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The Empire of Chaos is at war, hybrid and otherwise, not only against BRICS, but against Eurasia integration.

It took just one pic to imprint on posterity the utter humiliation of the EUrotrash political elites in Year 2025: the Coalition of the Twats, in the Oval Office, lining up like a bunch of frightened schoolkids, severely reprimanded by His Master’s Voice – the Headmaster cum Circus Ringmaster.

That was also neatly described as Trump breaks Europe over his knee.

Of course, President Putin had already predicted it, over six months before the fact:

“I assure you, Trump, with his character and persistence, will restore order quite quickly. And all of them, you’ll see, soon all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails.”

The White House humiliation sealed the deal, and reconfirmed an obsession: for the EUrotrash “leadership”, at all levels when it comes to relations with Russia, Peace is War.

Brandishing their warped logic, they cannot possibly understand that if Ukraine is instrumentalized – actually since before Maidan in 2014 – to harass and destabilize Russia in its western borders, Russia will forcefully counter-attack.

That’s at the heart of the Russian concept of “underlying causes” of the Ukraine tragedy, which must be thoroughly addressed if there is any real shot at Trumpian or not Trumpian “peace”.

In the Big Picture, that translates as the Empire of Chaos and Russia sitting down to set up a new “indivisibility of security” arrangement – just like Moscow proposed in December 2021: then, it was met by a non-response response.

EUrotrash Inc.’s new delirium is to attribute to itself the design of the future borders between a re-weaponized Europe and a Russia that will inevitably inflict on it a massive strategic defeat.

It’s a very long shot to imagine that Trump is capable, by himself, of imposing a new strategic reality on the warmongering yet penniless Coalition of the Twats. Whatever happens to rump Ukraine, Trump, based on his own twist and turn vociferations, actually wants Europe to “contain” Russia from now on, using an arsenal of ridiculous expensive American weapons.

So what changes is the character of this particular chapter of the Forever Wars: it will be fought by the Coalition of the Twats, and not by Americans.

In the short term, that also unveils the only strategy available for the EUrotrash/Kiev combo: outlast Trump until the 2026 mid-terms, destroy the remainder of his presidency, and be secure with the return of the mega-Russophobe gang in 2028.

Which Dead Hand will prevail?

And old school Deep State hand, who had privileged access to all Cold War era honchos, sums up the pitfalls ahead for Russia:

“Russia is taking too long to neutralize Ukraine, allowing time for NATO to reignite diversions. While the snail offensive in Ukraine does save lives, NATO seeks to weaken Russia’s strategic position in the Balkans and elsewhere that can cost far more lives in the future. If the Slavs in the Balkans are crushed that can strategically weaken Russia’s overall position, and that is far more costly than a major lightning offensive a la Stalin in Russian Ukraine. Russia must finish this war now and turn to its southern problems in the Balkans and the intrigues in Baku.”

Trump of course is oblivious to these Big Picture niceties. At best he admits, to Fox News, that “Ukraine will not regain Crimea” and “Ukraine will not join NATO.” But he does not seem to mind that “France, Germany and the UK want to deploy troops in Ukraine” as part of the new kabuki: “security guarantees”. That is an inter-galactic red line for Moscow.

In parallel, it’s wishful thinking to believe that Putin is now finally ready to negotiate “peace”. This is not about peace; it’s always about coming up with incontrovertible facts on the battle field, because Moscow knows this war will only be won in the battle field.

Russian forces have reached the final Ukraine defensive line in Donbass: Slavyansk-Kramatorsk. And is fast encircling key strongholds near Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka. Talk about a strategic/psychological turning point. From there, the – steppe – sky is the limit.

Compound it with the combined hacking of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – which revealed that Kiev’s losses, in terms of dead and missing, amount to a staggering 1.7 million.

All of the above means that we are fast approaching the fateful moment when the victor dictates the full terms of the enemy’s capitulation. No need to march to Bankova in Kiev and plant the Russian flag.

To indulge in a tawdry Trump-spun “peace” agreement carries an overlapping amount of serious strategic defeats for Russia. For example: leaving Odessa and Kharkov to MI6 and Brit machinations. At the same time Moscow needs to start paying much closer attention to its underbelly in the South Caucasus front, where the mellifluous Turkish drive is to establish a pan-Turanic belt/corridor.

The Empire of Chaos is at war, hybrid and otherwise, not only against BRICS, but against Eurasia integration. Some of its implications will certainly be discussed in the upcoming SCO summit in Tianjin, on August 31/September 1st. Putin, Xi, Modi, Pezeshkian will all be at the table.

And that should impress on all players the imperative of BRICS and SCO, sooner rather than later, representing Eurasia, getting their act increasingly together, turbo-charging not only their economic but also geostrategic cooperation. There’s only one way to go: negotiate with the increasingly out of control Empire of Chaos as a group. Putin and Xi already now it. Lula and Modi are starting to get the picture.

Meanwhile, the temptation is irresistible to frame Putin as granting Trump a magnanimous exit: to get out of the imperial strategic defeat in Ukraine while saving face.

The problem is the massive Peace is War front will never accept it. And that goes way beyond EUrotrash Inc., including Atlanticist old money, key players in international finance, and the walking dead but not really dead neo-cons.

ORDER IT NOW

Russia, China, BRICS/SCO need to be on red alert 24/7. The Peace is War front is already in the process of converting themselves into the NBT front: nuclear threats, bioweapons and terror attacks. Russia may have the Dead Hand – which will exterminate any attacker. The NBT front at best has the scrawny dead hand of a dead man walking.

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  1. ghali says:

    Putin is delusional if he thinks he can have peace enforced on Europe by Trump. Russia has lost sympathy in Europe, with 85% of Europeans now viewing it as an enemy and a threat to their way of life and culture. They hate anything Russian. While Russia possesses gas and oil, these resources alone do not win friends. In Russian politics, friendships are seen as convenient and easily discarded. Russia has a history of betraying allies, as seen in Syria, Armenia, and Libya. The BRICS alliance is used by Russia to further its own interests, with all members. Iran has indicated recently, that it is aware of this fact. Russia is willing to sacrifice its allies one by one to appease Trump (US regime) and be a part of the US’s arsenal of vassals. It is the mindset of a Orthodox Zionist gentile.

  2. Ménage à trois,
    Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron,
    Giorgia Meloni,
    Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz;
    ought to put their heads & hearts together, and dissolve all US bases in Europe,
    while also cancelling v.d.Leyen’s corrupt EUSSR deal with Trump & Cons.
    Let us see how grand Jewmerica is, when it is unable to misuse Europe.
    Kicking out the US-Army & splitters will defrock Wall Street’s errand boy “the headmaster” in no time.
    May we expect something substantial from Joe Merz?
    He was (and is?) Black Rock’s errand boy in the occupied German remnants before his pseudo Christian Democrats got declared winners of yet another fraud election.

    • Agree: Jonah Gathers
    • Troll: Gvaltar
    • Replies: @Rev. Spooner
    , @John Dael
  3. ISL says:

    Serious analysis knows that Nations do not have friends, They have interests. Funny, I thought the US current projection was that China was using BRICS. Or that the Indians were using BRICs to stay on the fence and further their interests. Hmmmm. Project much.

    • Replies: @showmethereal
  4. @ghali

    Sounds like you are taking a line from the jew-zionist play book. It’s not Russia who breaks its word and treaties. It’s the f’ing jews who lie through their teeth, kill on a whim, beak their promises and have no credibility what-so-ever!

    Donnie is owned by his jew overlords. Although Putin is under pressure like any president. He unlike Donnie-boy is his own man. And he knows how to play chess. Where as Donnie-boy can’t play checkers!

    • Troll: Gvaltar
    • Replies: @gaze
    , @MLK
    , @John Johnson
  5. This digital world has turned into an acronyms laden information/misinformation highway.
    What does NBT mean?

    The Peace is War front is already in the process of converting themselves into the NBT front: nuclear threats, bioweapons and terror attacks.

    Does NBT, newly coined by Pepe mean Nuclear, Bioweapons and Terror??

    • Replies: @Jim H
    , @Simon D
    , @Liosnagcat
  6. @Kurt Knispel

    Can we agree that both USA and W. Europe are under Jew control? And if so, why is Trump signaling to Europe that they are on their own and how does this benefit the Jewish overlords?
    Have the Jews concluded that to keep the US afloat they have to suck Europe dry?
    Lots of questions not many answers.

    • LOL: Gvaltar
    • Replies: @Pythas
    , @Adam Birchdale
  7. Harry Law says:

    Is it any wonder all the Euro leaders had to line up outside the head masters office to receive their marching orders, personally I would have given them 1000 lines, ” Who is your Daddy, You are Mr Trump” as for that stroppy Ursula Von Der Leyen, over his knee and a good spanking, bare arse. I know Trump would like to do it [the dirty bastard] But I would pay good money to watch it.

    • Agree: Jim H
    • LOL: Bro43rd
    • Replies: @kimono
  8. Notsofast says:

    it’s good to see pepe is following simplicius, here’s his latest article:

    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-82225-peace-talks-unravel

    this should end all bullshit about freezing the current frontlines and any “land swaps” will come out of ukrainian areas they have yet to take. putin can be as generous as he wants, knowing zelensky will refuse all concessions. this way zelensky is the obstacle to peace and the russians can make facts on the ground.

    “Russia is taking too long to neutralize Ukraine, allowing time for NATO to reignite diversions. While the snail offensive in Ukraine does save lives, NATO seeks to weaken Russia’s strategic position in the Balkans and elsewhere that can cost far more lives in the future. If the Slavs in the Balkans are crushed that can strategically weaken Russia’s overall position, and that is far more costly than a major lightning offensive a la Stalin in Russian Ukraine. Russia must finish this war now and turn to its southern problems in the Balkans and the intrigues in Baku.”

    this paul craig robert’s view is all wrong, russia is proceeding carefully to keep trump from sanctioning his fellow brics members and showing them he’s trying his best to find the peaceful solution, he (and they) know’s impossible. as to baku, he’s sending subtle messages and iran isn’t happy with them either, brics is on board with his overall plan, it’s the west that’s crumbling.

    if trump wants that sweet deal on arctic development putin offered him, then he’s going to have to play nice, this is why russia doesn’t react to all the huffing and puffing of the big bad wolf, he knows it’s all just bullshit to feed the base, his approval rating went up to 54% just by talking to putin. vvp holds all the cards and trump knows it.

    https://southfront.press/why-russia-is-bombing-azerbaijani-oil-in-ukraine/

    • Agree: Passing by
  9. The Coalition of the Wankers is an easily handleable problem.

    The success or failure of Trumps presidency depends to a very large degree on the extent to which he can control the neocon filth that DC is awash with.

  10. Pythas says:
    @Rev. Spooner

    Jew overlords! Jews controlling Europe and America! Two places where the jew had nothing to do with creating and these aliens aren’t even originally from. Especially Europa. This is a contradiction jew overlords. Ans like I’ve said before any European politician or genuine American Politician (meaning one of the members of the original founding stock) is a blood traitor, period.

    • Replies: @Gvaltar
  11. gaze says:
    @digger john

    The only reason Donnie is playing checkers is because you failed to oil you sniper rifle and do the right thing in Florida. Wake up and do you duty.

    • Troll: VinnyVette, Gvaltar
  12. Trump has understood…and I hope Americans are also realising…that the Empire is over and the days of vassal states living well off the Empire by providing security in the outer reaches are over…this is what the panic in Europe is about, the “elite” in Europe have grown fat and lazy on this arrangement and know once the Americans withdraw then the void has to be filled…or they hang.

    Europe is undergoing a readjustment in thought, the children who run Europe will have to be swept out of the way and replaced by more serious minded and capable individuals…can they do it? Well they don’t have a choice…Trump is trying to let them down gently but he just may have to pull the punch bowl away to shock them into action.

    The ball is in Trump’s court…to remake America means radical surgery on expenses not a tummy tuck.

    • Agree: Levtraro, Joe Levantine
    • Replies: @JWalters
    , @1951
  13. JWalters says:

    Discussion is swirling around whether Ukraine will get an “Article 5 like” security guarantee. What exactly does that mean?

    In current practice it means that if the US were attacked then the UK would have the option to send military assistance. It does not mean the UK will maintain a military presence in the US. And it currently does not.

    Therefore a parallel type of security guarantee for Ukraine would not require a foreign military presence in Ukraine.

  14. JWalters says:
    @Mr-Chow-Mein

    Trump is giving them a chance to save face while easing away from war. They can’t simply come out and say they’ve been lying all along. But they have been giving up demands (Ukraine in NATO, ceasefire first). All their talk about arming Ukraine is bluff because they can’t afford it.

    There’s a lot of complex psychology going on, but Trump has definitely reversed the Biden/Blinken course of not talking with Russia, demonizing Russia and Putin, and pushing for nuclear World War III. Those are facts.

  15. Miroslav says:

    The Eurotrash are hopeless.A new hitler will arise and lead them.They will notice that the Slavs in the Balkans(Serbs) are surrounded by NATO.They will finish the war ongoing for maybe 2000 years. Only Jesus Christ,the children of Serbia and Russia can save Serbia,if Serbia wants to be saved.Dan 11:40.

  16. maskazer says:

    The globalists in charge of Western finance, who control Western politics, indeed possess a very cunning capability for creating new scripts for a political kabuki theater—often generating narratives that contradict one another.

    One remembers last year when they incessantly discussed gender issues, LGBTQ+ topics, and other similar narratives ad nauseam. What has happened since? We no longer hear about these issues in the corporate media. The Trump administration and its handlers have now switched to a different narrative. The primary one is their so-called MAGA platform, which is apparently based on core American values that historians and philosophers have yet to define.

    Using the main MAGA propaganda storyline, the Trump administration has conjured up other side narratives designed to address existing global issues, chief among them being the war in Ukraine, the conflicts in the Middle East, Taiwan, and trade tariffs.

    Regarding the war in Ukraine, Trump’s distraction is to claim that the United States is an innocent observer of the events between Russia and Ukraine—one that would very much like to be seen as an honest arbiter or referee, as in a football match. Of course, such a childish narrative could only work if one supposes that the Russians have lost their collective minds and would believe whatever nonsense the Trump team throws at them.

  17. The only Slavs in the Balkans who are friendly to Russians are Serbs and Russia supports the mafia that is oppressing and ruining them. So I’d rather have the Russians busy elsewhere, at least until we finally kick Vučić out of power. Then we’ll have to sit with the Russians and ask them why on Earth they have sent a p o s like Botsan-Kharchenko to be their ambassador in the only country in Europe whose people aren’t hostile to Russia.

  18. Gvaltar says:
    @Pythas

    Ashkenazi/Sephardi Jews have non-Jewish European ancestors!

    • Thanks: showmethereal
  19. 1951 says:
    @Mr-Chow-Mein

    Trump fully supports empire. Look at his big beautiful budget, with a large increase in defense spending. Trump tried to con Russia into Minsk 3 but failed. The leadership of Macron, Meloni, Merz, and last and least, Starmer, understand the game, and protested as a play act to try to impress Putin that the Russians were getting a really good deal. Trump and Europe are just playing good cop, bad cop. Trump fully supports the empire’s goal to damage Russia, but especially China. Look at how Trump treated Iran. Sweet talk them into negotiations, to successfully surprise Iran with a planned attack. Trump lies all over the place so it is best to ignore the fucker’s words.

    • Troll: VinnyVette
  20. Libya 2.0…red carpet…do the deals…president pockets gold medal…R2P…all out attack on Russian military…drone swarms…harpoon missiles…terrorism…sanctions…embargoes.

    Putin feeds the dogs that bite him…lets his enemies off the hook…flakes out on his supposed “friends”.
    Doesn’t look like a winning strategy. NATO is in fact expanding. Not looking too good for Putin.

  21. BrooLidd says:

    This is one of Mr. Escobar’s better articles. He seconds, for example, the following remark, which he attributes to ‘an old school Deep State hand’:

    Russia is taking too long to neutralize Ukraine… While the snail offensive in Ukraine does save lives, NATO seeks to weaken Russia’s strategic position in the Balkans and elsewhere that can cost far more lives in the future.

    TUR commenters have been almost unaminous in saying this: the SMO is being conducted too slowly!

    The ‘old school Deep State Hand’ worried that Putin’s ‘snail offensive’ might lead to more deaths in ‘the Balkans and elsewhere.’ Worse, as has been pointed out repeatedly in TUR, it has in fact led to more deaths in Ukraine.

    …the temptation is irresistible to frame Putin as granting Trump a magnanimous exit: to get out of the imperial strategic defeat in Ukraine while saving face.

    The problem is the massive Peace is War front will never accept it. And that goes way beyond EUrotrash Inc., including Atlanticist old money, key players in international finance, and the walking dead but not really dead neo-cons.

    I congratulate Mr. Escobar on his wording here.

    old money

    international finance

    neo-cons

    Who, oh, who is he referring to? I just can’t figure it out.

  22. Jim H says:
    @Rev. Spooner

    ‘What does NBT mean?’ — Rev. Spooner

    Beats the hell out of me. Nutters, Bitches & Trannies?

    Young Pepe is becoming increasingly incoherent, as he retreats into a solipsistic world populated by eccentric jargon of his own coinage [EUrotrash, etc].

    ‘Putin and Xi already now it,’ he scribbles, when obviously he meant know.

    Yeah, we get it, Peps — the silent ‘k’ in English, with its gnarly spelling conventions, is bizarre. But that’s why you should have an editor looking over your shoulder while semiconsciously free-associating in ESL (English as a Second Language).

    I suspect, but cannot prove, that Pepe is on drugs. :-0

    • Troll: VinnyVette
    • Replies: @Pablo Escobar
  23. Even After the Headmaster’s Humiliation, Europe Insists That Peace Is War

    Europe doesn’t insist on anything. They are playing the “bad cop” role in a good cop/ bad cop routine that was formulated by the USA.

    Stop indulging this lie that Europe has any degree of sovereignty or that these bribed and blackmailed European puppet “leaders” actually make decisions of their own. Neither is true. By pretending otherwise, you are just facilitating this psyop and acting as an unwitting stooge for American propaganda. The European “leaders” read from the script that is handed to them by their American masters in between rounds of snorting coke or raping kids. That’s all they’re good for.

    Of course, President Putin had already predicted it, over six months before

    I had Putin beat by a few months. From a comment I made in January, when everyone in the alternative media was claiming that Trump the Messiah wanted to “drop” Europe:

    This rhetoric is aimed at squeezing Europe dry, not dropping them. Trump wants to loot Europe, and he doesn’t want to have to pretend that European lackeys like Macron are equal to him as fellow “leaders of the free world” while he’s doing it. He wants to drop the act, and he wants his vassals to behave like vassals, by knowing their place, bowing to their master, and paying tribute. But there is pretty much no chance that he would willingly cede American control of Europe.

    It should now be apparent that everything I wrote in the comment above was correct. The Euros are being made to bow and scrape and offer tribute to their “daddy” Trump. Is there a “split” between the USA and Europe? Have they been “dropped?” No. They are even more firmly under the American boot than ever before.

    • LOL: VinnyVette
  24. “Brandishing their warped logic, they cannot possibly understand that if Ukraine is instrumentalized – actually since before Maidan in 2014 – to harass and destabilize Russia in its western borders, Russia will forcefully counter-attack”

    Huh? No one harassed Russia.

    ——

    ““Russia is taking too long to neutralize Ukraine, allowing time for NATO to reignite diversions. While the snail offensive in Ukraine does save lives, NATO seeks to weaken Russia’s strategic position in the Balkans and elsewhere that can cost far more lives in the future. If the Slavs in the Balkans are crushed that can strategically weaken Russia’s overall position, and that is far more costly than a major lightning offensive a la Stalin in Russian Ukraine.”

    But clearly it is now clear that Russia must be contained. And that is sad. Whether Ukraine can accomplish that with aide alone is still up in the air. But I remain where I came in — the EU with or without the US should act and the US should act.

    • Replies: @Hulkamania
    , @Looger
  25. Emslander says:

    This is not about peace; it’s always about coming up with incontrovertible facts on the battle field, because Moscow knows this war will only be won in the battle field.

    The amount of learned published and unpublished verbiage about this Ukraine matter must have set a record in the long history of human rationalization, but it is a battle and battles are decided by mutual killing until one side has been killed enough.

    • Agree: Daniel Rich
  26. @EliteCommInc.

    But clearly it is now clear that Russia must be contained

    Good luck with that.

    Whether Ukraine can accomplish that with aide alone is still up in the air.

    It really, really isn’t.

    But I remain where I came in — the EU with or without the US should act and the US should act.

    I am eagerly looking forward to seeing tens of thousands of European and American boys being sent back to their mothers on little styrofoam meat trays.

    • Replies: @Looger
  27. Simon D says:
    @Rev. Spooner

    My money is on National Bikini Team. As a man of the cloth you might prefer Nevada Ballet Theatre, and for the geeks there is always NETBIOS over TCP/IP. But there are others: help yourself.

    https://abbreviationfinder.org/acronyms/nbt.html#aim

  28. MLK says:
    @digger john

    You exemplify the pitfall I warned against after Trump came down the escalator in 2015. Whatever your station, lower reaches or even more so the commanding heights, Trump is going to make you feel bad about yourself.

    How else to explain your speaking this way about the most powerful person on planet earth. Yet, like the emperors of Rome, he’s not a dictator.

    Now, just understand the immediate salient context, everyone who bet it all on big gay Obama is facing catastrophe. Canada, Iran, Hamas, the Democrat Party, US media and, not the least, Ukraine.

    Remember, it was strange and sinister Obama who ordered the Maidan Coup and shelling of innocents in the Donbas. There was no more criticism of him for it then when he tore up the UK/US agreement with Gaddafi/Libya and ordered the destruction of it state and society. I could go on but for our purposes here just understand that Obama’s actions represented overreach by China. Yes, whether during his two terms or the illegitimate Biden regime following the stolen election, there is no way to make sense of it but to accept that Obama intentionally drove Russia into a strategic alliance with China.

    As I’ve explained for years, Obama was merely the headliner for the worst of the worst, foreign and domestic, that is bound and determined to give China dominion in return for some of that communist party perpetual power magic domestically.

    Look at Brazil. China doesn’t even allow that poor simp Lula to be their man. He’s got a handler who humiliates the whole of that nation by publicly wielding power:

    https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/alexandre-de-moraes-the-judge-who

    Trump and Putin share some experiences. Both survived against the Chinese unleashed globalist filth.

    The US and Russia have bigger fish to fry than now kaput Ukraine. Trump will bring Canada to heel and along with Greenland the US and Russia will share the Arctic. Whatever role China gets will come out of Russia’s end. What’s also coming soon will be the sale of the NordStream company to the US and the reopening of the half not destroyed. Germany will once again get some reasonably priced gas.

    Here is some good insight on what Trump is up to:


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Anon
  29. Escobar is a serial plagiarist, who has been fired for repeated acts of plagiarism. Check his Wiki entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_Escobar#Music_critic and also here https://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/07/is-this-plagiarism.html Anything this serial plagiarist says is worthless

  30. @Jim H

    No question he is a druggie and has been for decades, ever since he abandoned a PhD at the Sorbonne to go to a Clash gig in London |(That is his version. he was most likely kicked out and the Sorbonne probably got wind of his earlier plagiarism that his Wikipeia gives details about). A life long grifter

    • LOL: BrooLidd
    • Replies: @BrooLidd
    , @nosquat loquat
  31. @ghali

    Fortunately, the Euro Poodles are all bark and no bite. They’ve been effectively conditioned by 75 years of subservience to the US and later to the utterly laughable and equally subservient EU. I can’t even imagine them putting together an actual unified “fighting force” of their own any time soon, and neither can they.

    Meanwhile Putin and Russia have had to carefully husband resources in the wake of their 90’s collapse and rape at the hands of western and internally western-sympathetic oligarchs, all without the “exorbitant privilege” of owning the world’s reserve currency, so they can be excused for picking winners to support.

    The real question is, will the US and their EU lackeys be so fortunate in the wake of their impending collapse? Will real leaders step up to the plate to recognize the new realities of the 21st century, or will it just be more of the same all the way down? The early returns are not promising.

  32. Agent76 says:

    Jul 19, 2025 BRICS’ De-Dollarization Push Spooks Trump; ‘It Would Be Like Losing A World War’
    
    US President Donald Trump said that the BRICS group is “fading out fast” while addressing an event at the White House on July 18. Trump warned the BRICS bloc that any attempts to challenge the US dollar will be met with a harsh economic backlash. Trump stressed that Washington will spare no effort to preserve the dollar’s hegemony. “The reserve currency is so important. You know, if we lost that, that would be like losing a world war.”

    Video Link

    Aug 18, 2025 Trump, Zelensky, EU Leaders Hold Open Meeting About Ending The Russia-Ukraine War

    President Trump and European leaders hold a public meeting about ending the Russia-Ukraine War at the White House.


    Video Link

  33. John Dael says:
    @Kurt Knispel

    The West is cursed with a curse, which its governments always express in threats, lies, bloodshed, and destruction because the West has moved away from its Christian roots to a Satanic/Jewish worldview.

    http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/how-the-ashkenazi-jews-conquered-the-west/

    http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/is-america-cursed/

    And the goal is the destruction of Christian Western Civilization.

    http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/the-war-on-christianity/

  34. Anon[360] • Disclaimer says:

    As usual, as per the past 3000 years, the Jews pushed their luck and got hammered. The latest evidence ? Cunt Nuland in Ukraine and Twat Beebee with Iran. Apart from Niggers, the Good Lord never created a more idiotic bunch of fuck ups. And there is more to come.

    So Vlad predicted the Euro lapdogs would lick the shit off Taco’s boots.
    What he diplomatically did not say was that Taco would like the shit off HIS boots !

    Its the usual. Put Blacks in a “hood and they wreck the place. Put Jews in a country and they wreck the place. For all intents and purposes, the US is now a banana shit hole.

    • Replies: @Roger.H
  35. BrooLidd says:
    @Pablo Escobar

    Touché!

    [This reply was misplaced elsewhere!]

  36. Anon[360] • Disclaimer says:
    @MLK

    As Trump’s Taco Turd you are even more delusional, misguided, befuddled and incomprehensible than your Master.

    Your comment is utter bunk !

    From now on your handle is Teeteetee or Titty for short. Lmao

    • Replies: @MLK
  37. Chaskinns says:

    It was cute seeing the eu vassals grovelling to their us empire overlords. onward and downward!

  38. The EU puppet colony listening to their Master Americans

    • Replies: @VinnyVette
  39. Looger says:
    @EliteCommInc.

    But clearly it is now clear that Russia must be contained.

    Hey Mackinder, 1854 called. It wants “The Crimea War” back.

    Interesting that both times the west fights this war, it features crazy levels of disorganization and chaos for our side. No one knows what’s going on and the leadership is out of touch with reality.

    [MORE]

    Hey does Crimea have a river named after the place?

  40. MLK says:
    @Anon

    What words or phrases are you struggling with? I’ll see if I can help you. Or maybe someone else can.

    How old are you?

  41. Looger says:
    @Hulkamania

    I am eagerly looking forward to seeing tens of thousands of European and American boys being sent back to their mothers on little styrofoam meat trays.

    Here’s an idea – get China to develop corpse delivery drones for what’s left after the kill drones and Russian artillery have obliterated them.

    Small payload, long range, but the speed isn’t important.

    In fact the longer the corpses take to get home, the more dipshits will keep saying we’re winning!!!1!

  42. More than a score of years ago I read more than a few of reliable Catholic prophesies about Russia and Western Europe and nothing in the secular world has changed my mind

    Russia will come to dominate Europe before it is finally defeated in a war in Germany via the cooperation of a great Pope and a great French Monarch

    Yes, France will restore its Monarchy

    The defeat of Russia will happen the same time a Muslim Army is driven back to Africa

    All the sturm und drang of dim witted dupes like Trump aside, this is the way the world is headed

  43. @Notsofast

    If the “land swap” does not include the Sakhalin Islands, going back to Japan…

    Then WW2 has not really ended.

    And likewise, until Red China ethier kills Taiwan, or make a real diplomatic peace with Taiwan (1000x more a historical part of Japan, than the commustis of China).. then long peace in East Asia.. will never arrive… and if Taiwan is destroyed.. there probably won’t be any peace anyway.

    China’s top 10,000 Communists are finally beginning to realize, that war on Taiwan.. can completly backire, and even destroy thier dictatorship…. thus Emperor-Xi is being slowly handcuffed day by day…

    or just say.. realizing that one-man China rule ( no matter who is that ruler) is backfing very badly already.

    Why the smart people of pepe escobar, tom luongo, ramzpaul, martin armstrong.. …. or previously by the now retired John Derbershire, and now past away Z-man-Chris-Zander (his website is still up)…..

    ..never even mention-(ed) the Sakhalin Islands of Japan, as a way to help end the Ukraine war seriously puzzel me.

    Putin and Japan making peace could do so much for both of their nations peoples… it would change the world.. whereas the that group, we all are afraid to name .. Team-xxx’s–city-of-london-rothchild’s, would finally, at least slightly be putting the war-loving-satan back in a box.

    Why the japansese were not invited to Alaska 2 weeks ago.. .. again, one wonders how strongly Donald Trump operates under severe limitations of movement…. either that,
    … or he has never read any history of the last 100 years….

    Ending the ukraine war, and a general peace with Russia.. lets the mid-east thing (avoiding the 3 letter xxx).. as a cancer, get closer to being disconnected from the USA

  44. Video Link

    Video Link
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LNTzqwPhRF4

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    The US empire’s tax payer sponsored Gaza genocide is being live-streamed; Israelis (americans) have filmed themselves blowing up Gazan tenements, beating Gazan prisoners, and mocking the mass starvation in Gaza. And yet, Western institutions keep sticking to the script and downplaying Israel’s atrocities, even though the internet has made this an US empire’s fool’s errand. Why?

    American imperialism and AIPAC are certainly important factors, but we also think Western institutions are intellectually paralyzed. They keep doing what worked in the past, even though it isn’t working anymore. They’ve become hamsters running on a wild hamster wheel; they say and do the same things over and over and end up going nowhere. First class ticket to nowhere. Lots of bravado and mouth flatus.

    All of this seems to be a symptom of the West’s inability to adapt to the changing realities of the modern world. It has failed to adapt to the world’s increasing multipolarity; it has failed to adapt to the realities of climate change, extreme american-british porno, and other ontological-spiritual-intellectual issues; it has even failed to adapt to the changing needs of its own citizens-tax paying chumps. It would seem the entire Anglo saxon/West has become a dinosaur, a steaming pile of stale dogshit.

  45. anonymous[247] • Disclaimer says:

    The Shitnited States is a nation in severe decline. It is yesterday’s strong-man. It baffles me why Europeans are prepared to be cucks for a rotten nation hollowed out from within. It is like what you see with Canada: Carney bends over for Trump instead of forging closer ties with China and other nations outside Europe and the Shitnited States. It’s Stockholm Syndrome or something similar. These vassal states will serve shitmerica until there is nothing left of them or of it.

    • Replies: @Rurik
    , @Hulkamania
  46. @digger john

    Donnie is owned by his jew overlords. Although Putin is under pressure like any president. He unlike Donnie-boy is his own man. And he knows how to play chess. Where as Donnie-boy can’t play checkers!

    Oh here we go again with Putin as a 4d chessmaster.

    Yes he played Trump. That is not some grand accomplishment. Trump is a vain narcissist that is completely vulnerable to flattery. A few compliments and he forgets his declared policy from two weeks prior. It is also possible that Putin has some type of Epstein tape on him.

    But how is Putin playing 4d chess for Russia?

    Putin in his invasion speech said the war was needed to stop the Eastward expansion of NATO.

    Let’s see the result:
    NATO expanded by two states and added 830 miles of border with Russia
    NATO funding massively expanded
    US military industrial complex profits are up thanks to the war
    The US is now the largest LNG exporter

    The US has made a profit from this war while rural Russians pay in blood.

    Oh and Russia’s birth rate is at a 200 year low. Putin brings in Muslims to replace Christians.

    What a leader.

    Putin gets a Jew pass at Unz from his pathetic fanboys. He can snuggle up with Netanyahu and betray Syria with zero denouncement. Putni’s defenders hate the US and EU so much that they will give a psychopathic midget a pass to break all of their ideals. It is a spite based relationship.

  47. @ghali

    Putin is delusional if he thinks he can have peace enforced on Europe by Trump. Russia has lost sympathy in Europe, with 85% of Europeans now viewing it as an enemy and a threat to their way of life and culture.

    Yes Putin is viewed by Western Europe as a murderous tyrant and trade relations will not revert to 2021 levels under any condition. Even if the sanctions are lifted there will be a drop in energy imports.

    Pepe and the other Putin cheerleaders seem to think the Russians have all the time in the world as if this is the 7 years war where one side can just sit back and wait.

    Only slight problem with that belief is Russian dependency on oil sales. They can’t sustain Ukraine’s weekly attacks on refineries for two or three more years. They have to stop the attacks or make a deal. This is starting to look like WW2 where the belligerents aren’t looking at the oil.

    • Replies: @ghali
  48. kimono says:
    @Harry Law

    Trump gave marching orders? And Rutte tells everybody in Kiev “And we agreed in Washington, there is an irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO.”

    Is this what has been agreed to in Anchorage? Who is giving marching orders to whom here? Trump obviously has no influence whatsoever on “the Europeans” or NATO when it comes to Ukraine.
    Instead he started to threaten Putin again should he not meet with Zelensky 2 weeks time. Why should they meet? Z. keeps repeating what he said in Washington and trump obviously can’t convince him to make peace. What a ridiculous person with his pr stunts! Who should put any trust in what he says?

  49. Anonymous[531] • Disclaimer says:

    To morons in uniform, your fascism will return to haunt you!

  50. Kalen says:

    I wonder why Pepe brings up old long debunked neocon stories about Ukraine peace deal supposedly having potential of Russian strategic defeat in Balkans and particularly in Serbia as Serbia/Yugoslavia was always friendly and grateful for support of Balkan people liberation from Ottoman Empire but always politically independent from Russia even during cold war.

    In fact developments in Ukraine and moral and economic collapse of EU only strengthened pro Russian attitudes in Serbia and prompted desperate but failing for last six months EU regime change operation in Belgrade.

    The notion of leaving Odessa and Nikolaev outside Russian peace deal demands as a being interpreted as a strategic defeat is also utter nonsense.

    Read exactly what “root causes” mean in context of denazification. It means that required for signing any deal Ukrainian elections will require all political parties that supported Zelensky regime to be delegalized, prohibited from standing in elections while all other banned parties including pro Russian parties, Yanukovitch party of regions and communist party restored. If this is combined with Russian proposed dissolution of dramatically limited role of central government and full autonomy for all oblasts, of what’s left of Ukraine, it does de facto mean ethnic Russians control over those critical for Russia regions of Russian ethnic majority and perhaps their incorporation to RF via referenda similar to five former Ukrainian oblasts now in RF.

    It’s because of those Russian demands Kiev regime and NATO can’t and won’t agree to desperately needed deal as in such an arrangement NATO will never be able to use Ukraine as a launching pad for attacking Russia as all political forces that will be allowed in Ukraine will be neutral or pro Russian and Ukraine will end up as a Union state with Russia and Belarus . That’s why war will continue and with unwavering support from China, North Korea and even India Putin can afford it for as long as it takes or NATO support collapses whichever comes first.

    Putin means: I will get what I want easy way or very easy way.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  51. Rurik says:
    @anonymous

    It baffles me why Europeans are prepared to be cucks for a rotten nation hollowed out from within.

    These vassal states will serve shitmerica until there is nothing left of them or of it.

    I honestly can’t believe anyone on Unz is actually that stupid.

    America suffered three thousand murdered on 9/11, in slavish fealty to Israel, and then dutifully went off and squandered rivers of blood and trillions in treasure to slavishly serve Israel, slaughtering innocents, and earning the Muslim world’s hatred, and all in OBVIOUSLY slavish fealty to Israel.

    Thomas Massie explains (even to imbeciles), that every congress-whore has an Israeli handler, to make sure all their votes are kosher.

    And yet somehow there are still people dumb enough not to see the staggeringly obvious.

    This isn’t just an Emperor with no clothes, this is the emperor slapping your face with his ____, and yet you still complement the knitting in his splendid trousers.

    IOW, America is just as much a vassal, as Europe is, dumbass.

    Even if the ’emperor’ (with Bibi’s shite still on his nose), puts on a good show.

    IOW, “America” does not own and control the Federal Reserve Bank, (world reserve currency). – Jews do. And so Jews call the shots. Duh. How can anyone not know that at this point?

  52. Anon001 says:
    @ghali

    More details emerge regarding Putin relevant to Ukraine [1]

    [1] Putin Vetoed Hypersonic Missile Strike On Zelensky’s Office, Belarusian President Says | ZeroHedge
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-vetoed-hypersonic-missile-strike-zelenskys-office-belarusian-president-says

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    1000+ Anon001 Comments Archive @ The Unz Review | TUR
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    • Replies: @ghali
  53. @Mayli and Bootleg

    The weight of an empire is its greatest strength and weakness.

  54. Agent76 says:

    Aug 23, 2025 Berlin Bows Out? Merz Tells Putin ‘Russia Is Europe,’ Concedes ‘Germany Can’t Lead’ Amid Ukraine War
    
    German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attempted a U-turn on his long-standing view of Russia. On Saturday, Merz described Russia as ‘profoundly European.’ He said, “I deliberately count Russia as a European country. Russia is a profoundly European country in culture, literature, music – the whole country is shaped by European culture.”


    Video Link

  55. @anonymous

    It baffles me why Europeans are prepared to be cucks for a rotten nation hollowed out from within.

    The politicians are just bribed or blackmailed. The general population of Europe seems to be genuinely retarded, though. Its strange because American media tends to present Europe as being more politically sophisticated than the USA, for some reason, which leads one to believe that Europeans have a better understanding of what’s going on in the world. It turns out that isn’t true at all, though. If anything, Europeans are even more clueless than Americans.

    Oh well. Europeans deserve their coming century of humiliation.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  56. @ghali

    I live in Europe (SW France), and I can say that you are patently incorrect. What you say is only true of the ruling castes, but they are despised by the common folk as never before in my life. Most thinking (though mostly powerless) people here–and this includes newfangled French “patriots” (who imitate the ridiculous American fashion of wearing long beards with buzzcuts), disaffected old leftists, Catholic rightists. It’s true that Pepe is ridiculed in Paris by his erstwhile “journalistic colleagues,” but I can tell you as a longtime reader of French press, that French MSM is much much worse than it has ever been and really doesn’t matter anymore, so the anti-Russian sentiment you are asserting in Europe is simply the globalist establishment EU line The only anti-Russians on the ground here are really the Macronistes, who are reviled, and the bienpensant (sic) rainbow Establishment lefties, some of them left over from les beaux jours of ’68 pseudo-revolutionizing, and these, are equally, if not even more reviled. (I’m unfortunate to know some myself.) You’re forgetting, however, that the Gilets-Jaunes so brutally crushed by Macron’s goons, were at times supported by as many as 80% of the country. In France, at the very least, the vast majority of the people want no war against Russia, especially as promoted mostly by a largely-unelected EU bureaucracy coming directly from the precincts (banking, finance, NATO) that are squeezing them.

    • Agree: tamberlint
    • Replies: @Roger.H
    , @ghali
  57. Roger.H says:
    @Anon

    Excellent summary!
    Amen

  58. Roger.H says:
    @nosquat loquat

    A very similar situation in Canada. We also feel oppressed by a bunch of evil morons in “not-our” government.

  59. ghali says:
    @John Johnson

    Agreed! Putin is selling Russian gas and oil to China and India, who are openly selling it to Europe to make a huge profit. Hungary, the Slovak Republic, and Turkey are not far behind India and China as beneficiaries of Russian gas and oil. This is why these countries are continuing with their empty rhetoric.

    • Replies: @Biff
  60. ghali says:
    @Anon001

    Yeh! It is a load of rubbish, especially if it is produced by Lukashenko.

  61. Biff says:
    @ghali

    The Russian victory is looking better every day.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  62. @Kalen

    The notion of leaving Odessa and Nikolaev outside Russian peace deal demands as a being interpreted as a strategic defeat is also utter nonsense.

    Putin already offered last year to walk without Odessa.

    If that is news to you then you might want to expand your sources beyond pro-Putin bloggers like Pepe.

    Read exactly what “root causes” mean in context of denazification. It means that required for signing any deal Ukrainian elections will require all political parties that supported Zelensky regime to be delegalized, prohibited from standing in elections while all other banned parties including pro Russian parties, Yanukovitch party of regions and communist party restored.

    That is your own demand that Putin has not made. The party of Yanukovych denounced him as a murderer. I can dig up that quote if you would like.

    Putin means: I will get what I want easy way or very easy way.

    Putin’s basement bloggers told us that repeatedly about Odessa. Putin will end the war on his terms and he will landlock Ukraine which was indeed his original plan. Both Ritter and MacGregor have gone on all kinds of sweaty White guy rants about how Muh Tuff Dwarf will decide how the war ends which will include Odessa.

    Well his terms changed and he is no longer demanding Odessa or a land bridge to Moldova.

    Putin is a human rat who misses the USSR and doesn’t give a flying f-ck about what his Western fans think. He has killed his own allies for simply being against the war. He has no loyalty to anyone and certainly not your personal expectations or some clowncon like MacGregor who rants into a webcam.

    Pull yourself out of your alt-right bubble and stop putting your faith in a dictator who despises the open internet. Any man who wants to censor White men talking should be a red flag. But you give a free pass to the tiny tsar, don’t you?

    • Replies: @Kalen
  63. @Biff

    You should also probably step outside of your alt-right bubble and read about how Ukraine’s attacks on refineries are indeed a problem

    Video Link
    Russia cannot maintain this war for years with weekly attacks on oil facilities. It just isn’t possible.

    Run the gas too high and there will be panic shocks.

    As I said this is looking like WW2 where one side isn’t paying attention to the oil.

    • Replies: @Biff
  64. ghali says:
    @nosquat loquat

    Agreed! I also spent a long time living in Europe. Unlike the regime, the population (majority) does not want war. However, this doesn’t mean they like Russia. In general, Russia is despised in Europe. And in the East, they hate everything about Russia. You forgot to mention, maybe because you are scared, that the Satanic Jews control most of the Western regimes (and media), from France to Germany, to Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and even Sweden. Hungary and Czechia are now controlled by barbaric pedophile Jews. Shame on all Europeans, they have turned into hapless faggots.

  65. @Hulkamania

    What ‘century’? Humanity will be extinct by 2050, max. The manner in which H.saps is being frog-marched, fast asleep, into the dark, with barely a murmur of recognition, le alone opposition, is INSANE.

  66. @Mayli and Bootleg

    Any resistance to the genocide brings braying hordes of Jewstapo thugs, screeching ‘Jew-hate’ and ‘blood libel’. And 99% immediately cave, as if mesmerised with fear. Jewintern rule has destroyed the West morally, intellectually and spiritually.

    • Agree: Mayli and Bootleg
  67. ghali says:

    Please, do not forget, that his situation is outrageously unfair. Using old and outdated US and European weapons, Ukraine cannot win the war when fighting with one hand tied behind its back, being forced to refrain from attacking the Russian defense line and defense industries. It is becoming ridiculous. It goes like this: “we will send you missiles, but don’t use them against Russia proper”.

  68. @Buster thr BodyCrab

    This sort of brainwashed, MORONIC, Sinophobic GARBAGE appears more and more. Outright, imbecile, lies, bu meant to impress Yankee drones, to kid them that china is ‘collapsing’. For die-hard racists, who believe that they fat, dumb, ignorant, metabolically deranged, are ‘exceptional’ and the Chinese remain ‘gooks’ who pull rickshaws.
    Any cretin so stupid that it thinks that China is ruled by ONE man, is a waste of carbon. The moronic mention of Sakhalin indicates a pathetic Jap loser, by the looks of it. Even the Jap ruling circles only claim the southern Kuriles, but Mushasi here might fancy attacking Russia.

    • Agree: Notsofast
    • Replies: @nosquat loquat
  69. Since anything is possible in Clown World what Trump should do is lift US sanctions on Russia while forcing the EU to sanction all imports from Russia. Then he can resell Russian products to the EU at an exorbitant markup. How can he force EU to keep sanctioning Russia if US lifts sanctions? Easy, by forcing astronomical import tariffs on EU products unless the EU maintains sanctions against Russia. This could further cooperation between Russia and US while speeding up the decline of the EU. Some exemptions could be given, like to Hungary and Slovakia but the rest would have to pay for supporting Biden’s policy on the Ukraine – Russia conflict.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  70. @Pablo Escobar

    And what, pray, are your journalistic credentials? Pepe is a superb analyst and a fine stylist with a vast frame of cultural reference and considerable connections inside various state apparati. He can couch his insights in literary allusions spanning the globe and still add a touch of humor. And he seems to have achieved his journalistic status entirely on his own, without having to kiss any corporate asses running the mainstream media. What similar claims can you make?

    • Replies: @Pablo Escobar
  71. Currdog73 says:
    @Buster thr BodyCrab

    Do you know the difference between the human body louse and the human crab louse? Threus pubis and pediculus humanus humanus? Just asking lol.

    • Replies: @bike-anarkist
  72. @Mayli and Bootleg

    “The EU puppet colony listening to their Master Americans.”

    Well too bad Hitler didn’t win WWll.

  73. @nosquat loquat

    If you read his Wikipedia entry, he is a long long plagiarist and was sacked for inventing interviews. Pepe invents terms and calls names because he is incapable of analysis. His literary allusions, most of which do not belong, are from the 60s when he was dropping (far too much) acid. He is funny in the way a fool is and, if his inside non-jokes work on you, good for you. His journalistic status was built on plagiarism. The guy is a fraud.
    This thread is not about me but I am not a plagiarist

  74. Kalen says:
    @John Johnson

    You are wrong. Putin was not Soviet Union supporter. Putin told Merkel in 1980s (revealed by herself) that he didn’t mind USSR shedding non Russian republics but not Ukraine which is more than half ethnic Russian. Even UkroNazi speak Russian. Putin was always pro western globalist politician until 2007 speech in Munich.

    But that changed profoundly and the fact that he stopped NATO expansion by force and massively pivoted to China since 2014 proves it.

    Despite your own conjectures and speculations regarding supposed Putin statements and intentions he many times repeated that all goals of SMO will be achieved either via SMO or at negotiating table.

    Denazification of entire Ukraine was one of those fundamental objectives and root causes of the conflict stated in his February 24, 2022 speech. He said that Russians were fighting fascism in Ukraine again. The fact that he took over those four oblasts already in 2022 meant that he wanted to take over entire Novorussia and that wasn’t in his February speech but was militarily required to conduct SMO (control over Azov sea and, Land corridor to Crimea to unblock Crimea water canal). He also publicly repeated already since 2023 that Odessa and Nikolaev were Russian not Ukrainian cities. Also a fact that Zelensky and his regime thugs are wanted men in Russia for war crimes tells a lot if Putin really want peace with current Kiev regime remaining in power.

    Putin last year in June only defined preconditions of temporary ceasefire (not peace) if AFU withdrew from all four oblasts and significant initial progress in bilateral negotiations was achieved. Only then real negotiations about what kind of Ukraine Russians would allow to exist were to commence. If no desired outcome was reached SMO would then restart and take it all including Odessa.

    Better start reading Russian media. All Russians want victory not ceasefire. Nobody in Russia and that includes deputy of national security council Medvedev gave up on Odessa or any other oblasts with Russian majority. They are wining war, there is no pressure on Putin whatsoever. Not from inside of Russia, not social nor economic and not from BRICS. Nothing, especially after Trump antagonized Brazil, India and China. Russian US talks are not about Ukraine at all despite the fact that Trump wants it. Those talks are about ending US proxy/direct war with Russia and nuclear armament treaties.

    Trump seems to submit to neocons and decided to own losing war to his own demise.

    US will never dictate future of Ukraine. All Russian agree. Putin effectively told Trump to disown Ukraine and blame Biden as Russia with Chinese backing will be never give up. Fate of Ukraine is not a concern of US-Russian bilateral relations. US war against Russia in Europe is.

    • Agree: Notsofast
    • Thanks: Commentator Mike
  75. @Rev. Spooner

    What does NBT mean?

    The Peace is War front is already in the process of converting themselves into the NBT front: nuclear threats, bioweapons and terror attacks.

    Well, since he explicitly defined it (above), your confusion seems disingenuous.

  76. Notsofast says:
    @Commentator Mike

    that’s exactly what he plans to do by buying the nordstream pipe lines, this way he can just skim the profits right off the top forever, as they run out of their expensive fracked gas, that has to be liquefied and then shipped across the atlantic.

    remember in his first term he was railing about europe being too dependant on russian gas, well now we see the real problem was the don wasn’t getting his vig. this will also allow him to ensure the e.u. cannot outcompete the u.s. in exports worldwide, by manipulating their energy market.

    • Agree: Commentator Mike
  77. @Pablo Escobar

    No. Not a plagiarist, but an empty headed troll.
    You are a FRAUD, but not a plagiarist.

    • Replies: @Pablo Escobar
  78. @Buster thr BodyCrab

    The Boston Crab lives in the Bunghole.

  79. @Currdog73

    Boston Crab lives in the Bunghole.

  80. @Pablo Escobar

    He was plagiarising when he was a rock journalist in his youth. Maybe he’s learned his lesson and is more ethical now that he is in the far more serious field of geopolitics. He has published a hell of a lot since leaving rock journalism and no accusations of plagiarism have been made.

    • Troll: VinnyVette
    • Replies: @Pablo Escobar
  81. @bike-anarkist

    Pepe was FIRED for being a plagiarist and a Walter Mitty character who invented interviews with big shots. And that is who YOUR guru is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_Escobar#Music_critic His career at the newspapers ended in digrace after accusations of plagiarism and other ethical controversies surface…. Escobar invented from scratch an interview with filmmaker Roman Polanski that also lead to his firing

    • Troll: mulga mumblebrain
  82. @Commentator Mike

    He writes of Israelis flying atomic bombs over Jordan and various insiders telling him things. All invention. He either cannot or will not write simple, straight forward Englush but resorts to his own childish argot to pretend he has substance

  83. Taiwan is part of China, so Beijing will always be wary to attack a rock in the ocean that could restart the civil war. If it was so simple, they would have already taken it. But it is not that simple because it represents a civil war (the Chinese have had many) so they are obviously and understandably reluctant to go to war over Taiwan, whatever the Americans or West think or could do. Going to war to take Taiwan essentially means Chinese civil war.

    • Replies: @showmethereal
  84. @Rev. Spooner

    There are certainly clear and correct answers available to at least some of your questions.

    Watch Brian Berletic’s videos and you will see that the recent US-EU “split” is simply theatre and entirely planned in advance, and it’s not a split at all – it’s just to allow America with its limited resources to turn away from Ukraine and ramp up to, and concentrate on, Taiwan, where the plan is to force the Chinese to invade in 2027-28 (I think they will order the Taiwan govt. to declare independence, or something like that), similarly to how the oligarch jews forced Russia to invade Ukraine in 2022 (by ordering Ukraine to prepare for a full-scale military invasion of the Donbas, to be carried out in March 2022).

    Now, Berletic is ex-army, lives in Thailand, arrogantly esteems himself an antiracist, and is generally a bit of a twat, so he scoffs foolishly at the idea that oligarch jews control the West and the EU (despite it being very obvious at this point).

    However, and this is vanishingly rare, he’s also capable of:-

    1) Actually reading the jewish oligarch’s policy papers, put out by the thinktanks the oligarchs fund, such as The RAND Corporation and their 2019 paper, “Extending Russia”, and
    2) Listening to and believing zionist-prepared speeches by national US politicians, such as Hegseth and others, where they tell everyone what their policies are and will be, and
    3) Adding 2 to 2 and getting 4

    Every one of those 3 things is rare (even 2+2=4 is rare in geopolitical analysis!). I don’t know of any other public speaker on the internet who can do all 3 – The Duran and Judge Napolitano, etc., do not seem to know about the thinktank policy papers which set out policy years in advance.

    Because of his huge, heavy jew-blinkers, Berletic will often say unbelievably obtuse things like “these thinktanks – this is where policy is decided”, so he’s somewhat of a limited hangout / useful fool, but, up to a certain limit, his analysis is as good as, or even better than, anything out there.

    • Disagree: VinnyVette
  85. @Adam Birchdale

    *jewish oligarchs’ policy papers

    *Berletic is ex-military

  86. It makes no sense to imagine if ‘Hitler won’ Europe would be more are less subservient to the Americans. It is just as likely we’d be more fiercely bullied by a Hitlerite USA. But obviously we dont know.

  87. Hitler lost. Take that up with him.

  88. @Adam Birchdale

    If Americans are really trying to get a war on against China, they are fools. Their fleets and bases in the region will get hit hard and their casualties will be enormous. Berletic keeps insisting on this conflict but it’s surely a loser’s game for America. Or will they try to use proxies only? But if those proxies are Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, they will also get hit as they have bases there. So they will use Taiwan? Then there will be a civil war in Taiwan only and with Chinese support of one side in that war, the pro-American forces will be defeated. I doubt India, the only big power there, will go to war against China, and if it does, Pakistan could be activated against it. It all looks like some posturing and psychological warfare by US against the Chinese. Now they’re probably trying to worry China that they may break Russia away from its alliance with the Chinese.

    • Troll: VinnyVette
  89. @ISL

    In reality all countries are using BRICS. That’s the whole point of it. That’s why Brazil has been brave in standing up to Trump. So many countries have been trying to join they last year notified there would be a moratorium on new members until they come up with new requirements. One of which is that no nation attempting to join can join any non UN economic sanctions by a third party against another member

  90. @Notsofast

    Well I don’t know Russian and can’t read or listen to the knows nor pundits – but I can’t see how Russia can let Ukraine keep Kharkiv and Odessa. Well we don’t know all the back room conversation of the meeting but there has to be something related to that if there is to be an agreement. But fighting wise I can’t see how those two could be left.

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  91. @Buster thr BodyCrab

    I hope that was satire… if not then that is word for word one of the most ridiculous non trolling comments I have ever read on this site.

    Imperialist Japan lost. It gets nothing back.

    Taiwan was robbed from China for 50 years. Do you understand any of the history?

    In order for Japan to make peace with anyone it has to 1) truly own up to its history of violence and evil 2) stop being a vassal of the U.S.

  92. @Kalen

    Thanks for that perspective. What about Kharkiv? I saw that American guy interview some Akhmat guys fighting in Kharkiv and he said they want a 70km buffer from Belogorod (spelling?)…. But I thought Kharkiv was a Russian city before too… No?

  93. @Ishmael Forester

    Taiwan is the final conclusion of the Chinese civil war. They only stopped shooting at each other in the 1970’s actually

  94. @Commentator Mike

    The official, written, Taiwan policy is to use Taiwan as a battering ram against China in much the same way Ukraine has been used to batter Russia – Taiwan will be a proxy war.

    Of course, the reality is that this Taiwan op will be economically and politically disastrous for the West, and China will easily and quickly win the war against Taiwan and its military and political controllers – the US/West, which is itself controlled by oligarch jews.

    Project Ukraine (as The Duran call it) has also been disastrous for the West, in the same way Taiwan almost certainly will be – the West will probably lose literally more than a trillion dollars of wealth (e.g. https://www.businessinsider.com/war-in-ukraine-russia-richer-millionaires-billionaires-uhnw-wealth-ubs-2023-8), and non-Western countries will basically be forced to ally even more with one another against the West, e.g., China and Russia’s new-found “friendship”, and BRICS’ rapidly-lengthening membership list.

    There are lots of other, recent, foreign-policy operations I could point to where the West has also weakened itself – where it was obvious that the West would weaken itself.

    Nearly all the public speakers I know of have a range of superficial, wrong reasons why the West is self-destructing so spectacularly and so rapidly, but exactly none of them are able or willing to put two and two together and point out the obvious – that the oligarch jews controlling the West and the EU, and deciding their broad policies, keep doubling down on their current path because the policies are working – they are having the intended effect of impoverishing and gradually undermining the West+EU, with the ultimate goal of destroying the West+EU.

    As jewish control of the West+EU continues to consolidate, which has been happening for more than a century so far, I predict that the Western+EU self-destructiveness will worsen.

    Underlying all that, and opening the way for the ever-increasing, hostile, jewish control of the West+EU via the ever-increasing percentage of traitorous wokes in the population, is the chronic, genetic decline of the West due to Western men eliminating Darwinian natural selection and turning what always used to be a natural, eugenic trend into an unnatural, dysgenic trend.

  95. Notsofast says:
    @showmethereal

    i could see it happening if it was made into a russian autonomous zone within ukraine, with a russian majority and russia friendly government. it would have to be written into their constitution to prevent another minsk agreement of broken promises. this way it could serve a a bridge between russia and ukraine and europe, which is what ukraine should have been all along.

    personally i’d like to see it returned to russia and i think a lot of the russian generosity is based on knowing that ukraine will never accept it and they have already warned them the longer the fighting goes on the more land they will lose, it’s up to them.

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  96. Biff says:
    @John Johnson

    “terrorism” vs a real military ain’t gonna work on the Russians. Vlad needs to go all the way…

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  97. @Adam Birchdale

    How do you envisage that war with Taiwan developing? Do you think it will be an invasion by PRC, a sort of large scale Falkland Islands operation, or a civil war in Taiwan where PRC supports the pro-Chinese forces while the US supports the independence movement? Thus the war could be limited to two factions of Taiwanese fighting on Taiwanese soil and it could limit the spread of the war beyond the island. A direct conflict between PCR and US forces could thus be avoided unless the PCR maintains a hard blockade sinking any US ships trying to beak it and supply the Taiwanese rebels.

    I think in the Ukraine, the Russians hoped for any pro-Russian forces to take power in Kiev following their 2022 invasion, but they misjudged the capacity of the UkroNaziBanderites and their Western supporters. In a way Russia did foment a civil war in the Ukraine since 2014 but the rebels were able to take only parts of Donbass on their own. Unless Russia takes over all of the Ukraine, I can’t see how it would have achieved the goals it stated when it launched the SMO. It would only be a partial success.

  98. @Kalen

    You are wrong. Putin was not Soviet Union supporter.

    Well I guess you somehow missed Putin calling the fall of the USSR as the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

    Those were his words:
    https://www.rferl.org/a/1058688.html

    Which would mean he viewed the fall of the USSR as a bigger catastrophe than WW2.

    Maybe next time just ask for a source before going on a long rant.

    So no I’m not wrong and you were being insulting over a direct quote from Putin that I thought everyone had seen by now. I guess not. Lecture away.

    Despite your own conjectures and speculations regarding supposed Putin statements and intentions he many times repeated that all goals of SMO will be achieved either via SMO or at negotiating table.

    Putin can talk all he wants but his originally stated goal of stopping Eastward expansion of NATO will not happen with Finland’s 830 mile border addition.

    Denazification of entire Ukraine was one of those fundamental objectives and root causes of the conflict stated in his February 24, 2022 speech.

    He has made all kinds of excuses but his invasion speech opens with the threat of NATO as the key problem:
    I am referring to what causes us particular concern and anxiety – those fundamental threats against our country that year after year, step by step, are offensively and unceremoniously created by irresponsible politicians in the West.

    “I am referring to the expansion of the NATO to the east, moving its military infrastructure closer to Russian borders.
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/putins-speech-declaring-war-on-ukraine-translated-excerpts

    I can also cite previous speeches where he described NATO missiles on the border as an immediate threat. No explanation of which missiles or why they can’t be in the Baltics.

    He also publicly repeated already since 2023 that Odessa and Nikolaev were Russian not Ukrainian cities.

    He can stomp his height enhancing boots all he wants but Kharkiv is only 30 minutes from Russia and is still not in Russian hands. The odds of him getting Odessa at this point are quite low. Of course he wants Odessa but wars and 2.5 week special operations don’t always go as planned. Putin started this war by launching cruise missiles at downtown Kiev (which is on camera) and now we see Russian troops on e-scooters being chased by drones. As a certain watercolor painter said, when you start a war you open a door and don’t know what is on the other side.

    Putin last year in June only defined preconditions of temporary ceasefire (not peace) if AFU withdrew from all four oblasts and significant initial progress in bilateral negotiations was achieved.

    You mean he is offering to walk with land he hasn’t conquered. That would include huge regions that were not part of DPR/LPR nor did they support pro-Russian parties. They overwhelmingly voted for Zelensky and Putin now tells us they want to join Russia after being violently invaded. Do you think he is being honest about the will of those people? They never had a separatist movement and now want to join Russia because Putin says so?

  99. @Adam Birchdale

    Project Ukraine (as The Duran call it) has also been disastrous for the West, in the same way Taiwan almost certainly will be – the West will probably lose literally more than a trillion dollars of wealth (e.g. https://www.businessinsider.com/war-in-ukraine-russia-richer-millionaires-billionaires-uhnw-wealth-ubs-2023-8), and non-Western countries will basically be forced to ally even more with one another against the West

    Your source is from 2023 and Russia’s GDP growth from dumping money into the military has since slowed. They currently have a potato shortage which shows that they do not have some magical economy that is immune to war shocks
    https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-06-10/potato-price-surge-fuels-inflation-pain-for-russias-poorest

    The US will make a net profit from this war through LNG exports and MIC profit. The US is now the top LNG exporter thanks to Putin’s 2.5 week special operation:
    https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64844

    So regular Russians die while US stockholders cash out. Great job Putin.

    We can go over those numbers if you would like. Some countries like Israel will profit while others like Germany will lose. The West is not a monolith and some countries are better positioned to profit from Putin’s 4d chess.

  100. @Biff

    “terrorism” vs a real military ain’t gonna work on the Russians.

    What exactly is the terrorism? Oil refineries are a legitimate military target under international law.

    Vlad needs to go all the way…

    Go all the way where? To Kiev?

    It is the end of summer 2025 and they haven’t taken Sumy.

    Which means the usual bootlicking bloggers were wrong…….again.

    What makes you think Vlad can keep the currently slow pace with weekly Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure?

  101. @Notsofast

    Yeah though speaking of constitutions – Ukraine had it enshrined in their creation of the state after the USSR collapse – that Ukraine would remain a neutral state.

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  102. @showmethereal

    Zelensky won a platform of neutrality and defeated the pro-NATO candidate.

    He had not pushed the country closer to NATO and specifically had not started the pre-initiation process.

    A tidbit never mentioned by the usual pro-Putin bloggers that dishonestly depict Putin as rushing to stop their admission to NATO.

    Such bloggers still haven’t explained why Ukraine did not join NATO from 2014-2021 while Finland was able to join quickly.

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  103. @John Johnson

    How does that contradict the fact that after the dissolving of the USSR the Ukrainian constitution enshrined neutrality…???

    As to Finland – good question. But I do recall 100% Putin stating no NATO for Georgia or Ukraine after George Bush 2 stated in a speech they would be allowed to join. Neither side mentioned Finland at the time.

  104. @Commentator Mike

    Another paid Chinese propagandist at the UNZ… Yawn.

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