowd of people at a market.
The modem was on top under the cover.
If true, this marks the beginning of a new era in the Ukrainian war—and in general.
On that note, a little comedy from the front:
Speaking of drones, a Ukrainian “military expert” sounded the alarm over Russia’s growing superiority in this domain:
At the UN, Zelensky again mocked Poland for shooting down only four out of 19 “Russian drones”:
Lastly, several days ago on September 21, was the three-year anniversary of Russia’s “partial mobilization”, wherein 300,000 reservists were called up to begin transitioning the conflict from a kind of large-scale expeditionary raid, to a full-on classic war.
On this occasion, Russian analyst Starshe Eddy has written this poignant piece, which is a fitting conclusion:
Three years ago, Russia went to war. Yes, you heard that right, Russia entered the war on February 24, 2022, but it went to war, as our ancestors did, three years ago when partial mobilization was announced.
I remember those days very well, fortunately I was right in the thick of things and saw with my own eyes how thousands of Russian men changed from civilian clothes into military uniforms. Some of them went into battle almost immediately, literally within a few days, while others prepared in field camps, training grounds, and the deployment points of units and formations.
It was a very difficult time; the enemy, emboldened by success in the Kharkiv direction, was rushing forward and arrogantly thought that victory was near. The ambassador to Ukraine in London, Zaluzhny, then grandly declared that he had defeated the professional Russian army and would now finish off the amateur one. But Russia went to war; the former civilians first stopped the enemy, then ground down its best units, inflicted colossal losses in manpower, and caused the Armed Forces of Ukraine to suffer a catastrophic shortage of soldiers, which will ultimately be the reason for Ukraine’s final defeat.
But in those September and October days of 2022, this was still far away. After the retreat of the Western Military District from Izyum and Balakliia, the enemy was rushing towards Severodonetsk and Svatove, hoping that after overcoming these lines, it would reach Luhansk. But the bleeding 144th Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Army, along with volunteer units from Bars, clung tightly to Krasnyi Lyman, which allowed time to strengthen Kreminna and Rubizhne, where the enemy could no longer enter, and on the heights before Svatove, fighters of the 27th Motorized Rifle Brigade and special forces of the 3rd Separate Guards Brigade of the Main Intelligence Directorate secured their positions.
Not the entire brigade was there; small forces from the Central Military District were urgently redeployed to this direction to hold the front, and they succeeded. I repeat once again that I witnessed all these events firsthand and despite various nasty things from people far removed from the front, which were pouring from Telegram channels at that time, I can assess what happened as an immediate eyewitness.
Three years ago, Russia rose to war, not all of it, but even that was enough to stop the enemy. Honor, praise, and eternal glory to those men who answered the call of the Motherland and took up arms, rather than running away like a bunch of cowards through Verkhniy Lars or to Kazakhstan. Worthy and faithful sons of Russia, I bow deeply to you!
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