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Lavrov didn’t equivocate: Russia accepted Washington’s proposal in Anchorage. What followed wasn’t cooperation — it was sanctions hardened, ships boarded, tankers seized, and Europe left to absorb the damage.
That contradiction is the story. Diplomacy for the cameras. Coercion in practice.
In my latest piece for the Ron Paul Institute, I lay out what Anchorage actually revealed:
why the sanctions machine never stopped,why Europe paid the price and now quietly admits it, and why Russia, fully aware of Washington’s midterm clock, is taking a harder line.
This isn’t a frozen conflict. It’s a closing window and Moscow knows it holds the leverage as the clock runs down.
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📝They’ve Reached Kirovohrad📝
Controlled “Geran-2” drones are advancing further
In recent publications about the evolution of the “Geran-2,” we often mentioned that at this pace there would soon be “first-person” videos of drones striking targets deep in rear areas. As they say, not even a few weeks have passed.
A video has appeared showing strikes by “Geran-2” drones with a video channel and control link on a field airstrip in Kirovohrad region — hundreds of kilometers from the front line. This time, enemy Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters were burned.
🖍Previously, aviation equipment in the distant Kirovohrad region was targeted by expensive cruise missiles with rather limited success — there were no other options. Now it can be hunted in real time.
🚩Symbolically, the targets were helicopters that the enemy uses specifically to intercept massed “Geran-2” raids. However, the tables have turned, and the hunters themselves have become the hunted.
❗️A leap in technology has blurred the concept of the “deep rear” — both sides now have footage of UAV strikes under direct control. Covering radars or SAM systems even with a group armed with 12-gauge shotguns has become a necessity.
Still, it is interesting when footage will appear of “Geran-2” drones hunting with a video channel targeting Patriot or F-16 somewhere in the western part of so-called Ukraine. Judging by everything, that day is not far off.
Such effectiveness of hunter drones is becoming systemic: previously, colleagues from The Islander clearly demonstrated how the upgraded “Geran-2” successfully track down and destroy the scarce HIMARS launchers, leaving the enemy no chance of escape even after changing position.
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Yes we've arrived and national security is at risk if we're not listening to Russia, and haven't been since the "end of history".
Damn well time to start really listening, and fixing root causes. The time has arrived indeed! 🙏
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🇬🇧 Now Published at the Ron Paul Institute - Britain’s Ruling Class Loves to Cosplay as a Titan
Britain talks war like a titan and budgets like a charity case. Starmer delays defence plans over “affordability,” a £6+ billion armoured vehicle program injures its own soldiers, and Whitehall keeps commissioning reviews while pretending this is strength. The rhetoric is Churchillian. The reality is procurement collapse.
Meanwhile, the same ruling class sneers at Russia as a “gas station” — even as Russia, under sanctions, outproduces NATO in ammunition, adapts battlefield lessons in months, and ranks as the world’s fourth-largest economy by purchasing power. If Russia is a gas station, Britain increasingly looks like a heritage museum with a gift shop, living off memory while outsourcing its future.
This piece isn’t about slogans or moral theatre. It’s about material power, industrial capacity, and the danger of a political class that mistakes performance for strength. When rhetoric races far ahead of reality, history doesn’t intervene gently, it intervenes brutally.
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“Whatever you do, don’t mention the origins of the war!”
You’ve still got it, John... British satire at its finest. But let’s be fair: if what Russia fears is “democracy,” what was NATO doing funding coups, installing puppets, banning opposition parties, outlawing language rights, and bombing their way through the Balkans, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan in democracy’s name?
Russia doesn't fear democracy.
But i fear what the West now markets as democracy: illegal blockades, coups, proxy wars, and media censorship wrapped in rainbow flags and drone strikes.
If that’s democracy, then yes... Russia is terrified. But so is most of the planet!
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Europe Is About to Commit Financial Self-Immolation And Its Leaders Know It
Italy’s decision to stand with Belgium against the confiscation of Russian sovereign assets is not a diplomatic footnote. It is a moment of clarity breaking through the fog of performative morality that has engulfed Brussels.
Strip away the slogans and the truth is unavoidable: the seizure of Russian sovereign reserves will not change the course of the war in Ukraine by a single inch.
This is not about funding Ukraine, it is about whether sovereign property still exists in a Western financial system that has quietly replaced law with cult-like obedience.
That is why panic has entered the room.
The European Commission wants to pretend this is a clever workaround, a one-off, an emergency measure wrapped in legal contortions and moral posturing masquerading as hysteria. But finance does not function on intentions, rage or narratives. It functions on precedent, trust, and enforceability. And once that trust is broken, it does not return.
The modern global financial system rests on a single, unglamorous principle, that State assets held in foreign jurisdictions are legally immune from political confiscation.
That principle underwrites reserve currencies, correspondent banking, sovereign debt markets, and cross-border investment. It is why central banks like Russia's (once) accept euros instead of bullion shipped under armed guard. It is why settlement systems like Euroclear exist at all.
Once that rule is broken, capital does not debate. It reprices risk instantly and it leaves.
Confiscation sends a message to every country outside the Western political orbit: your savings are safe only as long as you remain politically compliant.
That is not a rules-based order. It is a selectively enforced order whose rules change the moment compliance ends. What we have is a compliance cartel, enforcing law upward and punishment downward, depending on who obeys and who resists.
Belgium’s fear is not legalistic. It is actuarial. Hosting Euroclear means hosting systemic risk. If Russia or any future target, successfully challenges the seizure, Belgium could be exposed to claims that dwarf the sums being discussed. Belgium is therefore right to be skeptical of Europe’s promise to underwrite such colossal risk, given the bloc’s now shattered credibility. No serious financial actor would treat such guarantees as reliable.
Italy’s hesitation is not ideological. It is mathematical. With one of Europe’s heaviest debt burdens, Rome understands what happens when markets begin questioning the neutrality of reserve currencies and custodians.
Neither country suddenly developed sympathy for Moscow. They simply did the arithmetic before the slogans.
Paris and London, meanwhile, thunder publicly while quietly insulating their own commercial banks’ exposure to Russian sovereign assets, exposure measured not in rhetoric, but in tens of billions. French financial institutions alone hold an estimated €15–20 billion, while UK-linked banks and custodial structures account for roughly £20–25 billion, much of it routed through London’s clearing and custody ecosystem rather than sitting on government balance sheets.
This hypocrisy and cowardice are not accidental. Paris and London sit at the heart of global custodial banking, derivatives clearing, and FX settlement, nodes embedded deep within the plumbing of global finance. Retaliatory seizures or accelerated capital flight would not be symbolic for them; they would be catastrophic.
So the burden is shifted outward. Smaller states are expected to absorb systemic risk while core financial centers preserve deniability, play a double game, and posture as virtuous.
This is anything but European solidarity. It is class defense at the international level.
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It’s strange, in a way almost ceremonial, when a state chooses to reveal what it has become.
All I did was speak freely. And in response, the French government stepped forward — calmly, politely, bureaucratically, to correct me. That alone tells you where we are.
Think about that. A continent with a shrinking industrial base now claims the right to police the global public square, to dictate not only what Europeans may say, but what the world may say on platforms it does not own, in jurisdictions it does not govern, under laws no citizen ever voted for.
This is not regulation. This is extra-territorial censorship disguised as simple consumer protection.
And France, the country of Voltaire, Hugo, Zola; the country that once staged revolutions merely to remind kings who ruled whom, now deploys bureaucrats to inspect online metaphors like customs officers inspecting luggage for contraband.
That is the tragedy. Not merely the censorship, but the collapse of a national soul.
De Gaulle once said that France could not be France without grandeur. Today, greatness has been replaced by grievance and debate by digital supervision. A Republic that once defied empires now behaves like a minor prefecture of an anxious EU superstate, terrified of what its own citizens might think if left unmonitored.
This is why the DSA exists. Because Europe’s elites have lost the argument, lost the public, and lost the confidence to face either. So they turn to an Orwellian control structure. To fines for tech companies that refuse secret deals made in the shade. To algorithmic control. To interface mandates. To “trusted flaggers.” To researchers chosen like clergy. To a Ministry of Truth that corrects citizens the way colonial officers once corrected subjects.
And when French Response quotes legal articles at me, it isn’t offering clarity. It’s confessing panic. It’s revealing that the ruling class no longer fears Russia or China or disinformation, it fears the awakening of and reckoning from its own population.
They quoted Articles 25, 39, 40 as though reciting scripture. But each one is a stepping stone in a system that has abandoned persuasion for bureaucratic compulsion:
Art. 25 — “redesign interfaces we don’t like.”
Art. 39 — “expose your ad networks to us.”
Art. 40 — “hand over your data to researchers we control.”
And looming over all of it: The threat to annihilate any platform that does not comply.
A state does not build a Ministry of Truth to protect the truth. It builds it to protect itself from the people who can recognize it.
France knows this. Brussels knows this. Every EU government now enforcing the DSA knows this. The only ones they hope won’t realize it are the citizens, which is why even a single dissenting sentence must be supervised.
But of course they didn’t reply to correct me. They replied because I said something they can no longer afford to hear echoed.
And here is the final truth, the one that ends the illusion... When the Republic begins policing speech, it is no longer a Republic, only a weak power in its most frightened form. And the ruling class knows one thing above all, that if Europe could vote on the Europe that exists today, this Europe would not survive the night.
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The White House published what Brussels has spent a decade censoring: Europe has shrunk from 25% of global GDP to 14%, is drifting toward “civilizational erasure,” and on its current course “will be unrecognizable in 20 years.” Not Russian intelligence. Not dissident analysts. Washington, in its own national strategy, marking the time of death.
Europe’s tragedy isn’t that it was defeated by an external force. Its tragedy is that it volunteered for collapse, mistaking moral vanity for strategy, self-harm for principle, and neocon applause for sovereignty. 19 rounds of sanctions meant to cripple Russia instead detonated inside Europe’s own chest cavity; industries fleeing, energy gutted, borders unmoored, farmers revolting, wages eroding, dissent criminalized under “values” crafted by technocrats who have never worked a real job, with utter contempt for Europeans.
And while Europe recited slogans, Russia built substance, built an economic juggernaut. The “gas station with nukes” they mocked is now the 4th largest economy on Earth by PPP, expanding faster than the entire European Union since the SMO began, reindustrializing, reorienting, rewiring Eurasia. The target of Europe’s crusade grew stronger, the crusaders grew poorer. This wasn’t irony. This was inevitability.
Now comes the most brutal line in the US strategy: the warning that some European states soon “may not be strong enough to remain reliable allies.” This is Washington stepping back from a burning house with the calm of an arsonist writing the incident report. The very patron that pushed Europe toward confrontation, long before Trump, is now drafting its alibi, framing Europe’s collapse as an unfortunate accident rather than the predictable consequence of policies its Deepstate encouraged and Brussels enforced with missionary zeal.
The EU won’t recognize the downloading of humiliation, because it arrived disguised as loyalty, and because the script being used to abandon the continent is the same script Europe still insists on performing.
A continent that once birthed Western civilization now prosecutes its citizens for speech, crushes its own farmers under riot shields, torches its industry for green dogma, and markets the whole spectacle as enlightenment. It surrendered its energy to ideology, its industry to Davos hallucinations, its security to America's whims, and its future to compound interest. A civilization cannot live on abstractions, but its elites can, because they have engineered a system where the costs fall on the people and the graft float upward to those who never bear the consequences.
The NSS isn’t a strategy. It’s a confession in plain sight; Russia absorbed the blow, recalibrated, and rose; Europe dissolved into the very illusions it mistook for strength, while Washington, already preparing the next chapter, quietly wipes its hands of the consequences.
Continental Europe once held 25% of global GDP. Today it clings to 14%, nearly half its global weight erased in a single generation. Not by invasion. Not by Putin. By decisions its own elites made freely. Europe was no prisoner. It was not dragged into this. It chose ideology over energy security, fantasy over industry, obdience over sovereignty. It had the power to act like a civilization, and acted instead like a petulant, arrogant vassal.
They swore Russia would disappear.
Yet she stands rooted, sovereign, expanding, the Eurasian pole they insisted could never exist. Its economy rises into the world’s top four while Europe implodes. Its industrial base grows while Europe’s corrodes.
And it is Europe that dims: censored, exhausted, directionless, governed by elites who call obedience maturity and dependency enlightenment. A continent once central to world history now drifts unrecognizable even by the ally that encouraged its self-destruction and now drafts the alibi from afar.
The EU tried to erase Russia. In reality, Europe erased itself. And Washington just wrote the obituary.
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🇬🇱Greenland isn’t rich the way you think.
It’s not a treasure chest. It’s a hinge.
The GIUK gap. The Atlantic choke point. The place where naval flows get tracked, boxed, or released. Whoever holds it shapes the weather in the North Atlantic.
And while everyone argues about rare earths, Russia is operationalizing the Arctic.
37.9 million tonnes through the Northern Sea Route. Icebreakers scaling. Doctrine through 2035.
Corridors don’t stay theory. They become infrastructure. Then they become massive leverage.
You’re being sold a minerals story. This is about command of the North Atlantic–Arctic axis.
So when Trump says “we have to have Greenland,” don’t hear real estate.
Hear unlimited basing rights. Hear radar arcs. Hear ownership without the flag.
Greenland is less about rare earths. It’s about who controls the geopolitical weather in the North Atlantic.
I broke the whole board down — minerals, NSR, icebreakers, Golden Dome, the lot.
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The inverse of the Brzezinski doctrine is coming home. The United States spent decades weaponizing legitimacy abroad via NGOs, narratives, street pressure, then assumed domestic immunity. That assumption is breaking.
Federal–state standoffs. Guard deployments. Street clashes. Parallel claims of lawful authority. This isn’t collapse yet — it’s the phase that precedes it.
This isn’t about parties, it’s the systemic hubris and miscalculation. You can make a valid case for enforcing immigration law and still recognize that abandoning the Constitution poisons that case.
If you tolerate this, don’t cry foul when the same precedent is weaponized against you after the pendulum swings.
Beware the precedents you set.
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HIMARS was designed for speed.
Get in, fire, get out.
That worked when the sky was blind. It isn’t anymore.
What’s changed goes beyond a mere technological shift, it’s also about memory. The battlefield now remembers where you were, how you moved, how long you stayed, what pattern you followed. Mobility used to mean safety. Now it just means you’re moving inside a system that’s watching you in real time.
This wasn’t by luck. And it wasn’t a fluke. It was detection, tracking, confirmation, and kill — a full chain, executed patiently, by drones that don’t rush and don’t forget.
The West bet its doctrine on precision rockets and the shock value of expensive platforms. Russia went the other way: mass, autonomy, learning. Let the system adapt. Let it get better every week.
Different bets. Different results.
Every time a HIMARS is taken out, the same uncomfortable question surfaces behind closed doors: how many are actually left and how many can still be replaced?
Because the math is brutal. A launcher that costs millions. A drone that costs a fraction. You can dress it up with press releases and euphemisms, but wars are settled by arithmetic long before they’re settled by narratives.
And “Geran” isn’t just a weapon anymore. It’s a platform. Platforms evolve. They get smarter. They get cheaper. And they don’t wait for permission from doctrine manuals written for another era.
Air defense can shoot down missiles. Electronic warfare can jam signals. But hunting drones don’t just destroy hardware — they change how the enemy moves, hesitates, and survives.
The future battlefield isn’t about hiding anymore.
It’s about living under constant observation.
And that’s a far more difficult war to fight.
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🇮🇷From Isolation to Innovation: Iran’s Tech Revolution
The story of modern Iran is a lesson in unintended consequences. Western strategies meant to stifle its progress instead catalyzed a homegrown technological revolution. Today, Iran isn't just bypassing constraints; it's asserting itself in elite spheres from drones to cyber capabilities.
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🇺🇸🤡US President's special envoy Kellogg on the conflict in Ukraine being in the final phase.
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POLITICO calls Belgium “Russia’s most valuable asset.”
No, Belgium is Europe’s final warning before the plunge.
My latest just dropped via @RonPaulInstitut
The Eu wants a moral spectacle, a €140B looting of frozen Russian assets dressed up as “reparations.” Belgium asked the only question that still matters: Are we really going to blow up what remains of the postwar financial order, when we've already lost the war against Russia?
The EU doubling down on its Russophobic psychosis, didn’t just flirt with looting a nuclear superpower’s central bank. It's flirting with detonating the very foundation of the post-war financial order:
→ Sovereign immunity
→ Legal neutrality of reserve holdings
→ Investor trust in European banks
You don’t survive that. You collapse. Quietly at first, then all at once.
They call De Wever “rogue.” We him one of the last of a European political class still capable of sanity.
Belgium didn’t betray Europe. Europe betrayed itself. Europe, not Belgium has become Russia's greatest asset. Belgium is just refusing to go down with the ship.
And when this all comes crashing down, when capital flees, when the euro collapses, when the world stops trusting the Western custodians of its wealth, no one will ask why Belgium said no. They’ll ask why Europe said yes.
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Europe Just Made the Odessa Case for Russia
The beauty, and tragedy of Europe’s strategy is its flawless stupidity.
You authorize naval-drone terrorism against civilian tankers… then gasp when Moscow considers redrawing the map.
You turn Ukraine’s coastline into a NATO launchpad… then act shocked when Russia inevitably decides that coastline can no longer exist.
That’s the core of it... Europe didn’t support Ukraine. Europe weaponized it and now guarantees Russia the legal, moral, and military case for taking Odessa.
The drones weren’t Ukrainian.
The targeting wasn’t Ukrainian.
The decisions weren’t Ukrainian.
This was Western Europe engaging in terrorism with someone else’s coastline and now the bill is due.
I lay it all out here:
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