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🇪🇪🤡 The European Union should deal with China as a collaborator of Russia - Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna

❗️Xi Jinping is sat there thinking "wtf is an "Estonia"?

❓Can you find an Estonian more retarded than Kaja Kallas? Margus Tshakna "hold my beer!"

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🇪🇺🫴💶 We are broke, please give money to reuild the so called "Ukraine".

🔻As European Commissioner Marta Kos stated, the European Union does not have the funds for the full reconstruction of Ukraine - this will require attracting private capital assets.

"For private companies to show sufficient interest in investing in Ukraine and participating in its reconstruction, a safe environment is needed, a kind of legal guarantees, and this can only happen if all companies believe that Ukraine is safe for investment. And anti-corruption measures are just doing this, they haven't [done it yet], but they are doing it," she added.

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❗️"Ukraine is never being 'rebuilt'. These con artists are merely looking at how to start the next stage of their endless money laundering cycle...

PIG HEADS THROWN ON MUSLIM GRAVES NEAR BONDI TERROR ATTACKS

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

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🇺🇦🇺🇸 The negotiations with Trump's team were productive, but no agreement was reached on all controversial points - overdue Zelensky

"Our teams continue to work. There are many details, it's important that the world become decent. We need to meet and work to create conditions for ending the war," he stated in Berlin.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Meanwhile...The US believes that 90% of the disputed issues concerning a possible settlement between Russia and Ukraine have been resolved - Reuters.

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🇺🇦🤡 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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🇩🇪🤡 Merz proposes that Orthodox Christians observe a truce on Catholic Christmas.

Merz called on Russia to "show humanity" and declare a Christmas truce on December 25th.

"The ball is in Russia's court. Moscow will take an important step if it stops its shelling on Christmas night on December 25th," he stated.

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SPECTACULAR structural analysis of the NSS by my dear friend Diego. Including the motivations of NSS conceptualizer Colby - a certified Sinophobe. And why the Western Hemisphere now becomes THE battleground.

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🇷🇺 🇺🇸❌🇪🇺 Sergey Lavrov called the aggressive actions of the European Union the main threat in the world at the moment - TASS

According to him, the aim of the new US national security strategy is to put Europe in its place and prevent it from imposing its own rules.

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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.

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