“Civilization is carried on by superior men, and not by people in the mass; if nature sends no such men, civilization declines.”
Victor Duruy, Histoire des Romans, VI, 1885
“All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.”
Gustave Le Bon
“By the 1970s, the public had started to become accustomed to the notion that political figures were to be taken as part of the world of show business. In the 1980s came the deluge.”
Neil Postman[i]
Last Friday President Donald Trump danced the Alaska Boogie with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was an obscene dance. Each party whispered sweet nothings to the other. The greater obscenities, for the sake of decency, remained behind closed doors. Questions about who did what to whom were not allowed.[ii] This summitry, which pretended to be about peacemaking, was an alcove crime in which the poetic lines enter through the flesh, passing through bone – coming out the other side like a large kitchen knife. A Ukrainian corpse lies on the floor, but the dancers continue with their heartless façade; each step an adultery, each turn a confession that no one dares to make at breakfast.
This Alaskan dance is like a poem that decided to have four legs (i.e., the legs of two presidents). The meter is the music which moves the feet. The beat is the rhyme; but the rest – the rest is a body saying everything that grammar cannot support. It is in this moment that war insinuates itself: the elegant movement of the button-finger; the hand that raises the missile on its platform; lips poised for the kiss of death. The dance begins with the brushing of skin and ends in exhaustion, two naked armies on the floor. Victory and mourning are together in the same cradle. Consummation coincides with the smell of napalm. Every destruction holds an embryo in its depths.
And so this vile dance, this poetry “with legs,” confirms old warnings from a long dead counter-spy named James Angleton, who recruited acolytes of the New Criticism to the CIA.[iii] A text only surrenders its meaning when its words are carefully examined – with all Freudian slips and unwitting confessions accounted for. It is no accident that this methodology teased out secrets, saw through walls, anticipated moles and prophesied the fate of nations. Angleton’s men discovered the Soviet Union’s long-range strategy, which the pale mediocrities of U.S. intelligence mockingly dismissed as “the monster plot” thesis.
Like ancient priests reading the entrails of animals or the flight of birds, Angleton’s staff “divined” the political trajectory of our little blue planet. They heard what the muses were whispering, what the Great Poem signified. They saw it in the words of T.S. Eliot:
“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now
“History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
“And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
“Guides us by vanities. Think now
“She gives when our attention is distracted
“And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
“That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late
“What’s not believed in, or is still believed,
“In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon
“Into weak hands, what’s thought can be dispensed with
“Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think
“Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
“Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
“Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
“These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.”[iv]
Let us trace our four-legged poem by way of this amputated stump of a poem, with Trump and Putin dancing cheek by jowl. What impudent crimes do we find? What old thing drawn from a KGB trick bag? In this dance we see a smile, a threat, a love bomb. Feeling our way through these apparent contradictions, we acknowledge that truth only emerges from the imagination by dint of effort. The KGB’s art of provocation, which employs opposites as shills, and exploits contradictions, never follows a straight line. The prey, exposed to cognitive dissonance by the predator, finds itself paralyzed and confused. Finds itself seduced unto death.
“In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do
“Suspend its operations, will the weevil
“Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs. Cammel, whirled
“Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear
“In fractured atoms. Gull against the wind, in the windy straits”
The West has crumbled, as Richard M. Weaver explained in 1948, because “all is an intuitive feeling about the immanent nature of reality, and this is the sanction to which both ideas and beliefs are ultimately referred for verification.” What sanction, then, under the haberdasher Truman? What sanction now, under the reality TV businessman Trump? “Without the metaphysical dream it is impossible to think of men living together harmoniously over an extent of time,” continued Weaver. “The dream carries with it an evaluation, which is the bond of spiritual community.”[v] And now this “bond” has been dissipated even as the community is set against itself. This is the historical context of our Alaska Boogie and its Russian dance master.
The one who is called, who defends the disintegrating order (an order infested with evil spirits) sees the storm’s approach. The watchman would prepare his country’s defense. This defense is not a Platonic exercise in dismissing rhetoric in favor of philosophy (though today’s political rhetoric must be cast aside). This defense, if it is to be mustered, must penetrate the mind of the enemy. And so, in the Alaska event, we must discover the choreography’s hidden meaning. In taking this on, we must not suppose that the Kremlin’s “poetry” is unadulterated nonsense. Everything here is coded information.
On meeting Trump in Alaska, Putin said, “Good afternoon, dear neighbor. Very good to see you in good health and to see you alive.”
Good to see you alive? How would a New Critic analyze this line? First, he would carefully examine the internal elements of the poem, completely disregarding any external context, such as Putin’s intent or the historical background. The critic would then focus on how the line functions within the poem’s structure, looking for elements like irony, ambiguity, and paradox. In point of fact, a he would likely find the line “Good to see you alive” to be quite interesting because of its potential for ambiguity and irony. On the surface, the line seems like a simple, heartfelt greeting. However, a close reading might reveal a different meaning. The New Critic would ask questions like:
- Is the speaker being sincere? The line could be a genuine expression of relief, but within the context of the poem, it could also be spoken sarcastically or with a tone of surprise, suggesting the speaker expected the other person to be dead.
- What does “alive” mean in this context? Is it meant literally, or could it be a metaphor (i.e., “good to see you have not been jailed for treason”). The poem itself might be exploring themes of survival, resilience, etc.
- Does the line create a paradox? If the poem has a dark or tragic tone, the seemingly positive line “good to see you alive” could create a paradox, highlighting the contradiction between the speaker’s words and the grim reality of the situation.
When juxtaposed with the final text of the summit, with its embedded ironies and paradoxes, we discover a profound tension between Trump’s public performance and the private reality; between symbolic reconciliation and persistent conflict.
Putin’s comment, in fact, is creepy enough that it might affect Trump’s inner equilibrium (if Trump has an inner equilibrium). The American president might ask himself, “Why would I be dead? Why is he glad to see me alive?” The imagination is left to see there is menace as well as condescension in Putin’s words. Was the former KGB lieutenant colonel alluding to blackmail? In other words, “We are holding such disgraceful things over your head we are surprised you have not killed yourself. But we are glad you did not kill yourself because you are breaking our isolation, opening doors for us. Thank you very much!”
Here we should be reminded of something Trump said during a 2024 Fundraiser: “With Putin I said, ‘if you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the shit out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice. And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10 percent.”[vi]
How can the Kremlin blackmail someone who can blow Moscow off the map? Here is something integral to the Alaska Boogie. Here is Trump’s poetic contribution: braggadocio as art, as counter-menace; a movement of the feet known as “the Demagogue Shuffle.” Look at the American fighter planes roaring above Putin’s head. Here is a dance within a dance, which Trump could not fully perform because Putin was trampling his toes with an “Epstein” two-step. And then came a hot mic moment when President Trump spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and was overheard by the world: “I think [Putin] wants to make a deal for me, you understand, as crazy as it sounds.”[vii]
Here is diplomacy in the Golden Age of MAGA, in the Golden Age of super-democracy under the super-demagogue Trump, who was born yesterday every day of the week, and who sharpened his skills by performing as a reality TV star. John Crowe Ransom wrote, “A beautiful poem is a democratic state, so to speak, which realizes the ends of a state without sacrificing the personal character of its citizens.”
But I would ask Ransom: What character? The apothegm forgets the limitations of so-called democracy. By analyzing Soviet intelligence in decades past, Angleton and his crew were struggling to defend democracy by bending certain democratic rules. And now we see that Trump personifies democracy. He has become the rule, and he is very bent. Because of him, both American democracy and strategy have become unintelligible. Trump seems entirely uninformed about America’s enemies. Consider the words of Carl von Clausewitz, the philosopher of war:
“By ‘intelligence’ we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country – the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations. If we consider the actual basis of this information, how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. The textbooks agree, of course, that we should only believe reliable intelligence, and should never cease to be suspicious, but what is the use of such feeble maxims? They belong to that wisdom which for want of anything better scribblers of systems and compendia resort to when they run out of ideas.”[viii]
If we consider the poor quality of so much “information” that circulates within the democratic system, and realize how “unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that [democracy] is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins.” Indeed! War and democracy have this in common. “What one can reasonably ask of an officer,” wrote Clausewitz, “is that he should possess a standard of judgment, which he can gain only from knowledge of men and affairs and from common sense. He should be guided by the laws of probability.”[ix] But not today. Not under Trump. Not with “democracy.” Anything is possible. Consider how the Russian flag is being set next to the American flag in this video:
It is a Russian video from the battlefield. It shows a captured American APC driving through Ukraine while flying the American and Russian flags. Here we see the intention of the Alaska summit by way of visual demonstration. Who in America grasps what the Russians are playing for? Of course, this sight should not dismay anyone. America siding with Russia is not politically possible. The United States has long been committed to defend Europe by the Washington Treaty which no U.S. President can terminate since passage of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (requiring congressional approval to withdraw from NATO).[x]
Of course, Trump can undermine Ukraine’s defense. And here we have reason for concern. For months the public has been misled. We were told that Trump would soon put sanctions on Russia – in two weeks, in fifty days, in ten days. But Trump has done nothing against Russia and he clearly does not want to do anything against Russia. His talk of sanctions has been deceptive. Already Trump has placed higher tariffs on America’s allies than on America’s enemies. Why? Because Trump’s inner circle includes people who actually prefer an alliance with Russia. Europe, they say, is now our communist enemy. Yet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came to Alaska wearing a T-shirt with the letters CCCP (USSR) on it.
Lavrov’s celebration of the USSR drew significant attention, of course. As a fashion statement, Lavrov was saying, “We are rebuilding the Soviet Union.” This was the Russian foreign minister’s solo tap-dance. Without this brilliant act, we might have missed the real reason Russia invaded Ukraine in the first place. Of all the narratives, metaphoric truths, and polymorphic perversities, this T-shirt gave the whole game away. Secretary of State Rubio called Lavrov an imperialist for wearing this T-shirt. But no, Mr. Rubio. Lavrov is admitting to being a communist, which is something far more dangerous. The Russian dictator’s imagination may be fired by narcissistic grandiosity, by outlandish schemes of conquest, elevated by the self-aggrandizement of his personality cult or by Louis XIV’s dictum, “L’état, c’est moi”);[xi] but the real bottom line is simple. Putin is a communist and the communist movement is determined to destroy the United States of America.
As an aside, one of the key choreographers who is now too old to dance, is Colonel General Alexey A. Molyakov of the KGB/FSB. He was undoubtedly a creature of the “inner KGB,” which holds all the regime’s most closely guarded secrets. Please notice something curious: how Col. Gen. Molyakov resembles Vladimir Putin. In fact, his voice sounds exactly like Putin’s voice. How strange and interesting this is (see footnote below).
[Alexey Alexeevich Molyakov.][xii]
Of course, America is not being run by strategists of the Molyakov type (above). Our master of counterintelligence, James Angleton, was kicked out of the CIA in 1974. He was inconvenient. He was “paranoid.” And worst of all, he was right.
‘Dionysius of Hilicarnassus wrote, “The shortest way to ruin a country is to give power to demagogues.” Today’s television demagogue may be understood by way of Marshall McLuhan’s claim that “the medium is the message.” The demagogue draws power from the fact that his image is constantly in the camera’s eye. McLuhan likened television to a “juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.” For anyone who rules through television, a summit meeting like the one in Alaska promises an ideal stage. Yes, Trump made himself the center of attention. Yes, the leaders of Europe have been gathering around him in Washington, D.C. But Trump was the loser; for he gave Putin a platform on which to say so many courteous things that sanctions against Russia are no longer thinkable. And so the Russians can continue their mobilizations without American interference.
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[i] Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 132.
[ii] Winston Churchill once said, “The traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy, and the lash.” Today this apothegm might be reworded for the Cheka as follows: “The traditions of the Cheka are illicit narcotics trafficking, money laundering, pedophilia, sodomy, and Novichok.”
[iii] See Ron Rosenbaum’s article in Harpers, “The Shadow of the Mole,” where he wrote about a conversation he had with James Angleton: “Deflected from interpretation of intelligence literature, Angleton and I drifted into a discussion of literary interpretation. We expressed our mutual preference for the practitioners of the New Criticism that prevailed at Yale when Angleton was there in the Thirties to the theories of the so-called Yale critics who had come to rule the roost when I arrived there in the late Sixties. Angleton boasted to me that he had recruited some of the best minds of the New Critics and poets into the OSS, where their facility at teasing out seven types of ambiguity from a text served them well in interpretation of the ambiguities of intelligence data.”
[iv] T.S. Eliot, “Gerontion.”
[v] Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948), p. 52.
[vi] https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser
[vii] https://apnews.com/article/trump-macron-hot-mic-putin-russia-e483d2c38ae431f23e57bb6253a81244
[viii] Carl von Clausewitz trans. Michael Howard and Peter Paret, On War (Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984 ), p. 117.
[ix] Ibid.
[x] See, also, Article 5 of the Washington Treaty: “The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all….”
[xi] Translated as, “I am the state.”
[xii] Alexey Molyakov, Born 4 October 1939, Bunkovo, Tver Oblast, USSR. Service: KGB/FSB (1960-1999). Rank, Colonel General. Career Overview: Began service in KGB military counterintelligence (Special Department) in the early 1960s assigned to Soviet forces in the German Democratic Republic (DDR). Rose through the 3rd Chief Directorate of the KGB, which oversaw military counterintelligence, including operations concerning the Soviet Ministry of Defense and the GRU. 1984-1988: Head of the First Department of the 3rd Directorate – responsible for counterintelligence support to the Ministry of Defense and military intelligence structures. 1988: Appointed Chief of the Special Department (Military CI) for the Moscow Military District. Post-1991: Served as chief of the Military Counterintelligence Directorate of the Ministry of security of the Russian Federation, transitioning KGB functions into the new Russian state. Mid-1990s: Chief of the Counterintelligence Department of the FSB. 1997: Became head of the Directorate of Military Inspectors in the Presidential State Military Inspectorate. 1998: Appointed Deputy Director of the FSB and simultaneously Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Retired from active service in 1999. Awards: Order of the Red Banner, Order ‘For Military Merit,’ Order of friendship, multiple service medals. Notable points: Molyakov is one of the most senior figures in Soviet and later Russian military counterintelligence during the Cold War and the post-Soviet transition period. He oversaw liaison work between the KGB/FSB and the military, including counterespionage inside the armed forces, monitoring GRU operations. Please note Molykov’s physical resemblance to V.V. Putin, and the fact that their voices are alike. See the Russian documentary in which he is interviewed, https://youtu.be/Q3n4MpVk8LA?si+o9UhHtFxVjYtt6Un
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216 responses to “The Alaska Boogie”
The last call on Moore’s show yesterday questioned Russia’s ability to build up the military infrastructure in NW Russia. Good question. The book mentioned by Jeff “On War” may have some answers.
Clausewitz dismissed the idea of “fake” mobilization and feints. He said that this kind of maneuver is “dangerous.” Small feints, yes. Minor preparations, maybe. It is the expense, the administrative time and effort spent, which forces the strategist to follow through on his mobilizations. One does not bluff by mobilizing a region, a country, an alliance. One goes to war. One cannot do otherwise.
I took a language test and in there a French General was speaking on the radio about the Iraq War. He made an interesting hybrid-Clausewitz-Marx corrolary, ie that as much as war is an extension of politics , politics and winning the peace in Iraq is an extension of the war, and that US leaders are not good at making the war and the peace after two poles of the fabrication of a national identity.
And indeed, that idea of an “Iraqi opposition” was so stupid and wishful thinking. You have to first create a sort of movement in Iraq, a language of fighting a colonizing invading Soviet and French revolution styled ideological take over, create the Iraqi heros and soldiers, and portray US forces as Iraqi enlisted helpers, much the way jews somewhat did it with Israel.
We had the model, the Biblical model right there to not just make one Israel, but hundreds of real similar “deals” (I hate that barbarian shallow word) and transformations, but we did not. This was sabotage of our intelligence education, because it completely failed on creating hybrid identities forged in common battles and following logical reconstructions.
The left aptly saw in Israel and with jewish people a model where they would fail if we copied that model of nation building. It is curious to see, however, the initial intellectual manipulative emasculation by the Soviets (who themselves benefited from jewish technical tactical help but not as visionary as it could have been) dissuading Europeans and the US from copying that model via various methods, to now become outright consumed by it in antisemitism.
When leaders start saying that the building of Israel was a mistake, you start seeing seething hatred and jealousy, to the point that, instead of smartly hypocritically doing what Israel is doing while dissuading others and Israel from following the idea, they completely dismiss it and hate on it.
The hate on Zionism is the biggest doh moment out there. It is not necessarily a good perfectly honest model, but it might be the only solution model in terms of how to gather up a grest team to attract all kinds of elites, and in the process pull the rug from underneath eveyone. It is even so ridiculous these antisemitic reactions because of all people jews hate having to do the homework of having to honor their own God and cultural identity, let alone own nation, in the first place. They’d rather be sipping some coffee in Brazile or Greece…
Years ago (in a book that I lent out but never got back) I read a quote, by Freud no less, that at the heart of antisemitism lies a hatred of Christianity. By “Christianity” is meant the teachings of the Bible. not the many sects that call themselves “Christian” but have teachings that contradict the Bible. I don’t mean misunderstandings on peripheral items, rather those teachings that contradict central teachings of the Bible. Unfortunately, I don’t know of a single church that follows the Bible in all details, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone could point out where I am wrong on some points, so I will not engage in any theological polemics on this site.
Many Christians were included among those 12 million murdered by the Nazis.
The Bible has many different elements because the Old Testament uses different sources from different time periods, and there are difficulties of interpretation and translation. It is not an easy subject.
Jeff: if you mean that our knowledge of Biblical Hebrew language and the Old Testament are still incomplete, that is true. But in my private survey of professors supposedly teaching those, I have found what I consider a surprising lack of scholarship. How can one expect to learn both without reading the whole Old Testament completely through in Hebrew and Aramaic? Yet almost none with whom I have been in contact have done so. Not even once.
If you mean that 200+ year old theory popularized by Bart Ehrman and his ilk, a theory based historically on a belief of evolution and antisemitism, (I have documentation demonstrating that), one that has no historical evidence, how can that be used as evidence? Yet that theory has negatively influenced our knowledge of Biblical Hebrew language and Old Testament.
I know a guy who has read the Hebrew Old Testament completely through more than 20 times. Today, could he get a PhD in that field? No. His studies are outside the academic orthodoxy–his understanding of Biblical Hebrew grammar differs from the mainstream and by using normal linguistic tools to discover word meanings clears up many commonly mistranslated passages. 300 years ago such scholarship would have been honored, today professors scoff at it because it was done outside of academia.
Hebrew is over my head, lol. I cannot read it.
The Old Testament is poetic and the hebrew or ancient languages stating the verb at the start of a sentence give it better rythm than the orderly subject verb complement of english or german putting thr verb at the end.
This being said, they are indeed a tinkedered up cobbled together assembly of chosen myths and writings that is very complext to analyze. Crude Marxists like to look at this tinkering as not authentic and primitive (amusing to hear anti-colonialism Marxists so called having such level of hatred for the very diverse people they claim to be the cause of, namely the histories of the forgotten and poor people, but, whatever, acculturated American Indians will keep voting Marxist democrat all along) , other post-Marxist anthropologue give the due of tinkering and the complexity of making poetry with it a real art, however.
Genesis alone cannot be unserstood without reading for example Turner’s book on the fall of mankind as the fall of a once more Aboriginal like Algonkian Indians to their incorporative-domestic tension based tribal structure of hunters. In other words Marxism does not apply in places like aboriginal Australia but does with the Cree.
It is very complicated. Then you have structural psychoanalysts also of Marxist accademic tendencies comparing Genesis with the Egyptian myth of Nut and Geb, but these usually fail, unlike anthropologists, in figuring that both myths examplify the sort of hostile takeover of woman over man through conception, sexuality and association of friendship outside the realm of where she is most visibly interacting, ie in some dark or, alternatively, unreachable divinity based corners while man is kept on Earth working like Adam the fields.
A MGTOW text? lol
shimgimeltsouintsouin: how many times have you read the Old Testament completely through in Hebrew? Why shouldn’t we take your answer as indicating “zero”?
First of all, the vast majority of the Old Testament is prose, not poetry, even in Hebrew. How could you not have noticed that if you had done original research?
Secondly, except when a subject is indicated by a verbal form in its context, a verb usually is proceeded by its subject. Doesn’t your claim sound like listening to secondary sources instead of original research?
Much of the rest of your answer is the same sort of Kwatsch spouted by the likes of Bart Ehrman and his ilk. They have absolutely zero historical and documentary evidence to back up their claims. The history of the Fall is prose, not poetry. The claims that they are “tinkedered up cobbled together assembly of chosen myths and writings” do not fit the sober historical narrative that is the majority of the Old Testament.
By the way, how do you describe Daniel 9:26b – 27, that describes an overwhelming people, among whom is one destined to become a political leader, who took seven years to impose their rule over Judea, half way through those seven years causes sacrifices and offerings to cease, accompanied by winged idols, resulting in total destruction? How is that not a thumbnail description of the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt of 66 – 73 AD and only that event? Even critics admit that that book existed at least 150 BC, if not earlier? Is that a myth? Or a prophesy?
Fear not, by bringing to an Alaska these post Soviet nincompoops lust for, Trump just fed pearls to swines, and they will trample. Trump has completely fed the warmongering beast demon in Russia, just blew the flames. What sort of uninformed imbecile and entourage of his produces such apprentice sorcerer move. Absolute trash diplomacy in terms of lot and penalties redistribution.
Trump rhetorically sold out a NE haven for a faultering Russian NW facing the stern looks of Finns and Swedes. We are on our own as usual, only able to count on the communists own self frustrating auto-psychosis and internal civil war for implosion. Russia has not the IQ to maintain its own integrity, that much is clear, let alone capable of honoring anything diplomatic and remotely responsible on the world stage.
What next? Protecting Putin from an international warrant when Russia falls apart? Trump obviously wants to share the same jail cell just like these dumb Bronx commedians like Diaz glorifying their coke mother and playing cards in prison with mafia pals.
This is a valid point about America’s failure in Iraq. We supposed that Iraqis were interchangeable with Americans. We supposed they would prove to be middle Americans in their political preferences once we had liberated them from Saddam Hussein. But the majority were Shias with all that comes in that package. There is the tragic story of Steven Vincent, who wrote with deep truthfulness about the war in Iraq. He believed in the cause. He believed in bringing real democracy to Iraq. And he ended up getting killed there. Indeed, the America side was not serious. The American side was forced to make allies of people who were ideologically our enemies. A bureaucracy can do such stupid things. It can follow policies that contain internal “contradictions.” And good people get betrayed because of it. They are tortured and murdered. The facile academic elite of America’s military schools disgust me. There have been some good teachers there, who I know and respect; but in the main they are a dangerous subspecies of learned imbecile.
It takes a certain IQ and leadership to have peace. It is not something you can wish for. Trump just increased thr level of Russian cynicism with respect to peace, which means the dog, despite narcissistically conquering, is even more nervous and paranoiac as a result of lack of leadership.
I am always amazed at these obvious leftist trolls on the internet who profess the same deception. They will tell you war is avoidable and only something manufactured by military industries, which is not exactly what Eisenhower was saying in terms of criticizing the bureaucracy and cronyism going on in militaro industrial complex.
And yet same Marxists in closed chambers will tell you that power struggle and war is always going to be a thing, never ending. Same thing on economics, every day their one face says money and property is root of all evil, and yet in closed personal meetings they will tell you that the Siberian Tiger kills everything in a 2 miles radius before eating the game it just took so that it makes sure it can eat in peace with no prdator around. It is a funny thing because cats and bears are specifically territorial owning animals and not management animals that Marx exhorted with his so called joke of scientific socialism superior to other socialisms.
There is nothing more corrupt and speculative than a Marxist, and I can see how Trump Casino seems to admire that. It is part of this Bronx-Atlantic City “culture” of narcissism. Disgusting. The Soviets really easily baited this fool, did not even need to blackmail him, he has stars in his eyes that I have seen before there, full of hidden resentment when industry demands it be served by speculation instead of serving their speculation.
They are all the same, except they are utterly naive to think it will be a comfy comfortable casino cruise ride for a schizophrenic dumbed down retiree dealing with black magic at a child toy level.
It takes IQ to respect peace, even more to create peace. Trump is a real dupe. Sad to say, but Ukraine is light years of the US, and I will not be surprised to see if antisemitism rises soon in the US. These imbecile child men always end up never appreciating or taking stock of these higher things. Because, let us face it, all Israel is happens to be a recall of all the world’s jewish elite into Israel and dropping these fools abroad who do not apreciate it.
Those who say antiZionism is not antisemitism are the first culprits. Because antiZionism is antiSemitism to the gnashing of teeth power 10. Making a team and attracting the best and brightest is not building a NFL team buying players like at a Yuan Chinese dog, bat and pangolin diversity food market.
What in the heck is Trump smoking. Back when he ironically was a democrat, he was better, capable of recognizing hard working jewish managers of his. Now he is throwing it all away for a blood thirsty Russian Orc Okey on Ice team. It is an insult to Algonkian Indians and their game even.
With idiot NEP speculators like these, who needs communist conspiring manifestos?
Indeed.
It’s not IQ, but wisdom that’s needed. Some of the most foolish things I have read and heard were from people with high IQs, the higher the IQ, the more likely to hear foolishness.
The best place to learn wisdom is the Bible.
Great article, Jeff. The spectacle in Alaska was nauseating. Trump has no idea who he’s dealing with; neither does Rubio or Witikoff. If it had been anyone other than Putin, I would have thought “Good to see you alive” might have been his attempt to say, “Good to see you in real life— in person.” But I’m sure Putin had rehearsed it to the letter and knew just how it would be received.
What are your thoughts on the report that the US military is preparing to attack the cartels across the border? Will Mexico be the next to mobilize? Also, any thoughts on Maduro’s mobilization of 4.5 million men?
What is unfolding in Latin America is like a trap, an ambush. America declares that the drug cartels are “terrorist organizations.” Yet, I suspect we have fallen for some kind of provocation. We mobilize a small task force to intercept the illicit cargo submarines of the cartels and raid their nests. Brazil’s CNN says this task force for is too large for fighting cartels. This is obviously a threat to Latin America. Trump is beginning to “talk softly and carry a big stick” in the style of Teddy Roosevelt. What is the best response? Maduro shows the way and uses it as an excuse to mobilize a vast army in Venezuela. The attack on the drug cartels becomes a pretext for mobilizing 4.5 million troops. Venezuela now has twice as many people under arms as the United States. Do we see how this works? From provocation to full war mobilization. And here we are, two weeks from Russia’s Zapad 2025 exercises. Will Mexico and Cuba follow suit? I don’t know where this goes. Except, I have learned this morning that Poland is quietly mobilizing. War may break out in Europe between NATO and Russia. If that happens it will become a world war. The entire communist bloc will mobilize. It’s funny how Venezuela is ahead of the curve.
If I may, on the subject of Poland: you no doubt heard of the drone Russia flew deep into Polish territory. What I can’t understand is why Russia continues to pick a fight with Poland, et al, when it has its hands full with Ukraine. I understand NATO as a whole doesn’t have as formidable a fighting force as Ukraine (arguably), but I don’t understand Russia’s thinking. I’m obviously no expert on Russia, though. I also know they supposedly have quite a cache of troops in the east, but it just doesn’t make sense to me strategically.
I’ve wondered if it’s because of Russia’s impending demographic collapse. Maybe they think it’s now or never regardless of what troop numbers are?
Russia has the largest population in Europe. A demographic collapse is relative. All of Europe is suffering a “demographic” collapse. China has the greatest demographic collapse of all. But China can still mobilize millions and millions more than we can. Everything here is relative. I do not understand why this demographic collapse matters because all things being equal, Russia has more fighting age men than any other country in Europe. And their society is organized so that a higher proportion of the population can be mobilized. The numbers are clear. Russia can mobilize a lot of people. And they can arm them faster than NATO can arm their population. This is Russia’s immediate advantage. Then you add nuclear weapons onto that.
As I tried saying earlier but lost the text, imagine that, Make Cartels Great Again in the eyes of proud nationalist Mexicans, a gift to Krutchev’s bandtry language operation.
One thing Marxists and communists have learned out East, which our own have not by the way (indicating that a church has different gods for different people), is to sometime take a backseat in ideological leadership. Their mistake with Hitler was that they took too much of a back seat and even followed him eagerly until he flipped. With Islamists they play similar but more tailored games. With drugs, the gods there have a life of their own to not contradict.
Out West we simply love WHO and have been so acculturated on the left, the Covid virus itseld is probably what put Trump in power.
Jeff, any thoughts on Poland being absent from Monday’s White House gathering? It was discussed here: https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/58650
I do not know the specifics and would need some Polish inputs to analyze. Prime Minister Tusk is not a person I trust, but he must contend with a country that is very anti-Russian. If Poland has decided to mobilize they might as well stay out of any peace talks. They may not believe peace is possible.
PS – I just learned that Russia has committed an act of war against Poland which explains their “quiet” mobilization. Russia send a drone into Poland to explode their largest ammunition depot. The drone struck a power line and crashed when it was deep into Poland. From the drone’s launch point in Belarus we can draw an almost straight line to the ammunition depot. Russia has now committed an act of war against a NATO country.
Yes, many acts of war if you include all their sabotage operations. I read yesterday that Lukashenko just gave a television address telling Belarusians to prepare for war. Belarus is also making plans for martial law and rapid, full-scale mobilization, according to the article:
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/20/putin-oreshnik-missiles-belarus-war-warning/
Yes, it appears that Belarus is mobilizing. I am not sure I believe the numbers they are claiming, which is more than doubling their army size. But I have heard such reports.
Before the summit, Trump openly admitted he takes advice on what’s going on in Eastern Europe from Viktor Orban of all people “because he’s close there”, which made me feel naive. I thought he was a dumb, but not to this level, where he admits this sheer stupidity in public. He can’t see what’s an inch in front of his nose, but it explains a lot about his behavior regarding Ukraine and comments that are at odds with reality, Orban’s FSB handlers must have been feeding him all the lines to play Trump like a violin. It’s also strange how Trump gives those Putin lackeys a pass, Orban has called him weak before, and while Trump praises Lukashenko as a smart guy, the latter was saying during an interview that Trump is a buffoon. It’s really uncharacteristic of the POTUS to let those things slide given how petty he is, how everything is personal to him.
One thing that is noticeable in many pictures if how uncomfortable Trump looks next to Putin, from Helsinki and Alaska in particular. Sometimes he looks slouched, his face says it all, you don’t have to be a body language expert to notice his body is screaming “I want to get out of here ASAP”. Putin often has a smile from ear to ear when he’s around Trump. It’s very telling.
Yes. Trump is so ignorant he does not realize that his ignorance is painfully obvious to anyone who is informed.
“Before the summit, Trump openly admitted he takes advice on what’s going on in Eastern Europe from Viktor Orban of all people “because he’s close there” […] but it explains a lot about his behavior regarding Ukraine and comments that are at odds with reality, Orban’s FSB handlers must have been feeding him all the lines to play Trump like a violin.”
Oh, it definitely does explain a lot. The level of Kremlin propaganda talking points laundered through Orban and his minions is unreal. But once again, it honestly does explain so much of the anti-Ukrainian sentiment and anti-anti-Putinism that we see that gets filtered down to stupid and/or demoralized right-wingers. Rod Dreher is a good example of this, whether he knows it or not. Or internationally, check out The European Conservative sometime. A lot of their (especially Hungarian) writers barely even try to hide it!
Unfortunately, we now have to regard anything or anyone coming out of Budapest tailored to the likes of us with at least some level of suspicion, and this extends to individuals as well. Recall how the devil presents himself: As an angel of light. Something we see with the Kremlin’s “traditional values” propaganda.
Jeff, I don’t know if this might be helpful but I asked ChatGPT to search Russian language sites for more info on Alexey Alexeevich Molyakov and translate it to English:
Q: “Is there a colonel general in Russia by the name Alexey Alexeevich Molyakov? Can you search in Russian and translate to English?”
Answer:
“Yes — there is a Russian Colonel General (генерал-полковник) named Alexey Alexeevich Molyakov (Алексей Алексеевич Моляков).
“Here’s what I found in Russian-language sources:
📌 Biography and Rank
According to Wikipedia, Alexey Alexeevich Molyakov, born on October 4, 1939, is a veteran of Soviet and Russian security services and holds the military rank of Colonel General (ru.wikipedia.org).
A detailed biography on the site “shieldandsword.mozohin.ru” also confirms that he was promoted to Colonel General in 1995 (source).
✅ Confirmation from Other Sources
The RuWiki encyclopedia also lists Alexey A. Molyakov as a security service figure and Colonel General (ru.ruwiki.ru, ru.wikipedia.org).
Another source (a list of Soviet and Russian colonel generals) mentions him as the Head of the Counterintelligence Directorate of the FSB of Russia, promoted to the rank in 1995 (24wiki.ru).
An additional article confirms that he indeed holds the rank of Colonel General and later became president of the All-Russian National Military Fund after retirement (fakeoff.org).
🔍 Summary
Yes, Alexey Alexeevich Molyakov (born October 4, 1939) is a real individual who held the rank of Colonel General in Russia, particularly within the context of the state security and FSB services.
Would you like more information about his career, awards, or activities after retirement?
You said:
Yes, all please
ChatGPT said:
Вот подробный перевод и структурированный обзор биографии, военной карьеры, наград и постслужебной деятельности Алексея Алексеевича Молякова на английском:
Biography & Career of Colonel General Alexey Alexeevich Molyakov
Early Life & Education
Born: October 4, 1939, in the village of Bun’kovo, Krasnokholmsky District, then Kalinin Region (now Tver Oblast), USSR.
Krotov.info
Gufo.me
RuWiki
Graduated from Technical School No. 3 in Rybinsk, and worked as a mechanic-electrician at a construction site in Krasny Kholm.
Krotov.info
RuWiki
Served in the Soviet Army (1958–1960) in anti-aircraft units.
RuWiki
Krotov.info
Enrolled in the Higher School of the KGB in 1962 after completing translator courses; graduated in 1970.
RuWiki
Shield and Sword
Gufo.me
Service in the KGB and FSB
1962–1964: Served as translator and operative officer in the Special Department of the KGB within the 94th Motorized Rifle Division, stationed in the GDR.
RuWiki
Shield and Sword
1968–1984: Progressed through various roles in the 3rd (later 3rd Main) Directorate of the KGB—serving from operative officer to department head.
Shield and Sword
iTexts
December 1988–1991: Headed the Special Department (OO) of the KGB for the Moscow Military District.
Shield and Sword
RuWiki
1992–1998: Appointed Head of Military Counterintelligence Directorate within the Ministry of Security and, following institutional transformations, within the FSK and later the FSB.
RuWiki
Shield and Sword
Gufo.me
October 31, 1997: Became Head of the Military Inspection Directorate under the Presidential Armed Forces Inspection.
RuWiki
Shield and Sword
May 1998–April 1999: Served as Deputy Director of the FSB and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Gufo.me
RuWiki
Promoted to Colonel General: in 1995.
Shield and Sword
iTexts
RuWiki
Post-Service & Charitable Work
September 1999 onward: Became President (Chairman of the Board) of the All‑Russian National Military Fund, a charitable foundation supporting servicemen, veterans, their families, including aid for wounded personnel, orphans, and participants in counter-terror operations in North Caucasus and beyond.
Krotov.info
Selskaya Nov
RuWiki
Actively involved in the Public Council at the FSB, advocating improved social protection for FSB staff, veterans, and their families, patriotic education, and commemoration of special service history and its heroes.
Selskaya Nov
Awards
He received numerous honors, including:
Order of the Red Banner
Order “For Military Merit”
Order of Friendship
Various medals and a mark of distinction “For Service in Counterintelligence”
Shield and Sword
Selskaya Nov
RuWiki
Summary Timeline
Period Position / Activity
Pre-1960s Technical school, Soviet Army service
1962–1970 KGB translator training and graduation
1970–1988 Various roles in 3rd Directorate of KGB
1988–1991 Head of Special Department, Moscow Military District
1992–1998 Head of Military Counterintelligence in FSB
1995 Promoted to Colonel General
1997 Head of Military Inspectors Directorate of Presidential Military Inspection
1998–1999 Deputy Director of FSB & Deputy Secretary of Security Council
From 1999 President of National Military Fund; Member of FSB Public Council
Would you like further insights—perhaps on notable operations he oversaw, publications, or his impact on Russia’s security services in more recent years? Let me know!
You said:
Yes, everything you can find
ChatGPT said:
Here’s everything I could find about Alexey Alexeevich Molyakov, Colonel General and veteran of the KGB–FSB services, translated into English and supported by verified Russian-language sources:
Biography & Career Summary
Early Life & Education
Born on October 4, 1939, in the village of Bunkovo, Krasnokholmsky District, Kalinin Region (now Tver Oblast), USSR.
Wikipedia
Selskaya Nov
Attended Technical School No. 3 in Rybinsk and worked as a mechanic-electrician at a construction site in Krasny Kholm.
Wikipedia
Shield and Sword
Served in the Soviet Army from 1958 to 1960 in anti-aircraft defense units.
Wikipedia
Shield and Sword
Joined the KGB in September 1960, completing translator courses at the KGB Higher School, then later graduating from that school in 1970.
Wikipedia
Selskaya Nov
Shield and Sword
KGB & Counterintelligence Service
Served as a translator and operative in the Special Department of the KGB assigned to the 94th Motor Rifle Division in East Germany (GDR).
Wikipedia
Shield and Sword
From 1970, held progressing posts in the 3rd (later 3rd Main) Directorate of the KGB, up to department head by 1984, focusing on counterintelligence support to the Ministry of Defense and GRU.
Wikipedia
Shield and Sword
In December 1988, was appointed head of the Special Department of the KGB for the Moscow Military District, continuing that role until 1991.
Wikipedia
Shield and Sword
After the Soviet Union’s collapse, became head of military counterintelligence, first under the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation and later at the FSB.
Wikipedia
Shield and Sword
Gufo.me
On October 31, 1997, was appointed head of the Military Inspectors Directorate of the Presidential Inspection.
Wikipedia
Shield and Sword
From May 1998 to April 1999, served as Deputy Director of the FSB and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia.
Wikipedia
Gufo.me
Promoted to Colonel General in 1995.
Shield and Sword
Gufo.me
Wikipedia
Post-Service & Philanthropy
Since September 1999, has served as President (Chairman of the Board) of the National Military Fund, a charitable foundation providing assistance to servicemen, veterans, families of fallen soldiers, and orphans, especially in the North Caucasus and broader post-conflict zones.
Selskaya Nov
Wikipedia
Member of the Public Council at the FSB, advocating for social protection of FSB personnel and veterans, patriotic education, and commemoration of special services history.
Selskaya Nov
Awards & Distinctions
Molyakov received several high-level honors:
Order of the Red Banner
Order “For Military Merit”
Order of Friendship
Badge “For Service in Counterintelligence”, plus various service medals.
Shield and Sword
Selskaya Nov
Wikipedia
Personal Life
Described as a jurist-legal scholar, married with two sons.
Selskaya Nov
Consolidated Timeline
Period Position / Role
1958–1960 Soviet Army service in anti-aircraft units
1960–1970 Translator training and KGB Higher School graduate
1970–1984 Various leadership roles in KGB’s 3rd Directorate
Dec 1988–1991 Head of Special Department, Moscow Military District (KGB)
1992–1997 Head of Military Counterintelligence (Ministry of Security → FSB)
1995 Promoted to Colonel General
Oct 31, 1997 Head of Military Inspectors Directorate, Presidential Military Inspection
May 1998–Apr 1999 Deputy Director of FSB & Deputy Secretary, Security Council of Russia
Sep 1999 – onward President of National Military Fund; member of FSB Public Council
Very nice use of ChatGTP. A few more details than in my footnote. Thanks.
You’re welcome. AI may prove to be as important an invention as the internet itself. It’s stunning what you can find out by asking the right questions.
Yes. It is very useful in doing research. I did not realize it’s translation capabilities.
Yes. There are no longer any language barriers online. About 50% of the internet is written in English, so this doubles the size of what can be searched.
BTW, I was using the free version, but the paid versions are even better.
Very tempting. But I know that most AI is tweaked to the left.
True, but you can get around it by asking questions such as, “What evidence do conspiracy theorists cite in support of x?” Or, “Suppose that x is true, as conspiracy theorists claim. What would we expect to see…?” For now, at least, these types of queries are allowed and the answers are not censored.
Nice to know
Yes, chat gpt has to be taken as a construction tool, sort of like in old time building a tapestry story, except there it is a Matrix of 1s and 0s. Chat gpt is taking the guilt of turning a significant symbol into its signified. It is a spiritual scapegoat, a wretched on which sins of judging can be placed. This is the only way to not be tricked by it, because it can play good cop with you and use it against you if you take it too much to heart. Let it fail for you.
It will be interesting to see the Marxist dialectics (ie duplicity but also awareness of metalanguages) of manager vs owners of information play out on that platform as a sort of extension or manifestation of a global internet identity forming.
AI is not self-aware, but is simply an advanced computer code designed by programmers to search the internet and spit out data in response to queries, similar to (but much more advanced than) a search engine such as Google. It is not demonic, nor is it inherently evil. Could demons potentially use it to fool people? Yes— just as they can use Google, the internet, electricity— any invention— to confuse. To attribute such power to inanimate computer code is to fundamentally misunderstand what it is and how it works.
A slight correction: Marshall McLuhan wrote “The Medium is the Massage”. As a dyslexic, I am sensitive to misspellings, but this is not one. His particular emphasis was on how electronic media, especially TV, massages our understanding of the world into mush.
https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Massage-Marshall-McLuhan/dp/1584230703/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1J0QZLQCC44XW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8MbkJd8Hingma-PxfFRG2_92KiEfKd1uSVq1D459MV4B-nv6Eb1drA57YplFWlFZnE960-VGmAeRXmJQv4zLpc5IGaHAiWKgRj-SyS7xe79qSYjrPX4zFw6_TXPPAsP0GEQLdmHGQ0kBTpdLtSc4N8bcEkCApvuCsiFbX19e5Lvs5W1m5-QHAP7CxkrUCPWms4N_uiv278D-G_UoesR9AaBbZ1-yM4q2tAJ-H75wMmU.XY86-9Az55vlJZYBqI9bCDg8fAaSPhkPgSFswXlmASk&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+medium+is+the+massage&qid=1755809161&sprefix=the+mediu%2Caps%2C1039&sr=8-1
“Medium is the Massage” was a typesetting mistake on the book. But McLuhan loved it and kept it. His concept was, “The Medium is the Message.” So the two things go together.
According that Son of Gun Dr. Eric McLuhan, Marshall’’s eldest son:
“Why is the title of the book “The medium is the massage” and not “The medium is the message”?
Actually, the title was a mistake. When the book came back from the typesetter’s, it had on the cover “Massage” as it still does. The title was supposed to have read “The Medium is the Message” but the typesetter had made an error. When Marshall saw the typo he exclaimed, “Leave it alone! It’s great, and right on target!”
Now there are four possible readings for the last word of the title, all of them accurate: “Message” and “Mess Age,” “Massage” and “Mass Age.”
On media and technologies as Extensions of Man (the subtitle of Understanding Media)
It was R. W. Emerson who wrote in 1870 that:
The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent-office, where are the models from which every hint was taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses
On “The Medium is the Message”
Each medium, independent of the content it mediates, has its own intrinsic effects which are its unique message.
The message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. The railway did not introduce movement or transportation or wheel or road into human society, but it accelerated and enlarged the scale of previous human functions, creating totally new kinds of cities and new kinds of work and leisure. This happened whether the railway functioned in a tropical or northern environment, and is quite independent of the freight or content of the railway medium. (Understanding Media, NY, 1964, p. 8)
What McLuhan writes about the railroad applies with equal validity to the media of print, television, computers and now the internet. “The medium is the message” because it is the “medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action.” (Understanding Media, NY, 1964, p. 9)”
https://marshallmcluhan.com/common-questions/
Marshal McLuhan Quotations:
https://marshallmcluhan.com/mcluhanisms/
This is wonderful. Thank you.
I bought and read the book many years ago. At the time I was not impressed. I’ve since lost the book.
At the time, I recognized that there are two types of people–inner directed and those influenced by external events.
The former doesn’t change his understanding based on the medium presented to him. His impression doesn’t change based on how information is presented to him. Titles don’t impress him. He evaluates all data according to fixed standards. I’m one of those inner directed people.
But apparently there are many people who don’t have a fixed anchor in their lives. They are tossed to and fro by whatever happens. Approval on Facebook lifts them up. They look outside of themselves for status. I don’t have their experiences; therefore, the book didn’t speak to me.
To give an example relevant to this blog–when the so-called “fall of the Soviet Union” was announced, my first reaction was that something doesn’t smell right here. Since then I saw enough clues, far from a complete picture (far less than what Jeff knew) that told me that the communists were still in control. I was willing to go out on a limb to say that the communists were still in control, even in the face of almost everyone else trying to convince me that the Soviet Union had fallen. Inner directed.
The source told us some time ago that during the research about the so called “Eastern European anti-communist revolutions” the source was visiting one of these countries and learned from the local source about a communist fabricated court case that was designed to lure people to support that person that they made look like a victim of political persecution, and so when the source showed up at the court with the photo camera, the local source was pointing at various characters standing there and was explaining, due to the knowledge about these characters, that they were part of the communist run secret services, and so the source began to use the camera at will, as many snap shots as possible. They were not happy about it at all.
It was all so profound and so visibly orchestrated, even the judge just ordered the “victim” back into jail and to stay there another month and another hearing scheduled where nothing would be resolved…again.
They were playing these games to collect political data and uncover more anti-communist opponents, so that when the time comes they would be dealt with, including murder. This is early 2000s speaking, over 20 years ago.
When I learned that the meeting was to be held in Alaska, my heart sank. I saw a billboard in Russia that stated that “Alaska is ours” in Russian. I could see Putin seeing the visit being in Alaska at least symbolically being the first step in taking Alaska back. True, that was just a gut feeling…
On another issue, I’ve noticed that Ukrainian sources are announcing that they have the Russian troops retreating. That brings up two questions:
1) is this a Sun Tzu maneuver to appear weak while preparing for a hammer blow? This would apply not only to Ukraine, but all of NATO?
2) is this a result of sending the main forces elsewhere in preparation for the main strike on NATO? Already a few months ago satellite photos showed a massive concentration of supplies just east of NATO countries ready to roll the moment the tanks go forward.
Or is there a third option that I don’t see?
Great questions. Jeff, I’ve been wondering too whether you expect to see a ceasefire of some sort in Ukraine so the Russians can shuffle troops and materiel around to the Suwalki Gap or wherever as needed. Or do you think the fighting in Ukraine will just continue right through Zapad 2025? The Russians have so much on the border already…
I doubt there will be a ceasefire.
Do you believe the Russians are already moving some of their forces away from the frontlines in Ukraine, in preparation for Zapad 2025? I read on ISW that “Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Novopavlivka. Russian forces recently advanced near Chasiv Yar,” which would explain why there are reports of both sides advancing last week.
I wish I better understood the current geography of the Pripet Marsh. I would think the Russians capable of moving their forces suddenly to Ukraine’s left flank, but it is summer and that entire area is a swamp. Only frozen over in severe cold. The Russian buildup, as all Russian moves, is an application of pressure. This has its psychological effects on Europe. Meanwhile, there is the diplomatic effect. Russia avoids American sanctions once again. Stable ruble. Stable environment for mobilization. Putin appears successful to his own people. We have not long to wait now.
It looks, like Russia sends mainly sick, wounded, unintelligent people to attack on Ukrainian fronts, so that Ukraine would use up it’s weapons by killing these not very trained people in meat grinders. But the better trained ones would be sent to the NATO borders. So there is no need to withdraw anyone from Ukraine front. I have no proof, but heard that Russia sends forward people in casts or without limbs. It is a utilisation of unwanted material for them.
How dreadful. I was just reading about their terrible mistreatment of the 1.6 million kidnapped Ukrainian children. I hope they’re not sending any of the older children to the frontlines. It’s about the worst thing I can possibly think of them doing, and their track record has always been to exceed my expectations of their depravity.
They are forcing young Ukrainians into uniform in Russia.
Nothing the Russians do surprises me anymore. Continued prayers for the Ukrainian children & their families 🙏
I think this is right. They want all the less self-reliant members of society eliminated. You could say they are culling their herd.
That’s what I’ve been thinking too.
The number of kidnapped children is in tens of thousands, not in millions. I did hear that the older ones are sent to the front line. It is sick. The western mind can’t comprehend the level of depravity and moral decay of these monsters.
I hope you’re right that the number is lower. This is the article where I saw the 1.6 million figure:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2099143/stolen-children-putins-war-machine
Jeff and his cohosts discussing Azov reminded me of one time where I got so sick of the “muh Azov” talking point from stupid and/or demoralized right-wingers that I actually took everything the “Russian Federation” had done since the early 90s up to the present to emulate the National Socialists from primary sources and put it into a document online and shared it whenever said talking point came up. Especially when the information about the activities of Maria “Lebensborn” Lvova-Belova came out. And trust me when I say that it was a LONG list, starting when Yeltsin assured the West (before murdering tens of thousands of Chechens) that he was “no Hindenburg.”
I kept updating and sharing it until I got burnt out and realized I couldn’t compete with the likes of demoralization merchants like *spits* Tucker Carlson or Alex Jones as far as sheer output went.
Did you know the English translation of Zhrinovsky’s memoir is literally called “My Struggle?” And the fact that basically everything the regime does is controlled by the communist secret services… I can’t say WHY they were and are doing it exactly, but they know EXACTLY what they were and are doing. Zhirinovsky just obviously got demoted at some point during the 90s and the rest, as we know, is history.
By making Zhirinovsky the head of the Liberal Democratic Party, and having him act like a Nazi, they were adhering to the communist claim that liberals are fascists — which is a Soviet inside joke.
As Nikita Kruschev might say :”I knew Dick Nixon; President Trump…YOU are No Dick Nixon!”
https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/58711
Here are Konstantin’s random thoughts on the Alaska Summit from a Russian propaganda Refusenik point of view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHcGK3kv-Hg
In the Land of The Blind; …The 5 EYED Man is NO LONGER KING.
Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, reportedly has barred America’s closest intelligence allies from accessing information about ongoing Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations.
According to CBS News, a classified memo signed by Gabbard on July 20 directed US intelligence agencies to designate all analysis and reporting on the volatile talks as “NOFORN” – meaning no foreign dissemination.
That order effectively cut off the so-called Five Eyes alliance – the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – from intelligence they have long relied on to coordinate with Washington.
” Ezra Cohen, a former Pentagon intelligence chief, told CBS News that NOFORN restrictions are routine across the alliance:”
“There is a lot of information we do not share even with our Five Eyes partners, and it works in the reverse… Our interests are not always aligned.”
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/58733
Jason Smart reveals Vladimir Putin’s tactics for manipulating high level U.S. government officials:
https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/58149
When I look at history, I see that Hitler used the same tactics. An example is that the state church was politically very powerful when Hitler, an anti-Christian Marxist, came to power. Hitler hid his Marxism, pulled out his “family Bible” and claimed to be a Christian. At the same time he worked to take over the state church from the inside by putting his people in charge, made easier by the fact that the leadership of the state church already over a century earlier had adopted anti-Christian teachings. The small, non-state churches were persecuted.
Putin talked of a “trade” with Trump, manipulating the businessman in Trump. Did he mean a true trade of Russian lands for the Ukrainian lands he had stolen? How about ceding Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Lipetsk for eastern Ukraine and Crimea? Nah, not even mentioned.
How long will it be before Trump realizes that he had been hoodwinked?
A final point, Zelenskii is not a dictator like Putin. He can’t make such agreements on his own, rather he must work through the Ukrainian government.
Hitler was a National Socialist, not a Marxist.
But you admit, they were socialists.
Years ago, pre-internet, I read an interview with a woman who had worked in the Nazi headquarters in Berlin. She claimed that the Nazi top leaders considered themselves Marxists. That Hitler was the dictatorship of the proletariat. That they had come to power more along the lines of the Cloward-Pivan than the Leninist model. They didn’t understand why American workers didn’t rise up to overthrow capitalism in America. Others in Europe recognized the Nazis as socialists. There were more details, but that was so many years ago I don’t remember them all.
Wallbuilders has an article online that shows that the Nazis were socialists along the line of Marxism. https://wallbuilders.com/resource/the-nazis-really-were-socialists/
The country that today is most similar to the Nazis is the CCP, even to the calling for Lebensraum for the master race (Chinese).
Trump might know more than he let’s know. Some lip readers said that it was Putin’s suggestion to get a 10 minute ride from the airfield with Trump in his car. Some suggest that Trump was shown Epstein photo’s there. Felshtinskiy is sure that Trump was presented at some point with a plan of attack on Europe and promised not to intervene.
Do you have a link to where Felshtinsky said this?
Laura links a very good article from Kasparov site. My source is this youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWwDd7brGs4
The guy participating in discussion is very incredulous of why Russia would attack the West now, before finishing the war in Ukraine. Felshtinskiy gives him many good arguments. One of the best ones is that attacking West IS the way to win in Ukraine.
If you don’t speak Russian you could get a text for this video and translate it in Chat GPT. GPT is good, because it tells you who is speaking when. I am doing it now and will try to make a link to google doc.
Here is an interesting interview with Felshtinsky from July. As you say, he’s very certain that Trump is a Russian agent, whether he (Trump) realizes it or not. The new American foreign policy trajectory, which seamlessly complements Russian goals, is undeniable.
He suggests that Ukraine might want to launch a pre-emptive strike on Russian troops in Belarus rather than wait for them to re-invade in September. Interesting. He also says that the only way to get Putin to stop the war is to make the citizens of Moscow (the only Russian city that matters) feel the effects of the war.
https://kasparov.ru/material.php?id=686E3AD1A68A2
We know that as early as 2000, Trump announced that he was planning to run for the US presidency and that since at least 2007, he had been receiving hundreds of millions of Russian money in various ways into his system. … But here it is very important to understand the following: for Putin, a KGB officer and former director of the FSB, a businessman or politician who is running for president and takes Russian money is a Russian agent. … Perhaps Trump considered himself not an agent of Putin, but a good businessman who gained access to large Russian funds, and a cunning politician who secured Russia’s help in the 2016 elections, which ended in Trump’s victory.
…Trump’s demands regarding Ukraine almost completely coincided with Putin’s own demands. And it was no coincidence: Trump’s “peace plan” completely coincided with “Putin’s own peace plan”, published in June 2024.
…For Putin, Trump was an icebreaker that would enable him to seize Ukraine and then break into Europe. For Trump, Putin became an icebreaker that would allow him to weaken the global democratic front (in the US, Canada and Europe) and through this realize the slogan “Make America Great Again”.
A potential war in Europe was also of interest to Trump because it created the preconditions for a third presidential term for Trump. The precedent set by Roosevelt during World War II was very important for Trump in this sense: during the war, Roosevelt remained for a third term, while Churchill and Zelensky did not hold elections.
An unprecedented crisis….
Apparently Monday’s White House meeting involved another diplomatic insult from Vance to Zelensky……. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/vance-zelensky-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.XXYF.WrWHeYL5UDxq&smid=url-share
for some reason the link I added did not post…it is to a NY Times article stating that Vance told Zelensky”to behave” before the get together.
I would have answered “behave to whom? To Putin? Or to Trump?”
This kind of comment and Trump’s dance give an air of America the banana republic more than ever. Trump’s choice of trash eastern European women to boot… good grief.
Talks about closing borders there but opens Alaska borders and dances there with the hater of the world named Putin. What kind of “elites” are we bringing in there? Trump is letting in gopniks convicts invade Ukraine like ants, all these losers Russia is letting killed , he sends over, including himself Putin!
Pattern people, pattern or language matters more than the person potentially in contradiction of the pattern with Marxists! They will send their own most trashiest self to preserve their home, and you helpjng them is seen as surrendering and being unreliable banana type.
Yes. I was able to see the article. Maybe because I am registered with the NY Times.
Thanks for posting this story. This is absolutely outrageous for the vice president of the United States to be behaving this way. I’m glad the NYT is covering it.
Zelenskyy uses his skills as a comedian, rising above the situation. When dealing with difficult personalities, it is always wise to make a joke and remain on good terms.
Hi Jeff
Once again I would like to say that your Jeff, Jonny and Lee show was excellent, yesterday. I can’t find this terrifying information anywhere else. Also, I am so glad that you speak up about Trump on his program. Thank you for all of your hard work.
@CMA was this new show from yesterday posted anywhere? I’ve checked YouTube, Rumble etc and am not seeing it. Lee’s got so many channels going that I can’t keep track lol
@K I know what you mean. It’s like a wild goose chase trying to find their show every week. Lol
https://rumble.com/v6xw8pc-live-with-jeff-johnny-and-lee.html
Thank you @CMA!
We do at least one show a week. I also find it hard to find and post sometimes.
Jeff, at least you can talk to Lee directly. Why is he hiding these videos? They are increasingly hard to find. I can access this one from the link, but not when I go straight to the channel.
I just realised that it is posted on a new channel. Lol.
How unexpected.
I must ask them for the links and post them here. I will try to do that.
Hi Jeff, I have 3 comments and a question.
1.
I listened to Bill O’Reilly about the “Alaska Boogie.” Keep in mind, O’Reilly knows Trump. They talk a lot. He reported that after their meeting, Trump was angry…he knows Putin is being disingenuous. O’Reilly also said that in his opinion, Trump has been way too soft on Putin. I am certain he has said this to Trump. So, Trump knows he is being played, and he doesn’t like it at all. I think this needs to be considered.
2. When Japan invaded China long ago, we placed severe economic sanctions on Japan, including cutting off their oil. Our military saw this as a signal that war with Japan was imminent. There are many other examples where war follows economic sanctions.
It is likely that Trump understands this. Is that why he hesitates?
3. One last comment. On Google Earth, my husband located Russian supersonic bombers in the airport, not too far north of where the earthquake and tsunami hit the Russian submarine base. That would be another good target for a drone operation.
Question…so, given the situation as you see it, what would you advise Trump if you could?
Embargoing 99 percent of Japan’s oil in 1914 is not the same thing as limiting Russia’s access to money and technology. Russia is self-sufficient in everything it needs to defend itself and survive. It is a nuclear power with more weapons than we have, and plenty of oil. With Japan, the embargo of oil threatened the country’s existence. The Japanese navy would not have been able to function. It’s industries would have collapsed. Sanctions proposed on Russia cannot have that kind of effect and would not threaten Russia’s existence. It would merely make it harder for Russia to kill people in Ukraine.
What if those sanctions were applied to banks that dried up Russian access? Didn’t Reagan do something like that?
Yes.
So what would be your best advice to President Trump?
I would advise President Trump to place sanctions on Russia and give more help to Ukraine. He should raise tariffs on China gradually and lower tariffs on Canada and Australia as well as Europe, depending on their solidarity with us vs. China/Russia.
What do you think Trump should do with regard to India?
Get India out of BRICS.
I like your advice. I saw a story today that Trump is getting ready to place stiff economic sanctions against Russia. Here is a picture President Trump posted on Truth Social. https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/067/056/810/658/825/original/23231b3aff353a10.jpg
I will believe it when he follows through. So far he has done nothing, nothing, and nothing. Very disappointing.
Interesting. Trump and Bill O’Reilly talk a lot, and yet none of what Bill has been saying so far has rubbed off on Trump. I wonder if Trump is really being truthful with Bill. It’s more likely that he’s stringing him along to keep the pro-Ukraine conservatives on board for as long as possible.
From what I know about Bill, he is pretty hard to fool, but it is not impossible. He was slow to catch on to the dangers of the Covid shot, for example.
But he has known Trump for 30 years. I always say people believe what they want to believe.
This a thought.
By the way, Jeff, what a poetic and metaphorical essay! My first thought on Putin’s greeting, “Glad to see you alive,” was referring to the failed assassination attempts. I hear Putin lives in fear of assassination, too.
Leaders must always be careful.
Jeff, I just gotta ask….with all the research and monitoring of the current Soviet movements and buildup of their military capabilities near the Baltic States, via patriots like Wheelbarger, Anderson and yourself…is this information simply falling on deaf ears with our own so called “experts” out there with our own military generals and staff? I mean, if I can see this information that you guys are reporting, and it throws alarms up, surely to God someone is sending this to these folks and sounding the alarms as well.
As Joe E. Citizen, I’m absolutely pissed at the seemingly total disregard and ignorance of what’s taking place and our own so called leadership in DC that are sitting on their hands doing nothing.
It’s embarrassing and insulting that our own egomaniac President and his nincompoop for VP who are more worried about a head of state (who is literally fighting the Communists from their invasion of Ukraine since 2014) wearing a suit in February and then chastised in August and told to “behave” at a recent press conference.
Unbelievable that these men are in charge of our country and specifically our national defense because they obviously don’t have a clue of what is happening. Putin and his Kremlin overlords are laughing at the ignorance of American politicians and military brass who supposedly have the American people’s safety in mind.
Politics in the Age of entertainment….
As I mentioned in another place above. Felshtinskiy believes that Trump was informed by Putin about the coming invasion and promised not to intervene.
This is something that I wondered about.
According to John Horvat II There Is No Honor Among Thieves AND Justice DELAYED IS Justice DENIED.
https://www.returntoorder.org/2025/08/the-dishonorable-give-russia-everything-it-wants-and-just-call-it-peace-mindset/
There was a Time in the Far Norh Country…in the KLONDIKE region when American Men had a FIGHTING SPIRIT. Sadly that was THEN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6IU9RpjS8 and THIS Is NOW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TT4jnnWys
In light of the Trump- Putin Alaska Summit it may be valuable to consider the words of Yuri Bezmenov regarding the Communist Process of DEMORALIZATION for it provides insight as to why many Americans are UNABLE to GRASP what Putin has accomplished in Alaska AND WHY Many Americans Feel NO COMPULSION to STOP the MAD MAN:
“here’s how Bezmenov described the state of a “demoralized” person:
“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.”
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
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Debate & Geopolitical Update with Jeff Nyquist
New Ideas. (Nevin Gussack)
Jeff Nyquist:
“Sometimes BUILDING Up the WEAK is at the Terrible Expense of LOSING the STRONG….We have opened ourselves to the Neurotic, the Perverse, and the Wicked.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jsgrm01iy0
J. R. Nyquist – Deutsche Ausgabe (seit 2014):
“Nuklearer versus konventioneller Krieg” (31. 5. 2022)
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/nuklearer-versus-konventioneller-krieg/
Actually, I posted the other day, on my own blog, The Contemplative Observer, a piece (altogether 9,000-plus words in length), that I titled,
“Comrade Trump: Facilitator of Communist World Dominion”
https://thecontemplativeobserver.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/comrade-trump-facilitator-of-communist-world-dominion/
It’s basically a review of the two meetings of Friday, August 15 in Anchorage, and Monday, August 18, in Washington, D.C.
I must admit, as I was watching these events on various livestreams in real time, I got really furious. Trump’s betrayal of the entire free world (America herself included) is absolutely colossal. He rolled out the red carpet for Putin. He coddled and caressed him. He organised an impressive flyover of a B-2 and several F-35s. He invited him into the American presidential limousine, where the two were then without interpreters or anyone else (except for the driver in the front) for TEN minutes. He welcomed him in once-upon-a-time Russian Alaska, to begin with — and inside a U.S. military base. After their relatively short talks, he let Putin speak first, as if Putin was the host (and owner of Alaska), and so for 8 and a half minutes. He addressed him several times as “Vladimir”. He lauded Putin’s propaganda gibberish as “very profound”. Not much was achieved, but there was a Russian delegation of supposedly 500 people there, eager, obviously, to get again into business with their “main enemy”. In the end, Putin’s plane was beautifully escorted out of Alaskan airspace by several F-35s. Trump acted like Putin’s poodle! It was shameful.
Also, towards the end of his Alaska visit, Putin went to nearby Fort Richardson National Cemetery, which is basically inside the confines of the military base there, where he laid flowers (deep-red roses!) at the graves of 14 Russian soldiers who died in WWII. In addition, he spoke there to an American Orthodox priest, Archbishop Alexei of the Alaskan diocese of the Orthodox Church of America (a cultured and certainly well-educated and apparently very spiritual man of 60 years, whose real name is John Trader, originally from Delaware; he has strong ties to the Greek monks of Mount Athos). Alexei told Putin, almost like a child, that he was frequently travelling to Russia, where his priests and seminarians were feeling so much at home. He thanked Putin (!) for the Orthodox faith having been brought to America by earlier Russian generations. Ikons and other holy things were exchanged. And Putin “graciously” told him: “You are always welcome in Russia!”
I wonder what the late Anna Politkovskaya would have commented upon this strange meeting!
Then on Monday, August 18, it seemed that Emmanuel Macron was trying to take the lead among the Europeans. He later gave an exclusive interview on NBC. It was interesting to watch the (desperate) unity of Macron, Starmer, Merz, Meloni, Stubb, Rutte and von der Leyen! Had they only woken up earlier! A struggle, a race is now on for the soul of America’s President (and thus for the soul of America): Can they keep Trump inside the Atlantic Alliance, or will he DEFECT over to the Russian side? (During their round-table discussion before the press, one could see J.D. Vance sitting far in the background, and he visibly wasn’t pleased by the shy signs of possible Western unity …)
At the same time, the Russians are working day and night to pull ever more (major) countries over to their side: India; Myanmar; Egypt; Turkey anyway. And then there is this emerging communist bloc in Latin America.
As for the location for the prospective trilateral summit with Putin and Zelenskyy (that will almost certainly never come to pass), Switzerland and Austria were both very quick to offer themselves as hosting countries, despite the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Putin. In the end, if at all, it’ll be Budapest, where Putin’s loyal Leninist comrade Viktor Orbán is in charge. Trump made Putin persona grata again! He indeed is the “Make Russia Great Again” President. Maybe Mr. Nyquist’s dream in the early 1980s, that he once wrote about, was indeed prophetic. Maybe George W. Bush WAS the last actual U.S. President, after whom the American Constitutional Republic not only went into steep decline, but fell into a process of dissolution.
It seems like only enemy agents can be president in America. Obama changed the system, or was the person who tipped the scales. Left or right, it does not matter. Russia and China need a Republican to accelerate the surrender. Trump is crazy enough for the job.
It’s really insane. GreyKnight has meanwhile – thankfully! – sent me images of Trump posing in front of cameras with a photo Putin sent him of the two of them standing on that platform on the tarmac in Anchorage, holding the photo it like a trophy! I thought this could only be a montage, but then I saw a number of big websites running this story, including ABC News:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-shows-off-photograph-putin-sent-him-of-their-alaska-summit/ar-AA1L2Kj9?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Meanwhile. South of the border the communists are mobilizing in Venezuela. Everything is so slipshod here in our government, and everyone sharing the attention span of a flea.
This is not going to end well …
I’m starting to get the impression that not only is Trump beholden to the Reds, but they are really screwing with his head too.
I got the passing vibe when he brought out that photograph of Putin, of a hostage being forced to do something against his will.
Of course, it was a fleeting impression. Nothing in Alaska looked like it was against Trump’s will.
Who knows! Also, on that photograph he looked feeble, almost mentally absent. Like a resident of a nursing home. Perhaps he is on his way into dementia too.
You’re probably right about that. Which means the only American presidents of the last 3 decades who weren’t tied to Russia in some way were the lackluster Bushes.
As far back as 1987 the LaRouche publication EIR reported that Moscow looked favorably on possible presidential runs by Biden and Trump. Since EIR had sources in the Soviet bloc, it was seen as a source of legit intel by Reagan admin officials. The implications are pretty incredible if we consider how far things escalated in the last 9 years of the Trump-Biden-Trump two-step.
https://x.com/eyepatch_man/status/1926018315283030230
One of the now communist penetrated “agencies” orchestrated a fabricated hit job against one of our sources, and when that person was brought in front of a leftist judge, arguing that the sources was exposing the communists inside the US government, including Barack Hussein Obama, the case was “dismissed” within the span of 1 month or so (this is about 10 years ago or so) and the source was transported by the police in civilian clothes to a 2 months of “psychiatric evaluation”…
And now it comes out that Obama is one of the communist assets….back then the source was treated like a crazy nut case, nothing less. A truly pitiful and scandalous outcome.
Had tears in eyes when told about this case.
Have to add that the source did NOT cooperate in anything, including the so called “psychiatric evaluation” (the source ignored their questions in silence), and there was no cooperation with these evildoers and the source would have been sitting there for a longer time, unless God had intervened and helped with the release. They wanted to discredit the source so that people wouldn’t be paying attention to this serious situation, the KGB run communist subversion of the western governments.
Who was the source, and can you provide a link to the story?
Dear Ma’am,
you have to understand that there are communist ears and eyes anywhere and you are asking about somebody whom they want dead and out of the way – literally.
There is no story published, or at least was not to the best of one’s memory, this is an inside information, and a very accurate one indeed. But please do understand that this is as far as one can go without compromising the identity and security of that source, which means life and death situation.
There is sometimes a WIFI listed “surveillance van #…” and so they are no doubt running surveillance as we speak…so be careful, please.
George H. W. Bush was already an enemy, who conspired against his own reelection campaign to put his personal friend, Clinton, into office (per Quaile, his running mate). Clinton was an enemy. I never could vote for George W. Bush–I voted third party–he made a show of being a Christian, but then favored policies and made statements condemned in the Bible and weakened our country. I don’t need to mention Obama and following.
Before that, I already questioned Nixon and Carter. LBJ was a crook. FDR a traitor. Have we had a good president, besides Reagan, since TR?
Reminds me of Judea’s history recounted in the Bible–with the exception of Josiah, the latter kings before the Babylonian exile were evil.
Calvin Coolidge was good. He slept a lot.
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He was good, though, from what I know.
I wonder what he would have done vis-a-vis Russia, had he been president a little later. I feel like he wouldn’t have been fooled.
He would have slept. No fooling.
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Interesting post & video from Michael Yon:
“Going to Alaska – No Coincidence Trump Met Putin in Alaska”
https://michaelyon.substack.com/p/going-to-alaska
That was very disturbing.
In case you listened to this Central-Siberian “Shaman” rock group, underneath their Siberian style, there is something truly international hiding: the dark force of communism, nothing else. You can listen to the Balkan rock groups of Serbia or Romania, and that music will carry the exact same diabolical undercurrent. It’s basically a musical form of rape, complete with the threat of extinction. They are about to take over the world, and that aggressive rock, in whatever ethnic style, is their vehicle. Frightening!
Meet this Russian-Siberian rock-pop group OTYKEN backstage in a 15-minute presentation on the propaganda channel RT. They were put together by music professionals from Moscow, apparently, and they were strategically put into the international so-called World Music scene, performing all around the world. I’m sure the day Alaska will become Russian (read: Soviet), they will have a BIG appearance there. In essence, they are messengers for the world revolution.
Correction: The band’s founder, manager, producer and songwriter, “Medonos” alias Andrey Chernetsov, an ethnic Russian, lives in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, apparently married to a local Chulym woman. “Medonos” is supposed to mean honey bear (he used to be a bee keeper). Earlier this year, the group provided the music for a Russo-Chinese retro-mystery film celebrating the early days of Soviet communism in both Russia and China: “Red Silk”. Here is a 1-minute trailer (the Sino-Soviet one clenched fist also on the movie screen; this is the “Brat” films on steroids):
The world needs to be exorcised of the communist bloc’s active measures. Figuratively and, with what we know about the already-long history of Russian occultism and the Kremlin’s occult networks, literally.
It is very creepy to know what Dugin is up to.
Like Stan Lunev said. They intend to take Alaska back.
Trump is their man, he evidently is on the communist path, he cannot do otherwise but to obey the Center, and so his military theatricals in Alaska are the proof of it also – if he thinks that the KGB criminal Putin will get worried when he sees 4 or 5 planes flying over his head, that of itself is not only a matter for consideration itself, but also it bears the question whether this theatricals idea didn’t come from the Kremlin itself, so that it would “calm” the citizenry and give them the obvious “good feeling” they are protected.
On Hannity not too long ago Trump again said that he rebuilt the US nuclear capability, which one has to find as a very concerning statement and question whether that is the truth, because of all these concessions and KGB connections of his and which Trump has and has had in the past….
When you have a “business” partner who finances your business and that person used to be a NYC cab driver, with KGB training in Moscow and Georgian family and the Stalin’s grandson as a school friend, and father who just as if by coincidence used to be a Major in the Red Army, then you know that there is either something very seriously wrong with that person’s judgment OR that person is a communist himself who believes in the victory of communism and helps in any way whatsoever.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6376974378112
He also spoke about the “phenomenal Warp-speed” – which was and still is CCP and KGB bio-chem warfare op and nothing less.
Trump cannot be ONLY blackmailed, and then left to his own conclusions, he has to be obedient and follow strictly and punctually the Center’s commands…and Putin made the statement about his life on purpose, to make believe that there is something there there, so that people wouldn’t ask whether Trump is in fact a communist himself and that the whole thing is a KGB crafty set up from the beginning….BUT his 1987 Kremlin visit and his connections to long-term KGB assets as Soros and the KGB operatives in NYC, and the whole details about him, his meetings with KGB agents and so on, they don’t let him get free, they kill people if some of their assets try to so much as insinuate that they will not provide the services any longer – and they are made aware of the fact, people as Trump, that the ONLY way to leave the KGB service is through the funeral service….
Do NOT believe that there are only coincidences, the KGB doesn’t work that way at all, they demand results and strict operational security, and they don’t just blackmail people – they own them and force them into becoming communists themselves.
And Trump’s communist clenched fist which he likes to do very often, that is the visual evidence that he is on their side…although he may not be an actual communist party member, but their fellow collaborator…and his time to act in their decisive favor is yet to come, when the Russian and Chinese nukes begin to explode and their will be no substantial US retaliation…
BTW – it is still fully conceivable that Russians had purposely created the Chernobyl disaster, so they could test the nuclear fallout and decide whether to use this strategy, as string of “accidental” terrorist operations in western Europe and the US…they are this kind of evil fanatics.
The main detail was that when that explosion in Chernobyl occurred, before that there was an apparent contact of the main supervisor to the Communist Politburo in Moscow, which detail was forgotten before…and that is a significant point which looks like that could be part of their nuclear attack strategy also, since they tested it back then…it is an opinion, but not a far fetched one at all.
Trump will continue in his appeasement of Russia, if possible, unless there is something more serious and then he will try to act, but only if necessary, but their main game, the KGB subversion, the secret communist infiltration, is the main weapon and they are progressing in it more and more, and that’s how it will most likely begin…and there might not be any more recourse to resist it substantially when it comes.
We all know that Trump hasn’t“rebuilt the US nuclear capability,” so why would he be claiming this on national television? It is either to make himself look good (possible) or to discourage the average American from demanding that we upgrade our nuclear deterrent and properly defend our country against Russia and China.
I hope it’s the former but have a sick feeling that it may be the latter.
Communist deception – to publicize, as much as possible, the false sense of security. Your point about the public demand of nuclear forces upgrade is correct also, but then the government doesn’t uphold justice and thus there is no control from the citizens available, and as Sen. McCarthy said (or quoted till then still alive NAVY Sec. Forestall – before he “jumped” from the hospital window to his death): “…if they were merely stupid, they would occasionally made a mistake in our favor…”
“An evil tree cannot bear a good fruit and a good tree cannot bear an evil fruit, wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them…” says Christ Our Lord (St. Mathew 7).
BTW this is about the 3rd or 4th time, as far as the memory serves (and there is probably more than that in total) when he had said this publicly.
He’s one of them, because otherwise, if he was a true leader and a truly honest person he would have either resigned and quit, if they had anything on him, because he would know that he is destroying the country and that it will catch up with him one day for good, no matter what the KGB promised him, or he would have resisted them to the fullest…and he is not stupid, he knows what’s going on, so that all the details about him and his pro-communist history is conclusive of the analysis that he is their fully cooperating asset.
BTW, one more supporting fact is that this was probably one of the main reasons why they started that Russia Russia hoax, to set up purposely the false path of his KGB cooperation which they afterwards publicly discredited, so that when somebody comes with more and from different and now truly accurate factual analysis, nobody would believe it…and this points to the KGB very sophisticated and highly experienced operation – and gives it up…these are the details that an experienced CIA etc. analyst would not have missed, if they were not KGB assets, so one more additional point that Russians had to first penetrate these services in order to prevent their ops to be recognized and their assets exposed.
It is very serious situation because when the Bolshevik nuclear etc. attack begins, you might have a Benedict Arnold holding his hand on the nuclear deterrent and nothing will be fired back (or the minimal response will “miss” or “misfire” etc.), and this is how the KGB regarded Trump from the beginning – they are deadly serious to murder millions in their nuclear and bio-chem mayhem, they don’t mind at all, including hitting Europe if necessary. and so on.
@Concerned What do you mean when you say that Trump will continue his appeasement unless there is something more serious?
It is very simple – if they do something like attacking another NATO country, Trump would be forced to play the game and at least to send military aid and forces, but only to make believe that he is on the level, but this kind of possibility is probable only when they get closer to the initial overall attack, because then there will be no turning back…but he will not know it (probably), as they want him to play the game as such, of an honest leader, until his main part comes, the actual betrayal…and then there will be nothing left to defend after that….it is a truly extremely serious situation and people truly don’t believe it – and BTW, somebody posted that point about Mr. Bezmenev – that is the KEY to all understanding about the MAGA situation as such. Forces of evil, nothing less, the devil’s servants, Russian Bolsheviks, want to rule the whole world and America stands in their way – so they need somebody like Trump to make it happen for them.
I understand. I am not quite sure if Trump will play the NATO game as it already looks like he is abandoning them.
But Russia launched a serious drone attack into Poland, aiming at Poland’s largest weapons depot. The drone hit a power line and blew up, but an attack on NATO all the same. Poland is calling up reservists.
It is an open question and only an opinion, but the case was that if something more serious would have required Trump to pretend to act, then he will have to cover his role until he is ordered to act when the decisive moment comes. So the meaning was perhaps when Russian forces either use tactical nukes against a NATO country, when it escalates that far or when they assassinate somebody or more people, something of more serious impact. Something so serious that if he didn’t act it would be a treason itself, or betrayal of the NATO protocol.
Mr. Nyquist,
Would a withdawal of Russian armed forces from Crimea be a Win for Ukraine?
Will Ukraine become THE STEEL PORCUPINE of EUROPE?
From the Wall Street Journal Interview of Stephen Kotkin August 22, 2025
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/with-putin-ultimately-trump-holds-the-cards-history-europe-russia-ukraine-war-8fdf5771?st=UMxCjq
“In the minds of most Ukrainians and many friends of Ukraine in high places, a win must include the return of Crimea, which Russia conquered in 2014. “We’re all talking about how Ukraine needs to get Crimea back, because Russia took it by force in a violation of international law.” Mr. Kotkin says with the laugh of an unsentimental realist. “Crimea is going back to Ukraine the day after Texas goes back to Mexico.”
“Then he proposes a careful-what-you-wish-for exercise, inviting me to “fantasize” that Crimea is back with Ukraine. “Then Russia has two million ethnic Russians inside the Ukrainian state, and can mount a permanent insurgency and sabotage campaign with this gigantic population to recruit from.” There’s also the threat of external force. The return of Crimea to Ukraine would “incentivize Russia to attack again tomorrow, or 20 or 30 years from now. Regaining Crimea is terrible for Ukraine winning the peace in the long term.” The West needs to understand that “what makes sense to some people in terms of a violation of norms and the stability of the international order as a whole may not make sense for the Ukrainian cause they’re advocating for.”
“The other marker of a Ukrainian win is “some type of security, which some people call ‘security guarantees’, but which looks more like the ‘steel porcupine’ approach.” This is a phrase Kaja Kallas, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, introduced in March. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defines it as fortifying Ukraine to make it “undigestible for potential invaders.” Mr. Kotkin says it would mean helping Ukraine set up a “strong defense establishment with weapons production at home and continued financing for that from its European partners. So you get both EU accession and a version of security where Ukraine is doing most of the heavy lifting.”
With Putin, ‘Ultimately, Trump Holds the Cards’
Stephen Kotkin, the pre-eminent historian of Russia, on Moscow’s long record of overreach, Biden’s Ukraine failure, and prospects that Kyiv can ‘win the peace.’
By Tunku Varadarajan
Aug. 22, 2025 12:28 pm ET
The stereotype of Donald Trump as a “puppet” of Vladimir Putin—Hillary Clinton’s term from a 2016 debate—is plainly nonsensical. The president demonstrated the point on Thursday by complaining on Truth Social that “crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out?” But Mr. Trump has been far from consistent in his approach to the Russia-Ukraine war. What are we to make of him and his relationship with the Russian dictator?
“Nobody can do more damage to Putin than President Trump,” Stephen Kotkin says. “Putin is actually afraid of Trump. Trump is the only one who could hurt Putin in a big way.”
Few in the West have a deeper understanding of Mr. Putin than Mr. Kotkin, 66, a historian whose monumental biography of Joseph Stalin—one of Mr. Putin’s heroes—awaits its third and final volume. Mr. Kotkin is a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a professor emeritus at Princeton.
His comments shouldn’t be taken as a show of admiration for Mr. Trump. At the Aug. 15 Alaska summit—which Mr. Kotkin disdainfully calls the president’s “surrender photo-op”—Mr. Putin “evidently told Trump that Russia is going to win anyway, so let’s just hand the territories taken over to Russia and save lives in the process.” But Mr. Trump “cannot surrender Ukraine,” he says. “The Ukrainians are not going to accede to that. And Mr. Trump cannot grant Putin a sphere of influence in his neighborhood because it’s been lost for good by Putin himself.”
Mr. Kotkin is similarly scornful of Monday’s White House summit with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, which he calls the “European rescue photo-op.” Europe’s leaders are “talking about providing security guarantees. Well, if they can do that, why are they flying to the White House to ask President Trump to make them do that? They were there to beg the president to help them deliver security. There was lots of theater, melodrama, and attention on President Trump, which, of course, is what he’s after. But I don’t know what, if anything, really happened in terms of Ukraine’s self-defense against Russia.”
Speaking by Zoom from his Hoover office, he’s keen to establish that we need to grasp three truths in the “big picture” of the war in Ukraine.
The first is a “paradox that people don’t usually put together”: Although much-smaller Ukraine may be “losing a war of attrition,” Mr. Putin “made an enormous strategic blunder and is damaging Russia severely for the long term.” He has lost his country’s old sphere of influence: “All his neighbors hate him and are afraid of him.” Even Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator in fraternal neighbor Belarus, is “looking for some distance, to get out of the stranglehold of Russia.” Mr. Putin has also “lost his civilian economy.”
Second, Ukraine is “an asset, not a liability—but we don’t seem to be able to appreciate how it’s an asset, and why.” He means that “Ukraine has an army”—a serious one, unlike, say, Germany. “We’ve been able to send a lot of our weapons and test them in battlefield conditions because of Ukrainian bravery and ingenuity.” As a result, “we’ve been able to see what a 21st-century land war looks like, and we’ve been able to change our defense industrial investments at home as a result.” He adds that military aid to Ukraine is “actually going to the American defense industry.”
Third, Mr. Trump is “correct” to seek an end to the war: “I applaud his forced imposition of a negotiation process.” But the president “lacks follow-through and patience. He lacks consistency. This is a hard problem. He promised to solve it in 24 hours,” but it’s “been going on since 1783,” when Catherine the Great annexed the Khanate of Crimea. Even so, “Trump’s instincts are correct. Ukraine, more than Russia, needs this war to end. And he’s groping towards that solution.”
Mr. Kotkin warns against facile obsessions with “winning.” We talk all the time, he says, about “who’s going to win the war. But what matters is winning the peace.” In Afghanistan, America won the war and lost the peace. In Vietnam, the other way around.
What does that mean for Ukraine? Russia is a “giant neighbor, armed with nuclear weapons, willing and able to build a war machine well beyond its GDP and ostensible means, and indifferent to the loss of its own lives.” Winning the peace isn’t easy against a foe like that: “That’s the conundrum we face, and have faced from the beginning. But we haven’t faced up to it,” he says, exasperated.
In the minds of most Ukrainians and many friends of Ukraine in high places, a win must include the return of Crimea, which Russia conquered in 2014. “We’re all talking about how Ukraine needs to get Crimea back, because Russia took it by force in a violation of international law.” Mr. Kotkin says with the laugh of an unsentimental realist. “Crimea is going back to Ukraine the day after Texas goes back to Mexico.”
Then he proposes a careful-what-you-wish-for exercise, inviting me to “fantasize” that Crimea is back with Ukraine. “Then Russia has two million ethnic Russians inside the Ukrainian state, and can mount a permanent insurgency and sabotage campaign with this gigantic population to recruit from.” There’s also the threat of external force. The return of Crimea to Ukraine would “incentivize Russia to attack again tomorrow, or 20 or 30 years from now. Regaining Crimea is terrible for Ukraine winning the peace in the long term.” The West needs to understand that “what makes sense to some people in terms of a violation of norms and the stability of the international order as a whole may not make sense for the Ukrainian cause they’re advocating for.”
So how could Ukraine win the peace? Membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is out of the question, if only because the U.S. opposes it. The alternative is “joining the West through accession to the European Union,” Mr. Kotkin says. “They’ll need massive domestic reforms to be able to join. But it’s a great process for bringing countries into constitutional rule-of-law, open-society, and market-economy institutions.”
The other marker of a Ukrainian win is “some type of security, which some people call ‘security guarantees’, but which looks more like the ‘steel porcupine’ approach.” This is a phrase Kaja Kallas, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, introduced in March. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defines it as fortifying Ukraine to make it “undigestible for potential invaders.” Mr. Kotkin says it would mean helping Ukraine set up a “strong defense establishment with weapons production at home and continued financing for that from its European partners. So you get both EU accession and a version of security where Ukraine is doing most of the heavy lifting.”
A win for Mr. Putin would have grave consequences for the West, Mr. Kotkin says. The Russian dictator is “looking for the surrender of Ukraine and the surrender of the United States.” He wants to subjugate Ukraine, to “destroy it as an independent, sovereign state. But more than that, he wants to destroy the Reagan-George H.W. Bush Cold War victory.”
Mr. Putin is at an advantage, Mr. Kotkin says, because he doesn’t need “the maximalist win”—a restoration of the Soviet empire or even the Soviet Union. “He wins by wrecking Ukraine, which is hurt by the continuation of the war.” He gains merely by keeping the war going: “Putin doesn’t need Ukraine. He’s already got Russia. But Ukraine needs Ukraine. They don’t have another state. And Putin’s saying, ‘If I can’t have Ukraine, well, then nobody can have Ukraine, especially the Ukrainians.’ ”
Thus Mr. Kotkin concludes “Trump is correct. Ending the war is Ukraine’s best hope. This is the only country they have, and it’s being devastated.”
Mr. Kotkin is critical of Mr. Biden’s Ukraine policy, though in a more measured way than Mr. Trump is. He says Mr. Biden “deserves credit for supporting Ukraine’s self-defense” and also for working closely with U.S. allies and partners. “But overall, the Biden strategy failed. Why? Because the argument was that we’re supporting Ukraine to put them in the best position to negotiate a more favorable settlement. But the problem was, there were never any negotiations.” The support, Mr. Kotkin laments, was “endless and pointless—there was no pathway for negotiations.”
Enter the 47th president: “He comes in. He forces the issue. Immediate negotiations!” Mr. Kotkin sums up Mr. Trump’s strategy as follows: “We’re not going to wait till Ukraine is, quote, in a better position for negotiations. We’re just going to impose an imperative that we have negotiations starting now.” This compelled Mr. Zelensky and the Ukrainians to become “more realistic about their war aims.”
The flaw in Mr. Trump’s approach “is that he didn’t put the same pressure on the other party,” Mr. Kotkin says. “He put all the pressure on the Ukrainians and, so far, next to no pressure on Putin and the Russian establishment to force the negotiations.” The result: “We’re kind of stuck. Even though Trump was correct to move away from the Biden strategy, he’s failed in part to execute a negotiation strategy where he’s built leverage with the Russian side.”
The bottom line, Mr. Kotkin says, is that there’s been insufficient pressure on Mr. Putin. “There’s been military pressure on a high level, thanks to the Ukrainians’ courage and ingenuity, but not on a scale that’s working.” Russia has a bigger army and support from China and North Korea, “which helps quite a bit.” Mr. Putin is also willing to sacrifice Russian lives: “Bleed and bleed and bleed, sending boys to their death on the battlefield in ways that most democratic countries—including a flawed democracy such as Ukraine—cannot do.” That leaves Ukraine in a war of attrition “where it counts lives and the other side doesn’t.”
Economic pressure has been severe, but oil revenue still flows to Mr. Putin, delivering a “massive cash flow that floats this war. So unless you cut off all oil revenues, your economic pressure is going to be insufficient.”
Most important, the West needs “very severe political pressure on Putin’s regime, and that comes in the form of alternatives to his rule.” Many prominent Russians “feel that Russia is on a self-defeating trajectory right now.” These are nationalists; “they are not democrats, they’re authoritarians. They don’t look like the kind of Russian opposition we might associate with in terms of values. They have no sympathy for Ukraine, but they have a lot of sympathy for Russia, and they feel that an end to the war would help Russia regain the civilian economy that it’s lost.” U.S. and European intelligence agencies are “recruiting them inside. We know who they are.”
These sentiments, Mr. Kotkin says, are widespread in the Russian establishment, and even in the armed forces, and became visible with the public comments of retired Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, who in February 2022 accused Mr. Putin of engaging in “a criminal policy of provoking war” and urged him to resign. “Obviously sitting officers of the armed forces and security services cannot voice such public sentiments,” Mr. Kotkin says. “The vast increase during the war in cases brought for alleged treason indirectly testifies to the existence of the sentiments, and the regime’s knowledge and fear of them.”
Mr. Kotkin believes Mr. Trump should make an offer to these patriotic Russians “in exchange for retrenchment, defined as an end to the aggression against Ukraine and a turn to focusing on developing Russia, its people and economy, for the future.” If Mr. Putin refuses a deal, “maybe President Trump can appeal to others inside Russia who would be willing to do it or urge Putin to do it. Maybe the start of a ‘political bank run,’ or the fear of it, could destabilize the regime enough to force retrenchment.” It’s a long shot, “but military and economic pressure without political pressure has not worked.”
There are other things Mr. Trump could do. These include a removal of Russia’s Gazprombank from the Swift international banking system, to which it still has tenuous access, greenlighting the confiscation of $300 billion worth of Russian deposits in European banks, getting India to “buckle” and stop buying of Russian oil, and, most audacious, “cutting a deal with Xi Jinping behind Putin’s back to reduce China’s support for Russia in a bargain between the U.S. and China. It’s thinkable.”
Of all the threats Mr. Putin faces, Mr. Kotkin says again, “none is bigger than President Trump. Putin may smirk. He may walk down that red carpet in a strut. He may joke for the camera with President Trump. But ultimately, Trump holds the cards. And if the president uses those cards, he could unsettle Putin’s smirk, his self-confidence, and his maximalist demands. Will this happen? I don’t know. But it’s there for the taking.”
Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at NYU Law School’s Classical Liberal Institute.
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Thank you for posting this. Kotkin makes a good point about the large ethnic Russian enclaves in occupied Ukrainian territories. In 11 years of occupation (and especially the last 3 years of war) Russia had plenty of time to decimate the local Ukrainian population and colonize Crimea and the Donbas with ethnic Russians and a never ending stream of state propaganda. If Ukraine were to get these areas back, some large population exchanges would have to take place to secure stability of these areas in the long-term, akin to what happened at the end of WWII. It doesn’t look like anyone has the stomach to talk about this, and no doubt the Russians would refuse such a proposal, knowing full well how much the policy of planting ethnic Russian time bombs in former Soviet territories has benefited Russia’s post-Soviet foreign policy. But even taking into account the demographic change, I think it would be better overall for Ukraine to retake the fortified Russian positions in eastern Ukraine.
As for his other ideas, Kotkin is naïve in thinking that Putin can be threatened by the West backing domestic Russian opposition, or that China can be convinced to drop its support for Russia’s war. His argument that a good immediate peace deal/ceasefire would benefit Ukraine more by giving it some breathing room and chance to re-strengthen might have some merit. But if only Ukraine is forced to make concessions while Russia continues full steam ahead, then the “peace” is worse than prolonging the war. He notes how one-sided Trump has been, but stops short of saying that Trump has all but explicitly declared himself to be on the side of Russia. It’s a shame, because now is the time to loudly call out the president. I think at this point only a vocal prolonged backlash by the American public could dissuade the Trump admin from following through on its pro-Russia/anti-Europe inclinations.
Jeff, I keep reading reports on X that China is amassing more and more vessels across from Taiwan. Are you expecting anything after their military parade in September?
This is a full translated by Chat GPT transcript of interview with Yuriy Felshtinskiy. It’s not that long, so I post it here.
Good evening, dear friends. My name is Igor Ikovenko. It is now 10:00 PM (August 22) in Kyiv.
And today we have a dear, long-awaited guest – historian and publicist Yuri Georgievich Felshtinsky.
Yuri Georgievich, hello. I’m glad to see you. Thank you for being with us.
— Thank you for the invitation.
Igor: Yuri Georgievich, here’s my first question. How do you view, how do you assess what happened last week in Alaska? And then, two days later, as a sort of continuation of that summit – but with different participants – what happened in Washington: this kind of double summit, first with Putin, then with Zelensky and the European leaders. What is your assessment of the results of this dual event?
Felshtinsky: Well, I think the results are as follows. If we set aside emotions, it’s clear that since January 21 of this year, nothing has really changed in the policies toward Ukraine — not in Russia, not in the United States. Putin has kept to his position and has not changed his plans regarding Ukraine. Ukraine’s stance is also well known and unchanged: Ukraine is not being offered peace; it is being offered capitulation, which would mean the disappearance of Ukraine as a state from the map of the world. Everyone understands this — the Ukrainian people, Zelensky, everyone. Trump, too, has not changed his position.
If we look beyond words to actions, Trump’s goal is to hand Ukraine over to Putin. We can guess why this is so important to him, but the fact remains. The only real change since January 21 has been in Europe’s stance. I think the turning point was Vance’s speech in Munich at the European Security Conference, after which it became clear that Europe must take responsibility for its own security and for supporting Ukraine, since the United States is withdrawing from this process.
Of course, Europe is not a single state but many countries, with different approaches — from Germany, France, and the UK to Hungary and Slovakia. But overall, Europe understands: if the Ukrainian front collapses, Europe will be next. That understanding exists. And although European politicians remain diplomatic, maintain dialogue with Trump, and maybe even hope he will change under pressure of events, I do not think that’s possible. For many months, Trump’s position has not shifted: U.S. aid is frozen, Ukraine will not get American weapons, not even for money. His talk of selling $90 billion worth of weapons to Europe and buying $50 billion worth of drones from Ukraine is just a smokescreen to mask another attempt to push Ukraine into surrender.
Putin, of course, is interested in this and keeps trying. Trump, too, has tried repeatedly, but without success — and cannot succeed, because Ukraine is not planning suicide, and Putin does not have the strength to conquer it. He can destroy from the air, strike residential areas, but he cannot take Ukraine. So Putin, too, is in a dead end and is probably putting great hopes on September. The plan is that, under the pretext of exercises, as in 2022, Russian troops will again be deployed to Belarus — perhaps for another offensive, either toward Kyiv or into Eastern Europe. I think this was one of the topics Trump and Putin discussed in Alaska.
As for what happens — we’ll see. September is not far away.
Igor: Thank you, Yuri Georgievich. Still, I’d like to understand the following. Between the U.S. and Europe, Trump has announced he is ready to sell weapons — some contracts even seem to have started. Europe, at least some countries, is willing to buy. Trump presents this as a great achievement: Biden, he says, gave away weapons and money for free, while he will sell and profit from war. From your perspective, what prevents Trump from doing this — selling weapons to Europe for Ukraine — and what prevents Europeans from buying? Why are you skeptical?
Felshtinsky: For the following reasons. First, war is not business. You cannot fight a war buying weapons at market prices from the United States. This is simply impossible — economically and politically. That’s why France has refused, Italy has refused, the Czech Republic has refused. Some countries signed minor deals just to help Trump save face — Germany, Norway, a few Scandinavians — but this is not serious. No politician can win elections by spending taxpayers’ money to buy U.S. weapons for Ukraine. So this project will not happen.
What will happen is that Europe will invest in its own defense sector. This is the only real result of Trump’s actions — ironically, to the detriment of the American defense industry in the long run. But Europe cannot escape its responsibility: it must support Ukraine, because otherwise it will be next. European leaders know this. As one of them said openly in Washington, the strongest army in Europe today is Ukraine’s. That is the real guarantee of European security, not vague promises about NATO’s Article 5, which may never be applied, especially since Ukraine is not in NATO and will not be admitted — Trump will block it, Hungary and Slovenia will block it, and many others don’t want automatic war with Russia.
So yes, Ukraine’s army is the only real guarantee today. And since Putin cannot conquer Ukraine, he keeps circling back to demands for its capitulation. Trump, for his part, makes absurd statements — like the U.S. buying $50 billion worth of drones from Ukraine. Ukraine needs those drones to fight; they are its most effective weapon. Even if Ukraine could produce that many, which is doubtful, Trump would never pay — he would claim the money was already given under Biden, or that Ukraine still owes. This is Trump’s approach.
The troubling point is that Trump seems deeply interested in seeing Putin take Ukraine. Why? What does America gain if Putin conquers Ukraine? Nothing. The only plausible answer is that Trump wants Putin to move on into Europe, so that Europe will panic and buy American weapons on a massive scale, as in the world wars, “making America great again” through European war.
That, I think, is the logic. Otherwise there is no explanation why Trump would want Ukraine to fall.
We even heard from Witkoff Senyan that Putin promised: if Ukraine gives up the territories he demands, demobilizes its army, and does not join NATO, he will not advance further in Ukraine or attack other countries. This means the opposite was also discussed: if Ukraine does not surrender, Putin will move forward and attack others. What did Trump answer? We don’t know — but it seems he did not object.
So let’s see what happens in September, when Russian troops may again be concentrated in Belarus — either for a renewed attack on Kyiv or for an incursion into Europe.
Igor: So you do not rule out that, without finishing in Ukraine — which is clearly beyond his ability — Putin might open a second front in Europe? You think he has the forces?
Felshtinsky: He has failed to take Donbas since 2014, let alone a major city, so he cannot finish in Ukraine. But because he believes Ukraine survives only thanks to European support, he may try to solve that problem by opening a second front — to force Europe to focus on itself and abandon Ukraine. From his perspective, that’s not entirely irrational. Aggressors historically lose when they open a second front, and Putin too will lose, but his logic may push him toward it.
And note: decisions like these are not made by the General Staff. Just as with the invasion of Afghanistan (the Soviet General Staff was against it, but the KGB pushed it through), and just as in 2014 and 2022 (where Generals Ivashov and Khodaryonok openly opposed it) — the decisions were made by a small group: Putin, Patrushev, Bortnikov, Shoigu, and Gerasimov. Security chiefs, not the wider state. So if Putin decides, it will not matter what Gerasimov thinks.
And I am sure Putin knows NATO will not respond if Russia crosses into one of its member states. Trump will not defend Europe. He treats Europe as an enemy. And the Europeans themselves avoid even mentioning NATO — they invent new names for collective initiatives, because they know NATO is paralyzed.
Igor: But, Yuri Georgievich, if Putin opens a second front in Europe — say, against the Baltic states, or Poland — wouldn’t that force NATO to respond? That would be direct aggression against a NATO country.
Felshtinsky: You’d think so, but I don’t believe NATO would respond. And Putin thinks so too. He knows Trump will block it. Trump does not consider NATO an ally — he considers Europe an adversary, a competitor. He has said this openly. And the Europeans themselves avoid invoking NATO. They call their initiatives “European defense,” “coalitions,” “alliances,” anything but NATO. They know that Article 5 is now just a formality. It won’t be applied, because the United States under Trump will not fight for Europe.
So Putin is confident. And in this sense, September may become the most dangerous month. He may take a step that seems irrational to us, but which makes sense in his logic: to attack, not because he can win, but because he thinks Europe will back down. That is how aggressors think.
Igor: Let me clarify. You are saying: for Putin, Ukraine is already lost — he cannot conquer it. And therefore he may try to shift the battlefield to Europe itself, hoping that in the chaos Ukraine will be abandoned.
Felshtinsky: Precisely. He knows he cannot take Ukraine. But he thinks Europe can be split, paralyzed, frightened. He hopes some countries will rush to make deals with him, others will fall into panic, and Ukraine will be left without support. That is his calculation. And yes, it’s risky — opening a second front always ends badly for aggressors — but it is consistent with his worldview.
Igor: Then let me ask about Ukraine directly. In these conditions, what is the main task for Kyiv now?
Felshtinsky: The main task for Ukraine is to endure. To survive this period. To preserve the army, preserve the state. Because the situation is changing — slowly, but changing. Europe is waking up. It is rearming, it is building its own defense industry, it is starting to act independently of the United States. And Ukraine is the cornerstone of European security. Every month Ukraine survives makes Europe stronger.
That is why I always say: Ukraine is not just fighting for itself. Ukraine today is Europe’s army. And if it endures, Europe will endure.
Igor: Thank you, Yuri Georgievich. I think we will stop here for today. I am very grateful for your time, for this analysis. Friends, thank you for being with us tonight.
Felshtinsky: Thank you. Goodbye.
He is always interesting.
I think Felshtinsky is right on the money about everything, except for one thing: it seems to me that with all of those jets, helicopters and tanks lining the border, all the military men being secretly housed in the underground barracks, all the shiny new infrastructure, etc., Russia could easily have overrun Ukraine long ago. However, by using up all of their old equipment and soldiers who aren’t fit to serve, the Russians have chosen to allow Ukraine to remain for a time because Ukraine was the key to turning public opinion in the US against Europe. All of their propaganda hinged on linking the Ukrainians with the Azov Brigade. Sadly, half of the Republican Party now believes that the Ukrainians are a bunch of Nazi money launderers tied to Biden.
Now perhaps next month Russia will invade the Baltics and Poland and surround Ukraine in the process, because all of their objectives have been met. NATO is effectively dissolved. But to me it looks as though the Russians deliberately have fought with one hand tied behind their back thus far so that everything would play out as it has. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I wish I were wrong, for Ukraine’s sake. It would be nice if they could hold out for longer, until reinforcements from Europe arrive.
There is a plan to use the Ukrainian Armies as Russian Armies.
That thought has been creeping into my mind for some reason. I always push it out. Could it possibly happen?
Yes.
That’s an interesting idea, with one caveat. The Russians could have easily achieved the same objective of turning American/conservative public opinion against Europe by quickly overrunning Ukraine in a blitzkrieg attack. Then the same slow-motion dragged-out war, with ineffective European/American support could have played out in Western Ukraine, Moldova or the Baltics, with Russia today being in an even stronger position to take on the bulk of NATO. Keeping in mind how easily Russia was able to take chunks of Ukraine in 2014, and the number of agents and helpers they already had in the eastern and southern parts of the country, it was not unreasonable to expect Kyiv’s capitulation. Just because the Russians are flexible and can turn a defeat into a partial victory, we shouldn’t assume that dragging out the Ukraine war was their plan from the beginning. Although they likely had some backup plans in the eventuality they got bogged down in Ukraine, since it seems Russia always had the idea of keeping their best forces in reserve for war against NATO, while only using their weak forces and foreign recruits to retake non-NATO former Soviet bloc countries. This mostly explains why things turned out the way they did in Ukraine.
Yes. At any point they could have moved all their new equipment along the border down to Ukraine. Yet they chose to park it along the border and leave it there. They’re not feigning weakness per se; they’re simply not bringing to bear all of the forces at their disposal against Ukraine. By slow walking the fighting, they’ve also prevented Europe from waking up very quickly to the reality that it must mobilize rapidly. If the Russians were already to western Ukraine, Poland might have been in a very different place psychologically this past year. Instead they’ve only just begun quietly mobilizing. I’m really starting to think this has been the Russians’ plan from the beginning.
They seem to have made a conscious decision to use the early Russian defeats to lull the West into a false sense of security. But then, they do bungle….
I’ve been thinking that Ukraine has also been the key to turning Europe against America.
Ot course, that hinged on the current administration as well, and the things he has done to hurt our allies and Ukraine.
This is a reply to K. (Since replies work funny here I have to say who I am writing to.)
I don’t think that Russia was planning initially to be stuck in Ukraine. They did plan to take over Kyiv in 3 days and change the government. And when they did not succeed they even wanted to use nuclear weapon at the end of March. It took a miracle to stop them. And they did lose some elite military in the beginning. But now this is their adjusted plan to move better assets to the NATO border. Many observers noticed that Russians really learn from their mistakes and keep evolving.
I’m just not convinced. Perhaps Russia underestimated how much manpower they needed at the beginning, but why didn’t they double or even triple the size of their fighting force when they became bogged down early on? Why didn’t they increase the number of sorties being flown (instead they scaled back)? I think the answer lies in what Mr. Wang of Lude Media said— they wanted to observe our military for a few years and glean as much information as they could. Now it’s come out that Russia is training Chinese soldiers to counter US military weapons systems. Clearly they’ve learned a lot.
Regardless, we may get a better idea of their full capabilities next month. If they suddenly overrun several countries, we’ll know the entire war thus far may have been a feint.
I do agree with you that turning blunders to their advantage is very much the Russians’ forte.
What Felshtinsky says makes a lot of sense.
I haven’t seen anyone else discuss the impracticability of Europe buying US weapons at inflated prices while fighting a war with Russia. And it’s not just the money. We know that the US defense industry right now cannot produce weapons in sufficient quantities for an all out war with Russia. And Europe’s defense industry is even further behind…
Interesting. And very disgusting:
U.S. exports to Kyrgyzstan:
Trying to figure out how to share it
Can’t share it with my limited capabilities on this phone, but I’ve got some graphs showing U.S. and European exports to Kyrgyzstan going up tremendously since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Virtually no one has been really helping Ukraine to the degree they could and should.
No enforcement of sanctions. Russia black fleet still sails. 300 billion in frozen Russian assets still just setting there.
And Trump paid homage to Putin in Alaska.
In another place and time, he would have knelt and sworn fealty.
And now look at him showing the photo of himself and Putin, and all the nice things he said.
And our factory gets deliberately struck in western Ukraine, and he says nothing! (visions of Feb 28 flash through my mind. Remember? Sign over the mineral rights, and our presence will be the security guarantee).
But look at him now. They’ve broken him.
Would it work to take a screenshot of the graph and post it on X? Then you could link to it from here.
Great idea! Let me see.
Thank you.
The Russian use of corruption and organized crime to manipulate Western leaders may prove decisive in the end.
I’m unable to access Laura’s comment on the app to reply, but this is an excellent point:
“A potential war in Europe was also of interest to Trump because it created the preconditions for a third presidential term for Trump. The precedent set by Roosevelt during World War II was very important for Trump in this sense: during the war, Roosevelt remained for a third term, while Churchill and Zelensky did not hold elections.”
And I’m sure that Russia would be more than happy for Trump to remain in office for a third term and continue to do their bidding! Imagine the evil they could accomplish in 12 years of Trump. With that long they might have him surrendering the country by the end!
Yes, I thought it was a good point by Felshtinsky. It’s an angle I never considered before, and it certainly puts the 3rd term malarkey coming from the Trump camp into a new perspective.
Oh, I didn’t realize Felshtinsky had said that. I must’ve read right over that at some point. Or else I can’t access that particular comment. Once the comments hit a certain point the app starts to glitch terribly on my phone.
Yes, it puts the Trump 2028 business into a whole new light!
His constitution won’t hold up that long, imo. I think the Communists around him, whoever they may be, and Putin, and the knowledge of what he’s doing, have broken him. He looks like he’s cracking to me.
But, never fear! Vance -who is charmed by Putin’s soft voice- is raring to go when his time comes to be president.
2Ti 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Unless the communists have a double for Trump, as they seem to have for Putin.
I don’t think so. I think Vance is being prepped. A double for Trump will be unnecessary.
I think he’s starting to become like the bat in Aesop’s fable about the war between the birds and the rats. I think he’s starting to stink to both sides. No one can miss his boyish awe of, and subservient attitude toward Putin.
The Commies despise it and laugh. I think a large and growing number on our side are puzzled, alarmed, and it will turn into disgusting.
*disgust
I hope you’re right. I can’t imagine seven more years of Trump.
I wonder how they plan to control Vance. He doesn’t seem like the type to fall for the kind of honeytraps Trump likely fell for.
I think Vance will be worse. He’ll just be more well-spoken. But worse. He’s smarter.
I think the mechanisms first controlling Vance are already in place. I think they are the same ones that catapulted him into prominence and got him into politics.
Is it the money and influence of sodomite Peter Thiel? Is it Usha, business they only began dating upon the encouragement of their mutual Chinese professor in college?
It’s most likely a combination of things.
But Vance is smarter. More educated, polished, well-spoken.
But he’s all in. He is. And he is young, vain, and truly believes the view they have built/are building into him.
I don’t know why the word “first” is in there
Should’ve been *for. That’s why.
You might be right about Vance succeeding to Trump’s 3rd term, although I hear he has negative approval ratings, even worse than Trump’s. In terms of charisma and being a unifying force, Vance is a far cry from filling Trump and FDR’s shoes, so for that reason he might not be the Republican candidate in the next general election (the only way he could stay on as president after Trump’s term is over is if elections are suspended due to war in Europe/America). Despite his polished and articulate speaking style, he won’t be able to pull off the pro-Russia stance the way Trump did. As you said, what Trump was able to get away with in conservative eyes could turn into disbelief and disgust when Vance tries to do the same thing. Or so I hope. But there could be other things about Vance that we don’t know yet, that could make him a perfect candidate in Russia and China’s eyes.
I only have a feeling that something happens to make him more acceptable than he may be.
The points you make are good.
But, I don’t think most people in the MAGA base pay proper attention to Vance. For instance, the other day I was working on a Vietnam veterans house. Very good man and his wife. They are red blooded Americans. He was a hard worker, farmer, and successful and honest businessman.
He also likes to read, discuss, and think.
So, I turned him on to Jeff, and some other good sources.
One day, his wife came out and looked very upset. She said, “Mr. Trump is not a good man.” She had been watching the news about suspicion on Trump being caught up with Epstein’s lolitas. I asked if she thought he was guilty. With a very troubled look on his face, she said. “I do. Hopefully they will get him out, and Mr. Vance can take his place.”
Trump’s health appears to be declining.
The Reds have something on him.
He’s not known for keeping his mouth shut.
Do they risk him saying something, exposing things they are planning to do? Or would he make a very useful martyr? JD could really say the right things to rally the Right around him. What if the assassin is Ukrainian? Boy, we go on intonthe arms of Russia off the groundwork Trump is laying.
I’ve heard younger guys (20s) excitedly talking about us and Russia becoming allies. How many of them are drawn to Russia?
Or does his health decline to the point JD has to take over? And we have a very convenient terrorist attack on our soil, which i personally fully expect.
And Russia comes in as our “ally” against the terrorists.
People would flock to Vance of he were in charge in such a scenario.
Lots of speculation, I know, but I can see scenarios where Vance becomes the hero of the day, and embraces Russia.
But really, I don’t see the two scenarios as far-fetched. What do you think?
Also, it seems to me that Vance has been being “groomed” for more than just the vice presidency.
Does it seem that way to you?
I will say, that in my neck of the woods, I haven’t picked up on any disgust with Vance.
I hadn’t even considered that last part about the convenient “terrorist attack” where the Kremlin swoops in to “console” Americans. And Lord forbid the “perpetrators” should be Ukrainian (or blackmailed/compromised dupes who just so happen to be such). It would be a repeat of the time where Bush the Younger clapped along like a trained seal at the Kremlin’s genocide in Chechnya under the excuse of “fighting terror,” just finishing of Ukraine this time.
Ecactly!
@GreyKnight
Just curious, what evidence do you see of Trump’s health declining? He seems as energetic as ever for his age. All that golfing seems to be doing him good. I don’t think there’s a new risk of Trump blabbing something he shouldn’t. He’s always been a motormouth and the Russians still backed him heavily with money and favors. Since he’s already been president once they know what to expect from him, so I don’t think they’re any more worried than before. Plus, most people are so used to Trump saying outrageous things that anything truly revealing will be overlooked or explained away as the usual Trump exaggeration.
As for Vance, those are some good points. I haven’t paid that much attention to him, but maybe because all the attention is on Trump one just assumes that he’s a always distant thought in people’s mind. I suppose in the right circumstances, in a crisis, he could step up to be the heroic man of action, the new outspoken firebrand for a younger generation. Arguably, if Trump could get the evangelical vote there’s no reason why Vance couldn’t appeal to a wider audience. But still, it’s possible that his more in-your-face pro-Russia stance could drive people away as things heat up in Europe. Just because the Russians groom a Westerner for high political office doesn’t mean it will work out for them. Just look at Hillary Clinton.
Just in his last couple of televised appearances, it seems to me that something is different -especially in that press conference where he presented the photo of him and Putin.
I could be wrong, but it looks like there’s a subtle change, and I’m wondering if he isn’t beginning to buckle under the immense pressure he is undoubtedly under.
And it’s true everyone is used to him saying consequential things, but I don’t think he’s ever before been in such a situation -even as president the first time- where a so very much hinges on what he does or doesn’t say and do regarding Ukraine, for instance, and also NATO, as well as whatever the Russians are holding over his head.
It seems the world Communist movement is on the verge of blowing the doors off of Europe and Lord only knows where else -and Trump is clearly very useful to them in this moment. So, he’s got to “walk the line” very carefully. I think.
Also, I think there are two ways the Communists quickly get America off the world stage, so they can rapidly make further advances and consolidations globally. One, is a massive Islamic terrorist attack on our soil. There are people screaming that, especially one Sarah Adams, who has done tremendous work exposing alarming things in this regard, though don’t think she makes the Russian connection yet.
Another way, to my thinking, would be to assassinate Trump and plunge America into civil war. Bonus points if it’s framed as a Ukrainian plot. This assumes (in my mind only) that he becomes uncooperative or unuseful to Russia.
But also, there’s a photo of his right hand on X, where there’s a large area of pale skin. Of course there’s all kind of speculation. But in the press conference with the soccer guy, he’s definitely trying to hide that hand. Now, I don’t think it means there’s something seriously wrong there, but I just see something subtly different that makes me think his health may be beginning to buckle. I think the constant humiliation and jerking around by Putin may be getting to him.
Some of the things he’s saying seem to be even more out there too.
Like, now he says he stopped seven wars -three, if you count pre-wars.
Or, Netanyahu is a war hero, and he guesses he is too.
Or rambling on and on about the grass in DC.
It just seems his ludicrous statements are becoming more far-fetched and more frequent.
I’m thinking that is a sign of something internal beginning to break down. Maybe he’s got a guilty conscience for betraying so many Ukranians to their deaths, and betraying the free world (in my view), and trying to “talk it away”.
Maybe he’s thinking constantly about whatever kompromat they gave on him and how he must kiss Putin’s butt on the world stage.
I just have this feeling something internal is on the verge of starting to break down on him.
I could be totally off my rocker.
*ten, if you count *three pre-wars. 🤦♂️
He does not look very healthy.
I meant *outrageous things. Not *consequential things.
Sorry. I’m tired.
Trump keeps needing more makeup on his hand. He has some sort of serious bruising on it, possibly from taking too many blood thinners. Another concerning problem is the swelling in his ankles. There have additionally been photos of what looks like some sort of a catheter system under his clothes, possibly for incontinence. Finally, he’s been taking Propecia for many years for hair loss, a drug that is known to significantly lower testosterone. Testosterone in men is linked to longevity and better aging. It is what the body uses to build muscle. This is just what we know about—there are many unknowns, since none of his doctors can really be taken seriously, when they claim he’s the healthiest patient they’ve ever seen. He’s definitely not in the best health. (He is however doing pretty well for being 79!)
Yes, he is doing well for 79. Got to give him kudos for the pace he keeps. Not many of probably any age could keep it for long.
Interesting observations. If in the next few weeks the Trump show starts losing steam while Vance pops up everywhere you might be on to something.
The Constitution would have to be cast aside. I am not sure it’s workable.
He has to live long enough….
Yes, it is.
https://x.com/bryanStyle45591/status/1959399241434202555?t=ZkLmo94Y96t8PU4GxuxeKg&s=19
https://x.com/bryanStyle45591/status/1959399233817325819?t=ZkLmo94Y96t8PU4GxuxeKg&s=19
So are you saying these exports from the US are going to Russia via Kyrgyzstan, in spite of all the sanctions?
I’m in a really good chat on X. Some of them stay on top of all things Ukraine/Russia by the hour it seems.
One of them shared that earlier today.
That’s exactly what it looks like.
Looks like they’ve thought of just about everything.
Not only us, but European nations as well.
All pretty much have similar spikes in exports to Kyrgyzstan, corresponding to pretty much the same time frame.
Should’ve also been *because, not *business. Sorry.
Auto-correct is so annoying!
I agree! I hate auto correct!
Not good news. These two stories may strengthen your negative opinions of our President.
Pentagon restricts Ukraine’s use of US missiles against Russia, WSJ reports
https://l.smartnews.com/p-648iorle/d8vL9L
And one more…
Hegseth removes head of Pentagon Intelligence Agency
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/latest-purge-hegseth-removes-head-pentagon-intelligence-agency-other-senior-2025-08-22/
The first story Reuters will tell you is not confirmed so we will have to wait and see.
A Communist Partnership Deception. Dynamic Independence with Jeff, Trevor and Jimmy from Brooklyn. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wNZBnjGzEz6IBC1LQkd1W
The Communism of Marx is NOT JUST ATHEISTIC. It is More than Only ATHEISTIC according to James Lindsay.
“Marx viewed Communism, “as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement,” as the ideal for humanity—literally the Ideal Man(kind). Hegel’s Absolute is just relocated into man who realizes himself to be his own Creator, not in the sense of physical procreation but in the process of humanizing himself through humanizing his environment. Humanizing here is meant both literally and figuratively: literally in the sense of making him human instead of a beast and figuratively in the sense of returning him to what makes him truly human, which is being a Communist. In the same sentence in EPM, Marx described this transcendent Communism as “the complete return of man to himself as a human (i.e., social[ist]) being.”
https://newdiscourses.com/2025/08/the-parasitical-faith-of-communism/
Jeff, I asked ChatGPT to search Polish newspapers to try to find out why Tusk didn’t attend the meeting in Washington with the European leaders and Zelenskyy. It came back saying that an invitation had not been extended by Washington, possibly because of domestic tensions between the Polish government and Poland’s president.
Yes. There are political problems in Poland. I don’t trust Tusk. Their president seems good, though.
From the Pages of AMERICA’s Newspaper of RECORD: Russian Alexander Dugin states of Russia “…War is OUR DESTINY!” From Pravda USA.
https://usa.news-pravda.com/world/2025/08/18/433539.html
Just finished the podcast. If you are studying Michael Jones’ books and looking into all the anti-Jewish background, you should also check Monsignor Henri Delassus’ book. (La Conjuration Antichrétienne: Le Temple Maçonnique Voulant S’élever Sur Les Ruines De L’église Catholique). This book is in all conservative online bookstores in Brazil.
He begins by writing about the anti-Catholic project of the Freemasons and the French Revolution, but suddenly he introduces the Jewish hoax, presenting the Masonic lodges and structures as merely a proxy for the Jews, allowing them to influence non-Jews. I haven’t read Michael Jones yet, but he seems to have a good book about the political use of sex (Libido Dominandi).
Jones is a very serious scholar, but a very bad pro-totalitarian with a dangerous fondness for our enemies.