Ukraine's End, Middle East's Beginning
- Dagny
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Happy Rocket Troops and Artillery Day!
On the morning of November 19, 1942, artillery preparation marked the beginning of the offensive near Stalingrad, which became a turning point in the entire World War II. Later, this date was chosen as the holiday of Rocket Troops and Artillery Day.
It's impossible to manage without this type of troops in high-intensity modern conflicts. Even with the emergence of numerous attack UAVs, artillery has not disappeared — let alone rocket systems.
During the SMO, artillery crews, MLRS, and tactical missile systems have completed a colossal volume of tasks. Significant changes in tactics and other areas have greatly increased the effectiveness of fire strikes compared to the beginning of the conflict.
So, artillerymen and rocket troops deserve wishes for many new barrels, an abundance of ammunition, and sharp "eyes" in the sky. And, of course, deliveries of the latest systems with enhanced characteristics and capabilities.
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🇺🇦 Zelensky’s approval has collapsed over the past week — down about 40%, now sitting below 20%.
The figures come from Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, who cites three closed polling studies conducted immediately after the corruption scandal involving the leaked “Mindich tapes.”
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Zelensky Caught in Extreme Corruption - Is it a Path to Peace?
🇺🇦 “This is big money.”
According to investigators, the case against Mindich includes an episode where he pressured Defense Minister Umerov to buy substandard body armor from a specific company — something Ukrainian media had previously reported.
Mindich’s messages to Umerov included:
“I’m asking you, don’t walk away — these body-armor deals are big money.”
“Just get the acceptance papers signed. That’s it. One call from you is enough — just tell him you don’t want to hear anything more from Timur about the vests. I meet him twice a week.”
“It’s one order from you, that’s all.”
“Solve this, I’m asking you, or it’s going to be a complete disaster.”“There’s 700 or 600–300 million invested there, half of it is my money.”
Umerov responded:
“I hear you. I’ll call again and ask what exactly they need from me to get it done.”
The contract was eventually signed.
➡️For context: Umerov is currently in Turkey and claims he will return to Ukraine tomorrow.
🇬🇧🇲🇹🇺🇦 A British national named in the Panama Papers appears in the scheme involving low-quality body armor that Mindich was pushing through Umerov.
This was reported by Yuriy Gudymenko, head of the Defense Ministry’s anti-corruption council.
The companies Fortetsia Zakhystu and Milicon — which won the tenders to supply the vests — are owned by British citizen Chaim Brenig, a representative of the offshore structure Airpay Holdings Limited, registered in Malta.
The first tender won by Fortetsia Zakhystu was canceled because the company didn’t have a license to sell body armor. Months later, Milicon won a second tender — 49% owned by Fortetsia and 51% by its director, Dmytro Stetsenko.
That contract also fell apart when Defense Ministry inspectors refused to accept the vests after a public scandal over their low quality.
Investigators say Mindich pressured Umerov — then serving as defense minister — to approve the deal, and Umerov eventually agreed.
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🇺🇦🫠 The Rada has dismissed Justice Minister Galushchenko.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Reuters confirms that tomorrow senior U.S. military officials will present Zelensky in Kiev with a peace plan that Washington has been discussing directly with Moscow.
This will take place at Zelensky’s meeting with U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and Army Chief of Staff Randy George, both of whom arrived in the Ukrainian capital today.
After the meeting, the American delegation will travel on to Moscow.
According to U.S. media, Trump’s team believes Zelensky is now in a weak enough position that he will have no choice but to accept the plan, whatever the terms may be.
Reports also note that Kiev still has no details of the proposal — the discussions have taken place only between the United States and Russia.
🇷🇺💬🇺🇦🇺🇸The Russian Foreign Ministry has not received any information from the US through official channels regarding certain "agreements" on Ukraine, which are being reported by the media, Maria Zakharova said in an interview with TASS.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Axios reports that Trump’s new Ukraine plan gives Russia control over Donbass. Areas Kiev must withdraw from would become a demilitarized zone where Russia wouldn’t deploy forces.
In Kherson and Zaporozhye, current lines of control stay as they are.
Russia would return some territory as part of broader negotiations — likely in regions where Russian forces are advancing.
A Ukrainian official told Axios the plan also limits the size of Ukraine’s army and its long-range weapons in exchange for U.S. security guarantees, which are still undefined.
Qatar and Turkey are involved in shaping the proposal. A senior Qatari official joined talks between Witkoff and Umerov last weekend. Zelensky authorized Umerov to negotiate, and many of his comments were included in the 28-point draft. Axios says the talks produced significant understandings.
Ukrainian sources, however, say Umerov rejected many terms. This was one reason Witkoff refused to fly to Ankara for a meeting with Zelensky and Yermak.
The meeting was postponed after it became clear Zelensky was walking away from agreements reached with Umerov and wasn’t interested in Trump’s plan. Instead, he was pushing a separate scheme drafted with European partners — one Russia will never accept. Zelensky also demanded a wider negotiation format including European states. The corruption scandal in Kiev also played a role in canceling the meeting.
Trump had authorized Witkoff to reach a deal in Turkey, but later supported canceling the session with Zelensky.
“Now we’ll wait. The ball is in Zelensky’s court,” a U.S. official said, adding Zelensky can come to Washington to discuss the plan if he wishes.
‘Mindich’s Schemes Are Zelensky’s Schemes’: Corruption Scandal Shakes Ukraine to the Core, as Zelensky’s Former Financier Kolomoysky Publicly Calls on Him To Resign
🇷🇺💬🇺🇦 Dmitry Medvedev:
A few days ago, I said that the Kiev blood-soaked clown (KBC) still has a chance to twitch on his Western puppet strings, but the abscess festering in Europe will be opened one way or another.
It now seems the infection is progressing faster than expected.
And we’re no longer talking about simply lancing a boil — this is full-fledged gas gangrene consuming the Bandera regime. Which means it will have to perform a self-amputation and cut off the rotting part of its own body. Otherwise, the entire grotesque organism of the KBC faces inevitable death.
And if the amputation isn’t enough, the putrefaction will continue — and then the collapse of the Kiev neo-Nazi regime becomes unavoidable.
Which, frankly, is exactly where it belongs…
And the best catalyst for its inevitable and painful demise is the success of our Armed Forces.
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🤦♂️ War is bad, but have you seen the CO2? Ukraine plans to sue Russia over wartime emissions
💬 “We have huge amounts of additional CO2 emissions and greenhouse gases,” Ukrainian deputy minister of economy Pavlo Kartashov told media on sidelines of the COP30 summit.
Ukraine will seek $44B from Russia as compensation, Kartashov says.
It’s not clear whether Ukraine has really thought through its demands, which would open a legal can of worms globally, inviting nations to sue NATO over wars which laced wide swathes of Yugoslavia with depleted uranium, and contaminated Iraq and Afghanistan with burn pits and toxic PFAS chemicals.
The Watson
Institute estimates the War on Terror alone pumped 1.2B metric tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, compared to 273M in Ukraine, per a Dutch carbon accountant’s calculations.
😬 And what about the environmental costs of the Ukraine conflict by Kiev and its allies, from the bombing of Nord Stream, which caused the single biggest manmade methane release in history, to Ukraine’s attacks on the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline, the Kakhovka Dam, and Russian energy infrastructure?
Maybe it’s just another cash grab, as Zelensky swings from one corruption crisis to another, and his cronies risk losing access to more Western ‘aid’ money to skim.
🚨European Union wants to steal €140 billion of frozen Russian assets and give them to Ukraine.🇪🇺🇺🇦. They already seized interest on it of 50 billion and sent it to Ukraine in 2024.
However, Russia holds 288 Billion dollars in European assets in Russia, and could legally seize more assets located in any other countries.🇷🇺
It also won’t do much to save Ukraine.
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🇸🇾🇮🇱 Developing: Israel is now bombing Syria.
Israeli artillery is shelling the al-Qunaitra countryside in southern Syria, the same area bordering the occupied Golan Heights.
With strikes today on Lebanon, Gaza, and now Syria, Israel has effectively opened fire on three fronts in a single day.
This is a major escalation.
“To get somebody to blow up a bus full of children or a building full of innocent civilians you have to grind it into their minds, you have to wash their brains and tell them there’s a higher cause out there”
— Bibi
Elon Musk censors Hebrew on X
🇮🇱 As Israel faces global condemnation for its war on Gaza, Elon Musk has quietly disabled Hebrew translations on his platform.
🔴 The move, confirmed by his AI Grok, is framed as preventing "inflammatory content." The real concern is when people read what Israelis are writing—including calls for violence—it leads to a negative perception of Israel and, by extension, Israeli people as a whole.
👹 Benjamin Netanyahu calls Musk a "friend".
🤡✡️ NYC’s Eric Adams says he ‘serves’ Israeli Jews as mayor during Israel visit
💬 “As I finish, I wanted to come back here to Israel and let you know that I serve you as the mayor, but I want to continue to have the title that’s more important to me than anything: I’m your brother”, New York’s outgoing mayor, Eric Adams, said in East Jerusalem.
😂 Once again, US leaders show more loyalty to Israel than to the Americans who elected them.
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☪️ Gov. Greg Abbott has officially designated both the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR (Council on American–Islamic Relations) as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations.
This order bans them from buying or holding property in Texas and gives the Attorney General the power to sue and shut them down anywhere in the state.
Whatever one thinks of CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood, this is a massive political move with national and international implications, especially given CAIR’s long-standing ties to Gulf networks and the broader U.S.–Saudi relationship.
It’s the first time a U.S. state has invoked its own authorities to effectively outlaw CAIR, and it sets the stage for a legal and political showdown far beyond Texas.
🇺🇸🇸🇦 BREAKING!!!! SAUDI ARABIA DESIGNATED MAJOR NON-NATO ALLY
President Donald Trump has announced a formal U.S. military security guarantee for Saudi Arabia, designating the Kingdom as a “Major non-NATO Ally” and unveiling a brand-new Strategic Defense Agreement with Riyadh.
This is historic. It means Washington is now committing to Saudi Arabia’s defense in a way it never has before, a level of partnership previously reserved for countries like Japan, Israel, and South Korea.
Trump is effectively locking the U.S. and Saudi Arabia into a long-term military, economic, and technological alliance, something no administration has dared to do.
This is a seismic geopolitical shift. The entire region just changed.
"I'm pleased to announce that we are taking our military cooperation to even greater heights by formally designating Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸🇸🇦 (twitter.com)
"48 mosques have opened in Texas in the last 24 months This is being funded by Qatar and Saudi Arabia. They pay the salaries of the Imams and control the message delivered to their followers." (twitter.com)
🇺🇸🇸🇦 ELON MUSK TO BUILD DATA CENTER IN SAUDI ARABIA
Elon Musk’s xAI is building a 500-megawatt AI data center in Saudi Arabia, using Nvidia chips, backed by a Saudi state venture, and announced at a US-Saudi investment forum in Washington.
“If Evil People hate you, well, you might be doing something right” -Elon Musk(He's right you know 😉👌😎) (twitter.com)
🥴🇬🇧 Surprise, surprise: Descendant of British fascist leader runs Palantir UK
The British head of Palantir — the AI giant deeply entwined with US intelligence — claims Britain is Europe’s top military power, poised to become the continent’s security guarantor.
What’s behind his bold claim?
🔴 Dressed all in black, Palantir UK chief Louis Mosley spoke to Bloomberg about turning the UK into an ‘epicenter of defense and military technology,’ calling Ukraine conflict an unparalleled research and development lab for Palantir’s military software solutions
🔴 Mosley argued that war is the best testing ground for military technology, drawing parallels between the Ukraine conflict and World War II
To those aware of his infamous grandfather, British Union of Fascists founder Oswald Mosley, those military ambitions hardly seem coincidental.
Oswald Mosley's 'Blackshirts'
🔴 Unlike Adolf Hitler, the British ‘Fuhrer’ wasn’t a commoner: Sir Oswald Mosley was a British baronet from an old aristocratic family.
🔴 He started his political career in 1918 as a Conservative and later Labour member of parliament, but after losing out in the 1931 election he founded the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932
🔴 The BUF’s members – ‘Blackshirts’ – saw their uniform as mark of discipline and unity. It reached 40,000–50,000 members at its peak.
🔴 Mosley courted Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and Nazi leader Hitler, meeting Mussolini several times including just before launching the BUF.
🔴 Mosley wasn’t the only British aristocrat drawn to fascism and Nazism: Edward VIII expressed sympathy for Hitler and Nazi Germany.
🔴 Mosley and fellow fascists were interned in 1940 and the BUF banned, but he was freed in 1943.
🔴 Mosley continued to promote his ideology after WWII, forming the Union Movement. In 1977 he was even nominated as Rector of the University of Glasgow.
Looking at Mosley's past, his support for Ukrainian neo-Nazis is hardly surprising.
Why have Nazi descendants become so prevalent among European political and business elites?😰
Mexican' President Claudia Sheinbaum just said fighting a war against drug cartels is unlawful because it would violate the rights of drug traffickers and it would be "fascist."
BREAKING: Mexico’s Gen-Z uprising is now being compared to 1776.
Analysts are saying it out loud — what’s happening in Mexico looks like a modern American Revolution.
Gen-Z is flooding the streets to break from cartel rule and a government they say no longer represents them. They’re done living in a narco-state, and they’re openly saying they’re willing to die for a free Mexico.
And this isn’t isolated:
It’s the 4th Gen-Z revolt this year
After similar youth uprisings in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Philippines
A global pattern is forming…
Young people everywhere are rejecting corruption, captured governments, and authoritarian control — and demanding freedom.
🇺🇸🇲🇽 Trump Suggests U.S. Military Action in Mexico Amid Rising Protests
At an Oval Office press conference, President Donald Trump didn’t dismiss the idea of deploying U.S. forces into Mexico to curb drug trafficking.
“Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It’s OK with me, whatever we have to do.”
He also referenced recent large‑scale protests in Mexico City, where, according to media outlets, thousands of primarily "Generation Z" protesters took to the streets calling out crime and corruption.
The demonstrations were very obviously astroturfed, with netizens saying they were “funded by members of the right… spurred by online bots.”
Meanwhile, planning for possible U.S. military operations inside Mexico has reportedly been discussed internally, though no official decision or deployment has been confirmed. Mexico’s leadership has emphatically rejected any foreign troop intervention.
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I bet Maduro IS ready to talk!... Rubio just designated Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, "Headed up by the illegitimate Nicolas Maduro." Now, going after him/them doesn't mean war against a nation and its leader, so no congressional approval is needed...." (media.greatawakening.win)
🗣 'Never war': Maduro sends message in English amid rising tensions with US
In a televised address, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stated: "Call? Yes. Peace? Yes. War? No. Never, never war."
He insisted that Caracas is open to dialogue with any US government, promising they would find Venezuela to be "people of our word, decent, and experienced."
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Chinese Hackers Trick Anthropic's AI into Automating Their Cyberattacks Chinese state-sponsored hackers have tricked Anthropic's AI technology to help create highly automated break-ins targeting major corporations and foreign governments, according to the Artificial intelligence company. www.breitbart.com
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