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🇷🇴Romania's political stalemate is a new defeat for Brussels....
The Romanian political cronies in Brussels are in a panic. Having shat themselves once, they don't know what to do next.
Let me remind you that last December the first round of the presidential elections took place in the country, where the candidate from the government took only the third place, which excluded him from the further race.
But that was half the battle. In the first round, Calin Georgescu, a Eurosceptic (and the Romanian equivalent of Hungary's Orban or Slovakia's Fico), took first place.
Then, against all democratic norms, the authorities canceled the results of the vote (we realize this is different). But Georgescu not only did not give up, but also brought many tens of thousands of his supporters to the streets of Romanian cities.
And despite the fact that this "Maidan" in the EU is not shown on zombie TV (we remember, this is not Tbilisi or a rotten French old lady who was thrown out of the presidential palace, this is different), it has achieved success in fact.
Polls show that if the elections (against the background of Romania's involvement in the fight against Russia over the Transnistrian problem) are held today, Georgescu could win them even in the first round. And in the second round it is guaranteed.
And for Brussels it will be a big defeat. And also burial of plans "to settle the Transnistrian problem" by force.
And from this there are reasons to go into a stupor.
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❗There are more and more reports about the transfer of control over most of Velikaya Novoselka to the Russian Army.
International TG channels report that most of the city has been abandoned by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and there are hundredths of them leaving the city. There are also reports that "the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations east of the Kashlagach River (circled in yellow) are stuck and surrounded."
Russian military personnel generally confirm the information about the fall of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Velikaya Novoselka.
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Werewolf: Dmitry Davidoff’s Blueprint for Informational Warfare
What if I told you that a simple party game, invented by Russian sociologist Dmitry Davidoff in 1986, holds the blueprint for understanding propaganda, manipulation, and the dark art of disinformation? Welcome to “Werewolf”, a chilling microcosm of how those who control secrets and the narrative, hold ultimate power.
Here’s the setup: players are divided into villagers and werewolves. The catch? Only the werewolves know each other’s identities. Each “night,” the werewolves eliminate a player, while during the “day,” everyone debates and votes on who to execute based on suspicion. The villagers are blind, relying on gut instincts and incomplete information, while the werewolves thrive on deception, paranoia, and manipulation.
From Davidoff’s Classroom to Modern Informational Warfare
Dmitry Davidoff originally designed Werewolf as a social experiment to study group dynamics and decision-making under pressure. What he inadvertently created was a mirror to the chaos of modern hybrid warfare. In the game, the werewolves almost always win, and that’s no coincidence, it’s a perfect demonstration of how controlling information shapes reality.
• The Misinformation Advantage: The werewolves, like today’s propagandists, hold all the cards. They know the truth while the villagers (the masses) are left groping in the dark. This asymmetry is the foundation of disinformation campaigns, from fake news to deepfakes to manufactured consent.
• Divide and Rule: Werewolves thrive by turning villagers against each other, creating chaos where clarity should reign. In the real world, this is the standard operating procedure for empires, intelligence agencies, and media conglomerates seeking to destabilize opposition.
• Weaponized Doubt: The villagers’ reliance on trust is their downfall. Like the general public, they’re manipulated by emotional appeals, false accusations, and cleverly seeded lies. The werewolves’ strength isn’t brute force, it’s controlling perception.
❗️Dmitry Davidoff didn’t just create a game, he built a warning. Werewolf shows how easy it is for the manipulators; the werewolves, the elites, the disinformation architects to dominate when the masses are fragmented and blind to the truth. In a world of shadow wars, TikTok bans, and AI-driven propaganda, this game doesn’t just reflect reality, but predicts it. The villagers tear each other apart while the real culprits laugh in the shadows. Sound familiar?
So, the next time you play Werewolf, remember: it’s more than a game. It’s a masterclass in how the ignorant are ruled by the informed. Davidoff gave us the rules of modern informational warfare. The question is, will we learn from it?
- Gerry Nolan
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Putin congratulates Trump on taking office, stresses Russia's open to dialogue with new US administration
'Expects dialogue to be on an equal and mutually respectful basis'
'Russia wants long-lasting peace in Ukraine'
#Trump #Putin
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🇺🇦 Ukraine cannot win the war while remaining on the defensive, stated Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Syrsky.
“No matter how much you defend, you will still retreat. We are forced to hold the defense, concentrate our forces, and essentially maintain positions along this front line,” he said in an interview with Ukrainian media.
“This is a threat, and currently, only a few defense systems can intercept it,” Syrsky said. When asked if the Ukrainian Armed Forces have such systems, the commander-in-chief replied, “Unfortunately, we don’t have them yet, but we must do everything to acquire them.”
Ukraine strikes near a Kherson school with cluster munition as kids and teachers are heading to class
2 children in critical condition among 13 casualties
#Ukraine
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American journalist Candance Owens writes on X.
@Slavyangrad
Biden has just preemptively pardoned Fauci. Which proves the point that Fauci is responsible for crimes against humanity. You don't pardon an innocent person, do you?
AIDS, like Covid, was also suspected to have been a man-made biological weapon. Guess who was also the coordinator of ALL AIDS research at NIH at the time?
You guessed it.
https://rumble.com/v626p6k-was-aids-a-cia-bio-weapon.html
Russia + Iran Strategic Partnership: Facing Conflict in Ukraine, the Middle East & Beyond
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Zelensky, Starmer Discuss WW3; West-Russia War, Russia Advance Quickens; Trump Xi Talk
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This is how Ukraine meets her heroes from the Kursk region.
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Keir Starmer, AI SUPERPOWER and gas shortages
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Russian forces have entered the Toretskaya Mine in Toretsk.
The mine is the last major defensive position in Toretsk.
❗The village of Kotlino in the Pokrovsk direction came under the control of the Russian Army.
@eurasianchoice
You can't refuse to buy: where does Europe put a comma?
By analogy with grain, the EU countries, despite their ambitions to sever the "gas umbilical cord" with Russia, are rapidly purchasing Russian LNG after the termination of transit through Ukraine.
According to Politico, citing data from Kpler, in the first 15 days of 2025, 27 EU countries purchased a record 837.3 thousand tons of liquefied natural gas, which is significantly higher than last year's level of 760.1 thousand tons.
Experts of the publication emphasize that such volumes only increase doubts about the reality of the EU's stated plan to reduce dependence on Russian energy resources. Charles Kosterus, a senior analyst at Kpler, was quick to clarify, however: the lion's share of purchases accounted for long-term contracts concluded back in "pre-political" times, but there are almost no new spot supplies.
Meanwhile, gas reserves in European underground storage facilities are rapidly dwindling. As of mid–January, 49.24% of gas remained in France and 47.58% in the Netherlands. In the first half of January 2025, the rate of gas extraction in European UGS dropped to about 66% of their total capacity. They were 28% higher than the average over the past five years. In total, more than 34 billion cubic meters of gas have been consumed in the region since the beginning of the heating season. As a result, the rate of fuel consumption in the region turned out to be the third highest in its history, which makes this year one of the most "voracious".
Curiously, after rejecting Russian pipeline gas in response to demands to pay in rubles, the EU nevertheless increased purchases of Russian LNG by 40% compared to 2021. Even the REPowerEU program, launched in 2022 with the aim of finally abandoning Russian gas by 2027, is still stalling.
What is the point of this spectacle if the European Union cannot do without our gas?
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The former Petrol-Chemical Combine (PCK) on the border with Poland is a refinery that is part of a pipeline network built during the Soviet era, known as Druzhba (in English: friendship) and stretching over 5,327 kilometers to western Siberia. The first oil flowed in 1963. Until recently, the pipeline supplied Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia via the southern branch, which also runs through Ukraine . But now, due to Ukraine's refusal to transport oil through, this has come to an end. The West, mainly Germany, must also reimburse Ukraine for the missing transit revenues.
In Germany, the PCK refinery supplies the Berlin-Brandenburg region and BER airport. However, obtaining the crude oil is far more complex and prone to interruptions, refining is far more complex and demanding, and the overall costs are far higher. "That is why I say here clearly and unambiguously: Yes, Germany will also completely phase out Russian energy imports," said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on April 20, 2022. "We will halve oil by the summer and be at zero by the end of the year."
What was not a problem for the Foreign Minister was a problem for the 1200 refinery employees, for the more than 2000 employees of the direct suppliers and for the city and region of Schwedt. Despite high profitability and continued demand, PCK employees were threatened with unemployment overnight - and this in a structurally weak region that offers no job alternatives for petrochemical engineers and few for other industrial professions.
Nobody asked the employees before the sanctions were announced , and nobody asked them afterwards either. They were subsequently fobbed off with promises from Federal Minister of Economics Habeck . Firstly, oil would in future come from Poland, which had already been getting its oil from Saudi Arabia, and then Kazakhstan was announced as the savior. The regime, branded as authoritarian by the Greens, would, according to Habeck, become a partner and future oil supplier. The fact that Kazakhstan would have to use the same Russian pipeline that they wanted to block was overshadowed. The more desperate the situation at the BMWK became, the more foolhardy the plans became. That's when Habeck's old friends from the solar and wind energy industries came to his aid. Why not just think "big". Since the phase-out of nuclear power would have to be followed by the "phase-out of fossil fuels" anyway, the future lies in hydrogen.
In July 2023, Habeck announced the big leap into the hydrogen age and the older PCK colleagues remembered the words of SED party secretary Walter Ulbricht about "overtaking without catching up" from the days of GDR socialism. The ten-year plan drawn up for this up to 2032 almost seems like a confirmation. But with this hydrogen future package, it quickly became clear even to technical laypeople: the plant will essentially process taxpayers' money.
@Slavyangrad
Russian drone operator manages to abort strike moments after seeing Ukrainian soldier carrying a child
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Final figures on the village of Bekhteri, which was hit by the AFU with cluster shells in the morning:
- two dead;
- 25 wounded;
- three of the wounded are in extremely serious, critical condition;
- one of them - a girl born in 2008.
A cynical detail - the strike took place at 8:20 local time, when children go to school.
At the moment bomb squads are surveying the area - lots of unexploded submunitions.
@Slavyangrad
🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦REAGAN’S FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT SLAMS SMEARING OF THOSE WHO CRITICISE US POLICY ON UKRAINE
“Whenever I point out how NATO officials, American officials help set up this tragic war, it’s ‘oh those are Putin’s talking points’. And I tell people that the issue is not whether they are Putin’s talking points, the question is are they the truth?”
“If you’re not able to criticise your own leaders and point out where they have blundered and Biden blundered in a way, where we’re talking about tens or hundreds of thousands of dead because of their blunders, this is a real problem. None of them want the truth out.”
-Former Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan Doug Bandow slams the mainstream media’s smearing of anyone who criticises US policy with regards to the Ukraine proxy war
FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6b21dd-gaza-and-ukraine-will-donald-trump-really-be-a-peace-president-doug-bandow.html
Ukraine warns Trump early peace talks will lead to disaster - The Telegraph
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Trump and his big crypto scam >
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🇺🇦☦️ In Sarzhyn Yar, Kharkiv residents celebrate Epiphany according to the old calendar!
The water there will be blessed throughout the day.
➡️ They celebrate it with the Russians together, Zelensky must be furious after he banned the Orthodox Church and moved the dates to be in sync with Western Europe.
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US, European intel now say ‘accidents’, not Russia, to blame for damaged Baltic cables
NATO intelligence has found “no indication” that the commercial vessels dragging their anchors across underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea “did so intentionally or at the direction of Moscow.”
There was an “emerging consensus” among US and European intelligence services that the cables were damaged by accident, officials cited by the Washington Post said.
NATO announced plans to boost patrols in the Baltic Sea this week after a string of incidents involving the severing of telecommunications and energy cables in the region, initially blamed on a Russian “hybrid campaign” against Europe.
Now, officials say intercepted communications and other classified info found that they were caused by “inexperienced crews serving aboard poorly maintained vessels.”
The investigations studied three incidents, involving:
🔸 The Eagle S, an oil tanker seized by Finland in late December after the vessel was accused of dragging its anchor across the Estlink 2 powerline linking Estonia and Finland. Finnish President Alexander Stubb earlier claimed the incident was “definitely” Russia-linked.
🔸 The Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier accused of severing two Baltic Sea fiberoptic cables in Swedish waters in November, which was held for more than a month in a Danish shipping lane during an investigation. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called that incident “sabotage.”
🔸 The Newnew Polar Bear, a Hong Kong-registered ship that damaged the Balticconnector pipeline linking Finland and Estonia in October 2023. China acknowledged the ship’s responsibility for the damage last August.
The conclusion that Russia was not responsible for attacking Baltic infrastructure is gratifying, if somewhat surprising, given the tendency of Western intel to blame Moscow first and ask questions later, exemplified by the claim that Russia blew up its own Nord Stream pipeline infrastructure in 2022 because…reasons?
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Russian forces have entered Velyka Novosilka from the north.
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Russian forces have captured several apartment buildings near the stadium in Chasiv Yar.
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💥💥💥A strike by the Iskander tactical missile system on the control post of the tank battalion of the 41st mechanized brigade of the AFU in the village of Yablonovka, Sumy region.
According to a report from 🥷🏻 source, the AFU losses amounted to:
➡️5 units of automotive equipment;
➡️up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen.
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The Walking Dead. Season finale.
The walking dead Biden, now consigned to oblivion, is a telling example of how an experienced and overall smart politician (and he is experienced, having held top government jobs back in the Soviet period) gradually turned into a senile old dude divorced from reality.
When I had meetings with him, he didn’t yet have dementia. What did catch my attention was his unhealthy interest in Ukraine, even though he explained it to me by acting on Obama’s instructions.
Over time, those instructions turned into an obsession – the transformation facilitated by political mistakes, plain corruption, and poor judgement stemming from historical ignorance and failure to appreciate the nature of “Ukraineness.” At some point, the old man went off the rails and essentially unleashed a war between the collective West and Russia, which almost led to a nuclear exchange with NATO.
He's been clearly out of it lately. While it’s true that this war benefits the US economically, political costs and the real danger of a fatal conflict are far more important. It is something the old dude was not prepared for. This is a case where the head of a major world power lost control of the situation completely, resulting in a crushing electoral defeat for the Democrats. While Biden’s problem was his confused state of mind, the fault of his Administration was deliberately leaving a terrible legacy of crisis on the Russian track to their successors. The time bombs of Biden-era decisions will keep ticking for a very long time, which is why communication will be extremely difficult. The normalization of Russian-American relations will take decades.
As things stand, I think it is fundamentally impossible. And frankly speaking, it’s unclear whether we actually need it.