Trump lifted sanctions on several Russian companies and banks, including Rosoboronexport — Russia’s state arms trader and sole authorized exporter of military and dual-use goods.
-Kyiv Post
Donald Trump is tilting toward Russia. He is withdrawing military support from Ukraine. He has removed key Russian banks and companies from the sanctions list. Russia demands that Ukraine disarm and give over territory. Russia will not modify these demands. Today we see that nearly all military support for Ukraine is being withdrawn by President Trump. Ukraine has, in effect, protected Europe from Russian invasion for over three years. Ukrainians have shown that they will fight for their freedom, and for Europe’s freedom. By his actions, President Trump seems to prefer a Russian victory. He does not care about Ukraine or Europe. He thinks that America can live happily while dozens of nations are trampled under the Russian boot.
Trump has often expressed admiration for Russian strength and contempt for Europe’s weakness. Europe’s military establishments are weak because: (1) Europe was tricked into disarmament by the supposed collapse of communism in eastern Europe; (2) Europe has also believed that America will defend her. Now that America’s willingness to defend Europe has been called into question, the Ukrainians are Europe’s main line of defense. Can the Ukrainians hold the line against Russia with only European support?
Trump’s brain trust will say that Europe does not matter. Only Russia’s friendship counts. We must divide Russia from China, they say. This policy is suicide (as are many of the policies of Western governments today). China and Russia cannot be divided so easily. In fact, China is helping Russia to win the war in Ukraine. Why? Because China is managed by communists who want to destroy the West and its economic dominance. It is in the nature of the Chinese and Russians to make war on the West. It is in their nature to feel envious and resentful toward the West.
On 21 June 2025 the USA Today headline was, “Putin says ‘the whole of Ukraine is ours.’” This affirms what many of us have said from the beginning of the war. The invasion of Ukraine is not about Ukrainian ethnic cleansing in Donbas. The invasion is about the eradication of Ukraine and its absorption into a new Soviet empire. Even a behind-hand journal, like National Review, featured an article on 17 April 2023 by Jay Nordlinger titled, “A Nation, extensively re-Sovietized.” Over the last twenty years, says Nordlinger, Russia has been re-Sovietized. The supposed democratic changes in Russia were initiated with re-Sovietization in mind. This is evident if we examine the evidence of the last 35 years.
As early as 1994, Russian journalist and political scientist Yevgenia Albats wrote an investigative account of perestroika showing that the same group which traced its lineage to Stalin’s police state “actually engineered the policy of perestroika, subtly and effectively controling the overhaul of Soviet society in order to reposition itself at the top.” Albats’s account was published in English under the title, The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia, Past, Present, and Future. Add to this the work of KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, who predicted the advent of a false liberalization under a new Soviet leader who would come after Brezhnev. Golitsyn’s book was published in 1984 under the title New Lies for Old.
President Donald Trump will never read these books, and he will never accept the testimony of dissident Soviet authors, however prophetic or useful they have turned out to be. Consequently, Trump has misread the strategic situation. He prefers friendship with Vladimir Putin to friendship with Ukraine and Europe. While the left in America is determined to commit national suicide through identity politics and open borders, Trump is determined to commit suicide by abandoning friends and befriending enemies. It is an academic question as to which form of suicide is worse.
In terms of Putin’s plan for victory in Europe, it is useful to look at the beginning of the war in Ukraine. The reason Ukraine survived the first weeks of the Russian onslaught tell us a great deal about Putin’s present strategy. Russia and China cannot win the coming wars of mass destruction by military means alone. Ultimately, they must win by taking control of key positions within the enemy camp. Leadership positions are the most important, along with positions in the security services of the target countries. A key insight about this comes from Yevgenia Albats, who gave the following remarks during an interview with Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
RUBIN: What were Putin’s motives in starting this war?
ALBATS: Obviously, I cannot get into Putin’s head. Therefore it is very difficult to talk about motives. However, we can talk about incentives. I think it is obvious — at least it is obvious to me — that Putin decided to conduct a quick war…. However, he miscalculated badly…. The initial idea was, as far as I can read it, to quickly conquer Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, to kill Zelenskyy or make him go into exile, and then use … agents … [as] the Ukrainian secret service was part of the KGB … The Soviet [sic] Russian FSB has had a hell of a lot of agents inside this Ukrainian security service…. So … after Zelenskyy [is] gone, [and] the government [is] dead, these agents were going to take over … in Ukraine, all across the country, just like happened in Kherson, where the FSB agent, the head of the local SBU (security service of Ukraine) told the people to lay down their arms and not to resist against [the] Russian Army. And that’s how the Russian occupied Kherson so quickly…. He [Putin] never of course expected that Zelenskyy was going to stay. He never took Zelenskyy seriously. He was this Jew clown … an actor. How could this Jew/clown/actor … compare himself to Putin? – This great Putin, who befriended two thirds of the world and who was met by European cabinets….
The Russian armed forces are not the key to victory. They are poorly led and poorly trained. Victory depends on having agents inside the enemy camp, to enable rapid occuption of target country. The most important agent of all would be the top leader of the target country. If a country’s leader is not an agent, he should be a clown who runs away. However, if the leader is not a clown, or if he is loyal to his country, the Russian Army has to fight. And fighting is not something the Russian Army does well.
In the case of Ukraine we find a famous Jewish comedian in the role of president. Zelenskyy became President of Ukraine after playing the President of Ukraine in a TV comedy about government corruption. The election of a comedian to the presidency was a strange joke, but the joke was on the Kremlin, for the comedian was a serious man. Leadership in war is always an important factor. Since the Russians have a badly led army, the elimination of the Ukrainian leadership through treason or cowardice was their only path to victory. Zelenskyy’s surprise performance as President of Ukraine has proved to be better than his comic television portrayal. The strategists in Moscow believe that the elimination of Zelenskyy would have brought victory in 2022. Today they believe something similar. The Ukrainian leader must be reduced in stature. He must be brought down.
This strategic goal helps us to better understand why Zelenskyy was treated so badly during the miserable 28 February 2025 Oval office meeting, where an attempt was made to reduce him to non-entity status. If Zelenskyy had not stood up for himself and his country during the verbal assault of the vice president, the Ukrainians would have been demoralized. The role of a leader in war time is moralization. Both President Trump and Vice President Vance rebuked Zelenskyy for his handling of the war, and blamed him for holding out against Russian aggression. If Zelenskyy had humbly looked down at the floor as many critics wanted, acting the part of a respectful minion, his nation would have lost faith in him. His usefulness as a leader would have come to an end. It would have been better than assassinating him. That Zelenskyy’s treatment in the White House was calculated, is certain. That the plan backfired, is also certain. Almost nobody caught the calculated goal of this meeting from the Russian strategic point of view. The Russians always aim at killing or discrediting a nation’s leaders.
If you cannot kill a leader, or make him run like a coward, you can cut him down to size. You can demean him; that is, you can reduce him to the status of a nonentity. This would not only have damaged Ukrainian morale, but added to Russian morale by affirming one of Russia’s key propaganda messages; namely, that Ukraine has no agency because it is a puppet of American imperialism. Both U.S. leaders during the disgraceful Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy were channeling Putin’s fury. The Jew Clown should have run off to America in President Biden’s proffered aircraft on day two of the war. Zelenskyy had no cards to play, as Trump said. But Zelenskyy replied that he was not playing cards.
In 2022, in fact, Zelenskyy made a clown out of Putin by staying in Kyiv and risking what then seemed to be certain death. Putin’s strategy of rapid conquest failed. Russia would have to fight a long war. China would have to delay its planned mobilization in the Far East.
RUBIN: Has this led Putin to change his strategy?
ALBATS: …. Yes. Putin has said that the war is going to be long, and hard, and tough…. And now, yes, he changed his strategy. Absolutely. Now it is not clear what his strategy is because he keeps shuffling his generals. Obviously, no one is good because no one is capable of killing enough Ukrainians to occupy Ukraine.
Putin cannot find an easy military solution. He cannot find a good general. The reason, of course, is that he would not accept the advice of a good general if one could be found. Boris Yeltsin said that Putin was the good general. No need, then, to listen to anyone else. Putin has two ways out: (1) nuclear world war; or (2) call retreat and make peace. Nuclear world war is theoretically winnable, in Russian terms. Retreat might destabilize his regime. Better to die in a war than suffer the humiliation of being tossed out of power, which would also result in death.
Is Putin planning a wider war? Yes.
According to a story by Camilla Jessen from a week ago, “Kyiv’s intelligence services have collected evidence of Russia preparing for further military operations across Europe.” Zelenskyy made this claim after being briefed by Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, on 22 June 2025. According to Zelenskyy, “We have evidence that they are preparing new military operations on European territory. We will share everything we know.”
Rather than working through NATO, Zelenskyy is coordinating his defense with the European Union and United Kingdom. This suggests NATO is considered untrustworthy because the Americans are in NATO and President Trump prefers to see a Russian victory in Ukraine. Therefore, sharing intelligence with the Americans is not an option.
Zelenskyy has also spoken about increased North Korean participation in the war, and Russia’s use of Chinese soldiers in the fighting. Russia is receiving support from its communist allies. This should alarm the United States, but President Trump has not commented on China’s role in helping Moscow. Trump’s brain trust is also quiet on this topic.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov continues to refer to Europe as rabid and militaristic. This is ludicrous, since Europe is poorly armed and unready for war.
The truth is the opposite of what the Kremlin says. Recently, Putin made the following remarks at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum:
“I’ve said it before, Russians and Ukrainians are one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours. There’s an old rule that wherever a Russian soldier sets foot, that’s ours.”
In 1814 Russian soldiers set foot in Paris and they took Berlin in 1945. Many other European capitals have been occupied by Russian troops in history. Wherever a Russian soldier sets foot…. Alas, poor Europe. Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Helsinki, Sofia, Prague, etc., have all been occupied by Russian troops during past wars. According to Putin, all these countries belong to Russia.
What does the “philosopher” behind Trump’s Dark Enlightenment say about all this? Shortly before the invasion of Ukraine Curtis Yarvin referred in his blog to “my hyperbolic contempt for the invented country of Ukraine….” Yarvin said it was fun to play the part of Joseph Goebbels. He felt regret. “Hopefully the Azov Battalion will not assault my home,” he added. In an interview three years ago, Yarvin told an interviewer, “The idea that there is an American dog in this fight is just utterly preposterous.”
What is the objective of this pro-Russian, pro-communist propaganda? You may object, of course, that I call Yarvin “pro-communist.” But I say he writes under camouflage. He says America is the communist power of the world. I say it is Russia and China, with America heavily infiltrated. To understand who is right, we must translate everything into the language of strategy. Who advocates a break in the West’s collective security? Who advocates the Russian propaganda line? Who would break up the Western alliance? Who facilitates the enemy’s game of divide and conquer? Yarvin’s rhetoric, along with Trump’s rhetoric, has followed this line of approach.
Here we glimpse the Russian and Chinese plan in a nutshell. And when this plan starts to work the Democrats in America, who are led by ideological communists, will come to power and accuse the Republicans of betraying the West. And they will be right in doing so. And they will conduct the surrender negotiations with Chinese guidance.
Post Script: China has just announced it will be supporting Russia in the war against Ukraine.
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103 responses to “Russia Prepares for War Across Europe: Trump Helps Russia, Cuts Support for Ukraine”
J. R. Nyquist – Deutsche Ausgabe (seit 2014):
“Hinweg über flache Sümpfe” (24. 9. 2019)
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/hinweg-uber-flache-sumpfe/
J. R. Nyquist – Deutsche Ausgabe (seit 2014):
“Rußland bereitet einen Krieg in ganz Europa vor – Trump hilft Rußland und kürzt die Unterstützung für die Ukraine” (3. 7. 2025)
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/rusland-bereitet-einen-krieg-in-ganz-europa-vor-trump-hilft-rusland-und-kurzt-die-unterstutzung-fur-die-ukraine/
Things are looking increasingly frightening, aren’t they? Either way, it seems, the revolutionary train will advance. As for most of the West, one only needs to examine the heads of government and heads of state of Europe, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and one can quite easily imagine what would happen if they were presented, by hook or by crook, with a communist demand for unconditional surrender.
Of course, we all remember the 2020 response to the fact of the CCP releasing a biological weapon on the world. Was the answer to go to war with the CCP, let alone punish them in the slightest? No! Their answer was to make the “free world” more like the CCP! It was convergence not on the terms of the USSR, but on the terms of Red China!
But Moscow and Beijing represent (still!) one firm communist bloc. In any case, the totalitarian Covid madness was wilfully executed by the governments of the West in full loyalty to the communist-led WHO. We’ve so far departed from any sound statecraft (and vision) that it is fair to say that we’ve been lost at sea for a very long time already.
In the nightmare of the dark
All the dogs of Europe bark,
And the living nations wait,
Each sequestered in its hate;
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
W.H. Auden
One and the same as far as concerns us.
A very important point. It shows what infiltration of countries by communists can do. They really do dictate policy through various means. Look how everyone got in line. Anyone who spoke up was ostracized. They took away social media accounts. In Canada they took away bank accounts.
Mr Nyquist,
Andrey Kozyrev seems to imply that Ukraine may choose respond to Russian nuclear attacks by attacking Russian nuclear power plants.
Excerpt from Eugenia Albats June 12, 2025 interview of former Russian diplomat Andrey Kozyrev.
Kozyrev’s background: —first Minister of Foreign Affairs of independent Russia (1990–1996), famous diplomat. Deputy of the State Duma of the 1st ‑and 2‑ convocations. With his assistance, the START‑2 treaty was signed. Under Kozyrev, a partnership agreement for peace was also signed with NATO. Author of the book Firebird («Firebird»). Lives in the USA.
Andrey Kozyrev says:
” Ukraine cannot give up
Eugenia Albats: Returning to today. Ukrainian intelligence carried out a very successful operation «Web», strategic bombers were destroyed. Trump said Putin would respond, and Putin responded. For several days now there has been a brutal bombing of civilian targets, houses are being hit in Kharkov, Sumy, Kyiv, Rivne, the army of the Russian Federation has launched an attack on the Dnepropetrovsk region. Operation «Web», of course, showed that, contrary to Trump’s words, Zelensky has cards in his hands. But in reality, how risky is such an operation precisely because of the consequences? What do you say as a diplomat?
Andrey Kozyrev: I think that the situation would have been even riskier if Ukraine had not carried out such operations. Ukraine has no choice. She cannot give up and be enslaved. The experience of history speaks very well about the deportations of millions of people and resettlement to Siberia. This is a Soviet practice that is already being used in Ukraine and will be applied if, God forbid, Ukraine does not withstand military rivalry.
Eugenia Albats: Do you mean the Stalinist deportations of Kabardians, Balkars, Crimean Tatars, Turks‑Meskhetians, Chechens, Ingush?
Andrey Kozyrev: An example is even closer — Baltic states. There was a massive forced relocation of people from the Baltic states. Why are the Baltics closer to the topic we are currently discussing? Because this was the result of the occupation of the Baltic states, just as they now want to occupy Ukraine. They carried out, in fact, ethnic cleansing, and until now the problem of the Russian population in the Baltic states — is a relic of the fact that the Baltic states were sent in trains deep into the Soviet Union, and people from Russian regions were brought in in their place. The same story awaits Ukraine; there will be an attempt to destroy culture, language, and Russification. We see children who were taken out and returned with great difficulty, while being re-educated in an anti-Ukrainian, in some kind of hysterical military spirit. That is, Ukraine has no way out of this monstrous situation other than to defend itself and stand to the death. They will snap back, they will fight.And this war will take on more and more difficult forms.
If Putin does not stop (and he will not stop, if the West does not provide weapons for defeat or the beginning of defeat, after which negotiations can become meaningful), then it will not be the conquest of Ukraine, but the transformation of the war into an even more monstrous catastrophe. There is also a nuclear response to nuclear weapons. Not necessarily nuclear weapons. The entire Soviet Union was and is now covered by nuclear power plants. And we saw Chernobyl. If you are sitting in a glass house, there is no need to throw stones. Until now, Ukrainians have tried to wage war, I would say, in knightly ways. But it is possible to wage war by chivalric means as long as the other side is limited to battles on the battlefield.
The war has begun to acquire a terrorist character, primarily on the part of Russia, which is destroying civilians because it cannot cope with Ukraine militarily. It doesn’t work out on the battlefield, which means we’ll bomb the population. But if you bomb the population, what answer are you waiting for?”
Thanks.
This is a frightening observation. Yes, Russia is vulnerable should they use nuclear weapons; and the Ukrainians have options even though they been gentlemen. I think Ukraine’s chivalry has been a good thing, and is strategically effective. Russia cannot justify using nukes in Ukraine, and they have hesitated to do so. The Russian people are learning from the Ukrainians. This is not entirely conscious as yet. But it might become important. Everything here is psychological.
Russia has not been able to provoke the Ukrainians into attacking civilians in Russia. Ukraine knows that pushing the Russians citizens into war supporters would be catastrophic. What could possibly be used too justify nuclear strikes on Ukraine? And I don’t see how anything short of full on nuclear wirld war could come of nuking Ukraine. I think you’re right, they have to win by politics or go full nuke.
Maybe Russia is trying to provoke Ukraine into attacking nuclear power plants, so it will have a pretext to unleash full nuclear war on Ukraine or Europe. Could that be what the Russians are trying to achieve by the massive bombing campaign on civilians?
Good point. Imagine what would happen if Kyiv were nuked. Ukrainians would begin flooding out of the country. It would collapse.
Here is the full interview of Andrey Kozyrev.
Guns say more than diplomacy
2025/06/12 | questions: Evgenia Albats*
Diplomat Andrey Kozyrev
https://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/251144/
Video with English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28zpE8ba9g
Mr. Nyquist,
To supplement Andrey Kozyrev’s “Ukrainian Chivalry” concept for attacking Russian nuclear power generation facilities Please note: Darya Dolzikova provides background information regarding the military logic Ukraine may apply to disrupt Russian war production and distribution plants by attacking Russian nuclear energy generation facilities.
See page 26 to page 33. Topic: Energy Disruption. Paper Nuclear Facilities as Targets of Military Attack by Darya Dolzikova. https://static.rusi.org/nuclear-facilities-as-targets-of-military-attack.pdf
Attacking nuclear power plants is much worse than using nuclear weapons. More long-lived radioactive isotopes were unleashed at Chernobyl than in a full-blown hydrogen bomb war. The suggestion to attack such plants is not good. Let’s hope it never happens.
Even nuclear plant disaster like Chernobyl, had much less consequences than what everyone feared. My family lived 100 km away from Chernobyl. Nobody got sick. Everyone was afraid that children would be born with deformities. It didn’t happen either. Haven’t heard of a single case like that in our hometown or anywhere actually. But maybe it is because the wind was blowing North. And I heard that many children in a certain area of Belarus after fallout had cancers. I am writing this not to encourage attack on nuclear plants, but to show that Russia probably knows that nuclear attack is more survivable than most people think. So many studies were done after that disaster and Russia had direct access to all the data.
I know a Russian lady who has great fear of cancer after exposure to Chernobyl radiation. She had part of her thyroid removed already. She was a child at the time she was exposed.
But now there are many cases of cancers in Ukraine among young people and children. I do not know correct statistics, but a lot among people we know. Also in one of the rockets, that fell on residential building in Kyiv there was a strange chemical substance, that could have spread if it was windy. This information comes from rumors circulating among people in Ukraine. Who knows what you can load on the drones to spread over people’s heads to make them sick and kill them eventually.
It’s a terrible way to wage war. The targeting of noncombatants should never be approved. Strategic bombing of civilians is wrong. I have long thought so.
All this talk of nuclear power plants, and now Russia gets to build one in Europe. Thanks to Trump lifting the sanctions. I wonder if this has any implications for the coming war in Europe.
https://x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1939294988027781590
The United States has lifted sanctions related to the construction of the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary. The construction is being carried out by the russian company Rosatom.
Would you want to live near a Russian nuclear power station? Good grief!
Trump never ceases to further disgust me. Where was he when God was giving out spines?
They could do a remake of the Wizard of Oz, and let Trump play the role of the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, seeking a heart, a brain, and courage
Never mind that man behind the curtain….
😆😆
That short, balding KGBman…
Why is it that Russia is able to maintain its nuclear triad with parts and equipment made in the USA and made in the EU? Why are we helping Russia to Kill us? https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/07/01/why_russias_nuclear_program_still_runs_on_western_equipment_1119855.html
It is our longstanding practice to arm our enemies. This is how capitalism works.
I liked the references to FDR’s *spits* “Brain Trust” and their obviously-communist-infiltrated position in the USA and the world. This iteration probably exists to the exact same end as the original Brain Trust as far as Moscow’s control over Europe is concerned.
It was probably formed using the same or updated methods.
Hello Mister Nyquist, I am still in Riga and last week I talked to some guys from Petersburg , they left Russia in 2022, by the way we had a very interesting conversation but he told that their friends in Petersburg made jokes and suggestem them to leave Riga and move directly to Spain. In Russia he told me they are talking about the possibility of a Russian attack against the Baltics but here in Riga it’s so strange no one is talking about
In Kyiv most people denied the reality of the looming war up to the moment it started. They made plans for holidays and other things. When I would start a conversation about their plans of evacuation or other things, I was looked upon as a crazy person talking nonsense. I explain this lack of foresight by desire to prolong peaceful normal life for as long as possible. Your brain denies the upcoming disaster.
I suspect this is how human nature always works.
I have the same experience. I tell them about the Japanese warning that their spy agency had uncovered CCP and Soviet plans for a “nuclear Pearl Harbor attack” on the U.S., and nobody believes me. I tell them about the present preparations for Soviet attacks on Poland, Lithuania and Finland, and that is pooh-poohed. There’s only so much we can do. When people don’t listen, I have largely gone silent.
It is a common failing of most people today.
They do not want to panic the civilian population. The Russians are preparing an assault there. Will Russia follow through. Depends on what Trump does. Are the Americans ready to risk nuclear war by sticking with NATO through thick and thin. I hope so. This has kept the peace in Europe for many decades.
Happy Independence Day everyone!
Jeff, thanks for another excellent article. It’s shaping up to be an interesting summer & autumn.
I was wondering, do you happen to know if there’s even a modicum of truth to the Gateway Pundit’s claims that that US munitions stockpiles have been depleted beyond what should ever have been allowed?
The article linked below states, “The Trump Administration is withholding shipments promised by the Biden Regime after the Pentagon’s policy chief Elbridge Colby found the US’s stockpiles of munitions and air defense missiles are dangerously low.”
Is this simply one giant excuse? Is our weapons manufacturing still increasing, as far as you know? Or do we really have a problem? I hesitate to post the link here, because it’s GP’s typical anti-Ukraine drivel, but I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this claim:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/biden-emptied-our-whole-country-giving-them-weapons/
The Gateway pundit is a disgraceful publication. I would not believe a word of what they write.
Jeff, I’ve been looking into it a bit more this morning. This story was first reported by Politico. Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for policy, was the one behind the temporary pause. It sounds from the second of these articles like he may have provided rather late notice to the White House that the munitions were going to be held back so a count could be undertaken. Apparently the reason given was that between the war in Ukraine, and the fighting in the Middle East, the US has blown through a lot more munitions than expected:
“House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said he found out about the decision from news accounts — but he had no complaints.
“‘I don’t have any reason at this point to doubt the explanation that was given — that we’ve reached critical shortages of our own,’ Cole said in an interview. ‘I know how much more material we’ve gone through, more than anybody six months ago thought we would, because of what happened in the Middle East. So there are limits. We have real problems with our industrial base. I expect the president’s first obligation is to look after the defense of the United States.’
“Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, initially said he wasn’t aware of a delay. But after his staff received a readout from the Pentagon, Rogers called it ‘just a regular pause to look and see what our stockpiles are,’ after recent military operations in the Middle East. The Armed Services Committee, Rogers said, is waiting for more information.”
This article also states that Trump had recently warmed to the idea of sending more aid to Ukraine, after meeting with Zelenskyy at the NATO summit last week.
However, according to Wikipedia, “Identifying as a realist, [Elbridge] Colby believes China is the principal threat faced by the United States. He believes the US should shift its military resources to Asia to prevent a Chinese takeover of Taiwan. Colby supports reducing military aid to Ukraine.”
So this may very well be an excuse. Or it may truly be the unfortunate reality of the situation, as planned by Russia and China.
Either way, it sounds like Elbridge Colby may be attempting to step into the power vacuum left by Trump’s shutout of Tulsi Gabbard.
Here are the two articles for further reading. They were quite enlightening:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/pentagon-munitions-ukraine-halt-00436048
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/ukraine-weapons-european-money-tactics-00437675
Eldridge Colby is the grandson of William Colby, the famous CIA Director who fired James Angleton in 1975 after leaking to Seymour Hersh. Angleton later thought Colby could have been the Soviet mole he had been looking for.
Didn’t Colby a seasoned kayaker drown in a freshwater lake under odd circumstances?
Yes.
Wow! That’s an interesting tidbit of information, isn’t it?
I was just reading more on what Gabbard has been up to over at ODNI. She has apparently cut their workforce by 25% in just five months. Whether these cuts help Russia & China is anyone’s guess. Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton would like to have several departments within the ODNI subsumed by the CIA, including counterproliferation and biosecurity:
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/07/03/new_maga_turf_war_over_national_intelligence__152991.html
How interesting. Cotton wants to get something out of Gabbsrd’s clutches.
Back in 2024, Russian state TV was already praising several former and potential future Trump admin staffers, including Elbridge Colby. They were predicting that should Trump win, his admin would be much more likely to dump Ukraine and implement policies that were in Russia’s favor. Given what Trump is doing now, it looks like the Russians weren’t just boasting idly, they knew something.
https://x.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1809265232469954596
https://x.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1808901518109598040
Seems they’re confident enough in our demoralization,they sometimes tell the truth now. They have America utterly confused, as Bezmenov said they would.
The Russians possess the virtue of patience. Colby is his father’s son.
A remarkable Fourth of July Homage (by Tradition In Action):
https://traditioninaction.org/Questions/C078_July4_2025.htm
I hope that angel of enlightenment comes soon.
Russia is celebrating their victory against Trump with fireworks over Kyiv.
So sad.
J. R. Nyquist – Deutsche Ausgabe (seit 2014):
“Rußland bereitet einen Krieg in ganz Europa vor – Trump hilft Rußland und kürzt die Unterstützung für die Ukraine” (3. 7. 2025)
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/rusland-bereitet-einen-krieg-in-ganz-europa-vor-trump-hilft-rusland-und-kurzt-die-unterstutzung-fur-die-ukraine/
I was confused by the request to delete a post. My interface is not easy to use, as it does not allow me to see the post you want deleted. I think I deleted the wrong one.
It’s just that I unnecessarily posted the weblink to my translation of this very article of yours a second time.
First the Budapest Memorandum and now this weapons deal, Trump is showing to the world that a signature of an American president is worth less than the paper it is written on, much like how it is with Russia and China.
Sometimes when you look at what’s going on in the Trumpian political sphere, it’s similar to stepping into a world of pure, sheer lunacy. A world impervious to facts and basic common sense. MAGA folk constantly post over and over “peace through strength”, it already became a mantra by this point, when it is evident that Trump is extremely soft with Russia. If people point out how this isn’t going so well, then you are a “warmonger”, when Trump’s weakness on this war only emboldens Russia and is making the war become uglier by the minute, with record drone and missile attacks on civilians and a never ending list of war crimes.
It’s getting harder to even say that Russia hits civilians because their weapons are inaccurate, because not so long ago, Russia attacked a civilian target, and 30 minutes later the same exact place was attacked again, killing the first responders, a war crime on top of another war crime, and what are the odds that if Russia’s weaponry is inaccurate, 2 misfires like this happen? Sounds pretty deliberate if you ask me. Some of the stuff that comes out of Trump’s mouth just makes one wonder if the people who claim dementia are onto something, he said that he’s the toughest president on Russia ever, what?
Trump wants to portray this image that he can gets deal done, Art of the Deal, he wants to convince the world he could sell sand to desert Bedouins, yet that deal he offered Ukraine was so laughably bad and one sided, why even publish what is was about? It just made him look like a bad joke.
This whole thing is so ugly and repulsive because it’s clear as day how distinct Ukraine and Russia are, when you look at POWs, how the ones in Russia come back looking like skin and bones, plus signs of torture, and how healthy the ones held in Ukraine look, there was this video of a mother talking to her Russian son, who was exchanged, how he shouldn’t have accepted it because he’s going to be send right back to the front, to which he replied, mom not here, I’m being filmed. One side going after military targets and other going after civilians, how Russia treats their own soldiers and how they treat the corpses of their own soldiers, it’s just a huge amount of immorality, savagery and brutality coming from Russia, this situation feels like some sort of basic empathy test, if you are cold towards this, there has to be something deeply wrong with you.
But then Trump really symbolizes a problem of many capitalists in the West with their money über alles mentality, that has enable China to become what they are now, as they fuel this Kremlin savagery, thinking that money and deals will solve everything, when it’s crystal clear that the Kremlin wants much more than mere dollar signs. The capitalistic creature is incapable of seeing that some people aren’t satisfied just with dollars bills as they are.
I’ve often thought it may be better if Ukraine would just execute captured Russian soldiers. They are only sent back to the front anyway, and Ukraine needs all their resources and manpower for the war effort.
Also, the case of “double-tapping” civilian areas after the emergency responders arrive isn’t an isolated event. It happens regularly.
Not good to do that. But understandable in the case of fighting Russia.
Yes, they’ve shown themselves to truly deserve to be called Orcs. They are worse than savages, imo.
Executing captured soldiers is a war crime. Russians by the way have killed many captured Ukrainian soldiers. Also Ukraine wants to keep them for the exchange fund to get our people from the hands of Russian monsters.
I know that Russians gave killed many captured Ukrainian soldiers, besides the brutal, nightmarish torture.
I wouldn’t stoop to torture, but a quick execution is a “war crime” I would have to consider reciprocating in light of Russian sadism, murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, destruction, and attempted genocide.
I’m glad the decision is not mine to make
And besides keeping captured Russians for the exchange fund, to get our people out, Ukraine can’t be seen as a “baddie”, considering how much we depend on external sources for our weapon. We don’t produce much of air defence rockets and launchers. Just recently started. We are good only with drone production. (Before the war Zelenskiy had closed rocket production opened by Poroshenko, as he did not believe there was a need.) And yes, there were some incidents of Ukrainians killing captured Russians. Maybe they felt like you.
I understand all of that, and I know you’re right.
But I certainly wouldn’t blame them if they did.
I remember how so many idiots on X were up in arms when the Russian soldier just sat down and waited on the drone to kill him, which sentiment the drone operator obliged.
The invader did not surrender, and the drone operator gave him plenty of time, as I can’t count how many videos I’ve watched of Russian invaders surrendering to drone operators.
I’m not arguing with you here, as i concede your points, which i know is why the Ukrainians refrain (besides the fact they have a heart), but just throwing some thoughts out there that come to my mind when I consider Uktanian soldiers just executing captured Russian soldiers:
1.) The Russians invaded and only inflict horror, terror, torture, and destruction. There is nothing of human virtue…at all…in the breasts of the invaders.
2.) Biblically, I can see why God told the Israelites to wipe out certain nations of people. Some have degraded themselves to the state we see in Russians and “Palestenians.” They live to terrorize and destroy.
3.) Resources. Every bite of food, drink of water, article of clothing, medical item used on a Russian soldier; and every man assigned to guard them, is a much-needed resource Ukraine doesn’t get to use in the effort to *survive and *win.
4.) On the basic level of society -the family, of which nations consist- if someone broke into one’s house with the intent to brutalize and murder one’s family, no way should the intruder live or be expected to live, even if they “give up.”
5.) From a criminal aspect, when rapists, murderers, etc are let go, they do the same evil deeds.
6.) It would be quick and painless.
Again, I know there are many valid and good reasons it shouldn’t be done. But I can see the pros and cons in my mind.
Sad these thoughts have to enter our minds.
I understand your feelings and your logic, GreyKnight. I personally do not have a problem with God commanding to destroy some nations, which are drowning in iniquity. But I know that He allows some evil nations to exist. I believe that Russia (in union with other nations) is playing a crucial role in the attack on Israel which has to take place before the Lord comes.
I believe that too, Valentina. To me, it is clear that God Himself will have to deal with Russia.
Another way to look at it is that the Russian POWs being exchanged might suffer a fate worse than death. They get sent back to Russia, and from there right back to the meatgrinder.
Also, instead of just letting them sit around can’t Ukraine put the Russian POWs to work? I’m sure Ukraine could use the labour. Or is that not allowed under international law?
Now, *that* is a good idea. Put them to work. Regardless of any so-called law. But I doubt there is one against it anyway. I know in WW2, captured Axis soldiers were put to work here in America. In a nearby town here, there is a historical monument commemorating a “camp” where German POWs were held. They worked on farms, ir *a farm in the area, if I remember correctly. Or maybe it was in the timber industry. I’ll have to recheck this week, but either way, they worked, and they weren’t mistreated. They didn’t get the red carpet rolled out to them either, but they weren’t tortured or starved.
Laura,
My grandfather used to tell me about the state prison in Atmore, Alabama. The convicts used to have to work. They raised crops, cattle, and I think they even may have made their own clothing. In other words, they were self-sustaining.
Some worked in the fields or with the cattle. Some worked on public projects such as the roads. They also raised enough food to sell as well to bring in some money for the prison. Sadly, this is no longer how it is.
This, I could see for putting Russian POWs to good use.
Just reading up on it. It was indeed built to be a self-sustaining prison. They did raise crops and beef, and ran a sewing factory and license plate stamping factory.
So, they did make their own clothes.
My grandfather told me it worked, but they abandoned the system for some reason and tax money had to support it. The AI generated answer says the self-sustaining system failed.
I have a feeling that laws about prisoners’ “rights” and such had something to do with the “failure”.
One of my grandfather’s uncles had to spend a few years there, and he never said anything about being starved or beaten or anything. Just had to work hard.
This model will work if run correctly.
My grandmother’s father was a prison guard in Florida for years, guarding the men as they worked. I knee him until I was almost grown. He said they had them do road work, agricultural work, dig up stumps out of fields, etc. You’ve got to be a very firm disciplinarian in dealing with such men in such an environment.
He said they had them digging up stumps in a field one day. One guy told them he wasn’t going to dig up any stumps. So, that night, they took him to the water shed and gave him a little thrashing with a water hose. The next morning, he said “how many stumps do you want me to dig up?”
In other words, you cannot tolerate the least insubordination or it will spread, and can turn into a riot. So, I think if Ukraine could figure out a way to implement some kind of self-sustaining system, in which the POWs provided the vast majority of their own needs and did beneficial labor for Ukraine, that this would be a good idea.
Under the Geneva Convention it is not allowed to put POWs to work. It is prohibited. In WW2 neither Russia nor Japan adhered to this convention, forcing POWs into hard labor.
There were definitely German POWs who worked either on a farm or something else, but I believe on a farm in my general area.
Is Ukraine signed onto that? If so, maybe they can unsign it. That’s so dumb. The only nations who would do it in a systemic, brutal fashion are those nations like Communist or other authoritarian ones.
https://www.ruralswalabama.org/attraction/jackson-prisoner-of-war-camp-historical-marker-at-jackson-al/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLsl3NqoFtd/?igsh=Z2c4ODJhNnBoNndz
Yes, Trump shares the outlook and faults of the businessman.
Trump is giving us no reason to trust him with the way he’s bending over backwards to help Russia. After the infamous Feb 28 meeting with Zelensky he got the message that what he’s doing isn’t popular with most Americans. But instead of changing course, he got quieter about what he intended to do and kept on doing it.
And remember Steve Witkoff? We were wondering what his qualifications were for being Trump’s envoy to negotiate with Putin. Well, he is a long-time friend of Trump and also a business partner of Len Blavatnik who is close to Putin.
https://x.com/Andreas_Adam/status/1923064253960925491 May 15/25
https://desk-russie.info/2025/05/14/the-realtor-who-came-in-from-the-cold.html
“In a departure from diplomatic protocol Witkoff was alone with Putin during their latest meeting in Moscow. Neither the US ambassador, nor any other US Embassy or State Department staff were in attendance, and he is reported to have used the Kremlin’s interpreters.
…But is he really just a bumbling businessman or, on the contrary, the incarnation of a new world order in which international affairs are reduced to business deals serving the interests of an international oligarchical elite?”
A more cynical interpretation would be that Witkoff, on behalf of Trump, was discussing with Putin certain sensitive issues that Trump wanted to keep out of the public record. Things much worse than business deals that would benefit Trump and his friends. Things that would impact Ukraine and Europe’s security, and that would reflect negatively on Trump in the eyes of the American public. And only one month or so later we had the Iran strikes and now the announcement that the US can’t give any more missiles to Ukraine because the stockpiles are too low. Coincidence?
Reportedly Trump himself once met with Putin without American translators or staff during his first term. Even now this isn’t discussed much, but probably should be. According to John Bolton he wanted to pull out of NATO even then –this despite public statements criticizing Nord Stream and Europe’s lack of defense spending, which seemed to imply a tougher stance on Russia– but not enough Republicans in his admin supported the idea back then.
This business of meeting alone with Soviet leaders — without American witnesses — is something that Henry Kissinger was the first to do. It is highly improper. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry both did it when they were Secretaries of State under Obama. Today’s Russian leaders don’t need translation — as they speak English. Obama himself was caught on a hot mic talking privately with Russian President Medvedev, no translators present. Obama was clearly signaling readiness to accommodate Russia. The practice is rife with mischief.
Doesn’t the ukraine-war fit in perfectly with a set-up of a surprise attack on the US? Not saying the ukrainians are stooges, but used as such, for combat experience, propaganda-warfare and military adaptation.
The Russians need an excuse to attack, they need the people of Russia to believe that an attack is necessary.
The weapons from the west are pouring into ukraine and russian propaganda labels this western aggression.
Could the russians have carried out a surprise attack without a proper propaganda-play to sway the people?
All thats happening seems to fit into the long-term communist plan… Still I feel as if a piece of the pussle is missing?
That is a thought many have shared with me. What evidence do we have for it? Can all the facts be explained by such a plot? I am doubtful.
Mr. Nyquist, Today is the 4th of July so this is a good time to remember that we Americans won our war for independence with A Little Help From Our Friends. https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/55687
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/little-remembered-ally-who-helped-america-win-revolution-180961782/
Ukraine is desperately in need of HELP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_ZzBGPdqE
We Americans can help our selves by arming Ukraine.
We need to arm Ukraine and ourselves! Yes.
There are some parallels between the Ukraine War and the American Revolution.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/ukraine_and_the_american_revolution_some_parallels.html
The British did pretty well at the outset. But good fortune and France went against them.
There have been several windows where the Communists have had the advantage in nuclear weapons, and never launched.
There were reporderedly a few critically last minute near launch by the Russians averted by various individuals and fortune accidents.
Apparently this is another window. There are many considerations besides offensive numerical advantages. But do you think is something about this current situation or the specific psychology of its leaders that can predict what’s next
For them is a matter of joining legal like prosecution and most naked use, in the sense of the greek gods portraid as naked statues, not for aesthetics (contrary to what 19th century classicists projected in their own “gayness”), but for figurative dread inspiring naked force miniaturized in dreams so as to soften the shock value to a human.
Greek statues were a means to minimize the uncomprehending shock that meeting a god would be like, naked and violent.
Nukes and gods are that, and, beyond Russia, they want to see their usage or some lunatic humans out there want to “make love” to Zeus’ lightning in the mad aim to make demigods. But it will yield their destruction.
Looking at the increased legal activism of Hamas and Iran after being attacked is what is key for them. They want us to use nukes to motivate their “anti-colonization” neurotic 19th century history aesthetic projections onto us. This is their trial in nukes and blood, and not just in words.
Now, Stalin’s kittens are basically those who liked using Russian cannon fodder and were seeing that Stalin was going to eventually use them as such too in a nuclear exchange BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY! The AFTERMATH purge is what was at stake.
Organizing the civil wars after a nuke exchange was their real worry, and they did not want to be part of Stalin’s own purge plans foretold to him by whatever “god in the mushroom tea” he was drinking told him. This is herbal “medicine”, not scientific medicine, but a metaphysical science.
There still is a beast, a container, playing with the content beyond the control of the actors, be they Stalin, kittens or what not, and this beast is organizing the forces that would ressucitate Stalin if need be, a bit the way we did away with Patton or Churchill after the war under their influence.
In short, the intuition has been progressing the same, with a convergence of military, legal, nuke, sole executive, clenched fist, aftermath preps for purges and world reorganization etc.
The only thing Marx needs is a good fiction writer like Hegel, and he has those our leftist fools and other right wing schizophrenic crazy technical philantropist.
Jeff, not sure if you can comment, I was speaking with Albert the other week and was told the extent of control the CCP has over the Hong Kong ‘Pro-Democracy’ Movement and their overseas groups is very extent such as:
– The CCP has compromising information (kompromat) on the Hong Kong ‘Pro-Democracy’ Movement and their overseas groups, if they ever go off script or out of control, the CCP will expose that dirt and ensure Western politicians and countries abandon them, no question will be asked.
– The Hong Kong ‘Pro-Democracy’ Movement and their overseas groups have no free will, everything they say is tightly controlled and scripted along with the clothes they wear, individual identity and freedom are luxuries they will never have in this lifetime.
– If the CCP decides to execute the Hong Kong ‘Pro-Democracy’ Movement and their overseas groups, no question will be asked.
Jeff, thank you so much for this article and sharing that interview. This morning, an article caught my eye where Medvedev tells NATO secretary general Rutte he better start “learning Russian because he’s going to end up in a Siberian concentration camp.” While I generally despise the Daily Mail, sometimes they report on what others won’t. Rutte seems fully aware oof Russian aggression build up on NATO countries. That’s a relief to see he is openly warning people. This has to mean Trump knows this as well. Why Trump is the way he is with Putin, I don’t understand at all. He has managed to get Europe to up his defense commitments, fool the Chinese and the Iranians, and so let’s see. https://l.smartnews.com/p-5LhYrG92/KtunZi
Europe’s defense budget increases will be gradually phased in during the next ten years. The Russian buildup is happening now. Ten years is too late. Russia may attack within a year. Russian could even wait longer.
Finland joins a Finlandized NATO, only when finlandized… isn’t that the ironic promise?
Germans too have been dragging their feet ever since upset about their humiliating loss and fuehrer foolishness. They still are at it. Dragging feet when it comes to their responsibility, not so when it is their interest, with a latest German MP suggesting Germany should lead Europe and take charge of the French nukes, this unique Manhatthan project that required extensive sacrifice and experience know how from the French, as if they could just take it over like that , worse than a figurative Rhine river crossing.
One more thing that Trump has done is to create videos on each of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This is under videos on the home page. He has a bunch under America’s 250, more on a Founding Fathers tab, and a Founders Museum tab. It is a growing collection. Each week more are added. PragerU helped with the signers’ videos. Each runs less than 2 minutes and ends with an exhortation not to let freedom die. They are great. https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250/founders-museum/
Trump a thorough and disciplined student of both the Bible and humanities. In best spirit of a poet, a scholar, and father of a nation.
Donald “Grab them right by the p^$$¥” Trump. A legendary leader.
It looks good.
“Grab them right by the 9^$%@.” I My hero. A true visionary.
Stalin was officially acquitted at the CPRF congress
The Communists declared that Khrushchev’s report “On the Cult of Personality” was “erroneous and biased.”
The deputy chairman of the party, Dmitry Novikov, declared that this was “restoring historical justice” and promised to pass the resolution to Putin along with a request to return Volgograd’s name to Stalingrad. The hall applauded, speeches were made about “thousands of communists at the front,” and at the end, 81-year-old Gennady Zyuganov became the head of the party for the 32nd time.
The above post is a recent news I found in Telegram.
Stalin is back!
The content comes and goes, the container beast remain the same monster, playing this card or that card etc. at one rime or another.
It can assassinate Stalin even and resuscitate it too when needed! Uncanny.
Yes.
One wonders whether anybody in the West’s government structures is taking notice!
There are some sane people, but they are often pushed from the center of power. There are stories…. Few are wise and well-behaved near power. Power warps truthfulness, blots out modesty of ambition, inflames the dark side of the imagination.
During delays and cancellations at the major Russian airports, caused by threat of Ukrainian drone attacks, passengers were singing WW2 patriotic Russian songs. They seem to unite around their leader in this war on every level of society.
Funny how it always goes. Nixon: China strong = China Russia split
Trump: Russia strong = China Russia split.
Wut!?
I would say an imbalance of power between Russia and China would yield the sought out division. Hitler did not so much invade because he thought Russia strong but because weak… same with Pearl Harbor and all those things. No empire attacks thinking they are going to lose to a stronger element, they do so because “he” is weak.
Russia invaded Ukraine because it was without nukes, period.
Trump’s eastern europe women simp language means he is for removing the stockpile.
Language matters. The “unintended” consequences of helping Putin is admission of guilt or of lack of ability to be responsible with a nuclear stockpile, handing out this “Vendée massacre” state colonizing prerogative to Russia.
He will pay dearly for this… just like and with Putin!
You do not have to help or like Ukraine, handing it out illegally wads of USAID colonizing influence, to understand the same with Russia, that is, to stay away from these people!
It seems Trump is an abnormal emotional simp state, completely demoralized and emotionally rotten by a kGB “honey pot culture/cukture”, because that thing he did for Russia just now, is actually the very kind of stuff Putin neglects and would need flanking support (against his own will).
The fools always have smart-fools as angels flanking their incompetence. It is frustrating.
It reminds me of “Zar-operations”. The Russian knows he has a spirit of prioritizing skullduggery, and so Stalin’s kittens nurture abroad the other priorities in other “zar kinds” abroad whose spirit is more onto economics and logistics.
It is a joinder of the gods and ministries, keeping Russia in the ministry of Sauronic executive naked aggression while creating ministries out west taking care of affairs Russia does not care for much, since the communist is a gun, always a weapon.
Even Trump is targeted by this lunatic Muslim Brotherhood mayor candidate in NYC, completely shaping himself around “taking down Trump” before taking down other things, since that is what these lunatic communist are: All around Terminators
Democrat and liberal fools getting giddy and excited about “taking down Trump” and hiring these thugs for their petty emotions will rue the day, just the way Iraq rued the day that socialist president had Saddam his bodyguard anointed as general for becoming an All Round Terminator.
It is like Trump “loves” Putin/Russia/bimbos drom hell, and like that idiot British/French collaborator engineer (Bridge over the River Kuai, style), helps them where they do not care to be helped, but nevertheless so for their own “good” and success.
We truly are dealing with captured fools, in the sense of cult capture.
Al Qaeda’s manual had similar cult capture techniques of second generation acculturated kids of migrants who all of a sudden were thinking they had met their long lost “mother culture” in ISIS that their parents had concealed from them. A complete arbitrary savage version of unilateral “culture”, one not at all versed in the actual interests of the ancestors who had left their seeds out for these kids after hard work and dying, passing on with hope.
No, we are dealing with Zars, with completely arbitrary “colonized” spirit. The irony that these leftists rant about the need to “decolonize”, finding evidence for legal action in disppearing cultures influenced by churches and capitalism, when it is them with the savage disconnected arbitrary colonized and acculturated self glorification as such.
Same with communists always talking about process when they are anything BUT about process, but all about cult of personality and polarization against Trump, “capitalists”, America etc. and other Maoist targets gisted euphemistically in rhetorical questions of “who/what are our enemies”.
The only enemies of communism is themselves! But no matter, Trump will be there making sure he is a true friend of process and communism, like dummy Hegel, helping Marx write his books, while Marx and communists like Putin have but sneering despise for anything logistical and logistically oriented like Trump and other Fudd Rinos like Marco Rubio that they will eat alive eventually like a tuesday night chewing gum watching TV reruns of the Aprentice and other Trump type reality shows…
Ugh.