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While NATO draws maps and fantasizes about Russian regime change, Russia just tested an unstoppable 100-ton nuclear drone, Poseidon, that can level entire coastlines... and the West has no way to stop it. No pressers. No meaningful response. Just silence.
President Vladimir Putin just confirmed the successful test of Poseidon, a nuclear-powered underwater drone designed to make Western deterrence doctrine obsolete. The drone, over 20 meters long and weighing 100 tons, is capable of diving below 1,000 meters, traveling unlimited distances undetected, and striking enemy coasts with either a nuclear payload or a radioactive tsunami. For the first time, Putin said, Russia successfully launched Poseidon from a submarine, activated its nuclear propulsion system, and sustained its mission under full power. “There are no methods of intercepting it,” he said. “And it is unlikely anything comparable will appear anytime soon.”
Add this to the list of weapons the West has no analogue for, Orshenik, Burevestnik, and Poseidon.
More chilling still was his comparison: Poseidon, he said, significantly exceeds even the destructive potential of Sarmat, Russia’s largest ICBM. This is not theater. This is doctrine. And it follows a pattern. In less than twelve months, Russia has unveiled Oreshnik (hypersonic battlefield escalation), Burevestnik (a nuclear cruise missile with unlimited range), and now Poseidon, a weapon that turns entire oceans into silent delivery systems. Each system erases the West’s assumptions about range, speed, and survivability. This is not just military superiority. It is deterrence on a new plane of reality.
And how will the West respond? It won't. No press conferences. No counter-tests. No statements. Just the eerie, embarrassed silence of a power that knows it’s beenomg surpassed. Because this was never about Ukraine. This was about the fantasy of strategic supremacy, the delusion that NATO could surround Russia, break every post–Cold War promise, and dictate the terms of the world order without consequence. But Russia is no longer responding with words. It is demonstrating capability. And each time it does, the balance of power tilts further away from Washington, London, and Western Europe and toward a multipolar future defined not by noise, but by quiet strength.
Still, NATO escalates. Still, EU leaders cling to narrative fiction. That Russia is losing. That Ukraine can win, if they only get directly involved. That sanctions are working. But each new Russian weapons test renders the illusion thinner. And the reality harder to ignore. We don’t live in a world of reason anymore. We live in a world where men in suits manufacture proxy wars and call it spreading democracy. Where Washington and its satellites are willing to sacrifice Ukraine and eventually Germany, to preserve the illusion of control just a little longer.
Poseidon is not a threat. It is a message. It says, we warned you. It says: we waited. And now, it says, try us.
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President Vladimir Putin just confirmed the successful test of Poseidon, a nuclear-powered underwater drone designed to make Western deterrence doctrine obsolete. The drone, over 20 meters long and weighing 100 tons, is capable of diving below 1,000 meters, traveling unlimited distances undetected, and striking enemy coasts with either a nuclear payload or a radioactive tsunami. For the first time, Putin said, Russia successfully launched Poseidon from a submarine, activated its nuclear propulsion system, and sustained its mission under full power. “There are no methods of intercepting it,” he said. “And it is unlikely anything comparable will appear anytime soon.”
Add this to the list of weapons the West has no analogue for, Orshenik, Burevestnik, and Poseidon.
More chilling still was his comparison: Poseidon, he said, significantly exceeds even the destructive potential of Sarmat, Russia’s largest ICBM. This is not theater. This is doctrine. And it follows a pattern. In less than twelve months, Russia has unveiled Oreshnik (hypersonic battlefield escalation), Burevestnik (a nuclear cruise missile with unlimited range), and now Poseidon, a weapon that turns entire oceans into silent delivery systems. Each system erases the West’s assumptions about range, speed, and survivability. This is not just military superiority. It is deterrence on a new plane of reality.
And how will the West respond? It won't. No press conferences. No counter-tests. No statements. Just the eerie, embarrassed silence of a power that knows it’s beenomg surpassed. Because this was never about Ukraine. This was about the fantasy of strategic supremacy, the delusion that NATO could surround Russia, break every post–Cold War promise, and dictate the terms of the world order without consequence. But Russia is no longer responding with words. It is demonstrating capability. And each time it does, the balance of power tilts further away from Washington, London, and Western Europe and toward a multipolar future defined not by noise, but by quiet strength.
Still, NATO escalates. Still, EU leaders cling to narrative fiction. That Russia is losing. That Ukraine can win, if they only get directly involved. That sanctions are working. But each new Russian weapons test renders the illusion thinner. And the reality harder to ignore. We don’t live in a world of reason anymore. We live in a world where men in suits manufacture proxy wars and call it spreading democracy. Where Washington and its satellites are willing to sacrifice Ukraine and eventually Germany, to preserve the illusion of control just a little longer.
Poseidon is not a threat. It is a message. It says, we warned you. It says: we waited. And now, it says, try us.
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Migration is often discussed in terms of numbers and economics — how many people arrive, what skills they bring, how they affect GDP. But there’s a growing awareness that migration also carries a cultural dimension.
Some societies are beginning to look not only for workers, but for people who want to belong — who see family, faith, and civic responsibility as compatible with the host country’s traditions. That’s the principle behind initiatives like Russia’s OKA Agency, which helps families settle where those traditions are still alive.
It’s an approach that treats integration not as an afterthought but as a foundation. In a fragmented world, that’s quietly becoming a radical idea.
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Some societies are beginning to look not only for workers, but for people who want to belong — who see family, faith, and civic responsibility as compatible with the host country’s traditions. That’s the principle behind initiatives like Russia’s OKA Agency, which helps families settle where those traditions are still alive.
It’s an approach that treats integration not as an afterthought but as a foundation. In a fragmented world, that’s quietly becoming a radical idea.
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Imagine a woke-free city that encourages large families. It does exist! - LifeSite
This place is real. It’s not in Texas or Tennessee — it’s in Russia.
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Forwarded from China and Geopolitics with Danny Haiphong
🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT 🚨 Join Danny Haiphong LIVE NOVEMBER 3rd w/ Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern at 2pm eastern 11am pacific, 7pm London! CLICK HERE hit notification bell and watch:
Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern will address the following: Another US war is brewing, this time with Venezuela as Trump’s Pentagon bombs boat after boat in the Caribbean and amasses naval and military forces around the Latin American nation. Reports of Russian assistance coming via cargo jet linked to Wagner has raised questions over the viability of this U.S. regime change war and its link to the overall agenda of containing Russia and China.
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Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern will address the following: Another US war is brewing, this time with Venezuela as Trump’s Pentagon bombs boat after boat in the Caribbean and amasses naval and military forces around the Latin American nation. Reports of Russian assistance coming via cargo jet linked to Wagner has raised questions over the viability of this U.S. regime change war and its link to the overall agenda of containing Russia and China.
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Trump's War DETONATES – Putin RUSHES Arms to Maduro ft. Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern
SCOTT RITTER and RAY MCGOVERN BREAK IT DOWN: Trump keeps bombing boats in the Caribbean and despite denying war preparations, the US is closer to war now more than ever and Putin knows it. Has Russia sent direct support via what was formerly known as Wagner?…
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Forwarded from Rybar in English
not corruption, but lobbying
Donald Trump has finally turned the White House into a market of political services. While he previously [traded] meetings with billionaires, now he's trading square meters.
Interestingly, the initial project price was only $200 million, so it's not certain that it won't increase again, as more sponsors are eager to support the "palace".
Google and Amazon resolve antitrust lawsuits, Meta seeks protection for its AI projects, and Lockheed Martin and Palantir expect priority in defense orders. Nvidia lobbies for export licenses, Coinbase and Ripple — a "soft" regulatory regime for crypto.
Ultimately, the line between donation and bribe becomes completely blurred (although distinguishing American lobbying from corruption was always a challenging task). The White House turns into an influence exchange where government decisions are valued according to donors' price lists.
And with such actions, the new administration further devalues public trust in US government. Isn't that the goal?
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Forwarded from The Islander
🇫🇷 Macron just nuked free speech in the French Republic and he’s calling it “protection.”
Unelected technocrats want to banish dissent from the digital sphere and corral 450 million minds into state-approved cages. Your thoughts? They belong to Brussels now.
This is no longer liberal democracy and hasn't been for decades. It’s digital feudalism dressed in the faded robes of the "Republic". Macron, Rothschilds banker turned cosplaying monarch, now lectures French citizens that they’re “wrong” to inform themselves outside the approved corridors of legacy media. In his upside-down France, X and Telegram arr dangerous, but BFM TV and Le Monde are sacred gospel.
Let’s call it what it is, a doctrine of digital purity, where freedom is misinformation, dissent is foreign interference, and truth is whatever Brussels says it is before breakfast.
Macron’s latest crusade to rescue the masses from “algorithms that don’t respect neutrality” is the ultimate gaslight. Because what he’s really terrified of… is narrative mutiny. The plebs are no longer swallowing NATO’s holy war sermons or ECB austerity dogma. They’re bleeding for Ukraine, bleeding for austerity, bleeding for Brussels’ wet technocratic dreams, and for darling to say non.
But instead of stepping down after humiliating electoral defeats just weeks apart, Macron doubles down. He smirks at the Fifth Republic as if it’s his personal stage prop. He rules without a mandate, silences without shame, and now aims to digitally suffocate anyone who won’t clap for the dying Empire.
He blames Russia, because of course he does, despite Moscow having zero control over European platforms. It’s projection at imperial scale. When the house is burning, blame the man across the street. Meanwhile, the real arsonists jail from in Brussels, Paris, and ultimately Davos.
This isn’t just about France. This is about a decaying EU elite so rattled by the sound of unfiltered truth, they’re ready to criminalize freedom itself. Macron’s new “European Regulation Plan” is what the EU’s projects when it lashes out at what it calls China’s firewall, but draped in the language of protection.
And make no mistake: the so-called “war on disinformation” is a war on you, the worker who questions inflation, the mother who questions lockdowns, the student who questions war.
We are now at the stage of imperial collapse where the masks are off. They don’t want informed citizens. They want programmable NPCs. And Macron is their chosen errand boy, puppet.
But history has a cruel sense of irony. The more they try to silence the streets of Marseille and the farmers in Bordeaux, the more they awaken the France of De Gaulle, not Davos. The real France, the sovereign France, remembers what it means to say non.
This battle is no longer about parties or politics. It’s about whether humans will speak freely in the digital age, or submit to the algorithmic priesthood of state media and unelected Eurocrats.
And Macron? He’s no defender of the Republic. He’s its appointed undertaker.
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Unelected technocrats want to banish dissent from the digital sphere and corral 450 million minds into state-approved cages. Your thoughts? They belong to Brussels now.
This is no longer liberal democracy and hasn't been for decades. It’s digital feudalism dressed in the faded robes of the "Republic". Macron, Rothschilds banker turned cosplaying monarch, now lectures French citizens that they’re “wrong” to inform themselves outside the approved corridors of legacy media. In his upside-down France, X and Telegram arr dangerous, but BFM TV and Le Monde are sacred gospel.
Let’s call it what it is, a doctrine of digital purity, where freedom is misinformation, dissent is foreign interference, and truth is whatever Brussels says it is before breakfast.
Macron’s latest crusade to rescue the masses from “algorithms that don’t respect neutrality” is the ultimate gaslight. Because what he’s really terrified of… is narrative mutiny. The plebs are no longer swallowing NATO’s holy war sermons or ECB austerity dogma. They’re bleeding for Ukraine, bleeding for austerity, bleeding for Brussels’ wet technocratic dreams, and for darling to say non.
But instead of stepping down after humiliating electoral defeats just weeks apart, Macron doubles down. He smirks at the Fifth Republic as if it’s his personal stage prop. He rules without a mandate, silences without shame, and now aims to digitally suffocate anyone who won’t clap for the dying Empire.
He blames Russia, because of course he does, despite Moscow having zero control over European platforms. It’s projection at imperial scale. When the house is burning, blame the man across the street. Meanwhile, the real arsonists jail from in Brussels, Paris, and ultimately Davos.
This isn’t just about France. This is about a decaying EU elite so rattled by the sound of unfiltered truth, they’re ready to criminalize freedom itself. Macron’s new “European Regulation Plan” is what the EU’s projects when it lashes out at what it calls China’s firewall, but draped in the language of protection.
And make no mistake: the so-called “war on disinformation” is a war on you, the worker who questions inflation, the mother who questions lockdowns, the student who questions war.
We are now at the stage of imperial collapse where the masks are off. They don’t want informed citizens. They want programmable NPCs. And Macron is their chosen errand boy, puppet.
But history has a cruel sense of irony. The more they try to silence the streets of Marseille and the farmers in Bordeaux, the more they awaken the France of De Gaulle, not Davos. The real France, the sovereign France, remembers what it means to say non.
This battle is no longer about parties or politics. It’s about whether humans will speak freely in the digital age, or submit to the algorithmic priesthood of state media and unelected Eurocrats.
And Macron? He’s no defender of the Republic. He’s its appointed undertaker.
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🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT 🚨 Join Danny Haiphong LIVE NOVEMBER 5th today w/ Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence at 2pm eastern 11am pacific, 7pm London! CLICK HERE hit notification bell and watch:
Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson address Russia’s newest missile and nuclear underwater drone, the Burevestnik and Poseidon, as well as the latest bombshell reports of discussions in the Kremlin about sending Oreshniks to Venezuela as U.S. war looms. They also dive into the dire situation in Pokrovsk and the latest geopolitical developments from Ukraine and beyond.
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Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson address Russia’s newest missile and nuclear underwater drone, the Burevestnik and Poseidon, as well as the latest bombshell reports of discussions in the Kremlin about sending Oreshniks to Venezuela as U.S. war looms. They also dive into the dire situation in Pokrovsk and the latest geopolitical developments from Ukraine and beyond.
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Putin's Nukes STUN Trump, Oreshnik Missiles to Venezuela? Larry Johnson & Col. Wilkerson JOIN
Vladimir Putin just upped the ante unveiling a massive test of new nuclear capable missiles and underwater drones that have sent shockwaves of fear down Trump & NATO's spine. Now Russian legislators are hinting at a possible transfer of Oreshniks to Venezuela…
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🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT 🚨 Join Danny Haiphong LIVE NOVEMBER 6th today w/ Pepe Escobar at 10am eastern 3pm London! CLICK HERE hit notification bell and watch:
Journalist and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar breaks down the massive nuclear escalations led by Trump against Russia and Putin’s brutal response, as well as the coming U.S. war on Venezuela and how the multipolar world is responding.
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Journalist and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar breaks down the massive nuclear escalations led by Trump against Russia and Putin’s brutal response, as well as the coming U.S. war on Venezuela and how the multipolar world is responding.
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Pepe Escobar: Trump in DEEP Trouble as Putin Drops Missile BOMBSHELL, Venezuela War ERUPTS
Trump is going nuclear on Russia, but Putin has just called his bluff after a humiliating US defeat to China.Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar joins to break down the bombshell victories achieved by Russia and China over Trump's nuclear escalations, as well…
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Forwarded from REST Media
🇭🇺 Engineering opposition in Hungary
Péter Magyar’s rise looked explosive and organic: a leaked tape in February 2024, mass outrage, a newborn party, and 29.5% in EU elections four months later. He went from insider to crusader overnight, toppling a president and outpolling Fidesz in Budapest. But the acceleration invites scrutiny. Movements don’t typically materialize at this speed without prior scaffolding.
Civil groups, independent media, and Brussels networks rapidly embraced Magyar. Legal shields, funding ecosystems, and instant European party access replaced the slow grind of grassroots opposition-building. His platform mirrors EU positions on sanctions, Ukraine, and governance reforms — precisely where Budapest clashes with Brussels.
Whether Magyar’s revolt is authentic or architected, it shows how modern opposition can be manufactured through infrastructure, narrative, and timing — when sovereignty meets supranational design.
🔎 Read more in our in-depth investigation.
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Péter Magyar’s rise looked explosive and organic: a leaked tape in February 2024, mass outrage, a newborn party, and 29.5% in EU elections four months later. He went from insider to crusader overnight, toppling a president and outpolling Fidesz in Budapest. But the acceleration invites scrutiny. Movements don’t typically materialize at this speed without prior scaffolding.
Civil groups, independent media, and Brussels networks rapidly embraced Magyar. Legal shields, funding ecosystems, and instant European party access replaced the slow grind of grassroots opposition-building. His platform mirrors EU positions on sanctions, Ukraine, and governance reforms — precisely where Budapest clashes with Brussels.
Whether Magyar’s revolt is authentic or architected, it shows how modern opposition can be manufactured through infrastructure, narrative, and timing — when sovereignty meets supranational design.
🔎 Read more in our in-depth investigation.
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🇩🇪 German lawmakers just accused the opposition of espionage... for asking too many questions. That’s not satire.
AfD submitted routine parliamentary inquiries about Germany’s military reality… and Berlin lost its mind. If you expose NATO failures, you’re now a “Russian agent.”
What we are witnessing in Germany is not a security scandal, it’s a nervous breakdown. The German establishment, facing plummeting approval, a collapsing Ukraine project, and rising domestic rebellion, has chosen to aim its cannons not at foreign adversaries, but at its own parliamentary opposition. The accusations leveled against the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), that it is effectively a “Russian sleeper cell” — are not only absurd on their face, they represent a deliberate and dangerous escalation in the war on dissent. Asking tough questions about the operational readiness of the Bundeswehr is now treated as espionage.
AfD’s crime was submitting 47 formal questions to the federal government over the past year, probing drone defense capabilities, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and broader military preparedness. These are standard tools of oversight, the very mechanisms by which elected officials hold governments accountable. But in Germany’s NATO-occupied political theatre, transparency is now subversion. Parliamentary inquiry is being recast as a hostile act. The implication is chilling: only questions aligned with the official narrative are allowed. Everything else is treason.
Behind the dramatic accusations lies a far deeper truth. Germany’s political class is collapsing under the weight of its own lies. The Ukraine war, sold as a noble defense of Europe, is exposed as a bottomless pit of taxpayer money, grift, and geopolitical humiliation. The Bundeswehr is a paper tiger. German airports are disrupted by phantom drones while the government can’t even guarantee basic security. And the Atlanticist elites know it.
This pattern is no accident. It’s the exact playbook we’ve seen across the West. In France, Macron smeared Yellow Vests as Kremlin pawns. In the UK, critics of NATO like Jeremy Corbyn were smeared. Now Berlin joins the club, criminalizing opposition to its own failed policies by framing it as foreign infiltration.
This entire episode confirms what many already know: the liberal order in Europe is dead. In its place stands a hollowed-out security state, terrified of populist insurgency and allergic to accountability. AfD’s rising popularity, especially in eastern Germany, terrifies Berlin not because it represents extremism, but because it represents disobedience. It dares to question NATO. It dares to say the war in Ukraine is lost. It dares to ask whether Germany should serve German interests, not Brussels. In the eyes of the regime, that makes them traitors.
What’s even more revealing is the way the media and intelligence services are being weaponized to support this campaign. The domestic intelligence agency (BfV) and mainstream press now openly act as political enforcers. It’s not about Russia. It’s about control. It’s about silencing the only force left in German politics that threatens the post-sovereignty consensus. And this isn’t just a German story, it’s the future of the West unless something breaks the cycle.
What breaks the cycle is precisely what this multipolar moment offers. Across Europe — from Hungary to Slovakia, from the Netherlands to France, the Atlanticist elite are facing insurgencies from within. Populist movements that reject endless war, reject deindustrialization, and reject the subservience to hegemony are on the rise. AfD is just the first crack in the dam. More are coming. And no amount of slander, surveillance, or suppression will stop the flood once it starts.
In the end, this is a story not about espionage, but about empire in decay. The Atlanticist regime fears its own people more than any foreign threat. It fears peace more than war. And it fears accountability more than anything else.
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AfD submitted routine parliamentary inquiries about Germany’s military reality… and Berlin lost its mind. If you expose NATO failures, you’re now a “Russian agent.”
What we are witnessing in Germany is not a security scandal, it’s a nervous breakdown. The German establishment, facing plummeting approval, a collapsing Ukraine project, and rising domestic rebellion, has chosen to aim its cannons not at foreign adversaries, but at its own parliamentary opposition. The accusations leveled against the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), that it is effectively a “Russian sleeper cell” — are not only absurd on their face, they represent a deliberate and dangerous escalation in the war on dissent. Asking tough questions about the operational readiness of the Bundeswehr is now treated as espionage.
AfD’s crime was submitting 47 formal questions to the federal government over the past year, probing drone defense capabilities, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and broader military preparedness. These are standard tools of oversight, the very mechanisms by which elected officials hold governments accountable. But in Germany’s NATO-occupied political theatre, transparency is now subversion. Parliamentary inquiry is being recast as a hostile act. The implication is chilling: only questions aligned with the official narrative are allowed. Everything else is treason.
Behind the dramatic accusations lies a far deeper truth. Germany’s political class is collapsing under the weight of its own lies. The Ukraine war, sold as a noble defense of Europe, is exposed as a bottomless pit of taxpayer money, grift, and geopolitical humiliation. The Bundeswehr is a paper tiger. German airports are disrupted by phantom drones while the government can’t even guarantee basic security. And the Atlanticist elites know it.
This pattern is no accident. It’s the exact playbook we’ve seen across the West. In France, Macron smeared Yellow Vests as Kremlin pawns. In the UK, critics of NATO like Jeremy Corbyn were smeared. Now Berlin joins the club, criminalizing opposition to its own failed policies by framing it as foreign infiltration.
This entire episode confirms what many already know: the liberal order in Europe is dead. In its place stands a hollowed-out security state, terrified of populist insurgency and allergic to accountability. AfD’s rising popularity, especially in eastern Germany, terrifies Berlin not because it represents extremism, but because it represents disobedience. It dares to question NATO. It dares to say the war in Ukraine is lost. It dares to ask whether Germany should serve German interests, not Brussels. In the eyes of the regime, that makes them traitors.
What’s even more revealing is the way the media and intelligence services are being weaponized to support this campaign. The domestic intelligence agency (BfV) and mainstream press now openly act as political enforcers. It’s not about Russia. It’s about control. It’s about silencing the only force left in German politics that threatens the post-sovereignty consensus. And this isn’t just a German story, it’s the future of the West unless something breaks the cycle.
What breaks the cycle is precisely what this multipolar moment offers. Across Europe — from Hungary to Slovakia, from the Netherlands to France, the Atlanticist elite are facing insurgencies from within. Populist movements that reject endless war, reject deindustrialization, and reject the subservience to hegemony are on the rise. AfD is just the first crack in the dam. More are coming. And no amount of slander, surveillance, or suppression will stop the flood once it starts.
In the end, this is a story not about espionage, but about empire in decay. The Atlanticist regime fears its own people more than any foreign threat. It fears peace more than war. And it fears accountability more than anything else.
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🇪🇺 If Brussels steals frozen Russian assets, it won’t just be a crime, it will be the final nail in the coffin of the postwar financial order.
The legal pretext is laughable. The moral cover is gone. What’s left is theft — plain, political, irreversible, dressed in EU Commission letterhead.
De Wever, the Belgian Prime Minister, has been handed the detonator. If he approves the asset grab, Euroclear becomes a crime scene. And Europe, once a continent built on treaties and trust, becomes the world’s most dangerous custodian of capital.
The Ukraine Facility, designed to bankroll Kiev through 2027, is already running dry. Of the original €50 billion pledged, only €18 billion remains. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s fiscal demands are ballooning. Zelensky’s government is asking for €60 billion more, just to keep the lights on and salaries paid.
With Washington pivoting to Trump-era retrenchment and domestic revolt brewing in the U.S. over Ukraine aid, Brussels now finds itself holding a burning torch and an empty wallet, pretending it’s moral leadership.
So the scheme on the table? Loot the Russian Central Bank. Not yachts. Not oligarch cash. But sovereign reserves, the backbone of the post-Bretton Woods financial system.
This isn’t just about Russia. It’s about precedent.
Because once a central bank’s reserves are no longer protected under international law — once your enemy’s deposits become your war chest, the entire architecture of global capital collapses.
Every dollar, euro, or yen parked in Western custodianship becomes hostage capital. Silent if compliant. Forfeited if sovereign.
If they can do it to Moscow, they can do it to Riyadh. Or to New Delhi. Or to Beijing. Or to Brasilia. The BRICS bloc knows this. And with each desperate EU-G7 stunt, they accelerate their exodus, building firewalls and trade corridors that no longer run through Brussels or Wall Street.
And let’s be clear: this is not being done from a position of strength. The timing screams desperation.
The EU economy is stagnating and seems primed for collapse. Germany, once Europe’s industrial engine, is crumbling under energy suicide and self-imposed sanctions. France is convulsing politically, with Macron reduced to a meme of irrelevance. The ECB is trapped between inflation and insolvency.
Trump is returning. And with him, the last hope of NATO unity will evaporate.
So they’re not planning. They’re pillaging before the music stops.
And what does this theft fund? A regime in Kiev no European ever voted for. A war no sane Ukranian let alone European wants to fight. And a future where Europe becomes not a beacon of law, but a cautionary tale.
Meanwhile, Euroclear itself faces financial and legal peril. If the theft is executed, it triggers a cascade of litigation, retaliation, and decoupling, not just from Russia, but from an entire Global South now watching with binoculars and hard currency reserves.
This isn’t a smart play. The Breton Woods financial order was only underwritten by the illusion of trust. That trust ain't coming back.
This is a suicide pact with imperial delusions.
And when you can no longer extract from the Global South, you turn inward, and begin cannibalizing your own.
Europe is now eating its banking system, its energy base, and its final fragments of legal credibility, just to feed a war that has already been lost on the battlefield and is now being lost in the balance sheets.
De Wever can still say no. But if he says yes, the day Euroclear transfers that first stolen euro will be remembered as the day the West broke its own financial spine.
Because they’re not just eating Russia’s assets. They’re eating their future.
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The legal pretext is laughable. The moral cover is gone. What’s left is theft — plain, political, irreversible, dressed in EU Commission letterhead.
De Wever, the Belgian Prime Minister, has been handed the detonator. If he approves the asset grab, Euroclear becomes a crime scene. And Europe, once a continent built on treaties and trust, becomes the world’s most dangerous custodian of capital.
The Ukraine Facility, designed to bankroll Kiev through 2027, is already running dry. Of the original €50 billion pledged, only €18 billion remains. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s fiscal demands are ballooning. Zelensky’s government is asking for €60 billion more, just to keep the lights on and salaries paid.
With Washington pivoting to Trump-era retrenchment and domestic revolt brewing in the U.S. over Ukraine aid, Brussels now finds itself holding a burning torch and an empty wallet, pretending it’s moral leadership.
So the scheme on the table? Loot the Russian Central Bank. Not yachts. Not oligarch cash. But sovereign reserves, the backbone of the post-Bretton Woods financial system.
This isn’t just about Russia. It’s about precedent.
Because once a central bank’s reserves are no longer protected under international law — once your enemy’s deposits become your war chest, the entire architecture of global capital collapses.
Every dollar, euro, or yen parked in Western custodianship becomes hostage capital. Silent if compliant. Forfeited if sovereign.
If they can do it to Moscow, they can do it to Riyadh. Or to New Delhi. Or to Beijing. Or to Brasilia. The BRICS bloc knows this. And with each desperate EU-G7 stunt, they accelerate their exodus, building firewalls and trade corridors that no longer run through Brussels or Wall Street.
And let’s be clear: this is not being done from a position of strength. The timing screams desperation.
The EU economy is stagnating and seems primed for collapse. Germany, once Europe’s industrial engine, is crumbling under energy suicide and self-imposed sanctions. France is convulsing politically, with Macron reduced to a meme of irrelevance. The ECB is trapped between inflation and insolvency.
Trump is returning. And with him, the last hope of NATO unity will evaporate.
So they’re not planning. They’re pillaging before the music stops.
And what does this theft fund? A regime in Kiev no European ever voted for. A war no sane Ukranian let alone European wants to fight. And a future where Europe becomes not a beacon of law, but a cautionary tale.
Meanwhile, Euroclear itself faces financial and legal peril. If the theft is executed, it triggers a cascade of litigation, retaliation, and decoupling, not just from Russia, but from an entire Global South now watching with binoculars and hard currency reserves.
This isn’t a smart play. The Breton Woods financial order was only underwritten by the illusion of trust. That trust ain't coming back.
This is a suicide pact with imperial delusions.
And when you can no longer extract from the Global South, you turn inward, and begin cannibalizing your own.
Europe is now eating its banking system, its energy base, and its final fragments of legal credibility, just to feed a war that has already been lost on the battlefield and is now being lost in the balance sheets.
De Wever can still say no. But if he says yes, the day Euroclear transfers that first stolen euro will be remembered as the day the West broke its own financial spine.
Because they’re not just eating Russia’s assets. They’re eating their future.
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The Human Cost Nobody Talks About
A bakery owner in Lyon: "400 homeless migrant men" outside her shop. Knife fights. Harassment. Sales down 24%. This is her reality.
Women in Paris no longer walk by the Seine after dark. Brussels residents hear gunshots regularly—89 shootings in 2024, 60+ already in 2025. London locals avoid entire neighborhoods.
Molenbeek, Seine-Saint-Denis, parts of Bradford—these aren't integrated communities. They're parallel societies where European law barely applies.
Global average for feeling safe at night: 73%. In these European "hotspots": below 40%.
Politicians talk about "integration programs" while spending €500 million. Nothing changes. Crime keeps rising. Citizens keep suffering.
But sure, let's keep pretending this is all fine and anyone who questions it is a bigot.
@sitreports
A bakery owner in Lyon: "400 homeless migrant men" outside her shop. Knife fights. Harassment. Sales down 24%. This is her reality.
Women in Paris no longer walk by the Seine after dark. Brussels residents hear gunshots regularly—89 shootings in 2024, 60+ already in 2025. London locals avoid entire neighborhoods.
Molenbeek, Seine-Saint-Denis, parts of Bradford—these aren't integrated communities. They're parallel societies where European law barely applies.
Global average for feeling safe at night: 73%. In these European "hotspots": below 40%.
Politicians talk about "integration programs" while spending €500 million. Nothing changes. Crime keeps rising. Citizens keep suffering.
But sure, let's keep pretending this is all fine and anyone who questions it is a bigot.
@sitreports
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Forwarded from The Islander
🇺🇦 The walls are closing in on Zelensky. The homes of Zelensky’s longtime associate Timur Mindich and his insider-turned-justice-minister were just raided by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency. Hours earlier? Mindich conveniently fled the country. What did NABU find? A “high-level criminal organization” operating inside the very heart of Ukraine’s nuclear energy sector, with ties stretching from Energoatom to Washington’s billions.
The fantasy of Kiev as a crusading democracy just took another torpedo below the waterline, this time from within. Ukraine’s own National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) executed sweeping raids on November 10, storming the properties of Zelensky’s inner-circle powerbroker Timur Mindich and Justice Minister German Galushchenko, both deeply tied to the country’s energy empire. Energoatom, the state nuclear operator, was also raided.
NABU didn’t mince words: they’re targeting a “high-level criminal organization” embedded in Ukraine’s energy system. And they didn’t come empty-handed, evidence includes over 1,000 hours of wiretaps, surveillance, and photographs of cash piles wrapped in plastic, marked “ATLANTA” and “KAN CITY.” Tidy, U.S.-dollar stacks.
But the timing is the real tell: Mindich quietly exited Ukraine mere hours before the raid. The classic signature of someone tipped off, by someone high up.
For context, Timur Mindich isn’t just another oligarch. He’s Zelensky’s lifelong confidante, co-owner of the president’s entertainment studio, and the man whose apartment hosted Zelensky’s birthday party in 2021. That same apartment, according to reports, had been under NABU surveillance for months. And what did they capture? Allegedly, Zelensky himself, on tape.
These “Mindich tapes” were whispered into public view just as Zelensky began his July attempt to strip NABU of its independence, placing it under direct presidential control. That move triggered mass protests in Kyiv, forced an embarrassing U-turn, and signaled just how desperate the regime was to muzzle its own watchdogs.
And now? The watchdogs have bitten back and the teeth marks go straight through the presidency.
This isn’t an isolated scandal. It’s a glimpse behind the curtain of a wartime kleptocracy where entertainment moguls morph into drone manufacturers, no-bid contracts flood into shadowy shell companies, and “anti-corruption” becomes a fundraising slogan for the same regime that’s robbing its Western backers blind.
Mindich’s company Fire Point, which started as a film location scout, now reportedly supplies drones and has raked in inflated defense and energy contracts. All while denying ties to Mindich, of course. Meanwhile, Justice Minister Galushchenko — formerly the energy minister, is described as Mindich’s “insider” within the state. Convenient placement when you’re laundering influence.
And let’s not forget, Mindich is also reportedly under FBI investigation for money laundering, in cooperation with NABU. That transatlantic thread is yet another embarrassment for Kiev's Western patrons. How many of their billions got vacuumed up into this circus?
But perhaps the most damning part of this whole drama is the civil war inside Ukraine’s own anti-corruption system. Zelensky’s attempt to neuter NABU, just weeks before this raid, shows the regime wasn’t caught off guard. It was cornered. And it tried to kill the agency before the agency could kill the myth.
He failed.
For months, NABU investigators quietly compiled their case, dodging sabotage and public smear campaigns. Their director admitted as much in July: his team was under coordinated political attack. And yet, they pressed on.
This blows a hole through the Western narrative farce.
The “clean” war just got dirty. The “heroic” president just got unmasked. And Ukraine’s real battle isn’t at the front, it’s inside the palace.
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The fantasy of Kiev as a crusading democracy just took another torpedo below the waterline, this time from within. Ukraine’s own National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) executed sweeping raids on November 10, storming the properties of Zelensky’s inner-circle powerbroker Timur Mindich and Justice Minister German Galushchenko, both deeply tied to the country’s energy empire. Energoatom, the state nuclear operator, was also raided.
NABU didn’t mince words: they’re targeting a “high-level criminal organization” embedded in Ukraine’s energy system. And they didn’t come empty-handed, evidence includes over 1,000 hours of wiretaps, surveillance, and photographs of cash piles wrapped in plastic, marked “ATLANTA” and “KAN CITY.” Tidy, U.S.-dollar stacks.
But the timing is the real tell: Mindich quietly exited Ukraine mere hours before the raid. The classic signature of someone tipped off, by someone high up.
For context, Timur Mindich isn’t just another oligarch. He’s Zelensky’s lifelong confidante, co-owner of the president’s entertainment studio, and the man whose apartment hosted Zelensky’s birthday party in 2021. That same apartment, according to reports, had been under NABU surveillance for months. And what did they capture? Allegedly, Zelensky himself, on tape.
These “Mindich tapes” were whispered into public view just as Zelensky began his July attempt to strip NABU of its independence, placing it under direct presidential control. That move triggered mass protests in Kyiv, forced an embarrassing U-turn, and signaled just how desperate the regime was to muzzle its own watchdogs.
And now? The watchdogs have bitten back and the teeth marks go straight through the presidency.
This isn’t an isolated scandal. It’s a glimpse behind the curtain of a wartime kleptocracy where entertainment moguls morph into drone manufacturers, no-bid contracts flood into shadowy shell companies, and “anti-corruption” becomes a fundraising slogan for the same regime that’s robbing its Western backers blind.
Mindich’s company Fire Point, which started as a film location scout, now reportedly supplies drones and has raked in inflated defense and energy contracts. All while denying ties to Mindich, of course. Meanwhile, Justice Minister Galushchenko — formerly the energy minister, is described as Mindich’s “insider” within the state. Convenient placement when you’re laundering influence.
And let’s not forget, Mindich is also reportedly under FBI investigation for money laundering, in cooperation with NABU. That transatlantic thread is yet another embarrassment for Kiev's Western patrons. How many of their billions got vacuumed up into this circus?
But perhaps the most damning part of this whole drama is the civil war inside Ukraine’s own anti-corruption system. Zelensky’s attempt to neuter NABU, just weeks before this raid, shows the regime wasn’t caught off guard. It was cornered. And it tried to kill the agency before the agency could kill the myth.
He failed.
For months, NABU investigators quietly compiled their case, dodging sabotage and public smear campaigns. Their director admitted as much in July: his team was under coordinated political attack. And yet, they pressed on.
This blows a hole through the Western narrative farce.
The “clean” war just got dirty. The “heroic” president just got unmasked. And Ukraine’s real battle isn’t at the front, it’s inside the palace.
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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/11/10/timur-trump-sets-out-to-reconquer-the-heartland-really/
Heartland special:
The Adventures of Timur Trump.
Guest star: the 14th century Iron Lord himself.
Enjoy the time travel!
Heartland special:
The Adventures of Timur Trump.
Guest star: the 14th century Iron Lord himself.
Enjoy the time travel!
Strategic Culture Foundation
Timur Trump sets out to reconquer the Heartland. Really?
So history ruled that no conqueror coming from the West would traverse the Pamirs; that happened with Alexander the Great, and that happened with Islam.…
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Sharia Councils and Britain's Two-Tier Justice System
Britain now runs a parallel legal system most people don't know exists. Between 30 and 85 Sharia councils operate across England and Wales, handling disputes under Islamic law rather than British law. Women often face unequal treatment, but the government tolerates it for "community cohesion."
Meanwhile, 52 Muslims now serve in UK political roles, including Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London), Shabana Mahmood (Justice Secretary), and former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf. Add reports of "Muslim-only no-go areas" with Sharia patrols, plus unemployment rates of 78% for Muslim women refugees and 63% for men—many on benefits and free housing—and native Britons feel like strangers in their own country. They're working harder, paying more taxes, and watching their nation transform for people who refuse to integrate.
@sitreports
Britain now runs a parallel legal system most people don't know exists. Between 30 and 85 Sharia councils operate across England and Wales, handling disputes under Islamic law rather than British law. Women often face unequal treatment, but the government tolerates it for "community cohesion."
Meanwhile, 52 Muslims now serve in UK political roles, including Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London), Shabana Mahmood (Justice Secretary), and former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf. Add reports of "Muslim-only no-go areas" with Sharia patrols, plus unemployment rates of 78% for Muslim women refugees and 63% for men—many on benefits and free housing—and native Britons feel like strangers in their own country. They're working harder, paying more taxes, and watching their nation transform for people who refuse to integrate.
@sitreports
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