Essay: Contemporaneous war reporting Aug-Nov 2026

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Comment: It's too late now to go back to 2014, or even 2022 with so many dead.
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Comment: As one commentator suggested, American foreign policy is not like New York real estate, where you don't pay contractors, forcing them to sue and settle for less.
Ukraine is a US and NATO proxy setup to conduct unprovoked full-scale war against Russia, initially by attacking Russian people in Donbass and Lugansk and Odessa.

In 2022 NATO had equipped Ukrainian armies creating the largest military force in Europe at the time for a “final solution” to kill or drive out Russian speaking Ukrainians in southern and eastern Ukraine, an effort which had begun in 2014 when the neo-Nazis overthrew the legally and democratically elected government of Ukraine.

The Russians call this war a "Special Military Operation" because it is not a war against Ukraine but rather a defensive operation against the Russophobic nations of Europe and the Anglosphere. Now of course the Americans are pretending that the war is Ukraine’s, despite providing intelligence and targeting information to Ukraine as well as weapons to US allies in Europe who provide those same weapons to Kyiv, although they get blown up on arrival for the most part.

The hypocrisy is obvious. But this is the American way of war since Vietnam...

"Please read that last paragraph again. The idea that the US can launch a new major campaign against Iran without diesel or jet fuel—or with limited supplies—is absurd. Remember, if Trump runs supplies down to zero, Russia still has what it needs.
The networked supra-national stratum that long has pursued its global ‘'Grand Design’ through manufacturing public consent for wars of imposed compliance has, at last, run up against the limits to power. We are, indeed, at an ‘emperor has no clothes’ moment. All can see it.

Its traditional tools — the US military, the dollar system, the credit trap, the Bretton Woods structures, shock economic therapy and currency wars — are failing to preserve the US élite weltanschauung wherein it would be ‘unimaginable’ that the US having won the Cold War were it to face a world in which the US did not continue to dictate the blueprint

“In the golden light of an Athens evening, with the Acropolis over his shoulder”, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on 7 October, openly praised colonialism; he engaged in egregious erasures of history, and demanded a return to Western domination of the world. Rubio asserted that the West must use military force to “maintain its place at the head of the world”; the West is “the greatest civilization in the world”, he declared, emphasizing that it is a “civilization that we must fight to defend today with the same passion as our forefathers did”.

But now, those traditional tools to preserve its place at the head of the world are proving less effective against states that possess alternatives — China, Russia and Iran are clear pointers to the trend that economic, financial and even kinetic wars are failing to produce quick results. Quick victories for the Matrix are no longer so readily available.

To suggest, on the other hand, that civilisational states could stand up to the US more forcefully ignores everything about the deep nature of this conflict. The ‘One Global Government Grand Design’, is a war to eliminate those Civilisational States that offer a different consciousness through which to view and understand the world.

Given the gush of vitriol and condemnation since Oct. 9, when Donald Trump announced his deal to import 5 million metric tons of Russian diesel, roughly 37 million barrels, one would think the president had surrendered the United States’ sovereignty to the Kremlin, or handed over the Ukrainians to the Russian army, or rankly betrayed the Europeans or altogether renounced what we picturesquely call Western civilization.

This is, indeed, what we read daily in the corporate press these days and what we are supposed to think. It is 2016 redux, it seems. Another round of Russiagate may not be far off, given 16 House Democrats have introduced a Prohibit Corrupt Russia Oil Deals Act and 12 senators now attack the diesel accord as “a gift to our adversary.”

If there is one thing essential to recall about those dreary years it is that the wobbly-from-the-first Russiagate edifice, the whole of it, was made of mis– and disinformation, hyperbole, innuendo, extravagant abuses of office and propaganda incessantly disseminated in corporate media.

It was, in short, the Deep State’s attempt to scuttle any effort to advance beyond the poisonous Russophobia it had spent a decade cultivating (taking my date from Vladimir Putin’s era-defining speech to the Munich Security Conference in 2007).

It is the same again as Trump tries once more to end the war in Ukraine and refashion East–West relations, a project the old “MICIMATT”— the military-industrial, congressional, intelligence, media, academic and think tank blob — simply cannot abide.

User:Conservative's argument that a lack of flush toilets in the frozen north justifies war under Thomas Aquinas' Just War Theory fails the morality test. It also fails the common sense and sanity test.
Take out a pencil, draw a line down the center of the page and on the left hand-column write out every individual, nation, organization, institution and political movement that is aligned with, and advanced the global warming/climate change agenda.

Then, on the right-hand column, write out every individual, nation, organization, institution and political movement that is aligned with, advances the interests of, and support for Ukraine.

Notice something in the commonality?

They are a perfect match.

25+ years of Global Warming, Climate Change, Net Zero, Carbon Trading, Carbon Taxing, Build Back Better etc. advocacy, revolves around the singularity of one issue, energy production.

From that baseline the western nemesis of a multi-trillion investment and banking system, built around the destruction of the coal, oil and gas carbon-based energy sector is Russia.

Additionally, over the past 10 years as western interests have stopped building oil refining capacity, Russia has expanded oil refining capacity.

All ‘modern’ opposition to Russia in the last 25 years, is now culminating…. But the root is something everyone misses. The root commonality of interests is Energy Production.

The advocates for the system of dependencies created by the “climate change/net zero” energy processes are the same advocates supporting Ukraine and specifically supporting the targeting of Russian energy production vis-a-vis Russian oil refineries.

This ain't gonna work. More heads have to role, beginning with Susie Wiles. Trump's best bet at this point is to whack Zelensky and resign, turn things over to JD Vance. Foghorn LeghornDo normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens? 21:05, November 4, 2026 (EST)


Strategic Summary Late October - Early November 2026

The Persian Gulf is Closed on Tehran’s Terms: With three more tankers burning and US unmanned reconnaissance systematically downed, Western naval presence has failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to hostile commerce.

Economic sanctions have failed: The 10-fold increase in China-Iran rail freight traffic proves that continental integration across the Eurasian landmass provides a resilient alternative to Western-controlled sea lanes.

The multi-front reality is locked: From the Black Sea to the Gulf of Oman, asymmetric maritime and aerial strike systems have rewritten the rules of naval engagement, leaving capital fleets vulnerable to low-cost attrition.

The delusion that the United States can launch a localized, painless strike against Iran to reassert authority is collapsing before the operation even begins.

If Washington launches its planned post-midterm assault, it will not trigger Iranian submission. It will detonate a multi-trillion-dollar regional conflagration that shuts down the global energy supply, breaks the remaining naval architecture of the Middle East, and delivers a fatal blow to the economic foundation of the late Western empire.

The nuclear option breaks down into two separately related but slightly different bombs: the B61-11 and B61-12. Their differences are crucial in understanding the potential options against Iran.

The use of tactical missiles and direct attacks against a regional power like Iran would redefine traditional concepts of state sovereignty, respect for borders, and, above all, the logic of global nuclear deterrence.

In international law and relations between states, territorial sovereignty is the fundamental pillar. A direct attack with tactical missiles would transform that dynamic and bring an end to traditional red lines. It would demonstrate that possessing a robust conventional army or a vast territory no longer prevents invasion or direct bombardment by technologically superior forces.

This would consolidate the idea that states can violate the sovereignty of others on the basis of anticipated threats, a precedent we already live with, but one that would reach another level with nuclear weapons.

The most dangerous shift would occur in how countries view nuclear weapons. Historically, deterrence works on the premise that the cost of attacking a country is too high. If Iran, a country on the threshold of nuclear development, is attacked in a conventional and tactical manner, the geopolitical message would first and foremost be one of encouragement to proliferate.

Joe Kent: America is no longer providing security guarantees, that we're no longer capable of projecting power in the way that we once were. I think, you know, as dumb as the Iraq war was, Saddam Hussein had one of the bigger militaries at the time, especially in '91 when we went into Kuwait and expelled Saddam from there, we kept sanctions on, we choked off Iraq, and then in ' 03, we ran through the Iraqi army like a hot knife through butter and we just showed how muscular and powerful we were. We got humiliated because we didn't understand, you know, the insurgency factor. We didn't learn any of our lessons from Vietnam. But we still had a lot of military might. We could still project power. We could still dominate the Persian Gulf with our aircraft carriers. We dominated the skies. Like we never even thought other than like, some rockets and mortars here and there. We never thought about having to be threatened from the skies.

"But the world has changed and we're no longer going to be the guarantors of security for the entire Gulf.

"I do think too, that we've shown a lot of our weakness, and that is going to affect the Petrodollar, and that's pretty dangerous. So I think we should be trying to mitigate that as much as we possibly can. We've already basically shown the Gulf countries that we can't keep our word. Our part of the bargain was, 'you guys use the Petrodollar, you cut us in on all the transactions by using the dollar that you're making with the oil, and we'll provide you security guarantees. Well, our security guarantees bought them a bunch of ballistic missiles and Shahid drones that took out a lot of their infrastructure.

"So that part's changing. But also like the ability, I think, of like any kind of Great Power to go and to conquer another country just with ballistic missiles and drone defense. That's proven that it's almost a zero-sum game. And Russia, to a certain extent, is running into this in Ukraine. Now, obviously, we're backing the Ukrainians and accelerating that war, and that's dangerous as well. But in terms of the old way that we thought where, like one of the Great Powers could just go smack around another country and accomplish whatever their objectives were. That has changed. Overall, in terms of more moving towards a planet that actually has less conflict, that's a good thing. Countries are going to see they really have a limited ability to go in and enforce their will in other countries. We do need to rely on diplomacy on mutually beneficial trade and commerce as opposed to the big country can go smack around the little country." [2]

Europe

Poland’s ruling liberals plotting major escalation against Russia. [4] Fico warns: 'The West wants to provoke NATO-Russia war' - Lavrov warns of devastating response. [5] Donald Tusk: Ukraine losing 27,000 men per month. [6]

It's pretty obvious what this is all about: Now that the West has fought Russia "to the last Ukrainian", it's time to send in the German & Polish proxies. NATO was banking on a Ukraine win, although that was never a realistic hope. It did serve to exterminate much of the male Slavic population and advance the cause of weaning us off fossil fuels, however.

The mass riots in France, which started as protests over underfunded schools, are a shocking example.

But the phenomenon has been building for years, with the perceived failure of liberal democracy to make good on its promises of a better future, especially for the young and the salaried working class.

There is a growing perception among many Europeans that traditional parties of the center-left and center-right do not offer real alternatives and are led by an educated elite that has lost its connection to the poor, the workers and the young.

Facing rising deficits, expenses and interest rates, governments feel constrained in what they can do to respond.

Russian leadership has made it clear that once the remaining 10% of Donetsk Oblast is cleared, the diplomatic focus will not center on border adjustments, but on the complete demilitarization of the Ukrainian state and a legally binding revision of the European security architecture. Late October 2026 marks the point where operational realities are overtaking Western political narratives,
  • Off Cape Kaliakra in Bulgaria’s Exclusive Economic Zone, an Israeli-owned, Liberian-flagged container vessel—the K-Ship Jet—was disabled by three unmanned subsurface vessels (UUVs). The attack confirms that stand-off maritime interdiction is no longer confined to the Persian Gulf or Red Sea, but actively targets Israeli-linked commercial shipping across NATO waters in the Black Sea.
The operation occurred 20 nautical miles off the coast of a NATO member state, demonstrating that Western naval alliances cannot guarantee maritime security within their own declared economic zones.
The deployment of low-cost unmanned submersibles capable of mission-killing large commercial container ships exposes the obsolescence of capital-intensive naval planning. While Washington allocates hundreds of billions of dollars toward heavy surface combatants and nuclear-powered destroyers, the operational environment is dominated by autonomous, low-observable maritime drones costing a fraction of a single missile interceptor.
With Iran, Russia, and regional resistance axes deploying these capabilities, traditional sea lines of communication are contested across multiple theaters simultaneously.
Won't do much to quell riots. In fact, they'll only increase,


Ukraine

Of course. Unlike the Russians, Ukrainians don't have access to the ballot box. So they take sides and shoot it out in the street.
Zelensky has done it since the beginning in 2022. Only now, Putin, like Netanyahu, has taken the gloves off against terrorists who use human shields.
“ Some of the warehouse facilities in Myla that detonated following the Russian strike — an attack that claimed the lives of 34 residents of a senior care home — were being used by the SBU’s Alpha unit, then commanded by the current Defense Minister, Yevhen Khmara. Let that sink in: Ukraine’s Security Service — the very institution supposedly tasked with protecting people — placed ammunition stockpiles next to civilian residential facilities, exposing civilians to mortal danger. In doing so, it knowingly committed a war crime. And now the very same Khmara serves as Defense Minister, parades across the media, and lectures the public about how Ukraine supposedly “values every life.” This is a criminal regime that puts its own people in the line of fire, gets them killed, and then carries on as though no one bears the slightest responsibility. ”
How Ukraine weaponizes drones to terrorize civilians

Ukraine’s military continues to embrace a sinister and systematic pattern of warfare explicitly targeting the defenseless.

Fresh testimonies and official reports from Russian regions paint a damning picture of how drones and artificial intelligence are used by the Ukraine regime to hunt civilians, punish evacuees, and terrorize urban populations.

👉 In a chilling account, Yevgenia Kirichenko, a resident of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, described (https://t.me/SputnikInt/109003) a harrowing evacuation during which a Ukrainian drone stalked her family.

📍 The woman signaled to the drone operator that they were carrying an infant, yet the drone attacked

📍The family survived only by diving under a tree as the explosive detonated inches away, raining shrapnel from above

👉 The targeted nature of these strikes was further evidenced by a high-tech assault on residential infrastructure in Sevastopol, which Russian authorities have condemned as an intentional act of urban terrorism

📍 UAVs struck a five-story apartment building and two separate kindergarten facilities in the city

📍 Casualties were miraculously avoided, yet the intent was clearly lethal, Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev confirmed

📍 The drones were loaded with metal ball bearings - a classic anti-personnel modification designed to maximize human injury over structural damage

Nonetheless, the residential building was heavily damaged, over a dozen vehicles were destroyed, and the blast wave caused extensive damage to the children’s facilities.

Two civilians were wounded, including an elderly woman reportedly suffering a closed head injury and a man struck by shrapnel.

👉 AI algorithms are being deliberately integrated into this campaign of atrocity, specifically programmed to identify and destroy civilian transport.

📍 Ukrainian military programmers are coding AI to specifically target passenger buses, says Russia’s Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik

📍Since the beginning of the year, nearly 170 passenger buses have come under fire in Russian regions

📍This calculated strategy has resulted in the deaths of 43 people, including three children, and has left 329 individuals wounded, 17 of whom are minors, Miroshnik said.

Response to Zelensky threats against Russian civilian airline passengers.
(left to right) Kushner, Dumkoff and Zelensky.
The defining public myth of Donald J. Trump has always been that of the unyielding, dominant sovereign—the master of the boardroom who barks orders, dictates terms, bends foreign leaders to his will, and answers to no one.

On Sunday, beside the golf links of Doonbeg in western Ireland, that myth was permanently dismantled.

Confronted with nationwide U.S. diesel prices breaking historical records at $6.20 a gallon—threatening to trigger freight paralysis, spike food inflation, and obliterate the Republican Party in the November midterms—Trump stepped before television cameras and delivered a public petition to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

“ “Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage of diesel fuel... There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel, because that’s hurting the world.” ”

The spectacle was as pathetic as it was revealing.

The commander-in-chief of the most heavily armed empire in human history—the nation underwriting over 70% of Ukraine’s budget and providing 100% of the satellite targeting telemetry and intelligence that enables deep drone strikes—did not issue a presidential directive. He did not pull the plug on the targeting feeds. He did not condition the delivery of weapons.

Instead, he publicly begged his own client state for mercy...

  • After the failure of Zelensky's 40 drone campaign which resulted in the sacking of his defense minister, top military commander, and Putin escalating from his war of attrition strategy to a more aggressive approach, Zelensky announces another 40-day campaign of provocations and squandering Western aid.
In 2014, Ukrainian nationalists came to the conclusion that elections could no longer be trusted to deliver their monist vision of Ukraine in which the language, culture, and religion of the country’s ethnic Russian citizens had to be erased. So, for the first time in Ukraine’s history, they reversed an election with a coup. The central goal of that coup was to end Ukraine’s multivector foreign policy that balanced relations with Europe and Russia.
“ I think that what Donald Trump has discovered to his disappointment is that we are not what we were in 1991 militarily by any stretch of the imagination. And I think his assumption without really understanding military power and the position of the United States in the world was from the outset of his administration that we were the all powerful force that no one could resist and that anybody who resisted us would be rapidly beaten into submission. Now some people say, 'well this is Donald Trump's god complex'. I mean, the other day, I guess he spoke and told someone that the Houthis were behaving badly, which somebody said, "Who does this man think he is? God?" I'm not sure he even knows who the Houthis really are. And I don't think he has much appreciation for what the population in Yemen has been through over the last decade or two, having been either starved or bombed into submission several times by the Saudis. But at any rate, I think he truly believes that he and the American state is at the center of the universe and that we are still all powerful, which is why I think you're going to see another round of fighting with Iran. He cannot accept the fact that our military supremacy is no longer the case and neither is our economic supremacy and for that matter neither is our financial credibility. We're not even a AAA creditor in the world anymore. It's all bound up together, but he seems to be determined that he's going to return us to the unipolar moment, whether the world wants it or needs it, they're going to get it. ”
The plan is quite simple and there is nothing that hasn’t been raised before.

Ukraine’s military neutrality

Ukraine to pursue membership of the EU as a neutral state, much like Austria and Ireland

An armistice line to be drawn along the line of contact

NATO to commit to no further eastward expansion

Clearly - or at least to me - this is an edited version of the plan that the Trump White House has been pursuing.

The biggest blockages are:

getting Zelensky, the EU and Britain to commit to implementation of a plan that is based around this template, having refused to negotiate with Russia in a substantive way thus far;

getting European States to commit to a plan that would finally end the folly of Ukraine’s pursuit of NATO membership;

getting the EU finally to face up to the enormous challenge of admitting Ukraine to membership in some form, recognising the huge financial challenges this will pose to the project;

getting the EU and Britain to commit to sanctions removal from Russia, having taken steps to make them permanent. This will include the issue of the mobilisation of Russia’s frozen assets.

The list is longer than that, but the key point is that landing a deal, the shape and substance of which Ukraine and Europe have been resisting since the war started, represents a massive hurdle.

Why?

Because, at the very least, taking NATO off the table and making Ukraine a neutral state will represent an enormous strategic defeat of the west, that political leaders will have to account for to their publics, following years of open-ended and exorbitant financial commitments, during which time Europe has grown demonstrably poorer because of its war policy.

So the biggest blockage to this plan is political. But the political facts on the ground in Europe, characterised by what is happening in France right now, are bringing the final political reckoning with defeat ever closer, while making the pill more bitter.

Prof. Sachs: Europe is burning because it's in economic crisis and the political leaders in Europe don't respond to the basic interests and needs of the citizens. By the way, politically the situation is the same in the United States. Thank God the US is not burning right now, but the government is extremely unpopular in the United States because it's engaged in war rather than addressing the needs of American working families. So the situation is similar, but Europe is really suffering from its response to this mess in Ukraine. It has put on more than 20 rounds of sanctions. But what that has meant for Europe is to cut itself off from the low-cost energy that was core to Europe's competitiveness and its industrial base which, since 2022, is therefore been shrinking with jobs being lost, with living standards going down, and all the European politicians, especially in the big countries, Germany with Chancellor Merz or France with President Macron. They speak of more war. And the public doesn't want more war. The public wants peace. It doesn't want to put hundreds of billions of dollars or euros into the Ukraine war. It doesn't want to pay six times the cost of Russian natural gas by buying American liquefied natural gas shipped across the Atlantic. So the public is disgusted and the European politicians are absolutely bizarre in my view. They have been failed politicians for years.

But as the unhappiness has increased, as the approval ratings for Macron dipped below 20% and then below 15% and then reaching about 10% approval, and that means 70 or 80% disapproval. There was no reaction of the government to the unhappiness in the public, and now a spark and explosion and it's just a disaster. Of course, the economic fallout of what's happening in France is profound. Interest rates are soaring. French public debt is already very large. Now will pay a compound penalty interest rate on top of this. This will exacerbate the economic stagnation and decline being felt throughout Europe. Next door in Germany, the unpopularity of the Chancellor and his party are equivalent. This is the situation. It's a continent that is engaged in an extraordinarily unpopular war with Russia that could be ended as I am emphasizing through a sensible negotiated outcome. But the European leaders are choosing the drums of war rather than the negotiating table.

Note: Prof. Sachs was the author of "Shock Therapy" in Russia in the 1990s which led to much unhappiness and for which he has repented of, and User:Conservative's oft quoted Happiness Index, for which User:Conservative has shown no interest or inclination in updating for the United States, France, or Germany since 2022 when the West's funding for the NATO war in Ukraine exploded. Foghorn LeghornDo normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens? 20:01, October 22, 2026 (EDT)
American foreign policy. We went to war to exterminate people who do not use flush toilets, and it turns out our "allies" are our worst enemy.

Russia

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The real winner: Moscow

If the deal does little for the diesel shortage, it does a great deal for Russia. The volumes that are trivial against a 3 million barrel-a-day gap are not trivial as cash, because diesel is now one of the most valuable commodities on earth. US diesel futures settled at about $4.80 a gallon in September, roughly $200 a barrel....Actual realized prices will depend on discounts, freight and delivery terms, and the revenue is earned first by Russian companies, reaching the state through taxes.

That money arrives when Moscow needs it. Russia’s budget was built on $59 Urals crude; in early 2026 Urals was selling in the mid-$40s to mid-$50s at deep discounts imposed by sanctions, and Bloomberg reported that, at those prices, the shortfall in oil and gas revenue would push the deficit to almost 2.2 trillion rubles, about $29 billion. On my numbers, the full diesel package alone would cover roughly a fifth to a quarter of that gap.

The sanctions relief is worth more than the announced tonnage. Treasury’s general license is not limited to fuel bound for the United States. It allows Russian diesel to be sold on the global market, and any cargo loaded while the license is in force is exempt from US sanctions until April 2027. That means:

Every exportable barrel benefits, not just the announced tranches. Once Russia lifts its own export ban, all of its diesel can be sold openly for six months, not just the volumes in Trump’s post. If Russia exported even 0.5 million barrels a day over that period, a figure I use only for illustration, it would earn roughly $14 billion to $18 billion at the same prices.

Smaller discounts. Sanctioned Russian crude sold at a discount of about $26.50 a barrel to Brent in February. Diesel sold legally to mainstream buyers, with conventional shipping and insurance, does not need to be discounted the same way. Each dollar of discount removed is a dollar more for Moscow.

A crack in the sanctions wall. This is the first diesel license longer than the standard 30 days since the war began, and it comes weeks after Trump signed a law calling for tariffs of up to 100% on the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas. Moscow and its customers will draw the obvious conclusion: US sanctions are negotiable, and enforcement of the new law is now in doubt. [bold added]

[ Johnson's ] assessment

This deal is politics, not supply. It gives the White House a talking point before the midterms and gives Moscow billions of dollars in hard currency plus a six-month sanctions reprieve it has sought since the war began, but it does not move the needle on the global diesel shortage. At best it offsets two weeks of a deficit that, on Miller’s assessment, will persist for years while the Gulf rebuilds. Lower pump prices, if they come, will come from demand destruction, stock draws or a reopened Strait of Hormuz, not from 35 million barrels of Russian diesel trickling in over the winter.

The larger cost is strategic. Easing sanctions for a volume this small hands Russia a financial lifeline for its war budget and trades away leverage over Moscow, and strains relations with Kyiv and Brussels, for a benefit that disappears in the noise of a 3 million barrel-a-day hole.

UK

Germany

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"EVERY PARTY EXCEPT THE AfD HAS MORE MAIL-IN VOTES THAN IN-PERSON VOTES!"
"SOME PARTIES HAVE MORE MAIL IN BALLOTS IN 2026 THAN DURING COVID LOCKDOWNS"
"If CDU wants to keep AfD from power, it will have to form a coalition with ALL other parties, including far-left communists.

It will now be even more obvious to everyone that there is only one real choice: remigration or replacement.

Centre-RW parties (like CDU) are now forced to show everyone they are in the replacement camp together with the globalists and communists.

To us, this was obvious all along, but never underestimate the depth to which the masses have been indoctrinated and blinded. For many of them, this will be an eye-opener.

The centre-right will now sign its own death warrant by siding with the far left, or it will split apart and be absorbed by the far-right."

Focus on waging war on Russia has destroyed Germany’s economy.
By the way, has anyone considered the irony of Germany’s latest self-destructive folly? The country has accused Russia of major terrorism over the drone “incidents” at German airports, all the while ignoring the actual proven terrorism carried out by Ukraine at the destruction of Nord Stream, which effectively crippled the entire German economy.
Polls: 88% of Germans Disapprove of the actions of the federal government.
Volkswagen Will Turn Closed Car Plants into Military Manufacturing Plants.
This means reconciliation with Russia and dumping the warmongering and racism of globalists and User:Conservative.

Poland

No doubt someone like Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, husband of Cold War warrior Anne Applebaum, would have no problem sacrificing his countrymen if called to do so by the imperial masters.

Yet we should also place all the big talk out of Warsaw in the context of Polish budgets that keep sending an increasing amount of money abroad to US weapons companies.

The budget for next year includes an absurd 4.8 percent of GDP earmarked for defense while the budget deficit, even after optimistic growth and revenue forecasts, is still slated to be 6.5 percent of GDP.

Note to User:Conservative: You need to be thinking about these things now, not after the proverbial excrement hits the fan. That's the art of true conservative thinking.
Comment: How can Poland's ruling Liberals be thinking about such ruinous policies? Cause they know the Federal Reserve Board will bail them out with the economic theories of the incompetent pedophile John Maynard Keynes by printing more Petrodollars so they can payoff their bills with the US military-industrial complex. The excuse of "Russian imperialism" is just a bunch of hokum. RobSDo heterosexual normies spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens? 21:52, September 20, 2026 (EDT)
While it would have been better had he said that Ukraine is still seeking to do so just like the ruling liberal coalition is too, his claim at the very least ensures that allied conservative President Nawrocki will closely scrutinize any potential false flag provocation before responding as commander-in-chief.
The issue surrounds a Polish-led NATO false flag attack on Kaliningrad, the Russian trip-wire for nuclear holocaust. Russian doctrine is clear - any Western attack on Kaliningrad will be immediately responded to with nuclear weapons. Perhaps Russian doctrine needs to be updated or clarified: an Oreshnik response on the strategic assets of NATO or the attacking county/countries (Poland, Germany, UK, etc.).
reputable polling suggests that the ruling liberal coalition risks being unseated by a conservative-nationalist one after fall 2027’s next Sejm elections if the current trends hold. Scaring Poles about Russia and then attempting to imbue them with the false confidence that they can “defeat Russia rather quickly” is an extremely manipulative form of electioneering that might ultimately backfire.

It’s intellectually insulting that Poland’s ruling liberals believe that they can pull Poles in these polar opposite directions for what might be the next 12 months in order to rally them behind their coalition. The “Russophrenia” of believing that Russia is about to steamroll through NATO while also believing that NATO can easily steamroll through Russia, to cite Irish journalist Brian McDonald’s famous concept, is difficult to maintain for that long and at scale without inadvertently turning more Poles against them.

The ruling liberals’ superficial response probably won’t boost their standing among voters any more than their recent “Russophrenic” episode that reverberated across Europe over the past half-year.

The Regional Council of Western Ukraine’s Lvov Region, the cradle of its ultra-nationalist movement, voted to commemorate 2027 as the year of the “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” (UPA) and its Commander-in-Chief Roman Shukhevich. He and his organization were among the culprits of the World War II-era Volhynia Genocide that resulted in the slaughter of over 100,000 Poles. Zelensky named an elite commando unit after the UPA earlier this year at the cost of sparking a political crisis with Poland.

While Poland’s ruling liberal coalition repaired ties with Ukraine after conservative President Karol Nawrocki revoked their country’s highest honor from him in response, they briefly hardened their rhetoric towards it for electioneering reasons, and they’re now doing so once more. Prime Minister Donald Tusk condemned the resolution as “suicidal”, Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski banned the official who proposed it, and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz called the move unacceptable

  • Two Majors: "Ukrainians have been so convinced of their exceptionalism that they have become accustomed to being rude even to their own masters and are not afraid of publicly glorifying Nazism." [33]
Well duh, it's amazing Poles ever accepted Ukrainians in the first place. They only did so (1) to get money from the EU; (2) Western butt kissers want to make money off American military presence.
Amazing. PBS finally reports on the Volhynia massacre.
Volhynia massacre.

Perish will our enemies and foes — God in the world exists. The sons and daughters of Ukraine — our mother — defend their own. We’re upon our lands within our family. We drive the accursed horde out by force. Slava Ukraini!
Caveat: The PBS Anchor introduces the story with the phrase, Russia's "full scale" invasion. Russia invaded with 90,000 combat troops facing 400,000 NATO-trained and equipped troops. Russia still has a force in Ukraine smaller than Ukrainian forces. Russia's invasion was not "full scale" then or now.
How to read propaganda: Any alleged news source that uses the phrase, Russia's "full scale" invasion, should be viewed as a highly questionable source that is trying to make you believe something that is not factual or true. Foghorn LeghornDo normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens? 00:53, October 27, 2026 (EDT)
"They wanted to prompt the ruling coalition to condemn their plans in order to expose the liberals’ hypocrisy after their allied mayor allowed Ukrainians to hold this year’s Independence March in Warsaw despite newfound political and societal tensions with Ukraine over the Volhynia Genocide."
This doesn’t mean that they’ve since become Russian-friendly, let alone pro-Russian, just that they’re no longer exhibiting the knee-jerk reaction of automatically believing every such conspiratorial claim about it after he insultingly told them that they’re protesting against his coup on Putin’s orders.

Liberal Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk claimed during a government meeting that “We observe activity by Russia and pro-Russian politicians —both internationally and within the country, centering around our cause”. He added that “we are witnessing tensions provoked by the Russians…through the fueling of a sense of instability, based on the aggressive behaviour of opposition politicians and the president.”

France

European leaders more concerned about Russia & Putin than their own populations.
When you inquire as to the reasons for the truly nihilistic mobs rampaging across the towns and cities of France, however, you initially get answers that are far too superficial. That is, the current uprisings are blamed on unassimilated immigrants, inherently evil “leftists” and economically dispossessed and culturally deracinated youth.

This may be. But these are symptoms, not causes. The real cause is that crushing taxes, easy welfare and evaporating birth rates among the native population in France—and much of the West as we amplify below—are denuding the French economy of growth and opportunity. At the same time, the socio-economic vacuums are being filled with welfare and segregated populations of largely disadvantaged immigrants.

Spain

Albania

Serbia

West Asia

For years the Gulf monarchies have been told that the path to security runs through Washington and Tel Aviv. Sign the Abraham Accords, buy Israeli defense and surveillance technology, invest in the right American funds, and you will be protected. Then came this war. Refineries in Saudi Arabia, LNG trains in Qatar and energy facilities across the region were hit, and none of those partnerships kept the missiles and drones away....
  • IMF's October 2026 outlook: Kuwait's economy is forecast to shrink 16.7 percent in 2026. Qatar's will shrink 15.6 percent, and Bahrain's 11.3 percent. The UAE, long sold as the region’s safe haven, is now expected to contract 3.9 percent, a seven-point swing from the IMF's April 2026 forecast. Saudi Arabia is forecast to shrink 3.3 percent. The only Persian Gulf economy still growing is Oman, and that is because its ports sit outside the Strait of Hormuz.
Comment: This isn't good for interest rates. Gulf economies used to buy US Treasury debt with oil profits. Now that they are not producing, they won't be financing the US budget deficit any more. In fact, should peace ever arrive, they will need to sell US Treasury debt to finance reconstruction. In the meantime, they will be selling US Treasury debt just to survive. Foghorn LeghornDo normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens? 02:28, October 20, 2026 (EDT)
Washington has a plan for Iran. According to a source close to the White House, the plan is to seize one or more of Iran’s islands in the Persian Gulf. Senator Chris Murphy, who says he has been briefed on what the administration intends to do after Tuesday’s midterms, summed it up this week in four words: “their plan is insane.”
Iranian defense planners have completed targeting packages designating an estimated $2.5 to $3 trillion in regional energy infrastructure, municipal desalination facilities, and underwater fiber-optic trunk cables spanning the Persian Gulf floor. Should the White House authorize the planned post-election air campaign, Tehran’s doctrine of asymmetric mutual escalation guarantees the destruction of the economic foundation of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states.
You take on the intelligence community, they got six ways from Sunday of gettin' back at cha.

Israel

The Israeli establishment has correctly understood that the U.S. is a declining power and that there will come a time when it cannot depend on it. The proposed solution is essentially to become ZISIS (Zionist State of Israel). However, CIA reports warn of civil war and state collapse....
"You’ve lost the Democratic Party, and you’re losing the Republican Party. And it’s all because of foolishness on your part. I want to tell Israelis, ‘Shame on you! Shame on all of you. Your fathers and your grandfathers fought for this place, and you’re losing it because of foolishness. Period.’”

Iran

The US killed multiple civilians in southern Iran using new “precision” missiles with a wide damage radius, conflict monitoring group Airwars has found...In an investigation published on Monday, the London-based watchdog examined three February 28 strikes in the city of Lamerd that killed at least 21 civilians, including seven children...It concluded that the weapons used were likely Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missiles that are designed to explode above the ground, spraying tens of thousands of dense tungsten pellets in all directions rather than relying primarily on the blast itself...
How come this stuff is never publicly discussed before the US stumbles into another stupid war? Or if it is discussed, why are people who raise such questions accused of "anti-Americanism"?

Yemen

Saudi Arabia

Epstein buddy MBS is in big trouble with Muslims.
From Zerohedge: "Bangladesh is seeking answers on why Saudi Arabia executed two Bangladeshi nationals in the city of Mecca - which is considered holy in Islam - without telling Dhaka."
What this incident illustrates is the Wahhabi tradition does not recognize the Western concept of "nation state". All visitors to Mecca are citizens of Islam, and they shouldn't have to show a passport to fulfill a religious obligation.
So you know it is a question mark and this major conflict with Aramco [the world's largest corporation - being slowly dismantled. Saudi Arabia not having income. It's not just the war in terms of kinetic war but it is the economic war. The Saudis pay for their imports by selling oil. 82% I think or something like that 80% of their revenues go to imports, cost of imports. At the moment they don't sell oil. So what happens? Well, you've got two choices really. Either you devalue the currency, your currency, because otherwise the trade deficit will be huge and Saudi Arabia already has about $520 billion of debt. It has $420 billion of foreign exchange reserves. But I mean if you have a big trade deficit because you haven't got revenue to pay for your imports, yet your people want imports because it is, you know, a very consumerist society and they're used to that. So if you can't do that, then you have to devalue the currency. But that means breaking the peg [with the dollar ] and what would be the consequence on other Gulf states that are on a dollar peg and would that start around on that. Secondly, you start try to sell your foreign exchange reserves but think what happened with Japan. Japan started to sell its foreign exchange reserves, but far less. It was about $89 billion or something like that off the top of my head, but far less and Saudi would have to spend to keep up the level of imports with no revenue. So, um far less. So, what would that do to the American bond market? that would you know cuz the Japanese brought about a major crisis. This could bring about an even greater uh crisis in the American bond market and I doubt the president would allow it. So, you know, it seems that Saudi Arabia is really in an economic trap as well as a trap of the destruction of its infrastructure and of its lack of anyone willing to come or able to help it. And the final dilemma of course Muhammad bin Salman is not willing really to capitulate to the Houthis in their demands because their demands are couched in terms of a complete end to the war - port for port - airport for airport - all of that has to be resuscitated. What they don't mention and isn't part of their demands as far as I know at this point is the three provinces that Saudi Arabia expropriated, I think 1934 at that time anyway..."

South Asia

India

Pakistan

East Asia

China

decoupling from the US & tariffs forced China to seek new markets elsewhere. Foghorn LeghornDo normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens? 15:03, October 17, 2026 (EDT)
Not really the way to go about making America the foremost power for the foreseeable future.

South Korea

Western Hemisphere

United States

Most of the semi-official explanations for Ratcliffe’s unannounced—until it was in process—flight to Moscow in a huge heavy lift military transport (a C-17) have failed to convince observers and analysts. By “semi-official” I mean the accounts presented in mainstream media outlets like the NYT, the WaPo, and WSJ—media outlets which are generally assumed to have access to official regime sources and even to serve as outlets for narratives that the regime wishes to propagate. The unsatisfactory nature of these accounts, often centering around Ratcliffe’s use of a huge military transport (which could not make the flight without refueling) rather than his official jet—a long range Gulfstream V that could easily make the flight from DC to Moscow non-stop. The transport of a motorcade for Ratcliffe isn’t sufficient reason for the use of a C-17, since those huge transports can accommodate a motorcade and still have room for returning the remains of US service personnel who died in the US war on Russia....Today we’re seeing renewed speculation which I find plausible. It centers around the supposition that the Trump regime didn’t simply contact the Kremlin and say, ‘Hey, how’s about our boy John comes over to talk to you guys?’ The supposition, instead, is that the Russian side requested Ratcliffe’s presence in Moscow for a presentation provided by Russian officials. This seems plausible to me because of the rising tensions between Russia and the Anglo-Zionists brought on by increased attacks on Russia from that quarter...
Sources say there was a refrigeration unit onboard the C-17 which adds to the speculation that the mission was to retrieve bodies of dead CIA operatives.
Comment: More and more it appears Russia initiated the request to send Ratcliffe to Moscow rather than the narrative that Ratcliffe was directed by Washington to carry threats or an ultimatum.
Over the last decade, the US federal government has spent $3.1 trillion on foreign wars. Add overall defense spending and you get a grand total of $8.2 trillion. Over half of the Pentagon’s discretionary defense spending —54% —goes to private contractors, compared to almost zero for China. U S private contractors have a minimum profit margin of 10% —some critics say much higher, around 20%

Now, compare to China, which, of course, has spent nothing on foreign wars. China as spent just around $3 trillion on defense over decade, or about or about 35% of the US total.

Only about 10% of US defense spending goes to defense of the homeland. The rest goes to the US’s global reach and offensive capabilities.

95%~98% of China’s defense spending goes to its borders and its Pacific Perimeter to counter the threat from the US and its allies. The US Federal government spent $1.21 trillion on infrastructure over the last 10 years. China spends $2 trillion to $3 trillion annually.

The numbers here are all ballpark figures — they are approximations. But no matter how you fudge them, the result is clear— the US cannot develop while wasting money on foreign wars and attempts at global domination.

  • Sulfur is a byproduct of cleaning sour gas and crude oil. Turned into sulfuric acid, it is the indispensable ingredient in phosphate fertilizer. Without it, phosphate rock stays rock. Sulfur that sold for about $400 a ton before the war now costs more than $1,000. In July, Abu Dhabi’s national oil company set its official price at $1,000 a ton.
  • excerpt of "Email from Florida":
The Mosaic Company here in Florida. Today, October 5th at 9 am we were notified that effective today, the South Fort Meade Mine will cease all operations. Therefore all phosphate mining at that mine will be shut down. ...The reason why they are suspending operations is the high price and lack of sulfur….the main driver. Also affecting our production and operations at the mines are high diesel prices. Couple that with high fertilizer prizes, due to high sulfur and diesel prices, that farmers are no longer able to or willing to pay, high tariffs, and now also Trump removing import bans of Belarusian potash and Russian and Moroccan fertilizer; which are much cheaper than what we can produce at the moment
Note: This is a good textbook example of economic sanctions screwing American workers and American jobs.
  • According to the USDA, only 30% of the U.S. winter wheat crop was rated in good or excellent condition in early June 2026, down from 49% at the same point a year earlier, as the harvest got underway...That’s a collapse in one of the country’s most essential crops, unfolding at the same moment that fertilizer prices have surged to their highest level in years and a single shipping corridor has thrown global food supply into crisis. [47]
Why are we in Ukraine or why even do we still maintain 100,000 military personnel in Europe in bases scattered all around the continent?

The answer is, of course, is not to protect our European NATO allies from an invasion by the Rooskies. For crying out loud, whatever Putin’s faults may be, he isn’t stupid.

Just look at the societal basket cases in Europe today—exemplified by the chaos on the streets of France and Italy, the self-imposed unraveling of the German industrial economy and the woke la la land called England. Why in the hell would Putin ever want to invade these socialist economic disasters—even if he had the military and fiscal wherewithal, which he most definitely does not.

Canada

Venezuela

Bolivia

Argentina

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