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‼️🇷🇺🇧🇾"Oreshnik" officially went on combat duty in Belarus.
The Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus have prepared in advance all the conditions for the deployment of military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, thanks to which the personnel have already started work.
Specialists of the launch, communications, security, and power supply combat crews, as well as mechanics and drivers of the missile system units, were retrained using modern training equipment before going on combat duty.
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Former Finnish MP Ano Turtiainen granted asylum and Russian citizenship
Facing prosecution in Finland for criticizing its current policies and NATO, he relocated to Russia citing fears for his personal safety, the politician told RT
Welcome to Russia!
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❗ The Russian army liberated the village of Dibrova in the Donetsk People's Republic, — the Ministry of Defense
The units of the Zapad group of forces are increasing the pace of the offensive in the direction of Slavyansk, as a result of which the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were driven out of the settlement.
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Russia Brings Massive Law Claim For Frozen Assets Return; EU Advised To Settle; Huliaipole Captured
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‘He can do whatever he wants’ — Trump on Maduro
‘If he wants to do something, if he plays tough, it’ll be the last time he’s ever able to play tough’
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Zelensky asks the West to bankroll Ukraine’s army POST-CONFLICT
Only ‘a FEW YEARS’ needed
Translation: pay forever
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🇺🇸✈️ A US Navy spy plane (P-8A Poseidon) flying very close to Russia over the Black Sea. This is one of the closest flights to the Crimean coast I've seen so far.
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Part 2/2 — Russia’s military-industrial base bureaucratically compressed, hardened, and scaled under pressure —now outpaces NATO’s collective ammunition production by a multiple. Western officials themselves have been forced to admit the gap, even as they scramble to promise future catch-up schedules that read more like aspiration than viable plan.
In sum, while Russia produces, Britain reviews glorified mission statements. And while Russia iterates, Britain delays indefinitely out of impotence. Russia fields game changing adaptations learned from battlefield within months. While Britain commissions another inquiry.
And this is where the mockery turns into indictment.
Because Britain is not merely weak. It is performatively Russophobic, a leading amplifier of a psychological contagion that has swept Western Europe. A political culture that replaced diplomacy with insult, respect with caricature, and strategic realism with adolescent moral posturing.
For decades, Russians asked for nothing exotic. Security guarantees. Recognition of reasonable red lines. A place in a shared European security architecture. Basic respect and dignity after the Cold War.
They were met instead with NATO expansion, broken promises, regime-change evangelism, and the casual humiliation of a great civilization reduced to punchlines for Western domestic politics.
And now, after years of stoking this hysteria, inflaming this anger, and dismissing Russian concerns as paranoia— Britain offers the world a confession written in delays, budget shortfalls, and broken machinery.
For all the talk of deterrence, what they're left with is cold reality, exposure.
A state that talks war while failing at procurement is not projecting strength. It is advertising vulnerability at scale. A leadership class that cannot fund its own defence while demanding continental confrontation is not leading, but gambling with other people’s lives.
For a country in this position to posture as a peer adversary to Russia is not serious strategy. It is suicide pact dressed up as virtue.
At this point, honesty would demand something radical in London, humility and sobre realism.
A state in Britain’s position should not be lecturing the world, moralising from the sidelines, or inflating its own strategic importance. It should be urgently repairing what it helped to destroy, namely trust, diplomacy, and the basic architecture of European security. It should be suing for peace, not performing toughness it cannot afford.
Because history is unforgiving to former empires that mistake memory for power.
Russia did not arrive at this moment through fantasy. It arrived through necessity, through sanctions, pressure, exclusion, and the steady realisation that the West no longer spoke the language of compromise, only command. Britain, by contrast, arrived here through illusion: convinced it was still a titan while outsourcing its industry, hollowing out its capacity, and replacing strategy with theatre.
This is the real danger now, not Russian strength, but Western self-deception.
A political class that cannot build, cannot fund, and cannot field its own defence has no business escalating confrontation with a civilization that can. When rhetoric races far ahead of reality, history does not intervene gently. It intervenes brutally.
Britain is not preparing for a conflict with Russia. It is preparing for a reckoning with the reality of its own weakness.
And reality, unlike Whitehall briefings, legacy slogans, or moral posturing, does not negotiate.
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Russia Winning Big Victory; Huiliaipole Collapse; EU In Panic Sanctions Baud; US Eyes More Sanctions
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Finland's Russophobe in Chief President Stubb labels Russia "the number one threat for Europe and actually the Western world."
It's Putin that's responsible for all of the Wests problems, mass immigration, economic collapse and societal decay.
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🇪🇺❌🇷🇺 Russophobia didn't make Europe safer, it made it poorer - Jeffrey Sachs
American economist and Harvard University professor Jeffrey Sachs argues in an article for Berliner Zeitung that Europe's behavior regarding negotiations with Russia to resolve the conflict in Ukraine is creating problems for themselves.
"Now Europe is resisting peace negotiations. The consequences of this long-term refusal to take Russia's security concerns seriously are now inevitable and enormous for Europe. Russophobia didn't make Europe safer. It made Europe poorer, more divided, more militarized, and more dependent on external forces."
Europe facing 'many institutional problems' causing disparity between member countries
European MP Fernard Kartheiser says only a matter of time until smaller nations 'lose faith'
'We see Hungary and Slovakia are being sidelined'
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EU crosses RUBICON, permanent asset FREEZE. Falls into Russia's trap
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"NATO is Russia's next target," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte escalates tensions.
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EU Sanctions on European Voices: Baud & Yamb – The Chilling Update
The European Union has sanctioned two Europeans – not Russians – for their words and analysis.
Retired Swiss Colonel Jacques Baud (former intelligence officer, NATO veteran) and Swiss-Cameroonian activist Nathalie Yamb.
What happened:
- Bank accounts frozen (including in non-EU Switzerland, which complied)
- Travel banned across most of the EU
- No trial
- No public charges
- No court hearing
- No opportunity to defend themselves
Just a decision by the EU Council – an unelected body – under the "hybrid threats" and "foreign influence" sanctions regime.
Jacques Baud's "crime":
Decades analyzing conflicts using mostly Western, Ukrainian, and American sources.
He argued that NATO expansion eastward was perceived as a genuine security threat in Moscow, contributing to the tensions that exploded in 2022.
He never used Russian state media.
He said Ukraine's own officials (pre-2022) had warned that pushing hard for NATO membership was playing with fire.
The EU labeled this "pro-Russian propaganda" and "disinformation" that destabilizes the Union.
Nathalie Yamb's "crime":
Longtime critic of French neo-colonial influence in Africa.
Pan-African voice who speaks out against Western military presence and economic domination in the Sahel.
The EU claims she echoes Russian narratives, is linked to networks close to Moscow's interests in Africa, and spreads destabilizing information.
She calls the sanctions racist and colonial in nature – proof that certain voices are not allowed to challenge the dominant Western story on Africa or Ukraine.
The bigger picture people are talking about:
- When did repeating uncomfortable but documented facts become "foreign influence"?
- Why is nuance on NATO expansion, Ukrainian conscription realities, or historical context suddenly treated as a security threat?
- How can a democratic union freeze the assets and movement of its own citizens without any judicial process?
- Is the official line now so fragile that even analysis from Western-trained experts must be silenced?
The mood on the ground:
Fear is spreading. Analysts hesitate. Journalists self-censor. Ordinary people wonder if retweeting the "wrong" perspective could someday have consequences.
Meanwhile Brussels keeps expanding this sanctions tool – originally aimed at Russian oligarchs and propagandists – now hitting Europeans who deviate from the approved narrative.
Two very different people. One message.
Europe is choosing: tolerate hard questions and disagreement, or demand narrative unity at the cost of freedom.
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Putin appoints Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Dmitry Polyansky as Russia's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) — decree
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⚡️ Trump CALLS PUTIN before Zelensky meeting
‘Very productive’
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Increased Mortality Associated with 2-Month Old Infant Vaccinations[v1] | Preprints.org
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Moscow unveils Europe’s largest skating rink
A sprawling 20,000 sqm ice park winds through glowing fountains, vibrant lights, and the striking fusion of modern and Soviet architecture at VDNH
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Your Update from Moscow.
Absolutely no one here wants a War with Europe, the UK or anyone else
Meanwhile, no one on the streets of London, Paris or Berlin wants a War with Russia
So why is a tiny EU / NATO elite trying to burn the continent? And who's going to die for them?
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Latvia will DRONE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING areas at midnight MOSCOW time on New Year's Day to stop celebrations
INSANE crackdown with $1,600 fines — Latvian MP
Footage from social media
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'Oreshnik has been with us since yesterday, and is on combat duty'
Massive applause as Lukashenko announces Oreshnik missile deployment in Belarus
'In the event of an escalation of the conflict, Russian forces will also join Belarus'
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🇺🇸✈️🛬🇵🇱🇺🇦Another "Boeing" with more than 80 tons of American military supplies is heading to Poland, to be subsequently delivered to the Ukrainian front lines.
This is happening now in the moment.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, (whose grandfather was an enthusiastic Nazi)
Comparing Vladimir Putin to his own Grandfather's idol, Hitler.
While Merz's Grandfather served the Nazis, Putins brother Viktor and Grandmother, Yelizaveta Shelomova, were killed by them
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'Your stupid illegal decisions' not 'US tariffs' why 'falling behind' — special presidential envoy to Merz
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EU going after Russian assets is ‘legally questionable’ and will lead to ‘a lot of consequences harmful to the EU’ — Fernand Kartheiser, European Parliament member
‘Europe will lose much of its credibility as an investment place’
EU ‘will have a lot of financial problems’
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❗The US intends to push Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland out of the European Union.
These countries are listed among those with whom the US should "cooperate more actively... to detach them from [the EU]," writes Defense One, referring to an unpublished version of the US national security strategy that was privately circulated to the media.
The officially published version of the strategy does not contain such a point.
➖ "We must support parties, movements, as well as intellectual and cultural figures seeking sovereignty and the preservation/restoration of the traditional European way of life... while remaining pro-American," the publication quotes from the unpublished part of the document.
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RT EXCLUSIVE: Bulgarian govt. collapse chance to 'pull country out of Euro-Atlantic SWAMP'
Bulgaria’s Revival party chair Kostadin Kostadinov admits resignation a SURPRISE, even to opposition chiefs
Looking for opportunity to 'RESTORE relations with Russia'
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Marin Le Pen stated that France lacks funds for its own defense due to the high costs of supporting Ukraine.
‘The expenses related to our support for Ukraine were not covered by the necessary additional resources. All of this was financed at the expense of our armed forces. Currently, the unpaid bills of the Ministry of Defense amount to 8 billion euros. We were told that this would not create difficulties for our enterprises due to a general increase in credit levels. This is not true. Today, our defense industrial and technological base is suffering from order postponements and payment delays, directly caused by a lack of funds. The Ministry annually pays tens of millions of euros, and soon, probably hundreds of millions, in fines for delays.’
Macron is generous to his lovers.
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