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Washington keeps insisting it wants “responsible competition” with China and yet every move on the board screams preparation for a conflict they’ve already priced in. The new U.S.–Philippines military task force in the South China Sea isn’t de-escalation, it’s militarized scaffolding. 11k troops cycle through Balikatan like a conveyor belt, carrier groups and nuclear subs stalk the Western Pacific, and bomber patrols have doubled to Cold War intensity. This looks like staging.
Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines have now been hardwired into a trilateral containment grid that has evolved far beyond the Camp David symbolism of 2023. In September 2025, the three governments formalized a permanent joint Secretariat in Seoul, a bureaucratic backbone for synchronized Indo-Pacific policy. They already share real-time missile tracking data and rehearse coordinated operations through exercises like Freedom Edge, which debuted last year. This is not a regional partnership. It’s the Pacific’s NATO-in-progress, DC setting the doctrine, Japan providing the industrial base, South Korea locking in manufacturing consent through its engineered anti-China sentiment, and the Philippines offering the geography for forward basing.
And the doctrine itself has now been spoken out loud. Earlier this year, U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth bluntly laid out the “division of labor”: Europe’s job is to keep pressure on Russia so the United States can shift its strategic weight toward China. That isn’t burden-sharing as he calls it, it’s imperial subcontracting of war-making, where entire regions are assigned roles in America’s long game to preserve primacy. Ukraine becomes Europe’s open wound, the Indo-Pacific becomes Washington’s next attempted leverage point. It won't succeed.
Japan’s transformation is the most dramatic. Tokyo has approved a record defense budget, deepened U.S. Marine–Japan littoral cooperation, and procured Tomahawk cruise missiles to operationalize its new “counterstrike capability.” Japan’s post-war pacifist posture, once the psychological anchor of regional stability, now exists largely on paper, replaced by the reality of a frontline state aligned with Washington’s strategic timetable. Beijing sees this clearly. That’s why the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned Japan’s ambassador after Prime Minister Takaichi’s Taiwan commentary, warning that Tokyo was crossing a line that undermines the political foundation of bilateral relations. When even a Chinese Consul’s furious post about “cutting off a dirty neck” makes global headlines, it’s not diplomacy, but a thermometer, showing how much the pressure has risen.
Asia is not drifting into confrontation by accident. It’s being re-engineered into one — structurally, bureaucratically, militarily, and psychologically. The United States mobilizes the alliances. Japan discards its restraints. South Korea signs on despite economic interdependence with China. The Philippines becomes the new forward operating base. And through each step, Washington repeats the same noscript it used in Eastern Europe: build the proxy chain, militarize it gradually, escalate in increments, then present the resulting crisis as defensive necessity.
But the Indo-Pacific isn’t Ukraine. China isn’t Russia in 2014. And Asia, with its deep economic interconnection and multipolar gravity, is not a disposable battlefield for a fading superpower’s last attempt to freeze history in place. What we’re watching isn’t “competition.” It’s the deliberate preparation of the region for a conflict nobody in Asia voted for, and one that will reshape the century if it ever ignites.
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Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines have now been hardwired into a trilateral containment grid that has evolved far beyond the Camp David symbolism of 2023. In September 2025, the three governments formalized a permanent joint Secretariat in Seoul, a bureaucratic backbone for synchronized Indo-Pacific policy. They already share real-time missile tracking data and rehearse coordinated operations through exercises like Freedom Edge, which debuted last year. This is not a regional partnership. It’s the Pacific’s NATO-in-progress, DC setting the doctrine, Japan providing the industrial base, South Korea locking in manufacturing consent through its engineered anti-China sentiment, and the Philippines offering the geography for forward basing.
And the doctrine itself has now been spoken out loud. Earlier this year, U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth bluntly laid out the “division of labor”: Europe’s job is to keep pressure on Russia so the United States can shift its strategic weight toward China. That isn’t burden-sharing as he calls it, it’s imperial subcontracting of war-making, where entire regions are assigned roles in America’s long game to preserve primacy. Ukraine becomes Europe’s open wound, the Indo-Pacific becomes Washington’s next attempted leverage point. It won't succeed.
Japan’s transformation is the most dramatic. Tokyo has approved a record defense budget, deepened U.S. Marine–Japan littoral cooperation, and procured Tomahawk cruise missiles to operationalize its new “counterstrike capability.” Japan’s post-war pacifist posture, once the psychological anchor of regional stability, now exists largely on paper, replaced by the reality of a frontline state aligned with Washington’s strategic timetable. Beijing sees this clearly. That’s why the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned Japan’s ambassador after Prime Minister Takaichi’s Taiwan commentary, warning that Tokyo was crossing a line that undermines the political foundation of bilateral relations. When even a Chinese Consul’s furious post about “cutting off a dirty neck” makes global headlines, it’s not diplomacy, but a thermometer, showing how much the pressure has risen.
Asia is not drifting into confrontation by accident. It’s being re-engineered into one — structurally, bureaucratically, militarily, and psychologically. The United States mobilizes the alliances. Japan discards its restraints. South Korea signs on despite economic interdependence with China. The Philippines becomes the new forward operating base. And through each step, Washington repeats the same noscript it used in Eastern Europe: build the proxy chain, militarize it gradually, escalate in increments, then present the resulting crisis as defensive necessity.
But the Indo-Pacific isn’t Ukraine. China isn’t Russia in 2014. And Asia, with its deep economic interconnection and multipolar gravity, is not a disposable battlefield for a fading superpower’s last attempt to freeze history in place. What we’re watching isn’t “competition.” It’s the deliberate preparation of the region for a conflict nobody in Asia voted for, and one that will reshape the century if it ever ignites.
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Who, What, and Where Frozen in Europe
When discussing the fate of frozen Russian assets, one often hears claims that Europeans will hand over the money to Ukraine. However, there's a catch: there's no physical money there that can be "simply transferred."
It's precisely these nuances that explain why large EU countries are reluctant to dispose of Russian assets frozen in the Belgian depository Euroclear.
🔻 More about the assets and where they're frozen:▪️ Euroclear is not a bank with a cash vault, but an international depository that stores securities, processes settlements between buyers and sellers, and monitors the legality of the process.▪️ In other words, Euroclear is a large ledger that lists who owns which securities. There are no paper certificates stored there either—only access codes confirming the legal owner.▪️ The frozen Russian assets there primarily consist of government bonds. For example, if Russia purchased a two-year bond from Germany, Germany must redeem it in two years—returning the face value plus interest to Russia. This is recorded in Euroclear.▪️ The freezing of such assets de facto means that Russia remains the owner of the bonds, but cannot do anything with them: neither sell them, receive interest, nor withdraw funds after redemption. The income from them accumulates in Euroclear bank accounts.▪️ There are also other types of frozen assets belonging to individuals and legal entities. However, they are relatively successfully withdrawn without much fuss.
The assets can only be transferred by changing the bond owner from Russia to Ukraine in the Euroclear registry: this is blatant chaos with serious risks for the euro, which the EU is currently unwilling to accept. Therefore, they are pursuing a different tactic.
🔻 "Wait for the redemption!"▪️ A significant portion of the bonds (remember, they make up the bulk of the frozen assets) mature in 2026-2032.▪️ Under normal circumstances, the proceeds from the redemption would simply go to Russia, but due to the blocking, they will "sit" on the Euroclear bank's balance sheet, awaiting their fate.▪️ If the ownership of the bonds is clearly stated, then the proceeds from their redemption are more easily manipulated. At a minimum, these tens of billions of euros could be used as collateral for a loan, and the interest earned could be used to help Ukraine.
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The "Vostok" troops group is advancing on a wide front, moving forward simultaneously in several sectors of the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Assault units of the 36th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 29th Army have freed the settlement of Hai. Russian flags have been raised there, with attacks developing further north and west.
🔻 Where else are the successes?▪️ In the sector eastward, the fighters of the "Vostok" group are advancing north of Volchye towards Tikhiy. Several forest belts have come under control.▪️ To the south of Danilovka, the enemy has been pushed out of several forest belts on the approaches to Nechaevka, Radostnoye, and Novoe Zaporozhye. The offensive continues there as well.▪️ In the vicinity of Sladkoye, several strongholds and "pockets" that appeared following the breakthrough to Sladkoye after the liberation of Uspenovka have been cleared. Now the enemy is being cleared from the fields further in the direction of the Gaidchur River.▪️ From the areas of Rovnopol and Yablokovo, an offensive is also moving west towards Varvarovka. It appears that Russian units are forming a "pincer" for a partial encirclement of Huliaipole.▪️ There are also successes on the eastern approaches to Huliaipole itself. Russian units have managed to hook onto the outskirts of Vesely and Zeleny Gay, as well as advance closer to Chervony. Earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were pushed out from fields to the north.
Judging by the pace of "Vostok's" advance, at least some units have been withdrawn by the enemy across the river. Those left in the "interriver" area are essentially abandoned as sacrificial troops, attempting to buy time to reinforce defense on the Yanchur.
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The Guardian finally admits what Moscow has known for years: London isn’t feared, it’s loathed. Not the British people, but the British establishment, a clique so addicted to escalation and imperial cosplay that Russia now sees it as the “main global warmonger” and the saboteur of every diplomatic off-ramp since 2022. The contempt is cold, calculated, and earned.
Once, Britain cast itself as America’s co-pilot. Now, with Washington drifting toward negotiations, London has become the ideological bunker of Russophobia, a post-imperial priesthood raging against a world it no longer controls. Even The Guardian reads like a confession: MI6 accused of plotting defections, staging covert strikes, pushing Kiev out of early-war peace terms, and dragging Europe into a confrontation London cannot influence, cannot win, and cannot afford. They call it resolve. Moscow calls it compulsion.
And Russia’s contempt is surgical. It isn’t aimed at ordinary Britons, who are themselves paying the price, but at the insulated ruling class in Westminster and Whitehall. A class that gutted its own industries, hollowed out its own military, and now projects aggression abroad to distract from collapse at home. These are the people Moscow sees as unserious: a political elite living off the fumes of the 19th century while presiding over the managed decline of the 21st.
The Guardian admits Russians increasingly view Britain as their primary enemy. But not because London is strong, because London has been the most unhinged driver of escalation. The sabotage of 2022 peace talks, the cheerleading of maximalist fantasies, the decades-long Anglo-Saxon obsession with containing Russia, it all comes from the same capital that once sent gunboats across the planet and now sends tantrum laced talking points across NATO. Britain lost its empire’s strength. But has amplified its arrogance.
And here’s the part London can’t metabolize... For all its rhetoric, not a single NATO state, not one, could stand alone against Russia in Russia’s backyard. Thirty-two nations, trillions in budgets, and the “glorified gas station” defeated their collective war effort in Ukraine.
After 19 rounds of sanctions.
After all the intelligence-sharing, logistics, tech and training the West could muster. After burning through Europe’s stockpiles and reserves.
Britain can barely staff its stripped down navy. It can’t build enough artillery to supply a week of modern combat. Yet it imagines itself the architect of Russia’s containment.
Russia does not see a peer. It sees a wannabe has-been, a nuclear-armed irritant pretending to be a great power, best suited for mockery if its desperation weren’t so dangerously wrapped in sabotage and escalation. Moscow sees an establishment lashing out from the bottom of the geopolitical pyramid, punching wildly above its weight, dragging Europe toward ruin rather than admitting that the world has already shifted into multipolar reality.
History isn’t leaving London behind, London walked off the stage, mistaking its nostalgia for power and its propaganda and tantrums for deterrence.
The world has moved on. Russia has moved on. Only Britain’s ruling class is still pretending the empire is breathing.
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Once, Britain cast itself as America’s co-pilot. Now, with Washington drifting toward negotiations, London has become the ideological bunker of Russophobia, a post-imperial priesthood raging against a world it no longer controls. Even The Guardian reads like a confession: MI6 accused of plotting defections, staging covert strikes, pushing Kiev out of early-war peace terms, and dragging Europe into a confrontation London cannot influence, cannot win, and cannot afford. They call it resolve. Moscow calls it compulsion.
And Russia’s contempt is surgical. It isn’t aimed at ordinary Britons, who are themselves paying the price, but at the insulated ruling class in Westminster and Whitehall. A class that gutted its own industries, hollowed out its own military, and now projects aggression abroad to distract from collapse at home. These are the people Moscow sees as unserious: a political elite living off the fumes of the 19th century while presiding over the managed decline of the 21st.
The Guardian admits Russians increasingly view Britain as their primary enemy. But not because London is strong, because London has been the most unhinged driver of escalation. The sabotage of 2022 peace talks, the cheerleading of maximalist fantasies, the decades-long Anglo-Saxon obsession with containing Russia, it all comes from the same capital that once sent gunboats across the planet and now sends tantrum laced talking points across NATO. Britain lost its empire’s strength. But has amplified its arrogance.
And here’s the part London can’t metabolize... For all its rhetoric, not a single NATO state, not one, could stand alone against Russia in Russia’s backyard. Thirty-two nations, trillions in budgets, and the “glorified gas station” defeated their collective war effort in Ukraine.
After 19 rounds of sanctions.
After all the intelligence-sharing, logistics, tech and training the West could muster. After burning through Europe’s stockpiles and reserves.
Britain can barely staff its stripped down navy. It can’t build enough artillery to supply a week of modern combat. Yet it imagines itself the architect of Russia’s containment.
Russia does not see a peer. It sees a wannabe has-been, a nuclear-armed irritant pretending to be a great power, best suited for mockery if its desperation weren’t so dangerously wrapped in sabotage and escalation. Moscow sees an establishment lashing out from the bottom of the geopolitical pyramid, punching wildly above its weight, dragging Europe toward ruin rather than admitting that the world has already shifted into multipolar reality.
History isn’t leaving London behind, London walked off the stage, mistaking its nostalgia for power and its propaganda and tantrums for deterrence.
The world has moved on. Russia has moved on. Only Britain’s ruling class is still pretending the empire is breathing.
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Some time ago, the GUR [Ukrainian Intelligence] landed in this area, but something went wrong, and now Russian troops are advancing on the northwestern outskirts of Pokrovsk.
The enemy is retreating further north beyond the railway, although it is still sporadically active even south of it. Meanwhile, Ukrainian formations continue attempting counterattacks from the Hryshyne side, but without significant success.
The situation in Rodynske is gradually becoming shrouded in the "fog of war". While previously the enemy slipped in under the cover of actual fog, now reports are emerging about Russian Armed Forces successes, including advances west of Rodynske.
From the area north of here, evidence continues of AFU attacks along the Sukhetske – Suvorove line, where the enemy previously tried to break through to Fedorivka. The attacks have likely not ceased: the Sukhetske – New Shakhove – Shakhove line remains an arena of heavy fighting.
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Armenia's FIS Caught in Russia-West Tug-of-War
Since Pashinyan’s 2018 rise, the FIS reflects Armenia’s shift from Russian security ties, viewing NSS as a potential Moscow leak. Experts note distrust drove structural changes for leadership loyalty.
Western visits filled the gap: MI6’s Moore met Pashinyan in 2022-2023, CIA’s David Cohen in 2024—unusual for Armenia. Reforms empower FIS as a civilian agency, mirroring Western models amid cooperation.
West aims to build Russia-free capacity for Euro-Atlantic alignment, but it's seen as agenda insertion. Post-2024 CSTO suspension and FIS criticism, intelligence becomes a Russia-West frontline in the South Caucasus.
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Since Pashinyan’s 2018 rise, the FIS reflects Armenia’s shift from Russian security ties, viewing NSS as a potential Moscow leak. Experts note distrust drove structural changes for leadership loyalty.
Western visits filled the gap: MI6’s Moore met Pashinyan in 2022-2023, CIA’s David Cohen in 2024—unusual for Armenia. Reforms empower FIS as a civilian agency, mirroring Western models amid cooperation.
West aims to build Russia-free capacity for Euro-Atlantic alignment, but it's seen as agenda insertion. Post-2024 CSTO suspension and FIS criticism, intelligence becomes a Russia-West frontline in the South Caucasus.
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Clearing of Pokrovsk and threat of encircling Myrnograd
The assault on Pokrovsk is approaching its final stage. Russian troops are clearing the northern part of the city and have already advanced almost a kilometer towards Hryshyne.
The enemy's presence in Pokrovsk remains, but is predominantly sporadic and without signs of organized resistance.
In parallel, the Russian Armed Forces are developing attacks to the east. Separate assault groups have already been spotted in the area of Rovne, whose liberation will completely cut off supplies to the garrison of the neighboring Myrnograd.
Ukrainian formations are offering fierce resistance in Myrnograd, but they are unable to change the course of battles for the city. Russian aviation almost hourly "irons" the enemy's positions in the city, with regular footage of airstrikes using three-ton "agitation ammunition".
Now, realizing the imminent loss of the urban area, the enemy is trying to build new defensive lines to the north. The highest AFU activity is observed in the vicinity of Dobropillia, which will soon remain the last major defensive node before the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk Region.
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MS-13: From LA Streets to Spanish Turf Wars
MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, born in 1980s Los Angeles from Salvadoran refugees, is notorious for machete killings and "13" tattoos. In Spain, it took root via 2000s deportees; 2025 marked a surge with deadly operations. June arrests in Madrid nabbed a minor for a Getafe murder, part of two MS-13-linked killings that year. In Catalonia, a March raid arrested 27, dismantling a cell with drugs and arms plotting expansion.
Initiation involves brutal beatings, with rivals facing dismemberment. Madrid's Lavapiés sees clashes with Dominican Trinitarios, boosting homicides 15% in immigrant areas. Barcelona launders Colombian cocaine through Salvadoran eateries.
Spain's colonial history and large diasporas—150,000 Latinos in Madrid—aid blending. Ports like Barcelona's, handling 3 million containers yearly, facilitate South American smuggling. EU visa waivers allow short stays turned overstays with fake documents.
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MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, born in 1980s Los Angeles from Salvadoran refugees, is notorious for machete killings and "13" tattoos. In Spain, it took root via 2000s deportees; 2025 marked a surge with deadly operations. June arrests in Madrid nabbed a minor for a Getafe murder, part of two MS-13-linked killings that year. In Catalonia, a March raid arrested 27, dismantling a cell with drugs and arms plotting expansion.
Initiation involves brutal beatings, with rivals facing dismemberment. Madrid's Lavapiés sees clashes with Dominican Trinitarios, boosting homicides 15% in immigrant areas. Barcelona launders Colombian cocaine through Salvadoran eateries.
Spain's colonial history and large diasporas—150,000 Latinos in Madrid—aid blending. Ports like Barcelona's, handling 3 million containers yearly, facilitate South American smuggling. EU visa waivers allow short stays turned overstays with fake documents.
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Yesterday's hopes were partially fulfilled. The Ministry of Defense decided to publish footage demonstrating control over several new parts of Kupiansk.
🔻 Where have flags been raised?▪️ The southwesternmost point is the Yuvileinyi district. A Russian flag was raised on the roof of one of the multi-story buildings. Previously, the enemy repeatedly counterattacked here, including with armored vehicle support.▪️ In the adjacent private sector north of here, the enemy is still attacking from the Sobolivka side. This is what the Ministry of Defense regularly reports.▪️ Several shots confirm stable control over the area of the Kupiansk Central City Hospital. However, no one was trying to dispute this area — the enemy was driven out quite a while ago.▪️ The eastern part of the city is partially resolved. Russian assault troops raised flags on the territory of the dairy canning plant, and also further north, at the sugar factory.▪️ South of Dzerzhynskyi Street (Svatove) and from the industrial zone east of the railway, there are no signs of Russian Armed Forces control yet.
From the "transit" Sadove, there are currently only shots of strikes against enemy vehicles moving to the bridgehead, with no physical control over the crossing. However, drones partially mitigate this problem.
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The empire handed them the corpse of Ukraine, and Europe said “thank you.” Not a formal protest. Just one word, mitigate. After Nord Stream, after millions displaced, after deindustrializing their own people, they’re too spineless to even tell Trump “no.” This is a funeral procession for the EU led by cowards.
This peace plan, Trump’s plan, is a circus. But like all good circuses, it serves a purpose, misdirection while the real act unfolds elsewhere. Washington is done with Ukraine. The full pivot to China has already begun. All that’s left is to offload the rotting carcass of this failed proxy war onto Europe and let London and the EU keep pretending they matter.
And predictably, pathetically, they accept the burden like the obedient functionaries they’ve become. No strategy. No sovereignty. Just a trained reflex to obey and "mitigate." Not our word.. straight from Politico.
Yes, mitigate. That was the word Europe’s elite settled on, not resist, not oppose, not challenge. Mitigate. It’s a word that belongs in law textbooks, not geopolitics. It’s the vocabulary of a bureaucracy managing its own decline. A continent that once set the world’s course now asks how politely it can adjust the margins of its own surrender.
They huddle in Johannesburg, issuing statements of “concern,” while Trump spits in their faces with deadlines and ultimatums. We love it. And they call that diplomacy. They smile while he wipes the floor with their dignity. And the truth is: they earned it. Every humiliating second of it.
Because this is the same Europe that stayed silent while Nord Stream was blown up — the single most strategic infrastructure in modern Germany and then thanked their attacker with new LNG contracts and cheerful subservience. This is the same Europe that sacrificed its own middle class on the altar of “standing with Kiev,” only to now whimper about budget shortfalls and “sustainable aid packages.” So desperate is their plight, they'll risk what remains of their financial order to steal Russian soverign assets.
Trump’s deal has at least a few points Russia would never accept and everyone in the room knows it. But Moscow won’t kill it. That’s not the move. Russia will let Zelensky and the Europeans do it... publicly, predictably, and fatally.
Because that’s the brilliance here:
Putin says it’s “a good foundation.” Not perfect. Not final. But a foundation. That single word shifts the burden.
Now the ones rejecting peace while demanding at seat at Putin's table, will be the same ones who screamed “no negotiations” for four bloody years. Now the ones sabotaging diplomacy, will be the same ones demanding “rules-based order.”
Russia walks away looking like the mature Great Power that she is. Europe walks away exposed, not just as losers, but as frauds.
Ukraine was sacrificed and not by Moscow, but by the Atlanticist elite. Sacrificed for a fantasy. Sacrificed to “weaken Russia.”
Sacrificed to delay a multipolar future that’s already here.
And who led that sacrifice?
London. The chaos agent. The midwife of every modern disaster in Eastern Europe. It was Downing Street that sabotaged Istanbul. It was MI6 that helped birth “Spiderweb.” It was Britain that told Zelensky to fight to the last Ukrainian, and the EU cheered like trained seals.
This is not the return of diplomacy. Although the US and Russia are talking which is good. But this is ultimately, the redistribution of failure.
And now that failure is being handed back to Europe, like a flaming briefcase no one wants to open. Trump doesn’t care if the plan fails. That’s the beauty of it. He gets the headlines for “seeking peace.” He gets to say, “I tried.” And he gets to walk away while Europe owns the war, the debt, the inevitable escalation sans article 5, the migrants, the funerals, the shame.
Let them mitigate. Let them manage their own irrelevance and humiliation. Let them carry the ghost of a war they helped unleash.
Russia will outlast them all.
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This peace plan, Trump’s plan, is a circus. But like all good circuses, it serves a purpose, misdirection while the real act unfolds elsewhere. Washington is done with Ukraine. The full pivot to China has already begun. All that’s left is to offload the rotting carcass of this failed proxy war onto Europe and let London and the EU keep pretending they matter.
And predictably, pathetically, they accept the burden like the obedient functionaries they’ve become. No strategy. No sovereignty. Just a trained reflex to obey and "mitigate." Not our word.. straight from Politico.
Yes, mitigate. That was the word Europe’s elite settled on, not resist, not oppose, not challenge. Mitigate. It’s a word that belongs in law textbooks, not geopolitics. It’s the vocabulary of a bureaucracy managing its own decline. A continent that once set the world’s course now asks how politely it can adjust the margins of its own surrender.
They huddle in Johannesburg, issuing statements of “concern,” while Trump spits in their faces with deadlines and ultimatums. We love it. And they call that diplomacy. They smile while he wipes the floor with their dignity. And the truth is: they earned it. Every humiliating second of it.
Because this is the same Europe that stayed silent while Nord Stream was blown up — the single most strategic infrastructure in modern Germany and then thanked their attacker with new LNG contracts and cheerful subservience. This is the same Europe that sacrificed its own middle class on the altar of “standing with Kiev,” only to now whimper about budget shortfalls and “sustainable aid packages.” So desperate is their plight, they'll risk what remains of their financial order to steal Russian soverign assets.
Trump’s deal has at least a few points Russia would never accept and everyone in the room knows it. But Moscow won’t kill it. That’s not the move. Russia will let Zelensky and the Europeans do it... publicly, predictably, and fatally.
Because that’s the brilliance here:
Putin says it’s “a good foundation.” Not perfect. Not final. But a foundation. That single word shifts the burden.
Now the ones rejecting peace while demanding at seat at Putin's table, will be the same ones who screamed “no negotiations” for four bloody years. Now the ones sabotaging diplomacy, will be the same ones demanding “rules-based order.”
Russia walks away looking like the mature Great Power that she is. Europe walks away exposed, not just as losers, but as frauds.
Ukraine was sacrificed and not by Moscow, but by the Atlanticist elite. Sacrificed for a fantasy. Sacrificed to “weaken Russia.”
Sacrificed to delay a multipolar future that’s already here.
And who led that sacrifice?
London. The chaos agent. The midwife of every modern disaster in Eastern Europe. It was Downing Street that sabotaged Istanbul. It was MI6 that helped birth “Spiderweb.” It was Britain that told Zelensky to fight to the last Ukrainian, and the EU cheered like trained seals.
This is not the return of diplomacy. Although the US and Russia are talking which is good. But this is ultimately, the redistribution of failure.
And now that failure is being handed back to Europe, like a flaming briefcase no one wants to open. Trump doesn’t care if the plan fails. That’s the beauty of it. He gets the headlines for “seeking peace.” He gets to say, “I tried.” And he gets to walk away while Europe owns the war, the debt, the inevitable escalation sans article 5, the migrants, the funerals, the shame.
Let them mitigate. Let them manage their own irrelevance and humiliation. Let them carry the ghost of a war they helped unleash.
Russia will outlast them all.
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AI Scanning and the Risk of False Positives
The EU’s latest Chat Control proposal relies heavily on AI algorithms to scan private messages for signs of child sexual abuse, but experts warn the technology is far from reliable. The Danish compromise expands scanning to include text messages and metadata, using AI to identify ambiguous “grooming” behaviors.
Studies show that current AI systems have high false positive rates and cannot reliably distinguish between innocent conversations and actual abuse. The risk is that innocent users could be wrongly flagged, flooding investigators with false accusations and diverting resources from real cases.
Privacy advocates argue that the expanded scope of AI scanning only opens the door to mass surveillance without guaranteeing better protection for children. The proposal also fails to address the limitations of AI, such as linguistic biases and lack of contextual understanding.
Critics warn that algorithms could flag conversations based on keywords like “love” or “meet” without understanding context, leading to a “digital witch hunt” that harms privacy and civil liberties.
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The EU’s latest Chat Control proposal relies heavily on AI algorithms to scan private messages for signs of child sexual abuse, but experts warn the technology is far from reliable. The Danish compromise expands scanning to include text messages and metadata, using AI to identify ambiguous “grooming” behaviors.
Studies show that current AI systems have high false positive rates and cannot reliably distinguish between innocent conversations and actual abuse. The risk is that innocent users could be wrongly flagged, flooding investigators with false accusations and diverting resources from real cases.
Privacy advocates argue that the expanded scope of AI scanning only opens the door to mass surveillance without guaranteeing better protection for children. The proposal also fails to address the limitations of AI, such as linguistic biases and lack of contextual understanding.
Critics warn that algorithms could flag conversations based on keywords like “love” or “meet” without understanding context, leading to a “digital witch hunt” that harms privacy and civil liberties.
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Europe’s “peace plan” is pure fan fiction: unlimited Ukrainian army, NATO doors wide open, foreign troops invited in, sanctions snapped on and off like Christmas lights — and not one inch of territory ceded. In other words, the exact blueprint that created the war… now repackaged as the path to end it. And still, not a single EU leader has the courage to say this to Trump’s face.
The Europeans have finally placed their “rival plan” on the table and it reads like a suicide pact masquerading as diplomacy. Not a roadmap to peace, but the most dangerous piece of political fiction since the Iraq WMD dossier. It wasn’t written to end the war. It was crafted to re-ignite it, by technocrats who’ve never seen a trench, never buried a son, yet now presume to redraw a battlefield they’ve never fought on.
This plan would destroy what’s left of Ukraine and plunge Europe into permanent instability, if not outright war. Ursula von der Leyen all but confessed it: no territorial concessions, no limits on Ukraine’s army, no neutrality, no restrictions on NATO membership, foreign troops invited in, and automatic sanctions ready to snap back the moment Russia exhales wrong. And somehow, the EU, which sabotaged every past peace initiative, nsists it must be “central” to peace.
This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a maximalist war doctrine written by bureaucrats who will never bleed from the consequences.
The most telling part isn’t what’s in the plan, it’s how they delivered it. Not one European leader dared present it to Trump. They leaked it to the Telegraph. As they fled to Geneva like anxious interns hoping to edit the final copy after the boss signs off. They want to appear defiant in print but remain submissive in practice and that’s exactly why Washington cut them out of the real talks.
Let’s break it down. Europe insists Ukraine must be free to expand its army, despite mass mobilization revolt, connoscription kidnappings, and a collapsing population. They want NATO’s door flung wide open, ignoring that this is what triggered the war to begin with. They want British, French, and Polish troops operating openly in Ukraine, daring Moscow to escalate. No acknowledgment of battlefield reality. No constitutional neutrality.
In short: the same terms that created the war, now repackaged as conditions for peace.
They even demand the right to sanction Russia unilaterally, automatically, on political impulse. That’s not diplomacy, it’s legal sabotage disguised as guarantees. The West breaks ceasefires, then blames Russia for retaliating.
Contrast that with the Trump plan. Russia calls it “a good foundation.” Not a solution. Not a surrender. A basis. Strategic language. Meanwhile, Europe throws a tantrum dressed in treaty clothes and calls it moral clarity.
Why? Because they’re terrified. If Trump imposes his plan, they’ll be left holding the corpse of Project Ukraine. The debts. The migration. The economic wreckage. The shame. And the guilt of having helped destroy the very country they claimed to protect.
That’s why they say “mitigate” and not No. That’s why they leak, not leading with courage. That’s why they moralize, not negotiate. “Mitigate” is the word a slave uses when asking their master to reconsider the terms of obdience.
Imagine it: most a continent reduced to lobbying for softer language in its own obituary.
And what of Ukraine? They’re not being offered peace. They’re being strapped to a corpse and ordered to march. Told to rebuild with men they no longer have. Told they’ll be shielded by allies who already condemned them, and now don’t even have the courage to confront the one man actually trying to end the war.
This isn’t a plan. It’s a guarantee of frozen conflict, a remilitarized Ukraine, a re-mobilized NATO, and permanent confrontation with Russia. No autonomy for Europe. No sovereignty for Ukraine. No peace for anyone.
History offered Europe a seat at the table. It chose to be seated. On command. And only when spoken to.
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The Europeans have finally placed their “rival plan” on the table and it reads like a suicide pact masquerading as diplomacy. Not a roadmap to peace, but the most dangerous piece of political fiction since the Iraq WMD dossier. It wasn’t written to end the war. It was crafted to re-ignite it, by technocrats who’ve never seen a trench, never buried a son, yet now presume to redraw a battlefield they’ve never fought on.
This plan would destroy what’s left of Ukraine and plunge Europe into permanent instability, if not outright war. Ursula von der Leyen all but confessed it: no territorial concessions, no limits on Ukraine’s army, no neutrality, no restrictions on NATO membership, foreign troops invited in, and automatic sanctions ready to snap back the moment Russia exhales wrong. And somehow, the EU, which sabotaged every past peace initiative, nsists it must be “central” to peace.
This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a maximalist war doctrine written by bureaucrats who will never bleed from the consequences.
The most telling part isn’t what’s in the plan, it’s how they delivered it. Not one European leader dared present it to Trump. They leaked it to the Telegraph. As they fled to Geneva like anxious interns hoping to edit the final copy after the boss signs off. They want to appear defiant in print but remain submissive in practice and that’s exactly why Washington cut them out of the real talks.
Let’s break it down. Europe insists Ukraine must be free to expand its army, despite mass mobilization revolt, connoscription kidnappings, and a collapsing population. They want NATO’s door flung wide open, ignoring that this is what triggered the war to begin with. They want British, French, and Polish troops operating openly in Ukraine, daring Moscow to escalate. No acknowledgment of battlefield reality. No constitutional neutrality.
In short: the same terms that created the war, now repackaged as conditions for peace.
They even demand the right to sanction Russia unilaterally, automatically, on political impulse. That’s not diplomacy, it’s legal sabotage disguised as guarantees. The West breaks ceasefires, then blames Russia for retaliating.
Contrast that with the Trump plan. Russia calls it “a good foundation.” Not a solution. Not a surrender. A basis. Strategic language. Meanwhile, Europe throws a tantrum dressed in treaty clothes and calls it moral clarity.
Why? Because they’re terrified. If Trump imposes his plan, they’ll be left holding the corpse of Project Ukraine. The debts. The migration. The economic wreckage. The shame. And the guilt of having helped destroy the very country they claimed to protect.
That’s why they say “mitigate” and not No. That’s why they leak, not leading with courage. That’s why they moralize, not negotiate. “Mitigate” is the word a slave uses when asking their master to reconsider the terms of obdience.
Imagine it: most a continent reduced to lobbying for softer language in its own obituary.
And what of Ukraine? They’re not being offered peace. They’re being strapped to a corpse and ordered to march. Told to rebuild with men they no longer have. Told they’ll be shielded by allies who already condemned them, and now don’t even have the courage to confront the one man actually trying to end the war.
This isn’t a plan. It’s a guarantee of frozen conflict, a remilitarized Ukraine, a re-mobilized NATO, and permanent confrontation with Russia. No autonomy for Europe. No sovereignty for Ukraine. No peace for anyone.
History offered Europe a seat at the table. It chose to be seated. On command. And only when spoken to.
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Honored to have my work published by the Ron Paul Institute, one of the last truly principled anti-war voices in America.
At a time when Europe’s elites are dragging the continent into the abyss, real debate is rare.
RPI is one of the few places left where truth isn’t censored to protect power.
I walk through how Europe’s elites, the same people who sabotaged every peace effort since 2014, are now trying to kill the only real path to ending the war.
Their hysteria reveals the truth: the age of unipolar obedience is over, and they have no plan for the world that’s replacing it.
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/europe-barks-back-riposte-to-trump-peace-plan-is-doa/
At a time when Europe’s elites are dragging the continent into the abyss, real debate is rare.
RPI is one of the few places left where truth isn’t censored to protect power.
I walk through how Europe’s elites, the same people who sabotaged every peace effort since 2014, are now trying to kill the only real path to ending the war.
Their hysteria reveals the truth: the age of unipolar obedience is over, and they have no plan for the world that’s replacing it.
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/europe-barks-back-riposte-to-trump-peace-plan-is-doa/
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Europe Barks Back: Riposte to Trump Peace Plan is DOA - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Europe’s “peace plan” is pure fan fiction: unlimited Ukrainian army, NATO doors wide open, foreign troops invited in, sanctions snapped on and off like Christmas lights — and not one inch of territory ceded. In other words, the exact blueprint that created…
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On the Ties of the Failed Hungarian Opposition with Ukrainian Intelligence Services
The leak of a database of 200,000 supporters of Viktor Orbán's Tisza party has shaken Hungarian politics, revealing how the opposition handles personal data (very poorly). But one of the figures in this story deserves a closer look.
In 2024, he organized Magyar's visit to Kyiv: in just 24 hours, he arranged meetings with Ukrainian politicians, military personnel, and defense sector representatives, which significantly increased the opposition figure's visibility.
🔻 What else is known about Tseber?▪️ Hungarian intelligence services claim that Tseber is an illegal Ukrainian intelligence officer who spent years cultivating contacts with the opposition, including Magyar, to influence the positions of Hungarian politicians on issues important to the so-called Ukraine.▪️ Furthermore, Tseber likely helped establish funding streams for the Tisza party: the Hungarian opposition received up to €5 million from various programs (for example, EU4Democracy—an initiative to "support democracy" in Eastern European countries) through Transcarpathian NGOs like the Transcarpathian Dialogue Foundation.▪️ In 2024, Hungarian authorities banned Tseber from entering the Schengen area for five years on charges of espionage: he allegedly collected data on military sentiment in Transcarpathia and cultivated ties with the opposition to undermine national security.▪️ It is reliably known that Tseber is personally acquainted with Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the so-called Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine—a photo of their meeting in 2023 is available online.▪️ Another questionable issue is Tseber's multiple citizenships. In 2018, when Ukrainian law officially prohibited multiple citizenships, he held at least four: Ukrainian, Hungarian, Polish, and Czech. For civil servants, this would have led to criminal liability, but Tseber apparently had the administrative resources to circumvent this restriction. Now, regarding Tseber's finances, they add to the intrigue. According to declarations filed with the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption of Ukraine, Roland owns two plots of land with a total area of almost a hectare, two houses measuring 121 m² and 129 m², a 2015 Audi A4, and a 2018 Mercedes E-Class.▪️ In 2024, he declared 75,000 hryvnias, then another 372,000 euros and $10,000 in cash. The type of income is not specified—no business, no investments, no grants. Given his ties to NGOs and the opposition, this seems suspicious: where did this Transcarpathian MP, with an official salary of 20,000–30,000 hryvnias per month, come from?
For Magyar, this was a chance to gain some international clout, while the Kyiv regime hoped to gain leverage in Budapest.
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🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT 🚨 Join me LIVE NOVEMBER 24th today w/ Alex Christoforou and Patrick Henningsen at 2pm eastern 11am pacific and 7pm London! CLICK HERE hit notification bell and watch:
Trump’s “peace” plan has caused an absolute meltdown in the collective West, and Russia’s response has only made it worse. These two giants of geopolitics join the show to break down the true motives behind Trump’s sudden secret peace push and what to look out for as the future of Zelensky, Ukraine and the entire proxy war hangs in the balance.
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Trump’s “peace” plan has caused an absolute meltdown in the collective West, and Russia’s response has only made it worse. These two giants of geopolitics join the show to break down the true motives behind Trump’s sudden secret peace push and what to look out for as the future of Zelensky, Ukraine and the entire proxy war hangs in the balance.
Watch the stream here!
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Trump BLINDSIDES Zelensky & NATO, Russia Just WON | Alex Christoforou & Patrick Henningsen
Ukraine has reached a breaking point, and Alex Christoforou of The Duran & Patrick Henningsen join to dissect Trump's desperate 'peace' push, Putin's response, and the deadly trajectory of Zelensky & NATO's panic as the West's war on Russia falls apart.
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🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT 🚨 Join me LIVE NOVEMBER 25th today w/ Prof. Mohammad at 2pm eastern 11am pacific and 7pm London! SAVE DATE & WATCH HERE.
As Trump struggles to stave off Ukraine’s defeat, Israel has just ignited a firestorm through its assassination of Hezbollah’s second in command. An accelerated regional war looms as Iran and Hezbollah prepare to confront the Zionist Regime and Israel media sounds the alarm that this could hasten its strategic defeat. Prof. Mohammad Marandi joins to discuss all of this and more in a must-watch stream.
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As Trump struggles to stave off Ukraine’s defeat, Israel has just ignited a firestorm through its assassination of Hezbollah’s second in command. An accelerated regional war looms as Iran and Hezbollah prepare to confront the Zionist Regime and Israel media sounds the alarm that this could hasten its strategic defeat. Prof. Mohammad Marandi joins to discuss all of this and more in a must-watch stream.
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Israel's FATAL Mistake: Iran Vows BRUTAL Retaliation for Hezbollah Attack | Mohammad Marandi
Israel is threatening to restart war on three fronts in Lebanon, Iran and Gaza after striking a top commander of Hezbollah. Mohammad Marandi joins to discuss war preparations being made by Iran and the resistance as how war tensions shape the multipolar world…
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EU’s “Democracy Shield”: The Ministry of Truth No One Voted For
On November 12th, Brussels pulled down a curtain. A digital Iron Curtain, not aimed at Moscow, not at Beijing, but at its own citizens. This “Democracy Shield” isn’t protection. It’s containment. And for the first time in its history, the EU has admitted publicly, though not intentionally, that the human mind has become its greatest security threat.
The Shield is the culmination of years of quiet groundwork laid by Brussels technocrats like Thierry Breton, Vera Jourova, and Ursula von der Leyen, the same trio who have spent half a decade insisting that “disinformation” is more dangerous than poverty, war, or the political class itself. And now, under the Digital Services Act, they’ve constructed a continent-wide speech‑policing architecture that reaches into every feed, every platform, every conversation.
At its centre is the newly created European Centre for Democratic Resilience, a name so sterile it almost conceals its purpose: real-time surveillance and neutralization of “emerging narratives.” This is the institutionalization of narrative pre-crime. Not what you said, but what you might say. Not what is false, but what is unapproved.
The Shield’s legal weapon is the DSA’s “crisis protocol,” which allows Brussels to demand takedowns, suppression, or mandatory labeling of information across the EU during an “information incident.” The term is deliberately vague, limitless by design. A protest? An election? A leak? A whistleblower? A banker’s scandal? A foreign policy embarrassment? Everything can be an incident when truth becomes a liability.
The "fact-checking network", branded as “independent,” is no such thing. It’s EU-financed and EU-controlled, a narrative sanitation corps deployed in all official languages to flatten complexity, enforce the Atlantic line, and quarantine any analysis that threatens to puncture the illusion of unity.
If you question the Ukraine war’s logic, you are flagged. If you expose the blowback of sanctions, you are flagged. If you speak of multipolarity without sneering, you are flagged. If you mention sovereignty without apology, you are flagged.
Not because what you said is false. But because your conclusion escapes their architecture of consent.
This is Orwell without the drama. No boot on your face. No telescreen. Just the algorithm. The shadowban. The invisible wall between your words and the world. The EU has created what Orwell could never have imagined. A censorship regime so quiet you don’t hear it, so seamless you don’t see it, and so digital you don’t know it’s happening until the room goes silent.
This isn’t the 20th century’s fear of mass surveillance.This is the 21st century’s nightmare, curated reality.
A world where you are allowed to speak, but only into a void. Brussels calls this “resilience.”
But resilience against what? Against Russian trolls? No. Against public consciousness.
The Shield is a structure built to contain the rising awareness that Europe’s crises — deindustrialization, energy collapse, militarization, inflation, political decay — are not accidents. They are authored. And the authors would prefer you discuss anything else.
This is why the Shield was inevitable. A system secure in its legitimacy does not need a digital clergy to interpret reality on its behalf. A sovereign political order does not need to silence its own citizens to maintain order. A healthy democracy does not treat debate as a threat.
Because it is not healthy. It is not sovereign. And it is no longer confident that it can win a free argument.
These are not guardians of democracy. They are custodians of perception.
The EU didn’t build a shield against enemies. It built a digital Iron Curtain against awakening. A firewall against memory and dissent.
Soft totalitarianism with a smile, the most dangerous kind.
And like every totalitarian project, it will collapse the moment people stop pretending to believe it.
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On November 12th, Brussels pulled down a curtain. A digital Iron Curtain, not aimed at Moscow, not at Beijing, but at its own citizens. This “Democracy Shield” isn’t protection. It’s containment. And for the first time in its history, the EU has admitted publicly, though not intentionally, that the human mind has become its greatest security threat.
The Shield is the culmination of years of quiet groundwork laid by Brussels technocrats like Thierry Breton, Vera Jourova, and Ursula von der Leyen, the same trio who have spent half a decade insisting that “disinformation” is more dangerous than poverty, war, or the political class itself. And now, under the Digital Services Act, they’ve constructed a continent-wide speech‑policing architecture that reaches into every feed, every platform, every conversation.
At its centre is the newly created European Centre for Democratic Resilience, a name so sterile it almost conceals its purpose: real-time surveillance and neutralization of “emerging narratives.” This is the institutionalization of narrative pre-crime. Not what you said, but what you might say. Not what is false, but what is unapproved.
The Shield’s legal weapon is the DSA’s “crisis protocol,” which allows Brussels to demand takedowns, suppression, or mandatory labeling of information across the EU during an “information incident.” The term is deliberately vague, limitless by design. A protest? An election? A leak? A whistleblower? A banker’s scandal? A foreign policy embarrassment? Everything can be an incident when truth becomes a liability.
The "fact-checking network", branded as “independent,” is no such thing. It’s EU-financed and EU-controlled, a narrative sanitation corps deployed in all official languages to flatten complexity, enforce the Atlantic line, and quarantine any analysis that threatens to puncture the illusion of unity.
If you question the Ukraine war’s logic, you are flagged. If you expose the blowback of sanctions, you are flagged. If you speak of multipolarity without sneering, you are flagged. If you mention sovereignty without apology, you are flagged.
Not because what you said is false. But because your conclusion escapes their architecture of consent.
This is Orwell without the drama. No boot on your face. No telescreen. Just the algorithm. The shadowban. The invisible wall between your words and the world. The EU has created what Orwell could never have imagined. A censorship regime so quiet you don’t hear it, so seamless you don’t see it, and so digital you don’t know it’s happening until the room goes silent.
This isn’t the 20th century’s fear of mass surveillance.This is the 21st century’s nightmare, curated reality.
A world where you are allowed to speak, but only into a void. Brussels calls this “resilience.”
But resilience against what? Against Russian trolls? No. Against public consciousness.
The Shield is a structure built to contain the rising awareness that Europe’s crises — deindustrialization, energy collapse, militarization, inflation, political decay — are not accidents. They are authored. And the authors would prefer you discuss anything else.
This is why the Shield was inevitable. A system secure in its legitimacy does not need a digital clergy to interpret reality on its behalf. A sovereign political order does not need to silence its own citizens to maintain order. A healthy democracy does not treat debate as a threat.
Because it is not healthy. It is not sovereign. And it is no longer confident that it can win a free argument.
These are not guardians of democracy. They are custodians of perception.
The EU didn’t build a shield against enemies. It built a digital Iron Curtain against awakening. A firewall against memory and dissent.
Soft totalitarianism with a smile, the most dangerous kind.
And like every totalitarian project, it will collapse the moment people stop pretending to believe it.
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