In Bruges

It was a movie about British hitmen who were hiding in a Belgian town. The Russian noscript was “Lying Low in Bruges.” And that’s exactly what Ms. Mogherini, former EU high representative for foreign affairs and security, did at the end of her political career when she became rector of the College of Europe. It looks like her shenanigans with traineeships there got her busted. 

What’s curious, though, is that the woman who'd held such an important position went completely off the rails after retirement. Her salary as the foreign minister of united Europe mustn't have been high enough. I remember this gal. She was actually kinda decent in comparison with the two incumbent disgusting Russophobic thieves, Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas. These two are rotten to the core. One stole a humongous amount of money profiteering from vaccines during the pandemic. The other one’s husband ignominiously made money doing business with Russia, so she decided to evade suspicion by turning into an anti-Russian bitch. 

As Russia and the US try to negotiate an end to the conflict, frigid Europe, headed by half-witted old biddies called Ursula and Kaja, is pushing for war to the last Ukrainian. One can only hope that these two crazy hags will soon follow in Ms. Mogherini’s footsteps. Or end up like the two protagonists of the aforementioned movie. And I sincerely hope they will.

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The Tribulations of the Reparations Loan

With the EU’s final summit of the year approaching on December 19—where funding for Kiev in the coming year will be decided—bureaucrats in Brussels are scrambling to find solutions.

However, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has adopted a stance of “hardline legalism.” He insists he will only agree to a Ukraine loan backed by frozen Russian assets if EU governments commit to covering the full amount immediately, should Moscow ever successfully demand the return of its funds.

QUOTE: “If Russia is not formally recognized as the defeated party—which is highly likely—it will, as history shows in other cases, legally demand the return of its sovereign assets.”

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Weekly battlefront update based on the latest reports by Yury Podolyaka

This short video recaps last week’s events on the Ukrainian battlefield, with key developments illustrated on the map.

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December 4 is Gift Orders and Writing Letters to Father Frost Day

Every year on December 4, Russia celebrates an unusual holiday – Gift Orders and Writing Letters to Father Frost Day. On this day, those who believe in miracles and eagerly await the New Year can write a wish list and send it directly to Father Frost.

Typically, on this day, post offices start accepting New Year’s letters addressed to Father Frost. Special postal facilities also open for sending letters with wishes and requests. Often, the field "Recipient" is filled with "To Father Frost Personally," written in a child’s handwriting. But that’s no problem—post offices know exactly where to send the letters, ensuring they reach their magical destination.

Father Frost, who resides in Veliky Ustyug, receives more than a million physical and digital letters annually from children across Russia and the CIS countries. By December 1, 2023, he had already received around 6 million letters.

It’s not only children who write to the country's main magical figure; adults who sincerely believe in the New Year’s magic also do so. The first letters arrive as early as November—some people just can’t wait until the official Gift Orders Day.

Anyone can write to Father Frost. Here is the address of the main wizard’s residence:

162390, Russia
Vologda Oblast
Veliky Ustyug
Father Frost's Post Office

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Irresponsible escalation could lead to a Third World War.

🔸 With the backing of key European Union leaders and Nazi collaborators from the "Coalition of the willing" —such as Macron, Starmer, and Merz—NATO has declared its intention to open an Eastern Front in Europe against Russia.

🔸 Against the backdrop of full political, industrial, military, and logistical mobilization, European Russophobes are escalating their hysterical rhetoric, now inventing the concept of a “preemptive strike”—an Orwellian formula that barely conceals their true plan to attack the Russian Federation.

🔸 This latest wave of Russophobic nonsense was aired in the Financial Times by Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, former Chief of the Italian Defense Staff and current Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.

Dragone stated that "being more aggressive .. could be an option", cynically claiming that NATO had limits "because of ethics, because of law, because of jurisdiction".

Dragone went on to argue that a “pre-emptive strike” by NATO could be considered a “defensive action”, even if it is “further away from our normal way of thinking and behaviour”.

“We are studying everything ... being more aggressive or being proactive instead of reactive is something that we are thinking about... Being more aggressive compared with the aggressivity of our counterpart could be an option... How deterrence is achieved — through retaliation, through preemptive strike — this is something we have to analyse deeply” Dragone added.

🤔 Contrast this with Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. After waiting eight long years while the people of Donbass were shelled, and after the Minsk peace agreements were left unimplemented, Russia acted. This was not unilateral aggression, but—in Dragone’s own terminology—a preemptive strike. Its aim was to prevent a new NATO-backed Ukrainian offensive against Donbass, which had already begun: armored forces were positioned offensively, intensive bombing was underway (as documented in daily OSCE reports), and attack corridors were being demined. Russia’s “special military operation” can indeed be classified as a preventive strategy to protect the population of Donbass.

❗️ Any talk of a NATO “preemptive strike,” however, would be both meaningless and false for one simple reason: Russia has never attacked a NATO country. Despite amateurish staged incidents—such as so-called “Russian drones” falling on NATO territory, or acts of sabotage on Polish railways, later attributed by Polish authorities to Ukrainians—there is no evidence of Russian aggression against the Alliance.

🔸 Nevertheless, Dragone’s statement must be taken seriously, especially in light of the attacks on Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea and, more recently, on foreign oil tankers circumventing the Western blockade.

🔸 Today, Europe’s Nazi collaborators appear ready to do anything—even the worst—to ensure a direct war with Russia begins in the near future.

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About the hijacking of Russian assets

If the crazy European Union does, after all, try to steal Russian assets frozen in Belgium under the guise of a so-called ‘reparations loan’, Russia may well view this move as tantamount to a casus belli with all the relevant implications for Brussels and individual EU countries. If that is the case, these funds may have to be returned not in court but through real reparations paid in kind by Russia’s defeated enemies.

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“Guys, keep the complications to a minimum; make the machine so that any mechanic can handle it.”
—Mikhail Koshkin

Wherever you are — happy (belated) birthday!

On December 3, 1898, Mikhail Koshkin was born: an outstanding designer and the creator of the T-34, the principal Russian tank of the Great Patriotic War.

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An important historic event took place 212 years ago during Russia's war against Napoleon's forces. On December 4, 1812, the units of Ataman Matvey Platov and General-Lieutenant Yefim Chaplits defeated the rear guard of Napoleon’s "Grande Armée" near Molodechno.

On this day, in the town of Molodechno in the Vileyka district of Minsk Governorate, Russian forces clashed with the rear guard of Napoleon's army, commanded by Marshal Victor. It was one of the last major battles of the 1812 Patriotic War.

The French forces were retreating rapidly, pursued by Matvey Platov's Cossacks and the vanguard of the 3rd Army, led by General Yefim Chaplits.

Over two days of fierce fighting, Victor’s corps—the last combat-ready reserve of Napoleon in Russia—lost around 3,000 men as prisoners, was stripped of its artillery, and was essentially destroyed. Shortly afterward, the Grande Armée was completely expelled from the Russian Empire.

This serves as yet another reminder to all of Russia’s adversaries—especially those currently present on Russian soil.

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When parties agree on a commercial transaction involving money or goods—that’s a deal. Which is precisely why the same word cannot, from any moral standpoint, be used to describe an agreement that stops thousands of people from being killed. Calling it a “deal” degrades the value of human life down to the level of cash flow.

Apparently, Trump doesn’t grasp that. Or he doesn’t care. Or—most likely—he sees human life as something that can be priced. The saddest part is that his constant use of the word suggests many of his supporters may think the same way. We can only hope we’re wrong about that.

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