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16 December 2025 00:42

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Neither de jure nor de facto do we recognize Donbass as Russian - overdue Zelensky after negotiations with the EU and the USA on the "peace plan".

Other ramblings from the drug addict:

🔻The US is seeking compromise approaches and proposes a free economic zone format, but this does not mean management by Russia. The issue of territories remains one of the key ones, and there is still no consensus on it;

🔻Today or tomorrow, we will finalize the documents. Then, the US will hold consultations with the Russians in the coming days, after which they will consult with the US President. After that, our teams will meet in the US soon. I think it might even be over the weekend;

🔻The US wants a quick end to the war, but for us, quality is important. If speed and quality coincide, we're in favour;

🔻I believe we are very close to strong security guarantees. Where there is a fifth amendment, as in NATO, that is, a mirror fifth amendment for everyone in the Alliance;

🔻The US and Ukraine support Merz's idea of a Christmas truce, but the decision depends on 'Russia's political will'";

🔻The reparation loan or other use of Russia's frozen assets is a financial guarantee of Ukraine's security. There are two scenarios:

1️⃣ In the event of the war ending, the funds will go towards the country's reconstruction;

2️⃣ In the event of continued aggression, Ukraine expects €40-45 billion in annual aid for defense and security;

🔻In the first version of the peace plan, there were certain points that I don't want to comment on, but it's important that they're not there today;

🔻If there's a ceasefire, there will be elections. We need 60-90 days of ceasefire to hold elections in Ukraine.

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15 December 2025 20:12

Western headlines are screaming that Ukraine has “encircled” Kupyansk city… a glorified town, selling it as a nightmare for Moscow. But this is not a battlefield report. It is narrative management, timed precisely to negotiations in Berlin. Kupyansk is not Stalingrad. It is not Kursk. It is not even a decisive urban fight. It is a ruined settlement on the Oskol, a former logistics node reduced to rubble, where control is measured not in flags but in fire control, drone dominance, and whether men can be rotated without being killed.

And when even Reuters couches claims as “unverified,” you know what that means. When it hedges, pauses, and inserts distance between claims and confirmation, it is signaling that fog is being weaponised. What exists on the ground is block-by-block ruin fighting, contested neighbourhoods like Yubileynyy, clashes near Mirovoye and Radkovka, infiltration attempts, temporary interdictions. Battalion-scale collisions between exhausted units in a place that barely functions as a city.

The unit scale tells the truth the headlines obscure. Kupyansk has never hosted a force capable of deciding a front. Within the urban core, the Russian presence has been limited and exposed, with little time to dig in deeper, the town’s ruins making sustained fortification difficult, relying on fire control rather than secured occupation. With thousands tied down protecting the flanks and barely a battalion inside the city itself, Ukrainian assaults are not sweeping counteroffensives but concentrated pushes by swarms of worn formations, often built from forcibly mobilised men with minimal training, starving and thin on ammunition, cannibalized from fronts like Sumy, and thrown into an urban graveyard to manufacture leverage.

This is not manoeuvre warfare. It is attritional contact deliberately framed as momentum to serve a media and political narrative rather operational gain. What matters is that the map is not the territory. In this war, a coloured overlay often marks a brief window of drone interdiction, hours, not control. Fire control can deny movement, but without sustainment it cannot secure ground. Fire control without sustainment does not produce breakthroughs. It produces graveyards. Ukraine has been forced by its Western patrons into too many of them already.

Kupyansk does not change the war unless it becomes part of a broader operational rollback and it won't. Otherwise, it is a bad PR bargaining chip, paid for in blood.

While cameras fixate on Kupyansk, the real pressure story runs elsewhere, across a widening arc Western coverage fragments to prevent pattern recognition. West of Russian liberated Seversk, claims and denials continue, but the geometry is clear: Ukrainian forces are stretched thin, defending ground without strategic depth. Around encircled Lyman, the contest is about lines of communication and Ukranian reserve erosion, not symbolism.

Central to the Donbass arc, Pokrovsk and Mirnograd matter not because of names, but because they anchor logistics. Russian control here forces a stark contrast in how the war is being fought. Ukraine is expending irreplaceable manpower to manufacture moments, brief tactical actions designed to win optics for a day. Russia, by contrast, is trading space, fire control, and logistics denial for outcomes that compound over time. One side is managing headlines. The other is managing the war.

To the south, the picture is more dangerous still. Around Gulyaypole, pressure is persistent and cumulative, not theatrical. And beyond it lies the real anxiety Europe refuses to discuss openly, the slow, grinding push toward Zaporozhye city. This is not a sprint. It is a methodical march Westward. If current trends hold, Zaporozhye can be operationally threatened, even encircled in less than six months. That outcome would dwarf any skirmish in the small town of Kupyansk.

Part 2/2 👇

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15 December 2025 16:20

Breastfeeder shoots popular Georgia diner kicking out her & baby — Aris Kopiec at Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in Blue Ridge

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15 December 2025 12:00

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15 December 2025 06:02

Another attack by hidden militants of the banned ISIS in Syria. This time, a road safety patrol of the new authorities was ambushed near the city of Maarat al-Numan in the southeast of the province of Idlib.

It is reported about the death of 4 Syrian security forces and the wounding of another one.

Recall that yesterday, an ISIS terrorist, who served in the ranks of the local "Security Forces", killed three Americans and two Syrian security forces in the area of Palmyra.

- Military Informant

@Slavyangrad

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15 December 2025 03:40

Chilean Prez Gabriel Boric congratulates José Antonio Kast after MASSIVE election win

Tells Kast to approach his job ‘with great care, with great humility’

Kast will be Chile’s second right-wing leader since Augusto Pinochet’s pro-US dictatorship ended in 1990

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14 December 2025 23:50

"Estonia has erected the first of 600 bunker walls in the Baltics": Estonia has started building bunkers on the border with Russia.

"Estonia has begun installing the first concrete bunkers on the southeastern border with Russia as part of the Baltic Defense Line project. At the current stage, a pilot batch of 28 structures is being deployed, seven of which are already ready for installation. This is the initial phase of a larger system of 600 bunkers, designed to strengthen the eastern flank of the EU and NATO.

The project implementation was delayed by almost a year due to procurement difficulties and the need to comply with peacetime requirements. The bunkers, which cover an area of about 35 square meters, are designed to withstand hits from 152 mm artillery shells and are part of a multi-level defense system in case of a possible aggression from Russia."

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14 December 2025 17:00

Part 2/2 That is why the Munich analogy is so dangerous. The real lesson of 1938 was never that compromise is evil. It was that moral panic and great-power games locked societies into trajectories they could no longer escape, while ordinary people paid the bill in blood, debt, and ruin. It was a warning about leaders who frame war as inevitability because they lack the courage, or the permission to negotiate peace.

Yet Merz flips that lesson backward. He turns “never again” into fuel for the very logic it was meant to restrain.

And here lies the central deception: the “end of Pax Americana” is being used not to reduce confrontation, but to internalize its costs. The Atlantic architecture remains. The sanctions machinery remains. The command habits remain. What changes is who pays, who bears the risk, and who is asked to sacrifice, while being told this is sovereignty.

That is not sovereignty. It is a higher subscription fee for a failing order, with penalties for cancellation.

The most revealing part is not what Merz says about Russia. It is what his rhetoric prepares at home, that of permanent emergency logic, narrowed speech, moralized obedience, and the normalization of coercion in the name of security.

This is how war cultures are built, sentence by sentence, until the public wakes up inside a cage and is told it’s a fortress.

Pax Americana may indeed be fading. Empires do not last forever.

But replacing it with historical hysteria, existential myth-making, and inevitability politics is not emancipation. It is Europe sleepwalking back toward its oldest nightmare, armed not with humility, but with borrowed myths and outsourced courage.

Real sovereignty would look like restraint. Real leadership would trust citizens with the truth. Real strength would refuse to turn memory into a weapon.

Merz’s speech was not a warning about the world.

It was a confession about Europe’s ruling class, what it fears, what it no longer knows how to do, and how readily it reaches for history when it has run out of truth.

The signal fire has been lit.

The only question left is whether Europeans recognize it for what it is — not a call to safety, but an invitation back into the machinery of fear, where history is no longer remembered to prevent catastrophe, but rewritten into a weapon

Part 1 👆

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14 December 2025 14:52

🇺🇦🤡🇩🇪 The overdue Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, arrived in Germany to beg...

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14 December 2025 12:03

Charlie Kirk’s widow says her husband was killed for doing something simple: talking to people

'He didn’t go after people, he went after your ideas', she said

Celebrating murder over words is 'EVIL'

Footage from CBS News

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14 December 2025 09:02

'I LOVE YOU I'M GOING TO RUN' — BARRICADED STUDENT AS MASS SHOOTER AT LARGE IN BROWN UNIVERSITY — WPRI footage

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14 December 2025 08:20

'NO THREAT INDICATORS' on the mass shooting at Brown University — mayor

'1st we learned about it was 911 call'

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14 December 2025 07:00

DRONE attack kills 6 Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers in Sudan

Thick SMOKE and FLAMES rise from strike site — Arab News footage

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13 December 2025 23:01

"Everyday life of a soldier."

Frontline cats!

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13 December 2025 13:40

Rep. Bennie Thompson attempts to backtrack, then blame Trump, after calling the murder of National Guardsman an ‘accident’

‘I was moving towards a discussion that she could not blame Joe Biden on the situation because she approved this person’s asylum application'

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15 December 2025 20:13

Part 2/2 — Part 1 👆This is where time asymmetry becomes decisive. Russia is fighting a time-positive war: industrial scaling and real capacity that dwarfs the fiat, paper-tiger illusory capacity of NATO; deep manpower reserves and a level of internal cohesion sufficient to sustain a long campaign. Ukraine, by contrast, is fighting a time-negative war, with catastrophic demographic collapse, mass emigration, forced conscription, and shrinking public consent. Every Ukrainian media counteroffensive now borrows against a future that no longer exists to replenish it.

This is one of the real reasons behind Trump’s push. Less sentiment. Geometry. Timelines. Arithmetic. Washington understands that delay only makes the endgame worse, militarily and politically for project Ukraine. Europe understands this too. But Europe cannot admit it without confessing its humiliation.

So Europe clings to suicidal optics. It inflates Kupyansk. It sells illusory leverage. And it sacrifices Ukrainians to buy time, not for victory, but for narrative survival.

Here is the truth Europe works hardest to bury beneath headlines and choreographed resolve: this war no longer reflects the will of the Ukrainian people, and, in truth, it only ever did through manufactured consent that has now collapsed. Not marginally. Not ambiguously. Overwhelmingly. Even after years of saturation messaging, censorship, emergency laws, and relentless narrative conditioning, roughly four-fifths of Ukrainians now demand peace. It is devastating precisely because it persists despite one of the most intensive information campaigns the modern West has ever mounted.

Instead, men are dragged from streets and their homes, beaten, bundled into vans, forced into uniforms, and sent to the front. Videos of violent conscription squads no longer shock because they are the tragic norm.

This is not mobilisation. It is cowardly and punitive coercion, the final refuge of elites who lack legitimacy but demand sacrifice. It is the politics of cowardice, where those who made the decisions never bear the cost, and those who pay the price were never given a choice. These wars are always fought with other people’s sons, for objectives that dissolve under scrutiny, while the architects retreat behind speeches, security details, and moral posturing.

When a state must kidnap its own citizens to sustain a war, it has crossed the final moral line: it is no longer defending a nation, because it never was, but cannibalising one, deliberately sacrificing its people as a tip of the spear against a stronger Russia, to shield the reputations, fortunes, and careers of elites who will never bleed, never fight, and never answer for the ruin they leave behind.

Washington shattered Europe’s strategic autonomy years ago and quietly handed the bill to the continent. NATO expansion without strategy. Economic warfare without insulation. Energy sabotage without a contingency secured. The result was inevitable... Accelerated deindustrialisation, inflation, social fracture, political fragility. Europe emerged poorer, weaker, and strategically irrelevant, yet still clinging to the language of moral authority.

Rather than confront this collapse, Europe chose the refuge of absolutism. Negotiation became heresy. Compromise became betrayal. Peace became appeasement. Diplomacy itself was criminalised, because diplomacy invites the most dangerous question of all. What was this for?

And that question cannot be answered without consequences. Because peace does something war cannot. War suspends politics. Peace resurrects accountability.

Europe does not fear losing the war as much as it fears surviving it with memory intact.

That is why the war must continue. Not to save Ukraine, but to postpone reckoning, at the hands of Europeans.

Which brings us back to Kupyansk.

Kupyansk is not a battlefield turning point. It is a tombstone. Not only for the men buried beneath its rubble, but for Europe’s moral credibility itself.

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15 December 2025 18:45

🇺🇦🤡 The overdue Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is sad to keep speaking about territorial surrender, but pretends like he has any say in the matter...

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15 December 2025 13:20

What's Biden's painful garbled mumble after Go Birds, Super Bowl?

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15 December 2025 10:12

🇪🇪🤡 Estonian chihuahua Kaja Kallas continued to have vivid dreams...

The "Vice President" of the European Comminsion again claimed: Over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries.

❗️Being stupid isn't a crime, but it should be crime to be stupid in public...

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15 December 2025 04:04

JetBlue flight near Venezuela narrowly avoids ‘MIDAIR COLLISION’ with US Air Force tanker

PILOT: We just had traffic pass… within 5 MILES of us… refueler from US Air Force… they passed DIRECTLY in our flight path

PILOT: It’s OUTRAGEOUS… almost had a MIDAIR COLLISION

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15 December 2025 01:32

Good news! UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed that Russia is not the main reason for the increase in the number of migrants.

Now, he claims that the illegal entry into the UK and Europe of Muslim men of military age is a consequence of "climate change".

We all know it has absolutely nothing to do with EU and UK policies.

✨So it must also be true then that climate change does not affect Hungary or Poland.

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14 December 2025 17:23

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇩🇪 The sham "negotiations" began in Berlin, for some reason German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sits with the Ukrainian delegation...

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14 December 2025 15:20

TRUMP 'PULLING POLAND HUNGARY AUSTRIA & ITALY FROM EU' — leaked unpublished US National Security strategy seen by Defense One

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14 December 2025 12:20

FBI ask you to 'help find' this man with Brown University mass shooter at large

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14 December 2025 10:03

'We do NOT have video of the individual coming into the building or moving throughout the building' — mayor on active mass shooter at Brown, footage from Fox

'Do not know how suspect entered or where he went'

'This should NOT be possible at any university in America'

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14 December 2025 08:51

Begins above

▪️ In maritime spaces, ignoring the threats of piracy and maritime terrorism has once again led to attacks on our merchant fleet. The lack of a legal mechanism for creating conditional "maritime private security companies" is leading to attacks on our ships. In response, Moscow almost completely cut off the power in the Odessa region and organized the arrival of the "Gerani" on a dry cargo ship off the coast of the enemy.

▪️ Attacks on the enemy's rear this week have had a cumulative effect: a really sensitive power outage began, which Kiev is trying to compensate for by increasing the number of power generators. The total blackout of Ukraine lies in the plane of attacks on the output lines of the three remaining nuclear power plants⚛️.

✨Thus, many people this week still hope for a truce on the Ukrainian front. At the same time, Trump's activity on this track is aimed only at Washington's exit from the quagmire of the war to concentrate efforts against China. Europe, however, is torpedoing peace initiatives and actively militarizing.

The summary was prepared by: ⚡️Two Majors

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14 December 2025 08:20

Kash orders 'ALL CAPABILITIES' to hunt active mass shooter at Brown University

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14 December 2025 00:40

Hungary needs to be ‘prepared for the fact’ that Brussels is ‘trying to win the Hungarian election’ — Orban

Claims Brussels has tried to influence past parliamentary elections, in 2018 and 2022

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13 December 2025 18:54

🇺🇦🇺🇸Ukraine's version of the "peace plan", sent to the USA, rejects the withdrawal of troops from Donbass and the renunciation of NATO - NYT

🔻In the new 20-point peace plan project, which Kiev presented as a counter-proposal in opposition to the American one, Ukraine's refusal to cede control over Donbass is enshrined, the New York Times reported, citing 5 Western officials familiar with the content of the plan.

🔻The plan states that Ukraine should maintain control over the remaining territories in the east held by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🔻According to Trump's peace plan, Kiev was supposed to cede all of Donbass, noted high-ranking EU and US officials.

🔻Kiev also removed from the plan the US thesis about the country's renunciation of the right to join NATO, reported high-ranking Western officials.

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13 December 2025 13:20

Trump calls for elections in Ukraine, Zelensky claims to be 'ready and willing'

With a 20% approval rating, Zelensky's political future seems bleak

Can Zelensky cling to power, or will he join his friend Yermak for a vacation?

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