Tag: Russia

Arming Sudan

The Ukrainian corruption is beginning to be permitted to reach the media:

Weapons supplied to Ukraine from US military stocks have been found in the possession of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a senior Russian diplomat has said, citing markings linking them to deliveries to Kiev.

Yulia Zhdanova, head of Russia’s delegation to the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control, made the statement on Wednesday at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Forum for Security Co-operation.

Sudanese troops recovered MK19 automatic grenade launchers, M72 anti-tank weapons, and Swedish-made AT4 launchers during an operation near Bara, she said, according to TASS. “A preliminary examination of the markings revealed that these weapons were donated to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in December 2024 from US military stock,” Zhdanova said.

It won’t surprise me in the slightest if we eventually learn that the Houthis are conquering Saudi Arabia with weapons purchased through Ukraine.

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No Intel for Ukraine

Simplicius observes that either Russia has come up with a new way to avoid missile-launch detection or the USA has cut off its intelligence to Ukraine:

Last night Russia struck Kiev with a series of what is claimed to be ballistic missiles. Routine though it may seem, what was not routine about the attack was Ukraine’s reported lack of the usual forewarning by allies…. Whether or not Russia is using S-400s or some other “special system”, the lack of intel forewarning can mean only one of three things, all of them damning for Ukraine:

  1. That Russian S-400s launched in ballistic mode are not detectable by the most advanced US space assets, which is precisely what Andriy Sybiha appears to imply in the earlier video.
  2. US Patriot installations inside Kiev are incapable of detecting these missiles with their radars.
  3. Russia is using some kind of new weapon that is not detectable to any of the above US systems.

Or perhaps if Sybiha is lying, and the US did in fact withhold intelligence, it would still be intriguing given that we know US Patriot systems protect Kiev. Who operates these Patriots, Ukrainians or Americans? If Americans, that would mean they may have detected objects flying to Kiev but were ordered to stand down and not provide radar forewarning to the Ukrainians, if they even detected them at all. Or if it’s the Ukrainians, then surely they simply would not have detected the missiles, which means the highly “advanced” Patriot radar is incapable of detecting whatever it is that Russia has been sending.

My guess, and it is only that, is that Sybiha is lying, the US is withholding intelligence, and it will continue to do so until Zelensky is removed and the Kiev regime surrenders on terms satisfactory to Russia. Which I believe will amount to Russian annexation of not only the areas that it presently occupies, but also Odessa. That is the only viable outcome that permits Ukraine to continue to survive as a sovereign state; if the war is continued by the regional European powers, not only will all of Ukraine be occupied, but quite possibly the Baltic states and parts of other Eastern European countries as well.

Russia has no desire to march to Berlin, let alone Paris, but if history teaches us one thing, it is that the Russians can and will do so if sufficiently provoked to the point that they deem it is necessary to end the war. Fortunately, the US government appears to finally be recognizing that Russia is not “a gas station with nukes” but the same major power that has repeatedly demonstrated it is capable of successfully defeating all of the regional European powers combined.

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Z’s Time is Up

The major players are signaling that it’s time for the Kiev regime to jettison the war dwarf and surrender:

Ukraine should replace Vladimir Zelensky, US President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House on Saturday, accusing the Ukrainian leader of refusing peace deals with Russia and worsening global diesel shortages.

“I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” Trump said.

“Zelensky could have settled this war many times. Many, many times. And he chooses not to,” he said.

Trump also accused Zelensky of ignoring warnings against attacking Russian refining facilities.

Elon Musk is singing from the same hymn book:

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has lashed out at Vladimir Zelensky, siding with President Donald Trump, who has warned that Kiev’s continued attacks on Russian oil refineries are worsening a global fuel crisis and hurting American farmers.

One controls the money. The other controls StarLink. They’ve had the ability to force Kiev to wave the white flag all along, but now they’re finally doing so. Which means that Clown World is finally facing the reality that its war on Russia has completely failed.

We’ll have confirmation when the Europeans duly withdraw the support they were just theatrically demonstrating last week. But just because Clown World is willing to stop attacking Russsia doesn’t mean that Russia has to accept whatever deal it’s offered.

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Putin Wins Again

Vladimir Putin is far more popular with Russians than Trump is with US citizens or any of the unelected EU sock-puppets are with the various countries they supposedly “lead”:

Judging by the preliminary results, Russia’s new State Duma will look remarkably similar to the old one, after this weekend’s elections. Yet amid dramatically different domestic and international circumstances, that continuity is perhaps the most notable result of all. The 2026 result has produced some changes, but the new is considerably less significant than the familiar.

Turnout, at around 57%, was the highest in a State Duma election for a decade, although hardly unprecedented as participation exceeded 60% four times in earlier elections.

United Russia was the clearest beneficiary, taking almost 58% of the party-list vote, up sharply from 49.8% in 2021. Even so, it remained below the party’s record 64.3% in 2007, during Vladimir Putin’s second presidential term.

The Communists again established themselves as Russia’s principal opposition party, comfortably finishing second with almost 14%, but that represented a significant retreat from their roughly 19% in 2021, and was far removed from the turbulent 1990s, when the party could attract almost a quarter of the electorate.

Remember, everything – everything – about Clown World is fake, gay, and retarded. Which is why their fantasies about the people rising up against Vladimir Putin are little more than the projection of their own quite realistic fears about the people of the slave states of Europe rising up against the apparatchiks in Paris, Berlin, and London.

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Gas Prices Aren’t High Enough?

It’s almost as if Short Fake Trump wants everyone around the world to hate his administration:

China has condemned the latest expansion of US sanctions against Russia, including potential tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian energy, vowing to take “all necessary measures” to safeguard its national interests. US President Donald Trump signed the sweeping legislation on Friday. Among other measures, the bill authorizes secondary sanctions against the five largest buyers of Russian crude oil and natural gas. It does not explicitly name major importers such as China or India.

We paid 21 percent more for diesel today than last week. These idiotic wars on Iran and Russia are devastating all the Western economies. And they’re wholly unnecessary; at this point, Americans and Europeans will be demanding that someone give Tehran nuclear weapons just to bring the whole charade to an end.

It’s eminently clear at this point that the “mad mullahs” are more restrained and rational than the Clown Worlders. It’s also clear that whoever may be in the White House, it isn’t Donald Trump.

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The Cost of Taking Sides

The Swiss are being informed that taking sides against a major power on behalf of others is a very expensive proposition when those others lose:

President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian subsidiaries of Nestle, Auchan and Leroy Merlin placed under temporary management owing to Western support for Ukrainian strikes on Russian civilian and economic infrastructure.

Moscow introduced the temporary management mechanism in 2023 in response to Western companies leaving Russia and the seizure of Russian state and private assets abroad. Officials said it was intended to keep strategically important businesses operating and shield the economy from decisions by “unfriendly” countries.

On Thursday, Putin amended the 2023 decree to add the Russian assets of Nestle, Auchan and Leroy Merlin to the list. All three were transferred to L.E.V. Management, a business and management consultancy.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the companies’ home countries and their support for Kiev were major factors behind the decision. “We are talking about European companies, companies from unfriendly countries,” he told journalists on Friday. “These are unfriendly countries that are actively involved in military actions against our country,” Peskov said, adding that some also support Ukrainian strikes “against our civilian economic infrastructure.”

The Swiss alarm over why they just lost a fairly significant asset as an inevitable result of their own actions would be amusing if it wasn’t so ominous for the future. There is no such thing as performative belligerence. If you attack a nation’s economy with sanctions, they will punish you for that, sooner or later.

Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, speaking on behalf of the government, said in a statement that it’s “worried” about the seizure of Nestlé’s assets. It’s working with Nestlé “toward the reversal of the compulsory administration,” it said.

Neutrality is what once made Switzerland the wealthiest country in the world. Kowtowing to the United States and the European Union has already cost them dearly and caused the failure of one of their two major banks; one hopes that the Swiss people will keep this in mind and limit the federal government’s disastrous forays into belligerence by strengthening its official neutrality structure in their upcoming vote.

As for the idea that Putin did this in order to influence the constitutional vote, there is no chance that Russia cares one way or another. This is simply a reaction to actions already committed; if the Swiss choose to engage in further foolish provocations and act like an EU puppet province, Russia will continue to treat them like an enemy. I suspect this is the real reason for the seizure:

Bern has also considered easing restrictions on the re-export of Swiss-made weapons to Ukraine.

Which is really not a great idea when Ukraine has already lost the war, NATO has shown itself to be a paper tiger on multiple fronts, and BRICS is rapidly demonstrating that it, and not Clown World, is the economic entity that matters. International diplomacy is not an appropriate venue for virtue-signaling.

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Odessa Confirmed

I’ve always believed that obtaining control of the city and the port of Odessa is central to ending the Russia’s war against Kiev and Clown World. This recent conversation between John Mearsheimer and Sergei Larvrov in Moscow, as reported by Larry Johnson, tends to confirm that:

A week ago Monday I had dinner with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. I was in the company of John Mearsheimer, Judge Andrew Napolitano, and Alastair Crooke. The dinner was informal and genuinely candid, and Lavrov answered questions directly — and anyone who has sat with Mearsheimer knows he does not ask soft ones. I came away with two clear impressions.

The first is that Russia’s negotiating position toward the West has not moved an inch since Putin addressed his foreign ministry on June 14, 2024. In that speech he made the terms explicit, and they are the terms still on the table: the West must recognize Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson, along with Crimea, as permanent Russian territory. These former Ukrainian oblasts are not going back. In Moscow that is treated not as an opening bid but as a settled fact. Beyond it, Russia is building buffer zones through its advances in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk. Those territories could, in time, be incorporated as well — though officials frame that as something that would follow a vote or plebiscite rather than a foregone conclusion. It is not formally on the menu. But it is, in my read, very much in the cards.

The second impression is that the space for a negotiated settlement is extremely narrow — narrower than Western capitals want to admit — because Russia is simply not willing to make the concessions the West requires, and does not believe it has to. My own assessment, after listening to how officials here talk, is that the war effort will not stop until Odessa and Kyiv are firmly under Russian control. I hold that as a judgment, not a certainty. But nothing I heard this week moved me off it.

I’ll disagree with Larry about Kiev. I don’t believe Russia wants it, and the rump state of Western Ukraine will need a capital city. But Odessa is too important economically to not take control of it.

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The Usual End

Larry Johnson explains that Clown World has reached the exit stage with its failed 30-year Ukraine project.

The war in Ukraine was not a crisis that erupted in 2022. It was the payoff of a deliberate, decades-long Western project to turn Ukraine into an instrument for weakening Russia — carried out under the cover of “partnership” and “peacekeeping.” And having spent thirty years building that instrument, Washington and NATO will do with Ukraine exactly what they have done with every client before it: discard it the moment it stops paying…

Here is how it gets discarded. Any foreign government that trusts an American security promise should first study what happened to the South Vietnamese, the Afghans, the Iraqis, the Libyans, the Cambodians. When a war stops serving Washington’s purposes, the U.S. says adios.

The recriminations over the failed counteroffensive are the opening of exactly that. The West is lining up to blame Kyiv while its pledges of weapons turn out to be lip service. The maritime-drone strikes on Russian ships are pinpricks — militarily trivial, and dangerous mainly because the Western surveillance that guides them invites Russian retaliation against NATO reconnaissance over the Black Sea and stiffens Moscow’s resolve to strangle Ukraine’s ports. If you want an honest barometer of where this war is heading, forget the briefings from British intelligence and the Institute for the Study of War. Watch for the day the London bookmakers start taking bets on when Zelensky falls.

It’s not the USA proper, of course. It’s the Clown World imperialists who have hijacked the US military for its globalist satanic purposes. Fortunately, the nations that remained sovereign and independent now have the upper hand, which is why the Ukraine project failed, why the Gulf project is failing, and why BRICS is supplanting the G7 as the most important economic organization in the world.

While Mr. Johnson is watching for Zelensky’s fall, I’m more interested in seeing a) when Taiwan officially reunifies with the mainland, b) when Japan frees itself from the US military occupation, and c) how the Korean reunification plays out. Unlike the German reunification, which played into Clown World’s hands, these three events likely demonstrate the opposite.

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Why Russia Can’t Stop

The special military operation in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It was never about Ukraine. The Russians have been telling everyone this from the start, but the media refuses to report the truth about the nature and scale of the conflict.

The world has entered an era of major transformation. In that sense, the narrow focus is – will they reach an agreement on Ukraine? No. Every time you think about that, you have to recall how it all started, why it is like this, how wrongly the world is structured, how important it is for Russia to insist on its interests, why the European bureaucracy itself cannot accept that, because otherwise that would mean the end of both it and the political class of many countries. Why can’t this conflict stop? Because it can’t be settled. Someone has to win. Just as with the US and Iran (which, incidentally, is a much more local conflict) – it is impossible to agree, there can be no deal. There can only be some movement in which one of the sides explicitly or implicitly recognizes its defeat. It may not be total defeat, but at least at some stage one side wins and the other side does not recognize it. Such a process will last a long time, but in the end there will still be some de facto consolidation of the results of this conflict. Not a negotiated one, unfortunately, but a factual one. Diplomats may formalize such a conclusion, or they may not. Frankly, that is no longer important.

When we talk about Russia-US negotiations on Ukraine, there are two extremes, and both miss the essence. Yes, we are negotiating, and we constantly demonstrate that Russia and the US have nothing to fight over. We are ready to coexist with the US on the same globe. That is exactly why Putin says: “Of course, Kushner and Witkoff are welcome guests, come. What else should we show you from Moscow’s kitchen?” You see, the US cannot conduct negotiations on Ukraine because it cannot force either Kiev, London, or Brussels to accept Russia’s reasonable demands. And how are they going to pressure Russia? I think the Trump administration more or less understands that it is pointless. So what kind of negotiations on Ukraine can there be?

As I said back in 2022, we’re already in WWIII. It’s not as dramatic as WWII or as violent on the battlefield as WWI, because the grounds being contested are more abstract than material. Right now, the most significant front is the Strait of Hormuz, which has serious ramifications for Venezuela and Canada due to the global importance of oil. But there is no violence on the second front, which is China, Taiwan, and Japan, and the real question is the destiny of the latter.

Taiwan island is already lost to China. Its fate, already obvious, was absolutely sealed with the defeat of the US Navy by Yemen and Iran. A navy that cannot impose its will on third- and fifth-rate coastal powers cannot hope to contest the will of a primary regional power in its own sphere of influence. Everyone understands this, even though the Chinese are too polite and the Americans are too embarrassed to admit it in public.

The real question is when Japan will throw off its occupation by the USA, which will probably require some sort of mutual assistance arrangement with China. The US military does not give up its bases easily, as the Philippines, the Europeans, and the Iraqis have learned, but it will give them up under pressure. And only the Chinese can provide the Japanese with the amount of pressure they will require to free themselves from the financial servitude under which they have labored, at great and increasing cost to their nation, for the last 70 years.

So that’s the big event that I think will make this global transformation undeniable even to those who still think nothing has changed and we are still living in the post-WWII era. An agreement of some sort between China and Japan, followed by a US withdrawal from its bases in the Home Islands and Okinawa.

On a related note, my guess about the recent visits to Moscow by the CIA Director and the senior negotiators is that Russia and the USA are in the process of reaching an agreement concerning what Russia will be permitted to do to defend itself against the UK and German logistical support for Ukrainian attacks without the USA agreeing to accept those states’ subsequent attempts to invoke NATO Article 5. Note that the USA has absolutely no obligation to take part in any so-called “collective self-defense,” only “such action as it deems necessary.”

The Russian embassy in Berlin has stated “From this point forward, facilities in Germany that house long-range (weapons) systems (being used by Ukraine to attack Russia) will be considered legitimate targets. This comes as German Chancellor Merz this week showcased factories in Germany that hope to produce 5,000 attack drones per month for Ukraine, to make long-range-strikes into Russia. As most people would probably guess, the very first time Russia hits a factory inside Germany, the country of Germany will attempt to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, “Collective Self Defense.”

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Playing the War Card

Hal Turner does tend to be more than a bit of a catastrophist, but it goes without saying that there is a lot of troublesome activity going on around the world that bears paying attention. Here is his read on the current situation; to it I would add that the financial markets are looking like they are going to have a horrific October and the oil problem from the US defeat in the Gulf War III has not been fixed by the resort to Venezuelan oil.

So it’s not unthinkable that the financial and political elites are looking for a combined distraction and reset.

I’m watching NATO push Russia toward a response that terrifies me. I think the United Kingdom is going to be hit.

Let me walk through what’s actually happening.

The Kursk incursion wasn’t a Ukrainian operation. It was NATO. Real-time satellite data. AI intelligence collecting digital and mobile network information showing exactly where Russian troops were positioned. Special NATO operatives and Ukrainian forces got guided deep into Russian territory by technology and planning they don’t have on their own.

That’s a red line people who lived through the 60s and 70s would never have considered crossing. Direct NATO operations inside Russia. Not weapons. Not training. Active intelligence coordination for a ground invasion.

Then Ukrainian forces following that incursion killed civilians. Another line crossed.

Then drones deployed from makeshift trucks attacked Russian nuclear bomber bases. Targeting the strategic deterrence force. The weapons designed to prevent exactly this kind of escalation.

Every step calculated. Every line deliberately crossed.

Here’s what makes this dangerous: the West knows Russia doesn’t want nuclear war. Russia never planned for global conflict. They responded to Ukraine’s NATO membership trajectory because their security demanded it. Not because they wanted World War III.

But NATO is facing irrelevance. The alliance needs a purpose. It needs an enemy. It needs escalation to justify its existence and its budgets.

So watch the contradiction in Western media: “Russia is too weak to advance on the battlefield. ” and the very NEXT words we’re told “Russia is also an existential threat that could invade Europe any day.”

Both statements can’t be true. But both serve the same goal.

They want to make Russia look weak enough that pushing them further seems safe. While simultaneously making Russia look threatening enough that massive military spending stays justified.

The strategy is clear: push Russia into retaliating. Cross enough red lines that Moscow has to respond with something NATO can call escalation. Then use that response to flip Western economies onto war footing.

Because those economies are beyond saving through normal means. The debt is too high. The infrastructure is too broken. The political systems are too captured.

The problem with playing the war card is that it’s more akin to rolling the dice. Wars seldom stay as neatly contained as the Smart Boy strategists declare they will, their consequences are often unpredictable, and the side that overestimates its own abilities while underestimating its enemies usually loses worse than it imagines it can.

Now, it’s also very important to keep in mind that evil will oft evil mar, and there are very good strategists on the other side. Russia developed the Oreshnik for precisely this reason; to be able to deliver a conventional blow with tac-nuke power that does not cross the nuclear line. And the US population is almost militantly anti-war while the European nations don’t have the military forces to fight anyone now. So even if the war between Russia and NATO goes hot and direct, that doesn’t mean the two major nuclear powers are going to start launching ICBMs at each other.

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