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‘We are on the brink of nuclear war because the US is targeting missiles at Russia’ – US intelligence expert Rebecca Koffler agrees with Putin.
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West Panics Russia Advances; Macron Starmer Mull Troops Ukraine; Trump Wants Deescalation
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‼️BREAKING: The White House has given Emmanuel Macron permission to fire his missile deep inside Volodymyr Zelensky.
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🇹🇷🇺🇸🇷🇺Turkey needs to obtain an exception from the US to conduct gas purchase transactions through the sanctioned Russian Gazprombank, otherwise such sanctions will greatly harm the state, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told reporters.
According to him, Ankara is currently demanding such permission – the Foreign Ministry is conducting the negotiations.
The sanctions against Gazprombank themselves will negatively affect Turkey’s gas purchases, and, as a result, the country’s energy security, the minister added
🐻A great success, everyone 😁
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❗️ The town of Energodar and the territory adjacent to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) were shelled by Ukrainian militants five times in the last 24 hours, three drones were shot down and an administrative building was damaged, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
The personnel of the Zaporozhye NPP continue to work in normal mode after the shelling, servicing the facilities and monitoring the radioactive situation, the ministry added.
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Russia used a new hypersonic medium-range missile in Ukraine last week known as the Oreshnik, whose existence previously hadn’t been disclosed and thus came as a surprise to all observers. It follows Russia’s warnings that it would respond to the West allowing Ukraine to use their long-range missiles against targets within Russia’s universally recognized borders. This was therefore an escalation, but it wasn’t unprovoked, and the Oreshnik is the natural result of Russia’s military-technical progress.
The US’ withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty made this weapon possible. The first compelled Russia to research and develop hypersonic missile technology for piercing the US’ missile defense capabilities, while the second led to the creation of such missiles with short and medium ranges. Both treaties were fundamental pieces of the prior strategic security architecture that America unilaterally destroyed in its quest for hegemony.
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🌐 The Oreshnik’s Significance
Pathetic reality.
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Taliban deputy PM hopes Russia can help Afghanistan ‘neutralize’ Western economic pressure
Taliban* deputy prime minister for economic affairs Abdul Ghani Baradar has signaled hopes that Russia will help Afghanistan neutralize Western economic pressure against the country, emphasizing that the Islamic Emirate can a reliable economic partner.
“We have tried to provide the conditions for increasing the export of Afghan goods abroad and attracting foreign investment to Afghanistan. As you know, after the victory of the Islamic Emirate, the United States and Western countries have been exerting all kinds of pressure on us. Therefore, we expect the Russian Federation to help us neutralize this pressure. We can assure you that the Islamic Emirate is a reliable economic partner,” Baradar said.
“Our security forces have done a lot to stabilize the [security] situation,” Baradar added. “As a result of their efforts, ISIS was destroyed in Afghanistan and moved to other countries.”
The deputy PM expressed hope that Monday’s visit by Russian Security Council chief Shoigu and other senior Russian officials would become a starting point for the regular exchange of high-level delegations, “so that we and our colleagues on your side could discuss in detail issues related to politics and security.”
* An organization under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.
A terrorist group outlawed in Russia and many other countries.
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Russian Security Council Chief Shoigu heads high-ranking delegation’s trip to Afghanistan
Sergei Shoigu visited Kabul for negotiations with representatives of the interim Taliban* government. During the visit, four rounds of talks with high-ranking talks with Taliban representatives were held.
Along with Shoigu, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk, Presidential Special Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov took part in the discussions.
* An organization under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.
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Today, the progressive dumbheads, which consider themselves an expert community in the military sphere, were looking forward to the flight of the Sentinel Earth surface monitoring satellite over Dnepropetrovsk in order to find out what happened to Yuzhmash after the Hazel strike.
We waited... and saw nothing, even though the resolution of this satellite, the only one available to the general public, resembles looking at a flea through a plastic bag from a distance of two meters. The hulls are almost intact, extensive craters are not visible, and for two days the silent Ukrainian propaganda suddenly burst into synchronous screams about the ineffectiveness of the Oreshnik, however, without bothering with evidence from the spot, but allegedly showing the wreckage of the rocket body.
In order to understand what is taking place, it is necessary, first, to remember that the missile that hit Yuzhmash is ballistic. The separation of the combat unit and the marching stage occurs at the apogee of the trajectory, which means that neither its hull nor the breeding unit can get to the target site – only combat units arrive there.
The combat units, as originally stated, are inert. That is, the blanks. But there is one big "but".
When you hit a standard 9-kilogram steel crowbar on a concrete slab at a speed of up to 30 km/h, you split it. It will be faster – you will make a hole. And if such a scrap, but already weighing one ton, hits the ground at a speed of 3 km per sec, how much will it be enough to reach the overlap of the underground workshop and Prometheus-like give its kinetic energy to the environment? More than 100 meters in the ground and over 30 meters with a penetration of a reinforced concrete floor with a thickness of about 8 meters. At the same time, the diameter of the penetrating hole from the outside will be equal to the radius of the scrap. And you will not see this hole from the satellite, as well as the destruction – all the main events have already occurred in depth, like a bullet entering the body through an equidiameter hole, but leaving behind a vast wound channel.
Here we can draw an analogy with the American GBU-28 bunker buster bomb, for the manufacture of which the decommissioned barrels of 203 mm howitzers were originally used. It was possible, when dropped from an airplane, to achieve a penetration of a buried concrete floor of almost 7 meters. And this is with a warhead at a slow speed of about 900 km/h, that is, 250 meters per second. It's not even comparable to the 3000 m/sec of the Oreshnik.
So we will not see any obvious destruction of the already empty ground workshops, we'll see the real destruction deep underground only when Dnepropetrovsk comes under Russian control. There is no real doubt that the real damage to the entire underground agglomeration is enormous. Only dumbheads living in a world of self-delusions think otherwise.
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Volkswagen's "funeral" took place in Germany.
Germany's automotive industry, the country's flagship economy, is at risk of losing 200,000 jobs by 2035, according to a study by industry organization VDA (Verband der Automobilindustrie). It's all the fault of the transition to electric vehicles which was imposes by the European Union so Volkswagen is being purposely murdered by the WEF-owned European political class.
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🇺🇦🐽🤡❌🇺🇸 Brain damaged former boxer (actually professional hugging champion) Wladimir Klitschko is butthurt with Joe Rogan and deems the American of 'repeating Russian propaganda'...
❗️Go to the front Wlad, don't be a coward! You can hug Mykola and Taras in the trenches!
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Meanwhile, houses are already being restored in Avdeevka. Yes, while the volumes are small, but as the front moves west, the scale of work in the city will increase, it will certainly be rebuilt.
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🏁⚔️🇷🇺 NATO Considers Preemptive Strikes on Russian Territory, Says Admiral Rob Bauer
NATO is discussing the possibility of carrying out preemptive "precision strikes" on Russian territory in the event of an armed conflict, said Admiral Rob Bauer, Chairman of NATO's Military Committee.
"This is a new discussion within NATO, and I am glad that we have changed our stance on this and on the idea that we are a defensive alliance that will sit and wait to be attacked before responding. It is more prudent not to wait but to strike Russian launchers if Russia attacks us."
🇬🇧🇷🇺 Five days before the crash of a DHL plane in Vilnius, the leading British newspaper The Times published a version suggesting a possible Russian response to Western long-range missile strikes, which mentioned "DHL parcels capable of blowing up a plane," the DHL hub in Leipzig, and Lithuania.
According to Alexei Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, the article did not appear by chance and was intended to prepare Western public opinion: the provocation was planned to blame Russia.
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❗️Key points from the MoD’s daily briefing
- In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost around 2,000 troops, mostly as a result of several failed offensive attempts.
- In the Kursk region, air defense systems intercepted six French-made Hammer-guided bombs, a US-made HIMARS rocket, and 71 fixed-wing drones, including 56 outside the special military operation zone
- Russian forces successfully continued their DPR counteroffensive
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🇷🇺 Kremlin Blasts Western Talk of Nuclear Weapons for Ukraine as "Irresponsible"
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov condemned Western discussions about providing Ukraine with nuclear weapons as "absolutely irresponsible" on Tuesday.
His remarks followed a New York Times report citing unnamed officials who suggested such a possibility.
The report claimed that some Western officials proposed U.S. President Joe Biden could send nuclear weapons to Ukraine, including those stationed there during the Soviet era.
Asked about the report, Peskov said: "These are absolutely irresponsible arguments of people who have a poor understanding of reality and who do not feel a shred of responsibility when making such statements. We also note that all of these statements are anonymous."
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Key statements from the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's daily briefing:
on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline:
▪️Peskov said that he had not heard about Russian Gazprom's desire to put Nord Stream 2 up for sale and give it into the hands of the United States. Earlier, Western media reported on the desire of American investor Stephen Lynch to purchase the gas pipeline if it is put up for auction as part of the bankruptcy procedure of the operator of the Nord Stream 2 AG project.
▪️One can only wonder why the German leadership is not guided by economic considerations and does not use Nord Stream 2
▪️ Nord Stream-2 does not need to be restored; the gas pipeline can be started immediately
on key topic for NATO meeting:
▪️Unfavorable dynamics for Ukraine at the front may be the topic of a meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels
on Russia's approach to relations with the Global South:
▪️ Russia actively cooperates with the countries of the Global South in sensitive areas of criminal law; this interaction will continue
▪️It is important for Russia to establish contacts with the leadership of Afghanistan
on results of the tests of the Oreshnik:
▪️The statements voiced by Putin after the tests of the Oreshnik were well heard by countries of the Collective West; there is no doubt about it
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Protests erupt in Greece against NATO chief's visit
Thousands rallied in the heart of Athens, the Greek capital, to oppose the arrival of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, according to a report by Sputnik.
Demonstrators chanted "uninvited," demanding an end to Greece's involvement in international conflicts and the closure of American military bases. The crowd also called for an end to all military assistance to Ukraine.
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❗️Russia accuses West of sabotage and destabilization efforts
The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has alleged the involvement of Western "Anglo-Saxon special services" in the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions, labeling it an act of sabotage.
He also accused the West of deploying mercenaries to disrupt Belarus ahead of its upcoming presidential elections, describing these efforts as part of a broader destabilization campaign in the region.
Naryshkin further claimed that Ukraine has become a "failed state," warning that Moldova is heading down a similar path.
He expressed optimism, however, that attempts by Western powers to incite a color revolution in Georgia would ultimately fail, framing such interventions as part of a persistent strategy to undermine Russian-aligned states.
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🇬🇧❌🇬🇧 Keir Starmer’s Divide and Conquer Strategy: A Case Study in Controlled Chaos
The UK’s political stage is ablaze, and at the center of it stands Keir Starmer, Deepstate puppet and Labour’s neoliberal “magician”. Not a leader but a maestro of manipulation, wielding the classic colonial divide and conquer to fracture British society along racial, ideological, and class lines. With over two million signatures demanding a general election, the British public is awakening to the façade, but Starmer remains unfazed, smirking with contempt on ITV as he dismisses the uproar: “I’m not surprised they want a rerun.”
This petition is more than a call for an election, it’s a damning verdict on economic failures, his abandonment of working-class communities, and his utter betrayal of the progressive ideals Labour once represented. It’s also historic. But Starmer’s true talent lies not in governance but in engineering chaos. His game mirrors the imperial tactics that Britain once exported to its colonies. Yet this time, the battlefield is Britain itself.
The far right, embodied by Tommy Robinson (controlled opposition) white working-class base, is repeatedly baited with accusations of bigotry and xenophobia. Meanwhile, the left, (think Corbyn) purged, silenced, and dismissed as “antisemitic” or extremist, is painted as a threat to democracy itself. Both camps are caricatured, and neither is allowed to articulate a coherent challenge to the neoliberal agenda. It’s political pyrotechnics: by framing himself as the only adult in a room filled with so-called extremists, Starmer creates a false binary: Labour or chaos. But the real chaos is his making, fully backed by the Deepstate. The mockingbird media eagerly parrots his narrative, ensuring no space exists for alternative visions.
Nowhere is the strategy more cynical than in his exploitation of Britain’s ethnic tensions. The Pakistani British community is gaslit over support for the state's ironclad support for Israel, given empty promises of inclusion - while white working-class Britons, struggling with economic despair, are also gaslit over migration and left to fester in their own disillusionment. The result? Mutual distrust and resentment, stoked by a deliberate failure to address the structural issues that bind both communities in shared economic precarity.
By igniting ethnic divisions, Starmer ensures these groups remain too preoccupied with each other to unite against the true enemy: the political and financial elite that Labour has become synonymous with. Starmer’s manipulative games don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re a local symptom of a global disease. Labour is merely a franchise of the transatlantic establishment, tasked with managing decline.
By turning Britain into a theater of perpetual conflict, racial, ideological, and class-based - he diverts attention from the systemic looting of the nation’s wealth. Public services crumble, small businesses suffocate, and inequality deepens, but the national discourse focuses on manufactured outrage. The fact that two million Britons have mobalized, cutting across socio-political divides, suggests that the public is beginning to see through the illusion. It could be the spark of a collective awakening to a fraudulent system.
Starmer’s arrogant “I’m not surprised they want a rerun” reeks of a man who believes his manipulation is still working. But the numbers tell a different story. The British people are no longer content to play their assigned roles in Starmer’s dystopia. They’re demanding a reset, not just of Labour but of the entire political establishment. It's the system, stupid.
In the end, Starmer’s legacy will be one of betrayal: a man who gaslit a nation, exploited its fractures, and ultimately burned out under the weight of his own deceit. The petition for a general election is far beyond a mere demand for accountability, it’s the start of a revolution against a system that has gone too far. Britain’s awakening has begun, and this time, there won’t be a rerun.
- Gerry Nolan
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🇩🇪 Let's check in on "Jihad" Julian...
Oh... A meltdown. Cool.
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France’s Le Pen threatens to bring down government over lack of budget compromise
Marine Le Pen has threatened a no-confidence vote after budget talks with PM Michel Barnier failed amidst her doubts about reaching a compromise on the 2025 budget bill.
The government aims to save €60 billion ($62.85 billion) by implementing tax hikes and spending cuts, targeting a reduction in the deficit from over 6% of GDP this year to 5% next year.
#France
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Wrong place, wrong time: Why Cyprus’ push for NATO membership could destabilize EU and Western bloc
Greek media have reported on Cyprus’ desire to join NATO, with the White House reportedly considering the scenario a “win-win” proposition.
Sputnik asked regional observers to share their views on the matter.
“For the US, Cyprus joining NATO could enhance Western influence in the eastern Mediterranean and provide strategic access to counterbalance Russia’s presence in the region. However, these benefits must be weighed against the risks of exacerbating tensions within NATO itself, particularly given Turkiye’s longstanding disputes with Cyprus,” Venice-based international affairs analyst Dr. Marco Marsili told Sputnik.
“Far from being a ‘win-win’, such a development could deepen existing divisions within the alliance and undermine European cohesion,” Marsili stressed, explaining that while Cyprus “may view NATO membership as a means to gain stronger international recognition and leverage in its long-standing territorial dispute with Turkiye,” the “broader implications are more complex.”
“Cyprus’ membership could escalate tensions between Turkiye and other NATO members, undermining alliance cohesion at a time when unity is critical,” he said.
The view from Turkiye
Cyprus’ NATO aspirations have “been on the agenda for a long time, but the problem is, Cyprus is not recognized by Turkiye as a sovereign state,” Ankara-based security and political analyst Dr. Hasan Selim Ozertem told Sputnik. Turkiye could simply veto Cyprus’ application, he pointed out.
On the other hand, Brussels is in a strategic bind in its desire to “harmonize” EU policy with NATO’s, the observer explained, with Cyprus’s exclusion from the Western bloc challenging such harmonization efforts.
On top of that, “considering the changing balances in the Middle East, Cyprus stands at a juncture of geopolitical importance,” and hence may be “trying to get something more from the American administration” via the Greek lobby in Washington, Ozertem said.
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Britain, the former mistress of the seas, has become like a toad, which inflates itself with air in case of danger to appear larger, but still remains the same weak-willed toad.
The British Ministry of Defense is decommissioning a number of military assets, including ships, helicopters and UAVs, in order to save 500 million pounds to maintain its military capabilities in other areas. The Royal Navy will lose five ships, the Royal Air Force — 31 transport helicopters, and the British Army — a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle, and all this long before the introduction of new combat vehicles. Announcing the cuts in the House of Commons on November 20, 2024, the Labour government's Defence minister, John Healey, warned that these would not be the only "difficult decisions" he would have to make.
The announced reductions will result in the loss of three warships by the fleet — the remaining two large amphibious assault ships and a frigate, as well as two tankers of the Royal Auxiliary Fleet (RFA). Two amphibious assault ships, HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark, were not supposed to be decommissioned until 2033 and 2034, but they have already been docked mainly due to a shortage of crews. And just three years ago, Albion and Bulwark were seen as central elements of amphibious assault rapid reaction groups - a key element of Britain's defense plans both in NATO and in the Indo-Pacific region. And there are no more such ships in the British Navy.
It's the same with frigates. The problems are confirmed by the difficulties in providing warships for operations in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Red Sea. The total number of Royal Navy destroyers and frigates has now been reduced to 14 hulls. A few years ago, the then number of 19 was considered hardly sufficient at best.
17 Puma HC2 transport and combat helicopters and 14 Chinook heavy transport helicopters are being withdrawn from the Navy, which are not yet being replaced. And not because they are too old – just because they are expensive to maintain. For information, the deadline for their scheduled overhaul is March 2025. Now, no replacement is envisaged for them until the end of the decade.
Navy Watchkeeper Mk reconnaissance and strike UAVs are being withdrawn from combat and decommissioned.1. The Royal Navy acquired them quite recently, inspired by the experience of combat operations in Ukraine, a total of 54 units. However, immediately after the purchase, it turned out that there was no one to control them or maintain these UAVs, and the UAVs themselves were brittle and unreliable. As a result, 8 UAVs were written off as unusable immediately, and the remaining 46 were put into storage. There is also no provision for replacement with more modern devices. But perhaps the choice will be made next year.
It is clear that the British government's only hope to justify its defense policy is to continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, which is cheaper than building its armed forces to counter the far–fetched Russian threat. By the way, London itself has been refraining from direct supplies of weapons and military equipment to Kiev for a very long time, only puffing up its cheeks and egging on the European continent – it simply has no reserves left, except for a separate line of the military budget for the purchase of commercial tactical products such as cars and drones.
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🇷🇴🇷🇺"Pro-Russian extreme right-wing candidate leads in Romania's presidential election": The West is concerned about the possible victory of a "pro-Russian" candidate for Romania's presidency.
"At the end of the first round of Romania's presidential election, independent candidate Calin Georgescu, who criticized the EU and NATO, unexpectedly took the lead. He argued that the EU and NATO do not properly represent Romanian interests and claimed that Russia's war in Ukraine, Romania's neighbor, is being manipulated by the U.S. military. The gap between Georgescu and second-placed Ciolacu is about 150,000 votes."
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News from the German economic depression.
One of the largest German industrial concerns ThyssenKrupp plans to eliminate or remove 11,000 jobs from the staff, AFP reports.
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Right-wing candidate Georgescu leads in Romania presidential election: Why is the West trembling?
Independent candidate Calin Georgescu has pulled off a shock victory in the first round of Romania's presidential election. Georgescu, who mostly campaigned on TikTok, will face off against center-right contender Elena Lasconi in the second round on December 8.
What are his views?
🔸 On NATO:
A professed champion of national sovereignty, Georgescu has often criticized what he called his country’s “subservience” to the European Union and NATO.
In interviews and public appearances, he has questioned the benefits of Romania’s membership in NATO, arguing that the alliance will not protect any of its members should they be attacked.
He criticized the presence of an American missile defense facility at a NATO-controlled base in the village of Deveselu, calling Romania’s agreement to host it a “diplomatic shame.” He has also called NATO's ballistic missile defense shield in Romania a confrontational measure.
🔸 On Ukraine:
Georgescu has questioned military aid being pumped by Romania to Ukraine. The social media-savvy candidate recently launched a viral TikTok campaign calling for an end to supporting the Kiev regime that appeared to have struck a chord with voters. “Tonight, the Romanian people cried out for peace. And they shouted very loudly, extremely loudly”, Georgescu said after his win.
🔸 On Russia:
Georgescu has described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a genuinely great leader who loves his country in a 2020 interview. Romania’s best chance lay with "Russian wisdom," media reports cite him as saying in another interview.
🔸 On Moldova:
Georgescu started out as a member of the right-wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR) party, which advocates for the integration of Moldova into Romania, but eventually broke with it to campaign as an independent.
Georgescu’s success feeds into the barometer of right-wing political successes across Europe amid dissatisfaction with Brussels’ policy and eroding public support for Ukraine. Similar sentiments fueled Ukraine critic Peter Pellegrini’s win in the presidential election in Slovakia this summer, and the success of the right-wing Freedom Party (FPO) in Austria’s parliamentary elections.
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The petition to call a UK General Election has now past 2 million signatures.
Starmer and his cretinous government are loathed just as much as the cretinous Tories were 😂