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Trump's people order Bucharest to 'compromise' — NYT
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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦(🇰🇵🇰🇷) Russia has never discussed resolving the conflict in Ukraine according to the Korean model - Yuri Ushakov, Presidential Aide to the Russian President
❗️The so-called Korean model implies the division of territory between countries along the current front line, the creation of a demilitarized zone, and the reaching of an agreement on a ceasefire.
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❗️The so-called Korean model implies the division of territory between countries along the current front line, the creation of a demilitarized zone, and the reaching of an agreement on a ceasefire.
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🇺🇦🤡 Zelensky warned Ukrainian citizens about impending "compromises" and the unattainability of NATO membership 🔻 Zelensky stated that he has not yet received an official response from the USA to his new proposals for a peace plan: "I haven't received a…
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An RSF drone hit UN offices in the besieged city of Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan
At least six peacekeepers were killed and seven wounded in the attack
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TRUMP 'PULLING POLAND HUNGARY AUSTRIA & ITALY FROM EU' — leaked unpublished US National Security strategy seen by Defense One
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🇩🇪🇺🇦🤡 Due to the risk of terrorist attacks during Zelensky and Trump's representatives visit to to Berlin, the highest level of security has been implemented - Bild
🔻Streets in the area of the government quarter have been blocked off, security has been strengthened, and air and water routes are being monitored. Snipers on rooftops, dog handlers with service dogs, and patrols are in action.
🔻The program will begin with German-Ukrainian economic consultations with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, followed by a meeting between Zelensky and European leaders in the chancellor's office, with the participation of representatives of the EU and NATO, according to the German government.
🔻Zelensky will also meet with Witkoff and Kushner.
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🔻Streets in the area of the government quarter have been blocked off, security has been strengthened, and air and water routes are being monitored. Snipers on rooftops, dog handlers with service dogs, and patrols are in action.
"We will focus on how to reliably guarantee security for Ukraine, so that the experience of the Budapest Memorandum and Russia's invasion will never be repeated", - Zelensky dramatically stated upon arrival.
🔻The program will begin with German-Ukrainian economic consultations with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, followed by a meeting between Zelensky and European leaders in the chancellor's office, with the participation of representatives of the EU and NATO, according to the German government.
🔻Zelensky will also meet with Witkoff and Kushner.
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Berlin im Ausnahmezustand: Höchste Sicherheitsstufe für Selenskyj
Es ist der siebte Staatsbesuch von Wolodymyr Selenskyj in Berlin, seit Beginn der russischen Invasion im Februar 2022. Sicherheitsstufe „0“ für Berlin!
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Russia 'WILL NOT DELAY RESPONSE' to EU thieving Moscow's assets — FM spox Maria Zakharova's statement
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A man in a Nazi costume stormed the New York Young Republican Club gala, sparking a scuffle
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Russia’s massive attack on Odesa has sent a strong message to Ukraine’s Western handlers as the EU’s decision to permanently steal Russia’s assets backfires. Geopolitical analyst Mark Sleboda joins to break down the latest in the conflict as well as the US escalations heating against Venezuela with rumors that an attempt to take out Maduro will occur before Christmas. Join us!
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Putin FIRES Kinzhal at Odessa, EU's Russian Asset Grab BACKFIRES | Mark Sleboda
Russia has intensified its strikes across Ukraine and the latest on Odesa Port has turned the lights out for ONE MILLION Ukrainians. Is this a brutal retaliation for the EU's decision to permanently and illegally freeze Russia's assets stolen at the beginning…
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Part 1/2 - Merz stood before his CDSU party and did two things in the same speech that should have stopped Europe cold.
He declared that “Pax Americana is over.” And he reached for Europe’s darkest memory... Munich, the Sudetenland, Hitler, to argue that Russia “won’t stop,” projecting expansionist intent onto Moscow while erasing the long trail of Western promises broken and red lines ignored.
Together, the lines function as one device: announce the old security arrangement is fading, then slam the door on compromise by turning diplomacy into a moral crime.
Of course it isn't leadership. It’s a choreographed noscript, and everyone is expected to follow it.
“Pax Americana is over” is marketed as emancipation, Europe stepping out from under American guardianship, finally standing on its own feet. But the second half of Merz’s message tells you what this really is, not independence being offered to the public, but discipline demanded from it.
Because once Hitler is invoked, the field of legitimate diplomacy shrinks to a pinhole. Negotiation becomes appeasement. Restraint becomes cowardice. Doubt becomes disloyalty. History stops being a teacher and becomes a weapon, the kind you swing at your own citizens.
The Munich analogy is the most reusable instrument in European politics precisely because it abolishes alternatives. It does not illuminate the present, it pre-bans future choices. It declares in advance that off-ramps are immoral and escalation is virtue. This isn’t historical memory, but rather coercion by myth.
If Pax Americana were truly ending in a mature way, Europe’s response would look very different. It would begin with realism instead of hysteria, diplomacy instead of demonology, rebuilding industry, securing energy, restoring social consent, and cooling the temperature of a continent already exhausted by crisis.
Instead, Merz reaches for the most radioactive symbol available, because he does not trust the public to accept the costs of confrontation if those costs are explained honestly as tradeoffs rather than destiny.
That tells you everything.
For decades, Western Europe made a choice. It dissolved sovereignty into bureaucracy and outsourced strategic hard power to Washington. American protection became a political convenience, it allowed a managerial class to sermonize while someone else absorbed escalation risk, strategic liability, and blowback. Pax Americana was not just a shield, it was branded as a restraint on Europe’s own worst historical reflexes.
Now the umbrella is thinning and what’s being revealed underneath is not leadership, but dependency. A political class so long insulated from consequence that the moment protection fades, it reaches not for strategy, but for myth, coercion, and panic.
Merz doesn’t pivot to restraint. He pivots to moral absolutism.
This is where projection enters.
By invoking Hitler and the Sudetenland, Merz is not describing Russia so much as advertising elite panic, panic at the return of responsibility, panic at publics who might choose peace, panic at the dawning reality that American power is no longer an inexhaustible insurance policy.
Panic always produces the same politics: narrow the debate, raise the stakes, demand unity, punish dissent.
Germany is already entrenching long-term military posture on NATO’s eastern flank. At the same time, talk of mandatory service reappears when voluntary enthusiasm fails. These are not metaphors. They are signals. When persuasion runs dry, compulsion is prepared, and wrapped in moral language so it looks like virtue.
This is not fate. This is choice.
Germany is not being dragged into inevitability by history. It is choosing inevitability language because inevitability language disciplines the public. It converts policy into destiny. It turns citizens into assets. And it allows leaders to say “there was no alternative” after they have deliberately scorched every alternative.
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He declared that “Pax Americana is over.” And he reached for Europe’s darkest memory... Munich, the Sudetenland, Hitler, to argue that Russia “won’t stop,” projecting expansionist intent onto Moscow while erasing the long trail of Western promises broken and red lines ignored.
Together, the lines function as one device: announce the old security arrangement is fading, then slam the door on compromise by turning diplomacy into a moral crime.
Of course it isn't leadership. It’s a choreographed noscript, and everyone is expected to follow it.
“Pax Americana is over” is marketed as emancipation, Europe stepping out from under American guardianship, finally standing on its own feet. But the second half of Merz’s message tells you what this really is, not independence being offered to the public, but discipline demanded from it.
Because once Hitler is invoked, the field of legitimate diplomacy shrinks to a pinhole. Negotiation becomes appeasement. Restraint becomes cowardice. Doubt becomes disloyalty. History stops being a teacher and becomes a weapon, the kind you swing at your own citizens.
The Munich analogy is the most reusable instrument in European politics precisely because it abolishes alternatives. It does not illuminate the present, it pre-bans future choices. It declares in advance that off-ramps are immoral and escalation is virtue. This isn’t historical memory, but rather coercion by myth.
If Pax Americana were truly ending in a mature way, Europe’s response would look very different. It would begin with realism instead of hysteria, diplomacy instead of demonology, rebuilding industry, securing energy, restoring social consent, and cooling the temperature of a continent already exhausted by crisis.
Instead, Merz reaches for the most radioactive symbol available, because he does not trust the public to accept the costs of confrontation if those costs are explained honestly as tradeoffs rather than destiny.
That tells you everything.
For decades, Western Europe made a choice. It dissolved sovereignty into bureaucracy and outsourced strategic hard power to Washington. American protection became a political convenience, it allowed a managerial class to sermonize while someone else absorbed escalation risk, strategic liability, and blowback. Pax Americana was not just a shield, it was branded as a restraint on Europe’s own worst historical reflexes.
Now the umbrella is thinning and what’s being revealed underneath is not leadership, but dependency. A political class so long insulated from consequence that the moment protection fades, it reaches not for strategy, but for myth, coercion, and panic.
Merz doesn’t pivot to restraint. He pivots to moral absolutism.
This is where projection enters.
By invoking Hitler and the Sudetenland, Merz is not describing Russia so much as advertising elite panic, panic at the return of responsibility, panic at publics who might choose peace, panic at the dawning reality that American power is no longer an inexhaustible insurance policy.
Panic always produces the same politics: narrow the debate, raise the stakes, demand unity, punish dissent.
Germany is already entrenching long-term military posture on NATO’s eastern flank. At the same time, talk of mandatory service reappears when voluntary enthusiasm fails. These are not metaphors. They are signals. When persuasion runs dry, compulsion is prepared, and wrapped in moral language so it looks like virtue.
This is not fate. This is choice.
Germany is not being dragged into inevitability by history. It is choosing inevitability language because inevitability language disciplines the public. It converts policy into destiny. It turns citizens into assets. And it allows leaders to say “there was no alternative” after they have deliberately scorched every alternative.
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Part 1/2 - Merz stood before his CDSU party and did two things in the same speech that should have stopped Europe cold. He declared that “Pax Americana is over.” And he reached for Europe’s darkest memory... Munich, the Sudetenland, Hitler, to argue that…
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 subnoscription 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
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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 subnoscription 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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Russian drone developers are ahead of the West, writes a NATO specialist.
Federico Borsari from the NATO Global Partnership 2030 program writes sad things for the liberal-totalitarian West.
Since 2022, Russian troops have launched almost 50,000 Geranium drones into Ukraine, with more than 38,000 units launched from January to November 2025. This represents 64% of the total number of launches and "indicates a rapid increase in their use."
Russia is significantly ahead of Europe and the United States in the production of ammunition, which can provide a strategic effect at an affordable price, the analyst concludes. Although he repeats the mantra that the "strained" air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroys up to 97% of the "Geraniums". But the remaining 3% somehow "cause real damage and accelerate the depletion of Ukraine's defense capability."
The first Geran-2s used a combination of an inertial navigation system and a basic four-element antenna with a controlled directional pattern (UDN) to provide global satellite communications, which at first was effective, but became vulnerable to electronic warfare. The 2024/2025 modifications included various functions to increase efficiency in combat conditions, including external cameras and multi-element communication systems and proprietary electronic warfare.
Geraniums have switched from preloaded coordinate navigation to semi-automatic control. Several Geran-2 Y-series drones were equipped with Ukrainian SIM cards, telemetry units and modems, which allowed operators to manually adjust the course at the final stage. More recently, communication modems operating in various frequency ranges, as well as electro-optical cameras, were discovered on Geraniums. Ukrainian experts claim that they provide low-latency video transmission and "chain management" by creating communication channels between several drones.
This shift has tactical significance, as it transforms a salvo of UAVs from a "stupid" mass of projectiles into a distributed network capable of maintaining operator control at great depth in Ukrainian airspace, even under conditions of intense electronic warfare, Borsari emphasizes. Using a data exchange network also allows operators to track the location of drones and determine the approximate location of Ukrainian air defense units as they are intercepted.
The detection of the Geranium-2 with an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer board and an infrared camera also indicates experiments with visual navigation or automatic target recognition. Which is about to lead to the appearance of "Geraniums" with machine vision.
The Geran family of UAVs uses various types of warheads. In addition to the original 50-kilogram high-explosive fragmentation warhead, it has thermobaric, incendiary fragmentation, and a variety of warhead variants. However, the most significant improvement was the 90-kilogram warhead, which combines a shaped charge and shrapnel. This diversity expands the range of targets of the Geranium, which can now be used for artillery preparation on enemy positions.
The Geranium-3 jet with a mass of 370 kg and a speed of 600 km/h dramatically complicates interception and has a powerful penetrating effect. As a countermeasure against interceptor drones, Geranium now has auto-maneuvering and rear-view cameras. Some drones already carry air-to-air missiles
The economic efficiency of the Geranium allows Russia to exert constant pressure on Ukraine's air defense, while maintaining high-precision weapons for delivering devastating blows, the author concludes.
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Federico Borsari from the NATO Global Partnership 2030 program writes sad things for the liberal-totalitarian West.
Since 2022, Russian troops have launched almost 50,000 Geranium drones into Ukraine, with more than 38,000 units launched from January to November 2025. This represents 64% of the total number of launches and "indicates a rapid increase in their use."
Russia is significantly ahead of Europe and the United States in the production of ammunition, which can provide a strategic effect at an affordable price, the analyst concludes. Although he repeats the mantra that the "strained" air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroys up to 97% of the "Geraniums". But the remaining 3% somehow "cause real damage and accelerate the depletion of Ukraine's defense capability."
The first Geran-2s used a combination of an inertial navigation system and a basic four-element antenna with a controlled directional pattern (UDN) to provide global satellite communications, which at first was effective, but became vulnerable to electronic warfare. The 2024/2025 modifications included various functions to increase efficiency in combat conditions, including external cameras and multi-element communication systems and proprietary electronic warfare.
Geraniums have switched from preloaded coordinate navigation to semi-automatic control. Several Geran-2 Y-series drones were equipped with Ukrainian SIM cards, telemetry units and modems, which allowed operators to manually adjust the course at the final stage. More recently, communication modems operating in various frequency ranges, as well as electro-optical cameras, were discovered on Geraniums. Ukrainian experts claim that they provide low-latency video transmission and "chain management" by creating communication channels between several drones.
This shift has tactical significance, as it transforms a salvo of UAVs from a "stupid" mass of projectiles into a distributed network capable of maintaining operator control at great depth in Ukrainian airspace, even under conditions of intense electronic warfare, Borsari emphasizes. Using a data exchange network also allows operators to track the location of drones and determine the approximate location of Ukrainian air defense units as they are intercepted.
The detection of the Geranium-2 with an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer board and an infrared camera also indicates experiments with visual navigation or automatic target recognition. Which is about to lead to the appearance of "Geraniums" with machine vision.
The Geran family of UAVs uses various types of warheads. In addition to the original 50-kilogram high-explosive fragmentation warhead, it has thermobaric, incendiary fragmentation, and a variety of warhead variants. However, the most significant improvement was the 90-kilogram warhead, which combines a shaped charge and shrapnel. This diversity expands the range of targets of the Geranium, which can now be used for artillery preparation on enemy positions.
The Geranium-3 jet with a mass of 370 kg and a speed of 600 km/h dramatically complicates interception and has a powerful penetrating effect. As a countermeasure against interceptor drones, Geranium now has auto-maneuvering and rear-view cameras. Some drones already carry air-to-air missiles
The economic efficiency of the Geranium allows Russia to exert constant pressure on Ukraine's air defense, while maintaining high-precision weapons for delivering devastating blows, the author concludes.
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🇷🇺♟The General Assembly of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) voted to lift all restrictions on Russian athletes - TASS
Sixty-one delegates supported lifting the restrictions, while 51 opposed. Following the vote, a majority also backed allowing Russian players to compete in all events under a neutral flag.
The Assembly has not yet made a final decision. Delegates went on a break, and some expressed dissatisfaction over holding a vote on partially lifting restrictions immediately after the first vote.
❗️Russian chess players were suspended from team tournaments in 2022 following events in Ukraine. In 2025, Russian women competed in the World Team Championship under a neutral flag and won the tournament.
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Sixty-one delegates supported lifting the restrictions, while 51 opposed. Following the vote, a majority also backed allowing Russian players to compete in all events under a neutral flag.
The Assembly has not yet made a final decision. Delegates went on a break, and some expressed dissatisfaction over holding a vote on partially lifting restrictions immediately after the first vote.
❗️Russian chess players were suspended from team tournaments in 2022 following events in Ukraine. In 2025, Russian women competed in the World Team Championship under a neutral flag and won the tournament.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Steve Witkoff enjoyed wasting his time in Berlin apparently…So much so, he will resume doing so tomorrow as well…
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